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| US11356753B1 |
Utility meter with short and long-range radios with intelligent switching therebetween
A utility meter includes a metrology core, a short-range radio configured to communicate wirelessly over a local area mesh network, a long-range radio configured to communicate wirelessly over a wide area network and a controller that checks a performance of the local area mesh network against one or more predetermined performance criteria. When the performance of the local area mesh network meets a set of one or more predetermined performance criteria, the utility meter communicates a first set of the information to the head-end system using the short-range radio. When the performance of the local area mesh network does not meet the set of one or more predetermined performance criteria, the utility meter communicates a second set of information to the head-end system using the long-range radio. |
| US11356752B2 |
Telecommunications panel with grounding wire
A telecommunications panel includes a panel frame and a ground wire secured to the panel frame. The ground wire extends longitudinally along the panel frame. The ground wire may be arranged such that modular jacks presses against the ground wire when the modular jacks are received in the panel frame. The ground wire can be made of a tin plated conductive material. |
| US11356750B2 |
Automatically and programmatically generating crowdsourced trailers
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for automatically and programmatically generating crowdsource trailers. In an embodiment, interactions with streaming content performed by a plurality users who consumed the content are received. A value is assigned to each of the interactions. A plurality of windows of content are identified within the streaming content. The values of the interactions for each of the landing frames within each of the plurality of windows are accumulated. A particular one of the plurality of windows with a highest accumulated value is selected. A trailer for the content is generated based on the selected particular window and provided. |
| US11356748B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for slicing live streaming
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, and system for slicing live streaming. A method may include: acquiring the live streaming from a live source station server; slicing the live streaming to generate an index file and sliced files of the live streaming; and sending the index file and the sliced files of the live streaming to an object storage server, to cause the object storage server to store the index file and the sliced files of the live streaming. |
| US11356745B2 |
Midroll breaks feedback system
A computer-implemented method for optimizing the placement of previously selected breaks in a media item is provided herein. Embodiments of the method include steps of identifying a break in a media item, the break being associated with a first break point at a first time during playback of the media item. The method may also include steps of dynamically adjusting the placement of the breaks within the media item based on the performance of the media item. |
| US11356741B2 |
Image display apparatus and method for operating same
An image display apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The image display apparatus may be connected to an image processing device and include a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: create a table including physical address information of each of at least one source device connected to the image processing device and device identification information corresponding to the physical address information; display a user interface including the device identification information included in the table; and change to an input mode of a source device corresponding to device identification information selected in response to a user input to select device identification information, based on the physical address information corresponding to the selected device identification information. |
| US11356739B2 |
Video playback method, terminal apparatus, and storage medium
A video play method, a terminal device, and a storage medium for switching bitstream in a video play. The video play method includes obtaining a first image frame sequence and a second image frame sequence in response to a switch instruction to switch from a first video stream to a second video stream, the first image frame sequence in a form of the first video stream and the second image frame sequence in a form of the second video stream; determining a first image frame as a switching point in the first image frame sequence and a second image frame matching the first image frame in the second image frame sequence; determining the second image frame as a starting point in the second image frame sequence; and playing the first image frame sequence until the switching point, and playing the second image frame sequence from the starting point. |
| US11356738B2 |
Automatic modification of user guidance sequence recordings
A processor may receive a recording. The recording may include one or more user guidance sequences and be displayed to a user. The processor may receive a first user input response to an initiation of a first user guidance sequence. The processor may determine, in response to receiving the first user input, that there is a discrepancy between the first user input and the first user guidance sequence. The processor may automatically modify the playback setting of the recording. The processor may display the discrepancy between the first user input and the first user guidance sequence to the user. |
| US11356737B2 |
System and method for creating a replay of a live video stream
A video replay system includes a display device, a replay controller, a session input device, a processing circuitry and a video enabling circuitry. The session input device receives plural video streams of a broadcast event from plural video capturing devices installed at different locations of a facility hosting the broadcast event. The processing circuitry is configured for generating a user interface on the display device. The user interface includes one or more replay operator modes. The one or more replay operator modes includes plural video tracks corresponding to each of the plural video capturing devices. Each of the plural video tracks includes plural video window players. The video enabling circuitry may enable creation of at least one replay video of one or more video segments to be broadcast. |
| US11356734B1 |
Methods and systems for counseling a user with respect to supervised content
The present disclosure is directed to counseling a user with respect to supervised content. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may: determine, based at least in part on one or more machine learning (ML) models, that one or more interfaces displayed to a user include content of a content type designated by a content supervisor of the user for identification; and, responsive to determining that the interface(s) include content of the content type, generate data representing a graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation to the user, the GUI indicating detection of the content of the content type and comprising educational material counseling the user with respect to the content type. |
| US11356732B2 |
Tracking user engagement on a mobile device
Systems and methods for determining a comparative level of user engagement are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method of determining a comparative level of user engagement with content of a first type includes receiving sensor data (e.g., rotational vector, attitude, or ambient light sensor data) from a mobile device. The sensor data includes first sensor data sensed by the mobile device during display of the content of the first type at the device, and second sensor data sensed by the mobile device during display of content of a second type at the device. The method may include determining the comparative level of user engagement with the content of the first type based on the first and second sensor data, selecting additional content based on the determined comparative level of user engagement, and transmitting the selected additional content to the mobile device for output by the mobile device. |
| US11356729B2 |
Cross-platform media redirection and interoperability
A media controller application that enables a user to select source and destination services and devices for media playback that provides an interoperability layer between different service and device ecosystems, and a media redirection hardware adapter that connects to a host device using a physical connector and receives audio and then retransmits at least a portion of the audio wirelessly. |
| US11356726B2 |
In-vehicle device and method for managing user interfaces
A method for managing user interface includes displaying related information of an in-vehicle device using a first user interface. An authority of accessing related information of a handheld device is acquired when the handheld device is in communication with the in-vehicle device. Once the related information of the handheld device is obtained, the related information of the in-vehicle device and the related information of the handheld device are displayed using a second user interface. |
| US11356723B2 |
In-manifest update event
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform publishing media presentation description data comprising main live program data, and signaling a client device about ad data and in-manifest data where the ad data instructs the client device of an initial end time at which to end a display of an ad by switching a display at the client device from the ad to the main live program data and where the in-manifest data instructs the client device to determine, during a streaming of the ad to the client device, an updated end time, prior to the end time, at which to end the streaming of the ad by switching the streaming at the client device from the ad to the main live program data. |
| US11356719B2 |
Reception device, reception method, transmission device, and transmission method
The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method that make it possible to provide content according to a preference of a user. Provided is a reception device including: a tuning control unit configured to perform tuning control for tuning digital broadcasting using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme; and an acquisition control unit configured to perform acquisition control for acquiring content transmitted in the digital broadcasting according to a result of a matching process on a provider-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by a provider that provides content to a question on preference of a user included in transmission information transmitted in an upper layer of an IP layer of protocol layers of the IP transmission scheme and client-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by the user to the question in the digital broadcasting. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver set. |
| US11356714B2 |
Apparatus, systems and methods for a content commentary community
Systems and methods of emulating a conversation about a thematic content event are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment receives a member dialogue video from a community member who is a member of a plurality of community members, wherein the member dialogue video includes video and audio portions, and wherein the member dialogue video expresses at least one of a personal opinion and a personal viewpoint about the thematic content event; generates dialogue text from the audio portion of each received member dialogue video, wherein the dialogue text comprises words and phrases spoken by the community member in the member dialogue video; receives a modified thematic content event; compares the words and phrases of the dialogue text with the plurality of keywords; and associates at least one portion of the member dialogue video having the words and phrases of the dialogue text that match with the matching keyword of the anchor point. |
| US11356706B2 |
Storage and delivery of video data for video coding
A device for processing video data can be configured to receive a configuration record for decoding a bitstream of the video data, wherein the configuration record for the bitstream includes a toolset indication syntax element that includes information identifying, from a set of video decoding tools, tools that are required to decode the bitstream associated with the configuration record; based on the toolset indication syntax element, determine whether to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record; and based on the determination to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record, retrieve the bitstream and outputting the bitstream to a video decoder for decoding. |
| US11356705B2 |
Picture header intra random access picture and gradual decoder refresh signaling in video coding
A method of processing video data comprises obtaining a bitstream and locating intra random access pictures (IRAP) or Gradual Decoder Refresh (GDR) pictures among the encoded pictures in the bitstream. Locating the IRAP or GDR pictures may comprise obtaining, from a picture header Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit in the bitstream, a syntax element that indicates that a picture associated with the picture header NAL unit must be either an Intra Random Access Picture (IRAP) or a Gradual Decoder Refresh (GDR) picture. The picture header NAL unit contains syntax elements that apply to all slices of the picture associated with the picture header NAL unit. |
| US11356704B2 |
Method and device using high layer syntax architecture for coding and decoding
A method of and a device for decoding a video stream including at least two coded video sequences that each use a respective first parameter set that differ in at least one value from each other, and each of the at least two coded video sequences including at least two coded pictures, and the at least two coded video sequences have different presentation times. The method including decoding and activating, by a decoder, a single second parameter set pertaining to all video sequences of the video stream before any coded picture of the at least two coded video sequences is decoded. |
| US11356703B2 |
Image decoding method and device in accordance with block split structure in image coding system
An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: obtaining first split information relating to a first target block; if the first split information indicates that the first target block is to be split, splitting the first target block into first sub-blocks; obtaining MPT split information relating to a second target block which is one of the first sub-blocks of the first target block; splitting the second target block into second sub-blocks on the basis of the MPT split information; and decoding the second sub-blocks, wherein the second sub-blocks are non-square blocks. |
| US11356700B2 |
360-degree video encoding with block-based extension of the boundary of projected parts
The invention relates to the encoding of spherical 360-degree videos using 2D block-based encoders. The encoding requires a spherical 360-degree image to be projected onto a projection subpart of a 2D image, using for instance CMP, OHP, ISP, TSP, SSP or RSP techniques. The boundary of the projected image may then be extended, within the 2D image, into an extended block-based boundary portion based on the block structure used by the 2D encoder to then encode the 2D image. The boundary extension may be set along block edges in the vicinity of the projected image. The extended pixels added to the projected image may be padding pixels with values set based on continuing 360-degree image projection or based on neighboring pixels. More homogenous blocks can be obtained for better compression by the encoder, while the seam artefacts resulting from discontinuity between projected subparts of the 360-degree image are reduced. |
| US11356698B2 |
Method for parameter set reference constraints in coded video stream
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data comprising data of a plurality of semantically independent source pictures, determining, among the video data, whether references are associated with any of a first access unit (AU) and a second AU according to at least one picture order count (POC) signal value included with the video data, and outputting a first quantity of the references set to the first AU and a second quantity of the references set to the second AU based on the at least one POC signal value. |
| US11356695B2 |
Video coding based on global motion compensated motion vector predictors
A method of determining a bitstream is described, the method including: determining a motion vector (MV) of a current block of a current video frame of a sequence of video frames comprising video data captured by a camera, the MV defining an offset of the current block relative to a prediction block, wherein part of the offset is caused by global motion in the video data if the camera is moving relative to a scene; determining motion vector predictor MW candidates for predicting the MV, the MW candidates being determined based on MVs of already encoded blocks; determining a motion compensation vector MCV for MW candidates, determining global motion compensated MW candidates based on a difference between a MW candidate and an associated MCV; selecting a compensated MW; and, determining a motion vector difference MVD based on the compensated MW and the MW; and, using entropy coding to code, the MVD, an indication of the selected compensated MW; and, conversion information for converting a MVP into a compensated MW, into a bitstream. |
| US11356692B2 |
Image decoding method/apparatus, image encoding method/apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream
The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. An image decoding method according to the present invention, for decoding an image by decoder-side motion information derivation, comprises the steps of: checking, from among a plurality of motion information derivation types, the motion information derivation type applied to the current block: and deriving motion information of the current block according to the checked motion information derivation type, wherein different motion information compensation techniques are applicable according to the motion information derivation type. |
| US11356687B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and device
An image encoding/decoding method of the present invention constructs a merge candidate list of a current block, derives motion information of the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list and a merge candidate index, and performs inter prediction on the current block on the basis of the derived motion information, wherein the merge candidate list can improve encoding/decoding efficiency by adaptively determining a plurality of merge candidates on the basis of the position or size of a merge estimation region (MER) to which the current block belongs. |
| US11356681B2 |
Coded video sub-bitstream extraction
A method of extracting a sub-bitstream from an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor includes: obtaining an encoded video bitstream, the encoded video bitstream including a plurality of Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units; obtaining an output layer set list; comparing the NAL units with the output layer set list; and removing NAL units that are not included in the output layer set list. |
| US11356677B2 |
Block partitioning methods for video coding
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The method can include: partitioning, along a partitioning edge, a plurality of blocks associated with a picture into a first partition and a second partition; performing inter prediction on the plurality of blocks, to generate a first prediction signal for the first partition and a second prediction signal for the second partition; and blending the first and second prediction signals for edge blocks associated with the partitioning edge. |
| US11356671B2 |
Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a compressing unit which compression-encodes captured video data in units of GOPs using a first compression method which generates encoded data of a closed GOP or a second compression method which generates encoded data of an open GOP; and a control unit which performs control to record the video data on a plurality of mediums, wherein the control unit records, on a first medium, the video data acquired before a recording start instruction is input, and records, on a second medium, the video data acquired by the image capturing unit in response to the recording start instruction being input, wherein the control unit performs control to record, on the first medium, the video data compression-encoded using the first compression method. |
| US11356670B2 |
Method and system for picture segmentation using columns
Described is picture segmentation through columns and slices in video encoding and decoding. A video picture is divided into a plurality of columns, each column covering only a part of the video picture in a horizontal dimension. All coded tree blocks (“CTBs”) belonging to a slice may belong to one or more columns. The columns may be used to break the same or different prediction or in-loop filtering mechanisms of the video coding, and the CTB scan order used for encoding and/or decoding may be local to a column. Column widths may be indicated in a parameter set and/or may be adjusted at the slice level. At the decoder, column width may be parsed from the bitstream, and slice decoding may occur in one or more columns. |
| US11356669B2 |
Moving picture coding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding method, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus
A moving picture coding apparatus includes an intra-inter prediction unit which calculates a second motion vector by performing a scaling process on a first motion vector of a temporally neighboring corresponding block, when selectively adding, to a list, a motion vector of each of one or more corresponding blocks each of which is either a block included in a current picture to be coded and spatially neighboring a current block to be coded or a block included in a picture other than the current picture and temporally neighboring the current block, determines whether the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within a predetermined magnitude or not within the predetermined magnitude, and adds the second motion vector to the list when the intra-inter prediction unit determines that the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within the predetermined magnitude range. |
| US11356667B2 |
Methods providing encoding and/or decoding of video using a syntax indicator and picture header
There are provided mechanisms for processing encoded image data. The method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream comprising parameter set information. The parameter set information may comprise a syntax indicator, a first coded portion comprising first coded sample information for a picture and a second coded portion comprising second coded sample information for the picture. The method further comprises, responsive to a first value of the syntax indicator, decoding the first coded sample information using a picture header syntax element from a picture header of the encoded bitstream. The method further comprises, responsive to the first value of the syntax indicator, decoding the second coded sample information using the picture header syntax element from the picture header of the encoded bitstream. |
| US11356664B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding video according to coding order
Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining split information indicating whether to split a current block; when the split information indicates that the current block is split, splitting the current block into at least two lower blocks; obtaining encoding order information indicating an encoding order of the at least two lower blocks of the current block; determining a decoding order of the at least two lower blocks according to the encoding order information; and decoding the at least two lower blocks according to the decoding order. |
| US11356657B2 |
Method and apparatus of affine inter prediction for video coding system
Methods and apparatus of Inter prediction for video coding including affine Inter mode are disclosed. In one method, an affine MVP candidate list is generated, wherein the affine MVP candidate list comprises at least one inherited affine MVP derived from a neighbouring block set. Prediction differences of a current control-point MV set associated with the affine motion model are encoded using one predictor selected from the affine MVP candidate list at the video encoder side or the prediction differences of the current control-point MV set associated with the affine motion model are decoded at the video decoder side using one predictor selected from the affine MVP candidate list. In another method, the inherited affine MVP is derived by considering whether at least one of reference picture lists of said at least one neighbouring block includes one reference picture being the same as a current reference picture of the current block. |
| US11356650B2 |
Calibration arrangement for structured light system using a tele-centric lens
A vision system having a telecentric lens. The vision system includes a projector having a non-telecentric pin-hole lens, a camera having a telecentric lens positioned a distance away from the projector, and a processor. The processor controls the camera and the projector and is configured to calibrate the camera and projector. |
| US11356649B2 |
Integrated three dimensional display and method of recording identification information
An integrated three-dimensional display includes a recording surface which includes a calculated element region in which phase components of light from light converging points of a holographic reconstructed image are calculated, and a phase angle recorded area for recording a phase angle calculated based on the phase components. The phase angle recorded area includes a plurality of monochromatic regions having a uneven structure surface. The phase angle is recorded in an overlap area in which the calculated element region and the phase angle recorded area overlap each other. Light converges on the light converging points at specific distances from the recording surface, the specific distances being determined for the respective light converging points even when light reflected from the plurality of monochromatic regions converges. |
| US11356647B2 |
Systems and methods for generating a digital image
A system, method, and computer program product for generating a digital image is disclosed. In use, a first image and a second image are received from a first image sensor, where the first image sensor detects wavelengths of a visible spectrum. A third image and a fourth image are received from a second image sensor, where the second image sensor detects wavelengths of a non-visible spectrum. Using an image processing subsystem, a resulting image is generated by combining at least three of: the first image, the second image, the third image, or the fourth image. |
| US11356640B2 |
Method for securing synthetic video conference feeds
One variation of a method for securing synthetic video conference feeds includes, during a setup period: accessing a target image depicting a face of a user; generating a face model based on a target set of facial features detected in the target image; and linking the face model to a target set of facial biometric values of the user. The method also includes, during an operating period succeeding the setup period: accessing a frame; deriving characteristics of a set of facial features detected in the frame; extracting a set of facial biometric values from the frame; in response to alignment between the target set of facial biometric values and the set of facial biometric values, generating a synthetic face image based on characteristics of the set of facial features, the face model, and a synthetic face generator; and rendering the synthetic face image in place of the frame. |
| US11356636B2 |
Device identification and power state determination using media device information
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for determining a power state of a device. Identification data may be received, e.g., in a media device hub, from one or more devices coupled to the device hub. In some example implementations, the devices coupled to the device hub may comprise an intermediate device coupled to the hub via a first multimedia cable and a sink media device coupled to the intermediate device via a second multimedia cable. Attributes may be identified in the received identification data, such as attributes relating to one or more of the coupled devices. The attributes may be associated with one or more of the devices that are coupled to the device hub. Based on an association of attributes, a power state of one or more of the devices coupled to the hub may be determined. |
| US11356632B2 |
Display-information generating apparatus, information processing apparatus, and imaging system
A display-information generating apparatus includes a shooting-area acquisition unit, an arrangement deriving unit, and a generating unit. For each of multiple imaging apparatuses, the shooting-area acquisition unit acquires information about a shooting area of the imaging apparatus. The arrangement deriving unit obtains a three-dimensional arrangement of the shooting area on the basis of the information about the shooting area. The three-dimensional arrangement is obtained when the shooting area is viewed in a three-dimensional space. The generating unit generates display information for a display apparatus displaying the three-dimensional arrangement. |
| US11356624B2 |
Solid-state imaging element, signal processing circuit, and electronic equipment
A solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics are arranged and one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels have a spectral characteristic that includes spectral characteristics of two or more pixels that are different from the one or more pixels. The solid-state imaging element further includes a signal processing unit that synthesizes signals of one or more pixels of the pixels that have the included spectral characteristics with a luminance signal, when a signal of a pixel that has two or more spectral characteristics in the pixel array is used to generate the luminance signal. |
| US11356622B1 |
Single-ended capacitive trans-impedance amplifier (CTIA) unit cell for two-color applications
An image capturing device is provided, which includes a capacitive trans-impedance amplifier (CTIA) unit cell. The CTIA unit cell includes an image detector and a switching network. The image detector is configured to detect light having a first color and light having a second color different from the first color, and to generate a photocurrent in response to detecting the light. The switching network includes a CTIA switch, a CTIA low reset switch, and a CTIA high-reset biasing switch. The CTIA switch sets a first reset level of the CTIA unit cell to a first voltage in response invoking a first switching state of the CTIA low-reset switch and sets a second reset level of the CTIA to a second voltage greater than the first voltage level in response to invoking a second switching state of the CTIA low-reset switch. |
| US11356621B2 |
Hybrid output multiplexer for a high framerate CMOS imager
An imaging system is provided that includes a pixel array having a plurality of columns with rows of pixels and with each pixel having a plurality of photodiodes and a common readout circuit that stores respective accumulation voltages from each of the plurality of photodiodes. Moreover, the system includes row driver circuitry that control the pixel array for pixel addressing and readout, such that the respective accumulation voltages of the photodiodes is read out on a readout channel coupled to a bit line column, and a hybrid multiplexer that multiplexes and routes output signals from the pixel array to a video imaging device to be displayed thereon. |
| US11356607B2 |
Electing camera modes for electronic devices having multiple display panels
A technique includes, on an electronic device that includes a plurality of display panels that are mounted to allow physically positioning of the display panels to create a plurality of potential display configurations for the electronic device, sensing the display configuration associated with current positions of the display panels. A camera is mounted on a given display panel of the plurality of display panels, and the technique includes selecting a camera mode for the electronic device based at least in part on the sensed display configuration. |
| US11356605B1 |
Dual-stream video management
An Internet of Things (IoT) or vehicle dash cam may store both a high-resolution and low-resolution video stream on a device. The video streams are selectively accessible by remote devices. Because of the relatively smaller storage requirements of low-resolution video files, retaining of additional video data on the vehicle device (beyond what would be possible with only high-resolution video) is possible. The user may be provided an option to adjust the amount of low-resolution and high-resolution video to store on the device. A combined media file may be generated by a device to include time-synced high-resolution video, low-resolution video, and/or metadata for a particular time period. |
| US11356602B2 |
Electronic device and function assigning method
At step ST2, an assign key changing item is selected from menu items. At step ST3, an assign key to which a function is assigned is selected. At step ST4, a function to be assigned is selected. The selected function is assigned to the selected assign key. At step ST5, a setting result indication screen appears. When one of two paired functions is assigned, a message which prompts a user to assign the other function. After the message has appeared for a predetermined time, the latest assigned states appear. At step ST6, the latest assign key information is stored to a non-volatile memory. To quit an assigning process, a menu button 8 is pressed and the menu is closed (at step ST8). |
| US11356595B2 |
Image sensor and imaging apparatus for outputting image data by discriminating whether to add a result of AF calculation to a captured image data
An image sensor outputs captured image data by discriminating whether to add a result of an imaging plane phase difference AF calculation to a top of the captured image data or whether to add the result to an end of the captured image data, thus reducing a time lag between exposure and focus position movement. |
| US11356594B1 |
Tilted slit confocal system configured for automated focus detection and tracking
A system for automated focus tracking of a sample is disclosed. The system comprises an illumination source, a set of illumination optics in an illumination path, a set of collection optics in a collection path, a first slit device in the illumination path, a second slit device in the collection path, at least one detector configured to generate an image of the sample, and a controller configured to receive through-focus information from the image, and provide corrective motion to a stage holding the sample to maintain a position of the sample at a selected focus. A method for automated focus tracking of a sample is also disclosed. |
| US11356593B2 |
Methods and systems for single frame autofocusing based on color- multiplexed illumination
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for capture a whole slide image of a sample. In exemplary embodiments, a camera is configured to capture a digital image of a sample. The system captures a bright field image of the sample, and captures a digital image of the sample illuminated from a first incident angle at a first wavelength and a second incident angle at a second wavelength. The system can determine whether the sample is defocused based on the transitional shift between a first wavelength channel and a second wavelength channel of the captured digital image. The system can determine the defocus distance based on the transitional shift and autofocus using the defocus distance such the bright field image is in focus. |
| US11356591B2 |
Dispatch-based responder camera activation
A method of automatic activation of a responder camera to begin capturing a video can be performed by a computing device. The computing device receives an indication of a location or an event. The computing device determines a geographic area associated with the location or event. The computing device receives a dispatch acknowledgement from a responder, where the dispatch acknowledgement indicates that the responder is at the geographic area or that the responder is en route to the geographic area. The computing device automatically sends a camera activation signal to a responder camera associated with the responder in response to receiving the dispatch acknowledgement from the responder. The responder camera is configured to begin capturing a video in response to receiving the camera activation signal. |
| US11356590B2 |
Touch interactions with image capture devices
Examples disclosed herein provide an image capture device. As an example, the image capture device includes an image sensor, a shutter, and a touch-enabled layer disposed above the image sensor. A controller of the image capture device is to register a user touch interaction with the touch-enabled layer and, based on a gesture detected from the user touch interaction, cycle between engaging the shutter to cover the image sensor and disengaging the shutter to expose the image sensor. |
| US11356589B2 |
Video display system and video display method
Video display system is configured to include imaging device that sequentially outputs display video data of a second gradation having a second bit number smaller than a first bit number, based on captured video data of the first gradation having the first bit number, and display apparatus that sequentially displays a video based on the display video data from imaging device, and in display apparatus, when a plurality of frames continuous in time series are displayed based on the display video data, although a first gradation value based on the first gradation of a predetermined pixel included in the captured video data corresponding to the plurality of frames does not change in imaging device, a second gradation value based on the second gradation of the predetermined pixel included in the display video data corresponding to the plurality of frames varies. |
| US11356583B2 |
Image capturing apparatus, electronic equipment and terminal
The present disclosure provides an image capturing apparatus, an electronic equipment, and a terminal. The image capturing includes: a light-transmitting cover plate; a light source module disposed below a first surface of the light-transmitting cover plate; at least one sensing module including a mask layer and a sensor component, wherein the sensor component has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, the first surface of the sensor component is disposed opposite to the mask layer and the second surface of the sensor component is a photosensitive surface, and the mask layer is made of an opaque material; a catadioptric component having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, wherein the sensor component is disposed on the first surface of the catadioptric component. With technical solution of the present disclosure, the imaging effect of the image capturing apparatus can be improved. |
| US11356582B2 |
Camera module with gap maintaining member
A camera module includes a substrate, an image sensor disposed on the substrate, a housing to accommodate the image sensor, a filter configured to block an infrared wavelength of light incident on the image sensor and disposed on the housing, a gap maintaining member to maintain a gap between the substrate and the bottom housing, and a sealing member to connect the substrate to the housing and to surround the image sensor. |
| US11356581B2 |
Apparatus and image forming method for performing gradation correction on an image using generated gradation correction data
On a recording sheet of a first size, an image combined with gradation patches of a plurality of colors is printed, on a recording sheet of a second size smaller than the first size, images combined with the gradation patches of the plurality of colors are divided and printed into a plurality of recording sheets, color measurement is performed on each of the gradation patches, and gradation correction data is generated. |
| US11356580B1 |
Method for preventing screen capture
A screen capture prevention method includes serving a single-color, DRM-protected video clip for display as a background for a document on a web browser. The document is processed to render its background color as transparent. Content of the document is viewable over the contrasting video clip background. When a screen capture event is detected, the video clip is changed to a same color as the content of the processed document, rendering the content indistinguishable from the background while the screen capture event is active. |
| US11356575B2 |
Printing apparatus
A printing apparatus connectable to an external power supply having a plurality of outputtable electric power information, including: a printing head performing printing by electric power supplied from the external power supply; and a controller configured to: obtain the plurality of electric power information; determine whether the printing can be performed if electric power indicated by the obtained electric power information is supplied from the external power supply; decide, as request electric power information, any one of the electric power information indicating possible electric powers; request the external power supply to output electric power indicated by the request electric power information; calculate a print control value for controlling the printing head based on the decided request electric power information; and control the printing head to perform the printing based on the calculated print control value. |
| US11356571B2 |
Display apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for preventing execution of processing unrelated to situation of preparation of processing
A display apparatus include: a displayer that displays on a screen at least one image used for an operation to instruct execution of processing under a predetermined condition; a preparation detector that detects preparation performed by a user for the processing; and a disabling unit that disables a non-target image used for an operation to instruct execution of non-target processing different from target processing corresponding to a result of detection of the preparation detector, the non-target image being of the at least one image displayed on the screen. |
| US11356568B2 |
System and method for ordering a print product including a digital image utilizing augmented reality
A method for ordering a print product comprises displaying a video that includes an exhibited physical product; comparing a feature or attribute associated with the exhibited product with a feature or attribute associated with the available product; displaying a digital overlay in the video and in association with the displayed exhibited product if the displayed exhibited product corresponds to the digital representation of the available product; allowing for the selection of the digital overlay and then a digital image; establishing a print order including an identification of the displayed exhibited product associated with the selected digital overlay and the selected digital image; and allowing for the fulfillment of the print order to produce a print product using a printing device, wherein the print product includes the selected digital image disposed on a selected physical product representative of the displayed exhibited product associated with the selected digital overlay. |
| US11356567B1 |
Image forming apparatus, image processing method, and image forming method for speeding up continuous monochrome document in auto color mode
Provided is an image forming apparatus that speeds up the auto color mode. The image forming apparatus includes a document reading unit that reads a document including a plurality of pages and outputs image data and can determine whether the document is a color document or a monochrome document. In the document read by the document reading unit, when monochrome pages of the first specific number of pages or more continues in the same job, a document determining unit predicts that the subsequent page is also determined to be a monochrome document. When the document is predicted by the document determination unit to be a monochrome document, an image processing unit performs monochrome image processing for the monochrome document on the image data immediately after reading. |
| US11356562B2 |
Transferring an active telephone conversation
According to one embodiment, a computing device may conduct an active telephone conversation and a proximity of the computing device to a second computing device may be determined to be within a predetermined distance. Moreover, a determination of a capability of the second computing device to conduct a telephone conversation may be made, and in response to such determinations, the active telephone conversation may be transferred from the computing device to the second computing device. In an example, when a user holding a telephone conversation moves near a smart speaker, the telephone conversation may be transferred to the smart speaker from the user's mobile device, should the user desire such a transfer. Moreover, as the user moves around, the telephone conversation may move with the user from device to device, enabling a seamless and intuitive telephone conversation experience for the user. |
| US11356561B2 |
Systems and methods for providing headset voice control to employees in quick-service restaurants
Systems and methods for providing headset/ear bud voice control to crew members in a quick-service restaurant are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: transmit transmission signals from a headset to the base station, receive reception signals by the headset from the base station; capture audio information from a first crew member, generate sound based on the received reception signals, generate the transmission signals to form a headset-specific uplink packet based on the captured audio information; generate semantic information based on the headset-specific uplink packet, wherein the semantic information includes one or more individual words; determine one or more commands that modify operation of the communication system, based on the semantic information, and facilitate execution of the one or more commands to control and/or modify the operation of the communication system. |
| US11356560B2 |
Utilizing machine learning with call histories to determine support queue positions for support calls
A device receives, from a user device, a communication associated with a support issue encountered by a user of the user device and assigns the communication to a position in a support queue based on when the communication is received, wherein the support queue includes data identifying positions of other communications received from other users, and data identifying when the other communications were received. The device processes data identifying the communication and historical communication data describing prior communications associated with the user, with a model, to determine an average time spent on hold by the user for the prior communications. The device modifies the position of the communication in the support queue based on the average time and performs one or more actions based on modifying the position of the communication in the support queue. |
| US11356553B2 |
Telephonic transmission/reception calling service method
An availability-based telephonic transmission/reception calling service method is provided for communicating with a person who has a different lifestyle or who may not be available at a specific call time. When a receiver inputs the receiver's characteristic information and reception/communication availability information into a server, the server acquires and sets the reception/communication availability information. An originator fetches contact information in a memory medium within a device or contact information to be displayed in a separate service on the Internet and selects a receiver. When the contact information of the selected receiver is stored on the server, the server acquires the receiver's reception/communication availability information and displays whether the receiver can receive a call on a screen of an originator's communication device. Thus, the originator can be notified of whether a receiver can receive a call before the originator makes a telephone call via a cellular phone network or the Internet. |
