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US11363748B2	Printed circuit board transport An assembly machine comprising a continuous circuitous track; a dispensing head system configured to at least partially assemble products, wherein the dispensing head system includes one or more dispensing heads movable around the continuous circuitous track; a product conveyance system extending between a first location of the continuous circuitous track and a second location of the continuous circuitous track and a placement module, the placement module including a first positioning system configured to move along a first axis that intersects with the product conveyance system, wherein the first positioning system is configured to receive a first of the products from the product conveyance system and move the first of the products from the product conveyance system to a first placement location; and a second positioning system configured to move along a second axis that intersects with the product conveyance system, wherein the second positioning system is configured to receive a second of the products from the product conveyance system and move the second of the products from the product conveyance system to a second placement location.
US11363743B2	Rack for cooling computing devices Systems and methods for cooling large numbers of computing devices in a data center are disclosed. The devices are positioned on shelves in racks and are connected via network switches. The computing devices are oriented so that their cooling fans all exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack into a hot aisle, and each position is offset from positions on neighboring shelves above and below the current shelf. The racks can be offset, or the positions within the racks can be offset. Each computing device on the rack can also be angled horizontally and or vertically to improve airflow. Multiple racks can be configured together into sloped regular polygons, with the interior forming the hot aisle, and deflectors can be installed to further improve airflow.
US11363739B2	Liquid cooling head device A liquid cooling head device includes a base, a cover covering the base, an inlet portion disposed on the base, an outlet portion formed on the cover, and a fluid pump having a housing and a fan blade. The base includes a diversion channel, an opening and a first chamber connected to the diversion channel and the opening. A second chamber is formed between the cover and the base, and connected to the first chamber through the opening. The inlet portion is connected to the first chamber through the diversion channel. The housing covers one surface of the cover, so that a third chamber is collectively defined by the housing and the cover, and connected with the second chamber and the outlet portion. The fan blade is located in the third chamber, and the diversion channel is located between the fan blade and the first chamber.
US11363738B2	Electronic device with cooling fluid manifold and multi-function cooling fluid tubes with related electronics cabinet and associated methods An electronic device may include a backplane and an electrical connector carried by a front side of the backplane, and a circuit board assembly removably coupled to the electrical connector. Each circuit board assembly may include a circuit board and electronic components carried by the circuit board and generating waste heat, and a cooling fluid arrangement thermally coupled to the electronic components. The electronic device may include a cooling fluid manifold, and a pair of multi-functional tubes that provide alignment, keying, structural rigidity and fluid supply and return capabilities extending between the cooling fluid manifold and the cooling fluid arrangement.
US11363734B2	Antenna alignment-monitoring method and antenna alignment-monitoring system An antenna alignment-monitoring method and an antenna alignment-monitoring system are provided. The antenna alignment-monitoring method includes the following steps. An alignment-monitoring system measures an antenna to obtain azimuth information, tilt information and roll information of the antenna. The azimuth information, the tilt information and the roll information are sent from the alignment-monitoring system to a portable device or a server. The azimuth information, the tilt information and the roll information are sent to the portable device and shown on a user interface for aligning the antenna. The azimuth information, the tilt information and the roll information are sent to the server for monitoring the antenna.
US11363721B2	Radio-frequency identification (RFID) label or conductive trace thermal transfer printing method A method and structure for forming conductive structure such as an electric circuit, or a portion of an electric circuit, can include the use of a thermal print head and a ribbon including a carrier and a metal layer. The thermal print head is used to print a first portion of the metal layer onto a sacrificial print medium. The first portion printed has a first pattern, where a second portion having a second pattern remains on the carrier. The first pattern is a reverse image at least a portion of the electric circuit, while the second pattern includes at least a portion of the electric circuit. The second portion having the second pattern can be transferred to a circuit substrate, then used as an electric circuit.
US11363716B2	Control device and motor device Provided is a control device and a motor device that can effectively suppress influence of vibration of a specific electronic component. A coil that is the specific electronic component is mounted on a circuit board. A connector portion has a base portion extending in a thickness direction of the circuit board and an extended portion extending from the base portion in a direction in which the circuit board extends. The extended portion of the connector portion has an annular portion, a support portion, and a pedestal portion. The pedestal portion serves as a portion to which the coil is bonded and fixed. With an adhesive applied to the pedestal portion, the pedestal portion bonds and fixes the coil thereto.
US11363714B2	Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing the same A printed wiring board includes a base insulating layer, a conductor layer formed on the base insulating layer and including conductor pads, an underlayer formed on one of the conductor pads of the conductor layer and including a metal different from a metal of the conductor layer, a solder resist layer formed on the base insulating layer such that the solder resist layer is covering the conductor layer and has openings exposing the conductor pads, respectively, and a bump formed directly on a first conductor pad of the conductor pads and including a base plating layer formed in a first opening of the openings and a top plating layer formed on the base plating layer such that a metal of the base plating layer is same as the metal of the conductor layer.
US11363710B2	Circuit board An embodiment provides a circuit board including: a terminal part including a plurality of first terminals, a body part spaced apart from the terminal part and including a plurality of second terminals, and a wire part between the terminal part and the body part, wherein the wire part includes a power wire and a ground wire connecting the plurality of first terminals and the plurality of second terminals, and the ground wire is disposed more outward than the power wire, within the wire part.
US11363709B2	Irradiation targets for the production of radioisotopes An irradiation target for the production of radioisotopes, comprising at least one plate defining a central opening and an elongated central member passing through the central opening of the at least one plate so that the at least one plate is retained thereon, wherein the at least one plate and the elongated central member are both formed of materials that produce molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) by way of neutron capture.
US11363708B2	Negative ion-based beam injector A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.
US11363697B2	Lighting device A lighting device includes a plurality of lighting modules and a plurality of control devices. The lighting modules each includes a plurality of light emitting devices aligned in an array form or a staggered form. The control devices are configured to adjust light quantities of the light emitting devices of each of the lighting modules so that, when light is irradiated on a first target surface separated by a prescribed distance from the lighting modules, a sum of light quantities per unit area of a part for which light from the lighting modules overlaps in the first target surface is within ±20% with respect to a light quantity per unit area of a part for which light does not overlap in the first target surface.
US11363690B2	AC-driven light-emitting diode systems AC-driven light-emitting diode systems and methods are provided for driving LED devices (e.g., LED lighting) using AC power. For example, an integrated circuit includes a first power line and a second power line configured for connection to AC power, and a plurality of LED stages, wherein each LED stage comprises multiple serially-connected LED devices, switches connected to inputs and outputs of the LED stages. The integrated circuit further includes switch control circuitry configured to control the switches to selectively connect one or more of the LED stages to the first and second power lines to empower the LED stages with the AC power.
US11363687B2	Low voltage switching device The present disclosure provides a portable low voltage switching device to control the power and brightness of LEDs in LE arrays. The device is further comprised of two circuits, one power circuit to control the LED wattage, and another brightness circuit to control the LED lumens. The device is connected in between an LED driver and the LED arrays, receiving a stepped down DC voltage and splitting it across the two LED arrays. The device can provide power and adjust the brightness to both of the LED arrays, with the first LED array having a “warm” colour and the second LED array having a “cool” colour. Therefore, instead of using a single light fixture containing a single LED array, the device can be used with a single fixture having two LED arrays, providing a variety of brightness and power options to the cool and warm colours.
US11363685B2	Arrangement of articles in a carrier for microwave heating Carriers suitable for transporting a plurality of articles through a microwave heating zone are provided. Carriers as described herein may include an outer frame and upper and lower support structures vertically spaced from one another to provide a cargo volume into which the articles are loaded. At least a portion of the upper and/or lower support structures may be formed of an electrically conductive material. Additionally, the carrier may include removable article spacing members, such as vertical spacing members and dividers, that can be selectively inserted to adjust the size and/or shaper of the cargo volume. Carriers as described herein may be configured to receive a variety of different articles, including trays and pouches, and the articles may be loaded into the carrier in a nested or overlapping manner.
US11363684B2	Carbon nanotube defrost windows A vehicle includes a defrost window. The defrost window includes a transparent substrate, a carbon nanotube film, a first electrode, a second electrode and a protective layer. The transparent substrate has a top surface. The carbon nanotube film is disposed on the top surface of the transparent substrate. The first electrode and the second electrode electrically connect to the carbon nanotube film and space from each other. The protective layer covers the carbon nanotube film.
US11363679B2	Facilitating integrated management of connected assets in 5G and other advanced networks Integrated management of connected assets that utilize different technologies and that are located across disparate wireless communications networks is facilitated herein. A method can comprise evaluating, by a system comprising a processor, first data associated with a first device operable with a first computing platform and second data associated with a second device operable with a second computing platform different from the first computing platform. The method can also comprise transforming, by the system, at least a first portion of the first data and at least a second portion of the second data into third data. The third data can be compatible with the first data and the second data. Further, the method can comprise rendering, by the system, the third data as an integrated view of at least the first portion of the first data and at least the second portion of the second data.
US11363678B2	Self-optimization of mobile networks using a distributed antenna system A telecommunications system includes a distributed antenna system (DAS) having a master unit communicatively coupled to remote antenna units (RAUs) located remotely from the master unit, the master unit communicatively coupled to base stations; and a controller communicatively coupled to the base stations and the DAS. The controller is configured to obtain current base station performance parameter(s) including base station load data or overhead communications data from the base stations; determine an updated configuration for the DAS based on the current base station performance parameter(s), the configuration of the DAS comprising an assignment of the RAUs to one or more coverage zones and an assignment of a zone profile to each of the one or more coverage zones; and adjust the assignment of RAUs to the one or more coverage zones and/or the zone profile of each coverage zone to correspond to the determined updated configuration for the DAS.
US11363671B2	Controlling migration of a QUIC connection Method and apparatus for controlling migration of a Quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Connections (QUIC) connection between a server and a neighboring server of a content delivery network (CDN). The server and the neighboring server comprise respective cache memories, are comprised in the CDN and have a same server IP-address. The QUIC connection is identifiable by a connection identifier (CID) and is established to a migrating wireless device having a client IP-address. The method for controlling migration of the QUIC connection comprises receiving static key information representative of the QUIC connection; determining context transfer state information for the QUIC connection; and controlling transmission of a stateless reset token for the QUIC connection based on the determined context transfer state.
US11363670B2	Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for transportation vehicles and for a base station of a mobile communication system Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for transportation vehicles and for a base station of a mobile communication system. A first method for a transportation vehicle of a platoon of transportation vehicles includes receiving a platoon identifier for the platoon of transportation vehicles from a base station of a mobile communication system, providing the platoon identifier to other transportation vehicles of the platoon of transportation vehicles via a side-link communication of the mobile communication system, and using the platoon identifier to communicate with the other transportation vehicles of the platoon of transportation vehicles via the mobile communication system.
US11363663B2	Uplink beam, downlink beam, and radio link monitoring A base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of parameters (e.g., thresholds) for radio link monitoring (RLM). The UE may monitor active beam pairs in accordance with the indication. In some cases, the UE may configure or may be configured (e.g., by a base station) to transmit reference signals for triggering an RLM operation based on the monitored beam pairs. After triggering, the base station may perform an RLM operation with the UE. Additionally or alternatively, a base station may configure a UE with a beam monitoring configuration that enables uplink beam monitoring. The configuration may indicate one or more active beam pairs for uplink transmissions from the UE, and the base station may perform an RLM operation on the indicated beam pairs. Based on RLM operations (e.g., joint uplink and downlink beam monitoring), beam pairs may be reestablished or newly established.
US11363660B2	Radio module, method to operate a radio module, radio terminal, method to operate a radio terminal A radio module (RM) for a radio terminal (T) is provided, wherein the radio module (RM) comprises: a transmitter (Tx) configured to transmit within a time period data either on a first radio channel (RCH1) of a first radio communications network according to a first operating mode or on a second radio channel (RCH2) of a second radio communications network according to a second operating mode; and a controller (CTRL) being configured to schedule a selection of one of the operating modes of the transmitter (Tx), wherein the selection comprises switching of at least one parameter of the transmitter (Tx) according to the selected operating mode.
US11363657B1	WiFi network operation with channel aggregation A first communication device generates a first data unit, for transmission in a first channel segment of a communication channel, to include a first medium access control (MAC) address utilized by the first communication device for operation in the first channel segment of the communication channel. The first communication device generates a second data unit, for transmission in a second channel segment of the communication channel, to include a second MAC address, different from the first MAC address, utilized by the first communication device for operation in the second channel segment of the communication channel. The first channel segment and the second channel segment are non-overlapping frequency segments of the communication channel. The first communication device transmits the first data unit and the second data unit in, respectively, the first channel segment and the second channel segment, to one or more second communication devices.
US11363656B2	Techniques for indicating full configuration to a secondary node in dual connectivity Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a master node (MN) may determine to reconfigure a user equipment (UE) from an existing configuration to a full configuration for a dual connectivity (DC) mode. To perform the reconfiguration, the MN may transmit a signal (e.g., a modification request message) indicating the full configuration to a secondary node (SN). The SN may identify the full configuration reconfiguration triggered at the MN based on the signal. The SN may transmit an acknowledgment message to the MN including a secondary cell group (SCG) configuration for the SN complying with the full configuration. The MN may indicate this SCG configuration as part of the full configuration to the UE (e.g., in a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message). The UE may perform a reconfiguration process and communicate with the MN and the SN according to the full configuration.
US11363654B2	Session mapping in 5G and subsequent generation networks The described technology is generally directed towards session mapping in multi-access communication networks. A main session can be established between a mobile edge computing device (MEC) and a core network. The MEC can also establish multiple respective virtual sessions with multiple respective access network computing devices, and the MEC can map the main session to the multiple respective virtual sessions. A user equipment (UE) can connect to any of the respective access network computing devices, thereby communicating via any of the respective virtual sessions.
US11363653B2	Ad hoc service switch-based control of ad hoc networking An apparatus may implement an ad hoc service switch to establish an ad hoc link between ad hoc devices, such that the apparatus is a transparent node in an ad hoc link between the ad hoc devices. The apparatus may implement rule-based control of at least one ad hoc device, based on processing a data packet received from an ad hoc device via the ad hoc link. Rule-based control may include performing at least one operation of selectively forwarding the data packet, selectively inhibiting the data packet from being forwarded, modifying the data packet, and generating and transmitting a new data packet. The apparatus may establish the ad hoc link via an initial ad hoc link between the apparatus and the first device, a network communication link between the apparatus and an external apparatus, and an ad hoc link between the external apparatus and the second device.
US11363648B2	Communication method and related device A communication method and a related device, the method including receiving a radio access capability of a terminal device, detecting whether a target radio access capability the same as the received radio access capability of the terminal device exists in a terminal device access capability set, where the terminal device access capability set is a set of radio access capability information corresponding to radio access capabilities, and, when the target radio access capability exists in the terminal device access capability set, indexing second access capability indication information in a context of the terminal device to radio access capability information corresponding to the target radio access capability.
US11363647B2	Method for controlling connection between user equipment and network, and mobility management entity A method for controlling a connection between a user equipment and a network includes receiving, by a MME, a network connection request sent by a user equipment. The method further includes determining a priority of the network connection request and a network overload state. The method further includes controlling a connection between the user equipment and a network according to the priority of the network connection request and the network overload state.
US11363645B2	Method and device for random access and instruction after random access rollback Disclosed are a method and device for random access and instruction after random access rollback. The method comprises: a base station receiving a random access request Msg1 sent by a terminal, and sending a random access rollback instruction to instruct different types of terminals to apply different rollback parameters so as to initiate random access again after random access has failed; and the terminal receiving the random access rollback instruction sent by the base station, wherein the random access rollback instruction is used for instructing different types of terminals to apply different rollback parameters so as to initiate random access again after random access has failed, and initiating random access according to the random access rollback instruction.
US11363644B2	Methods and apparatus for indicating channel access The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for indicating channel access. The method includes: receiving first indication information transmitted by a network device; and obtaining one or more channel access parameters based on the first indication information. The one or more channel access parameters are used for determining channel access for a target uplink transmission. The first indication information transmitted by the network device is received, and the first indication information may be based on a command field in existing information, without the need for a new command field for indicating channel access for the target uplink transmission.
US11363641B2	Validation rules for random access message transmission occasions Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for validation rules for message transmission occasions. In some cases, a user equipment (UE) may select a random access message transmission occasion for a preamble and a payload of a random access message, wherein the random access message transmission occasion comprises a preamble occasion and a payload occasion, select a preamble sequence for the preamble to transmit in the preamble occasion of the random access message transmission occasion of a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure, select at least one resource unit (RU) for transmitting the payload in the payload occasion, validate the selected random access message transmission occasion based on one or more criteria, and transmit the preamble sequence and the payload in the selected message transmission occasion if the selected random access message transmission occasion is validated.
US11363640B2	System and method for performing a random access procedure A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: broadcasting at least one message indicating first and second formats. The first format is used by a plurality of wireless communication devices to send respective first random access preambles and the second format is used by the plurality of wireless communication devices to send respective second random access preambles. The first and second formats respectively correspond to first and second cell coverage ranges of a wireless communication node, wherein the second cell coverage range is greater than the first cell coverage range.
US11363638B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit A terminal apparatus receives first information for identifying one or multiple random access channel occasions, and receives second information for identifying an index of a random access preamble. In a case that a first condition is satisfied, the terminal apparatus selects, from one or multiple reference signals, one reference signal based on a measurement of each of the one or multiple reference signals. In a case that a second condition is satisfied, the terminal apparatus selects one reference signal of the one or multiple reference signals associated with a PDCCH used to receive the second information. The terminal apparatus selects, from the one or multiple random access channel occasions, one random access channel occasion associated with the one reference signal selected.
US11363637B2	Method and device for providing indication of physical resource used for random access, and storage medium Disclosed is a method and device for indicating a random access physical resource, which may include: semi-statically configuring an internal structure of a random access slot through a broadcast channel. A computer-readable storage medium is further provided in the present disclosure.
US11363636B2	Method and device for contention based random access A method and a device for contention-based random access are provided. The method includes: sending, by a terminal side device, an Msg1 corresponding to a two-step contention-based random access to a network side device; receiving, by the terminal side device, an Msg2 returned by the network side device, wherein if the terminal side device determines a failure of the two-step contention-based random access occurs according to a receiving condition of the Msg2 message, the terminal side device performs a handling procedure for the failure of the two-step contention-based random access. The Msg2 message is determined by the network side device according to a receiving condition that the network side device receives the Msg1 message.
US11363630B2	Bandwidth part (BWP) configuration for subband access in new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating in a frequency band based on bandwidth parts are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device, a first configuration indicating a plurality of bandwidth parts in a frequency band, the plurality of bandwidth parts based on an expected channel access pattern associated with a listen-before-talk (LBT) in the frequency band. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a first communication signal in a first bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts based on an LBT result.
US11363629B2	Method, apparatus and system for medium access control A method, apparatus and system for medium access control is provided. Time slots configured to include mini slots at the beginnings thereof. Devices are assigned time slot, mini slot combinations as transmission opportunities. A device can attempt to use a transmission opportunity when it has a packet to send, by beginning data transmission in its assigned slot and mini slot and potentially continuing the transmission up until the end of the assigned slot. If another device is already transmitting in the assigned slot, the device refrains from using its transmission opportunity. Higher priority devices can be assigned transmission opportunities corresponding to earlier mini slots within a slot. In some embodiments, multiple devices can be assigned the same transmission opportunity and a collision detection mechanism can be employed. In some embodiments, all devices detect if a slot is idle and advance the beginning of the next slot upon such detection.
US11363628B2	Method and apparatus for performing uplink transmission with pre-allocated beams in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for performing an uplink (UL) transmission with pre-allocated beams in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a connection release message from a network in a first state. The connection release message includes information on a pre-allocated UL resource for UL transmission with pre-allocated beams. The UE enters a second state from the first state, selects a cell, and performs the UL transmission to the cell in the second state via the pre-allocated beams based on the pre-configured UL resource for UL transmission when a data is available for transmission. The first state may be a radio resource control (RRC) connected state, and the second state may be an RRC inactive state and/or an RRC idle state.
US11363627B2	Multiplexing and/or prioritization of uplink signals A wireless device may receive, via a first control resource set (coreset) with a first coreset group index, downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. The wireless device may determine that a first quasi co-location (QCL) of the PDSCH transmission is different from a second QCL of a second coreset that overlaps in at least one symbol with the PDSCH transmission, and that the first coreset group index is the same as a second coreset group index of the second coreset. Based on the determining, the wireless device may receive the PDSCH transmission with the second QCL of the second coreset.
US11363624B2	Method for receiving DL data on SPS resources in wireless communication system and a device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for receiving DL data on SPS resources in wireless communication system, the device receives downlink (DL) Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) configuration information, receives a paging message including an identifier related to the UE, and configures DL SPS resources based on the received DL SPS configuration information based on the paging message including information for activating of DL SPS configuration, wherein the UE receives DL data on each of the configured DL SPS resource.
US11363623B2	Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink data, and method and base station for receiving uplink data In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) receives resource configuration information including information on a first radio resource not dedicated to the UE. The UE performs transmission of uplink data using the first radio resource. The UE transmits a request for radio resource dedicated to the UE for retransmission of the uplink data if the transmission of the uplink data using the first radio resource is not successful for a certain number of transmissions of the uplink data or for a certain period of time.
US11363614B2	Scheduling method for grant-free multiple access, and user terminal for same A scheduling method for grant-free multiple access, and a user terminal for the same are disclosed. The method comprises: (a) a step of receiving, from the user terminal, information on traffic to be served, network information of the user terminal and state information of the user terminal; (b) a scheduling step of forming scheduling groups on the basis of the information received in step (a) and a step of allocating resources to each scheduling group; and (c) providing scheduling information to the user terminal, wherein traffic aggregations for traffic of the terminal are set on the basis of the information on traffic from the terminal, the scheduling groups are formed according to the traffic aggregations, and the scheduling information is provided to each traffic aggregation by which the user terminal is to be served.
US11363612B2	Method for performing a logical channel prioritization in a carrier aggregation with at least one SCell operating in an unlicensed spectrum and a device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing a LCP procedure in a carrier aggregation, the method comprising: configuring with a first cell group including at least one first cell and a second cell group including at least one second cell served by an eNB; configuring a plurality of logical channels, wherein each logical channel of the plurality of logical channels respectively corresponds to one of a first type logical channel that cannot be transmitted to the second cell and a second type logical channel that can be transmitted to the second cell; receiving a uplink grant for the first cell or the second cell; performing a Logical Channel Prioritization (LCP) procedure.
US11363611B2	Overcoming carrier aggregation signaling overhead when firstnet QoS policies are enforced Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, initiating emergency QoS measures in a RAN cell responsive to detecting an emergency condition applicable to the RAN cell, identifying, among a plurality of wireless communication devices served by the RAN cell, a set of non-emergency devices, identifying, among the set of non-emergency devices, one or more carrier aggregation (CA)-prone devices, and applying an updated buffer threshold value for a CA-prone device among the one or more CA-prone devices, to reduce a likelihood of initiation of carrier aggregation for the CA-prone device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11363610B2	Communication control device, communication control method, and computer program A communication control device is provided. The communication control device includes a controller that sets an acceptable interference amount of a primary system that is acceptable by a secondary system that secondarily uses a radio wave in a predetermined frequency band allocated to the primary system. In the setting of the acceptable interference amount, the controller sets a first margin to be allocated to the secondary system that is operating, a second margin that absorbs a change in the first margin that has been caused by a change in the total number of secondary systems, and a third margin to be commonly set between the communication control device and another communication control device.
US11363608B2	Unlicensed narrowband internet of things control channel communication In embodiments, a base station may be able to identify whether a user equipment (UE) is to operate within the cellular network in accordance with a wideband (WB) protocol or a narrowband (NB) protocol. Based on this identification, the base station may further be able to identify a number of resource blocks (RBs) that include subcarriers occupied by enhanced narrowband control channel elements (eNCCEs). Finally, the base station may be able to transmit the eNCCEs on the subcarriers. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11363604B2	Scheduling method, information sending method and apparatus, and storage medium Provided is a scheduling method. The method includes: determining configuration information according to a travelling trajectory of a terminal within a predetermined time period; and sending the configuration information to a base station to which the terminal currently belongs, where the configuration information includes at least one of: a transmission resource, a transmission cycle or an active retransmission location. Further disclosed are an information sending method and apparatus, and a storage medium.
US11363603B2	Delta beam comparison for UL/DL beam misalignment detection In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment of a communication network, a request from a network node to use at least two beam configurations of multiple different beam configurations for the user equipment; measuring, by the user equipment, downlink received power on at least one reference signal using the at least two beam configurations; sending, by the user equipment on an uplink, information of at least two downlink received powers and at least one reference signal using the at least two beam configurations; receiving, by the user equipment, signaling from the network node comprising an indication of beam correspondence assessment from the network node; and adjusting, by the user equipment, uplink beam with reference to a downlink beam based on the received indication of beam correspondence assessment.
US11363600B2	Beam assignment in a communications network There is provided mechanisms for assigning beams to terminal devices in a communications network. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises determining an initial set of beams for serving the terminal devices, whereby each terminal device is assigned at least one of the beams. The method comprises obtaining an indication that further beams, in addition to those in the initial set of beams, are available for serving the terminal devices. The method comprises evaluating whether to expand the initial set of beams with the further beams or not, whereby the further beams are assigned to the terminal devices according to a criterion, until a resource utilization threshold is reached.
US11363599B1	Interactive control of moving device speed and processing system operating frequency Systems and methods may include indicating a processing latency requirement to an operating frequency controller of a moving device processing system, receiving an indication of the allowable operating frequency for the processing system, and changing a characteristic of movement of the moving device based on the allowable operating frequency indication. Some embodiments include receiving an indication of a processing latency requirement from a moving device control system, determining a target operating frequency to achieve the processing latency requirement, determining whether the target operating frequency exceeds an allowable operating frequency, and indicating the allowable operating frequency for the processing system to the moving device control system. Further embodiments include receiving an indication of a speed of the moving device, determining a target operating frequency for the processing system compatible with the indicated speed of the moving device, and changing an operating frequency of the processing system to the target operating frequency.
US11363592B2	Terminal apparatus and communication method for performing a PUSCH transmission A terminal apparatus determines the parameter fc(i), based on at least whether an RRC layer parameter symPUSCH_UpPTS is configured for the terminal apparatus, calculates transmit power for PUSCH transmission in a subframe i, based on at least the parameter fc(i), maps a PUSCH to a SC-FDMA symbol of a special subframe, based on the RRC layer parameter symPUSCH_UpPTS, and transmits the PUSCH.
US11363588B2	Transmitting device, receiving device, transmitting method, and receiving method In a transmitting device, each of the plurality of mapping candidates that make up the search space is configured from the same number of control channel elements as an aggregation level value, the control channel elements are obtained by dividing each physical resource block into a predetermined number, and the quantity of resource elements contained in each of the predetermined number of control channel elements in each physical resource block adopts at least two types of values. A search space setting unit sets a search space of which the aggregation level value is 2 or more so that, between a plurality of mapping candidates, variation in the total quantity of resource elements contained in the control channel elements that make up the mapping candidates is as small as possible.
US11363583B2	Method and apparatus for uplink communication based on grant-free scheme in communication system A method and an apparatus for uplink communication based on grant-free scheme in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal includes receiving an RRC message from a base station, the RRC message including information indicating a frequency resource of a PUSCH; receiving a DCI from the base station, the DCI including information indicating a time resource of the PUSCH; and transmitting the PUSCH to the base station using the time-frequency resource indicated by the RRC message and the DCI. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.
US11363578B2	Method and device for detecting discontinuous transmission (DTX) for small block encoded signals Described is a method and device for processing a signal received at an uplink control information (UCI) receiver in a wireless communication system. The method comprises processing a signal received on an uplink (UL) at said UCI receiver to transform said received signal into a likelihood calculation of possible transmitted codewords (θ1 . . . θi . . . θN). The likelihood calculation of possible transmitted codewords (θ1 . . . θi . . . θN) may comprise a multi-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) (θ1 . . . θi . . . θN) of said received signal. The multi-dimensional may be formed as a Hadamard Transform. The method includes determining a maximum magnitude θmax value from said likelihood calculation of possible transmitted codewords (θ1 . . . θi . . . θN) and then comparing said θmax value to a selected, calculated or predetermined scaled threshold c·τ where τ is a threshold and c is a scaling factor for the threshold τ. The comparison is such that, where θmax>c·τ, it is determined that the signal received on the UL at said UCI receiver comprises a linear block encoded signal. In some cases, the scaling factor c may be omitted.
US11363577B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. The present invention relates to a method for transmitting ACK/NACK in a wireless communication system in which carrier aggregation is set, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the present invention relates to an ACK/NACK transmission method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information on a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources via upper layer signaling; receiving a transmit power control (TPC) field on a secondary carrier through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); receiving data indicated by the PDCCH; and transmitting ACK/NACK for the data, wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted using a PUCCH resource which is indicated by the value of the TPC field among the plurality of PUCCH resources.
US11363576B2	PUCCH transmission method, user equipment and device Provided in the embodiments of the present application are a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission method, user equipment and a device, used to solve the technical problem in an existing technology wherein no related method or device supports PUCCH transmission in a new wireless communication system. The PUCCH transmission method comprises: determining the number A of symbols occupied by a PUCCH, the number A being a positive integer; determining a PUCCH structure set that is configured in correspondence to the number A of the symbols, a PUCCH structure comprised in the PUCCH structure set comprising A symbol bits, the PUCCH structure set comprising one or more PUCCH structures, and the number of symbol bits used for transmitting pilot frequency information RS in different PUCCH structures being different when multiple PUCCH structures are comprised, wherein a PUCCH structure is a distribution rule for symbol bits used for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) and symbol bits used for transmitting RS; and determining a PUCCH structure corresponding to the PUCCH from the PUCCH structure set, and performing PUCCH transmission on the basis of the corresponding PUCCH structure.
US11363575B2	Uplink information sending method and apparatus and uplink information receiving method and apparatus In an uplink information receiving method, a first terminal device receives first indication information sent by a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first uplink resource; and the first terminal device sends uplink information to the network device on a fourth uplink resource, where the fourth uplink resource is a resource other than a second uplink resource in the first uplink resource, the second uplink resource is a subset of a third uplink resource, and the third uplink resource is an intersection between a fifth uplink resource configured for a second terminal device and the first uplink resource.
US11363574B2	Information transmission method, terminal, and network side device An information transmission method, is provided, including, a terminal determines attribute information of uplink information based on a beam identifier, and sends the uplink information to a network side device based on the attribute information. After receiving the uplink information, the network side device determines the beam identifier based on the uplink information. In this process, the terminal implicitly indicates beam IDs of different selected beams by using attribute information of reported uplink information. Different beams correspond to different attribute information of the uplink information. In other words, each beam corresponds to specific attribute information of the uplink information. Implicitly indicating a beam ID to the network side device reduces LTE standardization complexity and reduces signaling overheads.
US11363572B2	Uplink channel dynamic waveform switching Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described A user equipment (UE) and a base station may support switching from one waveform to another on uplink channels. For example, a UE and a base station may utilize both frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) waveform and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms based on channel conditions and other factors. In some examples, a UE may switch for some uplink channels, and use a single waveform for other channels. For example, switching waveforms for channels that utilize frequency domain code division multiplexing (CDM) channel may interrupt the orthogonality of multiplexed transmissions. A UE may transition from one waveform to another either autonomously or based on an explicit indication from a base station. If a UE switches autonomously, it may send an indication of the transition to the serving base station.
US11363570B1	System and method for providing real time audio content to flying camera video An apparatus includes a transceiver circuit and a first controller circuit. The transceiver circuit may be configured to receive an uplink channel and transmit a downlink channel. The first controller circuit configured to (i) control operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle and a camera in response to commands received via the uplink channel, (ii) capture video data from the camera, (iii) generate a first encoded video stream having a first resolution and a second encoded video stream having a second resolution, (iv) store the first encoded video stream with time stamp information on a storage medium, (v) transmit the second encoded video stream and the time stamp information via the downlink channel, (vi) receive encoded audio information associated with previously transmitted time stamp information via the uplink channel, and (vii) combine the encoded audio information with the first encoded video stream stored on the storage medium using the associated time stamp information.
US11363563B2	Paging method, terminal, network device, and computer readable storage medium A paging method, a terminal, a network device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The paging method includes: transmitting, by a network device to a terminal, monitoring indication information used to indicate whether a paging message needs to be monitored or not; receiving, by the terminal the monitoring indication information transmitted by the network device and used to indicate whether the paging message needs to be monitored or not, and monitoring, by the terminal, the paging message according to the monitoring indication information.
US11363562B2	Method for sending and receiving paging message, network device and user device Disclosed in the present invention are a method for sending and receiving a paging message, a network device, a terminal device and a computer storage medium. The method includes: when paging for a terminal device is triggered, determining whether to interlacedly send the paging message to the terminal device based on a terminal type of the terminal device.
