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US11527939B2 |
Cooling arrangement for an electric machine, and electric machine
A cooling arrangement for an electric machine (1, 1a, 1b) includes a rotatably mounted rotor shaft (2). A rotatably mounted hollow shaft (11) is mounted coaxially to the rotor shaft (2) and rotationally fixed to the rotor shaft (2). A hollow shaft inner side (12) is spaced apart from a rotor shaft outer side (5) in a radial direction (R) in order to form an annular gap (14). At least one cooling duct for a cooling lubricant includes a hollow shaft duct (18), a feed duct (20), and an outlet duct (25). The feed duct (20) opens into the hollow shaft duct (18) in order to feed the cooling lubricant to the hollow shaft duct (18). The outlet duct (25) extends from the hollow shaft duct (18) to the annular gap (14) in order to release the cooling lubricant from the hollow shaft duct (18) into the annular gap (14). |
US11527938B2 |
Electric unit including a motor, control unit, cooling fan, and a casing, and an operating machine equipped with the electric unit
An electric unit is provided with: a motor having a stator and a rotor; a control unit that controls the motor; and a cooling fan that generates cooling wind for cooling the motor and the control unit. The control unit is provided in the upstream of the stator in a cooling flow channel for circulating the cooling wind. The cooling fan is provided to be positioned in the downstream of the motor in the cooling flow channel, the cooling fan generating the cooling wind by drawing air. |
US11527936B2 |
Heat-dissipation frame assembly
A heat-dissipation frame assembly includes a motor frame, an air-guide shield and an airflow-driving device. The motor frame includes a main frame and annular heat-dissipation fins. Each of the annular heat-dissipation fins has an outer edge, and an average radial distance is defined between the outer edge and the central axis. The average radial distances of the annular heat-dissipation fins are decreased gradually in the longitudinal direction from the first end portion to the second end portion, and an external annular channel is formed between any neighboring two annular heat-dissipation fins. The airflow-driving device, disposed at the second end portion of the main frame, is used for generating at least one heat-dissipating airflow. The air-guide shield, connected with the motor frame, surrounds and covers the plurality of annular heat-dissipation fins, such that the at least one heat-dissipating airflow is guided into the plurality of external annular channels. |
US11527929B2 |
Motor for improving flux content and robot comprising the same
In a motor including an armature, and a field system having a main pole magnetized in first directions in which a distance from the armature is defined and a sub-pole adjacent to the main pole in second directions orthogonal to the first directions and magnetized in the second directions and forming a Halbach array, a first dimension of the main pole in the second directions, a second dimension of the main pole and the sub-pole in the first directions, and a third dimension as a sum of the dimensions of the main pole and the sub-pole in the second directions are determined according to a flux content generated in a surface of the field system at the armature side. |
US11527927B2 |
Method of making a multi-material segmented stator for a rotating electric machine and a stator made by said method
A method of making a stator for a rotating electrical machine in which a tooth segment from a high saturation induction material and a yoke segment from a silicon steel material. The tooth segment is bond to yoke segment, thereby producing a stator with at least two magnetic saturations. |
US11527925B2 |
Wireless transmission system, control method, and storage medium
A wireless transmission system includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first coil used for wireless power transmission, a first light emitting element that is arranged inside the first coil and that is used for wireless communication, and a first light receiving element arranged on the same circumference as that of the first light emitting element are arranged on the first substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are arranged so as to be opposed to each other so that a second light emitting element and a second light receiving element, which are arranged on the second substrate, are opposed to the first light emitting element and the first light receiving element. |
US11527920B2 |
Enhanced foreign object detection with coil current sensing in wireless power transfer systems
Embodiments described herein provide foreign object detection based on coil current sensing. The transmitter power loss is computed directly based on the coil current, in conjunction with, or in place of the conventional computation based on transmitter input current. The enhanced precision of the computer power loss can be used to more accurately detect a foreign object near the transmitter coil during a wireless power transfer. |
US11527917B2 |
Directional wireless power and wireless data communication
Methods and apparatus are disclosed of a wireless power transmission system (WPTS) and wireless power receiver client (WPRC). The WPTS may directionally transmit wireless power to a first WPRC while concurrently directionally transmitting wireless data to at least a second WRPC. The WPTS and WPRC may reuse circuitry configured to transmit/receive wireless power to also transmit/receive wireless data. |
US11527916B2 |
Techniques for calibrating wireless power transmission systems for operation in multipath wireless power delivery environments
The technology described herein relates to techniques for calibrating wireless power transmission systems for operation in multipath wireless power delivery environments. In an implementation, a method of calibrating a wireless power transmission system for operation in a multipath environment is disclosed. The method includes characterizing a receive path from a calibration antennae element to a first antennae element of a plurality of antennae elements of the wireless power transmission system, characterizing a transmit path from the first antennae element to the calibration antennae element, and comparing the transmit path to the receive path to determine a calibration value for the first antennae element in the multipath environment. |
US11527912B2 |
Shaped coil for wireless power transmission system coupling
A wireless power transfer system includes an antenna base having a charger surface configured substantially as a concave spherical section and a first antenna comprising a spiral wire coil conforming to the charger surface of the antenna base. A target item includes an interface surface configured as a convex spherical section substantially matching the concave spherical section of the charger base. A second antenna is located within the target item and adjacent to the interface surface such that when the target item is placed in the antenna base with the interface surface mated to the charger surface, the first and second antennas are within inductive coupling range for wireless power transfer between the antennas. |
US11527909B2 |
Magnetic charging device
A magnetic charging device for charging the battery batteries of an electric motorized cart has a plug unit a a charger unit. When the battery or batteries are charging, the plug unit and charger unit are releasably engaged with each other by a magnetic connection. A microprocessor controller provides a safety feature that ensures the plug unit is fully engaged with the charger unit before electricity is allowed to flow from the power source to the batteries. |
US11527907B2 |
High voltage hybrid charging system and method
A method includes configuring a high voltage charging system to operate in a wireless charging mode to charge a battery after a power source has been disconnected from the high voltage charging system, wherein the high voltage charging system comprises a rectifier, a first power converter, a second power converter connected in cascade, and a load switch connected between a voltage bus and a power port configured to be connected to the power source, and configuring the high voltage charging system to operate in a wired charging mode to charge the battery after the power source has been connected to the high voltage charging system. |
US11527906B2 |
Liquid dispenser for animals
A pet water dispenser may include a water tank including a bottom plate and at least one wall extending from the bottom plate, at least one electronic device provided in a water tank electronic component or chamber under the bottom plate, and a power supply device or assembly to supply electric power to the water tank electronic component. The power supply assembly may include a docking station provided under the bottom plate and to which external power is applied, an auxiliary battery provided in the inner assembly, a wireless power transfer device, and a reverse wireless power transfer device. The wireless power transfer device and the reverse wireless power transfer device may be connected to the auxiliary battery and the docking station. |
US11527900B2 |
Apparatus and method for managing a battery based on degradation determination
An apparatus and a method for managing a battery are based upon degradation determination of the battery. The method includes determining a charging method when starting charging of a battery, storing at least one of a charge voltage, charge current, and temperature when starting charging of the battery, and when the determined charging method is constant current (CC) charging, determining a state of health (SOH) of the battery by comparing an increase in charge capacity of the battery with respect to an increase in charge voltage of the battery with a CC-section SOH mapping table, or when the determined charging method is constant voltage (CV) charging, determining the SOH of the battery by comparing at least one of an increase in the charge capacity of the battery and a charge time of the battery with a CV-section SOH mapping table. |
US11527895B1 |
Eyewear bidirectional communication using time gating power transfer
Eyewear that is configured to be wirelessly charged and also wirelessly communicate with a case charger having a battery using time gating power transfer. In one example, wireless charging and bidirectional communication of the eyewear can be performed using a unidirectional communication protocol, such as the Qi baseline power profile (BPP) which is only suited for unidirectional communication. The eyewear has a processor configured to send data to the wireless power charger that instructs the wireless power charger to stop wireless charging for a time period that is correlated to a state of charge (SOC) of the wireless power charger battery. The wireless power charger resumes charging of the eyewear battery after the time period, and the eyewear determines the SOC of the wireless power charger battery to be a percentage that correlates to the time period. |
US11527891B2 |
Smart sensor for online situational awareness in power grids
Waveforms in power grids typically reveal a certain pattern with specific features and peculiarities driven by the system operating conditions, internal and external uncertainties, etc. This prompts an observation of different types of waveforms at the measurement points (substations). An innovative next-generation smart sensor technology includes a measurement unit embedded with sophisticated analytics for power grid online surveillance and situational awareness. The smart sensor brings additional levels of smartness into the existing phasor measurement units (PMUs) and intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). It unlocks the full potential of advanced signal processing and machine learning for online power grid monitoring in a distributed paradigm. Within the smart sensor are several interconnected units for signal acquisition, feature extraction, machine learning-based event detection, and a suite of multiple measurement algorithms where the best-fit algorithm is selected in real-time based on the detected operating condition. Embedding such analytics within the sensors and closer to where the data is generated, the distributed intelligence mechanism mitigates the potential risks to communication failures and latencies, as well as malicious cyber threats, which would otherwise compromise the trustworthiness of the end-use applications in distant control centers. The smart sensor achieves a promising classification accuracy on multiple classes of prevailing conditions in the power grid and accordingly improves the measurement quality across the power grid. |
US11527889B2 |
Congestion control in electric power system under load and uncertainty
A method for operating a power generating facility connected to a power distribution grid having an uncertain power generation condition includes predicting a probabilistic power flow forecast in a transmission line of the power distribution grid for a period of time, wherein the transmission line is electrically coupled to the power generating facility, predicting, using the probabilistic power flow forecast, a probability of congestion over the transmission line of the power distribution grid during the period of time, generating a mitigation plan, including a load adjustment on the transmission line, using the probability of congestion predicted over the transmission line and a thermal limit constraint of the transmission line, wherein the mitigation plan balances load adjustment and an overlimit line capacity on the transmission line, and controlling the power generating facility, using the mitigation plan, to achieve load modification and mitigate the probability of congestion predicted in the transmission line. |
US11527887B2 |
System for distributing locally generated energy to multiple load units
A system for distributing locally generated energy from at least one renewable DC source to a plurality of local load units of the system, including, for each load unit: an input terminal configured to connect to a grid, and an output terminal configured to connect to at least one load. Further for each load the system includes an inverter including an inverter input and an inverter output, wherein the inverter input is connected to the at least one renewable DC source and the inverter output is connected to the input terminal and to the output terminal of the respective load unit, and wherein the inverter is configured to convert a direct current at the inverter input into an alternating current at the inverter output. The system also includes a power meter including a power meter input connected to the input terminal of the respective load unit, wherein the power meter is configured to determine a current power consumption from the grid, and wherein the power meter includes a power meter output connected to the inverter of the respective load unit, and wherein the power meter is configured to transmit data relating to the current power consumption from the grid to the inverter. The inverter of the respective load unit is configured to determine an input DC voltage applied to its inverter input and to determine a power to be currently converted from the applied input DC voltage and the current power consumption data transmitted thereto. |
US11527883B2 |
Power protection apparatus and terminal using the apparatus
A battery protection apparatus power protection apparatus is configured to protect an electrochemical cell connected to a load, and includes a protection IC, a switching transistor group, and a sampling resistor. The protection IC includes two power input terminals respectively connected to positive and negative electrodes of the electrochemical cell, and an operational amplifier, where the operational amplifier includes a positive input pin, a negative input pin, and an output pin. The switching transistor group is connected between the negative electrode of the electrochemical cell and the load, and is configured to control turn-on and turn-off of a charge and discharge circuit of the electrochemical cell. The sampling detection resistor Rs is serially connected between the sampling circuit detection terminal and the output pin, where the main circuit detection terminal is connected to the positive input pin, and the sampling circuit detection terminal is connected to the negative input pin. |
US11527882B2 |
Compliant, hazardous environment circuit protection devices, systems and methods
Solid state and hybrid circuit protection devices include improved arc-less switching capability and overcurrent protection, improved terminal assemblies and improved thermal management features that reduce or eliminate ignition sources for hazardous environments. The solid state and hybrid circuit protection devices are ignition protected and avoid possible explosions and therefore obviate a need for conventional explosion-proof enclosures to ensure safe operation of an electrical power system in a hazardous location. |
US11527881B2 |
Smart electronic switch
A circuit includes a monitor circuit. The monitor circuit includes a nonlinear functional unit configured to receive a current sense signal and to generate a power signal representing the power of the current sense signal. The circuit further includes a first filter configured to receive the power signal and to generate a first filtered signal and a second filter configured to receive an input signal that depends on the current sense signal and to generate a second filtered signal. A comparator circuit is configured to receive the first filtered signal and the second filtered signal and to compare the first filtered signal with a first threshold value and the second filtered signal with a second threshold value. The protection signal is indicative of whether the first filtered signal exceeds the first threshold value or the second filtered signal exceeds the second threshold value. |
US11527880B2 |
Double incoming breaker system for power system of power plant
The present invention is applied to a power system of a power plant including a three-winding transformer, and relates to a double incoming breaker system, including: a plurality of main circuit breakers respectively connected one by one to the plurality of first non-safety class high voltage buses and the plurality of second non-safety class high voltage buses; a plurality of auxiliary circuit breakers, one of which is connected in series to one of the plurality of main circuit breakers; a first power source measurer installed to correspond to the main circuit breaker and measuring a power source level of a non-safety class high voltage bus applied to the main circuit breaker; a second power source measurer installed to correspond to the auxiliary circuit breaker and measuring a power source level at an installed first point thereof; and a controller that outputs a first open signal to the main circuit breaker when an abnormal situation of the non-safety class high voltage bus is checked through the power source level measured by the first power source measurer, and outputs a second open signal to the auxiliary circuit breaker when it is determined that the main circuit breaker fails through the power source level at the first point measured by the second power source measurer after outputting the first open signal. |
US11527878B2 |
Hybrid arc flash mitigation system
A system including an arc flash sensor that detects an arc flash event and an arc flash mitigation device in communication with the sensor. The mitigation device includes a path of least resistance having a path input and a path output. The arc flash sensor is located downstream the output. The mitigation device includes an electro-mechanical switch between the input and the output and an actuator. The mitigation device also includes a bypass power switch device that includes a solid-state circuit interrupter and that conduct current between the input and the output in response to an open-circuit condition of the switch. A system controller is provided to generate a trigger to activate the actuator to generate the open-circuit condition of the switch, which causes the power switch device to interrupt a fault current associated with a fault event in response to detection of the arc flash event. |
US11527875B2 |
Mounting bracket assembly for an electrical receptacle system
A mounting bracket assembly including at least one mount configured to be connected to a structure, a distribution harness configured to mount at least one electrical receptacle, and at least one bracket. The at least one bracket is configured to at least partially extend around the distribution harness and removably connect the distribution harness to the at least one mount. |
US11527874B1 |
Wire tool for stripping and terminating electrical wires and methods of using the same
A multi-purpose wire tool which is capable of slitting and cutting the outer insulation sheath of commonly used 12/2 and 14/2 gauge multi-conductor insulated electrical cabling (Romex-style cable), as well as stripping, twisting, capping and hooking the individual insulated wires for both rough-in and finish electrical trim work. |
US11527873B2 |
Inner compartment design for medium voltage switchgears
An inner compartment for medium voltage gas insulated switchgears includes: at least one inner compartment; and a housing. The inner compartment, or in case of several inner compartments, an inner of the inner compartment, or one of the inner compartments, is provided on an inner wall surface thereof at least partially with an insulating layer. |
US11527867B2 |
Surface emitting laser element, illumination device, projection device, measurement device, robot, electronic apparatus, mobile body, and modeling device
A plurality of surface emitting lasers are formed on the single surface emitting laser element. The plurality of surface emitting lasers have respective emission wavelengths selected from wavelengths satisfying condition of: 0<λ1−λs≤5.36×10−5λc2−×5.83×10−2λc+32.4 where a first emission wavelength is λ1 [nm], a second emission wavelength shorter than the first emission wavelength is λs [nm], and a middle wavelength between the first emission wavelength and the second emission wavelength is λc [nm]. At least one of the plurality of surface emitting lasers has an emission wavelength different from an emission wavelength of another surface emitting laser. |
US11527866B2 |
Semiconductor optical device
A semiconductor optical device includes an SOI substrate having a waveguide of silicon, and at least one gain region of a group III-V compound semiconductor having an optical gain bonded to the SOI substrate. The waveguide has a bent portion and multiple linear portions extending linearly and connected to each other through the bent portion. The gain region is disposed on each of the multiple linear portions. |
US11527865B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor component
An optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body in which an active layer configured to generate or detect electromagnetic radiation, a first interlayer and a p-conducting contact layer are formed, and a connection layer applied to the semiconductor body, wherein the contact layer is disposed between the first interlayer and the connection layer and adjoins the connection layer, the active layer is arranged on a side of the first interlayer remote from the contact layer, the first interlayer and the contact layer are based on a nitride compound semiconductor, the contact layer is doped with a p-dopant, the contact layer has a thickness of at most 50 nm, and the contact layer includes a lower aluminum content than the first interlayer. |
US11527864B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes: a base; a first semiconductor laser element disposed on an upper surface of the base and configured to emit first light; a first light reflecting member disposed on the upper surface of the base, the first light reflecting member having a first light reflecting face including a plane configured to reflect the first light; a second semiconductor laser element disposed on an upper surface of the base and configured to emit second light; a second light reflecting member disposed on the upper surface of the base, the second light reflecting member having a second light reflecting face including a plane configured to reflect the second light; and a phosphor member onto which the first light reflected from the first light reflecting member and the second light reflected from the second light reflecting member are irradiated. |
US11527859B2 |
Splice assembly and brush for same
A splice assembly for engaging a conductor includes a brush configured to engage the conductor. The brush includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. The housing defines a housing axis extending between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion defines a cavity having an open end. The second portion defines a bore. A diameter of the cavity is larger than a diameter of the bore. The cavity and the bore are configured to receive the conductor therethrough. The brush further includes a brush member secured within the cavity and positioned proximate the open end. |
US11527856B2 |
Charger extension device
A charger extension device has a housing having a top side, a left side, a bottom side, a right side, a rear side, and a front side, an USB port on the front side of the housing, and a port on the rear side of the housing. Another charger extension device has a housing having a top side, a left side, a bottom side, a right side, a rear side, and a front side, an USB port on the front side of the housing, a port on the rear side of the housing, and a cable retention assembly on the rear side of the housing. |
US11527852B2 |
Separable high-voltage connector assembly and manufacturing method therefor
A separable high-voltage connector assembly which can miniaturize a size by individually separating each first pin of a connector mounted on a board to form multiple small connectors and simplify a process and prevent an error that connectors are incorrectly inserted into each other by forming an inserting connector through fastening and assembling each of individually separated second pins. |
US11527851B2 |
Electronic port having a locking assembly for securing an electronic plug
Example implementations relate to an electronic port of a computing system, having a locking assembly to secure an electronic plug within the electronic port. The electronic port includes a receptacle, a bracket, a biasing member, and a fastener. The receptacle includes a plurality of retainers to releasably hold a connector of the electronic plug, when the electronic plug is detachably coupled to the electronic port. The bracket is disposed around the receptacle. The bracket has a plurality of locking elements and a pillar having a counter bore. The plurality of locking elements is aligned with the plurality of retainers. The fastener is projected into the pillar through an enclosure, where the fastener is fastened into the counter bore of the pillar to allow a vertical movement of the bracket along a first direction for engaging the plurality of locking elements with the plurality of retainers. |
US11527849B2 |
Charging dock, electronic product, charging system and charging method
A charging dock, an electronic product, a charging system and a charging method are provided. The charging dock includes a housing, a first charging terminal, a first magnetic device, a first detection device and a first control circuit. The first charging terminal, the first magnetic device, the first detection device and the first control circuit are in the housing. The first magnetic device is to attract the charging plug near the first magnetic device to enable the charging plug to move in a direction towards the first charging terminal. The first control circuit is to control the first charging terminal to be energized when the first detection device detects that the first charging terminal is electrically coupled to the charging plug. |
US11527845B2 |
Spring clip and connector for a flat flexible cable
A spring clip for a flat flexible cable includes a first beam and a second beam connected to the first beam and resiliently deflectable toward the first beam. The second beam has a first contact bend extending toward the first beam. The flat flexible cable is positioned between the first beam and the second beam and the first contact bend abuts a conductor exposed through an insulation material of the flat flexible cable to electrically connect the spring clip with the conductor. |
US11527844B2 |
Electrical connector having an insulative body with partition walls of different extent and with side walls provided with first through fourth installation grooves
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a first terminal group having a signal terminal pair and a ground terminal arranged on one side of the signal terminal pair, each signal terminal having a tail portion, a contact portion, and a body portion, the body portion having a covering portion and a free portion exposed to air, wherein there is a first center distance between the contact portions of the signal terminal pair, there is a second center distance between the free portions, and there is a third center distance between the covering parts, and a second terminal group forming a first mating port with the first terminal group, wherein the second center distance is smaller than the first center distance, and the third center distance is greater than the second center distance. |
US11527840B2 |
Cable connector and method of terminating a cable
A cable connector that includes an inner subassembly that includes a coupling nut for coupling to a mating connector or port and a post end for electrically connecting to a cable. An outer body includes separable sections that form an inner bore when assembled. The inner bore is configured to receive at least the post end of the inner subassembly. Each section of the outer body has a proximal end and a distal end and the distal ends are configured to accept the cable. The sections are releasably engaged for assembly of the outer body around at least a portion of the inner subassembly. |
US11527839B2 |
T-splice connector
An apparatus and method for splicing single pair ethernet (SPE) cables. By creating a T shaped intersection, the splicing device allows for sensors and other devices to run perpendicular in relation to the original cable. The splicing device further enables the cable to have multiple drop points along the cable. |
US11527837B2 |
Dual polarised omnidirectional antenna apparatus
A dual polarised omnidirectional antenna apparatus (20) capable of operating in transmit and receive, comprising at least two dual polarised directional antennas (21) configured to be mountable in a substantially equi-spaced distributed array around and pointing away from a platform, wherein the antenna apparatus (20) is configured such that, when operated in transmit, the dual polarised directional antennas operate in phase with each other to deliver a combined omnidirectional, dual polarised, performance. This increases operational bandwidth and mitigates interference effects in communications applications. |
US11527835B2 |
Methods of preparing a composite dielectric material
Methods of preparing composite dielectric materials used in lenses for communications antennas. The methods can include one or more of: using induction heating to expand expandable dielectric particles; combining expandable dielectric particles with pre-expanded dielectric material prior to expansion; and/or performing the expansion of the expandable dielectric particles within a lens or other container. |
US11527829B1 |
Dual-polarized antenna structure
A dual-polarized antenna structure is provided. The dual-polarized antenna structure includes an insulating substrate, two first antennas, two second antennas, a coupling unit, and two feeding points. The two first antennas are disposed on two sides of the insulating substrate, respectively. The two second antennas are disposed on the two sides of the insulating substrate, respectively. Each of the two second antennas includes two sub-antennas. In any one of the two sides of the insulating substrate, a region defined by orthogonally projecting two sub-middle segments of the two sub-antennas onto another one of the two sides of the insulating substrate overlaps with a main middle segment of the first antenna. The coupling unit is electrically coupled to the two sub-antennas on each of the two sides of the insulating substrate. The two feeding points are electrically coupled to the two first antennas and the two second antennas. |
US11527827B2 |
Antenna element for wireless communication
An antenna element includes a first conductor at a first lateral surface of a substrate having a feed line portion and a monopole portion with a neck extending from the feed line portion and a head at a distal end of the neck. The head has a width greater than a width of the neck and greater than a width of the feed line portion. The head has a slot to increase a bandwidth of the first conductor to at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. A second conductor is provided on the first lateral surface having first and second ground planes and first and second stubs. The ground planes are disposed adjacent to the feed line portion at opposite sides thereof. The stubs are disposed at opposite sides of the ground planes and extend in a direction essentially parallel to the feed line portion. The ground planes and the stubs are arranged relative to the first conductor to form a coplanar waveguide. |
US11527826B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel in which an active area and a peripheral area are defined, and an antenna unit including a main pattern, a first sub-pattern, and an antenna line. The main pattern is disposed on the display panel in the active area, transmits and/or receives a signal, and operates at a first frequency. The first sub-pattern is disposed on the display panel in the active area, is spaced apart from the main pattern in a first direction, is capacitively coupled to the main pattern, and operates at a second frequency different from the first frequency. |
US11527822B2 |
Electromagnetic wave transmissive cover
An electromagnetic wave transmissive cover includes: a base made of a dielectric material and having transmissiveness to electromagnetic waves; and a reflection hindering layer laminated on at least one of two surfaces of the base in a travel direction of the electromagnetic waves, made of a dielectric material, having transmissiveness to the electromagnetic waves, and hindering reflection of the electromagnetic waves. A wavelength of each electromagnetic wave in the reflection hindering layer is referred to as λ2 and 2π/λ2 is set as a phase constant β2. An amount of deviation between a phase of a reflected wave reflected on the front interface of the reflection hindering layer in the travel direction and a phase of a reflected wave reflected on the rear interface is referred to as a phase deviation amount β. Thickness L2 of the reflection hindering layer is set to β/β2. |
US11527820B2 |
Structure, antenna, wireless communication module, and wireless communication device
A structure includes: a base that includes a first surface and a second surface parallel to a first plane, a third surface and a fourth surface parallel to a second plane orthogonal to the first plane, and a fifth surface and a sixth surface parallel to a third plane orthogonal to the first plane and the second plane; a first conductor that expands along the third plane and that extends along a second direction; a second conductor that expands along the fourth plane and that extends along the second direction; a third conductor that expands along the first plane and that is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor; and a fourth conductor that is configured to be electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor. The first conductor, the second conductor, and the third conductor are at least partially exposed to exterior space. |
US11527817B2 |
Antenna assembly for a vehicle
An antenna assembly comprising a base, a modem, a top lid and a housing is disclosed herein. The base is composed of an aluminum material. The modem is disposed on the base. The top lid is for the base, and the top lid comprises at least one antenna element disposed on an exterior surface. The housing covers the top lid and base. The top lid acts as an electro-magnetic barrier for the modem. A communication cable is connected to the modem at one end and extending to and connected to a vehicle internal router with a vehicle modem at the other end. |
US11527811B2 |
Antenna unit and electronic device
An antenna unit includes a plate-shaped dielectric substrate, as well as an antenna element and a stub element. The dielectric substrate has a first edge extending along a longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate and a second edge extending along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate, and the second edge is opposite to the first edge. The antenna element is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate. The Antenna element has a first end containing a feedpoint and a second end containing an open end. The stub element is disposed between a section of the antenna element having a predetermined length containing the first end of the antenna element and the first edge of the dielectric substrate along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate. The stub element has a first end connected to a reference potential and a second end containing an open end. |
US11527810B2 |
Low-profile automotive universal antenna system
A multiband antenna comprises a dielectric substrate with a first surface defining an annular ledge and a central recess with a plurality of pockets. A MIMO radiator body is disposed in the central recess having a first surface defining a plurality of lobes which are disposed in respective ones of the plurality of pockets and having a second surface defining an outer rim and a central shelf. A radiator ring is disposed at the annular ledge so that the radiator ring and the outer rim converge along an annular gap therebetween. A plurality of MIMO feed lines provide external connection to respective lobes. The MIMO radiator body and the radiator ring provide a substantially horizontally-directed radiation pattern (e.g., for terrestrial signals). At least one low-profile radiator on the central shelf provides a substantially circularly polarized or vertically-directed radiation pattern for receiving signals radiated from a satellite. |
