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US11419250B2	Noise suppression sheet A noise suppression sheet comprises a non-magnetic metal layer, a plurality of metal magnetic layers, and a plurality of insulating layers, and the metal magnetic layer and the insulating layer are alternately laminated on the non-magnetic metal layer. The noise suppression sheet can absorb and suppress noise generated from a circuit or the like in an electronic component by being mounted on the electronic component or the like. In the noise suppression sheet, noise is absorbed by each of the metal magnetic layers. Noise that is transmitted without being absorbed by the metal magnetic layer can be reflected by the non-magnetic metal layer and can be absorbed again by the metal magnetic layer, and hence the noise suppression sheet can suppress noise effectively.
US11419248B2	Display module and display device including heat dissipation layers The present invention provides a display module and a display device. By disposing a second heat dissipation layer between a first heat dissipation layer and a first substrate, and connecting the first heat dissipation layer with the second heat dissipation layer, heat in a driving chip is transmitted to the second heat dissipation layer and then directly transmitted to the first heat dissipation layer, thereby the display module allows the heat to be quickly distributed throughout the panel and reducing the temperature in the areas corresponding to the driving chip. Therefore, the present invention solves the technical problem that areas corresponding to driving chips have higher temperature when current display modules are in operation.
US11419246B2	Cooling electronic devices in a data center A thermosiphon includes a condenser; an evaporator that includes a fluid channel and a heat transfer surface, the heat transfer surface defining a plurality of fluid pathways in the fluid channel that extend through the fluid channel, the evaporator configured to thermally couple to one or more heat-generating electronic devices; and a transport member that fluidly couples the condenser and the evaporator, the transport member including a liquid conduit that extends through the transport member to deliver a liquid phase of a working fluid into the fluid pathways, the transport member further including a surface to vertically enclose the plurality of fluid pathways.
US11419241B2	Heat exchanging arrangement and subsea electronic system A heat exchanging arrangement for a subsea electronic system, the heat exchanging arrangement including: at least one pipe having an external surface; and at least one heat exchanging element arranged inside the at least one pipe and defining at least one internal passage for conducting a dielectric fluid through the at least one pipe; wherein the at least one heat exchanging element is arranged to press laterally outwards against an internal surface of the at least one pipe to establish a heat transfer bond between the at least one heat exchanging element and the at least one pipe. A subsea electronic system including the heat exchanging arrangement is also provided.
US11419240B2	Wireless charger and electronic apparatus set A wireless charger configured to charge a device includes: a charging base disposed at a lower portion of the vertical wireless charger; a support portion disposed over the charging base and configured to support the device being charged; a charging coil disposed in the support portion and configured to charge the device being charged; and a cross-flow fan disposed over the charging base, having a fan air outlet extending in a width direction of the support portion, and configured to dissipate heat away from the device being charged and/or the wireless charger through exhaust air. As such, a size of the vertical wireless charger in a length direction can be reduced, and the wind propagates in a straight line and covers a larger size of the wireless charger in the width direction, thereby improving heat dissipation and increasing wind propagation distance.
US11419236B2	Power connector for electronic equipment supported by a rack assembly An electronic system includes a rack assembly including a first rail and a second rail defining a first width therebetween and a chassis that supports electronic components and is insertable between the first rail and the second rail. The chassis includes a first side and a second side defining a second width therebetween that is less than the first width. The electronic system further includes a power connector coupled to the chassis and movable between a first position and a second position. The power connector and the second side define a third width when the power connector is in the first position. The power connector and the second side define a fourth width when the power connector is in the second position. The third width is greater than the first width and the fourth width is less than the first width.
US11419228B2	Locking mechanisms in separable and repairable devices Locking mechanisms and separable, repairable (e.g., electronic) devices having locking mechanisms are described herein. In one example, a locking mechanism includes a chassis having a base, a first side wall extending from a surface of the base, and a second side wall extending from the surface of the base. A cavity is provided in a volume formed by the first side wall, the second side wall, and the surface of the base, wherein the cavity is configured to receive a mating component of the device. The locking mechanism also includes a cantilevered plate having a first end and a second, opposite end, wherein the cantilevered plate is attached to the first side wall of the chassis at or adjacent to the first end, and wherein the second end of the cantilevered plate is positioned with the cavity.
US11419226B1	Rack-chassis interlock system An interlock system is provided that limits the ability of a user or seismic event to dislodge or partially remove more than one chassis from a rack at any one time. Thus, embodiments reduce the potential for the rack to be toppled by the weight of too many chassis extending from the rack at the same time. The interlock system includes a dynamic rail with locking blocks that move to engage hooks on the rear of the chassis. A trigger at each chassis slot is depressed with installation of a chassis. Upon the removal of any chassis, the associated trigger extends and causes the dynamic rail to be pulled down into a locking position in which the locking blocks engage the hooks on the remaining chassis, which prevents their removal.
US11419220B2	Polymer coatings and methods for depositing polymer coatings A method for protecting a substrate from corrosion, which method comprises in sequence: a first step including plasma polymerization of a precursor monomer and deposition of the resultant polymer onto at least one surface of a substrate; a second step including exposing the polymer to an inert gas in the presence of a plasma without further deposition of polymer onto the or each surface of the substrate; a third step including plasma polymerization of the precursor monomer used in the first step and deposition of the resultant polymer onto the polymer deposited in the first step so as to increase the thickness of the polymer; and optionally, a fourth step including exposing the polymer to an inert gas in the presence of a plasma without further deposition of polymer onto the or each surface of the substrate.
US11419219B2	Method for repairing conductor tracks A method for modifying an elongate structure including providing a fluid deposited onto the substrate, the fluid containing a dispersion of electrically polarizable nanoparticles and applying an AC voltage across a portion of the elongate structure so as to cause an alternating electric current to pass through the narrow section such that a break in the elongate structure is formed at the narrow section, the break being defined between a first broken end and a second broken end of the elongate structure, and then cause, when the break is formed, an alternating electric field to be applied to the fluid such that a plurality of the nanoparticles contained in the fluid are assembled to form a continuation of the elongate structure extending from the first broken end towards the second broken end so as to join the first and second broken ends.
US11419216B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes: a panel including a plurality of panel pads; a circuit board including a plurality of connection pads corresponding to the plurality of panel pads, respectively; and a layer disposed between the panel and the circuit board and including a plurality of conductive particles. The layer includes: an overlapping portion that overlaps the plurality of panel pads and the plurality of connection pads in a first direction; and a non-overlapping portion that does not overlap the plurality of panel pads and the plurality of connection pads in the first direction. In the non-overlapping portion, the conductive particles are adjacent to one side of one panel pad of adjacent panel pads in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11419214B2	Power supply module used in a smart terminal and power supply module assembly structure The present disclosure provides a power supply module used in a smart terminal and a power supply module assembly structure, the power supply module includes a substrate having first and second surfaces opposite to each other; a power passive element, an active element and a plurality of first conductive parts disposed at the substrate; the power passive element being independently disposed on the first surface of the substrate as a whole; wherein a maximum height of the power passive element disposed on the first surface of the substrate is greater than a sum of a maximum height of an element disposed on the second surface of the substrate and an half of the thickness of the substrate.
US11419209B2	Resin member and method for producing resin member A resin member is formed from a resin material containing filler and an insulating base polymer as a main component. The resin member includes an alignment layer close to a surface of the resin member. The alignment layer includes the filler aligned in the surface direction and the base polymer filling the space between pieces of the filler. The alignment layer includes a carbonized portion that is carbonized matter of the base polymer, contains graphite, and provides electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity.
US11419206B2	Circuit board structure for increasing isolation A circuit board structure for improving isolation is provided. The circuit board structure can increase the isolation by adding a section of floating metal between two signal transmission lines and adjusting the distance between the floating metal and the two signal transmission lines.
US11419200B2	System using handheld device for programming lighting instruments A system using a handheld device for programming lighting instruments, which is operable on the DALI system, includes a wireless control module electronically connected and integrated with the DALI system; and a handheld device, having two-way communication with the wireless control module wirelessly. The handheld device has a graphical user interface wherein the graphical user interface has functional blocks. One functional block, which programs groups of functional blocks, includes menus. The screen of each menu is divided into first and second display areas. The handheld device accesses the initialized addresses of the lighting instruments in the DALI system from the wireless control module and displays the non-programmed icons of lighting instruments in the DALI system in the second display area. By dragging the lighting instrument icons displayed in the second display area into the first display area, programming groups of the lighting instruments can be accomplished.
US11419194B2	LED light apparatus A LED light apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a PWM generator, a control signal generator and a manual switch. Users operate the manual switch to adjust a duty ratio setting of the PWM generator for adjusting a first control signal and a second control signal for controlling the first light source and the second light source to generate a desired light.
US11419192B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus includes a light source, a detector and a driver. The light source includes a first set of LED modules and a second set of LED modules. The first set of LED modules and the second set of LED modules emit lights with different color temperatures. The detector is used for detecting an operation pattern corresponding to one of a plurality of operation modes. The operation pattern is transmitted from an operation on a wall switch electrically connected to the lighting apparatus. The driver generates a first current to the first set of LED modules and a second current to the second set of LED modules based on the operation mode associated with the detected operation pattern. The operation mode corresponding to both a corresponding luminance level and a corresponding color temperature at the same time.
US11419190B2	RF heating apparatus with re-radiators A thermal increase system may include re-radiators disposed in a cavity for containing a load. Microwave energy may be generated by one or more microwave generation modules, and directed toward the cavity during operation of the thermal increase system, thereby creating an electromagnetic field in the cavity. A system controller may control switches coupled between the re-radiators and corresponding ground nodes to selectively activate and de-activate the re-radiators. The system controller may control a switch coupled between a pair of re-radiators to re-distribute the electromagnetic field in the cavity. A phase shifter may be disposed between a pair of re-radiators, which may provide a phase shift to energy passed between the re-radiators. The phase shifter may be a variable shifter that applies a variable phase shift to the energy according to commands received from the system controller.
US11419188B2	Induction heating and wireless power transmitting apparatus having improved circuit structure An induction heating and wireless power transmitting apparatus includes a first group of working coils including a first working coil and a second working coil connected to each other in parallel, a first inverter that supplies resonant currents to at least one of the first working coil or the second working coil by performing a switching operation, a first semiconductor switch connected to the first working coil configured to turn on and turn off the first working coil, a second semiconductor switch connected to the second working coil and configured to turn on and turn off the second working coil, an auxiliary power supply configured to supply power to the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch, and a controller that controls the first inverter, the first semiconductor switch, and the second semiconductor switches.
US11419185B2	Heater for cigarette-type electronic cigarette device Provided is a heater for a cigarette-type electronic cigarette device. A heater for a cigarette-type electronic cigarette device according to an exemplary embodiments of the present invention comprises: a support body made of a ceramic material and formed to have a hollow so as to surround a cigarette; an electrode pattern formed on one surface of the support body so as to heat the cigarette inserted into the support body when power is applied; and a cover layer which has an insulation property and covers the electrode pattern.
US11419183B2	Outer frame, terminal housing and terminal An outer frame of a terminal, and belongs to terminal technologies includes a light-transmitting structure; and a light-transmitting member disposed corresponding to the light-transmitting structure; wherein the light-transmitting member absorbs or reflects light such that a luminous flux of light passing through the light-transmitting member is less than that of an incident light.
US11419182B2	Electronic device supporting link sharing and method therefor An electronic device including a user interface, at least one wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to transmit and/or receive data to and/or from a first external electronic device through the wireless communication circuit, to search for a second external electronic device positioned at a periphery of the electronic device, to transmit at least part of connection information with the first external electronic device to the second external electronic device, and to receive data from the first external electronic device and/or the second external electronic device based on a user input via the user interface, an occurrence of an event at the electronic device, a request of the first external electronic device, or an occurrence of an event at the first external electronic device.
US11419180B2	Base station apparatus and data packet transmission method Disclosure is a BS apparatus and a method of transmitting a data packet capable of supporting smooth transmission of a data packet by defining a new fronthaul interface considering a structure of expanding/designing processing functions of a radio module of a 5G split BS including not only an RF processing function but also a processing function on a higher layer.
US11419176B2	Data transmission method and apparatus Disclosed in the present disclosure are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: a network device sends data to a target terminal, and instructs the target terminal to send the data to a first device group, wherein the first device group comprises at least two terminals; the target terminal receives the data sent by the network device; and the target terminal sends the data to the first device group on the basis of the instruction of the network device, wherein the first device group comprises at least two terminals.
US11419175B2	Reconstructing a personal area network or system after a failure in the network or system Systems and methods are disclosed for reconstructing a personal area network (“PAN”) after a failure in a system or network. A method can include detecting, by a node, a power failure in a system. The method can further include storing, by the node, data about a parent node in the system at a time of the power failure. The method can further include detecting, by the node, power restoration in the system and entering a restoration state in response to detecting the power restoration. The method can further include transmitting, by the node and to the parent node, an enhanced beacon request via a particular frequency channel associated with the parent node. The method can also include receiving, by the node, an acknowledgment response from the parent node via the frequency channel and receiving, by the node, an enhanced beacon request from the parent node via the frequency channel.
US11419173B2	Methods and systems for beam recovery and management A system and methods for beam failure recovery and management for multi-carrier communications with beamforming are disclosed herein. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may monitor for and detect a beam failure of a beam associated with a secondary cell (Scell). The WTRU may select an Scell candidate beam. The WTRU may transmit using a selected uplink (UL) resource in a primary cell (SpCell) a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including an indication of Scell beam failure and identifying the selected candidate beam. The WTRU may receive an Scell beam failure indication response on the SpCell indicating an SCell index and a downlink (DL) quasi co-location (QCL) reference associated with the Scell. The WTRU may verify that the DL QCL reference matches with the candidate beam. The WTRU may perform random access on the SCell using the selected QCL reference and the selected candidate beam.
US11419164B2	Pairing method for monitoring devices A device may obtain a device identifier from a monitoring device. The device may provide, to a server device, a request for a network-assigned identifier that is associated with the monitoring device. The request may cause the server device to use the device identifier to search a data structure for the network-assigned identifier. The device may receive the network-assigned identifier from the server device. The device may provide a request to establish a communication session with the monitoring device. The request may include the network-assigned identifier of the monitoring device and a network-assigned identifier of the device. The device may receive, after providing the request, an indication that the communication session is established.
US11419160B2	Network access method, terminal device, and network device The present disclosure relates to network access methods, terminal devices, and network devices. One example method includes sending a first message to a network device, where the first message includes first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate a type of a core network to be accessed by a terminal device, and receiving a second message sent by the network device, where packet data convergence protocol is used for the second message, and version of the packet data convergence protocol corresponds to the type of the core network.
US11419152B2	Communication method, terminal device, and network device Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving indication information by a terminal device from a network device, where the indication information is used to indicate resource configuration information of a first uplink carrier and/or a second uplink carrier. The first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier are different uplink carriers in a cell of the network device, and the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier are corresponding to one downlink carrier in the cell. The terminal device determines one uplink carrier from the at least one uplink carrier as a target carrier for performing random access based on the resource configuration information of the at least one uplink carrier.
US11419140B2	Grant validation in a wireless device and wireless network A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages may comprise a first RNTI for a first SPS and a second for a second SPS. A downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to one of the first RNTI or the second RNTI may be received. The DCI may be validated, at least based on a cyclic shift value associated with the DCI, if the DCI corresponds to the first RNTI. Otherwise, the DCI may be validated without considering the cyclic shift value. One of the first SPS or the second SPS, corresponding to the DCI, may be activated in response to the validating being successful.
US11419129B2	Method for performing uplink transmission through frequency hopping in wireless communication system and device therefor A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform an uplink transmission through a frequency hopping in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) configuration information from a base station; and performing the uplink transmission through the frequency hopping for each non-slot on non-slots that are repeated at least two times within one slot based on the UL-DL configuration information, wherein the non-slot is a scheduling unit with a smaller time interval than the one slot.
US11419127B2	Methods, base station, infrastructure node and terminal for measurements and delay-sensitive vehicle-related communications A method allocating resources in a mobile telecommunications system including a base station, one or more terminals, and one or more infrastructure nodes configured to communicate via a wireless interface allocated for successive time periods. The method includes: obtaining measurements that relate to a link between a first of the terminals and one of the infrastructure nodes; identifying communications between the first terminal and the one infrastructure node as delay-sensitive communications; identifying, based on the obtained measurements and identification of the communications between the first terminal and the one infrastructure nodes as delay-sensitive communications, resources to allocate for the first terminal to communicate with one or more of the infrastructure nodes, selected from two or more of the time periods; and allocating the identified resources for the first terminal to communicate with the one or more of the infrastructure nodes during the two or more time periods.
US11419117B2	Location-matrix based user equipment band scanning An electronic device configured to operate in two frequency bands having significantly different coverage areas receives coordinates associated with a smaller coverage area over a frequency band having a larger coverage area. The coordinates allow the electronic device to only power up the associated radio and search for a base station of the smaller coverage area when the electronic device is in the area described by the coordinates. This allows the electronic device to achieve significant power savings compared to even infrequent random polling to determine when a base station of the smaller coverage area radio system is available.
US11419115B2	Method and apparatus of data transmission in next generation cellular networks A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of a user equipment (UE) for receiving data is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information on radio resources allocated to the UE, and receiving, from the base station, data based on the information on the radio resources. The radio resources are associated with a plurality of symbols in a time domain and a plurality of resource block groups in a frequency domain. The information on the radio resources includes at least one of first information on a starting symbol, or second information on a size of each of the resource block groups.
US11419112B2	User device A user device performing communication with another user device by beamforming in a first frequency and a second frequency different from the first frequency is provided. The user device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first sensing signal in the first frequency; a control unit configured to select a resource in the second frequency used for transmission, based on a resource location on a radio frame in which the first sensing signal is provided, or based on information, contained in the first sensing signal, indicating a resource location on a radio frame in the second frequency; and a transmitting unit configured to perform data transmission in the second frequency by using the selected resource.
US11419105B2	Methods, systems and units of distributed base station system for handling downlink communication A method is disclosed performed by an RRU (120) of a distributed base station system (100) of a wireless communication network, the distributed base station system (100) further comprises a BBU (110) connected to the RRU, the RRU (120) being connected to a plurality of antennas (121, 122, 123) through which the RRU transmits user-layer signals to a plurality of UEs (161, 162, 163). The method comprises sending information related to received uplink signals to the BBU so that the BBU can obtain a first part of precoding coefficients to be used for precoding digital user-layer signals. The method further comprises obtaining a second part of the precoding coefficients and receiving, from the BBU, the digital user-layer signals precoded using the first part of the precoding coefficients. The method further comprises precoding the received digital user-layer signals precoded with the first part of the precoding coefficients also with the second part of the precoding coefficients, and transmitting the user-layer signals to the plurality of UEs (161, 162, 163) via the plurality of antennas (121, 122, 123).
US11419103B2	Prioritization method for radio access technologies used for wireless data communication According to an embodiment, a method for use in a user equipment is disclosed. Hereby, the user equipment is adapted to communicate with a wireless network using a plurality of radio access technologies. According to this, the method comprises prioritizing at least one radio access technology from the plurality of radio access technologies. Further, the method also comprises transmitting uplink control signaling indicative of the prioritized at least one radio access technology to the wireless network. According to further embodiments, a method for use in a network node of a wireless network as well as respective first and second devices are disclosed.
US11419100B2	Information transmission method, terminal device, and access network device Example information transmission methods, and apparatus are described. One example information transmission method includes determining resources for carrying N pieces of uplink control information (UCI) that partly overlap or completely overlap in time domain. The N pieces of UCI comprise at least one piece of beam channel quality information and at least one of a piece of channel state information or an acknowledgement (ACK)/a negative acknowledgement (NACK). A priority of the beam channel quality information is higher than a priority of the channel state information. A priority of the beam channel quality information is lower than a priority of the ACK/NACK.
US11419096B2	Resource retrieve procedure A wireless device may initialize a candidate resource set for a sidelink transmission. The wireless device may exclude a first resource from the candidate resource set based on: the first resource being offset from a second resource by one or more reservation periods, and the second resource not being monitored in a sensing window. The wireless device may receive sidelink control information (SCI) indicating a resource reservation of the first resource. The wireless device may transmit, via the first resource, the sidelink transmission.
US11419094B2	Methods of transmitting and receiving paging message, access network equipment, and terminal equipment The invention provides methods of transmitting and receiving a paging message, access network equipment, and terminal device equipment. The method of transmitting a paging message comprises: access network equipment determines a paging message; the access network equipment determines a paging start time and a continuous paging transmission time interval; and the access network equipment transmits, by employing beam sweeping, and according to the paging start time and the continuous paging transmission time interval, the paging message. Therefore, the embodiment can enhance quality of receiving a paging message.
US11419091B2	Positioning enhancements in 5G NR using upper layer indication A user equipment (UE) enhances positioning performance using Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) New Radio (NR)-Dual connectivity (EN-DC) based on an indication from the E-UTRAN base station that it is capable of EN-DC, e.g., in the upper layer indication of SIB2. When in idle mode, a UE that supports EN-DC and that has multiple carrier subscriptions may check the availability of EN-DC on both subscriptions that are camped on E-UTRAN base stations and use the subscription with EN-DC when a positioning session is initiated, e.g., from an emergency call. If one subscription is camped on a E-UTRAN base station and the other on an NR base station, the UE may use the E-UTRAN base station if EN-DC is supported or may use the NR base station if EONR and location based services are supported. A list of E-UTRAN base stations capable of EN-DC may be generated and used for selections of base stations to connect to or to prioritize during a handover procedure.
US11419088B2	Radiation source positioning method based on radio spectrum monitoring big data processing An emitter positioning method based on spectrum monitoring big data processing comprises the following steps: station monitoring data obtaining, multi-station spectrum monitoring data-based emitter direction finding, multi-station spectrum monitoring data-based emitter cross positioning, and emitter continuous positioning.
US11419082B2	Method for device synchronization A method for synchronizing a first device and a second device, the first device and the second device being connectable via a wireless link. The method comprises generating (202), at the first device, a synchronization signal comprising a sequence of signals, wherein each of the signals in the sequence has a first frequency; transmitting (204) the sequence of signals from the first device to the second device; performing (206), at the second device, signal processing of the sequence of signals to determine relative phase information of each of the signals in the sequence; and synchronizing (208), based on the determined relative phase information, the first device and the second device by correcting phase offset of subsequent individual signals transmitted from the first device to the second device.
US11419081B2	Method and apparatus for anchor channel control Controlling synchronization signal operation in a base station operating in shared spectrum includes detecting a condition related to a current anchor channel configuration used for transmission of synchronization signal transmissions and selecting, based on the detecting, a new anchor channel configuration and communicating the new anchor channel configuration to electronic devices serviced by the base station. The base station commences sending a predetermined number of synchronization signal transmissions using the current anchor channel configuration; and one of: i) sends synchronization signal transmissions using the new anchor channel configuration if the predetermined number of synchronization signal transmissions are sent on the current anchor channel configuration; or ii) aborts a change to the new anchor channel configuration if feedback is received from one of the electronic devices that the electronic device detected interference on the new anchor channel configuration before the predetermined number of synchronization signal transmissions are sent.
US11419079B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving synchronization signal in wireless communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, smart retail, and security and safety services. A method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving a synchronization signal block in a wireless communication system which operates in an unlicensed band are provided. The method includes a method for configuring a synchronization signal block time resource and index by a node which is to transmit a synchronization signal block in an unlicensed band, and a method for determining a synchronization signal block index and acquiring time synchronization by a node which receives a transmitted synchronization signal block.
US11419077B2	Method and apparatus for synchronization to a common synchronization reference source Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for synchronization to a common synchronization reference source. For example, the apparatus can include receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The receiving circuitry can be configured to receive from a BS a signaling indicating a timing offset between sidelink synchronization timings of the apparatus and a GNSS. The processing circuitry can be configured to adjust the sidelink synchronization timing of the apparatus based on the timing offset.
US11419075B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving data in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for transmitting and receiving data comprises the steps of: receiving a first synchronization block over a first narrow band; identifying whether an indicator indicating that the first narrow band is not allocated to a terminal is included in the first synchronization block; and performing synchronization in the first narrow band if the indicator indicating that the first narrow band is not allocated to the terminal is not included in the first synchronization block.
US11419074B2	Measurement of candidates synchronization references by device-to-device user equipment A device-to-device (D2D) user equipment (UE) apparatus identifies at least first and second synchronization reference (SyncRef) UEs each satisfying a predetermined selection/reselection criterion with respect to the D2D UE, determines a measurement period in which to perform one or more measurements on the identified at least first and second SyncRef UEs, and performs the one or more measurements on each of the identified at least first and second SyncRef UEs during the determined measurement period.
US11419072B2	Method for processing a packet in a time-synchronized network and network element for processing a packet in a network A method for processing a packet in a mobile communication network and a network element for performing the same. A first network element may receive a first data packet to be transmitted to a second network element via a third network element and add a header to the first data packet. The first network element may add time information associated with the first data packet to the header and transmit the first data packet with the header to the third network element.
US11419071B2	Method and apparatus for synchronization signal transmission Adopting a frequency multiplication scheme allows a network node to expand the number of transmit beams transmitted by it within a defined time interval, and allows the network node to transmit a greater number of synchronization signals on a per beam basis within the defined time interval. By way of example, the network node may operate in compliance with standardized restrictions regarding the timeframe during which it must transmit some base number of beam-based synchronization signals, while using a frequency multiplexing scheme to transmit additional beams within the same timeframe. Among the various advantages flowing from these operations, the ability to transmit more beams within the same timeframe allows the network node to tailor the beam shape and directions for broader coverage or enhanced range.
US11419068B2	Large-scale MIMO wireless transmission method for millimeter wave/terahertz networks A large-scale MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) wireless transmission method for millimeter wave/Terahertz networks is provided. In order to reduce the interruption of propagation in the millimeter wave/Terahertz band, a plurality of cells are combined into a wireless transmission network, the base station in each cell is equipped with a large-scale antenna array, and a unitary transformation matrix is used to achieve large-scale beam coverage for user terminals in the entire network. Moreover, in order to reduce the influence of the multipath and Doppler effects on transmission performance, received signals are synchronized for time and frequency in each receiving beam of a user terminal. The method allocates power for signal transmission according to the statistic information of synchronized equivalent channels, and gives an optimal power allocation matrix by iterative solution based on the CCCP (concave-convex procedure) and the deterministic equivalent method.
US11419067B2	Uplink power control Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: receiving a message that configures a set of resources that each includes a downlink resource or an uplink sounding resource and is associated with an uplink transmission beam pattern; receiving scheduling information for an uplink transmission that is associated with a resource of the set of resources; determining an uplink transmission beam pattern associated with the resource; determining a configured maximum output power for the uplink transmission beam pattern that is based on an antenna array property associated with the uplink transmission beam pattern; determining a transmit power for the uplink transmission based on the configured maximum output power; and performing the uplink transmission using the uplink transmission beam pattern based on the transmit power.
US11419063B2	Uplink sounding reference signals configuration and transmission A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured to receive a WTRU-specific configuration of WTRU-specific sounding reference signal (SRS) subframes for performing SRS transmissions. The WTRU is configured to receive a trigger in a subframe to transmit a first SRS. The WTRU is configured to select a first subframe. The WTRU is configured to determine that a maximum power would be exceeded in a symbol in the selected first subframe. The WTRU is configured to, on a condition that transmission of at least one other SRS would at least partially overlap in the symbol in the selected first subframe, scale transmission powers of the first SRS and the at least one other SRS equally to comply with the maximum power. The WTRU is configured to transmit, in accordance with the scaled transmission powers, the first SRS in the selected subframe and the at least one other SRS.
US11419060B2	Uplink power control via MAC-CE messaging Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein may provide power control configuration parameters using MAC-CE messaging. A base station may transmit a MAC-CE message that includes a power control configuration identifier. The UE may identify a power control configuration according to the power control configuration identifier. The power control configuration may include one or more power control parameters and a path loss reference signal identifier. The UE may update the path loss reference signal for an uplink transmission based on the received MAC-CE message and adjust power for performance of the uplink transmission according to one or more measurements of the updated path loss reference signal.
US11419059B2	Uplink power control method and mobile terminal An uplink power control method and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: acquiring an uplink transmission parameter corresponding to an uplink channel format; calculating an uplink power adjustment value according to the uplink transmission parameter, to control an uplink power.
US11419058B2	Maximum power reduction for uplink bandwidth part for wireless networks A technique includes controlling uplink transmission power of auser device, wherein a resource block allocation for the user device includes resource blocks in a user device channel bandwidth that is a part of a base station channel bandwidth and the user device channel bandwidth is less than the base station channel bandwidth, wherein the controlling uplink transmission power of the user device comprises reducing a maximum transmission power of the user device for an uplink transmission via the resource block allocation by a maximum power reduction value that is determined based on a distance of the resource block allocation from at least one edge of the base station channel bandwidth.
US11419056B2	Power control method and device, and communication node Disclosed is a power control method. The method includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI), where the DCI carries a transmit power control (TPC) command; determining a closed loop power control index of the TPC command in the DCI; and updating a closed loop power control part corresponding to the closed loop power control index in transmit power of a first communication node according to the TPC command. Also disclosed are a power control device, a first communication node, a second communication node, and a computer storage medium.
US11419055B2	Occupation control method for camera application based on operating state of device and camera data requests The present disclosure provides an occupation control method for a camera application including: when a camera application is occupied by a first application running in the foreground, if it is determined that a terminal device is in a preset first operation state, detecting whether the first application sends a camera data request message; if so, sending to the camera application a message for delaying shutdown for a first duration and detecting whether the state of the terminal device is switched from the first operation state to a second operation state within the first duration; if the state is not switched to the second operation state and it is detected the first application continues to send the camera data request message, detecting whether the first application enables a function related to the camera data request, and if not, controlling the first application to release the occupation of the camera application.
US11419052B2	Techniques for handling measurement set adaptation A user equipment (UE) interacts with a base station (BS) to activate a power saving mode based on a triggering condition. The UE receives reference signals (RSs) from a first RS-set of quasi-colocated (QCLd) RSs, derives a measurement result by measuring the RSs, and uses the first measurement result (and in some cases measurements results for other RS set) for evaluation of the triggering condition to identify whether the triggering condition is satisfied. The UE and the BS switch from the first RS-set to a second RS-set once the triggering condition is satisfied.
US11419050B1	Optimizing EN-DC anchor selection in a multi-band and multi-anchor network Methods and systems are provided for optimizing EN-DC anchor selection in a multi-band and multi-anchor network. One or more of a sector power ratio, a front to back ratio, or a downlink tonnage is determined for a plurality of nodes comprising one or more eNodeBs and one or more gNodeBs. Based on the determining, an eNodeBs of the one or more eNodeBs or a gNodeB of the one or more gNodeBs is selected as an EN-DC anchor of the multi-band and multi-anchor network.
US11419046B2	Methods and systems for performing multi-domain network slice selection and approval Methods and systems for performing multi-domain network slice selection and approval are provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a Network Slice Selection Function comprises: receiving, from a requesting entity, a request for a network slice for use by a client device; upon determining that the network slice selection requires approval, identifying an Authorizing Network Function (ANF) for authorizing a network slice for the client device; determining a trust status of the ANF; identifying, based on the trust status, a network interface to use when communicating with the ANF; sending a slice selection authorization request to the ANF via the identified network interface; receiving from the ANF an approval status of a network slice; determining, based on the approval status and approval conditions, an allowed network slice; and sending, to the requesting entity, information including the allowed network slice.
US11419044B2	Adaptive and dynamic Wi-Fi® scanning policies in a network of moving things including, for example, autonomous vehicles Systems and methods are provided for use of adaptive and dynamic Wi-Fi® scanning policies in a network of moving things. A vehicle-based network node may be configured to obtain, during operations in an area of a network of moving things, context-related data associated with the vehicle, and to manage Wi-Fi® scanning based on the context-related data. The managing may include determining based on the context-related data, when to scan for Wi-Fi® access points, and when scanning, selecting based on the context-related data, at least one Wi-Fi® scan policy, and configuring Wi-Fi® scanning based on the at least one Wi-Fi® scan policy. A cloud-based network node may be configured to receive from network nodes in the vehicle communication network Wi-Fi® connectivity-related data, and to generate or update, based on processing of the Wi-Fi® connectivity-related data, at least one Wi-Fi® scanning decision model for optimizing Wi-Fi® scanning operations in mobile network nodes.
US11419041B2	Cell acquisition subframe enhancements for cellular broadcast services Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a master information block (MIB) including enhancement information associated with an enhanced cell acquisition subframe (CAS) for a cellular broadcast service. The user equipment may receive the enhanced CAS, associated with the cellular broadcast service, based at least in part on the enhancement information associated with the enhanced CAS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11419040B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving system information in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving system information blocks (SIBs) of a first base station, performing a procedure for accessing a second base station that receives, from the first base station, information to be used to identify at least one SIB to be provided to the UE, and receiving the at least one SIB of the second base station.
US11419038B2	Deterministic backoff with collision avoidance This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to deterministic backoffs and collision avoidance. A device may identify a first transmission received from a first device, wherein the first transmission is over a shared access medium. The device may identify a second transmission received from the first device, wherein the second transmission is over the shared access medium. The device may determine an available transmission slot between the first transmission and the second transmission. The device may transmit, during the available transmission slot, a third transmission.