| US11356550B1 |
Systems and methods for determining the driver of a vehicle
A system and method for disabling distracting apps on a driver's personal devices while allowing passengers travelling in the same vehicle to have full use of their personal devices. The system works by first identifying all the personal devices that are in the vehicle and then establishing a loose mesh network between those devices. Once the mesh network is established, the system identifies which of the personal devices is associated with the driver, and ensures that any distracting apps on the driver's personal device are disabled, while allowing full functionality for any passenger's personal devices. |
| US11356543B2 |
Image module including mounting and decoder for mobile devices
This invention provides a module/base assembly for a handheld device. The module includes an imager with optics and image acquisition/processing processors that provide high speed acquisition and handling of acquired image data. The acquired image data is processed by the device processor using a module application that resides within the device. A removable retaining component mounts within the base. The base houses a battery and charging assembly e.g. an inductive charging unit. The inductive charging unit can be adapted to pass data, in addition to power, between the inductive coils and the charging unit can be interconnected to a data network with attached devices that employ data from the module. The base can charge the device via a connector and/or wireless charging arrangement. Data communication between the base and mobile device can occur using an RF link, e.g. an integrated Bluetooth® functionality. |
| US11356537B2 |
Self-learning connected-device network
A connected-device network can continually learn from abstract sensory data (e.g., speech processing, cognitive inference, and/or computer vision image segmentation) and can generate never-seen-before data in real time. In one aspect, the network devices extract important correlations in the sensor data based on network data collected at different time slice and/or locations. Further, underlying relationships in a set of data can be detected as the sensor data transverses through different layers of the network. Moreover, the network devices can provide logic in different layers to help classify the sensor data early in the detection process (e.g., instead of waiting for it to reach its final destination). |
| US11356530B2 |
Leveraging mobile environment to distribute cache data
A system comprising: a plurality of mobile edge caches integrated within a corresponding plurality of mobile environments; a local network manager coupled to each edge cache device in each mobile environment to provide network connectivity to client devices within each mobile environment; a mobile high speed network interface coupled to each mobile edge cache within each mobile environment to establish a high bandwidth link to one or more fixed high speed network interfaces when the mobile environment is within range; a fixed core cache to store content titles owned by a content provider, the content titles to be distributed to the plurality of mobile edge caches, each content title comprising a plurality of title segments; a plurality of fixed edge caches coupled between the fixed core cache and the mobile edge caches; a content distribution manager to cause the title segments to be strategically spread across the fixed edge caches, wherein different fixed edge caches are initially to be provided with different sets of the title segments; a first content aggregator coupled to a first fixed edge cache, the first content aggregator to request title segments not stored in the first fixed edge cache from the plurality of mobile edge caches as the high bandwidth link becomes available to each of the mobile edge caches. |
| US11356526B2 |
Distributed standards registry for cloud computing environments
Techniques for providing a distributed standards registry are provided. A DSR system may include a plurality of distributed standards registry participants that are collectively configured to provide control logic for the distributed standards registry using a consensus voting mechanism to make control decisions. The DSR system includes include a distributed ontology model library maintained on the plurality of distributed standards registry participants and storing a plurality of ontology models, and a distributed federation broker registry maintained across the plurality of distributed standards registry participants. A first distributed standards registry participant of the plurality of distributed standards registry participants includes a discovery processor operable to receive and process federation participant queries and a registry processor operable to receive and process registration requests to register the federation broker as providing brokerage services related to a federation service described by one of the plurality of ontology models. |
| US11356525B2 |
Managing a distributed microservice architecture as a monolithic distribution
Systems and methods for implementing a service broker that is an orchestration layer for transactions in a distributed microservice system include receiving a provisioning request in the distributed microservice system, wherein the provisioning request is redirected to the service broker, and wherein the distributed microservice system includes a plurality of microservices each managing its own data such that there is no central configuration store for the plurality of microservices; and managing the plurality of microservices by the service broker as a monolith in context of the provisioning request to perform detecting, validating, and one of committing and canceling changes in the distributed microservice system due to the provisioning request. |
| US11356519B2 |
Floor-plan based learning and registration of distributed devices
A method of registering distributed devices includes discovering a plurality of devices at a central panel or server, localizing the devices, and authorizing the devices with a mobile device communicating with the central panel or server. The method also includes registering the devices with the central panel. The model can include verifying link quality with each of the devices before registering the devices with the central panel by comparing signal quality between each device and a central panel with a pre-defined threshold level. |
| US11356507B2 |
Synchronizing an application on a companion device
A media server machine may be configured to provide media content within a datastream. This datastream may be provided to a media device that is configured to present the media content on a display. Also, this datastream may contemporaneously contain an “app-sync indicator” for the media content. The app-sync indicator is a data structure that signals the media device to launch an application on a companion device. By providing the app-sync indicator contemporaneously with the media content in the datastream, the launching of the application on the companion device may be synchronized with the media content. The app-sync indicator may specify the application to be launched. Also, the app-sync indicator may specify supplemental content to be presented by the launched application on the companion device. |
| US11356504B2 |
Methods and systems for orchestrating distributed computing resources
An illustrative orchestration system is configured to provide, to a user equipment (UE) device communicatively coupled to a federation of compute clusters, cluster selection data for a subset of compute clusters from the federation of compute clusters. The cluster selection data is configured to facilitate the UE device in characterizing the compute clusters of the subset with respect to a service optimization policy. The orchestration system is further configured to receive, from the UE device, an orchestration request indicative of a compute cluster selected by the UE device based on the characterizing of the compute clusters of the subset. The orchestration system is configured to then orchestrate, in response to the orchestration request, fulfillment of a service request to be performed by the selected compute cluster for the UE device. Corresponding methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed. |
| US11356503B2 |
Systems and methods for hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service
Systems and methods for hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service may include: (1) receiving a job request for a job comprising at least one job requirement from a job requester; (2) calculating a cost of job for the job based on the at least one job requirement; (3) identifying an IaaS provider from a plurality of IaaS providers that meets the job requirements and the cost of job, wherein the plurality of IaaS providers comprises at least one on-premises IaaS provider and the at least one off-premises IaaS provider; (4) executing an IaaS request for the identified IaaS provider; and (5) monitoring execution of the job by the identified IaaS provider. |
| US11356501B1 |
Method, apparatus, and system for dynamic beacons address allocation
An approach is provided for dynamic beacons address allocation. The approach involves reporting, by each child node of a beacon tree structure, to a parent node, a load collection packet including a load count of each child node. Each child node is either a leaf node or a parent node. The parent node is either a root node or a child node reporting to another node. The parent node is located on a shortest path from a leaf node to the root node. The load count is a total number of the other nodes reporting to the parent node plus one. The approach also involves receiving, by each child node from the parent node, an address distribution packet that includes a contiguous logical address range and a weighted distance to the root node (WDR). The WDR and/or the tree structure are provided as an input for a drone navigation task. |
| US11356498B2 |
Method and a device for sharing a hosted application
The present application provides a method including acquiring, at a user equipment, a list of hosted applications returned by a network device in response to detecting an indication input for invoking a hosted application; determining a hosted application object to be shared based on the list of the hosted applications, determining a recipient for the hosted application object to be shared based on a network environment; and transmitting a request for recommendation information on the hosted application object to be shared and identification information of the recipient to the network device, so that the network device transmits corresponding recommendation information to the recipient, and the request for the recommendation information comprises identification information of the hosted application object to be shared. The hosted application is launched by detecting the indication input for invoking the hosted application, so that sharing of the hosted application object is directly triggered. |
| US11356480B2 |
Systems and methods of simulated phishing campaign contextualization
Systems and methods are described for contextualizing a simulated phishing communication based at least on one of language and locale. Initially, a template for a simulated phishing communication is created with content in a source language. Then one or more contextual parameters for a user are identified. The one or more contextual parameters identify at least one of a target language and a target locale. The content of the simulated phishing communication is modified according to at least one of the target language and the target locale and the simulated phishing communication is communicated to one or more devices of the user with the content modified for at least one of the target language and the target locale. |
| US11356479B2 |
Systems and methods for takedown of counterfeit websites
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for automatic takedown of counterfeit websites using API-based and/or email-based takedown. In implementations the method includes checking the domain of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) against a database to determine if an API-based takedown can be performed for the counterfeit website. If an API-based takedown cannot be performed the system determines the email of the hosting provider hosting the counterfeit website based on the resolve Internet Protocol (IP) address and sends a takedown notification via email with evidence such as screenshots, hosting infrastructure information, website lifecycle and scan timestamp. The system checks periodically whether the counterfeit website has been taken down by the network owner. If, after a check, the website is still live, the process of takedown is repeated until the website is taken down. |
| US11356478B2 |
Phishing protection using cloning detection
Techniques for phishing protection using cloning detection are described herein. The techniques described herein can include a server which hosts a website detecting that a fetcher is a cloning toolkit or an entity known for using a cloning toolkit. The techniques can also include a server which hosts a downloadable application (such as a mobile application) detecting that a fetcher for the application is a cloning toolkit or an entity known for using a cloning toolkit. The detection can be done in several ways, such as by analyzing data logs for patterns associated with cloning toolkits or entities known for using cloning toolkits. The techniques described herein can also include a part of an end user device (such as a part of a mobile device) detecting a clone (such as a clone website or application) that was cloned by a cloning toolkit. Then, upon detection, security actions can be taken. |
| US11356477B2 |
Verifying incoming communications
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for verifying an incoming communication. A recipient client device receives an incoming communication including an identifier identifying a second client device as having initiated the incoming communication. A verification service installed on the recipient client device queries a call placement service directory based on the first identifier. The call placement service directory maintains a listing of identifiers for client devices and corresponding communication providers that manage the identifiers. The call placement service directory returns information identifying the communication provider that manages the identifier. In turn, the verification service transmitting a request to the communication provider to confirm whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication. The verification service processes the incoming communication based on the response from the communication provider indicating whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication. |
| US11356476B2 |
System and method for social network analysis
A system and method for detecting interactive network of automated accounts, the interactive network of automated accounts comprising a plurality of automated accounts posting to a social media channel, the system comprising: an ingestion engine operated by a computational device for connecting to the social media channel and receiving a plurality of social media postings from a plurality of posting entities; a bot model operated by a computational device for determining whether at least one posting entity is a suspected bot; and a computer network for communication between said computational devices. |
| US11356472B1 |
Systems and methods for using machine learning for geographic analysis of access attempts
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for using machine learning for geographic analysis of access attempts. In an embodiment, a trained machine-learning model classifies source IP addresses of login attempts to a system as either blacklisted or allowed based on a set of aggregated features that correspond to login attempts to the system from the source IP addresses. The set of aggregated features includes, in association with each respective source IP address, a geographical login-attempt failure rate of login attempts to the system from each of one or more geographical areas that each correspond to the respective source IP address. Source IP addresses that are classified by the machine-learning model as blacklisted are added to a system blacklist, such that the system will disallow login attempts from such source IP addresses. |
| US11356471B2 |
System and method for defending a network against cyber-threats
A system for defending a network against one or more cyber-threats. The system can include a network bus that includes a first node and a second node, such that network traffic flows from the first node to the second node. The system can include an intrusion defense unit connected to the network bus, such that network traffic between the first node and the second node passes through the intrusion defense unit, wherein when a potential cyber-threat is detected in the network traffic, the intrusion defense unit is configured to engage an associated switch to filter the network traffic until the cyber-threat is neutralized. |
| US11356470B2 |
Method and system for determining network vulnerabilities
A method and a system for determining vulnerabilities on a network are provided. The method comprises: receiving data indicative of a first network architecture element; determining, based on the data, a respective one of a plurality of predetermined task templates, the respective one of the plurality of predetermined task templates including one or more tasks for identifying respective vulnerabilities associated with the first network architecture element; in response to identifying, based on the respective one of the plurality of predetermined task templates, at least one vulnerability associated with the first network architecture element, the at least one vulnerability providing access to a second network architecture element associated with the first network architecture element: determining data indicative of the second network architecture element; and using the data indicative of the second network architecture element for identifying further vulnerabilities on the network. |
| US11356468B2 |
System and method for using inventory rules to identify devices of a computer network
A method for using inventory rules to identify devices of a computer network includes intercepting data traffic across one or more communication links of the computer network. The intercepted data traffic is analyzed to determine whether one or more of a plurality of inventory rules is satisfied by the intercepted data traffic. Each of the plurality of inventory rules includes one or more conditions indicating the presence of a particular computer network device having a set of parameters. Devices of the computer network are identified using one or more satisfied inventory rules. |
| US11356467B2 |
Log analysis device, log analysis method, and log analysis program
A log acquirer acquires an analysis communication log and a malicious communication log. A signature generator generates a signature serving as a condition for detecting a terminal infected with malware based on a field and a value included in the malicious communication log. A malware analysis report acquirer acquires information on the malware. A malware information adder adds the information on the malware to the signature. A log analyzer analyzes the analysis communication log using the signature and detects the terminal infected with the malware. A detection result display unit displays the detection result obtained from the analysis communication log by the log analyzer and the information on the malware added to the signature used in the analysis of the analysis communication log in a manner associated with each other. |
| US11356466B2 |
Reconstructing network activity from sampled network data using archetypal analysis
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for reconstructing network activity. A network activity monitor is configured to monitor network activity for various network entities. Based on the monitoring, a set of features may be obtained for each network entity. A determination may be made for a number of vertices suitable for describing the sets of features in a multidimensional space. In some implementations, the vertices may define a convex hull in the multidimensional space. Each of the vertices may be assigned a different usage pattern that represents a certain type of network usage types. Reconstructed network activity for a particular network entity may be represented as a weighted combination of the usage patterns. Based on the reconstruction, a network anomaly may be detected, a network may be modified, and/or an alert may be generated. |
| US11356460B2 |
Secure online access control to prevent identification information misuse
In some aspects, a computing system can control access of a user computing device to a resource. The computing system can obtain an access request submitted by a user computing device. The computing system can verify permission information in the access request to determine that the access request is valid. If the access request is valid, the computing system submits an authentication request to request an authentication system to authenticate the user and obtains authentication results generated by the authentication system. The computing system further provides, based on the authentication results, an access control decision for the access request. |
| US11356459B2 |
Method and console server for creating and managing dispatch role lists
A method and console are provided to create and manage dispatch unit identities on multiple independent communications systems. A console server receives a first dispatch unit list from a first radio system. The first dispatch unit list includes a first plurality of dispatch unit IDs from the first radio system. The console server receives a second dispatch unit list from a second radio system. The second dispatch unit list includes a second plurality of dispatch unit IDs from the second radio system. The console server creates a first role that includes at most one dispatch unit ID from each radio system. Multiple roles can be created by the console server. Upon authenticating a dispatcher at the console server, the console server presents a menu of roles available to the dispatcher. The menu of roles can include all roles on the console server or only the roles that the dispatcher is allowed to choose and that are currently available. Upon receiving a valid selection from the dispatcher, the console server associates the selected role with the dispatcher and makes the selected role unavailable to other dispatchers until released by the dispatcher that selected it. While associated with a dispatcher, the dispatch console uses the relationship of dispatch unit ID and associated communication system defined in the role to enable the single dispatcher to be identified correctly on the associated communications systems being used. |
| US11356458B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for dual layer federated identity based access control
The invention provides methods, systems and computer programs for dual layer identity based access control implemented within systems that implement a micro-service architecture. The invention involves (i) receiving at a first resource server (a) a request for a first processor implemented service, (b) a primary access token generated by the primary identity authentication server, and (c) validation information corresponding to the primary access token that is transmitted by the primary identity authentication server, (iv) responsive confirming validity of the primary access token, transmitting to a secondary identity authentication server, a request for generation of a secondary access token, (v) receiving the secondary access token at the first resource server, and (vi) transmitting to a second resource server within the server system, a request for a second processor implemented service implemented by said second resource server. |
| US11356457B2 |
Parameter based key derivation
A delegation request is submitted to a session-based authentication service, fulfillment of which involves granting an entity an access privilege to a computing resource. A session key is received from the session-based authentication service. The session key having been generated based at least in part on a restriction and a secret credential shared with the session-based authentication service and usable at least in part to prove possession of the access privilege to the computing resource. The session key is provided to the entity without providing the shared secret credential. |
| US11356455B2 |
Behavior-based authentication
Methods and systems for authenticating users based on user application activities are described herein. One or more questions and one or more answers may be generated and stored based on a history of user application activities associated with a user. The one or more questions and one or more answers may be generated randomly, and may relate to one or more other users. A request for access to a service may be received. Based on the request, a question associated with the history of user application activity may be selected and presented to the user. A candidate answer may be received from the user, and the user may be authenticated based on comparing the candidate answer to an answer associated with the question presented. |
| US11356453B1 |
System and methods using ephemeral accounts to protect user accounts with sensitive data
A plurality of virtual machines instances are instantiated and configured to use a subset of sensitive data to generate reports such that the reports can be visually inspected by authorized personnel or entities for potential abnormalities. After completion of the inspection, the virtual machine instances are then deleted such that the sensitive data that were used to generate the reports become inaccessible. |
| US11356452B2 |
System, computer program product and method for risk evaluation of API login and use
A method, system and computer program product assess risk of an unauthorized API login and mitigate damage from an unauthorized API login. The method includes collecting in a database license attributes of a user license, user profile attributes, and database content change attributes; receiving an API login request; comparing features of the API login request to at least one of the database license attributes, user profile attributes, and database content change attributes against a predetermined threshold; assessing a risk of the an unauthorized API login request based on a result of the comparison; and based on a level of the assessed risk, implemented protective action to mitigate harm that may result from an unauthorized user from accessing information or services from a computer system by way of an API. |
| US11356451B2 |
Cube-based user interface for online community
A security system and method for use on a global computer network, such as the Internet, allows for the creation, development, maintenance and sharing of information to enable verified and authenticated (accredited) members to interact in a highly secure environment. Accredited members are represented by a three dimensional graphical cube and are classified under one of four categories/groups, namely: People; Products; Places; or Services. Each cube is assigned a unique global serial number, barcode or QR code. The six sides of each cube correspond to the six generic questions, who, what, where, when, why and how, and the data information applicable to each generic question is stored on the respective one of the six sides of the cube. The cubes are all linked to one another, thereby enabling accredited members to communicate and interact efficiently on all socio and economic levels with a high degree of trust. |
| US11356450B2 |
Managing data access
The present techniques generally relate to a system comprising: a data resource comprising: a device data log to store a device data record for device data of a first device; a permissions log to store a permissions record for one or more permissions associated with the device data; a consent log to store a consent record comprising a consent status for the one or more permissions; wherein the consent record, permissions record and device data record provide a verifiable data audit to determine whether a party is authorized to access the device data. |
| US11356447B2 |
Systems and methods for scalable-factor authentication
Authentication systems and methods can selectively authenticate a request to access a resource data store storing access rights associated with a user device. The systems and methods can scalably execute challenges workflows as part of the authentication process. For example, a request to access one or more access rights stored in the data store can be received from the user device. The user device can be authenticated using challenge workflows selected based on a device identifier of the user device. The selected challenge workflows can be executed to determine whether or not to grant access to the access rights stored in the resource data store. |
| US11356444B2 |
Protected user information verification system
Systems and methods for protected verification of user information are provided. Multiple computing systems may transmit or receive communications from one or more other computing systems as part of the protected user information verification. For example, a user may utilize a verification service to independently verify the user's information to third-party systems without the verification service actually storing, receiving, accessing, or otherwise coming into contact with the user-specific information that it is verifying. In this way, the system can protect a user's personal information while streamlining the user's verification with one or more third parties. |
| US11356437B2 |
Method for handling feedback within a security system
The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method of providing feedback within a security system, specifically provided as a collaborative rating for a security service as indicated by a plurality of users. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding security system and a computer program product. |
| US11356436B2 |
Single sign-on authentication via multiple authentication options
A hybrid authentication system, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for single-sign-on authentication is provided. The hybrid authentication system is communicatively coupled to a web application server and a public ledger. The hybrid authentication system receives a request from the web application server to access secure content on a resource server and controls display of a set of user-selectable options on a user interface of a user device based on the received request. The hybrid authentication system selects at least one authentication option from the displayed set of user-selectable options and authenticates the received request based on the selected at least one authentication option. The selection of the at least one authentication option is based on a user input over the displayed set of user-selectable options. |
| US11356431B2 |
Operating system integrated domain management
A computing device operating system providing a plurality of secure domains. A domain manager selectively creates a plurality of secure domains, and one of the secure domains is selected as a current domain. A domain policy service stores and enforces, for each secure domain, a policy comprising a rule set controlling access to files and applications associated with the domain. A package manager enforces, for each secure domain, installation of the applications associated with the domain. A domain message service provides communication between running processes associated with different ones of the secure domains. An activity manager selectively switches the current domain. Domain isolation is achieved while enabling a unified user interface providing concurrent access to the resources of multiple domains. |
| US11356429B2 |
Systems and methods for device data transfer
There is provided a method and system for securely coupling and transferring data between devices. In a preferred embodiment, the devices may comprise two devices, a transferring device and a receiving device, and both devices are mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention allow the wireless transfer of data such as contacts, photo images, video files, or other data from one device to another device, without need for special hardware or cabling. |
| US11356427B1 |
Signcrypted envelope message
Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a processor of a computing system. An example method includes generating a symmetric content encryption key. Content is encrypted using the content encryption key to generate cipher text. A hash of the cipher text is generated. Each of the hash and the content encryption key is signcrypted using each of a signcrypting party public key, a signcrypting party private key and a recipient public key to generate a signcrypted envelope message. The cipher text is embedded in a component of the signcrypted envelope message. The signcrypted envelope message is transmitted to a recipient. The recipient can designcrypt the signcrypted envelope message using each of the recipient public key, a recipient private key, and the signcrypting party public key to retrieve the content encryption key and hash of the cipher text. The recipient can decrypt the cipher text using the content encryption key. |
| US11356425B2 |
Techniques for improving security of encrypted vehicle software updates
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to systems, devices, and methods wherein dynamically generated symmetric keys are used for encryption and decryption of software updates for vehicles. The symmetric keys are dynamically generated using a combination of information that ties a given symmetric key to a specific combination of a vehicle and the devices installed therein. The dynamic generation of the symmetric keys also uses a piece of random data generated by an intermediary server, which allows the intermediary server to validate devices before providing the piece of random data and thereby control access to the software updates. Use of the techniques disclosed herein provide heightened security, control, safety, and reliability for over-the-air software updates for vehicles. |
| US11356424B2 |
Database synchronization system in high security zones using blockchain
There are provided systems and methods for a database synchronization system in high security zones using blockchain. A service provider, such as an electronic payment provider, may maintain data stores across different zones that may need to synchronize data across these zones. As such, the subject technology provides for data storage using interplanetary file system (IPFS) technology in compliment with blockchain technology to create a secure, scalable and reliable data synchronization system. The IPFS may be implemented as a data storage layer and the blockchain may be implemented as a transaction management system, where the IPFS address of data files and synchronization points are stored in a distributed ledger. In various aspects, the integration of the IPFS network with the fabric network can enhance IPFS with the fabric network to create a more secure file sharing platform to improve the transfer of data and database synchronization between different zones. |
| US11356421B2 |
Application and network slice security profile mapping for secure tunneling
A mobile network gateway receives, from a user equipment device (UE), a session request for a session between the UE and an application hosted by a hosting device, where the session request includes an application identifier (ID) associated with the application. The mobile network gateway identifies a network slice of a mobile network based on the application ID and an ID associated with the UE, and retrieves a security profile from memory based on the application ID and the identified network slice. The mobile network gateway establishes a secure tunnel between the gateway and the hosting device using the retrieved security profile, and forwards data units associated with the requested session between the UE and the hosting device via the secure tunnel. |
| US11356417B2 |
Private cloud routing server connection mechanism for use in a private communication architecture
A private cloud routing server client device (PCRSCD) is disclosed which connects to a private cloud routing server (PCRS) by a connection based on whether the PCRS is in a same Local Area Network (LAN) as the PCRSCD and whether the PCRS is directly connected to the public cloud network. |
| US11356416B2 |
Service flow control method and apparatus
This application discloses a service flow control method and apparatus, to resolve an existing problem of relatively low security. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, a service flow policy; and sending, by the terminal device, the service flow policy to a routing device, where the service flow policy is used to instruct the routing device to perform data packet filtering on a downlink data packet according to the service flow policy. |
| US11356411B2 |
Secure analysis application for accessing web resources
Embodiments described herein may be directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, devices, computer program products, computer-executable instructions, and/or applications for securely and anonymously accessing web resources and customizable attribution of identity. In accordance with the present disclosure, a user may inspect and analyze a webpage as well as the underlying source code from an “arm's length” using a secure analysis application to prevent exposure on the user's local machine. The secure analysis application may provide increased flexibility in masking and/or modifying the user's digital persona to external websites. |
| US11356408B2 |
Link local address assignment for interfaces of overlay distributed router
Some embodiments provide a novel method for assigning a unique internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) link-local address to each interface of a software router implementing a plurality of logical interfaces for a corresponding plurality of logical networks. In some embodiments, the method, for each logical interface, determines a logical network identifier for a logical network corresponding to the logical interface and generates the link-local address based on that logical network identifier (e.g., a virtual network identifier (VNI)). |
| US11356403B2 |
Network support for locally offloaded traffic
A communication technique for providing a mobile gateway in a radio node (such as an eNodeB) in a local wireless network that is associated with a venue is described. During the communication technique, the radio node may provide, via the mobile gateway, cellular-telephone-network services. In particular, the mobile gateway may implement functions including: providing, when an electronic device attaches to the local wireless network, an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the electronic device based on a media access control (MAC) address for the electronic device, which is, in part, provided by a mobile management entity (MME) in a cellular-telephone network; triggering, via a supported interface, paging to the electronic device when the electronic device is in idle in the local wireless network; transmitting uplink data and receiving downlink data via a cellular-telephone communication protocol (such as Long Term Evolution or LTE); and/or electronic-device mobility in the local wireless network. |
| US11356398B2 |
Lens-focused channel presentation
Presenting a lens-focused channel can include determining a state of a separate channel hosted on a data communications network. A topic-specific lens for federating a plurality of topic-specific messages conveyed over the data communications network can be configured in response to a predetermined condition indicated by the state of the channel. A lens-focused channel can be generated for presenting the plurality of topic-specific messages, as federated by the topic-specific lens, to a user over the data communications network. |
| US11356397B2 |
Generating interactive messages with entity assets
Systems and methods are provided for retrieving assets associated with branding for an entity, generating an interactive message comprising at least a first mechanical object, updating the first mechanical object with one or more of the assets associated with branding for the entity, and sending the generated interactive message to a plurality of computing devices. The systems and methods further provided for receiving from at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices, usage data associated with interaction by each computing device of the subset of computing devices with the interactive message, generating metrics for the interactive message from the usage data for the interactive message, and generating at least one report based on the metrics for the interactive message. |
| US11356394B2 |
Method and system for resolving producer and consumer affinities in interaction servicing
A system and a method for processing a message on a processing platform, such as a Kafka processing platform, are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of partitions from the messaging platform; designating a first partition from among the plurality of partitions as a sticky partition; generating a plurality of routing keys that are configured to route messages to the sticky partition; using a first routing key from among the plurality of routing keys to identify a first service subscription; subscribing to a second service using the first routing key; and receiving a message transmitted by the second service. |
| US11356393B2 |
Sharing personalized data in an electronic online group user session
Assessing, using a computer, a state of a participant and sharing personalized data for the participant in an electronic group meeting or collaboration using a communications network. Personalized data is received at a computer for a user participating in electronic group communications including group collaboration. The personalized data received at the computer includes biometric data and personality profile results. The biometric data includes biometric changes in real-time. A biometric change in the user is detected from a baseline for the user. In response to the biometric change, the biometric data is analyzed and the personality profile results to determine a suggested action regarding the user. The suggested action is communicated to the user or another participant user of the group meeting based on the analysis. |
| US11356392B2 |
Messaging system including an external-resource dock and drawer
A conversation interface in a messaging application is displayed, the conversation interface being presented to participants in a conversation that is being conducted on the messaging application. The conversation interface is constructed by determining statuses of at least two external resources that have been launched, within the context of the messaging application, by one or more of the conversation participants. An external resource notification interface (or “dock”) is displayed in the conversation interface, the external resource notification interface including icons corresponding to the at least two external resources. Upon user selection of the external resource notification interface, a list interface (or “drawer”) including user-selectable cells corresponding to the at least two external resources is displayed. |
| US11356390B1 |
Multi-dimensional/multi-actor conversational bot
A method for encouraging dialogue between, and promoting transparency of said dialogue, a plurality of telecommunicators is provided. The plurality of telecommunicators may include an end user and an agent. The method includes receiving a request for a dialogue from the end user. The request includes a set of end user log-in credentials associated with the end user. The method further includes identifying the agent associated with a set of agent log-in credentials. The agent may respond to the request. The method also distinguishes the end user from the agent based on the set of end user log-in credentials and the set of agent log-in credentials and then instantiates an instance of telecommunications between the end user and the agent based, at least in part, on the distinguishing. Finally, the method includes monitoring the instantiation. |
| US11356387B1 |
Anomaly detection for multiple parameters
Methods and systems for performing operations comprising: accessing one or more data objects including a data set that has been collected over a given span of time, the data set representing a plurality of parameters corresponding to resource utilization of a given server; computing first and second statistical measures based on the plurality of parameters; obtaining current resource utilization corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of parameters; determining a first condition in which values of the current resource utilization exceed a first threshold associated with the first statistical measure; determining a second condition in which values of the data set corresponding to a time period associated with the current resource utilization exceed a second threshold associated with the second statistical measure; and triggering an anomaly detection operation in response to determining the first and second conditions. |
| US11356385B2 |
On-demand compute environment
An on-demand compute environment comprises a plurality of nodes within an on-demand compute environment available for provisioning and a slave management module operating on a dedicated node within the on-demand compute environment, wherein upon instructions from a master management module at a local compute environment, the slave management module modifies at least one node of the plurality of nodes. |
| US11356384B1 |
Modelling and predicting resource allocation using eigenvalues and eigenvectors
A state of resource allocation is represented as a matrix. Each intersection of a row and column of the matrix indicates a number of units of a resource being provided by a respective node and consumed by a respective client. The allocation is modeled using a characteristic equation of the matrix. The characteristic equation is applied to the matrix to find an eigenvalue indicating a degree of scale the allocation can tolerate. An eigenvector is found for the eigenvalue to determine a direction of scale. A prediction is made as to whether the current state can scale at least one of upwards or downwards by the eigenvector. |
| US11356382B1 |
Protecting integration between resources of different services using service-generated dependency tags
A resource tag service of a provider network may be used to protect integration between resources of different services by generating dependency tags. When a service receives, from a client, a request for a resource of the service to use another resource of another service, a dependency tag is generated by the resource tag service. The dependency tag indicates that the resource depends on the other resource (e.g., the resources are integrated). When the other service receives, from the client, a request to delete or modify the other resource, the deletion or modification of the other resource is prevented based on the existence of the dependency tag for the other resource (e.g., the dependency tag is attached to the other resource, indicating that the other resource of the other service is integrated with the resource of the service). |
| US11356380B1 |
Systems and methods for queue protection
A scheduling device for managing a packet queue of a communication gateway includes a receiving portion configured to receive data packets according to at least one communication protocol, a processor, and classification module configured to separate the received data packets into a first traffic queue and a second traffic queue separate from the first traffic queue. The first traffic queue includes a low latency service flow classified to have strict priority. The second traffic queue includes a primary service flow classified as having a classic priority. The classification module separates the received data packets so that those with a first indicator are sent to the first traffic queue and those without the first indicator are sent to the second traffic queue. |
| US11356378B2 |
Combined write enable mask and credit return field
A credit return field is used in a credit-based flow control system to indicate that one or more credits are being returned to a sending device from a receiving device. Based on the number of credits available, the sending device determines whether to send device or wait until more credits are returned. A write enable mask allows a wide data field to be used even when a smaller amount of data is to be written. A novel data packet uses a combined write enable mask and credit return field. In one mode, the field contains a write enable mask. In another mode, the field contains credit return data. If the field contains credit return data, a default value (e.g., all ones) is used for the write enable mask. The mode may be selected based on another value in the data packet. |
