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US11369524B2	Absorbent structure An absorbent structure is disclosed. The absorbent structure includes a first fibrous layer having a first surface and a second surface and a second layer having a first surface and second surface. The first fibrous layer is substantially planar and the second absorbent layer includes voids within the layer. The absorbent structure first fibrous layer and the second layer exhibit a structural integrity substantially equal to an absorbent structure without voids.
US11369513B2	Low-cost disposable ultrasonic surgical handpiece A disposable ultrasonic handpiece that contains a transducer and a connecting body that is attached to a tube with a cobra work tip at its distal end. The housing that surrounds the ultrasonic transducer does not require waterproofing for repeated autoclaving. Also, the electrical cord that provides power to the transducer is made of very inexpensive wire, along with a low-cost electrical connector. A power cord can be plugged into and unplugged from a socket at the proximal end of the housing and can be reused. Thus, only the housing and its contents need to be disposed of after a procedure, making the disposable part of the handpiece low cost. In addition, the cobra work tip can be provided with a cutting gap that increases its ability to cut.
US11369499B2	Insertion and release system for implants The invention relates to a device for the introduction of an implant (1) into blood vessels of the human body, said device comprising an implant (1), a pusher or insertion wire (14), and a tube-like sheathing (13), wherein the implant (1) is capable of being deformed inside a microcatheter in a manner that allows it to assume a shape of reduced diameter and, after omission of such external constraint exerted by the microcatheter, expand at the placement site and adapt to the blood vessel diameter, and wherein the implant (1) being provided at the proximal end with connection elements (6) attaching it to a retaining element (15) by means of which the implant (1) is coupled to the pusher wire (14), and wherein the retaining element (15) is provided with peripheral cutouts (16) into which the connecting elements (6) are fitted, with the tube-like sheathing (13) being drawn in a form-closed manner over the retaining element (15) with fitted connection elements (6) such that the connection elements (6) are secured within the cutouts (16) of the retaining element (15) and the implant (1) being released by the retraction of the tube-like sheathing (13) in proximal direction, with the outer diameter of the tube-like sheathing (13) varying between the proximal and the distal end. In this manner, high pliability is achieved in some sections of sheathing (13) which is conducive to maneuvering through narrow blood vessels, and, moreover, sufficient tensile strength is available for the purpose of releasing implant (1).
US11369491B2	Trial inserter and trial head Embodiments are directed to spinal treatments and, more particularly, to a trial inserter tool compatible with detachable trial heads for use in spinal surgery. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a system for sizing an implant to be used in posterior lumbar interbody fusion surgery. The system may comprise a trial inserter tool, wherein the trial inserter tool comprises: a body, wherein the body is an elongated tubular, wherein the body comprises a first end and a second end; an actuation device, wherein the actuation device is disposed on the body between the first end and the second end; and a hooked support member that extends from the second end of the body; and a trial head disposable on the hooked support member.
US11369481B2	Total ankle replacement prosthesis A total ankle replacement prosthesis may comprise a tibial implant, a talar implant, and an intermediate implant. The intermediate implant may fixedly attach to the tibial implant and may articulate with respect to the talar implant. The intermediate implant may have unequal front and back angular extent, so as to discourage a particular direction of subluxation, and a kit may be provided containing various such intermediate implants. Various features may be provided in regard to dovetails, fins, recesses, the placement of fins and pegs, and the shape of the perimeter of the tibial implant. Recesses may allow a surgical blade to slice a latch off of an already-installed intermediate implant, in order to allow its removal from the tibial implant.
US11369480B2	Humeral trays with tuberosity augments sufficiently designed to improve joint mechanics Disclosed is a prosthetic augment designed to reconstruct a lateral tuberosity shape of a humerus in a subject having proximal bone loss that includes a humeral adapter tray configured to connect a humeral liner of a reverse shoulder prosthesis to a humeral stem of the reverse shoulder prosthesis and an augment member having a first face adapted for contacting the humeral stem of the reverse shoulder prosthesis and a second face adapted for contacting an underside of a muscle, wherein at least a portion of the second face includes a bulbous surface adapted to alter a wrapping angle of the muscle around the lateral tuberosity, and wherein the second face has a radius of curvature selected from one of a constant radius of curvature or a variable radius of curvature.
US11369479B2	Humeral head implant system A humeral head implant system includes a head component including a first articulating surface, a second bottom surface extending from the first spherical articulating surface, a first cavity extending a first distance into the head component from the second bottom surface, and a second cavity extending into the head component along a cavity axis. The head component defines a head axis extending through a center of the first articulating surface parallel to the cavity axis. A base component defines a slot extending from a first width to a second width. An insert component includes an insert body, a first engagement feature, and a slot engagement feature. The first engagement feature is received in the second cavity along the cavity axis. The insert body has an insert thickness less than the first distance, and the slot engagement feature slides into the slot in a direction transverse to the cavity axis.
US11369470B2	Mitral valve loading tool A loading tool for loading a collapsible prosthetic heart valve into a delivery device may include a body extending in a longitudinal direction between a proximal end and a distal end, an extension on the distal end of the body, and a slot extending through the extension from a free end of the extension toward the distal end of the body. The body may include a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the body lumen having a first diameter. The extension may have a lumen coaxial with the body lumen, the extension lumen having a second diameter less than the first diameter so as to define a shelf surface between the proximal end of the body and the free end of the extension.
US11369460B2	Lithium silicate materials Lithium silicate materials are described which can be easily processed by machining to dental products without undue wear of the tools.
US11369459B2	Virtual and physical dental models of dental surfaces and analog socket structure of a dental implant and related procedures A system and method are provided for manufacturing a physical model of a dental structure that includes a dental implant. In at least one example, the physical model is configured to allow a dental analog can be inserted into the physical model in a general coronal direction. A virtual model of the dental structure is provided including a virtual implant spatial disposition with respect to the virtual model corresponding to a physical implant spatial disposition of the dental implant with respect to the physical dental structure. A virtual analog installation structure is defined in the virtual model. Using the virtual model, a physical model corresponding to the virtual model is manufactured, the physical model being provided with a physical analog installation structure corresponding to the virtual analog installation structure. The physical analog installation structure is configured for enabling a dental analog, corresponding to the dental implant, to be inserted in a general coronal direction with respect to the physical model to an installed position in the physical model. In the installed position, the dental analog has an analog spatial disposition with respect to the physical model corresponding to the physical implant spatial disposition of the dental implant with respect to the physical dental structure. A composite physical model, and methods for manufacturing the same, are also provided.
US11369458B1	Method and device to increase blood circulation and to encourage tooth eruption and muscle efficiency of a dental patient A device including one or more preformed or customized eruption guidance appliances placed in an individual's mouth. The preformed appliances are vibrated with a pulsation device to encourage tooth eruption by increasing the force and efficiency of the eruption toward a preferred location and a preferred alignment as well as providing increased blood flow and blood oxygen flow to the muscles and tissues in and around the oral cavity of the individual. The preformed guidance appliance driven by the pulsation device is selected from a range of guidance appliances, each of which is selected by size and shape to fit an individual based on the individuals anticipated tooth and jaw size as well as the growth profile. The pulsation can increase the blood and oxygen flow to the many muscles that surround the appliances outside surfaces that can alter mouth breathing, prevent impingement of the oropharynx from the abnormal distalization of the tongue and mandible during sleep, the proper resting posture of the tongue, increased nasal breathing, prevent snoring, improve abnormal swallowing, correct thumb sucking and various abnormalities of speech.
US11369453B2	Moveable MRI system Apparatus for imaging during surgical procedures includes an operating room for the surgical procedure and an MRI for obtaining images periodically through the surgical procedure by moving the magnet up to the table. The magnet wire is formed of a superconducting material such as magnesium di-boride or Niobium-Titanium which is cooled by a vacuum cryocooling system to superconductivity without use of liquid helium. The magnet weighs less than 1 to 2 tonne and has a floor area in the range 15 to 35 sq feet so that it can be carried on the floor by a support system having an air cushion covering the base area of the magnet having side skirts so as to spread the weight over the entire base area. The magnet remains in the room during surgery and is powered off to turn off the magnetic field when in the second position remote from the table.
US11369452B2	Wide-angle endoilluminator Certain embodiments describe an endoilluminator comprising a probe housing an optical fiber. The probe comprises a distal end with an opening through which a first light from a distal end of the optical fiber is configured to be propagated. The probe comprises one or more side openings through which a second light from one or more sides of the optical fiber is configured to be propagated. The endoilluminator also comprises a handpiece coupled to a light source and the proximal end of the probe, wherein the light source is configured to drive light into the optical fiber.
US11369449B2	Modular cable-driven surgical robots A surgical robot can be configured for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and other types of surgery with modular link geometry and disposable components. In some examples, the surgical robot includes a cable driver comprising at least one drive motor configured for tensioning a cable. The surgical robot includes an articulated surgical tool coupled to the drive motor by the cable. The articulated surgical tool comprises at least first and second articulated links and a joint coupling the first and second articulated links. The cable passes through the joint, and the joint comprises an elastic antagonist biased in opposition to tension from the cable to allow bidirectional actuation of the joint. The surgical robot includes a safety lock configured to lock the joint from allowing articulation of the first and second articulated links in response to a loss of tension in the cable.
US11369445B2	Tool memory-based software upgrades for robotic surgery Robotic devices, systems, and methods for use in robotic surgery and other robotic applications, and/or medical instrument devices, systems, and methods include both a reusable processor and a limited-use robotic tool or medical treatment probe. A memory on the limited-use component includes machine readable code with data and/or programming instructions to be implemented by the processor. Programming of the processor is updated by shipping of new data. Once downloaded by the processor from a component, subsequent components take advantage of the updated processor without repeated downloading.
US11369444B2	Needle steering by shaft manipulation A method and apparatus for steering of a flexible needle into tissue using a steering robotic platform for manipulation of the needle shaft, and by use of a semi-active arm for locating and orienting of the steering robot on the patient's body. As opposed to other steering methods, the robot does not hold the base of the needle, which is its proximal region, but rather grips the shaft of the needle by means of a manipulatable needle gripping device, near its distal end. The needle gripper attached to the robotic platform may be equipped with a traction assembly to provide motion to the needle in its longitudinal direction, such that it co-ordinates the entry of the needle with the desired entry angle. The gripping of the needle at its distal end, close to its insertion point, provides the needle manipulator with a low profile, with concomitant advantages.
US11369436B2	Systems and methods for displaying guidance images with spatial annotations during a guided medical procedure The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating spatial annotations within guidance images that are displayed during a guided medical procedure, where the spatial annotations provide spatial graduations indicating known length measures. The spatial measures may be employed to visually assess the sizes of anatomical and/or functional features displayed in the guidance images.
US11369432B2	Arrhythmia diagnostic and/or therapy delivery methods and devices, and robotic systems for other uses Improved systems for diagnosing and/or treating arrhythmia of a heart makes use of an array of articulation balloons to control movement of a distal portion of a catheter inside the heart, and may be used to align a diagnostic or treatment tool with a target tissue surface region along or adjacent an inner surface of one of the chambers of the heart. The articulation balloons can generate articulation forces at the site of articulation, and the movement may provide greater dexterity than movements induced by transmitting articulation forces proximally along a catheter body that winds through a tortuous vascular pathway. One or more fluid channels may transmit pressure signals that can be used to determine engagement forces between an electrode or other surface near the distal and of an elongate flexible structure and a tissue or other surface, and those same channels may also be used to control inflation of a balloon articulation array, with the pressure signals optionally providing both force and engagement orientation information.
US11369431B2	Inductive double flat coil displacement sensor A catheter adapted to measure a contact force includes a proximal segment, a distal segment, a spring segment extending from the proximal segment to the distal segment, and at least one inductive sensor. The at least one inductive sensor includes a first plate of high magnetic permeability material disposed on the proximal segment, a second plate of high magnetic permeability material disposed on the distal segment opposite the first plate, at least one first coil disposed adjacent to the first plate between the first plate and the second plate, and at least one second coil disposed adjacent to the second plate opposite the first coil between the first plate and the second plate. The second coil is electrically connected in series with the first coil. The first coil and the second coil are configured to output a signal indicative of displacement between the first coil and the second coil.
US11369427B2	System and method of manufacturing non-stick coated electrodes An energy generator includes a connector port configured to couple to an electrosurgical instrument including an electrode having a polymeric dielectric coating; a power converter configured to generate energy; and a sensor coupled to the power converter and configured to sense a parameter of the energy. The energy generator also includes a controller coupled to the sensor and the power converter. The controller is configured to: control the power converter to output energy to modify an electrical property of the polymeric dielectric coating; and determine whether the electrical property of the polymeric dielectric coating has been sufficiently modified by the energy.
US11369426B2	Operation method of electric power source device, electric power source device, and high-frequency treatment system A method of operating a power source device for a high-frequency treatment instrument adapted to perform high-frequency treatment for biological tissue includes causing a high-frequency power source circuit to output power; setting a target impedance value which gradually increases from a change-over impedance value to a stop impedance value; regularly comparing a measured impedance value to the target impedance value; causing the high-frequency power source circuit to lower the power by a first ratio if the measured impedance value is greater than the target impedance value, and to raise the power by a second ratio if the measured impedance value is smaller than the target impedance value; and causing the high-frequency power source circuit to terminate the output upon the value for impedance reaching the stop impedance value.
US11369425B2	Lactoferrin-conjugated nanoparticle complex and use thereof The present invention relates to a lactoferrin-conjugated nanoparticle complex and a novel use thereof. In the nanoparticle complex according to the present invention, lactoferrin or polyethylene glycol-lactoferrin is bound to metal nanoparticles, and according to this construction, it can be confirmed that the metal nanoparticles are not only efficiently targeted to the brain tumor tissues, but also the stability of the metal nanoparticles can be maintained even in the in vivo conditions, and thus it is expected in the treatment of brain tumors to be treatable to targets by approaching more fundamentally.
US11369422B1	Bone fixation tangs with self-balancing extension The bone fixation tangs with self-balancing extension compensate for the internal cavity shape of the intramedullary canal, thus avoiding the related issues of over-extension and under-extension of tangs. Over-extension, or pushing the tangs too deeply in the inner wall of the bone, is unnecessarily traumatic to the patient and may weaken the bone. Under-extension, or stopping extension before the tangs have locked into the interior surface of the bone, results in reduced mechanical strength, thus compromising the ability of the nail to provide support to the bone. The bone fixation tangs with self-balancing extension address this issue by allowing the tangs to balance their extension.
US11369421B2	Shape adaptable intramedullary fixation device Implantable devices for fixation of curved bone such as the pelvic ring pubic symphysis and acetabulum, and methods for the use of the devices are disclosed. The implantable devices are convertible between a flexible state and a rigid state, and include an elongate structure having a proximal bone interface, a main body, and a distal bone interface. In a flexible state, the devices may be inserted along, and conform to a curved pathway, and in the rigid state, the devices may support the mechanical loads required to fixate a fracture.
US11369420B2	Artificial spinal disk prosthesis Intervertebral endoprosthesis discs suitable for surgical implantation between two vertebrae having and methods thereof. The prosthetic disc may have an endoprosthesis body including an anterior region and a posterior region designed to be positioned between a first vertebra and a second vertebra with a first and second movable insert positioned rotatably in anterior cavities and is rotatable to adjust the fasteners.
US11369417B1	Modular polyaxial pedicle screw assembly with split ring A modular head polyaxial pedicle screw assembly has a pedicle bone screw, a tulip, a split locking ring and a saddle. The screw has a head and a threaded shank. The split locking ring has a split ring body with one or more positioning tabs extending from a first surface of the split ring body. The split ring locking ring is configured to be placed internal of the tulip positioned in a recess, groove or undercut of an inner surface of the tulip. Upon assembly of the pedicle screw into the tulip, at least a maximum diameter of the head is positioned above the recess, groove or undercut allowing the split locking ring to be inserted into the recess or groove thereby securing the pedicle screw inside the tulip wherein the head of the pedicle screw abuts the one or more positioning tabs.
US11369410B2	Magnetizing system for needle assemblies including orientation key system for positioning needle tray in magnetizer A magnetizing system for use in selectively magnetizing a needle of a medical device is disclosed. Once magnetized, the needle can be tracked by a needle guidance system, which assists the clinician placing the needle by visualizing on a display the position and orientation of the needle after its insertion into a body of a patient. An orientation key system is included with the magnetizing system to ensure the needle is positioned correctly in the magnetizing system. This in turn ensures that the needle is properly magnetized so as to be accurately tracked by the needle guidance system. In one embodiment a first key is included with the magnetizing system and configured to cooperatively mate with a second key included with the needle of the medical device. Various types of keys are disclosed herein.
US11369406B2	Medical device Disclosed herein is a medical device. The medical device includes an outer tubular member, an inner tubular member, and a lock pin. The outer tubular member has a proximal end, a distal end, and an open window disposed at the distal end. The inner tubular member has a proximal end, a distal end, and an open window disposed at the distal end. The inner tubular member is configured to be received within the outer tubular member and capable of rotating and/or translating relative to the outer tubular member. The lock pin is configured to set the open window of the outer tubular member at a pre-determined orientation.
US11369401B2	Reverse seam ripper dissector A surgical instrument includes an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis, an actuation rod extending through the elongate body and a tool assembly coupled to the elongate body. The tool assembly includes a coupling member coupling the tool assembly to the elongate body and a tool portion pivotally associated with the coupling member. The tool portion includes a projection member including a blunt end portion and a cutting member extending distally outward from the projection member. The tool portion is operatively coupled to the actuation rod. Translation of the actuation rod causes pivotal movement of the tool assembly.
US11369400B2	Balloon dissector A balloon dissector assembly includes a balloon dissector having an elongate shaft, a handle disposed on a proximal portion of the elongate shaft, and a dissection balloon supported on a distal portion of the elongate shaft. The dissection balloon includes a substantially cylindrical shape having a deflated condition in which the dissection balloon includes a first diameter between the proximal and distal ends, an inflated condition in which the dissection balloon includes a second diameter between the proximal and distal ends, and a plurality of intermediate conditions in which the balloon transitions from the deflated condition to the inflated condition progressively from the proximal end to the distal end.
US11369396B2	Surgical instrument of two-branch design with improved cleaning suitability A medical-technical instrument includes a first instrument branch, a second instrument branch, and a bearing element coupling the instrument branches in a superimposed closure. The branches contact each other in a closure portion in an operation pivot region via mutually facing contact surfaces so that the branches in the operation pivot region contact each other with their respective contact surfaces, and the branches are positionable in a cleaning position outside the operation pivot region. The bearing element is fixed at an end portion on the first instrument branch and has a head widening conically in a continuous or stepped manner. The head penetrates a continuously or stepped conical passage opening in the second instrument branch. The passage opening is an elongated hole, and the bearing element is rotatably positionable in the elongated hole and translationally fixedly received.
US11369395B2	Surgical clamp produced by additive manufacturing and a method for producing such a clamp A medical instrument includes at least a first instrument shank and a second instrument shank that can be moved in relation to each other. The first instrument shank is a male instrument shank with a male bearing section. The second instrument shank is a female instrument shank with a female bearing section that includes a through-opening. The first instrument shank is arranged on the second instrument shank by the male bearing section engaging through the through-opening of the female bearing section. The instrument is produced by an additive manufacturing method.
US11369391B2	Glenoid anchor guide A guide provides for placing a suture anchor into an outer rim of a glenoid cavity of a patient adjacent an edge of a glenoid labrum. The guide comprises an elongated guide tube having an axial lumen with a distal opening a rim engagement member pivotally attached to the elongated tube adjacent the distal opening. The rim engagement member has a first contact surface and a second contact surface each of which are distal of the guide tube and are separated from each other and disposed on opposite lateral sides of the guide tube whereby to allow placement of the contact member over the glenoid rim, with subsequent angular positioning of the guide tube and passage of an instrument down the lumen to the labrum.
US11369388B1	Device and method for performing sternotomy Provided is a surgical saw for cutting a sternum comprising: a) a body, b) a handle attached to the body; c) a blade positioned in such way to cut the sternum when a user holds the handle, and d) a base below the blade configured to be positioned below the sternum, wherein the user places the base under the sternum and cuts the sternum with the blade.
US11369387B2	Tourniquet assembly A tourniquet assembly for providing additional comfort when giving blood includes a pad which is comprised of a flexible material. The pad has a first side, a second side and a perimeter edge extending between the first and second sides. The perimeter edge includes a front edge, a rear edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The pad is elongated and has a longitudinal axis extending through the first and second lateral edges. A band is coupled to the second side of the pad. The band extends along the longitudinal axis. The band is comprised of a flexible material and is wrapped around a limb to secure the pad to a person's limb.
US11369386B2	Systems and methods for a medical clip applier Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for articulating medical instruments. In one aspect, the instrument includes a wrist having at least one degree of freedom of movement, and an end effector coupled to the wrist. The end effector can include a cartridge for delivering a plurality of clips to tissue. The wrist may include one or more cables capable of moving an actuator with one degree of freedom of movement within the end effector to advance one or more clips through the end effector.
US11369380B2	Method of applying a buttress to a surgical stapler A method of applying a buttress to a surgical stapler end effector comprises positioning a buttress assembly between an anvil and a staple cartridge of the end effector. The buttress assembly comprises a buttress body and an adhesive material. The adhesive material faces either an underside of the anvil or a deck of the staple cartridge. The anvil is in an open position relative to the staple cartridge during the act of positioning the buttress assembly between the anvil and the staple cartridge. The method further comprises moving the anvil toward the staple cartridge then moving the anvil back to the open position. The buttress assembly is adhered to the underside of the anvil or the deck of the staple cartridge via the adhesive material with the anvil moved back to the open position. The adhesive material comprises a bioabsorbable polymer.
US11369379B2	Hair grasping device A hair grasping device having a handle with hollow fingers, a trigger slidably attached to the handle, a number of grips slidably attached within the hollow fingers connected to the trigger. Each of the grips has a first and a second arm, a central post, and an extended position and retracted position. When in the retracted position, the arms are forced against the central post by the hollow fingers, and when in the extended position, the arms are forced away from the central post, creating a clearance between the arms and the central post.
US11369371B2	Surgical stapling instrument A surgical stapling instrument includes an anvil body defining a longitudinal axis, a cartridge body coupled to the anvil body, a staple cartridge releasably mounted relative to the cartridge body, a firing member mounted to the cartridge body and configured for longitudinal movement through the staple cartridge, and a lockout member supported by the cartridge body. The lockout member defines a single longitudinal slot for at least partial reception of the firing member. The lockout member is configured for movement from a locked position preventing longitudinal movement of the firing member to a release position permitting longitudinal movement of the firing member upon mounting of the staple cartridge to the cartridge body.
US11369369B2	Linear stapler with adjustment mechanism This application provides a linear stapler with an adjusting mechanism having wider adjusting scope and more suitable pressing force and being more convenient to operate, and including an adjusting shift lever with at least one step surface on each of upper and lower ends, an adjusting slider with multiple step surfaces on an end surface close to the adjusting shift lever, and an adjusting chassis having multiple step surfaces on an end surface close to the adjusting shift lever. The adjusting shift lever rotates with a shifted adjusting knob to generate relative displacement vertical to the step surface with the adjusting slider at one end and relative displacement vertical to the step surface with the adjusting chassis at the other end, and drive a nail abutting seat subassembly to rotate relatively to a nail bin seat, until the thickness of clamped tissue is consistent in near and far ends.
US11369367B2	Suturing device A suturing device for being inserted into and used in a body is disclosed. The suturing device includes a front arm that has string support portions supporting both ends of a surgical string, and a front guide portion attached to the string support portions and a back arm that has a needle-shaped member, a needle support portion supporting the needle-shaped member in a state of pointing to a predetermined first direction, and a back guide portion attached to the front guide portion such that the back guide portion is capable of sliding in a direction substantially parallel to the first direction, and rotating around an axis substantially parallel to the first direction. The front guide portion has a first guide groove guiding the needle-shaped member to one end of the surgical string supported by the string support portion and a second guide groove guiding the needle-shaped member.
US11369360B2	Orthopaedic bone anchor and suspension device An orthopaedic bone anchor and suspension device includes a head which, on its upper face, has an opening of a central bore for receiving an expansion device, and, adjoining the underside of the head, a sleeve which is designed as an expansion dowel for anchoring the bone anchor and suspension device in the bone. The bone anchor and suspension device is characterized in that the head has a collar which protrudes outwards past the sleeve, wherein the collar preferably has holes for the attachment of fastening sutures and, on its outer circumference, has at least one recess for grafts.
US11369358B2	Orthopedic joint distraction device An orthopedic distraction device is provided. The orthopedic distraction device includes a first upper paddle for engaging a first bone of a joint, a lower paddle for engaging a second bone of the joint and a displacement mechanism. The displacement mechanism includes a drive assembly operable to move the upper paddle relative to the lower paddle. The lower paddle is releasably connected to the displacement mechanism.
US11369357B1	Thoracic structure access apparatus, systems and methods A thoracic structure access system for retracting biological tissue and providing access to internal biological structures; particularly, intrathoracic structures, e.g., the heart and internal mammary arteries, to facilitate entry through the biological tissue with surgical instruments and interaction of the surgical instruments with the intrathoracic structures during a thoracic surgical procedure; particularly, minimally invasive CAGB and OPCAB procedures. The system facilitates coronary artery bypass graft (CAGB and OPCAB) procedures via a simple incision at a transxiphoid incision site and, hence, without fully transecting the sternum, i.e., performing a full sternotomy, or performing a thoracotomy. The system includes modular retractor and retention arm assemblies in communication with a ratchet assembly. When the system is disposed proximate a transxiphoid incision site and the modular retractor and retention arm assemblies are releasably engaged to opposing biological tissue portions at the transxiphoid incision site, the ratchet assembly can be actuated to apply opposing forces to the biological tissue portions to provide an access space at the transxiphoid incision site.
US11369356B2	Methods and apparatus for preventing tissue migration An apparatus for inhibiting tissue migration during a procedure comprises a deployment catheter defining at least one lumen therethrough and a non-inflatable hood projecting distally from the deployment catheter and defining an open area. The open area is in fluid communication with the at least one lumen. The apparatus also comprises a visualization element disposed within or along the non-inflatable hood for visualizing tissue adjacent to the open area. The apparatus also comprises a tissue grasping end effector positioned within the open area and configured to temporarily engage the tissue adjacent to the open area such that distal migration of the tissue relative to the barrier or membrane is inhibited.
US11369351B2	Micro-fabricated medical device having a non-helical cut arrangement The present disclosure relates to interventional devices such as catheters and guidewire devices having micro-fabricated features for providing flexibility while maintaining good torquability. An interventional device includes an elongated member (500) having an arrangement of fenestrations which define a plurality of axially extending beams coupling a plurality of circumferentially extending rings. The fenestrations are arranged so that the resulting beams form a distributed, non-helical and non-linear pattern along the length of the elongated member. The pattern of fenestrations thereby minimizes or eliminates preferred bending axes.
US11369349B2	Wearable sweat biosensing devices with active sweat sample coupling A device (100) for sensing a first analyte in sweat on skin includes an analyte-specific sensor (120) for sensing the first analyte and an active sweat coupling component (130) for transporting at least one sweat sample inside the device (100) and into fluid communication with the analyte-specific sensor (120). A method of sensing a first analyte in sweat on skin includes actively transporting at least one sweat sample into fluid communication with an analyte-specific sensor (120) for sensing the first analyte using an active sweat coupling component (130) and sensing the first analyte using the analyte-specific sensor (120).
US11369348B2	Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates a first image based on an echo signal obtained by transmission and reception of ultrasound waves. The processing circuitry acquires a second image that is an image generated by a medical image diagnostic apparatus. The processing circuitry performs a registration of the first image and the second image, by discretely setting a plurality of relative positions of the first image and the second image within a specified range, calculating the similarity between the first image and the second image corresponding to the plurality of relative positions respectively, updating the plurality of the relative positions based on the calculation result of the similarity, and recalculating the similarity corresponding to the plurality of the updated relative positions respectively. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the images obtained after the registration.
US11369347B2	Portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling the same A portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided, including a flexible display and a controller which changes a layout of an image displayed on the flexible display. An image necessary for diagnosing an object is appropriately disposed on a flexible display according to a situation, and thus, the user can intuitively determine an ultrasonic image.
US11369346B2	Devices and methods for intrahepatic shunts The invention provides methods and devices for treating liver cirrhosis or portal hypertension by creating an intrahepatic shunt, or new passage, from a portal vein of a patient to a hepatic vein using a device with intravascular imaging capabilities and pressure sensing capabilities or positioning mechanisms. The integration of intravascular imaging aids in the precise placement of the shunt and pressure measurement may verify successful shunt creation. An apparatus may include a catheter with an extended body for insertion into a hepatic vein of a patient, an intravascular imaging device and a needle exit port on the distal portion of the extended body, and a needle disposed within a lumen in the catheter and configured to be pushed out of the exit port and extend away from a side of the extended body, in which the needle includes a pressure sensor.
US11369345B2	Method for producing MEMS transducer, MEMS transducer, ultrasound probe, and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus Substrate is produced by using a MEMS technique to form multiple diaphragms in a substrate by forming piezoelectric material layer on one surface of the substrate and thereafter by forming openings in the substrate from the other surface of the substrate; substrate and substrate on which signal detection circuit is formed are aligned to each other using at least one of multiple diaphragms as alignment diaphragm; and substrate and substrate are bonded together.
US11369341B2	Method for characterising bone using ultrasonic waves The invention relates to a method for characterising bone, the method comprising the steps of receiving (102) ultrasonic wave echo signals transmitted into a body, determining (104) a speed of sound in the body's non-bone biological tissue, locating (106) a first demarcation curve between non-bone biological tissue and bone in an image of the body constructed during said determining step, and determining (108) a speed of sound in bone. The steps of determining speed include constructing images from the signals, and a metric calculation indicative of a focus quality in the constructed images.
US11369338B2	Ultrasonic CT device, image processing device, and image processing program that corrects a signal or pixel In an ultrasonic CT device for breast examination, unevenness of an ultrasonic image due to a distribution of inclination angles of a breast is reduced. The distribution of the inclination angles of a surface of a subject in a contour of the subject is obtained from a tomographic image, and a signal level of a reception signal or a pixel value of the tomographic image is corrected using the distribution of the inclination angles.
US11369337B2	Detection of disturbed blood flow Methods and systems are disclosed for detecting a region of disturbed blood flow within a blood-filled lumen and indicating the region of disturbed blood flow using a disturbed blood flow indicator. The region of disturbed blood flow can be detecting by processing a plurality of data vectors acquired by an imaging device. The plurality of data vectors can also be processed to generate an intravascular image. The intravascular image can be displayed to include the disturbed blood flow indicator at a region on the displayed image corresponding to a detected region of disturbed blood flow.
US11369333B2	Method and apparatus for detecting dose distribution of article The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for detecting a dose distribution of an article. The method includes performing a fluoroscopy scanning on the article to be detected, to obtain mass data per unit area or unit volume for each point of the article to be detected; obtaining corresponding dose distribution data based on the mass data per unit area or unit volume and a preset mapping model, wherein the preset mapping model includes a mapping relationship between mass per unit area or unit volume and the dose distribution of the article under irradiation of a preset amount of energy; and matching the dose distribution data with a fluoroscopy image of the article to be detected, to generate and display a radiation image.
US11369332B2	Radiation imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same, and radiation imaging system Provided is a system capable of preventing inappropriate radiation stop control from being performed. A radiation imaging apparatus configured to perform imaging by radiation includes: an imaging unit including a dose signal output pixel arranged to output an electric signal based on a dose of the radiation that has entered the dose signal output pixel; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of comparing an integration value of the electric signal output from the dose signal output pixel included in the imaging unit to a threshold value during a period in which the radiation is not applied to the imaging unit.
US11369329B2	Imaging support apparatus, method, and program for detecting an abnormal site in a medical image An abnormal site detection unit detects an abnormal site included in a medical image acquired based on radiation transmitted through a subject. A position specifying unit generates positional information for specifying a position of the abnormal site based on a feature point of the subject included in the medical image in a case where the abnormal site is detected in the medical image. An information generation unit generates additional imaging instruction information, including information that indicates a type of additional imaging based on the abnormal site and information that indicates the position of the abnormal site based on the positional information, for instructing at least one additional imaging.
US11369326B2	Mobile anatomical imaging system with improved movement system comprising liddiard wheels A new and improved anatomical imaging system which includes a new and improved movement system, wherein the movement system comprises an omnidirectional powered drive unit and wherein the movement system can substantially eliminate lateral walk (or drift) over the complete stroke of a scan, even when the floor includes substantial irregularities, whereby to improve the accuracy of the scan results and avoid unintentional engagement of the anatomical imaging system with the bed or gurney which is supporting the patient. The present invention also comprises the provision and use of Liddiard wheels.
US11369325B2	Advanced concept mobile X-ray imaging device A mobile X-ray system includes a movable base, a robotic arm mounted on the movable base, an X-ray source attached to the robotic arm, a radiation detector, one or more user interfaces, and a controller configured to determine a position of the X-ray source and a position of the detector and to automatically move the base and the robotic arm to align the X-ray source with the detector.