US11419036B2	DL backhaul control channel design for relays Methods and apparatus are described for providing compatible mapping for backhaul control channels, frequency first mapping of control channel elements (CCEs) to avoid relay-physical control format indicator channel (R-PCFICH) and a tree based relay resource allocation to minimize the resource allocation map bits. Methods and apparatus (e.g., relay node (RN)/evolved Node-B (eNB)) for mapping of the Un downlink (DL) control signals, Un DL positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK), and/or relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) (or similar) in the eNB to RN (Un interface) DL direction are described. This includes time/frequency mapping of abovementioned control signals into resource blocks (RBs) of multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) single frequency network (MBSFN)-reserved sub-frames in the RN cell and encoding procedures for these. Also described are methods and apparatus for optimizing signaling overheads by avoiding R-PCFICH and minimizing bits needs for resource allocation.
US11419031B2	Wireless communication device and method for network controlled beam based handover in NR A method of operation of a wireless communication device to perform handover from a source cell to a target cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication device performs (202) a beam tracking procedure for one or more neighbor cells to provide, for each neighbor cell, a list of tracked beams for the neighbor cell. The wireless communication device receives (212) a handover command from a source radio access node that instructs the wireless communication device to perform a handover from a source cell served by the source radio access node to a target cell served by a target radio access node. The target cell is one of the one or more neighbor cells for which the beam tracking procedure is performed. The wireless communication device then selects (214) a beam of the target cell from the list of tracked beams for the target cell based on random access resource configuration and/or a quality threshold. The wireless communication device then performs (216) random access on the selected beam.
US11419026B2	Diversity Bluetooth system and method A first device having a transceiver and an antenna operatively connected to the transceiver and a second device having a transceiver and an antenna operatively connected to the transceiver, the first device in operative communication with the first device through a communications linkage separate from the transceiver of the first device and the transceiver of the second device. The first device is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a remote device through the transceiver of the first device. The second device is adapted to wirelessly communicate with the remote device through the transceiver of the second device. The system is configured to evaluate the wireless connection between the first device and the remote device and to evaluate the wireless communication between the second device and the remote device and determine whether the first device or the second device has a better connection.
US11419025B2	Path switching method, apparatus and system This application discloses a path switching method that includes: sending, by a first terminal, a first message to a first network device, where the first message is used to request to switch a second terminal from an indirect connection path for communicating with the first network device by using the first terminal to a direct connection path for communicating with the first network device or a second network device, or the first message is used to request to release a link between the first terminal and the second terminal, and the first network device is different from the second network device; and releasing, by the first terminal, the link between the first terminal and the second terminal. With this solution, a relay terminal can trigger switching of a remote terminal from an indirect connection path to a direct connection path, to adapt to a relay scenario more flexibly.
US11419022B2	Cell prioritization for cell (re)selection in wireless communication systems Some of the present embodiments provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for cell (re)selection, while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state. The method includes assigning a cell (re)selection priority level to a plurality of candidate cells based on a core network connection support of each of the plurality of candidate cells, and selecting, in a cell (re)selection procedure, a serving cell from the plurality of candidate cells, the serving cell having a highest cell (re)selection priority level.
US11419015B2	Triggered measurement reporting for wireless communications A method is performed by a wireless device in a network. The wireless device detects a triggering event related to a procedure for a handover from a source network node to a target network node in which the wireless device relies on downlink beam selection. The wireless device determines measurement information to include in a message to send to the target network node. The measurement information is obtained by measuring one or more beams according to at least one of a radio link management configuration, a beam management configuration, and a measurement configuration. In response to detecting the triggering event, the determined measurement information in the message is sent to the target network node.
US11419011B2	Data transmission via bonded tunnels of a virtual wide area network overlay with error correction Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamically selecting network paths for data transmission in a virtual overlay network created and maintained across multiple communication networks managed by service providers. The simple creation and management of network overlays is accomplished via a network orchestrator manager, allowing for automation of configuration of connected network devices throughout an entire organization's network, regardless of the physical location of each device. Further, error correcting information can be transferred across a different network path than a plurality of data packets, in accordance with a designated bonding policy.
US11419001B2	Critical data handling for video and other applications Techniques for indicating the presence of critical data at user equipment (UE) in an Radio Access Network (RAN) are described. According to various such techniques, a UE can identify critical data and send an information element including an indication of the critical data to a node (NB) of the RAN. The NB can then modify a schedule or handling the data communicated between the UE and the NB.
US11419000B2	Device and method for resource allocation in wireless communication system The present disclosure generally relates to a radio resource allocation of a base station in a wireless communication system, and an operating method of a base station comprises the steps of: determining a buffer state estimation value of a terminal on the basis of whether the terminal is in an uplink talk spurt; allocating an uplink radio resource for the terminal on the basis of the buffer state estimation value; and transmitting information on the allocated uplink radio resource to the terminal.
US11418996B2	Operation control method, mobile communications terminal, and network-side device This disclosure provides an operation control method, a mobile communications terminal, and a network-side device. The method applied to the mobile communications terminal includes: receiving logical channel prioritization (LCP) restriction configuration signaling sent by a network-side device, where the LCP restriction configuration signaling carries LCP restriction rules; and performing a management operation on a target LCP restriction rule in the LCP restriction rules, where the management operation is a deactivate operation or an activate operation.
US11418995B2	Mobility of cloud compute instances hosted within communications service provider networks Techniques for managing latency of communications between compute instances and mobile devices are described. A message including an indication of a mobility event associated with a mobile device of a communications service provider network is received. The mobility event indicates a change in a connection point of the mobile device to the communications service provider network from a from a first access point to a second access point. A communications delay of at least a portion of a network path between the mobile device and a compute instance via the second access point is determined to not satisfy a latency constraint. A second provider substrate extension of the cloud provider network that satisfies the latency constraint for communications with the mobile device via the second access point is identified, and a message is sent to the second provider substrate extension to cause the launch of another compute instance.
US11418987B2	Method for reporting latency of packet transmission in communication network Methods and apparatuses are provided for reporting latency of an uplink packet transmission in a communication network. A UE triggers an event for time stamping of an uplink packet. The UE identifies information on first arrival time of the uplink packet at a lower layer entity of the UE from a transmit entity of the UE, based on the triggering of the event for time stamping of the uplink packet. The UE transmits the uplink packet including the information to the network entity.
US11418985B2	Method and system for network slicing based on virtual routing and forwarding instances A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice-to-transport domain service is provided. The service includes correlating a network slice identifier, an Internet Protocol subnet, and a virtual routing and forwarding instance pertaining to a network slice, and configuring network devices of the network slice with at least a portion of the correlated information. The service may obtain feedback information from the network devices, and evaluate performance metrics pertaining to the network slice based on the correlated information.
US11418984B2	Network feature tester Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a network feature tester are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of selecting computing devices that are configured to communicate with a wireless carrier network based on the computing devices having a common characteristic. The actions further include identifying a subset of the computing devices that are likely to communicate with a same base station of the wireless carrier network during a first period of time and a second period of time. The actions further include determining first monitoring data during the first period of time. The actions further include adjusting a characteristic of the same base station. The actions further include determining second monitoring data during the second period of time. The actions further include determining an effect that adjusting the characteristic has on the wireless carrier network.
US11418982B2	Methods and apparatuses for MDT measurement Methods and apparatuses for MDT measurement are provided. In one aspect, a method for MDT measurement includes: obtaining MDT measurement configuration information for one or more preset types of network devices, the MDT measurement configuration information including at least a signal strength threshold for the preset type of network device; sending the MDT measurement configuration information to user equipment (UE), such that the UE performs MDT measurement upon detecting that signal strength of the preset type of network device exceeds the signal strength threshold; receiving information on the MDT measurement of the preset type of network device from the UE.
US11418981B2	Drive test information reporting method and device, network performance detection and device A drive test information reporting method is performed by user equipment (UE) indoors, the UE being a device with a wireless short-distance communication function. The method includes: detecting related information of another wireless short-distance communication device; recording and storing the related information of the another wireless short-distance communication device and corresponding detection time points; recording and storing network signal quality at each detection time point; and reporting drive test information to a base station at a preset reporting moment, the drive test information including the related information of the another wireless short-distance communication device, the corresponding detection time points and the network signal quality at each detection time point.
US11418980B2	Arrangement for, and method of, analyzing wireless local area network (WLAN) field coverage in a venue Wireless local area network (WLAN) field coverage is analyzed in a venue. A mobile data capture device measures coverage data indicative of the WLAN field coverage from a plurality of locations in the venue, and also captures image data indicative of images of the locations in the venue. A controller correlates the measured coverage data and the captured image data at each location. An interface displays the captured image data correlated with the measured coverage data at each location. Impact score value data indicative of the WLAN field coverage may also be determined, correlated, and displayed for each location.
US11418979B2	Dynamic backup AMF determination and publication The embodiments herein relate to dynamic backup AMF determination and publication. In one embodiment, there proposes a method (900) in a Access and (Start Mobility Management Function (AMF) node (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100), comprising: obtaining (S901) first information of the AMF node (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100), the first information at least includes one or more identifier; obtaining (S902) second information of each of all other nodes (201, 203, 204, 1200) within the same AMF set as the AMF node (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100), the second information includes Relative Capacity (RC) and one or more identifier; and determining (S903) backup AMF for at least one identifier of the AMF (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100) based on the first information and the second information in an autonomous way, without the participation of the Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) (206). With embodiments herein, the backup AMF information is determined per GUAMI granularity and published automatically among all AMFs within the AMF set in an autonomous way.
US11418974B2	Efficient beam searching A method for generating a probability map for a cell served by a network node is provided. The method includes generating a first probability map (P1) indicating a likelihood of primary beam directions (step 602). Generating the first probability map includes recording a first direction of a first user equipment (UE), the first direction indicating a direction of a first beam (e.g., a first set of antenna weights (a.k.a., precoding vector)) associated with the first UE when the first UE appears in the cell served by the network node. The method further includes generating a second probability map (P2) indicating a joint likelihood of primary and secondary beam directions (step 604). Generating the second probability map includes recording a second direction of a second beam associated with the first UE when the first UE switches from the first beam to the second beam, the second direction being recorded in association with the first direction.
US11418971B2	Beamforming integrated circuit, AESA system and method A beamforming integrated circuit system is configured to optimize performance. Among other things, the system may run at a lower power than conventional integrated circuits, selectively disable branches to control certain system functions, and/or selectively position ground pads around receiving pads to enhance isolation. The system also may use a beamforming integrated circuit as a distribution circuit for a number of similar or like beamforming integrated circuits.
US11418958B1	Subscriber identity module (SIM) remote update agent A subscriber identity module (SIM). The SIM comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory storing a configuration file, a wireless identity, a wireless access key, and a remote update agent stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the remote update agent determines that the SIM is communicatively coupled to a wireless communication network via a radio transceiver of a communication device with which the SIM is associated, in response to determining that the SIM is communicatively coupled to the wireless communication network, sends a provide local information (PLI) command to the mobile communication device to acquire network measurement results (NMR) based on the configuration file, transmits NMR data via the radio transceiver using a bearer independent protocol (BIP), receives SIM update information via the radio transceiver, and stores the SIM update information in the configuration file in the non-transitory memory.
US11418953B2	Key information generation system and key information generation method This key information generation system generates key information necessary when using a shared device and imparts this key information to a mobile terminal. Authentication is performed between a mobile terminal which has imported key information, and an authentication device provided to the device, and if said authentication is successful, the mobile terminal enables operation of the device via the authentication device. The key information generation system includes: an information management unit which manages, by associating with one another, individual information for the authentication device, a key information generating code, and usage information pertaining to the use of the authentication device; and a key information generation unit which specifies a key information generation code from the individual information and usage information managed by being associated with one another by the information management unit, and generates key information on the basis of the key information generation code.
US11418951B2	Method for identifying encrypted data stream, device, storage medium and system A method for identifying an encrypted data stream, a device, a readable storage medium and a system are provided. The method includes: receiving a data packet carrying authentication data which is sent by a user equipment (UE), where the authentication data includes a first authentication parameter, a first authentication result and an application identifier; obtaining, based on the first authentication parameter and a second authentication parameter, a second authentication result according to a set authentication algorithm, where the second authentication parameter is a pre-stored authentication parameter corresponding to the application identifier; establishing an association relationship between characteristic information of the data packet and the application identifier when the second authentication result is consistent with the first authentication result in comparison, where the association relationship is used for subsequently identifying an encrypted data stream which is sent by the UE and corresponds to the application identifier.
US11418950B1	System for establishing a secure data connection with an autonomous mobile device An autonomous mobile device (AMD) with various sensors may move through a physical space without human intervention. The AMD may communicate with other devices, such as a user's smartphone or network enabled speaker. Security and privacy for end-to-end communication is provided that involves user interaction with the AMD itself. The sequence of data exchanges and the user interaction with the AMD helps assure the association is authorized and provide for a secure communication channel. Attempts to tamper with the association process, including a man in the middle exploit, are readily detectable and result in a failure. Once detected, actions may be taken, such as notifying the user.
US11418943B2	Wireless system and device communication management According to one configuration, a system comprising: a first SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) device; a second SIM device; and user equipment in which the first SIM device and the second SIM device are installed. The user equipment is operable to: access first subscriber identity information stored in the first SIM device, the first subscriber identity information providing the user equipment access to a first wireless network in a network environment; access second subscriber identity information stored in the second SIM device, the second subscriber identity information providing the user equipment access to a second wireless network in the network environment; and via analysis of configuration settings in the second subscriber identity information, detect that the second network is assigned to support non-voice wireless communications between the user equipment and a remote network.
US11418941B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit A technique is provided that is related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication method, and an integrated circuit which enable efficient communication. A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, a message requesting mobility history information, and a transmitter configured to notify the base station apparatus of the mobility history information, based on the message. The mobility history information includes a list including identifier information (first identifier information) of a cell of a first radio access technology, and a list including identifier information (second identifier information) of a cell of a second radio access technology. The mobility history information includes stay time information of a limited number of entries, each corresponding to a visit by the terminal apparatus in a cell and/or outside a network.
US11418940B1	Mitigation of denial of service attacks on emergency services Systems and methods are provided for mitigating denial of service attacks in a communications network. Based on a determination that requests to access an E11 resource exceeds a threshold, it may be determined that a denial of service attack attempt is occurring. One or more mitigation protocols can be used to block, filter, or re-route attempts that are associated with the denial of service attack. Association with the denial of service attack can be identified based on a distance between the user devices associated with the requests and a time period for which the requests were originated.
US11418939B2	Systems and methods for automatic pairing of devices A system comprises a mobile device having a user identifier (ID), short range communication interface, an application, and an SDK layer; a device manager server communicatively coupled to the mobile device and the application, and configured to receive the user ID, receive a plurality of device IDs, associate the user ID with the plurality of device IDs in a database, authenticate the application, receive a request from the application, once the application is authenticated, for the plurality of device IDs, and provide the plurality of device IDs to the application based on the user ID; the application being configured to receive the plurality of device IDs from the device manager server, provide the device IDs to the SDK layer, such that the mobile device is paired with the plurality of remote devices, receive data from a remote device with a device ID that is one of the plurality of device IDs, and perform at least one of the following operations: store the data, display the data or send the data to a backend server, wherein the mobile device begins receiving measurements via the short range communication interface from at least one of the devices without needing to be paired or any further set up or action by a user.
US11418938B1	Location-assisted in-vehicle system (IVS) modem configuration management Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a vehicle user equipment (V-UE) determines an availability of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) service for a first network access subscription associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM), a second network access subscription associated with a second SIM, or both, the first SIM and the second SIM associated with a first SIM slot and a second SIM slot, respectively, of an in-vehicle system (IVS) modem of the V-UE, and updates a configuration of the IVS modem, switching the C-V2X service from the first network access subscription to the second network access subscription or from the second network access subscription to the first network access subscription, or both, based on the availability of the C-V2X service.
US11418937B2	Context-based dynamic policy system for mobile devices and supporting network infrastructure Systems and methods dynamically adapt network policies for mobile devices by accessing context-based values to allocate or restrict capabilities on the mobile devices or within the network. Context-based values may include position or velocity as well as more general environment features such as proximity of other devices, the presence or absence of other wireless signals or network traffic, parameters measured by local or remote sensors, user credentials, or unique user or signal inputs to the device. Relevant capabilities may include access to hardware and software interfaces and related parameter sets including priority settings.
US11418934B2	Predictive flow switching and application continuity in connected vehicle networks The subject disclosure relates to ways to ensure vehicle network connectivity. In some aspects, a process of the technology includes steps for receiving local network measurement data including one or more connectivity metrics for at least one network provider (e.g., an ISP), and updating a geo-connectivity database using the received local network measurement data. In some aspects, the process can include additional steps for transmitting a geo-connectivity request to a remote Intelligent Vehicle Connectivity Analytics (IVCA) gateway, and for receiving a geo-connectivity reply from the remote IVCA gateway, the geo-connectivity reply including information regarding network availability for the at least one network provider along a vehicle path. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11418933B2	Facilitation of container management for internet of things devices for 5G or other next generation network A lightweight machine-to-machine (LWM2M) protocol can be utilized as a management layer for other applications pertaining to communication and retrieval of information from hardware peripherals. The applications can be managed via a client and the applications can communicate to the client via a standard proxy or message broker. Consequently, sensor codes can be decoupled from the client codes, thus allowing them to both be independent interchangeable components of a specific device's architecture. Therefore, sensors can be added, removed, and/or manipulated without modifying the underlying management layer.
US11418932B2	Environmental sensor-based radio transmitter of a utility meter system A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a meter interface device may measure a temperature associated with the meter interface device, and use the measured temperature as a basis to regulate the transmission and the reception of data between the meter interface device and a wireless network. The meter interface device may also measure voltage, and use the measured voltage as a basis to regulate the transmission and the reception of data.
US11418929B2	Easy location sharing Systems and methods for sharing location information during a message conversation are provided. An electronic device displays a message region for displaying a message transcript of messages sent between a first participant and a second participant in a message conversation. The electronic device displays a location-sharing affordance. The electronic device detects a selection of the location-sharing affordance, where detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance by the first participant comprises detecting a single contact by the first participant. In response to detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance, the electronic device enables the second participant to obtain the first participant location information and displays a modified location-sharing affordance.
US11418925B2	Communication method and apparatus Communication methods and apparatuses to reduce a transmission delay of a multicast message are described. A first radio access network device receives a first message from a terminal device on a radio bearer or a first message from a second radio access network device. The first radio access network device multicasts the first message through a first air interface.
US11418920B2	Systems and methods for verifying geolocation data of an electronic content request from a mobile device Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for verifying geolocation data provided with an electronic content request received from a mobile device. One method includes: receiving, over a network, a content request including a unique identifier and geolocation data; determining a unique device identifier of a mobile device based on the received unique identifier; transmit, over the network, a verification request that requests geolocation data of the mobile device, the verification request including the unique identifier of the mobile device; receiving, over the network, verified geolocation data of the mobile device in response to the transmitted verification request; verifying the geolocation data included with the content request based on the verified geolocation data; and transmitting, over the network, a verification result.
US11418918B2	Method, apparatus, computer device and storage medium for stay point recognition A method, an apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium for stay point recognition are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining reference stay points corresponding to a to-be-recognized positioning point; selecting from the reference stay points a stay point in a predetermined relationship with the to-be-recognized positioning point; and determining whether the to-be-recognized positioning point is a stay point based on the stay point selected. The technical solution may improve the accuracy and recall rate of the stay point recognition.
US11418915B2	Trajectory analysis with mode of transportation analysis Machine learning techniques may be applied to determining a mode of transportation for a trajectory of a sequence of user locations. The mode of transportation, such as walking, bicycling, riding in a car or bus, riding in a train, or other mode, may be determined by creating a training set of data, then using classification mechanisms to classify trajectories by mode of transport. The training set may be generated by tracking then verifying a user's transportation mode. In some cases, a user may manually input or verify their transportation mode, while in other cases, a user's transportation mode may be determined through other data sources.
US11418913B2	System and method for distance detection A distance sensing system includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. A second processing unit of the second electronic device sends a wireless signal via a second short-range wireless communication unit. When a first processing unit of the first electronic device receives, via a first short-range wireless communication unit, the wireless signal from the second electronic device, the processing unit generates an estimated distance value indicating an estimated distance between the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on signal strength of the wireless signal. When the first processing unit of the first electronic device determines that the estimated distance value is less than a predetermined distance, the first processing unit outputs a notification via the first output unit, so as to send the notification to a user of the first electronic device when the second electronic device is close to the first electronic device.
US11418905B2	Method and apparatus for identifying and presenting location and location-related information Method and apparatus to analyze and present location information in an easy-to-digest manner are disclosed. In one embodiment, each piece of location information can include a piece of location-designating information and a piece of location-related information. Location-designating information is primarily for identifying location. Location-related information is information related to location-designating information. The location-designating information and the location-related information can be supplied by a mobile device. With the help of location-related information, each piece of location-designating information can be more accurately transformed into a label to help identify a location. The amount of location information can be reduced. All of the location-designating information pertaining to a given area can be consolidated into one piece of location-designating information related to the label. Consolidation of some of the information may not occur if a piece of location-related information changes by more than a preset value. To better present location information in an easy-to-digest manner, location information can be compared to standards. Presentation can be on a display with respect to a reference location.
US11418904B2	Downmixer, audio encoder, method and computer program applying a phase value to a magnitude value A downmixer for providing a downmix signal on the basis of a plurality of input signals is configured to determine a magnitude value of a spectral domain value of the downmix signal on the basis of a loudness information of the input signals. The downmixer is configured to determine a phase value of the spectral domain value of the downmix signal and the downmixer is configured to apply the phase value in order to obtain a complex valued number representation of the spectral domain value of the downmix signal on the basis of the magnitude value of the spectral domain value of the downmix signal. An audio encoder uses such a downmixer. A method for downmixing and a computer program are also described.
US11418898B2	Method for operating a hearing system and hearing system A method for operating a hearing system is specified. The hearing system includes a hearing aid, which is worn by a user. The hearing system includes an auxiliary device, which includes a camera, by which a real-time image is recorded of a current environment. The auxiliary device includes a display screen, on which the real-time image is output, so that the environment is displayed on the display screen. The hearing aid transmits an item of information to the auxiliary device, which is linked to a section of the environment and is thus an item of information with respect to this section. The information is also displayed on the display screen, in that an image element is generated and is overlaid with the real-time image in such a way that it is recognizable for the user with which section of the environment the information is linked.
US11418897B2	Ear canal microphone utilizing communications with hearing implant An apparatus includes a housing configured to be positioned within an ear canal of a recipient, at least one transducer, and at least one communication circuit. The at least one transducer is configured to respond to sound within the ear canal by generating output signals indicative of the sound. The at least one communication circuit has at least one resonance frequency and is configured to receive the output signals from the at least one transducer and to modulate the at least one resonance frequency in response to the output signals from the at least one transducer.
US11418896B1	Self-adaptive adjustment method and hearing aid using same A self-adaptive adjustment method for a hearing aid is provided. Audio adjustment parameters including a first audio compression rate, a second audio compression rate and a preset volume compression threshold are previously stored in the hearing aid. The self-adaptive adjustment method includes (S1) receiving and converting an external sound source into an input audio signal, (S2) converting the input audio signal into a first output audio signal at a first audio compression rate, (S3) determining a relative relation between the set output volume level and the default volume level of the hearing aid, calculating a dynamic volume compression threshold, and comparing and determining whether the volume of the input audio signal is greater than the dynamic volume compression threshold, and (S4) converting the input audio signal into a second output audio signal at a second audio compression rate.
US11418895B2	Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the housing. The at least one sound guiding hole guides the sound wave inside the housing through the at least one sound guiding hole to an outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interferes with the leaked sound wave in a target region. The interference at a specific frequency relates to a distance between the at least one sound guiding hole and the portion of the housing.
US11418894B2	Media system and method of amplifying audio signal using audio filter corresponding to hearing loss profile A media system and a method of using the media system to accommodate hearing loss of a user, are described. The method includes selecting a personal level-and-frequency dependent audio filter that corresponds to a hearing loss profile of the user. The personal level-and-frequency dependent audio filter can be one of several level-and-frequency-dependent audio filters having respective average gain levels and respective gain contours. An accommodative audio output signal can be generated by applying the personal level-and-frequency dependent audio filter to an audio input signal to enhance the audio input signal based on an input level and an input frequency of the audio input signal. The audio output signal can be played by an audio output device to deliver speech or music that the user perceives clearly, despite the hearing loss of the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11418892B2	Method of operating a hearing device, and hearing device A hearing device has an acceleration sensor that measure along three mutually perpendicular measurement axis. A movement of the hearing aid wearer is deduced from acceleration data of the acceleration sensor issued in an acceleration signal, a movement plane of the movement of the hearing aid wearer is derived from the acceleration data, a movement axis and a movement direction of the movement are ascertained from the acceleration data, and the presence of a rotational movement of the head is deduced on the basis of the movement plane, the movement axis and the movement direction. A direction of view probability distribution is created from the detected rotational movements, in particular on the basis of a yaw angle ascertained in the process. The direction of view probability distribution specifies a probability that the actual direction of view of the hearing aid wearer extends along an assigned angle.
US11418891B2	Loudspeaker unit comprising an electrodynamic loudspeaker and a MEMS loudspeaker A loudspeaker unit for a portable device includes an electrodynamic loudspeaker configured as a woofer. The loudspeaker unit additionally includes a MEMS loudspeaker configured as a tweeter. A portable device includes the loudspeaker unit.
US11418880B2	Amplifier interface and amplification methods for ultrasound devices Amplifier architecture that allows low-cost class-D audio amplifiers to be compatible with ultrasonic signals, as well as loads presented by thin-film ultrasonic transducers. The amplifier architecture replaces the traditional capacitor used as an output filter in the class-D amplifier with the natural capacitance of the ultrasonic transducer load, and employs relative impedance magnitudes to create an under-damped low-pass filter that boosts voltage in the ultrasonic frequency band of interest. The amplifier architecture includes a secondary feedback loop to ensure that correct output voltage levels are provided.
US11418879B2	Audio signal blending with beat alignment A method and apparatus are described for aligning cross-faded audio signals using beats. In an embodiment, a controller includes a cross-fade module having at least first and second audio inputs and an audio output port to provide an audio output signal to an external audio reproduction system. A control signal determines whether to provide the first or the second audio signal to the audio output, and the cross-fade module cross-fades the audio output signal from one audio signal to the other audio signal. A beat alignment module determines a delay between a first beat of the first audio signal and a second beat of the second audio signal, and a delay module delays either the first or the second audio signal to compensate for the delay into the cross-fade module.
US11418876B2	Directional detection and acknowledgment of audio-based data transmissions Systems and methods for detecting and acknowledging audio transmissions containing data. In one embodiment, a method is presented that includes receiving multiple audio signals that are detected by multiple receivers from within a service area. A first audio transmission may be detected in a first subset of the audio signal that are received by a first subset of the receivers. The first subset of the receivers may be positioned to receive audio transmissions from computing devices located within a first portion of the service area. At least one transmitter may be identified that is positioned to transmit audio transmissions to computing devices located within at least a subset of the first portion of the service area. A second audio transmission may be transmitted using the at least one first transmitter.
US11418874B2	Techniques for sharing stereo sound between multiple users A first digital signal processor (DSP) associated with a first user outputs audio to the first user via first headphones, and captures speech from the first user via a first microphone. Similarly, a second DSP associated with a second user outputs audio to the second user via second headphones, and captures speech from the second user via a second microphone. The first DSP is coupled to the second DSP in order to allow the first and second users to share music and communicate with one another. The first user may speak into the first microphone, and the first and second DSPs may then interoperate to output that speech to the second user without substantially disrupting audio output to the second user. Each of the first and second users may also select between first and second audio sources that may be coupled to the first and second DSPs, respectively.
US11418872B2	Recording and playback device There is disclosed a device that can record a sound by selecting a directivity direction as desired by the user at the time of recording and can play back the sound by selecting, at the time of playback, a desired directivity direction by the user, separate from the directivity direction specified at the time of recording. The device has microphones, a touch panel for specifying a directivity direction, and a signal processing unit. A recording module performs directivity control in a direction specified on the touch panel and records audio data subjected to effect processing in a memory as directivity-controlled data, and records audio data that are not subjected to directivity control or effect processing in the memory as directivity-control unprocessed data. A playback module performs directivity control on the directivity-control unprocessed data recorded in the memory in a direction specified on the touch panel at the time of playback and performs effect processing on the resulting data, and plays back and outputs them.
US11418871B2	Microphone array For certain application cases, such as e.g., in a sports stadium, a microphone array having a particularly high directivity in the vertical direction and a high, yet in wide limits adjustable directivity in horizontal direction is provided. The microphone array has a plurality of microphones whose output signals are combined into at least one common output signal. The microphones are directional microphones with a preferred direction of high sensitivity and arranged substantially in one plane on a circle or segment of a circle, such that each microphone has a different direction of high directivity. For each of the microphones, the preferred direction of high sensitivity is substantially orthogonal to the circle or segment of the circle. A common output signal of the microphone array is obtained by beamforming. The microphone array has an adjustable preferred direction of high sensitivity, wherein the common output signal comprises the sound recorded from this adjustable direction.
US11418868B2	Earphone and head-mounted earphone An earphone and a head-mounted earphone are provided. The head-mounted earphone includes a head-mounted accessory and a pair of earbud accessories. Each of the earbud accessories has a seat body, a speaker, and a connecting part. The speaker is affixed on a side of the seat body and the connecting part is disposed between the seat body and the speaker. The connecting part has a through hole, and two ends of the head-mounted accessory can be respectively disposed to be inserted into the through hole of each of the earbud accessories, such that the head-mounted accessory is detachably connected to the connecting part.
US11418865B2	Configurable hearing devices An earpiece includes: a first portion configured for placement in an ear canal, the first portion having an asymmetrical configuration; wherein the first portion is configured to exhibit a first property in a first state in response to a stimulus, and to exhibit a second property in a second state in an absence of the stimulus; and wherein the first portion is elastically compressible when the first portion is in the first state and the second state. A hearing device includes: a component configured to provide an output; and an earpiece having a first portion configured to change shape or a material property in response to the output provided by the component.
US11418860B2	Sensor device, sensing method, and program storage medium Provided is a technique for restraining the amount of information as a whole while securing, as appropriate, information contributive to determination that utilizes a sensor. This sensor device 200 comprises: a measurement unit 210 for repeatedly measuring first information and second information which is measured at time intervals longer than those for the first information; and an output unit 220 for outputting the first information and second information measured by the measurement unit 210. When the first information and the second information meet respective standards thereof, the output unit 220 outputs the second information at longer intervals.
US11418854B2	Milestone determination associated with video presentation One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A manifest associated with a first video may be generated. The manifest may include a first web address associated with accessing the first video, one or more first milestone markers of the first video, and/or one or more first beacon web addresses associated with the one or more first milestone markers. The manifest may be transmitted to a first client device. An indication addressed to a first beacon web address of the one or more first beacon web addresses may be received from the first client device. It may be determined, based upon the indication addressed to the first beacon web address, that the first client device displayed a first portion of the first video corresponding to a first milestone marker, of the one or more first milestone markers, associated with the first beacon web address.
US11418850B2	Systems and methods for inserting emoticons within a media asset Systems and methods are described herein for inserting emoticons within a media asset based on an audio portion of the media asset. Each audio portion of a media asset is associated with a respective part of speech, and an emotion corresponding to the audio portion for the media asset is determined. A corresponding emoticon is identified based on the determined emotion in the audio portion and causing to be presented at the location within the media asset.
US11418848B2	Device and method for interactive video presentation A method for interactive video presentation includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, video data corresponding to a story; presenting, through a display interface, a portion of the video data corresponding to a selected storyline path of the story; receiving, by the input interface, a user request for switching between a two-dimensional (2D) video streaming mode and a three-dimensional (3D) exploration mode; and in response to the user request being switching from the 2D video streaming mode to the 3D exploration mode: acquiring, by the processor, 3D video scenes with exploration options for an avatar, the 3D video scenes matched to a current story status and currently presented video data; and presenting, through the display interface, the 3D video scenes with the exploration options.
US11418846B2	System and method for enabling review of a digital multimedia presentation and redirection therefrom There is presented a system for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system includes a processor and a memory. The system further includes a presentation content database stored in the memory, the presentation content database configured to store a plurality of episodes of a media series each of the plurality of episodes including and a credit portion. The system also includes a media player for execution by the processor and configured to play a selected episode of the plurality of episodes of the media series, and a review and redirection application for execution by the processor and configured to determine a next episode of the selected episode in the media series, where the processor executes the review and redirection pane during or after the credit portion of the selected episode to present a consumer with the next episode of the selected episode in the media series.
US11418844B2	System and methods for providing bookmarking data A method includes receiving bookmarking data at a client device from a data processing and aggregating server, the bookmarking data referencing a specific point in a media content item playable from the client device; providing a first output signal based on the bookmarking data from the client device to a display device, the output signal causing the display device to display at least one bookmark that includes at least a user-selectable portion and a descriptive portion; receiving an input signal at the client device from a user input device, the input signal indicating a user selection of a bookmark displayed by the display device; and providing a second output signal from the client device to the display device responsive to the input signal, the second output signal causing the display device to display a media content item from a specific point specified by the bookmarking data.