| US11356374B2 |
Methods and systems for evaluating communications
Network traffic, such as packets addressed to a user device and/or a location, may be filtered/segregated to ensure that the user device and/or the location receives services for which they are subscribed. |
| US11356369B1 |
Border gateway protocol update packing for a distributed routing information base
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for distributing processing of routes among multiple execution threads of a network device. In some examples, a method includes partitioning a routing information base (RIB) into a plurality of RIB partitions, assigning a route processing thread to each RIB partition, processing BGP routing protocol messages at each of the route processing threads, and receiving, at a BGP update thread serving a BGP peer group, from two or more of the route processing threads, route update information for routes to be advertised. The route update information includes a BGP route tuple having a network prefix value and a pointer to an outgoing attribute. The method further includes collecting, based on the BGP route tuples, route update information for routes having the same outgoing attribute and constructing a BGP update message from the collected route update information. |
| US11356364B2 |
Smart routing
Techniques are provided for intelligent routing to a node in a network, such as a transport computer. A gateway server may receive authorization requests from a resource provider computer. There may be multiple potential transport computers to which to potentially route the authorization requests, depending on relationships established between the parties. A routing decision may be made automatically based on real-time network measurements and/or static rules. Real-time network measurements may be obtained by monitoring transport computers for failures, delays, or other undesirable activity. The routing decisions may further be based on expected volumes (e.g., based on analysis of historical spikes in volume). The routing decisions may further be based on user-configured rules and preferences, received via a routing administration interface. |
| US11356362B2 |
Adaptive packet flow monitoring in software-defined networking environments
Example methods and systems for a network management entity to perform adaptive packet flow monitoring. One example method may comprise receiving a request to monitor a packet flow between a first virtualized computing instance supported by a first host and a second virtualized computing instance supported by a second host. The method may also comprise activating a first set of checkpoints by instructing the first host and/or the second host to monitor the packet flow using the first set of checkpoints. The method may further comprise: in response to detecting a predetermined event based on first performance metric information associated with the packet flow, activating a second set of checkpoints by instructing the first host and/or the second host to monitor the packet flow using the second set of checkpoints. |
| US11356358B2 |
Network node, computer program, computer-readable medium and method for fail-safe data transmission
A network node, computer program, computer-readable medium and method for fail-safe data transmission in a network, in which data packets are transmitted from a sender to a receiver via redundant paths, upon which resources for the transmission are reserved at participating network nodes utilizing an identifier associated with the relevant path, wherein, if a new path is to be found for at least one of the paths involved, then the previous reservations on all redundant paths are maintained, a new redundant path is determined for the at least one path involved and an attempt is made to reserve resources for the transmission on this new redundant path at the participating network nodes, wherein a new identifier associated with the new path is utilized, and if the new reservations on the at least one new path are successful, then previous reservations on the at least one previous path involved are removed. |
| US11356352B2 |
Identifying reachability of network-connected devices
Techniques are disclosed for transmitting a message to a user device in accordance with a determination that another device is unreachable over a network. In one example, a server device, at a first location, may identify a controller device resident at a second location, whereby the controller device is configured to communicate with a router at the second location. The server device may also receive a list of user devices. The server device may transmit a ping message to the controller device via the router to determine whether the controller device is unreachable by the server device. The server device may subsequently transmit a message to a user device on the list in accordance with a determination that the controller device is unreachable by the server device, whereby the message includes instructions for the user device to determine whether the controller device is unreachable by the user device. |
| US11356350B2 |
Internet of things event management systems and methods
Internet of Things (IoT) event objects can be tailored to specific device types and capabilities. An IoT event object can use a flexible definition of an event that can be reconfigured. An IoT event object allows for the ability to set different triggering conditions and priorities. Individual event definitions can be extended to create more complex events. A Notification Handler supports sending a request or command in response to an event that requires action. |
| US11356349B2 |
Adaptive resource allocation to facilitate device mobility and management of uncertainty in communications
Communications services are provided to a device. For instance, where a communications resource is being used by a device via a first communications service provider (CSP) component associated with a first CSP, based on a probabilistic analysis of loading parameters received from a device at the first CSP component. A likelihood that the device will move can be predicted, comprising determining the likelihood is not less than a threshold likelihood. If likely to move, and based on the loading parameters, a loading profile associated with a user of the device is updated resulting in updated likelihoods of usages of the communication resource by the device via respective other CSP components other than the first CSP component. Further, based on the updated likelihoods of usages of the communication resource, at least part of the communications resource can be allocated to the respective other CSP components to facilitate communications with the device. |
| US11356345B2 |
Networking data analysis in a visual spreadsheet
In an embodiment, a method comprises, by a networking data analysis system: receiving, from a client device, computer files, each computer file comprising log data; transforming each of the computer files, the transforming comprising: converting the log data associated with the computer files into a structured tabular representation of the log data; parsing the structured tabular representation of the log data to extract data elements associated with the log data and to identify data types associated with the data elements; creating a columnar representation of the log data based on the identified data types; storing the columnar representation of the log data in a columnar database; executing computer-implemented functions on the columnar representation of the log data to identify key networking security metrics; sending, to the client device, instructions for displaying the identified key networking security metrics associated with the log data of the one or more computer files. |
| US11356341B2 |
Discovery of IoT devices
Connecting an IoT device enabling a new function of another IoT device. An IoT hub scans a network segment for presence of an IoT device. Upon detecting the IoT device, a device response pattern is received. The device response pattern is compared with stored response patterns. A matching stored response pattern is selected which has a similarity to the device response pattern. A pattern difference is derived. Related device information is transformed into a device signature for the IoT device. The device signature is transferred to a discovery engine. The device signature is compared to stored signatures and protocol information. A matching stored signature and protocol information is transferred to the IoT hub. The IoT hub compares the new function with functions of other connected IoT devices. Upon finding a matching other IoT device, the other IoT device is offered a usage of the new function and protocol information. |
| US11356337B2 |
System and method for tracking service requests
Various embodiments of a system and method for tracking service requests are described. Embodiments may include call tree generation logic configured to receive multiple request identifiers associated with a respective one of multiple service requests. Each given request identifier may include an origin identifier, a depth value, and a request stack comprising one or more interaction identifiers. The call tree generation logic may also be configured to, based on multiple request identifiers that each include an origin identifier associated with a particular root request, generating a data structure that specifies a hierarchy of services called to fulfill that particular root request. Based on one or more of the interaction identifiers and one or more of the depth values, the generated data structure may specify for each given service of the hierarchy: a parent service that called the given service, and one or more child services called by the given service. |
| US11356334B2 |
Communication efficient sparse-reduce in distributed machine learning
A method is provided for sparse communication in a parallel machine learning environment. The method includes determining a fixed communication cost for a sparse graph to be computed. The sparse graph is (i) determined from a communication graph that includes all the machines in a target cluster of the environment, and (ii) represents a communication network for the target cluster having (a) an overall spectral gap greater than or equal to a minimum threshold, and (b) certain information dispersal properties such that an intermediate output from a given node disperses to all other nodes of the sparse graph in lowest number of time steps given other possible node connections. The method further includes computing the sparse graph, based on the communication graph and the fixed communication cost. The method also includes initiating a propagation of the intermediate output in the parallel machine learning environment using a topology of the sparse graph. |
| US11356332B1 |
Method and system for monitoring a network resource
A method and system are disclosed which measure the functionality of a network services provider to determine its likelihood of failure. The method and system enable a point of failure to be identified and isolated by using a successive scoring system which looks at a network services provider at a resource, functionality and overall provider level. |
| US11356331B2 |
Wireless configuration diagnosis framework
Wireless configuration diagnosis framework may be provided. A label for a choreography comprising a sequence of frames to be exchanged between a first access point and a first client device may be created by a controller. A reference footprint for the choreography may be created. The reference footprint may comprise, for each frame of the sequence of frames, a frame type, an information element for the frame type, and a bit value for the information element. The reference footprint may be sent to the first access point. A plurality of frames exchanged between the first access point and the first client device associated with the choreography and an outcome for the choreography may be received from the first access point in response to the choreography being triggered. |
| US11356328B2 |
Service management method and apparatus, and storage medium
A service management method and apparatus, and a storage medium, where the method is used in a service management system, and where the service management system includes a service management unit and at least one first network management unit. The method includes: receiving, by the service management unit, a service management request, where the service management request carries network type indication information or service requirement information; and determining, by the service management unit, a target network type based on the network type indication information or the service requirement information, where a target network corresponding to the target network type is configured to provide a service, and the target network type includes a sliced network or a non-sliced network. |
| US11356324B2 |
Chaos engineering in microservices using a service mesh
Techniques are provided for chaos engineering in microservices using a service mesh. In an example, a plurality of microservices can operate together as part of a software as a service product. A graph of the service mesh of the plurality of microservices can be determined. From that graph, weight can be assigned to the respective nodes. Those weights can be used to determine a probability of where chaos is introduced in the corresponding microservice architecture as part of chaos testing. |
| US11356317B2 |
Alarm prioritization in a 5G telco network
Examples herein describe systems and methods for alarm prioritization in a Telco network. A prioritization engine can receive root cause problems and impacted network components from a network analysis module. The prioritization engine can define a mapping matrix that weights the problems according to network component type and service level. Using the problem weights, the prioritization engine can construct a problem-impact matrix that includes impact weights. The impact weights can be summed for each problem, as can the problem weights. The problems with the highest summed weights can then be prioritized first. The summed weights can also be based on predicted failure costs, such that the most expensive problems are prioritized first. The prioritization engine can send prioritized alerts for the problems for display on a graphical user interface (“GUI”). |
| US11356314B2 |
Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) encoding for a communication bus
Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) encoding for a communication bus is disclosed. In particular, various two-wire communication buses may encode bits using three-level PAM (PAM-3) or five-level PAM (PAM-5) to increase bit transmission without requiring increases to clock frequencies or adding additional pins. Avoiding increases in clock frequencies helps reduce the risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI), and avoiding use of extra pins avoids cost increases for integrated circuits (ICs). |
| US11356311B2 |
Scrambling of physical channels and reference signals in wireless communication networks
Radio network nodes, wireless devices, and related methods are provided in which a pseudo-random sequence initialization value, which is used during the generation of pseudo-random and/or scrambling sequences, is based, at least in part, on a first identifier, wherein the first identifier is equal to a first parameter if the first parameter has been configured and if a second identifier corresponds to a wireless-device-specific identifier. |
| US11356306B2 |
Technologies for cooperative link equalization without disruption to link traffic
Technologies for cooperative link equalization include a network device with a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is to monitor variation in a property of a link channel that connects the network device with a target network device. The NIC detects, based on the channel variation, an event that triggers a condition to change an equalization setting of the link channel. In response to the detection, the NIC communicates, via an in-band equalization control channel, changes to the equalization setting of the link channel to the target network device. |
| US11356305B2 |
Method to convey the TX waveform distortion to the receiver
Various embodiments may employ neural networks at transmitting devices to compress transmit (TX) waveform distortion. In various embodiments, compressed TX waveform distortion information may be conveyed to a receiving device. In various embodiments, the signaling of TX waveform distortion information from a transmitting device to a receiving device may enable a receiving device to mitigate waveform distortion in a transmit waveform received from the transmitting device. Various embodiments include systems and methods of wireless communication by transmitting a waveform to a receiving device performed by a processor of a transmitting device. Various embodiments include systems and methods of wireless communication by receiving a waveform from a transmitting device performed by a processor of a receiving device. |
| US11356303B2 |
Short link efficient interconnect circuitry
Systems and methods for electronic devices including two or more semiconductor devices coupled via an interconnect. The interconnect includes multiple lanes each having a link between the first and second semiconductor devices. One or more lanes of the multiple lanes each include clock and data recovery circuitry to perform full clock and data recovery. One or more other lanes of the multiple lanes each do not include clock and data recovery circuitry and instead includes a phase adjustment and clock multiplier circuit that is slave to clock and data recovery circuitry of the one or more lanes. |
| US11356300B2 |
Sounding reference signal configuration for supporting virtual and non-virtual port sounding
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration that identifies an SRS resource set that includes a plurality of SRS resources. A quantity of SRS ports configured for a first SRS resource of the plurality of SRS resources may be different relative to a quantity of SRS ports with which a second SRS resource of the plurality of SRS resources is configured. The UE may transmit a first SRS on one or more first SRS ports in the first SRS resource, and may transmit a second SRS on one or more second SRS ports in the second SRS resource. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11356298B2 |
Access management apparatus and access management method
An access management apparatus is presented which is capable of realizing integrated access management based on an access management policy set independently of protocols of a plurality of processing systems. The access management apparatus is provided with a gateway including an access management function unit that is connected between an access source (AS) and a plurality of processing systems (PS), and that is configured to receive an access request from the access source (AS), and to control the access request based on the set access management policy. |
| US11356293B2 |
Canopen-based train network data transmission method, system and apparatus
A CANopen-based train network data transmission method includes: switching, when a first CAN channel of a first slave node is detected as faulty, to a second CAN channel of the first slave node to receive over a standby network a heartbeat packet and data transmitted by another relevant node; monitoring, if no heartbeat packet transmitted by a relevant second slave node is received from the standby network within a preset heartbeat period, by an active master node, in an active network, a heartbeat packet and data transmitted by the second slave node; receiving, through the second CAN channel, the heartbeat packet and the data of the second slave node forwarded by the active master node to the standby network when the active master node detects in the active network the heartbeat packet and the data transmitted by the second slave node through the first CAN channel. |
| US11356292B2 |
Building data platform with graph based capabilities
A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system. |
| US11356291B2 |
Bath control security
A control system for a bathing apparatus includes a pairing station associated with the bathing apparatus and having a pairing interface, and a portable user device arranged to be used to control the bathing apparatus, the portable user device being able to control one or more functions of the bathing apparatus only while it is paired with the pairing station. The portable user device is paired with the pairing station by activation of the pairing interface when the portable user device is in a pairing region. |
| US11356288B2 |
Interactive broadcast management system
An interactive broadcast management system including an automatic dynamic creation of groups of online participants to form or reform chat rooms based on any one or more of: the number of people joining a sub chat room; the amount of interaction of those people; and the range of opinions of those people; and as a result of one or more of those reviews an automatic change in: the size of the chat room; ranking of people in that chat room; and the number of people to be selected from each chat room to form a pool of engaging participants. |
| US11356282B2 |
Sending cross-chain authenticatable messages
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods; computer-implemented systems; and non-transitory, computer-readable media, for sending cross-chain messages. One computer-implemented method includes storing an authenticable message (AM) associated with a first account of a blockchain node to a blockchain associated with the first blockchain network, where the AM comprises an identifier (ID) of the first blockchain network, information of the first account, and information of a recipient of the AM. The AM and location information is translated to a relay to be forwarded to the recipient located outside of the first blockchain network, where the location information identifies a location of the AM in the first blockchain and the recipient includes one or more accounts outside of the first blockchain network. |
| US11356275B2 |
Electronically verifying a process flow
A method verifies an authenticity, integrity, and provenance of outputs from steps in a process flow. One or more processor(s) validate one or more inputs to each step in a process flow by verifying at least one of a hash and a digital signature of each of the one or more inputs. The processor(s) then generate digital signatures that cover outputs of each step and the one or more inputs to each step, such that the digital signatures result in a chain of digital signatures that are used to verify an authenticity, an integrity and a provenance of outputs of the one or more steps in the process flow. |
| US11356273B1 |
Authorization orchestration for distributed systems
A workflow orchestration system obtains a plurality of documents for execution of a workflow on a plurality of different sub-systems. A document from the plurality of documents indicates an action to be executed by a corresponding sub-system and comprises an authorization for execution of the action by the corresponding sub-system. The authorization specified in the document can be verified by the corresponding sub-system. Based on the obtained plurality of documents, the workflow orchestration system determines whether these documents provide sufficient authorizations for execution of the workflow. If so, the workflow orchestration system executes the workflow by transmitting the documents to the corresponding sub-systems for execution of the actions specified therein. |
| US11356272B2 |
Methods and devices for handling hash-tree based data signatures
A method (30) of handling a hash-tree based data signature is described. The method (30) is performed in a client device (12) and comprises receiving (32), from a gateway device (13), a hash-tree based data signature, and determining (33), based on the received hash-tree based data signature, a first partial signature, P I. A method (60) in a gateway device (13) is also described. A corresponding client device (12) and gateway device (13) are also disclosed, as are related computer programs and computer program products. |
| US11356271B2 |
Systems and methods for providing a trusted keystore
Systems and methods for providing a trusted keystore are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing a trusted keystore may include: (1) selecting and storing a root Keyblock Protection Key (KBPK) in a trusted domain; (2) for each key class: creating a keyblock with a class KBPK; and storing the keyblock in an untrusted keystore in an unfrosted domain; (3) loading keyblocks to a trusted key manager in the trusted domain; (4) decrypting the keyblocks with an encryption class key; (5) verifying the keyblocks under a MAC class key; (6) loading class keyblocks to the trusted key manager from the untrusted keystore; (7) writing the keyblocks to the untrusted keystore; and (8) writing class keyblock MACs in a hierarchy to the untrusted keystore. A number of levels in the hierarchy is based on an amount of available storage in the trusted domain. |
| US11356269B1 |
System and method of detecting end-of-life of internet of things (IoT) device and closing associated block chain
An electronic device. The electronic device comprises a processor, a memory, a radio transceiver, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application establishes a communication link via the radio transceiver with an Internet of things (IoT) device, wherein the IoT device is associated with a block chain comprising event blocks that capture information about a state of the IoT device, receives a heartbeat message via the communication link from the IoT device, determines a period of time that passes after receiving the heartbeat message, determines that the period of time exceeds a predefined threshold, and transmits an end-of-life message via the radio transceiver to a server computer, wherein the end-of-life message identifies the IoT device, whereby the server computer is enabled to add an end-of-life block to the block chain associated with the IoT device to finalize the block chain. |
| US11356266B2 |
User authentication using diverse media inputs and hash-based ledgers
A system receives a login sample. The login sample is decomposed into first and second layers. A verification media sample is decomposed into first and second layers. The system determines that the first layer of the login sample does not match the first layer of the verification sample, that the second layer of the login sample does not match the second layer of the verification sample, or both. First and second critical portions are extracted from the login sample. A first and second login hash are generated from the first and second critical portions. A first and second ledger hash are retrieved from a blockchain ledger. It's determined that the first login hash does not match the first ledger hash, the second login hash does not match the second ledger hash, or both. The user is flagged. |
| US11356265B2 |
Secure communication between a vehicle and a remote device
The present disclosure includes secure communication between a vehicle and a remote device. An embodiment includes a processing resource, memory, and a vehicular communication component configured to, in response to receiving a request from a remote communication component to switch a state of a lock, calculate a challenge count for the request, generate a vehicular private key and a vehicular public key, perform a number of verification iterations, each respective verification iteration including providing the public key to the remote communication component, receiving, from the remote communication component, code for switching the lock state, verifying the remote communication component's identity, and incrementing a counter in response to verifying the remote communication component's identity, and decrypt the code using the private key and switch the lock state in response to the counter being incremented to a value equal to or greater than the challenge count. |
| US11356263B2 |
Computer-implemented system and method providing a decentralized protocol for the recovery of cryptographic assets
A computer-implemented method is described for enabling recovery of one or more digital assets held on a blockchain by a user under a public key Pk after a corresponding private key Sk for accessing the one or more digital assets is lost. The computer implemented method comprises setting access for the one or more digital assets held on the blockchain under the public key Pk and accessible using the corresponding private key Sk of the user such that the one or more digital assets are also accessible using a private key x shared by a congress on the blockchain network, the congress comprising a group of users on the blockchain network, each member of the congress having a private key share xi, the private key share xi to be used in a threshold signature scheme in which at least a threshold of private key shares must be used to generate a valid signature through the combination of partial signatures of the congress to access the one or more digital assets on behalf of the user. If the private key Sk is lost then the congress can be notified to access the one or more digital assets on behalf of the user, the user proving their identity to the congress by providing a recovery password. |
| US11356262B2 |
System and method for anonymous location verification
A computer implemented system for anonymous electronic verification of location credentials including at least one processor and data storage is described in various embodiments. The system includes cryptographic mechanisms and electronic communication between one or more computing systems that in concert, provide verification of a prover's location credentials in accordance to logical conditions of a verifier's policy without providing additional information to a verifier entity. |
| US11356256B2 |
Secure vehicular part communication
Secure vehicular part communication is described herein. An example apparatus can include a processing resource, a memory having instructions executable by the processing resource, and a vehicular communication component coupled to the processing resource. The vehicular communication component can be configured to, in response to receiving a part public key and a part signature from a part communication component associated with a vehicular part, verify an identity of the vehicular part based on the part signature. The vehicular communication component can be configured to, in response to verifying the identity, generate a vehicular public key. The vehicular communication component can be configured to encrypt vehicular data using the part public key. The vehicular communication component can be configured to provide the vehicular public key and the vehicular data to the part communication component. The vehicular communication component can be configured to receive, from the part communication component, part data encrypted using the vehicular public key. |
| US11356253B2 |
Communication system, first communication device, second communication device, method, and computer program
To propose a technique for solving a key delivery problem. Both of a client and a server have a function of generating the same solution at the same date and time based on the same initial solution. The client sends identification information for identifying the client to the server (S1002). The client and the server generate the same solution with time synchronization based on the initial solution (S1003 and S2002). The client and the server perform encrypted communication using the same key as a common key (S1004 and S2003). |
| US11356251B2 |
Secure vehicle communication with privacy-preserving features
Systems, apparatus, methods, and techniques for facilitating privacy preserving secure communicating in a platoon of devices, such as, vehicles, roadside units, or the like is provided. A service initiator provisions a ring key-set as well as a public key-pair and distributes the keys to user equipment and service coordinators. During operation, user equipment can query, via a service coordinator, the existence of a platoon, form a platoon, or join a platoon with the ring key-set and the public key-pair. To form a platoon the service coordinator can generate a symmetric key and provide the symmetric key to the user equipment. Subsequently, user equipment can communicate using the symmetric key. |
| US11356245B2 |
Data storage, data check, and data linkage method and apparatus
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data tracing are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving a data backtracking request, the data backtracking request comprising a version identifier of a first data version of a target object; obtaining, from the blockchain, version identifiers of a plurality of second data versions of the target object and a plurality of data blocks in the blockchain, wherein the second data versions comprise an initial data version of the target object, and at least one of the obtained data blocks comprises a version identifier of the initial data version; and determining, based on the version identifier of the initial data version, data content corresponding to the initial data version of the target object. |
| US11356240B2 |
Time alignment of access nodes to optical distributors of a global network
A method of time aligning signals transmitted from a plurality of access nodes to a distributor is disclosed. The signals are formed according to a cyclic structure of a predetermined number of segments, including content segments and control segments, each segment having two markers. A controller of the distributor allocates observation time slots for each access node corresponding to control segments. The controller detects, from a portion of a signal received from an access node during a respective observation time slot, a position of a particular marker and a segment index then determines a temporal displacement of the signal accordingly. If the temporal displacement exceeds a predefined value, a distributing mechanism of the distributor halts signal transfer from the access node to all other access nodes and instructs the access node to adjust transmission time according to the temporal displacement. |
| US11356238B1 |
Synchronization between devices for PWM waveforms
A system includes a first controller configured to transmit a synchronization signal to a second controller. The second controller is configured to produce a PWM signal. The system also includes a counter configured to provide a count for the second controller, where the second controller is configured to initiate rising edges and falling edges of the PWM signal based on the count from the counter. The second controller is also configured to measure an error between a time when the synchronization signal is received at the second controller and an expected time of receipt for the synchronization signal. The second controller is also configured to adjust a period of the counter based at least in part on the error. |
| US11356237B1 |
HDMI signal communication over an optical link
Systems and methods for HDMI signal communication over an optical communication link are described. One aspect includes receiving an HDMI control signal from an HDMI master device, and another HDMI control signal from an HDMI sink terminal via a communication resources. The method identifies half-duplex communication resource contention between the HDMI control signal and the other HDMI control signal, and transitions a communication direction of the half-duplex communication resources to give the HDMI control signal precedence over the other HDMI control signal. Subsequent to transitioning the communication direction, the method transfers the HDMI control signal to the HDMI sink terminal via the communication resources. Subsequent to transferring the HDMI control signal, the method again transitions the direction of the half-duplex communication resources, and transfers the other HDMI control signal to the HDMI master device. |
| US11356235B2 |
Self-interference cancellation for in-band full duplex single antenna communication systems
An analog self-interference cancellation technique for In-Band Full-Duplex (IBFD) systems generates an inherent secondary self-interference (SI) signal of a circulator and uses that signal to cancel a primary SI signal leaked from a transmitter port within a communication device. The communication device manipulates the phase and angle of this secondary SI, using an adjustable Impedance Mismatch Terminal (IMT) circuit. The result is an efficient SI cancellation technique in the analog domain, which uses the circulator inherent SI signals. |
| US11356225B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data and control information through an uplink in a wireless communication system
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for multiplexing and transmitting data and uplink control information, and receiving the data and control information in a wireless communication system. In the system multiplexing an uplink packet data channel and a control channel, a transport format of the control channel for transmission of the control information is changed according to the transport format of the data channel. The disclosed method and apparatus can control the quantity of resources for the control channel in the case of transmitting high speed data, and thus can the efficiency of the data channel resources. |
| US11356224B2 |
Method and apparatus for receiving or transmitting downlink signal in wireless communication system
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of decoding, by a user equipment, a downlink signal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving rate matching pattern information indicating a rate matching resource having a repetition period from a base station; and decoding a downlink shared channel using the rate matching pattern information. |
| US11356223B2 |
Base station, terminal, and communication method
UEs each monitor a search space in multiple CORSETs and appropriately detect a DCI. In a base station (100), a DCI generator (102) selects one of multiple cases each indicating a combination of CORSETs to be monitored by a terminal (200) among multiple control channel regions (CORSETs). A transmitter (106) indicates, by higher-layer signaling, configuration information indicating the multiple cases, and indicates the selected case by dynamic signaling. |
| US11356221B2 |
Data transmission method, device, and system
A data transmission method, device, and system are provided. The method includes: sending, by a base station, an NPSS to UE by using a first subframe in a first radio frame and a first subframe in a second radio frame, where the first radio frame and the second radio frame are consecutive, and both the first radio frame and the second radio frame use a TDD uplink-downlink subframe configuration; sending, by the base station, an NPBCH to the UE by using a second subframe in the first radio frame and a second subframe in the second radio frame; sending, by the base station, an NSSS to the UE by using a third subframe in the first radio frame; and sending, by the base station, a SIB1-NB to the UE by using a third subframe in the second radio frame. |
| US11356217B2 |
ACK/NACK transmission strategies
Methods and systems for Acknowledgement (ACK)/Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) transmission strategies are provided. According to one aspect, a method of operation of a radio node comprises determining whether a combination of resources for a plurality of signals or channels fulfills a predefined criteria: if so, the plurality of signals or channels are transmitted according to a first transmission strategy in which each signal or channel is transmitted on its respective resource or resources; if not, at least some of the plurality of signals or channels are transmitted according to a second transmission strategy different from the first transmission strategy, e.g., transmitting only a subset of the signals or channels, combining signals and channels, etc. The predefined criteria may be based on the characteristics of the resources for the plurality of signals or channels, such as their locations, bandwidths, signal qualities, relative separation in the frequency domain, or other characteristics. |
| US11356215B2 |
System and method for transmitting a signal
A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: receiving a resource allocation message indicative of a plurality of resource groups allocated for a signal; and transmitting the signal using a portion of the plurality of resource groups, wherein, in a frequency domain, the portion of the plurality of resource groups presents a hopping pattern comprising at least a first hopping path that is associated with a first plurality of increasing frequency spacings and a second hopping path that is associated with a second plurality of decreasing frequency spacings. |
| US11356214B2 |
Device and method for generating broadcast signal frame by using enhanced layer physical layer pipe corresponding to injection level information
An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing time-interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling start position information and size information for each of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs). In this case, the Physical Layer Pipes include a core layer physical layer pipe corresponding to the core layer signal and an enhanced layer physical layer pipe corresponding to the enhanced layer signal. |
| US11356213B2 |
NR RLC segment concatenation
Transmitters consider the size of a gap segment adjacent to at least one negatively acknowledged (NACKed) Radio Link Control (RLC) Service Data Unit (SDU) when considering when and/or how to concatenate one or more NACKed SDU segments for retransmission. Depending on which RLC SDU segment(s) is/are NACKed, e.g., considering the size of NACKed segments in relation to Protocol Data Unit (PDU) header size(s) needed, the transmitter implements a single RLC SDU retransmission or multiple RLC SDU segment retransmissions. In so doing, the solution presented herein not only defines how such transmissions occur, but also provides improved efficiency when retransmitting such NACKed SDU segments. |
| US11356212B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving sidelink HARQ feedback information
Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and/or receiving sidelink HARQ feedback information. Further, a method of a user equipment (UE) may be provided for transmitting HARQ feedback information in response to sidelink transmission. The method may include: receiving configuration information for a resource pool for the sidelink transmission, receiving configuration information on frequency resources for transmission of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) in the resource pool, and transmitting HARQ feedback information in response to a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) received from one or more other UE(s) using a PSFCH resource determined based on the configuration information for frequency resources in the resource pool. |
| US11356210B2 |
Data verification information generation and feedback method, data verification information receiving method and device
A data acknowledgement information generation and feedback method is provided. The method includes steps described below. UE determines an actual valid CBG level HARQ-ACK bit of a transmission block according to a number of CBGs actually scheduled in last transmission of the transmission block or according to a number of CBGs actually scheduled in initial transmission of the transmission block, generates and transmits an HARQ-ACK containing the actual valid CBG level HARQ-ACK bit. A data acknowledgement information receiving method, a data acknowledgement information generation and feedback device, a data acknowledgement information receiving device, a UE, a base station and a storage medium are further provided. |
| US11356206B2 |
Data transmission and measurement techniques
Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to transmitting data and feedback data between network elements is disclosed. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting data from a first network element to a second network element. The method also includes receiving, at the first network element, feedback data from the second network element, where the feedback data includes a highest delivered packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) sequence number (SN) and information indicative of a range of data that has been successfully delivered to a terminal. The method also includes retransmitting at least a portion of the data from the first network element based on the feedback data. |
| US11356204B2 |
Communication method, network device, and terminal
This application provides a communication method and apparatus. A terminal receives first indication information from a network device, wherein the first indication information indicates a first set of related information of feedback time, each piece of related information of feedback time in the first set of related information of feedback time indicates a quantity of time units comprised in a feedback time of a first data block. The terminal receives second indication information from the network device, wherein the second indication information indicates first related information of feedback time of the first data block, and the first related information of feedback time belongs to the first set of related information of feedback time. The terminal sends the response message for the first data block to the network device based on the second indication information and the first indication information. |
| US11356202B2 |
Efficient broadcast channel in beamformed systems for NR
A method for transmitting system information on a PBCH is described herein. A transmission/reception point (TRP) may generate a concatenated master information block (MIB) transport block that includes information bits associated with system bandwidth information, timing information, system frame number (SFN), a beam sweeping configuration, and a control resource set (CORESET). The TRP may then attach at least 16 cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits to the concatenated MIB and then prioritize the concatenated MIB and the at least 16 CRC bits based on content. The TRP may then perform channel coding of the prioritized concatenated MIB and the at least 16 CRC bits to produce coded bits using at least one polar encoder with a coding rate that is less than ⅓, perform rate matching via repetition on the coded bits, and then transmit the rate matched, coded bits on the PBCH of a radio frame. |
| US11356201B2 |
SPC sensor interface with partial parity protection
A sensor system is configured to communicate at least partially protected sensor data over a communication interface. The sensor system includes a sensor element and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the sensor element. The sensor element is configured to provide sensor data in the digital domain. The communication interface is configured to generate a data package for transmission over the communication interface from the sensor data. The data package includes a data grouping comprising one or more nibbles related to the sensor data. The data package further includes a nibble indicia based on at least a portion of selected nibbles within the data grouping. |
| US11356197B1 |
Error-tolerant forward error correction ordered set message decoder
Methods are described for identifying and acting upon predetermined message patterns during reception of a data stream structured as USB message frames. A first embodiment performs pattern matching between received message bits and one or more predetermined sequences, identifying unscrambled ordered set messages. A second embodiment applies a descrambling operation and performs comparable pattern matching between descrambled received message bits and one or more additional predetermined sequences, identifying scrambled ordered set messages. |
| US11356194B2 |
Communication system using wired transmission line and multi-carrier modulation
A communication system that uses a wired transmission line and multi-carrier modulation includes a transmitting device and a receiving device that are connected through the wired transmission line, wherein the receiving device includes an estimator configured to estimate a first SINR (Signal-to-Interference-Plus-Noise Ratio) of a first sub-carrier and a second SINR of a second sub-carrier, the transmitting device includes a power adjustor configured to boost a transmission power for the first sub-carrier such that an SINR of the first sub-carrier reaches a first SINR threshold corresponding to a first MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) that is larger than the first SINR, and back off a transmission power for the second sub-carrier such that an SINR of the second sub-carrier is lowered to a second SINR threshold corresponding to a second MCS that is smaller than the second SINR, and the transmitting device allocates the first MCS to the first sub-carrier. |