US11369321B2	Monitoring and tracking system, method, article and device A monitoring system includes one or more monitoring devices configured to detect conditions related to a monitored person and an artificial intelligence module configured to analyze historical information related to conditions of the monitored person and current information related to conditions of the monitored person and determine whether to generate an alert signal based on the analysis. The artificial intelligence module may also be configured to update the historical information related to the conditions of the monitored person based on the current information and responses to the alert signals. The system includes a moveable sensor and a monitored-person identification subsystem.
US11369312B2	Systems and methods for coordinating musculoskeletal and cardiovascular hemodynamics Described herein are systems and methods for favorably coordinating a timing relationship between a musculoskeletal activity cycle and a cardiac cycle of a user. A method may include repetitively detecting a signal that correlates to a blood volume in the user; determining an actual value of the signal that varies with the timing relationship; computing a trend of the actual value of the signal; and adjusting the movement guidance based on the trend of the actual value. A system may include a prompt device configured to provide recurrently a movement guidance to the user for guiding performance of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity; a sensor configured to provide a signal that correlates to a blood volume in the user; and a processor configured to determine an actual value of the signal that varies with the timing relationship and to adjust the movement guidance based on the trend of the actual value.
US11369306B2	System and method for displaying electrophysiological signals from multi-dimensional catheters A method of displaying a virtual electrogram for a virtual bipole includes receiving a plurality of electrophysiological signals from a respective plurality of electrodes carried by a multi-dimensional catheter; using the received electrophysiological signals to compute a plurality of virtual electrograms associated with a respective plurality of virtual bipoles, each having a corresponding virtual bipole orientation; selecting a virtual bipole orientation; and displaying the virtual electrogram associated with the virtual bipole having the selected virtual bipole orientation. Aspects of the disclosure can be executed through a graphical user interface of an electroanatomical mapping system that also incorporates a visualization processor.
US11369304B2	System and method for volitional electromyography signal detection Disclosed herein are a system and a method for volitional electromyography (vEMG) signal detection from an EMG signal when functional electrical stimulation (FES) is applied. The system for vEMG signal detection includes a receiver for receiving data from an EMG electrode when FES is applied, a memory for storing a program for detecting a vEMG signal using the received data, and a processor for executing the program, wherein the processor cuts the data received from the EMG electrode disposed at a predetermined position, calculates a difference between data for previous FES and data for current FES, and detects the vEMG signal using the calculated difference.
US11369301B2	Highly flexible mapping and treatment device A device and system for providing mapping and treatment capabilities without increasing stiffness of the device. An embodiment of a device may include a flexible elongate body and at least one mapping element on the distal portion of the elongate body. Each mapping element may be an area of thermally conductive material, such as metallic nanoparticles, that is embedded within, integrated with, or deposited on the elongate body. The flexibility of the areas of thermally conductive material is at least substantially the same as that of the elongate body so the device may include many electrodes without compromising flexibility and maneuverability of the device. Alternatively, the device may include a treatment element coupled to the elongate body, such as a balloon. The mapping elements may be embedded within, integrated with, or deposited on the balloon and may have at least substantially the same flexibility as that of the balloon.
US11369295B2	Silicone hydrogel based fluorescent assay and contact lens A material, article, system and method include a probe composition that includes a hydrophobic portion, a hydrophilic portion, an analyte-binding portion and a fluorophore portion. The analyte-binding portion is configured to bind to an analyte in an aqueous solution. The fluorophore portion is configured to change an optical property of fluorescent light emitted in response to incident excitation light when the probe composition changes between a first state in which the analyte is not bound to the analyte-binding portion and a second state in which the analyte binds to the analyte-binding portion. A material includes the probe composition and a silicone hydrogel substrate having a hydrogel network that allows flow of aqueous solution through the solution and a silicone network that occupies interstices of the hydrogel network. A contact lens having the material enables remote detection of glucose concentration in tear fluid of a subject.
US11369294B2	Endoscope system, processor device, and method of operating endoscope system A measurement value calculation section calculates the actual measurement value of the hemoglobin concentration of an object to be observed and the actual measurement value of an oxygen saturation thereof on the basis of a plurality of first spectral images. A relative value calculation section calculates the relative value of the hemoglobin concentration and the relative value of the oxygen saturation on the basis of the actual measurement value and the reference value of the hemoglobin concentration and the actual measurement value and the reference value of the oxygen saturation. An image generation section generates a relative value image obtained from the imaging of the relative value of the hemoglobin concentration and/or the relative value of the oxygen saturation, and displays the relative value image on a display unit.
US11369292B2	Portable apparatus for noninvasively measuring blood glucose level and operating method thereof Provided is a method for measuring blood glucose levels of a subject with a portable apparatus for noninvasively measuring blood glucose levels including at least one light receiving element for detecting light by using different light integration times, including: (a) switching on an LED for emitting light having wavelength absorbed in or scattered by glucose; (b) measuring a first signal value according to light which is reflected off the surface skin layer of the subject and enters in response to a first light integration time in the situation where the light is radiated; (c) adjusting a second light integration time for measuring light reflected off the inner skin layer of the subject based on the first signal value; (d) measuring a second signal value according to the light which is reflected off the inner skin layer of the subject and enters in response to the adjusted second light integration time; and (e) producing the blood glucose level of the subject by using a third signal value according to light which enters due to an ambient environment and the second signal value in the situation where the LED is switched off.
US11369287B2	Stress estimation system A stress estimation system which estimates stress of a user includes a walking speed acquisition unit configured to acquire walking speed information indicating walking speeds of a user in each of the morning and the afternoon at a preset place, an estimation unit configured to calculate a comparison value between the walking speeds in each of the morning and the afternoon indicated by the acquired walking speed information, and to estimate stress of the user based on the calculated comparison value, and an output unit configured to output information in accordance with the estimated stress of the user.
US11369286B2	Low cyanosis observation index luminaire A lighting device, comprises a light source configured to provide a low Cyanosis Observation Index (COI) white light having a total flux, the light source comprising a first group of LEDs configured to provide a wide blue light, a second group of LEDs configured to provide a wide green light, and a third group of LEDs configured to provide a wide red light, wherein the low COI white light is a combination of at least the wide blue light, the wide green light, and the wide red light, wherein a current provided to the light source is distributed among the first group of LEDs, the second group of LEDs, and the third group of LEDs such that the wide blue light contributes 7 percent to 9 percent of the total flux, the wide green light contributes 62 percent to 76 percent of the total flux, and the wide red light contributes 20 percent to 26 percent of the total flux, and wherein a COI of the low COI white light is less than 1.
US11369284B2	Device, system, and method for assessing sleep disorders Methods, systems, and devices for assessing breathing disorders such as apneas and hypopneas are provided. An airflow monitoring device can be positioned in thermal communication with respiratory airflow (nasal and/or oral airflow). The airflow monitoring device can include a thermistor configured to measure heating and cooling cycles of respiratory airflow and determine respiratory airflow velocity from analysis of thermistor cooling. This velocity, alone or in combination with other physiological parameters, such as blood oxygen saturation, respiration effort, heart rate, body movement, etc. can be employed to assess sleep disorders.
US11369279B2	Off-resonance correction for pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling Systems and methods are provided to incorporate an off-resonance correction into the pulse labeling train of PCASL/VEPCASL. In one or more aspects, the systems and methods are based on a method for generating an encoding scheme for any number and arrangement of blood vessels. The off-resonance correction can be incorporated into the generation of optimized encodings to acquire arterial spin labeling (ASL) data, such as PCASL and VEPCASL data.
US11369274B2	Method and device for verification of intra-luminal placement and patency for vascular access devices Methods, apparatus, and systems to non-invasively determine intra-luminal placement and patency of a vascular access device. In one form, our device itself remains non-invasive, connecting at the vascular access device's hub outside the patient's body. Patency and/or placement are estimated indirectly by measuring a physiological parameter which is indicative of proper patency and/or placement of the vascular access device in a patient. The measurement is compared to a reference value or calibration. If the comparison indicates indication of proper patency and/or placement, a signal is generated. The signal can be used in a number of ways. One example is to give a user-perceivable alarm or indication of proper patency and/or placement. Non-limiting examples include activating a light, an audible buzzer, a vibration, readable displayed text or graphics, or some combination of the same. The user can then have an indirect and at least semi-automatic way of estimating proper patency and/or placement of a vascular access device. In one aspect of the invention, the technique is able to achieve this end by monitoring and detecting changes in the physiological parameter of systemic vascular pressure via pressure measurement in, at, or near the hub or other portion of a vascular access device that has a lumen placed intra-luminally, and then using the results of that monitoring to indirectly transduce conditions or states indicative of either good placement/patency or bad placement/patency of the vascular access device.
US11369272B1	Broadband applicator for thermoacoustic signal generation An RF applicator has an open-ended waveguide having an aperture and a dielectric cone extending through the aperture and is electrically connected to an RF source that is configured to generate RF energy pulses. A top fin is mounted to an inner top surface of the waveguide and comprises a conductive material, is electrically connected to the RF source, and has dimensions configured to optimize a bandwidth that the RF applicator applies to tissue. A bottom fin is mounted to an inner bottom surface of the waveguide and comprises a conductive material electrically isolated from the RF source, with dimensions configured to optimize a bandwidth that the RF applicator applies to tissue. A dielectric cone is inserted into the waveguide. A filler material between inner surfaces of the waveguide and the solid dielectric cone can fill gaps and has a dielectric constant similar to the dielectric cone.
US11369266B2	Scan pattern and signal processing for optical coherence tomography An OCT system for measuring a retina as part of an eye health monitoring and diagnosis system. The OCT system includes an OCT interferometer, where the interferometer comprises a light source or measurement beam and a scanner for moving the beam on the retina of a patient's eye, and a processor configured to execute instructions to cause the scanner to move the measurement beam on the retina in a scan pattern. The scan pattern is a continuous pattern that includes a plurality of lobes. The measurement beam may be caused to move on the retina by the motion of a mirror that intercepts and redirects the measurement beam. The mirror position may be altered by the application of a drive signal to one or more actuators that respond to the drive signal by rotating the mirror about an axis or axes.
US11369257B2	Endoscope An endoscope having an endoscope shaft and a main body, which is connected to the endoscope shaft and on which a first dial that has a first contact surface is mounted in a rotatable manner, is provided. The main body has a second contact surface against which the first contact surface bears. The contact surfaces move against one another when the first dial is rotated. A first setting unit is provided, using which a pressure force with which the first contact surface is pressed against the second contact surface is settable in order to set a minimum torque that is necessary in order to rotate the first dial.
US11369254B2	Endoscope and image capturing unit provided therein An endoscope includes a scope and an image capturing unit accommodated inside the scope. The image capturing unit includes: first and second prisms; a reflection film provided between oblique faces of the first and second prisms; a first trimming filter on which visible light transmitted through the first prism is incident on the first trimming filter via the reflection film; a first image sensor facing the first trimming filter; a second trimming filter on which near-infrared light transmitted through the second prism being incident on the second trimming filter via the reflection film; and a second image sensor facing the second trimming filter. The first prism is fixed to the second prism, the first trimming filter is fixed to the first prism, and the second trimming filter is fixed to the second prism.
US11369248B2	Water-using household appliance and method A water-using household appliance, in particular a household dishwashing machine, includes a wall which is made from a metal material, and a device which is made from a plastic material and fixedly connected to the wall by a laser weld.
US11369246B2	Riding floor cleaning machines having intelligent systems, associated sub-assemblies incorporating intelligent systems, and associated methods of use A riding floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a main frame sub-assembly, a steering and drive wheel sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank cover sub-assembly, a control panel sub-assembly, a main controller sub-assembly, a seat and detergent system sub-assembly, a battery sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution and detergent sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and/or analyzes data associated with components of the riding floor cleaning machine, and controllably communicates and/or disseminates such data with another system and/or user.
US11369236B2	Product use acoustic determination system Methods, systems and apparatus for determining product use by acoustically sensing actuations of product dispensers to determine how much product remains, and, optionally, alert a provider when low product states exist.
US11369233B2	Soap dispenser for use in hotel bathroom A soap dispenser for use in a hotel bathroom includes a bottle body, a sealing cover and a positioning frame, wherein the bottle body is used for containing shampoo or shower gel, and the bottle body is placed upside down; the sealing cover is connected to and covers a bottle mouth of the bottle body, a liquid discharge hole is provided in the center of the sealing cover, the liquid discharge hole is provided with a barrier sheet made of silica gel, and a cutout is provided at the center of the barrier sheet; and the positioning frame is used for fixing the bottle body to a wall of the bathroom. The problem in the prior art of inconvenience m use when a hotel guest takes a bath and needs to press a pressing valve on a bottle body when using bathroom amenities is solve.
US11369232B2	Seat system A system for securement of a baby within a bathtub. The system includes a seat attached to a frame. The seat includes a backrest, a base, and a harness, such that the harness can removably secure the baby within the backrest and the base of the seat. The frame includes a unitary rod that extends through a perimeter of the seat, and a pair of adjustable hook members. Each adjustable hook member can be widened or narrowed to snugly fit to a sidewall of the bathtub and be secured thereto by friction fit. Upon securement of the adjustable hook members to the sidewall of the bathtub and placement of the baby within the seat, the baby is safely secured to an interior of the sidewall for bathing or recreation.
US11369226B2	Beverage brewing material support A method of manufacturing a support element for beverage brewing material includes providing water-permeable material to form a concave holder configured to receive the material, with a rim formed around an upper periphery. The method can include providing the material with fold lines, forming the holder from a single piece of the material, and shaping the holder into an open state. Preparing a beverage includes unfolding the support element to form a receptacle, adding the brewing material to an interior, and providing a flow of fluid through the material. An empty container includes filter material formable as a receptacle having has a bottom and sidewalls with folds defining an interior, and a rim at a top edge. The receptacle has a circular cross-section and a diameter of between about 30 mm and about 50 mm and/or a depth of between about 1 mm and about 15 mm.
US11369225B2	Filter paper insert and filter basket with filter paper insert A filter paper insert for producing a brewed beverage includes a first side wall and a second side wall which are respectively connected along opposite sides by one of a seam and a folding edge, and are connected via a bottom seam. The insert has an opening for filling the filter paper insert opposite the bottom seam. The bottom seam has a shape that deviates from a straight line.
US11369222B2	Secure package delivery container and method Disclosed herein is a secure package delivery container for receiving an article that does not require credentials to be input by the delivery person. The storage container comprises a container having a door secured by a user engageable locking device operable to be locked without credentials and upon input from the user. A lock activation device is operatively coupled to the user engageable locking device for receiving input from the user. A communications device is provided to communicate with an external device to report the state of the container, activation of the lock, and to receive instructions to lock or unlock the container. A sensing device is provided for identifying the presence of an object in the container. Additionally, sensors are provided to determine the location of container and the presence of delivery personnel. A user engageable opening device is provided to open or close the door when the user engageable locking device is in an unlocked state.
US11369221B2	Placemat anchor and tether system In some embodiments, a system comprises a mat body characterized by a front side, a back side and a thickness; a plurality of anchors, each anchor comprising an anchor block having an aperture characterized by an aperture diameter, a suction cup having a sealing surface and an outer surface, and a stem that is coaxial with the suction cup and connects the suction cup to the anchor block. Each anchor may be disposed through the thickness, such that its anchor block is on the front side and its suction cup extends from the back side. The system may further comprise an elongated tether that is removably coupleable to one of the plurality of anchors, and the elongated tether may comprise an anchor end having a generally spherical anchor terminus characterized by an anchor diameter that is greater than the aperture diameter.
US11369219B1	Temperature controlled sleeping bag A sleeping bag has an electronically adjustable interior temperature by using cooled or heated air created by a heat exchanger based on Peltier effect and connected to the sleeping bag by flexible hoses via interfaces in exterior walls of the sleeping bag for directing the cooled or heated air received from heat exchanger into an interior of the sleeping bag.
US11369218B2	Modular mirror mounting system A modular mirror mounting system is shown and described. The modular mirror mounting system includes a modular mirror frame. The modular mirror frame is comprised of a first cross support secured to a plurality of elongated supports. The plurality of elongated supports extends from a first connected end in the same direction away from the first cross support. A second cross support is secured to a second end of each of the plurality of elongated supports. A plurality of mounting apertures is located through the supports. The modular mirror frame has a mirror secured to the frame, wherein the mirror has a plurality of apertures therethrough. The mirror is secured via mirror fasteners placed through the apertures of the mirror and the frame.
US11369216B2	Holder for personal items Items are clamped between damping sheaths (11, 51) which are each secured around a carrier (12, 52), wherein a plurality of composite bodies (5, 10) are oriented with respect to one another such that their carriers (12, 52) are arranged in parallel and are held, with their end protruding from the sheath (11, 51), in holes (21) of a plate (2). Preferably, plates (2) can be locked onto one another to form a plate layer (20), or the composite bodies (5, 10) are components connected to one another by cohesive bonding. Plates (2) and carriers (12, 52) of composite bodies (5, 10) may shaped such that the carriers (12, 52) fit with one end into the plates (2) and with this end can be locked onto the plates. Preferably, connection bridges (3, 4) and plates (2) are shaped such that the plates (2) can be locked onto the connection webs (3, 4) to form a plate layer (20).
US11369213B2	Multi-function infant support apparatus and method of using the same A multipurpose support apparatus for an infant is disclosed that includes a rigid planar member having a head end, an intermediate portion and a foot end. The head end and foot end each have a rounded outer edge and the intermediate portion includes right and left sides that have curved concave edges. The edges define the outer periphery of the rigid planar member. A mat following the contour of the rigid planar member is adapted to receive the rigid planar member to be removable from the rigid planar member. A removable cover encloses a flexible container that in turn encloses bean-shaped pellets, or compressible foam filler material. The support apparatus may be used for “Tummy Time” exercises, as an infant lounger, or a breast-feeding support.
US11369205B2	Collapsible, portable chair with integrated temperature control A portable collapsible chair may include a frame that may be collapsed to enable a user to carry or store the chair and that may be expanded to form a chair on which the user may sit. The chair may further include a backrest coupled to the frame, a seat coupled to the frame, and one or more heat exchangers. The chair may also include a control circuit coupled to the one or more heat exchangers. The control circuit may provide a first signal to at least some of the one or more heat exchangers to warm the chair in a warming mode or may provide a second signal to at least some of the one or more heat exchangers to cool the chair in a cooling mode.
US11369202B2	Multi-mode portable collapsible chair with multipurpose accessory bag Various systems and methods relate to an adaptive chair system having (i) a stowed mode in which members of the chair frame are compactly contained within a multi-function bag (MFB), and (ii) a deployed mode in which the multi-purpose chair is configured to transition between at least two seating modes. In an illustrative example, the chair may be provided with an adaptive frame which may be reconfigured to transition between the seating modes. For example, the chair may transition between any of a vertical/upright (chair) mode (e.g., FIG. 8B), a vertical/upright (chair) mode using trek pole handle segment(s) (e.g., FIG. 1C), a low-profile/recon (seat) mode (e.g., FIG. 2B), and a longitudinal/lounge mode (e.g., FIG. 2B). Various embodiments may advantageously provide an adaptive chair system in an ultralight form factor which may fulfill multiple functions including, by way of example and not limitation, seating, sun/rain canopy, footrest, or some combination thereof.
US11369198B2	Suspended storage shelf assembly A storage shelf assembly for suspending from a structure includes a platform. A platform support frame includes a first side member that defines a first channel and a second side member that defines a second channel positioned opposite the first side member. A plurality of cross members extend between the first and second side members and are received within the first and second channels. The plurality of cross members are configured to support the platform. A plurality of uprights configured to suspend the platform support frame from the structure are coupled to the platform support frame by an attachment assembly. The attachment assembly includes a support bracket coupled to the upright and configured to cradle the first side member, and a clamp feature coupled to the support bracket and configured to extend over the first side member.
US11369196B2	Furniture assembly A furniture assembly (1; 101) comprising: —an upper module (3; 103); —a lower module (5; 105); and —a wall part (7; 107) which is arranged for being provided between the upper and the lower module when the furniture assembly (1; 101) is mounted in a room in a mounting position with the upper module (3; 103) provided above the lower module (5; 105), wherein said wall part (7; 107) is pre-mounted to either the upper module (3; 103) or the lower module (5; 105).
US11369195B2	Table and panel furniture system A table assembly comprising a table including a top member and at least a first leg support member, the top member forming a substantially flat top surface and circumscribed by an outer edge, the at least one leg support member supporting the top member in a substantially horizontal position, a table dock secured to the top member and forming an elongated channel having a dock length dimension and at least a first display panel circumscribed by a panel edge and having at least one straight edge having a panel length dimension, the dock length dimension less than panel length dimension, wherein at least a portion of the straight edge of the panel is receivable within the dock channel with the panel extending out the open first and second ends of the channel to support the panel in a substantially upright orientation with at least a portion of the display panel extending to a height above the flat top surface.
US11369194B1	Desk attachment apparatus and system to eliminate dropped items, provide wire management, and support for functional and artistic displays A desk attachment apparatus and system that prevents items from falling off a desk top, to provide electrical wire management, and provides support for functional and artistic displays. The apparatus includes a body with a plurality of holes of to receive and retain electrical wires, a plurality of slits in which the wires can be inserted into the holes, a front groove configured to tightly cover a protruding edge of a desk top and back groove extending along a back face of the body to receive an insert to block wires from being removed from the holes through the slits. Also included is an extension member that can be inserted in the back groove of the desk dam attachment apparatus to extend the desk dam apparatus.
US11369187B2	Load rail for a backpack An apparatus for securing items to a pack for ready and convenient access is provided. The apparatus includes a load rail for use in connection with a pack, such as a backpack. The load rail comprises an elongated body formed of a dimensionally stable material having first and second end portions. The end portions may take the form of depending feet for attaching to the pack via fasteners. A plurality of load rails may be provided along one side of the pack, such as opposite the side including one or more straps for being worn by a user, and may associate with a connector for connecting gear to the pack via the load rails. When mounted, an intermediate portion of the or each load rail may be raised above and spaced from a surface of the pack to facilitate receipt of a portion of the connector.
US11369185B2	Multi-use pack stay Backpacks are described herein. An example backpack may comprise a main body. The main body may define a cavity for carrying a load. The example backpack may comprise one or more shoulder straps. The one or more shoulder straps may be coupled to the main body. The one or more shoulder straps may be configured to extend adjacent a first surface of the main body. The example backpack may comprise one or more multi-use stays. The one or more multi-use stays may be disposed adjacent the first surface of the main body. The one or more multi-use stays may comprise a generally curvilinear stay body configured to provide support to the main body. The stay body may comprise a first utility feature disposed adjacent at least one of a pair of longitudinal ends thereof. The stay body may comprise a second utility feature formed therein between the longitudinal ends.
US11369184B1	Detachable paint bucket A detachable latching paint bucket sized to accommodate a volume of liquid may include a container body with a bottom and side walls extending upward from the bottom, defining an interior of the container body; a latching mechanism attached to one of the side walls; and a strap with a connector configured to removably engage with the latching mechanism, such that the container body is designed to swivel with respect to the strap, wherein the strap is configured to removably engage with a user.
US11369181B2	Cosmetic material feeding container A cosmetic material feeding container includes a cylindrical tube that accommodates a cosmetic material, a leading cylinder to removably accommodate the tube, a container body that is detachably coupled with the leading cylinder, a cylindrical female screw member located inside the container body that is rotationally fixed with the container body, a pusher bar located inside the leading cylinder to push the cosmetic material in an axial direction to an outside of the tube when the pusher bar is rotated to screw into the female screw member, and a rotation stopper member located inside the leading cylinder to rotationally fix the pusher bar relative to the leading cylinder in the circumferential direction. The tube may be replaced when the leading cylinder is detached from the container body.
US11369178B2	Lice comb system In one embodiment, A lice removal comb system includes an inner comb and an outer comb. The inner comb may include a row of lice-removing tines and a handle. The outer comb may include a first row of hair-detangling tines, a second row of hair-detangling tines, a handle, and a slot formed in the outer comb, between the first and second rows of hair-detangling tines. The outer comb may be configured to removably receive the inner comb such that the row of lice-removing tines is disposed between the first and the second rows of hair-detangling tines.
US11369176B2	Customizable bag with retractable strap The present disclosure provides for a bag with a retractable strap and different variations of accessory panels located throughout the bag. In some aspects, the retractable strap may be moved into different orientations on the bag rather than a stagnant placement throughout the use of the bag. In some embodiments, the bag may have several interior and exterior accessory panels that allow for limitless combinations of accessories to be added for maximum customization from bag to bag. In some implementations, the bag and frame may be made up of different materials depending on the intended use of the bag. In some embodiments, the retractable strap may have different length control mechanisms, allowing the strap to be retractable no matter the orientation. In some implementations, the retractable strap may extend via a constant force spring. In some aspects, the rotational force of the extension of the constant force spring may provide a constant force.
US11369171B2	Joint finger ring The innovative product is a joint finger ring, particularly refers to a finger ring capable of being spliced, assembled, bent and adjusted, and relates to the technical field of ornamental finger rings and watchbands. A joint finger ring is composed of a ring setting (1), inlays (2) and connection components (3), wherein the inlays (2) are arranged in the ring setting (1). The left end and the right end of the ring setting (1) are movably connected through the connection components (3). The utility model solves the problem that in the wearing process of the traditional finger ring, the size of the finger ring of a favorite style is appropriately increased to fit the finger, and consequently, it is impossible to achieve the best feeling when people wear the finger ring, and especially for the characteristics of the male finger bones, the finger ring cannot be taken off.
US11369160B2	Skin protecting garment A skin protecting garment includes a back panel, a lower front panel coupled to the back panel, and an upper front panel coupled to the back panel. An upward facing opening is formed by the back panel and the upper front panel. The upward facing opening is dimensioned, shaped and positioned to expose a top of a user's head. A forward facing slit is between the lower front panel and the upper front panel. The forward facing slit is dimensioned, shaped and positioned to expose the user's eyes. The back panel, the lower front panel and the upper front panel are each formed of a material configured to block ultraviolet (UV) light.
US11369159B1	Modular artificial lighted tree with decorative light string A decorative light string including a first group of light elements electrically connected in parallel to each other, a second plurality of light elements electrically connected in parallel to each other, and a third plurality of light elements electrically connected in parallel to each other. The first, second, and third groups of lights are electrically connected in series. A first wire stabilizer is located between the first group of lights and the second group of lights, and a second wire stabilizer is located between the second group of lights and the third group of lights. The first and second wire stabilizers secure wire ends forming first and second gaps in the wiring of the light string.
US11369156B2	Garment with pocket accessible for a person alongside a wearer of the garment An upper garment is provided for use by both a wearer and a person positioned alongside the wearer. The upper garment may include first and second sleeves with a first pocket located in the first sleeve above the elbow in a rear portion. The first pocket may include an opening and an internal space having a depth dimension and a width dimension, wherein the depth dimension extends in a direction away from the opening toward an inner portion of the first sleeve. The internal space may be sized and the opening and the depth dimension may be configured to receive within the internal space the hand of the person positioned alongside the wearer.
US11369154B2	Extended use mask hat and method for controlling spread of infection Disclosed here is an extended use mask hat. The principal components are a hat member, a mask member and an attachment means. Under conditions where there is no desire for protection, the mask member can be easily stored against the interior surface of the hat member. When there is a desire for protection, the mask member can be easily and quickly donned. The service period of the mask hat is extendable by washing. Several technological problems are overcome, including, individual and community protection from the airborne spread of infectious disease in a manner that is effective, not noxious to human sensibility and not overly bearing.
US11369148B1	E-cigarettes, e-cigars, vape-device public safety and protection mechanisms The present invention applies to vape type devices also known as e-cigarettes and e-cigars. To expand the capabilities of Vape type devices, added here is programmable multi mixable flavors and wide temperature controls per flavor, programmable flavor sequencing as well as a self-cleaning capability. A “green” feature includes vaping by way of non combustion techniques. “Green” in context means non carcinogenic. The continued expansion of settings where it will be acceptable to allow the use of Vape type devices is represented by the exhalation filtration feature, which is offered with a wider bore than the intake bore to permit a more comfortable exhalation. The novelties of more than one flavor and temperature controls are included in this invention. In order to avoid having to carry two devices, a Vape device and a filtration type device, the two are merged into one convenient device for portability, the larger exterior bore device to further act as a stand reducing table top foot print use and provision of the addition of some electronic features included for locating the device, theft avoidance and to electronically certify the user has diligently utilized the filter in public or regulated spaces. The added novelties increase the versatility of the device and satisfaction of the user, providing more than one flavor in a single draw and the opportunity to deliver a “cool vape” experience. With these increased functions, the use of the device for medicinal purposes and homeopathic purposes increases in potential. With the advent of mixing flavors and use for drug delivery or homeopathic product delivery, the output filter is important in order to allow one to use the device as a personal comfort, while not detracting from anyone else, even in extreme close proximity.
US11369143B2	Vaporization device having remotely controllable operational modes Vaporization devices having portions to enable signal transmission therethrough. A vaporization device includes a body having a first end, a second end, and forming an internal cavity. At least a portion of the internal cavity forming a cartridge receptacle. The vaporization device includes a battery disposed within the internal cavity and a processor operatively coupled to the battery and disposed within the body. The processor is arranged to respond to a signal to switch the vaporization device between a first operational mode and a second operational mode. The vaporization device also includes a portion of the body arranged to permit transmission of the signal through the portion of the body from a location external to the body, thereby permitting the processor to switch the vaporization device between the first and second operational modes in response to the receipt of the signal.
US11369142B2	Electronic vaping device An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may include an adapter component for connecting a battery portion of the e-Cig with the cartridge. The adapter may be configured to utilize a bonding device, such as a ring, cylinder, or sleeve component, for connecting wires without requiring soldering. The bonding device may press a wire at a contact point against a conductive material for transmission of electrical power.
US11369138B2	Dirt-repellent, heat-reflective coating for aerosol-generating device An aerosol-generating device for generating an inhalable vapor is provided, the aerosol-generating device including: a heating chamber configured to receive an aerosol-generating article, an inner wall of the heating chamber including a coating, the coating including a binder material and metal particles embedded in the binder material or the coating includes a metal alloy, and the coating being configured to be heat-reflective and dirt-repellent. A method for manufacturing an aerosol-generating device to generate an inhalable vapor is also provided.
US11369136B2	Apparatus and method for filling rods with beaded substrate A system for portioning a beaded substrate in a rod. The system includes a suction conveyor belt. The suction conveyor belt includes a belt suction chamber, a first belt end, and a second belt end, the second belt end opposite and downstream of the first belt end. The system also includes a metering device configured to provide the beaded substrate to the suction conveyor belt, and more specifically to the first belt end. The metering device includes a reach and a hopper. The metering device may provide the beaded substrate to the first belt end prior to the suction conveyor belt biasing a filler material onto the first belt end. The system may further includes a cutting mechanism that cooperates with the metering device to position the beaded substrate a first distance away from a first cut end.
US11369133B2	Cone filling apparatus and related methods A cone filling apparatus for production of smoking articles includes: (a) a cone pallet including a plurality of cavities, each cavity for holding a respective cone; (b) a delivery chute having a load end for receiving a smokeable product from a source and an unload end downstream of the load end for unloading the smokeable product from the chute; and (c) a dosing tray disposed above the pallet. The dosing tray includes a plurality of transfer sleeves. Each sleeve has an upper sleeve end for receiving smokeable product unloaded from the unload end of the chute, and a lower sleeve end for dispensing the smokeable product into a cone held in a respective cavity aligned beneath the lower sleeve end.
US11369127B2	Sweetener and flavor compositions, methods of making and methods of use thereof Sweetener and flavor compositions with improved taste profiles are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and methods of using such sweetener and flavor compositions.
US11369126B2	Powdered emulsion for animal feed An emulsifier in powder form for animal feeds is described. A process for preparing the animal feed is also described.
US11369123B2	Device for dosing a consumable product An apparatus for dispensing a foodstuff a heating block (59) having a top side (60) and a bottom side (61), the bottom side (61) being complementary to a portion of the cylinder (11), the heating block (59) being removable from the housing (16) and from the container (1).
US11369118B2	Conveyor oven heat delivery system Conveyor ovens for cooking food according to various embodiments include one or more passive tubes in a plenum positioned opposite one or more burner tubes, wherein the passive tubes have outer walls with apertures therethrough. In some cases, a burner assembly for a conveyor oven includes at least one burner tube extending into a plenum and positioned to receive at least a portion of a flame emitted by the burner assembly, wherein a rifling plate extends through the burner tube and is slidingly positioned within the burner tube. Also, in some cases a baffle in a plenum of the oven is positioned opposite the burner tube and defines a fluid conduit having an entrance into which air heated from the burner tube is received and an exit separate from the entrance and through which air is discharged.
US11369117B2	Conveyor oven air system A conveyor oven for cooking food and having an oven chamber in which food is cooked; a conveyor moveable to convey food within the oven chamber; a burner assembly operable to emit a flame to heat air for cooking food moving within the oven chamber on the conveyor; a burner tube extending into a compartment and positioned to receive at least a portion of the flame emitted by the burner assembly; and one or more passive tubes in the compartment positioned opposite the burner tube, wherein elongated baffles are located between adjacent passive tubes, wherein a baffle plate is located between the burner and passive tubes to restrict airflow from the burner tube to the passive tube, and/or wherein shelf assemblies in the oven enable movement (and in some cases removal) of a shelf with a corresponding fan and/or motor without disturbing other shelves and their corresponding fans and/or motors.