US11418843B2	Forwarding video-on-demand flow Provided are a method and a device for forwarding a video-on-demand flow, which may be applied to a network with virtualization of network functions. In an example of the method, for a Virtual Broadband Remote Access Server (vBRAS) Service Orchestrator (vBRASSO) managing at least one vBRAS in a vBRAS resource pool in the network with virtualization of network functions, if a particular vBRAS completes user authentication, the vBRASSO determines a Point Of Presence (POP) switch for forwarding a video-on-demand flow to the user based on the user information from the vBRAS, and notifies the POP switch of a route for forwarding the video-on-demand flow to the user in such a way that the POP switch advertises the route to a core router configured to receive the video-on-demand flow from a video-playing source in the network with virtualization of network functions.
US11418841B2	Inhibiting display of advertisements with age-inappropriate content A method includes determining, at a media device, a rating associated with an advertisement. The method also includes receiving, at the media device, information from one or more sensors, where the information indicates that a viewer (e.g., a child) is located within an area associated with the media device. The method includes determining whether the advertisement includes age-inappropriate content for the viewer based on the rating and based on the information. When the advertisement includes age-inappropriate content for the viewer, the method includes inhibiting display of the advertisement.
US11418840B2	Aspect ratio error recognition Techniques are disclosed for recognizing aspect ratio errors in image frames of a video and reporting the same. An aspect ratio checker application receives a video that includes multiple image frames and identifies aspect ratio changes in those image frames using a first differential of a time series that includes determined positions of the top, bottom, left, and right of content regions within the image frames. In particular, the aspect ratio checker may identify aspect ratio changes based on non-zero points of the first differential, and the aspect ratio checker further determines aspect ratios of content regions within image frames corresponding to the non-zero points of the first differential. In addition, the aspect ratio checker may generate and display a report indicating the determined aspect ratios and image frame ranges associated with those aspect ratios.
US11418839B2	Automatic media control Media can be automatically controlled. A media control service can be configured to detect changes in the active application on a computing device and, in response, mute, pause or otherwise control the audio of one or more non-active applications to thereby prevent overlapping of audio. The media control service may leverage a policy to customize such control for a particular user, use case or other scenario. The media control service may also leverage machine learning to adapt such control based on a user's interactions with the computing device.
US11418835B2	Content-modification system with technical characteristic-based selection feature In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a content-management system and from a content-presentation device, a request for supplemental content, such as a replacement advertisement. The content-management system may then determine a technical characteristic of the content-presentation device and select supplemental content based at least in part on at least the determined technical characteristic of the content-presentation device. The content-management system may then cause the selected supplemental content to be transmitted to the content-presentation device to facilitate the content-presentation device performing a content modification operation.
US11418833B2	Methods and systems for providing content Disclosed are methods and systems for causing display of alternative content. The alternative content may be determined by a computing device. The computing device may cause output of the alternative content.
US11418830B2	Distributed video and graphics rendering system A receiving device receives from a base unit across a network an instruction stream that includes drawing commands for producing graphic frames of a user interface. The receiving device is connected to a display. The receiving device parses the instruction stream to determine the drawing commands and their arguments. The receiving device executes the drawing commands in a graphics engine of the receiving device to generate the graphic frames of the user interface. Executing includes performing rendering functions and interpolating coordinates for animation. The receiving device outputs the graphic frames of the user interface for display.
US11418824B1	Approximated personalization for weakly connected devices Techniques for targeting media content items for weakly connected devices are described. In some embodiments, a model building method in preparation for approximated personalization is performed at a server. The server uses data from fully connected devices to build a full model, which classifies profiles into clusters and tags targeted content with content rankings. The server also builds device models that approximate the full model. The server then sends the device models to user devices for targeted content selection. In some embodiments, a content selection method for approximated personalization is performed at a user device. The user device receives parameters of a device model trained by a server. The user device then executes the device model using local user data to assign a profile to a cluster and selects targeted content for the profile based on the cluster assignment and the rankings of the targeted content.
US11418816B2	Handling face discontinuities in 360-degree video coding Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be provided for discounting reconstructed samples and/or coding information from spatial neighbors across face discontinuities. Whether a current block is located at a face discontinuity may be determined. The face discontinuity may be a face boundary between two or more adjoining blocks that are not spherical neighbors. The coding availability of a neighboring block of the current block may be determined, e.g., based on whether the neighboring block is on the same side of the face discontinuity as the current block. For example, the neighboring block may be determined to be available for decoding the current block if it is on the same side of the face discontinuity as the current block, and unavailable if it Is not on the same side of the face discontinuity. The neighboring block may be a spatial neighboring block or a temporal neighboring block.
US11418814B2	Constraint on syntax elements for still picture profiles Systems and methods for decoding are provided. A method includes receiving a bitstream including a sequence parameter set (SPS), the SPS including a flag that specifies whether the bitstream includes only one coded picture; inferring a value of at least one syntax element of the SPS, based on the flag specifying that the bitstream includes only the one coded picture; and decoding the one coded picture based on the inferring.
US11418813B2	Signaling of inter layer prediction in video bitstream There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform parsing at least one video parameter set comprising at least one syntax element indicating whether at least one layer in the scalable bitstream is one of a dependent layer of the scalable bitstream and an independent layer of the scalable bitstream, determining a number of dependent layers, including the dependent layer, of the scalable bitstream based on a plurality of flags included in the VPS, decoding a picture in the dependent layer by parsing and interpreting an inter-layer reference picture list, and decoding a picture in an independent layer without parsing and interpreting the inter-layer reference picture list.
US11418808B2	Method and device for encoding or decoding image on basis of inter mode In a method and a device for encoding or decoding an image according to the present invention, motion information for bidirectional prediction of a current block may be derived on the basis of an inter mode previously defined in the device for encoding or decoding an image, and inter prediction may be performed on the current block on the basis of the motion information, wherein the motion information for bidirectional prediction is adjusted to be motion information for unidirectional prediction according to the predefined inter mode.
US11418807B2	Temporal motion vector derivation in shared merge region at picture boundary The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a coding region partially located outside a picture boundary. The processing circuitry determines whether a shared merge list is used for the coding region. Responsive to the shared merge list being used for the coding region, the processing circuitry constructs the shared merge list and reconstructs the coding region based on the shared merge list. Another apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block and examines coding blocks of a collocated block of the current block according to an examination order. A second examined position in the examination order is one of the coding blocks located adjacent to a top-left corner of the collocated block. The processing circuitry determines a TMVP according to the examined coding blocks and reconstructs the current block based on the TMVP.
US11418805B2	Moving picture coding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding method, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus A moving picture coding method includes: coding a coding target block using a motion vector; generating motion vector predictors; and coding the motion vector using one of the motion vector predictors generated in the generating of the motion vector predictors. In the generating of the motion vector predictors, a replacement vector which replaces a temporal motion vector predictor is added to the motion vector predictors when it is impossible to obtain the temporal motion vector predictor from a block which is included in a coded picture different from the coding target picture and corresponds to the coding target block.
US11418804B2	Method for wrap around motion compensation with reference picture resampling A method of generating an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including making a first determination regarding whether a current layer of a current picture is an independent layer; making a second determination regarding whether reference picture resampling is enabled for the current layer; based on the first determination and the second determination, disabling wrap-around compensation for the current layer; and encoding the current layer without the wrap-around compensation.
US11418801B2	Image compression circuitry and image compression method Image compression circuitry comprises first-stage compression circuitry, first-stage selector circuitry, second-stage compression circuitry, and second-stage selector circuitry. The first-stage compression circuitry is configured to sequentially receive a plurality of input blocks each comprising pixel data of a plurality of pixels, generate a plurality of first-stage compressed blocks by compressing the plurality of input blocks, and generate a plurality of first-stage decompressed blocks. The first-stage selector circuitry is configured to select first-stage-selected decompressed blocks from among the plurality of first-stage decompressed blocks and select first-stage-selected compressed blocks corresponding to the first-stage-selected decompressed blocks from among the plurality of first-stage compressed blocks. The second-stage compression circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of second-stage compressed blocks by compressing the plurality of input blocks and generate a plurality of second-stage decompressed blocks. The second-stage selector circuitry is configured to select second-stage-selected compressed and output the second-stage-selected compressed blocks.
US11418800B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encoding method of encoding three-dimensional points each having an attribute information item includes: classifying each of the three-dimensional points into any of layers including a first layer and a second layer; and arithmetic-encoding an attribute information item of a current three-dimensional point among the three-dimensional points with reference to a first encoding table when the current three-dimensional point is at the first layer, and with reference to a second encoding table not dependent on the first encoding table when the current three-dimensional point is at the second layer.
US11418793B2	Adaptive affine motion vector coding A video coding device is configured to determine control point motion vectors (CPMVs) for an affine motion predicted block of video data. For a four parameter affine model, two CPMVs may be positioned at any two corners of the current block, such as top-left and bottom-right or bottom-left; top-right and bottom-left or bottom-right; or bottom-left and bottom-right. For a six parameter affine model, three CPMVs may be positioned at any three corners of the current block, such as top-left, bottom-left, and bottom-right; top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right; or top-left, top-right, and bottom-right. The video coder may further predict the CPMVs using motion information of neighboring blocks to the determined CPMVs, code the CPMVs, and code the current block using the CPMVs. The video coder may be a video encoder or a video decoder.
US11418791B2	Calculation in matrix-based intra prediction Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block using a matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode in which a prediction block of the current video block is determined by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and selectively followed by an upsampling operation, where the performing the conversion includes deriving, according to a rule, boundary samples by applying a left bit shift operation or a right bit shift operation on a sum of at least one reference boundary sample, and where the rule determines whether to apply the left bit shift or the right bit shift operation.
US11418781B2	Flexible tree structure A method and apparatus for partitioning a block to permit the encoding or decoding of a video sequence includes partitioning the block using a split-to-square partition pattern, a horizontal binary tree partition pattern, or a horizontal ternary tree partition pattern to generate a set of sub-blocks, wherein a same priority is allocated to the split-to-square partition pattern, the horizontal binary tree partition pattern, and the horizontal ternary tree partition pattern such that the split-to-square partition pattern may be used before, after, or interleaved with the horizontal binary tree partition pattern and the horizontal ternary tree partition pattern. Encoding or decoding the video sequence is performed based on partitioning the block using the split-to-square partition pattern, the horizontal binary tree partition pattern, or the horizontal ternary tree partition pattern.
US11418773B2	Method and apparatus for camera calibration An imaging system is provided comprising: a memory storing instructions which, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising: determining multiple image regions of interest (ROIs) within a camera image plane that correspond to one or more three-dimensional (3D) world object images; determining multiple radar ROIs that correspond to one or more 3D world objects; determining 3D world distances corresponding to the radar ROIs; determining multiple co-registered ROI pairs by co-registering individual image ROIs with individual radar ROIs corresponding to common 3D world objects; adjusting one or more parameters associated with the camera, based upon the co-registered ROI pairs.
US11418770B2	Method and apparatus for colour imaging a three-dimensional structure A device for determining the surface topology and associated color of a structure, such as a teeth segment, includes a scanner for providing depth data for points along a two-dimensional array substantially orthogonal to the depth direction, and an image acquisition means for providing color data for each of the points of the array, while the spatial disposition of the device with respect to the structure is maintained substantially unchanged. A processor combines the color data and depth data for each point in the array, thereby providing a three-dimensional color virtual model of the surface of the structure. A corresponding method for determining the surface topology and associate color of a structure is also provided.
US11418769B1	Viewport adaptive volumetric content streaming and/or rendering A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for three-dimensional volumetric content. The encoder also is configured to segment the three-dimensional volumetric content based on viewing areas, wherein different ones of the viewing areas correspond to visible portions of the volumetric content. The system may provide metadata to a client device to support viewport adaptive rendering of the three-dimensional volumetric content or may adaptively stream portions of the three-dimensional volumetric content to a rending device based on viewing areas of the three-dimensional volumetric content that are to be rendered at the rendering device.
US11418767B2	Transmission apparatus, method of transmitting image data in high dynamic range, reception apparatus, method of receiving image data in high dynamic range, and program Transmission of HDR image data is satisfactorily performed between apparatuses.A transmission apparatus (synchronized apparatus) transmits the HDR image data to a reception apparatus (source apparatus) over a transmission path. At that time, the transmission apparatus transmits information on a transmission method for and/or information on gamma correction for the HDR image data to the reception apparatus over the transmission path. The reception apparatus performs processing (decoding processing, gamma correction processing, and the like) on the received HDR image data, based on the information on the transmission method and/or the information on the gamma correction that are received. For example, the transmission apparatus receives from the reception apparatus the pieces of information on the transmission method and/or the gamma correction that the reception apparatus can support, selects the method that the reception apparatus can support, and thus uses the selected method.
US11418762B2	Imaging system and method A system and method may include capturing a multi-channel polarimetric image and a multi-channel RGB image of a scene by a color polarimetric imaging camera. A multi-channel hyperspectral image may be synthesized from the multi-channel RGB image and concatenated with the multi-channel polarimetric image to create an integrated polarimetric-hyperspectral image. Scene properties within the integrated polarimetric-hyperspectral image may be disentangled.
US11418758B2	Multiple simultaneous framing alternatives using speaker tracking In one embodiment, a video conference endpoint may detect a one or more participants within a field of view of a camera of the video conference endpoint. The video conference endpoint may determine one or more alternative framings of an output of the camera of the video conference endpoint based on the detected one or more participants. The video conference endpoint may send the output of the camera of the video conference endpoint to one or more far-end video conference endpoints participating in a video conference with the video conference endpoint. The video conference endpoint may send data descriptive of the one or more alternative framings of the output of the camera to the far-end video conference endpoints. The far-end video conference endpoints may utilize the data to display one of the one or more alternative framings.
US11418756B2	Signal enhancement relay apparatus and method The present invention discloses a signal enhancement relay apparatus is provided. A display data channel stretching circuit includes a direct and an indirect channels. A snooper circuit is disposed at the direct channel. The indirect channel includes a master and a slave paths having a master and a slave transmission circuits disposed thereon. The direct channel is selected under a default passive mode such that a snooper link bridging handler circuit is enabled to monitor a display data transmission on the direct path through the snooper circuit, to perform a channel link bridging process corresponding to a data enhancement transmission channel accordingly. When the channel link bridging process under the passive mode fails, the indirect channel is selected under an active mode such that a intervening link bridging handler circuit t is enabled to access the display data transmission on the master and the slave paths respectively through the master and the slave transmission circuits, to perform the channel link bridging process respectively.
US11418753B2	Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method The feel of brightness intended by a production side is satisfactorily reproduced on a reception side.Transmission video data is acquired by applying a predetermined opto-electrical transfer function to input video data. The transmission video data is transmitted along with region information indicating a region in which a brightness conversion is allowed. A transmission unit for example transmits a video stream acquired by encoding the transmission video data, and the region information is inserted into a layer of the video stream. On the reception side, an electro-optical transfer function corresponding to the predetermined opto-electrical transfer function is applied to the transmission video data, and display video data is acquired by performing brightness conversion processing on the basis of the region information.
US11418751B2	Electronic device and method for generating image data A method of an electronic device including an image sensor that acquires an optical signal corresponding to an object and a controller that controls the image sensor, is provided. The method includes identifying a mode for generating an image corresponding to the object by using the optical signal, determining a setting of at least one image attribute to be used for generating the image at least based on the mode, generating image data by using pixel data corresponding to the optical signal at least based on the setting, and displaying the image corresponding to the object through a display functionally connected to the electronic device at least based on the image data.
US11418750B2	Imaging element and electronic device An imaging element according to a first aspect includes: a successive approximation resistor type analog-digital converter that converts an analog signal output from a pixel including a photoelectric conversion part into a digital signal, in which the successive approximation resistor type analog-digital converter has a preamplifier having a band limiting function. An imaging element according to a second aspect includes a DAC in which the successive approximation resistor type analog-digital converter uses a capacitance element to convert a digital value after AD conversion to an analog value, and sets the analog value to a comparison reference for comparison with an analog input voltage. Then, the DAC includes one of lower-bit capacitance elements including a plurality of capacitance elements, and after performing AD conversion for all bits, each of the plurality of capacitance elements is selectively applied with at least a first reference voltage to a fourth reference voltage, so that re-AD conversion is performed for lower bits.
US11418743B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and imaging system A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pulse shaping circuit that shapes an output from a diode of avalanche amplification type into a pulse, and a pulse conversion circuit that converts a pulse signal output from the pulse shaping circuit. The pulse conversion circuit converts a pulse signal having a first amplitude and output from the pulse shaping circuit into a pulse signal having a second amplitude smaller than the first amplitude.
US11418741B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic device The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that can be provided with phase difference pixels with a lower degree of difficulty in manufacturing.Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed, in which the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which a plurality of pixel groups each including neighboring pixels of an identical color is regularly arrayed, and among the plurality of pixel groups arrayed in the array pattern, pixels configuring a light-shielded pixel group are shielded in an identical direction side from light, the light-shielded pixel group being a pixel group including pixels each being shielded in a part of a light incident side from the light. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including pixels for phase difference detection.
US11418739B2	Lock-in pixel with reduced noise current and sensors including the same An optical sensing apparatus includes an absorption region configured to receive an optical signal and to generate, in response to the optical signal, photo-generated electrons and photo-generated holes, a carrier steerer, and circuitry electrically coupled to the carrier steerer and a controller. The carrier steerer includes a first p-doped region, a first n-doped region electrically shorted with the first p-doped region, a first gate configured to control a flow of holes from the absorption region to the first p-doped region, and a second gate configured to control a flow of electrons from the absorption region to the first n-doped region. The circuitry is configured receive electrical signals from the controller to synchronize operation of the first and second gates so that during a first time period holes flow from the absorption region to the first p-doped region while electrons do not flow from the absorption region to the first n-doped region and during a second time period electrons flow from the absorption region to the first n-doped region while holes do not flow from the absorption region to the first p-doped region.
US11418737B2	Image signal processor and electronic device and electronic system including the same An image processing device including a memory; and at least one image signal processor configured to: generate, using a first neural network, a feature value indicating whether to correct a global pixel value sensed during a unit frame interval, and generate a feature signal including the feature value; generate an image signal by merging the global pixel value with the feature signal; split a pixel value included in the image signal into a first sub-pixel value and a second sub-pixel value, split a frame feature signal included in the image signal into a first sub-feature value corresponding to the first sub-pixel value and a second sub-feature value corresponding to the second sub-pixel value, and generate a first sub-image signal including the first sub-pixel value and the first sub-feature value, and a second sub-image signal including the second sub-pixel value and the second sub-feature value; and sequentially correct the first sub-image signal and the second sub-image signal using a second neural network.
US11418736B2	Image sensor and electronic circuit included therein An electronic circuit includes a unit pixel, a first clamp circuit, and a second clamp circuit. The unit pixel outputs a voltage having an output voltage level at a first output voltage level in a first time interval and at a second output voltage level in a second time interval different from the first time interval. The first clamp circuit is configured to clamp the output voltage level from the unit pixel to a first voltage level responsive to the first output voltage level being not greater than the first voltage level in the first time interval. The second clamp circuit is configured to clamp the output voltage level from the unit pixel to a second voltage level responsive to the second output voltage level being not greater than the second voltage level in the second time interval.
US11418735B2	Image processing device including vision sensor and operating method thereof An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a vision sensor including a plurality of pixels, each pixel configured to generate a plurality of events per frame by sensing a change in intensity of light and configured to generate a plurality of timestamps indicating event occurrence times of the plurality of events, and a processor configured to correct an event data packet based on a response time and to output the event data packet based on the response time, the response time determined by a position of the pixel and an illuminance value.
US11418734B1	Dual conversion gain image sensor The present invention provides a dual conversion gain image sensor comprising: a pixel circuit, through which pixel power supply voltage noise is transferred to a bit line; a power supply noise cancellation circuit with an input to which the pixel power supply voltage is applied, the power supply noise cancellation circuit mimicly producing a first transfer function with the aid of a low conversion gain path, the power supply noise cancellation circuit mimicly producing a second transfer function with the aid of a high conversion gain path; and a comparator. According to the present invention, the low and high conversion gain paths are two independent power supply noise cancellation paths that result in different transfer functions capable of tracking the variation of the pixel power supply voltage in low and high conversion gain modes.
US11418732B2	Imaging method with pulsed light The invention relates to a method allowing the use of the information accessible by fluorescence imaging to be optimized. For this purpose, it implements the combination of a protocol for calibration and synchronization of a pulsed light for exciting a fluorescent marker, with the operation in “rolling shutter” mode of a fluorescence camera. An appropriate correction factor allows the complete signal integrated by all of the photodiodes of the camera to be used so that no image is lost.
US11418731B2	Image sensor and electronic camera An image sensor includes a pixel, the pixel has: a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically convert light to generate a charge; an accumulation unit that accumulates at least one of the charge generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and the charge generated by the second photoelectric conversion unit; a first output unit and a second output unit that output a signal based on the charge accumulated in the accumulation unit; and an adjustment unit that adjusts a capacitance of the accumulation unit if a signal based on the charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit is output from the first output unit.
US11418727B2	Actuated static masks for coded aperture imaging A method includes forming a first image of a scene through a static coded aperture onto a sensor with the static coded aperture in a first position relative to the sensor, shifting the coded aperture to a second position relative to the sensor, and forming a second image of the scene through the static coded aperture onto the sensor with the static coded aperture in the second position. Two or more images can be formed in this way. The method includes forming a combined image by deconvolving the two or more images and combining data from the two or more images into the combined image. The combined image can be a more accurate representation of the scene than either of the first and second images.
US11418723B1	Increasing dynamic range of a virtual production display Disclosed here are various techniques to increase dynamic range of an image recorded from a display. A processor performing preprocessing splits an input image containing both bright and dark regions into two images, image A containing bright regions, and image B containing dark regions. The display presents image A and image B in alternating fashion. Camera is synchronized with the display to record image A and image B independently. In postprocessing, a processor obtains the recorded images A and B. The processor increases the pixel value of the recorded image A to obtain image A with increased pixel value. Finally, the processor increases pixel value of the image recorded from the display by combining the first recorded image with increased pixel value and the second recorded image.
US11418717B2	Method for optimizing privacy mask of camera with panning and tilting control and imaging device with privacy mask optimization applied A method of creating a privacy mask from an image imaged by an imaging device in which a rotation axis of a camera and a center of a lens do not match includes measuring a distance from the camera to an object in a first imaging condition; creating a first mask for the object, and storing the distance together with the first mask; and creating a second mask for the object in a second imaging condition and correcting a position of the second mask using the first mask and the distance, wherein an imaging angle of the camera the first imaging condition is same as the imaging angle of the camera in the second imaging condition, and wherein a position of the lens in the first imaging condition is reversed around the rotation axis from a position of the lens in the second imaging condition.
US11418716B2	Spherical image based registration and self-localization for onsite and offsite viewing Systems and methods for image registration and self-localization for onsite and offsite viewing are provided. In one aspect, systems and methods for spherical image based registration and self-localization for onsite and offsite viewing, such as augmented reality viewing and virtual reality viewing, are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a portable electric device fitted with a device camera, an external omnidirectional spherical camera, and a remote server. In one embodiment, a method of use employs a set of fiducial markers inserted in images collected by a spherical camera to perform image registration of spherical camera images and device camera images.
US11418715B2	Display control apparatus and control method therefor A display control apparatus includes a first display internal to a viewfinder, a second display external to the viewfinder, an eye proximity detector, and an operation unit to switch a display on which a display target is displayed. The eye proximity detector detects, as a state, whether an eye is in proximity of the viewfinder. Where an obtained eye proximity detection state satisfies a first condition, a notification is displayed on a pre-switching display indicating that the display displaying the display target is to be switched. In response to a second condition being satisfied, the display of the display target is switched from the pre-switching display to a post-switching display. In a case where the obtained eye proximity detection state does not satisfy the first condition, the display target is switched to the post-switching display without displaying the notification on the pre-switching display.
US11418713B2	Input based launch sequences for a camera application Aspects relate to a launch sequence for a camera application. An example method includes obtaining a first user input on a region of a display. The method also includes determining, by a processor, whether the first user input is a first input type or a second input type. The first input type includes the first user input on the region of the display for greater than a threshold amount of time. The second input type includes the first user input on the region of the display for less than the threshold amount of time. The method further includes executing, by the processor, a first launch sequence of a camera application based on the first user input being the first input type. The method may also include executing, by the processor, a second launch sequence of the camera application based on the first user input being the second input type.
US11418710B2	Composite reception/emission apparatus A composite reception and emission apparatus comprises: a plurality of first-type devices that receives or emits energy; a plurality of second-type devices whose type is different from a type of the first-type devices; and a base body. The first-type devices and the second-type devices measure a full solid angle, and are arranged on the base body such that a device closest to each of the first-type devices in an orientation space is at least one of the second-type devices, and a device closest to each of the second-type devices in the orientation space is at least one of the first-type devices.
US11418708B2	Apparatus and method for remote image capture with automatic subject selection A method includes operating a remote image capture system within a defined geolocation region. The remote image capture system includes a camera, position orientation controls for the camera, ambient sensors and a control unit. A user of a client device that enters the geolocation region is designated based upon identifying information received from the client device and user facial recognition data. Attributes of the geolocation region are communicated to the client device. An image capture location within the geolocation region is communicated to the client device. The client device is provided a prompt to activate the camera.
US11418707B2	Electronic device and notification method According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors obtain an image captured by a camera with a filter having a first area transmitting light of a first wavelength range and a second area transmitting light of a second wavelength range. The image includes a first color-component image based on the light of the first wavelength range and a second color-component image based on the light of the second wavelength range. The one or more processors notify a user of an effective area for calculation of depth information based on a bias of color information in the first color-component image and the second color-component image.
US11418706B2	Adjusting motion capture based on the distance between tracked objects The technology disclosed relates to adjusting the monitored field of view of a camera and/or a view of a virtual scene from a point of view of a virtual camera based on the distance between tracked objects. For example, if the user's hand is being tracked for gestures, the closer the hand gets to another object, the tighter the frame can become—i.e., the more the camera can zoom in so that the hand and the other object occupy most of the frame. The camera can also be reoriented so that the hand and the other object remain in the center of the field of view. The distance between two objects in a camera's field of view can be determined and a parameter of a motion-capture system adjusted based thereon. In particular, the pan and/or zoom levels of the camera may be adjusted in accordance with the distance.
US11418700B2	Control device, endoscope system, processing method, and program Provided is a control device, an endoscope system, a processing method, and a program which can select a region other than the center region in an image to perform a predetermined process. An endoscope system includes an image generation unit which processes an image signal generated by an imaging unit to generate a display image to be displayed, a display controller which overlaps a plurality of select regions selectable according to an external operation to the display image and outputs the overlapped image to the display device, and an autofocus controller which performs a predetermined process on at least one select region selected according to the external operation.
US11418699B1	User interfaces for altering visual media The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.
US11418698B2	Focus adjustment device and imaging apparatus A focus adjustment device comprising: a first detector which detects a focused state by a contrast detection system; second detectors which detect a focused state by a phase difference detection system; and a control unit which controls the first detector and second detectors so as to detect the focused state by the second detectors when detecting the focused state by the first detector.
US11418696B2	Optical device In order to effectively perform auto focusing and an OIS function, provided is an optical device in a first diopter state, the optical device comprising: a liquid lens having a variable diopter; a memory in which regions of interest (ROIs) according to the variable diopter are recorded; a lens control unit for retrieving a first ROI corresponding to the first diopter from the memory and configuring the first ROI; and a diopter operating unit for auto-focusing the first ROI to change the liquid lens to have a second diopter.
US11418692B2	Image sensor with image receiver and automatic image combining Provided are an image sensor with one or more image receivers for image combining, and an imaging system and method therefor. The image sensor includes an image sensor array to generate first image data for a first image; a receiver to receive, into the image sensor, second image data for a second image; an image combination circuit coupled to the image sensor array and the receiver to receive the first image data and the second image data and combine the first image data and the second image data into combined image data for a single combined image, according to one or more image combination criteria, and at least one of the first image data and the second image data; and a transmitter coupled to the image combination circuit to transmit the combined image data for the combined image from the image sensor.
US11418687B2	Camera module and optical device comprising same An embodiment comprises: a lens barrel; a holder; a filter disposed in the holder; a circuit board having an aperture; a reinforcing member including a first region corresponding to the aperture and a second region in which the circuit board is disposed; and an image sensor disposed in the first region of the reinforcing member, wherein the first region of the reinforcing member includes a protruding part protruding farther than the second region of the reinforcing member, and the image sensor is disposed on the upper surface of the protruding part.
US11418686B2	Image pickup module and image pickup device An imaging module includes: a substrate on which an imaging element is mounted and in which a through-hole is formed; a holding section that has a support pin inserted into the through-hole in such a manner that the support pin penetrates the through-hole and that holds an optical system forming a subject image on the imaging element; and an adhesive that is provided in the through-hole and that fixes the substrate to the support pin, and at least a tip end portion of the support pin has a tapered shape from a root side of the support pin toward a tip end of the support pin.
US11418685B2	Monitoring camera and cover It is intended to increase the efficiency of heating of a cover by a heater. A monitoring camera is equipped with a capturing unit, a cover that has a dome-shaped curved portion and a flange portion and configured to cover the capturing unit, a transparent conductive film provided on an inner surface of the dome-shaped curved portion and the flange portion, and a pair of electrodes configured to supply power to the conductive film.
US11418684B2	Information synchronization device, information synchronization method, and information synchronization program Matching timings of transmitting pieces of information for reproducing video and audio with presence and handling loss are provided. An information synchronization device is configured to synchronize, to a reference timestamp, data in which one or more labels for identifying respective one or more subjects on a video and one or more pieces of location information for identifying respective locations of the one or more subjects are respectively associated. The information synchronization device includes a reception unit for receiving the data at each time, a buffer for storing the received data, and a location information interpolation unit for generating, when pieces of the location information at times before and after the reference timestamp is stored into the buffer for any of the labels, location information of the label at the reference timestamp by interpolation using the pieces of the location information.
US11418681B1	Halftone matrix generation using kernels A method in described in which a halftone matrix is generated using a kernel by mapping kernel values of each pixel to a halftone matrix value at a corresponding element of the halftone matrix. Where a plurality of pixels have the same kernel value, the kernel value is randomly mapped to a respective halftone matrix value in a range of halftone matrix values corresponding to the kernel value.
US11418679B2	Image processing apparatus, method, and control program product that combines additional image to fit into base image and changes position in case overrun of base image An image processing apparatus that is capable of preventing an additional image from being arranged at a position that overruns from a displayed base image when a user carelessly designates such a position. The image processing apparatus including an instruction unit that instructs a composition position by a user's operation at which an additional image selected by a user is combined with a base image displayed on a display, and a controller that controls so as to combine the additional image with the base image at a composition position instructed by the instruction unit. When the composition position where at least a part of the additional image overruns from the base image is instructed by the instruction unit, the controller changes the composition position so that the additional image will fit into the base image and combines the additional image at the changed composition position.
US11418678B2	Electronic apparatus, communication apparatus, and communication abnormality detection method for detecting communication abnormality of serial bus An electronic apparatus includes a first communication apparatus, a second communication apparatus, a serial bus, and a first control circuit. The second communication apparatus includes a storage device configured to store stored data. A first control circuit determines whether or not a first data amount of stored data serving as request target of request data matches a second data amount of stored data included in response data transmitted from the second communication apparatus via a second signal line of the serial bus in response to the transmission of the request data on the basis of a data amount specifying signal transmitted by a third signal line of the serial bus when the request data is transmitted from the first communication apparatus via a first signal line of the serial bus, and outputs a determination result.
US11418676B2	Image forming apparatus with cloud processing and control method therefor An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, an encoder, and a processor. The communication interface communicates with a cloud server that executes decoding by any of a plurality of decoding methods corresponding to a plurality of autoencoder models. The encoder performs encoding by any of a plurality of encoding methods corresponding to the plurality of autoencoder models. The processor specifies an encoding method to the encoder to encode image data into intermediate layer data that is configured to be decoded by the cloud server and transmits the intermediate layer data and model information indicating the specified encoding method used for the encoding to the cloud server through the communication interface.
US11418672B2	Image forming apparatus and temperature control method An image forming apparatus, includes: a media sensor that detects a sheet type; a fixer that fixes the image on a sheet; a storage that stores a fixing temperature for each sheet type; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the fixer by pulse-width modulation (PWM) control and controls a temperature of the fixer to the fixing temperature corresponding to the sheet type detected by the media sensor.
US11418671B2	Information processing apparatus, and method of controlling the same An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit in which a boot program is stored, a first control unit and a second control unit. The first control unit validates the boot program stored in the storage unit and transmits a pattern signal indicating that the boot program stored in the storage unit is validated. The second control unit executes the boot program stored in the storage unit in accordance with the pattern signal received from the first control unit.
US11418670B2	Printing apparatus connected to an external power supply having a plurality of voltage information A printing apparatus connectable to an external power supply having outputtable voltage information, including: a printing head performing printing by electric power supplied from the external power supply; a resistor having an electric resistivity based on the printing head; a detector detecting a substantial voltage; and a controller configured to: obtain the voltage information from the external power supply; decide a tentative voltage; request the external power supply to output the tentative voltage; energize the resistor with the tentative voltage; decide the substantial voltage if a voltage corresponding to each of the obtained voltage information is supplied based on a result of the detector during the energizing of the resistor; decide an electric power supply voltage based on the substantial voltage; and request the external power supply to output the electric power supply voltage.