US11527805B2 |
Laser welding apparatus comprising laser beam blocking block
Provided is a laser welding apparatus configured to weld an electrode lead of at least one secondary battery of a battery module and a main bus bar configured to electrically connect a plurality of secondary batteries to each other. The laser welding apparatus includes: a laser beam emitting unit including a laser emitting element to irradiate a laser beam to the electrode lead and the main bus bar; a pressing jig including a pressing bar configured to move in a left-and-right direction such that the electrode lead is adhered to the main bus bar; and a blocking block movable to block the laser beam generated in the laser beam emitting unit from reaching the at least one secondary battery or movable to allow the generated laser beam to pass therethrough, according to a position of the pressing bar moved in the left-and-right direction. |
US11527804B2 |
Battery module including stacked battery cells
A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells which have positive electrode tabs and negative electrode tab formed at both ends thereof, respectively, wherein the plurality of battery cells are stacked; a first bus bar assembly having first bus bars to which the positive electrode tabs and the negative electrode tabs located at one end of the battery cells are connected; a second bus bar assembly having second bus bars to which the positive electrode tabs and the negative electrode tabs located at the other end of the battery cells are connected; and a sensing unit which is connected to any one bus bar of the first and second bus bars to detect states of the battery cells. |
US11527795B2 |
Hermetic weld for a thin film electrochemical cell activated with a solid electrolyte and housed in a ceramic casing
A miniature electrochemical cell having a total volume that is less than 0.5 cc is described. The cell casing is formed by joining two ceramic casing halves together. One or both casing halves are machined from ceramic to provide a recess that is sized and shaped to contain the electrode assembly. The opposite polarity terminals are metal feedthroughs, such as of gold, and are formed by brazing gold into openings machined into one or both of ceramic casing halves. A thin film metallization, such as of titanium, contacts an edge periphery of each ceramic casing half. The first ceramic casing half is moved into registry with the second ceramic casing half so that the first and second ring-shaped metallizations contact each other. Then, a laser welds through one of the casing halves being a substantially transparent ceramic, for example sapphire, to braze the first and second ring-shaped metallizations to each other to thereby join the first and second casing halves together to form a casing housing the electrode assembly. A solid electrolyte (LixPOyNz) activates the electrode assembly. |
US11527793B2 |
Air-cooled energy storage module
An air-cooled energy storage module including a box body, a plurality of support beams, a baffle plate, a plurality of battery modules, an axial fan, and an end cover. The box body is a hollow structure including a first side plate, a second side plate, a bottom plate, and an opening formed by the first side plate, the second side plate, and the bottom plate. The axial fan is disposed on the first side plate. The plurality of support beams is disposed apart on the bottom plate longitudinally; a longitudinal direction refers to a direction along a connection line of the first side plate and the second side plate. The baffle plate is disposed on the plurality of support beams; and a space is disposed between the baffle plate and the bottom plate of the box body for air circulation. |
US11527789B2 |
Temperature adjustment method and temperature adjustment system for vehicle
The present disclosure discloses a temperature adjustment method and a temperature adjustment system for a vehicle. The temperature adjustment method includes the following steps: obtaining a required power used for performing temperature adjustment on a battery; obtaining an actual power used for performing temperature adjustment on the battery; and adjusting an opening degree of an intra-vehicle cooling branch and an opening degree of a battery cooling branch according to the required power, the actual power, an intra-vehicle temperature, and an air conditioner set temperature. |
US11527788B2 |
Thermal management for electrical storage devices
An energy storage system includes a sealed housing defining an interior space and a plurality of cells arranged within the interior space of the housing. A cooling liquid submerges each of the cells. The cooling system is positioned within the sealed housing configured to actively and passively cool and heat each of the cells. |
US11527786B1 |
Systems and methods for predicting remaining useful life in batteries and assets
In one aspect, a method comprises receiving first data pertaining to a battery pack of a vehicle, wherein the first data is received from sensors associated with the vehicle, and the first data pertains to a battery pack current, a cell voltage, a cell current, a cell temperature, or some combination thereof; receiving second data pertaining to simulation of the battery pack; receiving third data from a manufacturer; receiving historical data on a fleet of vehicles that use the battery pack; predicting a remaining useful life of the battery pack of the vehicle by using a hybrid model comprising a physics-based model that receives the based on the first, second, third, and historical data, and generates properties pertaining to the battery pack; a machine learning model that uses the properties to predict the remaining useful life of each cell of the battery pack; and transmitting the remaining useful life. |
US11527785B2 |
Battery pack
Provided is a battery pack having excellent energy density and durability.A battery pack 100 includes solid-state battery modules 102 each configured such that a plurality of solid-state battery cells containing a solid electrolyte is stacked and electrolytic solution-based battery modules 32 each configured such that a plurality of electrolytic solution-based battery cells containing an electrolytic solution is stacked, the solid-state battery modules 102 and the electrolytic solution-based battery modules 32 being combined and housed in the pack. The solid-state battery modules 102 are arranged to surround the electrolytic solution-based battery modules 32. |
US11527779B2 |
Hybrid solid-state cell with a 3D porous cathode structure
An electrochemical cell is provided, which includes a cathode comprising a three dimensional (3D) porous cathode structure, an anode, an electrolyte separator, comprised of a ceramic material, located between the cathode and the anode, and a cathode current collector, wherein the cathode is located between the cathode current collector and the electrolyte separator. The 3D porous cathode structure includes ionically conducting electrolyte strands extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, pores extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, and an electronically conducting network extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator. |
US11527776B2 |
Electrolyte and electrochemical device
An electrolyte includes a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the content X of the nitrile compound and the content Y of the trinitrile compound meet the conditions represented by Formula (1) and Formula (2): {about 2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 11 wt % . . . (1), about 0.1≤(X/Y)≤about 8 . . . (2)}. The trinitrile compound includes at least one selected from the group consisting of: 1,3,5-pentanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,3-propanetrinitrile; 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,6-hexanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,3-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)propane; 1,2,4-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)butane; 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)ethane; 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)propane; 3-methyl-1,3,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane; 1,2,7-tris(cyanoethoxy)heptane; 1,2,6-tris(cyanoethoxy)hexane; and 1,2,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane. The electrolyte is capable of effectively inhibiting the increase in DC internal resistance of an electrochemical device so that the electrochemical device has excellent cycle and storage performance. |
US11527775B1 |
Lithium-sulfur battery with high sulfur loading
A lithium-sulfur battery cathode including conductive porous carbon particles vacuum infused with sulfur and a conductive collector substrate to which the sulfur infused porous carbon particles are deposited. The sulfur infused carbon particles are encapsulated by an encapsulation polymer, the encapsulation polymer having ionic conductivity, electronic conductivity, polysulfide affinity, or combinations thereof. A lithium-sulfur battery including the lithium-sulfur battery cathode, a lithium anode and an electrolyte disposed between the sulfur cathode and the lithium anode is also provided. Methods of producing the sulfur cathode for use in a lithium-sulfur battery by a hybrid vacuum-and-melt method are also provided. |
US11527774B2 |
Electrochemical energy storage devices
Described are energy storage devices employing a gas storage structure, which can accommodate or store gas evolved from the energy storage device. The energy storage device comprises an electrochemical cell with electrodes comprising metal-containing compositions, like metal oxides, metal nitrides, or metal hydrides, and a solid state electrolyte. |
US11527772B2 |
Apparatus for evaluating performance of fuel cell stack
The present invention relates to an apparatus for evaluating a performance of a fuel cell stack, and more particularly, to an apparatus for evaluating a performance of a fuel cell stack, in which a guide unit and an arm are provided on an anode end plate and a cathode end plate, respectively, to minimize an inclination of the fuel cell stack caused by a shrinkage of a sealant. |
US11527766B2 |
Fuel cell system and tail gas burner assembly and method
The present invention is concerned with improved swirl burners, particularly, but not limited to, swirl burners used in fuel cell systems. |
US11527765B2 |
Bipolar separator for a fuel cell
The invention relates to a bipolar separator (17) including a first (33) and a second (35) polar plate each comprising an inner surface and an outer surface in which at least one distribution channel (53, 55) is formed, the channels formed in the outer surfaces of the first and the second polar plate enabling fuel and oxidizer, respectively, to flow. The bipolar separator further includes an inner layer (29) provided to be sandwiched and compressed between the substantially planar inner surfaces of the first (33) and the second (35) polar plate, so as to form a laminated structure. The inner layer is formed by a perforated sheet comprising a group of through-grooves that form branchless channels, the ends of which lead, respectively, to two manifolds such that the coolant is able to flow between the first (33) and the second (35) polar plate. |
US11527760B2 |
Aluminum member for electrodes and method of producing aluminum member for electrodes
Provided is an aluminum member for electrodes capable of stably maintaining a low electric resistance state, and a method of producing an aluminum member for electrodes. An aluminum member for electrodes includes an aluminum substrate and an oxide film that is laminated on at least one main surface of the aluminum substrate, and the oxide film has a density of 2.7 to 4.1 g/cm3 and a thickness of 5 nm or less. |
US11527756B2 |
Resistance reduction in a battery and battery materials
The electrical resistance of active cathodic and anodic films may be significantly reduced by the addition of small fractions of conductive additives within a battery system. The decrease in resistance in the cathode and/or anode leads to easier electron transport through the battery, resulting in increases in power, capacity and rates while decreasing joules heating losses. |
US11527750B2 |
Active material, battery and method for producing active material
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material whose volume variation due to charge and discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a primary particle including at least one crystal phase of a Type I silicon clathrate and a Type II silicon clathrate, and the primary particle includes a void inside thereof. |
US11527745B2 |
Methods of pre-lithiating electrodes
The present disclosure provides methods of compensation for capacity loss resulting from cycle-induced lithium consumption in an electrochemical cell including at least one electrode. Such methods may include adding a lithiation additive to the at least one electrode so as to create a lithium source. The lithium source compensates for cycle-induced lithiation loss such that the electrochemical cell having the lithiation additive experiences total capacity losses of less than or equal to about 5% of an initial capacity prior to cycling of lithium. The lithiation additive includes a lithium silicate represented by the formula LiuHr, where Hr=Liy-uSiOz and where 0≤y≤3.75 and 0≤z≤2 and u is a useable portion of y, 0≤u≤y. The lithium source may include z 4 L i 4 Si O 4 and LimSi, where 0≤m≤4.4. |
US11527737B2 |
Electronic device and method of forming flexible display thereof
An electronic device includes a housing including a recess; an internal structure disposed in the recess; and a display disposed in the recess and supported by the internal structure, where the display includes a display panel including a first region and a second region, where the second region forms at least part of an edge of the display panel; and a flexible polymer layer forming an outer surface of the display panel, where the flexible polymer layer includes a first portion covering the first region and the second region, and a second portion extending from the first portion, enclosing the at least part of the edge of the display panel, and extending inward. Thereby, foreign material can be prevented from entering into the display. Various other embodiments are possible. |
US11527736B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a display panel having an upper surface to display an image and a lower surface; a first support and a second support disposed on the lower surface of the display panel; a first hinge connecting a side of the first support and a side of the second support and defining a first axis; a cover disposed on another side of the second support; and a second hinge connecting another side of the second support and a side of the cover and defining a second axis substantially parallel to the first axis, wherein the cover comprises a transparent material and a recess disposed on the side connected to the second hinge member. |
US11527730B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device and organometallic complex for organic electroluminescence device
An organic electroluminescence device may include a first electrode, a second electrode opposite to the first electrode, and organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. At least one of organic layers may include an organometallic complex including a first metal complex having a metal atom as a center atom of the first metal complex, a second metal complex having the metal atom as a center atom of the second metal complex, and an aromatic ring group connecting the first metal complex to the second metal complex. |
US11527726B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device and compound for organic electroluminescence device
An organic electroluminescence device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the emission layer includes a compound represented by Formula 1 to achieve high efficiency and an improved efficiency drop in a deep blue emission wavelength region: |
US11527725B2 |
Organic light-emitting device and apparatus including the same
An organic light-emitting device having improved efficiency and lifespan includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes an emission layer, the emission layer includes a first compound, a second compound, a third compound, and a fourth compound, the first compound, the second compound, the third compound, and the fourth compound are different from each other, the third compound includes a metal element having an atomic number of 40 or more, the fourth compound includes boron (B), the third compound and the fourth compound each satisfy Conditions 1-1 and 1-2 below, and the fourth compound satisfies Condition 2 or 3: T1(C3)onset≥S1(C4)onset Condition 1-1 T1(C3)max≥S1(C4)max Condition 1-2 KRISC(C4)≥103S−1 Condition 2 f(C4)≥0.1. Condition 3 |
US11527719B2 |
Hole collection layer composition for organic photoelectric conversion element
This hole collection layer composition for an organic photoelectric conversion elements comprises: a charge-transporting substance formed of a polyaniline derivative represented by formula (1); fluorochemical surfactant; metal oxide nanoparticles; and a solvent. The hole collection layer composition provides a thin film having excellent adhesiveness to an active layer of an organic photoelectric conversion element. {R1-R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a sulfonic acid group, a C1-C20 alkoxy group, a C1-C20 thioalkoxy group, a C1-C20 alkyl group, etc. Meanwhile, one of R1-R4 is a sulfonic acid group and at least one of the remaining R1-R4 is a C1-C20 alkoxy group, a C1-C20 thioalkoxy group, a C1-C20 alkyl group, etc., and m and n are numbers that satisfy 0≤m≤1, 0≤n≤1, and m+n=1.} |
US11527715B2 |
Method for controlling current path by using electric field, and electronic element
Provided is an electronic device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a first surface that is closest to the active layer and a second surface that is farthest from the active layer, a size of a cross-sectional horizontal area at the first surface is smaller than a size of a cross-sectional horizontal area at the second surface, the active layer includes a first region, which vertically overlaps the first surface, and a second region outside the first region, and a thickness of the active layer in the first region is smaller than a thickness of the active layer in the second region. |
US11527714B2 |
Resistive random access memory device
A memory cell includes: a resistive material layer comprising a first portion that extends along a first direction and a second portion that extends along a second direction, wherein the first and second directions are different from each other; a first electrode coupled to a bottom surface of the first portion of the resistive material layer; and a second electrode coupled to the second portion of the resistive material layer. |
US11527709B2 |
SOT multibit memory cell
The disclosed technology relates to a multibit memory cell. In one aspect, the multibit memory cell includes a plurality of spin-orbit torque (SOT) tracks, plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), an electrically conductive path connecting a first MTJ and a second MTJ together, and a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals can be configured to provide a first SOT write current to the first MTJ, a second SOT write current to the second MTJ, and at least one of: the second SOT write current to a third MTJ, a third SOT write current to the third MTJ, and a spin transfer torque (STT) write current through the third MTJ. The junction resistances of the various MTJs are such that a combined multibit memory state of the MTJs is readable by a read current through all the MTJs in series. |
US11527706B2 |
Film structure body and method for manufacturing the same
A film structure body has: a substrate that is a silicon substrate including an upper surface composed of a (100) plane; an orientation film including a zirconium oxide film that is cubic crystal (100)-oriented on the upper surface; and a conductive film including a platinum film that is cubic crystal (100)-oriented on the orientation film. |
US11527705B2 |
Semiconductor device comprising passive magnetoelectric transducer structure
A semiconductor device comprising a passive magnetoelectric transducer structure adapted for generating a charge via mechanical stress caused by a magnetic field. The first transducer structure has a first terminal electrically connectable to the control terminal of an electrical switch, and having a second terminal electrically connectable to the first terminal of the electrical switch for providing a control signal for opening/closing the switch. The switch may be a FET. A passive magnetic switch using a magnetoelectric transducer structure. Use of a passive magnetoelectric transducer structure for opening or closing a switch without the need for an external power supply. |
US11527703B2 |
Multi-layered piezoelectric ceramic-containing structure
A multi-layered piezoelectric ceramic-containing structure There is provided a multi-layered piezoelectric ceramic-containing structure comprising: a metal substrate; a metallic adhesive layer on a surface of the metal substrate; a non-metallic thermal barrier layer on the metallic adhesive layer; and a piezoelectric ceramic layer sandwiched between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer is on the non-metallic thermal barrier layer. There is also provided a method of forming the structure. |
US11527701B2 |
Piezoelectric device and method of forming the same
A piezoelectric device including a substrate, a metal-insulator-metal element, a hydrogen blocking layer, a passivation layer, a first contact terminal and a second contact terminal is provided. The metal-insulator-metal element is disposed on the substrate. The hydrogen blocking layer is disposed on the metal-insulator-metal element. The passivation layer covers the hydrogen blocking layer and the metal-insulator-metal element. The first contact terminal is electrically connected to the metal-insulator-metal element. The second contact terminal is electrically connected to the metal-insulator-metal element. |
US11527699B2 |
Piezoelectric element, liquid discharge head, and printer
A piezoelectric element includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and having a perovskite structure, in which 0 |
US11527697B2 |
Qubit frequency tuning structures and fabrication methods for flip chip quantum computing devices
A quantum computing device includes a first chip having a first substrate and one or more qubits disposed on the first substrate. Each of the one or more qubits has an associated resonance frequency. The quantum computing device further includes a second chip having a second substrate and at least one conductive surface disposed on the second substrate opposite the one or more qubits. The at least one conductive surface has at least one dimension configured to adjust the resonance frequency associated with at least one of the one or more qubits to a determined frequency adjustment value. |
US11527696B2 |
Low footprint resonator in flip chip geometry
A device includes a first substrate having a principal surface; a second substrate having a principal surface, in which the first substrate is bump-bonded to the second substrate such that the principal surface of the first substrate faces the principal surface of the second substrate; a circuit element having a microwave frequency resonance mode, in which a first portion of the circuit element is arranged on the principal surface of the first substrate and a second portion of the circuit element is arranged on the principal surface of the second substrate; and a first bump bond connected to the first portion of the circuit element and to the second portion of the circuit element, in which the first superconductor bump bond provides an electrical connection between the first portion and the second portion. |
US11527695B2 |
Fiber based thermoelectric device
Methods of making various fibers are provided including co-axial fibers with oppositely doped cladding and core are provide; hollow core doped silicon carbide fibers are provided; and doubly clad PIN junction fibers are provided. Additionally methods are provided for forming direct PN junctions between oppositely doped fibers are provided. Various thermoelectric generators that incorporate the aforementioned fibers are provided. |
US11527694B2 |
Thermoelectric element, thermoelectric device, and method for forming thermoelectric element
A thermoelectric element to convert thermal energy into electrical energy includes a first electrode part, a second electrode part having a different work function than the first electrode part and arranged at a distance from the first electrode part, on a same surface of a substrate as the first electrode part, and a middle part provided between the first electrode part and the second electrode part. |
US11527688B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided in the present disclosure. The electronic device includes a substrate and a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode is bonded to the substrate through a solder alloy. The solder alloy includes tin and a metal element M, and the metal element M is one of the indium and bismuth. The atomic percentage of tin in the sum of tin and the metal element M ranges from 60% to 90% in the solder alloy. |
US11527686B2 |
Light emitting device, method of manufacturing light emitting device, planar light source, and liquid crystal display device
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing a first member comprising: a base, a plurality of phosphor frames positioned on the base, the plurality of phosphor frames including a first phosphor frame and a second phosphor frame that is adjacent to the first phosphor frame, and a light transmissive member, a portion of which is disposed between the first phosphor frame and the second phosphor frame; disposing a first light emitting element in the first phosphor frame and a second light emitting element in the second phosphor frame, wherein: each light emitting element has an emission face and an electrode forming face located opposite to the emission face, each light emitting element comprises an electrode located on its electrode forming face, and each light emitting element is disposed such that its emission face faces the base; and cutting the light transmissive member. |
US11527684B2 |
Patterned downconverter and adhesive film for micro-LED, mini-LED downconverter mass transfer
A downconverter layer transfer device, and methods of making and using the downconverter layer transfer device, are disclosed. A downconverter layer transfer device includes a release liner and a downconverter layer disposed on the release liner, the downconverter layer including a downconverter material dispersed throughout an adhesive, the downconverter layer being solid and non-adhesive at a first temperature, and adhesive at an elevated temperature above the first temperature. |
US11527683B2 |
Laser printing of color converter devices on micro LED display devices and methods
Embodiments disclosed herein include micro light emitting device (LED) display panels and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, a display panel includes a display backplane substrate, a light emitting element on the display backplane, a transparent conductor over the light emitting element, a dielectric layer over the transparent conductor, and a color conversion device over the light emitting element. In an embodiment, the dielectric layer separates the transparent conductor from the color conversion device. |
US11527682B2 |
LED lighting apparatus having improved color lendering and LED filament
A lighting apparatus including at least one light emitting diode (LED) chip configured to emit blue light; a green phosphor having a light emission peak in a range of 500 nm to 550 nm; and a red phosphor having a light emission peak in a range of 600 nm to 650 nm, in which the red phosphor includes a first red phosphor having a light emission peak in a range of 620 nm to 630 nm and a second red phosphor having a light emission peak in a range of 630 nm to 640 nm, and the full widths at half maximum of the first and second red phosphors are in a range of 20 nm to 60 nm, respectively. |
US11527680B2 |
Ultraviolet light-emitting diode chip and method for making the same
An ultraviolet light-emitting diode chip, including: a n-type semiconductor layer; an intermediate layer disposed on the n-type semiconductor layer, the intermediate layer including a plurality of first tapered pits; an active layer disposed on the intermediate layer; a p-type semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer; a n-type electrode disposed on the n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type electrode disposed on the p-type semiconductor layer; a reflecting layer; a bonding layer; and a substrate. The reflecting layer and the bonding layer are disposed between the p-type electrode and the substrate. The active layer includes a plurality of second tapered pits each in a shape of hexagonal pyramid and a plurality of first flat regions connecting every two adjacent second tapered pits. The projected area of the plurality of first flat regions is less than 30% of the projected area of the active layer. |
US11527678B2 |
Optoelectronic arrangement and method for producing an optoelectronic arrangement
An optoelectronic arrangement is specified, comprising a moulded body having a base surface, a first pixel group with a multiplicity of pixels assigned thereto, each having a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region and an active region, a multiplicity of separating structures arranged between the pixels, and at least one first contact structure having a first contact plane and a first contact location, which is freely accessible at the base surface, wherein the pixels of the first pixel group are arranged alongside one another at the top surface, the first semiconductor regions and/or the second semiconductor regions of adjacent pixels of the first pixel group are electrically insulated from one another by means of the separating structures, a first contact structure is assigned one-to-one to the first pixel group, and the first semiconductor regions of the pixels of the first pixel group are electrically conductively connected to one another by means of the first contact plane and are electrically contactable by means of the first contact location. |
US11527676B2 |
Light-emitting unit and method for manufacturing the same
A light-emitting unit and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The light-emitting unit includes a first semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer and a second semiconductor layer that are distributed in a stacking manner. At least one of the first semiconductor layer or the second semiconductor layer is at least in contact with a part of layer surfaces and a part of side of the light-emitting layer, the first semiconductor layer is insulated from the second semiconductor layer, and one of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer is an N-type semiconductor layer, and the other is a P-type semiconductor layer. The present disclosure is conducive to increasing the light-emitting area and the light extraction efficiency of the light-emitting unit. |
US11527674B2 |
Method of manufacturing light-emitting device
A method includes: bonding a surface of a first wafer on a side having a semiconductor layer to a surface of a second wafer on a side having a first electrode to electrically connect the semiconductor layer and the first electrode; etching a silicon substrate such that a first portion of the silicon substrate remains in a region overlapping with the first electrode in a plan view; etching the semiconductor layer using the first portion as a mask such that a portion of the semiconductor layer between the first portion and the first electrode remains as at least one light-emitting portion; forming a resin layer to cover a lateral surface of the first portion and a lateral surface of the light-emitting portion with the resin layer; removing the first portion to expose the light-emitting portion; and forming a light-transmissive electrically conductive film on or above the light-emitting portion. |
US11527672B2 |
Apparatus for manufacture of at least two solar cell arrangements, system for manufacture of at least two shingled solar cells, and method for manufacture of at least two solar cell arrangements
The present disclosure provides a support device for conveying at least one solar cell element in a transport direction, wherein the support device comprises a support element configured for supporting the at least one solar cell element and an electric arrangement configured for providing an electrostatic force for holding the at least one solar cell element on the support element. |
US11527664B2 |
Configurable solar cells
A photovoltaic cell may include a substrate configured as a single light absorption region. The cell may include at least one first semiconductor region and at least one second semiconductor region arranged on or in the substrate. The cell may include a plurality of first conductive contacts arranged on the substrate and physically separated from one another and a plurality of second conductive contacts arranged on the substrate and physically separated from one another. Each first conductive contact may be configured to facilitate electrical connection with the at least one first semiconductor region. Each second semiconductor conductive contact may be configured to facilitate electrical connection with the at least one second semiconductor region. Each of the first conductive contacts may form at least one separate cell partition with at least one of the second conductive contacts, thereby forming a plurality of cell partitions on or in the substrate. |
US11527660B2 |
Semiconductor device with a lifetime killer region in the substrate
A semiconductor device having, in a plan view thereof, an active region and a termination region that surrounds a periphery of the active region. The device includes a semiconductor substrate containing a wide bandgap semiconductor, a first-conductivity-type region provided in the semiconductor substrate, spanning from the active region to the termination region, a plurality of second-conductivity-type regions provided between the first-conductivity-type region and the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate in the active region, a first electrode provided on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the second-conductivity-type regions, a second electrode provided on the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the first-conductivity-type region, and a lifetime killer region provided in the first-conductivity-type region and spanning from the active region to the termination region. In the active region, pn junctions between the first-conductivity-type region and the second-conductivity-type regions form a vertical semiconductor device element. |
US11527656B2 |
Contact electrodes for vertical thin-film transistors
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a thin-film transistor (TFT), which may include a substrate oriented in a horizontal direction and a transistor above the substrate. The transistor includes a gate electrode above the substrate, a gate dielectric layer around the gate electrode, and a channel layer around the gate dielectric layer, all oriented in a vertical direction substantially orthogonal to the horizontal direction. Furthermore, a source electrode or a drain electrode is above or below the channel layer, separated from the gate electrode, and in contact with a portion of the channel layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
US11527646B2 |
Domain switching devices and methods of manufacturing the same
A domain switching device includes a channel region, a source region and a drain region connected to the channel region, a gate electrode isolated from contact with the channel region, an anti-ferroelectric layer between the channel region and the gate electrode, a conductive layer between the gate electrode and the anti-ferroelectric layer to contact the anti-ferroelectric layer, and a barrier layer between the anti-ferroelectric layer and the channel region. |
US11527645B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: a first and second semiconductor regions of a first conductivity type; a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type disposed between the first and second semiconductor regions; a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type disposed below the first semiconductor region; a fifth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type disposed below the second semiconductor region; a first region containing carbon disposed between the first and fourth semiconductor regions; a second region containing carbon disposed between the second and fifth semiconductor regions; a third region disposed between the first and second regions; the first and second regions having a first and second carbon concentrations respectively, the third region not containing carbon or having a lower carbon concentration than the first and second carbon concentrations in a portion below an end of a lower face of a gate electrode. |
US11527644B2 |
Switching LDMOS device and method for making the same
A switching LDMOS device is formed first well in a semiconductor substrate that includes an LDD region and a first body doped region; a first heavily doped region serving as a source region is provided in the LDD region, and a second heavily doped region serving as a drain region is provided in the first body doped region; a channel of the switching LDMOS device is formed at a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate between the LDD region and the body doped region and below the gate structure; and one side of the LDD region and one side of the body doped region which are away from the gate structure both are provided with a field oxide or STI, and one side of the field oxide or STI is in contact with the first heavily doped region or the second heavily doped region. |
US11527643B2 |
Trench gate MOSFET and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a method of forming a trench gate MOSFET. A hard mask layer is formed on a substrate. The substrate is partially removed by using the hard mask layer as a mask, so as to form a trench in the substrate. A first insulating layer and a first conductive layer are formed in the lower portion of the trench. A sacrificial layer is formed on the side surface of the upper portion of the trench, and the sacrificial layer is connected to the hard mask layer. An interlayer insulating layer is formed on the first conductive layer by a thermal oxidation process when the sacrificial layer and the hard mask layer are present. A second insulating layer and a second conductive layer are formed in the upper portion of the trench. A trench gate MOSFET is further provided. |