US11363559B2	Method and test system for testing an integrated access backhaul node A method of testing an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) node is disclosed, the method including: providing a device under test as well as a test equipment for testing the device under test, wherein the device under test corresponds to an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) node to be tested; simulating at least one Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) donor by the test equipment; simulating a participant by the test equipment, the participant being connected with the device under test; establishing at least one connection between the device under test and the test equipment, wherein a backhaul link is established with the test equipment; configuring link resources for the device under test via configuration information by the test equipment; gathering reception information by the test equipment; and combining the configuration information with the reception information by the test equipment in order to verify correct resource utilization of the device under test. Further, a test system for testing an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) node is described.
US11363558B2	Access point (AP) placement using fine time measurement (FTM) Access Point (AP) placement using Fine Time Measurement (FTM) may be provided. First, a plurality of Time-of-Flight (ToF) values between a first service end point and a second service end point may be determined. Each one of the plurality of ToF values may be derived from packets transmitted via different beamforming vector patterns at the first service end point and the second service end point. Then a minimum ToF value of the plurality of ToF values may be determined. Next, a distance between the first service end point and the second service end point may be determined based on the minimum ToF value.
US11363554B2	Frequency correction in a multi-carrier communication system A mobile station operable to perform cell synchronization is described. The mobile station can process one or more synchronization signals received in a downlink from one or more base stations providing coverage in one or more cells. The mobile station can process the one or more synchronization signals received from the one or more base stations to synchronize the mobile station with the one or more base stations. The mobile station can adjust signals for communication from the mobile station in accordance with the cell synchronization performed at the mobile station.
US11363552B2	Method of synchronized signal block measurement, user equipment and network device The present disclosure discloses a method of synchronized signal block measurement, a user equipment and a network device. The method includes: receiving auxiliary measurement information, which is transmitted by a network device and is used to assist the UE to perform synchronized signal block measurement; and, determining repetitive synchronized signal blocks according to the auxiliary measurement information. The auxiliary measurement information is used to indicate transmission configuration information of synchronized signal blocks.
US11363551B2	Method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting PDSCH using a resource region in a wireless communication system Disclosed is a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The purpose of the present invention is to efficiently transmit downlink data in a slot in which a synchronization signal block is transmitted and, according to the present invention, a base station in a communication system checks whether a synchronization signal block and downlink data are transmitted in the same slot, determines a downlink data transmission method when the synchronization signal block and the downlink data are transmitted in the same slot, and transmits the downlink data and a demodulation reference signal for the downlink data to a terminal on the basis of the downlink data transmission method, and the downlink data transmission method can be determined on the basis of at least one of the transmission pattern of the synchronization signal block, the relationship between the synchronization signal block and a subcarrier interval applied to the downlink data, and the index of the slot in which the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted.
US11363548B2	Method and device for configuring synchronization signal for new radio access technology Provided are a method and a device for configuring and transmitting a synchronization signal in an NR system. The method includes configuring one or more synchronization signals to be transmitted within an entire bandwidth, and transmitting the configured one or more synchronization signals through the entire bandwidth.
US11363547B2	Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure A method of searching a cell in a mobile station of a communication system in which a plurality of cells are grouped into a plurality of cell groups, each cell group including at least two cells, includes: detecting a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal from a received signal; and identifying a cell based on a combination of the primary synchronization signal and the secondary synchronization signal. The secondary synchronization signal is related to the cell group to which the mobile station belongs and the primary synchronization signal is related to the cell to which the mobile station belongs within the cell group.
US11363546B2	Method and apparatus for synchronization for vehicle-to-x communication Provided is a synchronization method and apparatus in a wireless communication system. A synchronization method according to an aspect of the present disclosure may include: receiving a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal; determining a priority order of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal; and performing synchronization based on a synchronization signal having a higher priority between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal.
US11363543B2	Transmit power determination in dual-active-protocol stack handover Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first transmit power that is to be used for a first transmission to a source cell and a second transmit power that is to be used for a second transmission to a target cell during a dual-active-protocol stack (DAPS) handover procedure. The UE may transmit, concurrently, the first transmission to the source cell using the first transmit power and the second transmission to the target cell using the second transmit power. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11363530B2	Sidelink positioning based on physical ranging signals A user equipment (UE) in a vehicle (V-UE) broadcasts multi-phased ranging signals with which other entities may determine the range to the V-UE. The multi-phased ranging signals may include a first message, which may be broadcast in the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) spectrum, includes ranging information, such as a source identifier, location information for the broadcasting V-UE, and an expected time of broadcast of the ranging signal. The ranging signal may then be broadcast at the expected time and may include the source identifier. A second message, which be broadcast in the ITS spectrum, may include clock error information for the V-UE. A receiving entity may determine the range to the V-UE based on the time of arrival of the ranging signal and the expected time of transmission, as well as the clock error information. The receiving entity may further generate a position estimate based on the received location information.
US11363528B2	Method and apparatus for reducing signaling overhead and reducing battery of terminal A communication method of a terminal for saving a battery of a terminal and reducing a signaling overhead when small data are processed is provided. The communication method includes receiving, from a base station, a first message including at least one of first information indicating whether a first signaling optimization is allowed for the terminal, or second information indicating whether a second signaling optimization is allowed for the terminal, transmitting, to the base station, a second message including at least one of third information indicating whether the first signaling optimization is supported by the terminal, or fourth information indicating whether the second signaling optimization is supported by the terminal, and receiving, from the base station, a third message including fifth information indicating a signaling optimization supported for the terminal.
US11363526B2	Preambles for wake-up receivers This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate.
US11363519B2	Method for selecting parent node in mesh network The invention provides a method for selecting a parent node in a mesh network: for one or more other nodes found through scanning, a first node filtering out, from the one or more other nodes, nodes that are not in a same organization, not of a same version, or not in the same network; filtering out, from the one or more other nodes, leaf child nodes at a deepest level, and nodes with a maximum number of connections reached; filtering out, from the one or more other nodes, free nodes, all child nodes of the first node, and nodes in a looped list of the first node; filtering out, from the one or more other nodes, nodes with a signal strength unable to maintain normal communication; and according to preset weights, for each of remaining nodes in the one or more other nodes after filtering, calculating a rank collectively based on a signal strength value of the node, a level of the node, and an existing number of connections of the node, and selecting a node with a highest rank among the remaining nodes as the parent node of the first node. The invention may rapidly and effectively establish parent-child relationships between nodes in the mesh network, optimize the network topology structure, and improve the communication quality between the nodes.
US11363515B2	WLAN user quality of experience control in a multi-access point environment A method (30) and system (10) for controlling wireless local area network (WLAN) user quality in a multi-access point environment is provided. In order to ensure good quality of service/user experience in a multi-access point Wi-Fi™ setup in which a user roams with a station (14), the access points (11, 12) continuously or at intervals assess the wireless environment's quality and report to a control entity (13). The control entity (13) determines, from the assessment data, alternative target access points (11, 12) that could be used in case the link quality of a current connection between an access point (11) and the station (14) falls below a predefined value. The control entity (13) then instructs the access point (11) to actively disconnect the station (14) and selects a new target access point (12) to accept the stations (14) connection request.
US11363514B2	Method and apparatus for performing conditional cell change based on channel occupancy in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for performing a conditional mobility based on a congestion level in a wireless communication system is provided. That is, the congestion level may be considered as mobility triggering condition of the conditional mobility. A wireless device performs a congestion level measurement, and receives a conditional mobility configuration associated with multiple target cells from a serving node. The conditional mobility configuration includes a threshold for the congestion level. The wireless device performs a mobility towards one target cell among the multiple target cells based on a result of the congestion level measurement and the threshold for the congestion level.
US11363511B2	System, method and computer-readable medium for provisioning dual-homed voice call continuity A system, method and computer-readable medium for concurrent support of Voice Call Continuity (VCC) capabilities in both the enterprise space and the carrier space are provided. The enterprise VCC functionality is used when the user is located in the enterprise domain which does not impact the carrier's network while the carrier VCC capability is used when the user is located in the carrier domain to support seamless handover between the wireless networks that the carrier may offer. The carrier VCC anchoring point and the enterprise VCC anchoring point may communicate with each other to confirm and inform the other anchoring point that a call handover is occurring or will occur.
US11363505B2	Controlling network access for user equipment The present invention provides a method of managing a connection of a user equipment, UE, device to a core network, the UE device being capable of establishing a connection to the core network using a mobile communication system network and of establishing a connection to the core network via a network other than the mobile communication system network, the method comprising having established a first connection to the core network via the network other than the mobile communication system network, in response to receiving a request from a base station of the mobile communication system to establish a second connection to the base station via the network other than the mobile communication system network, informing the core network of a temporary suspension of the first connection and storing context information of the first connection for a future resumption of the first connection.
US11363503B2	Reporting an indication of one or more estimated signal parameters In one example aspect, a method is provided of reporting an indication of one or more estimated signal parameters of a signal from a first cell, beam or frequency in a cellular communications network. The method comprises configuring a signal parameter estimation model based on configuration information from a second cell in the cellular communications network, and determining an indication of one or more estimated signal parameters of a signal from the first cell, beam or frequency using the parameter estimation model. The method also comprises sending the indication to the second cell in response to the indication or the one or more estimated signal parameters satisfying one or more criteria.
US11363502B2	Voice call processing method and terminal device The A voice call processing method includes, when a terminal meets at least one of two preset conditions, performing handover from a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network currently accessed by the terminal to a non-LTE standard network, and performing a circuit switched (CS) voice call process on the non-LTE standard network.
US11363499B2	Resource configuration method, apparatus, and system A resource configuration method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. The method includes: determining a reserved resource element (RE) in a resource unit, where the reserved RE is included in a reserved resource; and transmitting data on all or some REs other than the reserved resource. The resource unit includes X resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain and includes Y symbols in time domain, where X and Y are positive integers. According to the resource configuration method provided in the present disclosure, a data conflict between different terminals during data transmission can be reduced, and resource utilization can be improved.
US11363498B2	Mesh network flow control method A mesh network flow control method comprising: allocating a receiving window of a certain size between a parent node and each child node; the child node transmitting a window request to the parent node prior to transmitting a packet; upon receipt of the request, the parent node extracting the sequence number of the request of the child node; comparing the sequence number with a sequence number of the packet last received; calculating the size of an available window and replying to the child node with the size; and the child node transmitting the packet according to the size. Another method includes: a root node broadcasting information concerning a connection state between the root node and a server in a management frame of Wi-Fi, such that through information communication within a network, each node within the network can obtain the information, and then devices within the network transmit packets to the root node, thereby avoiding occupancy of bandwidth by unnecessary packet-transmissions.
US11363497B2	Multi-path end-to-end connectivity for cellular mesh networks Methods and apparatuses for multi-path end-to-end connectivity in a wireless communication system. A BS apparatus includes a processor configured to identify congestion in the wireless communication network experienced by the BS. The processor is further configured to generate congestion feedback information indicating the congestion in the wireless communication network. The BS also includes a transceiver operably connected to the processor. The transceiver is configured to transmit the congestion feedback information to at least one other BS in the wireless communication network. The processor is configured to identify multiple of the paths that respective portions of the data are split between to be transferred between a gateway and a UE. The multiple paths are determined based at least in part on the congestion feedback information. The transceiver is configured to transfer, via the wireless communication network based on the identified multiple paths, data between the UE and the gateway.
US11363491B1	Wireless network slice optimization for user applications A data communication network serves User Equipment (UE) over an optimal wireless network slice for a user application. A Network Exposure Function (NEF) receives a notice message indicating a UE Identifier (ID) for the UE and an application ID for the user application when the UE downloads the user application. In response, the NEF transfers a download message indicating the UE ID and the application ID to a network control-plane. The network control-plane receives the download message from the NEF, and in response, selects a slice ID for the optimal network slice based on the application ID for the user application. The network control-plane transfers a slice message indicating the application ID and the slice ID to the UE. In response to the slice message, the UE uses the optimal network slice when executing the user application.
US11363483B2	Method for constructing logged measurement entry and device supporting the same Provided are a method of constructing logged measurement entry and a device supporting the method. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may comprise: receiving a logged measurement configuration from a network; performing measurement logging based on the received logged measurement configuration; and transmitting the logged measurement to the network, wherein when the UE is in any cell selection state, the logged measurement includes indicator indicating that there is no suitable cell or no acceptable cell with available measurement results.
US11363482B2	Methods and apparatuses for channel state information transmission Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for Control State Information (CSI) transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a terminal device is provided. According to the method, in response to receiving DCI from a network device, a configuration for transmitting CSI to the network device is determined at least based on the DCI. The DCI indicates a CSI-RS for determining the CSI and timing information associated with the CSI. The CSI is determined by measuring the CSI-RS in response to receiving the CSI-RS from the network device. The CSI is transmitted to the network device based on the configuration.
US11363476B2	Techniques in measurement gap configurations in new radio (NR) Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for beam management techniques in New Radio (NR) Standalone (SA) applications. Various embodiments describe how to configure one or more measurement gaps in an NR SA network so that a UE may apply the same or different measurement gaps while operating with various technologies or services in various frequency ranges. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11363471B2	Data-aided beam management Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Beam management procedures may increase communications quality and reliability in wireless networks that support narrow directional beams and high frequencies. Some such beam management procedures utilize continuous beam measurements and adaptive beam switching to maintain a threshold link level between devices. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability to perform a first beam refinement procedure in response to a data transmission and using multiple receive beams. The UE may select a communication beam using a first instance of a second beam refinement procedure, and may receive a data transmission from a base station using the selected beam. Based on receiving the data transmission, the UE may perform the first beam refinement procedure and may skip a second instance of the second beam refinement procedure.
US11363468B2	Sharing resources between wireless networks A first wireless communication device communicates a reservation to a second wireless communication device, wherein the reservation is for a shared frequency channel that is employed concurrently by a first network and a second network. The first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device are associated with the first network. The first wireless communication device configures at least one spatial subchannel in the shared frequency channel to increase a power ratio of transmissions received by the second wireless communication device versus transmissions received by at least one receiver in the second network, and the first wireless communication device transmits data over the at least one spatial subchannel to the second wireless communication device.
US11363467B2	Enabling efficient deterministic virtualized broadcast spectrum sharing and usage validation Disclosed herein are methods, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium product for sharing broadcast resources and validating usage of the broadcast resources according to an agreement between a plurality of broadcast virtual network operators (BVNOs). A method includes determining the plurality of spectrum resources corresponding to a length of a broadcast frame, and creating a plurality of physical layer pipes (PLPs) based on a plurality of internet protocol (IP) flows from the plurality of BVNOs. The method includes constructing the broadcast frame including the plurality of PLPs and generating a broadcast frame record based on transmission of the broadcast frame. The broadcast frame record can identify the plurality of spectrum resources shared between the plurality of BVNOs. The method includes updating the broadcast frame record with identification information of the plurality of BVNOs and the plurality of IP flows corresponding to the plurality of PLPs of the broadcast frame.
US11363466B2	Methods and apparatus for antenna optimization in a quasi-licensed wireless system Methods and apparatus for optimizing antenna beam and performance within a wireless system. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus utilize so-called “quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum in conjunction with a controller that dynamically adjusts antenna direction, orientation and receive/transmit beam for receiving/transmitting the information at an installed fixed wireless apparatus (FWA) at user or subscriber premises. In one variant, the FWA includes controller logic that tracks Radio Frequency (RF) propagation parameters and optimizes antenna azimuth and tilt to maximize the antenna gain towards a serving base station. As such, service calls by operator personnel to optimize antenna performance are not required, thereby reducing network operating expenses. Moreover, increased customer density at a prescribed service level is achieved through more precise coordination and mitigation of interference between nearby FWA devices and their serving base stations.
US11363465B2	Licensed supplemental uplink as fallback with unlicensed uplink and downlink Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network that supports data transmitted in an unlicensed frequency band and a licensed frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a configuration indicating a first resource in an unlicensed frequency band and a second resource in a licensed band. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device in the unlicensed frequency band, a first communication signal based on the configuration. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device in the licensed frequency band, a second communication signal based on at least one of a channel status of the unlicensed frequency band or a transmission parameter associated with at least one of the first communication signal or the second communication signal.
US11363463B2	Methods and systems for mitigating denial of service (DoS) attack in a wireless network The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Methods, network entities, and systems for mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) attack in a wireless network (e.g., access network (AN), core network (CN)). Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for mitigating Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in wireless networks, by performing admission control by verifying a User Equipment's (UE's) registration request via a Closed Access Group (CAG) cell without performing a primary authentication. Embodiments herein disclose methods and system for verifying permissions of the UE to access a CAG cell based on the UE's Subscription identifier, before performing the primary authentication. Methods and systems for mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) attack in a wireless network. A method for mitigating Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in wireless networks includes requesting a public land mobile network (PLMN) for accessing a non-public network (NPN) through a Closed Access Group (CAG) cell, verifying the permissions of a user equipment (UE) to access the requested NPN through the CAG cell, and performing a primary authentication.
US11363461B2	Method for managing security key of mobile communication system, and apparatus therefor A security key management method performed in a PDCP layer of a terminal dual-connected to a first cell and a second cell may comprise receiving a PDCP PDU on which ciphering or integrity protection to which a first security key of the first cell or a second security key of the second cell is applied is performed; performing at least one of integrity verification and header decompression for the PDCP PDU based on the first security key; performing at least one of integrity verification and header decompression for the PDCP PDU based on the second security key; and determining a security key applied to the PDCP PDU, based on result of the at least one of integrity verification and header decompression based on the first security key and result of the at least one of integrity verification and header decompression based on the second security key.
US11363460B1	Device-based identification for automated user detection A content consumption system or device may implement device-enabled identification for automated user detection. An identifying device may be detected at a content consumption device as within proximity of the content consumption device. An identifying device may be a mobile or wearable computing device, in various embodiments. A user account associated with the identification device may be selected for accessing content at the content consumption device. Access to content may be provided according to the selected user account. In some embodiments, content recommendations or content filtering may be performed based on the automatically determined user account.
US11363459B2	Integrating CBRS-enabled devices and intent-based networking Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at an enterprise network, first authentication data of a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS)-enabled device, receiving, at the enterprise network, second authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device, the first authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device being a different type of authentication data than the second authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device, determining a class of the CBRS-enabled device based on the first authentication data and the second authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device, determining a network segment for the CBRS-enabled device based on the class of the CBRS-enabled device, and providing access to the CBRS-enabled device based on the determining of the network segment for the CBRS-enabled device.
US11363456B2	Marine vessel portable device registration system and marine vessel portable device registration method A marine vessel portable device registration system includes portable devices and a controller. A registered portable device transmits a specific wireless signal based on an input operation on a portable device operator. The controller is configured or programmed to receive the specific wireless signal from the registered portable device, and perform a control to authenticate and register an unregistered portable device as a new registered portable device based on having received a wireless signal from the unregistered portable device.
US11363454B2	Providing low risk exceptional access with verification of device possession A method for providing access to a communication includes generating a timed key table in device nonvolatile memory, storing archival copies of the timed key table within enterprise environments, encrypting a master secret with the currently applicable key of the timed key table, generating an encrypted timed key table by encrypting the timed key table with a public key, sending data on an encrypted session from a communication device to a server over a network, sending the encrypted master secret and encrypted timed key table from the communication device over the network, decrypting the encrypted timed key table with a private key, decrypting the encrypted master secret sent from the communication device using at least a subset of an unencrypted timed key table to obtain the master secret, and decrypting the encrypted data sent from the communication device using the unencrypted master secret. The timed key table includes information that identifies a locked communication device such that the information, which includes one or more of an IMEI, a WiFi MAC address, and a BT MAC address, is used to verify physical possession of the locked communication device.
US11363451B2	Information transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of this application disclose an information transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a terminal to a base station, capability indication information used to indicate whether the terminal supports non-coherent joint transmission; and receiving downlink control information sent by the base station, where the downlink control information is based on the capability indication information. According to the embodiments of this application, the base station can know whether the terminal supports NCJT, so as to select an appropriate transmission mode.
US11363448B2	Methods and apparatus to perform audio sensor selection in an audience measurement device Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform audio sensor selection in an audience metering device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least two audio sensors to receive audio at an audience metering device and a selection tester to identify a plurality of audio sensor configurations supported by the audience metering device, the plurality of audio sensor configurations identifying respective gain values to be applied to the plurality of audio sensors. The selection tester is further to select one of the first one of the audio sensor configurations or the second one of the audio sensor configurations based on a comparison of a first quality metric and a second quality metric. The example apparatus further includes a media identifier to identify audio received at the audience metering device using the selected one of the audio sensor configurations.
US11363447B2	Method and device for managing and allocating binding service in a wireless network A first network device may receive a binding request from a second network device. The binding request may include information relating to one or more of the second network device, a type of a session policy generated by the second network device, or a user equipment associated with the session policy. The first network device may determine an association between the second network device and the user equipment, and generate binding data. The binding data may include information relating to one or more of the user equipment, the second network device, the session policy, or the association. The first network device may assign a binding identifier to the binding data. The binding identifier may be configured to index the binding data associated with the user equipment. The first network device may cause an action to be performed in connection with the binding data or the binding identifier.
US11363440B2	Communication device having a wireless interface There is provided a method of wirelessly connecting a communication device to other devices using a communication protocol, wherein the communication device searches for external devices known to the communication device by executing a search activity in which the search effort to be spent by the communication device increases with the number of known external devices to be searched, wherein the communication device adjusts the search effort spent on the search activity for each one of the external devices according to the relevance of that external device, with a higher relevance of the external device resulting in a higher search effort, and wherein the search effort is determined by at least one of the following parameters of the search activity: scheduling frequency, duty cycle and transmission power.
US11363439B2	Method for communicating emergency messages to an electronic devices associated with a target person A method of communicating emergency messages from emergency personnel, in or associated with an emergency vehicle, to a target person, who may be in a motor vehicle, in order to encourage, suggest or demand the target person take appropriate action to benefit the emergency personnel and/or the target person. A transmitter associated with the emergency personnel transmits an electronic signal carrying the message and an electronic device, such as a radio, cell phone or loudspeaker, associated with the target person receives the message and communicates the message to the target person. The transmitter can limit the distance of the electronic signal to a signal radius so only target persons in the signal radius receive the message. Security codes can be used to allow the two devices to securely link together. The emergency vehicle can be manned or unmanned vehicles, including autonomously operated vehicles, remotely controlled vehicles, drones and robots.
US11363438B2	Near field connection for secure tractor trailer communication, and associated systems and methods Near field connection for secure tractor trailer communication, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system for wireless communication between a tractor and a trailer includes a first transceiver (TRX) attached to the tractor, and a second TRX attached to the trailer. An engagement between the tractor and the trailer brings the first TRX within an operational distance to the second TRX.
US11363436B2	Service mode display on a handheld communication device In a handheld communication device capable of a plurality of wireless communication modes, a method of communication begins by receiving, at the handheld communication device, a notification of an available one of the wireless communication modes. Then, in a data communication window of the communication device, a user-indication of an active one of the available wireless communication modes is provided in accordance with the received communication mode indication. The data communication window is configured to facilitate data communication via the plurality of wireless communication modes, and facilitates the data communication via the active wireless communication mode.
US11363433B2	Memory pooling between selected memory resources on vehicles or base stations Apparatuses, systems, and methods related to memory pooling between selected memory resources on vehicles or base stations are described. A system using a memory pool formed as such may enable performance of functions, including automated functions critical for prevention of damage to a product, personnel safety, and/or reliable operation, based on increased access to data that may improve performance of a mission profile. For instance, one apparatus described herein includes a wireless base station coupled to a first processor coupled to a first memory resource that are configured to enable formation of a memory pool to share data between the first memory resource and a second memory resource at a vehicle responsive to a request to access the second memory resource from the first processor transmitted via the base station. The data shared by the second memory resource is determined to enable performance of a particular functionality, stored by the first memory resource, as at least part of a mission profile for transit of the vehicle.
US11363432B2	Method and device for data transmission in V2I network A reliable data transmission method and system based on a predicted amount of data in a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) network is disclosed. A data transmission method of a base station includes determining a maximum amount of data to be transmitted from the base station disposed around a road to a vehicle traveling on the road, determining an encoding number for systematic network coding (SNC) based on the determined amount of data, performing the SNC on original data based on the encoding number and the amount of data, and transmitting encoded data obtained by performing the SNC to the vehicle.
US11363430B2	Coexistence of multiple air interface side-links on adjacent channels Various arrangements for using different air interfaces on adjacent frequency channels for side-link communications are presented. A first side-link channel may be split into a first bandwidth portion and the second bandwidth portion, in which the first bandwidth portion of the first side-link channel is directly adjacent to the second side-link channel. A first subcarrier spacing may be assigned to the first bandwidth portion of the first side-link channel. The second side-link channel may also use the first subcarrier spacing. A second subcarrier spacing may be assigned to the second bandwidth portion of the first side-link channel that differs from the first subcarrier spacing.
US11363423B2	Budgeting and quota management system for data consumption Systems and methods may provide for establishing a data usage budget based on one or more of user input and historical usage data, wherein the data usage budget distinguishes between usage types and distinguishes between connection types. Additionally, a data usage of one or more client devices may be monitored in accordance with the data usage budget. In one example, the usage types are designated as one or more of a high bandwidth usage and a low bandwidth usage, and the connection types are designated as one or more of a capped connection and a nan-capped connection.
US11363421B2	Increasing reliable data throughput in a wireless network Systems and methods for improving data transmission rates in communication networks are disclosed. In an 802.11 wireless communication network, where a source node of the wireless network transmits TCP data to a destination node of the wireless network, the destination node does not transmit TCP acknowledgments (ACKs) for the TCP data if 802.11 ACKs indicate that the destination node received the TCP data. If a source outside the wireless network transmits TCP data to the destination node within the wireless network through an intermediate device, such as an access point, the destination node suppresses transmitting TCP ACKs. The intermediate device transmits TCP ACKs as proxy for the destination node to the source. The intermediate device also suppresses TCP ACKs where a source node within the wireless network sends the TCP data to a destination node outside of the wireless network.
US11363420B2	Reporting reference signal-related consistencies in support of user equipment positioning Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses are described for reporting, in support of positioning a UE, information about consistencies of positioning reference signal (PRS) measurements, PRS resources, PRS resource sets, or transmission and reception points (TRPs). In some embodiments, a UE receives PRS resources from TRPs and performs PRS measurements based on the PRS resources. The UE determines whether certain PRS measurements, PRS resources, PRS resource sets, or TRPs contribute to a consistent position estimate and/or consistent positioning measurements. The UE reports to a device, such as to a location server, information about consistent groups, where each consistent group identifies a set of such consistent elements.
US11363413B2	Efficient UE location reporting in cellular networks A method (10) comprises communicating (11), from a network node (40) of a cellular network to a user equipment, UE, device (30), a first control signal (12) defining repetitive communicating (13) of a location information of the UE device (30) by the UE device (30); and in response to the communicating (11), repetitively communicating (13), from the UE device (30) to the network node (40), a second control signal (14) comprising the location information of the UE device (30). A user equipment, UE, device (30) and a network node (40) are configured to perform the method (10). A system (50) comprises the UE device (30) and the network node (40).
US11363407B2	Systems and methods for secure in-person dating and socializing Disclosed is a secure in-person dating and socializing platform. The platform may perform a check-in of a first user at a particular event based on messaging from a first device of the first user. The first device may receive messages from other devices of other users at the particular event that have previously checked-in to the particular event. Each message may provide a status for a different one of the other users. The first device may determine a location of each of the other devices based on signaling characteristics associated with receiving each message, may determine an area falling within a field-of-view of the first device camera, and may provide an augmented reality presentation of the camera feed with a visual indicator for the status of a second user at a particular location in the field-of-view that maps to the location of a second device of the second user.
US11363405B2	Determining a significant user location for providing location-based services Systems, methods, and program products for providing services to a user by a mobile device based on the user's daily routine of movement. The mobile device determines whether a location cluster indicates a significant location for the user based on one or more hints that indicate an interest of the user in locations in the cluster. The mobile device can perform adaptive clustering to determine a size of area of the significant location based on how multiple locations converge in the location cluster. The mobile device can provide location-based services for calendar items, including predicting a time of arrival at an estimated location of a calendar item. The mobile device can provide various services related to a location of the mobile device or a significant location of the user through an application programming interface (API).
US11363401B2	Associated spatial audio playback An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: generate audio effect information, wherein the audio effect information enables control of audio signal processing associated with audio signals related to one or more audio sources based on at least a zooming factor.
US11363397B2	Intelligent amplifier activation Embodiments are provided for intelligently activating an amplifier in a playback device based on proximity detection. The playback device may be in a quasi-idle state when the playback device is not rendering media content. The quasi-idle state of the playback device may involve an amplifier in the playback device being inactive, while some other components or modules of the playback devices remain active. The playback device may include a proximity sensor configured to detect movement relative to the playback device. If movement is detected indicating that a user input to cause the playback device to render media content is anticipated, the amplifier may be pre-emptively activated such that the playback device enters an active state from the quasi-idle state. In some cases, the playback device may send a message to one or more other playback devices to cause the other playback devices to enter an active state.
US11363394B2	Electronic device charging via an audio jack An electronic device may comprise audio processing circuitry and a universal serial bus (USB) connector having a first contact and a second contact. In a first mode of operation, the audio processing circuitry is configured to output one or more audio signals carrying music and/or voice via the first contact and the second contact. In a second mode of operation, the audio processing circuitry is configured to output a signal for delivering supply current via the first contact and the second contact. While the electronic device is in the first mode of operation, a gain and/or volume limit of the audio processing circuitry may be set to a first level, and while the electronic device is in the second mode of operation, the gain and/or volume limit of the audio processing circuitry may be set to a second level that is higher than the first level.
US11363391B2	Systems and methods for biomarker analysis on a hearing device An exemplary hearing device configured to be worn by a user includes a microphone and a processor. The microphone detects an audio signal. The processor is configured to determine that the audio signal includes own voice content representative of a voice of the user and determine that an environmental noise level within the audio signal is below a threshold The processor is further configured to apply, based on the environmental noise level being below the threshold, a biomarker feature analysis heuristic to the own voice content.
US11363390B2	Perceptually guided speech enhancement using deep neural networks A method, comprising receiving at least one sound at an electronic device. The at least one sound is enhanced for the at least one user based on a compound metric. The compound metric is calculated using at least two sound metrics selected from an engineering metric, a perceptual metric, and a physiological metric. The engineering metric comprises a difference between an output signal and a desired signal. At least one of the perceptual metric and the physiological metric is based at least in part on input sensed from the at least one user in response to the received at least one sound.
US11363384B2	Sensitive diaphragm with rim structure and sensor The present disclosure discloses a sensitive diaphragm comprising a diaphragm body, an edge region of the diaphragm body being provided with a rim structure, wherein the rim structure is in a non-closed annular shape, a non-closed region is located at a part not closed by the rim structure, and the non-closed region are integral and continuous with parts of the diaphragm body adjacent to the rim structure. According to the sensitive diaphragm of the present disclosure, the annular rim structure is separated by the non-closed region.
US11363383B2	Dynamic adjustment of earbud performance characteristics In some embodiments, a system comprises a host computing device and an audio device including at least one speaker and a plurality of microphones, the audio device being wirelessly and communicatively coupled to the host computing device. The host computing device can include one or more processors and one or more machine-readable, non-transitory storage mediums that include instructions configured to cause the one or more processors of the host computing device to perform operations including: receiving user environment data by one or more sensors of the host computing device; determining a characterization profile of a surrounding environment of the user based on the user environment data; and sending the characterization profile to the audio device, the characterization profile configured to cause the audio device to adapt an audio cardioid pattern of the plurality of microphones on the audio device based on the characterization profile.
US11363381B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus is capable of outputting a stereo sound. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image; a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel; a rear cover on the rear surface of the display panel and configured to support the sound generating device; a partition member between the rear surface of the display panel and the rear cover and configured to divide the display panel into first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas; and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth sound generating devices attached to the rear surface of the display panel and configured to vibrate the display panel. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth sound generating devices are in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas, respectively.
US11363380B2	Stereophonic devices A stereophonic device includes a first speaker to output audio associated with the visual presentation. The output of the first speaker is directed in a direction opposite the visual output of a display device. The stereophonic device includes a servomechanism to adjust an angular direction of an output of a first speaker based on a visual presentation presented on a display device associated with the audio signal to coordinate the output of the first speaker with expected spatial sounds perceived in the visual presentation.
US11363376B2	Acoustic approximation for determining excursion limits in speakers A speaker excursion characterizing system for a speaker includes a signal generator configured to generate a signal at a plurality of different amplitudes. The signal may be generated at a plurality of frequencies. An inverse excursion filter has an inverse excursion filter response, receives the signal and applies the inverse excursion filter response and has an output in communication with an amplifier circuit of the speaker. The inverse excursion filter response is an inverse of an excursion filter response of an excursion filter in the amplifier circuit of the speaker.
US11363373B2	Submersible microphone system with a compressible spacer A camera with image and audio capture capabilities is configured to protect the internal audio components from the external environment. The camera includes a housing that allows passage of sound waves via a port from an external area of the camera to an internal area of the camera. The camera includes a circuit board with an opening and a microphone attached to a first surface of the circuit board adjacent to the opening. The camera includes a compressible spacer attached to a second surface of the circuit board. The second surface of the circuit board may be diametrically opposite to the first surface. The camera includes a waterproof membrane between the housing and the compressible spacer.