US11418669B2	Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a selection unit, a determination unit, and a control unit to set candidates to be selected by the selection unit. If determination unit determines that there is not a set of a size and an orientation of a document of which the orientation cannot be correctly determined, the control unit sets, as selection unit selection candidates, candidates of sets of sizes and orientations of a plurality of documents. If the determination unit determines that there is a set of a size and an orientation of a document of which the orientation cannot be correctly determined, the control unit sets, as selection unit selection candidates, candidates obtained by excluding the set of the size and the orientation of the document of which the orientation cannot be correctly determined from the candidates of the sets of the sizes and the orientations of the plurality of documents.
US11418663B2	Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium to change display language An image forming apparatus a display unit includes a reception unit configured to receive a user operation, a setting unit configured to set, as a default language, a language selected by a plurality of operations, a changing unit configured to change, from the default language to a language different from the default language, a language to be displayed by a single operation, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that in a case where the setting unit does not change the default language and the changing unit changes the language to be displayed to the language different from the default language, the language to be displayed is changed to the default language, whereas in a case where the setting unit changes the default language to another language, the language to be displayed is not changed from the other language.
US11418660B2	Communication device, method, and storage medium for destination selection based on touch In a communication device, if a first touch on a touch panel is detected and, subsequently, a second touch is detected within a predetermined period of time from a time of the first touch and if an object displayed on the touch panel at a position at which the second touch is detected is an object used to select a destination, selection of the destination by the touch on the object is not performed. If a first touch on the touch panel is detected and, subsequently, a second touch is detected within a predetermined period of time from a time of the first touch and if an object displayed on the touch panel at a position at which the second touch is detected is not an object used to select a destination, processing to be activated by the touch on the object is performed.
US11418655B2	Echo detection A method (400) includes receiving a microphone audio signal (132) and a playout audio signal (112), and determining a frequency representation (324) of the microphone audio signal and a frequency representation of the playout audio signal. For each frequency representation, the method also includes determining features (302) based on the frequency representation. Each feature corresponds to a pair of frequencies (342) of the frequency representation and a period of time between the pair of frequencies. The method also includes determining that a match (212) occurs between a first feature based on the frequency representation of the microphone audio signal and a second feature based on the frequency representation of the playout audio signal, and determining that a delay value (222) between the first feature and the second feature corresponds to an echo within the microphone audio signal.
US11418651B2	Techniques for pairing contacts and agents in a contact center system Techniques for pairing contacts and agents in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for pairing contacts and agents in a contact center system comprising: assigning, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to and configured to operate in the contact center system, a contact to an agent based on information associated with a prior interaction of the contact with the contact center system. The assigning of the contact to the agent may result in a less favorable outcome for the contact assigned to the agent and an increase in an overall performance of the contact center system.
US11418648B2	Enhanced digital messaging Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method of processing messages received in an asynchronous communication system. In some embodiments, the method includes analyzing interactions on a digital communication channel, determining that the interactions have paused for an amount of time, analyzing content of the interactions to determine an estimate of the amount of time, updating a state of the agent to release the agent for the estimated amount of time, and setting a timer that will automatically change the state of the agent back to an occupied state for the interactions at a future time that aligns with an expiration of the timer.
US11418645B2	Telephone exchange, hold tone notification method, and hold tone notification program A recognition analysis processing unit (20) analyzes call voice information about a call between terminals, which are in a communicating state, specifies a language used in the call voice information, and stores the language as language information. When a hold request detection unit (11) detects a hold request signal for requesting that the call to be held transmitted from one of the call originating terminal and the call receiving terminal, which are in the communicating state, to be held, it extracts, from the language information stored in the recognition analysis processing unit (20), the language used in the call between the terminals to which the hold request signal has been transmitted from the one of the terminals, selects, from a hold tone database (30) storing the hold tones including a plurality of on-hold messages in various languages, the hold tone including the on-hold message in the language matching the extracted language, and transmits the selected hold tone to another one of the terminals, which is another party on the phone. Thus, a telephone exchange (1000) for making the other party on the phone listen to the hold tone including the on-hold message in the language matching the language used by the other party on the phone is provided.
US11418644B2	Systems and methods for creating multitrack recordings Systems and methods for making a multitrack recording of a telephony communication, such as a conference call, record the contributions of each participant its own respective, separate recording track. In some instances, the contribution(s) of one or more participants is recorded in separate recording tracks, and the contributions of multiple other participants is mixed and recorded in a single recording track. An organizer or administrator of a telephony communication, such as a conference call, can instruct a multitrack recording system as to how to format a multitrack recording of the telephony communication via commands submitted through an application programming interface (API).
US11418642B1	Methods, systems and computer program products for determining root causes of detected anomalies in a telecommunications network Methods for determining a cause of a detected anomalous event in a telecommunications system are provided. The methods include detecting an anomalous event in the telecommunications system and retrieving relevant call detail record (CDR) data associated with the detected anomalous event for at least one identified time interval responsive to detecting the anomalous event. The relevant CDR data includes both current CDR data for the at least one identified time interval and historical CDR data for past intervals corresponding to the at least one identified time interval. The relevant CDR data including the current CDR data and the historical CDR data is preprocessed and the preprocessed relevant CDR data is processed to determine a root cause of the detected anomalous event. Processing the preprocessed relevant CDR data includes comparing the current CDR data and the historical CDR data to determine the root cause of the detected anomalous event.
US11418641B2	Devices and methods for multipath communications Broadband communications devices and methods operate with at least two separate communication paths between the devices and the network, such as the Internet. The broadband devices and methods receive data concurrently over the communication paths or separately. The bandwidth is increased when the separate communication paths are combined. The broadband devices employ packetized data with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies combined with RF communications technologies.
US11418640B2	Aluminum-air battery units and stacks Aluminum-air battery units and stacks are provided with frames configured to mechanically support the anode of each unit, within a housing configured to support the frame and the air cathode(s) mechanically, sealably hold the electrolyte within the housing and in fluid communication with openings in the housing—forming one or two sided electrochemical cell in each unit. The frame comprises a protective strap configured to protect edges of the rectangular anode against corrosion by the electrolyte during operation, and also an external trapezoid shape that is configured to press the protective strap against the edges of the rectangular anode upon insertion of the frame with the anode into the housing. Various embodiments comprise, spacers between the anode and cathodes and grids supporting airways to the cathodes. In disclosed configurations, anode may be replaced after electrolyte evacuation while maintaining the stack sealed and quickly ready for renewed operation.
US11418631B2	Efficient packet delivery methods and associated communications apparatus A communications apparatus includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver is configured to receive wireless signals. The wireless signals include a plurality of packets. The processor is coupled to the receiver and includes a first logic configured to perform operations of a first protocol layer and a second logic configured to perform operations of a second protocol layer higher than the first protocol layer. The operations of the first protocol layer includes: starting a timer in response to receiving a first packet with a first count value that is different from a deliver count value; and delivering a second packet with a second count value that is different from the deliver count value to the second logic before the timer expires.
US11418628B2	Communication terminal, communication system, and communication method A communication terminal shares data with another communication terminal. The communication terminal includes circuitry. The circuitry receives, from a communication management apparatus that manages the data shared with the another communication terminal, storage location information representing a storage location of background image data transmitted from the another communication terminal, and transmits a download request to an image storing apparatus corresponding to the storage location to request download of the background image data. The circuitry further starts downloading the background image data from the image storing apparatus and receives, from the communication management apparatus, stroke data of a stroke image rendered on the another communication terminal.
US11418616B1	Intelligent proactive template driven edge caching method and apparatus Techniques for intelligent proactive template-driven data caching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving notification of input by the user of a user computing device, identifying a user activity corresponding to the user input, using the identified user activity to obtain a template comprising a number of data retrieval operations for the identified activity and timing information indicating, for each data retrieval operation, a corresponding timing for performing the data retrieval operation, performing a data retrieval operation identified by the template to retrieve data item(s) from data storage remote to the user computing device in accordance with the corresponding timing indicated by the template, causing the retrieved data items to be stored in data storage local to the user computing device.
US11418615B2	Proxy device that selectively dispatches resource requests A proxy device receives a resource request from a requestor via a client device. The resource request is associated with a hosted resource, and the hosted resource is associated with a version-control tag. The proxy device determines, based on the version-control tag, information indicating a current state of the hosted resource. The proxy device obtains user management information associated with the requestor, and conditionally dispatches a processed resource request from the proxy device to a resource host based, at least in part, on the current state of the hosted resource and the user management information.
US11418611B2	Methods, apparatus, and systems for sending information An information sending method is provided. The method includes determining, by the apparatus, an interaction setting between a first terminal device and a second terminal device; determining a service index of the first terminal device based on the interaction setting between the first terminal device and the second terminal device; determining information to send based on the service index; and sending the determined information to the first terminal device.
US11418608B2	Service provider managed applications in secured networks Systems and methods for providing application services to a customer are provided. Customer-managed computing resources on a customer network may facilitate the provision of application services to a client device coupled to the customer network. Application instances providing the application services may execute either on the customer-managed computing resources or on computing resources managed by the service provider. Application services may be rendered to the customer while sensitive customer data maintains residency on storage resources on the customer network. Application instances may receive requests for services from the customer, and generate corresponding requests for particular data of the sensitive customer data. These requests may be conveyed to the endpoints on customer network capable of fulfilling the requests. Customer-managed computing resources and service provider-managed computing resources may be respective first and second subsets of a pool of shared computing resources, implemented as virtual private clouds (VPCs) accessible over respective private networks.
US11418605B2	Efficient request-response routing over a data exchange layer In an example, there is disclosed a data exchange layer (DXL) broker, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a DXL service store; a traditional internet protocol (IP) network stack; a DXL driver to operate a DXL layer on top of the traditional IP network stack; and instructions encoded within the memory to: enumerate a plurality of DXL endpoints connected to the DXL broker via the traditional IP network stack; store IP network routing information and DXL identification information for the DXL endpoints in the DXL service store; receive a DXL message for a DXL endpoint, the DXL message including DXL identification information for one of the plurality of DXL endpoints; and route the DXL message to the one of the plurality of DXL endpoints via the IP network routing information for the one of the plurality of DXL endpoints.
US11418604B2	Local servers to manage storage across client devices in an intermittent network A local server for managing storage across client devices in an intermittent network may include a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The local server may also include an internet connection manager to manage data transfer from an internet to the local server, and a wireless local area network (LAN) access point to communicatively couple at least one local client device to the local server. The local server manages the local client device to use the local server as a proxy server. The local server may also include a local network manager. The local network manager may include an update manager to push data downloaded by the local server device to the local client device based on relevancy of the data to a user of the local client device.
US11418598B2	System for exchanging data in an aircraft A system for exchanging data in an aircraft between at least two on-board devices which are interconnected by a communication link clocked at a predetermined link frequency, a first device being configured so as to: acquire measuring signals at frequencies native to the measuring signals; create frames on the basis of the measuring signals according to the native frequencies; and transmit the frames at the predetermined link frequency to a second device via the communication link.
US11418593B2	Read-coherent group memory A data distribution system includes a data distribution module and at least two host-bus adapters coupled to the data distribution module. The data distribution system includes a memory-management system including a plurality of memory regions. The memory-management system is coherent across the plurality of memory regions and an absolute address of each of the plurality of memory regions accessed by a same offset.
US11418591B1	Write response thresholds Systems and methods for storing encoded data slices in a storage network involve generating a set of write slice requests relating to the encoded data slices, outputting the set of write slice requests to distributed storage units, receiving write slice responses and determining whether to retry storing the set of encoded data slices based on one or more of the write slice responses. Determining whether to retry storing the set of encoded data slices may involve determining whether less than a write threshold number of favorable responses were received, for example in a time period, and/or whether an unfavorable response was received. Determining whether to retry may also be based on receiving a slow or non-response. For purposes of retrying, the systems and methods may also determine whether to modify the write slice requests, for example by modifying a revision number.
US11418587B2	5G on-demand dynamically instantiated blockchain for highly distributed peer-to-peer consumer cloud The technology described herein documents and verifies interactions in a cloud computing environment. The system creates a first partition within the cloud computing environment for a first entity and a second partition within the cloud computing environment for a second entity. A blockchain ledger can be created for a set of interactions between the first entity and the second entity, where the blockchain ledger is disengaged when the first entity and the second entity are not interacting. The system can receive a request from the first entity for an interaction with the second entity and can activate the blockchain ledger. In response to receiving consensus from a blockchain community within the cloud computing environment, the system can allow the interaction, where the interaction is appended to the blockchain ledger.
US11418585B1	Optimized server picking in a virtual private network A method for optimized server picking in a virtual private network (VPN) environment, the method receiving, from a user device, a preference of the user device with respect to a VPN server for establishing a VPN connection; receiving user device information associated with the user device; determining, based at least in part on the preference and the user device information, a subset of a plurality of VPN servers; and determining, from the subset of a plurality of VPN servers, a VPN server as an optimal VPN server for establishing the VPN connection. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11418584B2	Inter-service communications This disclosure describes various ways in which a client agent can be incorporated into multiple virtual machines of a server cluster to keep track of the location of each instance of services running on the server cluster and facilitate rapid connection of different services on the server cluster as needed. When a first service requests connection to a second service, a client agent co-located with the first service is able to forward the request to a virtual network interface card (VNIC) associated with the second service. The VNIC is configured to forward the request to an available instance of the second service. The location of the services are determined and stored on one or more service registries right after the service instances are instantiated, removing the need for a search when new requests are received.
US11418583B2	Transaction process management by dynamic transaction aggregation A method for dynamic transaction request grouping and allocation in a distributed transaction processing system. The method may implement interconnected transaction process monitors to manage the handling and servicing of transaction requests with respect to networked computing platforms of the distributed transaction processing system.
US11418579B2	Configuring control devices operable for a load control environment A control device configuration system may receive, store, process, and/or display control device configuration information. The control device configuration system may filter the control device configuration information based on user selections of configuration options for configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may identify compatible and incompatible configuration options for various configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may allow selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may adjust how it filters the control device configuration information based on the selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may implement a configuration model that includes configuration parameter groups for efficient evaluation of user selections.
US11418577B1	System and method for global data sharing Sharing data in a data exchange across multiple cloud computing platforms and/or cloud computing platform regions is described. An example computer-implemented method can include receiving data sharing information from a data provider for sharing a data set in a data exchange from a first cloud computing entity to a set of second cloud computing entities. In response to receiving the data sharing information, the method may also include creating an account with each of the set of second cloud computing entities. The method may also further include sharing the data set from the first cloud computing entity with the set of second cloud computing entities using at least the corresponding account of that second cloud computing entity.
US11418576B2	Methods and systems for facilitating information and expertise distribution via a communications network Disclosed herein are methods and systems for facilitating information and expertise distribution via a communication network. A method at a first computing device may include receiving a request for information from a second computing device, determining at least one third computing device based on an analysis of the request for information, communicating the request for information to the determined at least one third computing device, receiving a response corresponding to the request for information from the determined at least one third computing device, adjusting a credit level of a user associated with the determined at least one third computing device based on the received response, and communicating the response to the second computing device. The credit level of the user may indicate one or more credits earned by the user.
US11418572B2	Methods and systems for improved system performance Methods and systems are provided for improving system responsiveness while increasing efficiency and scalability of network communication by combining reliable and unreliable network transports. A method and system is provided for client polling a status server to see if there is new data, receiving a notification that there is new data, sending a client request to a server premises which retrieves the new data from a database and returns the new data to the client. Communication with the status server uses an unreliable packet or a reliable packet, whereas communication between the client and the server premises uses reliable transport. A redundant cluster of status servers and methods is provided.
US11418568B2	Model-based parameter selection for media sessions Techniques for providing improved online communication are provided herein. In one example, a model may be used to predict network parameters of a network connection of a computing device. One or more attributes specifying characteristics of the network connection for the computing device may be received and used by the model to predict the network parameters. The predicted network parameters may be provided to a computing device for initiation of a media session.
US11418562B2	Methods of streaming media file data and media file servers A media file system, apparatus, computer program product and method are provided for of streaming media file data. An exemplary method includes receiving a request for media file data for a desired time, and determining from the desired time an available segment of media file data, wherein the segment includes media file data from a start time to an end time. The method further including returning the available segment of media file, wherein the step of returning the available segment of media file data includes returning information indicative of the start time to end time covered by the media file data of the available segment.
US11418558B2	Method and apparatus for real-time-capable data transmission between two networks A method for real-time-capable data transmission between two networks includes a first real-time-capable communication system having a first real-time mechanism for real-time-capable data transmission set up in a first network. A second real-time-capable communication system having a second real-time mechanism for real-time-capable data transmission is set up in a second network. The first network and the second network are connected to one another via a mapping module which reciprocally maps the first real-time mechanism of the first real-time-capable communication system and the second real-time mechanism of the second real-time-capable communication system to one another. For real-time-capable data transmission from one of the two networks to the other of the two networks, a data packet is transmitted in the one of the two networks according to the real-time mechanism of the real-time-capable communication system set up in the network.
US11418556B2	Seamless transition of source of media content In one aspect, a playback device is configured to (i) receive a first stream of audio data representing audio content from a computing system, (ii) detect an indication that a source of the audio content is to switch from the computing system to a user device; (iii) after detecting the indication, establish a point-to-point wireless link with the user device over which to receive a second stream of audio data; (iv) receive the second stream of audio data representing the audio content; (v) determine a future time at which to transition from playing back the audio content using the first stream of audio data to playing back the audio content using the second stream of audio data; and (vi) at the future time, transition from playing back the audio content using the first stream of audio data to playing back the audio content using the second stream of audio data.
US11418555B1	Systems and methods for streaming an application via object storage Systems and methods stream an application on a computer system. A compressed archive of an installation directory of the application may be created and stored as a storage object. Two mount points may be established at the computer system. One mount point may provide a window to the storage object holding the compressed archive. The other mount point may present an interface to the installation directory. In response to requests by the application to access files from its installation directory, the systems and methods may retrieve the portion of the compressed archive containing that file from the storage object. The systems and methods may extract, e.g., decompress, the requested file from the retrieved page and serve it at the second mount point. The computer system may then provide the requested file to the application.
US11418550B1	Service-mesh session prioritization Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining a sub-set of services, each service in the sub-set of services being in an overload status and having a SSF associated therewith, providing statistics associated with each service in the sub-set of services and relating service call statistics to each API group of a set of API groups, determining a set of sessions based on the service call statistics, each session in the set of sessions associated with at least one service in the sub-set of services having a service call statistic that exceeds a threshold service call statistic, defining an execution group and a waiting group, determining that a session is in the waiting group, and in response, blocking a request of the session from being processed by a service in the sub-set of services, and providing a wait indication to a user associated with the session.
US11418549B2	Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) level awareness of high latency device Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing IMS level awareness of high latency device are provided. One method, when a UE attaches to EPC, receiving, at a network node, an indication that the UE is a high latency device. The method may also include assigning, to the UE, an IP address selected from a special IP address range that is designated specifically for high latency devices. When the UE performs IMS registration, the method may include determining that the UE is a high latency UE based on the UE's IP address provided with the IMS registration request and assigned during the EPC attach procedure.
US11418548B2	Method of transmitting security information of single-bit ADC wiretap channel Provided is a method of transmitting security information of a single-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) wiretap channel. In the method of transmitting the security information of the single-bit ADC channel, a transmitting terminal adds additive noise to a transmission signal and transmits the transmission signal, and a receiving terminal and a wiretap terminal which each include a single-bit ADC receive the transmission signal, wherein received information is processed so as not to be determined by the wiretap terminal. When intensity of additive noise of the receiving terminal is less than that of additive noise of the wiretap terminal, a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) distribution is used, and when the intensity of the additive noise of the receiving terminal is greater than that of the additive noise of the wiretap terminal, a codebook is designed using an asymmetric BPSK distribution in which both of two message points have a positive value.
US11418544B2	Solution management systems and methods for addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities Solution management systems and methods are presently disclosed that enable receiving, compiling, and analyzing vendor solutions, determining the vendor solutions that address a target vulnerability of a client network and/or client devices, determining additional vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices that the vendor solutions address, and selecting a vendor solution to remediate the target vulnerability. The presently disclosed systems and methods also enable scoring, risk evaluation, and additional metrics to facilitate determining the vendor solution(s) that have the largest impact and/or benefit to the various vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices.
US11418543B2	Automated identification of security issues Disclosed are various approaches for automating the detection and identification of security issues. A plurality of signals received from a plurality of security devices are analyzed to identify a predicted security incident, each of the plurality of signals indicating a potential security issue. A confidence score is then calculated for the predicted security incident. At least one compliance policy is then evaluated to determine whether to perform a remedial action specified in the compliance policy, wherein a determination to perform the remedial action is based at least in part on the confidence score. Finally, the remedial action is performed in response to an evaluation of the at least one compliance policy.
US11418541B2	Systems and methods for simulated phishing attacks involving message threads Systems and methods are disclosed for simulating a phishing attack involving an email thread. An email thread of a plurality of email threads of an entity for use in a simulated phishing attack is identified. A simulation system generates a converted reply simulated phishing email to an email of the email thread. The converted reply simulated phishing email is generated to be from a user that is one of a recipient or a sender of one or more emails of the email thread and is communicated to a target user's email account, the converted reply simulated phishing email.
US11418539B2	Denial of service attack mitigation through direct address connection A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) determines that a destination has been retained as a link in an application. The processor(s) monitors connections of the application to the destination retained as the link, where connecting is providing a locator of the destination to a server(s) to obtain an address for the destination. The processor(s) determines an average time period measured from providing the locator to the server(s) to obtaining the address. The processor(s) retains the returned address for each connection within a given time period. The processor(s) determines that the application has initiated a new connection to the destination and the new connection is incomplete after a time period calculated relative to the average time period has lapsed. The processor(s) provides selectable options in a user interface of the application that are the retained address(es).
US11418538B2	Method, apparatus, and system to map network reachability The network reachability module maps and dynamically tracks network reachability of network addresses and/or devices. The network reachability module can map and dynamically track network reachability of a response-orchestrator engine, via communicating and cooperating with the response-orchestrator engine. The network reachability module has a tracking module to 1) monitor network traffic and 2) keep a list of known devices and/or known subnets on the network, which is dynamically tracked and updated as previously unknown devices and subnets on the network are detected. A trigger module generates a spoofed transmission and/or response communication, supported by a network protocol used by the network. The spoofed transmission and/or response communication can be used to map network reachability of i) network devices, ii) network addresses, and iii) any combination of both, which either 1) can receive or 2) cannot receive protocol communications from a host for the network reachability module in the network.
US11418534B2	Threat analysis system and threat analysis method A threat analysis system includes a storage unit that stores first information in which a device configuring a threat analysis target system and a vulnerability included in the device are associated with each other, and second information in which the device and a threat from a viewpoint of a business operator assumed in the threat analysis target system are associated with each other; a threat analysis processing unit that associates the vulnerability included in the device and a threat in the threat analysis target system with each other on a basis of the first information and the second information stored in the storage unit; and a threat-analysis result output unit that outputs a relationship between the vulnerability and the threat associated by the threat analysis processing unit.
US11418533B2	Multi-tiered security analysis method and system Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing computer security analysis are described. In some implementations, a system providing computer security analysis comprises one or more processors coupled to a non-transitory computer readable storage having software instructions stored thereon configured to cause the one or more processors to: perform a Markov Decision Process (MDP) as part of a cyber-attack mechanism and a Discrete Time Markov Chain (DTMC) process as part of a cyber-defense mechanism, preferably, the cyber-attack and cyber-defense system is modeled as MDP whereas the security analyst SA is modeled as DTMC; synchronize the cyber-attack mechanism with the cyber-defense mechanism through an attack-defense synchronization action; and synchronize an update action, wherein the attack-defense synchronization action includes initiating the DTMC process, and wherein the synchronization of the update action results from one or more actions taken by the DTMC process.
US11418532B1	Automated threat modeling using machine-readable threat models This disclosure describes techniques for automating a system-level security review of a network-based service. The techniques may include generating and utilizing a machine-readable threat model to identify system-level security threats to the network-based service. The network-based service may be scanned upon being provisioned in a service-provider network, and the machine-readable threat model may be generated based on results of the scan. The machine-readable threat model may represent components of the network-based service, system-level security constraints configured to identify system-level security threats to the service, and mitigations to remedy violations to the system-level security constraints. The network-based service may be continuously, or periodically, scanned to identify changes in the network-based service. The techniques further include updating the machine-readable threat model to account for the detected changes to the network-based service, and analyzing the updated machine-readable threat model to determine whether the changes to the network-based service violate a system-level security constraint.
US11418528B2	Dynamic best path determination for penetration testing Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to facilitate and perform dynamic best path determination for penetration testing. An action path that includes a kill chain that involves performance of exploit actions for a phase of a penetration test is generated by identifying the exploit actions based on a penetration parameter, a detection parameter, and/or a time parameter associated with the exploit actions. Performance of the identified exploit actions permits successful completion of the phase of the penetration test and designates the action path for inclusion as part of a best path for the penetration test.
US11418522B1	Systems and methods for detecting keyboard characteristics A keyboard detection system, that includes a processor that operates to detect at least one anomaly in input data and determine a correlation between the at least one anomaly and a characteristic of an inconsistent keyboard type. The processor may operate to determine the correlation between the at least one anomaly and the characteristic of the inconsistent keyboard type based on a lookup table or algorithm.
US11418520B2	Passive security analysis with inline active security device Techniques to facilitate network security analysis and attack response are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a passive analysis system receives a copy of network traffic, performs deep analysis on the copy of network traffic, and generates security data points based on the deep analysis. The passive analysis system then provides the security data points to an active inline security device, wherein the active inline security device compares incoming network traffic to the security data points to detect security events.
US11418516B2	Consent conversion optimization systems and related methods In particular embodiments, a consent conversion optimization system is configured to test two or more test consent interfaces against one another to determine which of the two or more consent interfaces results in a higher conversion percentage (e.g., to determine which of the two or more interfaces lead to a higher number of end users and/or data subjects providing a requested level of consent for the creation, storage and use or cookies by a particular website). The system may, for example, analyze end user interaction with each particular test consent interface to determine which of the two or more user interfaces: (1) result in a higher incidence of a desired level of provided consent; (2) are easier to use by the end users and/or data subjects (e.g., take less time to complete, require a fewer number of clicks, etc.); (3) etc.
US11418514B2	Communication platform for exchanging digital data, generic application programming interface for such a communication platform, and method for operating and using such a communication platform A communication platform exchanges digital data within a value added chain by at least one order. Each individual order corresponds to a collaborative process and has an order structure. The collaborative process and order structure digital data are usable in communication platform modules. The communication platform also has an order structure module configuring at least one such order structure and allocating to one or more user groups for each order structure authorization to generate and/or accept such order; a client module generating, providing or releasing at least one such order, or allocating at least one user group ID to the order(s); a contractor module confirming, declining, or accepting such order and adapting the order status information; and a generic application programming interface connecting the communication platform modules such that order structure digital data is usable in all modules, and any order structure orders can be interconnected.
US11418512B2	Method for virtual machine to access physical server in cloud computing system, apparatus, and system In a method for providing access to a service provided by a physical server in a cloud computing system, a cloud platform allocates to the service a publishing IP address and a publishing port, and sends a NAT rule to an access network element associated with the virtual machine. Upon receiving a service access request from the virtual machine for accessing the service, the access network element modifies, according to the NAT rule, a destination address of the service access request into the IP address and the port of the physical server that provides the service, and routes the modified service access request to the physical server.
US11418511B2	User management of blockchain-based custom clearance service platform Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing user management associated with blockchain-based services. One of the methods includes receiving: at a service platform, receiving a first request to authorize a first member to access information related to a first order; invoking a smart contract executing on a blockchain to request that the first member be added to a list of authorized members who are authorized to access the information related to the first order, in which the smart contract is configured to maintain a data structure that stores information about the authorized members; receiving a confirmation from the smart contract that the first member has been added to the list of authorized members; and sending a confirmation to the administrator that the first member has been added to the list of authorized members.
US11418507B2	Method and system for authentication via location monitoring A computer-implemented method is provided to authenticate a user. The computer-implemented method includes obtaining, at an authentication server, a current location and an associated time from a client device of the user over a communications network; determining, by a hardware processor, a location score based on a correlation between the current location and the associated time and a historical location and a historical time that are associated with the client device of the user; determining, by the hardware processor, a risk assessment score based on the location score; and providing, over the communications network, an authentication verification for the user to perform one or more actions with an online resource based on the risk assessment score.
US11418503B2	Sensor-based authentication, notification, and assistance systems Aspects of the disclosure relate to notification, and assistance systems that may utilize sensor-based authentication techniques. A computing platform may receive user information corresponding to a first user. The user information may be authentication information from a sensor and/or a first communication device associated with the user. Based on the received user information, the computing platform may authenticate an identity of the first user and determine a location of the first user. Then, based on authenticating the identity and determining the location, the sensor may retrieve data corresponding to the first user and transmit the data to a second communication device.
US11418494B2	Electronic device for supporting backup and reinstallation of mobile card An electronic device includes a communication circuit that communicates with a server for issuing a mobile card, a secure element that stores the mobile card, a memory, and a processor that is electrically connected to the communication circuit, the secure element, and the memory, wherein the processor receives personal data required for authentication of a user corresponding to the mobile card and card data required for payment by the mobile card through the communication circuit from the server when the mobile card is provisioned, and stores, in the secure element, backup data including the personal data and the card data for backing up the mobile card.
US11418492B2	Data processing systems and methods for using a data model to select a target data asset in a data migration Data stored on a data asset may be migrated to another data asset while maintaining compliance to applicable regulations. A data asset may experience a failure. Based on the type of data stored by that data asset and the applicable regulations, requirements, and/or restrictions that relate to a transfer of that type data from that data asset, a target data asset may be determined. The data stored on the data asset may then be transferred to the target data asset. The disclosed systems may use data models and/or data maps in determining the requirements for a data transfer and selecting target data assets.
US11418491B2	Dynamic firewall discovery on a service plane in a SDWAN architecture The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for dynamic firewall discovery on a service plane. The method includes the steps of identifying a source data packet for transmission from a source machine at a source site to a destination machine at a destination site, wherein the source data packet corresponds to a request for connection between the source machine and the destination machine over a WAN, inspecting the source data packet at a first firewall associated with the source site, marking the source data packet with a marker to indicate inspection by the first firewall, transmitting the marked source data packet to the destination site, determining at the destination site that the source data packet has been inspected based on the marker, and forwarding the source data packet to the destination machine at the destination site, without inspection of the source data packet by a second firewall associated with the destination site.
US11418490B2	System and method for managing non-direct URL fetching service A method for providing and managing non-direct URL fetching service for retrieving a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, such as for overcoming geo-blocking or a Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack. The non-direct fetching method may use intermediate devices, such as proxy server, Data-Center proxy server, tunnel devices, or any combination thereof. A URL request may be sent in parallel using both direct and non-direct fetching schemes, in order to verify the need for using the non-direct fetching service. Direct or non-direct fetching scheme may be selected by using a file that associates a fetching scheme to the requested URL. The selection of the fetching mechanism may use dynamically in real-time updating of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file. As part of an accounting scheme, quotas may be applied to a cumulative received data or a time duration of using a non-direct fetching service.
US11418489B1	Optimized server picking in a virtual private network A method for optimized server picking in a virtual private network (VPN), the method comprising receiving, from a user device, service information indicating one or more VPN services to be received during an established VPN connection; determining, based at least in part on the service information, a given VPN server from among a plurality of VPN servers to provide the one or more VPN services to the user device; and transmitting, to the user device, information associated with the given VPN server to enable the user device to receive the one or more VPN services. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11418486B2	Method and system for controlling internet browsing user security A method and system for controlling internet browsing user security is provided. A control device (120) receives, via a first communication channel, a web page request from a control agent (102) implemented in a browser (101), the browser (101) being installed in a computer device operated by a user. Then, the control device (120) requests, to a control service (130), via a second communication channel, a security level of said requested web page including a status of the user and the presence of risks in the requested web page. The control service (130) executes a security check on said requested web page by checking whether the requested web page is included in a blacklist or a whitelist and also by checking certain risk control criteria of the requested web page. Finally, in response to receipt a result of said security check, the control device (120) allows or denies access to said web page.
US11418485B2	Pattern-based malicious URL detection To perform pattern-based detection of malicious URLs, patterns are first generated from known URLs to build a pattern repository. A URL is first normalized and parsed, and keywords are extracted and stored in an additional repository of keywords. Tokens are then determined from the parsed URL and tags are associated with the parsed substrings. Substring text may also be replaced with general identifying information. Patterns generated from known malicious and benign URLs satisfying certain criteria are published to a pattern repository of which can be accessed during subsequent detection operations. During detection, upon identifying a request which indicates an unknown URL, the URL is parsed and tokenized to generate a pattern. The repository of malicious URL patterns is queried to determine if a matching malicious URL pattern can be identified. If a matching malicious URL pattern is identified, the URL is detected as malicious.
US11418484B2	Document management system An information processing system includes: one or more internal devices that are connected to an internal network, the internal network being connected to an external network through a firewall; and an intermediation device that can communicate with the internal network and the external network; each of the internal devices including: a storage unit that stores one or more documents and metadata of each of the documents; and a request acceptance unit that accepts, from a user, a request for processing by an external server on the external network as to one of the documents stored in the storage unit, and transmits the accepted request to the intermediation device; the intermediation device including: a request transmission unit as defined herein.