US11527641B2 |
High-electron-mobility transistor with high voltage endurance capability and preparation method thereof
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor power devices, and in particular, to a high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) with high voltage endurance capability and a preparation method thereof. The high-electron-mobility transistor with high voltage endurance capability includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a barrier layer, a P-type nitride semiconductor layer and a substrate, wherein the P-type nitride semiconductor layer is between the barrier layer and the substrate, which is insufficient to significantly deplete a two-dimensional electron gas in a channel except a gate stack, the source electrode is in electrical contact with the P-type nitride semiconductor layer, and the source electrode and the drain electrode are both in electrical contact with the two-dimensional electron gas. |
US11527640B2 |
Wrap-around contact structures for semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons
Wrap-around contact structures for semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons, and methods of fabricating wrap-around contact structures for semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor nanowire above a first portion of a semiconductor sub-fin. A gate structure surrounds a channel portion of the semiconductor nanowire. A source or drain region is at a first side of the gate structure, the source or drain region including an epitaxial structure on a second portion of the semiconductor sub-fin, the epitaxial structure having substantially vertical sidewalls in alignment with the second portion of the semiconductor sub-fin. A conductive contact structure is along sidewalls of the second portion of the semiconductor sub-fin and along the substantially vertical sidewalls of the epitaxial structure. |
US11527637B2 |
Ion implantation to control formation of MOSFET trench-bottom oxide
Disclosed herein are methods for forming MOSFETs. In some embodiments, a method may include providing a device structure including a plurality of trenches, forming an oxide layer over the device structure including within each of the plurality of trenches and over a top surface of the device structure, and implanting a first portion of the oxide layer using an ion implant delivered to the device structure at a non-zero angle of inclination relative to a perpendicular extending from a top surface of the device structure. The method may further include removing the oxide layer from the top surface of the device structure and from a sidewall of each of the plurality of trenches, wherein a second portion of the oxide layer remains along a bottom of each of the plurality of trenches. |
US11527629B2 |
Field effect transistor
A field-effect transistor includes a gate electrode formed on an electron supply layer thereon, a source electrode and a drain electrode thereon; and also the field-effect transistor includes an insulation film for covering the electron supply layer, and an opening portion of the insulation film, having trapezoidal prism's oblique contour faces, being provided in a region to form the gate electrode in the insulation film. It is so arranged that the gate electrode is made to have a Schottky junction with respect to a region where the electron supply layer is exposed through the opening portion, and also that the trapezoidal prism's oblique contour faces each formed by the opening portion have inclination angles in a range from 25 degrees to 75 degrees with respect to a surface of the electron supply layer. |
US11527625B1 |
Electrical performance and reliability of a semiconductor device comprising continuous diffusion structures
A semiconductor device includes a core gate and a pair of isolation gates. The core gate has a first stack of two or more layers, the first stack including at least (i) a first dielectric layer having a first thickness and (ii) a first electrode layer. The isolation gates are formed on first and second sides of the core gate. The isolation gates are configured to electrically isolate the core gate. At least one of the isolation gates has a second stack of two or more layers, the second stack including at least (i) a second dielectric layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness and (ii) a second electrode layer. |
US11527623B2 |
Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include an integrated transistor having an active region comprising semiconductor material. The active region includes a first source/drain region, a second source/drain region and a channel region between the first and second source/drain regions. A conductive gating structure is operatively proximate the channel region and comprises molybdenum. The integrated transistor may be incorporated into integrated memory, such as, for example, DRAM, FeFET memory, etc. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies and devices, such as, for example, integrated transistors, integrated memory, etc. |
US11527622B2 |
Effective work function tuning via silicide induced interface dipole modulation for metal gates
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate and a channel layer over the substrate; forming a high-k gate dielectric layer over the channel layer; forming a work function metal layer over the high-k gate dielectric layer; forming a silicide layer over the work function metal layer; annealing the structure such that a first portion of the work function metal layer that interfaces with the high-k gate dielectric layer is doped with silicon elements from the silicide layer; removing the silicide layer; and forming a bulk metal layer over the work function metal layer. |
US11527620B2 |
Integrated assemblies having polycrystalline first semiconductor material adjacent conductively-doped second semiconductor material
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a polycrystalline first semiconductor material, and having a second semiconductor material directly adjacent to the polycrystalline first semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material is of a different composition than the polycrystalline first semiconductor material. A conductivity-enhancing dopant is within the second semiconductor material. The conductivity-enhancing dopant is a neutral-type dopant relative to the polycrystalline first semiconductor material. An electrical gate is adjacent to a region of the polycrystalline first semiconductor material and is configured to induce an electric field within said region of the polycrystalline first semiconductor material. The gate is not adjacent to the second semiconductor material. |
US11527615B2 |
Semiconductor device
Provided is a semiconductor device whose performance is improved. A p type body region is formed in an n type semiconductor layer containing silicon carbide, and a gate electrode is formed on the body region with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween. An n type source region is formed in the body region on a side surface side of the gate electrode, and the body region and a source region are electrically connected to a source electrode. A p type field relaxation layer FRL is formed in the semiconductor layer on the side surface side of the gate electrode, and the source electrode is electrically connected to the field relaxation layer FRL. The field relaxation layer FRL constitutes a part of the JFET 2Q which is a rectifying element, and a depth of the field relaxation layer FRL is shallower than a depth of the body region. |
US11527612B2 |
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having vertically discrete source or drain structures
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having vertically discrete source or drain structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having vertically discrete source or drain structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A gate stack is around the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires, the first epitaxial source or drain structure including vertically discrete portions aligned with the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A second epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires, the second epitaxial source or drain structure including vertically discrete portions aligned with the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. |
US11527610B2 |
CMOS compatible isolation leakage improvements in gallium nitride transistors
An integrated circuit structure comprises a silicon substrate and a III-nitride (III-N) substrate over the silicon substrate. A first III-N transistor and a second III-N transistor is on the III-N substrate. An insulator structure is formed in the III-N substrate between the first III-N transistor and the second III-N, wherein the insulator structure comprises one of: a shallow trench filled with an oxide, nitride or low-K dielectric; or a first gap adjacent to the first III-N transistor and a second gap adjacent to the second III-N transistor. |
US11527609B2 |
Increasing device density and reducing cross-talk spacer structures
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip including a first transistor and a second transistor arranged over a substrate. The first transistor includes first and second source/drain regions over the substrate and includes a first channel structure directly between the first and second source/drain regions. A first gate electrode is arranged over the first channel structure and is between first and second air spacer structures. The second transistor includes third and fourth source/drain regions over the substrate and includes a second channel structure directly between the third and fourth source/drain regions. A second gate electrode is arranged over the second channel structure and is between third and fourth air spacer structures. The integrated chip further includes a high-k dielectric spacer structure over a low-k dielectric fin structure between the first and second channel structures to separate the first and second gate electrodes. |
US11527606B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for forming the same
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a buffer layer on the substrate; a channel layer on the buffer layer; a barrier layer on the channel layer; a doped compound semiconductor layer on a portion of the barrier layer; an un-doped first capping layer on the doped compound semiconductor layer; a gate structure on the un-doped first capping layer; and source/drain structures on opposite sides of the gate structure. There is a channel region in the channel layer that is adjacent to the interface between the channel layer and the barrier layer. |
US11527595B2 |
Light emitting apparatus, imaging apparatus, electronic apparatus, illumination apparatus, and mobile apparatus
A light emitting apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels with different light emitting colors, each of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting element configured to emit light with one of at least three different light emitting colors, a driving transistor configured to supply a current to the light-emitting element in accordance with a voltage supplied to a gate, a write transistor configured to supply a signal voltage from a signal line to the gate of the driving transistor, and a capacitance at a connection portion between the driving transistor and the write transistor, wherein the capacitance is different for each light emitting color, and is larger in a pixel of a light emitting color in which a peak current flowing through the light-emitting element is larger. |
US11527594B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing organic light emitting display device
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a buffer layer, an active layer, a gate insulation layer, a protective insulating layer, a gate electrode, an insulating interlayer, source and drain electrodes, and a sub-pixel structure. The buffer layer is disposed on the substrate. The active layer is disposed on the buffer layer, and has a source region, a drain region, and a channel region. The gate insulation layer is disposed in the channel region on the active layer. The protective insulating layer is disposed on the buffer layer, the source and drain regions of the active layer, and the gate insulation layer. The gate electrode is disposed in the channel region on the protective insulating layer. The insulating interlayer is disposed on the gate electrode. The source and drain electrodes are disposed on the insulating interlayer. |
US11527591B2 |
Light emitting device for display device miniaturizing pixels and suppressing degradation in image quality
A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor having a drain region connected to the light emitting element, and a second transistor having a drain region connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A source region of the second transistor of the first pixel and a source region of the second transistor of the second pixel share one diffusion region, and a source region, a gate electrode, and the drain region of the first transistor of the first and second pixels are sequentially arranged in one of a positive direction and a negative direction in the first direction. |
US11527590B2 |
Light emitting display apparatus
A light emitting display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an insulating layer on a substrate and including a base portion and a protrusion portion having an uneven portion at a part of the base portion, a first electrode covering an upper portion of the base portion and a side portion and a upper portion of the protrusion portion and disposed along the shape of the uneven portion, a bank layer covering a part of the insulating layer and a part of the first electrode, and an emission layer on the first electrode and the bank layer, and a second electrode on the emission layer. |
US11527579B2 |
Display device and image pickup apparatus
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes first and second electroluminescent elements on a substrate. The first and second electroluminescent elements each include a lower electrode, a functional layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a first or second color filter. The display device includes an overlapping region where the first and second color filters overlap each other in a plan view. Light transmitted through the first color filter has a higher luminosity factor than light transmitted through the second color filter. L2>L1, wherein L2 is the distance between the light-emitting region of the second electroluminescent element and the second color filter, and L1 is the distance between the light-emitting region of the first electroluminescent element and the first color filter. |
US11527565B2 |
Color and infrared image sensor
A color and infrared image sensor includes a silicon substrate, MOS transistors formed in the substrate, a stack covering the substrate and including a first photosensitive layer, an electrically-insulating layer, a second photosensitive layer, and color filters. The image sensor further includes electrodes on either side of the first photosensitive layer and delimiting first photodiodes, and electrodes on either side of the second photosensitive layer and delimiting second photodiodes. The first photosensitive layer absorbs the electromagnetic waves of the visible spectrum and of a portion of the infrared spectrum and the second photosensitive layer absorbs the electromagnetic waves of the visible spectrum and gives way to the electromagnetic waves of the portion of the infrared spectrum. |
US11527555B2 |
Driving substrate and electronic device with a thin film transistor that is divided into multiple active blocks
A driving substrate is provided. The driving substrate includes a substrate and a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate. The thin film transistor is divided into at least two active blocks. Two adjacent ones of the at least two active blocks are separated from each other by a first gap, and a ratio of the first gap to an average width of the two adjacent ones of the at least two active blocks in a first direction is greater than or equal to 0.1 and less than 0.5. |
US11527549B2 |
Memory device and method of manufacturing the same
A memory device and a method of manufacturing the memory device includes a stacked structure having a cell region and a slimming region. The memory device also includes a plurality of vertical channel structures each including memory cells and vertically passing through the stacked structure in the cell region. The memory device further includes a plurality of support structures each having a structure of each of the vertical channel structures and vertically passing through the stacked structure in the slimming region. The plurality of support structures have different heights depending on the shape of the stacked structure in the slimming region. |
US11527548B2 |
Semiconductor devices and electronic systems including an etch stop material, and related methods
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor material extending through a stack of alternating levels of a conductive material and an insulative material, and a material comprising cerium oxide and at least another oxide adjacent to the semiconductor material. Related electronic systems and methods are also disclosed. |
US11527547B2 |
Hybrid bonding contact structure of three-dimensional memory device
Embodiments of through array contact structures of a 3D memory device and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The memory device includes an alternating layer stack disposed on a first substrate. The alternating layer stack includes a first region including an alternating dielectric stack, and a second region including an alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The memory device further comprises a barrier structure including two parallel barrier walls extending vertically through the alternating layer stack and laterally along a word line direction to laterally separate the first region from the second region. The memory device further comprises a plurality of through array contacts in the first region, each through array contact extending vertically through the alternating dielectric stack. |
US11527546B2 |
Microelectronic devices including conductive structures, and related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, each of the tiers individually comprising a conductive structure and an insulative structure, strings of memory cells vertically extending through the stack structure, the strings of memory cells comprising a channel material vertically extending through the stack structure, and another stack structure vertically overlying the stack structure and comprising other tiers of alternating levels of other conductive structures and other insulative structures, the other conductive structures exhibiting a conductivity greater than a conductivity of the conductive structures of the stack structure. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described. |
US11527545B2 |
Architecture design and process for 3D logic and 3D memory
Techniques herein include methods of forming circuits by combining multiple substrates. High voltage devices are fabricated on a first wafer, and low voltage devices and/or memory are then fabricated on a second wafer and/or third wafer. |
US11527543B2 |
Polysilicon removal in word line contact region of memory devices
The present disclosure describes a patterning process for a strap region in a memory cell for the removal of material between polysilicon lines. The patterning process includes depositing a first hard mask layer in a divot formed on a top portion of a polysilicon layer interposed between a first polysilicon gate structure and a second polysilicon gate; depositing a second hard mask layer on the first hard mask layer. The patterning process also includes performing a first etch to remove the second hard mask layer and a portion of the second hard mask layer from the divot, performing a second etch to remove the second hard mask layer from the divot; and performing a third etch to remove the polysilicon layer not covered by the first and second hard mask layers to form a separation between the first polysilicon gate structure and the second polysilicon structure. |
US11527541B2 |
System and method for reducing resistance in anti-fuse cell
A memory device includes an anti-fuse cell array having a plurality of anti-fuse cells, each of the plurality of anti-fuse cells having a first transistor and a second transistor connected to the first transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor is connected to a bit line and the bit line is a buried rail formed in a substrate of the first transistor and the second transistor. |
US11527540B2 |
Implantations for forming source/drain regions of different transistors
A method includes forming a first transistor including forming a first gate stack, epitaxially growing a first source/drain region on a side of the first gate stack, and performing a first implantation to implant the first source/drain region. The method further includes forming a second transistor including forming a second gate stack, forming a second gate spacer on a sidewall of the second gate stack, epitaxially growing a second source/drain region on a side of the second gate stack, and performing a second implantation to implant the second source/drain region. An inter-layer dielectric is formed to cover the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region. The first implantation is performed before the inter-layer dielectric is formed, and the second implantation is performed after the inter-layer dielectric is formed. |
US11527529B2 |
Electrostatic discharge protection device
An electrostatic discharge protection device including a substrate, a first PNP element, a second PNP element, and an isolation region is provided. The substrate has a P-type conductivity. The first and second PNP elements are formed in the substrate. The isolation region isolates the first and second PNP elements. |
US11527527B2 |
Tap cell, integrated circuit structure and forming method thereof
Provided is a tap cell including a substrate, a first well, a second well, a first doped region, and the second doped region. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The first well has a first dopant type and includes a first portion disposed in the first region and a second portion extending into the second region. The second well has a second dopant type and includes a third portion disposed in the second region and a fourth portion extending into the first region. The first doped region having the first dopant type is disposed in the second portion of the first well and the third portion of the second well along the second region. The second doped region having the second dopant type is disposed in the first portion of the first well and the fourth portion of the second well along the first region. |
US11527526B2 |
Semiconductor device
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device manufacturing method. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate, including a high-frequency-block group and a low-power-block group; forming high-frequency-type logic standard cells on the high-frequency-block group of the semiconductor substrate. The high-frequency-type logic standard cells have a high-frequency-type cell height, a high-frequency-type operating frequency, and a high-frequency-type power. The method further includes forming low-power-type logic standard cells on the low-power-block group of the semiconductor substrate. The low-power-type logic standard cells have a low-power-type cell height, a low-power-type operating frequency, and a low-power-type power. |
US11527524B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes an insulating structure; a plurality of horizontal layers vertically stacked and spaced apart from each other in the insulating structure; a conductive material pattern contacting the insulating structure; and a vertical structure penetrating through the plurality of horizontal layers and extending into the conductive material pattern in the insulating structure. Each of the plurality of horizontal layers comprises a conductive material, the vertical structure comprises a vertical portion and a protruding portion, the vertical portion of the vertical structure penetrates through the plurality of horizontal layers, the protruding portion of the vertical structure extends from the vertical portion into the conductive material pattern, a width of the vertical portion is greater than a width of the protruding portion, and a side surface of the protruding portion is in contact with the conductive material pattern. |
US11527522B2 |
Display device and method of fabricating the same
A method of fabricating a display device includes forming a circuit layer on a base layer, forming a first preliminary electrode and a second preliminary electrode on the circuit layer, forming a photoresist layer on the first preliminary electrode and the second preliminary electrode, patterning the photoresist layer to form a photoresist pattern, treating a region of each of the first preliminary electrode and the second preliminary electrode to form a first electrode and a second electrode having regions of lower and higher electrical resistance, and disposing a light-emitting element on the first electrode and the second electrode at regions having lower electrical resistance. |
US11527519B2 |
LED unit for display and display apparatus having the same
A light emitting device for a display including a first substrate, a first LED sub-unit disposed on the first substrate, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit, a second substrate disposed on the third LED sub-unit, a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad, a third electrode pad, and a fourth electrode pad disposed on the second substrate, and through-hole vias electrically connecting the second, third, and fourth electrode pads to the first, second, and third LED sub-units, respectively, in which the first electrode pad is electrically connected to the first LED sub-unit without overlapping any through-hole vias. |
US11527518B2 |
Heat dissipation in semiconductor packages and methods of forming same
A semiconductor package includes a first package component comprising: a first semiconductor die; a first encapsulant around the first semiconductor die; and a first redistribution structure electrically connected to the semiconductor die. The semiconductor package further includes a second package component bonded to the first package component, wherein the second package component comprises a second semiconductor die; a heat spreader between the first semiconductor die and the second package component; and a second encapsulant between the first package component and the second package component, wherein the second encapsulant has a lower thermal conductivity than the heat spreader. |
US11527511B2 |
Electronic device comprising a support substrate and stacked electronic chips
An electronic device includes a support substrate to which a first electronic chip and a second electronic chip are mounted in a position situated on top of one another. First electrical connection elements are interposed between the first electronic chip and the support substrate. Second electrical connection elements are interposed between the second electronic chip and the support substrate and are situated at a distance from a periphery of the first electronic chip. Third electrical connection elements are interposed between the first electronic chip and the second electronic chip. |
US11527510B2 |
Finer grain dynamic random access memory
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to dynamic random access memory (DRAM), such as finer grain DRAM, are described. For example, an array of memory cells in a memory device may be partitioned into regions. Each region may include a plurality of banks of memory cells. Each region may be associated with a data channel configured to communicate with a host device. In some examples, each channel of the array may include two or more data pins. The ratio of data pins per channel may be two or four in various examples. Other examples may include eight data pins per channel. |
US11527509B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package including a first semiconductor chip including a first semiconductor layer having a first forward surface having a first integrated circuit thereon and a first rear surface and a plurality of first through vias electrically connected to the first integrated circuit and including at least first and second groups of first through vias, a second semiconductor chip including a second integrated circuit electrically connected to the first group of first through vias, and a third semiconductor chip including third through vias electrically connected to the second group of first through vias, wherein the first group of first through vias transfer input/output signals of the first integrated circuit, and the second group of first through vias transfer power to the first integrated circuit, may be provided. |
US11527507B2 |
Microelectronic packages with high integration microelectronic dice stack
A microelectronic package may include stacked microelectronic dice, wherein a first microelectronic die is attached to a microelectronic substrate, and a second microelectronic die is stacked over at least a portion of the first microelectronic die, wherein the microelectronic substrate includes a plurality of pillars extending therefrom, wherein the second microelectronic die includes a plurality of pillars extending therefrom in a mirror-image configuration to the plurality of microelectronic substrate pillars, and wherein the second microelectronic die pillars are attached to microelectronic substrate pillars with an attachment material. |
US11527504B2 |
Conductive external connector structure and method of forming
External electrical connectors and methods of forming such external electrical connectors are discussed. A method includes forming an external electrical connector structure on a substrate. The forming the external electrical connector structure includes plating a pillar on the substrate at a first agitation level affected at the substrate in a first solution. The method further includes plating solder on the external electrical connector structure at a second agitation level affected at the substrate in a second solution. The second agitation level affected at the substrate is greater than the first agitation level affected at the substrate. The plating the solder further forms a shell on a sidewall of the external electrical connector structure. |
US11527495B2 |
Semiconductor package with an antenna substrate
A semiconductor package includes a front redistribution structure having a first surface and a second surface, opposite to the first surface, a dielectric layer, an antenna substrate including a plurality of antenna members in the dielectric layer, a semiconductor chip having a connection pad connected to the plurality of antenna members, a conductive core structure having a first through-hole accommodating the antenna substrate and a second through-hole accommodating the semiconductor chip, and a rear redistribution structure including a conductive cover layer exposing an upper portion of the antenna substrate and covering an upper portion of the semiconductor chip, and a conductive via connecting the conductive cover layer to the conductive core structure. |
US11527494B2 |
Module and electronic apparatus
A module of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first substrate including a first wiring pattern and a second substrate having a second wiring pattern with a wiring density different from that of the first wiring pattern, in which the second substrate is bonded to the first substrate. At least one of the first substrate or the second substrate has visible light transmittance. |
US11527492B2 |
Display panel with planarization layer and sidewalls
The invention discloses a display panel, comprising: a first substrate including a display region and a peripheral region adjacent to each other; a plurality of pixel units disposed on the first substrate and located in the display region; a planarization layer disposed on the first substrate and located in the display region and the peripheral region; and an organic passivation layer disposed on the first substrate, covering the planarization layer and located in the display region and the peripheral region; wherein the planarization layer further comprises a first region planarization layer located in the display region, and a second region planarization layer located in the peripheral region, the first region planarization layer is formed with a first sidewall in a boundary region between the display region and the peripheral region, and a height of the first sidewall is greater than a height of the first region planarization layer. The invention can effectively reduce probability of the organic passivation layer on sidewalls of the passivation layers, and can better avoid moisture from penetrating the organic material into the display panel. |
US11527491B2 |
Method for fabricating substrate structure
A substrate structure has an obtuse portion formed between a side surface and a bottom surface of a substrate body. The obtuse portion includes a plurality of turning surfaces to disperse the stress of the substrate body generated in the packaging process. Therefore, the substrate body is prevented from being cracked. A method for fabricating the substrate structure and an electronic package including the substrate structure are also provided. |
US11527488B2 |
Semiconductor package and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor package includes a magnetic layer including an inner portion having a predetermined area and an outer portion disposed outward of the inner portion, a lower polymer layer disposed below the magnetic layer, and a dicing surface formed by ends of the magnetic layer and the lower polymer layer and extending along a stacked direction of the magnetic layer and the lower polymer layer. At least a part of the outer portion of the magnetic layer includes an inclined surface inclined downward in the stacked direction, and has a thickness greater than a thickness of the inner portion in the stacked direction. |
US11527487B2 |
Package structure and method of manufacturing the same
The invention provides a package structure, comprising: a substrate disposed with a solid grounded copper layer; at least two radio frequency chip modules disposed on the substrate; a plastic encapsulation disposed on the substrate, covered on a surface of the substrate, and coating the at least two radio frequency chip modules therein; a groove located between the adjacent two radio frequency chip modules, and penetrating an upper surface and a lower surface of the plastic encapsulation; a solder filling body filled in the groove, wherein an upper surface of the solder filling body is flushed with the upper surface of the plastic encapsulation; and a shielding layer covered on the upper surface and lateral surfaces of the plastic encapsulation, an upper surface of the solder filling body and lateral surfaces of the substrate; wherein a position of the solid grounded copper layer corresponds to a position of the groove, and makes contact with the solder filling body in the groove. |
US11527484B2 |
Dielectric filler material in conductive material that functions as fiducial for an electronic device
An electronic device includes a substrate, and the substrate may include one or more layers. The one or more layers may include a dielectric material and may include one or more electrical traces. The electronic device may include a layer of conductive material, and the layer of conductive material may define a void in the conductive material. The electronic device may include a fiducial mark, and the fiducial mark may include a filler material positioned in the void defined by the conductive material. The fiducial mark may be coupled to the layer of conductive material. The filler material may have a lower reflectivity in comparison to the conductive material, for instance to provide a contrast with the conductive material. |
US11527482B2 |
Hybrid integrated circuit architecture
An electronic assembly comprising a carrier wafer having a top wafer surface and a bottom wafer surface; an electronic integrated circuit being formed in the carrier wafer and comprising an integrated circuit contact pad on the top wafer surface; said carrier wafer comprising a through-wafer cavity having walls that join said top wafer surface to said bottom wafer surface; a component chip having a component chip top surface, a component chip bottom surface and component chip side surfaces, the component chip being held in said through-wafer cavity by direct contact of at least a side surface of said component chip with an attachment metal that fills at least a portion of said through-wafer cavity; said component chip comprising at least one component contact pad on said component chip bottom surface; and a conductor connecting said integrated circuit contact pad and said component contact pad. |
US11527479B2 |
Stepped interposer for stacked chip package
A chip package including a chip; a substrate; an interposer module including a first layer having a larger surface area than the surface area of a second layer, wherein a bottom of the second layer is attached to a top of the first layer area creating an exposed surface area of the first layer; via openings extending at least partially through the first layer; via openings extending at least partially through the first layer and the second layer; a plurality of conductive routing electrically coupled between the via openings, wherein the chip is electrically coupled to the via openings of a top of the second layer, wherein the substrate is electrically coupled to via openings of a bottom of the first layer; and an electronic component electrically coupled to the via openings of the exposed surface area of the first layer. |
US11527476B2 |
Interconnect structure of semiconductor device