US11363372B2	Systems and methods for minimizing vibration sensitivity for protected microphones Protected microphone systems may include one or more dampeners, one or more cavities, or a combination thereof to minimize the vibration sensitivity of a microphone of the protected microphone systems. The dampeners, when present, may be constructed of a foam material or a thin metal material.
US11363368B1	Ear tip including partition wall structure with improved active noise canceling function Disclosed is an ear tip including a partition wall structure with an improved active noise canceling function. The ear tip according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is mounted at one side of an earphone, inserted into an external auditory meatus of a wearer, and configured to stably fix a position of the earphone, the ear tip including: a main body part having a hollow cylinder structure corresponding to an outer peripheral surface of the earphone; an external auditory meatus contact part radially protruding from an outer peripheral surface of a lower end of the main body part, extending upward by a predetermined height, and configured to come into contact with an inner surface of the external auditory meatus of the wearer; a partition wall structure mounted and structured to divide a space defined by the outer peripheral surface of the main body part and an inner peripheral surface of the external auditory meatus contact part; and an elastic filling member having a predetermined magnitude of elastic restoring force and accommodated in any space selected from the spaces divided by the partition wall structure. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide the ear tip including a partition wall structure that improves an active noise canceling function and an external noise blocking force as the ear tip comes into contact with the skin surface of the external auditory meatus of the wearer when the wearer wears the ear tip in the ear.
US11363366B2	Headphone device There is provided a headphone device including: an external magnet type magnet unit that is disposed outside a voice coil, and vibrates the voice coil; and a diaphragm that is vibrated by vibration of the voice coil, and formed of a material in which a dome section having an outward concave shape on an inner circumference of the voice coil is continuous with an edge section outside the voice coil.
US11363364B2	Sound converting device having near-infrared ray emission function The present disclosure relates to a sound converting device, and in particular, a sound converting device having a near-infrared ray emission function, which allows a wearer to remain in a stable state by vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) and adjusts a stimulation effect on the wearer by adjusting an intensity of stimulation. A near-infrared ray emitted by an optical device of a light emitting unit has at least one of a set wavelength included in a reference wavelength range, a set frequency included in a reference frequency range, and a set light intensity included in a reference light intensity range, and the optical device operates to correspond to a set duty ratio included in a reference duty ratio.
US11363358B2	User equipment and method for outputting audio User equipment (UE) includes a housing, an audio output module, and a drive module connected to the audio output module. The drive module is configured to drive the audio output module to move along a straight line between a first location and a second location. The first location is inside the housing. The second location is outside the housing. When the audio output module is in an audio output state, the drive module is configured to drive the audio output module to move along the straight line to the second location. When the audio output module exits the audio output state, the drive module is configured to drive the audio output module to move along the straight line to the first location.
US11363357B2	PydePyper ultimate mobility system A system that comprises an instrument microphone comprising a clip and a wireless transmitter is disclosed. The clip is constructed to couple the instrument microphone to a brass or woodwind instrument. The system comprises a headgear apparatus microphone comprising a wireless transmitter. The headgear apparatus microphone is constructed to coupled to a head of a vocalist. The system comprises a Bluetooth speaker.
US11363356B2	System for wireless retrieval of measured component data A system for remotely retrieving sensed conditions at one or more building components. The building components are remote or numerous so that a wireless collection of the sensed conditions provides a significant benefit to a builder or building operator. A remote transceiver sends a wireless signal to a building component. The building component includes an onboard transceiver. At least some of the energy from the transmitted wireless signal is received by the onboard transceiver, sent to a storage device, and stored therein. The stored energy is used to operate a sensor for sensing an onboard condition. The onboard condition is then wirelessly transmitted by the onboard transceiver back to the remote transceiver to be displayed.
US11363353B2	Video highlight determination method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device Embodiments of this application disclose a video highlight determination method. The method includes: obtaining operation records of a target video, each operation record indicating a first play moment and an operation performed on the target video at the first play moment, and the first play moment being a play moment of the target video; obtaining, from the operation records, a quantity of operations of a target type that are performed on the target video at each play moment of the target video; and determining a target segment in the target video according to the quantity of operations. A ratio of a total quantity of operations of the target type performed on the target segment to a duration of the target segment is greater than a ratio of a total quantity of operations of the target type performed on the target video to a duration of the target video.
US11363350B2	Real-time cloud-based video watermarking systems and methods A video generation system is configured to provide streaming video as a cloud processed service to viewers over a computing network. In response to a request from a viewer, a video source is configured to provide video and an identifier source is configured to provide an identifier for inclusion in the video. A video encoder is configured to convert the video from a first format to a second format, apply the identifier to the video, and otherwise encode the video in real-time while streaming the encoded video to the viewer. The identifier may be stored in association with the account information of the viewer and used for identifying the viewer a source of an unauthorized video copy.
US11363349B2	Geometry matching in virtual reality and augmented reality Methods, apparatus and systems for geometric matching of virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) output contemporaneously with video output formatted for display on a 2D screen include a determination of value sets that when used in image processing cause an off-screen angular field of view of the at least one of the AR output object or the VR output object to have a fixed relationship to at least one of the angular field of view of the onscreen object or of the 2D screen. The AR/VR output object is outputted to an AR/VR display device and the user experience is improved by the geometric matching between objects observed on the AR/VR display device and corresponding objects appearing on the 2D screen.
US11363339B2	Scalable light-weight protocols for wire-speed packet ordering A communication method between a source device and a target device utilizes speculative connection setup between the source device and the target device, target-device-side packet ordering, and fine-grained ordering to remove packet dependencies.
US11363335B2	Methods and apparatus to determine a state of a media presentation device Methods and apparatus to determine a state of a media presentation device are disclosed. Example disclosed methods include generating a first set of weighted coefficients based on first audio received by first and second microphones at a first time. Example disclosed methods include generating a second set of weighted coefficients based on second audio received by the first and second microphones at a second time after the first time. Example disclosed methods include comparing the first set of coefficients and the second set of coefficients to generate a similarity value. Example disclosed methods include, when the similarity value satisfies a threshold, determining that the media presentation device is in a first state. Example disclosed methods include, when the similarity value does not satisfy the threshold, determining that the media presentation device is in a second state.
US11363333B2	System and method of measuring delay between transmitted audio and video signals A system is provided for measuring delay between audio and video signals. The system includes a transmission device for embedding a video timestamp to a video signal based on at least one remote timestamp generated by a first time server; and for embedding an audio timestamp to an audio signal based on the at least one remote timestamp generated by a first time server. Moreover, a delay processor determines an absolute delay and a relative delay between the audio and video signals by comparing each of the extracted video timestamp and the extracted audio timestamp with a local timestamp generated by the second time server. A synchronization signal is generated based on the measured absolute and relative delays; and used to synchronize the audio signal with the video signal to generate a media playout signal.
US11363332B1	Methods and apparatus to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. Example instructions, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least, access meter data, process the meter data to identify a presented show based on a bumper included in a show, filter the meter data based on the identification of the show, select a candidate episode, the candidate episode not associated with a known episode label, determine whether the candidate episode appears sequentially after a known episode for a threshold number of presentation locations, and label the candidate episode as the next sequential episode after the known episode in response to determining that the candidate episode appears sequentially after the known episode for the threshold number of presentation locations.
US11363330B2	Method, apparatus and computer-readable recording medium for transmitting or receiving VPCC data A method and an apparatus for transmitting video-based point cloud contents (VPCC) data by a server are provided. The method includes generating moving picture experts group (MPEG) media transport protocol (MMTP) packets including at least one asset for the VPCC data, generating a signaling message including an asset group message about the at least one asset, and transmitting the MMTP packets and the signaling message to a client.
US11363325B2	Augmented reality apparatus and method A live broadcast is depicted, in this case a golf tournament. The broadcast is depicted on a television screen of a user, substantially in real time. In a television studio, which may be close to the site of the live broadcast, or may be remote therefrom, a commentator or pundit records segments of video analysis. The video image is sent to a server. The video clip of the commentator is then downloadable by the user using a device such as a mobile phone or tablet. The user can then view the additional content—the video segment of the commentator—on his device. Using the techniques of positioning and anchoring as described herein, the user can enjoy the video segment as though the commentator were present in the room, by viewing the room through a camera of the device.
US11363324B2	Display apparatus, method for UI display thereof and computer-readable recording medium A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a user interface window for receiving a letter input; a communication interface configured to receive a control instruction for inputting letters from a control device; and a controller configured to control the display to selectively display an on-screen keypad for inputting letters on the user interface window based on whether the control device includes letter keys for inputting letters.
US11363323B2	Method and system for providing content Methods and systems for providing content. A selection of a single virtual channel may be received from the user. Virtual programming data for the single virtual channel may be accessed. The virtual programming data may define content to be provided over the single virtual channel. The content may be provided over the single virtual channel in accordance with the virtual programming data.
US11363322B2	Optimization of encoding profiles for media streaming Techniques described herein are directed toward creating one or more “dynamic profiles” for media (video) streaming in which an encoding bit rate (and optionally other profile settings) is optimized for particular content. More specifically, techniques involve performing one or more “probe” encodings of the particular content to determine an encoding bit rate (and optionally other profile settings) that results in an encoding having a quality value sufficiently near (within a threshold) a target quality value.
US11363321B2	Content-modification system with delay buffer feature In one aspect, a method includes an input buffer receiving content; accessing the content from the input buffer and extracting from the accessed content, in-band message data that indicates a start time associated with a content-modification opportunity for a content-presentation device; the input buffer transmitting the content to a delay buffer; the delay buffer receiving the content from the input buffer and, after a delay time-period, transmitting the content to an output buffer; the output buffer receiving the content from the delay buffer and outputting for presentation a portion of the content; and after outputting for presentation the portion of the content and proximate a time-point associated with the indicated start-time, starting to perform a content-modification operation in connection with the content-modification opportunity.
US11363320B2	Systems and methods for management of media content subscriptions Systems and methods are provided for managing subscriptions. A media guidance application obtaining viewing patterns of a subscriber and determining a first and second media package of interest to the subscriber. A first and second release schedule are obtained related to media content in the first and second media packages. The media guidance application predicts a first viewing impact of the first subscription and a second viewing impact of the second subscription, for the upcoming time period, wherein the viewing impact indicates a total predicted amount of time spent viewing the media packages in the upcoming time period. An available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period is also determined. The media guidance application generates a subscription recommendation for the upcoming time period based on the first viewing impact, second viewing impact, and available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period.
US11363316B1	Customized content streaming techniques In some implementations, a system is capable of intelligently generating customized multimedia content streams that are distributed to different groups of users. The system generates the customized content streams such that the initial and terminating portions of the streams are shared between each of the content streams. The system adjusts the intermediate portions of the streams to, for example, the viewing preferences of each user group using alternate forms of content. In this regard, the customized content streams that have both customized portions and shared portions to provide a standardized yet adaptive viewing experience for all users.
US11363312B2	Adaptive bit-rate methods for live broadcasting The following describes techniques to maintain continuity of a live media stream. A media stream includes a first distribution layer with a first set of key frames and a set of delta frames succeeding key frames in the first set of key frames. The media stream also includes a second distribution layer including a second set of key frames, where the second set of key frames contains fewer key frames than the first set of key frames. Using the first and second distribution layers, a client device may subscribe to the media stream with a minimized start-up time and optimized quality of experience among varying complexity of the media content and dynamic network conditions.
US11363310B2	ATSC 3.0 hospitality TV system Techniques are described for using the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering TV programming to hospitality establishments such as hotels without the need for set-top boxes or set-back boxes.
US11363307B2	Video coding with subpictures A method of decoding a video sequence coded with subpictures can include receiving a first syntax element corresponding to a coding tree unit (CTU) size in a bitstream at a decoder, receiving a second syntax element corresponding to whether a picture being partitioned into subpictures, in response to the second syntax element indicating the picture is partitioned into the subpictures, receiving third syntax elements indicating a position and a size of each of the subpictures in the picture based on a unit of the CTU size, and reconstructing one or more of the subpictures based on the position and the size of each of the respective subpictures in the picture.
US11363306B2	Methods, systems, and apparatuses for processing video by adaptive rate distortion optimization Systems and methods are described herein for processing video. An encoder implementing the systems and methods described herein may receive video data comprising a plurality of frames and may partition each frame of the plurality of frames into a plurality of coding units. The encoder may then partition a coding unit into two or more prediction units. The encoder may determine, based on one or more coding parameters, a target bit rate, and characteristics of a human visual system (HVS), a coding mode for each of the two or more prediction units to minimize distortion in the encoded bitstream. The encoder may then determine a residual signal comprising a difference between each of the two or more prediction units and each of one or more corresponding prediction areas in a previously encoded frame and then generate an encoded bitstream comprising the residual signal.
US11363305B2	Inheritance in sample array multitree subdivision A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision.
US11363304B2	System and methods for data compression and nonuniform quantizers An optical network includes a transmitting portion configured to (i) encode an input digitized sequence of data samples into a quantized sequence of data samples having a first number of digits per sample, (ii) map the quantized sequence of data samples into a compressed sequence of data samples having a second number of digits per sample, the second number being lower than the first number, and (iii) modulate the compressed sequence of data samples and transmit the modulated sequence over a digital optical link. The optical network further includes a receiving portion configured to (i) receive and demodulate the modulated sequence from the digital optical link, (ii) map the demodulated sequence from the second number of digits per sample into a decompressed sequence having the first number of digits per sample, and (iii) decode the decompressed sequence.
US11363302B2	Method and apparatus of neural network for video coding Method and apparatus of video encoding video coding for a video encoder or decoder using Neural Network (NN) are disclosed. According to one method, input data or a video bitstream are received for blocks in one or more pictures, which comprise one or more colour components. The residual data, prediction data, reconstructed data, filtered-reconstructed data or a combination thereof is derived for one or more blocks of said one or more pictures. A target signal corresponding to one or more of the about signal types is processed using a NN (Neural Network) and the input of the NN or an output of the NN comprises two or more colour components. According to another method, A target signal corresponding to one or more of the about signal types is processed using a NN and the input of the NN or an output of the NN comprises two or more colour components.
US11363299B2	Encoding and decoding with merge mode and block partition index An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry, and the circuitry, in operation: determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The circuitry determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.
US11363298B2	Video processing apparatus and processing method of video stream A video processing apparatus and a processing method of video stream are provided. In the method, at least one encoding unit is formed in an image frame, sub-encoding units in multiple encoding units of an image sequence are encoded according to a correlation between a first sub-encoding unit and a second sub-encoding unit in the sub-encoding units, and a video stream is generated according to an encoded result of the image sequence. The image frame is an image of the image sequence, and each of the encoding units records encoding information of a belonging block.
US11363294B2	Image processing method and image processing device A video processing method includes determining an image before a current frame in time sequence as a long-term reference image according to an identifier, determining a motion vector candidate list of a current coding unit, receiving a plurality of indexes, and obtaining an initial motion vector of the current coding unit from the motion vector candidate list according to the indexes. If a reference image pointed to by the initial motion vector is a short-term reference image, the initial motion vector is corrected to obtain a corrected motion vector and prediction is performed for the current coding unit according to the corrected motion vector. If the reference image is a long-term reference image, prediction is performed for the current coding unit according to the initial motion vector without correcting the initial motion vector.
US11363292B2	Memory access window and padding for motion vector refinement and motion compensation The present disclosure relates to motion vector determination using template or bilateral matching and predictor generation based on the motion vector. The template or bilateral matching and/or the predictor generation use interpolation filtering. The interpolation filtering operation accesses integer sample positions within a window, and further uses padded sample values for integer sample positions outside the window, which are based on at least one sample within said window, and uses the accessed integer sample position values as well as the padded sample values to perform the template or bilateral matching and/or predictor generation.
US11363285B2	Block partitioning at picture boundaries Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that determines whether a part of a current block of a current picture in a coded video sequence is outside the current picture. The processing circuitry determines whether one of an allowed binary split indicator, an allowed ternary split indicator, and an allowed quaternary split indicator of the current block is true in response to the part of the current block being outside the current picture. The processing circuitry applies an implicit binary split to the current block in response to none of the allowed binary split indicator, the allowed ternary split indicator, and the allowed quaternary split indicator being true.
US11363284B2	Upsampling in affine linear weighted intra prediction A device for decoding video data determine that a current block of video data is encoded in an affine linear weighted intra prediction (ALWIP) mode; derives, based on a set of left edge neighboring samples of the current block and a set of top edge neighboring samples of the current block, a subset of left edge samples and a subset of top edge samples; applies an affine model to the subset of left edge samples and the subset of top edge samples to generate an intermediate block of intermediate samples; filters the intermediate samples to generate a final prediction block; decodes the current block of video data based on the final prediction block.
US11363282B1	System and method for low latency distributed image compression and composition A method and system for minimizing image compression processing, transmission latency and bandwidth use by efficiently coordinating one or more distributed producers or consumers of images, sub images, macro images and their corresponding relevant data. By generalizing and coordinating distributed device compression, many disparate elements of the formerly unidirectional image compression pipeline may share additional information that allows each and every element to seek and implement improved compression and compositional optimization.
US11363281B2	Scalable coding of video sequences using tone mapping and different color gamuts A Scalable Video Coding (SVC) process for scalable video coding takes into account color gamut primaries along with spatial resolution. The process for re-sampling uses video color data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system to enable improved encoding and decoding in an enhancement layer (EL) or higher layers taking into account color conversion between layers. Examples of applicable SVC include MPEG-4 and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). With the SVC process, video data expressed in one color gamut space can be used for prediction in encoding with a different color space.
US11363276B2	Intra-frame prediction method and apparatus, video coding device, and storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an intra-frame prediction method and apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. In the method, pixel main directions of reference coded blocks that spatially neighbor a target to-be-coded block are determined. For each of the pixel main directions, a search is performed for an intra-frame prediction direction that is within a set distance value of the respective pixel main direction. Candidate intra-frame prediction directions are formed at least according to the intra-frame prediction directions. Prediction and coding are performed on the target to-be-coded block according to the candidate intra-frame prediction directions. Further, a target intra-frame prediction direction in the candidate intra-frame prediction directions is determined according to results of the prediction and coding on the target to-be-coded block according to the candidate intra-frame prediction directions.
US11363271B2	Method for video frame interpolation, related electronic device and storage medium A method for video frame interpolation, a related electronic device and a storage medium is disclosed. A video is obtained. An (i−1)th frame and an ith frame of the video are obtained. Visual semantic feature maps and depth maps of the (i−1)th frame and the ith frame are obtained. Frame interpolation information is obtained based on the visual semantic feature maps and the depth maps. An interpolated frame between the (i−1)th frame and the ith frame is generated based on the frame interpolation information and the (i−1)th frame and is inserted between the (i−1)th frame and the ith frame.
US11363269B2	Encoding sequence encoding method and device thereof, and decoding method and device thereof Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining encoding order information indicating whether an encoding order of a first block and a second block that are adjacent to each other is changed; determining the encoding order of the first block and the second block, based on the encoding order information; and decoding the first block and the second block, according to the determined encoding order.
US11363268B2	Concept for varying a coding quantization parameter across a picture, coding quantization parameter adjustment, and coding quantization parameter adaptation of a multi-channel picture Coding quantization parameter variation or adaptation is made more effective by basing the determination of a coding quantization parameter for a predetermined block of the picture on a dispersion of a statistical sample value distribution of a high-pass filtered version of the predetermined block. The usage of the high-pass filtered version of the predetermined block as a basis for the determination of the dispersion instead of using, for instance, the un-filtered or original version of the predetermined block assists in a better adaptation of the resulting coding quantization parameter variation across the picture to the human visual system. Alternatively or additionally, coding quantization parameter variation or adaptation across a picture is made more efficient by a control of coding quantization parameter variation/adaptation across a picture in a manner dependent on a prediction of the actual dispersion. In order to improve the coding efficiency in encoding a picture into a data stream, a comparison between a first coding quantization parameter assigned to a predetermined block of the picture and a threshold which depends on a mean difference of sample values of the predetermined block to sample values' mean value may be performed.
US11363265B2	Method and device for encoding or decoding image An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus may reconstruct a current picture based on at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction, specify a block boundary to which a deblocking filter is applied in the reconstructed current picture, and apply a deblocking filter to a block boundary based on a filter type pre-defined in an encoding apparatus.
US11363264B2	Sample adaptive offset control Offset values, such as Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) values in video coding standards such as the High Efficiency Video Coding standard (HEVC), may be improved by performing calculations and operations that improve the preciseness of these values without materially affecting the signal overhead needed to transmit the more precise values. Such calculations and operations may include applying a quantization factor to a video sample and at least some of its neighbors, comparing the quantized values, and classifying the video sample as a minimum, maximum, or one of various types of edges based on the comparison. Other sample range, offset mode, and/or offset precision parameters may be calculated and transmitted with metadata to improve the precision of offset values.
US11363261B2	Method and apparatus for decoding using reference line index based on intra prediction mode Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of a reference line selected from a plurality of potential reference lines and an intra prediction mode selected from a set of potential intra prediction modes that is associated with the reference line. Then the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the block according to the intra prediction mode and at least one reference sample in the reference line.
US11363257B2	Image component prediction method and device, and computer storage medium Colour component prediction method is provided, which includes that: first reference sample set corresponding to colour component to be predicted of coding block in video image is acquired; when available sample number in first reference sample set is less than preset number, preset component value is taken as predicted value corresponding to the colour component to be predicted; when available sample number in first reference sample set is not less than preset number, first reference sample set is screened to obtain second reference sample set; when available sample number in second reference sample set is equal to preset number, model parameter is determined through second reference sample set, and prediction model corresponding to colour component to be predicted is obtained based on model parameter, prediction model is used for prediction processing of colour component to be predicted to obtain predicted value corresponding to colour component to be predicted.
US11363254B2	Method for improved intra prediction when reference samples are missing The method for intra frame prediction allows for the recovery of some intra directional modes that are otherwise rendered useless due to the classical padding process. Directional modes are recovered by filling pixel locations in the prediction unit with samples from the portion of the unit that is determined to have samples available for use using a counterpart directional mode to the one that is useless. When it is determined that reference samples are missing for a particular prediction unit or portion thereof given a particular directional mode, a determination is made about whether reference samples along another portion of the prediction unit are available. The other portion is the side of the prediction unit at an opposite end of the particular directional mode. When it is determined that such reference samples are available, it is possible to extend the number of intra directional modes by replacing the particular directional modes that are rendered useless, because of the unavailability of reference samples, with their counterpart directional modes that are oppositely directed.
US11363253B2	Systems and methods for generalized multi-hypothesis prediction for video coding Systems and methods are described for video coding using generalized bi-prediction. In an exemplary embodiment, to code a current block of a video in a bitstream, a first reference block is selected from a first reference picture and a second reference block is selected from a second reference picture. Each reference block is associated with a weight, where the weight may be an arbitrary weight ranging, e.g., between 0 and 1. The current block is predicted using a weighted sum of the reference blocks. The weights may be selected from among a plurality of candidate weights. Candidate weights may be signaled in the bitstream or may be derived implicitly based on a template. Candidate weights may be pruned to avoid out-of-range or substantially duplicate candidate weights. Generalized bi-prediction may additionally be used in frame rate up conversion.
US11363252B2	Image sensing device and operating the same A method of operating an image sensing device includes applying control voltages to a pixel array in accordance with a test mode and performing an analog-to-digital conversion of a column line voltage to obtain one or more digital codes. The one or more digital codes are evaluated to detect an operating error associated with the column line and/or corresponding analog to digital converter. In response to an operating error, pixel values may be replaced or averaged with nearby pixel outputs not affected by the operating error.
US11363250B2	Augmented 3D entertainment systems A wearable device comprises a left view optical stack for a viewer to view left view cinema display images rendered on a cinema display and a right view optical stack for the viewer to view right view cinema display images rendered on the cinema display. The left view cinema display images and the right view cinema display images form stereoscopic cinema images. The wearable device further comprises a left view imager that renders left view device display images, to the viewer, on a device display, and a right view imager that renders right view device display images, to the viewer, on the device display. The left view device display images and the right view device display images form stereoscopic device images complementary to the stereoscopic cinema images.
US11363249B2	Layered scene decomposition CODEC with transparency A system and methods for a CODEC driving a real-time light field display for multi-dimensional video streaming, interactive gaming and other light field display applications is provided applying a layered scene decomposition strategy. Multi-dimensional scene data including information on transparency of surfaces is divided into a plurality of data layers of increasing depths as the distance between a given layer and the display surface increases. Data layers are sampled using a plenoptic sampling scheme and rendered using hybrid rendering, such as perspective and oblique rendering, to encode light fields corresponding to each data layer. The resulting compressed, (layered) core representation of the multi-dimensional scene data is produced at predictable rates, reconstructed and merged at the light field display in real-time by applying view synthesis protocols, including edge adaptive interpolation, to reconstruct pixel arrays in stages (e.g. columns then rows) from reference elemental images.
US11363246B2	Raw image processing system and method Processing raw image data in a camera includes computing a luminance image from the raw image data, and computing a chrominance image corresponding to at least one of the sensor's image colors from the raw image data. The luminance image and chrominance image(s) can represent the same range of colors able to be represented in the raw image data. The chrominance image can have a lower resolution than that of the luminance image. A camera for performing the method is also disclosed.
US11363242B2	Optimizing drive schemes for multiple projector systems Light projection systems and methods may comprise combining light from two or more projectors, Each projector may be controlled so that the combined light output of the projectors matches a target for the projected light. In some embodiments optimization is performed to generate image data and control signals for each of the projectors. Embodiments may be applied in image projecting applications, lighting applications, and 3D stereoscopic imaging.
US11363240B2	System and method for augmented reality multi-view telepresence Disclosed herein are systems and methods for augmented reality multi-view telepresence. An embodiment takes the form of a method that includes obtaining a session geometry of a multi-location telepresence session that includes a first-location participant at a first location and a second-location participant at a second location, each location having respective pluralities of cameras and display segments. The method includes selecting, according to the session geometry, both a first-to-second-viewpoint second-location camera from the plurality of second-location cameras as well as a first-to-second-viewpoint first-location display segment from the plurality of first-location display segments. The method includes receiving a first-to-second-viewpoint video stream captured by the selected first-to-second-viewpoint second-location camera, and further includes generating a line-of-sight augmented-reality experience for the multi-location telepresence session at least in part by rendering the received first-to-second-viewpoint video stream via the selected first-to-second-viewpoint first-location display segment.
US11363239B2	Integration of videoconferencing with interactive electronic whiteboard appliances An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to integrate and manage, in a user-friendly manner, interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions between the interactive whiteboard appliance and one or more client devices. An application manager executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance manages an interactive whiteboard application and a collaboration client executing on the interactive whiteboard appliance to maintain a videoconferencing session window on top of an interactive whiteboard session window during videoconferencing sessions. The application manager also provides graphical user interface controls displayed on the interactive whiteboard appliance that allow users to initiate and manage interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions, including switching between interactive electronic whiteboard sessions and videoconferencing sessions. The approach may be implemented on interactive whiteboard appliances that are not natively configured to allow users to select and/or switch control between an interactive whiteboard session window and a videoconferencing session window.
US11363238B1	Systems and methods for healthcare facility contactless communication Systems and methods for managing communications within a healthcare facility are provided. An audio communication channel is provisioned between a clinician video conferencing unit and a pillow speaker. A video communication channel is provisioned between the clinician video conferencing unit and a room-mounted video conferencing unit. The pillow speaker and room-mounted video conferencing unit are both located inside a room at the healthcare facility while the clinician video conferencing unit is located outside of the room, such as in the hallway, at a nurse's station, or external to the facility. The audio communication channel and the video communication channel are concurrently maintained during a contactless video conference session.
US11363234B2	Video management system and video management method A video management system includes: an imaging device configured to generate a first image by capturing a surveillance area at a first resolution; and a video management server configured to store a second image by converting the first image, wherein the imaging device includes: a high-resolution image storage configured to store the first image; a processor configured to convert the first image into the second image having a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution; and to transmit the second image to the video management server, and the video management server includes: a low-resolution image storage configured to store the second image; and a processor configured to generate low-resolution image metadata and an index of the low-resolution image metadata by analyzing the second image.
US11363233B1	Optical frequency imaging Frequency imaging of different areas or object in an image is created by a visible light, infrared or other cameras taking multiple sequential images is disclosed. The images are recorded and stacked. Pixels that vary in the images yield time varying data on a pixel by pixel basis. The time varying data is processed to extract pixel by pixel signal spectrum or another similar signal metric. Frequency at each pixel is displayed and distinguished, such as by recoloring the pixels based on spectral power rather than intensity contrast.
US11363230B2	Image sensor module and image sensor device including the same Disclosed is an image sensor module which includes a pixel array including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, an analog to digital converter connected to the pixel array through a plurality of data lines and converting signals output from the plurality of sub-pixels into digital signals, a row decoder connected to the pixel array through a plurality of selection lines, a plurality of transfer lines, and a plurality of reset lines, and a control logic circuit controlling the analog to digital converter and the row decoder to allow a plurality of sub-frames to be sequentially outputted from the plurality of sub-pixels, wherein each of the plurality of sub-frames is generated based on signals output from different sub-pixels among the plurality of sub-pixels.
US11363229B1	Electronic device An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines, an amplifier and a current source. The pixels and data lines are disposed on the substrate. The amplifier and the current source are coupled to one of the data lines, wherein at least a portion of the one of data lines forms a conduction path. One of the pixels is coupled to the one of the data lines at a first node, and the first node is on the first conduction path. A first current that flows from the first node to the first source terminal is different from a second current that flows from the first node to the first output terminal.
US11363224B2	Image sensing device An image sensing device may include a first tap and a second tap configured to generate a hole current in a substrate, and capture photocharge which is generated by incident light and migrated by the hole current. The first and second taps may be disposed in vertex regions facing each other in a diagonal direction in one pixel, respectively.
US11363222B2	Image sensing device An image sensing device includes a first sub-pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels having a first color arranged adjacent to each other, a second sub-pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels having a second color arranged adjacent to the first sub-pixel array in a first direction, a third sub-pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels having a third color arranged adjacent to the second sub-pixel array in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a fourth sub-pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels having the second color arranged adjacent to the first sub-pixel array and the second sub-pixel array in the second direction. The fourth sub-pixel array includes a plurality of phase detection pixels for detecting a phase difference in at least the first direction.
US11363221B2	Image sensor post processing In one example, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an image sensor configured to generate a first raw output to represent a first intensity of incident light based on a first relationship, and to generate a second raw output to represent a second intensity of incident light based on a second relationship. The apparatus further comprises a post processor configured to: generate a first post-processed output based on the first raw output and based on the first relationship such that the first post-processed output is linearly related to the first intensity based on a third relationship, and to generate a second post-processed output based on the second raw output and based on the second relationship such that the second post-processed output is linearly related to the second intensity based on the third relationship.
US11363220B2	Image sensor having a time calculator and image processing device including the same Provided are an image sensor and an image processing device including the same. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns and configured to generate pixel signals from the plurality of pixels, a time calculator configured to receive zoom information corresponding to digital zooming, and configured to calculate a row processing time available for processing the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in a single row based on the zoom information, a timing generator configured to generate at least one control signal based on the row processing time; and an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) configured to generate pixel data by performing sampling on the pixel signals according to the at least one control signal.
US11363217B2	Subtitle generation apparatus, subtitle generation method, and non-transitory storage medium An apparatus includes a text information extraction unit that extracts character information from a video including characters, a text coincidence detection unit that detects character information included in dialogue information that is data of a dialogue associated with the video data from the extracted character information, a text translation unit that translates the character information, a display position calculation unit that calculates a display position of translated text information in the video data on the basis of a text region information that indicates a region in which a video corresponding to the character information is displayed in the video data and on the basis of the translated text information, and a subtitle synthesizing unit that adds, as a subtitle, the translated text information on the basis of display position information.
US11363213B1	Minimizing ghosting in high dynamic range image processing Methods, systems, and devices for minimizing ghosting in high dynamic range image processing are described. The method may include capturing from a sensor of the device a downscaled first frame of a first exposure length and a downscaled second frame of a second exposure length that is longer than the first exposure length, identifying a highlight region associated with the downscaled first frame and a motion region associated with the downscaled first frame and with the downscaled second frame, blending the motion region in accordance with determining whether at least a portion of the motion region overlaps the highlight region, and incorporating the blending of the motion region in a set of full resolution frames.
US11363199B2	Apparatus and method for estimating optical image stabilization motion An electronic device is disclosed. Moreover, various embodiment found through the disclosure are possible. The electronic device may include a camera module including an optical image stabilizer, a motion sensor, a processor electrically connected to the camera module and the motion sensor. The processor may be configured to obtain first motion information corresponding to shaking of the electronic device through the motion sensor, while at least partially obtaining an image frame, determine second motion information, which corresponds to motion of a lens or an image sensor included in the camera module, from the first motion information, using attribute information and a frequency pass filter of the optical image stabilizer, and perform digital image correction, based on the first motion information and the second motion information.
US11363191B2	Guidance electronic device relating to blurring, control method of the same, and storage medium An electronic device includes an acquisition unit capable of acquiring an image captured through optical system, wherein a subject image passing through the optical system has characteristic blurring based on a function of spherical aberration of the optical system or a function of an apodization filter of the optical system; and a control unit that performs control to display, together with the captured image, a guidance related to the characteristic blurring.