US11418481B2	Network security from host and network impersonation Systems and methods may include sending, to a network registrar, a first message including a first nonce generated by a host computing device, and receiving, from the network registrar, a second message including a second nonce, the second nonce being signed by the network registrar via a private key of a first public key infrastructure (PKI) key pair of the network registrar via a first signature. The method further includes sending a first neighbor advertisement (NA) message to the host computing device including the second nonce. The second nonce and the private key of the network registrar verifies the first signature from the network registrar, the verification of the first signature indicating that the router is not impersonating the network.
US11418479B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for creating internet protocol (IP) address pools from dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) servers to asynchronously serve IP address allocation requests by session management functions (SMFs) A method for obtaining and maintaining Internet protocol (IP) address pools and using the IP address pools to respond to IP address allocation requests from service management functions (SMFs) includes, at an IP address provider microservice implemented using at least one processor, obtaining from dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) servers, a plurality of IP addresses and corresponding IP address leases and storing the IP addresses in IP address pools. The steps further include maintaining the IP address leases. The method further includes receiving, from an SMF, a request for allocation of an IP address. The method further includes allocating one of the IP addresses from one of the pools to the SMF. The method further includes communicating the IP address to the SMF.
US11418475B2	Message notification alert method and apparatus In embodiments, an apparatus for computing may include a receiver; a speaker; circuitry coupled to the receiver and speaker; and a service to be operated by the circuitry to receive an instance of a message via the receiver, and to conditionally affect a provision, through the speaker, an audio notification alert of the receipt of the instance of the message. In embodiments, to conditionally affect the provision may include to bypass or cause to bypass of the provision of the audio notification alert, on determination that another audio notification alert has been or will be provided by another proximally located apparatus for receiving another instance of the same message. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11418473B2	Personalized dashboard chart for email subscriptions A method for managing a user's email subscriptions has been developed. The method provides a user interface (UI) to the user that allows the user to view and select multiple stand-alone components across multiple dashboard displays for an email subscription to an email address. The user's selections are received via the UI and include one or more stand-alone components from a first dashboard display and one or more stand-alone components from a second dashboard display in the email subscription. The first dashboard display is not the same was the second dashboard display. A display of each of the subscribed stand-alone components is rendered periodically based on the user's preference. The rendered displays are combined into a single email message that is sent to the email address upon completion of the rendering of the displays.
US11418470B2	Displaying customized electronic messaging graphics A system according to various exemplary embodiments includes a processor and a user interface coupled to the processor, the user interface comprising an input device and a display screen. The system further comprises memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising: receiving, via the input device of the user interface, an electronic message comprising a scene identifier for a graphic; retrieving a user identifier for a user associated with the system; generating a customized graphic based on the scene identifier and the user identifier; and presenting the customized graphic within the electronic message via the display screen of the user interface.
US11418464B2	System and method for processing messages between organizations A system and method of managing electronic messaging accounts for an organization is provided. The method comprises executing instructions on a processor at a server that: for a first user account for a first user associated to the organization, define a message space accessible through electronic devices in communication with the server. The message space accommodates peer-to-peer administration by users in the organization. The message space also provides facilities for: identifying an owner for the message space; assigning owner privileges for the owner; selectively identifying the first user account as the owner for the message space; and creating a message channel in the message space for messages between users in the organization and users in a second organization. In the method, the owner privileges follow an organization policy for the organization and provide the first user with additional privileges in managing the message space reflecting the organization policy.
US11418463B2	Method and system of intelligently providing responses for a user in the user's absence A method and system for responding to a message directed to a recipient includes receiving the message including a query from a sender, receiving an indication that the recipient is unavailable to respond to the query, and providing the query to as an input to a machine-learning (ML) model to identify information requested in the query. The method further includes obtaining the information requested as an output from the ML model, determining if access to the information requested is available to the sender, based on a confidentiality group to which the sender belongs with respect to the information requested, upon determining that access to the information requested is available, generating a response to the query that includes the information requested, and providing the response to the sender. The confidentiality group to which the sender belongs may be determined based on a degree of association between the sender and the information requested.
US11418462B2	Bot for a communication platform Provided is a bot for a communication platform, wherein the bot is set up to read in an input data record, wherein the input data record includes a plurality of tickets or a plurality of numerical representations of tickets, listen in on at least one communication process between at least two persons on the communication platform, wherein the at least one communication process has at least one service case or at least one numerical representation of a service case, and generate an output data record, wherein the output data record has the input data record and the at least one communication process. A corresponding communication platform, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program product are also provided.
US11418457B1	Method and apparatus for selecting a voice coding rate based on the air interface efficiency of the serving base station A voice coding rate is selected for a voice call involving a user equipment (UE) device based on an air interface efficiency of the base station serving the UE device. The air interface efficiency of the base station is determined based on at least one of (i) a beamforming capability of the base station, (ii) a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) capability of the base station, or (iii) an antenna configuration of the base station. The voice coding rate could be selected by either the UE device or by the base station. The UE device transmits to the base station during the voice call one or more voice frames that convey voice data coded at the selected voice coding rate. During the voice call, a new air interface efficiency may be determined, and a new voice coding rate may be selected based on the new air interface efficiency.
US11418455B2	Transparent packet splitting and recombining A transmitting device generates multiple small packets for a large packet and transmits them to a receiving device. Routing devices forward the multiple small packets to the receiving device. Each of the smaller packets, except the last packet, has a sequence indicator set. As a result, the receiving device is able to determine that each of the smaller packets is part of a larger packet and buffer the smaller packets or their payloads. When the last packet is received, the larger packet is complete and may be processed by the receiving device. The routing devices delay requests from other transmitting devices to transmit data to the receiving device until the last packet is sent to the receiving device. The routing devices may continue to route traffic to the receiving device on all virtual channels other than a virtual channel being used for the large packet.
US11418449B2	Multipath coding apparatus and related techniques Multipath coding systems, devices and methods are disclosed. In a multipath network, devices and methods generate at least one of a plurality of uncoded packets for transmission on a first path from a source node to a destination node as well as at least one coded packet based upon a set of uncoded packets for transmission on a second path from the source node to the destination node. The set of uncoded packets are formed, generated or otherwise provided from a next uncoded packet to be transmitted, a number (α) of previously transmitted uncoded packets, and a number (β) of uncoded packets that are to be transmitted after the next uncoded packet and α+β is greater than zero. The destination node operates to receive, and decode as needed, the uncoded and coded packets.
US11418445B2	Installation of routing tables for logical router in route server mode Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller operating on a host machine that hosts a particular one of multiple centralized routing components for a logical router. The method receives a routing table from a routing protocol application operating on the host machine. Each of the other centralized routing components operates on a different host machine and implements a different interface of the logical router that connects to at least one physical router external to the logical network. The routing protocol application operates as a router server for all of the centralized routing components. For each of the other centralized routing components, the method identifies a set of routes in the routing table to distribute to the centralized routing component. The method sends the identified routes for each centralized routing component to the centralized routing component.
US11418432B1	Automated communication flow discovery and configuration in a software defined network The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for automating the configuration of a software defined network (“SDN”). In one embodiment, a system may include a first communication host and a second communication host configured to transmit information to the first communication host. A network may provide communication between the first communication host and the second communication host using a plurality of network devices. An SDN controller in communication with the network may include an approved service subsystem to match the communication with an approved service. The SDN controller may also include an analysis subsystem configured to identify a communication flow corresponding to information transmitted by the second communication host to the first communication host. A traffic routing subsystem of the SDN controller may create the communication flow identified by the analysis subsystem between the second communication host and the first communication host.
US11418431B2	Mobile accelerator A mobile accelerator system includes point of presences (POPs) that includes an entry POP. The entry POP receives a query to a content server from a mobile device via a dedicated transport channel. The entry POP determines a direct connection score for a direct connection between the mobile device and the content server that does not traverse the mobile accelerator system. The entry POP determines a POP connection score for a connection between the mobile device and the content server through the entry POP and a candidate exit POP. The entry POP determines a dynamic path ranking based on the direct connection score, the POP connection score, and other POP connection score(s) associated with other candidate exit POP(s). The entry POP determines at least a portion of a dynamic path between the mobile device based on the dynamic path ranking and routes data transfers through that dynamic path.
US11418423B2	Systems and methods for establishing a virtualized channel and communicating therewith The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for virtualizing communications within a plurality of telematics channels operatively connected to a target machine. The method includes (i) generating a virtualized channel in addition to the plurality of telematics channels operatively connected to the target machine; (ii) predicting one or more values for the virtualized channel based on a mathematical function derived from a first set of telematics channels of a source machine; (iii) receiving measurements from the plurality of telematics channels from the target machine; and (iv) applying the mathematical function to the target machine based upon the one or more predicted values of the virtualized channel and the received measurements from the plurality of telematics channels from the target machine.
US11418412B2	Operational constraints for operational functions of field devices According to various examples, an operational constraint associated with an operational function—e.g., a virtual network function—implemented on a field device can be configured. According to further examples, the fulfillment of the operational constraint can be tracked. For these purposes, a distributed database is used, e.g., a blockchain.
US11418409B2	System-on-chip (SoC) assembly, configurable IP generation and IP integration utilizing distributed computer systems An architecture-specific web-based executable specification tool maintains specification information and metadata for chip and system on a chip (SoC) design. Metadata available in the development ecosystem may be leveraged to improve the specification-to-design process. A unified, integrated environment for subsystem creation, SoC integration, and SoC specification teams is presented using a tool that comprehends SoC constructs. A modern web-based framework (not stand-alone tool) provides collaboration capabilities and allows visual representation and manipulation of data. Connection fabrics (e.g., network on a chip (NoC)) and other project-specific infrastructure can be configured and synthesized on demand and brought in to the design using the common environment. Netlists and other connectivity data can be fed into automated RTL generation processes directly, or used as a reference for implementation design teams. Reports and automated software generation satisfy the needs of the design verification and software teams. Functional and performance testing feedback loops are also provided.
US11418404B2	Predictive overlay network architecture The predictive overlay network architecture of the present invention improves the performance of applications distributing digital content among nodes of an underlying network such as the Internet by establishing and reconfiguring overlay network topologies over which associated content items are distributed. The present invention addresses not only frequently changing network congestion, but also interdependencies among nodes and links of prospective overlay network topologies. The present invention provides a prediction engine that monitors metrics and predicts the relay capacity of individual nodes and links (as well as demand of destination nodes) over time to reflect the extent to which the relaying of content among the nodes of an overlay network will be impacted by (current or future) underlying network congestion. The present invention further provides a topology selector that addresses node and link interdependencies while redistributing excess capacity to determine an overlay network topology that satisfies application-specific performance criteria.
US11418403B2	Controller driven designated forwarder election in EVPN networks for optimized load distribution A method is performed by a network controller. The method includes receiving information that defines a topology of a network having Ethernet Segments configured with virtual local area networks (VLANs) and including provider edges that are multi-homed to customer edges. The method further comprises, based on the topology, determining for the VLANs particular provider edges among the provider edges that are to operate as designated forwarders of traffic for the VLANs, such that the VLANs are load balanced across the particular provider edges. The method also includes programming the particular provider edges as the designated forwarders of traffic for the VLANs.
US11418399B2	Multi-fabric deployment and management platform The present technology provides a framework for user-guided end-to-end automation of network deployment and management, that enables a user to guide the automation process for any kind of network deployment from the ground up, as well as offering network management, visibility, and compliance verification. The disclosed technology accomplishes this by creating a stateful and interactive virtual representation of a fabric using a customizable underlay fabric template instantiated with user-provided parameter values and network topology data computed from one or more connected network devices. A set of expected configurations corresponding to the user-specified underlay and overly fabric policies is then generated for deployment onto the connected network devices. Network deviations from the intended fabric policies are addressed by the provision of one or more configuration lines to be deployed onto or removed from the connected network devices to bring the network state in agreement with the set of expected configuration.
US11418393B1	Remediation of detected configuration violations Remediation of detected configuration violations is disclosed, including: detecting a violation associated with a configuration at a data source server; providing a remediation corresponding to the violation; and storing an audit log that includes one or more events associated with the remediation corresponding to the violation.
US11418392B2	Network resource management devices methods and systems A method of managing a configuration of a computer network system includes creating of an instance of a server by a user through an interface of a public cloud service. A management process detects the existence of the instance by regularly polling the cloud service for infrastructure data and analyzing the infrastructure data to determine that the newly created instance exists. The method also includes testing parameters of the server indicated in the infrastructure data, which parameters are fully determined by the request, against predefined one or more infrastructure policies, whereby the parameters are available and testable against the policies during the generating, but are tested after the request is enacted to create the instance without creating policy enforcement encumbrance on the user when the user creates the new instance of the server.
US11418390B2	Transport network layer associations on the F1 interface Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media associated with F1 interface arrangement configuration within a network that implements virtualized NodeBs are disclosed herein. In embodiments, one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by one or more processors, cause a centralized unit (CU) of an access node to generate a CU configuration update message, the CU configuration update message to include an indication of a transport network layer (TNL) address of the CU for which a TNL association between the CU and a distributed unit (DU) of the access node is to be added or removed, and cause the CU configuration update message to be transmitted to the DU. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11418389B2	Application deployment and management in a cloud computing environment Methods, devices, and systems for management of a cloud computing environment for use by a software application. The cloud computing environment may be an N-tier environment. Multiple cloud providers may be used to provide the cloud computing environment.
US11418388B2	Method for network configuration, and electronic device Aspect of the disclosure can provide a method for network configuration that can include broadcasting a probe request frame, the probe request frame carrying device information of a first device, and, responsive to that a predetermined field of a received probe response frame carries predetermined connection information, establishing a first connection, based on the predetermined connection information, with a target router that sent the probe response frame, the probe response frame carrying the predetermined connection information in the predetermined field being sent after the device information is verified. Additionally, the method can include acquiring a second network identifier from the target router based on the first connection, and establishing a second connection with the target router based on the second network identifier, to perform interaction with a second device through the second connection.
US11418384B2	Information processing apparatus and method for controlling the same There is provided an information processing apparatus in which a plurality of modules including at least a first module and a second module is connected in a ring shape. The first module includes a first transmission unit configured to transmit predetermined data. The second module adjacent to the first module includes a second reception unit configured to receive the predetermined data transmitted by the first transmission unit, and a second transmission unit configured to transmit first attribute data including identification information for identifying a module when the predetermined data has not been received within a first predetermined time period.
US11418377B2	Sending and receiving of orthogonal frequency multiplexing using an extended sequence Disclosed are a data sending and receiving method, apparatus, and device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: when a first transmission frequency band sends data by adopting an extended sequence modulation data sending rule, data to be transmitted on spaced sub-carriers of the first transmission frequency band is respectively multiplied by each extended element in an extended sequence with a length of 2K to obtain extended data with a number of 2K, where there is another extended element with a phase difference of π relative to each extended element in the extended sequence; and the extended data with the number of 2K is sent on 2K spaced sub-carriers of the first transmission frequency band, where K is a positive integer.
US11418376B2	Communication of broadcast reference signal Various aspects provide for communicating a first set of broadcast reference signals (RSs) in a first subframe that includes a synchronization (SYNC) channel and communicating a second set of broadcast RSs in a second subframe that follows the first subframe. The second subframe may immediately follow the first subframe. A portion of the SYNC channel may include information indicating a configuration of broadcast RSs in one or more other subframes. The broadcast RSs may be configured for timing-error estimation, frequency-error estimation, and/or channel estimation. Additional and alternative aspects, embodiments, and features are also provided herein.
US11418373B2	ZCNET—low power wide area network (LPWAN) code division multiplexing (CDM) and modulation system, process, computer program product, and circuitry A novel LPWAN technology includes a ZCNET node that transmit signals that occupy a very small fraction of the signal space, resulting in very low collision probabilities. ZCNET supports parallel root channels within a single frequency channel by using Zadoff-Chu (ZC) root sequences. The root channels do not severely interfere with each other, because the interference power is spread evenly over the entire signal space. ZCNET has its node randomly choose the transmission channel and range, while still achieving high packet receiving ratios such as 0.9 or above, because the load in each root channel is small.
US11418371B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit, receiving apparatus, and memory device According to one embodiment, in a semiconductor integrated circuit, the second circuit samples an amplitude of the output second signal at a plurality of timings every given cycle in a period corresponding to a second period of the pattern. The second circuit controls a parameter relating to the frequency characteristic for the first circuit according to a first magnitude relation and a second magnitude relation. The first magnitude relation is a relation between an absolute value of a first amplitude and a first threshold. The first amplitude is an amplitude sampled at a first timing among the plurality of timings. The second magnitude relation is a relation between an absolute value of a second amplitude and the first threshold. The second amplitude is an amplitude sampled at a second timing. The second timing is a timing after the first timing among the plurality of timings.
US11418362B2	Systems and methods for group control using service data objects Techniques for group control using service data objects (SDO) are disclosed. A device controller is configured to perform operations including: receiving, from device controllers that are configured to control devices so that the devices operate based on a shared set point, SDO messages using an SDO protocol; determining that the device controller is a master device controller for the device controllers, based at least on the SDO messages; and sending a setpoint update message including a modified value of the shared set point, using the SDO protocol, to slave device controllers in the device controllers, wherein a slave device controller in the slave device controllers is configured to adjust operation of at least one slave device in the devices, based at least on the setpoint update message.
US11418358B2	Smart device active monitoring A wake-up command is received from a user. A smart device for receiving is awakened for processing a user prompt in response to receiving the wake-up command. A user-defined event is received within the user prompt. During the user-defined event, the smart device is to remain awake and monitor a predetermined set of user activities without additional wake-up commands. The predetermined set of user activities is monitored during the user-defined event using the smart device.
US11418356B2	Enhanced security preview of digital content A method for controlling the release of an as-rendered configuration of a digital work, comprising the steps of presenting said digital work as a composite of a plurality of layers comprising at least a first layer and a second layer; providing a rendering protocol interface which is adapted for defining said as-rendered configuration of the digital work by specifying a first rendering status of said first layer and a second rendering status of said second layer; providing a rendering protocol facility adapted for storing and controlling the release of said first and second rendering status of said first and second layers respectively in accordance with said as-rendered configuration; restricting unauthorized access to the rendering protocol interface, thereby preventing unauthorized modification of said as-rendered configuration; and releasing said digital work with said as-rendered configuration. The method has application in selling books, movies, software, music and other information products. A method of selling a preview version of an information product along with an option of purchase of the original version is described.
US11418355B2	Power sourcing equipment and connection checking method A power sourcing equipment includes a control logic circuit and current source circuits that are coupled to a powered device via first and second wire pairs of a network cable respectively. The control logic circuit controls one of the current source circuits to drain a current from the powered device via the first wire pair during a first interval, to detect a first voltage of the first wire pair and a second voltage of the second wire pair, and controls the current source circuits to respectively drain currents from the powered device via the first and the second wire pairs during a second interval, to detect a third voltage of the first wire pair and a fourth voltage of the second wire pair, and determines whether the powered device is a single signature or a dual signature according to the first to the fourth voltages.
US11418352B2	Certificate authority (CA) security model in an overlay network supporting a branch appliance A method to generate a trusted certificate on an endpoint appliance located in an untrusted network, wherein client devices are configured to trust a first Certificate Authority (CA) that is administered by the untrusted network. In this approach, an overlay network is configured between the endpoint appliance and an origin server associated with the endpoint appliance. The overlay comprises an edge machine located proximate the endpoint appliance, and an associated key management service. A second CA is configured in association with the key management service to receive a second certificate signed by the first CA. A third CA is configured in association with the edge machine to receive a third certificate signed by the second CA. In response to a request from the appliance, a server certificate signed by the third CA is dynamically generated and provided to the appliance. A client device receiving the server certificate from the endpoint appliance trusts the server certificate as if the server certificate originated from the first CA, thereby enabling the endpoint appliance to terminate a secure information flow received at the endpoint appliance.
US11418351B2	Systems and methods for managing a compromised autonomous vehicle server Systems and methods for managing a compromised autonomous vehicle server are described herein. A processor may obtain an indication of a first server configured to control an autonomous vehicle being compromised. The autonomous vehicle may have previously been provisioned with a first public key. The first public key may be paired with a first private key. A processor may compile command information. The command information may include a command for the autonomous vehicle and a digital certificate of a second server configured to control the autonomous vehicle in the event of the first server being compromised. The digital certificate may include a second public key and may be signed with the first private key. The command may be signed with a second private key associated with the second server. The second private key may be paired with the second public key.
US11418346B2	System and method for recognition of biometric information in shared vehicle A system and method for recognition of biometric information for a shared vehicle in which data exposure is prevented which may otherwise occur when using a biometric recognition function in a shared vehicle or autonomous driving vehicle in a shared environment. The system and method may be associated with an AI device, a drone, an UAV, a robot, an AR device, a VR device, and a 5G service.
US11418344B1	Pixel streamed NFT-based living artwork and queue-based live event viewing A method, program storage device, and computer processing system are provided. The method includes providing a set of credentials for accessing a live event. The set of credentials include tiered credentials with respect to access privileges from a queue imposed to access the live event. The access privileges specify a queued order based access time and an access duration. The method further includes evaluating the credentials received from users seeking to access the live event. The method also includes controlling, by a real-time visual media generation engine of a streaming server, the access time and the access duration of each of the users to the live event based on the credentials by placing the users in predetermined queuing positions associated with corresponding levels of the credentials.
US11418343B2	Access control for long-lived resource principals Techniques are described for enabling resources within a cloud computing system to interact with each other. In certain embodiments, a token renewal mechanism is provided for extending the duration in which a first resource can access another resource. The token renewal mechanism can involve the first resource periodically causing a new credential to be generated for itself and then communicating the new credential to an identity and access management (IAM) system. The new credential may be generated for compliance with a credential rotation policy specifying that credentials should be changed after a certain period of time. The IAM system may associate a digital access token with the new credential so that for subsequent requests, the IAM system will only recognize the resource principal based upon the new credential. The digital token can be invalidated if a new credential is not changed within the specified period of time.
US11418336B2	Digital ledger for unique item IDs with ownership A system and method for recording, authenticating and verifying transactions of physical items between transacting parties. The system may include memory storing a digital ledger comprising a list of identifiers for a plurality of physical items, each physical item corresponding to a different respective identifier, each identifier being linked in the digital ledger to a public key of an owner of the corresponding physical item, and the list of identifiers and linked public keys being distributed among a plurality of blocks sequentially connected to one another in the digital ledger. The system may also include one or more processors configured to receive a cryptographically signed message including information regarding a transaction of a physical item, including the corresponding identifier of the physical item derived from scanning a label affixed to the physical. The system may verify the message and incorporate the information regarding the transaction into the digital ledger.
US11418333B2	System and method for trusted control flow enforcement using derived encryption keys A system includes a communication channel monitor configured to calculate a hash value of a first encrypted code segment based on a measurement. A security module may derive a first encryption key using a key decryption function operation from the hash value of the first encrypted code segment. A processor decrypts the first encrypted code segment with a seed key retrieved from a storage device, and if the decryption is successful then executes the first decrypted code segment. The processor may retrieve a second one of the encrypted code segments, wherein the second encrypted code segment is a next encrypted code segment for execution after the first encrypted code segment according to a sequence of execution, decrypt the second encrypted code segment with the first encryption key, and if the decryption is successful then execute the second decrypted code segment.
US11418319B2	Ensure valid range of values of a vector for distance calculations using homomorphic encryption or functional encryption Embodiments may provide distance computations on homomorphic and/or functional encrypted vectors while detecting whether the resulting distance has wrapped around due to the vectors having elements not in an allowed range. A method of user authentication processing may comprise receiving and storing enrollment information from a client computer system, the enrollment information comprising a template of authentication data and at least one additional encrypted vector, receiving an additional template to be used to authenticate the user from the client computer system, authenticating the user using the received additional template using the stored template and the stored at least one additional encrypted vector, and determining that authentication is successful when the received additional template matches the stored template and is valid based on the stored at least one additional encrypted vector.
US11418314B2	Reception circuit On the basis of the peak point of the integrated waveform of the reception signal for each one-bit time, a timing of resetting the integrated value of the reception signal for each one-bit time and a timing of determining whether a voltage of the reception signal for each one-bit time is high or low are indicated.
US11418312B2	Synchronization for subcarrier communication Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for clock synchronizing an optical system and multiple leaf systems. In some implementations, a method includes: first data is received from an optical system. The first data is detected using a local oscillator signal provided by a local oscillator laser. The first data is processed using a first sampling rate. A frequency of a clock signal supplied by a reference clock is adjusted based on the processed first data. Second data is transmitted to the optical system at a rate based on the clock signal.
US11418311B2	Duplex filter arrangement with leakage cancellation A frequency-division duplex communication apparatus, including a first radio frequency port, a second radio frequency port coupled to an antenna, a third radio frequency port, a fourth radio frequency port coupled to a balancing circuit, and a filtering arrangement having filters of a first type, a filter of a second type and a filter of a third type. The filters of the first type pass signals at a first frequency band and reject signals at a second frequency band. The filter of the second type rejects signals at the first frequency band and passes signals at the second frequency band. The filter of the third type rejects signals at the first frequency band and passes signals at the second frequency band and the phase response of the filter of the second type is 180 degrees from the phase response of the filter of the third type.
US11418309B2	Terminal device, base station device, and transmission/reception method In the present disclosure, even if different UL-DL configurations are set for a plurality of unit bands, notification timing of error detection results for SCell is not dispersed complicatedly, and the processing relating to the error detection results can be simplified. At the reference notification timing of a response signal with respect to downlink data of a second unit band, if a sub-frame of the second unit band is an uplink communication sub-frame and a sub-frame of a first unit band is a downlink communication sub-frame, a control unit transmits the response signal with respect to the downlink data in a specific uplink communication sub-frame (for example, #2 or #7) set in the first unit band.
US11418305B2	Scheduling-related DMRS for MMW ran There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting node in a millimeter-wave communication network. The method comprises transmitting communication signaling in a transmission timing structure, the communication signaling comprising control signaling and data signaling, the communication signaling further comprising reference signaling common to the control signaling and data signaling.The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11418303B2	Resource mapping method for demodulation reference signal and base station A resource mapping method for a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and a base station are provided. The method includes: determining a target orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol for mapping a physical broadcast channel (PBCH)-DMRS from OFDM symbols corresponding to a new radio (NR) synchronization signal block (SS block); and mapping the PBCH-DMRS in the target OFDM symbol.
US11418301B2	User terminal and radio communication method A user terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink control information (UCI) using an uplink control channel and a processor that controls at least one of generation and transmission of the UCI based on a spreading factor of the uplink control channel. Additionally, at least one of a number of symbols and a position of a demodulation reference signal for the uplink control channel is fixed irrespective of the spreading factor.
US11418300B2	Co-existence of orthogonal time frequency space and long term evolution systems Co-existence between an Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation system and a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system is achieved by generating a number of transmission beams for a first group of user equipment operating using LTE, and a second group of user equipment operating using the OTFS protocol, and transmitting a first group of data packets formatted according to the LTE protocol to the first group of user equipment and a second group of data packets formatted according to the OTFS protocol to the second group of user equipment. The transmissions are performed by precoding and modulating the first group of data packets according to an LTE modulation scheme, and precoding and modulating the second group of data packets according to an OTFS modulation scheme.
US11418299B2	Transmissions using spreading codes Methods, systems, and devices related to reducing out-of-band emissions for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology are described. In one representative aspect, a method for wireless communication includes obtaining N groups of spread data by multiplying N groups of data with N spreading codes, combining the N groups of spread data into a data sequence, modulating the data sequence onto 2K subcarriers, and transmitting the modulated data sequence. In particular, an individual spreading code of the N spreading codes comprises 2K elements organized as a sequence of K pairs, wherein the pairs comply with at least one of (1) two elements in a pair have a 180-degree phase difference or (2) corresponding elements in neighboring pairs have a 180-degree phase difference. N and K are integers greater than 1 and N is less than 2K.
US11418289B2	Low latency ACK/NACK transmission Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user equipment (UE) having active device components and passive device components. Responsive to receiving downlink (DL) transmissions in time division duplexing (TDD) mode, the active device components perform DL decoding while the passive device components perform passive transmission of ACK/NACK data. Such passive transmission may involve encoding the ACK/NACK data in an altered version of received radio frequency (RF) signals and using so-called backscatter communications to reflect the received RF signals, with alteration, using the same frequency resources used to receive the DL transmissions.
US11418288B2	Feedback information for a data block group Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving feedback information for a data block group. One apparatus (102) includes a processor (202) that determines (502) a data block group size of a data block group for received data. Each data block in the data block group is independently decodable. The processor (202) generates (504) feedback information for the data block group of the received data. The feedback information is used for indicating a decoding status corresponding to the data block group. The apparatus (102) also includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (506) the feedback information for the data block group.
US11418287B2	Systems and methods for utilizing dynamic codes with neural networks Systems and methods for utilizing dynamic codes in a dynamic system comprising neural networks are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, training data is transmitted to an encoder block, the encoder block having an encoder neural network. Training data is encoded utilizing the encoder neural network of the encoder block, and then decoded by a decoder block, the decoder block having a decoder neural network. An end-end error is determined by comparing the training data that was transmitted to the encoder block against the decoded training data that was received from the decoder block. Encoder/decoder parameters to minimize the end-end error are optimized and transmitted. Upon receipt of the encoder/decoder parameter updates, the encoder block and the decoder block are initialized.
US11418286B2	V2X performance enhancements in high speed environments Implementations of this disclosure generally may relate to the field of wireless communications. More specifically, implementations described in this disclosure relate to different 3GPP LTE and LTE-A system enhancements to address the issue and support reliable V2X operation in the high mobility environments. Several solutions to improve the V2X system performance in the high mobility vehicular channel propagation conditions are described. Some aspects relate to the suggestion of a new DMRS patterns within individual subframes that promote more accurate CFO estimation. Moreover, another aspect provides DMRS mapping or puncturing patterns to transmit individual DMRS in a periodic pattern on respective OFDM/SC-FDMA symbols so that they do not occupy all REs of the OFDM/SC-FDMA symbols, respectively.
US11418284B2	Encoding circuit, decoding circuit, encoding method, and decoding method A method includes assigning a symbol corresponding to a value of each of bit strings in a frame among the symbols in a constellation of a multi-level modulation scheme, to bit strings, converting a value of each of the bit strings other than a first bit string such that a symbol closer to a center of the constellation is assigned more among symbols, generating a error correction code for correcting an error of bit strings to insert the error correction code into the first bit string, generating the first error correction code from the bit strings other than the first bit string among bit strings, in a first period in which the error correction code is inserted into the first bit string in a period of the frame, and generating the error correction code from a second bit string in another second period in the period of the frame.
US11418282B2	Transceiver for transmission of BMC data through configurable channel of a USB type-C port The present disclosure provides a transceiver for transmission of data coded according to a Bi-phase Mark Coding (BMC) protocol through a configurable channel (CC) of a USB type-C port. The transceiver includes: a transmitter configured to receive the coded BMC data and transmit the coded BMC data through the CC line. The transmitter includes: a low dropout (LDO) regulator configured to receive a reference voltage (VREF) and generate a local programmable supply voltage; a delay control logic configured to receive the BMC data, and including flipflops connected in series, wherein, output from each flipflop is delayed with respect to input received by the flipflop; and a transmitter driver configured to receive output from each flipflop of the delay control logic, the transmitter driver including a NMOS switches and a PMOS switches. The transceiver includes an eye correction receiver configured to receive output from the transmitter driver of the transmitter.
US11418280B2	Feedback information sending method, feedback information receiving method, and apparatus The present disclosure relates to an information sending method and a device. In examples of the present disclosure, a terminal may send feedback information for a downlink subframe to a network device in a first feedback manner, that is, a first codebook of the feedback information is determined according to an instantly scheduled downlink subframe set.
US11418276B2	Byte stuffing circuit and byte stuffing method A byte stuffing circuit and a byte stuffing method are provided. The byte stuffing method includes: receiving a first data stream and generating a second data stream according to the first data stream, where a first size of the first data stream is N bytes, and a second size of the second data stream is 2N bytes; in response to an Xth byte of the second data stream matching a first flag byte, overwriting the Xth byte with a first stuffing byte, and inserting a second stuffing byte into an (X+1)th byte of the second data stream, where X is a positive integer between 1 and 2N−1; combining a remnant data stream and a first part of the second data stream to generate a third data stream, and configuring a second part of the second data stream as the remnant data stream; and outputting the third data stream.
US11418273B2	Reception device, transmission device, and data processing method A configuration in which a reception device can determine whether or not data reception via a network is permitted on the basis of signaling data is implemented. A class identifier indicating a group of reception devices or users that are permitted to perform data reception via a network is recorded in signaling data transmitted from a transmission device to a reception device. A reception device determines whether or not a class identifier is identical to a class identifier set to a reception device or a user and performs data reception via a network when the class identifiers are identical to each other. A URL base pattern applied to data reception via a broadcast wave or a network is recorded in signaling data, and a reception device performs data acquisition to which the URL base pattern is applied.
US11418269B2	System and methods for measuring performance of an application specific integrated circuit interconnect This application discloses circuits and apparatus configured to measure performance of asynchronous circuits by injecting data in to inputs of asynchronous circuits and consuming data from the outputs without interfering in the functionality of the asynchronous circuits. This application also discloses systems and methods for assessing the performance of asynchronous channels and/or IP blocks by providing an unambiguous performance value which can be used for performance analysis and comparison.