A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes depositing a dielectric layer over a conductive feature. The dielectric layer is patterned to form an opening therein. The opening exposes a first portion of the conductive feature. A first barrier layer is deposited on a sidewall of the opening. The first portion of the conductive feature remains exposed at the end of depositing the first barrier layer. |
US11527473B2 |
Semiconductor memory device including capacitor
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device includes a peripheral logic structure disposed on a first substrate, a horizontal semiconductor layer disposed on a second substrate, a plurality of stack structures on the horizontal semiconductor layer in a first direction, wherein the plurality of stack structures include a memory cell region and a capacitor region, a plurality of electrode isolation regions extending in the first direction and a second direction and configured to separate the plurality of stack structures to be connected to the horizontal semiconductor layer and a plurality of through-via structures having a first side connected to a through channel contact through at least one metal pad, wherein a capacitor is formed between each of electrode pads and at least one of electrode isolation regions in the plurality of stack structures or at least one of the plurality of through-via structures. |
US11527472B2 |
Electronic package, supporting structure and fabrication method thereof
A supporting structure is provided, which forms a protective layer on a metal member having a plurality of conductive posts, and the protective layer is exposed from end surfaces of the conductive posts, such that conductors are formed on the end surfaces of the conductive posts, thereby avoiding damage of the protective layer. |
US11527470B2 |
Film package and method of fabricating package module
Disclosed are film packages and methods of fabricating package modules. The film package includes a film substrate that includes a chip region and a peripheral region facing each other in a first direction, a plurality of output pads that are arranged in the first direction on the chip region and on the peripheral region, and a semiconductor chip on the chip region and electrically connected to the output pads. The output pads on the chip region are arranged at regular first intervals along the first direction. The output pads include a plurality of first output pads that are arranged at a first pitch along the first direction on the chip region and a plurality of second output pads on the peripheral region. The second output pads are arranged at a second pitch greater than the first pitch of the first output pads. |
US11527469B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a multilayer wiring substrate including a plurality of wiring layers; a first semiconductor chip disposed on the wiring substrate; and a bonding layer bonding the first semiconductor chip to the wiring substrate. A trace formed on the wiring substrate includes a first trace width portion and a second trace width portion, a width of the first trace width portion being greater than the second trace width portion. |
US11527468B2 |
Semiconductor oxide or glass based connection body with wiring structure
A connection body which comprises a base structure at least predominantly made of a semiconductor oxide material or glass material, and an electrically conductive wiring structure on and/or in the base structure, wherein the electrically conductive wiring structure comprises at least one vertical wiring section with a first lateral dimension on and/or in the base structure and at least one lateral wiring section connected with the at least one vertical wiring section, wherein the at least one lateral wiring section has a second lateral dimension on and/or in the base structure, which is different to the first lateral dimension. |
US11527467B2 |
Multi-chip package with extended frame
According to the various aspects, a multi-chip semiconductor package includes a package substrate, an interconnect frame extending beyond a first side edge of the package substrate, the interconnect frame including a bottom surface positioned over and coupled to a top surface of the package substrate, a first semiconductor device positioned at least partially over and coupled to the interconnect frame, and a second semiconductor device positioned on the bottom surface of the interconnect frame alongside of the package substrate. The interconnect frame further includes a redistribution layer and a frame construct layer, and a plurality of vias coupled to the redistribution layer, with the frame construct layer further includes a recessed area, and the first semiconductor device is positioned in the recessed area. |
US11527465B2 |
Packages with Si-substrate-free interposer and method forming same
A method includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of redistribution lines in the plurality of dielectric layers, forming stacked vias in the plurality of dielectric layers with the stacked vias forming a continuous electrical connection penetrating through the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a dielectric layer over the stacked vias and the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of bond pads in the dielectric layer, and bonding a device die to the dielectric layer and a first portion of the plurality of bond pads through hybrid bonding. |
US11527463B2 |
Hybrid ball grid array package for high speed interconnects
According to various examples, a semiconductor package is described including a substrate raiser with interconnect vias that may be positioned on the bottom side of a substrate and mini solder balls positioned on the interconnect vias and a plurality of large solder balls positioned on the bottom side of the substrate adjacent to the substrate raiser, wherein the mini solder balls and the large solder balls extend approximately a same height from the substrate for mounting on a printed circuit board. |
US11527457B2 |
Package structure with buffer layer embedded in lid layer
Provided is a package structure including a substrate, a stiffener ring, an eccentric die, a lid layer, and a buffer layer. The stiffener ring is disposed on the substrate. The stiffener ring has an inner perimeter to enclose an accommodation area. The eccentric die is disposed within the accommodation area on the substrate. The eccentric die is offset from a center of the accommodation area to close to a first side of the stiffener ring. The lid layer is disposed on the stiffener ring and overlays the eccentric die. The buffer layer is embedded in the lid layer between the first side of the stiffener ring and the eccentric die. The buffer layer has a thickness less than a thickness of the lid layer. |
US11527452B2 |
Precision structured glass articles, integrated circuit packages, optical devices, microfluidic devices, and methods for making the same
The present disclosure relates to a reconstituted wafer- and/or panel-level package comprising a glass substrate having a plurality of cavities. Each cavity is configured to hold a single IC chip. The reconstituted wafer- and/or panel-level package can be used in a fan-out wafer or panel level packaging process. The glass substrate can include at least two layers having different photosensitivities with one layer being sufficiently photosensitive to be capable of being photomachined to form the cavities. |
US11527451B2 |
Molded air-cavity package and device comprising the same
The present invention relates to a molded air-cavity package. In addition, the present invention is related to a device comprising the same. The present invention is particularly related to molded air-cavity packages for radio-frequency ‘RF’ applications including but not limited to RF power amplifiers.Instead of using hard-stop features that are arranged around the entire perimeter of the package in a continuous manner, the present invention proposes to use spaced apart pillars formed by first and second cover supporting elements. By using only a limited amount of pillars, e.g. three or four, the position of the cover relative to the body can be defined in a more predictable manner. This particularly holds if the pillars are arranged in the outer corners of the package. |
US11527449B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus
A semiconductor apparatus includes: a semiconductor substrate; a diffusion layer; a first depletion prevention region; a channel stopper electrode, a monitor electrode and an insulating film. The inner edge portion of the monitor electrode is positioned between the diffusion layer and the first depletion prevention region. A distance between the outer edge portion of the channel stopper electrode and the inner edge portion of the monitor electrode is a first distance. A distance between the diffusion layer and the first depletion prevention region is a second distance. The first and second distances are set so that a discharge voltage between the channel stopper electrode and the monitor electrode becomes greater than an avalanche breakdown voltage at a PN junction portion of the diffusion layer and the semiconductor substrate. |
US11527446B2 |
Transistor having strain-inducing anchors and a strain-enhancing suspended channel
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a fabrication method that includes forming a first-region channel over a first region of a substrate, wherein the first-region channel further includes lateral sidewalls having a length (L), a first end sidewall having a first width (W1), and a second end sidewall having a second width (W2). L is greater than W1, and L is greater than W2. A first stress anchor is formed on the first end sidewall of the first-region channel, and a second stress anchor is formed on the second end sidewall of the first-region channel. The first stress anchor is configured to impart strain through the first end sidewalls to the first-region channel. The second stress anchor is configured to impart strain through the second end sidewalls to the first-region channel. |
US11527441B2 |
Method for producing a detachment area in a solid body
A method for producing a detachment area in a solid body in described. The solid body has a crystal lattice and is at least partially transparent to laser beams emitted by a laser. The method includes: modifying the crystal lattice of the solid by a laser beam, wherein the laser beam penetrates through a main surface of a detachable solid portion of the solid body, wherein a plurality of modifications are produced in the crystal lattice, wherein the modification are formed in a plane parallel to the main surface and at a distance from one another, wherein as a result of the modifications, the crystal lattice cracks the regions surrounding the modifications sub-critically in at least the one portion, and wherein the subcritical cracks are arranged in a plane parallel to the main surface. |
US11527435B2 |
Metal capping layer and methods thereof
A method and structure for forming an enhanced metal capping layer includes forming a portion of a multi-level metal interconnect network over a substrate. In some embodiments, the portion of the multi-level metal interconnect network includes a plurality of metal regions. In some cases, a dielectric region is disposed between each of the plurality of metal regions. By way of example, a metal capping layer may be deposited over each of the plurality of metal regions. Thereafter, in some embodiments, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) may be deposited, where the SAM forms selectively on the metal capping layer, while the dielectric region is substantially free of the SAM. In various examples, after selectively forming the SAM on the metal capping layer, a thermal process may be performed, where the SAM prevents diffusion of the metal capping layer during the thermal process. |
US11527433B2 |
Via and plug architectures for integrated circuit interconnects and methods of manufacture
Methods and architectures for forming metal line plugs that define separations between two metal line ends, and for forming vias that interconnect the metal lines to an underlying contact. The line plugs are present in-plane with the metal lines while vias connecting the lines are in an underlying plane. One lithographic plate or reticle that prints lines at a given pitch (P) may be employed multiple times, for example each time with a pitch halving (P/2), or pitch quartering (P/4) patterning technique, to define both metal line ends and metal line vias. A one-dimensional (1D) grating mask may be employed in conjunction with cross-grating (orthogonal) masking structures that are likewise amenable to pitch splitting techniques. |
US11527424B2 |
Substrate transfer systems and methods of use thereof
Disclosed herein are systems and methods relating to a transfer chamber for an electronic device processing system. The transfer chamber can include a first magnetic levitation track having a face-up orientation and a second magnetic levitation track spaced from the first magnetic levitation track and having a face-down orientation. The system can include substrate carriers that move along the first and second magnetic levitation tracks where each substrate carrier includes a magnet on a bottom portion to interact with a first magnetic field and a second magnet on a top portion to interact with a second magnetic field. The system also can include at least one lift pin assembly to move the substrate carriers in a vertical direction between the first and second magnetic levitation tracks. |
US11527420B2 |
Micro-fabricated, stress-engineered members formed on passivation layer of integrated circuit
A release layer is formed on a surface of an integrated circuit wafer. The surface is passivated and includes metal contact materials. A stress-engineered film having an intrinsic stress profile is deposited over the release layer. The stress-engineered film is patterned and the release layer is undercut etched so that a released portion of the patterned stress-engineered film is released from the surface while leaving an anchor portion fixed to the surface. The intrinsic stress profile in the stress-engineered film biases the released portion away from the surface. The released portion is placed entirely within an area defined by the metal contact material. |
US11527419B2 |
Photonic integrated package and method forming same
A method includes placing an electronic die and a photonic die over a carrier, with a back surface of the electronic die and a front surface of the photonic die facing the carrier. The method further includes encapsulating the electronic die and the photonic die in an encapsulant, planarizing the encapsulant until an electrical connector of the electronic die and a conductive feature of the photonic die are revealed, and forming redistribution lines over the encapsulant. The redistribution lines electrically connect the electronic die to the photonic die. An optical coupler is attached to the photonic die. An optical fiber attached to the optical coupler is configured to optically couple to the photonic die. |
US11527416B2 |
Method for producing a 3D semiconductor device and structure including metal layers
A method for producing a 3D semiconductor device: providing a first level with a first single crystal layer; forming a plurality of first transistors in and/or on the first level with a first metal layer above; forming a second metal layer above the first metal layer; forming a third metal layer above the second metal layer; forming at least one second level on top of or above the third metal layer; performing a first etch step; performing additional processing steps to form a plurality of second transistors within the second level; forming a fourth metal layer above; forming a connection to the second metal layer which includes a via through the second level; forming a fifth metal layer above, where some second transistors include a metal gate, and the fifth metal layer thickness is at least 50% greater than the second metal layer thickness. |
US11527413B2 |
Cyclic plasma etch process
A method for processing a substrate includes performing a cyclic plasma etch process including a plurality of cycles, where each cycle of the plurality of cycles includes: causing chemical reactions with the surface of the substrate by exposing a surface of the substrate to fluorine radicals extracted from a first gas discharge plasma formed using a first gaseous mixture including a non-polymerizing fluorine compound; cooling the substrate and concurrently removing residual gaseous byproducts by flowing a second gaseous mixture over the substrate, and at the same time, suppressing the chemical reactions with the surface of the substrate; and performing a plasma surface modification process by exposing the surface of the substrate to hydrogen radicals extracted from a second gas discharge plasma formed using a third gaseous mixture including gases including nitrogen and hydrogen. |
US11527411B2 |
Interconnect structure having a carbon-containing barrier layer
An interconnect structure and a method of forming an interconnect structure are disclosed. The interconnect structure includes a conductive plug over a substrate; a conductive feature over the conductive plug, wherein the conductive feature has a first sidewall, a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, and a bottom surface; and a carbon-containing barrier layer having a first portion along the first sidewall of the conductive feature, a second portion along the second sidewall of the conductive feature, and a third portion along the bottom surface of the conductive feature. |
US11527408B2 |
Multiple spacer patterning schemes
The present disclosure provides forming nanostructures utilizing multiple patterning process with good profile control and feature transfer integrity. In one embodiment, a method for forming features on a substrate includes forming a first mandrel layer on a material layer disposed on a substrate. A first spacer layer is conformally formed on sidewalls of the first mandrel layer, wherein the first spacer layer comprises a doped silicon material. The first mandrel layer is selectively removed while keeping the first spacer layer. A second spacer layer is conformally formed on sidewalls of the first spacer layer and selectively removing the first spacer layer while keeping the second spacer layer. |
US11527403B2 |
Methods for filling a gap feature on a substrate surface and related semiconductor structures
A method for filling a gap feature on a substrate surface is disclosed. The method may include: providing a substrate comprising a non-planar surface including one or more gap features; depositing a metal oxide film over a surface of the one or more gap features by a cyclical deposition process; contacting the metal oxide with an organic ligand vapor; and converting at least a portion of the metal oxide film to a porous material thereby filling the one or more gap features. Semiconductor structures including a metal-organic framework material formed by the methods of the disclosure are also disclosed. |
US11527402B2 |
Method of processing substrate, substrate processing apparatus, recording medium, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
There is provided a technique that includes: forming an oxide film containing a central atom X of a precursor on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a) forming a first layer containing a component in which a first group is bonded to the central atom X on the substrate by supplying the precursor having a molecular structure in which the first group and a second group are bonded to the central atom X and having a bonding energy between the first group and the central atom X that is higher than a bonding energy between the second group and the central atom X, to the substrate; and (b) forming a second layer containing the central atom X by supplying an oxidizing agent to the substrate to oxidize the first layer, wherein in (a), the precursor is supplied under a condition in which the second group is desorbed and the first group is not desorbed from the central atom X contained in the precursor and the central atom X is adsorbed on a surface of the substrate in a state where the second group is desorbed from the central atom X and the bonding of the first group and the central atom X is maintained. |
US11527399B2 |
Wafer cleaning apparatus based on light irradiation and wafer cleaning system including the same
Provided are a wafer cleaning apparatus based on light irradiation capable of effectively cleaning residue on a wafer without damaging the wafer, and a wafer cleaning system including the cleaning apparatus. The wafer cleaning apparatus is configured to clean residue on the wafer by light irradiation and includes: a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate light onto the wafer during the light irradiation; a wafer processing unit configured accommodate the wafer and to control a position of the wafer such that the light is irradiated onto the wafer during the light irradiation; and a cooling unit configured to cool the wafer after the light irradiation has been completed. The light irradiation unit, the wafer processing unit, and the cooling unit are sequentially arranged in a vertical structure with the light irradiation unit above the wafer processing unit and the wafer processing unit above the cooling unit. |
US11527394B2 |
Methods and apparatus for determining interference in MS scan data, filtering ions and performing mass spectrometry analysis on a sample
A method of determining one or more interference parameters for a particular peak of an isotopic distribution corresponding to a precursor molecule in MS scan data is provided. The MS scan data comprises a plurality of peaks. Each peak has a mass-to-charge ratio and a relative abundance. The isotopic distribution comprises a subset of the plurality of peaks. The one or more interference parameters comprises a peak purity, pi, for the particular peak. The method comprises determining that there are no interfering peaks relevant to the isotopic distribution and determining that the peak purity, pi, for the particular peak should be a maximum purity value. Alternatively, the method comprises identifying one or more interfering peaks from the MS scan data, wherein the one or more interfering peaks do not belong to the subset of peaks of the isotopic distribution, and determining the peak purity, pi, for the particular peak based on: the relative abundance, Ii, of the particular peak, and the relative abundance of the one or more interfering peaks. |
US11527390B2 |
Base conducting layer beneath graphite layer of ceramic cathode for use with cathodic arc deposition
Cathode structures are disclosed for use with pulsed cathodic arc deposition systems for forming diamond-like carbon (DLC) films on devices, such as on the sliders of hard disk drives. In illustrative examples, a base layer composed of an electrically- and thermally-conducting material is provided between the ceramic substrate of the cathode and a graphitic paint outer coating, where the base layer is a silver-filled coating that adheres to the ceramic rod and the graphitic paint. The base layer is provided, in some examples, to achieve and maintain a relatively low resistance (and hence a relatively high conductivity) within the cathode structure during pulsed arc deposition to avoid issues that can result from a loss of conductivity within the graphitic paint over time as deposition proceeds. Examples of suitable base material compounds are described herein where, e.g., the base layer can withstand temperatures of 1700° F. (927° C.). |
US11527388B2 |
Member for plasma processing devices
A member for a plasma processing device of the present disclosure is a member for a plasma processing device made of ceramics and having a shape of a cylindrical body with a through hole in an axial direction. The ceramics is mainly composed of aluminum oxide, and has a plurality of crystal grains and a grain boundary phase that is present between the crystal grains. An inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 1 μm or more and 3 μm or less, and an arithmetic height Rmax of 30 μm or more and 130 μm or less. |
US11527383B2 |
Nanosecond pulser RF isolation for plasma systems
Embodiments of the invention include a plasma system. The plasma system includes a plasma chamber; an RF driver configured to drive bursts into the plasma chamber with an RF frequency; a nanosecond pulser configured to drive pulses into the plasma chamber with a pulse repetition frequency, the pulse repetition frequency being less than the RF frequency; a high pass filter disposed between the RF driver and the plasma chamber; and a low pass filter disposed between the nanosecond pulser and the plasma chamber. |
US11527381B2 |
Ion implanter and model generation method
There is provided an ion implanter including a beam generation device that generates an ion beam, based on an implantation recipe, a plurality of measurement devices that measure at least one physical quantity of the ion beam, and a control device that acquires a data set including a plurality of measurement values measured by the plurality of measurement devices, and evaluates measurement validity of the at least one physical quantity of the ion beam by using a model representing a correlation between the plurality of measurement values. |
US11527380B2 |
Ion implanter toxic gas delivery system
An ion implantation system including an ion implanter, a dopant source gas supply system and a monitoring system is provided. The ion implanter is inside a housing and includes an ion source unit. The dopant source gas supply system includes a first and a second dopant source gas storage cylinder in a gas cabinet outside of the housing and configured to supply a dopant source gas to the ion source unit, and a first and a second dopant source gas supply pipe coupled to respective first and second dopant source gas storage cylinders. Each of the first and second dopant source gas supply pipes includes an inner pipe and an outer pipe enclosing the inner pipe. The monitoring system is coupled to the outer pipe of each of the first and the second dopant source gas supply pipes. |
US11527371B2 |
Push-button switch with lubricant retaining portion
A switch includes: a housing having a box shape; a plunger movable in a first direction intersecting an opening surface; and a movable piece arranged inside the housing and is elastically deformable in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The plunger has a touching portion which is arranged so as to face the movable piece in the second direction inside the housing and to be able to elastically deform the movable piece in the second direction by touching the movable piece, and further, a lubricant retaining portion that can retain a lubricant is provided in at least one of the touching portion of the plunger and a touched portion of the movable piece. |
US11527370B2 |
Dome switch button
A dome switch button is installed on a circuit board. The dome switch button includes an elastic piece, a conductive piece and a buffering element. The elastic piece is located over the conductive piece. The buffering element is located under the conductive piece and electrically connected with the circuit board. When the elastic piece is subjected to elastic deformation to trigger the conductive piece, an electric signal is generated. The buffering element is electrically connected with the circuit board. Moreover, a first electric pad and a second electric pad of the circuit board are covered by the buffering element. The electricity from the first electric pad and the second electric pad of the circuit board can be transferred to the conductive piece through the buffering element. Consequently, the conductive piece can be electrically connected with the circuit board without the need of using additional conductor lines. |
US11527368B2 |
Inertial short-circuit and seismic hook
Embodiments of the disclosure can include an inertial short-circuit and seismic hook for an electrical equipment disconnect switch. |
US11527367B2 |
Switch with pyrotechnic actuator
A switch includes: an ignition chamber; a pyrotechnic actuator for releasing gas into the ignition chamber upon ignition; a first conductor and a second conductor, the first and second conductors including connection contacts; a third conductor moveable in a direction from a first position towards a second position upon actuation by the pyrotechnic actuator; and a breakable retaining member for retaining the third conductor in the first position prior to actuation by the pyrotechnic actuator, the retaining member breaking upon actuation of the pyrotechnic actuator to allow movement of the third conductor. In the first position, the third conductor is arranged between, and in electrical and physical contact with, the first and second conductors to define a current conduction path. In the second position, the third conductor is electrically and physically separate from the first and second conductors. |
US11527362B2 |
Multi-layer ceramic capacitor and method of producing the same
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a first region including a polycrystal including, as a main component, crystal grains free from intragranular pores; a second region that includes a polycrystal including, as a main component, crystal grains including intragranular pores and includes a higher content of silicon than a content of silicon in the first region; a capacitance forming unit including ceramic layers laminated along a first direction, and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers; and a protective portion including a cover that covers the capacitance forming unit and constitutes a main surface facing in the first direction, a side margin constituting a side surface facing in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a ridge constituting a connection portion, the connection portion connecting the main surface and the side surface to each other. The ceramic layers include the first region. The ridge includes the second region. |
US11527355B2 |
Primary coil former for an ignition coil, and ignition coil with such a primary coil former
A primary coil former for an ignition coil has a winding carrier surface configured for a primary coil wound thereon. Two primary winding stops limit the winding carrier surface at first and second axial ends of the carrier surface, respectively. Two holders are formed at the first axial end, each configured for holding one end of a winding wire. Two deflection domes are formed at the second axial end, one of the domes configured for guiding a winding wire back to the winding carrier surface for a clockwise winding and the other dome configured for guiding a winding wire back to the winding carrier surface for a counterclockwise winding. A groove in the winding carrier surface receives a winding wire which leads from one of the ends of the winding carrier surface up to a gap between the two deflection domes at the opposite end of the winding carrier surface. |
US11527350B2 |
Multilayer coil component
A multilayer coil component includes an element body including a plurality of laminated insulator layers, and a coil disposed in the element body. The coil includes a first coil conductor having a first inner diameter, a second coil conductor having a second inner diameter smaller than the first inner diameter, and a connection conductor connecting the first coil conductor and the second coil conductor. The second coil conductor is adjacent to the first coil conductor in a direction in which the plurality of insulator layers are laminated. The connection conductor has a shape along the first coil conductor and the second coil conductor. |
US11527349B2 |
Inductor device with light weight configuration
Inductor device comprising a rectangular prismatic electro-insulating support (10) with three pairs of parallel outer faces (11) defining orthogonal axis (X, Y, Z), and defining eight corners; a rectangular prismatic magnetic core (20) supported by said electro-insulating support (10); and three conductor wire windings (DX, DY, DZ) wound around the three axis (X, Y, Z) surrounding the magnetic core (20); wherein the magnetic core (20) is a hollow magnetic core (20) composed by three pairs of sheets (21), each pair of sheets (21) being composed by two parallel sheets (21) facing each other perpendicular to one of said axis (X, Y, Z), and wherein each sheet (21) is made of a magnetic material, said sheet (21) being in contact and attached to the electro-insulating support (10) and being in contact with the surrounding orthogonal sheets (21). |
US11527341B2 |
Coiled electronic component, coil component, manufacturing method of coil component, inductance element, T-type filter, oscillation circuit, and manufacturing method of inductance
A coiled electronic component includes: an electronic component body which includes a coil portion having a spiral structure and formed of an electrically conductive material, and electrically conductive connection portions arranged on both ends of the coil portion; and a pair of electrodes for respectively connecting the electrically conductive connection portions to assembly portions arranged on an assembly object. The electrode includes a pair of pinching pieces for pinching the electrically conductive connection portion, and the pair of pinching pieces is opened in a manner that the electrically conductive connection portion is received and fitted therebetween. |
US11527338B2 |
Patch cord inspecting system
A patch cord identification inspection system includes a patch cord having first and second connectors, which are coupled to both end parts of an optical fiber cable and are detachably connected to predetermined electronic devices and in which first and second light-emitting diode (LED) modules are respectively embedded. The patch cord identification inspection system includes an identification inspector selectively slidably and detachably coupled to any one of the first and second connectors and configured to identify and inspect electrical connection states of the first and second connectors on the basis of lighting states of the first and second LED modules. |
US11527337B2 |
Silane crosslinkable polymer composition
The invention relates to a crosslinkable polymer composition comprising (a) a polyolefin bearing hydrolysable silane groups and a silanol condensation catalyst compound, as well as to an article, preferably a cable, thereof. Also the use of the silanol condensation catalyst compound for crosslinking an article, preferably a layer of a cable is provided. |
US11527335B2 |
Electronic blackbody cavity and secondary electron detection device using the same
A electronic blackbody cavity is provided. The electronic blackbody cavity comprises an inner surface; a chamber surrounded by the inner surface; an opening configured to make an electron beam enter the chamber; and a porous carbon material layer located on the inner surface. The porous carbon material layer consists of a plurality of carbon material particles and a plurality of micro gaps. The plurality of micro gaps are defined by the plurality of carbon material particles. A secondary electron detection device using the electronic blackbody cavity is also provided. |
US11527332B2 |
Sensor data analyzing machines
Scalable, configurable, universal, complete spectrum sensor data analyzing machines are provided that make selected determinations from a complete spectrum of cyber determinations regarding or utilizing sensor observations or sensor observation subjects. Analyzing machines utilize necessary resources and predetermined criteria in their making of selected cyber determinations. Analyzing machines utilize measure points in their accurate locating of selected analytically rich aspects, characteristics, or features of or from sensor observation-derived representations, analyzing machines assign appropriate informational representations to selected analytically rich aspects, characteristics, features, or measure points, which are stored in concise datasets where they can be utilized in real-time or thereafter by analyzing machines in their making of selected cyber determinations regarding or utilizing sensor observations or sensor observation subjects. Analyzing machines are configurable for being utilized, in whole or part, as touchless user interfaces, 100% accurate, constantly performed cyberspace identity tests, or universal health metrics monitors. |
US11527331B2 |
System and method for determining the effectiveness of medications using genetics
A system and method for alerting a healthcare provider to ineffective prescribed medications is provided. A laboratory system receives test results with genetic markers for a patient, queries a database containing medications known to be ineffective in persons having particular genetic markers to determine whether any medications prescribed by, or likely to be prescribed by, a healthcare provider to the patient are known to be ineffective in persons having the same genetic markers as the patient, and transmits an alert containing such information to a healthcare provider system for the healthcare provider. |
US11527327B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting likelihood of malignancy for a patient using a pair of medical images
There is provided a computer implemented method for detection of likelihood of malignancy in an anatomical image of a patient for planning treatment thereof, comprising: receiving a pair of images that are either of a same patient or from two different patients, wherein the pair of images comprises anatomically corresponding anatomical images each depicting internal anatomical structures of the patient, feeding the pair of images into a model, outputting by the model, an indication of whether the pair of images are of a same patient or not, and generating an indication of likelihood of malignancy when the model wrongly outputs that the pair of images are not of the same patient, when in fact the pair of images are of the same patient, wherein treatment of the patient is planned according to the indication of likelihood of malignancy. |
US11527322B2 |
Context-based user interface to medical database
A user interface to a medical database stores context information from previous queries and uses the context information as part of information selection criteria for a current query, without requiring the users to fully specify the information selection criteria in each query. The context information is automatically stored as a profile for each user, for each group of users and, optionally, for each institution to which a user is affiliated. In response to a current user query, a combination of the information selection criterion currently entered by the user and one or more information selection criteria previously entered by the user, group and (optionally) institution is used to query the medical database. Optionally, a user's group membership may be automatically determined, based on current physical location of the user and potential groups, for example as estimated from a meeting calendar or signals received by a wireless access point. |