| US11356193B2 |
Rate matching and HARQ with irregular modulation
A method and system for rate matching in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving K information bits at a channel encoder and generating N output bits. The N output bits may be interleaved by an interleaver. In a HARQ retransmission the output bits may be placed into a circular buffer. The N output bits may be divided into two or more parts comprising at least a first part and a second part. The method further comprises mapping a first part of one or more parts of the N output bits to a M1 (=2m1)-ary modulation and mapping a second part of one or more parts of the N output bits to a M2 (=2m2))-ary modulation. The output bits may be transmitted by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a base station, or the like. |
| US11356187B2 |
Mobile terminal testing device and mobile terminal testing method
A measuring device 1 performs control to perform a reception sensitivity test of measuring a throughput of a signal under measurement, and repeating the measurement while changing an output level of a test signal at each measurement position corresponding to a plurality of orientations. The integrated control device 10 that performs the control includes a measurement situation display control unit 18d that displays a measurement progress display screen having a first display area for displaying a result of the reception sensitivity test up to the measurement position where the reception sensitivity test is completed, and a second display area for displaying a progress situation of the measurement of the reception sensitivity test at the measurement position at which the reception sensitivity test is started. |
| US11356185B1 |
Method and measuring apparatus for measuring noise of device under test
A method and a measuring apparatus for measuring noise of a device under test (DUT) is provided, wherein the DUT is connected to a link partner (LP) device via a cable, and the measuring apparatus is coupled to the DUT and LP device. The method includes: controlling the LP device to transmit a far-end data sequence to the DUT according to transmission data; controlling the DUT to recover the transmission data for generating aided-data sequence according to the transmission data, wherein the aided-data sequence is configured to perform cancellation with a received far-end data sequence to generate a cancellation result; generating a first noise value and a second noise value in a first training phase and a second training phase, respectively; and estimating noise from at least one circuit according to the first noise value and the second noise value. |
| US11356179B2 |
Systems and methods for configuring a communications network
Systems and methods are disclosed for configuring a communications network. In disclosed embodiments, for a communication network comprising fiber optic cables connected by switches and transceiver-transponders, a graph representing the communication network can be obtained with edges representing the fiber optic cables, and nodes representing the switches and transceiver-transponders. A set of service links can be determined for a path in the communication network based on a set of demands for the path. Each service link can represent data transmission by one of the transceiver-transponders through one or more of the fiber optic cables connected by zero or more of the switches. Sets of service links can be iteratively selected for progressively longer initial segments of the path. When the initial segment comprises the path, the set of service links for the initial segment can be selected as the set of service links for the path. |
| US11356178B2 |
Monitoring leakage in aeronautical band of high split HFC
A method for monitoring leakage in the aeronautical band of a high split HFC includes providing an apparatus for use in a patrol vehicle, the apparatus including a leak signal receiver coupled to a processor; setting a plurality of coefficients for an OUDP matched filter for a current location of the patrol vehicle; detecting peaks over a detection threshold at an output of the OUDP matched filter; and determining a presence of a leak based on a time stamp and a level of each detected peak. An upstream leak detection system is also described. |
| US11356177B1 |
Systems and methods for mapping optical connections in a fiber distribution hub of a passive optical network
Systems and methods for mapping optical connections in an FDH are disclosed. An example system includes an FDH and a computing device. The FDH includes a bulkhead having: a plurality of passive optical couplers each having a respective first port to receive a respective first optical fiber, a respective second port to receive a respective second optical fiber, and a respective passive optical activity indicator configured to expose first light propagating in the respective first optical fiber, and second light propagating in the respective second optical fiber; and an image sensor configured to capture one or more images of the plurality of passive optical activity indicators. The computing device configured to, based on the one or more images, determine which of the plurality of passive optical couplers are receiving a first optical signal at their respective first port and/or receiving a second optical signal at their respective second port. |
| US11356175B2 |
Optical module testing method, apparatus and device, and storage medium
A method, an apparatus and a device for detecting an optical module, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: constructing insertion loss ranges meeting an insertion loss specification that respectively correspond to different signal frequencies in a predetermined signal frequency range, to construct a target insertion loss region; acquiring a microstripline length, a stripline length, a via number and a connector number of a to-be-detected optical module; inputting the microstripline length, the stripline length, the via number and the connector number to a pre-constructed first model, to determine an insertion loss curve of the to-be-detected optical module in the signal frequency range; and determining that the to-be-detected optical module is unqualified if a part of the insertion loss curve is outside the target insertion loss region. |
| US11356165B2 |
Determining a TPMI for a codebook set
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a TPMI for a codebook set. One method includes receiving information indicating a transmission capability of a remote unit. The method includes determining a transmit precoding matrix indication based on a rank and a codebook corresponding to the transmission capability and the rank, wherein the transmit precoding matrix indication corresponding to a rank of one includes a maximum of five bits, and the transmit precoding matrix indication corresponding to a rank of two includes a maximum of four bits. The method includes transmitting the transmit precoding matrix indication to the remote unit. |
| US11356146B2 |
Methods, apparatus and system for bidirectional wireless charging in wearable devices
The technology provides for a wearable device including a body and an accessory adapted to be attached to the body. The body includes a first coil configured to inductively transmit power. The body may further include first power management circuitry configured to control the first coil to transmit power according to a wireless charging standard, and to modulate the power transmitted through the first coil to transmit data according to a wireless communication standard. The accessory may include a second coil configured to inductively receive power. The accessory may further include second power management circuitry configured to control the second coil to receive the power transmitted through the first coil according to the wireless charging standard, and to control the second coil to receive the data transmitted through the first coil according to the wireless communication standard. |
| US11356145B2 |
Wireless charging apparatus and method
A wireless charging method and apparatus are provided. Identification information is transmitted, through a near field communication antenna, to a wireless power transmitter for an authentication process of the electronic device, if the electronic device is put on the wireless power transmitter for wireless charging and a near field communication controller is in an initial or idle state. Wireless power is received through a wireless power receiving antenna from the wireless power transmitter after the authentication process. Wireless charging is performed through a wireless charging controller by using the received wireless power. It is determined whether the wireless charging is complete. A charging completion signal is transmitted, through the near field communication antenna, to the wireless power transmitter based on the determining. |
| US11356143B2 |
Waveguide system with power stabilization and methods for use therewith
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a waveguide system includes a transmission device configured to send and receive guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along a surface of a power line without requiring an electrical return path. The waveguide system further includes a magnetic core that surrounds the power line, a first winding around the magnetic core that generates a supply current in response a transmission current flowing through the power line and a power supply that converts the supply current to a supply voltage that powers the transmission device. The power supply automatically stabilizes power consumption by the transmission device in response to variations in the supply current caused by variations in the transmission current flowing through the power line. |
| US11356137B2 |
Consolidation of controls on an aircraft radio
Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying the operational parameters of a radio system located onboard an aircraft. The apparatus comprises a permanent radio display bar that shows an active radio frequency in use by the radio system and a variable radio display pad. The variable radio display pad shows multiple historical past radio frequencies previously used by the radio system and multiple predicted future radio frequencies for use along a flight plan of the aircraft. It includes a change command that allows a crew member to manually change the active radio frequency in the permanent radio display bar. |
| US11356135B2 |
Measurement circuit for isolation product
A method includes generating a first current through a first node based on a differential pair of signals received by a differential pair of input nodes of a differential circuit of a first integrated circuit die of an isolator product. The method includes generating a second current through a second node. The second current matches the first current through the first node and is based on an attenuated version of an output measurement signal. The method includes generating the output measurement signal having a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the differential pair of signals based on the first current and the second current. |
| US11356131B2 |
Electronic device with millimeter wave antennas
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths. |
| US11356130B2 |
Devices and methods for radio frequency front end systems
A wireless device comprising a first antenna and second antenna, a transceiver and a radio frequency front end system electrically coupled between the transceiver and the antennas. The RF front end system includes a first module operable to provide a high band transmit signal to the first antenna, receive a first high band receive signal and a first mid band receive signal from the first antenna. The first high band receive signal has a frequency range greater than that of the first mid band receive signal. The RF front end system further includes a second module operable to provide a mid band transmit signal to the second antenna, receive a second mid band receive signal and a second high band receive signal from the second antenna. The second high band receive signal has a frequency range greater than that of the second mid band receive signal. |
| US11356129B2 |
Quasi-reflectionless microstrip bandpass filters with improved passband flatness and out-of-band rejection
The disclosed embodiments provide an absorptive coupled-line bandpass filter. This bandpass filter includes a first port, which is coupled to a first absorptive stub, and a second port, which is coupled to a second absorptive stub. The bandpass filter also includes a coupled-line bandpass section coupled between the first and second ports, wherein the coupled-line bandpass section comprises a set of one or more parallel strip line resonators, which are coupled together in series and are coupled to the first and second ports through overlapping coupled-line sections, wherein at a center frequency of a passband for the absorptive coupled-line bandpass filter, the first and second absorptive stubs appear as open circuits, and outside of the passband, the first and second absorptive stubs appear as matched loads to ground and contribute to absorption of out-of-band signals. |
| US11356127B2 |
Selective filtering for continuous 5 GHz and 6 GHz operation of a network device
Examples described herein provide selective filtering by a network device for continuous 5 GHz and 6 GHz operation. Examples may include receiving, by the network device, a first signal in one of a 5 GHz band and a 6 GHz band, and generating, by the network device, a second signal in the other one of the 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands. Examples may include selecting, by the network device, a first filter or a second filter to be applied to the one of the first and second signals in the 5 GHz band, wherein the second filter allows a higher frequency band to pass than the first filter in the 5 GHz band and the second filter is narrower than the first filter, selecting, by the network device, a third filter or a fourth filter to be applied to the other one of the first and second signals in the 6 GHz band, wherein the third filter allows a lower frequency band to pass than the fourth filter in the 6 GHz band and the third filter is narrower than the fourth filter, and applying, by the network device, the selected first or second filter to the first signal and the selected third or fourth filter to the second signal. |
| US11356123B2 |
Memory system with low-complexity decoding and method of operating such memory system
Memory controllers, decoders and methods to selectively perform bit-flipping (BF) decoding and min-sum (MS) decoding on codewords of an irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. Bit-flipping (BF) decoding is executed with respect to variable nodes having relatively high column weights. MS decoding is executed with respect to variable nodes having relatively low column weights. A column-weight threshold is used to group the variable nodes into the higher and lower column weight groups. The two decoding techniques exchange results during the overall decoding process. |
| US11356122B2 |
Systems and methods for interleaved hamming encoding and decoding
A communication device includes a first alignment circuit configured to receive, from a host device, a first encoded data stream including a plurality of symbols encoded with a first type of error correction code. The first alignment circuit is configured to output an aligned first encoded data stream that is aligned to boundaries between the plurality of symbols encoded with the first type of error correction code. An interleaver is configured to interleave the plurality of symbols of the aligned first encoded data stream into symbol sections each including a predetermined number of symbols encoded with the first type of error correction code. An encoder is configured to generate, for each of the symbol sections, a parity block corresponding to the symbols in the symbol section and to output a second encoded data stream including the aligned first encoded data stream and the parity block. |
| US11356121B2 |
Bit interleaver for low-density parity check codeword having length of 64800 and code rate of 5/15 and 4096-symbol mapping, and bit interleaving method using same
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 5/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 4096-symbol mapping. |
| US11356115B2 |
Loop gain auto calibration using loop gain detector
A device includes a phase detector circuit, a charge pump circuit, a sample and hold circuit, a comparator, and a controller. The phase detector circuit detects a clock skew between a reference signal and an input signal. The charge pump circuit translates the clock skew into a voltage. A sample and hold circuit samples the voltage, at a first time, and maintain the sampled voltage until a second time. The comparator (i) detects a loop gain associated with the input signal based on the sampled voltage and the voltage at the second time and (ii) outputs a loop gain signal for adjustment of the input signal. The controller is coupled to the phase detector, the comparator, and the sample and hold circuit. The controller generates a plurality of control signals for automatically controlling operation of the phase detector, the comparator, and the sample and hold circuit. |
| US11356114B2 |
R-2R resistor ladder trim circuits
In some examples, a system includes an integrated circuit comprising a transistor, a first amplifier coupled to the transistor, a second amplifier having an output and coupled to the transistor and the first amplifier, and an R-2R resistor ladder having multiple rungs. Each rung is switchably coupled to a terminal of the transistor and to the output of the second amplifier. The R-2R resistor ladder includes a resistor coupled to either the transistor or the output of the second amplifier. |
| US11356112B1 |
Coarse-fine counting architecture for a VCO-ADC based on interlocked binary asynchronous counters
An analog-to-digital converter includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having an input for receiving an analog input signal; a double binary counter having a first input coupled to a first output of the VCO, a second input coupled to a second output of the VCO; a first set of registers coupled to the first output of the double binary counter; a second set of registers coupled to the second output of the double binary counter; sense amplifiers coupled to the outputs of the VCO; and a correction component coupled to the first set of registers, the second set of registers, and the sense amplifiers, wherein the correction component generates a coarse count, a fine count, and combines the coarse count and the fine count to provide a digital output signal representative of the analog input signal. |
| US11356108B2 |
Frequency generator and associated method
A frequency generator is disclosed. The frequency generator is for generating an oscillator clock according to a reference clock, and the frequency generator is used in a frequency hopping system that switches a carrier frequency among a plurality of channels, and the carrier frequency further carries a modulation frequency for data transmission. The frequency generator includes: a frequency hopping and modulation control unit, arranged for generating a current channel according to a channel hopping sequence and a frequency command word (FCW) based on the reference clock, a digital-controlled oscillator (DCO), arranged for to generating the oscillator clock according to an oscillator tuning word (OTW) obtained according to the estimated DCO normalization value. An associated method is also disclosed. |
| US11356101B1 |
Digital signal processing block with reduced pin count for fine-grained programmable gate architecture
A digital signal processing block has a first input port, a second input port, a third input port, a cascade input port and an output port. The DSP block may have a cascade output port. The DSP block may have a multiplexer that has selectable output, to the cascade output port, of concatenated inputs from the first input port, the second input port and the third input port. The DSP block may be connectable to another DSP block via a cascade path. The DSP block may have a variable shifter. The DSP block may have a full-width adder and reduced-width input ports. |
| US11356098B2 |
Transmitter and receiver for low power input/output and memory system including the same
A transmitter includes a multiplexer, control logic and a voltage mode driver. The multiplexer generates a plurality of time-interleaved data signals based on a plurality of input data signals and multi-phase clock signals. The plurality of input data signals are input in parallel. Each of the plurality of input data signals is a binary signal and has two voltage levels that are different from each other. The control logic generates at least one pull-down control signal and a plurality of pull-up control signals based on the plurality of time-interleaved data signals. Each of the plurality of pull-up control signals has a voltage level that is temporarily boosted. The voltage mode driver generates an output data signal based on the at least one pull-down control signal and the plurality of pull-up control signals. The output data signal is a duobinary signal and has three voltage levels that are different from each other. |
| US11356086B2 |
Loss of signal detection circuit
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit. In some examples, the circuit includes a first inverter coupled between first and second nodes, a second inverter coupled between third and fourth nodes, and a first logic circuit having a first input coupled to the second node, a second input coupled to the fourth node, and an output, a first positive feedback circuit coupled between the first and third nodes and having a control input. The first positive feedback circuit comprises a first switch coupled between the first and fifth nodes and having a control input, a second switch coupled between the third and sixth nodes and having a control input, a third inverter having an input coupled to the sixth node and an output coupled to the fifth node, and a fourth inverter having an input coupled to the fifth node and an output coupled to the sixth node. |
| US11356085B2 |
PWM waveform generation device and method thereof
The PWM waveform generation device comprises a time-division multiplexing module, wherein the time-division multiplexing module is configured for receiving a first preprocessing signal and a second preprocessing signal output by two system clock sources, performing a first time-division processing on the first preprocessing signal to obtain a first time-division signal, and performing a second time-division processing on the second preprocessing signal to obtain a second time-division signal according to a preset strategy, performing multiplexing processing on the first time-division signal and the second time-division signal to obtain a PWM output signal, wherein an output frequency of the PWM output signal is a default standard clock frequency. The present invention has the advantages that the cycle length of one cycle of a PWM waveform depends on cycles of two preprocessing waveforms and the number of the cycles, such that the output waveform frequency may be calibrated to a desired frequency. |
| US11356079B2 |
Tunable reactance circuits for wireless power systems
Disclosed herein are tunable reactance circuits configured to present a tunable or variable capacitive reactance when energized. The circuits can include a switch configured to be controlled by a gate driver, the gate driver configured to receive a control signal indicating an on-time of the switch; a diode coupled antiparallel to a switch; and one or more capacitors coupled in parallel to the diode. The tunable capacitive reactance can be based on the on-time of the switch and a total capacitance value of the one or more capacitors. The exemplary tunable reactance circuits may be used in wireless power transmitters and/or receivers for efficient power transmission and/or to deliver a particular level of power to a load. |
| US11356074B2 |
Impedance matching device and impedance matching method
An impedance matching device comprises a variable capacitor including multiple capacitance elements and connected in parallel having capacitors and each having one end connected in series to a high-frequency power source and semiconductor switches and connected to the respective capacitors, and a control unit. The control unit derives a reflection coefficient based on the obtained information concerning an impedance viewed from the high-frequency power source toward the load side, updates the states of the respective semiconductor switches and included in the multiple capacitance elements and with a first cycle in the case where the reflection coefficient is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and updates the states of the respective semiconductor switches and included in the plurality of capacitance elements and with a second cycle longer than the first cycle in the case where the reflection coefficient is less than the predetermined value. |
| US11356071B2 |
Piezoelectric acoustic resonator with improved TCF manufactured with piezoelectric thin film transfer process
A method and structure for a transfer process for an acoustic resonator device. In an example, a bulk acoustic wave resonator (BAWR) with an air reflection cavity is formed. A piezoelectric thin film is grown on a crystalline substrate. Patterned electrodes are deposited on the surface of the piezoelectric film. An etched sacrificial layer is deposited over the electrodes and a planarized support layer is deposited over the sacrificial layer. The device can include temperature compensation layers (TCL) that improve the device TCF. These layers can be thin layers of oxide type materials and can be configured between the top electrode and the piezoelectric layer, between the bottom electrode and the piezoelectric layer, between two or more piezoelectric layers, and any combination thereof. In an example, the TCLs can be configured from thick passivation layers overlying the top electrode and/or underlying the bottom electrode. |
| US11356064B2 |
Transceiver circuit
A Doherty amplifier including a main amplifier and a peak amplifier is mounted on a package substrate. A low noise amplifier is further mounted on the package substrate. A transmit/receive switch switches in terms of time between a transmission connection state in which an output signal of the Doherty amplifier is supplied to an antenna and a reception connection state in which a signal received by the antenna is inputted to the low noise amplifier. |
| US11356059B2 |
Flexible Lissajous scanning pattern by phase modulation
An oscillator system includes a first oscillator structure configured to oscillate about a first rotation axis at a first oscillation frequency; a second oscillator structure configured to oscillate about a second rotation axis at a second oscillation frequency; a driver circuit configured to generate a first driving signal to drive an oscillation of the first oscillator structure with a first oscillation phase and the first oscillation frequency and generate a second driving signal to drive an oscillation of the second oscillator structure with a second oscillation phase and the second oscillation frequency. The first oscillation frequency and the second oscillation frequency have a variable frequency ratio with respect to each other that varies over time. The driver circuit is configured to modulate at least one of the first oscillation phase or the second oscillation phase to modulate the variable frequency ratio. |
| US11356051B2 |
Solar powered charging station
A solar powered charging station uses photovoltaic panels to generate electrical energy for use directly and/or for storage in electrical batteries for use during night operation. The station includes parallel electrical circuits which permit the station to operate during daylight hours in the event of a failure of the battery or the battery charging system. The station is designed to provide a kit embodiment having light weight, easily transportable components. The parallel circuitry is adaptable for use with other forms of electrical power generation having a minimal carbon footprint. |
| US11356050B2 |
Power conversion device, motor module, electric power steering device
A power conversion device includes a first inverter, a second inverter, first and second controller to control the first and second inverters, and a driving circuit to apply a control signal to turn on the low side switch elements of the first inverter when a fault occurs on the first inverter side, and apply a control signal to turn on the low side switch elements of the second inverter when a fault occurs on the second inverter side. The first power voltage generated on the first inverter side is supplied to the driving circuit when a fault occurs on the second inverter side, and the second power voltage generated on the second inverter side is supplied to the driving circuit when a fault occurs on the first inverter side. |
| US11356044B2 |
Method for detecting motor initial phase and phase sequence and system for controlling permanent-magnet synchronous motor
The present invention provides a method for detecting motor initial phase and phase sequence and a system for controlling a permanent-magnet synchronous motor. The method is applied to the system and comprises sequentially acquiring, through an encoder, first displacement data which register the encoder's reading when a rotor spins to a Q-axis, second displacement data which register the encoder's reading when the rotor spins from the Q-axis to a D-axis, third displacement data which register the encoder's reading when the rotor spins from the D-axis to a negative Q-axis and fourth displacement data which register the encoder's reading when the rotor spins from the negative Q-axis to the D-axis; obtaining an initial phase of the motor to be detected according to the second displacement data, the fourth displacement data and the encoder's CPR; and determining the phase sequence of the motor based on the first displacement data, the second displacement data and the encoder's CPR. That is to say, the method can not only automatically detect the initial phase of the rotor, but also the motor wiring phase sequence, and overcome the influence of friction force to improve the initial phase detection precision. |
| US11356040B2 |
Piezo actuator device and motor
A piezo actuator comprises a piezo material having a first, top surface, a second, bottom surface, and a third, circumference surface. The piezo material has a polarity and the piezo material includes one or more mounting holes in the piezo material, the one or more mounting holes being positioned substantially central in at least the top surface or the bottom surface of the piezo material. The actuator also comprises at least one contact point for contacting a load to be actuated, the at least one contact point being positioned on the third, circumference, surface of the piezo material, and a set of electrodes being positioned on the top surface of the piezo material and at least one electrode being positioned at the bottom surface of the piezo material. |
| US11356036B2 |
Power conversion apparatus, motor module, and electric power steering apparatus
A power conversion apparatus includes a first inverter, a second inverter, a drive circuit to provide control signals turning on low-side switch elements in the first inverter to the low-side switch elements when a failure has occurred on a first inverter side, and provide control signals to turn on low-side switch elements in the second inverter to the low-side switch elements when a failure has occurred on a second inverter side, and a control circuit. When a failure has occurred on the second inverter side, a first power supply voltage generated on the first inverter side is supplied to the drive circuit, while when a failure has occurred on the first inverter side, a second power supply voltage generated on the second inverter side is supplied to the drive circuit. |
| US11356032B2 |
Operation of switching elements of a multilevel energy converter
A method for operating switching elements of a multilevel energy converter using at least three electric potentials and to which a multiphase electrical machine is connected. Switching elements of the multilevel energy converter are operated in a predefined clock mode by corresponding switching signals. The switching signals for the switching elements are each assigned to one of the phases and are determined in accordance with each desired voltage signal, in order to apply a phase voltage to each phase of the multiphase electrical machine. The switching signals are determined additionally in accordance with a predefined overlaying voltage signal such that an overlaying voltage dependent on the overlaying voltage signal is overlaid onto each phase voltage. |
| US11356030B2 |
Switching power supply circuit with synchronous rectification and associated control circuit and control method
A switching power supply circuit with synchronous rectification has an energy storage component, a SR switch coupled to a secondary side of the energy storage component, and a secondary control circuit. The secondary control circuit has a turning-ON control circuit for providing a turning-ON control signal based on a comparison of a drain to source sensing voltage of the SR switch and a turn ON threshold, a mode determination circuit for providing a mode signal to determine a turn ON delay based on a detection to a transient event or the drain to source sensing voltage ringing of the SR switch, and a gate driver circuit for driving the SR switch. When the turning-ON control signal is asserted, the gate driver circuit charges a gate voltage of the SR switch after the turn ON delay based on the mode signal, to turn ON the SR switch. |
| US11356026B2 |
Electrical system and method for protecting a DC/DC converter
An electrical system having, among other things, a resonant DC-DC voltage converter with two resonant capacitors, a control unit having a first module for determining a maximum value and a minimum value of the voltage at the terminals of each resonant capacitor as a function of an output voltage of the converter, a module for comparing between the maximum value and respectively a minimum value of the voltage at the terminals of each resonant capacitor and a failure detection element configured to detect a failure of the converter if the maximum value is greater than or equal to the upper voltage limit, or the minimum value is less than or equal to the lower voltage limit. |
| US11356019B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for constant, high switching frequency and narrow duty ratio PWM control of DC-DC converters and accurate PFM control at light load
DC-DC power converter control comprises current starved delay lines for phase shifting control signals that set and reset a RS flip-flop to provide controllable PWM pulse widths from narrow to wide at a clock frequency. Precise pulse width control and a guaranteed minimum pulse width for pulse frequency modulation (PFM) control the DC-DC power converter during low power demand is also provided. PFM control maintains the same pulse width while decreasing the number of pulses per second when the output voltage exceeds an upper value and increases the number of pulses per second when the output voltage is less than a lower value. Voltage-to-current converters provide control currents to the current starved delay lines that provide the control signals to the SET and RESET inputs of the RS flip-flop. A D-flip-flop may further be used to improved circuit operation when generating high duty cycle (>50 percent) pulse widths. |
| US11356015B2 |
Modular medium voltage fast chargers
Certain embodiments involve a modular medium voltage fast charger. The modular medium voltage fast charger can include: (1) a predictive power factor correction (“PFC”) controller (or predictive controller) for series-interleaved multi-cell three-level boost (“SIMCB”) converters, (2) an active neutral point clamped (“NPC”) dual active bridge (“DAB”) modulation scheme to achieve soft switching, (3) an auxiliary capacitor to reduce NPC DAB turn-off voltages, (4) a comprehensive and scalable protection circuit, and (5) a high-isolation pulse transformer with a bobbin for reducing coupling capacitance of the pulse transformer. |
| US11356008B2 |
Voice coil motor
The VCM according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base unit, a mover including a bobbin arranged at an upper surface of the base unit and formed with a plurality of rotation prevention units along a periphery and a first driving unit arranged at a periphery of the bobbin, a stator including a yoke configured to the base unit to surround the mover and inner yoke units each extended to between the rotation prevention units, and a second driving unit oppositely arranged to the first driving unit, and an elastic member elastically supporting the mover, wherein an object occurrence preventing portion is formed between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units to decrease a contact area between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units. |
| US11356001B2 |
Cooling device for a stator of an electrical machine, electrical machine and motor vehicle
A cooling device for a stator of an electrical machine, for fitting together with a hollow cylindrical laminated core of the stator, includes multiple cooling channels for conducting cooling fluid along the laminated core, and a fluid ring for provision on an end face of the laminated core. The fluid ring has two fluid ring channels for distributing the cooling fluid to the cooling channels and for receiving the cooling fluid from the cooling channels, and at least two cooling fluid connections for introducing and removing the cooling fluid into and from the fluid ring channels. The fluid ring channels have circumferential-angle-dependent flow cross-sections in the flow direction, in order to evenly distribute the cooling fluid to the cooling channels. |
| US11356000B2 |
Electric machine cooling with rotor having cooling pipe
A motor and stator include first and second laminations arranged adjacently in the axial direction. The laminations include sub-yoke parts and first tooth parts. The sub-yoke parts are spliced through a yoke engaging part to form a substantially annular yoke part. The tooth parts are assembled on an inner edge of the yoke part through a tooth engaging part. A first tooth engaging part and a second tooth engaging part are superposed in the axial direction, the first tooth engaging part being different from the second tooth engaging part. A method of manufacturing a stator for a motor is also disclosed. |
| US11355999B2 |
Method for cooling an electrical machine, and an electrical machine applying the method
A method for cooling an electrical machine includes the following steps: guiding a coolant in an axial coolant supply line which is arranged in the rotor shaft, and conducting the coolant into an interior chamber of the electrical machine via a radial coolant supply line which is connected in a coolant-conducting manner to the axial coolant supply line. The electrical machine has an axial coolant supply line and at least one radial coolant supply line connected in a coolant-conducting manner to the axial coolant supply line, both of which are arranged in the rotor shaft. An interior chamber of the electrical machine is connected in a coolant-guiding manner to the radial coolant supply line. |
| US11355995B2 |
Motor mount and damper
A system having a damper with six or more indentations on alternating sides of the damper, where each indentation is open to an outer circumferential surface of the damper and extends over halfway through a width of the damper, and six or more slots, each slot open to an undulating inner circumferential surface of the damper and extending through the width of the damper. |
| US11355990B2 |
Drive device
This drive device is provided with a motor section (2) and a wheel (102) which is connected to the output section (44) of the motor section (2) and which rotates. The wheel (102) has a circular plate-shaped disk section (104) which is affixed to the output section (44), and a rim section (105) which extends in the axial direction of the output section (44) from the outer periphery of the disk section (104) and on which a tire (103) is mounted. The disk section (104) is provided with a rib (116) surrounding the periphery of the motor section (2). |
| US11355987B2 |
Pole tooth module for an electric machine, active part comprising a pole tooth module, and electric machine
A pole tooth module for an electric machine is provided. The pole tooth module includes a pole tooth with a pole shoe and a pole head, a coil arranged around a circumferential surface of the pole tooth between the pole shoe and the pole head, and an insulation body enclosing the pole tooth and designed to electrically insulate the pole tooth from the coil. To enclose the pole tooth, the insulation body has a central piece, a first frame element and a second frame element. The central piece is arranged between the coil and the circumferential surface and at least partially surrounds the circumferential surface of the pole tooth. The first frame element adjoins a side of the central piece, which side faces the pole head. The second frame element adjoins an opposite side of the central piece, which opposite side faces the pole shoe, and encloses the pole shoe. |
| US11355986B2 |
Rotor with a winding for an electrical machine
A rotor for an electrical machine, comprising: a rotor stack with a plurality of pole teeth and windings around the pole teeth, a plurality of groove wedges, which are arranged radially above the windings, in grooves between the pole teeth, characterised in that a support element is arranged in the grooves between the windings and radially between the groove wedges and the rotor stack. |
| US11355984B2 |
Insulator, and stator and motor comprising same
An insulator includes a part to be wound with a coil; a first flange; and a second flange. The first flange is formed at the side of the part closer to a core segment, and includes a coil guide groove that guides the coil to the part. The second flange is formed at the side of the part closer to a distal end of a teeth. The coil guide groove includes a first guide groove and a second guide groove symmetrical with respect to a radial plane. Each of the first and second guide grooves and—extends at an acute angle from an inner surface of the first flange. |
| US11355983B2 |
Electric motor and method of manufacturing such an electric motor
A stator (25; 25A) includes an insulator (28, 29) held on a stator core (27), coils (30) wound around the insulator and on the stator core, fusing terminals (50) held by the insulator and connected to the coils, and a short-circuiting member (32) having first, second and third sheet-metal members (68A-68C) that are respectively connectable to the fusing terminals by virtue of the short-circuiting member being detachably attached to the insulator by screws (75, 76). |
| US11355982B2 |
Stator and electric motor having an insulating sheet arranged between coils
A stator includes a stator core, a first coil and a second coil inserted into slots, and an insulating sheet arranged between the first and second coils. The first coil has a first portion accommodated in a first slot, and the second coil has a second portion accommodated in the first slot. The insulating sheet includes a sheet-like insulating parts projecting from respective end surfaces of the stator core, and leg parts. Each of the sheet-like insulating parts is arranged between a first coil end of the first coil extending from the first portion to the outside of each of the end surfaces and a second coil end of the second coil extending from the second portion to the outside of each of the end surfaces, and the leg parts include a first leg part inserted into the first slot and arranged between the first and second portions. |
| US11355978B2 |
Rotor, motor, and electric power steering device
First and second sets of magnet assemblies and magnetic assemblies are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction in a first portion along an axial direction, and the first and second sets are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction in a second portion along the axial direction. When viewed in the axial direction, the first set of the first portion and the second set of the second portion overlap with each other, and the second set of the first portion and the first set of the second portion overlap with each other. |
| US11355976B2 |
Integral fluid cooling of electrical machine
The present invention relates to a laminated stator stack for an electric machine comprising, a plurality of stator teeth and stator slots, for receiving at least one electrical conductor, at least one axial coolant duct, at least one outwards radial coolant duct and at least one inwards radial coolant duct, wherein the ducts are arranged internally in the laminated stator stack and interconnected to form a predominantly closed flow path, the outwards and inwards radial coolant ducts extent into the stator teeth, for cooling of the stator teeth, and the laminated stator stack comprises a plurality of lamination sheets. |
| US11355974B2 |
Axial flux motor having rectilinear stator teeth
An axial flux motor for an appliance includes a stator yoke. A plurality of stator teeth extend from the stator yoke in an axial direction and are positioned about a central rotational axis. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of laminations that extend in the axial direction and form a “T” shaped member. The plurality of stator teeth are overmolded with a polymeric material to define a plurality of axial stator poles. At least one winding extends around the plurality of axial stator poles. A ring-shaped rotor rotates about the central rotational axis of the stator yoke. The rotor is positioned proximate an axial end of the plurality of axial stator poles. |
| US11355970B2 |
Wireless power transmission device, and electronic device for wirelessly receiving power and operating method therefor
According to various embodiments, a wireless power transmission device comprises: a first-scheme communication circuit; a power source for generating a source signal; a power transmission circuit for forming an RF wave on the basis of the source signal; and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit can be configured to receive, from an electronic device supporting first-scheme communication and second-scheme communication, a communication signal including information on a communication environment according to the second-scheme communication through the first-scheme communication circuit, and to control, on the basis of the information on the communication environment according to the second-scheme communication, the frequency of the source signal generated by the power source and/or the transmission strength of the RF wave. Other various embodiments are possible. |
| US11355969B2 |
Wireless charging device, wireless charging method and device to be charged
A wireless charging device, a wireless charging method, and a device to be charged are provided. The wireless charging device includes a wireless transmission circuit, a first communication control circuit, an external interface, and a wireless data transmission circuit. The wireless charging method includes conducting, by a wireless charging device, wireless communication with a device to be charged during wireless charging to adjust transmission power of a wireless transmission circuit of the wireless charging device, to make at least one of an output voltage and an output current of a wireless reception circuit of the device to be charged match a present charging stage of a battery of the device to be charged. |
| US11355966B2 |
Charging pad with guiding contours to align an electronic device on the charging pad and efficiently transfer near-field radio-frequency energy to the electronic device
An example system charges an electronic device using wirelessly transmitted radio-frequency power (RF) waves. The system includes the electronic device with one or more movable arms. At least one movable arm includes a receiving antenna element. The system further includes a charging pad that includes a housing. The housing includes at least one guiding contour on a surface that is configured for align a position of the electronic device on the surface of the housing. The charging pad further includes transmitting antenna elements that are selectively activated to transmit radio-frequency power waves to the receiving antenna element of the electronic device. The system also includes a transmitter controller integrated circuit (IC) configured to selectively activate a respective transmitting antenna element of the transmitting antenna elements. Activating the respective transmitting antenna element causes transmission of the radio-frequency power waves to the receiving antenna element of the electronic device. |