US11369116B2	Compositions, kits and methods for weed control A method of weed control is provided. The method comprises artificially pollinating at least one weed species of interest with pollen of the same species that reduces fitness of said at least one weed species of interest. Also provided are compositions and kits which can be used for performing the methods described herein.
US11369109B2	Fast-acting antimicrobial surfaces, and methods of making and using the same An antimicrobial coating is disclosed that provides fast transport rates of biocides for better effectiveness to deactivate SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses or bacteria on common surfaces. Some variations provide an antimicrobial structure comprising: a solid structural phase comprising a solid structural material; a continuous transport phase that is interspersed within the solid structural phase, wherein the continuous transport phase comprises a solid transport material; and an antimicrobial agent contained within the continuous transport phase, wherein the solid structural phase and the continuous transport phase are separated by an average phase-separation length from about 100 nanometers to about 500 microns. The antimicrobial structure is capable of destroying at least 99.99 wt % of bacteria and/or viruses in 10 minutes of contact. Many options are disclosed for suitable materials to form the solid structural phase, the continuous transport phase, and the antimicrobial agent.
US11369106B2	Automatic animal detection and deterrent system This disclosure provides a method of detecting and deterring a target animal from a target area. A target area is positioned within the field of vision of a video camera connected to a computer processing system. An animal identification computer program using convolution neural networks and deep learning computer programs and camera images rapidly detects a target animal. The animal identification computer program is trained to identify target animals accurately using a learning algorithm and related machine learning technology. The time to deploy a deterrent against a target animal from the instant of detection is 2 seconds or less so that little or no time is available to the target animal to damage the target area.
US11369103B2	Arthropod pest trapping device, system and method An arthropod trapping device comprising a suspension element, an engagement section including an extension that extends from the suspension element, the engagement section including an engagement element with a pest immobilization surface, wherein externally facing surfaces of the engagement element have a sticky contact substance to form the pest immobilization surface, wherein all corners, faces, and edges of the externally facing surfaces of the engagement element have the sticky contact substance, a contact lead segment formed from fibers and extending from the extension near an end of the pest immobilization surface, the contact lead segment comprising a first end and a second end, where only the first end of the contact lead segment is adjacent the pest immobilization surface, where the contact lead segment is devoid of the sticky contact substance, and where the contact lead segment forms a pest pathway to the pest immobilization surface.
US11369095B2	Method for rearing animals and apparatus for rearing animals The method for rearing an animal according to the present invention includes: grasping a tide-generating force; and feeding, to the animal, foods varying in fat ingredient content according to the variation level of the tide-generating force. In addition, the apparatus for rearing an animal according to the present invention is provided with a food feeding means for feeding, to the animal, foods varying in fat ingredient content according to the variation level of a tide-generating force.
US11369094B1	Automatic calcium reactor An automatic calcium reactor preferably includes a reactor body, a carbon dioxide separator, a salt water pump, a recycling venturi and an electronic controller. The reactor body includes a lower chamber and an upper chamber. A source of calcium is placed in the upper chamber. The carbon dioxide separator is suspended near a top of the upper chamber. A salt water outlet is formed through a side wall of the reactor body. Salt water from the aquarium and salt water from the reactor body are fed into the salt water pump. A recycling venturi includes a salt water inlet, a carbon dioxide inlet and an outlet, which is connected to the lower chamber. A float switch is retained near a top of the upper chamber. Rising salt water inside the upper chamber trips the float switch and opens the carbon dioxide valve through the electronic controller.
US11369087B2	Remote release buckle A buckle assembly includes a housing enclosing a locking bar for securing a latch. The latch is inserted into a latch cavity of the buckle assembly, pushing the spring-loaded locking bar into the housing until a convex feature of the latch passes a convex feature of the latch cavity, and slides to the side, whereupon the locking bar is extended by a compression spring, thereby locking the latch from release from the buckle assembly. The latch is released from the latch cavity by pulling a release cord or cable or trigger attached to the locking bar to overcome the spring tension and draw the locking bar up, thus allowing the latch to move away from the convex feature of the latch cavity and release from the buckle assembly.
US11369086B1	Multi-length leash A multi-length leash is disclosed that comprises a handle, a line member, and an elastic member. The first end of a first region of the line member is secured to a closed bracket of a leash connector, and the second end is secured to the first stop of a second region. The first end of the elastic member is directly connected with both the handle and first connecting member, and at least the second end is directly secured to the second connecting member that slidably engages with the second region at the second stop. The elastic member is configurable in one of at least a first state or a second state to alter an effective length of the multi-length leash.
US11369080B2	Furniture for pet cats A piece of furniture for pet cats includes an outer frame and an inner house. The outer frame is a polyhedral frame structure. The inner house is fixedly suspended in the outer frame by a plurality of connection members. The inner house is provided with at least one entrance. According to the pet furniture for cats with this structure, the pet cat can jump and play between the outer frame and the inner house. Further, when the pet cat climbs on the outer surface of the inner house or slaps on the outer surface of the inner house with the cat's claw, the inner house will shake due to an external force, so the pet cat and receive the response and have more fun in playing.
US11369076B2	Soybean variety 01078749 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01078749. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01078749. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01078749 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01078749 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11369072B2	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV457958 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV457958. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV457958, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV457958 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV457958 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV457958.
US11369069B2	Lettuce variety ‘payday’ New lettuce variety designated ‘Payday’ is described. ‘Payday’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US11369060B2	Removable auger trough An agricultural vehicle including at least one threshing rotor and an auger bed located underneath the at least one threshing rotor. The auger bed has a working position and a cleaning position. The auger bed includes a frame, a plurality of augers rotatably coupled to and supported by the frame, and a trough portion moveably connected to the frame. In the working position the bottom surface of the trough portion is positioned underneath the plurality of augers and in the cleaning position the entire trough portion is moved relative to the frame so that the bottom surface of the trough portion is not positioned underneath at least a portion of the plurality of augers, creating an open space underneath the portion of the plurality of augers for allowing an unwanted material to pass therethrough.
US11375651B2	Dispensing head, nozzle and method A pick-and-place dispensing head comprises: a body structure having a z-axis motor attachment location and a linear track; a z-axis motor attached to the body structure at the axis motor attachment location, the z-axis motor configured to exact movement in a z-axis; a body attached to the linear track and operably connected to the z-axis motor such that the body moves along the linear track when the z-axis motor is actuated; a theta motor operably connected to the first body; a receiving location operably connected to the body; and an optical detector extending from the first body configured to detect upward z-axis movement of a received pick-and-place spindle relative to the body.
US11375646B2	Display module A display module includes a display panel on which an image is displayed, a driver chip which supplies a driving voltage to the display panel, a thermoelectric element disposed on a first surface of the display panel and which overlaps the driver chip in a plan view, and an embedded battery disposed on the first surface of the display panel, spaced apart from the thermoelectric element, and electrically connected to the driver chip and the thermoelectric element to supply power to the driver chip and the thermoelectric element.
US11375639B2	Additive manufactured multi-layer thermally conductive parts A thermal management device includes a single contiguous component. The single contiguous component includes a first portion made of a first thermally conductive plastic, and a second portion extending away from the first portion. The second portion is made of a second thermally conductive plastic. The second thermally conductive plastic is different than the first thermally conductive plastic. The second portion has a greater hardness than the first portion.
US11375633B2	Electronic device The disclosure relates to an electronic device including a housing filled to a fill level with a first matrix produced from a first potting compound, and a circuit board having a component arranged thereon and having a passageway that connects a component side arranged within the housing interior filled with the first matrix and a front face of the component arranged outside the housing interior filled with the first matrix, the passageway acts as capillaries for media whose viscosity is less than a limit and as barriers for media whose viscosity is greater than the limit, the component is arranged in a spatially bounded region adjoining the component side, a second matrix produced from a second potting compound having a viscosity exceeding the limit, which second matrix effects a terminal sealing of the connection formed by the passageway against the first potting compound used for producing the first matrix.
US11375632B2	Dissimilar material joint and housing for accommodating electronic components A dissimilar material joint including a joined portion between a resin rib and a metal base, in which the metal base forms a protrusion protruding inside of the resin rib on at least a part of the joined portion.
US11375631B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal is provided, which includes: a housing, having a tray installation hole; a circuit board, disposed inside the housing; a tray retention portion, disposed inside the housing, where the tray retention portion faces toward the circuit board; a card holder, disposed on the circuit board; a tray, movably disposed in the tray installation hole and movably mating with the tray retention portion, at least the tray or the housing is provided with an ejection hole; and a toggle piece, rotatably disposed at the tray retention portion and located between the card holder and the ejection hole, one end of the toggle piece is an ejector pin action receiving end, the other end of the toggle piece is a tray ejection end, and the tray ejection end is used to apply an ejection force to the tray after a force is applied to the ejector pin action receiving end.
US11375630B1	Power distributor protection A power distributor includes a plurality of power outlets and a plurality of power inlet receptors. Each power inlet receptor is configured to supply power to all the power outlets in the plurality of power outlets. Each power outlet has a cover that when in a closed and locked configuration prevents physical access to a power inlet receptor. A physical locking mechanism is configured to lock every cover from the plurality of covers. The physical locking mechanism allows at most one cover from the plurality of covers to be unlocked at a time so that the physical locking mechanism prevents the simultaneous unlocking of more than one cover from the plurality of covers.
US11375626B2	Multi-functional front slice panel apparatus and method of manufacture A circuit card assembly including a printed circuit board arranged to include one or more electronic circuits and a frame connected to the printed circuit board. The circuit card including at least one connector arranged to detachably engage with a backplane connector of the electronic chassis to establish an electrical connection with a backplane printed wiring board (PWB) of the electronic chassis. The circuit card also including a front panel having at least one input/output connector and an EMI/RFI gasket positioned along a perimeter of the back side of the front panel where the EMI/RFI gasket is arranged to contact a surface of the electronic chassis along a perimeter of the circuit card assembly slot when the circuit card assembly is extended into the circuit card assembly slot.
US11375624B2	Surface treated copper foil, copper clad laminate, and printed circuit board A surface treated copper foil 1 includes a copper foil 2, and a first surface treatment layer 3 formed on one surface of the copper foil 2. The first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1 has a Ni deposited amount of 20 to 200 μg/dm2 and a Zn deposited amount of 20 to 1,000 μg/dm2. A copper clad laminate 10 includes the surface treated copper foil 1 and an insulating substrate 11 adhered to the first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1.
US11375619B2	Method for manufacturing a packaging structure A packaging structure, includes: a dielectric layer; at least one inner wiring layer embedded in the dielectric layer; at least two outer wiring layers arranged two sides of the at least one inner wiring layer and combined with the dielectric layer; and at least one electronic component embedded in the dielectric layer; each inner wiring layer including at least two spaced supporting pads, and each supporting pad including a main body and a protruding portion extending outward from a periphery of the main body, the packaging structure further including at least two spaced positioning pillars, and each positioning pillar correspondingly connected to one main body, each electronic component arranged between at least two positioning pillars, and an end of each electronic component being in contact with protruding portions of at least two supporting pads, thereby packaging the electronic component accurately. The present invention also needs to provide a method for manufacturing the packaging structure.
US11375618B2	Integrated electrical component within laminate A laminate having an integrated electrical component disposed within the laminate is disclosed. The laminate includes a first paper layer having at least first and second vias through the first paper layer; a first electrically-conductive layer, comprising an electrically-conductive material, disposed over a portion of the first paper layer; a second electrically-conductive layer, comprising the electrically-conductive material, disposed over another portion of the first paper layer; an electrical component disposed over the first and second electrically-conductive layers; and an insulating layer disposed over the electrical component. The first paper layer and the insulating layer encapsulate the first electrically-conductive layer, the second electrically-conductive layer, and the electrical component. The first and second vias are in electrical contact with the first electrically-conductive layer and a first terminal of the electrical component, and with the second electrically-conductive layer and a second terminal of the electrical component, respectively.
US11375616B2	Multi-embedded radio frequency board and mobile device including the same A radio frequency signal repeater includes, a first communication printed circuit board, a second communication printed circuit board, at least one embedded radio frequency module printed circuit board disposed between and communicably coupled to both the first communication printed circuit board and the second communication printed circuit board. The at least one embedded radio frequency module printed circuit board, the first communication printed circuit board, and the second communication printed circuit board are stacked one board on top of the others, and adjacent boards of the at least one embedded radio frequency module printed circuit board, the first communication printed circuit board, and the second communication printed circuit board are electrically coupled by a respective interconnection join layer so as to form an integrated printed circuit board module, where the adjacent boards are electrically coupled to each other through vias that extend through the interconnection join layer.
US11375615B2	Substrate for printed circuit board, printed circuit board, and method for producing substrate for printed circuit board A substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film and a metal layer disposed on at least one of surfaces of the base film. In the substrate for a printed circuit board, an amount of nitrogen present per unit area, the amount being determined on the basis of a peak area of a N1s spectrum in XPS analysis of a surface of the base film exposed after removal of the metal layer by etching with an acidic solution, is 1 atomic % or more and 10 atomic % or less.
US11375614B2	Wiring structure, display substrate and display device The present disclosure provides a wiring structure, a display substrate and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The wiring structure of the present disclosure comprises a body portion provided with hollow patterns; the body portion has a first side and a second side which are provided opposite to each other along an extending direction of the wiring structure, and both the first and second sides are wavy; the body portion comprises a plurality of conductive elements sequentially connected along the extending direction of the wiring structure; and in each conductive element, a length of a protruding portion on the first side in the extending direction of the wiring structure is different from that of a protruding portion on the second side in the extending direction of the wiring structure.
US11375610B2	Insertable wireless communication device for a power tool A power tool may include a compartment in its housing and a first printed circuit board (PCB) located in the housing and electrically coupled to a first connector. An insertable wireless communication device may include a second electronic processor and an antenna that are each mounted to a second PCB. The insertable wireless communication device may be configured to be received in the compartment and may include a second connector configured to electrically and physically couple to the first connector. The insertable wireless communication device may be configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device. When the insertable wireless communication device is inserted into the compartment, a first conductive layer of the first PCB may be configured to be electrically coupled to the antenna via the first connector and the second connector such that the first conductive layer of the first PCB serves as a ground plane of the antenna.
US11375609B2	Method of manufacturing radio frequency interconnections A radio frequency connector includes a substrate, a first ground plane disposed upon the substrate, a signal conductor having a first contact point, with the first contact point being configured to electrically mate with a second contact point, and a first ground boundary configured to electrically mate with a second ground boundary, with the first ground boundary being formed as an electrically continuous conductor within the substrate.
US11375602B2	Neutron source and method of producing a neutron beam The object of the invention relates to a neutron source, which contains a proton accelerator for producing a proton beam, and a target arranged in the trajectory of the proton beam exiting the proton accelerator for producing a neutron beam, to which the proton beam arrives in long, typically 0.5 ms-3 ms impulses, and contains a moderator-reflector system arranged in the vicinity of the target and serving for producing a moderated neutron beam, which has at least one moderator, and a reflector surrounding the moderator and the target, characterized by that at least one statistical neutron chopper is arranged to protrude into the at least one moderated neutron beam exiting channel that modulates at least one neutron beam intensity according to a random or pseudo-random sample as a function of time with its neutron transmittance ability varying according to such pattern.
US11375601B2	Field replaceable, disposable, and thermally optimized X-ray target with integral beam current monitoring A linear accelerator target apparatus includes a target material to produce radiation upon being struck by electrons accelerated by a linear accelerator and a target holder assembly to which the target material is attached. The target holder assembly includes a cooling channel disposed around a perimeter of the target material. The target holder assembly is configured to be detachably coupled to a housing of the linear accelerator. The target apparatus further includes a protective window coupled to the target holder assembly over the target material.
US11375596B2	Methods, systems, and media for projecting light to indicate a device status Systems, methods, and media for projecting light to indicate a device status are provided. In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, systems for projecting light to indicate a device status are provided, the systems comprising: a hardware processor that: determines a light status; determines whether to turn a light source on; selects a light format corresponding to the light status; projects light of a light source according to the light format; and determines whether to turn the light source off.
US11375589B2	Lighting control method and lighting control device for semiconductor light emitting element, light emitting device To reduce the time until the start of the lighting while suppressing the overshoot of the current. A method to carry out lighting control of a semiconductor light emitting element using a lighting control device where the lighting control device includes a switching element serially connected to the semiconductor light emitting element and having a control terminal to control a conductive state, and a control circuit to control the control terminal. The method including: increasing a control voltage of the control terminal of the switching element from an initial value to a first value in a relatively short time by the control circuit; and increasing the control voltage of the control terminal of the switching element from the first value to a second value in a relatively long time by the control circuit.
US11375586B2	Adjustable vaporizer that accepts atomizers having different dimensions An adjustable vaporizer that receives atomizers having different dimensions is provided. In one embodiment, an adjustable vaporizer is provided that includes an adjustable aperture located at a top portion of the adjustable vaporizer that adjusts to receive atomizers having a range of diameters. The adjustable vaporizer also includes an adjustable atomizer chamber aligned with the adjustable aperture that adjusts to receive atomizers having a range of lengths.
US11375581B2	Access point group data for positioning Techniques are described for providing assistance data corresponding to a plurality of access points (APs). The techniques include, in part, providing assistance data to a mobile device. The assistance data comprises group data that is common among the plurality of APs. The group data is associated with a group identifier (ID). The techniques further include providing the group ID and a set of AP-specific information for at least one of the plurality of APs. The group data may include information corresponding to a common grid, common location area and/or common characteristics of the APs.
US11375580B1	Managing secondary node and channel assignment based on wireless device characteristics Systems and methods provide for assignment of wireless devices to a secondary node based on a characteristic of the wireless device and properties of the secondary node. The method may be triggered when noise reaches a predetermined threshold. HPUEs may be assigned to secondary nodes having a high reverse noise and channels having a high spectral efficiency and LPUEs may be assigned to secondary nodes having a lower reverse noise and a lower spectral efficiency.
US11375578B2	Bluetooth connectionless slave broadcast burst mode The present disclosure provides a mechanism to perform a CSB burst mode between a master device and one or more slave devices. In CSB burst mode, the master device may broadcast more than one packet of data in a CSB interval, and hence, may use the time slots in a CSB interval more efficiently than while operating in traditional CSB mode. CSB burst mode of the present disclosure may be used to improve the latency and duty cycle of data transmissions, such as for example, broadcast audio. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine to broadcast a set of packets during a CSB interval, where the set of packets includes a plurality of packets. In some aspects, the apparatus may broadcast the set of packets during the CSB interval to a set of second nodes.
US11375577B2	Method and apparatus for retransmission Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus includes a transceiver and a processing circuit. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The processing circuit is configured to detect an error of a previous scheduled transmission of data units from the apparatus to another apparatus. The other apparatus provides scheduled resources for transmission between the two apparatuses. Further, the processing circuit is configured to determine resources that are scheduled by the other apparatus for the apparatus to perform retransmission, and provide one or more of the data units in the previous scheduled transmission to the transceiver for retransmission using the scheduled resources.
US11375576B2	Selection of IP version Disclosed herein is a method, a wireless device and a session management node for IP version selection for a PDU session requested to be established by a WCD, that supports PDU sessions of both IPv4 and IPv6 and that is configured to operatively communicate via a RAN with a SM node in a core network lot, the method being performed by the WCD comprises: sending S110 a first PDU session request message towards the SM node requesting establishment of a first PDU session, which request message comprises IP-version information indicating that the IP version of the requested first PDU session should be any one of IPv4 or IPv6; and receiving S130, S140, in response to sending the first PDU session request message, a first response message, which first response message comprises WCD information indicating the IP-version (i.e. IPv4 or IPv6) that has been selected for the requested first PDU session.
US11375572B2	Command for extended idle mode discontinuous reception Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for sending queries and commands related to an extended idle mode discontinuous reception operation (eIDRX). There are vendor and manufacturer specific mechanisms for determining the eIDRX parameters of different, but there is currently not a network wide, standardized protocol for sending AT commands relating to eIDRX for device. In an embodiment, standardized eIDRX protocol can enable a mobile network to query a device to determine the current eIDRX mode and parameters, to query the device about the list/range of supported parameters, and to program the device to start using a new eIDRX parameter.
US11375569B2	Method and device for reconnecting Bluetooth communication The embodiments disclosed in the present disclosure relate to a method for reconnecting Bluetooth communication and a device supporting the same. An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a Bluetooth communication circuit including a control circuit; a processor electrically connected to the Bluetooth communication circuit; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores an instruction that causes the processor to provide a reconnection request to the control circuit when Bluetooth communication with an external device is disconnected, and the control circuit can attempt to reconnect the Bluetooth communication with the external device by periodically transmitting a connection request for the Bluetooth communication to the external device for a predetermined time period without repeatedly calling application programming interfaces (API's) received from the processor, in response to the reception of the reconnection request.
US11375562B2	Methods and apparatus for assessing a cable connection Apparatus and methods for testing a cable connection in order to determine whether the cable connection can adequately support delivery of one or more services delivered from a service provider infrastructure. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus are adapted to detect RF signals on a coaxial cable connection or outlet within a premises, evaluate the signals, and determine the readiness status thereof based on the evaluation. In one variant, an algorithm is used for the evaluation of the RF signals, and is dependent on at least a geographical location of the cable outlet being tested. The algorithm evaluates a list of prospective RF channels for signal strength so as to correlate or exclude any signals present from one or more types of sources (e.g., OTA broadcasts, satellite service providers, etc.).
US11375560B2	Point-to-point ad hoc voice communication A wireless communication device establishes voice communication between a supported user and a selected remote device supporting another user via a point-to-point wireless ad hoc network link. The device selects a particular remote device, establishes an ad hoc network link with the selected remote device, and communicates voice communication signals with the selected remote device. Selection can be based upon a user interaction with the device which specifies the particular remote device. The user interaction can include interaction with a graphical representation of the particular remote device presented in a graphical user interface. The user interaction can include an audio command received via an audio interface of the device. The device can include one or more headset devices, including a pair of headset devices which can be switched between providing audio signals to a single user to supporting communication between separate users via an ad hoc network link.
US11375559B2	Communication connection method, terminal device and wireless communication system The present disclosure discloses a communication connection method. The method includes: capturing an image containing a marker and identifying the marker in the image; acquiring an identifier of a controller corresponding to the marker when the marker is a controller marker, the identifier being used for pairing during a communication connection with the controller; and establishing the communication connection with the controller based on the identifier.
US11375552B2	Enhanced on-demand system information Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of scheduling information for dedicated on-demand system information (SI) corresponding to a specified UE category, wherein the indication is carried in at least one of: a minimum system information (MSI) communication, a radio resource control (RRC) message, a response message of a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure, a random access response (RAR) message of a four-step RACH procedure, a contention resolution message of a four-step RACH procedure, a message type flag indicating the transmission of the dedicated on-demand SI, or a combination thereof; transmit, to the base station, an on-demand SI request based at least in part on the scheduling information and the UE category; and receive one or more on-demand system information blocks. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11375549B2	Leveraging positioning reference signal and positioning measurements to enhance random access Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method may be performed by a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) and generally includes: receiving at least one downlink (DL) signal from one or more base stations or transmitting at least one uplink (UL) positioning reference signal (PRS), the received at least one DL signal comprising: at least one DL PRS, at least one synchronization signal block (SSB), at least one system information block (SIB), at least one other reference signal comprising a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), or a combination thereof, wherein at least one measurement is performed based, at least in part, on the received at least one DL signal or the transmitted at least one UL PRS; and performing at least one adjustment for random access based, at least in part, on the at least one measurement.
US11375548B2	Physical random access channel preamble based on hidden node detection Methods, devices, and systems for physical random access channel (PRACH) access. A WTRU transmits a message to a gNB. The message includes a PRACH preamble from a first set. The method also includes performing a hidden node detection procedure prior to a random access response (RAR) window. The RAR window corresponds to the transmitted message. The method also includes attempting to receive a RAR in response to the transmitted message, during the RAR window. The method also includes retransmitting the message to the gNB, including a PRACH preamble from a second set, if the RAR is not received during the RAR window and a hidden node is detected; and retransmitting the message to the gNB, including a PRACH preamble from the first set, if the RAR is not received during the RAR window and the hidden node is not detected.
US11375544B2	Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for clear channel allocation A wireless communication terminal comprises a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: perform a backoff procedure of a channel for data transmission, suspend the backoff procedure when a wireless signal having a signal strength higher than a predetermined first clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold is received through the channel, identify whether the received wireless signal is a wireless signal of the same basic service set (BSS) as the terminal, and determine whether to resume the backoff procedure based on a CCA threshold determined according to the identification result and a wireless communication method for performing an efficient clear channel assessment for spatial reuse of a communication system use the same.
US11375543B2	Co-existence of millimeter wave communication and radar Various aspects of the disclosure relate to co-existence of millimeter wave (mmW) communication and radar. In some aspects, a device that supports mmW communication and radar operations may determine whether or when to conduct radar operations based on information obtained about a nearby mmW network. For example, prior to sending radar signals, the device may monitor for mmW communication signals. As another example, the device may send at least one mmW communication signal to reserve a communication medium for subsequent radar operations. As yet another example, the device may conduct radar operations during idle or allocated time periods defined by the mmW network.
US11375541B2	Method and apparatus for channel access priority classes based on message type in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for channel access priority classes based on message type in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device obtains mapping information between message types and Channel Access Priority Classes (CAPCs). A wireless device detects a message to be transmitted. A wireless device selects a specific CAPC for the message based on the mapping information. A wireless device performs LBT procedure based on the specific CAPC. A wireless device transmits, to a second device, the message after the LBT procedure.
US11375535B2	Method and apparatus for selecting a sidelink resource for a sidelink CSI reporting in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for selecting a sidelink resource for a sidelink CSI reporting in a wireless communication system is provided. A first wireless device triggers the SL CSI reporting for the PC5-RRC connection. A first wireless device determines to create a sidelink grant corresponding to transmission of a single MAC PDU based on the triggered SL CSI reporting or a SL data available for transmission. A first wireless device triggers a resource selection procedure based on the determination. A first wireless device selects a sidelink resource in the resource selection procedure.
US11375534B2	Reducing audio delay for mixed mode delivery of audio transmissions Systems and methods for reducing audio delay for mixed mode delivery of audio transmissions. One example system includes a communication interface communicatively coupled to a communication network, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is coupled to the communication interface, and configured to receive, via the communication interface, a group call request for a talkgroup. The electronic processor is configured to transmit, in response to receiving the group call request, a call grant message to a plurality of subscriber units affiliated with the talkgroup. The electronic processor is configured to determine, using a machine learning algorithm, a subset of the plurality of subscriber units based on a call grant response time, and, while a transmission hold-off timer has not expired, when a call grant response has been received from each of the subscriber units of the subset, forward an audio transmission to the subset based on the group call request.
US11375533B2	Communication method, terminal device and network device Provided are a communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI comprises a first information field, and the DCI is used for scheduling at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); according to whether the first information field is used for triggering a feedback sequence, the terminal device determining transmission parameters for sending, on the physical channel, the feedback sequence; and by using the transmission parameters, the terminal device sending, on the physical channel, the feedback sequence.
US11375531B2	Signal monitoring method and apparatus A signal monitoring method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device based on received configuration information, an index of a first time unit in which a start position of a control channel resource of a control channel is located, where a system frame number in which the first time unit is located is determined based on a first parameter; and monitoring, by the terminal device, the control channel starting from a time domain position corresponding to the index of the first time unit. In this way, the terminal device can monitor the control channel starting from a time unit corresponding to the index of the first time unit, to avoid monitoring the control channel extremely early and reduce overheads.
US11375527B1	Wireless mesh network Among other things, aspects, features, and implementations of wireless mesh networks and wireless mesh network devices are described.
US11375526B1	Uplink resource allocation in fixed wireless access systems using WiFi controller Uplink resource allocation in fixed wireless access (FWA) networks using wireless controllers is described. The method includes allocating shared spectrum to a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) device (CBSD), wirelessly connecting customer premises equipment (CPE) of a FWA network to the CBSD, receiving scheduling requests (SRs) from the CPE, transmitting a grant with allocated uplink resources to the CPE, sending CBSD information, CPE information, and allocated uplink resource information to a wireless controller, transmitting to the CPE a message to use previously allocated uplink resources until a defined event when the CBSD lacks downlink transmission capability, sending instructions to the wireless controller to start monitoring uplink communication channels while the CBSD lacks the downlink transmission capability, sending a request to the CBSD to assign additional uplink resources when determining an increase in uplink communications, and transmitting a grant to the CPE for the additional uplink resources.
US11375520B2	Communication apparatus, communication method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A communication apparatus obtains, from each of a plurality of other communication apparatuses, an amount of buffered data of the each of the plurality of other communication apparatuses, divides the plurality of other communication apparatuses into a plurality of groups based on the amount of buffered data of each of the plurality of other communication apparatuses, and assigns to each of the groups wireless frequency resources for which a shared data communication time is set.
US11375517B2	End to end slicing in wireless communications systems A method, an apparatus and a computer program for providing end-to-end slicing in wireless communications systems. Profiles of a plurality of network slices of a wireless communications system are determined. Each network slice in the plurality of network slices has one or more communication components logically isolated from one or more communication components of another network slice in the plurality of network slices. Based on the determined profiles and a request received from the user device, a network slice in the plurality of network slices is selected for transmission of data associated with the user device. Using the selected network slice, data associated with the user device is transmitted.
US11375515B2	Enhanced non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) operation Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method is provided which may be performed by a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes: receiving signaling on a plurality of carriers, and dynamically assigning non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) to a subset of the plurality of carriers based on at least one criteria, wherein the NLIC is available to a number of carriers that is less than a total number of carriers in the plurality of carriers.
US11375509B2	Support for receive-limited user equipment in wireless environments A user device may receive from a base station, information indicating that support for a receive limited user device is enabled based on a presence of a threshold number of receive limited user devices within a range of a cell of the base station. A receive limited user device is a user device that is unable to receive a transmission that was transmitted based on one or more communication capabilities of a full set of communication capabilities. The user device may select, in response to receiving the information, one or more communication capabilities to support a receive limited user device. The user device may transmit information using the selected one or more communication capabilities.
US11375508B2	Method and device for controlling beam in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to: a communication method for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies.
US11375506B2	Communication terminal measurement system, communication terminal measurement apparatus, and communication terminal test method An object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal measurement system capable of testing a mobile communication terminal compatible with a plurality of communication standards having overlapping frequency bands in a state where the frequency bands overlap. In the communication terminal measurement system according to the present invention, the control apparatus 31 acquires the second frequency band information from the second storage unit 21m of the second mobile terminal measurement apparatus 21, and inputs parameters for avoiding all or a part of the frequency band to the storage unit 20m of the first mobile terminal measurement apparatus 20, whereby avoiding the mobile communication terminal 11a from refusing to receive signals due to input of signals of both two communication standards.
US11375504B2	Method for indicating time-domain information of common control resource set of remaining minimum system information A method for indicating time-domain information of a control resource set (CORESET) of remaining minimum system information (RMSI) includes: adding indication information to a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) of a synchronization signal block (SSB), the indication information comprising at least one of the following: both first indication information and second indication information, third indication information, or fourth indication information; and sending, by means of beam scanning, to user equipment (UE) the SSB carrying the indication information.
US11375501B2	Configuration of sidelink radio resources Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, from a base station, a slot configuration identifying one or more symbols to be used for sidelink communications. The user equipment may transmit an indication of the slot configuration to another user equipment to configure the other user equipment to use the identified one or more symbols for sidelink communications. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11375498B2	Resource pool determination method, and terminal device Disclosed in the embodiments of the present application are a resource pool switching method, a terminal device and a communication device, the method comprising: a first terminal device acquiring first indication information; and the first terminal device, according to the first indication information, switching a sidelink resource pool from a first resource pool to a second resource pool. The method, terminal device and communication device of the embodiments of the present application facilitate improvement in the performance of sidelink communication.
US11375493B2	Method for receiving reference signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method for receiving a Reference Signal (RS) performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include receiving a first RS through a first antenna port; and receiving a second RS through a second antenna port which is Quasi Co-Located (QCL)-assumed with the first antenna port, the first and second antenna ports may be QCL-assumed for at least one QCL parameter, and the at least one QCL parameter may include a reception beam related parameter.
US11375487B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method A terminal apparatus includes a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a HARQ process, and a physical layer processing unit configured to perform processing associated with a PUSCH transmission on a physical layer. A first HARQ process configured for the terminal apparatus determines whether or not to indicate to the physical layer processing unit to generate a transmission of the first HARQ process, based at least on whether or not the transmission of the first HARQ process and a transmission of a second HARQ process occur in the same transmission time. The transmission of the second HARQ process is scheduled so as to use short processing time.
US11375485B2	Terminal device, base station device, transmitting method and receiving method The present invention pertains to a terminal device, which, when ARQ is used for communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band, and when a transmission mode that supports up to 2 TB in a PCell is set in the terminal, is capable of reducing the amount of signaling from a base station while eliminating a lack of PUCCH resources when semi-permanent scheduling (SPS) is used in the PCell. A control unit in this device selects one value among values obtained by adding 1 to four PUCCH resource indexes, which have been preset for PUCCH resource 1 by the base station, on the basis of values for transmission power control information (TPC command for PUCCH) in a PDCCH, for which notification has been received at the start of SPS.