US11527321B2 |
Augmented reality for predictive workflow in an operating room
An augmented reality system includes a head-mountable augmented reality platform (152) having a display to provide guidance to a user. A prediction module (115) is trained in a procedure and is configured to predict a next activity in the procedure based on a current condition. An image generation module (148) is responsive to the prediction module to provide a visual cue of a predicted next activity to the user through the head-mountable augmented reality platform. |
US11527317B2 |
System and method for the interactive provision of meal plans to optimize human health goals through nutrient consumption to enhance body functions, health goals and disease prevention
The invention provides a system and method for the Interactive input of information and generation of data that may provide for provision of meal plans and an optimizer score to optimize human health goals through nutrient consumption to enhance body functions, health goals and disease prevention. A computer system may be provided to communicate using a communication network that may provide software configured to develop a user profile based upon user information entered by the user including in connection with health goals, health information and meal, raw food and ingredients that may be developed by the software based upon user information and searching of the data bases of the present invention. |
US11527315B2 |
Drug device configured for wireless communication
This invention relates to an ingestible drug delivery device configured for wireless communication with other ingestible drug delivery devices. |
US11527313B1 |
Computer network architecture with machine learning and artificial intelligence and care groupings
Embodiments in the present disclosure relate generally to computer network architectures for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the automatic development of patient care groupings of patient data. Embodiments of computer network architecture automatically generate care grouping, and organize and analyse patient care data accordingly, and generate and transmit reports of the care grouping definitions, data, and analysis. Embodiments may generate care groupings either occasionally on demand, or periodically, or as triggered by events such as an update of available data. Embodiments may include a combination system databases with data provided by system users, and third-party databases to generate the patient care groupings, including social media data, financial data, socio-economic data, medical data, search engine data, e-commerce site data, and other databases. |
US11527311B2 |
Multi-services application gateway and system employing the same
An intelligent gateway device provided at a premise (home or business) for providing and managing application services associated with use and support of a plurality of digital endpoint devices associated with the premises. The device includes a communications and processing infrastructure integrated with a peer and presence messaging based communications protocol for enabling communications between the device and an external support network and between the device and connected digital endpoint devices. A services framework at the gateway device implements the communications and processing infrastructure for enabling service management, service configuration, and authentication of user of services at the intelligent gateway. The framework provides a storage and execution environment for supporting and executing received service logic modules relating to use, management, and support of the digital endpoint devices. Thus, the gateway device provides a network-based services point of presence for a plurality of digital endpoint devices at the premises. |
US11527310B2 |
Pseudonymous crypto-based systems and methods for patient data
Systems and methods of a cipher-based system for tracking a patient within a clinical pharmacy workflow, the system includes providing a meshed network having patient devices that communicate patient data with aggregators. The patient devices and aggregators located within the space form a meshed network, the aggregators communicate data to a computer in communication with a cloud-based network. A patient device with a mobile application wirelessly communicates with an internet system in communication with the cloud-based network. Receiving by the computer, information about the user patient device entering the meshed network by wireless tags positioned within the space. Information is obtained by the patient devices during a recognition process by wirelessly transmitting messages between the wireless tags to aggregators, and then wirelessly transmitting information from the aggregators to the computer, the computer communicates with the cloud-based network, the cloud-based network communicates with healthcare administrator systems via jointly defined API interface. |
US11527307B2 |
Quality score compression
Methods, systems, and computer programs for compressing nucleic acid sequence data. A method can include obtaining nucleic acid sequence data representing: (i) a read sequence, and (ii) a plurality of quality scores, determining whether the read sequence includes at least one “N” base, based on a determination that the read sequence does not include at least one “N” base, generating a first encoded data set by using a first encoding process to encode each of the quality scores of the read sequence using a base-(x minus 1) number, where x is an integer representing a number of different quality scores used by the nucleic acid sequencing device, and using a second encoding process to encode the first encoded data set, thereby compressing the data to be compressed. |
US11527303B2 |
Memory devices having variable repair units therein and methods of repairing same
A memory device includes a row decoder, a column decoder, and a repair control circuit, which is configured to: (i) compare a row address with a stored failed row address, (ii) compare a column address with a stored failed column address, (iii) control the row decoder to activate the at least one of a plurality of redundancy word lines when the row address corresponds to the failed row address, and (iv) control the column decoder to activate at least one of a plurality of redundancy bit lines when the column address corresponds to the failed column address. The repair control circuit varies a repair unit according to an address input during a repair operation. |
US11527300B2 |
Level dependent error correction code protection in multi-level non-volatile memory
A method, apparatus, and system for level dependent error correction code protection in multi-level non-volatile memory. A write command to write data to a non-volatile memory array may be received. At least one multi-level page of multi-level storage cells may be determined for the write data. A coding rate for the write data of the at least one multi-level page may be determined based on an attribute of the at least one multi-level page. An ECC codeword may be generated that satisfies the coding rate and includes the write data. The ECC codeword may then be stored on the at least one multi-level page. |
US11527294B2 |
Memory sub-system scan
A system includes a memory device including a plurality of groups of memory cells and a processing device that is operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to receive a request to determine a reliability of the plurality of groups of memory cells. The processing device is further to perform, in response to receipt of the request, a scan operation on a sample portion of the plurality of groups of memory cells to determine a reliability of the sample portion that is representative of the reliability of the plurality of groups of memory cells. |
US11527293B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device and method of programming in the same
A nonvolatile memory device includes cell strings commonly connected between bitlines and a source line where the cell strings are grouped into memory blocks. During a precharge period, channels of the cell strings of a selected memory block are precharged by applying a gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) on voltage to gates of GIDL transistors included in the cell strings of the selected memory block where the GIDL on voltage has a voltage level to induce GIDL. During the precharge period, precharge of channels of the cell strings of an unselected memory block are prevented by controlling a gate voltage of GIDL transistors included in the cell strings of the unselected memory block to prevent the GIDL. During a program execution period after the precharge period, memory cells of the selected memory block connected to a selected wordline are programmed by applying a program voltage to the selected wordline. |
US11527292B2 |
Memory device and erase operation thereof
In certain aspects, a memory device includes an array of memory cells including a plurality of rows of memory cells, a plurality of word lines respectively coupled to the plurality of rows of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit coupled to the plurality of word lines and configured to perform an erase operation on a selected row of memory cells of the plurality of rows of memory cells. The selected row of memory cells is coupled to a selected word line. To perform the erase operation, the peripheral circuit is configured to discharge an unselected word line coupled to an unselected row of memory cells of the plurality of rows of memory cells from an initial voltage to a discharge voltage in a first time period, and float the unselected word line in a second time period after the first time period. |
US11527290B2 |
Method of programming nonvolatile memory device including reversible resistance device
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells is provided. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes a reversible resistance device. A target memory cell is selected from among the plurality of memory cells. A target resistance state for the reversible resistance device of the target memory cell is determined. A resistance state of the reversible resistance device of the target memory cell is read. The read resistance state is compared with the target resistance state. One of a positive program operation and a negative program operation is performed for the reversible resistance device of the target memory cell when the read resistance state is different from the target resistance state. |
US11527289B2 |
Method for programming memory
A method includes setting a current level of a write signal to a first non-zero value for a first period of time. The write signal is provided to a memory element during the first period of time. The current level of the write signal is adjusted from the first non-zero value to a second non-zero value, different from the first non-zero value, for a second period of time. The write signal is provided to the memory element during the second period of time. The current level of the write signal is adjusted from the second non-zero value to a third value, different from the first non-zero value and different from the second non-zero value, for a third period of time. The write signal is provided to the memory element during the third period of time. |
US11527288B2 |
Memory cell and operating method of memory cell
A memory cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a variable resistance layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a ferroelectric layer located between the variable resistance layer and the second electrode, wherein the variable resistance layer is maintained in an amorphous state during a program operation. |
US11527286B2 |
Voltage drivers with reduced power consumption during polarity transition
An integrated circuit memory device having: a memory cell; and a voltage driver of depletion type connected to the memory cell. In a first polarity, the voltage driver is powered by a negative voltage relative to ground to drive a negative selection voltage or a first de-selection voltage; In a second polarity, the voltage driver is powered by a positive voltage relative to ground to drive a positive selection voltage or a second de-selection voltage. The voltage driver is configured to transition between the first polarity and the second polarity. During the transition, the voltage driver is configured to have a control voltage swing for outputting de-selection voltages smaller than a control voltage swing for output selection voltages. |
US11527280B2 |
Monitoring and mitigation of row disturbance in memory
A memory device comprises a memory array, a counter unit, and a service unit. The memory array comprises cells arranged in rows and columns, wherein a subset of the cells in each of the rows holds a row activation count for each row. The counter unit, in response to an activation of the row caused by a read operation on at least a portion of the row, increments the row activation count for at least one of the rows prior to a completion of the read operation, and writes-back the row activation count in an incremented state to the subset of the cells in the row that held the row activation count prior to the activation. The service unit is coupled to the counter unit and performs a service with respect to one or more other rows, offset from the row, in response to the row activation count associated with the row satisfying service criteria. |
US11527278B1 |
Non-linear polar material based memory bit-cell with multi-level storage by applying different time pulse widths
A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ‘n’ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level. |
US11527274B1 |
Memory array circuits including word line circuits for improved word line signal timing and related methods
Memory array circuits including word line circuits providing word line signal stability are disclosed. In a memory access operation, the states of word line signals on word lines in the memory rows of the memory array may be based on the states of word line latches during a first clock state of a latch clock signal. The word line latches receive address decode signals generated from a decoded memory address. An inverted delay clock circuit generates a clock pulse from the latch clock signal. The word line latches store the address decode signals during the clock pulse and generate word line signals based on the stored address decode signals. The memory address is received from an address bus. Pass-through address capture latches maximize time available to a decoder for decoding the memory address and word line latches reduce fluctuations in the address signal being propagated to the word line signals. |
US11527270B2 |
Hybrid library latch array
A static random access memory (SRAM) includes fast SRAM bit cells and fast multiplexer circuits that are formed in a first row of fast cells in a hybrid standard cell architecture. Slow SRAM bit cells and slow multiplexer circuits are formed in a second row of slow cells. The slow multiplexer circuits provide a column output for the fast SRAM bit cells and the fast multiplexer circuits provide a column output for the slow SRAM bit cells. Thus, one SRAM column has fast bit cells and slow multiplexer stages while the adjacent SRAM column has slow bit cells and fast multiplexer stages to thereby provide an improved performance balance when reading the SRAM. |
US11527261B2 |
Storage element
A storage element is provided. The storage element includes a memory layer; a fixed magnetization layer; an intermediate layer including a non-magnetic material; wherein the intermediate layer is provided between the memory layer and the fixed magnetization layer; wherein the fixed magnetization layer includes at least a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer, and wherein the first magnetic layer includes a CoFeB composition. A memory apparatus and a magnetic head are also provided. |
US11527256B2 |
Integration of high frequency audio reconstruction techniques
A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audio signal with an analysis filterbank to generate a filtered lowband audio signal. The method also includes extracting a flag indicating whether either spectral translation or harmonic transposition is to be performed on the audio data and regenerating a highband portion of the audio signal using the filtered lowband audio signal and the high frequency reconstruction metadata in accordance with the flag. The high frequency regeneration is performed as a post-processing operation with a delay of 3010 samples per audio channel. |
US11527248B2 |
Speech recognition with parallel recognition tasks
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving an audio signal and initiating speech recognition tasks by a plurality of speech recognition systems (SRS's). Each SRS is configured to generate a recognition result specifying possible speech included in the audio signal and a confidence value indicating a confidence in a correctness of the speech result. The method also includes completing a portion of the speech recognition tasks including generating one or more recognition results and one or more confidence values for the one or more recognition results, determining whether the one or more confidence values meets a confidence threshold, aborting a remaining portion of the speech recognition tasks for SRS's that have not generated a recognition result, and outputting a final recognition result based on at least one of the generated one or more speech results. |
US11527243B1 |
Signal processing based on audio context
Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for determining audio context between an audio source and an audio sink and selecting signal profiles based at least in part on that audio context. The signal profiles may include noise cancellation which is configured to facilitate operation within the audio context. Audio context may include user-to-user and user-to-device communications. |
US11527239B2 |
Rights management and syndication of content
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions. |
US11527236B2 |
System and method for determining the compliance of agent scripts
Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data. |
US11527235B2 |
Text independent speaker recognition
Text independent speaker recognition models can be utilized by an automated assistant to verify a particular user spoke a spoken utterance and/or to identify the user who spoke a spoken utterance. Implementations can include automatically updating a speaker embedding for a particular user based on previous utterances by the particular user. Additionally or alternatively, implementations can include verifying a particular user spoke a spoken utterance using output generated by both a text independent speaker recognition model as well as a text dependent speaker recognition model. Furthermore, implementations can additionally or alternatively include prefetching content for several users associated with a spoken utterance prior to determining which user spoke the spoken utterance. |
US11527233B2 |
Method, apparatus, device and computer storage medium for generating speech packet
A method, device and computer storage medium for generating a speech packet which relates to the technical field of speech are disclosed. The method may include: providing a speech recording interface to a user; obtaining speech data entered by the user after obtaining an event of triggering speech recording on the speech recording interface; uploading the speech data to a server side in response to determining that the speech data meets requirements for training a speech synthesis model; receiving a downloading address of the speech packet generated by the server side after training the speech synthesis model with the speech data. An ordinary user may customize a personalized speech packet through the speech recording interface provided by the client, without using professional recording equipment, which may substantially reduce the production cost of the speech packet. |
US11527230B2 |
Active noise control device
An active noise control device includes a secondary path filter coefficient updating unit. The secondary path filter coefficient updating unit is configured to update a coefficient of a secondary path filter by using a coefficient of the secondary path filter after previous updating as a previous value, when a phase characteristic of the secondary path filter that sets an initial value as the coefficient and a phase characteristic of the secondary path filter that uses the previous value as the coefficient are not approximate to each other. |
US11527229B2 |
Magnetic coupling for sound transmission
Systems for magnetoacoustically transferring sound across an acoustic barrier include first and second acoustic resonators positioned on opposite sides of the barrier. Each of the first and second resonators includes an attached magnet. Via magnetic coupling between the magnets, an acoustic oscillation at the first resonator induces an oscillation of the same frequency at the second resonator. Thus sound waves absorbed at the first resonator are magnetically transferred across the barrier to the second resonator, from which they are emitted. |
US11527227B2 |
Sound isolation assembly
A sound isolation assembly comprising: a center ferrule; a top grommet isolator; a bottom grommet isolator; a spring; and a furring channel engagement portion. The sound isolation assembly is configured to engage with a structure and a furring channel, which itself is connected to a ceiling panel, such that the noise passing from one floor to the other is lessened as compared to a control system that does not use the sound isolation assembly. The spring may be steel and the grommet isolators may be rubber or the like, and the combination of the steel spring and grommet isolators reduces noise. |
US11527224B1 |
Combination guitar holder and amplifier
A guitar holder with a built-in guitar amplifier for enabling convenient guitar practice and/or play with a compact, space-saving footprint. The guitar holder may comprise any of a variety of guitar holders, including but not limited to a guitar stand and/or a guitar wall hanger. |
US11527219B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing brightness of display screen
Examples of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for processing a brightness of a display screen, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a subject object of an image based on image information of the image; obtaining a first contrast of the subject object and a first gray level of the image; and adjusting a brightness of a display screen displaying the image based on the first contrast and the first gray level. |
US11527216B2 |
Method for rendering color images
A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels. |
US11527215B2 |
Display device having gate driving circuit
A display device includes a voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of clock signals and a first driving voltage, a second driving voltage, and a third driving voltage. A gate driving circuit receives the generated clock signals and the first driving voltage, the second driving voltage, and the third driving voltage, and includes a plurality of driving stages each of which outputs a carry signal and a gate signal to a corresponding gate line among gate lines. The voltage generation circuit sets a voltage level of the third driving voltage based on a signal of a first node of at least one of the driving stages. |
US11527214B2 |
Image processing method, image processing circuit and display apparatus
An image processing method, an image processing circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes: converting an RGB gray-scale value of each pixel in a current image frame into an RGB luminance value; converting the RGB luminance value into a first RGBW luminance value; determining a luminance level of the current image frame according to the first RGBW luminance value corresponding to each pixel; determining a luminance gain value of the current image frame according to the luminance level of the current image frame; calculating a second RGBW luminance value according to the luminance gain value and the first RGBW luminance value; and converting the second RGBW luminance value into an RGBW gray-scale value. |
US11527213B2 |
Driving method of display panel for reducing viewing angle color deviation and display device
A driving method of display panel and a display device are provided, the driving method includes: taking a time duration of scanning at least two adjacent columns of pixel units as a driving period, a common electrodes of sub-pixels in the pixel units of a preset row are driven by different preset voltages in the current driving period, and the sub-pixels does not need to be driven by doubling the metal wiring and the driving device, thus to achieve the purpose of saving cost; and when the preset voltage is a positive or negative polarity driving voltage, the high voltage sub-pixel and the low-voltage sub-pixel in the pixel unit are driven by a preset driving mode. |
US11527212B2 |
Dynamic image enhancement method and device using backlight adjustment, and computer apparatus
A dynamic image enhancement method and device using backlight adjustment, and a computer apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring coding information carried by display content; acquiring an optical indicator parameter of a display; parsing the display content according to the coding information and the optical indicator parameter, and acquiring information of current display content; performing analysis and computation according to the information of the display content, and acquiring analysis data; acquiring a first detail statistics weight and a second detail statistics weight according to the analysis data; acquiring a backlight control parameter and a signal control curve according to the first detail statistics weight and the second detail statistics weight; and adjusting the detail of a current image according to the backlight control parameter and the signal control curve. |
US11527204B2 |
Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first gate driver, a second gate driver, a third gate driver, and a data driver. The display apparatus is operable in a low frequency driving mode, and the low frequency driving mode includes a writing frame and a holding frame. At least one of gate power voltages used to generate a first gate signal, a second gate signal, and an emission signal has a first voltage level in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode and a second voltage level in the holding frame of the low frequency driving mode. The data voltage is applied to the pixel in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode. The data voltage applied to the pixel in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode is maintained in the holding frame of the low frequency driving mode. |
US11527196B2 |
Driving circuit and electronic device for driving light emitting unit
A driving circuit for driving a light emitting unit is provided. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a switch transistor, an emitting transistor, a first capacitor and a first compensation transistor. The switch transistor is coupled to the driving transistor. The emitting transistor is coupled between the light emitting unit and the driving transistor. The first capacitor is coupled to the driving transistor. The first compensation transistor is coupled to the first capacitor. A first end of the first compensation transistor and a first end of the emitting transistor receive same signal. |
US11527190B1 |
Color calibration using reflected color calibration patterns
An example computing device includes: a display to display a color calibration pattern; a touchpad to receive input for the computing device, the touchpad having a reflective layer to reflect the color calibration pattern; a color sensor to detect the reflected color calibration pattern from the touchpad; a processor interconnected with the color sensor and the display, the processor to calibrate a color output of the display based on the color calibration pattern detected at the color sensor. |
US11527189B1 |
Display pixel design and control for lower power and higher bit depth
A method to generate pixel control signal more rapidly and with less overhead is disclosed. The method generates pixel control signals for a block of pixels having a first pixel and a second pixel. A base control signal that is shared by the block of pixels is generated. A first sharpening control signal for the first pixel is generated and a second sharpening control signal for the second pixel is generated. The first pixel control signal is generated using the first sharpening signal and the base control signal. The second pixel control signal is generated using the second sharpening signal and the base control signal. The base control signal is stored in a first memory cell; the first sharpener control signal is stored in a second memory cell; and the second sharpener control signal is stored in a third memory cell. |
US11527187B2 |
Display device and method for adjusting gradation value
Provided is a display device for providing a constant brightness for each area by including an area sensing part configured to determine a position value of an input image in the display device, and determine an area range according to the position value to output an area value, a gradation value determining part configured to output a first gradation value corresponding to a brightness of the input image according to the area value, a control part configured to output a corrected gradation value corresponding to the first gradation value, and a display part configured to display a corrected image having the corrected brightness corresponding to the corrected gradation value. |
US11527186B2 |
Image display system and control method for image display system
An image display system includes: a display device; an image supply device coupled to the display device in such a way as to be able to bidirectionally communicate and supplying an image signal; and an operation terminal having a plurality of operation buttons. The operation terminal transmits an operation signal in response to an operation on the operation button. The display device displays a first image supplied from the image supply device and a second image generated by the display device. On receiving the operation signal, the display device decides a degree of priority of the first image and the second image. The display device transmits a signal to stop updating the first image to the image supply device and executes processing based on the second image when the degree of priority of the second image is higher than the degree of priority of the first image. |
US11527180B2 |
Electronic signage assembly
An electronic signage assembly for creating and wirelessly posting messages to a display unit includes a display unit comprising a display transceiver and a control unit comprising a remote transceiver, so that the control unit is positioned for wireless communication with the display unit. The display unit also comprises a display screen. The control unit comprises an entry module, which allows for entry of a message. The remote transceiver is positioned to communicate the message, via the display transceiver, to the display screen for display of the message to persons proximate to the display unit. |
US11527179B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel, a roller around which the display panel is wound or unwound, a housing unit which accommodates the display panel and the roller, a head bar connected to one end of the display panel, and a support plate which supports a rear surface of the display panel, has one side fixed to the head bar, and the other side fixed to the housing unit, and forms a mesh pattern. |
US11527178B2 |
Foldable display device, manufacturing method thereof, and jig
The present application provides a foldable display device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a jig. The foldable display device includes a folding region, a non-folding region, a flexible display panel, and a functional layer attached through an adhesive layer. In a pre-bent state of the foldable display device, an angle between portions of the foldable display device corresponding to the non-folding region on two opposite sides of the folding region is greater than 0 degree and less than 180 degrees. A stress of a portion of the adhesive layer corresponding to the folding region is less than or equal to a first predetermined threshold. |
US11527177B2 |
Tamper-evident tear away film
Tamper-evident features for containers. A tamper-evident film is target printed onto a sheet material that is thermoformable. The sheet is thermoformed into a container base or lid having a desired shape, such that the tamper-evident film is positioned in a desired area. A container lid is disposed on the container base, and heat sealed to a rim or edge of the container base. The heat sealing activates an adhesive of the tamper-evident film, and when the container lid is removed or separated from the container base, a first portion of the tamper-evident film remains on the container lid and a second portion remains on the container base. The separation of the tamper-evident film provides an indication of tampering. |
US11527170B2 |
System of language learning with augmented reality
Education curricula materials include encoded indicia such as a QR code that contains information related to identifying requested augmented reality image data from a server over a network. By scanning the QR code, a computer uses its decoding software to create a data set for transmitting to the server. The data set may include an identifier for selected augmented reality image data associated with the user's curriculum, information about the curriculum at issue, the academic level of the user, and any other data necessary to ensure that the most appropriate augmented reality image data is transmitted back to the computer. The server transmits comprehensive augmented reality image data back to the computer for viewing on a computerized display accessible by a student. Part of the content may include an interactive pedagogical agent that helps the student with a part of the instruction related to a portion of the curriculum. |
US11527167B2 |
System, apparatus and method for interactive reading
System, apparatus and method for facilitating interactive reading can include an electronic device having a program or application thereon. In one embodiment, the application can recognize one or more cues, combined with an external data source, that result from reading a story aloud and/or performing one or more acts. |
US11527161B2 |
Methods and systems for detecting a speed funnel in a region
The disclosure provides a method, a system, and a computer program product for detecting a speed funnel in a region. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of traffic object observations for the region and determining at least one first learned traffic object, based on feature-based clustering of the plurality of traffic object observations. The method also includes generating at least one candidate traffic object group by grouping the at least one first learned traffic object and a second learned traffic object and performing validation of the at least one candidate traffic object group based on a statistical model. The method further includes generating at least one validated candidate traffic object group as a result of the validation of the at least one candidate traffic object group and merging the at least one validated candidate traffic object group with a second validated candidate traffic object group to detect the speed funnel. |
US11527160B2 |
System and method for intelligent infrastructure calibration
A system for infrastructure system calibration includes a sensor configured to be mounted to an infrastructure component and configured to detect an object. A corner reflector has an optical pattern and is arranged within a field of view of the sensor. The corner reflector has three surfaces that meet at a point. |
US11527159B2 |
Rear lateral blind-spot warning system and method for vehicle
A rear lateral blind-spot warning system for a vehicle includes a sensor configured to sense position information and movement information on an external obstacle, a determiner configured to determine the type of the external obstacle located in a rear blind spot or a lateral blind spot of the vehicle based on the position information and the movement information sensed by the sensor, a setter configured to set a rear lateral blind-spot warning range or a rear lateral blind-spot warning time based on the type of the external obstacle determined by the determiner, and a controller configured to control rear lateral blind-spot warning operation based on the rear lateral blind-spot warning range or the rear lateral blind-spot warning time set by the setter. |
US11527157B2 |
Method for traffic control entity for controlling vehicle traffic
A method and a traffic control entity (100) for controlling a group of vehicles (104) capable of autonomous driving without requiring a driver, to allow an emergency vehicle (102) to pass the group of vehicles (104) which are travelling concurrently in multiple lanes on a road. When detecting that the emergency vehicle (102) is approaching the group of vehicles (104) e.g. from behind, the vehicles in the group (104) are identified based on information (108) about current position and movement of the vehicles (104). The traffic control entity (100) then issues a command (106) instructing the identified vehicles to adjust their lateral positions relative the lanes to create a passage along the group of vehicles (104). Thereby, the emergency vehicle (102) is able to move through the passage without having to slow down significantly. |
US11527156B2 |
Light emitting component-wise traffic light state, signal, and transition estimator