| US11355963B2 |
Device to-be-charged, wireless charging apparatus, and wireless charging method
A wireless charging apparatus, a device to be charged and a wireless charging method are provided. The wireless charging apparatus includes a voltage converting circuit, a wireless transmitting circuit, and a first control circuit. The voltage converting circuit is configured to receive an input voltage and convert the input voltage to obtain an output voltage and an output current of the voltage converting circuit. The wireless transmitting circuit is configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal according to the output voltage and the output current of the voltage converting circuit to conduct wireless charging on a device to-be-charged. The first control circuit is configured for wireless communication with the device to-be-charged during the wireless charging to acquire battery information of the device to-be-charged and configured to adjust, according to the battery information, a resonant frequency of the wireless transmitting circuit to adjust a transmission power of the wireless transmitting circuit. |
| US11355962B2 |
Apparatus for transferring electrical power to an electrical load with converter
The invention describes an apparatus (100) for transferring electrical power to an electrical load (110), comprising: a primary circuit (115), an electrical source (105) adapted for supplying said primary circuit with a direct input voltage, a secondary circuit (120) adapted for feeding the electrical load (110), and a coupling device (125) adapted for transferring electrical power from the primary circuit (115) to the secondary circuit (120), wherein the primary circuit (115) comprises: a converter (300) adapted for receiving the input voltage, for modifying said input voltage and for outputting said modified voltage, and a wave generator (190) comprising at least one switching circuit provided with at least one active switch (250), which is adapted for receiving in input the modified voltage in output from the converter (300), for converting said modified voltage into voltage waves and for applying said voltage waves to said coupling device (125), and wherein said converter comprises at least one active switch (315) adapted for selectively allowing or preventing the passage of electrical current from the electrical source (105) to the wave generator (190). |
| US11355961B2 |
Method and system for fast reconfiguration of power supply network in tens of milliseconos after power grid failure
The disclosure provides a method for fast reconfiguration of power supply grid in tens of milliseconds after power grid failure. The master station of fast reconfiguration of power grid concentrates the network status information from the client stations at transformer substations or power plants, and compares it with the built-in control strategy table which deals with possible faults. When an expected power gird disconnection fault is detected, the pre-start switch-on instruction is sent to the client stations with multiple breakers which can reconnect the grid. When the fault is cleared, the client stations shall identify the fault clearing time according to the local information, and send the instruction of synchronous switch-on to the corresponding local breakers which can reconnect the separated grids. At the same time, the master station independently monitors the removal of the fault, and sends the backup switch-on signal with synchronism check to the corresponding breakers which can reconnect the separated grids. Based on the above mechanism, the disconnected grid can be reconnected within 150 ms after disconnecting. After the interconnection of the grid is restored, the breakers that form the electromagnetic ring network switch off. |
| US11355949B2 |
Gaming system with wireless charging system and method of determining wireless charging status thereof
Disclosed herein is an electronic gaming system with a wireless charger for providing wireless charging of a user's wirelessly chargeable device(s). The electronic gaming system may include a wireless charging status determination system that may measure an aspect of power supplied to the wireless charger by the electronic gaming system and may determine a charging status of the wireless charger from such measurements, thereby allowing determination of charging status of the wireless charger (and, correspondingly, a determination of charge status for a wirelessly chargeable device being charged by wireless charger) by the wireless charging status determination system without requiring any data communication between itself and the wireless charger and/or the wirelessly chargeable device. This may allow the wireless charging status determination system to communicate charging status information with, for example, the electronic gaming system without exposing the electronic gaming system to potential malicious interference from the wirelessly chargeable device. |
| US11355945B2 |
Compensation device for discharge currents
A compensation device (20) for compensating for a discharge current has a compensation current generation device (28), a potential generation device (150), active conductor terminals (61, 62, 63, 64) and a PE conductor terminal (65), which active conductor terminals (61, 62, 63, 64) have a first active conductor terminal (61) and a second active conductor terminal (62; 64), which potential generation device (150) is interconnected with the first active conductor terminal (61) and has a potential generation device terminal (155), which potential generation device (150) is designed to provide a potential at the potential generation device terminal (155) which at least temporarily differs from the potential at the first active conductor terminal (61), and which compensation current generation device (28) is designed to effect a compensation current (I_COMP) between the potential generation device terminal (155) and the PE conductor terminal (65). |
| US11355944B2 |
Predictive charging to reduce battery capacity degradation
According to an aspect, a system includes a battery configured to be charged by a power source, a charging circuit coupled to the battery, and a battery charging manager configured to communicate with the charging circuit to control a charging of the battery by the power source. The battery charging manager obtains a charge pattern including an end charge time corresponding to a time when the battery is estimated to be disconnected from the power source. The battery charging manager controls the charging circuit to charge, over a first charging period, the battery to a temporary charge level, maintain, over a relaxation period, a battery charge level between the temporary charge level and a maintenance charge level, and charge, over a second charging period after the relaxation period, the battery to a maximum battery charge level before the end charge time. |
| US11355943B2 |
Battery management apparatus for vehicle and method of the same
A battery management apparatus for a vehicle includes a battery, an alternator, a battery detection unit, a battery controller generating an initial state of charge by using initial state information of the battery at startup, generating an internal resistance of the battery using a voltage value and a current value of the battery, generating a first state of charge by using a driving state information of the battery, a battery charging efficiency, and the initial state of charge when the startup is off, generating a second state of charge by using the off state information of the battery when the off time after the start-off is greater than or equal to the reference time, and resetting the battery charging efficiency based on the first and second state of charge, and a vehicle controller for receiving the battery charging efficiency from the battery controller, and controlling the alternator based thereon to charge the battery. |
| US11355934B2 |
Dual transformer turbine
Provided is an arrangement for producing electric energy, including: a generator having plural winding sets; plural converters each connected to one of the winding sets; at least two transformers, each connected at a low voltage side to output terminal of at least one converter; and a control portion connected to control the converters. |
| US11355932B2 |
Control system and control method for parallel converter system
Disclosed are a control method and system for a parallel converter system, including a common AC voltage controller and a separate current controller for each converter; the AC voltage controller generates an active current, a wattless current, and a system voltage phase reference value and, by means of communication, sends same to the current controller of each converter in island control mode to be a converter control signal; the active and wattless current outputted by each converter, along with the corresponding current reference value, accomplish the objective of the parallel converter system collectively controlling the amplitude and frequency of an AC bus voltage. The method and system are highly reliable and effectively ensure the synchronization of a plurality of converters. |
| US11355930B2 |
Phase identification using statistical analysis
A device includes at least one processor configured to determine, based on (i) a first plurality of time-varying electrical measurements corresponding to a feeder head of a power distribution network having a plurality of phases and (ii) a second plurality of time-varying electrical measurements corresponding to a node in the power distribution network, and using statistical analysis, a predicted phase, from the plurality of phases, that corresponds to the node. The processor may be configured to use ranked correlation coefficients (such as the Kendall rank correlation coefficient) to determine the predicted phase and may use principle component analysis. The processor is also configured to cause at least one device of the power distribution network to modify operation based at least on part on the predicted phase. |
| US11355927B2 |
Device and method for operating the same
A device is disclosed herein. The device includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) detector, a bias generator, and an ESD driver including at least two transistors coupled to each other in series. The ESD detector is configured to detect an input signal and generate a detection signal in response to an ESD event being detected. The bias generator is configured to generate a bias signal according to the detection signal. The at least two transistors are controlled according to the bias signal and a logic control signal, and the input signal is applied across the at least two transistors. |
| US11355917B2 |
Protective circuit and display drive device
A protective circuit (301) and a display drive device. The protective circuit (301) comprises: when an electrical overstress problem occurs in a logic signal, the voltage of an output end of a controlled switch circuit (100) is greater than a first preset voltage, so that a voltage threshold circuit (101) is turned on, and the controlled switch circuit (100) turns off an input end and the output end thereof, thereby preventing electrical overstress from affecting a driver chip (300) and causing damage to the driver chip (300). Moreover, the voltage potential of a controlled end of the controlled switch circuit (100) is clamped by means of a voltage clamp circuit (102) to stabilize the operating characteristics of the controlled switch circuit (100). |
| US11355915B2 |
Protection relay
A protection relay comprises a digital processing unit including: a first filter to eliminate a DC component in the time-series data, the first filter having a first window length; a second filter to eliminate a DC component in the time-series data, the second filter having a second window length shorter than the first window length; and a coefficient calculation unit to multiply an amplitude value of an output signal of the first filter and an amplitude value of an output signal of the second filter by first and second coefficients respectively, and integrate multiplication results. An operation determination is performed based on an output of the coefficient calculation unit. The first coefficient is decreased and the second coefficient is increased when a failure of the power system is detected, and thereafter, the first coefficient and the second coefficient are changed with a lapse of time. |
| US11355914B2 |
Relay protection
A relay protection device is disclosed for use with a magnetic latching relay, the relay having two stable states. The relay comprises an electromagnetic device which under the effect of a switching impulse current, causes the relay to switch from one of the states to the other. The relay protection device comprises a current detector for connection with electrical control contacts of the relay, which measures a current induced by the switching mechanism, a comparator operable to determine if the current exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a controller for connection with the electrical control contacts and, based on the determination of the comparator, operable to apply a retention voltage across the electrical control contacts so as to cause the electromagnetic device to generate a magnetic field to retain the switching mechanism in its current state. |
| US11355911B2 |
Power supply circuit for a breaking circuit
The present invention relates to a power supply circuit (400) for a breaking circuit (100), the power supply circuit (400) comprising a first connecting point (CP1) arranged to be connected to an input (102) of the breaking circuit (100) and a second connecting point (CP2) arranged to be connected to an output (104) of the breaking circuit (100). The power supply circuit (400) further comprises a first rectifier (416) and a second rectifier (418) connected in series and in opposite direction to each other between the first connecting point (CP1) and the second connecting point (CP2); a first switch (412) and a second switch (414) connected in series between the first connecting point (CP1) and the second connecting point (CP2), wherein the first switch (412) and the second switch (414) are connected in parallel to the first rectifier (416) and the second rectifier (418); and a first capacitor (C1) having a first connecting point (CP1C1) connected between the first rectifier (416) and the second rectifier (418) and a second connecting point (CP2C1) connected between the first switch (412) and the second switch (414), wherein the first connecting point (CP1C1) of the first capacitor (C1) is further arranged to be connected to a power consumer (110a, 110b, . . . , 110n) of the breaking circuit (100). The power supply circuit (400) is arranged to at least one of: open the first switch (412) so that a current running from the input (102) to the output (104) passes via the first rectifier (416), the first capacitor (C1) and the second switch (414) thereby charging the first capacitor (C1); and open the second switch (414) so that a current running from the output (104) to the input (102) passes via the second rectifier (418), the first capacitor (C1) and the first switch (412) thereby charging the first capacitor (C1). |
| US11355902B2 |
Power connector for a bus bar
A power connector includes first and second power terminals having first and second contact stacks and first and second plates for termination to corresponding power element. The contact stacks have contacts separate and discrete from each other and from the plate. Each contact has a base and a mating beam. The bases are aligned and mechanically and electrically coupled to the plate. A housing has an end wall and a fastener that mechanically and electrically couples the bases to the plate. The power terminals are arranged such that the first and second mating beams oppose each other across a mating slot that receives a bus bar with the first mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a first bus rail at a first side of the bus bar and the second mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a second bus rail at a second side of the bus bar. |
| US11355901B1 |
Compact vertical cavity surface emitting laser package
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) die package includes a bottom substrate comprising a bottom contact pad electrically contacting a bottom electrode on a bottom surface of a VCSEL die. The VCSEL die package includes a submount including a submount contact pad electrically contacting a first electrode on another surface of the VCSEL die. The submount contact pad overlaps a portion of the first electrode, wherein the VCSEL die is positioned between the submount and the bottom substrate. |
| US11355899B2 |
Semiconductor laser diode integrated with memristor
An optical device includes a light-emitting device integrated with a memory device. The memory device include a first electrode and a second electrode, and the light-emitting device includes a third electrode and the second electrode. In such configuration, a first voltage between the second electrode and the third electrode causes the light-emitting device to emit light of a first wavelength, and a second voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode while the memory device is at OFF state causes the light-emitting device to emit light of a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength or while the memory device is at ON state causes the light-emitting device to emit light of a third wavelength longer than the first wavelength. |
| US11355898B2 |
Laser diode array
A laser diode array (102) comprising a plurality of laser diodes (201-210) and a channel (212) proximate to each of the laser diodes (201-210), the channel (212) configured to receive and provide a passage for a flow of a fluid coolant; wherein the laser diodes (201-210) are configured to emit electromagnetic radiation having the same centre wavelength at different respective junction temperatures. A coolant supply system (104) coupled to the laser diode array (102) may cause coolant to flow through the channel (212). A flow rate of the coolant through the channel (212) may be controlled based on temperature measurements of the coolant prior to entering, within, and/or after exiting the laser diode array (102). |
| US11355897B2 |
Light-emitting component
In an embodiment a light-emitting component includes a housing and an edge emitting semiconductor laser arranged in the housing, wherein the semiconductor laser is configured to emit light at a side face in an angle range, wherein the housing includes an emission opening for emitting the light, wherein the semiconductor laser is arranged in a first layer having a first material, wherein a second layer is arranged on the first layer, the second layer having a second material, wherein the first layer and the second layer are transmissive to the light, wherein the second layer is arranged between the first layer and the emission opening, wherein the emission opening lies at least partly outside the angle range of the semiconductor laser, and wherein a part of the light is directed directly onto an interface between the first and second layers. |
| US11355895B2 |
Connector demate tools
A tool for demating multi-pin connectors includes a first fork including an inner fork member and an outer fork member operatively connected for relative movement parallel to a longitudinal fork axis. A second fork is spaced apart from the first fork wherein the second fork includes an inner fork member and an outer fork member operatively connected for relative movement parallel to the longitudinal fork axis. A handle connects the first fork to the second fork. The handle includes an outer handle member fixedly connecting the outer fork members of the first and second forks, and the handle includes an inner handle member fixedly connecting the inner fork members of the first and second forks. Relative movement of the inner and outer handle members causes relative movement of the inner and outer fork members of the first and second forks for demating multi-pin electrical connectors from sockets. |
| US11355894B1 |
Terminal crimping machine
A terminal crimping machine includes a machine body and a cable diameter fitting mechanism. The machine body includes an installation portion, an adjustment member and a driven member. The driven member is driven by the adjustment member and includes a driven alignment portion. The cable diameter fitting mechanism includes an assembly portion corresponding to the driven alignment portion. The driven member is driven by the adjustment member to move with the adjustment of the adjustment member, and the driven alignment portion moves along with the driven member. The cable diameter fitting mechanism is installed on the installation portion, and the assembly portion is assembled corresponding to the driven alignment portion during the installation process. Accordingly, the terminal crimping machine can achieve the effect of simple and convenient operation. |
| US11355892B2 |
Circular connector
The present invention provides a circular connector, which comprises a male head and a female seat. The male head provides a first circular body, a third circular body, a first electrode group and a third electrode group. The female seat provides a first base, a second circular body, a fourth circular body, a second base, a second electrode group and a fourth electrode group. The second base, the fourth circular body, the second circular body and the first base are arranged outwards from the center point of the female seat. The male head is combined with the female base, so that the third circular body is inserted between the second circular body and the fourth circular body to realize non-directional electrical connection. |
| US11355891B2 |
Electrical receptacle assembly with outward-biasing faceplate
A faceplate assembly may include a faceplate having an opening configured to receive an electrical device insert, and an adapter that is disposed between the faceplate and a structure. The adapter may about a surface of the structure. The one or more biasing members may apply forces against the faceplate that may cause the faceplate to be biased outward relative to the surface of the structure. |
| US11355889B2 |
Cover assembly with at least one impedance control structure
A cover assembly includes a protective cover having an impedance control structure and a plurality of electrical conductors conducting electrical signals of a high-frequency data transmission. The electrical conductors extend through the protective cover in a transmission direction and are overlappingly bonded to each other at a bond location located within the protective cover. The impedance control structure adjusts an impedance of the bond location to a predefined value. |
| US11355888B2 |
Connector assembly, power supply assembly and electronic device
A connector assembly is configured to connect a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The connector assembly includes a board-to-board connector, a buckle pressing plate and a pressing and covering piece. The buckle pressing plate and the board-to-board connector which is spaced from the buckle pressing plate are arranged on the second circuit board, and the board-to-board connector is connected with the first circuit board to enable the first circuit board to be electrically connected with the second circuit board. The pressing and covering piece includes a covering portion and a buckling portion extending from a first end of the covering portion. The buckling portion is connected to the buckle pressing plate in a buckling manner. The covering portion presses and covers the board-to-board connector to fix the board-to-board connector on the second circuit board. A power supply assembly and an electronic device are also provided. |
| US11355887B2 |
Connector with restriction member for latch structure and wire harness having same
A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side. |
| US11355886B2 |
Contact carrier having stable detent device
A contact carrier retains a crimp contact inserted therein at a central collar of the crimp contact in a particularly stable manner and at the same time absorb the highest possible plugging forces. The contact carrier has an insulating body and a retaining plate, which can be mounted thereon on the connection side. Furthermore, the contact carrier has at least one detent element, which, in the unassembled state, can assumed both a position locking the plug contact and a position releasing the plug contact. The detent element is part of the insulating body. The retaining plate also has at least one blocking element, which, in the assembled state, fixes the detent element in the position thereof locking the plug contact and thus prevents the transition of the detent element from the locking position into the releasing position. |
| US11355884B2 |
Connector assembly
A connector assembly includes a receptacle connector, a shielding cage and a partitioning element. The shielding cage has a receiving cavity. The partitioning element is provided to the receiving cavity and partitions the receiving cavity into a first module passageway and a second module passageway, the partitioning element includes a compartment frame and a grounding gasket assembled to a front end of the compartment frame, the compartment frame has a first partitioning wall and a second partitioning wall which respectively correspond to the first module passageway and the second module passageway, the grounding gasket integrally has a front plate, a first panel and a second panel, the first panel and the second panel together clamp the first partitioning wall and the second partitioning wall, the first panel and the second panel and the front plate are integrally connected by bulging portions at certain corners. |
| US11355880B2 |
Coaxial connector with axially-floating inner contact
A retractable pin includes: a cylindrical body, a retractable member with an insertion cavity at one end, and a spring disposed in a spring cavity defined by the combination of the retractable member and the cylindrical body. Upon application of a force to a free end of the retractable member, the retractable member is configured to retract into the cylindrical body by means of compression of the spring. This invention is further directed to a coaxial connector including a retractable pin as described above. |
| US11355879B2 |
Interconnection connector and connector assembly
The present application discloses an interconnection connector including an insulative housing and a number of conductive terminals. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a mating portion adapted to mate with a mating connector. Each conductive terminal includes a contact portion positioned in the mating portion and an abutment portion located on the base portion. The contact portions are adapted for being electrically connected to the mating connector, and the abutment portions are adapted for contacting a conductive pad of a flexible flat cable. Besides, a connector assembly including the interconnection connector is also disclosed. The present application simplifies the mating structure by providing the abutment portions on the base portion to contact the conductive pads of the flexible flat cable, thereby easily to achieve electrical connection between the conductive terminals and the flexible flat cable. |
| US11355878B2 |
Connector
A connector is provided with a housing 10 and plate-like fixing members 50 to be mounted on the housing 10. The housing 10 includes a plurality of insertion receiving portions 23, 24 and resin portions 36 located between the plurality of insertion receiving portions 23, 24. The fixing member 50 includes a board fixing portion 52 to be fixed on a circuit board 100 and a plurality of inserting portions 62, 63 to be respectively inserted into the plurality of insertion receiving portions 23, 24. The plurality of inserting portions 62, 63 include contact parts CP1, CP2 to be brought into contact with the resin portions 36. |
| US11355874B2 |
Board mating connector
The present invention relates to a board mating connector including a first body part having a first hollow portion formed therein, a signal contact part inserted into the first hollow portion, a dielectric part positioned between the first body part and the signal contact part, a second body part which has a second hollow portion formed therein, is positioned between the dielectric part and the first body part, and is formed of a metal plate, and a ground contact part which extends upward from an upper side of the second body part and is separated into a plurality of portions by a plurality of slits to have elasticity. |
| US11355872B2 |
Mezzanine power pin for an electrical connector system
A mezzanine power pin includes a dual layer pin body extending between a pin top having an upper power interface and a pin bottom having a lower power interface. The dual layer pin body has a base metal core and an outer metal oxide layer combined with the base metal core defining an outermost layer of the dual layer pin body. The mezzanine power pin includes an upper fastener coupled to the pin top to mechanically and electrically connect an upper component to the upper power interface. The mezzanine power pin includes a lower fastener coupled to the pin bottom to mechanically and electrically connect a lower component to the lower power interface. The base metal core is configured to electrically connect the upper component and the lower component through the base metal core. |
| US11355870B2 |
Conductor terminal
A conductor terminal for connecting an electrical conductor by means of spring force clamping, the conductor terminal being configured for mounting on a busbar, the terminal conductor including at least one spring force clamping connection having a clamping spring for clamping the electrical conductor, a housing, which at least partially surrounds the spring force clamping connection and has a conductor insertion opening and a pivotably supported actuation lever, which is configured to actuate at least one part of the clamping spring, a receiving space for receiving at least one section of the busbar onto which the conductor terminal may be mounted, being present in the housing. |
| US11355869B2 |
Cable connector for electrically connecting electrical conductors
A cable connector for electrically connecting at least one first electrical conductor to at least one second electrical conductor. The cable connector includes an insulating-material housing, which has at least one first conductor insertion opening and at least one second conductor insertion opening. The second conductor insertion opening is opposite the first conductor insertion opening. The cable connector has at least one electrical contact in the insulating-material housing. The least one electrical contact is electrically contacted by a first electrical conductor via the first conductor insertion opening and by a second electrical conductor via the second conductor insertion opening. The first electrical conductor is loaded against the electrical contact via a first clamping spring and the second electrical conductor is loaded against the electrical contact via a second clamping spring such that the first electrical conductor is electrically connected to the second electrical conductor by means of the electrical contact. |
| US11355867B2 |
Polarized wave shared array antenna and method for manufacturing the same
A polarized wave shared array antenna according to an example embodiment includes: antenna elements 11a and 11b provided adjacent to each other on one surface of an antenna substrate 1, each of which being configured to generate two orthogonal linear polarized waves; feeding points 12a and 12b disposed in a first direction when viewed from each antenna element and feeding points 14a and 14b disposed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction when viewed from each antenna element; transmission and reception units 21a, 21b, 22a, and 22b that are provided on an integrated circuit on the other surface of the antenna substrate 1 and are respectively connected to the feeding points, in which in a plan view, the feeding points are disposed so as to be arranged on a straight line, and wirings connecting the transmission and transmission units to the corresponding feeding points are equal in length. |
| US11355861B2 |
Patch antenna array system
A patch antenna array system is provided. The patch antenna array system can include a plurality of patch antennas oriented with respect to each other to provide a nearly symmetric radiation pattern over a range of frequencies, such as from 1500 Megahertz (MHz) to 1700 MHz. The patch antenna array system can include a sequential phase feed network that is in communication with the plurality of patch antennas. The sequential phase feed network can be configured to provide a radio frequency (RF) signal to each patch antenna of the plurality of patch antennas such that the patch antenna array system has an axial ratio of less than 1 decibel (dB) over the range of frequencies. |
| US11355858B2 |
Tunable liquid crystal metasurfaces
A tunable, optical metasurface can include an optically reflective surface to reflect optical radiation, such as infrared laser light. An array of optical resonant antennas may, for example, extend from or otherwise be positioned on the reflective surface with sub-wavelength spacings of, for example, less than one-half of a wavelength. Voltage-controlled liquid crystal may be positioned in the optical field region of each of the optical resonant antennas. A controller may apply a voltage differential bias pattern to the liquid crystal of optical resonant antennas, that may be arranged in tiled, interleaved, or randomly arranged subsets of optical resonant antennas to attain one-dimensional beam steering, two-dimensional beam steering, and/or spatial beam shaping. |
| US11355856B2 |
Method of arranging a leaky coaxial cable by using two half jumper wires for connecting two leakage coaxial cables together
A method of arrangement of a leaky coaxial cable combination structures, comprising: providing at least two leakage coaxial cables, each of the at least two leakage coaxial cables has a narrow body; and providing a jumper wire mechanism between at least two leakage coaxial cables; wherein the jumper wire mechanism has two ends, and the two ends are respectively connected to one end of each of the at least two leakage coaxial cables. |
| US11355853B2 |
Antenna structure and wireless communication device using the same
An antenna structure with wide bandwidth in a reduced physical space includes a housing, a side wall, and a first feed portion. The housing includes a metal side frame, a metal middle frame, and a metal back board. The side wall is made of metal material. The metal middle frame and the metal back board are coupled to two sides of the side wall, and the metal middle frame is parallel to the metal back board. The metal side frame surrounds the metal back board. The metal side frame defines at least one gap. The metal back board defines a slot. The slot and the at least one gap cooperatively divide at least two radiation portions from the metal side frame. A wireless communication device employing the antenna structure is also provided. |
| US11355851B2 |
Electronic device comprising an integrated electromagnetic antenna
A first independent unit includes a support substrate with an integrated network of electrical connections. An electronic integrated circuit chip is mounted above a front face of the support substrate. A second independent unit includes a dielectric support. The second independent unit is stacked above the first independent unit on a side of the front face of the first independent unit. An electromagnetic antenna includes an exciter element and a resonator element. The exciter element provided at the support substrate. The resonator element is provided at the dielectric support. |
| US11355841B2 |
Waveguide-backed antenna array with distributed signal amplifiers for transmission of a high-power beam
An embodiment of an antenna configured to form a high-power beam, such as a battery-charging beam, includes a transmission structure, signal couplers, amplifiers, and antenna elements. The transmission structure (e.g., a waveguide) is configured to carry a reference signal (e.g., a traveling reference wave), and each of the signal couplers is configured to generate a respective intermediate signal in response to the reference signal at a respective location along the transmission structure. Each of the amplifiers is configured to amplify, selectively, an intermediate signal from a respective one of the couplers, and each of the antenna elements (e.g., conductive patches) is configured to radiate a respective elemental signal in response to an amplified intermediate signal from a respective one of the amplifiers. In operation, the elemental signals interfere with one another to form a transmission beam, such as a battery-charging, or other high-power, transmission beam. |
| US11355840B2 |
Method and apparatus for a metastructure switched antenna in a wireless device
Examples disclosed herein relate to a wireless device having a plurality of metastructure switched antennas, each metastructure switched antenna having an array of metastructures. A controller in the wireless device selects a metastructure switched antenna from the plurality of metastructure switched antennas and determines a direction for transmission of a beam from the selected metastructure switched antenna. |
| US11355838B2 |
Integration of EBG structures (single layer/multi-layer) for isolation enhancement in multilayer embedded packaging technology at mmWave
A packaged radar includes laminate layers, a ground plane associated with at least one of the laminate layers, a transmit antenna and a receive antenna associated with at least one of the laminate layers, and an electromagnetic band gap structure between the transmit antenna and the receive antenna for isolating the transmit antenna and the receive antenna, the electromagnetic band gap structure including elementary cells forming adjacent columns each coupled to the ground plane, and each elementary cell including a conductive planar element and a columnar element coupled to the conductive planar element. |
| US11355836B2 |
Combined antenna and radome arrangement
There is provided a combined antenna and radome arrangement. The combined antenna and radome arrangement comprises an advanced antenna system (AAS). The AAS comprises antenna elements and is configured for communication in a frequency range of 2.5 GHz to 10 GHz. The combined antenna and radome arrangement further comprises a radome. The radome has a first layer sandwiched between two second layers. The two second layers are of a second dielectric material. The first layer is of a first dielectric material and has a thickness t1, where t1≤λmin/3, wherein λmin is the wavelength of the highest frequency in the frequency range of the AAS. The radome is placed in front of the AAS such that the radome forms a cover for the AAS. |
| US11355835B2 |
Antenna module including dielectric and base station including same
An example embodiment provides an antenna module including at least one antenna array including a first dielectric having a plate shape; a second dielectric disposed on a top of the first dielectric, wherein a top of the second dielectric is separated from the top of the first dielectric by a first distance; a first radiator disposed on the top surface of the second dielectric; and a feeder disposed on the first dielectric and on the second dielectric to supply an RF signal to the first radiator; and a feeder disposed on the first dielectric and the second dielectric and configured to supply a radio frequency (RF) signal to the first radiator. |
| US11355830B2 |
Tilt adapter for diplexed antenna with semi-independent tilt
A tilt adapter configured to facilitate a desired tilt of a first radio frequency (RF) band and a second RF band of an antenna is disclosed. The antenna supports two or more frequency bands, in which the vertical tilt of each of the supported frequency bands is separately controlled by a coarse level of phase shifting, but commonly controlled by a fine level of phase shifting. |
| US11355825B2 |
Battery pack and manufacturing method therefor
A battery pack and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, a battery pack in which a heat dissipation member is attached to a protection element assembly to reduce heat generated from the battery pack when being discharged and a method for manufacturing the same. |
| US11355821B2 |
Method of welding electrode tab and cable type rechargeable battery including electrode manufactured according to the same
The present invention relates to a method of welding an electrode tab which welds an electrode tab and a current collecting layer by using a pulsed laser beam, and a cable type rechargeable battery including an electrode manufactured according to the same. |
| US11355813B2 |
Venting device and method for manufacturing the same
A venting device inserted into a sealing part of a pouch of a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a housing inserted between confronting surfaces of the sealing part so as to be sealed together with the sealing part, the housing being made from a metal plate; a gasket made of a polymer and disposed in the housing and through which a passage is defined providing gas communication between an inside and an outside of the pouch; and a plate spring made of a metal, the plate spring being disposed in the housing and assembled with the gasket, the plate spring being configured to open and close the passage in response to a change in an internal pressure of the pouch, wherein the housing includes a crimping part crimped together with the gasket on an upper end of the housing. |
| US11355809B2 |
Vehicle substructure for battery case
A vehicle substructure is capable of changing arrangement in a battery case depending on the type and/or size of batteries. The vehicle substructure includes: a battery case having a battery housed therein and including a bottomed case pan having an opening at a top thereof, and a case cover to close the opening of the case pan; a floor panel positioned above the battery case; a pair of right and left seat frames fixed to a top surface of the floor panel; and a battery cross member extending in a vehicle width direction in the battery case, fastened to the pair of right and left seat frames and fixed to the floor panel, wherein the pair of right and left seat frames extend in a vehicle front-rear direction and are provided with mounting holes in the vehicle front-rear direction for fastening the battery cross member. |
| US11355808B2 |
Power source for portable medical devices
This application describes an internal, re-chargeable power source for a portable medical device. The power source contains a removable battery pack comprising a lithium-containing material with 5 to 7 battery cells in series, each individual cell having a current capacity ranging from about 3000 mAh to about 3700 mAh. The power source can have a total energy capacity ranging from about 65 Watt-hour to about 170 Watt-hours. Other embodiments are described. |
| US11355806B2 |
Battery unit
A vehicle includes a battery unit which has a first battery pack and a second battery pack that is disposed above the first battery pack. The first battery pack includes a battery module; and a first battery case body and a first battery case cover that house the battery module. The second battery pack includes a battery module; and a second battery case body and a second battery case cover that house the battery module. The second battery case body houses a power shutdown portion configured to shut down an electric circuit of the battery unit; a cover removal restricting portion configured to restrict removal of the second battery case cover; and an interlock mechanism configured to disable release of the cover removal restricting portion unless the electric circuit is shut down by the power shutdown portion. The second battery case cover includes an opening accessible to the interlock mechanism. |
| US11355800B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes first and second battery modules arranged in a first direction. In the first battery module, a first heat transfer part and a first heat insulator are disposed between battery cells adjacent in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. In the second battery module, a second heat transfer part and a second heat insulator are disposed between battery cells adjacent in the second direction. The first heat transfer part constitutes a part of a heat transfer component that is put across and connected to both the first and the second battery modules. The first heat transfer part is connected to one of the battery cells in the first battery module so as to enable heat transfer. The second heat transfer part constitutes another part of the heat transfer component and is connected to one of the battery cells in the second battery module. |
| US11355798B2 |
Device for cooling battery pack
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a device for cooling a battery pack, the device including: a housing including flow passages extending in a first direction; a first sub-housing provided on the housing in the first direction; and a second sub-housing arranged opposite the first sub-housing in the first direction and provided on the housing, wherein the first sub-housing includes a first coupling hole communicating with one of the flow passages and a first guide hole communicating with at least one of the flow passages, the second sub-housing includes a second coupling hole communicating with one of the flow passages and a second guide hole communicating with at least one of the flow passages, and a path of a fluid flowing in the flow passages varies according to installation positions of coupling members inserted into the first and second coupling holes. |
| US11355795B2 |
Battery manufacturing apparatus and battery manufacturing method
A battery manufacturing apparatus includes a binding member for bounding a battery stack and a fluid supplying part for blowing cooling fluid onto the bound battery stack. The binding member includes a first both-side part for bounding batteries from both sides by applying a load thereon in a first direction in which the batteries are arranged, and a second both-side part to be placed on both sides of the batteries to face both side surfaces of the batteries in a second direction different from the first direction. The binding member is formed with apertures through which the cooling fluid flows outward in the second direction. The fluid supplying part includes a first discharging part and a second discharging part for discharging the cooling fluid from both sides in a third direction different from both the first direction and the second direction toward the battery stack bound by the binding member. |
| US11355792B2 |
Vehicular battery charger, charging system, and method using data indicative of a cost of power
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors. |
| US11355791B2 |
Vehicular battery charger, charging system, and method with user-configurable alerts
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors. |
| US11355780B2 |
Sulfide solid electrolyte particles
A sulfide solid electrolyte particles comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, having a volume-based average particle size measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement of 0.1 μm to 10 μm, having a diffraction peak having 2θ of 29.0 to 31.0 deg in powder X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKα ray, and an intensity ratio (Ib/Ip) of a peak intensity Ib at a high angle-side low part of the diffraction peak to a peak intensity Ip of the diffraction peak is less than 0.09. |
| US11355777B2 |
Battery manufacturing apparatus
A battery manufacturing apparatus includes two or more pressing portions that sandwich a flat battery therebetween and press the battery, a placing portion that is provided between the pressing portions and on which the battery is placed so that a main surface of the battery faces the pressing portion, and a driving unit that moves the pressing portions in directions toward or away from each other. The placing portion is configured to be capable of expanding and contracting as the pressing portion moves. |
| US11355774B2 |
Thermally-drawn fiber including electrochemically active gels