US11375483B2	Method and apparatus for multiplexing UCI A method for multiplexing UCI performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a BS, an RRC configuration to configure a sequence that is selected from either a first sequence or a second sequence; receiving, from the BS, a DCI message including an indicator; determining a value corresponding to the indicator based on the configured sequence; and multiplexing a UCI message based on the determined value.
US11375481B2	User terminal and radio communication method A terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink control information on an uplink control channel and a processor that uses, in the transmission of the uplink control information, one of a first uplink control channel format or a second uplink control channel format based on a number of bits of the uplink control information. The first uplink control channel format uses a cyclic shift that depends on the uplink control information, and the second uplink control channel format is used for transmission of the uplink control information and a demodulation reference signal.
US11375478B2	Resource signaling for PUCCH There is disclosed a User Equipment, UE, for a Radio Access Network. The UE is adapted for transmitting acknowledgement signaling pertaining to downlink data, the downlink data having one or more downlink data elements. The acknowledgement signaling has an uplink signaling format having one or more acknowledgement substructures, each of the substructures carrying acknowledgement information pertaining to a downlink data element. Each of the acknowledgment substructures is mapped to a different of the downlink data elements based on at least one acknowledgement position indication provided in downlink control signaling received by the UE. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11375477B2	Method for determining scrambling initialization sequence of data and data descrambling method A library of reference signal ports, a library of reuse factor identifications (ID) for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), and a library of time-frequency resources broadcast by a base station (BS) can be received by user equipment (UE). A time-frequency resource in the library of time-frequency resources, a reuse factor ID in the library of reuse factor IDs, and a reference signal port in the library of reference signal ports can be selected. An initial sequence acquired by scrambling uplink data to be transmitted to the BS on the time-frequency resource is determined according to at least one of the reuse factor ID selected or the reference signal port selected, as well as a first numbering corresponding to a cell where the UE camps.
US11375476B2	Sidelink feedback transmission with multiple feedback timelines Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE), may receive a data transmission and determine a feedback timing value based on the data transmission. The communication device may determine a feedback resource set in a resource pool associated with one or more slots based on the feedback timing value, and transmit a feedback using the feedback resource set associated with the one or more slots and corresponding to the feedback timing value.
US11375475B2	Scrambling of physical broadcast channel (PBCH) A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode physical broadcast channel (PBCH) information received from a base station (BS). The decoded PBCH information includes a scrambled PBCH payload and an unscrambled bit sequence. A scrambling sequence is generated based on time information signaling within the unscrambled bit sequence. The scrambled PBCH payload is de-scrambled using the scrambling sequence, to obtain master information block (MIB) information. System information block (SIB) information is decoded based on the MIB information. The decoded PBCH information includes cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information. The scrambled PBCH payload and the unscrambled bit sequence can be verified based on the CRC information. The time information signaling includes one or more bits of a system frame number (SFN).
US11375470B2	Network assisted multi-subscription physical layer sharing Techniques are described that provide network assisted multi-subscription physical layer sharing at a user equipment (UE) by transmitting a multi-subscription coordination capability to a network, establishing a link for a first subscription with the network based on the multi-subscription coordination capability, and establishing a second subscription with the network using the link based on the multi-subscription coordination capability, the first subscription is associated with the second subscription.
US11375467B2	Infrastructure equipment, wireless communications system, communications device and methods An infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless communications system comprising the infrastructure equipment and one or more communications devices is provided. The infrastructure equipment comprises controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry which are configured in combination to broadcast one or more synchronisation signals for use by the one or more communications devices to achieve synchronisation with a cell provided by the infrastructure equipment, and to broadcast an additional synchronisation signal, the additional synchronisation signal including an indication of a status of a first communications parameter selected from a plurality of communications parameters in accordance with conditions determined by the controller circuitry.
US11375460B2	User equipment A user equipment in a radio communication system including the user equipment and a base station, including: an uplink transmission power information calculation unit configured to calculate uplink transmission power information of a serving cell using a parameter that may be changed dynamically; and a signal transmission unit configured to include, in control information in which the uplink transmission power information is set, identification information for identifying a parameter used for calculation of the uplink transmission power information, and to transmit the control information in which the identification information is included to the base station.
US11375453B2	Power-efficient communication of group-addressed frames An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may receive a setup request associated with the recipient electronic device. The setup request may specify a group address for which the recipient electronic device wants to receive associated frames and a proposed transmission interval. Based at least in part on the proposed transmission interval, the electronic device may determine a transmission schedule and/or may assign, based at least in part on the group address, the recipient electronic device to an aggregated group having a flexible multicast service identifier (FMSID). Then, the electronic device may provide a wake-up frame for the recipient electronic device, where the wake-up frame includes an identifier of the aggregated group for which a group-addressed frame will subsequently be transmitted by the electronic device. Moreover, the wake-up frame may be provided at a transmission time based at least in part on the transmission schedule.
US11375450B2	Transmission power control method of base station in OFDMA-based wireless communication system A power control method of a base station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is provided for reducing power consumption by turning off the bias of the power amplifier for the duration of a symbol carrying no user data. The method includes checking scheduling information of radio resources, detecting a symbol carrying no user data, based on the scheduling information, and turning off a bias of the power amplifier for a symbol duration of the symbol carrying no user data. The transmission power control method is capable of reducing power consumption of the base station by turning off the bias of the power amplifier of the base station for the symbol duration in which no user data is transmitted.
US11375445B2	Technologies for detecting and analyzing user interaction tests for network-accessible content Technologies for detecting and analyzing user interaction tests for network-accessible content include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to obtain samples of network-accessible content. The circuitry is additionally configured to determine, based on the obtained samples, whether multiple variants of the network-accessible content are present. Further, the circuitry is configured to monitor, in response to a determination that multiple variants are present, a statistical user interaction test associated with the variants, including detecting a final variant and discontinuation of other variants in the statistical user interaction test. Additionally, the circuitry is configured to provide data indicative of the detected final variant of the network-accessible content.
US11375444B2	Indicating a network for a remote unit Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for indicating a network for a remote unit. One method (600) includes transmitting (602) a first message including a first registration request from a remote unit (102). The first message includes a discovery indication indicating that the remote unit (102) is attempting to discover a network configured for use by the remote unit (102). The method (600) includes receiving (604) a second message including a list of networks configured for use by the remote unit (102). The second message is received in response to transmitting (602) the first message. The method (600) includes transmitting (606) a third message including a second registration request from the remote unit (102). The second registration request includes an indication of a network selected from the list of networks configured for use by the remote unit (102).
US11375443B1	Subcarrier spacing selection based on antenna configuration Subcarrier spacing is selected based on a change in an antenna configuration of an access node, wherein a spectral efficiency of the access node is reduced by the change in the antenna configuration. For example, the change in the antenna configuration is based on the access node deploying additional radio air interfaces using a limited quantity of antenna elements. The subcarrier spacing for at least one radio air interface is increased based on the reduction in spectral efficiency.
US11375439B2	Prioritizing fine timing measurement requests Aspects described herein include a method comprising receiving an initial Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) request from an Initiating Station (ISTA), determining a priority classification of the ISTA relative to other ISTAs, and determining, based at least partly on the priority classification, whether to accept the initial FTM request.
US11375437B2	Management frames and usage in a wireless network environment Instead of monitoring a wireless region for beacons, to learn of availability of different wireless access points in a particular geographical region, an end user-operated communication device generates a network discovery request message. The communication device initiates wireless broadcast of the network discovery request message from the user-operated communication device to any of one or more listening non-beacon-generating wireless access points in a wireless network environment. Each of the non-beacon generating wireless access points receiving the network discovery request message from the user-operated communication device produces a respective network discovery response message including network identity information (such as one or more SSIDs) associated with the respective non-beacon generating wireless access point. The non-beacon generating wireless access points transmit network discovery response messages to the user-operated communication device, informing the communication device of network availability.
US11375435B2	Device-to-device service restriction method and storage medium The present disclosure provides a device-to-device service restriction method and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving a service restriction instruction sent by a second terminal; obtaining access class information of the second terminal; determining whether a service restriction authority of the second terminal is correct according to the access class information; restricting a function of an application program of a first terminal according to the service restriction instruction in response to that the service restriction authority is correct. In certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a function of the first terminal is restricted by using the service restriction. In a scenario where a service of a terminal needs to be restricted, the information security of a security zone is guaranteed and user experience is improved.
US11375428B2	Adaptive multiple antenna transmission scheme for uplink data transmission in wireless communication systems The described technology is generally directed towards adaptively changing which transmission scheme a user equipment is to use based on a Doppler metric (e.g. Doppler frequency) as evaluated against a threshold Doppler value. A network instructs a user equipment to use a Rank-1 precoder cycling transmission scheme if the Doppler metric of user equipment is above a threshold value, or to use a closed loop MIMO transmission scheme if the user equipment has a Doppler metric below the threshold value. The network can instruct the user equipment via a suitable message, or by switching off TPMI and notifying the user equipment thereof.
US11375424B2	Network access entity for dynamically reconfigurable networks Systems and methods for data transmission are disclosed. A network access entity NAE provides access to communication services of a data network to at least one user equipment, UE. The NAE includes a packet data network gateway, PGW, with a PGW identifier, PGWID, which uniquely identifies the PGW. A UE mobility table contains an assignment of a UE identifier, UEID, of each UE to a PGW. The assignment indicates a PGWID of a PGW via which a specific UE is accessible from the data network. The NAE may transmit and receive data to and from a remote station via the data network, assign a data flow from the remote station to at least one UE, update the UE mobility table when a UE leaves the range of the NAE, and reassign a PGWID of a neighboring PGW to the leaving UE, via which neighboring PGW the UE can be reached.
US11375422B2	UE communication handover between light fidelity access points in a communication system A method by a coordination node is provided for controlling communications between Li-Fi APs and UEs. The method includes receiving peer connectivity reports from Li-Fi APs which identify Li-Fi APs having at least partially overlapping coverage areas, and developing a handover pathway data structure, based on the peer connectivity reports, that identifies Li-Fi APs that can receive communication handover from other identified Li-Fi APs. The method further includes determining an identifier of a first Li-Fi AP providing Li-Fi communication service for a UE, and accessing the handover pathway data structure using the identifier of the first Li-Fi AP to determine an identifier of a second Li-Fi AP to which handover from the first Li-Fi AP can be performed. The method then initiates handover of the Li-Fi communication service for the UE from the first Li-Fi AP to the second Li-Fi AP.
US11375414B2	Beamforming in wireless communications Methods, apparatus, and systems for wireless communications are disclosed. A first base station may receive one or more message from a second base station. The messages may include downlink beamforming information elements for a downlink cell. Each downlink beamforming information element may be associated with a respective group of resource blocks of a plurality of groups of resource blocks in the downlink cell. The first base station may select a first beamforming codeword for at least one group of resource blocks of the plurality of groups of resource blocks based on the downlink beamforming information associated with the at least one group of resource blocks. The first base station may transmit, to a wireless device, signals on the at least one group of resource blocks employing the first beamforming codeword.
US11375410B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining configuration information, device, storage medium, and system Embodiments of this application disclose a method and apparatus for obtaining configuration information performed at a terminal. The terminal obtains configuration information of a 5G local area network (LAN), the configuration information including an information item for assisting the terminal in making an access decision and at least one of the following information items: a first information item, for indicating whether the 5G LAN supports maintenance of session continuity with a public land mobile network (PLMN); a second information item, for indicating an identifier of the 5G LAN; and a third information item, for indicating a service-level agreement (SLA) of the 5G LAN. Next the terminal determines whether to access the 5G LAN according to the configuration information.
US11375408B2	Local breakout architecture Aspects of this disclosure relate to local breakout. A network node can receive remote downlink traffic from a remote network, receive local downlink traffic from a local resource, aggregate at least the remote downlink traffic with the local downlink traffic based on one or more filters stored in memory of the network node, and route the aggregated downlink traffic to a wireless communication device. The remote downlink traffic can be associated with a first application of the wireless communication device, and the local downlink traffic can be associated with a second application of the wireless communication device. The network node can be a local gateway in certain embodiments. The network node can steer uplink traffic steering by filtering uplink traffic associated with the wireless communication device into local uplink traffic and remote uplink traffic based on at least one filter for filtering traffic stored in the memory.
US11375405B2	Identifier-locator network protocol (ILNP) coordinated multipoint (CoMP) and multiple connectivity A method is for redirecting data traffic destined for user equipment in a cellular network with packet data convergence protocol function local to connection points of the cellular network. The method includes obtaining a prefix and identifier for the user equipment, configuring a secondary connection point to provide a prefix of a primary connection point, the identifier for the user equipment and radio bearer information for the user equipment, and redirecting data traffic for the user equipment to the secondary connection point using network address translation to utilize a prefix of the secondary connection point and the identifier of the user equipment as the destination address for the data traffic.
US11375404B2	Decentralized infrastructure methods and systems Embodiments of the present invention may provide a decentralized infrastructure including efficient wireless communication, an infrastructureless communication network, a decentralized private network, securely communicating in a decentralized network perhaps using distributed ledger technology (62), named data networking (63), neural networks (85), or the like. Further embodiments may include consensus processing (150), dynamic smart contracts (151), universal artificial neural network multiplex asset class (3), and perhaps even an artificial neural network multiplex identification system.
US11375403B2	Method and apparatus for detecting maximum transmission unit value The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting a maximum transmission unit (MTU) value. The data sender forms a first detection packet according to a first preset rule based on its MTU value. The data sender sends the first detection packet to a data receiver. The data sender receives a second detection packet from the data receiver. The data sender determines an MTU value included in the second detection packet as an MTU value of data transmission between the data sender and the data receiver.
US11375395B2	Centralized radio resource management (RRM) of a wireless mesh network Network hardware devices organized in a wireless network. A controller device receives device information about each of a multiple network devices, network congestion at each device, scan data, and a station list from each of the devices. The controller device assigns a channel to each radio of the multiple network devices using the device information, the network congestion data, the scan data, and the station list and outputs a first subset of channel assignments to a first group of the network devices, a second subset of channel assignments to a second group of the network devices, and a third subset of channel assignments to a third group of the network devices.
US11375393B2	Method and apparatus for beam failure reporting under multicell configuration in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE being served and/or configured with a first cell and a second cell. The method also includes the UE transmitting a beam failure recovery request via a PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel) in the second cell in response to the UE detecting that all links associated with monitored control resource set(s) in the second cell have failed. Furthermore, the method includes the UE transmitting a first report via a PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) in the second cell in response to the UE detecting that all links associated with monitored control resource set(s) in the first cell have failed.
US11375392B2	Methods and apparatuses for conditional handover in wireless communication system A method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a Conditional Handover (CHO) command from a source base station (BS). The CHO command includes a CHO command identity (ID) and a measurement ID associated with the CHO command ID. The method further includes the UE executing the CHO command to handover the UE to a target BS when a trigger condition associated with the measurement ID is fulfilled.
US11375389B2	Method and device of channel access for wireless communication on unlicensed spectrum in UE and base station The present disclosure provides a method and a device for wireless communications in a UE and base station. A first node receives T first-type radio signals and transmits T second-type radio signals in a first time window; and then performs Q energy detection(s) respectively in Q time sub-pool(s) on a first sub-band to obtain Q detection value(s); the T second-type radio signals respectively correspond to the T first-type radio signals; at least one multicarrier symbol is occupied by each of the T second-type radio signals; among the T first-type radio signals there is(are) only T1 first-type radio signal(s) being used to determine Q; the first node is a base station, or the first node is a UE.
US11375385B2	Virtual concentric cells based on active antennas in a wireless communication system A base station within a network for providing ATG wireless communication in various cells may include a first antenna array, a base station unit and a remote radio head disposed between the base station unit and the first antenna array. The first antenna array defines a plurality of first sectors having respective widths defined in azimuth. Each of the first sectors includes a first sector floor and a first sector ceiling at respective elevation angles such that combining first sector floors and first sector ceilings creates at least a portion of a respective first base station conical cell centered at the first base station. The first base station is configured to define additional first base station conical cells at respective elevation angles between the first sector floor and the first sector ceiling. The remote radio head receives location information indicative of a location of an aircraft to enable the remote radio head to form a steerable beam in both azimuth and elevation angle at the first antenna array toward the aircraft.
US11375380B1	Method and system of a public engagement computing platform A method includes executing instructions associated with a public engagement computing platform on a server, publishing an agenda of a live event on the public engagement computing platform, and determining a set of trusted locations corresponding to a set of users of a number of client devices accessing the agenda. The method also includes analyzing communication pertinent to the agenda from at least a subset of the set of users, scoring at least the subset of the set of users based on the analyzed communication in accordance with the determined set of trusted locations and a relevance of the analyzed communication with respect to the agenda, and, in accordance with the scoring, determining a placement of the analyzed communication in an order of publicly viewable analyzed communication that is part of all analyzed communication pertinent to the agenda.
US11375378B2	Wireless carrier network-enabled protection of high value data A request from a user device to register as a secure endpoint device of a secure local area network (LAN) is received by a wireless carrier network. A device type of the user device is identified by the network based on device identification information provided by the user device. A data protection policy that corresponds to the device type of the user device is sent to a secure endpoint application on the user device following a registration of the user device as a secure endpoint device by the network, in which the data protection policy includes an Access Point Name (APN). The user device allocated a network slice of the wireless carrier network that corresponds to the APN to the user device. Subsequently, a data file is transported from the user device to an additional secure endpoint device via the network slice that is allocated to the user device.
US11375375B2	Method for transmitting and receiving control message in communication system and apparatus for the same An operation method of a UE in a communication system includes receiving, from a base station, a security mode command message including information requesting reporting of capability information and security configuration information; identifying the security configuration information included in the security mode command message; and transmitting, to the base station, a security mode complete message including the capability information requested by the security mode command message.
US11375373B2	Authorization management method and system for signal transmission bandwidth of DAS communication system Disclosed are an authorization management method and system for a signal transmission bandwidth of a DAS communication system. The system consists of an access unit, an extension unit, and a distal unit. The radio frequency access unit is connected to the extension unit. The extension unit is connected to the distal unit. The extension unit mainly implements the extension of a proximal unit port, the extension of a transmission distance, and a transmission bandwidth control function. The distal unit mainly implements the coverage of a radio frequency signal to a specific area. The signal transmission bandwidth of the extension unit is controlled by setting an authorization file formed by authorizing the transmission bandwidth on an extension unit device. When the signal transmission bandwidth configured by a user on the extension unit is not greater than the authorized bandwidth, the configuration becomes effective, and the system performs normal transmission. When the transmission bandwidth configured by the user on the extension unit is greater than the authorized bandwidth, the configuration is limited, the overflow bandwidth is not transmitted, and an abnormal indication is made. The present invention provides a flexible capacity allocation mode for a DAS, which indirectly expands the sales market.
US11375372B2	Method and nodes for handling a user equipment's access to a mobile communications network The embodiments herein relate to a method in a policy node for handling a UEs access to a mobile communications network. The policy node comprises policy information for the UEs access rights to the mobile communications network. The policy node obtains, from a subscriber database, subscription information for a subscriber associated with the UE. Based on the subscription information and the policy information, the policy node determines which geographical areas comprised in the mobile communications network the UE is allowed or denied access to. The policy node transmits, to a mobility node, access information indicating which geographical areas comprised in the mobile communications network the UE is allowed or denied access to.
US11375369B2	Message authentication method and communication method of communication network system, and communication network system A message authentication and communication method for a communication network system comprises: the access control device receiving a communication establishment request sent by the first mobile apparatus; the access control device sending a communication mutual authentication request to the authentication server in response to the communication establishment request; the access control device receiving a mutual authentication response message sent by the authentication server in response to the communication mutual authentication request; the access control device authenticating the mutual authentication response message; when the mutual authentication response message is authenticated successfully, the access control device sending a mutual authentication message to the first mobile apparatus. And the hash chain mechanism and the access control device are used in conjunction with the authentication server to implement the distribution and decentralization of authentication functions, thereby reducing the load of the authentication server and improving the efficiency of authentication.
US11375368B2	Detecting and preventing an adversarial network entity from tracking a wireless device's location Methods for detecting and preventing an adversarial network entity (e.g., fake base stations, etc.) from tracking a wireless device's location. A wireless device may be equipped with a random value (RAND) database or cache memory RAND values previously received by the wireless device. In response to receiving an authentication request message from a network component, performing AKA procedures and determining that the authentication failed, the wireless device may compare the RAND value included in the received authentication request message to RAND values stored in secure storage memory. The wireless device may generate an authentication response message that includes an error code that is different than standard error code used so that the target wireless device can't be differentiated from other wireless devices thereby preventing tracking in response to determining that the RAND value included in the received authentication request message is included in the RAND secure storage memory.
US11375364B2	Broadcast relay method in new radio Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a broadcast transmitter, a broadcast signal including one or more multi-resolution messages. The UE may decode at least one of the one or more multi-resolution messages based on receiving the broadcast signal from the broadcast transmitter, and may determine that a data rate associated with the broadcast signal is less than a threshold based on the decoding. The UE may transmit a signal querying the broadcast reception capability of a base station based on determining the data rate. In response to the query signal, the UE may receive a signal indicating a broadcast reception capability of the base station, and may communicate, with the base station, based on the broadcast reception capability of the base station.
US11375361B2	Dynamic tuning of mobile network device configuration based on location Dynamic tuning of mobile network device configuration based on location is described. An example of a storage medium includes instructions for switching a mobile network device in a vehicle to a maintenance mode based at least in part on detection of a first location, the first location being a maintenance hub location; enabling administrative communications and disabling user communications for the mobile network device in the maintenance mode; receiving configuration data for the mobile network device from an external server in the maintenance mode, the configuration data being based at least in part on a route for the vehicle; switching the mobile network device to a service mode based at least in part on detection of a second location that is different than the first location; and enabling service communications and disabling administrative communications for the mobile network device in the service mode.
US11375348B2	Non-real-time store and forward of internet of things sensor data A mobile sensor reader for Internet of Things (IoT) devices includes a wireless communications system, a memory configured to store sensor data received via the wireless communications system from an IoT device, and a processor. The processor is configured to monitor for remote electronic data collectors that come within a communication range of the wireless communications system as at least one of the mobile sensor reader or one of the remote electronic data collectors move to different locations; determine a first parameter of a remote electronic data collector that has come within the communication range of the wireless communications system; determine a second parameter of the mobile sensor reader or the sensor data; and forward the sensor data to the remote electronic data collector, via the wireless communications system, at least partly in response to the first parameter and the second parameter satisfying a set of one or more conditions.
US11375346B2	Messaging service application programming interface A system comprising: one or more processors and executable instructions accessible on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: receiving a transmission request including a recipient identifier; adding the transmission request to an outbound queue based on determining the transmission request is valid; causing the transmission to be included in the outbound queue; obtaining status information specifying a status of transmission the status information including an indication of successful transmission; and storing a record of the transmission responsive to the causing the transmission the storing the record including storing a message and the indicating of successful transmission.
US11375344B2	Vehicle to everything object exchange system A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to register client devices to receive Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) messages, including at least one Road Side Unit (RSU) configured to broadcast messages to vehicles using Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) signals or using cellular wireless signals over a PC5 interface. The processor may be further configured to receive a V2X message; determine a geographic area associated with the received V2X message; determine a message type for the received V2X message; identify a set of client devices located in the identified geographic area and subscribed to receive V2X messages of the identified message type; select a subset of client devices, of the identified set of client devices, based on geographic or situational relevance; and send the received V2X message to the selected subset of client devices, including the at least one RSU.
US11375341B2	Network architecture and methods for location services UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
US11375340B2	Apparatus and method for performing positioning Provided are a method and an apparatus for performing positioning. The method of a user equipment (UE) may include: receiving configuration information about a positioning reference signal (PRS) including subcarrier spacing information to be applied when the PRS is transmitted in each cell; receiving the PRS from each cell based on the subcarrier spacing information; and measuring a reference signal time difference (RSTD) based on the received PRS.
US11375339B2	Waveform reporting for positioning Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques for implementing positioning schemes based on a waveform report are described. A wireless device may receive a waveform reporting request instructing the wireless device to measure a waveform. The wireless device may identify a set of reporting parameters for sampling the waveform, receive the waveform, and generate samples of the waveform based on the set of reporting parameters. The wireless device may transmit a waveform report that is generated based on the samples.
US11375338B2	Method for smartphone-based accident detection A method and system for detecting an accident of a vehicle, the method including: receiving a movement dataset collected at least at one of a location sensor and a motion sensor arranged within the vehicle, during a time period of movement of the vehicle, extracting a set of movement features associated with at least one of a position, a velocity, and an acceleration characterizing the movement of the vehicle during the time period, detecting a vehicular accident event from processing the set of movement features with an accident detection model, and in response to detecting the vehicular accident event, automatically initiating an accident response action.
US11375337B2	Transceiver distance measuring systems The present disclosure relates to transmitter and/or receiver units (transceivers), such as in particular motor vehicle transceivers. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods and devices for detecting changes in the positions of transceivers relative to each other. For example, a system may include: a distance determining device to measure a current distance value corresponding to a respective distance of two of the transceivers relative to each other; and a comparator to compare the at least one current distance value and with a stored reference distance value.
US11375335B2	System and method of publishing digital media to an end user based on location data A system and method for publishing digital media to an end user at a specified location includes a computing device. The computing device displays a map portion of a geographic region on a digital display. The computing device receives at least one selection by a primary user for a portion of the geographic region represented by the map, creating at least one geofence, and the computing device may attach digital media to the at least one first geofence by the primary user. The digital media is retrievable from a mobile computing device of an end user when the mobile computing device is within a geographic location corresponding to the at least one geofence.
US11375331B2	Method and apparatus for control of randering multiobject or multichannel audio signal using spatial cue The present research relates to controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. The present research provides a method and apparatus for controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals based on spatial cues in a process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. To achieve the purpose, the method suggested in the research controls rendering in a spatial cue domain in the process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals.
US11375330B2	Method and device for processing information, terminal device, and storage medium A method and device for processing information are provided. The method for processing information includes: determining a current output voltage of a power supply in a terminal device; determining a target parameter of an audio processing circuit in the terminal device according to the current output voltage; and configuring the audio processing circuit for processing an audio signal according to the target parameter. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, an impact of a change of the output voltage of the power supply on output volume of a loudspeaker can be reduced, thereby improving user experience.
US11375327B2	Sleep aiding in-ear audio device with noise-reduction finish Various implementations include sleep aiding in-ear audio devices. Certain implementations include sleep aiding in-ear audio devices with a noise-reduction finish, along with methods of applying a noise reduction finish to an in-ear audio device. In some cases, a sleep aiding in-ear audio device includes: a set of earbuds, each earbud having: an eartip for mating with an ear of a user; and a housing coupled with the eartip, the housing containing an electro-acoustic transducer for providing an audio output to the user via the eartip, where when inserted in the ear of the user, substantially all of an exposed surface of the earbud is finished with a matte coating.
US11375322B2	Hearing aid determining turn-taking The present application relates to a hearing aid adapted to be worn in or at an ear of a hearing aid user and/or to be fully or partially implanted in the head of the hearing aid user. The hearing aid may comprise an input unit for receiving an input sound signal from an environment of a hearing aid user and providing at least one electric input signal representing said input sound signal, an output unit for providing at least one set of stimuli perceivable as sound to the hearing aid user based on processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a voice activity detector (VAD) configured to determine speech in the input sound signal, an own voice detector (OVD) configured to determine own voice of the hearing aid user in the input sound signal, a processing unit connected to said input unit and to said output unit and comprising signal processing parameters of the hearing aid to provide processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a turn-taking determining unit configured to determine turn-taking behaviour of the hearing aid user, wherein the processing unit is configured to adjust said signal processing parameters based on the determined turn-taking behavior of the hearing aid user.
US11375319B2	Tabletop microphone assembly A tabletop microphone assembly is provided that exhibits improved spatial audio pick-up characteristics, for example for use as an extension microphone for a conference system. In one embodiment, the tabletop microphone assembly comprises at least a housing with a top cover and a bottom cover, wherein the bottom cover is configured for placement on a table surface; a printed circuit board, arranged in the housing; and a microphone, arranged between the printed circuit board and the bottom cover; wherein the microphone is facing the bottom cover.
US11375318B1	MEMS device including a support structure A MEMS can include a substrate including a first side and a second side on an opposite side of the substrate from the first side. The MEMS device can include an aperture running through the substrate from the first side to the second side. The substrate can have an edge surrounding the aperture on the first side. The MEMS device can include a diaphragm located over the aperture on the first side. The MEMS device can include a support structure that extends at least partially across the aperture from the edge.
US11375316B2	Sound generating device, display apparatus including the same, and automotive apparatus including the sound generating device A sound generating device includes a magnet and a center pole on a yoke, a bobbin around the center pole, a coil wound around the bobbin, a frame outside the yoke, a damper between the frame and the bobbin, and a spacer in the bobbin.
US11375312B2	Method, device, loudspeaker equipment and wireless headset for playing audio synchronously A method realizes synchronous playing of audio data from an audio source by two or more wireless speakers. The method includes receiving at each of the wireless speakers first audio data packets sent by the audio source and determining a respective first time point for the receiving of the first audio data packets; processing the first audio data packets at each of the wireless speakers to generate respective second audio data packets, the second audio data packets each including audio data to be played with a fixed data length; setting a delayed play time and obtaining a playing time point at each of the wireless speakers, the obtaining of the playing time point being based on the respective first time point and the respective delayed play time; and playing the second audio data packets at each of the wireless speakers at the respective playing time point.
US11375311B2	Methods and apparatus for audio equalization based on variant selection Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for audio equalization based on variant selection. An example apparatus to generate equalization adjustments for an audio signal includes an input feature set generator to generate an equalization input feature set by generating a data structure corresponding to a user input, the data structure including a number of entries identifying a selected variant of music and including the data structure in the equalization input feature set, and a model executor to, in response to obtaining the equalization input feature set, adjust at least one weight of a neural network model to generate the equalization adjustments for the audio signal.
US11375308B2	Holding device The present invention discloses a holding device for attachment to the ear of a user, wherein a flexible connecting element arranged between an end piece and a terminal holder ensures that, even when subjected to relatively pronounced loads caused by external effects, such as for example a change in position of the head, the holding device is securely held on the ear without exerting unpleasant pressure on individual anatomical structures of the ear. By virtue of a flexible basic structure, the holding device according to the invention enables use on both ears of a user, without the holding device having to be adapted individually to each ear by a change in structure. In addition, a box suitable for storing the holding device ensures safe storage of the holding device when not in use, serves to keep the holding device ready for immediate use, and prevents deformation of the holding device caused by improper storage.
US11375307B2	Earphone device An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
US11375306B2	Headphones with increased back volume This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
US11375305B2	Integrated audiovisual system An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.
US11375304B2	Sound output device A sound output device includes: a speaker unit that has a sound emitting portion; an attaching member by which the speaker unit is attached to an object; a separating member that is provided between the speaker unit and the attaching member to separate the speaker unit from the attaching member; and a sealing member that is provided between the speaker unit and the attaching member to reduce a sound that is emitted from a side of the speaker unit opposite to the sound emitting portion and is transmitted to a sound emitting portion side. The attaching member has a first portion on a side of the sound emitting portion of the speaker unit, and the first portion of the attaching member has an opening that corresponds to the sound emitting portion.
US11375300B2	Networking hardware and software and data center topologies leveraging same An optical port routing enclosure and programmable NIC card as well as cluster topologies leveraging same are provided.
US11375299B2	Optical network power conservation An OLT comprises a processor configured to: obtain optical powers associated with ONUs, and generate an instruction instructing a transmit order of transmissions based on the optical powers; a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the instruction to the ONUs; and a receiver coupled to the processor and configured to receive the transmissions from the ONUs based on the instruction. An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive an instruction instructing a transmit order of transmissions based on optical powers associated with ONUs; a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to process the instruction; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit a transmission based on the instruction.
US11375298B2	Antenna, in particular mobile phone antenna The present invention relates to an antenna, in particular a mobile phone antenna, in particular for a mobile radio base station, having at least one emitter, a data acquisition unit, a memory and having at least one sensor for detecting a mechanical and/or electrical and/or thermal stress of the antenna, wherein the data acquisition unit aquires measurement data of the at least one sensor and temporarily stores them in the memory. It is provided here that the data acquisition unit generates data packets based on a plurity of measurement data stored in the memory and transmits them to an external data base.
US11375295B2	Method and device for obtaining video clip, server, and storage medium The present application belongs to the technical field of audio and video, and relates to a method and device for obtaining a video clip, a server, and a storage medium. The method includes in response to obtaining a clip in live stream video data of a performance live stream room, using audio data from the live stream video data and audio data of an original performer to determine a target timepoint parameter of the live stream video data. The method includes obtaining a target video clip according to a start timepoint and an end timepoint in the target timepoint parameter. The present application is used to capture a more complete video clip.
US11375292B2	Verifying the rendering of video content at client devices using trusted platform modules Systems and methods for verifying the rendering of video content on information resources are provided herein. A server can transmit a video content element having a first bit stream corresponding to a predesignated frame to a client device. The client device can identify the first bit stream as corresponding to the predesignated frame. The client device can decode the first bit stream corresponding to the predesignated frame of the video content element to generate a second bit stream. The client device can transmit, to the server, a tracking message including the second bit stream. The server can compare the second bit stream included in the tracking message from the client device with a third bit stream maintained at a database. The server can determine that the video content element is rendered at the client device responsive to the second bit stream matching the third bit stream.