US11363190B2	Image capturing method and device An image capturing method can be applied to an application, and include: determining a dimension adjustment approach set for a preset object in an acquired image to be processed after a dimension adjustment function of the application is turned on; and obtaining and displaying an adjusted image by adjusting a dimension of the preset object in the image to be processed according to the dimension adjustment approach, so as to support real-time preview of the adjusted image. As the dimension of the preset object in the image to be processed is adjusted in the image capturing process, the image capturing experience of the user is improved, and satisfying photos or videos can be obtained quickly.
US11363188B2	Motion-based operation of imaging devices One aspect of this disclosure includes a method for operating a head-mounted display system that includes an imaging device. The method includes receiving an indication that an ambient light condition in an environment is below a lighting threshold. Responsive to the low lighting condition, an amount of motion of the head-mounted display relative to the environment is determined based on one or more signals received from an inertial measurement unit included in the head-mounted display system. An exposure time, frame rate, and a pixel-binning mode are automatically selected for the imaging device based on the determined amount of motion. Imagery is captured from the environment using the automatically selected exposure time, frame rate, and pixel-binning mode for the imaging device. The captured imagery is then displayed at the head-mounted display system.
US11363187B2	Focusing method and apparatus applied to terminal device, and terminal device Examples in this application disclose a focusing method and apparatus applied to a terminal device, and the terminal device. One example method includes detecting whether a current frame includes a target object, where the target object is one of preset objects on which focusing needs to be performed. When the current frame includes the target object, a determination is made as to whether the target object is in a motion state. When the target object is in the motion state, tracking focusing is performed by using phase detection PD information with a variable filtering length. When the target object is in a static state, stable focusing is performed by using PD information obtained in an adaptive fixed PD configuration mode.
US11363177B2	Endoscope system An endoscope system processor includes: a blood vessel region determination unit that obtains a likelihood of a blood vessel region by a numerical value on the basis of a shape characterizing a blood vessel in each of a plurality of parts of an image of a biological tissue, from the image obtained by an electronic endoscope; and a blood vessel feature amount calculation unit that calculates a blood vessel feature amount indicating a feature amount of the blood vessel region by integrating the numerical values of the likelihood of the blood vessel region with each other in the entire image. The blood vessel region determination unit calculates an approximation degree as the likelihood of the blood vessel region, using a spatial filter.
US11363170B2	Printing system calibration applying a distortion to the correction creating a detectable region in the second output Examples of an apparatus and method for use with a printing system are described herein. A correction to be applied to a printing system during print calibration is obtained. A distortion is applied to the correction. A relationship between an expected and measured output of the printing system is determined based on the print performed at least in part on the distorted correction. The printing system is calibrated on the basis of the determined correction.
US11363168B2	Securing authorized access of a scanned image An imaging device comprises a scanning unit to create a scanned image of a document placed in the scanning unit. The imaging device comprises a remote scan management engine to create a remote scan request indicator in response to a remote access request received from a client device connected to the imaging device for remotely accessing the scanned image. The remote scan request indicator indicative of an authorization status of the remote access request. The authorization status being at least one of authorized, refused, and pending for authorization. The imaging device comprises a print engine to print a document copy having the scanned image and a remote scan request indicator. The remote scan request indicator is to allow an owner of the document to access the remote access authorization indicator to update the authorization status, to secure authorized access of the scanned image.
US11363167B2	Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium storing computer program An image forming apparatus that includes an image capturing unit capturing an image in front of the apparatus; a display displaying a screen; and a controller including one or more processors, the controller configured to function as: an acquisition unit acquiring a face image of a user from the image captured by the image capturing unit; an authentication unit authenticating, using the face image of the user acquired by the acquisition unit, the user who is within a first distance from the apparatus; a tracking unit tracking the user authenticated by the authentication unit; and a control unit causing the display to display a screen that is based on information corresponding to the user tracked by the tracking unit when the user has reached a position at a second distance from the apparatus, the second distance being shorter than the first distance.
US11363161B2	Information processing apparatus capable of controlling a document stored in a memory not to leak to a network not permitted to access and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes multiple network interfaces, multiple storage areas for saving data, an obtaining unit, and a presenting unit. The multiple network interfaces are connected to corresponding networks. For each of the multiple storage areas, a network interface permitted as an output path of the saved data is defined. The obtaining unit obtains network information indicating a network available to each user. The presenting unit presents to a user a list of storage areas selectable as a data storage destination. The presenting unit presents a list of storage areas for which a network interface connected to a network available to the user, which is indicated by the network information, is defined as the output path.
US11363160B2	Detachable device, control method thereof, and storage medium A detachable device that can be attached/detached to/from an electronic apparatus and includes a memory unit: analyzes input data for analysis from the electronic apparatus; divides a processing result obtained by the analysis into a plurality of partial data and store the partial data in a plurality of areas of the memory unit such that addresses are not continuous; determines, based on a parameter included in a read command from the electronic apparatus, whether the read command is a command for reading out the processing result; and if it is determined that the read command is the command for reading out the processing result, reads out the plurality of partial data from the plurality of areas of the memory unit, constructs the partial data to the processing result, and outputs the processing result.
US11363156B2	Image reading apparatus and image reading control method An image reading apparatus includes: a reader configured to read an image of a document to be transported; a cleaning section configured to clean a reading surface of the reader, a drive source for performing a cleaning operation of the reading surface by the cleaning section; and a control unit configured to control the drive source, wherein when the control unit detects dirt on the reading surface based on data received from the reader, the control unit controls the drive source to perform the cleaning operation by the cleaning section.
US11363155B2	Image reading device and image forming apparatus Provided is an image reading device including: a document pressing portion that is attached to an apparatus body and configured to open or close to the apparatus body to press a document in between; and an opening force applying unit that applies a drive force of a drive source to the document pressing portion as an opening force to open the document pressing portion temporarily in a period of opening the document pressing portion.
US11363142B2	Techniques for benchmarking performance in a contact center system Techniques for benchmarking performance in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking contact center system performance comprising cycling, by at least one computer processor configured to perform contact center operations, between a first contact-agent pairing strategy and a second contact-agent pairing strategy for pairing contacts with agents in the contact center system; determining an agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy comprising a difference between a first agent utilization of the first contact-agent pairing strategy and a balanced agent utilization; and determining a relative performance of the second contact-agent pairing strategy compared to the first contact-agent pairing strategy based on the agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy.
US11363139B2	Identifying, screening, and blocking of calls from problematic telecommunications carriers and number blocks A method and systems for identifying communicators as wanted or unwanted based on communications from such communicators, the method comprising determining communications from phone numbers as being unwanted by analyzing communication content features of communications associated with unwanted communicators, identifying telecommunications carriers that acquired the phone numbers, computing scores for the telecommunications carriers based on an amount of the determined unwanted communications from the phone numbers are unwanted, intercepting an inbound communication from a given phone number, identifying the given phone number is associated with a given one of the telecommunications carriers, and configuring handling of communications from the phone number based on a score of the given telecommunications carrier.
US11363138B2	Fraud detection system and method A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving input information concerning a conversation between a caller and a recipient; processing the input information to assess a fraud-threat-level; defining a targeted response based, at least in part, upon the fraud-threat-level assessed, wherein the targeted response is intended to refine the assessed fraud-threat-level; and effectuating the targeted response.
US11363135B2	System and method for communicating with inmates in a privileged communication A system and method for with an inmate in a privileged communication are disclosed. a communication system includes a portal subsystem that determines whether a communication should be monitored, or not, based on received information, including access information, from a first communication device. Based on the determination, the communication system bypasses a monitoring subsystem and stores and/or transmits the communication to a second communication device by way of a non-monitoring subsystem.
US11363129B2	Method and apparatus for processing contact information using a wireless terminal A method for processing contact information includes displaying a list of contacts on a display of a wireless terminal, determining a first contact from the list of contacts in response to a selection of a user, obtaining a web log address and an online shop address of the first contact, obtaining, from a network service, a first content corresponding to the web log address and the online shop address of the first contact, and displaying the first content on a first area of the display, where the first content is dynamically updated.
US11363128B2	Method and device for audio input routing A method on a mobile device for processing an audio input is described. A trigger for the audio input is received. At least one parameter is determined for an audio processor based on at least one input characteristic for the audio input. The audio input is routed to the audio processor with the at least one parameter.
US11363125B2	Systems and methods for increasing reliability for media data distribution A system and method for increasing reliability for media data distribution using an unreliable protocol within a network of devices is provided. A preemptive packet recovery (PPR) module is provided within a receiver to organize any correctly received payload packets and recover any missing payload packets using a plurality of forward error correction packets. The forward error correction packets include redundant payload data corresponding to the payload packets. If the PPR module is not able to recover a missing payload packet, the PPR module sends a Negative Acknowledgment (NACK) to the provider requesting that the provider resend the missing packet. The system relies on the recovery logic enabled by a packet reconstruction module to recover any missing packets and only requests the resending of missing packets when packets are not recoverable, thus maintaining the increased speed of UDP while increasing the reliability of the data being sent and received.
US11363121B2	Systems and methods for standardizing field-value pairs across different entities Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for standardizing node field-value pairs of node profiles generated using electronic activities across multiple entities are described. In one aspect, the system can access, for a node profile of an entity, data points linked to the node profile. The system may determine a seniority value and a department value using the data points. The system may generate a normalized job title value by combining the seniority value and the department value using a title formatting policy specifying a format in which to combine to the seniority value and the department value. The normalized job title value may identify the seniority and department of entity. The system may store an association between the node profile and the normalized job title value in one or more data structures.
US11363116B2	Systems and methods for intelligent routing and content placement in information centric networks A content caching system enables an NDN network to place content closer to each end user(s) and to provide an explicit path for the target end user(s) to that content for better performance just in advance of users' anticipated request(s). The apparatus includes NDN routers and SDN controller employing a content commander, at least a content placement agent and at least one content analysis agent.
US11363115B2	Integrated operational communications between computational instances of a remote network management platform A system may involve a communication bus and computational instances configured for communication with one another by way of the communication bus. The system is configured to: (i) receive, by a first computational instance, a first communication request, wherein the first communication request specifies first attributes; (ii) store, in a first persistent storage, the first attributes; (iii) generate a second communication request that specifies second attributes; (iv) transmit, by the first computational instance and to a second computational instance by way of the communication bus, the second communication request; (v) receive, by the second computational instance, the second communication request; (vi) store, in a second persistent storage, the second attributes; (vii) generate a third communication request that specifies third attributes; and (viii) transmit, by the second computational instance and to a third computational instance by way of the communication bus, the third communication request.
US11363113B1	Dynamic micro-region formation for service provider network independent edge locations Techniques for dynamic micro-region formation for service provider network independent edge locations are described. A set of services corresponding to services of the service provider network can be deployed to a separate, customer-managed datacenter. The services may be used privately by the customer or publicly by other users using the same or similar interfaces as are utilized for the services within the service provider network. These deployed independent edge locations can be grouped dynamically based on distance in terms of latency to result in micro-regions that users can use, e.g., to launch compute resources into.
US11363112B2	High-density multi-tenant distributed cache as a service A multi-tenant, elastically scalable cache as a service is disclosed. Embodiments of the cache service eliminate the need for applications to manage their own cache tier. The multi-tenant cache service is implemented by maintaining/creating multiple named caches in a cache cluster and mapping each tenant's cache to a named cache in the cluster. Strict quotas are enforced on cache sizes This allows caches with different replication attributes to co-exist on the same cache server, allows migration of a cache from one cluster to another for load balancing purposes, and allows a cache to inflate/deflate to meet business needs. A network load balancer is used to route cache items to servers.
US11363107B2	Location monitoring via a gateway A remote location monitoring system, for example, a home monitoring or weather monitoring system may include one or more sensors and/or receivers at a first location such as a residence or business to be monitored. The sensors and receivers may communicate with a remote central server via a gateway device and the detection data received from the sensors and receivers may be displayed via display circuitry coupled to a processor of the gateway device. The sensors, receivers, and gateway device may be controlled by users locally or remotely via the server. Users may register to receive remote notifications of weather events and other home monitoring events. Users may also access remotely sensors and receivers to configure alerts, notifications, and automatic responses for the devices and integrated appliances at the first location.
US11363102B2	Communication method and apparatus for network accessible only in specific area This application provides a communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: a terminal determines that a detected application is associated with a first network; determines, based on information configured on the terminal, that the first network is a network accessible only in a specific area; obtains network information for the first network; and in response to when the terminal is within an area indicated by the network information, determine to initiate a session management procedure.
US11363101B2	Using existing servers in a wellbore environment as data sources for streaming servers A streaming server can receive a request from a client device to access data about a wellbore environment in a database server. The database server can be communicatively coupled to a server, which can be communicatively coupled to the streaming server. The streaming server can communicate data in a standardized format with the server using a request and response protocol. The streaming server can communicate the wellbore environment data from the database server in a streaming format with the client device.
US11363098B2	Peer-to-peer connections based on user-defined probability assertions A method of correlating probability assertions and resource allocations includes receiving a first probability assertion and a first resource allocation from a first client device; receiving a second probability assertion and a second resource allocation from a second client device; correlating the first probability assertion with the second probability assertion by matching characteristics of the first probability assertion with characteristics of the second probability assertion; and creating a peer-to-peer match between the first request on the second request from the client devices.
US11363095B1	Policy-driven client and destination priority A method and system for policy-driven traffic management in cloud-based multi-tenant systems is disclosed. Each end user device within each tenant is provided policies to specify priority based upon, for example, end-to-end performance, bandwidth or service capacity, service or link availability, or security. Different routes are provided for each policy. An application can request a route to an Internet service according to the policy to be assigned a route.
US11363093B2	Multi-stage pipelining for distributed graph processing Techniques are described herein for evaluating graph processing tasks using a multi-stage pipelining communication mechanism. In a multi-node system comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of said plurality of nodes executes a respective communication agent object. The respective communication agent object comprises: a sender lambda function is configured to perform sending operations and generate source messages based on the sender operations. An intermediate lambda function is configured to read source messages marked for a node, perform intermediate operations based on the source messages and generate intermediate messages based on the intermediate operations. A final receiver lambda function configured to: read intermediate messages marked for said each node, perform final operations based on the intermediate messages and generate a final result based on the final operations.
US11363089B2	Systems and methods for optimization of transmission of real-time data via network labeling The present invention relates to systems and methods for network labeling in order to enhance real time data transfers. A network for a real time data transfer is identified and predictive models for network performance are compared against to determine if the network is suitable for the data transfer. If so, then the real time data transfer may be completed as expected. However, if the network is predicted to be unsuitable for transmission an alternate means for connection may be suggested. The alternate suggestion may include delaying the data transfer until the network is expected to be in better conditions, connecting to another access point in the network, or switching to another network entirely. During the data transfer, the quality of the network is monitored in order to update the predictive models for the network's quality. Identifiers for the network may be utilized to keep track of the networks. Network signal strength, signal pollution and time may also be tracked in order to identify patterns in the network's performance.
US11363085B2	In-band quality data A method of transmitting data in a media stream in accordance with a media streaming protocol includes generating data of a first type associated with a first type identifier in accordance with the protocol, encapsulating the generated data in a data structure defined by the protocol, the data structure including a type identifier field for specifying a type of data contained within the data structure, setting the type identifier field to a second type identifier different than the first type identifier, forming a packet comprising the first data structure, and transmitting the packet in the media stream.
US11363082B2	Video conference telepresence controller A video conference telepresence controller includes a first set of instructions commanding a server to create and maintain a queue structure for clients of a video conference telepresence session, a second set of instructions commanding the server to monitor audio/video feeds of the clients of the video conference telepresence sessions and identify the clients of those feeds, a third set of instructions commanding the server to detect precursor events to a session disturbance or flow interruption in one or more of the monitored feeds and flagging the feeds harboring the events for action, and a fourth set of instructions commanding the server to perform an interruption, redirect, or deletion of the one or more feeds and for providing notification thereof to one or more clients.
US11363081B2	Method and system for conducting remote communications at a funeral home A method for conducting remote communications at a funeral home in accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure is presented. The method includes providing a first video conference system positioned in a funeral home. A second video conference system is positioned in a vehicle structure remotely located from the funeral home. The vehicle structure is operable to have vehicles driven into and out of the vehicle structure. A communication link is established between the first and second video conference systems. One or more family members are enabled to gather at the funeral home for a funeral service of a loved one. One or more passengers are driven in a first vehicle into the vehicle structure. While the one or more passengers remain in the first vehicle, the one or more passengers and the one or more family members communicate via the communication link.
US11363080B1	Managed intelligent discovery and mesh connectivity orchestration for collaboration solutions A method for managing intelligent discovery and mesh connectivity orchestration for collaboration solution sessions. The disclosed method may be information technology decision maker (ITDM) and security compliant while offering a simplified end-user experience to overcome pain points tied to co-located collaboration user experience. The disclosed method may provide time and/or session bound manageability (and security) policies tied to co-located collaboration actions (e.g., hotkey based) and connectivity management. The disclosed method may further offer peer-to-peer (P2P) session management optimization using out-of-band (OOB) capabilities and negotiations for purposes of screen casting, content sharing, etc. The disclosed method moreover initializes mesh connectivity state contingent for P2P sessions, as well as adapts mesh state to real-time changes in participant system and/or connectivity states.
US11363077B2	Communication session participation using prerecorded messages The technology disclosed herein enables user participation in a communication session using prerecorded messages. In a particular embodiment, a method includes determining a first context of a first prerecorded message from a user. In real-time during a communication session that exchanges user communications between a plurality of participants, the method includes determining a session context of the user communications and determining that the first context corresponds to the session context preceding a first insertion point in the user communications. The method further includes inserting the first prerecorded message into the user communications at the first insertion point.
US11363071B2	User interfaces for managing a local network The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing a local network using an electronic device, where the electronic device is connected to a router and a plurality of external devices, including a first set of one or more external devices and a second set of one or more external devices, on the local network. The user interfaces enable a user to apply the same network access policy to the first set of one or more external devices and the second set of one or more external devices or to apply different network access policies to the first set of one or more external devices and the second set of one or more external devices, respectively.
US11363068B2	Method and system for providing a complete traceability of changes incurred in a security policy A computer-implemented method and a system provide a complete traceability of changes incurred in a security policy corresponding to a resource. A policy tracing engine (PTE) monitors and determines events of interest occurring at the resource. The PTE determines administrator-initiated intent-based changes and dynamic event-based changes incurred in the security policy and assigns a unique policy identifier (UPI) to the security policy. The UPI is a combination of unique identifiers assigned to the intent-based change and the event-based change. The PTE recomputes and stores the security policy and the UP in a policy database. The PTE receives network access information including the UPI from the corresponding resource deployed with the security policy. The PTE generates a traceability report that provides a complete traceability of each policy action performed in a networked environment to a source of each change incurred in the security policy as identified by the UPI.
US11363064B2	Identifying spam using near-duplicate detection for text and images Embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for detecting spam using by comparing hash values of content. In embodiments, hash values are generated based on the type of content and compared to other hash values in storage buckets. The similarity of content is determined by calculating the distance between two hash values and determining whether the distance exceeds a distance index. Counter values associated with hash values in storage are incremented when the distances between hash values exceed the distance index. Spam indications are communicated when the counter values for associated with hash values exceed a count threshold.
US11363061B2	Runtime detection of injection attacks on web applications via static and dynamic analysis In one aspect, a method for preventing attacks on a web application server by monitoring and validating the API calls executed by the dynamic language code of web application is provided. The method includes the step of scanning the computer system for web applications and the location of dynamic language code or script files used by the web applications. The method includes the step of parsing all script files to identify API calls, the location of API calls, and arguments used in the API calls and storing them as rules.
US11363060B2	Email security in a multi-tenant email service The technology described herein helps improve email security within a multi-tenant email service. In particular, the technology described herein helps make it more difficult for a first tenant of the email service to impersonate a second tenant of the email service by validating the sending domain before the email leaves the multi-tenant email service. In particular, the technology runs a sending-side source validation on an email. If the source validation fails, the email is still sent, but using a source IP address that will cause the email to fail a receiving-side email authentication tests, such as the sender policy framework (SPF) email authentication test. In contrast, if the source validation passes, the email is sent using a source IP address that will cause the email to pass the receiving-side email authentication tests.
US11363058B2	Detecting execution of modified executable code A first storage device or first storage disk including first executable instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to at least: in response to determining a variable associated with a memory page that (1) has been loaded into local memory from a second storage device and (2) has been accessed from the local memory, has a first state, identify the memory page as a modified memory page, the memory page including second executable instructions. The first instructions also cause the processor to, in response to determining the second executable instructions of the modified memory page have been changed since a previous analysis of the modified memory page, perform anti-malware analysis of at least a portion of the modified memory page.
US11363057B1	Computer-based system for analyzing and quantifying cyber threat patterns and methods of use thereof At least some embodiments are directed to a computer-based cyber-attack frequency tracking system that determines types and frequencies of cyber-attacks. In at least some embodiments, the method of a cyber-attack frequency tracking system may operate a processor in an enterprise computing environment for automatically conducting a process that comprises receiving, a plurality of data values that represent a plurality of cyber-attacks. Determining cyber-attack types, and then determining the frequency of attempts and contacts with assets. After that determining likelihood values. Aggregating these determinations to produce a quantifiable value of a likelihood values of each of the plurality of cyber-attack types.
US11363055B2	System and methods for dynamic controlled evaluation of cloud service vulnerabilities Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for rapid assessment of cloud frameworks to evaluate those considered for use in an enterprise context. The invention may quickly and consistently identify gaps or weaknesses of cloud frameworks or resources, assess the potential negative impact of such gaps or weaknesses, and facilitate the communication of quantifiable data to responsible parties in order to facilitate the implementation of necessary controls or actions. Embodiments of the invention are highly adaptable and dynamic in fashion such that they can be quickly and easily updated based on the changing needs of the enterprise.
US11363054B2	Apparatus and method for analyzing security vulnerabilities A method for analyzing vulnerabilities may include: an analysis target URL receiving step of receiving a plurality of analysis target uniform resource locator (URL) addresses extracted from the analysis target server; an identification key setting step of setting respective identification keys corresponding to the plurality of analysis target URL addresses; a vulnerability analyzing step of performing a simulated attack so as to access the external server by the analysis target server by inserting an analysis hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request sentence including a URL address of an external server and the identification key into the analysis target URL address; an access record checking step of requesting an access record of the analysis target server to the external server; and a vulnerability extracting step of extracting a vulnerability of the analysis target server by using the identification key included in the access record.
US11363053B2	Device for managing utilized service A device 1 for managing utilized services, which serves to manage an external service that is utilized when a user website provided by a user server 14 is accessed, is equipped with a CSP tag generation unit 9 for generating a CSP tag, which is a content security policy tag that allows access only to a prescribed domain and is stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium.
US11363051B2	System and method for mitigating cyber security threats by devices using risk factors A system and method for mitigating cyber security threats by devices using risk factors. The method includes determining a plurality of risk factors for a device based on a plurality of risk behaviors indicated by network activity and information of the device; determining a risk score for the device based on the plurality of risk factors and a plurality of weights, wherein each of the plurality of weights is applied to one of the plurality of risk factors; and performing at least one mitigation action based on the risk score.
US11363049B1	Information security system and method for anomaly detection in data transmission A system for anomaly detection in data transmission extracts data features from a data file. The system compares each data feature with a corresponding historical data feature associated with a historical transmission of the data file. The system determines whether the data feature deviates from the corresponding historical data feature. In response to determining that the data feature deviates from the corresponding historical data feature, the system determines that the data feature is associated with an anomaly. The system determines whether more than a threshold percentage of the data features are associated with anomalies. If it is determined that more than the threshold percentage of the data features are associated with anomalies, the system determines whether a transmission channel through which the data file is transmitted has failed. In response to determining that the transmission channel has failed, the system transmits the data file using another transmission channel.
US11363047B2	Generating investigation timeline displays including activity events and investigation workflow events Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed that enable network security analysts and other users to efficiently conduct network security investigations and to produce useful representations of investigation results. As used herein, a network security investigation generally refers to an analysis by an analyst (or team of analysts) of one or more detected network events that may pose internal and/or external threats to a computer network under management. A network security application provides various interfaces that enable users to create investigation timelines, where the investigation timelines display a collection of events related to a particular network security investigation. A network security application further provides functionality to monitor and log user interactions with the network security application, where particular logged user interactions may also be added to one or more investigation timelines.
US11363046B2	Network operation application monitoring Systems and methods that determine an anomaly in a network are provided. A monitoring engine is installed on a computing device that monitors network information and application information for data flows generated on the computing device and transmitted over a network and for data flows received by the computing device from the network. The network information includes an internet protocol (IP) source address, a source port, an IP destination address, a destination port, and a transport protocol, and a number of bytes sent or received by the flow. The application information includes a process identifier (ID), the threads ID, an application ID and/or a function call, arguments passed to the function, a stack trace of the function, etc., that application used to generate the data flows. The network information and application information can be used to identify the application, thread and/or a function that caused an anomaly in the network.
US11363043B2	Threat mitigation system and method A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: receiving platform information from a plurality of security-relevant subsystems; processing the platform information to generate processed platform information; identifying more threat-pertinent content included within the processed content; and routing the more threat-pertinent content to a threat analysis engine.
US11363041B2	Protecting computer assets from malicious attacks A method selectively installs a particular signature on a particular gateway based on the type of signature and the type of computer asset that is protected by that particular gateway. A system and/or analyst receives multiple signatures, where different signatures from the multiple signatures are specific for different types of computer assets. The system and/or analyst identifies and extracts a particular signature, from the multiple signatures, that will protect, if implemented on the appropriate gateway, a particular computer asset. The system and/or analyst identifies the appropriate gateway that protects the particular computer asset, and installs only the extracted particular signature from the multiple signatures on that appropriate gateway.
US11363035B2	Configurable robustness agent in a plant security system A communications network security system includes a robustness agent that operates within a communications interface of a device at one or more nodes of the network to analyze and filter messages coming from or going onto the network. At each of the nodes, the robustness agent determines one or more sets of message characteristics associated with each of the messages passing through the agent, and the agent is configured to allow certain types of messages (e.g., messages with certain predetermined sets of characteristics) to be passed through the agent, prevent messages with other predetermined characteristics from being passed through the agent, such as by halting (discarding or filtering) these messages, and/or passes still other messages having other sets of message characteristics to a volume filter to be counted. The volume filter counts the number of messages with a particular set of message characteristics and passes these messages if the number of these detected messages over a particular period of time is less than a particular threshold, and filters these messages if the number of counted messages is greater than a particular threshold over a particular period of time.
US11363028B2	Systems and methods for delegating access to a protected resource A method for managing access privileges is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining, based on employee data received from a first client server having access to a human resources database of an organization, a first indication identifying a change in a first employee structure of the organization, the first employee structure indicating an employee status associated with each of one or more of the employees; retrieving permissions data defining access privileges associated with one or more employee statuses within the first employee structure for accessing a protected resource; and updating a user permissions database associated with the protected resource to indicate a change in access privileges for at least one employee of the organization based on the first indication and the permissions data, the user permissions database indicating access privileges for employees of the organization that are authorized to access the protected resource.
US11363023B2	Method, device and system for obtaining local domain name A method, device and system for obtaining a local domain name are provided. A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request from a User Equipment (UE) is received, in which the request carries an option for indicating returning a domain name of a local domain where the UE is located; and the domain name of the local domain where the UE is located is obtained according to the DHCP request, and the domain name of the local domain where the UE is located is carried in a DHCP reply message to be returned to the UE. A device and system for obtaining a local domain name are also provided.
US11363022B2	Use of DHCP for location information of a user device for automatic traffic forwarding Systems and methods implemented by an application executed on a user device for service discovery and connectivity include, responsive to joining a new network, performing a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) operation to obtain network configuration parameters; receiving a DHCP message in response with the network configuration parameters; via an application executed on the user device for service discovery and connectivity analyzing data in the DHCP message to determine one or more forwarding profiles on the new network, wherein the one or more forwarding profiles are based on a location or trust of the new network; and automatically installing the determined one or more forwarding profiles.
US11363021B1	Proxy service for two-factor authentication The present disclosure relates to two-factor authentication with a Hardware Security Module (HSM). In response to a login attempt, the HSM indicates that two-factor authentication is required. To generate the second authentication factor, a management console is accessed using credentials. The management console generates the second authentication factor and provides the second authentication factor to the client. The client then provides the second authentication factor to the HSM to complete the two-factor authentication operations.
US11363017B2	Smart home network security through blockchain Systems and methods receive a first indication that an Internet of Things (IoT) device is attempting to access a home network; determine that the IoT device is a trusted device; store an identifier associated with the IoT device to a blockchain in response to determining that the IoT device is a trusted device; receive a second indication that an event has occurred with respect to the IoT device; determine whether the event is a major event; and verify the identifier associated with the IoT device by storing an identity and information associated with the event to the blockchain in response to determining that the event is a major event.
US11363011B2	Unified mobile security system and method of operation A mobile secure agent on a wireless device executes one or more authenticated data collection profiles provisioned by a private profile producer. Each data package can only be transmitted to a collector certificated by the same private profile producer. Update profiles are signed and provisioned through a tunnel initiated from the mobile secure agent. A Certificate Authority provides libraries, anchors, and certificates in a key management message module to each mobile secure agent which enables revocation and replacement of certificates. Data stored in this way on a wireless device may only be transmitted in encrypted form to an authenticated destination.
US11363004B2	Secure device relay Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for providing a secure device relay between a data collection device and a server using a smart device. The present invention comprises transmitting to a server a unique identifier corresponding to a data collection device and a digital signature corresponding to a smart device. In addition, the present invention provides for receiving from the server a key pair and an exchange configuration defining access control to data stored on the data collection device. Moreover, the present invention includes transmitting to the data collection device a public key of the received key pair and the exchange configuration.
US11363002B2	Systems and methods for providing a marketplace where data and algorithms can be chosen and interact via encryption A method includes receiving, on a computer-implemented system and from user, an identification of data and an identification of an algorithm and, based on a user interaction with the computer-implemented system comprising a one-click interaction or a two-click interaction. Without further user input, the method includes dividing the data into a data first subset and a data second subset, dividing the algorithm (or a Boolean logic gate representation of the algorithm) into an algorithm first subset and an algorithm second subset, running, on the computer-implemented system at a first location, the data first subset with the algorithm first subset to yield a first partial result, running, on the computer-implemented system at a second location separate from the first location, the data second subset with the algorithm second subset to yield a second partial result and outputting a combined result based on the first partial result and the second partial result.
US11363001B1	Rotating internet protocol addresses in a virtual private network A method for rotating internet protocol (IP) addresses in a virtual private network (VPN), the method comprising receiving, at a first VPN server, a first data request and a second data request during an established VPN connection between a user device and a second VPN server; retrieving, during the established VPN connection, first data associated with the first data request using a first exit IP address; and retrieving, during the established VPN connection, second data associated with the second data request using a second exit IP address, different from the first exit IP address. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11362997B2	Real-time policy rule evaluation with multistage processing A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product evaluate an information asset with a corpus of policies in conjunction with the context of access including a specific user. A large corresponding set of rules in the policy corpus are identified by computer system. A continuous process of rule evaluation occurs against information asset metadata wherein a series of processing including set of common subexpressions between the predicates of all active rules, pre-evaluation, compaction and storage are identified by the computer system in the policy and rule corpus. Metadata for the information asset is applied by the computer system to the set of common subexpressions to form partially evaluated rules for the policy. The partially evaluated rules henceforth compacted are stored by the computer system in association with the information asset. Subsequently the partially evaluated rules are a compressed form of the rule corpus for the policies in the system and hence reduce computer resources and significantly improve the response tome used to evaluate the enforcement decision for the said information asset with the policy in conjunction with the context of access. The process can be repeated each time at least one of the metadata or the policy changes to provide continuous processing of rules to maintain compacted up-to-date partially evaluated rules to enforce the policy.
US11362995B2	Systems and methods for providing pre-emptive intercept warnings for online privacy or security Systems and methods for providing pre-emptive intercept warning for online privacy or security are disclosed. In one embodiment, at a privacy security appliance comprising at least one computer processor, a method for may include: (1) establishing a virtual private network (VPN) connection with a computer application executed by a client device; (2) receiving, over the VPN connection, an internet protocol (e.g., HTTP or HTTPS) request for a website host; (3) communicating the internet protocol request to the website host; (4) receiving a response to the internet protocol request from the website host; (5) inspecting the response for privacy or security issues with embedded links in the response; (6) scoring the embedded links based on the inspection; (7) generating a mock webpage based on the response comprising the scoring for the embedded links; and (8) delivering the mock webpage with the scoring to the application over the VPN. The mock webpage may include links to the embedded links.
US11362994B2	Media flow transport security management A media flow transport security manager of a hybrid cloud-based media production system having a network orchestrator and an extensible resource manager (ERM) includes a firewall communicatively coupled to a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a security software code. The hardware processor executes the security software code to communicate with the network orchestrator to identify multicast production media flow(s) for processing in a cloud-based virtual production environment, and to communicate with the ERM to obtain an identifier of each cloud-based resource used for processing cloud production media flow(s) corresponding to the identified multicast production media flow(s). The hardware processor also executes the security software code to receive an alert that the cloud production media flow(s) have been processed to generate corresponding post-production cloud media flow(s), and to route, using the obtained identifier of the cloud-based resource(s), the post-production cloud media flow(s) through the firewall.