Provided herein is a fiber having a fiber body including fiber body material with a longitudinal-axis fiber body length. A plurality of gel domains is disposed within the fiber body along at least a portion of the longitudinal-axis fiber body length. Each gel domain includes a porous host matrix material and a liquid gel component that is entrapped in the molecular structure of the host matrix material and that is disposed in interstices of the host material matrix. At least two of the gel domains within the fiber body are disposed directly adjacent to each other in direct physical contact with each other. This fiber can include polymeric fiber body material and gel domains including a porous polymer host matrix material and an ionically conducting liquid solvent that is entrapped in the molecular structure of the polymer host matrix material and disposed in interstices of the polymer host material matrix. |
| US11355773B2 |
Fuel cell stack
A fuel cell stack has a prevention dam formed outside an alignment pin, such that a sealing material, which has viscosity and fluidity at a sealing temperature of a fuel cell, may be prevented from coming into contact with and adhering to the alignment pin, and pressure applied from the outside may be uniformly applied to the fuel cell stack. |
| US11355772B1 |
Ambient reactants fuel cells
Devices powered by fuel cells can be operated for extended durations when the fuel cells are adapted to extract the necessary reactants for generating power from the surrounding environment and when the concentration of reactants in that environment is maintained at a sufficient level by interaction between the environment and a reactant-enriched atmosphere. |
| US11355766B2 |
Fuel cell module and fuel cell apparatus
A fuel cell module may include: a cell stack device including a cell stack including an array of a plurality of fuel cells, a manifold which supplies a fuel gas to each of the fuel cells, and a reformer which reforms a raw fuel; an oxygen-containing gas flow channel through which the oxygen-containing gas flows; an oxygen-containing gas introduction plate which supplies the oxygen-containing gas to each of the plurality of fuel cells; a housing including a box body of which one side is opened to provide an opening and a lid (closed plate) which closes the opening; a gas pipe joint, an ignition heater, a thermocouple, etc. which are a plurality of insertion members inserted from an outside of the housing into an accommodation chamber, the respective insertion members being inserted through one surface (lid surface) of the housing. |
| US11355765B2 |
Cooling control system and method for fuel cells
A cooling control system and method for fuel cells are provided. The cooling control system includes a fuel cell, a cooling circulation line connected to the fuel cell to circulate cooling water for cooling the fuel cell therein and a cooling water pump provided on the cooling circulation line to adjust a circulation amount of the cooling water. A calculation unit calculates a thermal energy change of the fuel cell based on a heating value and an amount of radiant heat of the fuel cell. A controller operates the cooling water pump based on the calculated thermal energy change of the fuel cell. |
| US11355761B2 |
Polyelemental catalyst structures for fuel cells
A polyelemental catalyst structure. The structure includes a region formed of a first metal material, a first core region formed of a second metal material, and a second core region formed of a third metal material. The first core region has interfacial contact with the region. The second core region has interfacial contact with the first core region. The polyelemental catalyst structure includes platinum (Pt), a first metal MI, a second metal MII and a third metal MIII. The first metal MI is configured to enhance catalytic activity of Pt. The second metal MII is configured to enhance stability of the polyelemental catalyst structure. The third metal MIII is configured to enhance covalent bonding between Pt, the first metal MI, the second metal MII and/or the third metal MIII. |
| US11355758B2 |
Current collector for lithium ion battery and manufacturing method of the current collector
A current collector for a lithium ion battery includes a first conductive resin layer and a second conductive resin layer. The first conductive resin layer includes a first conductive filler. The second conductive resin layer is formed on the first conductive resin layer and includes a second conductive filler. The first conductive filler is a conductive carbon. The second conductive filler contains at least one kind of metal element selected from the group consisting of platinum, gold, silver, copper, nickel, and titanium. A volume % of the second conductive filler in the second conductive resin layer on a first surface side, which is a first conductive resin layer side, is higher than that on the second surface side that is opposite to the first conductive resin layer. |
| US11355750B2 |
Compliant solid-state ionically conductive composite materials and method for making same
Provided herein are ionically conductive solid-state compositions that include ionically conductive inorganic particles in a matrix of an organic material. The resulting composite material has high ionic conductivity and mechanical properties that facilitate processing. In particular embodiments, the ionically conductive solid-state compositions are compliant and may be cast as films. In some embodiments of the present invention, solid-state electrolytes including the ionically conductive solid-state compositions are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, electrodes including the ionically conductive solid-state compositions are provided. The present invention further includes embodiments that are directed to methods of manufacturing the ionically conductive solid-state compositions and batteries incorporating the ionically conductive solid-state compositions. |
| US11355746B2 |
Magnesium-sulfur secondary battery positive electrode, method for producing same, and magnesium-sulfur secondary battery
Provided is a magnesium-sulfur secondary battery including a positive electrode that includes a carbon material layer and a laminated structure of a positive electrode active material layer including sulfur or a sulfur compound; an electrolyte layer; and a negative electrode. In the magnesium-sulfur secondary battery, the positive electrode active material layer, the carbon material layer, and the electrolyte layer are provided in this order, and the positive electrode active material layer and the carbon material layer are in contact with each other. |
| US11355744B2 |
Lithium ion battery electrode with uniformly dispersed electrode binder and conductive additive
The present disclosure relates generally to an electrode produced with a non-toxic solvent, resulting in a homogeneous mixture with uniform distributions of a conductive additive and a binder. Electrodes produced according to the present disclosure feature narrow binder particle size distribution, which distinguishes such electrodes from typical electrodes produced via a N-Methyl-Pyrrolidone (NMP) process. The resulting microstructure promotes the flow of current through the electrode and has an improved cycling stability due, in part, to the binder's and the conductive additive's ability to bind with the active material particles used in the fabrication of the electrode. |
| US11355739B2 |
Passivation of lithium metal by two-dimensional materials for rechargeable batteries
The present application relates to methods for depositing two-dimensional materials (e.g., MoS2, WS2, MoTe2, MoSe2, WSe2, BN, BN—C composite, and the like) onto lithium electrodes. Battery systems incorporating lithium metal electrodes coated with two-dimensional materials are also described. Methods may include intercalating the two-dimensional materials to facilitate flow of Lithium ions in and out of the lithium electrode. Two-dimensional material coated lithium electrodes provide for high cycling stability and significant performance improvements. Systems and methods further provide electrodes having carbon structures (e.g., carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, porous carbon, free-standing 3D CNTs, etc.) with sulfur coatings. |
| US11355738B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided, and includes a display panel, a multi-layered polarizer layer, and a cover layer. The multi-layered polarizer layer is disposed on the display panel. The cover layer is coated on the multi-layered polarizer layer. |
| US11355733B2 |
Optical film having antistatic layers, optical film manufacturing method, and organic light-emitting electronic device manufacturing method
The present application relates to an optical film, a method for preparing an optical film, and a method for manufacturing an organic light emitting electronic device. |
| US11355728B2 |
Electroluminesence display having through-hole in display area
Disclosed is an electroluminescence display device having a through-hole in a display area thereof. The electroluminescence display device includes a substrate, a display area, a non-display area, a through-hole, an inner dam, and a concave-convex pattern. In the display area, a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a light emitting element that displays an image and a driving element that drives the light emitting element, are disposed on the substrate. The non-display area surrounds the display area on the substrate. The through-hole is disposed in the display area and does not include the substrate, the light emitting elements, and the driving elements. The inner dam surrounds the through-hole. The concave-convex pattern surrounds the through-hole between the through-hole and the inner dam. |
| US11355725B2 |
Composite thin film and formation method and application thereof
A composite thin film includes N thin film layers stacked one over another in sequence from a first thin film layer to an N-th thin film layer. N is an integer satisfying 3≤N≤9. The N thin film layers are nano-ZnO thin films. A nano-ZnO particle size of the nano-ZnO thin films gradually increases or decreases from the first thin film layer to the N-th thin film layer. |
| US11355722B2 |
Light-emitting element
To provide a light-emitting element which uses a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance and has higher luminous efficiency. To provide a light-emitting element which includes a mixture of a thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance and a fluorescent material. By making the emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance overlap with an absorption band on the longest wavelength side in absorption by the fluorescent material in an S1 level of the fluorescent material, energy at an S1 level of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance can be transferred to the S1 of the fluorescent material. Alternatively, it is also possible that the S1 of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance is generated from part of the energy of a T1 level of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance, and is transferred to the S1 of the fluorescent material. |
| US11355720B2 |
High efficiency large area perovskite solar cells and process for producing the same
The present invention relates to a method for producing a solid state solar cell, including the steps of providing a conductive support layer or current collector, applying a metal oxide layer on the conducting support layer, applying at least one sensitizer layer onto the metal oxide layer or onto a first optional layer covering the metal oxide layer, the first optional layer including a charge transporting layer, applying a second optional layer onto the sensitizer layer, the second optional layer being selected from a charge transporting layer, a protective layer, or a combination of both layers, and providing a counter electrode or a metal electrode onto the sensitizer layer or the second optional layer. The at least one sensitizer layer includes an organic-inorganic or metal halide perovskite and is treated by the application of a vacuum before the annealing of the sensitizer. |
| US11355716B2 |
Flexible display panel and fabricating method thereof, flexible display apparatus
A flexible display panel may include a flexible base substrate. The flexible base substrate may include a bendable region (2). The flexible display panel may further include a first layer on the flexible base substrate; a trench (26) penetrating at least part of the first layer; a second layer (14) in the trench; and a metal layer (24) on the second layer. The second layer may have a smaller elastic modulus than the first layer. At least part of the second layer and the metal layer may be conformal with the bendable region during bending of the bendable region. |
| US11355712B2 |
Organic light-emitting device and display apparatus including organic light-emitting device
An organic light-emitting device and a display apparatus including the organic light-emitting device includes a light emitting layer having one or more host materials having unexpectedly low driving voltage, high efficiency and a long life span. |
| US11355710B2 |
Light-emitting diode and light-emitting device including the same
The present disclosure relates to a light-emitting diode (LED) in which an organic compound including an imidazolium-based cationic moiety and an amine-based anionic moiety substituted with a strong electron-withdrawing group such as a sulfonyl group or a cyano group is applied to a hole transfer layer, and a light-emitting device. By applying the organic compound according to the present disclosure to the hole transfer layer, an energy barrier between the hole transport layer and an emitting material layer is removed, and an LED having improved hole transport properties can be designed. Therefore, it is possible to realize and manufacture an LED and a light-emitting device, driven at a low voltage and having improved luminous efficiency. |
| US11355705B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing same
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of first interconnects extending in a first direction, a plurality of second interconnects extending in a second direction, a plurality of stacked films respectively provided between the first interconnects and the second interconnects, each of the plurality of stacked films including a variable resistance film, a first inter-layer insulating film provided in a first region between the stacked films, and a second inter-layer insulating film provided in a second region having a wider width than the first region. The second inter-layer insulating film includes a plurality of protrusions configured to support one portion of the plurality of second interconnects on the second region. A protruding length of the protrusions is less than a stacking height of the stacked films. |
| US11355704B2 |
Resistive random access memory and manufacturing method thereof
A resistive random access memory and a manufacture method thereof are provided. The resistive random access memory includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, a resistive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least one thermal enhanced layer; the thermal enhanced layer is adjacent to the resistive layer, and a thermal conductivity of the thermal enhanced layer is less than a thermal conductivity of the first electrode and a thermal conductivity of the second electrode. |
| US11355700B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack on a substrate; forming a top electrode on the MTJ stack; performing a first patterning process to remove the MTJ stack for forming a first MTJ; forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the first MTJ; and performing a second patterning process to remove the first MTJ for forming a second MTJ and a third MTJ. |
| US11355699B2 |
Precessional spin current structure for MRAM
A magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is disclosed. MRAM device has a magnetic tunnel junction stack having a significantly improved performance of the free layer in the magnetic tunnel junction structure. The MRAM device utilizes a precessional spin current (PSC) magnetic layer in conjunction with a perpendicular MTJ where the in-plane magnetization direction of the PSC magnetic layer is free to rotate. The precessional spin current magnetic layer is constructed with a material having a face centered cubic crystal structure, such as permalloy. |
| US11355695B2 |
Magnetic memory device having shared source line and bit line
A memory device includes a substrate; an active area extending along a first direction on the substrate; a gate line traversing the active area and extending along a second direction that is not parallel to the first direction; a source doped region in the active area and on a first side of the gate line; a main source line extending along the first direction; a source line extension coupled to the main source line and extending along the second direction; a drain doped region in the active area and on a second side of the gate line that is opposite to the first side; and a data storage element electrically coupled to the drain doped region. The main source line is electrically connected to the source doped region via the source line extension. |
| US11355694B2 |
Magnetic memory device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a stacked structure including a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, and containing magnesium (Mg) and oxygen (O). The nonmagnetic layer further contains an additive element selected from fluorine (F), sulfur (S), hydrogen (H) and lithium (Li). |
| US11355692B2 |
Nanoscale radio frequency magnetoelectric antenna
A nanomechanical magnetoelectric antenna includes a thin film heterostructure that has a magnetic element and a piezoelectric element. The heterostructure is suspended on a substrate and is capable of resonating at acoustic resonance frequencies. In the transmission mode of the antenna, oscillating mechanical strain produced by voltage-induced acoustic waves is transferred to the thin film heterostructure through strain mediated magnetoelectric coupling. This gives rise to magnetization oscillation or magnetic current that radiates electromagnetic waves at the acoustic resonance frequencies. In the receiving mode, the heterostructure senses magnetic components of electromagnetic waves arriving at the antenna, converting these into a piezoelectric voltage output. |
| US11355688B2 |
Thermoelectric module and method for manufacturing the same
A thermoelectric module includes: an electrode; a double layer stacked on a thermoelectric pellet; and a solder layer interposed between the double layer and the electrode to bond the double layer to the electrode, the solder layer containing a Sn—Cu-based alloy. The solder layer is formed to have an interface with one of the double layer and the electrode and has at least one ε layer having an ε phase (Cu3Sn). |
| US11355687B2 |
Graphite-laminated chip-on-film-type semiconductor package having improved heat dissipation and electromagnetic wave shielding functions
The present invention relates to a chip-on film type semiconductor package including an integrated circuit chip, a printed circuit board layer, and a graphite layer, in which the integrated circuit chip is connected to one surface of the printed circuit board layer directly or by means of a mounting element and the graphite layer is laminated on an opposite surface of the printed circuit board layer and a display device including the same. |
| US11355685B2 |
Light emitting diode, light emitting diode module, and display device having the light emitting diode module
A light emitting diode including a lead frame unit and a light source unit disposed on the lead frame unit, in which the lead frame unit includes a body portion having a first surface contacting the light source unit and a second surface opposite to the first surface, at least one solder hole recessed from the second surface of the body portion, a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface of the body portion and including a circular portion having a substantially circular shape and an elongated portion provided integrally with the circular portion and elongating in one direction from the circular portion, a second conductive layer disposed on the second surface of the body portion, and a connection portion disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and penetrating through the body portion. |
| US11355683B2 |
Thermoplastic resin composition having excellent reflectivity
A thermoplastic resin composition includes: a polyester resin; a white pigment; a core-shell structured impact modifier; and a modified polyolefin resin. Exemplary compositions include polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate (PCT) resin; titanium oxide; a core-shell structured impact modifier obtained by grafting methyl (meth)acrylate to the polydimethylsiloxane rubber core; and an ethylene-methacrylate copolymer. The thermoplastic resin composition is usable for the production of molded article as a reflector or reflector cup for a LED (light-emitting diode) that maintains reflectance at elevated temperature. |
| US11355682B2 |
Method of manufacturing light emitting device and light emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: forming light-shielding films respectively on an upper surface of a light-transmissive plate and a lower surface of the light-transmissive plate opposite to the upper surface; dividing the light-transmissive plate together with the light-shielding films from the upper surface to the lower surface or from the lower surface to the upper surface, to form a plurality of plate-shaped optical components; and fixing a cut surface of each of the optical components to a corresponding one of a plurality of light emitting elements, and arranging the light emitting elements on a substrate in a row or in a matrix so that the cut surfaces of the optical components and the light-shielding films are alternately arranged along a row direction in a lateral side view as seen in a direction parallel to the substrate and perpendicular to the row direction. |
| US11355680B2 |
LED array package
Various aspects of a light emitting apparatus includes a substrate. Various aspects of the light emitting apparatus include a light emitting die arranged on the substrate. The light emitting die includes one or more side walls. Various aspects of the light emitting apparatus include a reflective die attach material extending along the one or more side walls of the light emitting die. |
| US11355676B2 |
Light emitting diode
A microelectronic device is disclosed. The microelectronic device has an outer enclosure enclosing a first gas in a first space, an inner enclosure disposed in the first space of the outer enclosure, at least one elongated elastomeric member forming the inner enclosure, and a plurality of lighting elements embedded in the at least one elongated elastomeric member. |
| US11355671B2 |
Ring-shaped LED lamp, lamp string, and control circuit thereof
A ring-shaped LED lamp, including at least three LED chips and at least three pins partially located within a package body. The LED chips are connected in series and have two terminal ends connected to form a closed loop, and the pins are led out from connections between the LED chips. A lamp string includes at least one group of lamps and electrically conductive wires connected to multiple lamps, and each group of lamps includes a plurality of the above-described ring-shaped lamps. Also provided is a control circuit applicable for the lamp string. The control circuit includes an input device, a microprocessor, an output circuit, and a lamp string interface connected to the output circuit. The microprocessor receives a signal from the input device, and sends an I/O signal or PWM signal to the output circuit to trigger a voltage level change of the lamp string interface. |
| US11355665B2 |
Process flow for hybrid TFT-based micro display projector
Disclosed herein are techniques for forming a thin-film circuit layer on an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs in the array of LEDs can be singulated by various processes, such as etching and ion implantation. Singulating LEDs can be performed before or after forming the thin-film circuit layer on the array of LEDs. The array of LEDs can be bonded to a transparent or non-transparent substrate. |
| US11355663B2 |
Method of manufacturing an electronic device
A method of manufacturing an electronic device according to the present invention, comprises: preparing a substrate; forming an n-type semiconductor including a III-V compound semiconductor or a II-VI compound semiconductor material on the substrate; forming a metal thin film including at least one of copper (Cu), silver (Ag), gold (Au), titanium (Ti), and nickel (Ni) on the n-type semiconductor; and forming a p-type semiconductor on the n-type semiconductor by iodinizing the metal thin film using any one of liquid iodine (I), solid iodine (I), and gas iodine (I). Therefore, it is possible to overcome the limitation of the light emission efficiency of the p-type semiconductor by providing a hybrid type electronic device and a manufacturing method. |
| US11355662B2 |
Method of manufacturing nitride semiconductor light emitting element
A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor light emitting element includes: growing an n-side nitride semiconductor layer; growing an active layer on the n-side nitride semiconductor layer; and growing a p-side nitride semiconductor layer on the active layer, which includes: growing a first p-side nitride semiconductor layer, growing a second p-side nitride semiconductor layer, growing a third p-side nitride semiconductor layer, and growing a fourth p-side nitride semiconductor layer, while varying flow rates of an Al source gas, a Ga source gas, an N source gas, and a Mg source gas. |
| US11355661B2 |
Hybrid CZTSSe photovoltaic device
A photovoltaic device includes a first contact and a hybrid absorber layer. The hybrid absorber layer includes a chalcogenide layer and a semiconductor layer in contact with the chalcogenide layer. A buffer layer is formed on the absorber layer, and a transparent conductive contact layer is formed on the buffer layer. |
| US11355659B2 |
Chip package and manufacturing method thereof
A chip package includes a chip and a conductive structure. A first surface of the chip has a photodiode. A second surface of the chip facing away from the first surface has a recess aligned with the photodiode. The conductive structure is located on the first surface of the chip. |
| US11355656B2 |
Photosensitive module
A photosensitive module is provided. The photosensitive module includes a base, an integrated package substrate, and a photosensitive element. The integrated package substrate is connected to the base. The integrated package substrate has a plurality of first electronic components, and the first electronic components are housed inside the integrated package substrate without being exposed to external environment. The photosensitive element is connected to the base, and the photosensitive element is configured to receive a light beam traveling along an optical axis. |
| US11355647B2 |
Thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof and electronic device
A thin film transistor includes an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The active layer includes a conductive region and the conductive region is between the source electrode and the drain electrode and is spaced apart from at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode. |
| US11355646B2 |
Thin film transistor, gate driver including the same, and display device including the same
Disclosed are a thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer which is applicable to a flat display device requiring high-speed driving due to ultra-high definition, a gate driver including the same, and a display device including the same. The thin film transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor layer formed of iron-indium-zinc oxide (FIZO) and a second oxide semiconductor layer formed of indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO), thus being capable of exhibiting effects, such as high reliability and high electron mobility. |
| US11355642B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor structure
Methods for manufacturing semiconductor structures are provided. The method includes forming a first masking layer over a substrate and forming a second masking layer over the first masking layer. The method includes forming a photoresist pattern over the second masking layer and patterning the second masking layer through the photoresist pattern. The method further includes diminishing the photoresist pattern and patterning the second masking layer and the first masking layer through the diminished photoresist pattern. The method further includes removing the diminished photoresist pattern and patterning the semiconductor substrate through the second masking layer and the first masking layer to form a fin structure. The method further includes forming a gate structure over the fin structure. |
| US11355633B2 |
Vertical field effect transistor with bottom source-drain region
A semiconductor device, and method of fabricating the device. The device including a plurality of vertical transistors, each vertical transistor having a raised semiconductor island having a first cross-sectional profile, a source-drain region disposed above the raised semiconductor island, the source-drain region having a second cross-sectional profile, and a semiconductor channel disposed above the source-drain region, the semiconductor channel having a third cross-sectional profile. The second cross-sectional profile is asymmetric. |
| US11355631B2 |
LDMOS transistor and method for manufacturing the same
An LDMOS transistor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: forming an epitaxial layer on a substrate, forming a gate structure on an upper surface of the epitaxial layer, forming a body region and a drift region in the epitaxial layer, forming a source region in the body region, forming a first insulating layer on the gate structure and an upper surface of the epitaxial layer and, forming a shield conductor layer on the first insulating layer, forming a second insulating layer covering the shield conductor layer, forming a first conductive path, to connect the source region with the substrate, and forming a drain region in the drift region. By forming the first conductive path which connects the source region with the substrate, the size of the LDMOS transistor and the resistance can be reduced. |
| US11355630B2 |
Trench bottom shielding methods and approaches for trenched semiconductor device structures
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming a semiconductor device that includes a polysilicon layer that may improve device reliability and/or a functioning of the device. An example device may include a wide band-gap semiconductor layer structure including a drift region that has a first conductivity type; a plurality of gate trenches in an upper portion of the semiconductor layer structure, each gate trench having a bottom surface, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and an upper opening; and a plurality of polysilicon layers, each polysilicon layer on the second sidewall of a respective gate trench. |
| US11355627B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device and power converter
In SiC-MOSFETs including Schottky diodes, passage of a bipolar current to a well region in a terminal region cannot be sufficiently reduced, which may reduce the reliability of elements. A SiC-MOSFET including Schottky diodes includes a gate electrode formed, through a second insulating film thicker than a gate insulating film in an active region, on a separation region between a first well region in the active region that is the closest to the terminal region and a second well region in the terminal region, wherein the second well region has a non-ohmic connection to a source electrode. Thus, a decrease in the reliability of elements is prevented. |
| US11355624B2 |
Electrically confined ballistic devices and methods
Embodiments are directed to electrically confined ballistic devices, circuits, and networks. One such device includes a heterostructure that has a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a two-dimensional electrode gas (2DEG) layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The device further includes an input electrode electrically coupled to the 2DEG layer and an output electrode electrically coupled to the 2DEG layer. A first confinement electrode is positioned on the heterostructure. The first confinement electrode, in use, generates first space charge regions which at least partially define a boundary of the ballistic device within the 2DEG layer between the input electrode and the output electrode in response to a first voltage. |
| US11355623B2 |
Wafer-scale integration of dopant atoms for donor- or acceptor-based spin qubits
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a method of fabricating spin qubit device assemblies that utilize dopant-based spin qubits, i.e. spin qubit devices which operate by including a donor or an acceptor dopant atom in a semiconductor host layer. The method includes, first, providing a pair of gate electrodes over a semiconductor host layer, and then providing a window structure between the first and second gate electrodes, the window structure being a continuous solid material extending between the first and second electrodes and covering the semiconductor host layer except for an opening through which a dopant atom is to be implanted in the semiconductor host layer. By using a defined gate-first process, the method may address the scalability challenges and create a deterministic path for fabricating dopant-based spin qubits in desired locations, promoting wafer-scale integration of dopant-based spin qubit devices for use in quantum computing devices. |
| US11355622B2 |
Semiconductor device and formation method i'hereof
A semiconductor device and a method for forming the semiconductor device are provided. The method includes providing a substrate, sequentially forming at least two sacrificial layers on the substrate, and forming a liner layer between any adjacent sacrificial layers of the at least two sacrificial layers. The method also includes forming a hard mask layer on a top layer of the at least two sacrificial layers, and sequentially etching the hard mask layer, the at least two sacrificial layers, the liner layer, and a portion of the substrate, thereby forming a plurality of fins that are discretely arranged on a remaining portion of the substrate. The method also includes forming a dummy gate structure across the plurality of fins on the remaining portion of the substrate, and removing a portion of the at least two sacrificial layers under the dummy gate structure, thereby forming tunnels. |
| US11355619B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure on a substrate, an offset spacer adjacent to the gate structure, a main spacer around the offset spacer, a source/drain region adjacent to two sides of the main spacer, a contact etch stop layer (CESL) adjacent to the main spacer, and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer around the CESL. Preferably, a dielectric constant of the offset spacer is higher than a dielectric constant of the main spacer. |
| US11355616B2 |
Air spacers around contact plugs and method forming same
A method includes forming an opening in a first dielectric layer. A region underlying the first dielectric layer is exposed to the opening. The method further includes depositing a dummy silicon layer extending into the opening, and depositing an isolation layer. The isolation layer and the dummy layer include a dummy silicon ring and an isolation ring, respectively, in the opening. The opening is filled with a metallic region, and the metal region is encircled by the isolation ring. The dummy silicon layer is etched to form an air spacer. A second dielectric layer is formed to seal the air spacer. |
| US11355614B2 |
Thin film transistor, method for preparing the same, display substrate and display device
The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor, a method for preparing the same, a display substrate, and a display device. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and a gate insulation layer arranged between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, and the gate insulation layer includes a metal oxide layer and a modified layer formed through self-assembling on a side of the metal oxide layer away from the gate electrode and. |
| US11355613B2 |
Method for depinning the Fermi level of a semiconductor at an electrical junction and devices incorporating such junctions
An electrical device in which an interface layer is disposed in between and in contact with a conductor and a semiconductor. |
| US11355612B2 |
Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, inverter circuit, driving device, vehicle, and elevator
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer including a first silicon carbide region of n-type containing one metal element selected from a group consisting of nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), and chromium (Cr) and a second silicon carbide region of p-type containing the metal element; and a metal layer electrically connected to the first silicon carbide region and the second silicon carbide region. Among the metal elements contained in the first silicon carbide region, a proportion of the metal element positioned at a carbon site is higher than a proportion of the metal element positioned at an interstitial position. Among the metal elements contained in the second silicon carbide region, a proportion of the metal element positioned at an interstitial position is higher than a proportion of the metal element positioned at a carbon site. |
| US11355608B2 |
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with gate-all-around devices having epitaxial source or drain structures
Self-aligned gate endcap architectures with gate-all-around devices having epitaxial source or drain structures are described. For example, a structure includes first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires, the nanowires of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires having a horizontal width greater than a horizontal width of the nanowires of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires. First and second gate stacks are over the first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires, respectively. A gate endcap isolation structure is between the first and second gate stacks, respectively. First epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires and have an uppermost surface below an uppermost surface of the gate endcap isolation structure. Second epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires and have an uppermost surface below the uppermost surface of the gate endcap isolation structure. |
| US11355602B2 |
Semiconductor device having multiple conductive parts
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first, second and third conductive parts, a first semiconductor region, and a first insulating part. A direction from the first conductive part toward the second conductive part is along a first direction. The first semiconductor region includes first, second, and third partial regions. A second direction from the first partial region toward the second partial region crosses the first direction. The third partial region is between the first partial region and the second conductive part in the first direction. The third partial region includes an opposing surface facing the second conductive part. A direction from the opposing surface toward the third conductive part is along the second direction. The first insulating part includes a first insulating region. At least a portion of the first insulating region is between the opposing surface and the third conductive part. |
| US11355600B2 |
High electron mobility transistors having improved drain current drift and/or leakage current performance
A high electron mobility transistor includes a channel layer, a barrier layer on the channel layer, source and drain contacts on the barrier layer, a gate contact between the source and drain contacts, and a multi-layer passivation structure on the upper surface of the barrier layer between the source contact and the drain contact. The multi-layer passivation structure includes a first passivation layer that comprises a charge dissipation material directly contacts the upper surface of the barrier layer and a second passivation layer comprising a different material than the first passivation layer that also directly contacts the upper surface of the barrier layer. In some embodiments, at least one recess may be formed in the upper surface of the barrier layer and the second passivation layer may be formed within the recesses. |
| US11355598B2 |
Field managed group III-V field effect device with epitaxial back-side field plate
A semiconductor device having a back-side field plate includes a buffer layer that includes a first compound semiconductor material, where the buffer layer is epitaxial to a crystalline substrate. The semiconductor device also includes field plate layer that is disposed on a surface of the buffer layer. The semiconductor device further includes a first channel layer disposed over the field plate layer, where the first channel layer includes the first compound semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes a region comprising a two-dimensional electron gas, where the two-dimensional electron gas is formed at an interface between the first channel layer and a second channel layer. The semiconductor device additionally includes a back-side field plate that is formed by a region of the field plate layer and is electrically isolated from other regions of the field plate layer. |
| US11355597B2 |
Transistor with source field plates and non-overlapping gate runner layers
A transistor device includes a field plate that extends from a source runner layer and/or a source contact layer. The field plate can be coplanar with and/or below a gate runner layer. The gate runner layer is routed away from a region directly above the gate metal layer by a gate bridge, such that the field plate can extend directly above the gate metal layer without being interfered by the gate runner layer. Coplanar with the source runner layer or the source contact layer, the field plate is positioned close to the channel region, which helps reduce its parasitic capacitance. By vertically overlapping the metal gate layer and the field plate, the disclosed HEMT device may achieve significant size efficiency without additional routings. |
| US11355589B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with a junction type FET includes: a drift layer; a channel layer on the drift layer; a source layer in a surface portion of the channel layer; a gate layer in the channel layer; a body layer in the channel layer; a drain layer disposed on an opposite side of the source layer with respect to the drift layer; a gate wiring electrically connected to the gate layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the source layer and the body layer; and a second electrode electrically connected to the drain layer. |
| US11355584B2 |
Process for fabricating silicon nanostructures
A process for etching a substrate comprising polycrystalline silicon to form silicon nanostructures includes depositing metal on top of the substrate and contacting the metallized substrate with an etchant aqueous solution comprising about 2 to about 49 weight percent HF and an oxidizing agent. |
| US11355580B2 |
Lateral DMOS device with step-profiled RESURF and drift structures
A method for fabricating a MOSFET includes forming a source region and a drain region on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate region, forming a body diffusion region, forming metal structures, and forming a drift region including an n-type drift structure having a stepped dopant concentration profile with dopant concentrations increasing along a lateral direction from the drain region to the source region of the device. |
| US11355578B2 |
High voltage device
We disclose herein a high voltage device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed underneath and spaced from the first electrode; and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, wherein the first electrode extends further in at least one lateral direction in respect of the second electrode. |
| US11355576B2 |
Display panel and fabrication method thereof
Provided is a display panel including a substrate layer, an active layer, a first insulating layer, a first metal layer, a second insulating layer, and a second metal layer that are stacked. The second metal layer located in a display area of the display panel comprises a first portion and a second portion, and the second metal layer located in a non-display area of the display panel comprises a third portion, wherein a thickness of the first portion of the second metal layer is less than thicknesses of the second portion and the third portion of the second metal layer. |
| US11355574B2 |
Flexible display panel and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel includes a flexible substrate, a buffer layer, a combination insulation layer, recess, an organic insulation layer, and a first wire changing layer. The first wire changing layer is disposed on an upper surface of the organic insulation layer and extends to the combination insulation layer. The present invention removes a through hole in a conventional organic insulation layer, on one hand mitigates the issue of broken lines in the first wire changing layer, and on the other hand mitigates the issue of shorting of adjacent two of wires in the first wire changing layer because of square waveform, sawtooth waveform, triangular waveform, and sinusoidal waveform of an edge line on a side of the first wire changing layer such that stability of the display panel is improved. |
| US11355561B2 |
Display device having reduced thickness, and method for fabricating the display device
A display device includes a display member including a substrate and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate, a sensing member disposed on the display member, and a polarizing member disposed on the sensing member. The sensing member includes a sensing insulating layer and a sensing conductive layer disposed on the sensing insulating layer. The polarizing member includes a polarizing layer and a polarizing adhesive layer disposed between the polarizing layer and the sensing conductive layer. The polarizing adhesive layer is in contact with the sensing conductive layer. |
| US11355558B2 |
Display device with light control layer and manufacturing method thereof
A display device and method of manufacturing same includes: a display panel having a pixel area and a peripheral area adjacent to the pixel area, a light control layer disposed on the display panel and at least partially overlapping the pixel area, a light blocking portion at least partially overlapping the peripheral area, and a protective layer disposed between the light control layer and the light blocking portion. |
| US11355556B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes a pixel arrangement structure. The pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of first pixel rows and a plurality of second pixel rows arranged alternately. Each of the first pixel rows comprises a plurality of first pixels arranged at intervals, and each of the second pixel rows comprises a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of third pixels arranged alternately and at intervals. A shape of the first pixel comprises a shape formed by an arc. Each of the second pixel and the third pixel comprises a plurality of concave arcs and a plurality of convex arcs, the plurality of concave arcs and the plurality of convex arcs of the second pixel are alternately connected and form a closed figure, and the plurality of concave arcs and the plurality of convex arcs of the third pixel are alternately connected and form a closed figure. |
| US11355550B2 |
Optoelectronic device having conductor arrangement structures non-overlapped with heat dissipation pads
An optoelectronic device comprises a substrate; a first and a second optoelectronic units formed on the substrate; a plurality of third optoelectronic units formed on the substrate, electrically connected to the first optoelectronic unit and the second optoelectronic unit; a plurality of first electrodes respectively formed on the first optoelectronic unit, the second optoelectronic unit and the plurality of third optoelectronic units; a plurality of second electrodes respectively formed on the first optoelectronic unit, the second optoelectronic unit and the plurality of third optoelectronic units; an optical layer surrounding the first optoelectronic unit, the second optoelectronic unit and the plurality of third optoelectronic units in a top view of the optoelectronic device; a third electrode formed on the first optoelectronic unit and one of the plurality of third optoelectronic units; and a fourth electrode formed on the second optoelectronic unit and another one of the plurality of third optoelectronic units. |
| US11355545B2 |
Semiconductor image sensor device having back side illuminated image sensors with embedded color filters