US11375287B2	Systems and methods for gamification of real-time instructional commentating Systems and methods for providing a viewer with relevant commentary for a live video. For example, a media guidance application may receive, during playback of a live video, a request for clarification regarding an aspect (e.g., a play, a score, a player, a strategy, etc.) of the live video. In response to receiving the request, the media guidance application may identify the aspect and identify videos generated by other viewers explaining the aspect. The media guidance application may further select one of the videos based on a preference of the viewer, and cause a user device to play back the selected video to the viewer.
US11375282B2	Method, apparatus, and system for displaying comment information The present disclosure can provide a method, an apparatus and a system for displaying comment information, a client, and a server. The client can determine a comment copywriting tag of a user account first, and then in response to a comment releasing instruction from the user account, obtain target comment information corresponding to the comment copywriting tag from a comment database, and release the target comment information in a comment interface of the user account.
US11375279B2	Projecting television parameters onto 2D space for daypart competitor analysis A system and method for determining a similarity measure between a first network broadcast time segment and a second network broadcast time segment. The method includes generating first training data comprising groupings of similar broadcast networks and groupings of dissimilar broadcast networks, extracting second training data comprising audience data and genre data for time segments of network broadcasts, and training an encoder neural network based on the first and second training data. The method includes executing the trained neural network with input data comprising the first network broadcast time segment and determining a similarity measure relative to the second network broadcast time segment.
US11375276B2	Methods and systems for recommending media assets based on the geographic location at which the media assets are frequently consumed Methods and systems are provided herein for recommending a media asset based on a geographic location at which that media asset was frequently consumed. For example, the system may monitor a location, such as New York City or Times Square, to determine popular media assets watched there, such as “The Avengers,” and when another user visits New York City, the system may then notify the user that the movie, such as “The Avengers,” is associated with New York City. The system stores the geographic locations associated with the media asset in the database based on the consumption of the media asset so that other users may be notified which media assets are associated with each geographic location.
US11375273B2	Correlating playback information of video segments Correlating information associated with playback of video segments is disclosed. Information associated with playback of a first video segment is obtained. Information associated with playback of a second video segment is obtained. The information associated with playback of the first video segment is correlated with the information associated with playback of the second video segment based at least in part on at least one of a client application identifier, a video session identifier, and a set of timestamps. Output is provided based at least in part on the correlating.
US11375267B2	Playback resume between mobile entertainment system and set-top box A set-top box receives media information including media identification and position information from a portable device in wireless communication with a mobile entertainment system. The media information is parsed, using a local or an internet based search, to locate the media information including the media identification and position information that matches a broadcast program or recorded media content from a network accessible to the mobile entertainment system. Upon locating the media information that matches the broadcast program or recorded media content, the matching broadcast program or recorded media content is downloaded and played on at least one of a display device or an audio receiver accessible to the set-top box or the headend of the IP, cable or satellite network.
US11375255B1	Systems and methods for optimizing network settings Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for optimizing network performance on a computer device to improve quality of experience by determining which network settings on the computing device to adjust. A clustering algorithm may identify various classes of networks and a classification algorithm may determine a network class specific to a network on a computing device. The effects of certain network settings for that networks class may be determined and the network setting and/or settings that optimizes the network performance may be promoted. The system may periodically analyze network data to recalculate the appropriate networks class and may determine different network settings based on the recalculation, facilitating mid-session improvements to the quality of experience.
US11375254B2	Control apparatus A control apparatus is connected to a server device storing content and to a playback device, and controls playback of the content at the playback device. The control apparatus includes a receiver that receives the content from the server device, and a controller that transmits to the playback device information about a first playback position in the content received by the receiver.
US11375252B2	Audiovisual content item data streams A transmitting apparatus generates an audiovisual content item data stream (e.g. transport stream) comprising a plurality of individual audiovisual data streams with audiovisual components for the content item. A generator (301-307) generates a first stream comprising both mandatory audio data and replaceable audio data for the audio representation where the replaceable audio data being data can be replaced by alternative audio data. A combiner (309) includes the resulting stream into the content item data stream. A receiving apparatus includes an extractor (403) which extracts the mandatory audio data from the received stream. A replacer (415) may replace the replaceable audio data by alternative audio data and an output (415) can generate an audio signal from the mandatory and alternative audio data. The approach may specifically provide an improved and more flexible data stream for audiovisual content.
US11375251B2	Automatically generating enhancements to AV content A method for automatically generating enhancements to audio-visual (AV) content, a content manager, and a computer program product. One embodiment may comprise, by a processing unit, analyzing data about consumer interactions to generate consumer insights about the original AV content, automatically associating the consumer insights with a segment of original AV content, automatically generating content for the segment responsive to the consumer insights, and injecting the generated content into the original AV content to create modified AV content. The embodiment may further comprise, by a network interface, receiving data about consumer interactions with original AV content and automatically transmitting the modified AV content.
US11375250B2	Dynamic load balancing for video analytics pipelines In one embodiment, an edge compute node comprises processing circuitry to: receive an incoming video stream captured by a camera, wherein the incoming video stream comprises a plurality of video segments; store the plurality of video segments in a receive buffer in a memory; perform a visual computing task on a first video segment in the receive buffer; detect a resource overload on the edge compute node; receive load information corresponding to a plurality of peer compute nodes; select a peer compute node to perform the visual computing task on a second video segment in the receive buffer; replicate the second video segment from the edge compute node to the peer compute node; and receive a compute result from the peer compute node, wherein the compute result is based on the peer compute node performing the visual computing task on the second video segment.
US11375244B2	Dynamic video encoding and view adaptation in wireless computing environments An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors to track data associated with movement of a computing device accessible to a user, and evaluate the data and compare a latency with latency thresholds, where the data indicates the latency and the latency thresholds associated with a frame. The one or more processors are further to maintain a current video encoding rate, if the latency is lower than a first latency threshold and greater than a second latency threshold. The current video encoding rate is decreased if the latency is equal to or greater than the first latency threshold, where the current video encoding rate is increased if the latency is lower than the second latency threshold. The one or more processors are further to present the frame at the computing device including one or more of a wearable device and a mobile device.
US11375243B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus that includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes coding information of a current coding tree block (CTB) from a coded video bitstream. The coding information indicates whether a current block split structure of the current CTB is based on reference partitioning information. In response to the current block split structure of the current CTB being based on the reference partitioning information, the processing circuitry determines the current block split structure for the current CTB based on an initial block split structure indicated in the reference partitioning information. The initial block split structure is (i) of a previously decoded CTB decoded prior to the current CTB in a decoding order or (ii) indicated by a high level header at a level higher than a CTB level. The processing circuitry partitions the current CTB according to the current block split structure.
US11375242B1	Compression of bitstream indexes for parallel entropy coding Techniques are described herein for video coding, including compression of bitstream indexes for neural network based video coding and/or parallel entropy coding. One example includes obtaining a sequence of video data, identifying positions in the sequence of video data associated with entry points for individually entropy codable parcels of a parallel entropy codable sequence of video data, and generating the parallel entropy codable sequence of video data. An index is then generated for the parallel entropy codable sequence of video data, the index identifying the individually entropy codable parcels within the parallel entropy codable sequence of video data.
US11375238B2	Method for padding processing with sub-region partitions in video stream A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Coded syntax elements corresponding to wrap-around padding process are decoded. At least one coded current picture is reconstructed using wrap-around padding process. The syntax elements indicate an offset value for wrap-around processing; or left and right padding width information. A flag indicates whether syntax elements corresponding to wrap-around padding process is present in parameter set. A pixel position for motion compensated prediction in a reference picture is determined by interpreting the syntax elements corresponding to wrap-around padding process with a clipping process.
US11375237B2	Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding. The method for image decoding includes comparing whether a size of a current transform block and a size of a smallest transform block (smallest transform unit (STU)) are the same as each other, and decoding information indicating whether transformation is performed on the current transform block and determining whether to perform inverse transformation on the current transform block based on the decoded information indicating whether the transformation is performed when the size of the current transform block and the size of a smallest transform block are the same as each other.
US11375228B1	Usage of converted uni-prediction candidate Techniques for implementing video processing techniques are described. In one example implementation, a method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a modified motion vector set; and performing the conversion based on the modified motion vector set. Due to the current block satisfying a condition, the modified motion vector set is a modified version of a motion vector set associated with the current block.
US11375227B2	Video motion estimation method and apparatus, and storage medium A terminal performs video estimation by dividing an image frame of a video into a plurality of prediction units, and dividing the plurality of prediction units into a first type of prediction units and a second type of prediction units. A motion vector of a prediction unit of the first type is then obtained according to a first search algorithm. A motion vector of a prediction unit of the second type is obtained according to a second search algorithm. The second search algorithm is different from the first search algorithm. Then sub-pixel motion estimation is performed on the image frame according to the motion vector of the prediction unit of the first type and the motion vector of the prediction unit of the second type to generate a motion estimate result.
US11375226B2	Method and apparatus of video coding with affine motion compensation An embodiment of the method receives input data associated with a current block in a current picture at a video encoder or receiving a video bitstream corresponding to compressed data including the current block in the current picture at a video decoder, wherein the current block is coded or to be coded in an affine mode according to an affine motion model; calculates and storing affine parameters for a plurality of coded blocks in the current picture; retrieves the affine parameters of one or more coded blocks from the temporal buffer; derives an affine candidate including affine motion vectors using the retrieved affine parameters of the neighboring block; and encodes or decodes the current block by predicting the current block using one or more motion compensated blocks by the derived affine candidate.
US11375225B1	Interleaved video coding pipeline An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware pipeline. The memory may be configured to store video data. The video data includes a plurality of sections of one or more pictures that may be processed independently. The hardware pipeline comprises a plurality of pipeline stages implementing a video coding process comprising a number of steps. Each of the plurality of pipeline stages performs an associated task of a different step of the video coding process in a substantially similar time on a different one of the plurality of sections as each of the plurality of sections pass through each of the pipeline stages. At least one of the plurality of pipeline stages communicates predictor information that is based on actual neighbor data to an earlier stage of the hardware pipeline.
US11375224B2	Apparatus and methods for watermarking using starting phase modulation Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermarking using starting phase modulation. An example apparatus includes memory, and processor circuitry to execute instructions to at least determine a first analyzed phase value for a watermark component of a watermarked media signal at a first time, determine a sum of differences for analyzed phase values with respect to a first one of a plurality of possible starting phase values, the analyzed phase values associated with the watermarked media signal, the analyzed phase values including the first analyzed phase value, in response to the sum of differences satisfying a threshold, decode a first data value corresponding to the first one of the possible starting phase values, and determine a watermark payload based on the first data value.
US11375220B2	Method and apparatus for video decoding using a nominal directional mode and an angular offset Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus that includes processing circuitry and a method for video decoding. The processing circuitry decodes coding information of a block to be reconstructed from a coded video bitstream. The coding information indicates intra prediction information for the block. For the block coded with a directional mode, the processing circuitry determines the directional mode based on a nominal mode and an angular offset. The coding information indicates the nominal mode and the angular offset. The processing circuitry determines a non-separable transform for the block based on the nominal mode, and reconstructs the block based on the directional mode and the non-separable transform. In an example, the processing circuitry determines a transform set mode that is associated with the nominal mode, and the transform set mode indicates a set of one or more non-separable transforms that includes the non-separable transform.
US11375219B2	Coding method and system with improved dynamic internal bit depth A video decoding method includes obtaining an encoded bitstream of an original video content, and obtaining signaling information associated with the encoded bitstream. The signaling information includes at least a sequence parameter set (SPS), which includes a parameter bit_depth_luma_minus8, which specifies a bit depth of samples of a luma array and a value of a luma quantization parameter range offset; and a parameter bit_depth_chroma_minus8, which specifies a bit depth of samples of a chroma array and a value of a chroma quantization parameter range offset. The method also includes determining an internal bit-depth K for adjusting the bit depth specified by the bit_depth_luma_minus8 and the bit depth specified by the bit_depth_chroma_minus8; performing a decoding process on the encoded bitstream, based the signaling information and using the bit_depth_luma_minus8 and the bit_depth_chroma_minus8, together with the internal bit-depth K, to recover the original video content; and presenting the original video content.
US11375218B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus According to an embodiment, an image coding method is for coding an image including a luminance component and color difference components. The method includes acquiring a reference image; and generating a predicted image by interpolating the luminance component and the color difference components in the reference image according to a motion vector. If a size of a block, which is designated as a unit of the interpolation, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold value, the generating includes inhibiting a bi-directional prediction, and performing only a uni-directional prediction to generate the predicted image according to the motion vector.
US11375217B2	Buffer management for intra block copy in video coding A method of visual media processing includes determining a size of a buffer to store reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; and performing a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, using the reference samples stored in the buffer, wherein the conversion is performed in the intra block copy mode which is based on motion information related to a reconstructed block located in same video region with the current video block without referring to a reference picture.
US11375212B2	Flexible chroma processing for dynamic range adjustment Systems and techniques are described herein for processing video data. In some examples, a process is described that can include obtaining at least one block of video data and predicting one or more video samples for the at least one block. The process can include obtaining a dynamic range adjustment (DRA) syntax element from the video data. In some cases, the DRA syntax element includes an indication associated with a plurality of DRA modes for the video data. The process can include processing the one or more video samples for the at least one block using a DRA mode based on the indication of the DRA syntax element.
US11375211B2	Interaction between IBC and ATMVP Devices, systems and methods for applying intra-block copy (IBC) in video coding are described. In general, methods for integrating IBC with existing motion compensation algorithms for video encoding and decoding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using a motion compensation algorithm, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying an intra-block copy to the current block. In a representative aspect, another method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using an intra-block copy, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying a motion compensation algorithm to the current block.
US11375208B2	Trisoup node size per slice Trisoup node size per slice enables flexibility when encoding a point cloud. Instead of each block/node being the same size, a user or machine is able to indicate block/node sizes such that regions of interest are able to have smaller node sizes for more specificity in that region.
US11375207B2	Encoder, encoding method, decoder, and decoding method An encoder which encodes a current block of a picture includes a processor and memory. Using the memory, the processor: determines whether intra prediction is to be used for the current block; and when it is determined that intra prediction is to be used for the current block, generates first transform coefficients by performing first transform of residual signals of the current block using a first transform basis; quantizes the first transform coefficients when an intra prediction mode for the current block is a determined mode and the first transform basis is different from a determined transform basis; and generates second transform coefficients by performing second transform of the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis, and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the intra prediction mode for the current block is not the determined mode or when the first transform basis matches the determined transform basis.
US11375197B2	Reducing context coded and bypass coded bins to improve context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) throughput Techniques for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) coding with a reduced number of context coded and/or bypass coded bins are provided. Rather than using only truncated unary binarization for the syntax element representing the delta quantization parameter and context coding all of the resulting bins as in the prior art, a different binarization is used and only part of the resulting bins are context coded, thus reducing the worst case number of context coded bins for this syntax element. Further, binarization techniques for the syntax element representing the remaining actual value of a transform coefficient are provided that restrict the maximum codeword length of this syntax element to 32 bits or less, thus reducing the number of bypass coded bins for this syntax element over the prior art.
US11375186B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder includes processing circuitry and a memory coupled to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry is configured to: change values of pixels in a first block and a second block to filter a boundary between the first block and the second block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values do not exceed respective thresholds, the pixels in the first block and the second block being arranged along a line across the boundary. The pixels include type one pixels and type two pixels different from the type one pixels. The respective thresholds for the type one pixels in the first block and the second block are selected to be symmetrical or asymmetrical with respect to the boundary based on block sizes of the first block and the second block.
US11375184B2	Systems and methods for signaling reference pictures in video coding According to an aspect of an invention, a method for signaling reference pictures in video coding is disclosed. The method comprises: decoding a number of entries in a reference picture list syntax structure; decoding a number of reference index active minus one syntax in a slice header, if the number of entries is greater than one; and deriving an active variable by using the number of reference index active minus one syntax.
US11375183B2	Methods and systems for combined lossless and lossy coding A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream identify, in the bitstream, a current frame, wherein the current frame includes a first region and a third region, detect, in the bitstream, an indication that the first region is encoded according to a lossless encoding protocol, and decode the current frame, wherein decoding the current frame further comprises decoding the first region using a lossless decoding protocol corresponding to the lossless encoding protocol.
US11375179B1	Integrated display rendering A system, method or compute program product for displaying a first image based on first image data in a display area of a first display device, receiving at least one camera-captured second image of an environment with the second image capturing at least a portion of the first image displayed in the display area, determining a location and orientation of the first display device relative to the camera, determining a portion of the second image that corresponds to the portion of the first image displayed in the display area, generating a third image that corresponds to the portion of the first image displayed on the first display device as viewed from a point of view of the camera from the first image data, and generating a composite image of the environment by replacing at least a portion of the second image with the third image, and displaying the composite image.
US11375178B2	Multi-resolution multi-view video rendering A device and method for video rendering. The device includes a memory and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a source device, video data including multiple reference viewpoints, determine a target image plane corresponding to a target viewpoint, determine, within the target image plane, one or more target image regions, and determine, for each target image region, a proxy image region larger than the corresponding target image region. The electronic processor is configured to determine, for each target image region, a plurality of reference pixels that fit within the corresponding proxy image region, project, for each target image region, the plurality of reference pixels that fit within the corresponding proxy image region to the target image region, producing a rendered target region from each target image region, and composite one or more of the rendered target regions to create video rendering.
US11375176B2	Few-shot viewpoint estimation When an image is projected from 3D, the viewpoint of objects in the image, relative to the camera, must be determined. Since the image itself will not have sufficient information to determine the viewpoint of the various objects in the image, techniques to estimate the viewpoint must be employed. To date, neural networks have been used to infer such viewpoint estimates on an object category basis, but must first be trained with numerous examples that have been manually created. The present disclosure provides a neural network that is trained to learn, from just a few example images, a unique viewpoint estimation network capable of inferring viewpoint estimations for a new object category.
US11375166B2	Selective colorization of thermal imaging An example computing system comprises a processor and a storage device holding instructions executable by the processor to receive a thermal image acquired via a thermal imaging system, each pixel of the thermal image comprising an intensity level, and generate a histogram via binning pixels by intensity level. The instructions are further executable to, based at least on the histogram, determine a subset of pixels to colorize, colorize the subset of pixels to produce a selectively colorized image, and output the selectively colorized image.
US11375165B2	Image calibration for projected images Systems, methods and apparatus to continuously calibrate images displayed on a screen or surface by one or more projection devices during display of the images are disclosed. The systems, methods and apparatus comprise defining a plurality of fiducial markers on the screen, detecting, by a registration device, such as a camera, the plurality of fiducial markers in an image of the screen, adding a plurality of reference markers to an image displayed on the screen, detecting, by the registration device, the plurality of reference markers in the displayed image, determining a mapping between positions of the reference markers on the screen to positions of the reference markers in the displayed images, calculating an image warp based on the mapping and a layout of the images to be displayed and applying the image warp to images from an image generator to produce geometrically corrected images for display on the screen.
US11375163B2	Vehicle inspection device and vehicle inspection system A vehicle inspection device includes a camera mounted to a power folding side-view mirror provided to a vehicle, the camera being configured to switch between an exterior image capture state in which an exterior of the vehicle is within an image capture range and an interior image capture state in which an interior of the vehicle is within the image capture range, while the side-view mirror performs an opening/closing operation between a completely open state and a closed state, and a vehicle processor that executes a vehicle image capture process of capturing an image of the exterior of the vehicle by the camera when the camera has entered the exterior image capture state due to an operation of the side-view mirror, and capturing an image of the interior of the vehicle by the camera when the camera has entered the interior image capture state due to an operation of the side-view mirror.
US11375161B2	Wearable camera, wearable camera system, and information processing apparatus for detecting an action in captured video A wearable camera includes a video recording device that records a captured video of a subject on the front side of a user on a recorder, a sensor that acquires information regarding motion of the user, a determiner that determines whether or not at least one default event has occurred on the basis of information regarding motion of the user acquired by the sensor during recording of the captured video of the subject, and a controller that generates event list information in which a detection time point of the default event is correlated with information regarding the default event according to determination that the at least one default event has occurred during recording of the captured video of the subject, and records the event list information on the recorder in correlation with the captured video of the subject.
US11375160B2	Cooking appliance having a camera and method for operating a cooking appliance A cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment having a loading opening and a cooking compartment door for closing off the loading opening, with the cooking compartment door including a viewing window. A camera is directed into the cooking compartment for recording an image in the cooking compartment. Coupled to the camera is an image processing facility which is configured to anonymize an image region in the image recorded by the camera.
US11375157B2	Cross-application generating and facilitating of video rooms This disclosure describes a video room system that can generate a video room utilizing a cross-application technique by accessing functions of one application based on user interaction within a separate application. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate a video room that remains open for access by a creator device and invitee devices in a casual come-and-go fashion. The disclosed systems can further generate a video room link that is distributable intelligently to grant access to the video room to invitee devices. The disclosed systems can also automatically surface a video room link to an invitee device based on determining a digital connection between the invitee device and the creator device.
US11375156B2	Systems and methods for instant serverless video chat with pre-loaded content The present disclosure describes an instant serverless video chat created for speedy sales enablement and face to face interactions. The systems described herein may be implemented as a button, link, or QR code, which, when triggered, automatically opens a video chat session with a company representative. The system includes features such as preloading content for quick and simple content sharing, fillable forms within the video chat window, note-taking, internal chat, and the ability for managers to listen in, assist and, join the video chat.
US11375151B2	Information processing apparatus, information recording medium, and information processing method A configuration is implemented that converts MMT format data to MPEG-2 TSV format data for recording onto medium, thereby permitting copy control in compliance with the initial copy control information. MMT format data with copy control information set therein is input and converted to MPEG-2 TS format data for re-cording onto information recording medium. The copy control information recorded in the service description table (MH-SDT) stipulated by the MMT format is acquired and, in accordance with predetermined conversion rules, used to generate the copy control information for recording to the program map table (PMT) stipulated by the MPEG-2 TS. For example, the EPN and CCI values to be recorded to the PMT are determined in accordance with the conversion rules.
US11375150B1	Image sensor with three readout approach for phase detection auto focus and image sensing photodiodes An imaging device includes a photodiode array including a 2×2 grouping of N×N groupings of photodiodes. Each N×N grouping includes N2−1 image sensing photodiodes and a single phase detection autofocus (PDAF) photodiode that is arranged proximate to a center of the 2×2 grouping. A shared floating diffusion is coupled to each photodiode of a respective N×N grouping of photodiodes. An analog to digital converter (ADC) is configured to generate a reference readout in response to charge in the shared floating diffusion after a reset operation. The ADC is next configured to generate a PDAF readout in response to charge transferred from the single PDAF photodiode to the shared floating diffusion. The ADC is then configured to generate a combined readout in response to charge transferred from the image sensing photodiodes combined with the charge transferred previously from the single PDAF photodiode in the shared floating diffusion.
US11375148B2	Image sensor with pixel structure including floating diffusion area shared by plurality of photoelectric conversion elements An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged along rows and columns; and a row driver which drives the plurality of pixels for each of the rows, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements sharing a floating diffusion area with each other, and a micro lens disposed to overlap the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a readout area is defined on the pixel array in accordance with a preset readout mode, and the row driver generates a drive signal for reading out signals provided from a photoelectric conversion element included in the readout area from among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and provides the drive signal to the pixel array.
US11375137B2	Image processor, image processing method, and imaging device An image processor includes a first correction section that calculates a luminance average value of an image and corrects a luminance of the image on a basis of a periodic change in the luminance average value, and a second correction section that acquires color information on the image and corrects the color information on a basis of a periodic change in the color information. This configuration suppresses a flicker in imaging at a high-speed frame rate.
US11375134B2	Vehicle monitoring system A vehicle monitoring system includes a lamp unit that includes a first light source configured to emit light that forms a first light distribution area on a virtual vertical screen disposed at a predetermined distance from a vehicle, and a second light source configured to emit light that forms a second light distribution area having a luminance higher than that of the first light distribution area on the virtual vertical screen, and forms a predetermined light distribution pattern on the virtual vertical screen by the first light distribution area and the second light distribution area; a visible light camera that captures a periphery of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control at least one of an emission timing of the second light source or an image capturing timing of the visible light camera.
US11375131B2	Image data processing for multi-exposure wide dynamic range image data Disclosed examples include integrated circuits, merge circuits and methods of processing multiple-exposure image data, in which a single pre-processing circuit is used for pre-processing first input exposure data associated with a first exposure of the image, and then for pre-processing second input exposure data associated with a second exposure of the image, and the first and second pre-processed exposure data are merged to generate merged image data for tone mapping and other post-processing. An example merge circuit includes a configurable gain circuit to apply a gain to the first and/or second exposure data, as well as a configurable weighting circuit with a weight calculation circuit and a motion adaptive filter circuit to compute a first and second weight values for merging the pre-processed first and second exposure data.
US11375130B1	Parallel high dynamic exposure range sensor Systems, apparatuses, and methods are presented for taking a combination of images taken synchronous in time with one another. According to one example, the present disclosure proposes one or more sensor arrays, each of which comprises multiple pixel sensors arranged to capture image data responsive to light exposure. Light is incident on the respective sensor arrays during substantially synchronous exposures. The one or more sensor arrays are configured such that the image data captured by the respective sensor arrays during the synchronous exposure differ in at least one of a luminance output or a color profile from one another.
US11375126B2	Imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus, operation method, information processing method, and storage medium There is provided with an imaging apparatus that contains a plurality of imaging sections. An obtaining unit obtains, from an information processing apparatus, identification information designating two or more imaging sections among the plurality of imaging sections. A determination unit determines, based on pieces of profile information each containing setting information regarding a captured image from each of the imaging sections corresponding to the two or more imaging sections, setting information regarding the captured images upon collectively distributing the captured images from the two or more imaging sections. A generation unit generates a virtual profile containing the setting information determined. A sending unit sends information regarding the virtual profile to the information processing apparatus.
US11375124B2	Optical measurement equipment and method for measuring warpage of a workpiece An optical measurement equipment includes an adjustment apparatus and at least two image capturing devices. The image capturing devices have a depth-of-field and attached to the adjustment apparatus. The image capturing devices are adjusted by the adjustment apparatus such that a portion to be measured of a workpiece is located within the depth-of-field of the image capturing devices.
US11375121B2	Camera and graphical user interface A camera includes an image sensor, a display, and a controller. The controller operates the image sensor to record a video recording and operates the display to display a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface includes an elapsed time indicator that increases in length as time elapses to form a border around the display.
US11375117B2	Modular image capture systems Systems and methods are disclosed for image capture. For example, systems may include an image capture module including an image sensor configured to capture images, a base that includes a processing apparatus and a connector, and an integrated mechanical stabilization system configured to control an orientation of the image sensor relative to the base, wherein the processing apparatus is configured to send commands to motor controllers of the mechanical stabilization system and includes an image signal processor that is configured to receive image data from the image sensor; and a handheld module configured to be removably attached to the image capture module by the connector, wherein the handheld module includes a display configured to display images received from the image sensor via conductors of the connector.
US11375111B2	Method for acquiring images having unidirectional distortion from an aerial vehicle for 3d image reconstruction A method for capturing images of large target area using a single low FOV high resolution camera mounted on an Aerial Vehicle for 3D reconstruction is disclosed. The camera captures sets of images consisting of a nadir image a plurality of oblique images at predefined waypoints or as the Aerial Vehicle travels along a flight path. Oblique images are captured in two perpendicular directions by tilting camera about a single tilt axis at one time thereby preventing bidirectional distortion of objects in images. Further, first direction and second direction define a quadrant of area below the Aerial Vehicle. Oblique images along two perpendicular directions are captured either by using roll and pitch axes, or by using a single tilt axis and a pan axis of camera control mechanism wherein using pan axis the single tilt axis is reoriented in a perpendicular orientation to capture oblique images in perpendicular direction.
US11375109B2	Maintaining peak intensity frames as preview frames in slow motion mode of electronic device A method for maintaining peak intensity frames is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of frames, each of which has an associated frame intensity, from a camera sensor; selecting a preview frame and a previous preview frame from among the plurality of frames; performing a coarse phase detection based on a frame intensity of the previous preview frame and the preview frame to identify a trend of frame intensity; monitoring a plurality of transitional preview frames after the preview frame; detecting at least one transitional frame having a frame intensity less than a previous transitional frame; and selecting a next transitional frame as a succeeding preview frame after the preview frame based on a frame intensity of the at least one transitional frame.
US11375107B2	Apparatus and method for guiding multi-view capture Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for guiding multi-view capture. The apparatus for guiding multi-view capture includes one or more processors and an execution memory for storing at least one program that is executed by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one program is configured to receive a single-view two-dimensional (2D) image obtained by capturing an image of an object of interest through a camera, generate an orthographic projection image and a perspective projection image for the object of interest from the single-view 2D image using an image conversion parameter that is previously learned from multi-view 2D images for the object of interest, generate a 3D silhouette model for the object of interest using the orthographic projection image and the perspective projection image, and output the 3D silhouette model and a guidance interface for the 3D silhouette model.
US11375106B2	Image capture apparatus and control method therefor An image capture apparatus comprises a first signal processing circuit that generates image data for display by applying signal processing for display to image data obtained from an image sensor and a second signal processing circuit that generates image data for recording by applying signal processing for recording to the image data obtained from the image sensor. The image capture apparatus further comprises a recording circuit that records, in association with the image data for recording, information from which settings of the signal processing for display can be identified.
US11375105B2	Camera, setting method of camera, and setting program of camera Provided are a camera capable of preventing an erroneous operation with a compact configuration and has high operability, a setting method of the camera, and a setting program of the camera. A change in a setting value by the operation dial is switched between valid and invalid, and an operation by the operation dial becomes possible only in a case where the change in the setting value is valid. A setting value of an item to be set by the operation dial is displayed on a dial display provided on the operation dial.
US11375104B2	System for producing a continuous image from separate image sources A system for producing a continuous image from separate image sources. The system may include an image-capture unit including two or more image-capture devices arranged in an outward-facing arrangement. The image-capture devices may have overlapping fields-of-view, and a processing device may combine images captured by the individual image-capture devices into a single, continuous image. The system may also include a control device that may control each of the individual image-capture devices. The control device may also synchronize image-capture of the individual image-capture devices.
US11375103B2	Imaging device, image processing apparatus, and image processing method The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method by which the versatility of an imaging device is improved. The imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of directive pixel output units formed on the semiconductor substrate and having a configuration for receiving incident light from an imaging target entering without intervention of any of an imaging lens and a pinhole, the configuration being operable to independently set an incident angle directivity indicative of a directivity to an incident angle of the incident light, and a plurality of non-directive pixel output units formed on the semiconductor substrate and having no configuration for providing the incident angle directivity. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to imaging apparatus.
US11375100B2	Auto-focus image sensor and digital image processing device including the same The inventive concepts provide an auto-focus image sensor and a digital image processing device including the same. The auto-focus image sensor includes a substrate including at least one first pixel used for detecting a phase difference and at least one second pixel used for detecting an image, a deep device isolation portion disposed in the substrate to isolate the first pixel from the second pixel, and a light shielding pattern disposed on the substrate of at least the first pixel. The amount of light incident on the first pixel is smaller than the amount of light incident on the second pixel by the light shielding pattern.
US11375094B2	Thermal compensation in an integrated image sensor and lens assembly A camera including a lens barrel, lens elements, and an image sensor. The lens barrel includes a first subsection, a second subsection, and a spacer located between the first subsection and the second subsection. The lens elements are located in the first subsection and other lens elements located in the second subsection. The image sensor is aligned along an optical axis that extends through the first subsection and the second subsection of the lens barrel. The first subsection and the second subsection are separate pieces that are in communication by the spacer being sandwiched between the first subsection and the second subsection.
US11375093B2	Optical member driving device, camera device, and electronic apparatus An optical member driving device is described that includes a fixed portion having a plate-like base with a through hole, a movable portion having a spring plate to place an optical member on it, and a SMA driving portion having a SMA wire and driving the movable portion. The spring plate has a spring plate main body and two arm portions extending from the spring plate main body and fixed on a plate surface of the base. The spring plate main body is entirely located inside the through hole when viewed from a normal direction of the plate surface.
US11375092B2	Image sensor and image sensing method An image sensor and an image sensing method are provided. The image sensor may restore a high resolution image with respect to a high magnification based on sensing information corresponding to different fields of view (FOVs) and that is received through lens elements having a same focal length and different lens sizes.
US11375088B1	Thermal mitigation of single photon avalanche diode arrays in head-mounted displays An image capture module configured for improved heat dissipation includes an image sensor, a first heat spreading element positioned to direct heat from the image sensor along a first heat dissipation path toward a first portion of the image capture module, a processing board in data communication with the image sensor, and a second heat spreading element positioned to dissipate heat from the processing board along a second heat dissipation path toward a second portion of the image capture module. Thermal isolation is used to isolate the different heat paths. The first heat dissipation path does not overlap the second heat dissipation path, the first portion of the image capture module is separate from the second portion of the image capture module.