US11362989B2	Rapid duplicate IP address detection for floating IP address crossing multiple cluster broadcast domains Described is an improved approach to detect conflicts for the assignment of addresses in a computing system. The improved approach implements identification of address conflicts across multiple broadcast domains in a computing system.
US11362985B2	Address resolution in virtual extensible networks A network element is provided. The network element includes a tunneling endpoint having a virtual address. The tunneling endpoint is configured to receive an address resolution reply that has a destination MAC (media access control) address matching the virtual address of the tunneling endpoint and is from a network device in a first network that includes the tunneling endpoint. The tunneling endpoint is further configured to send the address resolution reply via an interconnect to a further tunneling endpoint in a further network. A method for address resolution in virtual extensible networks is also provided.
US11362981B2	System and method for delivering a digital therapeutic from a parsed electronic message The system and method delivers a digital therapeutic, specific to an emotional or mental state (EMS) parsed from an electronic message, comprising: an electronic computing device communicatively coupled to a processor. The processor further comprising; an EMS store; a message prescriber; a sentiment vector generator comprising: a parsing module; a coordinate-based sentiment value spectrum comprising one positive to negative-scaled axis and one perpendicular active to passive scaled axis forming a two-dimensional plot of a sentiment value along a positive to negative line (positivity correlate) and an active to passive line (activity correlate). The program executable by the processor and configured to: receive a text input comprising message content from the electronic computing device; parse, at the parsing module, the message content comprised in the text input for emotionally charged language, wherein the parsing module further comprises a semantic layer configured to recognize natural language syntax for conversion into a standardized lexicon; based on the emotionally charged language, plot a sentiment value as a point on the coordinate-based sentiment value spectrum for the text input, wherein the plotted point reflects a two-dimensional sentiment value along the two correlates of positivity and activity for said text input.
US11362980B2	Sending messages to an unavailable device An apparatus, system, method, and program product are disclosed for sending messages to an unavailable device. The apparatus includes a status module that determines that a recipient device for a message is unavailable to receive the message. The apparatus includes a message module that sends the message to an intermediate device for storage until the recipient device is available to receive the message in response to determining that the recipient device is unavailable to receive the message. The apparatus includes a notification module that sends a notification to the recipient device that the message is available to access from the intermediate device.
US11362979B2	Displaying messaging interfaces based upon email conversations One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for displaying messaging interfaces based upon email conversations are provided. For example, an email conversation associated with a plurality of user accounts may be identified. Email activity associated with the plurality of user accounts may be monitored. Based upon the email activity, it may be detected that a second plurality of user accounts of the plurality of user accounts are concurrently in an active state. A first device, associated with a first user account of the second plurality of user accounts, may display a first messaging interface comprising a first representation of the email conversation. A second device, associated with a second user account of the second plurality of user accounts, may display a second messaging interface comprising a second representation of the email conversation.
US11362974B2	Systems and methods for presenting event notifications, based on trending communications, on devices notwithstanding a user instruction to disable event notifications Systems and methods are provided for generating for presentation information about an event on a device that is in a mode of operation that prevents presentation of information about events. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application that receives a command, on a user device associated with a first user, to place the user device in a do not disturb mode. The media guidance application receives, while the user device is in the do not disturb mode, information about an event and determines whether the event is relevant to the user. The media guidance application then determines whether the event is trending among a plurality of users associated with the user and, if trending, displays, while the user device is in the do not disturb mode, a notification about the event to the user on the user device.
US11362970B2	Information processing system and information processing method An information processing system and an information processing method. The information processing system acquires input information input to the user terminal, searches response information for the input information, responds to the user terminal with the response information in response to the input information, determines whether to display a switching reception screen configured to receive a switching operation to perform a chat between the user terminal and the operator terminal, and displays the switching reception screen on the user terminal based on determination result.
US11362969B2	Efficient packet re-transmission for express data paths A network packet is received from a network interface card (NIC). A determination is made, in view of a filter specifying handling of network packets, as to whether the network packet is to be modified. In response to determining that the network packet is to be modified, a portion of the network packet is modified in view of the filter. The modified portion of the network packet is provided to the NIC.
US11362968B2	Technologies for dynamic batch size management Technologies for dynamically managing a batch size of packets include a network device. The network device is to receive, into a queue, packets from a remote node to be processed by the network device, determine a throughput provided by the network device while the packets are processed, determine whether the determined throughput satisfies a predefined condition, and adjust a batch size of packets in response to a determination that the determined throughput satisfies a predefined condition. The batch size is indicative of a threshold number of queued packets required to be present in the queue before the queued packets in the queue can be processed by the network device.
US11362967B2	Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline Some embodiments provide a network forwarding IC with packet processing pipelines, at least one of which includes a parser, a set of match-action stages, and a deparser. The parser is configured to receive a packet and generate a PHV including a first number of data containers storing data for the packet. A first match-action stage is configured to receive the PHV from the parser and expand the PHV to a second, larger number of data containers storing data for the packet. Each of a set of intermediate match-action stage is configured to receive the expanded PHV from a previous stage and provide the expanded PHV to a subsequent stage. A final match-action stage is configured to receive the expanded PHV and reduce the PHV to the first number of data containers. The deparser is configured to receive the reduced PHV from the final match-action stage and reconstruct the packet.
US11362965B2	System and method for reconfigurable network device A network device includes a hardware component. The network device includes a first device receiver operably connected to the hardware component via a first hardware component connection and adapted to receive a device. The network device further includes a second device receiver operably connected to the hardware component via a second hardware component connection. The first device receiver of the network device is adapted to reversibly reallocate the first hardware component connection to the second device receiver.
US11362956B2	Probabilistic service level agreements (SLA) Regulating transmission of data packets between a first network and a second network over a datalink. Embodiments include determining a first plurality of token bucket rate (TBR) parameters, each TBR parameter corresponding to a one of a first plurality of packet drop precedence (DP) levels and one of a first plurality of timescales (TS). The determination of the first plurality of bucket rate parameters is based on a peak rate requirement, the data link capacity, and a nominal speed requirement associated with the data link. Embodiments also include determining a second plurality of TBR parameters based on the first plurality of TBR parameters and a guaranteed rate requirement, the second plurality comprising a further DP level than the first plurality. Embodiments also include regulating data packets sent between the first network and the second network via the data link based on the second plurality of TBR parameters.
US11362955B2	Applicability of policies for wireless communication Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for selecting policies for routing of data traffic. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a user-equipment (UE). The method generally includes selecting at least one policy for routing of data traffic to a network, wherein the policy comprise an access network discovery and selection policy (ANDSP) if the UE has the ANDSP provisioned regardless of whether the UE is registered to evolved packet core (EPC) or fifth-generation core network (5GCN), and communicating the data traffic to the network based on the selection.
US11362951B2	Routing method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a routing method and apparatus. A controller receives a path measurement message, determines a path score of each of at least two paths based on a preset rule and the path measurement message. Then the controller determines a routing policy of a first customer-premises equipment based on the path score of each of the at least two paths, and sends the routing policy to the first customer-premises equipment. According to the present invention, path quality of each path can be scored based on the preset rule and the path measurement message obtained after measurement by the first customer-premises equipment; and the routing policy is generated based on path scores and delivered to the first customer-premises equipment, to ensure that customer-premises equipments in an entire network can transmit a data packet sent by a service application more quickly, stably, and securely.
US11362950B2	Multi-phase IP-flow-based classifier with domain name and HTTP header awareness An apparatus and method for classifying traffic data in a communication network based on IP flow. Traffic data in a communication network is monitored in order to detect an IP flow. A preliminary classification is assigned to the IP flow based on protocol information contained in its first packet. Subsequent packets within the IP flow are further monitored, and the IP flow is reclassified based, in part, on the domain name of the responding server. Web pages can also be classified, and monitored to determine their response time.
US11362941B2	Stateless multicast in label switched packet networks Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in label switched packet networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in label switched packet networks may be configured to support stateless multicast in label switched packet networks based on support for handling a label switched packet associated with a multicast group, where the label switched packet includes a payload and a header and, further, where the header includes a set of labels indicative of a group of egress routers including at least a portion of the egress routers of the multicast group.
US11362940B2	Method and apparatus for determining identification information about cross-domain path, and storage medium Provided are a method and apparatus for determining identification information about a cross-domain path, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a path computation request from a first child path computation element (PCE), wherein the path computation request carries a compression identifier for identifying compression of path segments and a path set-up type (PST); after identification information about a path from a source node to a destination node is acquired, instructing, according to the compression identifier and the PST, each of sub-PCEs corresponding to the one or more path segments to compress identification information about a respective one of the one or more path segments; and receiving the compressed identification information about each path segment.
US11362937B2	Location-aware routing for east-west data traffic Techniques for utilizing Software-Defined Field-Area Network (SD-FAN) controllers to receive a geographic location and transmission power of individual nodes and generate a geographic location topology of a Field-Area Network (FAN) to provide nodes with location-aware route paths for data transmission. One or more SD-FAN controller(s) may maintain a geographic location database to store the geographic location and transmission power of the individual nodes. Each node may utilize a Destination Address Object to advertise its geographic location and transmission power to the SD-FAN controller. The SD-FAN controller(s) may utilize the geographic location table to generate the geographic location topology of the FAN and determine a location-aware route path for optimized data transmission between nodes in the FAN.
US11362934B2	Method to route packets in a distributed direct interconnect network The present invention provides a method and apparatus to route data packets across a torus or higher radix topology that has low latency, increased throughput and traffic distribution to avoid hot spots development. Disclosed is a method of routing packets in a distributed direct interconnect network from a source node to a destination node comprising the steps of: discovering all nodes and associated ports; updating the database to include the nodes and ports in the network topology; calculating the shortest path from every output port on each node to every other node in the topology; segmenting each packet into flits at the output port of the source node; as the flits are segmented, distributing said flits along the shortest path from each output port on the source node to the destination node using wormhole switching, whereby the packets are distributed along alternate maximum disjoint routes in the network topology; and re-assembling and re-ordering the packets at the destination node so that the packets accord with their original order/form.
US11362930B2	System and method for carrying and optimizing internet traffic over a source-selected path routing network The present application generally relates to a system and method for interfacing a source-selected path routing network with existing legacy IP networks. This interfacing may be achieved by installing specific router devices at the borders of the source-selected path routing network. Said router devices are able to exchange routing information in the form of IP prefix announcements and withdrawals between legacy IP networks and the source-selected path routing network according to an appropriate exterior gateway protocol. Hereby, the source-selected path routing network that in reality comprises a plurality of autonomous systems is conceptually regarded as a single autonomous system. Hence, a legacy IP network that is a direct neighbor of a source-selected path routing network may ensure that traffic destined to it traverses the source-selected path routing network by announcing its routing information only to the source-selected path routing network via an appropriate exterior gateway protocol.
US11362926B2	Dynamic wireless network selections Example implementations relate to dynamic wireless network selection. In some examples, a computing device may comprise a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine-readable instructions to determine a computing device is executing a number of applications, classify the number of applications, prioritize the number of applications based on the classification of the number of applications, determine at least one test from a plurality of tests to send to a network based on the prioritization of the applications, perform the at least one test from the plurality of tests, and determine a network adapter of the network to be used by the device based on the at least one test performed.
US11362921B2	Systems and methods for multiple round trip time (RTT) estimation in wireless networks Disclosed are techniques for determining round-trip times (RTTs) between a user equipment (UE) and multiple base stations. In an aspect, the UE transmits an RTT measurement signal whose arrival time is measured by each of the base stations, and each of the base stations returns an RTT response signal whose arrival times are measured by the UE. In another aspect, the base stations each transmit an RTT measurement signal and the UE returns an RTT response signal. The receiver of the RTT measurement signal may include the measured arrival time in a payload of the RTT Response signal. Alternatively, the measured arrival time(s) of the RTT Measurement signal(s) and the transmission time(s) of the RTT Response signal(s) are sent in a separate message. The RTT signals can be wideband signals using low reuse resources.
US11362917B2	Slave, work machine, and log information storage method There are provided a slave, a work machine, and a method for storing log information, which are capable of appropriately store the log information when a communication abnormality occurs such that communication cannot be kept between a master and the slave in an industrial network. The control section performs first storage processing storing the log information into a volatile storage section when a communication abnormality occurs such that communication with the master cannot be kept, communication abnormality determination processing for determining whether the communication abnormality has occurred, and second storage processing storing the log information into a non-volatile storage section by acquiring the log information from the volatile storage section, in response to a determination made in that the communication abnormality has occurred as a result of the communication abnormality determination processing.
US11362912B2	Support ticket platform for improving network infrastructures A support ticket platform improves the provision and maintenance of network infrastructures. A support ticket platform can include a support ticket server and a support ticket database that employ a unique architecture and configuration to provide such improvements in a scalable manner. The support ticket platform can be configured to automatically detect network issues and to leverage its unique architecture and configuration to automatically create support tickets to represent the network issues. The support ticket platform can employ network and company objects to rapidly create a large number of support tickets and to enable management of the support tickets as a group. The support ticket platform can also leverage its unique architecture and configuration to provide a number of additional functions for improving the provision and maintenance of network infrastructures.
US11362907B2	Systems and methods for characterizing a client device Techniques are disclosed for passively characterizing a type of host or computing device which may be engaged in a transaction between the host and another computing device. Observation data corresponding to one or more sessions of network traffic between an unclassified host and a second system may be passively generated by a device characterization server. The observation data can be processed by the device characterization server using a machine-learning classifier. The machine-learning classifier can be trained with a set of training data that includes multiple sessions of network traffic from multiple training data hosts. Each session of network traffic includes an exchange of multiple packets in various embodiments, including packets sent from, and packets received by, the training data hosts. Based on the processing, the unclassified host may be characterized by the device characterization server as one of a physical computing device, a virtual machine, or a container.
US11362906B2	Targeted content selection using a federated learning system A device may obtain configuration data for a server-side model. The device may generate synthetic usage data based on the configuration data. The device may train the server-side model based on the synthetic usage data. The device may determine update data based on the trained server-side model. The device may provide, to a client device, a message that includes the update data. The message may be configured to cause the client device to train a client-side model based on the update data and historical user data associated with the client device. The device may receive, from the client device, the client-side model data and may select content data based on the client-side model data and the trained server-side model. The device may provide the content data to the client device to permit the client device to provide content that is associated with the content data.
US11362904B2	Technologies for network discovery Technologies for enhanced network discovery and configuration include a network with a fabric manager and multiple network devices. A network device requests platform information from a management controller and receives the platform information via a sideband interface. The network device broadcasts a discovery message indicative of the platform information on a link layer network. The fabric manager discovers the network topology with an enhanced link layer discovery protocol and creates a vPOD in the network. The vPOD includes an application network with multiple racks. The fabric manager creates a tagged network domain for the vPOD. The fabric manager sends an out-of-band configuration command to the network device with a tag associated with the vPOD. After receiving the out-of-band configuration command, the network device receives a packet, compares domain metadata of the packet to the tag received from the fabric manager, and routes the packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11362900B2	Systems, methods, and storage media for controlling identity information across multiple identity domains in a distributed identity infrastructure Systems, methods, and storage media for controlling identity information across multiple identity domains in a distributed identity infrastructure are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: transmit first identity information from a first identity domain to an identity information control system; use the identity information control system to translate the first identity information from the first format to a second format and from the second format to a third format; send the first identity information in the third format from the identity information control system to a second identity domain; and replace second identity information in the second identity domain with the first identity information.
US11362899B2	System, method, and apparatus to support mixed network communications on a vehicle An example system includes a vehicle having an Ethernet based network and a controller area network (CAN) based network; a CAN vehicle control device disposed onboard the vehicle and structured to control operation of a component of the vehicle; an Ethernet vehicle control device disposed onboard the vehicle and structured to electrically communicate with the CAN vehicle control device; an Ethernet switch disposed onboard the vehicle and having a plurality of physical ports connected to the Ethernet based network; a CAN gateway disposed onboard the vehicle and connected to the CAN based network and the Ethernet switch; and a network convergence circuit defined at least in part by the Ethernet switch and/or the CAN gateway, and structured to facilitate electronic communications between the Ethernet vehicle control device and the CAN vehicle control device.
US11362898B2	Network policy configuration In some examples, a configurator device maps a configuration attribute received from a wireless device to a credential attribute, the credential attribute to be mapped to a network policy. The configurator device sends the credential attribute to the wireless device, the credential attribute useable by the wireless device to access an access point (AP), and useable by the AP to obtain the network policy to apply to a communication of the wireless device.
US11362893B2	Method and apparatus for configuring a cloud storage software appliance The embodiments disclosed herein relate to intelligent configuration of a cloud-service gateway based on a pattern recognition algorithm. A machine-learning model is trained to learn the patterns of correlation among many configuration parameters affecting the performance of the system when processing an observed or estimated workload. Training the model may be performed off-line with performance data observed during experiments performed with a variety of configurations and workloads. Once trained, the model may be used to recommend: (a) new configuration parameter values based on constraints of the system being configured, (b) an amount of work that can be performed at a certain performance level when the system is configured with certain parameter values, or (c) the expected performance level when running a certain workload on the system configured with certain configuration parameter values.
US11362891B2	Selecting and using a cloud-based hardware accelerator A cloud-based hardware accelerator is selected by deploying an accelerator image to first and second clouds to generate first and second cloud-based hardware accelerators, executing a first request on the first and second cloud-based hardware accelerators, monitoring characteristics of the first and second cloud-based hardware accelerators executing the first request, which may include execution time and monetary cost, and selecting one of the first and second hardware accelerators according to defined selection criteria. Subsequent requests are then routed to the selected cloud-based accelerator.
US11362888B2	Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method A communication apparatus that can communicate with a public communication network by using an in-vehicle communication module permanently installed in a vehicle or one or more external communication modules not installed permanently in the vehicle. The communication apparatus includes: a memory unit configured to store a selection table recording a criterion for selecting a communication module to be used for the communication; and a control unit configured to evaluate a plurality of the communication modules and acquire an evaluation result; and to select a communication module to be used for communication according to the evaluation result and the selection table.
US11362883B1	Link state tracking for virtual interfaces Presented herein are methodologies for tracking a link state of a physical network connection and selectively reporting the link state to virtual machines that rely on the physical network connection. A method includes receiving an indication, at a hypervisor, which is running on a host computer and which instantiates a virtual switch, that a physical link interconnecting the host computer to a network has failed; determining that the physical link serves the virtual switch; determining whether link state tracking is enabled for the physical link; and when link state tracking is enabled for the physical link, notifying a virtual machine, which is running on the host computer and which is being served by the virtual switch, that a connection between the virtual machine and the network has failed.
US11362881B2	Distributed system for self updating agents and provides security A distributed system includes a client system with a plurality of managed devices. At least one agent is in communication with the managed devices. The one agent updates and changes at least one management policy. Anomaly detection is pushed out to the one agent. A dedicated polling server is in communication with the one agent. The one agent communicates over a subscribed bus, and runs on the dedicated polling server. A portal bridge is in communication with the bus and communicates through a client system firewall to a Network System. The portal bridge listens on the bus through a firewall of the client system. The one agent discovers a local environment and retrieves monitored client system parameters. The one agent performs at least one of: communicates a time data series or detects an anomaly, in response to a detection of a hole the at least one agent checks a value for an anomaly and detected anomalies are communicated to the server, when an anomaly is not detected the agent sends a time series data point to the repository and when there are changes in the monitored system parameters the agent loads the change and restarts with the polling. In response to anomaly detection one or more physical changes in a managed infrastructure hardware is made, where the hardware supports the flow and processing of information, and in response to production of the clusters security of the managed infrastructure is maintained.
US11362880B2	Network-operating method in which a query is broadcast by SNMP protocol The invention relates to a method for operating a network, wherein at least two network devices are connected to one another in the network via a data line and exchange data via this data line, wherein each network device is fixedly assigned an independent MAC address, wherein a network management station also controls the configuration and/or the operation of the network, characterised in that a query is sent from the network management station by multicast by means of the SNMP protocol to the network devices so as to query the configuration parameters of the network devices and/or configure the queried network device by SNMP.
US11362878B2	Radio (NR) remaining minimum system information (RMSI) multiplexing and periodicity considerations Techniques and devices for signaling control and system information are provided. In one aspect, a base station determines a type of multiplexing and a periodicity for transmission of remaining minimum system information (RMSI). The type of multiplexing is for multiplexing the RMSI with a synchronization signal (SS) block. The base station generates an indicator that signals the type of multiplexing and the periodicity. In another aspect, a user equipment (UE) identifies the indicator and determines the type of multiplexing and the periodicity based on the indicator. The UE processes the transmission of RMSI based on the type of multiplexing and the periodicity. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11362874B2	Systems and methods for communicating by modulating data on zeros Systems and methods for transmitting data using various Modulation on Zeros schemes are described. In many embodiments, a communication system is utilized that includes a transmitter having a modulator that modulates a plurality of information bits to encode the bits in the zeros of the z-transform of a discrete-time baseband signal. In addition, the communication system includes a receiver having a decoder configured to decode a plurality of bits of information from the samples of a received signal by: determining a plurality of zeros of a z-transform of a received discrete-time baseband signal based upon samples from a received continuous-time signal, identifying zeros that encode the plurality of information bits, and outputting a plurality of decoded information bits based upon the identified zeros.
US11362871B2	Communication device and method for communication with a counterpart communication device A communication device and method are presented that support the use of both uniform and non-uniform constellations and provide a reasonable solution for signaling. Capability information is transmitted, said capability information indicating if non-uniform transmission constellations are supported by the mapping circuitry on the transmitter side and/or if non-uniform reception constellations are supported by the demapping circuitry on the receiver side.
US11362864B2	Communication control system, communication control device and communication control method A communication system includes a first local area network (LAN), a first router that is operatively coupled to the first LAN, a second local area network (LAN), a second router that is operatively coupled to the second LAN, and a communication network that facilitates communication between the first router and the second router. The first router includes a communication control device having at least one processor that transmits first information indicating a connection relation of a first communication relay device to the first communication relay device connected via the Internet. The processor also receives the first information from the first communication relay device. The processor also causes connection information in accordance with the received information indicating the connection relation of the first communication relay device to be displayed on a display unit.
US11362857B2	Message processing method, apparatus, electronic control unit and readable storage medium Provided are a message processing method, an apparatus, an electronic control unit, and a readable storage medium. The method includes configuring different sending times for any two different electronic control units corresponding to the same message ID in sending time configuration information of electronic control units; and when sending messages to a CAN bus, sending, by the electronic control units, the messages to the CAN bus at available sending times according to corresponding sending time configuration information, so that the time for any two different electronic control units corresponding to the same message ID to send messages to the CAN bus is separated. The method can improve the safety of the unmanned system.
US11362856B2	Processing operation requesting method and device A processing operation requesting method and device using associated groups. Specifically, the processing operation requesting method of the present invention includes: receiving an operation request; sending the operation request to a first entity group for processing; determining at least one second entity group associated the first entity group; and sending the operation request to the at least one second entity group for processing.
US11362855B1	Computer monitoring system, apparatus and method for monitoring appliance operation A system and method to monitor individual appliance performance. A monitor module is provided for aggregating data from a plurality of appliances wherein the module includes. Included in the monitor device is a gateway device configured to capture operational data relating to each of the plurality of appliances and an analyzing device configured to determine individual operational characteristics for each of the appliances from analysis of the captured operational data. A notification device is further provided which is configured to provide information to a user regarding the determined operational characteristics for each of the appliances.
US11362850B2	Communication device and communication method [Object] To provide a communication device and a communication method which are capable of achieving both an improvement in reliability of communication in which a frame is transmitted to a plurality of destinations and effective use of wireless communication resources.[Solution] The communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform communication of a frame. The communication unit transmits a transmission acknowledgment request frame for a transmission acknowledgment response frame including frequency allocation information specifying a transmission frequency of the transmission acknowledgment response frame, and receives the transmission acknowledgment response frame which has undergone frequency division multiplexing, on the basis of the frequency allocation information.
US11362848B1	Administrator-based navigating of participants between rooms within a virtual conferencing system Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for administrator-based navigating of a participant between rooms. The program and method provide, to a first of plural participants, a first user interface for navigating a virtual space comprising plural rooms, the first user interface allowing the first participant to move the plural participants among the plural rooms; provide, to a second participant, a second user interface for navigating the virtual space, the second user interface allowing the second participant to move among the plural rooms while disallowing to move other participants among the plural rooms; receive an indication of user input via the first user interface, to move the second participant from a first room to a second room; and provide, in response to receiving the indication, for switching the second participant from the first to second room.
US11362847B2	Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing multiple group calls in one chatroom Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a plurality of group calls in a single chatroom. A group call providing method including receiving, by the at least one processor, information about a plurality of group call channels generated in response to a first request from at least one member included in a chatroom, from a server, providing, by the at least one processor, a group call channel list about the plurality of group call channels through the chatroom based on the information about the plurality of group call channels, and starting, by the at least one processor, a group call through a specific group call channel, from among the plurality of group call channels, in response to receiving a second request for joining the specific group call channel through the group call channel list may be provided.
US11362846B1	Publish/subscribe messaging pattern in communications among mobile computing devices Systems and method may implement a publish/subscribe messaging framework for distributing messages among a plurality of mobile computing devices. A particular “publish/subscribe channel” may be implemented in the context of an auction for one or more items, e.g., collectibles such as trading cards, toys, and/or figurines. The implementation of the publish/subscribe messaging framework may allow for real-time communications of developments in the auction(s) which, in combination with a real-time video stream from a host to a plurality of guests in the channel, amounts to an improved user experience at host devices and guest devices.
US11362845B2	Secure communication between server device and clients utilizing strong physical unclonable functions A client device is fabricated using a semiconductor fabrication process. One or more uncontrollable random physical processes in the semiconductor fabrication process can cause small differences between the client device and other client devices. When the client device is presented with a challenge from a server device, the client device generates a random response that depends on its physical properties. The server device stores this random response as a part of a virtual PUF circuitry storage device having other random responses from the other client devices. The server device uses the random response of the client device stored in the virtual PUF circuitry storage device for one or more encryption algorithms to encrypt information to be provided to the client device.
US11362844B1	Security device and methods for end-to-end verifiable elections Systems and methods for provisioning and operating a primary security device in a verifiable end-to-end election system are presented herein. The security device serves as a root of trust for chains of certificates that are deployed and utilized throughout the election process. These chains of certificates, originating with the device, which acts as an intermediate certification authority, are used to create a verifiable trust chain throughout the different parts of the election process, the trust chain being traceable back to the device and to the original root of trust certificate. In various embodiments the security device includes a compute module, a security chip, a connection to a human interface display device, at least one lockable transfer device port, and an air-gapped main board to house the compute module, the security chip, and the lockable transfer device port.
US11362842B2	Membership compiler for applications An example operation may include one or more of evaluating a proposed membership conversion submitted by a client application (App) on a client subject to a first membership services provider (MSP1), evaluating the validity of the client according to channel membership rules, placing a transaction certificate in a creator field of a client transaction request, using fabric-attribute-based authentication to authenticate the client that submitted the membership conversion proposal, consulting a membership table to determine access rights of the client, and passing the access rights information to an application membership credential generator compliant with a second membership services provider (MSP2).
US11362836B2	Consensus protocol for permissioned ledgers The present invention relates to a method for reaching a consensus for appending, at a current round (j), a new block of data to a permissioned ledger distributed through a network comprising network connected devices authorized by the ledger, called nodes, said method being performed by a tamper-proof computing device configured for managing securely digital keys and comprising a random number generator and a cryptoprocessor for generating signatures with said keys, and comprising, for a set of transactions to be validated, the steps of: receiving, from at least a first node (Nk), a candidate block (Bj,Nk) computed by said first node on transactions among said set of transactions, for each received candidate block, generating a random value by the random number generator, and generating a signed selection message comprising: an identifier of the current round (j), said received candidate block (Bj,Nk) and said generated random value by said cryptoprocessor, broadcasting said signed selection messages to the nodes of said network, enabling them to select the new block (Bj) to be appended to the ledger for the current round based on said random values comprised in said signed selection messages.
US11362832B2	Distributed proof-of-work for sharded or parallel blockchains A computer-based method for combining individual hashpower of a plethora of shards that use a proof-of-work hash procedure such that each shard benefits from the hashpower from all other shards in the plethora of shards whereby a chosen set of shards having a maximal combined individual hashpower is a consensus.
US11362821B2	Secure selective rules driven token invalidation Secure selective token-based access control includes receiving a data access request from over a computer communications network, extracting a token from the request, selecting a decryption key for use in decrypting the token and attempting decryption of the token using the decryption key. Thereafter, on condition that the decryption key successfully decrypts the token into decrypted data, a creation date of the token in the decrypted data may be read and a rule applied to the creation date, the rule determining whether or not to expire the token. Finally, in response to a determination by the application of the rule to expire the token based upon the creation date of the token, the token is expired from subsequent use in authorizing servicing of the data access request, but otherwise the data access request is authorized for servicing.
US11362817B2	Quantum cryptographic key output apparatus, quantum cryptographic key communication system, and quantum cryptographic key output method A quantum cryptographic key output apparatus includes a semiconductor laser device that repeatedly generates pulsed laser light, an encoder that encodes the pulsed laser light based on a quantum cryptographic key, an optical branching unit that branches the pulsed laser light, and an attenuator that attenuates a light intensity of first pulsed laser light so that the number of photons of the first pulsed laser light has any one of a plurality of candidate values that are values equal to or smaller than 1. Further, the output apparatus includes a light intensity determination unit that determines whether or not a light intensity of a second pulsed laser light is in a predetermined range, and an information output unit that outputs specifying information for specifying the first pulsed laser light corresponding to second pulsed laser light of which the light intensity is not in the predetermined range to an input apparatus.
US11362814B1	Autonomous devices Autonomous devices and systems, methods, and program products for authorizing and performing autonomous devices transactions are disclosed. An autonomous device can be configured to generate a first hash value of a chain of hash values by applying a hash algorithm to first data including first new data and a first previous hash value of the chain of hash values, the first previous hash value computed by applying the hash algorithm to first previous data. The device can transmit to a transaction computer system the first hash value and the first new data. The device can generate and transmit to the transaction computer system a first signed electronic transaction request comprising first transaction data comprising a sending account identifier associated with the autonomous device, a destination account identifier, a transaction amount, and a timestamp. The device can digitally sign the transaction request using a private key of an asymmetric key pair.
US11362811B2	Secure telecommunications The present disclosure describes techniques for configuring and participating in encrypted audio calls, audio conferences, video calls, and video conferences. In particular, a call initiator generates a meeting identifier and a first meeting key, which are encrypted using a first encryption key and distributed to one or more participants of the call. The one or more participants decrypt the meeting identifier and the first meeting key, and use that information to participate in the encrypted call. Further, participants respond to the encrypted communication data by encrypting their reply data with the first meeting key. The call initiator decrypts the reply data using the first meeting key.
US11362807B2	Sealed distributed ledger system A system for ensuring privacy of transactions is provided. The system may be performed by a computing system during execution of trusted code within a secure enclave of the computing system. The system receives an indication of a transaction. The system validates the transaction. The system encrypts the validated transaction using an encryption key of the trusted code. The system requests untrusted code of the computing system to store the encrypted validated transaction in a portion of a data store. The untrusted code cannot decrypt the encrypted validated transaction that is stored in the data store. Rather, only the trusted code can decrypt the encrypted validated transaction.
US11362805B2	Database encryption layer An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by one or more endorser nodes of a blockchain network, an invoke chaincode transaction proposal, executing chaincode, encrypting, by an application programming interface between the chaincode and a shared ledger, blockchain state to the shared ledger, decrypting blockchain state from the shared ledger, endorsing, by the one or more endorser nodes, one or more results from executing the chaincode, and creating a blockchain transaction from the one or more endorsed results.
US11362804B1	System for interexchange of state data among disparate block chains A method of using an interexchange to process states of subsystems tracked by disparate block chains. The method comprises locating a first block comprising current state information associated with a first process stored in a first block chain by an interexchange application executing on a computer system, wherein the first process is performed by a first subsystem, reading the current state information of the first process by the interexchange application from the located first block, transcoding a representation of the current state information by the interexchange application to a representation associated with a second block chain, creating a block by the interexchange application, wherein the created block stores the transcoded representation of the current state information in a data field of the created block that the predefined block structure associates to the transcoded current state information, and attaching the created block to the second block chain.
US11362798B2	Channelization options for reducing network sensitivity A technology is described for increasing signal booster gain from a weak-signal far node in the proximity of a strong-signal near node. A first splitter can be coupled to a first interface port. A first channelized switchable first-direction parallel path can be coupled to the first splitter comprising a first channelized first-direction bandpass filter for a first subset of a selected first-direction band. A first switchable first-direction parallel path coupled to the first splitter can comprise: a switchable first-direction path comprising a first bandpass filter for passing the selected first-direction band; and a second channelized switchable first-direction parallel path comprising a second channelized first-direction bandpass filter for a second subset of the selected first-direction band.