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a semiconductor image sensor device. The method includes providing a substrate having a pixel region, a periphery region, and a bonding pad region. The substrate further has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The pixel region contains radiation-sensing regions. The method further includes forming a bonding pad in the bonding pad region; and forming light-blocking structures over the second side of the substrate, at least in the pixel region, after the bonding pad has been formed. |
| US11355543B2 |
Packaging unit, component packaging structure and preparation method thereof
A packaging unit, a component packaging structure and a preparation method thereof. The packaging unit includes a bonding substrate and spacers formed on the bonding substrate through a patterning process, wherein the bonding substrate is reserved with packaging regions for applying sealant. When the packaging unit is used to package a component, because the spacer(s) is supported between the bonding substrate and the base substrate, the packaging unit is easy to separate from the base substrate At the same time, the packaging unit has little or no damage to the base substrate and elements formed on the base substrate, thus effectively protecting the performance of the base substrate and the elements on the base substrate. |
| US11355537B2 |
Vertical gate structure and layout in a CMOS image sensor
A pixel cell includes a photodiode buried beneath a first side of semiconductor material and coupled to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light. A transfer gate is disposed over the photodiode and includes a vertical transfer gate portion extending a first distance from the first side into the semiconductor material. A floating diffusion region is disposed in the semiconductor material proximate to the transfer gate and is coupled to transfer the image charge from the photodiode toward the first side of the semiconductor material and into the floating diffusion region in response to a transfer control signal. A first pixel transistor having a first gate is disposed over the photodiode proximate to the first side of the semiconductor material. The first gate has a ring structure laterally surrounding the floating diffusion region and the transfer gate at the first side of the semiconductor material. |
| US11355535B2 |
Display panel and display device
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area at least partially surrounds the second display area, and the second display area is configured to provide a photosensitive element. The first display area and the second display area are each provided with multiple sub-pixels. Each of the multiple sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit and a light emitting element. In each of the first display area and the second display area, active layers of the pixel circuits of the sub-pixels in each column have discontinuity points. The discontinuity point is located between respective two adjacent sub-pixels in the same column, or is located within each sub-pixel. |
| US11355534B2 |
Detection element, manufacturing method thereof, flat panel detector
A detection element, a manufacturing method thereof and a flat panel detector are disclosed. The detection element includes: a base substrate; a photodiode on the base substrate, the photodiode includes: a first electrode on the base substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer on a side of the first electrode away from the base substrate; a transparent electrode and a second electrode electrically connected with the transparent electrode on a side of the photoelectric conversion layer away from the first electrode. Besides, an orthographic projection of the photoelectric conversion layer on the base substrate completely falls within an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate; the photoelectric conversion layer includes a sidewall, an orthographic projection of the sidewall of the photoelectric conversion layer on the base substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the base substrate. |
| US11355523B2 |
Array substrate, display panel, and display device
An array substrate (100, 200, 300) comprises a display region (110) and a bonding region (130, 230, 330). The bonding region (130, 230, 330) is disposed around the display region (110). The bonding region (130, 230, 330) of the array substrate (100, 200, 300) is provided with at least one pad (150, 250). The at least one pad (150, 250) comprises a plurality of first gold fingers (151, 251, 351) spaced apart and arranged in parallel. Intervals between adjacent first golden fingers (151, 251, 351) in the same pad (150, 250) are not entirely the same. |
| US11355515B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device including locally thickened electrically conductive layers and methods of manufacturing the same
Fabricating a three-dimensional memory device may include forming an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers over a substrate. Stepped surfaces are formed by patterning the alternating stack. Sacrificial pads are formed on physically exposed horizontal surfaces of the sacrificial material layers. A retro-stepped dielectric material portion is formed over the sacrificial pads. After memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack are formed, the sacrificial material layers and the sacrificial pads can be replaced with replacement material portions that include electrically conductive layers. The electrically conductive layers can be formed with thicker end portions. Contact via structures can be formed on the thicker end portions. |
| US11355514B2 |
Microelectronic devices including an oxide material between adjacent decks, electronic systems, and related methods
A microelectronic device includes decks comprising alternating levels of a conductive material and an insulative material, the decks comprising pillars including a channel material extending through the alternating levels of the conductive material and the insulative material, a conductive contact between adjacent decks and in electrical communication with the channel material of the adjacent decks, and an oxide material between the adjacent decks, the oxide material extending between an uppermost level of a first deck and a lowermost level of a second deck adjacent to the first deck. Related electronic systems and methods of forming the microelectronic device and electronic systems are also disclosed. |
| US11355507B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a memory cell structure covered by a protective layer is formed in a memory cell area of a substrate. A mask pattern is formed. The mask pattern has an opening over a first circuit area, while the memory cell area and a second circuit area are covered by the mask pattern. The substrate in the first circuit area is recessed, while the memory cell area and the second circuit area are protected. A first field effect transistor (FET) having a first gate dielectric layer is formed in the first circuit area over the recessed substrate and a second FET having a second gate dielectric layer is formed in the second circuit area over the substrate as viewed in cross section. |
| US11355506B2 |
Through-stack contact via structures for a three-dimensional memory device and methods of forming the same
A first-tier structure includes a first vertically alternating sequence of first continuous insulating layers and first continuous sacrificial material layers and a first-tier retro-stepped dielectric material portion overlying first stepped surfaces of the first vertically alternating sequence. A second vertically alternating sequence of second continuous insulating layers and second continuous sacrificial material layers is formed over the first-tier structure. A vertically alternating stack of insulating plates and dielectric material is formed over the first-tier retro-stepped dielectric material portion. Alternatively, dielectric pillar structures may be formed in lieu of the vertically alternating stack. After formation of memory stack structures, electrically conductive layers replace portions of the first and second continuous sacrificial material layers. Contact via structures are formed through the vertically alternating stack or the dielectric pillar structures, through the first retro-stepped dielectric material portion, and directly on a first subset of the electrically conductive layers. |
| US11355504B2 |
Anti-ferroelectric capacitor memory cell
Described herein are anti-ferroelectric (AFE) memory cells and corresponding methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, an AFE memory cell disclosed herein includes a capacitor employing an AFE material between two capacitor electrodes. Applying a voltage to one electrode of such capacitor allows boosting the charge at the other electrode, where nonlinear behavior of the AFE material between the two electrodes may advantageously manifest itself in that, for a given voltage applied to the first electrode, a factor by which the charge is boosted at the second electrode of the capacitor may be substantially different for different values of charge at that electrode before the boost. Connecting the second capacitor electrode to a storage node of the memory cell may then allow boosting the charge on the storage node so that different logic states of the memory cell become more clearly resolvable, enabling increased retention times. |
| US11355503B2 |
Electronic chip memory
A device includes at least three memory cells. For each cell, there is a first doped semiconductor area and a switch coupling the cell to the first area. First doped semiconductor zones connect the first areas together. A memory can include a number of the devices. For example, the cells can be arranged in a matrix, each device defining a row of the matrix. |
| US11355500B2 |
Static random access memory cell and manufacturing method thereof
A static random access memory (SRAM) cell includes a semiconductor fin, a first gate structure, a second gate structure, an epitaxy structure, and a first fin sidewall structure. The first gate structure crosses the semiconductor fin to form a pull-down (PD) transistor. The second gate structure crosses the semiconductor fin to form a pull-gate (PG) transistor. The epitaxy structure is on the semiconductor fin and between the first and second gate structures. The first fin sidewall structure is on a first side of the epitaxy structure and between the first and second gate structures. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor device is also disclosed. |
| US11355499B2 |
Static random access memory cell
A static random access memory (SRAM) cell includes substrate, a first semiconductor fin, a first gate structure, a second semiconductor fin, and a second gate structure. The substrate has a first p-well and an n-well bordering the first p-well. The first semiconductor fin extends within the first p-well. The first gate structure extends across the first semiconductor fin and forms a first write-port pull-down transistor with the first semiconductor fin. The second semiconductor fin extends within the n-well. The second gate structure extends across the second semiconductor fin and forms a first write-port pull-up transistor with the second semiconductor fin. A channel region of the first write-port pull-down transistor has a higher doping concentration than a channel region of the first write-port pull-up transistor. |
| US11355496B2 |
High-density 3D-dram cell with scaled capacitors
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate, and a pair of metal gates extends upwards from the semiconductor substrate. First and second channel regions are disposed between inner sidewalls of the pair of metal gates. First and second drain regions are disposed between the inner sidewalls of the pair of metal gates and are disposed directly over the first and second channel regions, respectively. First and second source regions are disposed between the inner sidewalls of the pair of metal gates directly below the first and second channel regions, respectively. A capacitor dielectric structure is disposed below the first and second source regions. A bottom capacitor electrode is disposed below the capacitor dielectric. The capacitor dielectric structure separates the first and second drain regions from the bottom capacitor electrode. |
| US11355495B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes first to sixth transistors of enhancement type. The first and fourth transistors are of p-channel type. The second, third, fifth and sixth transistors are of n-channel type. A breakdown voltage of the third transistor is lower than a breakdown voltage of the second transistor. A breakdown voltage of the sixth transistor is lower than a breakdown voltage of the fifth transistor. The first to third transistors are connected in series between a first power supply potential and a second power supply potential lower than the first power supply potential. The fourth to sixth transistors are connected in series between the first power supply potential and the second power supply potential. |
| US11355494B1 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a first transistor disposed on the substrate. The first transistor includes first semiconductor sheets and two first source/drain structures. The first semiconductor sheets are stacked in a vertical direction and separated from one another. Each of the first semiconductor sheets includes two first doped layers and a second doped layer disposed between the two first doped layers in the vertical direction. A conductivity type of the second doped layer is complementary to a conductivity type of each of the first doped layers. The two first source/drain structures are disposed at two opposite sides of each of the first semiconductor sheets in a horizontal direction respectively, and the two first source/drain structures are connected with the first semiconductor sheets. |
| US11355489B2 |
Semiconductor device including standard cell
A semiconductor device includes a standard cell, which includes first to fourth active areas that are extended in a first direction, first to fourth gate lines that are extended in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction over the first to fourth active areas and are disposed parallel to each other, a first cutting layer that is disposed between the first active area and the second active area and separates the second and third gate lines, a second cutting layer that is disposed between the third active area and the fourth active area and separates the second and third gate lines, a first gate contact that is formed on the second gate line separated by the first cutting layer and the second cutting layer, and a second gate contact that is formed on the third gate line separated by the first cutting layer and the second cutting layer. |
| US11355487B2 |
Layout designs of integrated circuits having backside routing tracks
An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, transistors on the semiconductor, horizontal routing tracks extending in a first direction in a first metal layer, and one or more backside routing tracks extending in the first direction in a backside metal layer. Each transistor has a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. A first transistor has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. A first horizontal routing track of the horizontal routing tracks is conductively connected to the first terminal of the first transistor through a via connector. A first backside routing track is conductively connected to the second terminal of the first transistor through a backside via connector. The backside metal layer and the first metal layer are formed at opposite sides of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11355483B2 |
Lighting device comprising organic light emitting panel and inorganic light emitting diode
A lighting device comprises an organic light emitting panel, an inorganic light emitting diode on the organic light emitting panel, and a first lens structure at least partially surrounding the inorganic light emitting diode. The organic light emitting panel may include a base substrate, an auxiliary electrode on the base substrate, a first electrode on the auxiliary electrode, a passivation layer on the first electrode, a light emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the light emitting layer, and an encapsulation layer on the second electrode. |
| US11355478B2 |
Micro light emitting diode display panel, method for fabricating same, and display device
The present disclosure provides a micro light emitting diode display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device comprising the same. The micro light emitting diode display panel includes an active layer, a gate insulating layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a pixel electrode, a micro light emitting diode, and a gate insulating layer covering the active layer, the gate insulating layer, the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode. The light shielding layer blocks light emitted by the micro light emitting diode from being incident on the thin film transistor, thereby reducing influence of the light emitted by the micro light emitting diode light on the thin film transistor. |
| US11355475B2 |
Singulation and bonding methods and structures formed thereby
Methods of singulation and bonding, as well as structures formed thereby, are disclosed. A method includes singulating a first chip and after the singulating the first chip, bonding the first chip to a second chip. The first chip includes a first semiconductor substrate and a first interconnect structure on a front side of the first semiconductor substrate. The singulating the first chip includes etching through a back side of the first semiconductor substrate through the first interconnect structure. |
| US11355471B2 |
System for processing semiconductor devices
Tools and systems for processing semiconductor devices, and methods of processing semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of using a tool for processing semiconductor devices includes a tool with a second material disposed over a first material, and a plurality of apertures disposed within the first material and the second material. The second material comprises a higher reflectivity than the first material. Each of the apertures is adapted to retain a package component over a support during an exposure to energy. |
| US11355470B2 |
Semiconductor device and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices
In one example, a semiconductor device comprises an electronic component comprising a component face side, a component base side, a component lateral side connecting the component face side to the component base side, and a component port adjacent to the component face side, wherein the component port comprises a component port face. A clip structure comprises a first clip pad, a second clip pad, a first clip leg connecting the first clip pad to the second clip pad, and a first clip face. An encapsulant covers portions of the electronic component and the clip structure. The encapsulant comprises an encapsulant face, the first clip pad is coupled to the electronic component, and the component port face and the first clip face are exposed from the encapsulant face. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein. |
| US11355469B2 |
Connection structure and method for producing same
One aspect of the invention is a method of manufacturing a connection structure, including disposing an adhesive layer between a first electronic member including a first substrate and a first electrode formed on the first substrate and a second electronic member including a second substrate and a second electrode formed on the second substrate, and pressure-bonding the first electronic member and the second electronic member via the adhesive layer such that the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to each other, wherein the first electronic member further including an insulating layer formed on a side of the first electrode opposite to the first substrate, and the adhesive layer including: a first conductive particle being a dendritic conductive particle; and a second conductive particle being a conductive particle other than the first conductive particle and having a non-conductive core and a conductive layer provided on the core. |
| US11355467B2 |
Semiconductor devices including thick pad
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor chip in an encapsulant. A first insulation layer may be disposed on the encapsulant and the semiconductor chip. A horizontal wiring and a primary pad may be disposed on the first insulation layer. A secondary pad may be disposed on the primary pad. A second insulation layer covering the horizontal wiring may be disposed on the first insulation layer. A solder ball may be disposed on the primary pad and the secondary pad. The primary pad may have substantially the same thickness as a thickness of the horizontal wiring. |
| US11355466B2 |
Package structure and manufacturing method of package structure thereof
A package structure including at least one semiconductor die and a redistribution structure is provided. The semiconductor die is laterally encapsulated by an encapsulant, and the redistribution structure is disposed on the semiconductor die and the encapsulant and electrically connected with the semiconductor die. The redistribution structure includes signal lines and a pair of repair lines. The signal lines include a pair of first signal lines located at a first level, and each first signal line of the pair of first signal lines has a break that split each first signal line into separate first and second fragments. The pair of repair lines is located above the pair of first signal lines and located right above the break. Opposite ending portions of each repair line are respectively connected with the first and second fragments with each repair line covering the break in each first signal line. |
| US11355465B2 |
Semiconductor device including glass substrate having improved reliability and method of manufacturing the same
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same capable of improving reliability of a glass substrate on which a wiring layer is formed. A semiconductor device is provided with a glass substrate on a front surface or front and back surfaces of which a wiring layer including one or more layers of wiring is formed, an electronic component arranged inside a glass opening formed on the glass substrate, and a redistribution layer that connects the wiring of the glass substrate and the electronic component. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a high-frequency front-end module and the like. |
| US11355464B2 |
Semiconductor device structure with bottle-shaped through silicon via and method for forming the same
A semiconductor device structure includes a silicon layer disposed over a first semiconductor die, and a first mask layer disposed over the silicon layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a second semiconductor die disposed over the first mask layer, and a through silicon via penetrating through the silicon layer and the first mask layer. A bottom surface of the through silicon via is greater than a top surface of the through silicon via, and the top surface of the through silicon via is greater than a cross-section of the through silicon via between and parallel to the top surface and the bottom surface of the through silicon via. |
| US11355460B1 |
Molded semiconductor package with high voltage isolation
A molded semiconductor package includes: a semiconductor die attached to a substrate, the semiconductor die having a bond pad at a first side of the semiconductor die which faces away from the substrate and an insulating layer covering the first side; an electrical conductor attached to a part of the bond pad exposed by an opening in the insulating layer; a mold compound encasing the semiconductor die; and an electrically insulative material filling the opening in the insulating layer and sealing the part of the bond pad exposed by the opening in the insulating layer. The electrically insulative material separates the mold compound from the part of the bond pad exposed by the opening in the insulating layer. A breakdown voltage of the electrically insulative material is greater than a breakdown voltage of the mold compound. |
| US11355454B2 |
Package structure and manufacturing method thereof
A package structure includes a redistribution circuit structure, a wiring substrate, a semiconductor device, an insulating encapsulation, and a reinforcement structure. The redistribution circuit structure has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The wiring substrate is disposed on the first surface of the redistribution circuit structure. The semiconductor device is disposed on the second surface of the redistribution circuit structure. The insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates the wiring substrate. The reinforcement structure is directly in contact with the insulating encapsulation. |
| US11355453B2 |
Electronic assembly, electronic apparatus including the same and method for fabricating electronic assembly
An electronic assembly according to an embodiment includes: a circuit board including a first edge surface and a trace having an electrical conductivity; an electronic element including a lateral edge spatially spaced apart from the first edge surface, and mounted on the circuit board and electrically connected to the trace; a protection layer including a second edge surface and disposed on the electronic element to substantially cover the electronic element; a magnetic field shielding film including a third edge surface and disposed on the protection layer; and a first metal layer. The first edge surface connects a main top surface of the circuit board and a main bottom surface of the circuit board, the second edge surface connects a main top surface of the protection layer and a main bottom surface of the protection layer, and the third edge surface connects a main top surface of the magnetic field shielding film and a main bottom surface of the magnetic field shielding film, and the first edge surface, the second edge surface, and the third edge surface are substantially aligned with one another to form a coupling edge surface which is substantially planar. In addition, the first metal layer is disposed on the magnetic field shielding film, and covers the main top surface of the magnetic field shielding film and the coupling edge surface. |
| US11355448B2 |
Method for making aluminum nitride wafer and aluminum nitride wafer made by the same
The present invention provides an aluminum nitride wafer and a method for making the same. The method includes forming at least one alignment notch in or at least one flat alignment edge on a periphery of the aluminum nitride wafer. The alignment notch and the flat alignment edge can prevent the aluminum nitride wafer from being in a poor state during the semiconductor manufacturing process and makes it possible to position the aluminum nitride wafer precisely so that the fraction defective can be lowered. The aluminum nitride wafer of the present invention has advantages of effective insulation, efficient heat dissipation, and a high dielectric constant, and can be used in semiconductor manufacturing processes, electronic products, and semiconductor equipment. |
| US11355435B2 |
Semiconductor device with air gaps
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with air gaps for reducing capacitive coupling between conductive features. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first conductive line positioned above the substrate and including two sides, a first protruding portion positioned on one of the two sides of the first conductive line, a second conductive line positioned adjacent to the first conductive line and including two sides, a second protruding portion positioned on one of the two sides of the second conductive line and face onto the first protruding portion, and an air gap positioned between the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion. A distance between the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion is less than a distance between the first conductive line and the second conductive line. |
| US11355434B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a first active pattern on a substrate; a first gate electrode crossing the first active pattern; source/drain patterns in an upper portion of the first active pattern and at opposite sides, respectively, of the first gate electrode; a first gate capping pattern on the first gate electrode; an interlayer insulating layer on the source/drain patterns; first and second active contacts penetrating the interlayer insulating layer and being respectively connected to the pair of source/drain patterns; and a first interconnection layer on the first and second active contacts. The first interconnection layer may include a first insulating structure covering a top surface of the second active contact; and a first interconnection line covering a top surface of the first active contact and extending on the first insulating structure, and covering a top surface of the first gate capping pattern between the first and second active contacts. |
| US11355433B2 |
Semiconductor fuse structure and method of manufacturing a semiconductor fuse structure
A semiconductor device having a fuse structure includes a region of semiconductor material having a major surface. A dielectric region is over the major surface. A first fuse terminal is over a first part of the dielectric region, a second fuse terminal is over a second part of the dielectric region and spaced apart from the first fuse terminal to provide a gap region, and a fuse body over a third part of the dielectric region interposed between and connected to the first fuse terminal and the second fuse terminal. A dummy structure is over the dielectric region in the gap region on a first side of the fuse body, the dummy structure spaced apart and electrically isolated from the fuse body, the first fuse terminal, and the second fuse terminal. The dummy structure is configured to reduce the presence of or reduce the effects of defects, such as cracks or voids that can emanate from the fuse structure. |
| US11355429B2 |
Electrical interconnect structure with radial spokes for improved solder void control
An electrical interconnect structure includes a bond pad having a substantially planar bonding surface, and a solder enhancing structure that is disposed on the bonding surface and includes a plurality of raised spokes that are each elevated from the bonding surface. Each of the raised spokes has a lower wettability relative to a liquefied solder material than the bonding surface. Each of the raised spokes extend radially outward from a center of the solder enhancing structure. |
| US11355424B2 |
Multi-chip package
A package includes a package body with a package top side, package footprint side and package sidewalls extending from the package footprint side to the package top side; power semiconductor chips electrically connected in parallel and each having first and second load terminals and being configured to block a blocking voltage and conduct a chip load current between the load terminals; a lead frame structure configured to electrically and mechanically couple the package to a carrier with the package footprint side facing the carrier, the lead frame structure including first outside terminals extending out of the package body for interfacing with the carrier. Each first load terminal is electrically connected, at least by one package body internal connection member, to at least two of the first outside terminals. A horizontally extending conduction layer at the package top side or footprint side is electrically connected with each second load terminal. |
| US11355423B2 |
Bottom package exposed die MEMS pressure sensor integrated circuit package design
A MEMS pressure sensor packaged with a molding compound. The MEMS pressure sensor features a lead frame, a MEMS semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, multiple pluralities of bonding wires, and a molding compound. The MEMS semiconductor die has an internal chamber, a sensing component, and apertures. The MEMS semiconductor die and the apertures are exposed to an ambient atmosphere. A method is desired to form a MEMS pressure sensor package that reduces defects caused by mold flashing and die cracking. Fabrication of the MEMS pressure sensor package comprises placing a lead frame on a lead frame tape; placing a MEMS semiconductor die adjacent to the lead frame and on the lead frame tape with the apertures facing the tape and being sealed thereby; attaching a second semiconductor die to the MEMS semiconductor die; attaching pluralities of bonding wires to form electrical connections between the MEMS semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die, and the lead frame; and forming a molding compound. |
| US11355414B2 |
Nanoparticle matrix for backside heat spreading
In described examples, a circuit (e.g., an integrated circuit) includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a frontside surface and a backside surface. A circuit element is included at the frontside surface. An optional electrical insulator layer can be included adjacent to the backside surface. A distributor layer is included adjacent to the backside surface. In some examples, the distributor layer includes a distributor material that includes a matrix of cohered nanoparticles and metallic particles embedded by the cohered nanoparticles. |
| US11355412B2 |
Stacked silicon package assembly having thermal management
A chip package assembly and method for fabricating the same are provided which utilize a plurality of extra-die heat transfer posts for improved thermal management. In one example, a chip package assembly is provided that includes a first integrated circuit (IC) die mounted to a substrate, a cover disposed over the first IC die, and a plurality of extra-die conductive posts disposed between the cover and substrate. The extra-die conductive posts provide a heat transfer path between the cover and substrate that is laterally outward of the first IC die. |
| US11355410B2 |
Thermal dissipation in semiconductor devices
A device includes a device layer comprising a first transistor; a first interconnect structure on a front-side of the device layer; and a second interconnect structure on a backside of the device layer. The second interconnect structure includes a first dielectric layer on the backside of the device layer; a contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a source/drain region of the first transistor; a conductive line electrically connected to the source/drain region of the first transistor through the contact; and a thermal dissipation path thermally connected to the device layer, the thermal dissipation path extending to a surface of the second interconnect structure opposite the device layer. The thermal dissipation path comprises a dummy via. |
| US11355405B2 |
RF devices with enhanced performance and methods of forming the same
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, a barrier layer, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. The barrier layer formed of silicon nitride resides over the active layer and top surfaces of the isolation sections. The first mold compound resides over the barrier layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die. |
| US11355401B1 |
Field effect transistor
A method of forming a field effect transistor (FET) includes providing a substrate; forming an nFET source/drain region on the substrate; forming a pFET source/drain region on the substrate and adjacent to the nFET region, the nFET source/drain region directly contacting the pFET source/drain region; forming a first insulator layer on the nFET source/drain region and the pFET source/drain region; etching away a portion of the first insulator layer between the nFET source/drain region and the pFET source/drain region down to a level of the substrate, thereby breaking the contact between the nFET source/drain region and the pFET source/drain region; and forming a second insulator layer between the nFET source/drain region and the pFET source/drain region in a space formed by the etching, the second insulator layer extending from the substrate to a top of the first insulator layer. The second insulator layer is harder than the first insulator layer. |
| US11355395B2 |
Integrated circuit in hybrid row height structure
A semiconductor device includes several first cell rows extending in a first direction, each of the first cell rows having a first row height; several second cell rows extending in the first direction, each of the second cell rows having a second row height smaller than the first row height, wherein the first cell rows and the second cell rows are interlaced; a first cell arranged in a first row of the first cell rows; and at least one second cell arranged in at least one row of the second cell rows, wherein the at least one second cell abuts the first cell in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the at least one second cell and at least one circuit component included in the first cell have the same operation configuration. |
| US11355393B2 |
Atomic precision control of wafer-scale two-dimensional materials
Embodiments of this disclosure include apparatus, systems, and methods for fabricating monolayers. In one example, a method includes forming a multilayer film having a plurality of monolayers of a two-dimensional (2D) material on a growth substrate. The multilayer film has a first side proximate the growth substrate and a second side opposite the first side. |
| US11355392B2 |
Conductive via of integrated circuitry, memory array comprising strings of memory cells, method of forming a conductive via of integrated circuitry, and method of forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells
A method used in forming a conductive via of integrated circuitry comprises forming a lining laterally over sidewalk of an elevationally-elongated opening. The lining comprises elemental-form silicon. The elemental-form silicon of an uppermost portion of the lining is ion implanted in the elevationally-elongated opening. The ion-implanted elemental-form silicon of the uppermost portion of the lining is etched selectively relative to the elemental-form silicon of a lower portion of the lining below the uppermost portion that was not subjected to said ion implanting. The elemental-form silicon of the lower portion of the lining is reacted with a metal halide to form elemental-form metal in a lower portion of the elevationally-elongated opening that is the metal from the metal halide. Conductive material in the elevationally-elongated opening is formed atop and directly against the elemental-form metal. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed. |
| US11355390B2 |
Interconnect strucutre with protective etch-stop
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip may comprise a first metal line disposed over a substrate. A via may be disposed directly over a top of the first metal line and the via may comprise a first lower surface and a second lower surface above the first lower surface. A first dielectric structure may be disposed laterally adjacent to the first metal line and may be disposed along a sidewall of the first metal line. A first protective etch-stop structure may be disposed directly over a top of the first dielectric structure and the first protective etch-stop structure may vertically separate the second lower surface of the via from the top of the first dielectric structure. |
| US11355380B2 |
Methods for producing 3D semiconductor memory device and structure utilizing alignment marks
A method for producing a 3D memory device, the method including: providing a first level including a first single crystal layer; forming first alignment marks and control circuits in and on the first level, where the control circuits include first single crystal transistors, where the control circuits include at least two metal layers; forming at least one second level disposed on top of the first level; performing a first etch step within the second level; forming at least one third level disposed on top of the at least one second level; performing a second etch step within the third level; and performing additional processing steps to form a plurality of first memory cells within the second level and a plurality of second memory cells within the third level, where the first memory cells include second transistors, and where the second memory cells include third transistors. |
| US11355379B1 |
Oxide-bonded wafer pair separation using laser debonding
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a scissionable layer that is able to absorb infrared (IR) radiation, below a first carrier wafer. A first hard-dielectric layer is formed below the scissionable layer. A second hard-dielectric layer is formed on a top surface of a semiconductor wafer. The first dielectric layer is bonded with the second dielectric layer. Connectors on a bottom portion of the semiconductor wafer are formed to provide an electric connection to the semiconductor wafer. A second carrier wafer is connected to the connectors on the bottom portion of the semiconductor wafer. The first carrier wafer is separated from the semiconductor wafer by degrading the scissionable layer with an IR, by passing the IR through the first carrier wafer. A back end of line (BEOL) wiring passing from a top surface of the semiconductor wafer through the first and second dielectric layers is provided. |
| US11355378B2 |
Fan-out interconnect structure and methods forming the same
A method includes forming an adhesive layer over a carrier, forming a sacrificial layer over the adhesive layer, forming through-vias over the sacrificial layer, and placing a device die over the sacrificial layer. The Method further includes molding and planarizing the device die and the through-vias, de-bonding the carrier by removing the adhesive layer, and removing the sacrificial layer. |
| US11355375B2 |
Device-like overlay metrology targets displaying Moiré effects
A metrology system and metrology methods are disclosed. The metrology system comprises a set of device features on a first layer of a sample, a first set of target features on a second layer of the sample and overlapping the set of device features, and a second set of target features on the second layer of the sample and overlapping the set of device features. Relative positions of a first set of Moiré fringes and a second set of Moiré fringes indicate overlay error between the first layer of the sample and the second layer of the sample. |
| US11355372B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device by setting process chamber to maintenance enable state
Described herein is a technique capable of optimizing a timing of a maintenance process. According to one aspect of the technique of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including: (a) transferring a substrate from a storage container storing one or more substrates including the substrate to a process chamber, and performing a substrate processing; (b) receiving maintenance reservation information of the process chamber; and (c) continuously performing the substrate processing after the maintenance reservation information is received in (b) until the substrate processing in the process chamber related to the maintenance reservation information is completed, and setting the process chamber to a maintenance enable state after the substrate processing is completed by stopping the one or more substrates from being transferred into the process chamber. |
| US11355371B2 |
Wafer storage container
The present invention relates to a wafer storage container capable of removing fumes on a wafer or removing moisture therefrom by supplying purge gas to the wafer stored in a storage chamber. More particularly, the present invention relates to a wafer storage container capable of quickly blocking an injection hole and an exhaust hole and of preventing contaminants from flowing into a storage chamber upon the blocking of the exhaust hole. |
| US11355355B2 |
Method for producing ceramic substrate, and ceramic substrate
The present invention relates to a method of producing a ceramic substrate, the method including: joining a metal layer to each of opposite surfaces of a ceramic base material; forming, on the metal layers, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer having a larger volume than the first electrode layer; calculating the volumes of the first and second electrode layers; and controlling a thickness of the second electrode layer, thereby controlling warpage which may occur due to a difference between the volumes of the first and second electrode layers. The present invention can reduce the defect rate of a ceramic substrate by controlling warpage that may occur due to the difference in volume taken up by the metal layers on the opposite surfaces of the base material. |
| US11355354B1 |
Thermal deposition of doped silicon oxide
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include providing a silicon-containing precursor and an oxygen-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include providing a carbon-containing precursor to the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The carbon-containing precursor may be characterized by a carbon-carbon double bond or a carbon-carbon triple bond. The methods may include thermally reacting the silicon-containing precursor, the oxygen-containing precursor, and the carbon-containing precursor at a temperature below about 650° C. The methods may include forming a silicon-and-oxygen-and-carbon-containing layer on the substrate. |
| US11355353B2 |
Tin oxide mandrels in patterning
Tin oxide films are used as mandrels in semiconductor device manufacturing. In one implementation the process starts by providing a substrate having a plurality of protruding tin oxide features (mandrels) residing on an exposed etch stop layer. Next, a conformal layer of spacer material is formed both on the horizontal surfaces and on the sidewalls of the mandrels. The spacer material is then removed from the horizontal surfaces exposing the tin oxide material of the mandrels, without fully removing the spacer material residing at the sidewalls of the mandrel (e.g., leaving at least 50%, such as at least 90% of initial height at the sidewall). Next, mandrels are selectively removed (e.g., using hydrogen-based etch chemistry), while leaving the spacer material that resided at the sidewalls of the mandrels. The resulting spacers can be used for patterning the etch stop layer and underlying layers. |
| US11355349B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A method includes forming hard mask patterns by depositing a support mask layer, a polycrystalline silicon layer, and a hard mask layer on a substrate and etching the hard mask layer, forming pre-polycrystalline silicon patterns by etching the polycrystalline silicon layer using the hard mask patterns as an etch mask, oxidizing side surfaces of the pre-polycrystalline silicon patterns to form polycrystalline silicon patterns and a silicon oxide layer, forming spacer patterns covering sides of the silicon oxide layer, forming a sacrificial layer on a top surface of the support mask layer to cover the silicon oxide layer and the spacer patterns, etching the sacrificial layer and the silicon oxide layer, forming support mask patterns by etching the support mask layer using the polycrystalline silicon patterns and the spacer patterns as an etch mask, and forming activation pins by etching the substrate using the support mask patterns as an etch mask. |
| US11355344B2 |
Chuck plate, annealing device, and annealing method
A chuck plate is disposed between an annealing object and a holding table. The chuck plate has a function of attenuating thermal radiation light radiated from the annealing object and directed toward the holding table. The use of the chuck plate makes it possible to increase the accuracy of temperature measured by detection of thermal radiation light. |
| US11355334B2 |
Methods and systems for analyzing proteins via electron capture dissociation
Methods and systems are provided herein for selectively removing product ions resulting from an ECD dissociation event from the interaction region of an ECD reaction cell, while other precursor peptide ions continue to undergo ECD within the interaction region, thereby reducing or preventing the occurrence of multiple electron capture events by the product ions. In some aspects, the preferential extraction of product ions from the interaction region during the ECD reaction can occur without an auxiliary AC field being generated within the interaction region. Additionally, in some aspects, the methods and systems disclosed herein can subject the various product ions to a non-dissociative charge reduction via exposure to reagent ions of the opposite polarity so as to selectively concentrate product ions to a lower charge state. |
| US11355326B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and control method