Systems and methods of traffic light detection/perception are provided for detecting traffic lights states and/or transitions for different traffic light layouts. Basic traffic light information can be obtained regarding, e.g., the existence of a traffic light(s) at an intersection being approached by a vehicle, and which bulb(s) may apply to/control a particular lane of traffic at the intersection. Based on that information, bulb-specific or bulbwise detection can be performed. Upon determining the existence of a traffic light, specific bulbs within or making up the traffic light can be detected, and their various states can be predicted or estimated relative to a corresponding bulb group. The various states can then be simplified and output as a message(s) upon which autonomous control of a vehicle can be based. |
US11527154B2 |
Wrong way driving prevention
An example operation includes one or more of initially determining, via one or more sensors on a transport, that the transport is approaching a one-way road in a wrong direction based on a slowing down of the transport and a movement of the transport toward the one-way road, notifying, via the one or more sensors, one or more occupants of the transport about the approaching, and in response to the transport continuing to approach in the wrong direction, slowing the transport, by a computer associated with the transport, to not permit entry into the one-way road. |
US11527145B2 |
Methods and systems for managing execution of standard operating procedures by an operator to address alarms generated by a facility management system
A computer assisted facility monitoring method provides users with predefined operating procedures that are recommended for addressing one or more alarms acknowledged by the user. The predefined operating procedures are created and stored prior to the occurrence of the alarms. In some examples, after acknowledging an alarm occurrence, the user may be provided with an option for bypassing or disregarding the alarm, as some such acknowledgements may have been for false alarms. In some examples, the predefined operating procedure may specify multiple action steps for addressing an alarm. In such examples, the user can close out or settle an alarm incident even without completing all of the action steps, provided the user enters a valid reason for doing so. In some examples, a user can batch-select a group of alarms, wherein perhaps only some of the acknowledged alarms in the group have corresponding predefined operating procedures. |
US11527144B2 |
Recognizing left-behind objects in a transportation vehicle
Apparatus for recognizing left-behind objects 2 has a sensor device 3 designed to generate sensor signals 4 upon sensing a left-behind object 2, a control unit 5 designed to receive and process the sensor signals 4 and generate control signals 6 in reaction to the processed sensor signals 4, and a warning device 7, designed to receive the control signals 6 and output a warning signal 8 in reaction to the received control signals 6. A module arrangement 13 of individual component units having pairs of LED sensors and emitters may be arranged in a vehicle 14 to scan a storage region. |
US11527141B2 |
Monitoring system for use with mobile communication device
A monitoring system for monitoring an environment and generating data in response to the presence of at least one chemical hazardous to human health in the environment. The monitoring system is configured to communicate the data to an associated personal communication device or the like for processing. The monitoring system can be in the form a selectively attachable component. |
US11527139B2 |
Information processing system and information processing method
An information processing system includes: a receiver that receives a signal transmitted by a call button including a push button, and a communicator which transmits the signal outside in response to detection of an operation performed on the push button by a user; and an outputter that outputs (i) first notification information, when the signal is received in a first time period within a predetermined period, and (ii) second notification information different from the first notification information, when the signal is received in a second time period within the predetermined period which is different from the first time period. |
US11527137B2 |
Metal detection in a high flow traffic observation environment
A security system including a detection device, an imaging device and a controller. The detection device being a detection device through which people traverse. The detection device producing a signal representative of at least one of an object being carried by a person and a distribution of metal carried by the person. The imaging device produces an image of the person. The controller executing the steps of determining whether the signal from the detection device exceeds a predetermined value; instructing the imaging device to capture an image of the person if the determining step indicates that the signal exceeds the predetermined value thereby creating a captured image; transmitting the captured image to selected data devices assigned to trusted individuals; and receiving a response from at least one of the data devices, the response indicating an action to be taken regarding the person. |
US11527130B2 |
Fraud detection system in a casino
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud. |
US11527126B1 |
Artificial skin on gaming devices
The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming device or system that detects, at each input electrode location of a plurality of elastically deformable input electrode locations, an amount of pressure applied to an elastically deformable outer layer at a corresponding input electrode location in response to deformation of the elastically deformable outer layer by physical contact with a player of a gaming device; determines that the player has applied pressure to the plurality of elastically deformable input electrode locations continuously over at least a predetermined time interval; determines a pressure pattern corresponding to the plurality of elastically deformable input electrode locations; compares the pressure pattern to a plurality of different pressure patterns corresponding to a plurality of different player gestures to determine a player gesture corresponding to the pressure pattern; and determines, based on the determined player gesture and a comparison of the amount of applied pressure to a threshold magnitude, an operation of the gaming device. |
US11527123B2 |
Coin delivery device and coin processing device
Provided is a coin delivery device including a disc including a concave portion that holds a plurality of coins in a storage container one by one. A first concave portion that holds at least coins having a diameter equal to or larger than a first diameter, and a second concave portion that holds coins having a diameter less than a second diameter are provided in the disc. The first concave portion does not perform holding of coins having a small diameter or delivery of the coins to the next step, and the second concave portion performs holding of coins having a small diameter or delivery of the coins to the next step. Since the first concave portion does not hold two coins, and two coins are not put into the second concave portion, coins can be appropriately sent out one by one to the next step. |
US11527120B2 |
Methods and systems for offline verification code generation based on smart door lock system
A method and a system for offline verification code generation based on a smart door lock system. The method may include in response to an unlocking event, recording, by a mobile terminal, a trigger time of the unlocking event; in response to the unlocking event, sending, by the mobile terminal, a request for unlocking verification information to a cloud server, wherein the request for the unlocking verification information is used to request the cloud server to return a verification code of a smart door lock, and the unlocking verification information includes a private key seed of the smart door lock and the trigger time; and receiving, by the mobile terminal, the verification code of the smart door lock for opening the smart door lock generated by the cloud server based on the private key seed and the trigger time. |
US11527117B2 |
Interference avoiding distance measurement
Interference-avoiding distance measurement is provided. A controller of a first wireless device is configured for wireless communication over a first transmission protocol with a second wireless device. One or more occupied channels of a second transmission protocol are identified, the first and second transmission protocols having overlapping frequency spectrums. A channel plan is constructed according to the occupied channels, the channel plan using a set of channels of the first transmission protocol that do not overlap in frequency with the one or more occupied channels of the second transmission protocol. Phase-based ranging is performed using data scanned via the channel plan. A distance measurement is indicated based on the phase-based ranging. |
US11527109B1 |
Form analysis system
Methods and systems for monitoring and measuring form. A form analysis system can include a flexible garment, a sensor array including two or more sensors positioned on portions of the garment such that at least two of the two or more sensors are positioned on garment such that they align with body parts of the wearer of the garment that are separated by a joint, a harness coupled to the sensor array, the harness having stretchable wiring for communicating signals generated by the sensor array, and a hub coupled to the harness and configured to receive signals from the sensor array, the hub including a transmitter to transmit received signals to a base station. |
US11527105B2 |
System and method for scalable cloud-robotics based face recognition and face analysis
A system and method for performing distributed facial recognition divides processing steps between a user engagement device/robot, having lower processing power, and a remotely located server, having significantly more processing power. Images captured by the user engagement device/robot are processed at the device/robot by applying a first set of image processing steps that includes applying a first face detection. First processed images having at least one detected face is transmitted to the server, whereat a second set of image processing steps are applied to determine a stored user facial image matching the detected face of the first processed image. At least one user property associated to the given matching user facial image is then transmitted to the user engagement device/robot. An interactive action personalized to the user can further be performed at the user engagement device/robot. |
US11527098B2 |
Displaying base plate and fabricating method thereof, and displaying device
A displaying base plate and a fabricating method thereof, and a displaying device. The displaying base plate includes: a substrate, and a plurality of displaying units and a plurality of fingerprint identifying units that are located on the substrate; each of the displaying units includes at least one sub-pixel; orthographic projections of the fingerprint identifying units on the substrate are separated from orthographic projections of the displaying units on the substrate; and each of the fingerprint identifying units includes a first electrode and a shielding trace that are insulated from each other, an orthographic projection of the shielding trace on the substrate surrounds at least part of an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the substrate, and the shielding trace is electrically connected to an earthed end of the displaying base plate. |
US11527095B2 |
Sensing sub-circuit, circuit, recognition method, sensor, panel and device
The present disclosure provides a fingerprint sensing sub-circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit, a fingerprint recognition method, a sensor, a touch display panel and a display device. The fingerprint sensing sub-circuit includes an acoustic wave generation circuit and an acoustic wave reception circuit. The acoustic wave generation circuit is configured to generate an ultrasonic wave. The acoustic wave reception circuit is configured to collect a voltage signal, convert the voltage signal into a current signal, and output the current signal to a signal output end. The acoustic wave generation circuit and the acoustic wave reception circuit are separated from each other, so that the fingerprint sensing sub-circuit operates in a mode where a transmitting operation and a receiving operation are separated from each other. |
US11527088B2 |
Document template detection with optical character recognition
Implementations include receiving a first intermediate document representation of a first document, the first intermediate document representation including OCR data of document text and positions of document text in the first document, receiving a set of intermediate template representations for a set of templates, the set of intermediate template representations including, for each template in the set of templates, OCR data representative of template text and positions of template text in a respective template, determining a first sub-set of templates using text-based detection based on the first intermediate document representation and the set of intermediate template representations, determining a second sub-set of templates using position-based detection based on the first intermediate document representations and intermediate template representations associated with one or more templates in the first sub-set of templates, and transmitting instructions to execute template-based data extraction for the first document using a template of the second sub-set of templates. |
US11527087B1 |
Mobile application for automatic identification enrollment using information synthesis and biometric liveness detection
Methods and systems to synthesize information from multiple discrete and unrelated documents, and from the synthesized information verify the identity of an individual to a high degree of trust are described. Information is adaptively synthesized from varied documents, and through generation of document confidence scores. Enrollment requirements for a trusted identification are evaluated in a real-time environment. The enrollment requirements may represent a minimum level of documentation required to sufficiently verify an individual's true identity in order to permit issuance of the trusted identification. Once sufficient documentation has been obtained and validated to meet or exceed enrollment requirements, the documentation (including any original source copies of any documentation) is securely submitted to the trusted identification issuing authority. |
US11527086B2 |
System for character recognition in a digital image processing environment
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for character recognition in a digital image processing environment. The present invention is configured to electronically retrieve one or more documents from a document repository, wherein the one or more documents are in an image format; initiate one or more image super resolution algorithms on the one or more documents; generate, based on at least the one or more image super resolution algorithms, one or more high-resolution images associated with each of the one or more documents; initiate one or more image bottleneck ensembles (IBE) algorithms on the one or more high-resolution images; extract, using the one or more IBE algorithms, one or more features associated with the one or more high resolution images; and store the one or more features extracted from the one or more high resolution images in a feature repository. |
US11527083B2 |
Training a machine to recognize a motor vehicle driver using a mobile device
Determining that a motor vehicle driver is using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Multiple images of a driver of a motor vehicle are captured through a side window of the motor vehicle. Positive images show a driver using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Negative images show a driver not using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Multiple training images are selected from both the positive images and the negative images. The selected training images and respective labels, indicating that the selected training images are positive images or negative images, are input to a machine (e.g. Convolutional Neural Network, (CNN)). The CNN is trained to classify that a test image, captured through a side window of a motor vehicle, shows a driver using a mobile device while driving the motor vehicle. |
US11527081B2 |
Multiple in-cabin cameras and lighting sources for driver monitoring
A control system, computer-readable storage medium and method of preventing occlusion of and minimizing shadows on the driver's face for driver monitoring. The system includes a steering wheel, a plurality of fiberscopes arranged evenly spaced around the steering wheel, and one or more video cameras arranged at remote ends of the plurality of fiberscopes. Distal ends of the fiberscopes emerge to a surface of the steering wheel through holes that are perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the steering wheel. Each of the distal ends of the fiberscopes includes a lens. The system includes a plurality of light sources and an electronic control unit connected to the one or more video cameras and the light sources. |
US11527080B2 |
System and method for classification of objects in vehicle using feature vectors
The present disclosure relates to a system for differentiating objects present in a vehicle, the system includes one or more sensors placed within a vehicle to generate a set of signals in response to an object being present within the vehicle. An ADC converts the received set of signals to a digital form. A processor receives the digital set of signals, and process the received digital set of signals, to generate point cloud dataset. The processor extracts, from the point cloud dataset, a first set of features pertaining to a single frame and a second set of features pertaining to a multi-frame. The extracted set of features are provided as input to a classifier to differentiate the object present in one or more zones within the vehicle. |
US11527079B2 |
Available vehicle parking space detection using machine learning
A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the system to generate a machine learning model; generate an artificial neural network; analyze an image of a parking area using a spot detection machine learning model; analyze the image of the parking area using a vehicle detection machine learning model; and classify a parking space as available when an area of intersection does not exceed a predetermined value. A method includes analyzing an image of a parking area using a first machine learning model; analyzing the image of the parking area using second machine learning model; and classifying a parking space as available when an area of intersection does not exceed a predetermined value. A method includes generating a spot detection machine learning model; and generating, by analyzing a plurality of labeled images, an artificial neural network. |
US11527078B2 |
Using captured video data to identify pose of a vehicle
A system uses video of a vehicle to detect and classify the vehicle's pose. The system generates an image stack by scaling and shifting a set of digital image frames from the video to a fixed scale, yielding a sequence of images over a time period. The system processes the image stack with a classifier to determine the pose of the object. The system also may determine state and class of visible turn signals on the object, as well as predict the vehicle's direction of travel. |
US11527075B2 |
Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, apparatus control system, movable object, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium
According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an object region detecting unit, a local region detecting unit, an object specifying unit. The object region detecting unit is configured to detect an object region based on one of distance information and luminance information. The local region detecting unit is configured to, when a divided area obtained by dividing the detected object region meets a predetermined condition, detect the divided area as a local region. The object specifying unit is configured to specify, as a specification target object, the object region in which the local region is continuously detected. |
US11527065B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: when existence of predetermined information is detected, inquire a user whether to display contents of the information before the contents of the information are displayed as an augmented-reality image in front of a user's field of view; and control the displaying of the contents of the information by the augmented-reality image according to a user's instruction in response to the inquiry. |
US11527053B2 |
Method and apparatus of processing image
An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes acquiring information of a first region of interest (ROI) in a first frame, estimating information of a second ROI in a second frame that is received after the first frame, based on the acquired information of the first ROI, and sequentially storing, in a memory, subframes that are a portion of the second frame, each of the subframes being a line of the second frame. The image processing method further includes determining whether a portion of the stored subframes includes the second ROI, based on the estimated information of the second ROI, and based on the portion of the stored subframes being determined to include the second ROI, processing the portion of the stored subframes. |
US11527050B2 |
Rotational device for an augmented reality display surface using NFC technology
A device for displaying AR markings comprising a top and a base, with the top rotatably attached to the base, and the base configured to be held by a hand or placed on a fixed surface. The AR markings are positioned on the top such that when the top rotates with respect to the base, so do the AR markings. When the AR markings are scanned by an appropriate scanning and display device, such as a smart phone, a 3d image associated with the AR markings will be displayed on the display device as an augmented reality projection. When the top rotates with respect to the base, so too does the augmented reality projection. |
US11527045B2 |
Systems and methods for generating multi-user augmented reality content
Systems and methods are provided for the generation of augmented reality (AR) content that provides a shared AR experience involving multiple users. Shared AR experiences can improve the communication and collaboration between multiple simultaneous users. According to an embodiment, AR content is generated for a first user in a shared AR experience. The AR content includes at least one of a render of a model, a virtual representation of a second user in the shared AR experience, a virtual representation of a user interaction in the shared AR experience, and spatial audio content. Modifications to a shared AR experience are also provided. These modifications may be initiated based on instructions from one user and be reflected in the AR content generated for multiple users. |
US11527044B2 |
System and method for augmented reality
A method for providing a personalized augmented reality (AR) display includes obtaining, at an augmented reality apparatus, image data of a camera field of view, the camera field of view covering a field of view of an externally oriented camera of the augmented reality apparatus, identifying a first object in the camera field of view based on the image data, and mapping a position of the first object relative to an augmented reality (AR) field of view. The method further includes determining, based on the identity of the first object, whether the first object is an augmentation target, and responsive to determining that the first object is the augmentation target, displaying, on the internally-facing display, an item of AR content associated with the augmentation target in the AR field of view. |
US11527039B2 |
Primitive block generator for graphics processing systems
Methods and primitive block generators for generating primitive blocks in a graphics processing system. The methods comprise: receiving transformed position data for a current primitive, the transformed position data indicating a position of the current primitive in rendering space; determining a distance between the position of the current primitive and a position of a current primitive block based on the transformed position data for the current primitive; determining whether to add the current primitive to the current primitive block based on the distance and a fullness of the current primitive block; in response to determining that the current primitive is to be added to the current primitive block, adding the current primitive to the current primitive block; and in response to determining that the current primitive is not to be added to the current primitive block, flushing the current primitive block and adding the current primitive to a new current primitive block. |
US11527035B2 |
Real time ray tracing (RTRT)-based adaptive multi-frequency shading (AMFS)
Real time ray tracing-based adaptive multi frequency shading. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprising: rasterization hardware logic to process input data for an image in a deferred rendering pass and to responsively update one or more graphics buffers with first data to be used in a subsequent rendering pass; ray tracing hardware logic to perform ray tracing operations using the first data to generate reflection ray data and to store the reflection ray data in a reflection buffer; and image rendering circuitry to perform texture sampling in a texture buffer based on the reflection ray data in the reflection buffer to render an output image. |
US11527034B2 |
Methods and tiling engines for tiling primitives in a graphics processing system
Methods and tiling engines for storing tiling primitives in a graphics processing system. The method includes: receiving a plurality of primitive blocks, each primitive block comprising one or more primitive sections, each primitive section comprising one or more primitives; for each primitive section of a received primitive block, determining which primitives of that primitive section fall, at least partially, within the bounds of a tile; for each primitive block that comprises at least one primitive that falls, at least partially, within the bounds of the tile, adding information to a display list for the tile that identifies the primitive block; for each identified primitive block, adding information to the display list identifying each primitive section of that primitive block that comprises at least one primitive that falls, at least partially within the bounds of the tile; and for each identified primitive section, adding information to the display list identifying the primitives in that primitive section that fall, at least partially, within the bounds of the tile. |
US11527031B2 |
Avatar facial expression representation in multidimensional space
Examples of the disclosed systems and methods may provide for improved and more realistic rendering of virtual characters and a more realistic interaction between a user and virtual characters. For example, the systems and methods describe techniques for mathematically generating a map used for animating facial expressions in a multidimensional animation blendspace. As another example, the systems and methods describe a transition system for dynamically transitioning facial expressions across a face of the virtual character. As another example, realistic physical movements can be added to a virtual character's facial expressions to provide interactivity with other virtual characters. |
US11527026B2 |
Body measurement device and method for controlling the same
To measure a body size with increased convenience, a body measurement device including a camera configured to capture an image that includes an RGB image and a depth image, a display, and a controller configured to acquire a source image that includes a skeleton image and a body line image of a user based on the captured image, acquire a body size including a body height based on the source image, and control the display to display the body size is provided. |
US11527023B2 |
Image processing for increasing visibility of obscured patterns
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for modifying pixel values of an image to improve the visibility of target pixel patterns. A pixel-simulation application accesses an initial image including an initial set of pixel values. The initial set of pixel values define, in an initial color space, a particular color of pixels that indicate a target pixel pattern. The pixel-simulation application generates, based on the initial set of pixel values, a simulated image including a modified set of pixel values that visually indicate another color of pixels in an intermediate color space. The pixel-simulation application generates a pixel map by identifying a difference between the initial set pixel values of the initial image and the modified set of pixel values of simulated image. The pixel-simulation application generates, for display, an output image based at least in part on the pixel map. |
US11527017B1 |
Systems and methods for dynamic decimation of point clouds and data points in a three-dimensional space
An editing system may dynamically and intelligently determine which data points to remove, replace, and/or modify from a point cloud space so that more features, color information, and/or detail of the point cloud are preserved after decimation. The system may receive data points that are distributed in space, and may select one or more elements of the data points on which to base the decimation. For instance, the system may decimate a first subset of the data points by a first amount based on a first difference in values defined for the one or more elements of the first subset of data points, and may decimate a different second subset of the data points by a different second amount based on a second difference in values defined for the one or more elements of the second subset of data points. |
US11527014B2 |
Methods and systems for calibrating surface data capture devices
An illustrative scene capture system determines a set of two-dimensional (2D) feature pairs each representing a respective correspondence between particular features depicted in both a first intensity image from a first vantage point and a second intensity image from a second vantage point. Based on the set of 2D feature pairs, the system determines a set of candidate three-dimensional (3D) feature pairs for a first depth image from the first vantage point and a second depth image from the second vantage point. The system selects a subset of selected 3D feature pairs from the set of candidate 3D feature pairs in a manner configured to minimize an error associated with a transformation between the first depth image and the second depth image. Based on the subset of selected 3D feature pairs, the system manages calibration parameters for surface data capture devices that captured the intensity and depth images. |
US11527013B2 |
Camera parameter estimating device, camera parameter estimating method, and camera parameter estimating program
A camera parameter estimating device includes: a camera position posture acquisition unit acquiring estimated position and posture of a camera, based on a captured image acquired by the camera; a first vector calculation unit calculating a first vector corresponding to a traveling direction of the vehicle; a second vector calculation unit calculating a second vector corresponding to a normal direction of a plane corresponding to a road surface on which the vehicle travels; a third vector calculation unit calculating a third vector orthogonal to the first and second vectors; and a camera parameter estimation unit estimating an actual installation posture of the camera on the basis of the first, second and third vectors and the estimated posture of the camera when the estimated position moves along a direction indicated by the first vector. |
US11527012B2 |
Vehicle pose determination
A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to determine a vehicle six degree of freedom (DoF) pose based on an image where the six DoF pose includes x, y, and z location and roll, pitch, and yaw orientation and transform the vehicle six DoF pose into global coordinates based on a camera six DoF pose. The instructions can include further instructions to communicate to the vehicle the six DoF pose in global coordinates. |
US11527011B2 |
Localization and mapping utilizing visual odometry
In one embodiment, a method includes determining correspondence data between a sequence of images based on identified features in the sequence of images and predicted pose based on motion data, and determining current state information based on the correspondence data and the motion data. The current state information comprises at least a current pose of the wearable device relative to the environment capture by the one or more cameras. Furthermore, the method comprises receiving map points in a three-dimensional map and their associated descriptors based on the identified features in the sequence of images and identifying one or more of the map points in the sequence of images based on the associated descriptors associated with the map points. The current state information is further determined based on the identified one or more of the map points. |
US11527007B2 |
Camera for detecting an object stream and method of determining the height of objects
A camera is provided that has an image sensor having a plurality of pixel elements for recording image data of an object stream moved in a direction of movement relative to the camera and having objects of a height, and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to determine the height of a respective object with reference to the image data. The image sensor here is an event-based image sensor and the control and evaluation unit is configured to detect a measurement series of points in time at which pixel elements adjacent in the direction of movement consecutively register an event to determine a speed of an object image of the object on the image sensor from said measurement series and from this the height. |
US11527001B2 |
Systems and methods for registering images obtained using various imaging modalities and verifying image registration
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods to detect a moving anatomic feature during a treatment sequence based on a computed and/or a measured shortest distance between the anatomic feature and at least a portion of an imaging system. |
US11526996B2 |
Analysis and visualization of subtle motions in videos
Example embodiments allow for fast, efficient motion-magnification of video streams by decomposing image frames of the video stream into local phase information at multiple spatial scales and/or orientations. The phase information for each image frame is then scaled to magnify local motion and the scaled phase information is transformed back into image frames to generate a motion-magnified video stream. Scaling of the phase information can include temporal filtering of the phase information across image frames, for example, to magnify motion at a particular frequency. In some embodiments, temporal filtering of phase information at a frequency of breathing, cardiovascular pulse, or some other process of interest allows for motion-magnification of motions within the video stream corresponding to the breathing or the other particular process of interest. The phase information can also be used to determine time-varying motion signals corresponding to motions of interest within the video stream. |
US11526995B2 |
Robust use of semantic segmentation for depth and disparity estimation
This disclosure relates to techniques for generating robust depth estimations for captured images using semantic segmentation. Semantic segmentation may be defined as a process of creating a mask over an image, wherein pixels are segmented into a predefined set of semantic classes. Such segmentations may be binary (e.g., a ‘person pixel’ or a ‘non-person pixel’) or multi-class (e.g., a pixel may be labelled as: ‘person,’ ‘dog,’ ‘cat,’ etc.). As semantic segmentation techniques grow in accuracy and adoption, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods of utilizing such segmentations and developing flexible techniques for integrating segmentation information into existing computer vision applications, such as depth and/or disparity estimation, to yield improved results in a wide range of image capture scenarios. In some embodiments, an optimization framework may be employed to optimize a camera device's initial scene depth/disparity estimates that employs both semantic segmentation and color regularization in a robust fashion. |
US11526992B2 |
Imagery-based construction progress tracking
A method is provided. The method includes one or more of receiving, by an image processing device, one or more images from an image capture device. The one or more images are each associated with metadata that includes a common direction. For each of the one or more images, the method further includes adding one or more pairs of parallel lines, converting each of the one or more pairs of parallel lines into intersection coordinates with 2D drawing elements, and calculating construction progress from the intersection coordinates. The 2D drawing includes a 2D floor plan or a 2D elevation plan, and each pair of parallel lines designates one of the start or end of construction during a current period of time. |
US11526987B2 |
Image processing method, program, and image processing device
A feature value related to a positional relationship between a vortex vein position and a characteristic point on a fundus image is computed.The image processing method provided includes a step of analyzing a choroidal vascular image and estimating a vortex vein position, and a step of computing a feature value indicating a positional relationship between the vortex vein position and a position of a particular site on a fundus. |
US11526984B2 |
Method of computing tumor spatial and inter-marker heterogeneity
Automated systems and methods for determining the variability between derived expression scores for a series of biomarkers between different identified cell clusters in a whole slide image are presented. The variability between derived expression scores may be a derived inter-marker heterogeneity metric. |
US11526983B2 |