US11362795B2	Reduction of TTI bundling in view of proactive imposition of air-interface resource reservation for a device class A method and system for controlling application of TTI bundling on a carrier on which an access node provides service, the carrier defining air-interface resources. An example method includes detecting that at least a predefined threshold number of devices of a predefined class (e.g., IoT devices) are connected with the access node on the carrier. Further, the example method includes, responsive to the detecting that at least the predefined threshold number of devices of the predefined class are connected with the access node on the carrier, proactively reserving a portion of the air-interface resources for use to serve communications between the access node and the devices of the predefined class and, in view of the proactive reserving of the portion of the air-interface resources, imposing a reduction in the application of the TTI bundling by the access node on the carrier.
US11362790B2	Method and device used in UE and base station for wireless communication The present disclosure provides a method and device used in UE and a base station for wireless communications. The UE receives a first signaling; and operates a first radio signal. The first radio signal comprises K first-type sub-signals and K first-type reference signals; the first signaling is used for determining time-frequency resources occupied by the first radio signal; time-domain resources occupied by the K first-type sub-signals are non-orthogonal, and frequency-domain resources occupied by each two of the K first-type reference signals are mutually orthogonal; the K first-type reference signals are respectively used for channel estimation of the K first-type sub-signals, and a reference signal port of each of the K first-type reference signals is associated with a target reference signal port. The above method is advantageous in improving efficiency of PTRSs in multi-TRP/panel transmissions.
US11362789B2	Method for transmitting and receiving reference signal in unlicensed band, and device therefor Disclosed is a method by which a terminal receives a tracking reference signal (TRS) in an unlicensed band. Particularly, the method receives a common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including first information related to the TRS transmission, and receives the TRS on the basis of the first information, wherein the first information can include information on whether TRS is transmitted and/or on a TRS transmission format.
US11362785B2	Signaling sequences of sounding reference signal resource indicator collections for uplink repetitions Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration for a plurality of SRS resources that correspond to respective SRS ports on which an SRS is to be transmitted; transmit SRSs using the SRS resources; receive downlink control information that identifies a sequence of SRS resource indicator (SRI) collections, where an SRI collection identifies one or more of the SRS resources used for transmitting the SRSs; and transmit a plurality of repetitions of an uplink communication based at least in part on the sequence of SRI collections, where a repetition is transmitted using one or more uplink ports that correspond to one or more SRS ports associated with the one or more SRS resources identified based at least in part on the SRI collection. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11362784B2	Method and apparatus for channel estimation and data decoding in wireless communication system A communication method and system that combine the internet of things (IoT) technology with fifth generation (5G) communication systems supporting a higher data rate after fourth generation (4G) systems are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, and security and safety related services on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT related technologies. A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system to improve DMRS channel estimation performance is provided. The method includes receiving first information configuring a physical resource block (PRB) bundling size indication based on second information, receiving the second information indicating the number of at least one PRB, if the PRB bundling size indication is configured, and estimating the channel state based on an assumption that the same precoding is applied to the at least one PRB based on the second information.
US11362778B2	Method for receiving control information for SRS transmission in wireless communication system, and user equipment therefor A method for a user equipment to receive control information for a sounding reference symbol (SRS) transmission in a wireless communication system may comprise: a step of receiving, from a base station, any one piece of information on an SRS bandwidth (BW), the number of SRS blocks and the length of an SRS block which have been set up for the user equipment; and a step of transmitting an SRS on the basis of the control information.
US11362775B2	Systems and methods for providing high data throughput in 6 GHz Wi-Fi network A method for allowing wireless communication between an access point and a wireless station in a wireless communication network includes: providing at least one from a combination of a 2.4 GHz frequency band and a 5 GHz frequency band; providing a frequency band including a 6 GHz frequency band for allowing wireless data communication; assigning a first data communication channel having a first frequency bandwidth in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band between the access point and the wireless station; and transmitting data packets between the access point and the wireless station via the first data communication channel in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band. Each of the 2.4 GHz frequency band and the 5 GHz frequency band includes a plurality of subchannels having a first base frequency bandwidth of 20 MHz, and the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band includes a plurality of subchannels having a second base frequency bandwidth that is larger than the first base frequency bandwidth.
US11362773B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data by relay node in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting to a child node, a STATUS PDU including Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) information corresponding to one or more data units of which reception failure is detected, wherein the STATUS PDU does not include ACK information for data units which are successfully received.
US11362772B2	Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e−j(π/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
US11362771B2	Base station and automatic retransmission scheduling method thereof The invention provides a base station and an automatic retransmission scheduling method thereof. The automatic retransmission scheduling method includes the following steps: when at least one first layer of protocol data unit of a first protocol layer constitutes a second layer PDU of a second protocol layer, assigning a retransmission serial number of the second layer PDU according to a serial number of the first layer PDU; sending the second layer PDU to a user equipment; receiving a status report of a first retransmission mechanism of the first protocol layer, and an acknowledgement serial number indicates that receiving of multiple PDUs of the first protocol layer by the UE is acknowledged; comparing the retransmission serial number of the second layer PDU with the ACK serial number, and determining whether to disable retransmission of the second layer PDU based on a second retransmission mechanism.
US11362766B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining HARQ feedback and method and apparatus for transmitting HARQ feedback The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for obtaining HARQ feedback and transmitting HARQ feedback. The method of obtaining HARQ feedback includes: short TTI scheduling information is configured into a first target long TTI according to service requirements; the short TTI scheduling information is sent to second equipment through the first target long TTI; one or more short TTIs in a second target long TTI is scheduled according to the short TTI scheduling information and the scheduled one or more short TTIs are sent to the second equipment; and HARQ feedback for each of the one or more short TTIs which is sequentially sent by the second equipment within the second target long TTI is received. The method provided in the present disclosure may effectively shorten the HARQ feedback latency of short TTIs and improve the flexibility of data transmission.
US11362760B2	Polar code rate matching method and apparatus Example Polar code rate matching methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining indexes of Z polarized channels on which forced frozen bits are placed, where the Z polarized channels are a subset of N polarized channels corresponding to N to-be-encoded bits, where N=2n, Z
US11362756B2	System and methods for coherent PON architecture and burst-mode reception An optical network communication system utilizes a passive optical network including an optical hub having an optical line terminal, downstream transmitter, an upstream receiver, a processor, and a multiplexer. The upstream receiver includes a plurality of TWDMA upstream subreceivers. The system includes a power splitter for dividing a coherent optical signal from the optical hub into a plurality of downstream wavelength signals, a long fiber to carry the coherent optical signal between the optical hub and the power splitter, and a plurality of serving groups. Each serving group includes a plurality of optical network units configured to (i) receive at least one downstream wavelength signal, and (ii) transmit at least one upstream wavelength signal. The system includes a plurality of short fibers to carry the downstream and upstream wavelength signals between the power splitter and the optical network units, respectively. Each upstream subreceiver receives a respective upstream wavelength signal.
US11362754B1	Adaptive inline modulation tuning for optical interfaces Embodiments for adaptive inline modulation tuning for optical interfaces is described. The inline modulation tuning is provided by optical nodes, where the optical nodes exchange optical modulation information and node ability information between optical devices in a node pair. An optimal modulation scheme for the node pair is selected based on modulation abilities of each node and associated transceiver, as well as a link quality and performance observed for the optical link.
US11362753B2	Optical node device An optical node device includes one or more input-side wavelength selection switches, a plurality of output-side wavelength selection switches, and an amplification unit. The input-side wavelength selection switches include a plurality of output ports, separate input light in accordance with a wavelength, and output the separated light from the output port corresponding to an output destination of the separated light. The output-side wavelength selection switches include input ports each receiving the light output from each of the one or more input-side wavelength selection switches, multiplex the light received from the input ports, and output the light. The amplification unit amplifies the light output from each of the output ports of the input-side wavelength selection switches and outputs the amplified light to the output-side wavelength selection switch at the output destination corresponding to the output port.
US11362749B2	Switching sub-system for distributed antenna systems using time division duplexing A switching control module can optimize time division duplexing operations of a distributed antenna system (“DAS”). The switching control module can include a measurement receiver and a processor. The measurement receiver can measure signal powers of downlink signals in a downlink path of the DAS. The processor can determine start times for downlink sub-frames transmitted via the downlink path based on downlink signal powers measured by the measurement receiver exceeding a threshold signal power. The processor can identify a clock setting that controls a timing of switching signals used for switching the DAS between an uplink mode and a downlink mode. The processor can statistically determine a switching time adjustment for the clock setting based on switching time differentials between the clock setting and the start times. The processor can update the clock setting based on the switching time adjustment.
US11362748B2	Reception device, transmission device, and data processing method The present technology relates to a reception device, a transmission device, and a data processing method for easily controlling operation of an application accompanying content.The reception device receives the content and controls activation of the application accompanying the content on the basis of valid period information indicating a period in which the application is valid, thereby to easily control the operation of the application accompanying the content. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver or the like capable of receiving terrestrial broadcasting.
US11362746B2	Efficient near-field communication based on audio signals The present disclosure describes an efficient computer-implemented near-field communication system and method based on broadcasting audio signals for dynamically providing context-related additional content to a mobile device. In embodiments of the present invention, the additional content is mapped to specific audio watermarks and/or triggering commands which are encoded together into a digital signal. Based on continuously scanning the received background noise, an exactly defined frequency range and volume is dynamically selected for broadcasting the signal. Hence, the encoded digital signal is further modulated into an audio signal in the exactly defined frequency range. In embodiments of the present invention, the selected exactly defined frequency range for transmitting the audio signal may preferably be located in the ultrasound and/or infrasound frequency range. In case of transmitting infrasound signals, gyrosensors of the mobile device may be employed as audio signal receivers in embodiments of the present invention. Moreover, in further embodiments of the present invention, audio signal receiver of a mobile device such as gyrosensors or microphones may be switched on by transmitting a command via a wireless network such as Wifi or Bluetooth. Also the information about the selected frequency range and volume for broadcasting the audio signal may be provided to the mobile device via a wireless network in embodiments of the present invention. In response, an audio signal receiver of the mobile device may be tuned to the selected frequency range. The received audio signal is further processed on the mobile device so that the context-related additional content may be displayed and/or rendered.
US11362745B2	Radio wave state analysis method A radio wave state analysis method acquires a radio wave for a place at which an audio system is sited, where the audio system includes one or more receiving devices for wireless reception of an audio signal; and generates relationship information indicative of a relationship between condition information and radio wave information indicative of the radio wave state, where the condition information includes at least one of time information indicative of a time when the radio wave state is measured or position information indicative of a position of the audio system.
US11362744B2	Noise detection and localization Various techniques include detecting noise in a network, identifying the type of noise in the network, localizing noise in the network, determining noise scores for network devices, and/or determining likelihoods that particular devices are causing noise and/or are in proximity of a point of entry of noise into the network.
US11362741B2	Distributed system for radio frequency environment simulation A method and system for measuring a device under test are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of implementing a measurement system is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes, each node including a combination of a communication tester configured to generate a communication signal and a channel emulator configured to emulate a channel, and providing a user interface configured to enable a user to control at least one of the plurality of nodes.
US11362740B2	Power over fiber system A power over fiber system includes a power sourcing equipment, a powered device, an optical fiber cable and a controller. The power sourcing equipment includes semiconductor lasers. The semiconductor lasers output feed light of different wavelengths by oscillating with electric power. The powered device includes photoelectric conversion elements. The photoelectric conversion elements have different photoelectric conversion efficiencies and convert the feed light output from the power sourcing equipment into electric power with their respective photoelectric conversion efficiencies. The optical fiber cable transmits the feed light from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device. The controller performs a process of selecting and activating one of the semiconductor lasers and a process of selecting and activating one of the photoelectric conversion elements in order that the power over fiber system perform predetermined power supply.
US11362737B2	Ternary modulation using inter-operable transmitters and receivers A ternary phase shift keying transmitter and receiver can efficiently communicate using ternary encoded data that avoids indistinguishable transition curves for each of the three modulated states in the ternary encoded data. The transmitter is interoperable and can function with different types of receivers including direct detection-based receivers and coherent detection-based receivers.
US11362729B2	Pre-amplifier for a modem Technology for a pre-amplification system for a modem is disclosed. The pre-amplification system can include an uplink-downlink signal path communicatively coupled between a first modem port of the modem and a first donor antenna port. The pre-amplification system can include a downlink signal path communicatively coupled between a second modem port of the modem and a second donor antenna port. The downlink signal path can include a pre-amplifier configured to amplify a received downlink cellular signal to produce an amplified downlink cellular signal to be directed to the second modem port.
US11362717B2	Wireless communication method and device A wireless communication method and device are provided. The method comprises the following operations. A terminal device sends first information to a network device. The first information indicates a switching mode supported by the terminal device and/or a performance parameter value corresponding to the supported switching mode, the switching mode indicates a manner in which the terminal device switches from one transmission mode to another transmission mode, and the transmission mode indicates the number of transmitters and the number of receivers used by the terminal device.
US11362715B2	Method and device for setting reference signal in wireless communication system Provided is a method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of communicating based on reference signal configuration, the method including receiving, from a base station (BS), channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource setting; determining whether CSI-RS reporting setting corresponding to the CSI-RS resource setting is allocated; and based on a result of the determining, determining whether to generate CSI.
US11362712B2	Adaptive numerology for beamforming training A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise determining a numerology for beamforming training supportable by a network node and a terminal device. The method may further comprise configuring the numerology for the beamforming training. The numerology may define radio resources with adaptive properties used for transmissions of beamforming training signals. The method may further comprise performing the beamforming training based at least partly on the configured numerology.
US11362709B1	Signal generation method, transmission device, reception method, and reception device A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
US11362704B2	Cross-sub-band quasi co-location signaling Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may configure a first sub-band and a second sub-band of a system bandwidth for communication with a user equipment (UE). The base station may determine a spatial quasi co-location (QCL) relationship between the first sub-band and the second sub-band and may transmit signaling to the UE that indicates the determined spatial QCL relationship. Upon receiving the signaling, the UE may derive, based on the indicated spatial QCL relationship, spatial parameters (e.g., beam width, pointing angle, etc.) for communication with the base station via the second sub-band. The spatial parameters may be derived based on spatial parameters used for reception of a downlink transmission from the base station via the first sub-band. Subsequently, the UE may communicate with the base station via the second sub-band using the derived spatial parameters.
US11362703B1	Positional tracking assisted beam forming in wireless virtual reality systems Embodiments of the present disclosure support a head-mounted display (HMD) wirelessly coupled to a console. The HMD includes a positional tracking system, a beam controller and a transceiver. The positional tracking system tracks position of the HMD and generates positional information describing the tracked position of the HMD. The transceiver communicates with a console via a wireless channel, in accordance with communication instructions, the communication instructions causing the transceiver to communicate over one directional beam of a plurality of directional beams. The beam controller determines a change in the positional information. Based on the change to the positional information, the beam controller determines a directional beam of the plurality of directional beams. The beam controller further generates the communication instructions identifying the determined directional beam, and provides the communication instructions to the transceiver.
US11362702B2	Echo and near-end crosstalk cancellation system An echo and near-end cross-talk (NEXT) cancellation system includes a time-domain processing module and a frequency-domain processing module. The time-domain processing module is configured to receive an unprocessed signal after an analog-to-digital conversion, remove at least one time-domain dominant component of interference from the unprocessed signal, and accordingly cancel a time-domain processed signal. The frequency-domain processing module is connected to the time-domain processing module, and configured to receive the time-domain processed signal, cancel at least one frequency-domain component of the interference from the unprocessed signal, and accordingly generate a processed signal.
US11362701B2	Multi-radio synchronization within a single connected system A multi-radio border router for synchronizing communications of multiple border router radios is provided. For example, the border router includes a border router component connected to each of the plurality of border router radios. The border router component configured for selecting one of the plurality of border router radios as a master radio and assigning channel offset parameters for each of the plurality of border router radios. The master radio is configured for broadcasting synchronization beacons based on which the non-master radios synchronize their respective clocks with that of the master radio. After the synchronization, each of the border router radios communicates with endpoints associated therewith according to a channel hopping pattern modified by applying a channel offset determined based on the channel offset parameters assigned to the respective radio.
US11362699B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal including a body for receiving an electronic component therein; a middle frame mounted on the body a main board mounted on the body; a side case surrounding an edge of the body, wherein the side case includes a plurality of antenna radiators having a first end and a second end, and a plurality of slits defined between the plurality of antenna radiators; a ground line connected to each of the antenna radiators; and a feeding line for supplying power to each of the antenna radiators. Further, each of the antenna radiators includes the second end grounded by the ground line and the first end spaced apart from the second end of a neighbor antenna radiator.
US11362695B2	Method for communication between a portable device comprising a touch-sensitive surface and a peripheral device selected by a directional slide on the touch-sensitive surface Method for communication between a portable device comprising a touch-sensitive surface and a peripheral device selected from among at least one peripheral device, comprising the steps of: determining a current position and a current orientation of the portable device; determining a direction of a selection slide on the touch sensitive surface of the portable device, carried out by an individual's finger or by any object; defining, from among the at least one peripheral device, the selected peripheral device whose position corresponds to the direction of the selection slide; starting a communication between the portable device and the selected peripheral device.
US11362693B2	Method and apparatus for detecting and analyzing passive intermodulation interference in a communication system A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a signal generated by a communication device, detecting passive intermodulation interference in the signal, the interference generated by one or more transmitters unassociated with the communication device, and the interference determined from signal characteristics associated with a signaling protocol used by the one or more transmitters. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11362690B2	Apparatus and method for amplifying transmission signals in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure is to amplify transmission signals in a wireless communication system, and a transmitting device may include an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements, a plurality of amplification chains for amplifying signals transmitted through the plurality of the antenna elements, and a power supply line for supplying powers to the plurality of the amplification chains. Herein, the powers used by power amplifiers included in at least one amplification chain of the plurality of the amplification chains may be divided by filtering or by independent pads and branch-lines.
US11362683B2	Variable rate low density parity check decoder A method includes receiving a first data frame and a second data frame from a communication channel; decoding the first data frame using a first portion of an extended parity-check matrix (PCM); and decoding the second data frame using a second portion of the extended PCM. The first portion is a subset of the second portion.
US11362673B2	Entropy agnostic data encoding and decoding Entropy agnostic data encoding includes: receiving, by an encoder, input data including a bit string; generating a plurality of candidate codewords, including encoding the input data bit string with a plurality of binary vectors, wherein the plurality of binary vectors includes a set of deterministic biased binary vectors and a set of random binary vectors; selecting, in dependence upon a predefined criteria, one of the plurality of candidate codewords; and transmitting the selected candidate codeword to a decoder.
US11362667B1	Reducing delay-lock loop delay fluctuation A device includes a master delay-lock loop (DLL) having a phase frequency detector connected in series with a charge pump that is to generate a control voltage. A slave DLL is coupled to the master DLL and has a delay line including a buffer to receive a slave clock and a series of delay cells coupled between the buffer and an output terminal that is to output a delay clock, the series of delay cells variably controlled by the control voltage. The master DLL and the slave DLL are powered by a power supply that experiences undershoot or overshoot in response to a load transient. A dummy load is coupled between the delay line of the slave DLL and an output of the power supply, the dummy load including an exclusive OR gate that receives, as inputs, a first output of the buffer and the delay clock.
US11362666B2	Low-jitter frequency division clock clock circuit The present disclosure provides a low-jitter frequency division clock circuit, including: a clock control signal generation circuit, to generate clock signals having different phases; a low-level narrow pulse width clock control signal generation circuit, to generate a low-level narrow pulse width clock control signal; a high-level narrow pulse width clock control signal generation circuit, to generate a high-level narrow pulse width clock control signal; and a frequency division clock generation circuit, to generate a frequency division clock signal according to low-level narrow pulse width clock control signal and high-level narrow pulse width clock control signal. The delay from a clock input end to an output end of low-jitter frequency division clock circuit is up to three logic gates. Compared with traditional divide-by-2 frequency division clock circuits based on D-flip-flop, the low-jitter frequency division clock circuit of the present disclosure has fewer logic gates, a shorter delay, and lower jitter.
US11362660B2	Level shifter circuit and method of operating the same A circuit includes a level shifter circuit, an output circuit, an enable circuit, a first and a second feedback circuit. The level shifter circuit is coupled to a first voltage supply, and is configured to generate at least a first and a second signal responsive to at least the first enable signal or the first input signal. The output circuit is coupled to at least the level shifter circuit and the first voltage supply, and configured to receive the first and the second signal. The enable circuit is configured to generate a second enable signal responsive to the first enable signal. The first feedback circuit is configured to receive the first enable signal, the second enable signal and the first feedback signal. The second feedback circuit is configured to receive the first enable signal, the second enable signal and the second feedback signal.
US11362659B2	Thin keyboard apparatus A thin keyboard apparatus includes a base plate and a supporting unit. The base plate has a plate body which is formed with four retaining openings and four retaining members. Each retaining opening is bordered by a peripheral edge which has first and second edge sections extending along two different and intersecting directions. Each retaining member has an upper wall, a first connecting wall interconnecting the upper wall and the first edge section, a second connecting wall interconnecting the upper wall and the second edge section, and a broken hole dividing the first edge section from the second edge section. The supporting unit is slidably pivoted to the retaining members.
US11362656B1	Josephson RF to RF frequency converter A single flux quantum (SFQ) circuit includes a radio frequency (RF) to direct current (DC) conversion stage. A DC to RF current conversion stage is coupled to a single output of the RF to DC conversion stage. The DC to RF current conversion stage includes a plurality of series stacked Josephson Junctions (JJs) having n stages, configured to convert a DC current received from the RF to DC conversion stage and reconvert the DC current to an RF tone.
US11362649B1	Circuit and method for adaptively eliminating ringing in signals driving capacitive loads A control signal may be produced in response to an assertion of a switch signal by asserting the control signal, waiting an adaptive delay after the assertion of the switch signal, de-asserting the control signal in response to the expiration of the adaptive delay, and re-asserting the control signal in response to a current generated according to the control signal becoming zero. The adaptive delay may be adjusted according to a voltage generated using the current. A circuit may include an XOR gate producing the control signal from a switch signal and an output of a Set-Reset Flip-Flop (SRFF), a zero-detect circuit that resets the SRFF when a current generated using the control circuit becomes zero, and a delay circuit to set the SRFF an adaptive delay after assertion of the switch signal and to adjust the adaptive delay according to a voltage generated by the current.
US11362647B2	Hysteresis comparator, semiconductor device, and power storage device To provide a hysteresis comparator having a small circuit area and low power consumption. The hysteresis comparator includes a comparator, a switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a logic circuit. A first terminal of the switch is electrically connected to one of a pair of conductive regions of the first capacitor, one of a pair of conductive regions of the second capacitor, and a first input terminal of the comparator. An output terminal of the comparator is electrically connected to an input terminal of the logic circuit. An output terminal of the logic circuit is electrically connected to the other of the pair of conductive regions of the second capacitor. The logic circuit has a function of generating an inverted signal of a signal input to the input terminal of the logic circuit and outputting the inverted signal to the output terminal of the logic circuit. A reference potential is input to the first input terminal of the comparator and the reference potential is held by the switch. Due to change in the potential of the output terminal of the comparator, the reference potential is changed by capacitive coupling of the second capacitor.
US11362646B1	Variable current drive for isolated gate drivers A method for driving a high-power drive device includes providing a signal having a first predetermined signal level to an output node during a first phase of a multi-phase transition process. The method includes generating a first indication of a first parameter associated with the signal provided to the output node. The method includes generating a second indication of a second parameter associated with the signal provided to the output node. The method includes providing the signal having a second predetermined signal level to the output node during a second phase of the multi-phase transition process. The method includes transitioning from the first phase to the second phase based on the first indication and the second indication. A multi-die, distributed package technique addresses power dissipation requirements for a driver product based on size and associated power dissipation needs of the high-power drive device in a target application.
US11362644B2	Switch module A switch module includes a first terminal, first and second filters, and first and second switches. Impedance of the first filter for a signal in a stop band is capacitive. When the first switch is turned OFF, impedance of the first switch is capacitive, and impedance of the first filter seen from an end portion of the first switch connected to the first filter is not in a short state and impedance of the first filter seen from the first terminal is in an open state.
US11362643B2	Multiplexer A multiplexer includes first and second filters and additional circuits. The first filter is coupled to transmit and antenna terminals, the second filter is coupled to receive and antenna terminals, one additional circuit is coupled to transmit and receive terminals, and another additional circuit is coupled to transmit and antenna terminals. Pass bands of the first and second filters are respectively first and second frequency bands, and the second frequency band including a center frequency higher than a center frequency of the first frequency band. The one additional circuit includes a first resonator group including first IDT electrodes aligned in a propagation direction of an acoustic wave. The other additional circuit includes a second resonator group including second IDT electrodes aligned in the propagation direction. An average pitch of electrode fingers is greater among the first IDT electrodes than the second IDT electrodes.
US11362640B2	Electrode-defined unsuspended acoustic resonator A bulk acoustic resonator operable in a bulk acoustic mode includes a resonator body mounted to a separate carrier that is not part of the resonator body. The resonator body includes a piezoelectric layer, a device layer, and a top conductive layer on the piezoelectric layer opposite the device layer. The piezoelectric layer is a single crystal of LiNbO3 cut at an angle of 130°±30°. A surface of the device layer opposite the piezoelectric layer is for mounting the resonator body to the carrier.
US11362638B2	Bulk acoustic wave resonator with a heatsink region and electrical insulator region Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator having a substrate with a heatsink region and an electrical insulator region. An example electroacoustic device generally includes a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode structure, a second electrode structure, one or more reflector layers, and a substrate having a heatsink region and an electrical insulator region. The heatsink region is arranged under a first portion of the first electrode structure, the first portion of the first electrode structure overlapping the second electrode structure. The insulator region is arranged under a second portion of the first electrode structure, the second portion of the first electrode structure being adjacent to the first portion of the first electrode structure.
US11362636B2	Multiplexer, front end circuit, and communication device A multiplexer includes a first acoustic wave filter, a second acoustic wave filter, and an inductor-capacitor (LC) filter each connected to a common terminal. A passband of the second acoustic wave filter is between a passband of the first acoustic wave filter and a passband of the LC filter, a frequency gap between the passband of the second acoustic wave filter and the passband of the LC filter is greater than a frequency gap between the passband of the first acoustic wave filter and the passband of the second acoustic wave filter, the passband of the first acoustic wave filter includes a transmission band of the first communication band, the passband of the LC filter includes a reception band of the first communication band, and the passband of the second acoustic wave filter includes a reception band of a second communication band.
US11362627B1	Process tracking pulse generator Systems and devices are provided for tracking pullup current generated by power amplifiers regardless of variations in PVT conditions. An apparatus may include one or more power amplifiers that powers components of the apparatus, a tracking circuit, and a pulse generation circuit. The tracking circuit may include an amplifier. Further, the tracking circuit may include pullup current tracking circuitry that is coupled to the amplifier and generates a first current that tracks pullup current generated by the one or more power amplifiers. Furthermore, the pulse generation circuit may include pullup current generator circuitry that generates a second current that mirrors the first current. In addition, the pulse generation circuit may also include pulse generator circuitry that is coupled to the pullup current generator circuitry and that generates a pulse to control operation of the one or more power amplifiers based at least in part on the second current.
US11362625B2	Balanced-to-Doherty mode switchable power amplifier A balanced-to-Doherty (B2D) mode-reconfigurable power amplifier (PA) has the capability of maintaining high linearity and high efficiency against load mismatch. The reconfigurable PA includes a switch to alternatively connect to a pre-determined resistive load or a pre-determined pure reactive load (jX), i.e., short, open, or finite reactance between an output quadrature coupler and ground. The biasing of Doherty mode is adaptive dependent on the value of reactive loading (jX). The Doherty operation of this PA is based on an architecture configured from a balanced amplifier, e.g., a quasi-balanced amplifier.
US11362623B2	Voltage-controlled oscillator A voltage-controlled oscillator includes a first transistor, a second transistor, an inductive impedance element, a first variable capacitive impedance element, and a second variable capacitive impedance element. The first transistor has a source coupled to a first power source, a drain coupled to a first node, and a gate coupled to a second node. The second transistor has a source coupled to the first power source, a drain coupled to the second node, and a gate coupled to the first node. The inductive impedance element has a first terminal coupled to the first node and a second terminal coupled to the second node. The first variable capacitive impedance element has a first terminal coupled to the first node and a second terminal coupled to a third node. The second variable capacitive impedance element has a first terminal coupled to the second node and a second terminal coupled to the third node.
US11362621B2	Wiring device of photovoltaic equipment A wiring device of photovoltaic power generation equipment includes an aluminum wire and a copper-aluminum transition element. One end of the aluminum end is connected with the aluminum end of the copper-aluminum transition piece, and the other end of the aluminum end is configured to connect with an external connecting component. The copper end is configured to connect with photovoltaic power generation equipment. In the wiring device of the photovoltaic power generation equipment provided in the present application, the copper-aluminum transition piece is arranged at the position of the photovoltaic power generation equipment, and the aluminum end of the copper-aluminum transition piece is connected to the external connecting component by the aluminum wire, avoiding using copper wire for long-distance conduction. The cost of the aluminum wire is much lower than that of the copper wire. Therefore, the cost of the wiring device provided by the application is reduced.
US11362619B2	Photoelectric conversion device Disclosed is a photoelectric conversion device that includes: a thin panel-shaped photoelectric conversion module; a first connection member that couples to an outer edge of the photoelectric conversion module at a joint so as to be electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion module; a reinforcing member that couples to a portion including the joint; and a main body that receives electric power supply from the photoelectric conversion module via the first connection member. The first connection member is mechanically and electrically attachable/detachable to/from the main body and has a thickness in vertical direction that is greater than a thickness in vertical direction of the photoelectric conversion module and less than or equal to a thickness in vertical direction of the reinforcing member at the joint.
US11362617B2	Self-generating smart glass Provided is a self-generating smart glass, including: a window frame, an outer glass and an inner glass, a plurality of solar panels, a first electric telescopic rod, a plurality of slide grooves which are symmetrically arranged on a top and a bottom of the window frame, a foldable plate located between the outer glass and the inner glass, a first battery, a light sensor and a control system. Two adjacent outer surfaces of the foldable plate are provided with the solar panels which are connected in series through flexible wires and communicated with the first battery. The first electric telescopic rod, the light sensor and the control system are respectively connected to the power supply; and the first electric telescopic rod and the light sensor are respectively connected to the control system.
US11362613B2	Motor driving circuit and motor driving method A motor driving circuit and a motor driving method are provided. The motor driving circuit is used to drive the motor and includes an inverter circuit, a control circuit, a current-limiting circuit, a start circuit and a transient circuit. The control circuit controls the inverter circuit to drive the motor with a motor control current according to a set current limit value indicated by a current-limiting signal, and outputs a steady state ready signal in response to the motor reaching a steady state. The current-limiting circuit generates the current-limiting signal according to a start state signal, or generates the current-limiting signal according to a transient signal. The start circuit outputs the start state signal when the motor starts. The transient circuit detects whether the motor is in a transient state, and outputs the transient signal in response to the motor being in a transient state.
US11362612B2	Power device of electric vehicle Disclosed herein is a power device of an electric vehicle including a motor housing that is configured to accommodate a motor which generates a driving force, and an inverter housing that has the shape of a cylinder which has first and second opened surfaces, that is coupled to the motor housing such that a shaft which delivers the driving force is coupled to the motor, and that is configured to accommodate an inverter module which supplies first, second and third AC power to the motor.
US11362611B2	Variable torque motor/generator/transmission The present disclosure is directed to an electric generator and motor transmission system that is capable of operating with high energy, wide operating range and extremely variable torque and RPM conditions. In accordance with various embodiments, the disclosed system is operable to: dynamically change the output “size” of the motor/generator by modularly engaging and disengaging rotor/stator sets as power demands increase or decrease; activate one stator or another within the rotor/stator sets as torque/RPM or amperage/voltage requirements change; and/or change from parallel to series winding configurations or the reverse through sets of 2, 4, 6 or more parallel, three-phase, non-twisted coil windings with switchable separated center tap to efficiently meet torque/RPM or amperage/voltage requirements.
US11362610B2	Method for operating a synchronous motor excited by permanent magnets, electronic control device, motor arrangement, and storage medium A method for operating a permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises setting a maximum power, determining a current vector and an output voltage vector in the dq coordinate system. A setpoint amount for a setpoint voltage vector is calculated on the basis of the maximum power, the current vector and the output voltage vector. The setpoint voltage vector is generated with the setpoint amount, and then operating the permanent magnet synchronous motor at least with the setpoint voltage vector.
US11362609B2	Active sound generation apparatus using motor Disclosed is an active sound generation apparatus using a motor, the apparatus including a target sound generating signal generator configured to select the target sound and to generate a current command signal for driving the motor to generate the target sound, a current sensor configured to sense phase current of the motor, a motor controller configured to generate a voltage command for driving the motor to generate the target sound and to control driving of the motor based on a current command signal generated by the target sound generating signal generator, the phase current of the motor sensed by the current sensor, and a counter electromotive force compensation value of the motor, and a radiated noise generator configured to generate the target sound using vibration generated from the motor driven by the motor controller.