US11418268B2	Transmission device identification system, radio wave sensor device, identifying processing device, and processing method A transmission device identification system includes: one or more reception units; a feature output unit that outputs, for each of the one or more reception units, a feature of a reception signal of the reception unit, the feature being corrected based on a receiver characteristic of the reception unit; and an identification unit that identifies a transmission device that is a radio wave transmitting source based on the feature and a transmission radio wave feature, the transmission radio wave feature indicating a feature of a transmission radio wave for each transmission device.
US11418264B2	Method and system for electro-optic modulation An optical modulation system comprises a signal source configured to generate an amplitude modulated electrical signal having a bandwidth and divided into frequency components comprising at least a first frequency component covering a first portion of the bandwidth and a second frequency component covering a second portion of the bandwidth; and an electro-optic modulator for receiving an input optical signal, the modulator having a first optical path and a second optical path, the input optical signal being divided between the first optical path and the second optical path and recombined after propagation along the first optical path and the second optical path to produce an output optical signal, and at least one of the first optical path and the second optical path comprising a phase shifter comprising a pair of electrodes in which each electrode is configured to receive a driving signal; wherein the or each phase shifter is coupled to the signal source to receive at least one of said frequency components as a driving signal for an electrode, and the phase shifters are arranged such that the or each phase shifter receives a different pair of driving signals.
US11418263B2	Systems and methods for optical full-field transmission using photonic integration An optical full-field transmitter for an optical communications network includes a primary laser source configured to provide a narrow spectral linewidth for a primary laser signal, and a first intensity modulator in communication with a first amplitude data source. The first intensity modulator is configured to output a first amplitude-modulated optical signal from the laser signal. The transmitter further includes a first phase modulator in communication with a first phase data source and the first amplitude-modulated optical signal. The first phase modulator is configured to output a first two-stage full-field optical signal. The primary laser source has a structure based on a III-V compound semiconductor.
US11418262B2	Optical module comprising a reflective surface at a preset angle for reflecting light from light transmitting lenses to light receiving lenses An optical module includes a substrate, an optical device, and a plurality of light transmitting elements and a plurality of light receiving elements disposed between the optical device and the substrate. The optical device includes a device body, and an optical transceiver interface and a lens array that are disposed on the device body. The lens array is configured to optically couple the plurality of light transmitting elements with the optical transceiver interface, and optically couples the optical transceiver interface with the plurality of light receiving elements. An auxiliary lens is disposed on an optical coupling path between the plurality of light transmitting elements and the optical transceiver interface or between the optical transceiver interface and the plurality of light receiving elements.
US11418258B2	Power-efficient integrated photonic switch Power consumption in MZI-based integrated photonic switches or filters throughout the operational life can be reduced by reducing fabrication-induced phase misalignment between the unpowered operational mode of the switch or filter and the predominant switch state, and/or by enabling low-power compensation for any such misalignment. In various embodiments, misalignment is reduced by increasing the width of the waveguides implementing the interferometer arms of the MZI, and/or by structuring a region containing the MZI symmetrically to diminish stress-induced misalignment. In some embodiments, phase tuners are used to actively compensate for any phase misalignment, with a tuner drive voltage substantially lower than used to switch to the non-dominant state.
US11418257B2	High speed and multi-contact LEDs for data communication An LED may include a third contact, for example to increase speed of operation of the LED. The LED with the third contact may be used in an optical communication system, for example a chip-to-chip optical interconnect.
US11418255B2	Method, device and system for controlling protection switching on optical network The present disclosure relates to a method, a system and a computer readable storage medium for controlling protection switching on an optical network. The method for controlling protection switching on an optical network includes: determining a low-frequency signal for service protection, and modulating the low-frequency signal for service protection to a transmission channel of a service signal to be protected and transmitting the low-frequency signal; detecting the low-frequency signal over the transmission channel and acquiring transmission quality information of the low-frequency signal; and determining whether to perform protection switching according to the transmission quality information of the low-frequency signal.
US11418254B2	Ground network for end-to-end beamforming Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signals, transmitted from the user terminals, have multipath induced by a plurality of receive/transmit signal paths in the end to end relay and are relayed to the ground network. The ground network, using beamformers, recovers user data streams transmitted by the user terminals from return downlink signals. The ground network, using beamformers generates forward uplink signals from appropriately weighted combinations of user data streams that, after relay by the end-end-end relay, produce forward downlink signals that combine to form user beams.
US11418250B2	Passive module for a holding structure, and such a holding structure There is provided a passive module for a holding structure. The holding structure is adjacent or part of a movable wing. The passive module comprises a support structure. The passive module comprises a radio transmission regulating structure. The radio transmission regulating structure is supported by the support structure. The radio transmission regulating structure has a radio transmission regulating characteristics. There is also provided a holding structure. The holding structure exhibits a slot for receiving such a passive module. There is further provided a kit of parts comprising at least one such passive module and such a holding structure.
US11418249B2	Method and apparatus for handling beam failure recovery regarding cell deactivation in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE triggers a first beam failure recovery (BFR) associated with a first cell. In response to the first triggered BFR, the UE triggers a Scheduling Request (SR) for Secondary Cell (SCell) beam failure recovery. In response to deactivation of the first cell, the UE cancels the first triggered BFR and the triggered SR for SCell beam failure recovery associated with the first cell.
US11418248B2	Method of non-orthogonal uplink multiplexing of heterogeneous information types An example disclosed method includes (i) modulating a first type of uplink information using beam direction modulation with an uplink beam direction pattern applied over a set of allocated uplink radio resource, (ii) modulating a second type of uplink information using an in-phase quadrature (IQ)-based modulation scheme, wherein modulation symbols of the IQ-based modulation scheme are transmitted on a plurality of uplink beams used to modulate the first type of uplink information across same set of allocated uplink radio resources as the set of allocated uplink radio resources used for the beam direction modulation, (iii) and transmitting the modulated first type of uplink information and the modulated second type of uplink information over an air interface.
US11418247B2	High spatial reuse for mmWave Wi-Fi Examples described herein provide method and systems for high spatial reuse for mmWave Wi-Fi. Examples may include identifying, by a network device, a plurality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) propagation paths between the network device and a set of neighboring devices including a target neighboring device, based on power delay profiles (PDPs) of beam training frames received by the network device from each of the neighboring devices using a plurality of mmWave beams, and determining, by the network device for each of neighboring devices in the set, an estimated angle of arrival (AoA) of each identified mmWave propagation path between the network device and the neighboring device, based on the PDPs of the received beam training frames from the neighboring device. Examples may include selecting, by the network device, one of the mmWave beams that maximizes a signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) along the estimated AoA of each identified mmWave propagation path between the network device and the target neighboring device, and communicating, by the network device, with the target neighboring device using the selected mmWave beam.
US11418244B2	CSI feedback with type-II codebook compression For Type-II codebook compression, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a reference signal and a processor that identifies a set of taps over a layer based on the reference signal, where the set of taps are selected from a set of Nsb indices, the value Nsb representing a number of sub-bands. The processor generates a combinatorial codeword representing the set of taps. The processor reports the combinatorial codeword for the set of taps as part of a CSI feedback report.
US11418240B2	Variable coherence adaptive antenna array A user equipment (UE) (200, 500, 1530) transmits data to a base station (100, 500, 1520) in a wireless communication network. The UE (200, 500, 1530) comprises multiple antenna ports, and selects a precoding matrix from a respective first, second, third, or fourth set of precoding matrices according to a number of spatial layers. The first, second, third, and fourth sets of precoding matrices are available for all coherence capabilities and are comprised within a larger set of precoding matrices. The larger set comprises precoding matrices that are not available for all coherence capabilities. The first, second, third, and fourth sets of precoding matrices correspond to one, two, three, or four spatial layers, respectively. The number of columns in the selected precoding matrix is equal to the number of spatial layers and each column comprises a single non-zero element and one or more zero elements. The UE (200, 500, 1530) transmits data on the number of spatial layers according to the selected precoding matrix.
US11418237B1	Use of per-connection MIMO support as basis for dynamic control of air-interface communication with dual-connected device A method and system for controlling data split of a dual-connected user equipment device (UE) when the UE has at least two co-existing air-interface connections including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node. An example method includes (i) comparing a level of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) support of the first air-interface connection with a level of MIMO support of the second air-interface connection, (ii) based at least on the comparing, establishing a split ratio that defines a distribution of data flow of the UE between at least the first air-interface connection and the second air-interface connection, and (iii) based on the establishing, causing the established split ratio to be applied. Further the method could include using the comparison as a basis to set one of the UE's air-interface connections as the UE's primary uplink path.
US11418236B2	Method and apparatus for beam selection in mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and safety related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. A method and an apparatus for reselecting a beam and selecting a suitable beam to be camped on, by a terminal, in order to be provided with a service in a next generation mobile communication system operating on the basis of a beam.
US11418235B2	Variable ratio near field wireless device One example discloses a near-field wireless device, including: a controller configured to be coupled to a near-field antenna; wherein the near-field antenna includes, a near-field electric antenna configured to transmit and/or receive near-field electric (E) signals; and a near-field magnetic antenna configured to transmit and/or receive near-field magnetic (H) signals; a conductivity monitor configured to determine a conductivity of a medium proximate to the near-field device; wherein the controller is configured to modulate an E/H ratio of fields generated by and/or received from the near-field electric (E) antenna and the near-field magnetic (H) antenna based on the conductivity of the medium.
US11418234B2	Bi-stable display tag In some embodiments an apparatus includes a display module and a bi-stable display. The bi-stable display is operatively coupled to the display module and is configured to display a first image at a first time. The display module is configured to be operatively coupled to a wireless module and configured to be wirelessly powered by an external wireless power supply. The display module is configured to receive, at a second time after the first time and in response to a wireless interaction with a wireless device, (1) power from the external wireless power supply and (2) a signal from the wireless module indicative of a second image different from the first image. The bi-stable display is configured to display, in response to a signal indicative of an instruction from the display module, the second image at a third time after the second time.
US11418231B2	UWB system Disclosed is an ultra-wideband (UWB) system and, more particularly, a UWB system capable of optimizing UWB operation for vehicles through hopping. The UWB system includes a memory in which a UWB communication program is embedded and a processor which executes the program. The processor performs UWB time-hopping and frequency-hopping to establish a communication channel.
US11418230B2	Method and electronic device for sensing grip using director of antenna module Disclosed is an electronic device that may sense the proximity of a user by using a director of an antenna module as an electrode of a grip sensor without a separate sensor for detecting the user's proximity, thereby enabling efficient use of the internal space of the electronic device without having to secure a space for mounting a separate sensor. The electronic device may also reduce the power of a transmission signal by a preset back-off value in response to sensing the user's proximity, thereby minimize an adverse effect of electromagnetic waves on the human body caused by signal transmission.
US11418220B2	Method, system, and apparatus for a segmented polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) code A codeword is generated based on a segmentation transform and a Polarization-Assisted Convolutional (PAC) code that includes an outer convolutional code and a polar code, and based on separate encoding of respective different segments of convolutionally encoded input bits according to the polar code. Each segment of the respective segments includes multiple bits of the convolutionally encoded input bits for which the separate encoding of the segment is independent of the separate encoding of other segments. Separate decoding may be applied to segments of such a codeword to decode convolutionally encoded input bits corresponding to the separately encoded segments of the convolutionally encoded input bits.
US11418214B1	Effective seeding of CRC functions for flows' path polarization prevention in networks A network element is configured to efficiently load balance packets through a computer network. The network element receives a packet associated with flow attributes and generates a Load Balancing Flow Vector (LBFV) from the flow attributes. The network element partitions the LBFV into a plurality of LBFV blocks and reorders the LBFV blocks to generate a reordered LBFV. The LBFV blocks are reordered based on a reordering sequence that is different from reordering sequences on other network elements in the computer network. The network element hashes the reordered LBFV to generate a hash key for the packet and selects a next hop link based on the hash key. The next hop link connects the network elements to a next hop network element in the computer network.
US11418212B2	Parallel decoding techniques In various embodiments, an encoded sequence (e.g., a compressed sequence for uncompressed data) that includes variable-length codes is decoded in an iterative fashion to generate a decoded sequence of symbols. During each iteration, a group of threads decode in parallel the codes in the encoded sequence to generate symbols. The group of threads then compute offsets based on the sizes of the symbols. Subsequently, the group of threads generates in parallel a contiguous portion of the decoded sequence based on the symbols, an output address, and the offsets.
US11418211B2	Sigma-delta modulation device and sigma-delta modulation method A sigma-delta modulation device includes a detection circuit and a sigma-delta modulator. The detection circuit is configured to detect an input signal to generate a detection signal, and compare the detection signal and a threshold to generate a control signal. The sigma-delta modulator is coupled to the detection circuit and configured to store a plurality of noise transfer functions, select one of the noise transfer functions according to the control signal, and convert the input signal into an output signal according to the noise transfer function.
US11418210B2	Digital-to-analog converter with reference voltage selection switch A digital-to-analog converter includes an array of capacitors, an array of capacitor switches, positive and negative high-bandwidth reference buffers, positive and negative low-bandwidth reference buffers, and a reference-voltage-selection switch. Each capacitor switch electrically couples a respective capacitor to either a positive or a negative reference voltage line. The reference-voltage-selection switch electrically couples the positive and negative reference voltage lines to either positive and negative high-bandwidth voltages or to positive and negative low-bandwidth voltages. The positive and negative high-bandwidth voltages are produced by the positive and negative high-bandwidth reference buffers. The positive and negative low-bandwidth voltages are produced by the positive and negative low-bandwidth reference buffers.
US11418209B2	Signal conversion circuit utilizing switched capacitors A signal conversion circuit includes a first pair of capacitors and a comparator. The first pair of capacitors includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor having a same capacitance value. Each of the first capacitor and the second capacitor is coupled to an input signal during a first sampling phase, while uncoupled from the input signal during a first conversion phase after the first sampling phase. The comparator has a first input terminal and a second input terminal. During the first conversion phase, the first capacitor is coupled between the first input terminal and a first reference signal, the second capacitor is coupled between the first input terminal and a second reference signal different from the first reference signal, and the comparator is configured to compare a signal level at the first input terminal and a signal level at the second input terminal to convert the input signal.
US11418203B2	Frequency locked loops and related circuits and methods Clock circuits designed to compensate for supply voltage fluctuations (e.g., supply voltage droops) in central processing units (CPUs) are described. The clock circuits described herein involve reducing the clock frequency in response to a decrease to the supply voltage to a value that is approximately equal (or below) to the maximum operating frequency of the CPU at that particular supply voltage. The clock circuits described herein may include a frequency locked loops (FLL). Such FLLs may be designed to lock to a reference frequency when the supply voltage is approximately constant and to deviate from the reference frequency in response to variations in the supply voltage. In some embodiments, an FLL operates in the same supply voltage domain as the CPU.
US11418200B2	Fractional-N phase lock loop (PLL) with noise cancelation A PLL circuit includes a fractional-N divider generating a feedback signal, a first phase-frequency detector that compares the feedback signal to a reference signal to generate first up/down control signals that control a charge pump to generate a charge pump output current. A noise cancelation circuit includes a synchronization circuit that generates first and second synchronized feedback signals from the PLL circuit output and the feedback signal, where the first and second synchronized feedback signals are offset by an integer number of cycles of the PLL circuit output. A second phase-frequency detector circuit compares the first and second synchronized feedback clock signals to generate second up/down control signals whose pulse widths differ by the integer number of PLL cycles. A current digital to analog converter circuit is controlled in response to the second up/down control signals to apply noise canceling sourcing and sinking currents to the charge pump output current.
US11418197B1	Majority logic gate having paraelectric input capacitors and a local conditioning mechanism 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.
US11418190B2	Switch circuits and transistor stacks with capacitor networks for balancing off-state RF voltages and methods of their operation A switch circuit includes a transistor stack coupled between first and second ports. The transistor stack includes a group of multiple, adjacent, series-coupled transistors, and at least one additional transistor coupled in series with the group between the first and second ports to provide a first variably-conductive path between the first and second ports. The switch circuit also includes a balancing capacitor with a first terminal coupled to an input of the group of multiple, adjacent, series-coupled transistors, and a second terminal coupled to an output of the group of multiple, adjacent, series-coupled transistors.
US11418188B1	Bootstrapped switch In an integrated circuit, a bootstrapped switch includes a capacitor and first, second, and third transistors. The first transistor has a first current electrode coupled to a first voltage supply node and a gate electrode coupled to a first circuit node. The second transistor has a first current electrode coupled to a second voltage supply terminal, a second current electrode coupled to a top terminal of the capacitor, and a control electrode coupled to the first circuit node. The third transistor has a first current electrode coupled to the first voltage supply terminal, a control electrode coupled to the first circuit node, and a second current electrode coupled to a body terminal of the second transistor. The fourth transistor has a first current electrode coupled to the body terminal of the second transistor, and a second current electrode coupled to the top terminal of the capacitor.
US11418186B2	RF switch with bypass topology An RF signal switch circuit that allows connection of any of N radio frequency (RF) input terminals to a switch output port, either in a low loss mode, in a bypass mode, or, optionally, in a signal function mode. Embodiments of the invention allow for both a single switch in the series input path to a target circuit while still having the ability to isolate the bypass path from the target circuit. In the low loss and bypass mode, the circuit simultaneously exhibits low input insertion loss (and thus a low noise factor) and high bypass mode isolation.
US11418184B2	Compensation for air gap changes and temperature changes in a resonant phase detector A system may include a sensor configured to output a sensor signal indicative of a distance between the sensor and a mechanical member associated with the sensor, a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the sensor and configured to determine a physical force interaction with the mechanical member based on the sensor signal, and a compensator configured to monitor the sensor signal and to apply a compensation factor to the sensor signal to compensate for changes to properties of the sensor based on at least one of changes in a distance between the sensor and the mechanical member and changes in a temperature associated with the sensor.
US11418176B2	Multi-frequency uniformization carrier wave slope random distribution pulse width modulation method A multi-frequency uniformization carrier wave slope random distribution pulse width modulation method, includes: (1) selecting a required random carrier wave sequence and a modulating wave, and after the two are compared, generating a switch device drive signal for pulse width modulation; (2) determining a multiple n of an equivalent carrier frequency f of the random carrier wave sequence, and selecting a main circuit topology; and (3) inputting the switch device drive signal generated in (1) into the main circuit topology of (2) to perform multi-frequency uniformization carrier wave slope random distribution pulse width modulation. The disclosure can improve a frequency domain distribution bandwidth of a harmonic wave without changing the mean and variance of a random carrier wave sequence, and realizes uniform distribution of carrier waves and multiple harmonic peaks near a doubled frequency of the carrier waves in a wider frequency domain.
US11418169B2	5G n41 2.6 GHz band acoustic wave resonator RF filter circuit An RF circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The devices can include four resonator devices and four shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the resonator devices are connected in series from an input port to an output port while shunt resonator devices are coupled to the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a pair of resonator devices that are coupled to differential input and output ports. A pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. These topologies may be applied using single crystal or polycrystalline bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators.
US11418163B1	Constant-bandwidth linear variable gain amplifier The present invention is directed electrical circuits. According to a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a variable gain amplifier that includes a first switch, which includes drain terminal coupled to an inductor. A second switch is configured in parallel to the inductor, and the resistance value of the second switch is adjustable in response to a control signal. There are other embodiments as well.
US11418160B2	Method and system for a feedback transimpedance amplifier with sub-40khz low-frequency cutoff A sub-40 kilohertz low-frequency cutoff is provided for via a transimpedance amplifier comprising differential inputs and differential outputs; coupling capacitors comprising input terminals configured to receive electrical signals, and output terminals coupled to the differential inputs; and feedback paths coupled to the differential outputs and operable to level shift voltage levels at the input terminals. In some embodiments, the feedback paths comprise source follower transistors wherein the differential outputs are coupled to gate terminals of the source follower transistors or the feedback paths further comprise feedback resistors. In some embodiments, a bias resistor is coupled between the differential inputs.
US11418158B2	Radio-frequency module and communication device A first power amplifier amplifies first transmission signals in a first frequency band and outputs the resultant signals. A first matching circuit includes a plurality of first inductor portions and is connected to an output pad electrode of the first power amplifier. A second power amplifier amplifies second transmission signals in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band and outputs the resultant signals. A second matching circuit includes at least one second inductor portion and is connected to an output side of the second power amplifier. A multilayer substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface located opposite to each other and is provided with the first and second power amplifiers and the first and second matching circuits. The first inductor portion closer than the other first inductor portions to the output pad electrode includes an inner-layer inductor portion located in the multilayer substrate.
US11418156B2	Low noise amplifier with improved linearity in low gain mode A low noise amplifier that includes a first cascode, a second cascode, an input circuit, an output node, a first switch, and a second switch. A source of a first common gate transistor and a drain of a first common source transistor of the first cascode are coupled to a first node of the low noise amplifier. The output node is coupled to a drain of the first common gate transistor, and to a drain of a second common gate transistor of the second cascode, thereby coupling the first cascode and the second cascode to a power supply via a load. The first switch is coupled between a gate of the first common gate transistor and the power supply. The second switch is coupled between the first node and the power supply. The first switch is configured to be open and the second switch is configured to be closed when the low noise amplifier operates at a first operational node. The first switch is configured to be closed and the second switch is configured to be open when the low noise amplifier operates at a second operational node that differs from the first operational mode by at least a gain of the low noise amplifier.
US11418152B2	Biasing circuits for voltage controlled or output circuits A number of biasing circuits for amplifiers including voltage controlled amplifier is presented. Also a number of field effect transistor circuits include voltage controlled attenuators or voltage controlled processing circuits. Example circuits include modulators, lower distortion variable voltage controlled resistors, sine wave to triangle wave converters, and or servo controlled biasing circuits.
US11418150B2	Gain compensation circuit A circuit comprises an amplifier network including a first amplifier and a second amplifier and a first transistor having a first base. The first transistor is thermally isolated from the second amplifier. The circuit further comprises a second transistor having a second base. The second transistor is thermally linked to the second amplifier. The circuit further comprises coupling circuitry configured to couple the first base to the second base.
US11418148B2	Phase coherent numerically controlled oscillator A phase coherent NCO circuit includes a base frequency NCO, a phase seeding circuit, a scaled frequency NCO, a sine/cosine generator. The base frequency NCO is configured to generate base phase values based on a base frequency control word. The phase seeding circuit is coupled to the base frequency NCO. The phase seeding circuit is configured to generate a seed phase value based on the base phase values and a scale factor value. The scaled frequency NCO is coupled to the phase seeding circuit. The scaled frequency NCO is configured to generate oscillator phase values based on the phase seed value and an oscillator frequency control word. The sine/cosine generator is coupled to the scaled frequency NCO. The sine/cosine generator is configured to generate oscillator output samples based on the oscillator phase values.
US11418143B2	Control method and apparatus, power system, and electric vehicle The present application provides a control method, an apparatus, a power system, and an electric vehicle, relating to the field of electric vehicles. The method includes: obtaining a battery cell temperature of a power battery, and sending a first control signal to an inverter when the battery cell temperature meets a preset power battery heating condition, where the first control signal is configured to control the inverter to convert a current provided by the power battery into an alternating current with a randomly changing frequency, and the alternating current with a randomly changing frequency is configured to supply power to a permanent magnet motor. New frequency components may be introduced to evenly distribute originally concentrated radial electromagnetic forces to an entire stator, thereby reducing vibration noises during the heating process of the power battery.
US11418142B2	Motor-driving apparatus A motor-driving apparatus for driving a motor having a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is provided. The motor-driving apparatus includes a first inverter having a plurality of first switching devices and connected to first ends of the plurality of windings and a second inverter having a plurality of second switching devices and connected to second ends of the plurality of windings. A third switching device is configured to selectively connect and disconnect points at which a number of turns of each of the windings is divided in a preset ratio. A controller is configured to adjust an on/off state of the first to third switching devices based on required output of the motor.
US11418141B2	Hybrid drive apparatus A motor driver apparatus includes: a converter including a first electrical network configured to convert AC electrical power into DC electrical power, the first electrical network including at least one electronic element that includes a wide bandgap semiconductor material; and an inverter electrically connected to the converter, the inverter including a second electrical network configured to generate an AC motor power signal from the DC electrical power, the second electrical network includes a plurality of electronic elements that include a semiconductor material that is not a wide bandgap semiconductor material.
US11418132B2	Capacitive energy harvester from AC power lines The various embodiments herein provide an energy harvester which can capacitively harvest stray electric field from low-voltage AC power lines without a physical grounding connection. The energy harvester comprises an inner electrode, an outer electrode and a circuit. The inner electrode forms an inner periphery of an upper portion of a harvester housing. The outer electrode forms an inner base of a lower portion of the harvester housing to provide a local ground reference. The circuit is housed within the lower portion of the harvester housing to direct stored energy and control an energy discharge.
US11418127B2	Converter cell with crowbar The present disclosure relates to a converter cell (4) for a power converter. The cell comprises a plurality of semiconductor devices (T) forming a half-bridge or full-bridge topology in the cell. The cell also comprises an energy storage (5) connected across the at least one switch leg (6). The cell also comprises a crowbar leg (7) connected across the at least one switch leg, comprising a plurality of series connected semiconductor crowbar switches (C) arranged to short-circuit the energy storage (5). The cell also comprises first and second AC terminals (A, B), wherein at least one of said AC terminals is connected to one of the at least one switch leg, between two of the plurality of series connected semiconductor devices of said switch leg, and connected to the crowbar leg, between two of the plurality of series connected crowbar switches of said crowbar leg.
US11418125B2	Three phase bidirectional AC-DC converter with bipolar voltage fed resonant stages A bidirectional AC power converter, having a front-end comprising parallel sets of three switches in series, which connects multi-phase AC to coupling transformer through a first set of tank circuits, for synchronously bidirectionally converting electrical power between the multi-phase AC and a DC potential, and for converting electrical power between the DC potential to a bipolar electrical signal at a switching frequency, controlled such that two of each parallel set of three switches in series are soft-switched and the other switch is semi-soft switched; the coupling transformer being configured to pass the bipolar electrical power at the switching frequency through a second set of the tank circuits to a synchronous converter, which in turn transfers the electrical power to a secondary system at a frequency different from the switching frequency.
US11418122B2	Integrated circuit and power supply circuit An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit that generates an output voltage from an input voltage and includes an inductor and a transistor, the integrated circuit configured to switch the transistor to control a current of the inductor. The integrated circuit includes a first terminal that receives a power supply voltage, a second terminal that receives a voltage corresponding to an operation state of the integrated circuit, a storage circuit, a switching circuit that switches an operation mode of the integrated circuit based on voltage levels at the first and second terminals, the operation mode including a write mode, a test mode and a normal mode, a memory control circuit that writes setting information into the storage circuit, when the integrated circuit operates in the write mode, and a setting target circuit that operates based on the setting information stored in the storage circuit, when the integrated circuit operates in the test mode.
US11418119B2	Wide switching frequency range switched mode power supply control topology Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit. In some examples, the circuit includes a timing circuit and a state machine circuit. The timing circuit determines a relationship between a duty cycle of a power converter and a threshold value. The state machine circuit is coupled to the timing circuit and includes a plurality of states including a buck state, a boost state, and a buck-boost state. The state machine circuit transitions among the plurality of states according to time domain control and voltage domain control, based at least partially on the determined relationship between the duty cycle and the threshold value, transitions among the states according to the time domain control when the time domain control indicates an exit from the buck-boost state, and transitions among the states according to the voltage domain control when the voltage domain control indicates the exit from a buck-boost state.
US11418114B2	Boost power conversion circuit, method, inverter, apparatus, and system This application discloses a boost power conversion circuit, a method, an inverter, an apparatus, and a system. In the conversion circuit, a voltage control circuit is added on a three-level boost. The voltage control circuit can be connected in series in a third closed loop, and the third closed loop is a loop including an inductor, a first switching transistor, a flying capacitor, a second diode, and an input end. The voltage control circuit clamps a voltage of a common point of the first diode and the second diode when a voltage on an input end of the boost power conversion circuit is less than a startup voltage of the boost power conversion circuit. The voltage borne by the second diode is reduced, so that a diode with relatively small voltage stress can be selected.
US11418111B2	Power conversion circuit board and electric compressor A power conversion circuit board (1) is a circuit board on which a power conversion circuit configured to convert a direct current into an alternating current is mounted. A low-voltage circuit (10b) to which a low voltage is applied and a high-voltage circuit (10a) to which a high voltage is applied are separately disposed in different areas on the same circuit board surface. Furthermore, part of wiring of the high-voltage circuit (10a) is formed on the circuit board surface, and the other wiring is constituted by a bus bar provided at a predetermined distance from the circuit board surface.
US11418105B2	Fractional valley switching controller A power converter controller includes a fractional valley controller configured to determine a target number of valleys of a resonant waveform at a drain node of a main switch, the target number of valleys corresponding to a desired off-time of the main switch, the fractional valley controller modulating an off-time of the main switch between two or more modulated off-times. The target number of valleys corresponds to a non-integer number of valleys of the resonant waveform at the drain node of the main switch. Each of the modulated off-times of the main switch corresponds to an integer number of valleys, and the two or more modulated off-times of the main switch has an average value that corresponds to the desired off-time.
US11418104B2	Current measurement method for three-phase pulse width modulation inverter using real-time switch junction temperature estimation technique and three-phase pulse width modulation inverter system Disclosed are a current measurement method for a three-phase pulse width modulation inverter using a real-time switch junction temperature estimation technique, and a three-phase pulse width modulation inverter system. The current measurement method may comprise the steps of: calculating a power loss of a switch of an inverter; estimating the junction temperature (T j) of the switch by using a thermal equivalent circuit; estimating a resistance (R ds on) value between both ends of a drain and a source by using a resistance (R ds on) map based on the junction temperature (T j); and using, as a control signal of the inverter, a current value calculated based on the estimated resistance (R ds on) value.
US11418101B2	Linear motor for vacuum and vacuum processing apparatus Since wires connected to a linear motor are routed in a vacuum sample chamber, outgassing is generated from wire coating and efficiency of assembly operations is reduced. Further, there is a problem that thrust generation efficiency of the linear motor is reduced when a gap between a coil and a permanent magnet of the linear motor cannot be small. In order to solve the above problems, a linear motor for vacuum is provided, the linear motor for vacuum including: a mover having a permanent magnet; and a stator having a support member to which a coil is fixed, in which the support member includes a vacuum sealing portion that vacuum seals with a wall surface of a vacuum sample chamber, and a feed-through for supplying a current to the coil provided in the vacuum sample chamber.
US11418093B2	Electric motor with improved heat dissipation and productivity and method for manufacturing same An electric motor includes a front housing positioned on a load side and including an annular groove in an inner surface of the front housing, a winding wound around a stator core and including a coil end projecting forward from the stator core and disposed in the annular groove, and a heat conductive resin filled in the annular groove and configured to be in contact with both the coil end and the front housing.
US11418092B2	Lubrication mechanism for bearing of vehicle electric motor A lubrication mechanism for supplying oil to a bearing of a vehicle electric motor that includes the bearing, a housing, a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft rotatably held by the housing through the bearing. The housing defines an oil passage to which oil discharged from an oil pump is to be supplied. The oil passage and the bearing are located on respective opposite sides of a wall of the housing. The lubrication mechanism includes: a bolt hole passing through the wall; and a bolt engaged in the bolt hole.
US11418090B2	Cooling tower having thermally managed motor The present invention is directed to a cooling tower that has a cooling tower structure having fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor has a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid. A fluid distribution system distributes the cooled fluid in the basin. The fluid distribution system has a pumping device to pump cooled fluid from the basin, fluid piping to receive the pumped cooled fluid and fluid spray devices fluidly connected to the fluid piping for spraying fluid on the casing of the motor so as to transfer heat of the casing to the fluid.
US11418089B2	Power module for a brushless motor A power tool is provided, including a housing; an electric brushless DC motor disposed within the housing; and a power module disposed within the housing and electrically coupled to the motor. The power module includes a circuit board, a first set of power switches mounted on a first surface of the circuit board, a second set of power switches mounted on a second surface of the circuit board substantially opposite the first set of power switches and electrically coupled to the first set of power switches forming an inverter bridge circuit, power terminals arranged on a side edge of the circuit board and coupled to the output of the inverter bridge, a first heat sink mounted on the first surface of the circuit board covering the first set of power switches, and a second heat sink covering the first heat sink and at least portions of the power terminals.
US11418088B2	Control scheme for power tool having a brushless motor A power tool is provided including a housing, an electric motor disposed within the housing, a power switch circuit disposed between a power supply and the electric motor, a main controller, and a secondary controller. The main controller is arranged to control a switching operation of the power switch circuit to regulate a speed of the motor, and is configured to monitor at least one of a speed or a rotational direction of the electric motor and deactivate the power switch circuit upon detection of fault condition associated the speed or the rotational direction of the electric motor. The secondary controller is configured to monitor at least one of the speed or the rotational direction of the electric motor independently from the main controller and deactivate the power switch circuit upon detection of fault condition associated the speed or the rotational direction of the electric motor.
US11418087B2	Modular system for producing drives comprising a transmission unit, an electric motor unit and an electronic unit The present disclosure relates to a modular system for producing drives, in particular piece goods conveyor drives, with different drive properties, comprising at least one first group of transmission units, said first group comprising at least one transmission unit, at least one second group of motor units, said second group comprising at least one motor unit, and a third group of electronic units, said third group comprising at least one electronic unit for actuating the motor unit, wherein the groups can be combined together in order to produce the drive.