Image feature recognition method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic apparatus
This application discloses an image feature recognition method performed at a computing device. The computing device obtains a first neural network model by training parameters in a second neural network model using a first training set and a second training set consecutively, image features of training pictures in the first training set being marked and image features of training pictures in the second training set being not marked. After obtaining a first neural network model, the computing device obtains a recognition request for recognizing an image feature in a target picture. The computing device then recognizes the image feature in the target picture by applying the target picture to the first neural network model. Finally the computing device returns a first recognition result of the first neural network model, the first recognition result indicating an image feature (for example, a pathological feature) recognized in the target picture. |
US11526978B2 |
Image processing method for light emitting device
An image processing method includes the steps of lighting up at least a part of light emitting units of a light emitting device; capturing a plurality of detection images corresponding to a plurality of sections of the light emitting device respectively, wherein each section includes a plurality of lighted-up light emitting units, each detection image includes a plurality of light spots respectively corresponding to the light emitting units of the associated section, and every two adjacent sections have an overlap area including at least one lighted-up light emitting unit; and stitching the detection images of the adjacent sections together by taking the light spots corresponding to at least one lighted-up light emitting unit of the overlap area as alignment reference spots, so that the light emitting statuses of all the light emitting units are presented by a single image. |
US11526977B2 |
Methods for transmitting data acquired downhole by a downhole tool
The disclosure relates to a method and system for downhole processing of data, such as images, including using a set of downhole sensors to measure parameters relative to the borehole at a plurality of depths and azimuths and detecting predetermined features of the borehole, using a downhole processor, with a trained machine-learning model and extracting characterization data, characterizing the shape and position of the predetermined features that are transmitted to the surface. It also provides a method and system for providing an image of a geological formation at the surface including transmitting a first dataset to the surface that will be used for reconstructing an image at the surface, downhole processing of a second dataset to detect predetermined features and extract characterization data that are transmitted at the surface and displaying a combined image comprising the predetermined features overlaid on the first image. |
US11526975B2 |
Method for displaying index values in generation of mask pattern verification model
According to one embodiment, a method for displaying an index value in generation of a mask pattern verification model includes: calculating a first index value using a plurality of images; estimating a model on the basis of the first index value and pattern information; calculating a second index value using the model; and displaying at least one of the first index value and the second index value. |
US11526974B2 |
Method for photographing and reading an image, and apparatus therefor
A method for photographing an image performed by a computer device according to an embodiment of the present application includes obtaining a screen division value for photographing an image, classifying a photographing screen into a plurality of sections based on the screen division value, photographing a first image by focusing a first section among the plurality of sections, photographing a second image by focusing a second section among the plurality of sections and transmitting the first image and the second image to a server. According to the method, it is capable of reading whether an image is actually photographed without having a separate ToF module, and applicable to an outdoor environment on which interference from other light rays is strong. |
US11526972B2 |
Simultaneously correcting image degradations of multiple types in an image of a face
Described herein are technologies related to correcting image degradations in images. An image is received, and values for features that are usable to correct for image degradation associated with blur, noise, and low light conditions are generated by separate encoders based upon the received image. A fusion network learned by way of network architecture search fuses these values, and the fused values are employed to generate an improved image, such that the image degradations associated with blur, noise, and low light conditions are simultaneously corrected. |
US11526970B2 |
System and method for video processing with enhanced temporal consistency
A system and method for processing an input video while maintaining temporal consistency across video frames is provided. The method includes converting the input video from a first frame rate to a second frame rate, wherein the second frame rate is a faster frame rate than the first frame rate; generating processed frames of the input video at the second frame rate; and aggregating the processed frames using temporal sliding window aggregation to yield a processed output video at a third frame rate. |
US11526969B2 |
Multi-spectrum-based image fusion apparatus and method, and image sensor
A multi-spectrum based image fusion apparatus is disclosed, which includes a light acquisition device, an image processor, and an image sensor having five types of photosensitive channels. The five types of photosensitive channels including red, green and blue RGB channels, an infrared IR channel and a full-band W channel. The light acquisition device acquires target light corresponding to incident light. The image sensor converts the target light into an image signal through the RGB channels, the IR channel and the W channel. The image processor analyzes the image signal into RGB color signals and a brightness signal, and fuses the RGB color signals and the brightness signal to obtain a fused image. The collection of the channels based on which the RGB color signals and the brightness signal are obtained includes the five types of photosensitive channels. |
US11526966B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium storing image processing program
An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory to store the program which performs processing including: measuring a first texture amount indicating luminance variation in image regions, based on the image regions obtained by dividing the captured image and previously determining an image processing target region based on the first texture amount; judging whether the image processing on a current captured image is necessary based on luminance of the image processing target region in the current captured image; calculating a second texture amount indicating luminance variation in the image processing target region, and judging whether the image processing should be performed on the image processing target region or not based on the second texture amount; and performing the image processing on the image processing target region on which the judging based on the second texture amount is that the image processing should be performed. |
US11526962B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus in an embodiment retains combination data showing a combination of multiple pieces of noise reduction processing for each of multiple noise levels and associating a parameter for the multiple noise levels with at least either a combination of neural networks to be applied in multiple neural networks or the number of applications of the neural networks. The apparatus also determines, based on information on a noise level obtained from a processing target image, a combination of pieces of noise reduction processing for the processing target image from the combination data. Additionally, the apparatus executes, based on data on the determined combination of pieces of noise reduction processing, the noise reduction processing using at least one of the multiple neural networks for the processing target image. |
US11526961B2 |
Information processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium that selectively perform upsampling to increase resolution to image data included in album data
An album creation application displays an image arrangement screen and an image selection screen, and image data selected by a user from among an image group is arranged in an image slot selected by the user on the image arrangement screen. Each of the image data, which is arranged in the respective image slots included in album data for which an order is confirmed, is analyzed so as to determine whether or not each of the image data is a target of high quality printing. Based on the analysis result, upsampling for increasing the resolution is selectively performed to the image data included in the album data. The album data is sent to an image printer. |
US11526956B2 |
Skill acquisition platform
A skill acquisition platform may receive input identifying a target role for a user, may identify users from the plurality of users that have worked in the target role, may identify, based on a similarity metric, a subset of the users that have worked in the target role and have similar career trajectories to the user, may cluster vectors of the user and vectors of the subset of the users that have worked in the target role to generate a plurality of skill groups, may generate a directed network graph that represents links between the plurality of skill groups, may identify one or more paths between a first skill group associated with the user and a second skill group associated with the target role, and may automatically generate a descriptive analysis of the one or more paths. |
US11526955B2 |
Protocol-based system and method for establishing a multi-party contract
A protocol-based system and method for establishing a multi-party contract are disclosed. In a method conducted at a computing device associated with an entity, a set of contract data elements relating to a contract to be established is received from either one of another entity or a deal negotiation component associated with the entity. The contract data elements are validated using an associated contract schema and a schema-based validation algorithm. If the contract data elements are valid, the contract data elements are transmitted to the other of the deal negotiation component or another entity. Transmitting the contract data elements to another entity includes generating a digital signature associated with the contract data elements by digitally signing the contract data elements or a representation thereof and transmitting the digital signature and either of the contract data elements or the representation thereof to the other entity. |
US11526953B2 |
Machine learning techniques for automatic evaluation of clinical trial data
Aspects of the subject matter described in this specification are embodied in systems and methods that utilize machine-learning techniques to evaluate clinical trial data using one or more learning models trained to identify anomalies representing adverse events associated with a clinical trial investigation. In some implementations, investigation data collected at a clinical trial site is obtained. A set of models corresponding to the clinical trial site is selected. Each model included in the set of models is trained to identify, based on historical investigation data collected at the clinical trial site, a distinct set of one or more indicators that indicate a compliance risk associated with the investigation data. A score for the clinical trial site is determined based on the investigation data relative to the historical investigation data. The score represents a likelihood that the investigation data is associated with at least one indicator representing the compliance risk. |
US11526950B1 |
Disestablishing entity's selected resource computation in response to loss of nexus establishment condition for selected domain
A service engine determines that an entity meets a first nexus establishment condition for a first domain and a second nexus establishment condition for a second domain. The service engine then computes a first selected resource for the first domain and a second selected resource for the second domain. When the service engine determines that the entity no longer meets the second nexus establishment condition for the second domain, the service engine determines a nexus-ending date for the second domain. Prior to the nexus-ending date being satisfied, the service engine continues to compute the first selected resource for the first domain and the second selected resource for the second domain. In response to the nexus-ending date being satisfied, the service engine computes the first selected resource for the first domain but does not compute the second selected resource for the second domain. |
US11526943B1 |
Delayed transaction matching
System and techniques for delayed transaction matching are described herein. A received transaction request, that includes an original value used to match against another transaction request, has the original value modified to create a modified value that is less likely to match another transaction request. A data structure entry is written for the transaction request with corresponding value field in the entry including the modified value. After a time period, or a delay period, is elapsed, the entry is rewritten to change the modified value to the original value of the transaction request to end the delay applied to the transaction request. |
US11526941B2 |
Data structure generation and price range symbol display system, method, and device
A method for generating a data structure, the data structure being used to generate an HLC or OHLC type symbol, the method includes receiving a plurality of prices, each price corresponding to a unique time within a time period, determining, from the received plurality of the prices, an open price corresponding to a start of the time period, a highest price corresponding to a first time within the time period, a lowest price corresponding to a second time within the time period, and a close price corresponding to an end of the time period, calculating a highest symbol position value indicating when the first time occurred between the start of the time period and the end of the time period, calculating a lowest symbol position value indicating when the second time occurred between the start of the time period and the end of the time period, and storing the time period, the open price, the highest price, the lowest price, the close price, the highest symbol position value, and the lowest symbol position value in association with one another in the data structure on a non-transitory computer readable medium. |
US11526938B2 |
Systems and methods for providing financial data to financial instruments in a distributed ledger system
An embodiment of a method of providing financial data to a financial instrument smart contract in a distributed ledger system includes: receiving, by an oracle smart contract in the distributed ledger system, a transaction from the financial instrument smart contract, the transaction including registration data having an identification of financial data to be delivered and an identification of a schedule on which to deliver the financial data; generating a transaction including the financial data; and transmitting the generated transaction to at least one distributed node of the distributed ledger system according to the requested schedule. |
US11526937B2 |
Credit screening support system, vehicle-mounted device, vehicle, server, credit screening support method, credit screening support program, and storage medium
Credit information is obtained from an operational status of a vehicle, for example, and a credit limit is increased based on this credit information. A credit screening support system includes a vehicle-mounted device configured to acquire operational information on the vehicle and a server configured to compute the credit information on a user of the vehicle based on the operational information received from the vehicle-mounted device. The server includes an input element for inputting the operational information acquired by the vehicle-mounted device, a credit information computing element for computing credit information on the user based on the operational information input by the input element, and an output element for outputting the credit information on the user computed by the credit information computing element. |
US11526934B2 |
Smart learning systems for integrating and linking multiple data accounts across a network
Data account management systems and methods are described. A server is in communication with one or more information source systems, at least one user device associated with at least one user and one or more electronic data accounts associated with the user. The server links the electronic data accounts, monitors data among the information source systems and the linked accounts for any changes in activity associated with the user, predicts a behavioral activity of the user via machine learning based on at least one of the monitored data and historical data associated with the user, identifies at least one notification instruction specific to the user based on the predicted behavioral activity, and generates an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display on the user device. The interactive GUI presents one or more of the notification instruction and a user profile of the at least one user among the linked accounts. |
US11526932B2 |
Kiosks for evaluating and purchasing used electronic devices and related technology
A process for a pre-acquisition auction for recycled electronic devices is disclosed herein. A plurality of pre-acquisition purchase prices are established with each of the plurality of pre-acquisition purchase prices established for a recycled electronic device in a predetermined condition, and each of the pre-acquisition purchase prices established by a winning bid from a bidder of a plurality of bidders for a recycled electronic device. |
US11526930B2 |
Optimization of order fulfillment conditions
Embodiments include a method for optimizing order fulfillment conditions. Information of an order fulfillment is received, including items included in an order, inventory information of the items included in an order from one or more entities at respective locations, and timeline information of a user associated with the order fulfillment information. A selection of an entity at a first location is determined from the one or more entities at respective locations, and a time schedule associated with the order fulfillment is determined. Conditions are determined that correspond to the entity at the first location and a travel route to the first location, and responsive to determining the conditions corresponding to the travel route and the first location of the entity to be unfavorable for the order fulfillment, a modification is performed on the information of the order fulfillment resulting in favorable conditions for the order fulfillment. |
US11526927B1 |
Distributed numeric sequence generation
Various embodiments of a distributed numeric sequence generation system and method are described. In particular, some embodiments provide high-scale, high-availability, low-cost and low-maintenance numeric sequence generation in a non-Relational Database Management System (“non-RBMS”) system by sacrificing monotonicity. The distributed numeric sequence generation system comprises a plurality of hosts, wherein individual hosts implement a cache for caching a plurality of numeric sequences. A host can access master numeric sequence data at a separate system to obtain values for numeric sequences to store in its cache. A host can receive a request from a client for values of a numeric sequence, and provide to the client the values for the numeric sequence from its cache. Some embodiments of the distributed numeric sequence generation system and method are also equipped to vend recyclable and bounded numeric sequences. |
US11526921B1 |
Systems and methods for monitoring a budget scope in real time
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for generating a budget and scope associated therewith include a provider computing system including a network interface structured to facilitate data communication via a network and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory. The processing circuit is structured to receive a scope and a budget. The processing circuit includes a management circuit structured to determine a scope merchant category for items offered for sale by a merchant that match the scope and wherein the management circuit is structured to interpret the budget to determine a maximum amount of funds for the purchase. The processing circuit receives a selected item. The management circuit determines a category in comparison to the scope and a cost item in comparison to the budget to determine if the cost of the item is less than the maximum amount of funds. |
US11526913B2 |
Real-time display adaptation
A method of providing Internet commercialization services to a content owner may include obtaining rights from an owner of Web page contents on a Web page to commercialize the Web page contents, obtaining an ad from an advertiser for placement on the Web page, the advertiser agreeing to pay for placement of the ad, paying for traffic to the Web page based on a bid to a traffic partner and sharing profits with the owner of the Web page contents, if any, from payments by the advertiser above payment to the traffic partner for the traffic. The content owner may be a publisher of content on the Internet. The traffic partner may be a search engine. The method may include automatically providing Internet commercialization services to an Internet publisher. Various aspects of the method may be modified in a closed loop fashion to optimize profits. |
US11526909B1 |
Real-time targeting of advertisements across multiple platforms
A server and a method for real-time targeting of advertisements across multiple platforms is provided. The server receives first information that indicates a presence of a first person in a first vehicle at a first time period. The server determines content metadata associated with media content rendered via an infotainment device of the first vehicle. The server transmits first advertisement content to the infotainment device. The server receives second information that indicates an absence of the first person from the first vehicle at a second time period. The server further determines a first application used by the first person on an electronic device within a time threshold from the second time period. The server further transmits second advertisement content, to be rendered on the determined first application, to the first electronic device. The second advertisement content may be associated with the first advertisement content. |
US11526906B2 |
System and method for secure content streaming, governance, fraud prevention, and the embedding artificial intelligence into content
An automated system configured for streamed contents, to be self-aware in preventing fraudulent tactics, during real-time and offline usages, while communicating with its owner for accurate decision making, comprising: a content player module, and a content streaming service module; configured using a codec module to embed logic, encryptions, heuristics data, associated meta data, and management data into the content format; configured to use symmetric encryption keys, public keys, biometrics, and payload data; configured to authenticate the user and content owner; configured to request, receive, send, stream content, and analytics through a secure communication; configured to provide secure virtual communications between users and content owners; configured to use a call-home data, to enable the content and content owner to communicate and update one another securely; Configured to provide real-time, and offline, fraud prevention heuristics using artificial intelligence. |
US11526896B2 |
System and method for recommendations based on user intent and sentiment data
A method implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include sending to a user an input form comprising an input element for a respective intent weight for each of a plurality of features. The method also can include receiving from the user the respective intent weights for the plurality of features. The method additionally can include selecting one or more first items from among a plurality of items in the category of items based at least in part on: (a) the respective intent weights for the plurality of features for the user, and (b) sentiment data comprising a respective sentiment score for each respective feature for each of the plurality of items. The method further can include displaying the one or more first items to the user in a graphical user interface in real-time after receiving the respective intent weights. The method additionally can include updating the graphical user interface in an interactive sequence based on a selection received from the user of one of the one or more first items. Other embodiments are described. |
US11526894B2 |
Systems and methods for distribution item processing
Systems and methods for universal item returns. A universal returns systems allows a user the ability to return an item via a distribution network whether the item was purchased at a retail location, delivered by the distribution network, or delivered by another entity. The universal returns system comprises a user interface a return request. Based on the return request, the system obtains transaction information, provides a return code, and allows scheduling item pick-up. |
US11526893B2 |
System and method for price matching through receipt capture
A system and method for generating a notification of a price change for a transaction and facilitating an associated price adjustment based on electronic image capture of a paper receipt. An image capture system captures an electronic image of a paper transaction receipt, which is transmitted to a data extraction processor that extracts transaction receipt data from the captured electronic image. A unique key is generated by an authentication server that is matched to a transaction record to generate a reliability score for the OCRed image and to authorize price matching. If the price monitoring server identifies that the price of a purchased transaction item has changed, the price monitoring server automatically generates a notification to the user indicating the price change and an email to the customer service department of the merchant from which the transaction item was purchased, requesting a price adjustment that is credited back to the payment instrument. |
US11526891B2 |
Systems and methods for analyzing sleep data and sleep pattern data
A sleep pattern analyzer (SPA) system for capturing and analyzing sleep data and sleep pattern data is provided. The SPA system is configured to receive sleep data associated with a user, the sleep data including a registered user identifier and at least one sleep time stamp, and store the sleep data in a sleep pattern database. The SPA system is also configured to receive transaction data for a transaction initiated by a consumer with a merchant. The SPA system is further configured to match the consumer identifier to the registered user identifier, generate a fraud notification message when the transaction time stamp overlaps with the at least one sleep time stamp, and transmit the fraud notification message to at least one of an issuer, the merchant, and the consumer associated with the consumer identifier. |
US11526889B2 |
Resource transferring monitoring method and device
Methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring resource transfer are provided. One of the methods includes: by a server, receiving a resource deposit request from a resource deposit initiator; performing, using a first risk identification model, a first risk identification on the target account according to the resource deposit request to obtain a first risk identification result; receiving a resource withdrawal request from a resource withdrawal initiator, and the resource withdrawal request requesting a resource withdrawal from the target account to the recipient account; performing, using a second risk identification model, a second risk identification on the target account according to the resource withdrawal request to obtain a second risk identification result; and determining, using a third risk identification model, a resource transfer risk monitoring result of the target account according to the first risk identification result and the second risk identification result. |
US11526888B2 |
Relying party risk-adjusted indicator system and method
A method and system capable of generating a relying party risk-adjusted indicator associated with and used by users and parties entering into one or more transactions with a relying party. |
US11526884B2 |
Mobile device verification for an electronic application before providing a digital pass to an approved customer
A system and method for mobile device verification for an electronic application before providing a digital pass to an approved customer is disclosed. The method and system receives, at a store's customer credit application computer, an application for a new account, the application including a contact information for a customer's mobile device providing, from the store's customer credit application computer, the contact information for the customer's mobile device to a verification system to authenticate the customer's mobile device providing, from a credit account provider, a text to the customer's mobile device, the text causing the customer's mobile device to be subjected to a second authentication; receiving, at the customer's mobile device, a message that includes a link to the digital pass; and utilizing the link to receive the digital pass at a mobile wallet of the customer's mobile device. |
US11526880B2 |
Dynamic security code for a card transaction
An electronic device generates a dynamic security code for a card transaction, e.g. a card not present transaction. The electronic device receives a user request to generate a dynamic security code. The electronic device sends a time request to a time source and receives a message including a time from the time source. The electronic device determines an authenticity of the message containing the time and computes the dynamic security code based on the time received in the message and a key stored at the electronic device. The electronic device causes the dynamic security code to be displayed on a display of the electronic device. The electronic device may be capable of computing a dynamic security code for a plurality of different cards. The electronic device may be a smart phone, a tablet, or a personal computer. |
US11526878B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time account access
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for processing and settling financial transactions. An example method comprises receiving a transaction from an originator. The transaction comprises information associated with an identification of an initiating user or the account. The method comprises determining the actual account number, transmitting a financial services transaction request comprising the actual account number to a financial institution, receiving a response, and transmitting a response back to the originator. Another method comprises receiving, from a user device, a request to associate a financial account with a user account. The method comprises generating and sending an association message to a payment network and receiving a key associated with the financial account for use in initiating financial transactions. Another method comprises utilizing such a key to generate and process a transaction request. Other systems, methods, and media are also provided. |
US11526874B2 |
Offline value transfer using asymmetric cryptography
Tokenized assets with associated value are transferred from a designated server to a mobile device. The associated value is removed from the designated server. The tokenized assets are transferred to a first trusted electronic device. The first trusted electronic device is associated with the mobile device. At least a portion of the tokenized assets are transferred to a second trusted electronic device such that the portion of the tokenized assets are only stored on the second trusted electronic device after the transfer. The second electronic device is associated with a second mobile device. The transfer occurs at a time when both the mobile device and the electronic device are offline. |
US11526871B2 |
Cart robot
A cart robot analyzing a hand motion of a user is disclosed. The cart robot comprises a code input interface obtaining a product identification code, a sensor detecting a hand motion of a user, a weight measuring device measuring a weight of one or more products contained in a product loading space, and a controller. When there is no change in weight of the loaded products, the cart robot updates a shopping list with respect to the products loaded in the product loading space in real time by analyzing the hand motion of the user. Therefore, the convenience of the user is enhanced. |
US11526870B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a contactless protocol
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing contactless transactions. A first tap is performed when a system is placed within a predetermined proximity to a payment terminal. A first select command including an AID corresponding to a first application is received from the payment terminal. A first response based on the first select command is transmitted to the payment terminal. A data request including information indicating supported data types is received from the payment terminal. A second response based on the data request and including transaction data is transmitted to the payment terminal. The transaction data includes at least a portion of commerce data stored in the at least one memory. |
US11526869B2 |
Wearable RFID device for use in an event-based interrogation zone
A wearable RFID device is provided for use in an event-based interrogation zone. The zone contains terminals with RFID readers. The device has an element worn by a user and an attached or embedded RFID tag. The tag has stored data representing a UniqueID of the tag, and a stored funds balance. The tag is programmed to activate an otherwise inactive one of said terminals upon presentation of the tag to the RFID reader of said terminal in a first tap, and communicate its UniqueID to the terminal for validation. Upon validation and following a second tap of the tag at the RFID reader, the tag's stored funds balance can be changed by the amount of a transaction run through said terminal. A temporary installation of a system of RFID-based terminals and user-worn RFID devices is also provided for use within an event interrogation zone. |
US11526866B1 |
Systems and methods for secure wireless payment transactions when a wireless network is unavailable
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed which allow a mobile device user to complete financial transactions even when the mobile device is not connected to a wireless network. The systems, methods, and devices of the present disclosure may utilize a combination of an encrypted lockbox containing out of network payment codes on the mobile device and a matching set of out of network payment codes stored on a server of a payment authority. |
US11526860B1 |
Mobile cash deposit system and method
An electronic cash deposit system includes a processor that receives a user-generated request for a deposit of cash into an account, receive data generated from a scan of a machine-readable image on a receptacle that receives the cash, perform a validation of the deposit of the cash based on a correlation between the data generated from the scan and a transaction key, generate confirmation of the deposit of the cash when the validation is confirmed, and send a notification to a banking system to update the account to reflect the deposit of the cash in response to the confirmation being generated. |
US11526859B1 |
Cash flow forecasting using a bottoms-up machine learning approach
A method and apparatus for improving the management of cash and liquidity of an organization utilizing a plurality of ledger accounts and a plurality of currency accounts is described. One improvement in the accuracy of the forecasts comes from the uses of individual ledger accounts. The improvements optimize the interest earnings for the cash balances in each currency account and minimizes the expenses related to funding the currency accounts. Machine learning techniques are incorporated to forecast payments, receipts, interest rates, and currency exchange rates, and then the cash is transferred or borrowed or loaned to fund the payments and utilize available cash. |
US11526856B2 |
Automatic savings program
A computer implemented method of processing a financial transaction executed by first person includes determining an automatic savings amount from the financial transaction by rounding up the amount of the financial transaction to the nearest dollar. The method further includes debiting the calculated savings amount from an account of the first person and crediting the savings amount to an account of a second person. |
US11526855B2 |
Method and system for translating transaction messages
A method for translating transaction messages includes receiving, by a server from an acquirer, an inbound transaction message that is associated with a transaction and pursuant to a first message format supported by the acquirer. The server translates the inbound transaction message from the first message format to a second message format supported by the server when the first and second message formats are different. The server processes the inbound transaction message having the second message format and generates an outbound transaction message having the second message format. The server translates the outbound transaction message from the second message format to a third message format supported by an issuer that corresponds to the transaction when the second and third message formats are different, and transmits the translated outbound transaction to the issuer for processing the transaction. Thus, the method allows the server to translate transaction messages between different message formats. |