US11362606B2	Control device for alternating-current electric motor An inverter converts direct-current power to alternating-current power by operations of a plurality of switching elements under a PWM control, and supplies the alternating-current power to an alternating-current electric motor. A feedback control computation unit of an inverter control unit uses current values acquired from current sensors detecting a current flowing to the alternating-current electric motor and a rotation angle of the alternating-current electric motor to perform a control computation in a (N/2) cycle (N is a natural number) of a triangular wave carrier of the PWM control. At the acquisition of the current values detected by the current sensors, an average acquisition unit acquires an average of current values in a carrier half cycle as a period between a peak and a valley of the carrier, or acquires a current value regarded as an average of the current values at an acquirable timing.
US11362604B2	Compact, low-cost electric field mill An electric field mill (EFM) incorporates a novel rotor and shaft grounding mechanism providing a low-impedance path to ground via a bearing packed with electrically conductive grease. A removable bearing washer allows for servicing. The EFM includes a data processing scheme built around a peak detection algorithm and moving much of the signal processing to digital processing. A GPS disciplined sampling clock and cellular connectivity allow for use and maintenance of arrays of widely scattered EFMs.
US11362600B2	Electrostatic motor having unipolar drive A generator/controller for electrostatic motors exploits properties of a delta-connected electrostatic motor to accommodate high common mode DC offset voltages thus permitting construction of an electrostatic drive circuit outputting unipolar sinusoidal power and having a substantial reduction in the complexity and size.
US11362599B2	Controlling method for single-phase bidirectional inverter and device thereof A controlling method is for a single-phase bidirectional inverter. The single-phase bidirectional inverter includes a switch and an inductor. The controlling method for the single-phase bidirectional inverter includes an extracting step, a calculating step, and an integrating step. In the extracting step, a current command is inputted to the switch and obtaining a current through the inductor. The current is piecewisely linearized to extract a magnetizing inductance and a demagnetizing inductance of the inductor. In the calculating step, a duty ratio of the switch is used to calculate a variation of the current of the magnetizing inductance and a variation of the current of the demagnetizing inductance. In the integrating step, the variation of the current of the magnetizing inductance and the variation of the current of the demagnetizing inductance are integrated to obtain another duty ratio of the switch in the next cycle.
US11362597B2	Power control device The present power control device includes an inverter, a step-up/down converter, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a control device. The step-up/down converter includes an upper arm and a lower arm that are switching elements, and a reactor that has a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the first capacitor, and the second end being connected between the upper arm and the lower arm. The control device is configured to fix the lower arm in an off state and control the upper arm such that the upper arm switches at a predetermined duty ratio.
US11362596B2	System and method for operating a system In a system and method for operating a system having a rectifier which is suppliable from an electric AC-voltage supply network, an inverter which feeds an electric motor, and a DC/DC converter which is connected to an energy accumulator, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the electric motor is supplied from the AC-voltage side connection of the inverter, a first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter and the first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter are connected in parallel, the DC/DC converter has a housing in which a device for current acquisition is situated, which acquires either the current, in particular network phase currents, flowing into the rectifier at the AC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, or the current emerging from the rectifier at the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, and the acquired value is forwarded to a signal electronics situated in the housing of the DC/DC converter, which generates control signals for semiconductor switches of the DC/DC converter.
US11362595B1	Power converter pre-charge with line synchronization For power converter pre-charge with line synchronization, a method magnetizes a power transformer of a power converter with a supply voltage from a variable voltage variable frequency supply. The method pre-charges power cells of the power converter fed from the power transformer to a specified voltage with the supply voltage. The method further modifies a primary amplitude, a primary phase, and a primary frequency of a primary winding of the power converter with the supply voltage to match a main amplitude, a main phase, and a main frequency of a main voltage of a main power source. In response to matching the primary amplitude, the primary phase, and the primary frequency to the main amplitude, the main phase, and the main frequency, the method connects the main power source to the power transformer.
US11362591B2	Quasi-resonant auto-tuning controller A quasi-resonant auto-tuning controller includes a zero-voltage crossing detection circuit and a valley tuning finite-state machine having a look-up table. The zero-voltage crossing detection circuit receives a reference voltage and receives an auxiliary signal from an auxiliary winding. The zero-voltage crossing detection circuit produces a comparison signal having pulses when the auxiliary signal is less than the reference voltage. The valley tuning finite-state machine produces a divided pulse width based on the comparison signal, stores the divided pulse width of each pulse in the look-up table, determines, from the comparison signal, that the auxiliary signal is less than the reference voltage, waits a time period corresponding to the divided pulse width stored in the look-up table if the auxiliary signal is less than the reference voltage, and produces a valley point signal after waiting the time period.
US11362589B2	Flying capacitor converter A flying capacitor converter includes an inductor, a first switch and a second switch, a first diode and a second diode, a first capacitor and a second capacitor, a flying capacitor, a third diode and a third capacitor, a fourth diode, and a fifth diode. The inductor is coupled to a first node. The first switch and the second switch are commonly connected to a second node. The first diode and the second diode are commonly connected to a third node. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are commonly connected to a fourth node. The flying capacitor is coupled to the second node and the third node. The third diode and the third capacitor are commonly connected to a fifth node. The fifth diode is coupled to the third node and the fourth node.
US11362588B2	Power conversion circuit and related apparatus and terminal device A power conversion circuit includes a first switch branch, a second switch branch, a third switch branch, a filter branch, and a first capacitor. A first terminal of the first capacitor is connected to a power source through the first switch branch, and a second terminal of the first capacitor is grounded through the second switch branch. The filter branch includes a filter inductor and a filter capacitor. A first terminal of the filter inductor is connected to the first terminal of the first capacitor, and a second terminal of the filter inductor is connected to a first terminal of the filter capacitor. A second terminal of the filter capacitor is grounded, and the filter capacitor is connected in parallel with the load. The third switch branch is connected between the second terminal of the first capacitor and the second terminal of the filter inductor.
US11362587B2	Hysteretic pulse modulation for charge balance of multi-level power converters In described examples of methods and control circuitry to control a multi-level power conversion system, the control circuitry generates PWM signals having a duty cycle to control an output signal. The duty cycle is adjustable in different switching cycles. States of the system's switches are adjustable in one or more intervals within the switching cycles. In response to a voltage across a capacitor of the system being outside a non-zero voltage range, the control circuitry adjusts states of the switches in two intervals to discharge or charge the capacitor in a given switching cycle.
US11362583B2	Method for controlling a Vienna rectifier A method for generating a current set point value for a charging device connected to an electrical network includes measuring at least one electrical voltage, calculating a filtered voltage according to the measured voltage and a value of electrical pulsation of the electrical network, estimating a frequency and the amplitude of the measured voltage according to the at least one measured voltage and the at least one filtered voltage, calculating a consolidated voltage according to the measured voltage and the filtered voltage, and generating a current set point value according to the consolidated voltage and the estimated amplitude.
US11362582B2	Multi-phase converter control system and method for interleaving multi-phase converters A desired OFF period module is configured to determine a desired OFF period for a plurality of switches of a PFC circuit based on an input voltage and an output voltage. A blanking timer module is configured to output a blanking signal, set the blanking signal to a first state when a countdown timer is greater than zero, and set the blanking signal to a second state when the countdown timer reaches zero. A switching control module is configured to: transition a first switch of the plurality of switches from an ON state to an OFF state in response to (i) a measured current through an inductor of the PFC circuit being greater than a demanded current through the inductor and (ii) the blanking signal being in the second state; and maintain the first switch in the OFF state for the desired OFF period after the transition.
US11362580B2	Power conversion device with temperature control In order to cause an output to be continued while protecting a DC-DC converter including a temperature detector from overheating, without stopping an operation or excessively reducing an output, even when an abnormality has occurred in a cooler or the temperature detector has failed, a controller sets current values at which a control using droop characteristics is started in a multiple of stages in accordance with temperature values, and carries out the control using droop characteristics by switching the current value in accordance with a temperature detected by the temperature detector.
US11362576B1	Power converter with multiple output voltages An apparatus such as a power supply system includes a switched-capacitor converter operative to receive an input voltage. The switched-capacitor converter includes multiple resonant circuit paths to convert the input voltage into a first output voltage and a second output voltage. A first output of the switched-capacitor converter is operative to output the first output voltage; a second output of the switched-capacitor converter is operative to output the second output voltage.
US11362573B1	Rotating pressure generator A rotating pressure generator includes a rotor and a stator arranged surrounding the rotor. The rotor is adapted to rotate about a central axis and has a body defining an outer surface, and a plurality of first magnets attached to the outer surface extending radially outwardly from the outer surface. Further, the stator includes a plurality of arcuate bodies arrayed circularly and coaxially around the rotor and a plurality of second magnets attached to an inner surface of each of the arcuate bodies. The second magnets are oriented such that a first pole of each second magnet faces a first pole of the first magnet and magnetic polarity of the first pole of the second magnet is identical to a magnetic polarity of the first pole of the first magnet. The rotor rotates about the central axis in response to the reciprocating movements of the plurality of arcuate bodies.
US11362569B2	Electric drive apparatus, and electric power steering apparatus In an electric power steering apparatus, a motor housing includes an axial end part opposite to an output part of an electric motor. An electronic control section is arranged at the axial end part of the motor housing. The electronic control section includes a control circuit part, a power supply circuit part, and a power conversion circuit part. The axial end part of the motor housing includes a power conversion part thermal radiation region and a power supply part thermal radiation region. The power conversion circuit part is mounted to the power conversion part thermal radiation region to allow heat to be transferred from the power conversion circuit part to the motor housing. The power supply circuit part is mounted to the power supply part thermal radiation region to allow heat to be transferred from the power supply circuit part to the motor housing.
US11362565B2	Electromagnetic automatic balancing device based on radial excitation An electromagnetic automatic balancing device based on radial excitation includes a shell, a rotatory ring, a stationary ring, a pair of connecting bearings and a controller. The rotatory ring includes two bilaterally symmetrical outer excitation magnetic rings, two bilaterally symmetrical inner excitation magnetic rings, two bilaterally symmetrical counterweight discs, two bilaterally symmetrical first counterweight blocks, two bilaterally symmetrical second counterweight blocks and a pair of rotatory-ring bearings. The stationary ring includes a stator, two bilaterally symmetrical excitation frameworks and two bilaterally symmetrical coils. The rotatory ring and the stationary ring are installed in the shell and connected through a pair of connecting bearings. The stator is installed in the center of the shell. The excitation frameworks are respectively fixed at both ends of the stator.
US11362564B2	Temperature compensated linear actuator and encoder A linear actuator includes a casing that contains a moveable shaft moved by a motor in response to a drive signal and coupled to an encoder that determines an actual instantaneous position of the shaft and forms part of a control loop that adjusts the drive signal so as to ensure accurate positioning of the shaft. A temperature sensor mounted on the shaft produces a temperature signal indicative of instantaneously measured temperature, and a temperature compensator responsive to the measured temperature for generating a negative or positive offset for correcting the drive signal so as to move the shaft to a positon that is corrected for instantaneous expansion or contraction of the shaft owing to departures of the shaft's actual temperature from a known baseline temperature.
US11362563B2	Cooling enclosure and motor A motor includes a cooling enclosure. The cooling enclosure includes a cover body, an inner fan, and an outer fan. A first cooling cavity, a second cooling cavity, and an isolating cavity between the first cooling cavity and the second cooling cavity are formed in the cover body. A plurality of first and second cooling pipes are respectively disposed in the first and second cooling cavity; both being in communication with the isolating cavity and the outside. The cover body includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The inner fan is disposed on the first surface. Sides of the inner fan are respectively in communication with the first and second cooling cavities. The inner fan is configured to provide circulating power for internal circulating air. The outer fan is in communication with the isolating cavity. The cooling enclosure and the motor can realize relatively high cooling efficiency.
US11362557B2	Electric motor and field element An electric motor for reducing eddy current loss including an armature; a field element or permanent magnet as a magnetic source; and a shaft rotating together with the armature or field element. The permanent includes magnet particles bound together by a binder resin, and has a degree of electric resistance anisotropy (ρ1/ρ2) of 2 or more. The first electric resistivity (ρ1) is measured in an axial direction and a second electric resistivity (ρ2) is measured in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The bonded magnet is, for example, a compression-molded bonded magnet that contains 93% to 98.5% of the magnet particles, and the first electric resistivity is 300 μΩm or more. When the compression-molded bonded magnet whose compression direction is arranged along the axial direction is used as a field source, the eddy current loss occurring in the compression-molded bonded magnet can be efficiently reduced.
US11362556B2	Motor The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor disposed outside the shaft, and a stator disposed outside the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core surrounding the shaft and a magnet disposed inside the rotor core, the rotor core includes a pocket in which the magnet is disposed, the rotor core is formed by stacking a plurality of plates, a lower end plate of the plurality of plates is disposed to cover at least a part of the pocket, and an upper end plate of the plurality of plates is disposed at a level higher than a level of the magnet.
US11362553B2	Motor rotor A motor rotor may include a body having axially extending first and second magnets embedded into the body, the first magnet and the second magnet being arranged at an angle and spaced apart by an axially extending magnetic shielding component. The first magnet includes a first surface away from a central axis of the rotor body and a second surface facing the central axis. The second magnet includes a third surface away from the central axis and a fourth surface facing the central axis, wherein the first surface and the third surface and extension surfaces thereof define a first area of the body part away from the central axis and a second area of the body part close to the central axis.
US11362552B2	Electric machine component and method to fabricate An electric machine rotor including a first stamped rotor lamination and a first stamped sheet of a material different than the first stamped rotor lamination is provided. The first stamped rotor lamination may define a pair of magnet pockets. The first stamped sheet may be coplanar with and scarf jointed to the first stamped rotor lamination to define a center bridge between the magnet pockets that has a magnetic permeability less than, and a mechanical strength greater than, the first stamped rotor lamination. The rotor may further include a second stamped sheet of a material different than the first stamped rotor lamination coplanar with and scarf jointed to the first stamped rotor lamination to define a top bridge adjacent to one of the magnet pockets at a perimeter of the rotor that has a magnetic permeability less than, and a mechanical strength greater than, the first stamped rotor lamination.
US11362548B1	Wireless power system cabling A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device such as a charging puck and a wireless power receiving device such as a wristwatch. The charging puck may have a three-wire cable that is coupled between a connector and a puck housing. The wireless power transmitting device may have a set of four coils or other number of wireless power transmitting coils in the puck housing. A switch may be coupled in series with each of the four coils. Control circuitry in the wireless power transmitting device may activate a subset of the switches to switch a subset of the coils into use in transmitting the wireless power to the wireless power receiving device. The control circuitry may have a main portion in the connector that uses a tone-based encoding scheme or other encoding scheme to transmit switch configuration commands to a secondary portion in the puck housing.
US11362547B2	Wireless power supply apparatus A wireless power supply apparatus including a signal transmitting terminal and a signal receiving terminal is provided. The signal transmitting terminal encodes a digital data into a control signal and transmits a power supply signal in a manner of wireless communication according to the control signal. The signal receiving terminal receives the power supply signal from the signal transmitting terminal in the manner of wireless communication. The signal receiving terminal converts the power supply signal into a power source signal and a data signal and decodes the data signal into the digital data.
US11362543B2	Wireless power receiver circuits that provide constant voltage or current to an electrical load, and methods A wireless power receiver circuit and method for use in a wireless power transfer system are provided for providing a constant current and voltage to an electrical load, such as a chemical cell device. A wireless power receiver circuit include a first comparator circuit and a second comparator circuit configured to receive output signals output from the DC load circuit, compare the received output signal with a preselected reference voltage signal, and output first and second sub-control signals, respectively. A logical gate may generate a control signal based on a comparison of the first sub-control signal and the second sub-control signal, and feed the control signal back to a resonator circuit to control a state of an electrically-controllable switch.
US11362542B2	Electronic device for wireless charging external device An electronic device includes a housing including a first plate, a second plate spaced apart from the first plate and facing the first plate, and a side member at least partially surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, a display located in the space and visible through the first plate, a conductive coil parallel to the second plate and disposed between the display and the second plate, a wireless charging circuit electrically connected to the conductive coil, and a processor operationally connected with the display and the wireless charging circuit. The processor receives a power control signal from an external device, applies a charging current to the conductive coil, based on the power control signal, senses whether a specified event occurs while the charging current is applied, and when the specified event occurs, transmits information for setting a charging power corresponding to the specified event to the external device.
US11362540B2	Systems and methods for efficient power conversion in a power supply in a power distribution system Systems and methods for efficient power conversion in a power supply in a power distribution system are disclosed. In particular, a low frequency transformer having high conversion efficiency is coupled to an input from a power grid. An output from the transformer is rectified and then converted by a power factor correction (PFC) converter before passing the power to the distributed elements of the power distribution system. By placing the transformer in front of the PFC converter, overall efficiency may be improved by operating at lower frequencies while preserving a desired power factor and providing a desired voltage level. The size and cost of the cabinet containing the power conversion circuitry is minimized, and operating expenses are also reduced as less waste energy is generated.
US11362534B2	Battery with switched accumulators A battery including: a power supply bus; an assembly of electric cells and of first switches coupling the cells; second switches forming an H bridge and coupling said assembly to nodes; a first circuit for supplying first control signals to the first and second switches; a second circuit for delivering a first power supply voltage to the first circuit based on the voltage across one of the cells; a third circuit for supplying second control signals to at least two of the second switches and connected to the power supply bus; and first diodes coupling the first circuit to the two second switches and second diodes coupling the third circuit to the two second switches.
US11362531B2	Audio adjustment method and electronic device thereof A control method is provided for controlling an electronic device having a main body. The control method may include: in response to the electronic device being activated and a primary battery being functionally connected to the main body of the electronic device, controlling the primary battery to power the electronic device; and in response to the electronic device being activated and the primary battery being functionally disconnected from the main body of the electronic device, controlling a backup battery to power the electronic device.
US11362527B2	Fast charging method, terminal, charger, and system with open loop control A charging method, a terminal, a charger, and a system, includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a charging mode supported by a charger connected to the terminal; when the charging mode supported by the charger includes an open-loop fast charging mode, detecting, by the terminal, whether both the terminal and the charger are in an open loop state; when both the terminal and the charger are in the open loop state, sending, by the terminal, an open-loop fast charging instruction to the charger; and receiving, by the terminal, a voltage and a current that are transmitted by the charger according to the open-loop fast charging instruction, and performing charging in the open-loop fast charging mode. When determining that the charger supports charging in the open-loop fast charging mode, the terminal is adjusted to the open loop state to perform charging, so as to shorten a charging time and improve user experience.
US11362526B2	Battery pack A method of controlling a battery including a first control circuit and a plurality of modules arranged in series between a first terminal and a second terminal, each module of the plurality of modules including electric cells and switches coupling the electric cells and a second switch control circuit, the battery further including at least one first data transmission bus coupling the first control circuit to each second control circuit. The first control circuit includes a memory-having, for each electric cell, an identifier of said each electric cells and a priority level for connection of said each electric cell with other electric cells among priority levels stored therein.
US11362522B2	Systems and methods for managing a battery pack A battery controller includes a first driving pin, a second driving pin and a third driving pin. The first driving pin is coupled to a charge switch and is operable for turning on the charge switch to enable a battery pack to be charged by a power source. The second driving pin is coupled to a first discharge switch and is operable for turning on the first discharge switch to enable the battery pack to power a first load. The third driving pin is coupled to a second discharge switch and is operable for turning on the second discharge switch to enable the battery pack to power a second load.
US11362516B2	Power management server and power management method A power management server comprises a controller configured to manage a storage battery apparatus shared by a plurality of entities, and a receiver configured to receive requests each including an information element indicating a requested amount of power including at least one of a virtual discharge amount and a virtual charge amount of the storage battery apparatus. The controller is configured to manage power usage of the storage battery apparatus for each of the plurality of entities. The controller is configured to manage a virtual remaining power storage amount of the storage battery apparatus for each of the plurality of entities. The controller is configured to determine an allocated amount of power for the requested amount of power based on the power usage, when a constraint condition is satisfied by duplication of the requests.
US11362514B1	Transient surge protection unit A dual transient surge and communication protection device, which can have less than 5 nanosecond response time and can provide communication and power transient surge protection for field instrumentation and be configured for operating under multiple communication protocols. The dual transient surge and communication protection device can have a positive power and communication terminal, a negative power and communication terminal, a grounding terminal, a first silicon avalanche diode array, a second silicon avalanche diode array, a first non-polar wire, a second non-polar wire, a grounding wire and a unit viability wire. The device provides protection from 4 milliamps to 20 milliamps of power and communication signals for field instruments.
US11362513B2	Hybrid overvoltage protection device and assembly In one embodiment, an overvoltage protection device (100) may include a crowbar device (106), where the crowbar device (106) includes a first crowbar terminal (115), the first crowbar terminal (115) connected with a first external voltage line (102). The overvoltage protection device (100) may further include a transient voltage suppression (TVS) device (108), where the TVS device (108) includes a second TVS terminal (121), the second TVS terminal (121) connected with a second external voltage line (104). The crowbar device (106) and the TVS device (108) may be arranged in electrical series between the first crowbar terminal (115) and the second TVS terminal (121).
US11362512B2	Electronic switch with overvoltage limiter An electronic switch for a DC voltage system includes at least two turn-off semiconductor switches, a varistor and a capacitor, and at least two diodes connected in series with opposite polarity. The turn-off semiconductor switches are connected at a connection point in series with opposite polarity between a first connection of the electronic switch and a second connection of the electronic switch. In order to provide improved overvoltage protection, the varistor and the capacitor form a series connection, with one end of the series connection connected to the connection point. A DC voltage system employing the electronic switch and a method for limiting overvoltages in the electronic switch or in a corresponding DC voltage system are also disclosed. Inductive energy of an element connected to the electronic switch is transferred to the capacitor when a limit, defined by the varistor, has been exceeded.
US11362506B2	Electrical safety system for providing overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit in a vehicle An electrical safety system comprises a main safety device including a N-type transistor and an auxiliary safety device including a P-type transistor, alternately activated under command of a controller. The N-type transistor and the P-type transistor have the function of overcurrent protection, respectively in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode. The auxiliary safety device includes a passive component, connected in series with the P-type transistor, for providing a voltage drop when a current passes through the passive component, and a driving circuit for turning off the P-type transistor under control of the voltage drop exceeding a first threshold, in the second operating mode.
US11362505B2	Protective element and a fabrication method thereof A protective element has a body, an inner connection layer, an outer connection layer, a heating layer and a low-melting-point alloy layer. The body is made of a single insulation material. The inner and outer connection layers are formed on two upper and lower surfaces of the body. The low-melting-point alloy layer is formed on the upper surface of the body and is electrically connected to the inner connection layer. The heating layer is mounted inside the body and is electrically connected to the low-melting-point alloy layer by the inner connection layer. The outer connection layer is electrically connected to the low-melting-point alloy layer and the heating layer. The outer connection layer is soldered on a power circuit. When the power circuit encounters overcurrent, the heating layer is heated to fuse the low-melting-point alloy layer faster. Thus, power circuit is cut to protect the power circuit.
US11362504B2	Over current sensing scheme for switch applications Circuits and methods for protecting against over-current conditions of switches are described. Over-current conditions can damage switches and the circuits they connect. Some embodiments of the present application provide a sense switch in parallel with the load switch. The sense switch is smaller than the load switch, and is used to sense an over-current condition of the load switch. The sense switch can remain on even when the load switch is turned off in response to detection of an over-current condition.
US11362503B2	Method and device for cooling a superconducting current carrier For the transmission of electrical current, determined superconducting current carriers are accommodated in a cryostat, in which they are cooled with an undercooled cryogenic cooling medium, e.g. liquid nitrogen. The current carrier is electrically connected at the ends thereof to two normally conducting current supply means. The cooling medium is undercooled from a storage container to a temperature below its boiling temperature and supplied to the cryostat via a cooling medium inlet, brought into thermal contact with the superconducting current carrier, and subsequently discharged via a cooling medium outlet of the cryostat. According to the invention, the cooling medium from the cryostat is to be used for cooling at least one of the normally conducting current supply means.
US11362496B2	Supporting element for a cable A supporting element for positioning a cable in a hole includes a support part, a holder part joined together with the support part, and a cable opening extending through the support part and the holder part. The support part and the holder part are made from different materials. The cable opening receives the cable. The holder part has a retention element securing the supporting element within the hole.
US11362493B2	Locking structure, electrical connection box, and wire harness A locking structure includes: a locking protrusion and a locking arm. The locking arm includes a flexible arm main body and an engaging projection portion protruding from an outer surface of the arm main body. The locking protrusion includes a protrusion main body on which an arm guide surface, a protruding tip surface, and an engaging surface are disposed along the engagement direction, and a jig groove that is formed in the protrusion main body. The engaging projection portion is formed on the outer surface at a position away from an arm tip of the arm main body in the engagement direction. The protruding tip surface is longer than the arm tip in the engagement direction. The jig groove cuts out the protrusion main body in the engagement direction from the arm guide surface to the protruding tip surface.
US11362488B2	Panelboard device A panelboard device according to an embodiment includes a housing and multiple devices stored in the housing. At least one of the multiple devices includes a device main unit; a state detecting unit configured to detect a state of the device main unit; a light emitting unit; and a light emission control unit configured to acquire information indicating the state of the device main unit from the state detecting unit, and to cause the light emitting unit to transmit an optical signal including information indicating the state.
US11362486B2	High speed high bandwidth vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with controlled overshoot A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is provided. The VCSEL includes a mesa structure disposed on a substrate. The mesa structure includes a first reflector, a second reflector, and an active cavity material structure disposed between the first and second reflectors. The second reflector has an opening extending from a second surface of the second reflector into the second reflector by a predetermined depth. Etching into the second reflector to the predetermined depth reduces the photon lifetime and the threshold gain of the VCSEL, while increasing the modulation bandwidth and maintaining the high reflectivity of the second reflector. Thus, etching the second reflector to the predetermined depth provides an improvement in overshoot control, broader modulation bandwidth, and faster pulsing of the VCSEL such that the VCSEL may provide a high speed, high bandwidth signal with controlled overshoot.
US11362480B2	Self-injection locked stimulated Brillouin scattering laser Systems and methods for a self-injection locked SBS laser are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a system includes a pump laser source providing a pump laser; an SBS resonator receiving the pump laser through a first port and scattering some of the pump laser to provide an SBS laser through the first port, wherein a frequency shift of Brillouin scattering within the SBS resonator is an integer multiple of a free-spectral range for the SBS resonator; a filter receiving the pump laser on a first filter port and the SBS laser on a second filter port, wherein the pump laser is output through the second filter port and the SBS laser is output through a drop port; and a pump laser path coupling the output pump laser into the pump laser source, wherein a frequency of the pump laser becomes locked to a resonance frequency of the SBS resonator.
US11362475B2	Impingement cooling device for a laser disk and associated laser disk module Impingement cooling devices for a laser disk include a carrier plate on the front side of which the laser disk can be secured, and a supporting structure, on the front side of which the rear side of the carrier plate is secured. The supporting structure has a plurality of cooling liquid feed lines from which the cooling liquid emerges in the direction of the rear side of the carrier plate and a plurality of cooling liquid return lines. The feed and return lines run parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction of the supporting structure, and the supporting structure includes a plurality of cutouts or the rear side of the carrier plate that are open toward the supporting structure, and the cooling liquid feed lines lead into and the cooling liquid return lines lead away from the plurality of cutouts.
US11362474B2	Generating quantum electrodynamic (QED) interactions using a parabolic transmission mirror In a general aspect, quantum electrodynamic (QED) interactions are generated using a parabolic transmission mirror. In some aspects, a system for generating a QED interaction includes an optical pulse generator and a vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber includes a parabolic transmission mirror in an ultra-high vacuum region within the vacuum chamber. The parabolic transmission mirror is configured to produce the QED interaction in the ultra-high vacuum region based on an optical pulse from the optical pulse generator. The parabolic transmission mirror includes an optical inlet at a first end and an optical outlet at a second, opposite end. The parabolic transmission mirror also includes a parabolic reflective surface about an internal volume of the parabolic transmission mirror between the first and second ends. The parabolic reflective surface extends from the optical inlet to the optical outlet and defines a focal point outside the internal volume of the parabolic transmission mirror.
US11362471B2	Contact and manufacturing method thereof A contact and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The contact includes a metal cylinder formed as a single body, the metal cylinder has an undulant sidewall having a slit, the sidewall of the metal cylinder includes a plurality of inward-concave structures and a plurality of outward-convex structures extending in a length direction of the metal cylinder, the plurality of inward-concave structures are recessed toward a central axis of the metal cylinder, and the plurality of outward-convex structures protrude away from the central axis of the metal cylinder. The contact according to the present disclosure may transmit a large current or signal, and have low loss in electric power.
US11362468B1	Coupling device for short-circuit protection A coupling device is provided. The coupling device comprises a first connector with one or more primary pins and one or more drawers. The one or more drawers are configured to receive at least one of a fuse or a jumper. The one or more drawers are configured to be opened to permit the fuse or the jumper to be added or removed. The coupling device defines one or more recesses, and the one or more drawers are configured to be inserted into a recess of the one or more recesses to place the drawer in a closed state. In the closed state, the fuse or the jumper form part of an electrical circuit.
US11362467B2	Circuitry for detecting jack plug removal The present disclosure relates to circuitry for detecting at least partial removal of an audio accessory plug from a corresponding socket. The circuitry comprises a monitoring unit comprising a first terminal configured to be electrically connected to a first socket contact of the socket that is in electrical contact with a first plug contact of the plug when the plug is fully received in the socket. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor a first impedance of a first signal path coupled to the first terminal, and the circuitry is configured to output a signal indicative of detection of at least partial removal of the plug from the socket in response to detection by the monitoring unit of a first predetermined sequence of impedance states of the first signal path.
US11362466B2	Electrical connector and connector assembly An electrical connector includes an inner signal contact, an outer shielding contact, and a cover. The outer contact has a crimping portion including a first crimp wing and a second crimp wing that are bendable towards each other to attach the outer shielding contact to a cable such that ends of the first crimp wing and the second crimp wing extend towards each other when the outer shielding contact is attached to the cable. The cover is configured to cover a braid or a protective layer of the cable that is arranged underneath the ends of the crimp wings when the outer shielding contact is attached to the cable.
US11362465B2	Radio-frequency connector assembly A radio-frequency connector assembly includes a radio-frequency line, connector male terminals, connector female terminals, and a circuit board, wherein each connector male terminal includes a male terminal substrate; each connector female terminal includes a female terminal substrate; the connector male terminal further includes a shielding case which shields the male terminal substrate and is conductive with the radio-frequency line in a grounding manner; and the connector female terminal further includes a shielding frame which is internally provided with the female terminal substrate and is circumferentially seamless entirely, and the bottom end of the shielding frame makes contact with the circuit board to form an annular contact region, so that signals of the connector female terminals will not leak sideways; and the shielding cases can prevent signal leakage and signal interference from the top of the shielding frame, so that matched signal terminals are kept in a fully-shielded operating environment.
US11362464B2	Contact arrangement, circuit board, and electronic assembly A contact arrangement, including multiple contacts, is provided. The contacts are staggered. Some of the contacts form at least one contact group. The at least one contact group includes a pair of first contacts and eight second contacts. The pair of first contacts is a pair of differential signal contacts. The second contacts are arranged around the pair of first contacts. Two of the second contacts are arranged along a straight line perpendicular to a connecting line of the pair of first contacts. The position distribution and electrical properties of the other six of the second contacts are symmetrical to each other relative to the straight line.
US11362462B2	Rotatable interface assembly for an electrical connector A rotatable interface assembly for an electrical connector, an electrical connector, a connector system, and a method for coupling the system is presented herein. The rotatable interface assembly includes a connector component, having an electrical contact for electrically connecting electrical elements via a corresponding counter connector. The rotatable interface assembly further includes a base part and a rotatable part. The base part at least partially houses the connector component and has a securing means for being secured to a fixed counterpart. The rotatable part being configured to receive the corresponding counter connector at least partially under a specific angular orientation. The rotatable part is arranged on the base part, so as to be rotatable around a rotational axis relative to the base part. The rotatable part can be rotated around the rotational axis in a desired angular orientation that matches an orientation of a corresponding counter connector, to allow to receive the corresponding counter connector under different angular orientations, relative to the base part.
US11362460B2	Connector There is provided a connector including: a housing; and a terminal-equipped electric wire assembled to the housing. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes: a terminal; an electric wire; and a flexible conductor provided between the terminal and the electric wire. The flexible conductor is divided into a plurality of divided conductor portions along an axial direction of the flexible conductor. The divided conductor portions are bent in different directions from each other.
US11362457B2	Ganged coaxial connector assembly with alternative attachment structures The present disclosure relates to a ganged coaxial connector assembly. The ganged coaxial connector assembly comprises a male connector including: a male connector body; and a plurality of unit male connectors arranged in the male connector body, wherein each unit male connector is configured as a 2.2-5 male connector interface and includes an inner contact, an outer contact and a dielectric spacer. The ganged coaxial connector assembly further comprises a female connector including: a female connector body; and a plurality of unit female connectors arranged in the female connector body, wherein the number of the unit female connectors is the same as that of the unit male connectors, and each unit female connecter corresponds to each unit male connector when the male connector and female connector are mated. The male connector may include a pair of stop plates and a biasing/sealing member interposed between the stop plates.