US11418086B2	Axle assembly having an electric motor module and a terminal box An axle assembly having an electric motor module and a terminal box that may facilitate mounting of at least one phase cable. The phase cable may be secured to a terminal box cover with a terminal box clamp. The phase cable may extend through a phase block that may be mounted to the terminal box.
US11418084B2	Generator A generator includes an inverter cover which receives water intruding into a casing through a ventilation port provided on the casing and going along on a fuel tank existing in a periphery of an inverter to drop toward the inverter.
US11418081B2	Motor stator for compressor, permanent magnet motor, and compressor A motor stator (11) for a compressor, a permanent magnet motor (10), and a compressor (A) are disclosed. The stator (11) includes: a stator core (111); a stator winding (112), the stator winding (112) including a plurality of coil groups, and each coil group having at least two connectors (1124); a lead-out wire (113) used to connect an external circuit and the stator winding (112), there being a plurality of lead-out wires (113) and each lead-out wire (113) being connected to connectors of at least two different coil groups, wherein the rated voltage between terminals on which a motor is mounted is Un, the maximum outer diameter of the stator core (111) is Dmax, and the axial length of the stator core (111) is L, Un/(Dmax2×L)≤0.3 V/cm3.
US11418079B1	Permanent-magnet machines utilizing protruding magnets A magnetic machine including a rotor in concentric arrangement with a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of protruding magnets arranged on a back iron and the stator includes a plurality of windings which interface with the plurality of protruding magnets. Illustrated embodiments of the rotor and stator form an in-runner machine where the stator surrounds an interior rotor or an out-runner machine where the rotor surrounds the stator.
US11418078B2	Electric machine with stator having a plurality of lead wires extending from a common winding layer An electric machine with a stator operably coupled with a rotor. The stator includes a stator core defining a plurality of slots. Each of the slots defines a plurality of layer positions located at different radial distances from a rotational axis of the electric machine. At least three windings are associated with each of the phases of the machine. In a first slot, a first winding is disposed in a first layer position. A second winding is disposed in a second layer position. A third winding is disposed in a third layer position. The first winding includes a first outside lead wire extending from the first slot. The second winding includes a second outside lead wire extending from a second slot. The third winding includes a third outside lead wire extending from a third slot. Each of the outside lead wires are in the first layer position.
US11418077B2	Rotor assembly with magnets and cooling channels and cooling channel separation element in the shaft A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets, which are arranged within a magnet pocket each, formed in the rotor core, with a clearance extending in the axial direction, and a shaft connected to the rotor core for conjoint rotation. A cooling channel arrangement is formed within the rotor assembly, and includes a first cooling channel extending within the shaft, a second cooling channel fluidically connected to the first cooling channel and extending in the radial direction along an end face of the rotor core, and a third cooling channel, which, adjoining the second cooling channel, extends in the axial direction through the clearances in the magnet pockets. The arrangement further includes a separation element, which separates an interior of the shaft into a first shaft portion, in which the first cooling channel extends, and into a second shaft portion.
US11418076B2	Electric machine rotor An electric machine rotor includes a core, a first end plate, a second end plate, and a shaft. The core defines an internal cavity. The first and second end plates each define a central orifice and are respectively secured to opposing axial ends of the core. The shaft is disposed within the cavity and engages the first and second end plates within the central orifices to facilitate synchronized rotation of and torque transfer between the core and shaft.
US11418069B1	Wireless power transfer system with data-priority and power-priority transfer modes A method for operating a wireless power transfer system includes selecting an operating mode from a plurality of transmission modes, which includes, at least, a first operating mode having a first power level and a first data rate and a second operating mode having a second power level and a second power rate, wherein the first data rate is greater than the second data rate and the first power level is less than the second power level. The method further includes performing, one or more of encoding the wireless data signals, decoding the wireless data signals, receiving the wireless data signals, transmitting the wireless data signals or combinations thereof. The method further includes driving a transmitter antenna of the wireless power transmission system, by the amplifier, based on a driving signal generated in accordance with the selected operating m.
US11418063B2	Method of fabricating an antenna having a substrate configured to facilitate through-metal energy transfer via near field magnetic coupling An electrically conductive material configured having at least one opening of various unlimited geometries extending through its thickness is provided. The opening is designed to modify eddy currents that form within the surface of the material from interaction with magnetic fields that allow for wireless energy transfer therethrough. The opening may be configured as a cut-out, a slit or combination thereof that extends through the thickness of the electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material is configured with the cut-out and/or slit pattern positioned adjacent to an antenna configured to receive or transmit electrical energy wirelessly through near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC). A magnetic field shielding material, such as a ferrite, may also be positioned adjacent to the antenna. Such magnetic shielding materials may be used to strategically block eddy currents from electrical components and circuitry located within a device.
US11418061B2	Power flow controller synchronization Techniques for wireless power transfer are disclosed. An example of an apparatus for receiving power in a wireless power transfer system includes a power receiving element, a tuning and current doubler circuit operably coupled to the power receiving element, a power flow controller circuit operably coupled to the tuning and current doubler circuit, and a controller operable coupled to the power receiving element and the power flow controller circuit and configured to detect a signal in the power receiving element and to synchronize the power flow controller circuit based on the signal.
US11418059B2	Wireless power transfer control The invention concerns a wireless power transfer arrangement (1) including a primary side (2) and a secondary side (3) where the primary side includes an input stage (5) for converting an input power to an AC primary output and a primary resonator (6) for receiving the AC primary output and inducing a magnetic field (9) for wireless power transfer through an air gap (8). The secondary side (3) includes a secondary resonator (10) for converting the power received through the magnetic field (9) to an AC secondary output and an output stage (11) for converting the AC secondary output to a DC secondary output. A controller (15) is adapted to control independently of each other a frequency of the AC primary output to be at a resonance frequency of the resonators and the power transferred from the primary side (2) to the secondary side (3) by controlling the voltage or the current of the AC primary output. By locking the frequency of the system to the resonance frequency enables any easy power control simply by controlling the current or the voltage of the primary resonator (5).
US11418058B2	Wireless charging system, method for determining charging region, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium The disclosure relates to a wireless charging system, a determining method and device for a charging region, and an electronic device. The wireless charging system can include a wireless charging base and an electronic device. The wireless charging base includes a cylindrical magnet disposed axially along a thickness of the wireless charging base. The electronic device includes a charging coil component, a compass sensor which is configured to detect magnetic field intensities of a magnetic field generated by the cylindrical magnet in a first direction and in a second direction. The first direction is an axial direction of the cylindrical magnet and is perpendicular to the second direction. The electronic device further includes a processor configured to determine, according to the magnetic field intensities in the first direction and in the second direction, a charging region formed by the cylindrical magnet and adapted to the charging coil component.
US11418056B2	Monitoring control system A monitoring control system includes: at least one transmission monitoring control subsystem; and at least one distribution monitoring control subsystem. The transmission monitoring control subsystem and the distribution monitoring control subsystem respectively include an operation procedure creation unit that creates an operation procedure that defines a procedure of an operation for a facility installed in an electric power system, and an operation unit that, in a case an on-site operation that cannot be remotely performed on the facility is included in the operation procedure, transmits, to an on-site terminal associated with the on-site operation, a start confirmation instruction to confirm whether or not the on-site operation can be started and the operation procedure for the on-site operation. The monitoring control system performs monitoring control of the power transmission system and the power distribution system based on the operation procedure.
US11418054B2	Methods and apparatus for power generation and distribution Methods and apparatus according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a microgrid capable of connecting to a main electrical grid supplying electrical power at a frequency (or other characteristic, such as voltage). A sensor may provide a signal to a control system, wherein the signal corresponds to the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid. The control system may compare the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid to a first threshold, and automatically provide power from the microgrid to the main electrical grid if the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid crosses the first threshold.
US11418052B2	Power circuit and driving method thereof The present disclosure relates to a power circuit including a power supply circuit and a first control circuit. The power supply circuit is electrically connected to a power supply source and a power terminal for selectively providing power to the power terminal. The first control circuit is electrically connected to the power supply circuit and configured to receive a detection signal to enable or disable the power supply circuit. When the detection signal is enabled, the first control circuit provides a first enable signal to the power supply circuit, so that the power supply circuit provides power to the power terminal. When the detection signal is at the disable level, the first control circuit is configured to provide the first disable signal to the power supply circuit, so that the power supply circuit stops providing power from the power supply source to the power terminal.
US11418051B2	Direct current power supplying system An energy management system (controller) operates on a charging voltage Vba of a specified storage battery out of storage batteries to control power converting operations by bidirectional DC/DC converters. The energy management system controls the power converting operations of the respective bidirectional DC/DC converters so that the SOC of the specified storage battery is always higher than the SOCs of the other storage batteries, executes supplying of power from the other storage batteries to the DC bus with priority over supplying of power from the specified storage battery to the DC bus, and causes the corresponding bidirectional converters to stop the supplying of power from the other storage batteries the DC bus when the SOCs of the storage batteries have fallen below a lower limit value set in advance due to the supplying of power to the DC bus.
US11418050B2	Method for controlling discharge of power storage device A method for controlling a discharge of a power storage device includes: a first step of discharging, in a first section of a discharging period, a part of an electric charge stored in a power storage through a first discharge path and a second discharge path of a discharge circuit; and a second step of discharging, in a second section of the discharging period, a remaining part of the electric charge through the second discharge path. The first discharge path includes a zener diode connected to one end of the power storage. The second discharge path includes a first transistor connected to the one end of the power storage. The first section is a period in which a voltage of the one end of the power storage is higher than a breakdown voltage of the zener diode. The second section is a period in which a voltage of the one end of the power storage is lower than the breakdown voltage of the zener diode. An output current of the first transistor in the second section is greater than an output current of the first transistor in the first section.
US11418047B2	Battery charging method and system depending on ambient temperature A method for charging a rechargeable battery comprises estimating an initial state of charge of the battery (SOC0), which may be estimated based on a time to polarization or an initial voltage of the battery. The method also comprises charging the battery according to a first charging strategy if the initial state of charge (SOC0) is greater than a threshold state of charge (SOCX) and according to a second charging strategy if the initial state of charge (SOC0) is less than the threshold state of charge (SOCX). The first charging strategy comprises charging, by charging circuitry, the battery at a temperature-independent constant charge voltage (CVXT) and at a first current (I1) with power provided from a power source in electrical communication with the charging circuitry. The second charging strategy comprises obtaining, by the charging circuitry, an environmental temperature (TE) measured by a temperature sensor in communication with the charging circuitry; calculating, by the charging circuitry, a temperature-based constant charge voltage (CVT) based on the environmental temperature (TE); and charging, by the charging circuitry, the battery at the temperature-based constant charge voltage (CVT) and at a second current (I2) with power provided from the power source.
US11418045B2	Portable intelligent charger A portable charger, relating to the field of electric vehicle and having a body comprising a shell, a connecting system and a controller, wherein the controller is arranged inside the shell, the connecting system is arranged on both sides of the shell, a cable placing ring is formed on the side wall of the shell, one side of the cable placing ring is provided with a hook, by arranging the cable placing ring and the hook, cables are twined along the contour of the cable placing ring and placed in the cable placing ring, after the cables are retracted and twined, the cable of the uppermost layer is snap-fitted in the hook, thereby fixing the cables, having simple structure, and reducing the overall occupied space of the charger.
US11418042B2	Battery management unit A battery management unit capable of more reliably turning off a high-voltage relay. A battery management unit 1 includes a high-voltage relay 5 serving as a switch unit that turns on/off electrical connection between a high-voltage battery 102, which is a secondary battery, and an external device, and a power source IC 6 serving as a disconnection control unit having a first disconnection processing function of turning off the high-voltage relay 5 at the time of abnormality of the battery management unit 1 and a second disconnection processing function of detecting an abnormality of the first disconnection processing function and turning off the high-voltage relay 5.
US11418040B2	Aggregating and managing recharging of portable/EV batteries via sockets The present invention relates generally to systems, devices and methods for the efficient use of utilities, more particularly to the distribution and provision of electricity supply at appropriate voltages, monitoring and usage by end devices, and to facilitating consumers in changing their energy usage behaviour, and to adopt and easily install appropriate sustainable, energy efficient or renewable technologies. Said end devices typically including traditional electric, electronic and lighting appliances requiring AC or DC power provision or low voltage DC power via AC/DC converters.
US11418036B2	Power system A power system includes a photovoltaic cell panel, a first power conversion device converting the DC power from the photovoltaic cell panel into AC power, and outputting the AC power to an electric power grid, a DC-side switch device provided between the photovoltaic cell panel and the first power conversion device and opening upon a trouble, a storage battery, and a second power conversion device connected to a connection point between the photovoltaic cell panel and the DC-side switch device and controlling charging and discharging of the storage battery. The second power conversion device includes a normal charging control mode for charging the storage battery based on a command signal from the system host monitor. Disconnection charging control mode may be executed when the DC voltage of the connection point exceeds a predetermined threshold value even if the command signal does not instructs the normal charging control mode.
US11418034B1	Zero-sequence current balancer with a real power injector for a three-phase power system A zero-sequence current balancer for a controlling zero-sequence current in a three-phase power system includes a cascade multilevel modular inverter (CMMI) coupled to the three-phase power system, wherein the CMMI has a plurality of modules, each module having a module capacitor, and a real power injector circuit provided between the three-phase power system and the CMMI, wherein the real power injector circuit is structured and configured to cause real power to injected into and/or absorbed from the CMMI to regulate a voltage of one or more of the module capacitors.
US11418026B1	Electrostatic protection device An electrostatic protection device for protecting an input port of an electronic circuit. The electrostatic protection device includes a first stacked coil, a second stacked coil, and an input terminal, wherein the second stacked coil is inductively coupled to the first stacked coil. The first stacked coil comprises a first coil input connected to the input terminal, a first coil output port connected to a lower frequency ESD protection circuit, and a first coil termination port connected to a termination load, and wherein the lower frequency ESD protection circuit comprises a lower frequency output. The second stacked coil comprises an output port connected to a higher frequency ESD protection circuit, and wherein the higher frequency ESD protection circuit comprises a higher frequency output. The electrostatic protection device comprises a summation circuit configured for outputting a summation of the higher frequency output and the lower frequency output.
US11418025B2	Device and method for electrostatic discharge protection A device is disclosed herein. The device includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection switch and an ESD driver. The ESD driver is configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage. When a voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is higher than a first voltage threshold, the ESD driver outputs a first trigger signal to turn on the ESD protection switch. When the voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is lower than a second voltage threshold, the ESD driver outputs a second trigger signal to turn on the ESD protection switch.
US11418024B2	Electrostatic discharge circuit using booster cell An electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit including a booster cell is disclosed. The ESD circuit may include first and second rails configured to provide power to the ESD circuit. The first rail may include two spaced apart conductors. The ESD circuit may further include an input/output (I/O) pad and a power/ground (P/G) pad. The P/G pad may include a power clamp electrically coupled between the first and second rails. The booster cell may be physically located between the I/O pad and the P/G pad. The booster cell may provide an electrical connection between the two spaced apart conductors.
US11418023B2	Current protection circuit and method for high voltage system A current protection circuit for a high voltage system includes: a power supply module to supply power to a load through a high voltage bus and a low voltage bus; a detection module connected to the high voltage bus and used to detect a value of current flowing through the high voltage bus; a signal processing module electrically connected to the detection module and used to amplify the current flowing through the high voltage bus; and a control module electrically connected to the signal processing module, the power supply module, and the load, and used to disconnect the load from the power supply module or perform current limiting for the load when the value of the amplified current exceeds a preset threshold.
US11418022B2	Active inrush current limiter An active inrush current limiter and method of limiting inrush current actively monitor line voltage and voltage drop across a current limiting resistance in a manner that eliminates the impact of fluctuations of line voltage on the decision of when to close a relay and bypass a current limiting resistance between the AC source and a group of power supplies. The active inrush current limiter includes a microcontroller connected to control the electronic switch and relay. The microcontroller is configured to sample the source AC power and detect a pattern of current flow through the electronic switch and current limiting resistance. A program executed in the microcontroller includes calculations that determine when to close the relay and bypass the current limiting resistance by detecting changes in power flow through the current limiting resistance that reliably correspond to a time when the capacitors in the power supplies have completed charging.
US11418013B1	Spark plug A spark plug is disclosed. A spark plug according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may include a main body including an electrode body formed with a center electrode and a moving chamber formed, wherein the moving chamber formed between the center electrode and the main body, a cap portion fixedly installed in the main body, formed with a pre-combustion chamber fluidly communicated with the moving chamber, formed with a ground electrode that is disposed to be spaced apart from the center electrode by a predetermined distance, and formed with a plurality of communication hole; a separation wall movably provided along the electrode body, and an elastic member providing an elastic force to the separation wall.
US11418007B2	Laser driver incorporating clamping circuit with freewheeling diode A level-shifter includes an input node coupled to a laser driver input receiving a trigger signal, the input node receiving a signal indicating generation of a laser drive-pulse. A p-channel transistor has a source coupled to a supply node, a drain coupled to an output node, and a gate coupled to the input node. An n-channel transistor has a drain coupled to the drain of the p-channel transistor, a source coupled to ground, and a gate coupled to the input node. A first switch couples the input node to the output node. Another p-channel transistor has a source coupled to the supply node, a drain coupled to the output node by a second switch, and a gate coupled to the input node. The first switch closes and second switch opens when the signal is low, and the first switch opens and second switch closes when the signal is high.
US11418001B2	Wavelength-tunable laser This application describes a wavelength-tunable laser apparatus, which reduces complexity of wavelength tuning of a laser. The laser includes a reflective gain unit, an optical phase shifter, a coupler, and a passive filter unit array. Furthermore, an output port of the reflective gain unit is connected to an input port of the optical phase shifter, an output port of the optical phase shifter is connected to an input port of the coupler, a first output port of the coupler is connected to an input port of the passive filter unit array, and a second output port of the coupler is an output port of the laser. The passive filter unit array includes a plurality of passive filter units, where any two of the plurality of passive filter units have different wavelength tuning ranges, and each filter unit has a linearly tunable wavelength.
US11417996B2	Connector fitting device A connector fitting device for fitting a female connector to a male connector includes a movable arm body connected to a base on a base end side of the movable arm body and a gripper connected to a distal end side of the movable arm body. The connector fitting device is configured to move the gripper to an arbitrary position in a three-dimensional space and in an arbitrary direction in the three-dimensional space. The movable arm body includes a device main body, a first arm, a second arm, and a third arm.
US11417994B2	Asymmetric high-speed interconnect routing interposer An information handling system includes a first device having a first data communication interface connected to a first socket area of a socket. A second device includes a second data communication interface connected to a second socket area of the socket. A host processor includes a third data communication interface connected to a third socket area of the socket. When an interposer is installed into the socket in a first orientation, the interposer connects the first data communication interface to the third data communication interface. When the interposer is installed into the socket in a second orientation, the interposer connects the first data communication interface to the second data communication interface.
US11417990B2	Connector that includes assembly detecting portion It is aimed to detect whether or not a shorting terminal fitting is properly mounted. A female connector (F) is provided with a terminal mounting portion (21) formed in a female housing (20), a shorting terminal fitting (30) mounted in the terminal mounting portion (21), a lock arm (24) formed in the female housing (20) and resiliently displaceable toward the terminal mounting portion (21) due to interference with a male housing (10) in an incompletely connected state, and assembly detecting portions (29) for detecting an improperly assembled state of the shorting terminal fitting (30) by interfering with the shorting terminal fitting (30) in a connection process of the female housing (29) and the male housing (10) when the shorting terminal fitting (30) is improperly mounted in the terminal mounting portion (21).
US11417988B1	Electric connector An electric connector includes an insulative seat, a circuit board, a flat cable, a latch and an actuating slider. The insulative seat includes a main body and a cover. An action room and a sliding trough are formed between the cover and the main body. The circuit board is received in the main body. The circuit board is extended with a tongue having printed terminals. An end of the flat cable is embedded in the main body and electrically connected to the printed terminals. The latch is received in the action room. The latch has a root with an insert and an extremity with a hook, respectively. The latch has an actuating portion with an elastic member. The actuating slider is received in the insulative seat and is slidable along the sliding trough. The acting slider pushes the actuating portion away from the cover to make the hook retract.
US11417984B2	Water resistant pop-up outlet A pop-up outlet includes a lower housing configured to receive one or more conductors. A middle housing is connected to the lower housing. An upper housing is moveably connected to the middle housing. An outlet is positioned in the upper housing having an outlet body and at least one receptacle opening. A raise/lower mechanism is configured to move the upper housing with respect to the middle housing from a first position where the outlet body is positioned in the middle housing to a second position where the outlet body is exposed to a user.
US11417983B2	Airtight terminal Provided is an airtight terminal that is designed for an automotive electric compressor and that eliminates the need for use of a gasket. The airtight terminal includes a metallic outer ring having through holes formed for screw fastening and sealing holes arranged linearly, leads inserted through the sealing holes in the metallic outer ring, and pieces of an insulating material to seal gaps between the metallic outer ring and the respective leads. The metallic outer ring has a seal coat possessing elastic deformability. The seal coat is put on a predetermined surface of the metallic outer ring that is at least a contact surface to which an external device is attached. The seal coat is put in a shape of an oval embankment, and the sealing holes are disposed inside a region surrounded with the embankment-shaped coat. When the airtight terminal is attached to the external device such as an airtight container for an electric compressor, the airtight terminal is fastened with screws, with the embankment-shaped seal coat being pressed against an outer wall surface of the external device and being elastically deformed. At the same time, a terminal attachment hole formed in the outer wall surface of the external device is disposed inside the oval embankment of the seal coat. This can hermetically isolate an inside and an outside of the oval embankment from each other.
US11417981B2	Connector with cap A connector includes a connector housing and a cap. The connector housing has a terminal accommodating portion formed with a bottomed tubular cavity. The cap has a cap body configured to cover an opening portion of the cavity, a tubular portion vertically provided on a rear surface of the cap body and configured to be fitted into a tubular inner surface of the cavity in a fitting direction, a contact portion facing an opening edge portion of the cavity, provided on the cap body, and located outward than a root of the tubular portion in a radial direction of the cap body, and a recessed portion provided on the rear surface of the cap body between the root of the tubular portion and the contact portion.
US11417979B2	Shielded electrical connector assembly and method of manufacturing same A shielded electrical connector assembly includes an electromagnetic shield integrally formed from a single sheet of conductive material. The shield has a main wall and four side walls surrounding the main wall. The shield defines an opening opposite the main wall having an opening perimeter that is greater than or equal to a main wall perimeter. One of the four side walls defines at least one side wall opening that is configured to receive a shielded wire cable. A method of manufacturing the shielded electrical connector assembly includes the steps of providing a single planar sheet of conductive material, providing a die and a punch, forming the sheet into a cupped shape having a main wall and four side walls surrounding the main wall using the die and the punch, and forming a side wall opening in one of the four side walls.
US11417977B2	Circuit board with a connector connection and electrical connector arrangement with such a circuit board A circuit board with a connector connection for the direct contacting with a connector, wherein the connector connection is formed on the front side of the circuit board with a contact pin that is arranged centrally in a blind hole while forming a circular ring-shaped cylindrical insertion space and that has an inner hole with a first contact zone of an inner conductor for contacting an inner conductor of the connector. A second contact zone of an outer conductor is arranged in the insertion space for contacting an outer conductor of the connector.
US11417974B2	Car window glass assembly A car window glass includes a glass plate having a conductor layer, a connection terminal, and a power line. The connection terminal includes metal-plate first and second join parts joined to the conductor layer via the first and second solder layers, a metal-plate bridge section connected to the first and second join parts and spaced apart from the conductor layer, and a fixing part for fixing the power line to a bridge section main surface. The power line extends from the fixing part along a glass plate main surface, and the side opposite of the side facing the glass plate main surface is free of the bridge section, and the starting point of the power line extending from the fixing part is positioned in the upper direction of a virtual line connecting the center portions of the first and second join parts with each other.
US11417971B2	Assembly element for an actuator An assembly element for establishing an electrical contact to an actuator for a vehicle transmission may include a base plate and two electrical circuit points projecting on one side of the base plate for the assembly element. The assembly element has a shavings protection device provided at least partially between the electrical circuit points, which is designed to at least partially impede a short circuit between the contacts when the assembly element is in contact with the actuator.
US11417968B2	Pluggable module connector and method for electrically conductively connecting at least two battery modules The present disclosure relates to a plug-in module connector or the electrically conductive connection of at least two battery modules, including a flexible busbar for the electrically conductive connection of respective poles of the battery modules, the busbar enabling tolerance compensation with respect to the poles in the transverse direction of the module connector; two retaining clamps for gripping the busbar and one of the respective poles of the battery modules, the retaining clamps enabling tolerance compensation with respect to the poles in the longitudinal direction and vertical direction of the module connector; an insulation housing in which the retaining clamps plugged onto the busbar can be received. Furthermore, the present disclosure also concerns a method for the electrically conductive connection of at least two battery modules by means of a plug-in module connector.
US11417967B2	Electrical power connection device Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an electrical connection device having features for cutting an electrical power conductor while maintaining downstream continuity and limiting access to the electrical power conductor.
US11417956B2	Parasitic elements for antenna systems An antenna system is provided that can include a plurality of parasitic elements connected to and extending from a ground plane, wherein each of the plurality of parasitic elements can be oriented at a common pitch angle, wherein each of the plurality of parasitic elements can be positioned at a uniform distance from a center of an antenna disposed on the ground plane, and wherein a respective length of each of the plurality of parasitic elements, the common pitch angle, and/or the uniform distance can be optimized so as to broaden a beamwidth of a radiation pattern produced by the antenna.
US11417955B2	Antenna device In the antenna device, a first insulating plate, a capacitive coupling portion of a tuning plate, a radio wave absorber, a grounding portion of the tuning plate folded back to the back side of the radio wave absorber, and a tuning coated plate provided with a metallic plated film formed on the surface thereof are sequentially stacked below an antenna element having a shape obtained by removing an arched portion from a copper circular plate. Power is supplied from a center conductor of a semi-rigid signal input member to a power feeding unit of the antenna element. An external conductor is held between the upper and lower conductive cushions. A grounding plate is conductive with the external conductor, to ground the grounding portion and the tuning coated plate.
US11417948B1	Antenna device An antenna device is provided. The antenna device includes an antenna layer, a first transparent layer, and a second transparent layer. The antenna layer is a metal mesh structure having a plurality of thru-holes, and the antenna layer includes at least one soldering region and an embedded region. The first transparent layer and the second transparent layer are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the antenna layer. The first transparent layer and the second transparent layer are connected to each other, so that the embedded region of the antenna layer is embedded in-between the first transparent layer and the second transparent layer. The second transparent layer has a hollow region corresponding in position to the at least one soldering region, so that the at least one soldering region is exposed from the hollow region.
US11417943B2	Modular monopole for wireless communications A modular monopole for wireless communications includes: an antenna module having a floor, a ceiling and a side wall that form an antenna compartment, wherein at least one antenna resides within the antenna compartment; a radio module having a floor, a ceiling and a side wall that form a radio compartment, wherein at least one remote radio unit (RRU) resides within the radio compartment; and a base. The base, the radio module, and the antenna module are arranged in vertically stacked relationship, with the base below the radio module and the antenna module above the radio module.
US11417942B2	Electronic apparatus with antenna with increased power transmission efficiency The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a display panel, a pattern portion, and a circuit portion. The display panel includes an active area and a peripheral area. The pattern portion includes an antenna pattern disposed on the display panel and a first pad connected to the antenna pattern. The circuit portion includes a second pad facing the first pad, wherein the second pad is spaced apart from the first pad by a predetermined distance. The second pad is capacitively-coupled to the first pad and a radio frequency device electrically connected to the second pad.
US11417941B2	Bracket for adjusting antenna radiation angle and antenna assembly including the same A bracket includes a first member having one end joined to a first surface of an enclosure including an antenna, a second member having one end joined to a second surface of the enclosure, and a third member including a first slot joined to another end of the first member and a second slot joined to another end of the second member. In the bracket, the another end of the first member is guided along and moved in the first slot, and the another end of the second member is guided along and moved in the second slot.
US11417937B2	Phase shifter transmission device A phase shifter transmission device includes: a power mechanism, a driving rod, a plurality of transmission assemblies, and at least one row of phase shifters. The power mechanism is connected to the driving rod and configured to drive the driving rod to rotate. The plurality of transmission assemblies are connected to the driving rod, distributed along an axial direction of the driving rod, and driven by the driving rod to rotate synchronously. Each row of phase shifters includes a plurality of phase shifters distributed along the axial direction of the driving rod, and each phase shifter of each row of phase shifters is connected to the corresponding transmission assembly. The at least one row of phase shifters are configured, when being driven by the plurality of transmission assemblies, to synchronously adjust phases of radiated signals corresponding to the phase shifters.
US11417932B2	Battery assembly, battery pack and vehicle A battery assembly includes a protection member and a battery module including at least two batteries arranged side by side along a first direction and having a first outer surface and a second outer surface opposite to each other along a second direction. The protection member is in the form of a letter U with two vertical portions having different lengths, wherein a first protection section covers the end covers of batteries in the battery module, a part of a second protection section covers the first outer surface, and a third protection section abuts against an end cover of a battery corresponding to the second outer surface. The protection member can prevent the airflow, the flame and the like sprayed during thermal runaway, and control a thermal diffusion range during thermal runaway.
US11417927B2	Auxiliary energy system architecture A battery system of a vehicle may include a main battery pack, a secondary battery pack, and one or more secondary contactors. The main battery pack is integrated into the vehicle and includes a first plurality of battery cells, a first DC bus coupled to the first plurality of battery cells, and main contactors coupled to the first DC bus to form a switched DC bus. The secondary battery pack includes a second plurality of battery cells, and a second DC bus coupled to the second plurality of battery cells. The second DC bus of the secondary battery pack is electrically coupled to the switched DC bus of the main battery pack via the secondary contactors. In some embodiments, the main battery pack includes control circuitry configured to communicate with control circuitry of the secondary battery pack to manage or monitor coupling of the battery packs.
US11417925B2	Noble gas based low profile self-inflatable insulation for high altitude application of Li-ion battery pack In an example, an insulation apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a battery pack comprising a plurality of battery cells, and an insulating bag disposed around, and attached to, a surface of the battery pack. The insulating bag is configured to expand at an altitude. The insulating bag includes an outer surface, and the outer surface includes a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film. The insulating bag is at least partially filled with a Noble gas.
US11417922B2	Cooling plate for the temperature control of at least one battery cell and a battery system A cooling plate (10) for temperature control of a battery cell, having a frame (12) with a coolant flow space (16) and at least one perturbing contour (30) inside the flow space (16), which is provided to increase turbulence in the coolant and is designed to support the at least one battery cell or for mechanical contacting with a cover (14) of the flow space (16). The perturbing contour (30) is arranged such that the coolant can flow around the perturbing contour (30) and the perturbing contour (30) is formed in the manner of at least one opening (50) in such a way that the coolant can flow through the at least one perturbing contour (30) and/or the frame (12) forms an opening (52) beneath the perturbing contour (30) in such a way that the coolant can flow beneath the at least one perturbing contour (30).
US11417921B2	Vehicle battery pack A vehicle battery pack capable of reducing a possibility of damage to a cooling pipe and suppressing reliability of cooling performance from being degraded. A vehicle battery pack includes two battery modules that are arranged at mutually adjacent positions; and a connecting pipe that communicates between two cooling pipes for respectively cooling the two battery modules. The connecting pipe connects in a manner to allow displacement of a relative position between the two cooling pipes.
US11417919B2	Method of assembling an energy storage system A method of assembling and electrically interconnecting an energy storage system, the system includes a cabinet and a plurality of energy storage modules which may be connected together in the cabinet, each energy storage module has a plurality of energy storage devices. The method includes carrying out an electrical interconnection step by providing a removable current monitoring device at one pole of a circuit of the cabinet during the electrical interconnection step; connecting a first module to the pole; monitoring current flow after connecting the first module and, if no current flow is detected, connecting a further module in series with the first module. The monitoring and connecting steps are repeated for each subsequent module until all modules of the cabinet have been electrically interconnected. The final module is connected to the other pole of the circuit and the current monitoring device is disconnected and removed from the circuit.
US11417918B2	Battery monitoring system In a battery monitoring system including a plurality of battery modules each including one or more cells, the battery modules are connected in series to each other. The battery monitoring system monitors the state of each cell based on the voltage value of the cell and the current value of the battery modules. A current detection unit detects the current value. Each voltage detection unit is associated with the corresponding one of the battery modules and detects the voltage value. Each slave unit is associated with the corresponding one of the battery modules, and wirelessly transmits information including synchronous current and voltage values detected by the current detection unit and the voltage detection unit. A master unit receives the information transmitted from the slave units. A central monitoring unit receives the information received by the master unit.
US11417915B2	Battery unit A battery unit including a battery, a circuit board, a switching device which achieves charge or discharge of the battery, and a casing made up of a bottom and a peripheral wall. The battery is disposed on the bottom. The circuit board is arranged farther away from the bottom than from the battery. The switching device is located closer to the bottom than the circuit board is. The switching device has a visible area visually or optically perceived, as inwardly facing inside the casing from outside the circuit board, and includes a data-retaining area on which data on characteristics of the switching device is provided, for example, in the form of a code. This structure facilitates the ease with which the data on the characteristics of the switching device is visually or optically read out of the data-retaining area without having to have an increased size of the battery unit.