US11375085B2	Systems and methods for capturing digital images A system, method, and computer program product are provided for capturing digital images. In use, an ambient image comprising a plurality of ambient pixels and a flash image comprising a plurality of flash pixels is captured, via a camera module. Next, at least one de-noised pixel based on the ambient image is generated. Additionally, a resulting image is generated by combining the at least one de-noised pixel and a corresponding flash pixel. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.
US11375079B2	Image reading apparatus including a first lamp and second lamp that alternately turn on, wherein the first lamp turns on during reading odd-numbered lines and the second lamp turns on during reading even-numbered lines and synthesizes the first image data read from turning on the first lamp and the second image data read from turning on the second lamp A carriage of an image reading apparatus includes a first lamp and a second lamp. A moving mechanism moves the carriage in a sub-scanning direction from a first side to a second side. The first lamp and the second lamp are arranged in a row in the sub-scanning direction. A control unit turns on any one of the first lamp and the second lamp during reading of one line. The control unit recognizes the position of a first-side edge based on first image data obtained when the first lamp is turned on. The control unit recognizes the position of a second-side edge based on second image data obtained when the second lamp is turned on. The control unit synthesizes the first image data and the second image data to generate job read image data.
US11375077B1	Decontamination of multi-function device clusters in response to detected use A method is disclosed. For example, the method executed by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD) includes detecting use of the MFD, wherein the MFD is associated with a plurality of MFDs that are designated as a cluster within a location, deactivating the MFD in response to use of the MFD being detected, transmitting a first notification to deactivate the plurality of MFDs within the cluster in response to use of the MFD being detected, initiating a decontamination process within the location in response to the use of the MFD being detected, receiving an indication that the decontamination process is completed, transmitting a second notification to reactivate the plurality of MFDs within the cluster, and reactivating the MFD.
US11375074B2	Image forming apparatus for forming an image for measuring a relative position with respect to a paper An image forming apparatus includes a mounting table on which an object whose image is to be scanned is mounted; an image forming section that forms an image, which includes a first image for measuring a relative position with respect to an end portion of a paper, on a first side of the paper; an image scanning section that scans the image mounted on the mounting table; and a position correction section that corrects a relative position of an image, which is formed on the paper, with respect to the paper based on a result of scanning performed by the image scanning section, in which in a case where the image scanning section scans the end portion of the paper and the image formed on the first side of the paper in a state in which the first side of the paper on which the first image is formed faces the mounting table, the end portion of the paper is mounted on the mounting table at a position separated from an end portion of the mounting table, and, further, the paper is covered with a cover paper, and the image forming section forms, on the first side of the paper, a third image that uses, as an alignment object, a second image for alignment formed on a side of the cover paper opposite to a side on which the cover paper is in contact with the paper while a part of the paper is mounted in a state of protruding from the mounting table and a first edge of the cover paper.
US11375071B2	Speech setting system, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having speech setting assistance program stored thereon, and speech setting assistance device A speech setting system includes a job execution device that is capable of executing a job, and a speech setting assistance device that assists generation of the job to be executed by the job execution device based on speech information obtained from a speech, wherein the job execution device includes a first hardware processor, the first hardware processor is configured to execute the job in accordance with a parameter set for each of a plurality of setting items, and display a setting screen in which a plurality of the parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of setting items are arranged, the speech setting assistance device includes a second hardware processor, and the second hardware processor is configured to determine the parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items based on the speech information, and output speech output information for outputting the determined parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items by speech in accordance with an output order that is defined based on a relative positional relationship among the plurality of the parameters arranged in the setting screen.
US11375067B2	Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for indicating areas to be inspected and areas exempt from inspection An image inspection apparatus is provided to allow a user, when checking a scan result of automatic inspection, to check a really-inspected area. The image inspection apparatus includes an image scanning unit to scan an image on a paper, an abnormality detector to determine whether or not a printing result is normal based on the image scanned by the image scanning unit, a storage unit to store information on an area to be inspected by the abnormality detector, and a display processor to indicate the area to be inspected by the abnormality detector in the image scanned by the image scanning unit.
US11375064B1	IPBX control interface for distributed networks Apparatus and methods concerning routing of calls in an IPBX are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes an IPBX server configured to route VoIP calls for a plurality of end-users having respective VoIP-enabled devices communicatively coupled to the IPBX via a network. A user-activity detection circuit is communicatively coupled to the IPBX server. The user-activity detection circuit is configured to receive activity data indicating activity of end-users in a virtual office environment and receive event messages indicating statuses of pending calls in the IPBX server. The user-activity detection circuit determines user-activity statuses of the end-users based on received activity data and event messages. A computing server is communicatively coupled to the user-activity detection circuit and is configured to provide a set of services for one or more of the plurality of users as a function of the determined user-activity statuses of the end-user.
US11375063B1	Systems and methods for prioritizing emergency calls Systems for and methods of determining the priority of a call interaction include receiving a call interaction from a call center; validating, by a validation and transcription engine, that the call interaction is authentic; converting, by the validation and transcription engine, the call interaction into text; extracting, by a data calculation engine, organization, location, and time information from the text; calculating, by the data calculation engine, a priority of the call interaction from the extracted information and the text; determining that the call interaction should be transmitted to a queue of the call center for initial handling by a call center agent; and transmitting the call interaction, the calculated priority, and the extracted information to the call center.
US11375062B2	Systems for detecting harassing communication A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for detecting harassment. The system may receive communication data from a first customer service representative terminal or a customer communication device and may determine, based at least in part on the communication data and stored communication data, that the communication data comprises harassing content. The system may, responsive to determining that the communication data comprises harassing content, transmit to a second customer service representative terminal, a notification indicating that the communication data comprises harassing content.
US11375061B2	System for real time, remote access to and adjustment of patient hearing aid with patient in normal life environment Real time, remote access to and adjustment of the hearing aid of a patient while the patient is located in a normal life environment that is remote from a hearing professional. A session request initiates a programming session. Adjustable settings from the patient's hearing aid are wirelessly streamed to the patient's mobile device and from the mobile device to a streaming cloud server. The settings are stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to a hearing professional's computer or mobile device and displayed. The hearing professional then changes at least one of the adjustable hearing aid settings and the changed settings are streamed to the cloud, stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to the patient's mobile device, wirelessly transmitted to the hearing aid and stored there. A telephonic voice connection between the hearing professional and the patient's mobile device is used to transmit the patient's evaluation of changed settings to the hearing professional.
US11375060B2	IP-enabled information delivery A method, system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for providing Internet protocol enabled information delivery are provided. Information from a calling party is received at an Internet protocol enabled device. A lookup of information relating to the calling party is performed in a database via an Internet protocol connection. A message is received from the database comprising information relating to the calling party.
US11375057B2	System and method for provision of an advanced network function to a device Enhanced capabilities within a telephone network are made accessible to a telecommunications device. The telecommunications device is used to dial a sequence. A network server receives and identifies the sequence invokes an advanced network function. A advanced network function server in communication with the network server provides instructions as to how the network server is to provide the advanced network function. The network server processes the call in accordance with the received instructions to provide the particular advanced network function.
US11375050B1	Multiple protocol layer conversion Embodiments herein describe a layer converter that includes a proxy legacy interface that permits the layers for a legacy interconnect protocol to be recycled without any modifications, thus achieving legacy functionality alongside the new protocols' layer implementation. Put differently, the layer converter permits the layers of the legacy interconnect protocol to be reused to permit data to be transmitted on a link shared with data transmitted using a new interconnect protocol.
US11375048B2	Compensating for interruptions in a wireless connection A method of compensating for potential interruptions in a wireless spatially selective connection over which data at a first compression level is transmitted from a host device to a client device involves determining (S32) that an interruption to the wireless spatially selective connection over which data is being transmitted at a first compression level to a client device is starting or is due to start, compressing (S3Y3) the data at a second compression level that is higher than the first compression level, and forwarding (S34) the data compressed at the second compression level to a transmitting component for wireless spatially non-selective broadcast while the interruption to the spatially selective connection occurs. Determining that the interruption is due to start may involve analysing a historical record of previous interruptions to determine a periodicity of the previous interruptions or receiving information from the transmitting component that an interruption is expected to occur. Determining that the interruption is starting may involve determining that a buffer used for storing the data prior to transmittal is full, indicative that an interruption has commenced, or receiving information from the transmitting component that an interruption has commenced.
US11375046B2	Software application architecture The described technology relates to a software application architecture allowing for creation of a web application that has multiple Single Page Applications (SPAs) within the application. The software application architecture includes components that are common to each page of the web application while also having components that are dynamically loaded to cater to specific respective pages within the application. The dynamically loadable components can be identified based on an identifier in a path being browsed using a web browser application. The described application architecture may be used in the context of AngularJS, as well as other SPA technologies and non-SPA technologies.
US11375045B2	Dynamic user interface delivery system A System Solution offers a Business Entity a way to update a Native Application Client by directly downloading a new version of the Application Client from an Application Server bypassing the Application Store. A Native Application Client is updated while the current Native Application Client is running on the Client Device. A Native Application Client is divided into a Native Layer which runs directly on the Operating System of the Client Device and a Dynamic Layer that runs on the Native Layer. The System Solution automatically generates Application Clients, Application Servers, and Dashboards. The Business Entity uses the generated Dashboards to modify the Dynamic Layer by generating a new Dynamic Layer and making it available for download to the Client Device. The Navigation Parameters can be set in the Dynamic Layer allowing the Business Entity to change the application flow of the Native Application Client.
US11375039B2	Needs-matching navigator system A needs-matching navigator system and social network facilitator appurtenances including, for a large user plurality, software driven modules residing on electronic communications enabled platforms and devices. Beyond altruistically enhancing flourishing life horizons and life quality metrics, the modules facilitate (A) knowing respective user bias, profile, perspective, wellbeing orientation, and privacy preference; (B) understanding user needs description and wellbeing criteria; (C) finding answer and solutions to the needs by user biased projecting the description onto electronically stored knowledge-bases; (D) matching the user to the answers and solutions; and preferably (E) creating an instant electronic communications interactive community for the respective user, by inverse projecting large subsets of the answers and solutions back onto the large plurality of users; according to said users' profiles and needs descriptions. This navigable community may be classified into spontaneous castes; having various degrees of relevant understanding, expertise, experience, and/or curiosity about these answer and/or solution projections.
US11375035B2	Proxying session initiation protocol (SIP) communications Proxying Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communications in a load balancing device. An outgoing SIP message is received from a session border controller device. The received outgoing SIP message comprises a routing control parameter in the form of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). The received outgoing message comprises one or more additional outgoing routing control parameters different to the URI. The one or more additional outgoing routing control parameters have been originated at the session border controller device to control one or more outgoing routing characteristics at the load balancing device. The one or more additional outgoing routing control parameters are extracted from the received outgoing SIP message. The outgoing SIP message is forwarded to a peer device using the one or more outgoing routing characteristics on the basis of the one or more extracted outgoing routing control parameters.
US11375033B1	Automated tuning of network intermediary devices An intermediary device configured for request and response traffic of an application detects an unadvertised network parameter setting of an implementation node of the application. Based on the detected setting, the intermediary device computes a new value for a networking parameter of the intermediary device, and sets the parameter to the new value.
US11375029B2	Methods and systems for service discovery and tunneling in a distributed architecture A method for distributed service management includes; running, by client nodes and service provider nodes, respective instances of a distributed service management unit, wherein the distributed service management unit comprises a distributed hash set table (DHST); providing, by the distributed service management unit, an application programming interface (API), wherein all connections between a client node and a service provider node are tunneled through the API; registering, by a service provider, a service on a network node; storing, by the registering network node, an endpoint of the service in a dataset of the DHST with a key corresponding to the service; requesting, by the client node, the service; and returning, by the distributed service management unit, all endpoints stored in the DHST with the key corresponding to the service.
US11375027B1	Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for improved multi-user channel management Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for improvements in managing connection channels for multiple associated users. As connection channel changes occur for one or more users, various connection channels are updated such that appropriate functionality is accessible as determined based on aspects of the connection channel change. Example embodiments provide for establishing a plurality of connection channels associated with a plurality of user data objects, where each of the plurality of connection channels enables access to functionality associated with a shared electronic data object via one of a plurality of computing devices, detecting, for a first user data object of the plurality of user data objects, a connection channel change associated with a first connection channel corresponding to a first computing device, and updating the functionality associated with the shared electronic data object for at least one of the plurality of connection channels based on the connection channel change.
US11375025B2	Communications method and apparatus A communications method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first access network device sends a first message to a core network device, where the first message is used to indicate to suspend one or both of a first PDU session and a second PDU session. The first PDU session and the second PDU session are PDU sessions that are established as requested by a same terminal, and are used to transmit a duplicated data packet. According to the method, when a condition for implementing reliable transmission is not met, the core network device can be indicated to suspend the PDU session. In this way, a PDU session does not need to be re-established, and signaling overheads for establishing the PDU session are saved.
US11375024B1	Programmable networking device for user plane function Programmable network devices configured to perform various UPF functions including QoS enforcement, session management, and timer synchronization. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are configured to perform user plane functions on data streams within a compact and modular hardware unit to minimize excessive communication while maintaining control and user plane separation (CUPS). QoS enforcement can include guaranteed bit rate (GBR) and maximum bit rate (MBR) and token buckets associated therewith, pipeline processing, synchronizing transmission of data packets and control signals with timers at various operational levels, and so on.
US11375018B2	System and method for server based control A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
US11375016B2	Routing messages between cloud service providers Technology is disclosed for bridging clouds of computing devices for compute and data storage. The technology can receive a virtual routing table (VRT), wherein the VRT indicates an association with a virtual local area network (VLAN) and defines neighbors for each route wherein at least one neighbor is defined for each of the two different cloud service providers, wherein the route definition creates a private transitive network between the neighbors; receive from a first node a first message destined for a second node; determine that the first message employs the route specified by the VRT; forward the first message to the second node; receive from a third node a second message destined for the second node; determine that the second message does not employ the route specified by the VRT; and fail to forward the second message to the second node.
US11375014B1	Provisioning of clustered containerized applications Clustered containerized applications are implemented with scalable provisioning. Methods include receiving a data storage request to store one or more data values in a storage volume implemented across a storage node cluster, the storage node cluster including a plurality of storage nodes including one or more storage devices having storage space allocated for storing data associated with the storage volume. Methods may further include identifying a cluster hierarchy associated with the storage node cluster, the cluster hierarchy identifying storage characteristics of the plurality of storage nodes, the cluster hierarchy also identifying physical location information for the plurality of storage nodes, the physical location information indicating node-to-node proximity on a network graph. Methods may also include selecting a storage node on which to store the data, the selecting being based, at least in part, on the identified storage characteristics and one or more data distribution parameters associated with the storage volume.
US11375013B2	Deterministic mapping and uniform routing of items to physical resources using hash values A string, identifying an item to be assigned to a physical resource, is hashed to obtain a numeric hash value. The numeric hash value is downscaled to obtain a bucket identifier that identifies a bucket that will hold the numeric hash value. The bucket is then deterministically mapped to a physical resource so that it can be retrieved without accessing a stored data structure representative of the mapping.
US11375004B2	Method for single workflow for multi-platform mobile application creation and delivery A high-level functionality generates a Data Model which is used to automatically generate Applications comprising Application Clients, Application Servers, Client-Server Protocols, Dashboards and other components. These Applications are derived for different mobile and non-mobile's Operating Systems. This functionality uses Services, Service Representation, Application Flow, Rules, and Presentation Attributes. The input for the automation is a very high-level, “service” level “language,” from which all parts are automatically generated. The output of the automation also includes a way to validate the correctness of the generated Applications. The generated Dashboard provide a Business Entity with functionality to continuously update the generated Data Model based on the Services and Business Entity data, and from the updated Data Model automatically generate updated versions of the Application. The functionality may be a graphical representation, a set of forms, a set of policies, or a set of values associated to a set of pre-defined parameters.
US11374998B1	Adaptive bitrate streaming stall mitigation A processing system may determine, during a downloading of a first video chunk associated with a first time block of a video, a risk of stall condition, the first video chunk encoded at a first bitrate of a plurality of available bitrates, determine that a number of a received first plurality of frames of the first video chunk exceeds a threshold, transmit a request for a next video chunk associated with a next time block of the video and an indication to a source device to stop transmitting additional frames of the first video chunk, receive a second plurality of frames of the first video chunk from the source device that were transmitted prior to the source device receiving the indication, receive frames of the next video chunk, and play the first and second plurality of frames of the first video chunk, and the frames of the next video chunk.
US11374996B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting or receiving broadcast signal A method of processing a broadcast signal in a transmitter, includes generating service data, generating service layer signaling (SLS) information that provides session description information for at least one transport session carrying the service data, encapsulating the service data and the SLS information into Internet Protocol (IP) packets, generating physical layer signaling information that includes wake-up information for identifying whether a receiver is to be woken up and transmitting the broadcast signal including the IP packets and the physical layer signaling information, wherein the broadcast signal further includes emergency alert table (EAT) information that includes identification information for identifying an emergency alert message, wherein the EAT information further includes information for indicating a location of a rich media content related to the emergency alert message, and wherein the EAT information is carried in IP packets with well-known address and port information.
US11374989B1	Presentation system having low latency feedback Apparatus and methods of instruction presentations to a ‘virtual’ audience or students including real-time information formed from observable audience reactions as they receive the presentation material, and further includes apparatus and methods to correlate the detected or missing audience reactions in relation to specific presented material, rapidly prompting the presenter and/or the audience with specific, timely, low-latency feedback. The presenter is alerted (possibly before an audience question can be formulated), and the audience member is prompted that there may be questions or contributions regarding a specific matter as it is presented, whereupon the audience member is given the freedom to join or question (or not). Accordingly, specific information is rapidly conveyed to the presenter who with minimal distraction, becomes better aware of the state of the individual audience member understanding despite the separation from the audience, and the intimidation of the audience or students to engage is significantly reduced.
US11374987B2	Dynamic channel conversion in group-based communication systems Techniques for dynamically converting a communication channel associated with a communication channel from a communication channel associated with a single organization to a shared communication channel associated with two or more organizations. The communication channel may have associated therewith member profiles associated with a first organization and one or more guest profiles associated with one or more other organizations that are different from the first organization. A server computing system may convert the communication channel to a shared communication channel based on a determination of eligibility for conversion. The server computing system may generate one or more user interfaces associated with the member profiles and the one or more guest profiles, enabling members and guests to communicate via the shared communication channel.
US11374984B2	Method and apparatus for providing media resources in a communication network Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a request associated with a call session to a server, wherein the request includes capability information associated with user equipment. A codec is identified according to the capability information to obtain an identified codec, which facilitates media service to the user equipment. The media service is accessed from a media resource function, which in turn, is accessed by the server responsive to the identified codec. An operable resource identifier is identified responsive to a search of a codec table, wherein the server accesses the operable resource identifier associated with the media resource function from a domain name server responsive to the resource identifier not being available at the codec table. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11374983B1	Media content service delivery in a wireless communication network A wireless communication network is configured to wirelessly deliver a media content service to wireless User Equipment (UEs). The wireless communication network comprises network circuitry. The network circuitry executes wireless network functions and media content functions. The media content functions distribute network addresses to the wireless UEs which use the network addresses to transfer media-content for the media-content service. The wireless network functions monitor performance of the media content functions. The wireless network functions prioritize the media content functions based on their performance. The wireless network functions transfer the prioritized list of the media content functions to the wireless UEs. The wireless UEs communicate with the media content functions on a priority basis responsive to the prioritized list.
US11374981B2	Software usage description (SUD) for installable applications This disclosure describes techniques for providing manufacturer usage description (MUD) solution to automatically update network access policy for client application software. The method may include embedding metadata in the application binary. The metadata may include MUD uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that may point to MUD files describing the application's network access requirements. The MUD files may be hosted by application vendor's MUD servers. The system may include a network policy server that is able discover the MUD URIs. The MUD URIs may be discovered based on extracting the MUD URIs from the metadata and/or being provision with the set of MUD URIs for trusted applications. The method may include enterprise wide policy and individual host policy for implementation of the MUD files.
US11374980B1	Resolution of policy enforcement point by cross correlating other policies A plurality of policies to be enforced in a network environment via a plurality of devices are determined. A topology of the plurality of devices within the network environment is also determined. For each policy of the plurality of policies, a device of the plurality of devices is selected as the location at which to enforce the policy of the plurality of policies. Selecting the device for each policy of the plurality of policies includes correlating the policy of the plurality of policies with another of the plurality of policies and correlating the policy of the plurality of policies with the topology.
US11374978B2	Methods and systems for establishment of security policy between SDN application and SDN controller The present application is directed a computer-implemented methods and systems implementing control policies created or modified by Software Defined Network applications. The control policies can be provided to SDN controllers for implementation.
US11374975B2	TLS integration of post quantum cryptographic algorithms A method and a system for integrating post quantum cryptographic algorithms into TLS. The method includes transmitting a client hello message to a server including a request for post quantum cryptographic (PQC) mode of operation and a PQC public client key, receiving a server hello message from the server in response to the client hello message including a PQC server key exchange generated from the PQC public client key. The method includes determining the server hello message includes an authorization to operate the PQC mode of operation. The method also includes transmitting a second client hello message to the server including a PQC encrypted client key share. The PQC encrypted client key share is encrypted using a client encryption key. The method includes receiving a second server hello message that includes a PQC encrypted server key share and decrypting the PQC encrypted server key share using a server encryption key.
US11374970B2	Phishing attempt categorization/aggregation interface Systems, methods, and media are used to identify phishing attacks. A notification of a phishing attempt with a parameter associated with a recipient of the phishing attempt is received at a security management node. In response, an indication of the phishing attempt is presented in a phishing attempt search interface. The reported phishing attempts may be aggregated based upon specified criteria to avoid redundant incidents that may hinder remediation efforts.
US11374965B2	Method and system for DOS detection, mitigation and notification A method for processing a denial of service (DOS) includes: receiving a de-authentication/disassociation (D/D) frame by an access point (AP), determining by the AP a state of security association establishment between the AP and a client device, maintaining a connection between the AP and the client device if the security association is incomplete, sending a probe packet from the AP to the client device if security association is complete and the connection between the AP and the client device is in a non-PMF (protected management frames) setting, maintaining the connection if the client device responds to the probe packet, and terminating the connection if the client device does not respond to the probe packet.
US11374962B2	Method and system for prevention of spam attacks on a blockchain network A method for reducing spam transaction submission in a blockchain network includes: receiving a transaction request from a computing device; transmitting a computational challenge to the computing device; receiving an answer to the computational challenge from the computing device; receiving a new blockchain transaction from the computing device; validating the received answer to the computational challenge; and transmitting the new blockchain transaction to a plurality of blockchain nodes in a blockchain network upon successful validation of the received answer.
US11374959B2	Identifying and circumventing security scanners A system and method for identifying and circumventing a security scanner includes monitoring incoming traffic to a web application, identifying a portion of the incoming traffic as security scanner traffic by comparing the incoming traffic to a security scanner traffic profile, and circumventing the security scanner by providing dummy content or signaling the web application to provide dummy content. The security scanner traffic profile is created by receiving web application traffic generated by a plurality of security scanners; identifying web application traffic features common to at least a portion of the plurality of security scanners by modelling using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the like; and generating the security scanner traffic profile based on the identified web application traffic features.
US11374958B2	Security protection rule prediction and enforcement A method provides an intermediate mitigation of a vulnerability in a particular computer system. One or more processors receive a description of a vulnerability of a computer system to a malicious attack. The processor(s) perform an NLP analysis of the description of the vulnerability in order to extract risk information related to the vulnerability, where the risk information includes an identity of a type of vulnerable computer system resource in the computer system. The processor(s) match the vulnerable computer system resource to a computer system resource in a particular computer system, and perform an intermediate mitigation action that reduces a functionality of the computer system resource in the particular computer system until a solution is implemented that both restores the functionality of the computer system resource in the particular computer system and mitigates the vulnerability of the particular computer system to the malicious attack.
US11374956B2	Malicious social media account identification A computer-implemented method including scanning, by one or more processors, data that is maintained on one or more social networks, identifying, one or more social entities associated with the scanned data, determining a risk score for each of the one or more social entities, analyzing the scanned data using one or more machine learning techniques, assigning a rating to each of the one or more social entities based on the determined risk score and the analyzed data, and determining, based on the rating assigned to at least one of the one or more social entities that the at least one social entity is a security risk.
US11374954B1	Detecting anomalous network behavior Approaches provide for monitoring attempted network activity such as network port connections and corresponding payloads of network data obtained by a network device and, based on the attempted connections and/or payloads, identifying malicious network activity in real time. For example, network activity obtained from a plurality of network devices in a service provider environment can be monitored to attempt to detect compliance with appropriate standards and/or any of a variety of resource usage guidelines (e.g., network behavioral standards or other such rules, guidelines, or network behavior tests) based at least in part on network port connection activity with respect to at least one network device. If it is determined that network activity is not in compliance with the usage guidelines, or other such network behavior test, the system can take one or more remedial actions, which can include generating a notification identifying the malicious network activity.
US11374953B2	Hybrid machine learning to detect anomalies Mechanisms are provided to implement a hybrid machine learning (ML) anomaly detector comprising an ensemble of unsupervised ML models and a semi-supervised ML model. The ensemble of unsupervised ML models are executed on log data to generate, for each entry in the log data, a predicted anomaly score and corresponding anomaly classification label of the entry. A partially labeled dataset is generated based on a selected subset of entries and other unlabeled log data in the log data. A similarity analysis of the unlabeled log data with entries in the selected subset of entries is performed and anomaly classification labels of the selected subset of entries are propagated to the other unlabeled log data based on the similarity analysis.
US11374952B1	Detecting anomalous events using autoencoders Techniques for monitoring a computing environment for anomalous activity are presented. An example method includes receiving a request to invoke an action within a computing environment, with the request including a plurality of request attributes and a plurality of contextual attributes. A normalcy score is generated for the received request by encoding the received request into a code in latent space of an autoencoder, reconstructing the request from the code, and generating a probability distribution indicating a likelihood that the reconstructed request attributes exist in a data set of non-anomalous activity. Based on the calculated normalcy score, one or more actions are taken to process the request such that execution of non-anomalous requests is allowed, and execution of potentially anomalous requests may be blocked pending confirmation.
US11374950B2	Anomaly detection in complex systems Described are systems and methods for detecting an anomaly among a plurality of components operating in a system. In some embodiments, a method includes monitoring a plurality of metrics for the plurality of components across a plurality of time periods. For each time period, the plurality of components is clustered into a plurality of clusters based on measurement information corresponding to the plurality of metrics received for the time period. For each component, a plurality of correspondences is determined between the clusters in which the component is grouped for a plurality of pairs of adjacent time periods. Then, whether each component is operating anomalously can be determined based on the plurality of determined correspondences.
US11374945B1	Content delivery network (CDN) edge server-based bot detection with session cookie support handling A server interacts with a bot detection service to provide bot detection as a requesting client interacts with the server. In an asynchronous mode, the server injects into a page a data collection script configured to record interactions at the requesting client, to collect sensor data about the interactions, and to send the collected sensor data to the server. After the client receives the page, the sensor data is collected and forwarded to the server through a series of posts. The server forwards the posts to the detection service. During this data collection, the server also may receive a request from the client for a protected endpoint. When this occurs, and in a synchronous mode, the server issues a query to the detection service to obtain a threat score based in part on the collected sensor data that has been received and forwarded by the server. Based on the threat score returned, the server then determines whether the request for the endpoint should be forwarded onward for handling.
US11374941B2	Wireless communications Integrity protection is activated for user plane data transferred between a network node and a terminal device of the cellular communications network. The activation can be initiated by the terminal device sending a request message to a second network node. Thus, a UE, such as a Cellular IoT UE, and a network node such as a SGSN are able to use LLC layer integrity protection for both control plane and user plane data.
US11374936B2	System, device, and method for transferring security access permissions between in-camera users A process for transferring security access permissions between in-camera users includes capturing, at an electronic computing device via an image capture device, an image of two or more in-camera users. A first in-camera user and a second in-camera user are identified n the image. An input gesture identifying the first in-camera user as a source of security access permissions and the second in-camera user as a destination of security access permissions is detected. Responsively, the electronic computing device causes a first particular security access permission associated with the first in-camera user to be applied to and modify a current set of security access permissions associated with the second in-camera user.
US11374935B2	Block chain alias person-to-person resource allocation Embodiments provide a system operatively connected with a block chain distributed network and for using the block chain distributed network for facilitating a person-to-person (P2P) alias-based resource allocation. Embodiments receive an event record associated with a P2P event between a first user and a second user. The event record comprises an alias associated with the first user and/or the second user. A distributed ledger is accessed that is updated based on communications from a block chain distributed network. An alias-to-entity mapping is retrieved from the accessed distributed ledger. The alias-to-entity mapping indicates at least an entity to which the alias is mapped. Based on the mapping the alias is determined to be at least partially valid. In some cases, embodiments determine that the alias corresponds to a resource depository number maintained by the entity in a private ledger and authorizes a resource event associated with the resource event request.
US11374931B2	System and method for information interaction A system for information interaction includes: an electronic tag configured to present a two-dimensional code; a binding relationship existing between a first terminal and the two-dimensional code; a second terminal configured to: scan the two-dimensional code, generate login request information, send the login request information to the information interaction platform, the login request information including identifier information of the second terminal; receive content presentation information corresponding to the two-dimensional code returned by the information interaction platform, according to the identifier information, and perform information interaction with the first terminal according to a communication manner selected from the content presentation information; and an information interaction platform configured to receive the login request information, authorize and authenticate the second terminal according to the identifier information, and send the content presentation information to the second terminal according to authorization and authentication results.
US11374928B2	Security service, commissioning, self-service, and area owner management An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to establish communication with a security asset, establish communication with a security access control system, retrieve one or more tasks from the security access control system to one of commission or service the security asset, and guide a user to perform the one or more tasks. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11374925B2	Method and system for authenticating customers on call A method and system for authenticating customers on call are disclosed. The method includes providing a notification to a customer on an electronic device associated with the customer. The notification is provided in response to the customer placing a call for seeking an interaction with an agent of an enterprise. The notification is configured to trigger authentication of the customer using an application on the electronic device. A status of the authentication of the customer is received from the application on the electronic device and, if the status of the authentication of the customer is a success, the call is connected to the agent to facilitate the interaction between the customer and the agent.
US11374923B2	Systems and methods for tiered authentication including position-based credentials The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for implementing tiered authentication using position-based credentials. A system for authenticating a user with position-based credentials may include one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a login request associated with the user from a first user interface device; receiving a first location associated with the first user interface device; receiving a second location associated with a second user interface device; when a Lebesgue distance between the first location and the second location is below a first threshold, authenticating the user; when the Lebesgue distance is above the first threshold and below a second, larger threshold, prompting the first interface device for a first credential; and when the Lebesgue distance is above the second threshold, prompting the first interface device for a second credential.
US11374921B2	Authorization method for the release or blocking of resources and client An authorization method for releasing or blocking resources includes, in case there is no connection between a provider and a resource owner: wirelessly transmitting a resource request from a client to the provider via an agent; wirelessly transmitting an authorization request from the provider to the client via the agent; wirelessly transmitting the authorization request from the client to the resource owner; wirelessly transmitting a receipt comprising an authorization response from the resource owner to the client; wirelessly transmitting the receipt from the client to the provider; and releasing or blocking a first resource in accordance with the authorization response comprised in the receipt.
US11374910B2	Method and apparatus for effecting a data-based activity A coordinating network element manages a protocol that prohibits the coordinating network element from substantively accessing data content that, at least in part, underlies received protocol-compliant requests. By one approach, these teachings provide for preventing substantive access to data information that is included within the protocol-compliant request in tokenized form, wherein the tokens are generated using secrets, at least one of which is unavailable to the coordinating network element.
US11374905B2	Methods and systems for efficient cyber protections of mobile devices Enterprise users' mobile devices typically access the Internet without being protected by the enterprise's network security policy, which exposes the enterprise network to Internet-mediated attack by malicious actors. This is because the conventional approach to protecting the mobile devices and associated enterprise network is to tunnel all of the devices' Internet communications to the enterprise network, which is very inefficient since typically only a very small percentage of Internet communications originating from an enterprise's mobile devices are communicating with Internet hosts that are associated with threats. In the present disclosure, the mobile device efficiently identifies which communications are associated with Internet threats, and tunnels only such identified traffic to the enterprise network, where actions may be taken to protect the enterprise network.
US11374904B2	Method and system of a cloud-based multipath routing protocol In one aspect, a computerized system useful for implementing a cloud-based multipath routing protocol to an Internet endpoint includes an edge device that provides an entry point into an entity's core network. The entity's core network includes a set of resources to be reliably accessed. The computerized system includes a cloud-edge device instantiated in a public-cloud computing platform. The cloud-edge device joins a same virtual routing and forwarding table as the edge device. The cloud-edge device receives a set of sources and destinations of network traffic that are permitted to access the edge device and the set of resources.
US11374888B2	User-defined notification templates Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are presented for generating notifications for a person according to user-defined notification templates. In contrast to presenting notifications according to a default notification template, the disclosed subject matter is directed to generating a notification regarding a notification signal according to a user-defined notification template. Upon receiving a notification signal, a determination is made as to whether a first user-defined notification template from a template store is applicable to the notification signal. Upon determining that the user-defined notification template is applicable to the received notification signal, a notification corresponding to the notification signal is generated and presented according to the user-defined notification template.