US11362455B2	Connector device using lid member, and lid member Provided are: a connector device using a lid member having a simple structure and reliably held on a connector; and the lid member. The connector device includes a connector having a metal shell forming at least part of a fitting space in which a partner connector is fitted, and a resin lid member provided detachably from the fitting space. The lid member includes an insertion portion to be inserted into the fitting space along the direction of fitting the partner connector into the fitting space, and a closing portion configured to close an opening of the fitting space when the insertion portion is inserted into the fitting space. The insertion portion includes an elastic piece extending from the closing portion. The elastic piece includes a protruding portion biased to an inner wall of the shell when the insertion portion is inserted into the fitting space and protruding in a biasing direction. A dent portion dented in the biasing direction β1 is formed at the inner wall. The protruding portion is fitted in the dent portion when the insertion portion is inserted into the fitting space.
US11362451B2	Low insertion force contact and method of manufacture A low insertion force contact includes a main body and a spring beam extending from the main body at a mating end of the low insertion force contact. The spring beam has a mating interface configured for mating electrical connection to a mating contact. The spring beam includes a conductive base layer extending to the mating interface. A silver coating layer is provided on the conductive base layer. The silver coating layer is provided at the mating interface. A silver sulfide surface layer forms a solid lubricant directly on the silver coating layer. The silver sulfide surface layer forms a film having a controlled thickness at the mating interface.
US11362448B2	Connector having latching pins that change angle for mounting to a circuit board Described herein are connector components for selectively connecting to a PCB or other type of secondary device. Such a connector component comprises a body, electrically conductive contact pins, and latching pins. The body includes opposing sides at which are located pinch tabs. The electrically conductive contact pins and the latching pins each includes a portion thereof also extending from the bottom of the body. The pinch tabs are configured to normally bias the latching pins in a first position where the latching pins are angled relative to a central axis of the connector component when the pinch tabs are not being pinched inwards towards one another. Additionally, the pinch tabs are configured to bias the latching pins in a second position where the latching pins are substantially parallel to the central axis of the connector component when the pinch tabs are being pinched inward towards one another.
US11362447B2	Storage device with detachable capacitor connection structure A detachable capacitor connection structure is provided for a storage device. In an embodiment, a connection element detachably connects a capacitor module including one or more capacitors to a circuit board such that the capacitor module is stacked over the circuit board. The connection element includes: a first connector including two pin headers, mounted on a bottom plane of the capacitor module; and a second connector including two sockets, mounted on a top plane of the circuit board corresponding to the bottom of the capacitor module, suitable for connecting the first connector to the circuit board.
US11362444B2	Laminated wire connector An electrical connector and associated terminal are disclosed for making an electrical connection to a wire. The terminal includes a plurality of metal plates adjoining each other to form a stack that defines a passage for receiving the wire. The plates include a plurality of cutter plates disposed between a pair of outer holding plates. Each of the cutter plates has a pair of cutting edges for disrupting any insulation on the wire to permit a conductor of the wire to directly contact the cutter plate. One or more of the cutter plates may have a contact projection for making an electrical connection. The connector includes the terminal and may further include a housing. The holding plates of the terminal have outer edges with abutment features for engaging interior surfaces of the housing.
US11362443B2	Electronic device comprising antenna Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of antennas, and a communication circuit electrically connected with the plurality of antennas. The communication circuit includes a plurality of circuits receiving a signal in a first band and is configured to simultaneously receive the signal in the first band through two or more circuits of the plurality of circuits from two or more antennas, which are positioned adjacent to each other, from among the plurality of antennas. The number of the plurality of antennas is the same as the number of plurality of circuits.
US11362440B2	Antenna device, wireless transmitter, wireless receiver, and wireless communication system An antenna device includes a plurality of antenna elements. Each of the plurality of antenna elements outputs radio signals transmitted to another antenna device arranged so as to be opposed to the antenna device. At least one of the plurality of antenna elements is configured in such a way that a polarization direction of the radio signals to be output can be switched between a first direction and a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction.
US11362435B2	Antenna array and vehicle including the same An antenna array has wideband high gain characteristics and includes: a dielectric; a loop provided on a first surface of the dielectric and that has a first slot and a second slot; a first feed pin provided at a position corresponding to the first slot on a second surface of the dielectric; a second feed pin provided at a position corresponding to the second slot on the second surface of the dielectric; and a divider provided between the first feed pin and the second feed pin, and electrically connected to the loop.
US11362434B2	Electronic device including antenna According to various embodiments of the present invention, disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a housing that comprises a front surface, a back surface opposite the front surface, and side surfaces surrounding a space between the front surface and the back surface and made of a metal material; at least one antenna array disposed within the housing so as to radiate a millimeter wave signal toward the inside of the electronic device; a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the at least one antenna array and configured to communicate by using the millimeter wave signal; and a reflecting member arranged such that the millimeter wave signal radiated from the at least one antenna array is reflected toward the outside of the electronic device. In addition, various embodiments known from the specification are possible.
US11362433B2	Radar sensor having a plurality of main beam directions A radar sensor having a plurality of main beam directions, and having a circuit board on which one or a plurality of antenna elements for transmitting and/or receiving of the radar radiation is/are situated. In addition, the radar sensor has at least one or a plurality of dielectric lenses which is/are situated in the optical path of the antenna elements, the optical axis of the dielectric lens being tilted in relation to the main beam direction of the at least one or the plurality of antenna elements under an angle that is greater than zero degrees so that at least one main beam direction of the radar sensor is fixed at a predefined angle to the vertical of the circuit board surface.
US11362432B2	Differential segmented aperture A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface printed circuit board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. Chip baluns are mounted on the back side of the interface printed circuit board. Each chip balun has a balanced port electrically connected with two neighboring electrically conductive tapered projections via electrical feedthroughs passing through the interface printed circuit board. Each chip balun further has an unbalanced port, and RF circuitry disposed at the back side of the interface printed circuit board is electrically connected with the unbalanced ports of the chip baluns. The electrically conductive tapered projections include dielectric tapered projections and an electrically conductive layer disposed on an inner or outer surface of the dielectric tapered projections.
US11362429B2	Electronic devices having antennas with loaded dielectric apertures An electronic device may be provided with a conductive sidewall. An aperture may be formed in the sidewall. The sidewall may have a cavity that extends from the aperture towards the interior of the device. The cavity may be filled with an injection-molded plastic substrate. A dielectric block having a dielectric constant greater than that of the injection-molded plastic substrate and the antenna layers may be embedded in the injection-molded plastic substrate. The dielectric block may at least partially overlap an antenna. The antenna may convey radio-frequency signals at a frequency greater than 10 GHz through the cavity, the dielectric block, the injection-molded plastic substrate, and the aperture. The dielectric block may increase the effective dielectric constant of the cavity, allowing the antenna to cover relatively low frequencies without increasing the size of the aperture.
US11362425B2	Multi-band transmit-receive using circular polarization The disclosure provides for a system for communication with a client device. The system includes a first transmitter configured to transmit a first signal and a second transmitter configured to transmit a second signal. The first signal is configured for a first communication band, and the second signal is configured for a second communication band different from the first communication band. The system also includes a hybrid coupler configured to split the first or second signal to a first part and a second part. In addition, the system also includes a first antenna configured to transmit the first part, and a second antenna configured to transmit the second part. The second antenna is oriented perpendicularly relative to an orientation of the first antenna.
US11362423B2	Non-contact type information processing device A non-contact type information processing device structured to communicate with a medium in a non-contact manner may include a first circuit part having a first antenna, and the first circuit part may be configured to communicate with the medium at a first resonance frequency by electromagnetic induction. The non-contact type information processing device may further include a second circuit part having a second resonance frequency which is separated from the first resonance frequency, and the second circuit part may include a second antenna and a light emitting element which is operated by electric power obtained by an induced current that is received by the second antenna.
US11362420B1	Miniaturized printed ultra-wideband and bluetooth antenna The present invention provides a printed miniaturized ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth antenna, comprising a dielectric substrate, a printed monopole antenna plate, a metal ground and a metal microstrip feed, wherein the printed monopole antenna plate is arranged on the front side of the dielectric substrate; the printed monopole antenna plate comprises first and second antenna elements configured to operate in the ultra wideband communication band and operate in the Bluetooth communication band respectively, and the first antenna and second antenna elements share the common metal ground and the metal microstrip feed; the first antenna element has a rectangular shape with rounded and smoothed corners; the right side of the first antenna element comprises a first antenna body, and a rectangular notch is etched from the left side of the first antenna element; the left side of the second antenna element comprises a second antenna body, and the right side of the second antenna element has a plurality of bent portions; and the plurality of bent portions are arranged inside of the rectangular notch of the first antenna element. The antenna provided by the present invention is miniaturized, so that an antenna with a compact structure is achieved which can cover two wireless standard frequency bands.
US11362415B2	Radio-frequency seal at interface of waveguide blocks The described features include a scalable waveguide architecture for a waveguide device. The waveguide device may be split into one or more waveguide blocks instead of manufacturing increasingly larger single-piece waveguide devices. Described techniques provide for a radio-frequency (RF) seal between such waveguide blocks that may facilitate greater manufacturing tolerances while maintaining an effective RF seal at the junction of the waveguide blocks. The described techniques include channels within one or more waveguide blocks opening to the dielectric gap between the waveguide blocks. The channels may, for each of multiple waveguides joined at the interface between waveguide blocks, be included in one or both waveguide blocks and may be in a single waveguide dimension relative to the multiple waveguides, or extend for more than one waveguide dimensions.
US11362413B2	Antenna assembly An antenna assembly and method are disclosed. The antenna assembly comprises: a printed circuit board assembly having a radiating element layer and a choke structure, the choke structure having a central conductor and a shielding structure, wherein the central conductor comprises at least a portion of the radiating element layer. By providing a printed circuit board assembly having a radiating element layer and a choke structure which utilises a portion of the radiating element layer, the manufacture of the radiating elements is simplified.
US11362410B2	Mounting configuration for small cell antenna assembly A mounting flange for a monopole includes a generally annular main panel surrounding a central hole. The main panel includes a plurality of first mounting holes that are substantially circumferentially equidistant from each other and at a first radial distance from a center of the central hole. The main panel also includes a plurality of second mounting holes that are substantially circumferentially equidistant from each other and at a second radial distance from a center of the central hole, the second distance being greater than the first distance.
US11362408B2	Wireless control device having an antenna illuminated with visible light A wireless control device, such as a system controller for a load control system, may comprise a light-transmissive cover for an antenna that may be illuminated to provide feedback to a user of the load control system. The light-transmissive cover may receive light energy from a light-generating circuit to provide a visible display of the light energy. The wireless control device may be mounted to, for example, a ceiling, and the light-transmissive cover may extend from the wireless control device (e.g., down from the ceiling). The light-transmissive cover may be viewed by a user at large viewing angles and at a distance away from the wireless control device, which may simplify and improve reliability of commissioning of the load control system as well as speed up troubleshooting of the load control system after commissioning is completed.
US11362403B2	Battery, battery management method, and battery control method A battery includes a battery cell, an electronic circuit connected to the battery cell, and a conductive material layer connected to the electronic circuit. The conductive material is located outside the battery cell and separated from the battery cell by a distance.
US11362398B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack and positive electrode According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material containing LixNi1-a-bCoaMnbMcO2 (0.9
US11362396B2	Apparatus for collecting gas in secondary battery A gas-collecting apparatus for collecting gas generated in a secondary battery including an electrode assembly and a rigid battery case accommodating the electrode assembly therein, the gas-collecting apparatus comprising: a pressing jig part for pressing one surface of the battery case; a gas collecting pipe provided with the pressing jig part; a sealing part inserted between the pressing jig part and one surface of the battery case; and a fixing unit for fixing the pressing jig part and the battery case with the sealing member inserted between the pressing jig part and the battery case, and the gas-collecting apparatus capable of easily collecting the gas regardless of the standard size and shape of the secondary battery.
US11362395B2	End cover assembly, secondary battery, battery pack and electric device The disclosure relates to an end cover assembly, a secondary battery, a battery pack and an electric device. An end cover assembly for a secondary battery includes: an end cover; a first terminal including a first connecting section and a second connecting section disposed along a radial direction; a second terminal including a third connecting section, a fuse section and a fourth connecting section sequentially connected along the radial direction; along an axial direction, orthographic projections of the first and third connecting sections at least partially overlap with each other, one of the first and third connecting sections is configured to connect with a busbar, the other is configured to connect with an electrode assembly, the fourth connecting section is configured to connect with the second connecting section; and an insulating component, at least a part of which is located between the first connecting section and the third connecting section.
US11362393B2	Battery pack The present disclosure provides a battery pack and a device comprising the battery pack, the battery pack comprises a double-layer battery module bracket, an upper-layer battery module, a lower-layer battery module and a supporting mechanism; the double-layer battery module bracket comprises an upper plate; a lower fixing member, an upper fixing member and a fastener; the lower fixing member and the upper plate are configured to enclose a lower accommodating space; the upper fixing member and the upper plate being are configured to enclose an upper accommodating space, a lower portion of the fastener exposed from the lower fixing member is fixed on the supporting mechanism; the upper-layer battery module is accommodated in the upper accommodating space and supported on the upper plate; the lower-layer battery module is accommodated in the lower accommodating space; the supporting mechanism supports the lower-layer battery module and the lower fixing member.
US11362390B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes: a plurality of battery cells; a case providing an accommodation space for accommodating the battery cells and a cooling fluid for cooling the battery cells; and a barrier wall extending across the accommodation space and dividing the accommodation space into an upstream area in communication with an inlet for the cooling fluid and a downstream area in communication with an outlet for the cooling fluid. The barrier wall provides a communication area where the upstream area and the downstream area communicate with each other. The inlet and the outlet are at a first end of the barrier wall in an extension direction of the barrier wall, and the communication area is at a second end of the barrier wall in the extension direction of the barrier wall.
US11362389B2	Reusable pouch type secondary battery, battery module comprising the same and method of reusing battery module A pouch type secondary battery in which an electrode lead of the pouch type secondary battery and an electrode lead of an adjacent different pouch type secondary battery are welded together to construct a battery module is provided. The electrode lead of the pouch type secondary battery includes a length extended part so that, after cutting a welded part of the electrode leads of the pouch type secondary battery and the adjacent different pouch type secondary battery to form electrode leads of remaining length, the electrode leads of remaining length are welded together again. A battery module and method of reusing the battery module are also provided.
US11362388B2	Battery pack and electric device A battery pack is provided with a plurality of battery blocks each including a peripheral surface on one end of which a first connector is provided, a connecting unit which connects a plurality of battery blocks to each other such that two first connectors are opposed to each other, and a second connector which fits in the two first connectors opposed to each other. The battery block is rotationally fixed to the connecting unit.
US11362385B2	Button cell having winding electrode and method for the production thereof A button cell configured as a secondary lithium ion battery includes a button cell housing and an electrode separator assembly disposed inside the button cell housing. The button cell housing includes a metal cell cup, the metal cell cup having a cell cup plane region connected to a cell cup lateral surface region, a metal cell top, the metal cell top having a cell top plane region connected to a cell top lateral surface region, and an electrically insulating seal disposed between the cell cup lateral surface region and the cell top lateral surface region. The electrode separator assembly includes a positive electrode formed from a first portion of a first current collector, a negative electrode formed from a first portion of a second current collector, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US11362384B2	Button cell having winding electrode and method for the production thereof A button cell includes a button cell housing with a metal cell cup and a metal cell top. The metal cell cup has a cell cup plane region connected to a cell cup lateral surface region, and the metal cell top has a cell top plane region connected to a cell top lateral surface region. The cell cup plane region extends substantially parallel to the cell top plane region, the cell cup lateral surface region extends substantially parallel to and at least partially overlaps the cell top lateral surface region in an overlap area, an electrically insulating seal is disposed in the overlap area, and the cell cup lateral surface region and the cell top lateral surface region provide a force-fit connection therebetween to form a leaktight closure of the button cell housing. The button cell further includes an electrode winding disposed within the housing.
US11362383B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery according to the present invention comprises an electrode assembly in which an electrode and a separator are alternately stacked and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly therein, wherein the battery case comprises a stepped part that is disposed to be stepped, an outer surface of the battery case is sealed to allow a folded part to be seated on the outer surface of the stepped part, and the electrode assembly comprises a stepped protrusion that is stepped in a shape corresponding to an inner surface of the stepped part disposed on the battery case.
US11362379B2	Transportation refrigeration unit with integrated battery enclosure cooling A transportation refrigeration unit is provided. The transportation refrigeration unit comprising: a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant; a compressor motor configured to drive the compressor; an evaporator heat exchanger operatively coupled to the compressor; an energy storage device for providing power to the compressor motor; and an evaporator fan configured to provide return airflow from a return air intake and flow the return airflow over the evaporator heat exchanger, wherein the return airflow thermodynamically adjusts a temperature of the energy storage device.
US11362374B2	System and method for storing a battery The invention relates to system for storing a battery (3), wherein the system at least one battery (3) comprising at least one battery cell and a battery control (2), central control means (1) and a central voltage supply (5), wherein the battery control (2) is signal-conductively connected to the central control means (1) and the battery control (2) is fed by the central voltage supply (5).
US11362373B2	Method for regenerating lithium secondary battery A method for regenerating a lithium secondary battery including a lithium resupply step in which a lithium resupply electrode is provided in the secondary battery, and the positive electrode is set as a counter electrode, and the lithium resupply electrode is set as a working electrode to charge lithium ions to the positive electrode through the lithium resupply electrode and a negative electrode discharging step in which, after the lithium ions are resupplied to the positive electrode through the lithium resupply step, the lithium resupply electrode is set as the counter electrode, and the negative electrode is set as the working electrode to completely discharge the negative electrode up to a discharge limit.
US11362370B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium-ion battery and lithium-ion battery A non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium-ion battery and a lithium-ion battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte comprises unsaturated phosphate compounds and unsaturated cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride compounds. The unsaturated phosphate compounds have the structure illustrated in structural formula 4; structural formula 4: R13, R11, and R12 are independently selected from hydrocarbon groups having 1-5 carbon atoms respectively, and at least one of R13, R11, and R12 is an unsaturated hydrocarbon group containing double bonds or triple bonds; the unsaturated cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride compounds have the structure illustrated in structural formula 5; structural formula 5: R14 is independently selected from vinylidene having 2-4 carbon atoms or fluoro-substituted vinylidene. By means of the synergistic effect of two compounds, the non-aqueous electrolyte has excellent high-temperature cycling performance and storage performance, and also has lower impedance and good low-temperature performance.
US11362369B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte of lithium-ion battery and lithium-ion battery A lithium-ion battery non-aqueous electrolyte and a lithium-ion battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte comprises at least one selected from the compounds represented by structural formula I and II; in formula I, R1 and R2 are independently selected from alkenyl having 2-5 carbon atoms and alkynyl having 2-5 carbon atoms; in formula II, R3 is selected from alkenyl having 2-5 carbon atoms and alkynyl having 2-5 carbon atoms. The compound represented by formula I or II is added in the electrolyte; the compound contains unsaturated bond(s) and hexafluorisopropyl; the unsaturated bond(s) form passivation film on cathode and anode surfaces to inhibit decomposition of the electrolyte on the cathode & anode surface and damage of the cathode material structure; moreover, the polymerization degree of unsaturated bond(s) can be inhibited to some extent due to steric hindrance relationship of fluoroisopropyl functional groups, so as to improve high-temperature performance of the lithium-ion battery while guaranteeing low-temperature performance.
US11362368B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte compositions Electrolyte compositions containing a solvent, a co-solvent, certain cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride additives, certain phosphorus-containing additives, and an electrolyte salt are described. The electrolyte compositions are useful in electrochemical cells, such as lithium ion batteries where they provide significantly improved cycle life with no loss of discharge capacity.
US11362367B2	Electrical energy storage device and a method of preparing the same An electrical energy storage device and a method of forming such electrical energy storage device. The electrical energy storage device includes an electrolyte that is arranged to dissipate energy when subjected to external mechanical load applied to the electrical energy storage device. The electrolyte includes a polymer matrix of at least two crosslinked structures, including a first polymeric material and a second polymeric material; and an electrolytic solution retained by the polymer matrix.
US11362366B2	Secondary battery composite electrolyte, secondary battery, and battery pack The present invention is provided to reduce the influence of expansion and contraction of an active material, form a favorable interface between the solid electrolyte and the active material, and increase ion conductivity in the electrolyte, thereby obtaining a wide operation temperature range. A secondary battery composite electrolyte includes an inorganic compound having an Li ion conductivity at room temperature that is 1×10−10 S/cm or more and having particle diameter of 0.05 μm or more and less than 8 μm, and an organic electrolyte. The weight ratio between the organic electrolyte and the inorganic compound is 0.1% or more and 20% or less.
US11362364B2	Battery This application relates to a battery comprising a positive electrode plate, a separator, and a negative electrode plate, wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode current collector and at least two layers of positive active material coated on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector, and wherein an underlying positive active material layer in contact with the positive electrode current collector comprises a first positive active material, a first polymer material and a first conductive material; and wherein an upper positive active material layer in contact with the underlying positive active material layer and away from the positive electrode current collector comprises a second positive active material, a second polymer material and a second conductive material, and the first polymer material comprises fluorinated polyolefin and/or chlorinated polyolefin polymer material. The battery has good safety and improved electrical properties.
US11362361B2	Membrane-electrode assembly and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a method for manufacturing a membrane-electrode assembly. The method includes forming an electrode layer, preparing a porous support layer, and positioning the electrode layer on each of both surfaces of the porous support layer and hot-pressing the electrode layer positioned on the both surfaces. The forming of the electrode layer incudes forming a functional layer including a hydrogen ion conductive binder resin on at least a portion of an electrode catalyst layer, and forming an electrolyte layer on at least a portion of the functional layer. The preparing of the porous support layer includes performing a pretreatment process by impregnating the porous support layer with a pretreatment composition, and the performing of the pretreatment process includes dipping the porous support layer in a first pretreatment composition and then drying the porous support layer, and dipping the porous support layer after drying in a second pretreatment composition.
US11362359B2	Redox flow battery system with electrochemical recovery cell A redox flow battery system includes a redox flow battery that has a redox flow cell, and a supply/storage system external of the redox flow cell. The supply/storage system includes first and second electrolytes for circulation through the redox flow cell. At least the first electrolyte is an aqueous liquid electrolyte that has electrochemically active species with multiple, reversible oxidation states. There is a gas vent passage connected with the redox flow battery to receive water byproduct that evolves from side reaction of the first electrolyte. A bypass passage is connected with the supply/storage system to receive the aqueous electrolyte. An electrochemical recovery cell includes a first half-cell connected to the gas vent passage to receive as a reactant the water byproduct and a second half-cell connected to the bypass passage to receive as a reactant the first electrolyte.
US11362358B2	Fuel cell module In a fuel cell module, a reformer and an evaporator provided adjacent to each other each extend to surround at least part of outer periphery of an exhaust gas combustion chamber as viewed in the direction of arrangement of the reformer and the evaporator. An auxiliary device case surrounds the outer periphery of the reformer and the evaporator with clearance. Both ends of the evaporator in the extension direction thereof are spaced from each other. The evaporator and the auxiliary device case are connected only by a first connector section at one position. The evaporator and the reformer are connected only by a second connector section at one position. Both ends of the reformer in the extension direction thereof are spaced from each other. The reformer and the auxiliary device case are connected only by a third connector section at one position.
US11362356B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an injection device configured to inject anode gas, an ejector mechanism through which the anode gas injected from the injection device flows, a circulation path configured to return the anode gas, discharged from the fuel cell, to the ejector mechanism, a supply path configured to supply the anode gas, discharged from the fuel cell together with the anode gas injected from the injection device from the ejector mechanism, to the fuel cell, and a controller.
US11362354B2	Fuel cell system and fuel cell system control method A fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell body that is formed by a membrane electrode assembly including an anode catalyst and a cathode catalyst between which an electrolyte membrane is sandwiched and a pair of separators forming an anode-catalyst-side flow channel and a cathode-catalyst-side flow channel, a fuel supply system configured to supply fuel gas to the fuel cell body, an oxidant supply system configured to supply oxidant gas to the fuel cell body, a control device that controls these supply systems in accordance with an operating state of the fuel cell system and a catalyst deterioration recovery device that recovers deterioration of the anode catalyst. The catalyst deterioration recovery device includes a plurality of catalyst deterioration recovery means, a specific operating state detecting means configured to detect a specific operating state of the fuel cell system and a selecting means configured to selectively activate the plurality of catalyst deterioration recovery means in accordance with the specific operating state.
US11362353B2	Fuel cell, control method for fuel cell, and computer readable recording medium A fuel cell, a control method of the fuel cell, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium recording a computer program capable of favorably generating power while suppressing leakage of gas and preventing the solenoid valve from being frozen with a simple configuration. The fuel cell includes a stack configure to generate electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen, an exhaust valve or a drain valve which is a solenoid valve discharging gas discharged from the stack to the outside, and a control unit configured to control energization of the exhaust valve. The exhaust valves are aligned in a gas discharging direction whereas the drain valves are aligned in a water discharging direction. If there is a risk of any solenoid valve being frozen, the control unit performs energization processing of energizing other solenoid valves in the state where at least one of the aligned solenoid valves is closed.
US11362346B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a fuel exhaust gas inlet channel for guiding a fuel exhaust gas containing liquid water discharged from a fuel cell stack to a gas liquid separator provided downstream of a humidifier in an oxygen-containing gas inlet channel. The specific gravity of the fuel exhaust gas is lighter than the specific gravity of the oxygen-containing exhaust gas. An outlet channel of the gas liquid separator includes a stirring booster having a first point and a second point positioned downstream of the first point. The second point is positioned ahead of the first point in the gravity direction.
US11362342B2	Catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells and method for producing the same The present invention relates to a catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells in which catalyst particles including platinum are supported on a carbon powder carrier. The invention provides a catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells in which the ratio of zerovalent platinum to platinum present on the surfaces of the catalyst particles is 80% or more and 100% or less. In the platinum catalyst, excellent durability is exhibited in an environment of operating a solid polymer fuel cell, and the amount of platinum eluted at the time of immersing the catalyst in a predetermined sulfuric acid solution is lower as compared to conventional platinum catalysts. The invention provides a catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells excellent in both initial activity and durability.
US11362341B2	Catalyst slurry for fuel cells and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a catalyst slurry for fuel cells and a method for manufacturing the same in which two kinds of ionomers having different equivalent weights (EWs) are used such that the respective ionomers may be formed at positions suitable for maximally exhibiting the functions thereof.
US11362340B2	Catalyst material for a fuel cell or an electrolyser and associated production method The invention relates to a multi-component catalyst material for use in a fuel cell or electrolysis system, in particular in a regenerative fuel cell or reversible electrolyser.According to the invention, the catalyst material comprises a doped manganese oxide, a NiFe intercalation compound and a conductive carrier material, wherein the doped manganese oxide and the NiFe intercalation compound are supported on the carrier material.
US11362338B2	Electric vehicle battery cell with solid state electrolyte A battery component includes a polymer frame having at least one window, the polymer frame having a first planar side and an opposite second planar side, and a window edge between the first and second planar sides. The battery component also has a battery cell component having a separator and bipolar current collector, the battery cell component being attached to the frame, the separator or bipolar current collector being attached to the first planar side or the window edge. A battery stack, a method for handling the battery component as an individual unit are also provided, electric vehicle battery and electric vehicle are also provided.
US11362337B2	Electrodeposited copper foil and electrode, and lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the same Provided are an electrodeposited copper foil, an electrode comprising the same, and a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the same. The electrodeposited copper foil has a drum side and a deposited side opposing the drum side, wherein at least one of the drum side and the deposited side exhibits a void volume value (Vv) in the range of 0.17 μm3/μm2 to 1.17 μm3/μm2; and an absolute value of a difference between a maximum height (Sz) of the drum side and a Sz of the deposited side is in the range of less than 0.60 μm.
US11362335B2	Coated sulfur particle electrode and method A coated sulfur particle and methods are shown. In one example, the coated sulfur particles are used as an electrode in a battery, such as a lithium ion battery.
US11362333B2	Cobalt-free layered oxide cathodes A cathode and a battery providing the cathode is provided. The cathode comprises a lithium metal oxide. The lithium metal oxide comprises nickel, aluminum, and iron. The lithium metal oxide is substantially free of cobalt. The battery comprises an anode, the cathode, a separator, and an electrolyte.
US11362332B2	Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, method of preparing the same, and positive electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material A method of preparing a positive electrode active material includes mixing a lithium raw material and a nickel-containing transition metal hydroxide precursor containing nickel in an amount of 65 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of transition metals and performing a first heat treatment to prepare a nickel-containing lithium transition metal oxide. The method also includes mixing a boron and carbon-containing raw material and a cobalt-containing raw material with the nickel-containing lithium transition metal oxide to form a mixture, and performing a second heat treatment on the mixture to form a coating material including B and Co on a surface of the lithium transition metal oxide. A positive electrode active material prepared by the preparation method is formed, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material.
US11362328B2	Composite-coated nano-tin negative electrode material and preparation method and use thereof The invention provides a composite-coated nano-tin negative electrode material, which comprises a tin-based nanomaterial, a nano-copper layer coated on the surface of the tin-based nanomaterial and a conductive protective layer coated on the surface of the nano-copper layer. The nano-copper layer can inhibit the volume expansion of nano-tin, keep the nano-tin material from cracking, avoid direct contact between nano-tin and electrolyte to form stable SEI and increase the conductivity of the electrode. Coating a conductive layer on the surface of the nano-copper layer can effectively inhibit the oxidation of nano-copper, thus improving its electrochemical performance. The composite-coated nano-tin negative electrode material according to the invention is used as a negative electrode material of a lithium-ion battery, has excellent electrochemical performance, and has potential application prospects in portable mobile devices and electric vehicles.
US11362318B2	Lithium ion secondary battery A purpose of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which comprises lithium nickel composite oxide having high nickel content in a positive electrode and has excellent battery characteristics. The first lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention comprises a lithium nickel composite oxide represented by the following formula and carbon nanotubes in a positive electrode, wherein a ratio (a)/(b) of an average length (a) of the carbon nanotubes to an average particle size (b) of primary particles of the lithium nickel composite oxide is 0.5 or more, LiyNi(1-x)MxO2 wherein 0≤x≤0.4, 0
US11362316B2	Battery having hybrid cathode configuration Batteries having hybrid electrode configurations are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a battery comprises an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly comprises a first cathode including a first cathode active material, a second cathode including a second cathode active material different from the first cathode active material, a first anode disposed between the first cathode and the second cathode, a first separator interposed between the first cathode and the first anode, and a second separator interposed between the second cathode and the first anode.
US11362313B2	Manufacturing method and processing device for display substrate each applying magnetic field during aging current being generated The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method and a processing device for a display substrate. The display substrate includes a light emitting device. The manufacturing method includes: applying an electrical signal to the display substrate to generate aging current flowing through the light emitting device; and applying a magnetic field to the display substrate for at least part of a time, during which the electrical signal is applied to the display substrate. The magnetic field is used to increase the aging current.
US11362309B2	Display device including a filling pattern A display device comprises a first substrate comprising at least one light-emitting element; a second substrate facing the first substrate, wherein light emitted from the light-emitting element is to be incident on the second substrate; and a filling layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the filling layer comprises a filling pattern comprising a first pattern part on the first substrate and having a curve portion formed in at least a part thereof.
US11362305B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A manufacturing method of a display apparatus includes forming a display module including a first area and including a display panel including lower and upper surfaces opposite each other, a first film under the lower surface of the display panel, a second film on the upper surface of the display panel, and an adhesive layer between the lower surface of the display panel and the first film; weakening an adhesive force of a first adhesive portion of the adhesive layer in the first area to be weaker than an adhesive force of a second adhesive portion of the adhesive layer outside the first area; cutting the first film and the adhesive layer; and removing a portion of the first film and the first adhesive portion from the first area.
US11362304B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A display device includes: a plastic substrate including: a display portion including organic light emitting diodes, and a pad portion including chip-on-films, a lower protective member attached to an entire lower surface of the plastic substrate, and an upper protective member attached to an upper surface of the plastic substrate, the upper protective member covering at least the display portion and both edges of the pad portion.
US11362303B2	Display substrate, display apparatus, and method of fabricating display substrate A display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a first insulating layer on the base substrate and in at least the peripheral area; a plurality of light emitting elements on the base substrate and in the display area; and an encapsulating layer on a side of the plurality of light emitting elements distal to the base substrate to encapsulate the plurality of light emitting elements. The encapsulating layer includes a first inorganic encapsulating sublayer extending from the display area into the peripheral area. The display substrate has a groove extending into the first insulating layer in the peripheral area, forming a first perimeter substantially surrounding the display area. The first inorganic encapsulating sublayer extends into at least a portion of the groove.
US11362302B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and display panel An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel. After a metal layer is formed on a substrate, a protective layer is formed on the metal layer.

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