US11417907B2	Composite polymer electrolyte (CPE) membranes for secondary solid state li-metal cells and process for the production thereof The present invention relates to a curable composition for preparing a composite polymer electrode, the curable composition containing: A) a Li-ion conducting solid electrolyte whose general composition has the formula: Li7+x−yMIIxMIII3−xMIV2−yO12 wherein MII, MIII, MIV, MV are species of valence II to V; where 0≤x<3, preferably 0≤x≤2; and 0≤y<2 preferably 0≤y≤1; (B) a polymer; (C) a lithium salt; (D) an active plasticizer; and (E) a photoinitiator. The invention also relates to a process of preparing the curable composition, cured compositions and films derived from the curable composition, and solid-state lithium batteries whose solid electrolyte layer contains a cured composition or a cured film according to the invention.
US11417906B2	Cylindrical lithium secondary battery A cylindrical lithium secondary battery according to the present invention can reduce gas explosion by preventing gas concentration from being concentrated only on the upper top cap vent by increasing the gas spouting passage through which the inner gas of the can is spouted by forming a rupture portion of a material different from that of the can member on a part of the cylindrical can member, and when the inside or outside of the battery is exposed to a high temperature, by making, a shape-based alloy member, which causes cracking of the can member by deformation, included a part of the can member, the gas is discharged through the can vent by the cracking of the can member to prevent explosion before the tap cap safety vent operates by the internal air pressure, and ignition that may be caused by heating by internal or external heat may be prevented.
US11417905B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a stack case and an auxiliary device case. The stack case stores a stack body formed by stacking a plurality of power generation cells in a horizontal direction. The auxiliary device case stores a fuel cell auxiliary devices. The inside of the of the stack case and the inside of the auxiliary device case that are adjacent to each other in the horizontal direction are partitioned by a partition wall. An auxiliary device side passage which connects the inside of the auxiliary device case and an auxiliary device side exhaust gas duct together is provided in an upper part of the auxiliary device case. A plurality of ribs protruding toward the inside of the auxiliary device case and extending in a vertical direction are provided in the partition wall.
US11417898B2	Fuel cell system and method of operating a fuel cell system A fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell module having first and second electrical supply terminals with an electrical output voltage applied thereto during operation of the fuel cell module. The electrical supply terminals are coupled to an electrical load, an air supply device that supplies air in an adjustable air quantity to the fuel cell module as one of the reactants for generating the output voltage, and a control device that controls an output power of the fuel cell module at the electrical supply terminals and adjusts the quantity of air supplied by the air supply device. The control device detects a load demand of the load and controls the output power of the fuel cell module in accordance with the detected load demand, to adjust and update the air quantity supplied by the air supply device in accordance with the detected load demand in air-ratio-controlled manner.
US11417897B2	Fuel cell vehicle A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell and a junction box. The fuel cell includes at least one cell stack including a plurality of unit cells in a stacked configuration, heaters disposed at end portions of the at least one cell stack, current collectors disposed at the end portions of the at least one cell stack, a terminal block electrically connecting the current collectors and the heaters to the junction box, a positive bus bar and a negative bus bar electrically connecting the current collectors to the terminal block, and a positive wire and a negative wire electrically connecting the heaters to the terminal block. The junction box includes a first switching unit disposed between the positive wire and the positive bus bar, and a second switching unit disposed between the negative wire and the negative bus bar.
US11417894B2	Method of fabricating an interconnect for a fuel cell stack Methods for fabricating an interconnect for a fuel cell stack that include providing a protective layer over at least one surface of an interconnect formed by powder pressing pre-alloyed particles containing two or more metal elements and annealing the interconnect and the protective layer at elevated temperature to bond the protective layer to the at least one surface of the interconnect.
US11417891B2	Cathode including a tandem electrocatalyst and solid oxide fuel cell including the same A cathode having a tandem electrocatalyst structure is provided. The cathode includes a plurality of wires spaced apart from each other, a layer formed on a surface of each of the plurality of wires, and a plurality of nanoparticles disposed on the layer. Each of the plurality of wires includes a first perovskite material or a metal. The layer includes a second perovskite material. Each of the nanoparticles includes a metal oxide.
US11417889B2	Acid battery pasting carrier A pasting carrier for a lead-acid battery. The pasting carrier includes a nonwoven fiber mat having a thickness between 5 and 50 mils, the nonwoven fiber mat being composed of a plurality of entangled glass microfibers.
US11417888B2	Electrode additives and coatings for minimizing cathode transition metal dissolution An electrode including an electrode active material and a ceramic hydrofluoric acid (HF) scavenger is provided. The ceramic hydrofluoric acid (HF) scavenger includes M2SiO3, MAlO2, M2O—Al2O3—SiO2, or combinations thereof, where M is lithium (Li), sodium (Na), or combinations thereof. Methods of making the electrode are also provided.
US11417886B2	Method for producing silicon oxide powder and negative electrode material To produce a silicon oxide-based negative electrode material containing Li and having uniform distribution of a Li concentration both inside particles and between particles although a C-coating film is formed on a surface, and yet in which generation of SiC is suppressed. A SiO gas and a Li gas are simultaneously generated by heating a Si-lithium silicate-containing raw material under reduced pressure. The Si-lithium silicate-containing raw material includes Si, Li, and O, in which a part of the Si is present as a Si simple substance and the Li is present as lithium silicate. By cooling the generated gases, Li-containing silicon oxide having an average composition of SiLixOy (0.05
US11417880B2	Method for preparing iron nitrate oxyhydroxide, cathode containing iron nitrate oxyhydroxide prepared thereby for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery comprising same A method for preparing an iron oxyhydroxynitrate, a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the iron oxyhydroxynitrate prepared therefrom, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The positive electrode for the lithium secondary battery containing the iron oxyhydroxynitrate includes the iron oxyhydroxynitrate represented by the following Formula 1: FeO(NO3)x(OH)1-x, wherein 0
US11417879B2	Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries, positive electrode for lithium secondary batteries, and lithium secondary battery The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, including a lithium composite metal oxide in a form of secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles, wherein the secondary particles have voids in interior thereof and a number of the voids with cross section thereof present per 1 μm2 of cross section of the secondary particles is 0.3 or more and 15 or less.
US11417874B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of reliably operating an electricity shut-off mechanism at overcharging without deteriorating battery performance. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery (1) includes, in a container (2): a positive electrode (41); in-container positive electrode terminals (21) and (23); a negative electrode (42); in-container negative electrode terminals (22) and (24); a non-aqueous electrolyte solution; and an electricity shut-off mechanism (68b) capable of shutting off energization with the outside of the container when the internal pressure of the container rises. A solid electrolyte layer that produces gas allowing the electricity shut-off mechanism (68b) to be operated is included in at least one member of a positive electrode mixture layer unformed portion (41b), a negative electrode mixture layer unformed portion (42b), the in-container positive electrode terminals (21) and (23), and the in-container negative electrode terminals (22) and (24).
US11417873B2	Solid-state batteries, separators, electrodes, and methods of fabrication Solid-state batteries, battery components, and related processes for their production are provided. The battery electrodes or separators contain sintered electrochemically active material, inorganic solid particulate electrolyte having large particle size, and low melting point solid inorganic electrolyte which acts as a binder and/or a sintering aid in the electrode.
US11417872B2	Porous inorganic insulator-sulfur composite, and lithium-sulfur battery comprising the same Provided are a porous inorganic insulator-sulfur composite and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. More particularly, provided are a composite having sulfur supported in pores of a porous inorganic insulator, a cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries or an interlayer, which includes the composite, and a lithium-sulfur battery including the cathode or the interlayer.
US11417870B2	Solid state battery and method for producing same Provided is a method for producing an electrode for a solid-state battery comprising providing a multilayer solid ceramic electrolyte that comprises at least one dense layer having a total ion conductivity of at least 1 mS/cm at 25° C. and at least one porous layer having continuous and open pores having an average pore diameter between 1 and 50 μm; providing an aqueous infiltration fluid comprising at least one organic additive that can be at least partially converted into carbon; introducing the aqueous infiltration fluid into the at least one porous layer of the multilayer solid ceramic electrolyte; and subjecting the multilayer solid ceramic electrolyte to a thermal treatment in the form of sintering in a reducing atmosphere at temperatures between 400° C. and 900° C., whereby the electrode material is synthesized from the precursor of the electrode material on the surface of the pores in situ.
US11417868B2	Manufacturing method for secondary battery A manufacturing method for a secondary battery that includes coating a metal current collector sheet material with an electrode material layer raw material such that a shape of a coating surface of the electrode material layer raw material is changed based on a shape of a non-rectangular electrode to be formed to form an electrode precursor, and cutting the electrode precursor into a non-rectangular electrode shape.
US11417861B2	Flexible display panel and preparation method thereof The present application discloses a flexible display panel and a method for manufacturing the same. By covering the edge of the metal film layer by using an organic protective layer at the groove of the planarization layer on the patterned metal film layer, which avoids subsequent etching of the anode etching solution of the organic light-emitting layer to the metal film layer, and prevents the metal at an edge of the metal film layer from being corroded, and can block moisture, oxygen and impurities in the air from entering a device area of the organic light-emitting layer along the edge of the metal film layer, thereby improving a packaging effect.
US11417859B2	Display structure A display structure is provided. The display structure includes: an array layer; a transparent anode layer disposed on the array layer; a light-emitting element layer disposed on the transparent anode layer; a light reflective layer disposed on the light-emitting element layer and sequentially including a reflective cathode layer, a cathode protection layer, and a reflective metal layer; and an encapsulation layer disposed on the light reflective layer. A reflective metal layer is added between the encapsulation layer and the reflective cathode layer, thereby increasing a light-emitting efficiency of a bottom-emission type organic light-emitting diode, further enhancing the moisture and oxygen block capability of the OLED device, and effectively improving the optical properties and the moisture and oxygen resistance of OLED display panels.
US11417858B2	Light-emitting panel, manufacturing method thereof, and display device A light-emitting panel, a method of manufacturing the light-emitting panel, and a display device include a light-emitting substrate, a first inorganic layer, an organic encapsulation layer, and a second inorganic layer laminated with each other from bottom to top in turn. The organic encapsulation layer is made of an organic ink. A moisture layer is disposed on a peripheral area of the first inorganic layer and is configured to moisten the peripheral area of the first inorganic layer so that the organic ink is evenly spread on the first inorganic layer prior to formation of the organic encapsulation layer.
US11417857B2	Heterocyclic compound and electronic apparatus Provided are a heterocyclic compound and an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes: a substrate; an organic light-emitting device on the substrate; and a thin film encapsulation portion sealing the organic light-emitting device, the thin film encapsulation portion including an ultraviolet (UV) stabilizing mixture, and the UV stabilizing mixture including a UV absorbent and a radical scavenger.
US11417853B2	Organic light-emitting diode and organic light-emitting device having the same Disclosed is an organic light-emitting diode and an organic light-emitting device including the organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diode includes a cathode electrode; an anode electrode; a first emitting material layer including a first host and a first delayed fluorescent material, which is between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode; and a second emitting material layer having a second delayed fluorescent material and a first fluorescent or phosphorescent material, between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The organic light-emitting diode has enhanced luminous efficiency and color continuity.
US11417848B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device includes: a display panel; a first support member on a back surface of the display panel and in a first non-folding area; a second support member on a back surface of the display panel and in a second non-folding area and spaced apart from the first support member; a barrier sheet on back surfaces of the first support member and the second support member to overlap the first non-folding area, a folding axis, and the second non-folding area. The barrier sheet is on the folding axis and includes an extension portion extending along a direction of the folding axis. The first support member includes a first groove portion formed at a corner of the first support member adjacent to the folding axis, and the second support member includes a second groove portion formed at a corner of the second support member adjacent to the folding axis.
US11417847B2	Method for manufacturing display substrate A method for manufacturing a display substrate, a display substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The method includes: disposing a mask plate including an occlusion area above a base substrate, an orthographic projection of occlusion area on the base substrate partially overlapping a folding area of the base substrate; forming an inorganic layer pattern with an opening on the base substrate by using mask plate, an orthographic projection of opening on the base substrate partially overlapping the folding area of base substrate. An orthographic projection of opening on the base substrate partially overlaps the folding area of base substrate. The folding area of base substrate is occluded by mask plate. The inorganic layer is formed on the base substrate by using mask plate. Effect of conveniently and quickly removing a portion the inorganic layer located in the folding area can be achieved without removing the portion.
US11417844B2	Composition for organic optoelectronic device, organic optoelectronic device, and display device The present invention relates to a composition for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic optoelectronic device employing the composition, and a display device, wherein the composition includes: at least one first compound for an organic optoelectronic device, represented by chemical formula 1; and a second compound for an organic optoelectronic device, represented by a combination of Chemical Formula 2 and Chemical Formula 3A or a combination of Chemical Formula 2 and Chemical Formula 3B. The details of Chemical Formulae 1, 2, 3A, and 3B are as defined in the specification.
US11417843B2	Organic electroluminescence device and amine compound for organic electroluminescence device An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode and a second electrode opposite of the first electrode, and at least one organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the at least one organic layer includes an amine compound represented by Formula 1 below.
US11417839B2	Memory device, memory integrated circuit and manufacturing method thereof A memory device, a memory integrated circuit and a manufacturing method of the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a composite bottom electrode, a top electrode and a resistance variable layer disposed between the composite bottom electrode and the top electrode. The composite bottom electrode includes a first bottom electrode and a second bottom electrode disposed over the first bottom electrode. A sidewall of the second bottom electrode is laterally recessed from sidewalls of the first bottom electrode layer and the resistance variable layer.
US11417838B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate; forming a first metal interconnection and a second metal interconnection in the first IMD layer; forming a channel layer on the first metal interconnection and the second metal interconnection; forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack on the channel layer; and removing the MTJ stack to form a MTJ.
US11417837B2	Double spin filter tunnel junction A memory device that includes a first magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layer present on a first non-magnetic metal electrode, and a free magnetic metal layer present on the first magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layer. A second magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layer may be present on the free magnetic metal layer, and a second non-magnetic metal electrode may be present on the second magnetic insulating tunnel barrier. The first and second magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layers are arranged so that their magnetizations are aligned to be anti-parallel.
US11417835B2	Nitride capping layer for spin torque transfer (STT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is disclosed wherein first and second interfaces of a free layer (FL) with a first metal oxide (Hk enhancing layer) and second metal oxide (tunnel barrier), respectively, produce perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) to increase thermal stability. In some embodiments, a capping layer that is a conductive metal nitride such as MoN contacts an opposite surface of the Hk enhancing layer with respect to the first interface to reduce interdiffusion of oxygen and nitrogen compared with a TiN capping layer and maintain an acceptable resistance x area (RA) product. In other embodiments, the capping layer may comprise an insulating nitride such as AlN that is alloyed with a conductive metal to minimize RA. Furthermore, a metallic buffer layer may be inserted between the capping layer and Hk enhancing layer. As a result, electrical shorts are reduced and the magnetoresistive ratio is increased.
US11417828B2	Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric element application device, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric element A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric layer formed as a stacked structure of first, second, and third piezoelectric films. The first piezoelectric film is formed on a first electrode. The second piezoelectric film is formed on the first piezoelectric film. The third piezoelectric film is formed on the second piezoelectric film. Each of the first, second, and third piezoelectric films includes potassium, sodium, and niobium. A second electrode is formed on the piezoelectric layer. A concentration of sodium in the first piezoelectric film is greater than a concentration of sodium in the second piezoelectric film. The concentration of sodium in the second piezoelectric film is greater than a concentration of sodium in the third piezoelectric film.
US11417825B2	Piezoelectric laminate element, and load sensor and power supply using same Provided is a piezoelectric laminate element that outputs a fixed output voltage even in response to a static load for which an output voltage could not be obtained using a conventional piezoelectric element. A piezoelectric laminate body in which a plurality of piezoelectric polymer film layers consisting of film such as polylactic acid film that exhibits piezoelectricity in the planar direction are laminated is used as a piezoelectric laminate element. The piezoelectric laminate body is given a cylindrical shape, rounded rectangle shape, or other partially curved shape. The output voltage follows the increase and decrease of the applied load, and if a fixed load is continuously applied, a fixed output voltage is continuously output, and a piezoelectric laminate element is obtained that outputs a fixed output voltage even if a load is static.
US11417824B2	Sensor module According to one embodiment, a sensor module includes at least one sensor and at least one switch. The sensor includes a first piezoelectric element. The first piezoelectric element includes a first electrode. The first piezoelectric element is set with a resonance frequency to resonate at a vibration frequency of a detection target. The switch includes a second piezoelectric element. The second piezoelectric element includes a second electrode connected to the first electrode and a third electrode electrically separated from the second electrode.
US11417819B2	Forming a bumpless superconductor device by bonding two substrates via a dielectric layer An integrated circuit is provided that comprises a first substrate having a plurality of conductive contact pads spaced apart from one another on a surface of the first substrate, a dielectric layer overlying the first substrate and the plurality of conductive contact pads, and a second substrate overlying the dielectric layer. A plurality of superconducting contacts extend through the second substrate and the dielectric layer to the first substrate, wherein each superconducting contact of the plurality of superconducting contacts is aligned with and in contact with a respective conductive contact pad of the plurality of conductive contact pads.
US11417817B2	Flexible woven thermoelectric fabrics for thermal management Woven flexible thermoelectric fabrics are provided. The fabric is a woven material that includes a series of longitudinal threads interwoven with a series of transverse threads. Within the longitudinal series, the threads have a repeating thread pattern of an n-type thermoelectric thread, a p-type thermoelectric thread, and an insulating thread. Within the transverse series, the threads have a repeating thread pattern of a first double-sided thread with conducting side down and insulating side up, a second double-sided thread with conducting side down and insulating side up, and a third double-sided thread with conducting side up and insulating side down.
US11417816B2	Thermoelectric element and manufacturing method thereof A thermoelectric element according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first metallic substrate; a first resin layer which is disposed on the first metallic substrate and comes in direct contact with the first metallic substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first resin layer; a plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and a plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs disposed on the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and the plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs; a second resin layer disposed on the plurality of second electrodes; and a second metallic substrate disposed on the second resin layer, wherein a surface of the first metallic substrate that faces the first resin layer comprises a first region and a second region disposed inside the first region, wherein a surface roughness of the second region is greater than a surface roughness of the first region, wherein the first resin layer is disposed on the second region.
US11417815B2	Thermoelectric conversion module provided with photothermal conversion substrate The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion module which can utilize sunlight and solar heat by using high output charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion elements. The present invention provides A thermoelectric conversion module which comprises at least a thermoelectric conversion module-element in which charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion elements are formed and a photothermal conversion substrate containing photothermal conversion material, wherein the thermoelectric conversion module-element comprises an insulating substrate, and n-type and/or p-type charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion elements are formed on the insulating substrate, wherein the charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion element comprises a charge transport layer and thermoelectric conversion material layers and electrodes, wherein the photothermal conversion substrate is disposed so that it absorbs external light and converts it into heat and transfers the heat to the electrodes or the thermoelectric conversion material layers disposed on the charge transport layers.
US11417814B2	Light-emitting diode module and a light apparatus An LED chip module includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. A first set of LED chip and a second set of LED chip are respectively set on the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The second set of LED chip is electrically connected to the first set of LED chip. A plastic shell is fixedly connected to the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate by injection molding to make the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate keep a predetermined space between each other and make a lower surface of the first electrode plate and a lower surface of the second electrode plate be respectively connected to two different polarity terminals of the power supply to drive the first set of LED chip and the second set of LED chip to emit light.
US11417812B2	Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device includes a main lead, a sub lead, a semiconductor light emitting element bonded to the main lead, and a protective element bonded to the sub lead, wherein the semiconductor light emitting element is connected to the main lead and the sub lead via a first wire and a second wire, respectively, wherein the protective element has a main surface electrode and a back surface electrode which is connected to the sub lead via a conductive bonding material, and wherein the main surface electrode of the protective element is connected to the main lead via a third wire, a connecting wiring which connects electrodes of the semiconductor light emitting element, and a connecting member including the second wire.
US11417810B2	Light emitting diode device having multilayer filter for improving color characteristic of light An LED device includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first type; a second semiconductor layer of a second type; a light emitting layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and configured to emit light; and a filter formed on the second semiconductor layer and configured to transmit light in the second wavelength band within the first wavelength band. The filter includes a defect layer, first refractive layers, and second refractive layers having a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the first refractive layers, the first refractive layers and the second refractive layers are formed alternately on one side and other side of the defect layer. A thickness of the defect layer is determined based on a center wavelength of the first wavelength band, a peak wavelength of the second wavelength band and a refractive index of the defect layer.
US11417806B2	Dielectric mirror for broadband IR LEDs LED devices and methods of operating LED devices are described. An LED device includes a light-emitting element, a wavelength converting layer and a dichroic mirror. The light-emitting element is configured to emit ultra violet, visible, or ultra violet and visible light. The wavelength converting layer is configured to absorb at least a portion of the light emitted by the light-emitting element and in response emit infrared light. The dichroic mirror transmits the infrared light emitted by the wavelength converting layer, reflects the light emitted by the light emitting element, and is arranged to reflect back into the wavelength converting layer light emitted by the light emitting element, transmitted unabsorbed through the wavelength converting layer, and incident on the dichroic mirror.
US11417801B2	Light-emitting diode and method for manufacturing the same A micro light-emitting diode (LED) includes an epitaxial layered structure including a support layer, a first-type semiconductor element, an active layer, and a second-type semiconductor element that are sequentially disposed on one another in such order. A method for manufacturing a micro LED device including at least one of the micro LED is also disclosed.
US11417800B2	Micro semiconductor device and micro semiconductor display A micro semiconductor device and a micro semiconductor display are provided. The micro semiconductor device includes an epitaxial structure, a first electrode, a second electrode and a supporting layer. The epitaxial structure has a bottom surface and a top surface, wherein the bottom surface is defined as a central region and a peripheral region. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed on the central region of the bottom surface of the epitaxial structure, or the first electrode is disposed on the central region of the bottom surface of the epitaxial structure and the second electrode is disposed on the top surface of the epitaxial structure. The supporting layer is disposed on the peripheral region of the bottom surface of the epitaxial structure.
US11417798B2	Light emitting display apparatus A light emitting display apparatus can include an insulating layer on a substrate and the insulating layer includes a base portion and a protrusion portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a first electrode covering an upper portion of the base portion and a side portion and an upper portion of the protrusion portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a bank layer covering a portion of the insulating layer and a portion of the first electrode and having a concave portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a light emitting layer on the first electrode and the bank layer, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer.
US11417797B2	Micro light emitting diode and manufacture method therefor Provided is a micro-LED device, comprising: a light emitting unit comprising a light emitting layer having a first end surface, a second end surface opposite to the first end surface, and a lateral surface between the first end surface and the second end surface; a P-type semiconductor layer on the first end surface; and an N-type semiconductor layer on the second end surface; a transparent insulating layer covering at least the lateral surface of the light emitting layer; and a reflecting layer on a side of the transparent insulating layer away from the light emitting unit, wherein the transparent insulating layer insulates the light emitting unit from the reflecting layer, and the reflecting layer covers at least the lateral surface of the light emitting layer.
US11417794B2	Method of making a semiconductor device using nano-imprint lithography for formation of a selective growth mask A growth mask layer is formed over a semiconductor material layer on a substrate. Optionally, a patterned hard mask layer can be formed over the growth mask layer. A nano-imprint lithography (NIL) resist layer is applied, and is imprinted with a pattern of recesses by stamping. The pattern in the NIL resist layer through the growth mask layer to provide a patterned growth mask layer with clusters of openings therein. If a patterned hard mask layer is employed, the patterned hard mask can prevent transfer of the pattern in the area covered by the patterned hard mask layer. Semiconductor material portions, such as nanowires can be formed in a cluster configuration through the clusters of openings in the patterned growth mask layer. Alignment marks can be formed concurrently with formation of semiconductor material portions by employing nano-imprint lithography.
US11417791B2	Radiation detector with quantum dot scintillator Disclosed herein is a radiation detector comprising: a layer of quantum dots configured to emit a pulse of visible light upon absorbing a radiation particle; an electronic system configured to detect the radiation particle by detecting the pulse of visible light.
US11417790B2	Avalanche photodetectors and image sensors including the same A photodetector having a small form factor and having high detection efficiency with respect to both visible light and infrared rays may include a first electrode, a collector layer on the first electrode, a tunnel barrier layer on the collector layer, a graphene layer on the tunnel barrier layer, an emitter layer on the graphene layer, and a second electrode on the emitter layer. The photodetector may be included in an image sensor. An image sensor may include a substrate, an insulating layer on the substrate, and a plurality of photodetectors on the insulating layer. The photodetectors may be aligned with each other in a direction extending parallel or perpendicular to a top surface of the insulating layer. The photodetector may be included in a LiDAR system.
US11417789B2	Electronic device comprising a photodiode An electronic device is provided that includes a photodiode. The photodiode includes a semiconductor region coupled to a node of application of a first voltage, and at least one semiconductor wall. The at least one semiconductor wall extends along at least a height of the photodiode and partially surrounds the semiconductor region.
US11417787B2	Solar cell module and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell module and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate and first and second electrodes, each of which has a different polarity and is extended in a first direction on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of conductive lines extended in a second direction crossing the first direction on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, connected to one of the first and second electrodes through a conductive adhesive, and insulated from the other electrode by an insulating layer. The conductive adhesive includes a first adhesive layer connected to the one electrode and a second adhesive layer positioned on the first adhesive layer and connected to the plurality of conductive lines.
US11417785B2	Photovoltaic devices and method of making A photovoltaic device is presented. The photovoltaic device includes a buffer layer disposed on a transparent conductive oxide layer; a window layer disposed on the buffer layer; and an interlayer interposed between the transparent conductive oxide layer and the window layer. The interlayer includes a metal species, wherein the metal species includes gadolinium, beryllium, calcium, barium, strontium, scandium, yttrium, hafnium, cerium, lutetium, lanthanum, or combinations thereof. A method of making a photovoltaic device is also presented.
US11417784B2	Multi-junction light energy conversion element, device comprising the same, and fabrication method of SnZn2N2 The present disclosure is to provide a multi-junction light energy conversion element including a material having a band gap suitable for a light energy conversion layer located upstream in an incidence direction of light. The present disclosure provides a light energy conversion element, comprising a first light energy conversion layer containing SrZn2N2 and a second light energy conversion layer containing an light energy conversion material. The light energy conversion material has a narrower band gap than the SrZn2N2.
US11417779B2	Gallium oxide SBD terminal structure and preparation method The disclosure is applicable for the technical field of semiconductor devices manufacturing, and provides a gallium oxide SBD terminal structure. The gallium oxide SBD terminal structure comprises a cathode metal layer, an N+ high-concentration substrate layer, an N− low-concentration Ga2O3 epitaxial layer and an anode metal layer from bottom to top, wherein the N− low-concentration Ga2O3 epitaxial layer is within a range of certain thickness close to the anode metal layer; and a doping concentration below the anode metal layer is greater than a doping concentration on two sides of the anode metal layer. Namely, only a doping concentration of the part outside the corresponding area of the anode metal layer is changed, so that the breakdown voltage of the gallium oxide SBD terminal structure is improved under the condition of guaranteeing low on resistance.
US11417778B2	Semiconductor MPS diode with reduced current-crowding effect and manufacturing method thereof A merged-PN-Schottky, MPS, diode includes an N substrate, an N-drift layer, a P-doped region in the drift layer, an ohmic contact on the P-doped region, a plurality of cells within the P-doped region and being portions of the drift layer where the P-doped region is absent, an anode metallization on the ohmic contact and on said cells, to form junction-barrier contacts and Schottky contacts respectively. The P-doped region has a grid-shaped layout separating from one another each cell and defining, together with the cells, an active area of the MPS diode. Each cell has a same geometry among quadrangular, quadrangular with rounded corners and circular; and the ohmic contact extends at the doped region with continuity along the grid-shaped layout.
US11417776B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device, including a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate is disclosed. The device may include gate structures formed on the SOI substrate and being spaced apart from each other in a horizontal direction, and a plurality of channels spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction. Each of the channels may extend through each of the gate structures in the horizontal direction. The device may include a seed layer and a source/drain region. The source/drain region may be connected to the channels, and each sidewall of the source/drain region in the horizontal direction may have a concave-convex shape. The device may include a protruding portion of the source/drain region formed between the gate structures that protrudes in the horizontal direction compared to a non-protruding portion of the source/drain region formed between the channels.
US11417774B2	Thin film transistor, gate driver including the same, and display device including the gate driver Disclosed are a thin film transistor (TFT) including an oxide semiconductor layer capable of being applied to high-resolution flat panel display devices requiring high-speed driving, a gate driver including the TFT, and a display device including the gate driver. The TFT includes first oxide semiconductor layer consisting of indium-gallium-zinc-tin oxide (IGZTO) and a second oxide semiconductor layer including indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO). A content ratio (Ga/In) of gallium (Ga) to indium (In) of the second oxide semiconductor layer is higher than a content (Ga/In) of Ga to In of the first oxide semiconductor layer, and a content ratio (Zn/In) of zinc (Zn) to In of the second oxide semiconductor layer is higher than a content (Zn/In) of Zn to In of the first oxide semiconductor layer.
US11417773B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device with favorable reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide, a second oxide, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a first insulator, and a second insulator. The first conductor is provided in contact with a top surface of the first oxide. The second conductor is provided in contact with the top surface of the first oxide. The first insulator is provided over the first conductor and the second conductor. The second oxide is provided in contact with the top surface of the first oxide. The second insulator is provided over the second oxide. The third conductor is provided over the second insulator. The first insulator has a function of inhibiting diffusion of oxygen. The first oxide includes indium, an element M (M is gallium, yttrium, or tin), and zinc. The first oxide includes a first region overlapping with the third conductor. A region of the first region in contact with the second oxide includes a region in which an atomic ratio of aluminum (Al) to the element M is less than 0.1.
US11417767B2	Semiconductor devices including backside vias and methods of forming the same Semiconductor devices including backside vias with enlarged backside portions and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a first transistor structure in a first device layer; a front-side interconnect structure on a front-side of the first device layer; a first dielectric layer on a backside of the first device layer; a first contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a source/drain region of the first transistor structure; and a backside interconnect structure on a backside of the first dielectric layer and the first contact, the first contact including a first portion having first tapered sidewalls and a second portion having second tapered sidewalls, widths of the first tapered sidewalls narrowing in a direction towards the backside interconnect structure, and widths of the second tapered sidewalls widening in a direction towards the backside interconnect structure.
US11417765B2	Quantum dot devices with fine-pitched gates Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack; a first gate above the quantum well stack, wherein the first gate includes a first gate metal and a first gate dielectric layer; and a second gate above the quantum well stack, wherein the second gate includes a second gate metal and a second gate dielectric layer, and the second gate dielectric layer extends over the first gate.
US11417764B2	Interface profile control in epitaxial structures for semiconductor devices A method for reducing stress induced defects in heterogeneous epitaxial interfaces of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure with a fin base, a superlattice structure on the fin base, forming a polysilicon gate structure on the fin structure, forming a source/drain (S/D) opening within a portion of the fin structure uncovered by the polysilicon gate structure, modifying the first surfaces of the first layers to curve a profile of the first surfaces, depositing first, second, and third passivation layers on the first, second, and third surfaces, respectively, forming an epitaxial S/D region within the S/D opening, and replacing the polysilicon gate structure with a metal gate structure. The superlattice structure includes first and second layers with first and second lattice constants, respectively, and the first and second lattice constants are different from each other.
US11417763B2	Integrated circuit including transistors and a method of manufacturing the same An integrated circuit includes transistors respectively including channel layers in a substrate, source electrodes and drain electrodes respectively contacting both sides of the channel layers, gate electrodes on the channel layers, and ferroelectrics layers between the channel layers and the gate electrodes. Electrical characteristics of the ferroelectrics layers of at least two of the transistors are different. Accordingly, threshold voltages of the transistors are different from each other.
US11417762B2	Switch with integrated Schottky barrier contact Circuits, systems, devices, and methods related to a switch with an integrated Schottky barrier contact are discussed herein. For example, a radio-frequency switch can include an input node, an output node, and a transistor connected between the input node and the output node. The transistor can be configured to control passage of a radio-frequency signal from the input node to the output node. The transistor can include a first Schottky diode integrated into a drain of the transistor and/or a second Schottky diode integrated into a source of the transistor. The first Schottky diode and/or the second Schottky diode can be configured to compensate a non-linearity effect of the radio-frequency switch.
US11417759B2	Semiconductor device and method for reduced bias threshold instability According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device, having a semiconductor substrate comprising silicon carbide with a gate electrode disposed on a portion of the substrate on a first surface with, a drain electrode disposed on a second surface of the substrate. There is a dielectric layer disposed on the gate electrode and a remedial layer disposed about the dielectric layer, wherein the remedial layer is configured to mitigate negative bias temperature instability maintaining a change in threshold voltage of less than about 1 volt. A source electrode is disposed on the remedial layer, wherein the source electrode is electrically coupled to a contact region of the semiconductor substrate.
US11417757B2	Ohmic contacts in semiconductor devices A semiconductor arrangement including a substrate, a dielectric layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the substrate and the dielectric layer. The arrangement further includes an ohmic contact including a plurality of metal contact fragments located in a plurality of trenches formed in the dielectric layer, and a metallic connector layer electrically connecting the metal contact fragments. The ohmic contact electrically connects the metallic connector layer to the semiconductor layer.

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