US11374878B2	Data processing method and apparatus The present disclosure provides a method and a device for data processing. The method includes acquiring at least two pathways of communication messages, where the at least two pathways of communication messages are messages intercepted in a bypass manner from messages transmitted by a service processing system to an external system; and the service processing system does not execute logic of record storage; processing the at least two pathways of communication messages, and determining communication messages to-be-stored from the at least two pathways of communication messages processed; and according to the at least two pathways of communication messages, storing the communication messages to-be-stored in a database.
US11374871B2	System and method for dynamic bandwidth adjustments for cellular interfaces in a network environment Techniques for interface bandwidth management. A wired interface bandwidth is configured for a wired interface of a router. A cellular interface bandwidth is configured for a cellular interface of cellular interfaces of the router. The cellular interface bandwidth includes an uplink bandwidth. One or more instantaneous uplink throughput values for the cellular interface are determined based on one or more uplink throughput per resource block values for the cellular interface. A predicted average uplink throughput for the cellular interface is determined based on the one or more instantaneous uplink throughput values. The uplink bandwidth is dynamically adjusted based on the predicted average uplink throughput determined for the cellular interface of the router.
US11374868B2	Communication system An embodiment of the invention relates to a communication node (10, 11) for a communication system (5). The embodiment is characterized by: a communication module (30), and at least one application module (21, 22), wherein the communication module is configured to transfer data signals (D2) received from another communication node of the communication system, or the contents of these data signals, to the application module, and to send data signals (D1) based on data received from the application module to said other communication node or to at least one other communication node of the communication system, wherein the communication module is configured to evaluate the received data signals and to generate a quality value (Q1(T1), Q2(T2)) that describes the current and/or future quality of the data connection with respect to a previously defined maximum latency (T1, T2) that is assigned to the application module, and wherein the communication module is further configured to send a control signal (QS) to the application module if the quality value is below a given quality threshold (Q1min, Q2min) regarding the respective maximum latency that is assigned to the application module.
US11374865B2	Group specific load balancing in network devices A general load balancing value for a packet received by a network device is generated based at least in part on information in a header of the packet. The packet is directed to a network interface group comprising a set of network interfaces via which the packet can be transmitted towards a destination of the packet. A group-specific load balancing value for the packet is then determined based on group-specific load balancing configuration corresponding to the network interface group and is used to select a network interface, from among the set of network interfaces, and the packet is transmitted towards the destination of the packet via the selected network interface. The group-specific load balancing configuration corresponding to the network interface group is subsequently reconfigured to redistribute selection of network interfaces, among the set of network interfaces, for transmission of packets subsequently directed to the network interface group.
US11374860B2	Method and apparatus for sending routing information for network nodes This application discloses a routing information sending method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first network node, routing information sent by a second network node, and determining the routing information corresponds to a tenant identifier; and then determining, by the first network node, that a third network node belongs to a tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier, and sending the routing information to the third network node in response to determining that the third network node belongs to the tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier.
US11374859B2	Flow table programming using flow miss metadata and burst action assist via CPU offload A network appliance can queue a first packet and a second packet of a network traffic flow in an input queue of a match-action pipeline. The match-action pipeline can be implemented via a packet processing circuit of the network appliance and can be configured to process a plurality of network traffic flows. Submitting the first packet to the match-action pipeline can cause a first flow miss. The second packet can be moved to a burst queue of the network appliance and a match-action configuration can be generated based on the first packet. The second packet can be moved from the burst queue to the input queue after the match-action pipeline is configured with the match-action configuration. The match-action pipeline can then process the second packet.
US11374858B2	Methods and systems for directing traffic flows based on traffic flow classifications Methods and system for directing traffic flows to a fast data path or a slow data path are disclosed. Parsers can produce packet header vectors (PHVs) for use in match-action units. The PHVs are also used to generate feature vectors for the traffic flows. A flow training engine produces a classification model. Feature vectors input to the classification model result in output predictions predicting if a traffic flow will be long lived or short lived. The classification models are used by network appliances to install traffic flows into fast data paths or the slow data paths based on the predictions.
US11374855B2	Multi-path access network A method for providing multi-path network access to a client in a network includes, by a first circuitry; i) providing routing of packets between the network and a first access network; ii) providing forwarding of packets within the first communication network; iii) intercepting packets from the client node destined for a destination node outside the first communication network; iv) forwarding the intercepted packets to a multi-path agent within the first network; and by the multi-path agent: i) receiving the intercepted packets from the first routing circuitry; ii) transforming the intercepted packets to multi-path packets supporting a multi-path networking protocol; and iv) forwarding, the multi-path packets to the first and/or second routing circuitry for further routing.
US11374851B2	Methods and apparatus for controlling and making link bundle advertisements to support routing decisions Methods and apparatus relating to the use of aggregated links, e.g., links in a bundle, are described. A normal link metric and a limited operation mode link metric a determined for a link bundle, the normal link metric having a lower value than the limited operational mode link metric. The status of links in a link bundle are monitored. Based on the number of currently operational links in a link bundle and a switching threshold, a decision is made whether to advertise the normal link metric, advertise the limited operation mode threshold or refrain from advertising any link metric. The use of the limited operation link metric facilitates the use of a partially failed link bundle providing an alternative routing path in the network that would not otherwise be available.
US11374847B1	Systems and methods for switch stack emulation, monitoring, and control Systems, methods, and machine-readable storage media to facilitate adaptive switch stack interaction are disclosed. Discovery may be performed via a network with respect to switches, each switch corresponding to a switch stack and including ports communicatively coupled to endpoint devices or access points. Switch data transmitted from the plurality of switches may be processed and used to develop models of the switches. Each model may include switch specifications, and a particular model may be used to emulate a particular switch. Emulation data may be created to facilitate a graphical representation formatted to represent the particular switch. The emulation data may be transmitted to an endpoint device to facilitate an emulation interface that may correspond to a graphical layout of the particular switch that allows access, via user-selectable interface elements, to a subset of the switch data that is mapped to the particular switch.
US11374845B2	Determining a transit appliance for data traffic to a software service Disclosed is a system and method for optimization of data transfer to a software service. In exemplary embodiments, a computer-implemented method for determining a transit appliance for data traffic to a software service through one or more interconnected networks comprising a plurality of network appliances, comprises determining performance metrics for each of the plurality of network appliances to at least one IP address associated with the software service, and selecting a transit appliance for data transfer to the IP address, the selected transit appliance based at least in part on the performance metrics.
US11374843B2	Method for measuring network speed, computing device, and computer-program product A method of measuring a network speed, a computing device, and a computer-program product are provided. The method includes: obtaining a downloading duration and a downloading byte count of each of N consecutive video segments upon receiving a network speed measurement command during downloading video content, wherein the video content comprises multiple video segments; calculating out a total downloading duration and a total downloading byte count of the N video segments according to the downloading duration and the downloading byte count of each of the N video segments; and calculating out a current network speed according to the total downloading duration and the total downloading byte count.
US11374838B1	Using a data processing unit (DPU) as a pre-processor for graphics processing unit (GPU) based machine learning A system includes a network adapter and a processor. The network adapter is configured to receive packets from a network, to process the received packets in accordance with a policy, and to derive a packet digest from the received packets. The processor is configured to adapt the policy based on the packet digest derived by the network adapter, and to provide the adapted policy to the network adapter for subsequent packet processing.
US11374837B2	Categorizing IP-based network traffic using DNS data A method and system for categorizing Internet Protocol (IP) based network traffic is configured to monitor domain name system (DNS) transactions between at least one customer device and a DNS service. The DNS transactions are used to populate a data table, which is used to enrich a data record (e.g., IPDR). In particular, an IP address and/or customer ID in the data record is used to look up the corresponding domain name in the data table, which is added to the data record. The enriched data record is used to categorize the IP traffic.
US11374833B2	System and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements.
US11374831B2	System and method to support network slicing in an MEC system providing automatic conflict resolution arising from multiple tenancy in the MEC environment A method for operating a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system in which tenant applications are provided by MEC tenants for deployment on MEC hosts of the MEC system. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of MEC tenants, an application package, the application package including application software be installed at one or more of the MEC hosts of the MEC system, the application software corresponding to a tenant application of the tenant applications. The method further includes assigning, to each of the plurality of MEC tenants, a set of at least one application management privilege, and receiving application operation requests issued by MEC tenants. The application operation requests specify operations to be performed for the tenant applications. The method additionally includes pre-validating, using the sets of at least one application management privilege assigned to the plurality of MEC tenants, the application operation requests.
US11374829B1	System, method, and computer program for determining a network situation in a communication network A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a determining a network situation in a communication network. In use, at least one threshold value of at least one operational parameter of a communication network is obtained, the at least one operational parameter representing at least one operational status of at least one of a computational device or a communication device. Additionally, log data of the communication network is obtained, the log data containing at least one value of the at least one operational parameter reported by at least one network entity of the communication network. The at least one value of the at least one operational parameter of the log data is compared with a corresponding threshold value of the at least one threshold value to form a detection of a network situation. Further, the detection of the network situation is reported if the at least one value of the at least one operational parameter of the log data traverses the corresponding threshold value of the at least one threshold value.
US11374824B2	Time-based visualization for network virtualization platform Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to time-based visualizations for network virtualization platforms (“NVPs”). A computer system can obtain data associated with an NVP. The data can include present state data associated with a present state of the NVP, past state data associated with a past state of the NVP, and future state data associated with a predicted future state of the NVP. The computer system can generate a visualization of the data associated with the NVP. The computer system can present a temporal management function that includes a plurality of selections representative of the present state, the past state, and the predicted future state. The computer system can receive a selection, from the plurality of selections, of the present state, the past state, or the predicted future state. The computer system can manipulate the visualization in accordance with the selection and output the visualization.
US11374822B2	Virtual stack setup Examples disclosed herein relate to a method comprising transmitting a first BLUETOOTH communication to a mobile device. The method may include transmitting a second BLUETOOTH communication including a first custom advertisement, a first custom service including a local port for establishing a VSF connection in the network topology including the master network switch, a neighbor port of another switch in the network topology and a MAC address of the another switch and a second custom service including a VSF link interface and a VSF member ID. The method may include receiving a first configuration of the master network switch and creating a second configuration for the network topology using the BLUETOOTH communication from the network switch and the first configuration of the master network switch. The method may also include transmitting the second configuration and establishing a VSF link between the master network switch and the member network switch.
US11374816B2	Dynamic network configuration during device installation One example method of operation may include receiving at a managing device an indication whether a first network device is a known network device, identifying a selected network mode of operation stored in memory of the managing device, and determining whether to cancel the selected network mode of operation based on whether the first network device is a known device.
US11374815B2	Network configuration diagram generate method and recording medium A network configuration diagram generate method executed by a computer, the method includes identifying, in a predetermined system in which a plurality of virtual machines are used, a location where each of the plurality of virtual machines is located and a communication destination with which each of the plurality of virtual machines communicates; determining, for each change in a configuration of the predetermined system, a relationship of a communication distance between the plurality of virtual machines by using the location and the communication destination, the configuration indicating a relationship of the plurality of virtual machines; extracting a difference between the relationship of the communication distance before the configuration change and the relationship of the communication distance after the configuration change; and generating a network configuration diagram in which the extracted difference is indicated.
US11374814B2	Network device configuration update using rank and health Systems and methods are provided for network device configuration update. A method includes selecting a group of network devices to receive a configuration update; ranking the network devices according to an importance; updating each of the network devices in order of the ranking, from least important to most important, comprising: generating a first health score for the network device, the first health score representing a performance level of the network device prior to the configuration update; updating a configuration of the network device according to the configuration update subsequent to generating the first health score; generating a second health score for the updated network device subsequent to updating the configuration of the network device; and responsive to the second health score being lower than the first health score by more than a predetermined score threshold, rolling back the configuration update for the network devices that have been updated.
US11374812B2	System and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes A system and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes one or more collectors and a remote network manager. The one or more collectors are configured to receive network traffic data from a plurality of network elements in the network. The remote network manager is configured to connect to the one or more collectors over the Internet via a network interface. The one or more collectors extract metadata from the network traffic data and send the metadata to the network manager.
US11374811B2	Automatically determining supported capabilities in server hardware devices Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically determining supported capabilities in server hardware devices are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes identifying multiple hardware devices associated with at least one server; determining one or more capabilities supported by at least a portion of the multiple identified hardware devices by processing data related to the at least one server and one or more of the multiple identified hardware devices; comparing the one or more determined capabilities supported by at least a portion of the multiple identified hardware devices to one or more parameters of a user-designated server configuration; and performing at least one automated action based at least in part on comparing the one or more determined capabilities supported by at least a portion of the multiple identified hardware devices to the one or more parameters of the user-designated server configuration.
US11374806B2	Cross-domain network assurance Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing cross-domain assurance for networks in different network domains. In some embodiments, a method can include collecting first fabric data for a first network in a first network domain and second fabric data for a second network in a second network domain. The second fabric data for the second network can be normalized based on the first network domain to create normalized second fabric data. The first fabric data can then be correlated with the normalized second fabric data to create correlated fabric data. Subsequently, assurance can be provided across the first network in the first network domain and the second network in the second network domain using the correlated fabric data.
US11374803B2	Quadrature error correction for radio transceivers Quadrature error correction (QEC) for radio transceivers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a transceiver includes an in-phase (I) signal path including a first controllable amplifier coupled to a first data converter, and a quadrature-phase (Q) signal path including a second controllable amplifier coupled to a second data converter. The transceiver further includes a QEC circuit operable to correct for a quadrature error between the I signal path and the Q signal path by adjusting a gain of the first controllable amplifier and/or a gain of the second controllable amplifier.
US11374798B2	Method for transmitting and receiving sounding reference signal in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for a terminal to transmit an SRS in a wireless communication system comprises: a step of receiving, from a base station, SRS configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information includes SRS bandwidth configuration information related to an SRS hopping pattern; and a step of determining, on the basis of the SRS bandwidth configuration information, a first parameter indicating the entire bandwidth allocated to the SRS, a second parameter indicating a bandwidth for hopping units of the SRS, and a third parameter indicating the number of hopping units of the SRS, and transmitting the SRS to the base station by applying the SRS hopping pattern configured on the basis of the first parameter, the second parameter, and the third parameter, wherein the value of the third parameter may be configured in association with the number of symbols constituting the SRS hopping pattern.
US11374793B2	Network segment allocation system and method When a subscriber terminal (100A) connects to the other party vCPE (310B), a communication system (1) determines whether a connection between the other party terminal (100B) and the other party vCPE (310B) and a connection between the subscriber terminal (100A) and the other party vCPE (310B) are to be established through the same network segment based on connection permission conditions of the other party vCPE (310B) and the subscriber terminal (100A), and the other party vCPE (310B) allocates a network segment, which is the same as or different from a network segment allocated to the other party terminal (100B), to the subscriber terminal (100A) according to the determination.
US11374788B2	Network system having master device carrying out part of a process and slave device carrying out remainder of the process A network system includes: a first master device configured to carry out, in every cycle, (i) a process of receiving data from a first slave device, (ii) a process of carrying out, in accordance with pre-allocation, a part of a first process with respect to the data, (iii) a process of transmitting data corresponding to a remainder of the first process to an outside entity in accordance with the pre-allocation and receiving a result corresponding the remainder of the first process, and (iv) a process of transmitting, to the first slave device, a result corresponding to the first process; and at least one second master device configured to transmit, to the first master device before a period allocated to the first process within the cycle ends, the result corresponding to the remainder of the first process with respect to the data received from the first master device.
US11374787B2	Switch device, communication control method, and communication control program A switch device installed in a vehicle is provided with: a switch unit configured to relay communication data between a plurality of function units installed in the vehicle; a storage unit configured to hold the communication data to be relayed; and a control unit configured to determine a state of the storage unit, and adjust, for each of applications, a throughput of the communication data to be transmitted from the function units, based on a result of the determination.
US11374786B2	Gateway device The invention realizes a gateway device capable of shortening the time required for routing to a CAN bus of the opposite microcomputer side and reducing the delay of data transfer. If the indexes are the same, a microcomputer 1 and a microcomputer 2 include common routing tables 10 and 20 in which the same contents are defined. The microcomputer 1 sends the index to the microcomputer 2. The microcomputer 2 that has received the index reads the routing rule defined in the common routing table 20 by the received index.
US11374784B2	Home-automation system for a building and building comprising such a home-automation system This home-automation system for a building comprises: home-automation equipment, distributed within areas of the building; and a communication network, to which the home-automation equipment is connected, and authorizing an inter-communication of the home-automation equipment according to a predefined communication protocol. The communication network is a hard-wired hierarchical network comprising: a first network of rank n; a plurality of sub-networks of lower hierarchical rank n−1, connected to the first network, each sub-network being associated with an area and containing at least one of the home-automation equipment items; each sub-network of the lower hierarchical rank n−1 being hooked up to the first network of rank n by a network equipment item.
US11374782B2	Method and apparatus for controlling electronic device The present disclosure relates to a technology for a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (TOT). The present disclosure can be utilized for intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of the above technology. The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for controlling operations of electronic devices. According to the present disclosure, a method for controlling electronic devices by a control device comprises the steps of: collecting, by the control device, sensing information through at least one sensor; determining, by the control device, a user's situation on the basis of the collected sensing information; displaying at least one candidate control mode among a plurality of pre-stored control modes on the basis of the result of the determination; receiving a selection input for selecting one control mode from the at least one displayed candidate control mode; and transmitting a control command for at least one electronic device which can be controlled in the one control mode, in response to the selection input.
US11374780B1	Usage-based device naming and grouping Systems and methods for usage-based device naming and grouping are disclosed. For example, trigger events that indicate when a device should be renamed, added to a device group, and/or added to a routine may be determined. Usage data representing usage of the device may be received and utilized to determine if a trigger event occurs. When a trigger event occurs, a recommendation for renaming, grouping, etc. may be determined and sent to a user device. Upon acceptance of the recommendation, the device may be renamed, grouped, and/or added to a routine.
US11374777B2	Feed processing A data processing system comprising: a processing subsystem supporting a plurality of consumers, each consumer being arranged to process messages received into a corresponding receive queue; a network interface device supporting a virtual interface for each of the receive queues; and a hardware accelerator coupled to the processing subsystem by the network interface device and configured to parse one or more streams of data packets received from a network so as to, for each consumer: identify in the data packets messages having one or more of a set of characteristics associated with the consumer; and frame the identified messages in a new stream of data packets addressed to a network endpoint associated with the virtual interface of the consumer so as to cause said new stream of data packets to be delivered into the receive queue of the consumer.
US11374770B2	Data integrity validation via degenerate keys Systems and methods for developing a novel public/private key pair having unique properties are disclosed, whereby standard data security operations in existing data security infrastructures return a data integrity validation result—but do not provide the intended data security of such infrastructures. These novel keys are referred to as degenerate keys and may be used to replace the public and private keys in existing public/private key cryptosystems. Because degenerate key data integrity validation may leverage existing data security infrastructures that are already widely-implemented, such examples may be applied immediately and configured to seamlessly transition from integrity only modes back to secure modes. In some instances, the degenerate key examples described herein may be employed during a software testing and/or factory validation stage of product development to allow for data integrity validation before burning in a developer's active (i.e., non-degenerate) key to the product, thereby pairing the software to the hardware.
US11374769B2	Efficient and secure distributed ledger maintenance An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to implement a first ledger maintenance node. The first ledger maintenance node is configured to communicate over one or more networks with a plurality of additional ledger maintenance nodes, to identify a block for proposed addition to a distributed ledger collectively maintained by the first and additional ledger maintenance nodes, to apply a digital signature of the first ledger maintenance node to the block, and to receive digital signatures on the block from at least a subset of the additional ledger maintenance nodes. Responsive to receipt of sufficient digital signatures from respective ones of the additional ledger maintenance nodes to meet a specified quorum of digital signatures required for addition of the block to the distributed ledger, the first ledger maintenance node adds the block to the distributed ledger.
US11374766B2	Devices and methods for key attestation with multiple device certificates A device with key attestation features comprises an operating system stored in its memory, the operating system comprising a secure environment including a trusted application, and two or more device certificates, each associated with a device key pair, stored in the memory of the device. The trusted application is configured to handle key pair generation requests and key pair attestation requests to read an indication of a preferred device certificate. An attestation certificate that is generated in response to the key pair attestation request is then signed using one of the two or more device certificates with its associated device key pair based on the indication of a preferred device certificate.
US11374765B2	Process for managing escrow payments between multiple parties A distributed project management system especially suited for construction projects and administered by third party Application Service provider (ASP) in communication with a plurality of remote client computers and providing a dashboard to each party including a general contractor dashboard that facilitates development of a smart contract based on a project template. Each party's dashboard is configured to review, negotiate and accept the project template, whereupon the ASP compiles it into a distributed private blockchain transaction ledger that is updated based on communications from the various dashboards. The ASP determines whether transactions meet a condition of the smart contract, and updates and validates the distributed transaction record ledger. All notices, reports, disbursements, and fund transfers necessary to pay all of the subcontractors and contractor are completed electronically. The process is condensed from months into mere days, it eliminates unreliable verbal notifications, and is impervious to fraud and/or mistake.
US11374764B2	Clock-synced transient encryption A request for a transaction between a client system and a server system may be processed. The transaction may be associated with transmission of data between the client system and the server system. The data may be encrypted using a transient encryption key to form encrypted data. The transient encryption key may be a synced-clock random number configured to automatically change when a designated time interval elapses. The encrypted data may be transmitted between the client system and the server system.
US11374762B2	Certifying authenticity of data modifications An example operation may include one or more of receiving, at a data provider, a data file from a data modifier which comprises a modification to an initial content state of a data file, generating a hash value of the initial content state of the data file prior to modification and generating a hash value of a modified content state of the data file after the modification, and transmitting the generated hash values to a blockchain peer node for inclusion within one or more data blocks among a hash-linked chain of data blocks.
US11374760B2	Cyber physical key A system manages access to an asset using a separate physical cryptographically-secure key device. A memory stores a public key as an unalterable record. An access configuration controller reads the public key from the memory to control the access to the asset. The public key is cryptographically paired with a private key securely recorded in the separate physical cryptographically-secure key device. The access configuration controller receives an access control change instruction signed by the private key and verifies a valid signing of the access control change instruction by the private key using the public key read from the memory. A storage system secured by the access configuration controller stores access authorization records managing access to the asset. The access configuration controller alters access authorization records according to the access control change instruction, responsive to verification of the valid signing of the access control change instruction.
US11374758B2	Transceiver and transceiver systems A transceiver is disclosed including a transmitter designed to output a first signal according to a physical communication protocol, and to output a second signal comprising at least one cryptographic datum. The first and the second signal may be overlaid onto one another as an overlay signal at the output of the transceiver, and may comply with the physical communication protocol. The overlay signal may be received and processed by a receiver.
US11374756B1	Tracking apparel items using distributed ledgers Methods and systems enabling tracking and managing apparel items are described. The apparel item (e.g. clothing item, shoes, accessories, jewelry and other type of wearables) is tagged and tracked using an inimitable identification tag that is at least partially invisible to the naked human eye, and generating a record of the apparel item in a distributed ledger using the tag data of the inimitable identification tag. The record is associated with a non-fungible token (NFT) on the ledger that allows for tracking the item throughout its life. For example, it is possible to locate and authenticate the apparel item by using the private key associated with the NFT of the token. The apparel item may be tracked starting from a manufacturing phase of the apparel and extending throughout the lifespan of the apparel item. The authenticity of the apparel item can be shown throughout the manufacturing, distribution and ownership stages.
US11374754B2	System and method for generating trust tokens A trust token may be created including authentication data for a user and his or her associated communication device. The trust token may be transmitted by the communication device to one or more recipients, such as a token server. The recipients may interpret the trust token and verify it against data written to one or more nodes of a blockchain when the user and the communication device registered for the trust token. Once the trust token is verified, the token server may be configured to generate, maintain, and provision account tokens representing sensitive data. The token server may push one or multiple account tokens to the communication device, thereby allowing the communication device to perform transactions with the account tokens. In other words, the implementation of a trust token may allow the communication device to be provisioned with multiple account tokens, without requiring multiple logins or transmissions of sensitive data.
US11374752B2	Secure transactions for in-flight entertainment systems Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for performing secure transactions in an aircraft are disclosed. Embodiments of the disclosed technology enable low cost carriers to provide payment verification for on-board purchases via the in-flight entertainment system. An exemplary method for performing secure transactions in an aircraft includes transmitting, by a user device in the aircraft using a wireless protocol, a first authentication factor and a request for one or more on-board services; receiving, from an on-board transceiver using the wireless protocol, an authentication token (a) comprising a one-time code and (b) encrypted using an asymmetric cryptographic algorithm; transmitting, using the asymmetric cryptographic algorithm, a second authentication factor comprising (a) the authentication token and (b) a text message transmitted from the user device; and receiving a confirmation of a delivery of the one or more on-board services.
US11374751B2	Password based key derivation function for NTP Systems, methods and devices for adding key chain and key derivative functions (KDF) support for Network time protocol (NTP) authentication using password based key derivation functions-NTP (PBKDF-NTP) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating time bound multiple short lived keys instead of long lived keys for NTP security which ensures that attacker will not get enough time to crack the key values. The usage of time bound multiple short lived keys instead of long lived keys for NTP security will ensure that attacker will not get enough time to crack the key values within key lifetime. Hence man-in-middle attack can be avoided in NTP.
US11374749B2	Key encryption key (KEK) rotation for multi-tenant (MT) system An example method facilitates enabling Key Encryption Key (KEK) rotation for a running multi-tenant system without requiring system downtime or interruption. The example method facilitates decrypting a set of one or more DEKs using a preexisting KEK; using a new KEK to re-encode the DEKs using the new KEK, all while simultaneously enabling servicing of tenant requests. This is enabled in part, by strategic caching of tenant DEKs in a secure local memory, wherein the cached tenant DEKs are maintained in the clear and are readily accessible to running processes that are using the DEKs to decrypt and access tenant data, irrespective of the state of a background process used to implement the KEK rotation to the new KEK.
US11374743B2	Share generating device, share converting device, secure computation system, share generation method, share conversion method, program, and recording medium A share generating device obtains N seeds s0, . . . , sN−1, obtains a function value y=g(x, e)∈Fm of plaintext x∈Fm and a function value e, and obtains information containing a member yi and N−1 seeds sd, where d∈{0, . . . , N−1} and d≠i, as a share SSi of the plaintext x in secret sharing and outputs the share SSi. It is to be noted that the function value y is expressed by members y0∈Fm(0), . . . , yN−1∈Fm(N−1), which satisfy m=m(0)+ . . . +m(N−1).
US11374741B2	Systems and methods for data provenance assurance A system comprises one or more storage entities (SEs) each configured to store data for applications that rely on higher levels of data integrity, wherein each of the SEs has its own cryptographic identity in the form of a unique root identity key pair of public and private keys created at manufacturing time. Each SE generates one or more SE-specific asymmetric data owner keys upon invocation of a smart contract by a prospective data owner. The system further comprises a distributed ledger provisioned to the SEs and configured to maintain all public keys and/or public key certificates of the SEs. The system also comprises a key manager configured to hold all SE-specific data owner public keys and SE data access control keys, wherein the data stored on the SEs is protected by the SE-specific data access control keys wrapped by the SE-specific data owner keys based on current data ownership.
US11374737B2	Method of response signal processing in traction power networks A method of response signal processing applied in traction power networks, comprising establishing an data transmission channel between a target and a backend terminal through a relay router in a power distribution room; delivering a temperature-humidity information to the backend terminal by the target through the data transmission channel, and a response signal being delivered to the relay router; the relay router determining a second signal to noise ratio (SNR) according to a first SNR of the data transmission channel responded from the target when a noise ratio (NR) adjusting requirement is satisfied; the relay router determining a first identification of encryption algorithm based on the second SNR, and transmitting the first identification of encryption algorithm to the target. The present invention avoids the needs for retransmitting encrypted response signals for several times during transmission between the backend terminal and the charging controller.
US11374735B2	Processing apparatus, processing method, storage medium, and encryption processing system A processing apparatus includes at least one processor configured to function as: an input unit that receives encrypted data based on homomorphic encryption; and a process execution unit that executes a predetermined process by using the encrypted data while maintaining a secret state and includes one or more processing units. At least one of the processing units is a multiplication corresponding processing unit for executing a calculation corresponding to a processing of multiplying plaintext data by a predetermined multiplier. The multiplication corresponding processing unit generates a first calculation result based on a first multiplier component of the predetermined multiplier that is not used in a calculation of encrypted data, generates a second calculation result by executing a calculation to encrypted data in a ciphertext space corresponding to multiplication of the plaintext data by a second multiplier component of the predetermined multiplier other than the first multiplier component, and outputs the first calculation result and the second calculation result in association with each other.
US11374734B2	Method and system for key distribution and exchange for data processing accelerators A system is disclosed that receives, at a host system from a data processing (DP) accelerator, an accelerator identifier (ID) that uniquely identifies the DP accelerator, wherein the host system is coupled to the DP accelerator over a bus. The system transmits the accelerator ID to a predetermined trusted server over a network. The system receives a certificate from the predetermined trusted server over the network, the certificate certifying the DP accelerator. The system extracts a public root key (PK_RK) from the certificate for verification, the PK_RK corresponding to a private root key (SK_RK) associated with the DP accelerator. The system establishes a secure channel with the DP accelerator using the PK_RK based on the verification to exchange data securely between the host system and the DP accelerator.
US11374733B2	Synchronisation symbol detector A synchronisation symbol detector that comprises two correlation modules and a comparison module. The first correlation module performs one or more correlations between the input signal and a down-converted version of the input signal and generates a first correlation metric from the one or more first correlations. The second correlation module performs one or more second correlations between the input signal and an up-converted version of the input signal and generates a second correlation metric from the one or more second correlations. The comparison module is configured to compare the first correlation metric and the second correlation metric and determine whether the input signal comprises a synchronisation symbol based on the comparison.
US11374729B2	Audio synchronization processing circuit and method thereof An audio synchronization processing method is provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving an input request signal; in response to receiving the input request signal, starting performing a counting operation according to a basic clock signal; outputting an output request signal according to a sampling-clock signal; in response to outputting the output request signal, stopping performing the counting operation to obtain a counting value; determining whether synchronization has been achieved based on the counting value; and in response to determining that the synchronization has not been reached, adjusting a frequency of the sampling-clock signal according to the counting value.
US11374718B2	Channel state information reporting without uplink shared channel A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to indicate, for channel state information, CSI, reporting, a configuration of a physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, without associated shared channel data, at least in part by: toggling a new data indicator and setting a modulation and coding scheme field where the set modulation and coding scheme field lacks an indication of a target code rate. Optionally CSI reporting is received based at least in part on the indication for CSI reporting.
US11374717B2	Method and device for determining resources for control channel, and computer storage medium A method and device for determining resources for a control channel, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a terminal receives a first synchronization signal block (SSB), and determines, based on the first SSB, that a serial number of a starting slot of a first monitoring window of a first downlink control channel in a radio frame is: n 0 = ( O · 2 μ + ⌊ i · M ⌋ ) ⁢ mod ⁡ ( 1 2 · N slot frame , μ ) ⁢ ⁢ or , ⁢ n 0 = ( O · 2 μ + ⌊ i · M ⌋ ) ⁢ mod ⁡ ( 1 2 · N slot frame , μ ) + 1 2 · N slot frame , μ · HRF , where n0 is the serial number of the starting slot of the first monitoring window in the radio frame, Nslotframe,μ is the number of slots in the radio frame, M and O are determined through resource configuration information in a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) of the first SSB, μ is determined through a subcarrier spacing of the first downlink control channel, HRF is a serial number of a half frame, and i is a serial number of the first SSB.
US11374716B2	Communication method and communication apparatus This application discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, reference signal configuration information sent by a network device, where the reference signal configuration information includes at least one of the following information: a beam sweeping type and a reference signal beam indication; receiving, by the terminal device, a reference signal and data that are sent by the network device; and determining, by the terminal device based on the reference signal configuration information, whether data can be mapped onto another resource element that is located on a same orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol as the reference signal. The corresponding apparatus is further disclosed. According to technical solutions provided in this application, reliable data reception can be implemented.
US11374715B2	Adaptive demodulation reference signals in wireless communication systems The described technology is generally directed towards adapting the demodulation reference signal sent in a wireless resource data block based on channel estimation performance. In general, if the demodulation reference signal received was not successfully able to be used to demodulate the resource data block, the demodulation reference signal density can be increased up to a maximum density, which costs resource elements but improves the channel estimation accuracy. If the demodulation reference signal received was able to be used to demodulate the resource data block, the demodulation reference signal density can be decreased down to minimum density, which saves resource elements for data. The network device can use HARQ ACK/NACK data (e.g., a current count or counted over a time period) to determine channel estimation performance, and/or the user equipment can recommend a demodulation reference signal density change.
US11374713B2	Method and device for transmitting a sounding reference signal A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, includes receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the SRS configuration indicating a subframe configured for SRS transmission, wherein the SRS configuration includes an indicator indicating whether an aperiodic SRS transmission or a periodic SRS transmission is performed in the subframe configured for SRS transmission; based on the indicator indicating that the aperiodic SRS transmission is performed, receiving request information for requesting a transmission of an SRS and aperiodically transmitting the SRS in the configured subframe; and based on the indicator indicating that the periodic SRS transmission is performed, periodically transmitting the SRS in the configured subframe.