A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber, a conductive annular member, a microwave radiating mechanism and a plasma detector. The processing chamber has a ceiling plate with an opening. The conductive annular member is disposed at the opening while being insulated from the ceiling plate. The microwave radiating mechanism is disposed on the ceiling plate to be coaxial with a center of the conductive annular member and configured to radiate microwaves into the processing chamber. Further, a plasma detector is connected to the conductive annular member and configured to detect a state of generated plasma. |
| US11355323B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and method therefor
A dry etching apparatus plasma processes a wafer held by a carrier having a frame and an holding sheet. The carrier is placed on an electrode unit of a stage provided in a chamber. The electrode unit is cooled by a cooling section configured to cool the electrode unit. An upper face of the electrode unit is at least as large as the back side of the carrier. The holding sheet and the frame are cooled effectively by the heat transfer to the stage. |
| US11355320B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and method for plasma processing
A plasma processing apparatus includes a plasma generator provided with a plasma electrode and performs plasma processing on a substrate accommodated in a processing container. At least a region corresponding to the plasma electrode of the plasma generator is formed of synthetic quartz. |
| US11355318B2 |
Adjustable fastening device for plasma gas injectors
An embodiment is an apparatus, such as a plasma chamber. The apparatus includes chamber walls and a chamber window defining an enclosed space. A chamber window is disposed between a plasma antenna and a substrate support. A gas delivery source is mechanically coupled to the chamber window. The gas delivery source comprises a gas injector having a passageway, a window at a first end of the passageway, and a nozzle at a second end of the passageway. The nozzle of the gas delivery source is disposed in the enclosed space. A fastening device is mechanically coupled to the gas delivery source. The fastening device is adjustable to adjust a sealing force against the gas injector. |
| US11355315B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method
A plasma processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a processing chamber, a first radio frequency power source, and a second radio frequency power source. The first radio frequency power source supplies radio frequency power to generate the plasma. The second radio frequency power source applies a first radio frequency voltage to a sample stage. The plasma processing apparatus further includes a third radio frequency power source and a controller. The third radio frequency power source applies, to the sample stage, a second radio frequency voltage having a frequency which is N times a frequency of the first radio frequency voltage in a case where N is a natural number of 2 or more. The controller controls a phase difference such that the phase difference between a phase of the first radio frequency voltage and a phase of the second radio frequency voltage reaches a predetermined value. |
| US11355313B2 |
Line-based endpoint detection
Apparatuses and methods directed toward endpoint detection are disclosed herein. An example method at least includes forming a plurality of lines on a top surface of a sample; removing, a plurality of times, material from a working surface of the sample, the working surface different than the top surface; imaging, a plurality of times, the sample to at least capture the plurality of lines; and determining an endpoint based on a relative spatial characteristic between two or more lines of the plurality of lines. |
| US11355311B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining a wavefront of a massive particle beam
The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a wavefront of a massive particle beam, including the steps of: (a) recording two or more images of a reference structure using the massive particle beam under different recording conditions; (b) generating point spread functions for the two or more recorded images with a modified reference image of the reference structure; and (c) performing a phase reconstruction of the massive particle beam on the basis of the generated point spread functions and the different recording conditions, for the purposes of determining the wavefront. |
| US11355310B2 |
Method for changing the spatial orientation of a micro-sample in a microscope system, and computer program product
A method is carried out with the aid of a particle beam microscope which includes a particle beam column for producing a beam of charged particles, the particle beam column having an optical axis. Furthermore, the particle beam microscope includes a holding device for holding the extracted micro-sample. The method includes holding the extracted micro-sample and an adjacent hinge element via the holding device. The micro-sample adopts a first spatial orientation relative to the optical axis. The method also includes producing a bending edge in the hinge element by way of irradiation with a beam of charged particles such that the adjacent micro-sample is moved in space and the spatial orientation of the micro-sample is altered. The method further includes holding the micro-sample in a second spatial orientation relative to the optical axis, wherein the second spatial orientation differs from the first spatial orientation. |
| US11355309B2 |
Sensor for electron detection
The present invention relates to a sensor for electron detection emitted from an object to be used with a charged particle beam column being operated at a certain column and wafer voltage. The sensor is configured and operable to at least reduce interaction of negative ions with the active area of the sensor while minimizing electrons energy loss. The sensor is also configured and operable to minimize both gradual degradation of a cathodoluminescence efficiency of the active area and dynamic change of cathodoluminescence generated during operation of the sensor and evolving throughout the scintillator's lifetime. |
| US11355308B2 |
Charged particle beam device
A charged particle beam device includes an input and output device that receives, as inputs, a charged particle beam condition, a light condition, and electronic device circuit information, a charged particle beam control system that controls a charged particle beam applied to a sample based on the electron beam condition, a light control system that controls light applied to the sample based on the light condition, a detector that detects second electrons emitted from the sample by the application of the charged particle beam and the light and outputs a detection signal, and a calculator that generates a calculation netlist based on the electronic device circuit information, generates a light irradiation netlist based on the calculation netlist and the light condition, estimates a first irradiation result when the charged particle beam and the light are applied to the sample based on the light irradiation netlist and the charged particle beam condition, and compares the first irradiation result with a second irradiation result when the charged particle beam and the light are actually applied to the sample based on the electron beam condition. |
| US11355304B2 |
Electronic microscope device
In the present invention, an electro-optical condition generation unit includes: a condition setting unit that sets, as a plurality of electro-optical conditions, a plurality of electro-optical conditions in which the combinations of the aperture angle and the focal-point height for an electron beam are different; an index calculating unit that determines a measurement-performance index in the electro-optical conditions set by the condition setting unit; and a condition deriving unit that derives an electro-optical condition, including an aperture angle and a focal-point height, so that the measurement-performance index determined by the index calculating unit becomes a prescribed value. |
| US11355302B2 |
Multi-beam blanking device and multi-charged-particle-beam writing apparatus
In one embodiment, a multi-beam blanking device includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film that is disposed on the semiconductor substrate, an antistatic film that is disposed on the insulating film, a plurality of cells each of which is related to a through-hole that penetrate the semiconductor substrate and the insulating film and each of which includes a blanking electrode and a ground electrode that are disposed on the insulating film, and a ground wiring line that is disposed in the insulating film. The antistatic film and the ground wiring line are connected to each other at a joint that extends through the insulating film on the ground wiring line. |
| US11355296B2 |
Retrofit switch apparatus
A retrofit switch apparatus is designed for attaching to a mechanical switch. The mechanical switch has a manual switch for performing an operation of a connected target device. The retrofit switch apparatus includes an assembly box, a wireless module, a switch unit, and a control unit. The assembly box covers the mechanical switch. The wireless module is used for receiving an external command. The switch unit has a driving structure. The driving structure is disposed in the assembly box for engaging with the mechanical switch for moving the mechanical switch to perform the operation according to the external command. The control unit has an operating unit and a trigger unit connected to the operating unit. A portion of the operating unit is exposed outside a surface of the assembly box for a user to operate to directly trigger the mechanical switch. |
| US11355291B2 |
Fusible safety disconnect in solid state circuit breakers and combination motor starters
An isolation disconnect assembly for an insulated gate bipolar transistor assembly is provided. The isolation disconnect assembly includes a conductor assembly and a clinch joint magnetic actuator. |
| US11355286B2 |
Method of manufacturing capacitor component
A method of manufacturing a capacitor component includes preparing a laminate structure in which a plurality of ceramic sheets, each having an internal electrode pattern formed thereon, are layered, attaching an auxiliary member to an upper surface and a lower surface of the laminate structure, and disposing the laminate structure having the auxiliary member attached thereto on a lower mold on which jigs for blocking a length direction portion and a width direction portion of the laminate structure are disposed and compressing the laminate structure. The ceramic sheet has a thickness of 0.6 μm or less, and the auxiliary member has higher elasticity than elasticity of the lower mold. |
| US11355280B2 |
Coil unit
A power-transmission-side coil unit includes: a housing including a metal case body and a resin cover, an electric device provided in the housing, a metal substrate disposed between the cover and the electric device and covering the electric device, and a power transmission coil. The case body includes a base portion, and a ring-shaped wall portion protruding toward the cover along the outer peripheral edge of base portion inside the outer peripheral edge of base portion. The metal substrate includes a partition wall disposed between the cover and the electric device, and a peripheral wall extending from the partition wall toward the base portion. An end portion of the peripheral wall is disposed in the D direction relative to the upper face of the ring-shaped wall portion. At least part of a lateral face of the peripheral wall is in contact with a lateral face of the ring-shaped wall portion. |
| US11355278B2 |
Insulating transformers
Dry-type transformers with insulating modules are disclosed. Example insulating modules include dielectric screens and supporting blocks. The supporting blocks support the dielectric screens over windings of the transformer. The dielectric screens have first substantially even portions configured to adapt in spaces defined by corresponding cylindrical barriers arranged between first and second windings of the transformers and second substantially even portions, transversal to the first portions and to the first windings of the transformers and extending outwards from the first portions and beyond the supporting blocks. The dielectric screens partly extend around a winding. |
| US11355275B2 |
Laser-scribed grain-oriented silicon steel resistant to stress-relief annealing and manufacturing method therefor
A laser-scribed grain-oriented silicon steel resistant to stress-relief annealing and a manufacturing method therefor. Parallel linear grooves (20) are formed on one or both sides of grain-oriented silicon steel (10) by laser etching. The linear grooves (20) are perpendicular to, or at an angle to, the rolling direction of the steel plate. A maximum height of edge protrusions of the linear grooves (20) does not exceed 5 μm, and a maximum height of spatters in etch-free regions between adjacent linear grooves (20) does not exceed 5 μm, and the proportion of an area occupied by spatters in the vicinity of the linear grooves (20) does not exceed 5%. The steel has low manufacturing costs, and the etching effect of the finished steel is retained during a stress-relief annealing process. The steel is suitable for manufacturing of wound iron core transformers. |
| US11355266B2 |
Two-wire line having nested insulation, method and device for such a line
A two-wire line includes a first conductor. A first dielectric thread is wrapped around the first conductor. The two-wire line includes a second conductor. A second dielectric thread is wrapped around the second conductor. The first conductor and the second conductor are at a distance from one another. The distance is smaller than the sum of the thickness of the first thread and the thickness of the second thread. |
| US11355264B2 |
Method of manufacturing electrical cable, and resulting product, with reduced required installation pulling force
Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation. |
| US11355263B2 |
Insulated submarine cable
The invention relates to insulated submarine cables including conductive cores (3a, 3b) and insulating material (5a, 5b) surrounding the conductive cores (3a, 3b). Such an insulated cable includes a first length and a second length. The cable has a roughly constant core (3a) cross-sectional area A1 and a roughly constant insulating material (5a) thickness T1 along the first length, and a different roughly constant core (3b) cross-sectional area A3 and/or a different roughly constant insulating material (5b) thickness T2 along the second length. The cable may include one or more other lengths which join the first length and the second length to one another. |
| US11355259B2 |
Boron nitride polymer composite foam derived from emulsions stabilized by boron nitride kinetic trapping
The present disclosure provides advantageous graphene/graphite stabilized composites (e.g., graphene/graphite stabilized emulsion-templated foam composites), and improved methods for fabricating such graphene/graphite stabilized composites. More particularly, the present disclosure provides improved methods for fabricating pristine, graphene/graphite/polymer composite foams derived from emulsions stabilized by graphene/graphite kinetic trapping. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides that, instead of viewing the insolubility of pristine graphene/graphite as an obstacle to be overcome, it is utilized as a means to create or fabricate water/oil emulsions, with graphene/graphite stabilizing the spheres formed. These emulsions are then the frameworks used to make foam composites that have shown bulk conductivities up to about 2 S/m, as well as compressive moduli up to about 100 MPa and breaking strengths of over 1200 psi, with densities as low as about 0.25 g/cm3. |
| US11355258B2 |
Aluminum alloy wire rod and producing method therefor
A wire rod made of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy includes Al crystal grains, an Al—Zr compound, and an Al—Co—Fe or Al—Ni—Fe compound. The aluminum alloy includes high-angle tilt crystal grain boundaries, each of which has a difference between crystal orientations in both its sides of 15 degrees or more, and low-angle tilt crystal grain boundaries, each of which has a difference between crystal orientations in both its sides of 2 degrees or more and less than 15 degrees. An average grain diameter of ones of the Al crystal grains surrounded by the high-angle boundaries is 12 μm or more. An average grain diameter of the ones of the Al crystal grains surrounded by the high-angle boundaries, ones of the Al crystal grains surrounded by the high-angle boundaries and the low-angle boundaries, and ones of the Al crystal grains surrounded by the low-angle boundaries, is 10 μm or less. |
| US11355253B2 |
Passive techniques for long-term reactor cooling
In a pressurized water reactor (PWR), emergency core cooling (ECC) responds to depressurization due to a vessel penetration break at the top of the pressure vessel by draining water from a body of water through an injection line into the pressure vessel. A barrier operates concurrently with the ECC to suppress flow of liquid water from the pressure vessel out the vessel penetration break. The barrier may comprise one or more of: (1) an injection line extension passing through the central riser to drain water into the central riser; (2) openings in a lower portion of a central riser to shunt some upward flow from the central riser into a lower portion of the downcomer annulus; and (3) a surge line providing fluid communication between a pressurizer volume at the top of the pressure vessel and the remainder of the pressure vessel which directs water outboard toward the downcomer annulus. |
| US11355251B2 |
System for separating and coupling top nozzle of nuclear fuel assembly
Disclosed is a system for separating and coupling a top nozzle of a nuclear fuel assembly. There is provided a lock insert configured to support the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly by being coupled to a guide hole provided in a flow channel plate of the top nozzle, the lock insert including: a body in a hollow shape; and an insertion part provided on a top portion of the body and inserted into the guide hole, wherein a circumference of the insertion part is variable in size, thereby being capable of being inserted into the guide hole. Accordingly, disassembly and reassembly of the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly and the lock insert are simplified, thereby simplifying and reducing the number of processes involved therein. Accordingly, the system is effective for maintenance and repair of the nuclear fuel assembly. |
| US11355250B2 |
Gateway device and system for service to individuals with diminishing dexterity and neurological physiological functionality
A patient care system comprises a patient care gateway device configured for emergency response via voice and/or visual communication, wherein the patient care device is configured for paired communication with a variety of patient health monitoring devices. |
| US11355249B2 |
Pet evaluation and triage system
A system is provided to provide triage recommendations for animals. The system accesses a syndrome mapping of syndromes to complaints, each syndrome having a triage category. The system accesses a complaint mapping of complaints to symptoms. Each symptom for a complaint has a weight. The system receives indications of a current complaint and current symptoms of an animal. Each current symptom has a score. The system identifies the triage category based on a syndrome to which the current complaint and the current symptoms apply, factoring in the weights and the scores. The system provides a recommendation for the animal based on the identified triage category. |
| US11355247B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a wellness score, an improvement score, and/or an effectiveness score with regard to a medical condition and/or treatment
A medical questionnaire may be provided to a patient and responses to the medical questionnaire may be scored using a scoring procedure associated with the medical questionnaire. The scored responses may then be used to determine a wellness score for the patient. At times, the medical questionnaire may be treatment, diagnosis, and/or symptom specific and the wellness scores determined from the responses thereto may be used to determine a wellness score regarding the patient's wellness with regard to the treatment, diagnosis, and/or symptom. The wellness score may be provided to the patient, a treatment provider, a treatment facility, and/or a treatment administrator. At times a first and second wellness score may be determined and a difference therebetween may be used to determine an improvement score. |
| US11355246B2 |
Identifying and ranking risk factors using trained predictive models
Embodiments are directed to methodologies, systems and computer program products for generating, for each of a plurality of risk factors in a patient database containing information of a plurality of patients, an index of input values for the risk factor. For each patient P of the plurality of patients, a series of local impact scores is computed for the patient. Computing the series of local impact scores for the patient includes calculating a risk score for the patient with respect to each of the indexed input values for each of the plurality of risk factors. For at least one of the plurality of patients, at least some of the plurality of risk factors are ranked based at least partly on the computed local impact scores for each of the at least some risk factors, and an indication of the ranked risk factors for the at least one patient is provided. |
| US11355245B2 |
Identifying and ranking risk factors using trained predictive models
Embodiments are directed to methodologies, systems and computer program products for generating, for each of a plurality of risk factors in a patient database containing information of a plurality of patients, an index of input values for the risk factor. For each patient P of the plurality of patients, a series of local impact scores is computed for the patient. Computing the series of local impact scores for the patient includes calculating a risk score for the patient with respect to each of the indexed input values for each of the plurality of risk factors. For at least one of the plurality of patients, at least some of the plurality of risk factors are ranked based at least partly on the computed local impact scores for each of the at least some risk factors, and an indication of the ranked risk factors for the at least one patient is provided. |
| US11355244B2 |
Machine learning based depolarization identification and arrhythmia localization visualization
Techniques that include applying machine learning models to episode data, including a cardiac electrogram, stored by a medical device are disclosed. In some examples, based on the application of one or more machine learning models to the episode data, processing circuitry derives, for each of a plurality of arrhythmia type classifications, class activation data indicating varying likelihoods of the classification over a period of time associated with the episode. The processing circuitry may display a graph of the varying likelihoods of the arrhythmia type classifications over the period of time. In some examples, processing circuitry may use arrhythmia type likelihoods and depolarization likelihoods to identify depolarizations, e.g., QRS complexes, during the episode. |
| US11355241B2 |
Intelligent health recommendation service
Embodiments for implementing an intelligent health recommendation service by a processor. A health state of a user may be learned according to user behavior, physical conditions of the user, activities of daily living (ADL) and associated context of daily living (CDL) of the user, or a combination thereof. One or more applications, one or more application components, one or more internet of things (IoT) devices, or a combination thereof may be identified and recommended to minimize one or more possible negative impacts upon the health state of the user. |
| US11355235B2 |
Method and device for remote monitoring and control of medical fluid management devices
A method and device that relates to the field of medical fluid management devices, in particular dialysis machines, provided. The method and device is configured to provide for the monitoring and control of medical fluid management devices from a remote site. To do so, the screen content of the output device of a fluid management device is transmitted at least partially to an output device of a remote control unit. The screen content optionally has user interfaces, which can be selected on the remote control device and lead to changes in the control of the transmitting medical fluid management device. |
| US11355234B2 |
Therapeutic product delivery system and method of pairing
A method of pairing a therapeutic product delivery device to a handset is described. The handset is restricted to controlling only delivery devices which it is paired with. The method comprises the steps of: at the delivery device, setting, in response to the delivery device being connected to a charging device, a pairing indicator indicating that the delivery device is available for pairing, and broadcasting the pairing indicator using a radio transceiver; at the handset, discovering the delivery device based on the broadcast pairing indicator; and pairing the discovered delivery device and the handset together. By limiting the handset to pairing with devices which are broadcasting a pairing indicator, and by limiting the setting and/or broadcast of the pairing indicator to when the delivery device is connected to a charging device, the risk of accidentally pairing the wrong delivery device (for example someone else's) to the handset is greatly reduced. |
| US11355233B2 |
Scoring, evaluation, and feedback related to EMS clinical and operational performance
A method for evaluating emergency medical service according to embodiments of the present invention includes receiving emergency medical service data from a database, filtering the emergency medical service data based on a selection criteria to form a filtered emergency medical service data set, determining a first score from the filtered emergency medical service data set, where the first score indicates objective clinical performance quality for the filtered emergency medical service data set, determining a second score from the filtered emergency medical service data set, where the second score indicates objective operational performance quality for the filtered emergency medical service data set, merging the first score and the second score to form a composite score; and visually displaying the composite score to a user. |
| US11355232B2 |
Automated personnel identification and location, and automated procedure monitoring
In accordance with some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method comprising: activating (200) one or more electronic devices (102) when the medical personnel enters a patient room; obtaining (202) image data acquired by the one or more electronic devices that captures the medical personnel; analyzing (204) the acquired image data to identify the medical personnel and at least one medical apparatus to be used by the medical personnel for the procedure; analyzing (212) the acquired image data to monitor the medical personnel's performance of the procedure using the at least one identified medical apparatus; and storing (214) data acquired from the monitored performance of the procedure in a database. |
| US11355221B2 |
Classification systems, and methods of collecting, associating, storing, searching, and providing healthcare information, and connecting healthcare participants globally
A method and system of associating globally and nationally recognized health and healthcare classification systems with their respective common terms, to create user-friendly classification systems. Users can suggest common terms to be added to the classification system codes. A method of storing and retrieving healthcare information including storing healthcare information for a plurality of members in a database; associating one or more classification system codes and one or more profiles with the stored healthcare information; and retrieving the stored healthcare information from the database in response to pre-defined and/or user-defined search input. |
| US11355220B2 |
Laboratory central control unit method and system
A method for coordinating data between a plurality of sample processing systems is disclosed. In some implementations, the method comprises providing, using a central control unit, data to a pre-analytical sample processing system identifying a sample undergoing pre-analytical processing, receiving data, at the central control unit, indicating the transfer of the sample to an analytical system, providing, from the central control unit (CCU), data associated with the sample to the analytical system, and receiving a result associated with the sample from the analytical system. |
| US11355219B2 |
Genotype estimation device, method, and program
According to one embodiment, a genotype estimation device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire a clustering strength of genotype data of a plurality of specimens including an unknown specimen whose genotype is not known and known specimens whose genotypes are known; and an estimator configured to estimate the genotype of the unknown specimen on the basis of the genotype data in response to the clustering strength being larger than a first threshold, and output an estimation result. |
| US11355218B2 |
Patient-specific cellular pathway activity inference computer system
The present invention relates to methods for evaluating the probability that a patient's diagnosis may be treated with a particular clinical regimen or therapy. |
| US11355213B2 |
Apparatus and method for verifying reliability of data read from memory device through clock modulation, and memory system including the same
A memory system including: a memory device looping back a first clock to generate a second clock and outputting read data that are read from a memory cell region of the memory device in synchronization with the second clock; and a memory controller generating the first clock that includes a plurality of modulation sections by performing a modulation operation on a source clock according to a specific scheme, outputting the first clock to the memory device, and receiving the read data in response to the second clock. The read data includes a plurality of section data corresponding to the plurality of modulation sections included in the second clock, respectively, and the memory controller verifies reliability of each of the plurality of section data included in the read data by performing a demodulation operation on the second clock according to the specific scheme. |
| US11355211B2 |
Low quiescent current linear regulator with mode selection based on load current and fast transient detection
A system includes an input voltage source, a linear regulator coupled to the input voltage source, and a load coupled to an output of the linear regulator. The linear regulator includes an error amplifier coupled to a control terminal of a switch; and a control circuit coupled to the error amplifier and configured to provide a reference voltage to the error amplifier. The control circuit includes a mode selection circuit with a slow loop configured to sample a load current and with a fast loop configured to detect an output voltage error signal. The mode selection circuit is configured to adjust a mode of the control circuit between a continuous power mode and a duty cycle power save mode based on the sampled load current and the output voltage error signal. |
| US11355205B2 |
Memory device
A memory device includes a first memory area including a first memory cell array having a plurality of first memory cells and a first peripheral circuit disposed below the first memory cell array; a second memory area including a second memory cell array having a plurality of second memory cells and a second peripheral circuit disposed below the second memory cell array; and a pad area including a power wiring. The first and second memory areas respectively include first and second local lockout circuits separately determining whether to lock out of each of the memory areas. The first and second memory areas are included in a single semiconductor chip to share the pad area, and the first and second memory areas operate individually. Accordingly, in the memory device, unnecessary data loss may be reduced by selectively stopping an operation of only a memory area requiring recovery. |
| US11355204B2 |
Efficient read-threshold calculation method for parametric PV-level modeling
Techniques related to methods and systems for improving a performance related to reading data stored in memory cells. The method includes selecting a first voltage read range and a second voltage read range from multiple voltage read ranges that are associated with a number of bits storable in a memory cell. The method includes receiving, a first set of parameters that represent a first probability distribution of first candidate voltage read thresholds within the first voltage read range. The method includes receiving a second set of parameters that represent a second probability distribution of second candidate voltage read thresholds within the second voltage read range. The method includes generating, based on an input to an objective function, a voltage read threshold. The method includes reading data stored in the memory cell based on the voltage read threshold. |
| US11355203B2 |
Determine optimized read voltage via identification of distribution shape of signal and noise characteristics
A memory device to determine a voltage optimized to read a group of memory cells. In response to a command, the memory device reads the group of memory cells at a plurality of test voltages to determine a set of signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells. The memory device determines or recognizes a shape of a distribution of the signal and noise characteristics over the plurality of test voltages. Based on the shape, the memory device selects an operation in determining an optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells. |
| US11355202B2 |
Semiconductor memory with different threshold voltages of memory cells
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory includes a first memory cell array including a plurality of first memory cells; and a second memory cell array including a plurality of second memory cells. Each of threshold voltages of the first memory cells and the second memory cells is set to any of a first threshold voltage, a second threshold voltage higher than the first threshold voltage, and a third threshold voltage higher than the second threshold voltage. Data of three or more bits including a first bit, a second bit, and a third bit is stored using a combination of a threshold voltage of the first memory cell and a threshold voltage of the second memory cell. |
| US11355201B2 |
Leakage reduction circuit for read-only memory (ROM) structures
A method for performing a read operation of a memory block of a read-only memory array, wherein the method comprises first enabling bit line precharge circuitry of the memory block, (thereby precharging one or more bit lines of the memory block to a first voltage level), enabling a word line of one or more addressed memory cells of the memory block, enabling a leakage current reduction circuit of the memory block, thereby generating across the addressed memory cells a first voltage differential equal to the first voltage level; subsequently discharging the addressed memory cells; disabling the word line of the one or more addressed memory cells; disabling the bit line precharge circuitry; and disabling the leakage current reduction circuit, thereby generating across the one or more addressed memory cells a second voltage differential that is equal to less than the first voltage differential. |
| US11355200B2 |
Hybrid routine for a memory device
A variety of applications can include a memory device designed to perform sensing of a memory cell of a string of memory cells using a modified shielded bit line sensing operation. The modified shielded bit line sensing operation includes pre-charging a data line corresponding to the string with the string enabled to couple to the data line. The modified shielded bit line sensing operation can be implemented in a hybrid initialization routine for the memory device. The hybrid initialization routine can include a sensing read routine corresponding to an all data line configuration of data lines of the memory device and a modified sensing read routine corresponding to a shielded data line configuration of the data lines with selected strings enabled during pre-charging. A read retry routine associated with the modified sensing read routine can be added to the hybrid initialization routine. Additional devices, systems, and methods are discussed. |
| US11355199B2 |
Method and apparatus to mitigate hot electron read disturbs in 3D NAND devices
An apparatus, a method, and a system. The method includes implementing an erase operation on a deck of a superblock, block or subblock of a three-dimensional (3D) non-volatile memory device to obtain an erased deck; applying a dummy read pulse to one or more wordlines (WLs) of a to-be-read deck of the superblock, block or subblock; and implementing, after application of the dummy read pulse, a read operation on one or more memory cells corresponding to the one or more WLs to read data from the one or more memory cells. |
| US11355198B1 |
Smart erase scheme
A method of performing an erase operation on non-volatile storage is disclosed. The method comprises: applying, in a first erase loop of a plurality of erase loops of the erase operation, a first erase voltage pulse to a set of non-volatile storage elements; determining an upper tail of a threshold voltage distribution of the set of non-volatile storage elements after applying the first erase voltage pulse; determining a second erase voltage pulse based on the upper tail of the threshold voltage distribution of the set of non-volatile storage elements; and applying, in a second erase loop of the plurality of erase loops, the second erase voltage pulse to the set of non-volatile storage elements. |
| US11355189B2 |
Resistive memory device and method of programming the same
A method of programming a resistive memory device, and a corresponding resistive memory device, which includes the resistive memory device, in response to a write command, applying a write pulse to a selected memory cell arranged in a region where a selected word line intersects with a selected bit line; and after the applying the write pulse, applying a dummy pulse to at least one unselected memory cell. The at least one unselected memory cell is connected to at least one of the selected word line, the selected bit line, a first word line adjacent to the selected word line, and a first bit line adjacent to the selected bit line. |
| US11355180B2 |
Semiconductor devices and semiconductor systems including the same
A semiconductor system includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device outputs a chip selection signal, a command signal, and data. The second semiconductor device generates internal data from the data, stores the internal data, and stores the data as pattern data when the chip selection signal is enabled and a write operation is performed according to a logic level combination of the command signal. In addition, the second semiconductor device generates the internal data from the pattern data and stores the internal data without receiving the data when the chip selection signal is enabled and a write copy operation is performed according to a logic level combination of the command signal. |
| US11355179B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for driving semiconductor device
The semiconductor device includes a first memory cell, and a second memory cell thereover. The first memory cell includes first and second transistors, and a first capacitor. The second memory cell includes third and fourth transistors, and a second capacitor. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor and the first capacitor. A gate of the third transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the fourth transistor and the second capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the third transistor. The second and fourth transistors include an oxide semiconductor. A channel length direction of the first and third transistors is substantially perpendicular to a channel length direction of the second and fourth transistors. |
| US11355174B2 |
Self-referencing memory device
Self-referencing memory device, techniques, and methods are described herein. A self-referencing memory device may include a ferroelectric memory cell. The self-referencing memory device may be configured to determine a logic state stored in a memory cell based on a state signal generated using the ferroelectric memory cell and a reference signal generated using the ferroelectric memory cell. The biasing of the plate line of the ferroelectric memory cell may be used to generate the voltage need to generate the state signal during a first time period of an access operation and to generate the reference signal during a second time period of the access operation. Procedures and operations related to a self-referencing memory device are described. |
| US11355170B1 |
Reconfigurable processing-in-memory logic
An example system implementing a processing-in-memory pipeline includes: a memory array to store data in a plurality of memory cells electrically coupled to a plurality of wordlines and a plurality of bitlines; a logic array coupled to the memory array, the logic array to implement configurable logic controlling the plurality of memory cells; and a control block coupled to the memory array and the logic array, the control block to control a computational pipeline to perform computations on the data by activating at least one of: one or more bitlines of the plurality of bitlines or one or more wordlines of the plurality of wordlines. |
| US11355168B2 |
Stacked semiconductor device and method of operating same
A stacked semiconductor device includes a base die including an input buffer and a parallel circuit; and a plurality of core dies stacked over the base die, the core dies coupled to the base die through a plurality of through-electrodes, wherein the input buffer receives write data in a first order and a write inversion signal, the parallel circuit sorts consecutive bits of the write data to be positioned adjacent to each other so that the write data becomes first parallel data and to transfer the first parallel data to respective first to n-th internal input/output lines, and each of the core dies includes an input control circuit to re-sort the first parallel data transferred via the respective first to n-th internal I/O lines into the write data and a write inversion circuit to selectively invert the re-sorted write data according to the write inversion signal. |
| US11355165B2 |
Adjusting parameters of channel drivers based on temperature
Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjusting parameters of channel drivers based on temperature when a calibration component is unavailable. A memory device may determine whether a calibration component is available for use by the memory device. If not, the memory device may select an impedance setting for the driver that is based on an operating temperature of the memory device. A device or system may identify a temperature of a memory device, identify that a calibration component is unavailable to adjust a parameter of a driver of a data channel, select a value of the parameter based on the temperature and on identifying that the calibration component is unavailable, adjust the parameter of the driver of the data channel to the selected value, and transmit, by the driver operating using the selected value of the parameter, a signal over the channel. |
| US11355158B2 |
Asynchronous video collaboration
Video may be edited to include collaborations by users. Collaborations may be added to the video and associated with a span of the video. The span of the collaborations may be determined according to an action that is received from a user contemporaneously with the playback of the video. In some cases, the span of the collaborations may be determined automatically by analyzing the collaboration and the video frames to which the user initial added the collaborations. Analysis of the collaborations and video frame may be used to determine span criteria for the frames of the video that should be associated with the collaborations. |
| US11355156B2 |
Systems and methods for producing annotated class discussion videos including responsive post-production content
Video production systems and methods are provided for generating annotated class discussion videos, which contain real-time student commentary post-production annotations responsive to such student commentary, or a combination thereof. In an embodiment, the video production system includes a display device, a dedicated video input source, and a video processing device. The video processing device contains, in turn, a wireless receiver configured to receive wireless input signals from the dedicated video input source and a plurality of devices executing a student commentary capture application during a presentation, a controller operably coupled to the wireless receiver, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions. When executed by the controller, the computer-readable instructions cause the video processing device to generate an output video containing student commentary synchronized with the presentation as captured, at least in part, utilizing the dedicated video input source. The output video is then presented on the display device. |
| US11355151B2 |
Magnetic disk device capable of correcting servo demodulation position
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk including two first servo sectors and at least a second servo sector, a head, and a controller, wherein the first servo sector includes burst data and a first data pattern written before the circumferential direction of the burst data, the second servo sector includes the burst data, the first data pattern, and a second data pattern written after the circumferential direction of the burst data, a first frequency of the first data pattern is different from a second frequency of the second data pattern, and a first length of the first data pattern is different from a second length of the second data pattern. |
| US11355139B2 |
Real-time vs non-real time audio streaming
One or more audio data is received. An expected bitrate of the one or more audio data is determined. An input bitrate of the one or more audio data is determined. An R value using the expected bitrate and the input bitrate is determined. The R value is compared to an R threshold. |
| US11355136B1 |
Speech filtering in a vehicle
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to identify an occupant in a passenger cabin of a vehicle, detect a position of a head of the occupant relative to the passenger cabin, apply a first filter to speech from the occupant based on the position of the head, generate a second filter, apply the second filter to the speech, adjust the second filter based on a difference between the speech of the occupant filtered by the second filter and a prestored profile of the occupant, and perform an operation using the speech filtered by the first filter and the second filter. |
| US11355130B2 |
Audio coding and decoding methods and devices, and audio coding and decoding system
An audio coding method, comprising: obtaining an ith audio frame in n consecutive audio frames and obtaining an ith piece of coded data and an ith piece of redundant data based on the ith audio frame, wherein the ith piece of coded data is obtained by coding the ith audio frame, and the ith piece of redundant data is obtained by coding and buffering the ith audio frame, wherein n is a positive integer, and 1≤i≤n; and packing the ith piece of coded data and at most m pieces of redundant data before the ith piece of redundant data into an ith audio data packet, wherein m is a preset positive integer. An audio decoding method and a computer device are further provided. |
| US11355129B2 |
Energy lossless-encoding method and apparatus, audio encoding method and apparatus, energy lossless-decoding method and apparatus, and audio decoding method and apparatus
A lossless encoding method is provided that includes determining a lossless encoding mode of a quantization coefficient as one of an infinite-range lossless encoding mode and a finite-range lossless encoding mode; encoding the quantization coefficient in the infinite-range lossless encoding mode in correspondence with a result of the lossless encoding mode determination; and encoding the quantization coefficient in the finite-range lossless encoding mode in correspondence with a result of the lossless encoding mode determination. |