US11374711B2	Reciprocal channel sounding reference signal multiplexing Systems and techniques are disclosed to enhance the efficiency of available bandwidth between UEs and base stations. A UE transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) to the base station. The base station characterizes the uplink channel based on the SRS received and, using reciprocity, applies the channel characterization for the downlink channel. As part of applying the channel information, the base station forms the beam to the UE based on the uplink channel information obtained from the SRS. The UE may include an array of antennas, each UE transmitting a different SRS that the base station receives and uses to characterize the downlink. Multiple UEs (or a single UE with multiple antennas) transmit SRS at the same time and frequency allocation (non-orthogonal), but with each sending its own unique SRS. Further, multiple UEs (or a single UE with multiple antennas) may send their SRS at unique time/frequency allocations (orthogonal).
US11374707B2	PRB bundling extension According to certain embodiments, a transmitting node for transmitting data to a receiving node is provided. The transmitting node is operable at least in a dynamic bundling size mode and includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured, when operating in the dynamic bundling size mode, to provide the receiving node with an indication of bundling control information representing at least a number L of slots. The processing circuitry transmits data in L consecutive slots using a constant first precoding setting and transmit data in subsequent L consecutive slots using a constant second precoding setting. The first and second precoding settings are independently assignable.
US11374699B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with sliding window feedback This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first HARQ frame may include initial transmissions of a first plurality of forward error correction (FEC) codewords. The HARQ protocol may support new techniques for feedback, such as a feedback capability in which a bitmap may be used to indicate decoding failures of codewords. The first feedback message may include indicators to change a HARQ configuration parameter based on channel conditions. In some implementations, the second HARQ frame may combine retransmissions regarding the failed codewords with initial transmissions of a second plurality of codewords.
US11374696B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process partitioning Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a mapping between a plurality of sets of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and a corresponding plurality of HARQ process types. The UE may configure one or more HARQ processes of the UE based at least in part on the indication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a UE, an indication of a mapping between a plurality of sets of HARQ processes and a corresponding plurality of HARQ process types. The base station may select a HARQ process, of the plurality of HARQ processes, to be used for a communication with the UE based at least in part on the mapping. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11374693B2	Terminal and radio communication method for transmitting and receiving uplink control information (UCI) A terminal is disclosed that includes a processor that determines a cyclic shift to be applied to a demodulation reference signal, based on a plurality of candidates configured by higher layer signaling and based on a field, for indicating a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for an uplink control information (UCI), included in a downlink control information. The terminal further includes a transmitter that transmits the UCI using a PUCCH format, in which the determined cyclic shift is applied to the demodulation reference signal and to which an orthogonal code having a sequence length less than 5 is applied, where the processor controls a frequency-domain orthogonal cover code (freq-domain OCC) to be applied for the PUCCH format, and where a number of bits of the UCI is more than 2. In other aspects, a base station and another terminal are also disclosed.
US11374690B2	Information processing apparatus, communication system, information processing method and program An information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control for adding, to request information for requesting a different apparatus for a confirmation response to a plurality of data transmitted to the different apparatus, notification information. The notification information is information regarding at least sequence numbers other than a start sequence number from among sequence numbers corresponding to the plurality of data. Further, the control unit transmits the request information, to which the notification information is added, to the different apparatus.
US11374683B1	Physical layer preamble for wireless local area networks A communication device generates a legacy portion of a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a PHY data unit. The legacy portion includes a plurality of legacy training fields and a legacy signal field that indicates a duration of the PHY data unit. The communication device generates a non-legacy portion of the PHY preamble to include a multi-bit signal field header to indicate a packet type of the PHY data unit from among a plurality of packet types defined by a wireless communication protocol, the plurality of packet types corresponding to a plurality of non-legacy signal field formats. The communication device generates a non-legacy portion of the PHY preamble to also include a non-legacy signal field having a field format i) selected from the plurality of non-legacy signal field formats and ii) consistent with the packet type indicated by the multi-bit signal field header.
US11374682B2	Method and apparatus for encoding data using a polar code Embodiment techniques map parity bits to sub-channels based on their row weights. In one example, an embodiment technique includes allocating, from a set of sub-channels, one or more sub-channels for one or more parity bits based on row weights for sub-channels in a subset of sub-channels within the set of sub-channels, mapping information bits to remaining sub-channels in the set of sub-channels based on a reliability of the remaining sub-channels without mapping any of the information bits to the one or more sub-channels allocated for the one or more parity bits, polar encoding the information bits and the one or more parity bits based on at least the mapping of the information bits to the remaining sub-channels to obtain encoded bits, and transmitting the encoded bits to another device.
US11374671B2	Physical cell identifier (PCI) selection based on primary synchronization signal (PSS) waveform Aspects relate to a physical cell identifier (PCI) change within a wireless network based on a primary synchronization signal (PSS) waveform. A scheduling entity, such as an integrated-access-backhaul (IAB) node within a radio access network (RAN), may communicate with a set of one or more scheduled entities, such as other IAB nodes and/or user equipment (UEs), utilizing a first PCI. The scheduling entity may then change from the first PCI to a second PCI, where the second PCI corresponds to a different PSS waveform than the first PCI. In some examples, the scheduling entity may change the PCI as a result of a PCI collision and/or PSS collision with a neighboring scheduling entity.
US11374670B2	Receiving device, transmitting device, and data processing method The present technology relates to a receiving device, a transmitting device, and a data processing method which are capable of providing a broadcast service using a wide bandwidth more flexibly. A receiving device processes a stream in which delivery configuration information indicating that the stream of the broadcast service is delivered across a predetermined frequency band is included in transmission information which is transmitted through an upper layer higher than a physical layer, the stream having a delivery configuration corresponding to the delivery configuration information, so that a broadcast service using a wider bandwidth can be provided. The present technology can be applied to a FW proxy device connected to a network such as, a home LAN, a head end of a cable operator, a base station of a mobile network, or the like.
US11374669B2	Phase spectrum based delay estimation method and module A phase spectrum based delay estimating method of tracking channel responses, extracting phase responses from the tracked channel responses, and generating a delay estimate, wherein the delay estimate is based on a slope and intercept estimates of the extracted phase responses with high quality metric to improve delay estimation, and a system thereof.
US11374667B2	Localizing communications interference node A system comprises a computer including a processor. The processor receives from each of a plurality of vehicles within a region, a respective plurality of messages and identifies for each of the plurality of vehicles, a respective communications discontinuity during which an expected message fails to be received from the respective vehicle. The processor determines, for each communications discontinuity, discontinuity edge locations at each of a beginning of the communications discontinuity and an end of the communications discontinuity. The processor further determines an interference node location based on the discontinuity edge locations.
US11374664B2	Optimization of a multiple-input synchronous transfer network A method for wireless communication is provided. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, by a first device, a first packet from a second device in a network. The method further includes comparing, by the first device, a first received signal strength of the first packet to a second received signal strength of a second packet associated with a third device, the third device associated with the first device in the network. The method further includes transmitting, by the first device and based on to the comparing, a third packet to the second device, the third packet indicating a disassociation of the first device with the third device and an association of the first device with the second device.
US11374663B2	Variable-frequency smoothing A method includes receiving a set of time domain samples representing audio captured using one or more microphones, and generating, from the time domain samples, a spectrum comprising a set of frequency domain coefficients, each coefficient representing a frequency bin corresponding to a range of frequencies. The method also includes adjusting the spectrum to generate a smoothed spectrum, wherein generating the smoothed spectrum includes determining that a magnitude of a first frequency domain coefficient is less than a threshold, and in response, replacing the first frequency domain coefficient by a value computed as a function of a plurality of frequency domain coefficients that include the first frequency domain coefficient. The method further includes generating an audio signal based on time domain samples computed using the smoothed spectrum.
US11374662B2	Automatic receiver chain supervision In some embodiments, a method of operation of a node to monitor for faults in a receiver subsystem of a radio node comprises estimating a noise floor for each receiver chain of a plurality of receiver chains in the receiver subsystem of the radio node for each of one or more carriers to thereby provide a plurality of noise floor estimates. The method further comprises determining average received power for each receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains in the receiver subsystem of the radio node for each of one or more carriers to thereby provide a plurality of average received power measurements. The method further comprises determining that there is a fault in the receiver subsystem of the radio node based on at least one of (a) a subset of the plurality of noise floor estimates and (b) a subset of the plurality of average received power measurements.
US11374661B2	Generalized virtual PIM measurement for enhanced accuracy An apparatus, method and work product is disclosed. The method comprises measuring plural transmit signals and corresponding receive signals and determining, using a model describing a relation between each of the plural transmit signals and a respective passive intermodulation signal, a standardized passive intermodulation signal as one or more nth order intermodulation products for a standardized transmit signal consisting of two tones each of a power of substantially 20 Watts. The method may also comprise identifying in the model one or more nth order cross-intermodulation products resulting from three or more transmit signals having different respective carrier frequencies. Responsive to the identification, the method may comprise adapting the standardized two-tone passive intermodulation signal by determining an offset for producing an adapted two-tone standardized passive intermodulation signal, n is an odd integer greater than two.
US11374660B2	Connecting ultrasound-incapable client devices to collaboration devices In one example embodiment, a server obtains a labeled fingerprint of an ultrasound-capable client device. Based on the labeled fingerprint, the server determines that the ultrasound-capable client device is in physical proximity with a collaboration endpoint. The server subsequently obtains an unlabeled fingerprint of an ultrasound-incapable client device. Based on the unlabeled fingerprint and the labeled fingerprint, the server determines that the ultrasound-incapable client device is a meeting attendee device for a collaboration meeting to which the collaboration endpoint is connected. In response to determining that the ultrasound-incapable client device is the meeting attendee device for the collaboration meeting, the server connects the ultrasound-incapable client device to the collaboration endpoint.
US11374658B2	Method and apparatus for wireless communications Embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented in the form of a method or corresponding apparatus for receiving or transmitting network communications carried at acoustic wavelengths via an acoustic medium. The corresponding method or apparatus may include a gate-level digital hardware module communicatively coupled to a communications module and define therein logic blocks configured to perform respective primitive processing functions, sequences of the logic blocks being capable of processing data units in accordance with any of the multiple communications protocols on a data unit-by-data unit basis without reconfiguring. According to some embodiments, the gate-level digital hardware module may be configured to process a data unit in accordance with a first communications protocol by directing the data unit through a first sequence of logic blocks, and process a subsequent data unit in accordance with a second communications protocol by directing the subsequent data unit through a second of sequence logic blocks.
US11374657B2	Wireless communication system, accommodation station apparatus and wireless communication method To n antenna elements of the base station, n wavelengths set at predetermined intervals in a range in which chromatic dispersion in an optical fiber between accommodation and base stations can be regarded as constant are assigned. The accommodation station adjusts the phases of optical signals of the wavelengths or modulated signals that modulate the optical signals such that the amounts of phase shift of their RF signals are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station transmits beacon signals multiple times while varying a transmission phase shift interval α1 and the terminal transmits beacon number information of a beacon signal selected based on received power multiple times. The accommodation station varies a reception phase shift interval α2 for each piece of beacon number information to determine a reception phase shift interval α2 which maximizes the received power and determines the transmission phase shift interval α1 based on the beacon number information received from the terminal.
US11374656B2	Optical wireless communication system, wireless transmitting/receiving apparatus and optical wireless communication method A wireless transmitter/receiver generates a first signal which notifies timing of a time slot allocated to each wireless station device, a conversion unit converts the first signal into an optical signal, and each of a plurality of antenna units converts the first signal from the optical signal into an electrical signal and transmits the electrical signal wirelessly. The wireless station device transmits a second signal at the timing reported by the first signal. Each of the plurality of antenna units converts the second signal wirelessly received from each wireless station device into an optical signal, and the conversion unit converts the second signal from the optical signal into an electrical signal. The wireless transmitter/receiver calculates, for each wireless station device, a transmission delay by using a difference between a reception time of the second signal and a reception time of a signal transmitted at the allocated timing by the wireless station device when it is assumed that there is no transmission delay. The wireless transmitter/receiver determines guard time between the time slots allocated to the wireless station devices based on the transmission delays of the wireless station devices.
US11374654B2	Extended transit time array photodetector combiner (ETT-APC) High-performance ultra-wideband Phased Array Antennas (PAA) are disclosed, having unique capabilities, enabled through photonic integrated circuits and novel optical architectures. Unique capabilities for PAA systems are enabled by photonic integration and ultra-low-loss waveguides. Novel aspects include optical multiplexing combining wavelength division multiplexing and/or a novel extension to array photodetectors, providing the capability to combine many RF photonic signals with very low loss. Architectures include tunable optical up-conversion and down-conversion systems, moving a chosen frequency band between baseband and a high RF frequency band with high dynamic range. Simultaneous multi-channel RF beamforming is achieved through power combining/splitting of optical signals.
US11374651B2	Satellite system and method for addressing rain fade A method for operating a satellite, wherein a beam frequency-assignment schedule for the satellite is based on rain fade information. And a communications payload for a satellite that is capable of implementing the changes required by the schedule.
US11374646B2	Systems and devices for wireless communication through an electromagnetically shielded window Systems and devices are provided in which an RF wireless bridge is employed to facilitate indirect transmission of communication signals between external devices located outside of an electromagnetically shielding enclosure within internal devices located within the enclosure, via the intermediate transmission of RF waves through an RF attenuating window forming a portion of the enclosure. The wireless bridge is formed from a first RF communication device located within the electromagnetically shielding enclosure, and a second RF communication device located outside of the enclosure, where the two RF communication devices are positioned with sufficient proximity such that the wireless bridge facilitates indirect communication through the RF attenuating window despite attenuation of RF energy by the RF attenuating window. In another example embodiment, the electromagnetically shielding enclosure may enclose at least a portion of the first RF communication device to reduce noise that could impact the performance of the magnetic resonance scanner.
US11374640B2	Selecting a transmission rank in a multiple beam antenna system A method performed by a first radio node for selecting a transmission rank is provided. The radio node is capable of using at least a first antenna beam and a second antenna beam for communication with a second radio node in a wireless communication network. The radio node communicates with the second radio node by using the first antenna beam and a first transmission rank. The radio node obtains second radio parameters for the second antenna beam. The radio node then selects a second transmission rank based on the obtained second radio parameters. The second transmission rank is to be used for communication with the second radio node in the second beam. The selection of the second transmission rank is triggered before obtaining any Rank Indicator (RI) for the second antenna beam.
US11374639B2	Method and apparatus for transmission and reception in backhaul link in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the first network node transmitting a second transmission to a UE (User Equipment) in at least a first symbol of a first TTI (Transmission Time Interval). The method further includes the first network node transmitting a first transmission to a second network node in at least a second symbol of a second TTI, wherein the first TTI is TTI-level aligned to the second TTI and the first symbol is at least partially overlapped with the second symbol in time domain.
US11374635B2	Method and apparatus for sensor assisted beam selection, beam tracking, and antenna module selection The present disclosure includes a method and apparatus for sensor assisted beam selection. A method for sensor assisted beam selection includes receiving an input from a sensor indicating a presence of an obstacle proximate to the sensor. The method further includes identifying an antenna module proximate to the sensor. The method further includes deactivating at least a portion of the identified antenna module based on the input from the sensor.
US11374633B2	Low cost power efficient antenna switch diversity and cyclic delay diversity transceiver Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine to operate in an antenna switch diversity mode to transmit an uplink signal according to an antenna switching pattern, the antenna switching pattern comprising switching between a first transmit chain coupled to a first antenna and a second transmit chain coupled to a second antenna. The UE may transmit at least a first portion of the uplink signal using the first transmit chain coupled to the first antenna, the first transmit chain coupled to the first antenna. The UE may transmit at least a second portion of the uplink signal using the second transmit chain coupled to the second antenna, the second transmit chain coupled to the second antenna.
US11374630B2	Method for reporting channel state information by means of terminal in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from a base station, wherein the CSI-RS is related to at least one panel of an antenna array of the base station; generating CSI on the basis of the CSI-RS and a codebook according to a specific shape of the at least one panel; and reporting the CSI to the base station.
US11374629B2	Methods for providing channel state information and precoding information between a remote radio unit and a baseband unit This disclosure relates to a method for providing channel state information (CSI) from a remote radio unit (RRU) to a baseband unit (BBU), the method comprising: determining CSI for each user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs based on a reference signal received from the respective UE; generating a plurality of correlation coefficients based on the CSI; and providing the plurality of correlation coefficients to the BBU.
US11374623B2	Connected isochronous stream swapping Devices and methods for connected isochronous stream (CIS) swapping are disclosed. In an example Bluetooth™ setting, a smartphone can be connected to multiple earbuds. It is possible that both earbuds include microphones, but only one microphone is enabled at a given time. That is, only one of the CISes established between the smartphone and the earbuds is bidirectional, and the other is unidirectional. The disclosed techniques enable the CISes to be swapped between the earbuds so that the earbud with better microphone quality will have ownership of the bidirectional CIS.
US11374619B2	Data cable tool A data cable tool apparatus is disclosed. An example data cable tool apparatus includes a cable carrier having a connector cavity to receive a connector of a cable, and a lever having a tab depressor, pivotally coupled to the cable carrier, to move the tab depressor relative to the connector cavity of the cable carrier.
US11374618B2	Surface waveguide with a two-dimensional conductive surface surrounded by a conductive wall Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a surface wave based wireless connection to an electronic device are disclosed. One apparatus includes a surface wave guide that supports propagation of electro-magnetic waves over a two-dimensional conductive surface of the surface waveguide, wherein the two-dimensional conductive surface is treated to increase a surface reactance of the two-dimensional conductive surface over a frequency range of the electro-magnetic waves, while maintaining an insertion loss of the surface waveguide below a threshold. A first mode converter operates to couple electro-magnetic waves of a first mode to the two-dimensional conductive surface having a second mode, wherein the electro-magnetic waves of the second mode propagate across the two-dimensional conductive surface of the surface waveguide. At least a portion of the electro-magnetic waves of the two-dimensional conductive surface is coupled to an electronic device through a second mode converter of the electronic device.
US11374617B2	Frequency hopping A communications node operable to communicate with another communications node over a communications channel having a plurality of frequency resources, the communications node includes data defining a division of the communications channel into a plurality of contiguous sub-bands each having N frequency resources, wherein each frequency resource in a sub-band has a corresponding frequency resource in each of the other sub-bands, data defining an initial allocation of the frequency resources, a resource determination module operable to apply a frequency shift to the initially allocated frequency resources in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence to determine frequency resources to use for communicating information with the other communications node, wherein the frequency shift applied moves the initially allocated frequency resources to corresponding frequency resources in another sub-band, a transceiver for communicating information with the other communications node using the determined frequency resource.
US11374614B1	In-device coexistence for new radio A network control device, e.g., a gNB, receives a message from a communications device, e.g. a UE, indicating that the communications device is experiencing an in-device coexistence (IDC) problem, e.g. in the 52.6 GHz-71 GHz frequency range with respect to NR-U and WiGig. The message is one of: i) an IDC assistance message indicating that the victim system is Wi-Gig or ii) an antenna panel switch message requesting that the network control device instruct the communications device to change the antenna panel that it uses for uplink NR signaling. The network control device generates and sends a response message to the communications device including: a selected new frequency to be used by the communications device for uplink NR signaling or a selected different antenna panel to be used by the communications device for uplink NR signaling. The communications device implements the change reducing or avoiding the IDC problem.
US11374609B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving signals on multiple bands in wireless communication system A transceiver in a wireless communication system is provided. The transceiver includes a first circuit configured to convert a digital signal having a third bandwidth, a second circuit configured to separate the analog signal into a first analog signal corresponding to the first band and a second analog signal corresponding to the second band, up-convert the first analog signal and the second analog signal to generate a first radio frequency (RF) signal in the first band and a second RF signal in the second band, and output an RF signal having the third bandwidth, and a third circuit configured to separate the RF signal into the first RF signal and the second RF signal, adjust a phase of the first RF signal for beamforming in the first band, and adjust a phase of the second RF signal for beamforming in the second band.
US11374608B2	Radio-frequency front-end circuit and communication device Radio-frequency front-end circuit includes: first transfer circuit that transfers a 4G signal, a first antenna terminal connected to a first antenna, a second antenna terminal connected to a second antenna, and a switch that includes a first selection terminal and a second selection terminal. The first selection terminal is connected to the first transfer circuit, and the second selection terminal is connected to a second transfer circuit that transfers a 5G signal. The switch: when the first antenna is high in antenna sensitivity, connects the first antenna terminal to the first selection terminal, and connects the second antenna terminal to the second selection terminal; and when the second antenna is high in antenna sensitivity, connects the first antenna terminal to the second selection terminal, and connects the second antenna terminal to the first selection terminal.
US11374605B1	Self-diagnosis system for wireless transceivers with multiple antennas A wireless data communication radio includes a first transceiver configured to be coupled to a first antenna, and a second transceiver configured to be coupled to a second antenna. The second transceiver includes a multi-path detector. The wireless data communication radio transmits a radio signal via the first transceiver, receives the radio signal at the second transceiver, and determines, by the multi-path detector, that the radio signal, as received by the second transceiver, was transmitted by the first antenna and received by second antenna.
US11374602B2	System and method for signal interference rejection using human body communication A communication interference rejection system comprising a receiver operatively connected to a device connected to a body of a user. The receiver is configured to receive a signal transmitted through the body of the user, the signal comprising a data component and an interference component, the interference component due to human body antenna effect. The receiver is configured to integrate the signal using a relatively low-gain analog integrator and then digitally differentiate the output of said integration.
US11374601B2	Interleaving ADC error correction methods for Ethernet PHY A receiver circuit includes an interleaved ADC, a first delay circuit, a second delay circuit, a first processing channel, a second processing channel, and an interleaving ADC timing error detector circuit. The interleaved ADC includes a first ADC and a second ADC in parallel. The first delay circuit delays a first clock signal provided to the first ADC. The second delay circuit delays a second clock signal provided to the second ADC. The first processing channel processes data samples provided by the first ADC, and includes a first slicer. The second processing channel processes data samples provided by the second ADC, and includes a second slicer. The interleaving ADC timing error detector circuit controls delay of the first delay circuit and the second delay circuit based on an output signal of the first slicer, and an output signal or an input signal of the second slicer.
US11374597B2	Device and method for receiving data in a radio frequency transmission According to one aspect, an embodiment radio frequency receiver device comprises an input interface configured to receive a radio frequency signal of a given type and convert same into an electric signal, a detector configured to detect at least one voltage level in the electric signal, a pulse generator configured to generate at least one pulse train representative of the voltage levels detected, and a processing unit configured to determine the type of the radio frequency signal from the at least one pulse train.
US11374595B2	Method for selectively inverting words to be written to a memory and device for implementing same A method for selectively inverting a word to be written to a memory is provided. The memory includes memory cells, each memory cell allowing at least two values associated with at least one bit to be stored, the decision as to whether to invert a word being made depending on a number of vulnerable values, which number is determined on the basis of the data bits, of the inversion bit and of uneven check bits.
US11374590B2	Guaranteed data compression using intermediate compressed data Methods for converting an n-bit number into an m-bit number for situations where n>m and also for situations where n
US11374582B2	Semiconductor device and clock detector A semiconductor device includes a clock generator which receives an input clock and generates an output clock, a reference voltage generator which receives the input clock or the output clock, generates a sub-reference voltage in accordance with a frequency of the input clock or a frequency of the output clock, and generates a reference voltage using the sub-reference voltage and a preset error voltage, and a clock detector which receives the output clock, generates a first output voltage in accordance with the output clock, and compares the generated first output voltage with the reference voltage to output an error signal based on the output clock, wherein the preset error voltage is set in accordance with a degree of preset error of the output clock.
US11374581B2	Low power frequency synthesizing apparatus A technology related to an electronic circuit, specifically, a phase locked loop or a frequency synthesizing apparatus, is disclosed. The frequency synthesizing apparatus includes an injection locked frequency divider and a replica frequency divider having the same circuit configuration as the injection locked frequency divider. A control value required for self-oscillating at a target frequency using the replica frequency divider is determined. When the injection locked frequency divider fails injection locking on a first attempt, the injection locking may be attempted using the determined control value. On the first attempt, the control value of the injection locked frequency divider may be determined and stored in advance according to a temperature and a supply voltage.
US11374580B2	Charge pump phase locked loop with low controlled oscillator gain A PLL includes a phase-frequency-detector-and-charge-pump-circuit (PFDCPC) receiving a reference signal and divided signal, and generating a charge-pump current. A loop-filter is between output of the PFDCPC and a reference-voltage. A first voltage-to-current converter (V2I1) has low gain, and a second voltage-to-current converter (V2I2) has high gain. A low-gain-path is between outputs of the PFDCPC and V2I1, and a high-gain-path is between the outputs of the PFDCPC and V2I2. A current-controlled-oscillator receives an input signal, and generates an output signal. A loop divider divides the output signal by a divider-value, producing the divided signal. The low-gain-path runs directly from the PFDCPC, through the V2I1, to the input of the current-controlled-oscillator. The high-gain-path runs from the PFDCPC to the loop-filter, from a tap of the loop-filter to a low-pass filter through a current mirror, from a tap of the low-pass filter through the V2I2, to the input of the current-controlled-oscillator.
US11374575B1	Majority logic gate with non-linear input capacitors and conditioning logic A new class of logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. Input signals in the form of digital signals are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node which provides a majority function of the inputs. In the multi-input majority or minority gates, the non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels. In some examples, the nodes of the non-linear input capacitors are conditioned once in a while to preserve function of the multi-input majority gates.
US11374574B2	Linear input and non-linear output threshold logic gate A new class of logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates and threshold gates. Input signals in the form of analog, digital, or combination of them are driven to first terminals of non-ferroelectric capacitors. The second terminals of the non-ferroelectric capacitors are coupled to form a majority node. Majority function of the input signals occurs on this node. The majority node is then coupled to a first terminal of a capacitor comprising non-linear polar material. The second terminal of the capacitor provides the output of the logic gate, which can be driven by any suitable logic gate such as a buffer, inverter, NAND gate, NOR gate, etc. Any suitable logic or analog circuit can drive the output and inputs of the majority logic gate. As such, the majority gate of various embodiments can be combined with existing transistor technologies.
US11374571B2	Pad limited configurable logic device An integrated circuit provides a semiconductor die with I/O bond pads, a power bond pad, and a circuit ground pad. Each I/O bond pad is associated with an input circuit that has an input circuit output lead. Sets of digital logic functional circuitry on the die provide different digital logic functions. Each function includes logic input leads and logic output leads. Output circuits each have an output circuit in lead and an output circuit out lead. Strapping structures, such as vias, formed in the semiconductor die electrically couple input circuits to a selected set of digital logic functions and the selected set of digital logic functions to output circuit in leads. Upper level metal conductors couple output circuit out leads and selected I/O bond pads.
US11374566B2	Motion detection device A motion detection device includes an attached member on a vehicle body side, a sensor electrode configured to detect capacitance, and a sensor bracket. The sensor bracket has a sensor holding portion holding the sensor electrode and is attached to an inner surface of the attached member. The sensor holding portion includes a holding piece that extends from a side away from an inner surface of the attached member to a side approaching the inner surface and holds the sensor electrode, and the holding piece holds the sensor electrode at a position at which an axis of the sensor electrode is separated from the inner surface of the attached member by at least 15 mm or more.
US11374563B2	Method for controlling semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, a semiconductor part therebetween and first to third control electrodes between the first electrode and the semiconductor part. The semiconductor part includes first and third layers of a first-conductivity-type and second and fourth layers of a second-conductivity-type. The second, third and fourth layers are provided between the first layer and the first electrode, between the second layer and the first electrode, and between the first layer and the second electrode, respectively. To the first to third control electrodes, first to third voltages greater than the threshold voltage thereof are applied at first to third timings, respectively. The third, second and first voltages are reduced to a lower level than the threshold voltage at a fourth timing after the first to third timings, at a fifth timing after the fourth timing and at a sixth timing after the fifth timing, respectively.
US11374562B2	Efficient switching circuit A switching device includes a first leg having a plurality of transistors connected in series. The switching device also includes a second leg having a transistor, where the second leg is connected in parallel to plurality of transistors of the first leg. The switching device further includes a third leg having a diode, and the third leg has lower reverse recovery losses relative to the first leg and/or the second leg.
US11374556B2	Logic circuit, sequence circuit, power supply control circuit, switching power supply device A sequence circuit (1) includes a detector (2) that detects an occurrence of an event based on an input signal, an acceptor (4) that accepts the event whose occurrence has been detected by the detector, an inhibitor (4) that inhibits the acceptor from accepting another event for a first period using the acceptance of one event by the acceptor as a trigger, a clock pulse generator (3) that generates one or more clock pulses during a period after a second period shorter than the first period elapses from the start of the first period until the first period ends, a determiner (5) that determines a next state based on a current slate and the event accepted by the acceptor, and a latch (6) that latches the next state using the clock pulse. An output of the latch is the current state.
US11374553B2	Signal processing device and signal processing method A signal processing method performed by a processor of a signal processing device and includes: generating a fundamental matrix according to at least one set of fundamental coefficients; generating a phase-shifted matrix according to a predetermined phase shift and the fundamental matrix; and generating an output sequence according to an input sequence and the phase-shifted matrix. The set of fundamental coefficients is used to generate at least one bit of a code sequence, the output sequence is a phase-shifted version of the input sequence being shifted by k cycle(s), and k is the predetermined phase shift.
US11374547B2	Audio calibration of a portable playback device Disclosed herein are example techniques to facilitate calibrating a portable playback device. An example implementation involves determining that a playback device is to perform an equalization calibration of the playback device and initiating the equalization calibration. Initiating the equalization calibration involves (i) outputting audio content, (ii) capturing audio data representing reflections of the audio content within an area in which the playback device is located, (iii) determining an acoustic response of the area in which the playback device is located, (iv) selecting a stored acoustic response from the acoustic response database that is most similar to the determined acoustic response of the area in which the playback device is located, and (v) applying to the audio content, via the playback device, a set of stored audio calibration settings associated with the selected stored acoustic area response.
US11374545B2	Noise reduction of a MOS transistor operating as an amplifier or buffer There is provided a device that includes a MOS transistor and a bias circuit coupled to the MOS transistor. The bias circuit is configured to bias the MOS transistor thereby maintaining the MOS transistor outside of saturation. The MOS transistor is configured to operate as a buffer or an amplifier, while being outside of saturation.
US11374544B2	Capacitive-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifiers and associated methods A capacitive-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier includes a first chopper, a first gain stage, a capacitive isolation stage electrically coupled between inputs of the first gain stage and the first chopper, a second gain stage, a second chopper electrically coupled between outputs of the first gain stage and inputs of the second gain stage, clamping circuitry electrically coupled between the inputs of the first gain stage and a reference voltage rail, and a controller. The controller is configured to (a) detect a change in a first common-mode voltage exceeding a threshold value, the first common-mode voltage being a common-mode voltage at the inputs of the amplifier, and (b) in response to detecting the change in the first common-mode voltage exceeding the threshold value, cause the clamping circuitry to clamp the inputs of the first gain stage to the reference voltage rail.
US11374543B2	Amplifier system with reduced voltage swing According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide an amplifier system comprising a first phase shifter configured to generate, based on an input signal, a first signal and a second signal, the second signal being out of phase with the first signal, a first amplifier configured to apply a first gain to the first signal to produce a gain adjusted first signal, a second amplifier configured to apply a second gain to the second signal to produce a gain adjusted second signal, a second phase shifter configured to combine the gain adjusted first and second signals to produce an output signal, and a controller configured to identify a high voltage swing across the first amplifier and, in response to identifying the high voltage swing, adjust the first gain to reduce output power of the first amplifier and adjust the second gain to increase output power of the second amplifier.
US11374537B2	Magnetic flux bias for pulse shaping of microwave signals A technique relates to a pulse shaping of microwave signals. A nondegenerate mixing device receives signals and a time-varying magnetic flux via input ports. The nondegenerate mixing device uses the signals and the time-varying magnetic flux to generate an output signal on an output port, the output signal having a waveform profile set by the time-varying magnetic flux.
US11374536B2	Zero IF transmitter with decoupling between mixer and programmable gain stage A system includes a Zero IF transmitter having a mixer and a programmable gain stage. The Zero IF transmitter also includes an intermediate stage between the mixer and the programmable gain stage, wherein the intermediate stage is configured to decouple the mixer and the programmable gain stage.
US11374535B2	Ovenized MEMS One or more heating elements are provided to heat a MEMS component (such as a resonator) to a temperature higher than an ambient temperature range in which the MEMS component is intended to operate—in effect, heating the MEMS component and optionally related circuitry to a steady-state “oven” temperature above that which would occur naturally during component operation and thereby avoiding temperature-dependent performance variance/instability (frequency, voltage, propagation delay, etc.). In a number of embodiments, an IC package is implemented with distinct temperature-isolated and temperature-interfaced regions, the former bearing or housing the MEMS component and subject to heating (i.e., to oven temperature) by the one or more heating elements while the latter is provided with (e.g., disposed adjacent) one or more heat dissipation paths to discharge heat generated by transistor circuitry (i.e., expel heat from the integrated circuit package).

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