US11526851B1 |
Systems and methods for asset management
Systems and methods described herein may involve receiving creative elements, each creative element comprising a visual element and a time. Each of the plurality of creative elements may overlap in time with each other. The visual elements of the associated creative elements may be displayed together in a time slot of a calendar corresponding to the overlapping time. |
US11526850B1 |
Apparatuses and methods for rating the quality of a posting
Aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for rating the quality of a posting. An exemplary apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to acquire a plurality of inputs from at least a posting, classify the posting to a posting category as a function of the plurality of inputs, calculate a quality metric as a function of the posting category and the plurality of inputs, wherein the quality metric reflects a level of completeness regarding the arrangement of inputs in a posting, and generate, as a function of the quality metric, a ordering of the posting, wherein the order relates to a probable level of focus a user may use to fill the posting. |
US11526849B2 |
Data set filtering for machine learning
A device may determine an association between a second set of parameters and a third set of parameters using a pseudoinversion network and a multiple regression procedure. The device may determine semantic embeddings based on a set of semantic descriptions of the second set of parameters. The device may determine a semantic similarity between parameters of the second set of parameters based on the semantic embeddings. The device may determine a consistency error based on the semantic similarity. The device may generate, using a regression-based learning model technique, a matrix representing an association between the second set of parameters and the third set of parameters based on the association and the consistency error. The device may perform an action based on the matrix. |
US11526847B2 |
Reconfiguring a vehicle for transfer from a first operator to a second operator
A method is provided for reconfiguring a vehicle for transfer from a first operator to a second operator. The method includes accessing first datasets that define an initial configuration of the vehicle, importing second datasets that describe maintenance, repair or service of the vehicle during in-service operation with the first operator, and generating a first composite dataset defining a current configuration of the vehicle. The method also includes accessing third datasets that define requirements of the vehicle for in-service operation with the second operator, and generating a second composite dataset that defines a target configuration of the vehicle from the first composite dataset and based on data of the third datasets. The method includes comparing the first and second composite datasets to identify modifications to reconfigure the vehicle from the current configuration to the target configuration, and generating a visual presentation of the modifications to facilitate reconfiguration of the vehicle. |
US11526841B2 |
Item monitoring method, terminal, and system
The present disclosure discloses an item monitoring method, terminal and system. The item monitoring method includes: scanning a radio frequency identification tag of an item within a preset range according to a preset scanning period using radio frequency identification technology, and acquiring item information in the radio frequency identification tag; determining whether the item corresponding to the item information belongs to an item scope covered by the preset range; and outputting first prompt information in response to determining that the item corresponding to the item information does not belong to the item scope covered by the preset range. |
US11526837B2 |
Delivery system, delivery method, and computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing a program
A delivery system for delivering a package to a delivery destination using a moving body, including a weather information acquiring unit that acquires weather information including information concerning weather at the delivery destination; and a judging unit that judges whether delivery of the package to the delivery destination by the moving body is possible, based on the weather information acquired by the weather information acquiring unit. |
US11526834B2 |
Tracking system and method for monitoring and ensuring security of shipments
A method, computer device, and security detail (SD) communication device enables real-time tracking and security of shipments. The method includes receiving a plurality of location signals indicating a location of multiple geographically co-located shipment-related entities that are being tracked as a shipment group. The shipment group includes an assigned security detail that has a corresponding location signal. The method includes presenting the shipment group as a plurality of co-located visual representations on a shipment tracking user interface (STUI) of the computing device, where each location signal is represented among the co-located visual representations. The method includes monitoring for any unscheduled deviations in at least one of an expected co-location and an expected geo-location of received updates to the location signals within the shipment group. The method further includes, in response to detecting an unscheduled deviation, triggering responsive actions, including notifying SD personnel, based on the type of deviation. |
US11526833B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for managing logistics information related to a container having a scale
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing logistics information related to a container using a container interface display apparatus. A scanner on the container interface display apparatus identifies an item during loading of the container. An association between the container and the item is recorded in memory of the container interface display apparatus as part of managed logistics information related to the container. A scale within the container detects a weight of the item and sends a signal to the container interface display apparatus indicating the detected weight of the item (which is also recorded in memory as part of the managed logistics information related to the container). Electronic logistics monitor information (e.g., at least a portion of the managed logistics information) is then generated on the display screen of the container interface display apparatus. |
US11526830B2 |
Concepts for electronic door hangers
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided. In one embodiment, a connection between an electronic door hanger and a customer computing entity can be established at a customer's location. With a connection established, information about an attempted (e.g., successful/unsuccessful) pick-up or delivery can be automatically provided to the customer computing entity. |
US11526825B2 |
Cloud-based multi-tenancy computing systems and methods for providing response control and analytics
Cloud-based multi-tenancy computing systems and methods for providing response control and analytics are disclosed. An exemplary method includes capturing a first set of data based on activities that occur in the activated response center related to the client's actions taken in response to the event; generating a first set of analytics based on the captured first set of data; capturing a second set of data based on activities that occur in a plurality of response centers of client tenants related to the clients' actions taken in response to the events that occurred to them;generating a second set of analytics based on the captured second set of data; and based on the first and second set of analytics produced by the response system, generating and transmitting an updated menu of suggested actions for responding to a future event, to one or more of the clients. |
US11526824B2 |
Systems and methods for measuring effectiveness of feature changes made within a store
Systems and methods for determining whether a particular feature or change implemented in at least one test store causes a significant change as compared to one or more control stores are discussed. More particularly, techniques for using a time-series clustering algorithm to identify comparable sister stores to a store in which a feature change is being considered are described. Once the sister stores are identified a testing module can perform an A/B testing so as to validate whether a particular feature change being implemented in the test store causes a significant change as compared to the control stores. |
US11526821B2 |
Managing media replenishment
A method of managing media replenishment for a media terminal is described. The method comprises: calculating an amount of media required for the media terminal; receiving from the media terminal an indication of media items deposited at that media terminal that have a condition fulfilling a condition criterion; and adjusting the calculated amount of media required based on the indication of media items that fulfill the condition criterion. |
US11526816B2 |
Context-based remote autonomous vehicle assistance
Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. Assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by operators for a plurality of autonomous vehicles can be tracked in order to generate operator attributes for each of a plurality of operators. The attributes for an operator can be based on tracking one or more respective assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by the operator. The operator attributes can be used to facilitate enhanced remote operations for autonomous vehicles. For example, request parameters can be obtained in response to a request for remote assistance associated with an autonomous vehicle. An operator can be selected to assist with autonomy tasks for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the operator attributes for the operator and the request parameters associated with the request. Remote assistance for the first autonomous vehicle can be initiated, facilitated by the first operator in response to the request for remote assistance. |
US11526814B2 |
System and method for building ensemble models using competitive reinforcement learning
This disclosure relates to method and system for building ensemble models using competitive reinforcement learning (CRL). The method may include creating a plurality of clusters, each including a set of predictive models forming the ensemble model. For each of the plurality of clusters, the method may further include initializing each of the set of predictive models with random values for a set of first parameters to obtain a first accuracy score, categorizing each of the set of predictive models into a first associated category based on a first accuracy score, calculating a first reward for each of the set of predictive models based on the first associated category, and determining a set of second parameters for each of the set of predictive models using CRL to obtain a second accuracy score. |
US11526812B2 |
Generalized reinforcement learning agent
An apparatus has a memory storing a reinforcement learning policy with an optimization component and a data collection component. The apparatus has a regularization component which applies regularization selectively between the optimization component of the reinforcement learning policy and the data collection component of the reinforcement learning policy. A processor carries out a reinforcement learning process by: triggering execution of an agent according to the policy and with respect to a first task; observing values of variables comprising: an observation space of the agent, an action of the agent; and updating the policy using reinforcement learning according to the observed values and taking into account the regularization. |
US11526810B2 |
System for prediction model management with treatment pathways and biomarker data
Example implementations described herein are directed to the problem of dynamically extracting valid sets of clinical treatments and predictive features from electronic health records to construct models that can predict the effect of treatments and hence compare the effect of multiple, putative treatments. By utilizing a data pipelining technique for constructing machine learning models that only utilizes sets of valid treatment options instead of all possible options, the hardware and computational resources required for constructing the machine learning models can thereby be reduced, and the predicted treatment transition outcomes can be traced to valid treatments, thereby allowing the clinician to understand the effects from a clinical perspective. |
US11526804B2 |
Machine learning model training for reviewing documents
A document analysis device that includes an artificial intelligence (AI) processing engine configured to receive a set of input sentences, to select a first sentence from the set of input sentences, and to compare the first sentence to previously classified sentences. The AI processing engine is further configured to compute similarity scores between the first sentence and the previously classified sentences, to identify a second sentence from the previously classified sentences with a similarity score greater than or equal to a similarity score threshold value, to identify a sentence type that is associated with the second sentence, and to associate the first sentence with the sentence type. The AI processing engine is further configured to add the first sentence to the set of training data for the machine learning model and to train the machine learning model using the set of training data. |
US11526801B2 |
Conversational search in content management systems
In an approach for a conversational search in a content management system, a processor trains a deep learning model to learn semantic analysis of a plurality of user queries to identify intents and entities in the user queries. A processor analyzes the content management system to extract content keywords to generate a domain ontology. A processor augments the domain ontology based on the identified intents and entities in the user queries by the deep learning model. A processor tags the content keywords with metadata based on the domain ontology. A processor maps the intents and entities extracted from a current user query of a user to the content keywords extracted from the content management system to form a metadata keyword. A processor searches the content management system for a content based on the metadata keyword. A processor returns a search result for the current user query. |
US11526795B1 |
Executing variational quantum algorithms using hybrid processing on different types of quantum processing units
A variational quantum algorithm is solved using two types of quantum processing units (QPU) with different performance metrics (e.g., speed, size and fidelity). One type of quantum processing unit (QPU) is used to optimize some or all of the circuit parameters in a first stage, and these are then used with a different type QPU in a second stage to solve the target problem. The different performance metrics permit tradeoffs between the two stages. |
US11526794B2 |
Quantum bios for reconfiguring quantum computing architectures
Described herein are methods and systems for controlling an integrated optics control system for quantum computing using a quantum bios chip. A quantum bios chip, comprising one or more qubit connection geometries and one or more error correction codes associated with the qubit connection geometries, receives instructions associated with a quantum computing application. The quantum bios chip configures one or more switching elements of an integrated optics control system coupled to the quantum bios chip, the switching elements controlling entanglement of one or more qubits of a quantum computer and the switching elements configured based upon a selected one of the one or more qubit connection geometries and one of the one or more error correction codes that is compatible with the selected one of the one or more qubit connection geometries. |
US11526792B2 |
System and method for predicting outputs associated with a future time series
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a plurality of historical inputs, obtaining a plurality of historical outputs, applying a piecewise linear regression, deep learning algorithm to at least the plurality of historical inputs and the plurality of historical outputs to generate a plurality of predicted inputs, applying a plurality of weightings to the plurality of predicted inputs to generate a plurality of predicted weighted inputs, and applying at least one simulation to the plurality of predicted weighted inputs to generate a plurality of predicted weighted outputs. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
US11526785B2 |
Predictability-driven compression of training data sets
Techniques for performing predictability-driven compression of training data sets used for machine learning (ML) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a training data set comprising a plurality of data instances and can train an ML model using the plurality of data instances, the training resulting in a trained version of the ML model. The computer system can further generate prediction metadata for each data instance in the plurality of data instances using the trained version of the ML model and can compute a predictability measure for each data instance based on the prediction metadata, the predictability measure indicating a training value of the data instance. The computer system can then filter one or more data instances from the plurality of data instances based on the computed predictability measures, the filtering resulting in a compressed version of the training data set. |
US11526783B2 |
Abnormality determination device, learning device, and abnormality determination method
An abnormality determination device includes one or more processors. The processors input first input data to a first model to obtain first output data. The first output data is formed by restoring data with the reduced dimension to data with the same dimension as that of the first input data. The processors input second input data, which is a difference between the first input data and the first output data, to a second model, and obtain second output data. The second output data is formed by restoring data with the reduced dimension to data with the same dimension as that of the second input data. The processors obtain restored data that is a sum of the first output data and the second output data. The processors compare the first input data with the restored data and determine an abnormality in the first input data based on the comparison result. |
US11526780B2 |
Converting nonnative skills for conversational computing interfaces
A method of extending a conversational computing interface. The method comprises executing a nonnative skill implemented in a nonnative programming language of the conversational computing interface. The method further comprises automatically computer-tracing computer operations performed by the nonnative skill during such execution. The method further comprises automatically computer-generating a native computer-executable plan representing the traced computer operations in a native programming language of the conversational computing interface. |
US11526776B1 |
System and method for generating predictions of geopolitical events
A system and method for generating predictions of geopolitical events is provided. Predictions may be generated by retrieving relevant metadata associated with a content item and evaluating one or more signals representative of the same. |
US11526769B2 |
Encoding knowledge graph entries with searchable geotemporal values for evaluating transitive geotemporal proximity of entity mentions
A controller, responsive to detecting geospatial and temporal information associated with a mention of an entity in a document, for converting the geospatial information into a specified geospatial format and the temporal information into a specified temporal format. The controller for computing prefix-based geospatial values for the converted geospatial information and prefix-based temporal values for the converted temporal information. The controller for encoding an entry in a knowledge graph for the mention of the entity from the document with the prefix-based geospatial values and the prefix-based temporal values, wherein each digit of the prefix-based geospatial values and the prefix-based temporal values in the knowledge graph that matches another one or more prefix-based geospatial values and another one or more prefix-based temporal values in another entry for another entity mention in the knowledge graph reflects a degree of granularity of geotemporal proximity of the entity and the another entity. |
US11526766B2 |
Graphical structure model-based transaction risk control
One or more implementations of the present specification provide risk control of transactions based on a graphical structure model. A graphical structure model trained by using labeled samples is obtained. The graphical structure model is defined based on a transaction data network that includes nodes representing entities in a transaction and edges representing relationships between the entities. Each labeled sample includes a label indicating whether a node corresponding to the labeled sample is a risky transaction node. The graphical structure model is configured to iteratively calculate an embedding vector of the node in a latent feature space based on an original feature of the node or a feature of an edge associated with the node. An embedding vector of an input sample is calculated by using the graphical structure model. Transaction risk control is performed on the input sample based on the embedding vector. |
US11526763B2 |
Neuromorphic system for performing supervised learning using error backpropagation
A neuromorphic system includes a first neuromorphic layer configured to perform a forward operation with an input signal and a first weight, a first operation circuit configured to perform a first operation on a result of the forward operation of the first neuromorphic layer, a second neuromorphic layer configured to perform a forward operation with an output signal of the first operation circuit and a second weight, a second operation circuit configured to perform a second operation on a result of the forward operation of the second neuromorphic layer, a first weight adjustment amount calculation circuit configured to calculate a first weight adjustment amount, and a second weight adjustment amount calculation circuit configured to calculate a second weight adjustment amount. |
US11526756B1 |
Artificial intelligence system with composite models for multiple response-string queries
Query types for which responses are to be generated with respect to records comprising text attributes are identified, including a text interpretation query type for which records may comprise one or more response-contributor strings. Results of the text interpretation query for a record are based at least partly on an extracted-property class of the records. A machine learning model comprising a first sub-model and a second sub-model is trained to extract results of the text interpretation query. The first sub-model generates an extracted-property class for a record, and the second sub-model predicts positions of response-contributor strings within the record based at least in part on the extracted-property class. A trained version of the model is stored. |
US11526755B2 |
Training more secure neural networks by using local linearity regularization
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network. One of the methods includes processing each training input using the neural network and in accordance with the current values of the network parameters to generate a network output for the training input; computing a respective loss for each of the training inputs by evaluating a loss function; identifying, from a plurality of possible perturbations, a maximally non-linear perturbation; and determining an update to the current values of the parameters of the neural network by performing an iteration of a neural network training procedure to decrease the respective losses for the training inputs and to decrease the non-linearity of the loss function for the identified maximally non-linear perturbation. |
US11526745B2 |
Methods and apparatus for federated training of a neural network using trusted edge devices
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for federated training of a neural network using trusted edge devices are disclosed. An example system includes an aggregator device to aggregate model updates provided by one or more edge devices. The one or more edge devices to implement respective neural networks, and provide the model updates to the aggregator device. At least one of the edge devices to implement the neural network within a trusted execution environment. |
US11526743B2 |
Artificial neural network optical hardware accelerator
The present disclosure advantageously provides an Optical Hardware Accelerator (OHA) for an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that includes a communication bus interface, a memory, a controller, and an optical computing engine (OCE). The OCE is configured to execute an ANN model with ANN weights. Each ANN weight includes a quantized phase shift value θi and a phase shift value ϕi. The OCE includes a digital-to-optical (D/O) converter configured to generate input optical signals based on the input data, an optical neural network (ONN) configured to generate output optical signals based on the input optical signals, and an optical-to-digital (O/D) converter configured to generate the output data based on the output optical signals. The ONN includes a plurality of optical units (OUs), and each OU includes an optical multiply and accumulate (OMAC) module. |
US11526741B2 |
Automated method and associated device for the non-volatile storage, retrieval and management of message/label associations and vice versa, with maximum likelihood
An associative-memory-storage unit, and to an associative-memory-storage method are provided. The associative-memory-storage unit includes a first subset of at least memory sub-units over w bits, and a second memory sub-unit over v bits. The associative-memory-storage sub-unit may be used to associate messages with labels, and vice versa. |
US11526740B2 |
Optimization apparatus and optimization method
An optimization method includes holding combining destination information indicating a combining destination neuron to be combined with a target neuron which is one of a plurality of neurons corresponding to a plurality of spins of an Ising model obtained by converting an optimization problem, the target neuron being different in a plurality of neuron circuits; holding a weighting coefficient indicating a strength of combining between the target neuron and the combining destination neuron, and outputting the weighting coefficient corresponding to the combining destination information; permitting an update of a value of the target neuron by using the weighting coefficient output and the value of the update target neuron, and outputting a determination result indicating whether or not the value of the target neuron is permitted to be updated; and determining the update target neuron based on the plurality of determination results respectively output and outputting the update target information. |
US11526739B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device performing a multiplication and accumulation operation
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array and an computation output circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory elements configured to store a plurality of weights respectively and a plurality of bit lines coupled to the plurality of nonvolatile memory elements according to a plurality of input signals. The computation output circuit is configured to generate a computation signal from voltages induced at the plurality of bit lines according to the plurality of input signals. |
US11526738B2 |
Processing apparatus and inference system
According to an embodiment, an inference system includes a recurrent neural network circuit, an inference neural network, and a control circuit. The recurrent neural network circuit receives M input signals and outputs N intermediate signals, where M is an integer of 2 or more and N is an integer of 2 or more. The inference neural network circuit receives the N intermediate signals and outputs L output signals, where L is an integer of 2 or more. The control circuit adjusts a plurality of coefficients that are set to the recurrent neural network circuit and adjusts a plurality of coefficients that are set to the inference neural network circuit. The control circuit adjusts the coefficients set to the recurrent neural network circuit according to a total delay time period from timing for applying the M input signals until timing for firing the L output signals. |
US11526736B2 |
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to map workloads
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to map workloads. An example apparatus includes a constraint definer to define performance characteristic targets of the neural network, an action determiner to apply a first resource configuration to candidate resources corresponding to the neural network, a reward determiner to calculate a results metric based on (a) resource performance metrics and (b) the performance characteristic targets, and a layer map generator to generate a resource mapping file, the mapping file including respective resource assignments for respective corresponding layers of the neural network, the resource assignments selected based on the results metric. |
US11526735B2 |
Neuromorphic neuron apparatus for artificial neural networks
A neuromorphic neuron apparatus includes an accumulation block and an output generation block. The apparatus has a current state variable corresponding to previously received one or more signals. The output generation block is configured to use an activation function for generating a current output value based on the current state variable. The accumulation block is configured to repeatedly: compute an adjustment of the current state variable using the current output value and a correction function indicative of a decay behaviour of a time constant of the apparatus; receive a current signal; update the current state variable using the computed adjustment and the received signal, the updated state variable becoming the current state variable; and cause the output generation block to generate a current output value based on the current state variable. |
US11526733B2 |
Neural network execution block and transfer learning
Systems, architectures, and approaches for use with neural networks. An execution block and a system architecture using a novel execution block are disclosed along with how such an execution block can be used. The execution block uses a fully connected stack of layers and parameters of this fully connected stack of layers are shared. The fully connected nature of the block and on-the-fly generated parameters allow for bypassing specialized training data sets. The system may be trained using non-task-specific training data sets and this allows the system to transfer what is learned to execute a different task. Thus, instead of having to obtain a specialized training data set for a specific task, a more generic training data set can be used to train and prepare the system for that specific task. Results have shown that performance is as good as than the state of the art in providing solutions. |
US11526732B2 |
Apparatus and method for statistical memory network
Provided are an apparatus and method for a statistical memory network. The apparatus includes a stochastic memory, an uncertainty estimator configured to estimate uncertainty information of external input signals from the input signals and provide the uncertainty information of the input signals, a writing controller configured to generate parameters for writing in the stochastic memory using the external input signals and the uncertainty information and generate additional statistics by converting statistics of the external input signals, a writing probability calculator configured to calculate a probability of a writing position of the stochastic memory using the parameters for writing, and a statistic updater configured to update stochastic values composed of an average and a variance of signals in the stochastic memory using the probability of a writing position, the parameters for writing, and the additional statistics. |
US11526720B2 |
Artificial intelligence system for supporting communication
An artificial intelligence system includes a first information processing module generating data related to a language based on social data of a first user registered in one or a plurality of social network services, and a second information processing module generating data related to an image based on social data of the first user registered in one or a plurality of social network services. The first information processing module and the second information processing module generate a virtual first user on a computer with respect to the first user. |
US11526718B2 |
Method of manufacturing mini smart card
A mini smart card and a method of manufacturing the mini smart card are introduced. The method includes disposing bilayered print layers on a top side and a bottom side of a circuit layer, respectively; performing a heat-compression treatment and then a printing treatment on the circuit layer and the bilayered print layers; removing surface layers from the bilayered print layers; and disposing transparent protective layers on the bilayered print layers, respectively. The bilayered print layers are prevented from deforming under the heat generated during the printing treatment. Removal of the surface layers from the bilayered print layers effectively reduces the thickness of the mini smart card. |
US11526716B2 |
Barcode generation methods and apparatuses
A server is used to receive a barcode generation request sent by an end-user device. The server is used to generate, based on the barcode generation request, at least two pieces of barcode information by using at least two code systems, respectively. The server is used to transmit a barcode generation response to the end-user device, where the barcode generation response includes the at least two pieces of barcode information, where the barcode generation response causes an application running on the end-user device to display on the end-user device, alternately, a respective barcode image corresponding to each piece of the at least two pieces of barcode information. |
US11526710B1 |
Systems and methods for promissory image classification
Systems, methods and products for classifying images according to a visual concept where, in one embodiment, a system includes an object detector and a visual concept classifier, the object detector being configured to detect objects depicted in an image and generate a corresponding object data set identifying the objects and containing information associated with each of the objects, the visual concept classifier being configured to examine the object data set generated by the object detector, detect combinations of the information in the object data set that are high-precision indicators of the designated visual concept being contained in the image, generate a classification for the object data set with respect to the designated visual concept, and associate the classification with the image, wherein the classification identifies the image as either containing the designated visual concept or not containing the designated visual concept. |
US11526709B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for classifying object of interest
An information processing method in which an object of interest is classified using node group information defining a node group having modeled a scheme of classification as a tree structure and having grouped nodes possessing a same parent node, comprises: setting depth information for determining whether to perform classification for a particular node group when sequentially traversing node groups from the parent node using the node group information to classify the object of interest; and classifying the object of interest by sequentially traversing node groups from the parent node using the node group information, and providing a classification result, wherein classifying the object of interest varies a depth up to which node groups are sequentially traversed from the parent node to classify the object of interest, in accordance with setting of the depth information. |
US11526708B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium
An information processing device includes a processor. The processor obtains an input image, inputs the input image to a machine learning model that executes classification likelihood calculation processing to obtain, for each of candidate objects in the input image, likelihoods of belonging to the plurality of classes, executes first determination on whether or not each of the candidate objects is classified as a first class of the plurality of classes using a likelihood of belonging to the first class that is a likelihood having a negative correlation with likelihoods of belonging to other classes, executes second determination on whether or not each of the candidate objects that have been determined in the first determination as a non-first class is classified as the other classes, and outputting a result of classifying the candidate objects included in the input image using a result of the second determination. |
US11526707B2 |
Unsupervised contextual label propagation and scoring
One or more computer processors creating a plurality of k-hop neighborhood contextual subgraphs utilizing extracted labelled nodes from an input graph; compute an eigenvector centrality score for each node contained in each created subgraph in the plurality of k-hop neighborhood contextual subgraphs; propagate a label for each node in each subgraph in the plurality of k-hop neighborhood contextual subgraphs leveraging an aggregated mathematical decay function, preserving a topical context of the label; calculate an attributable prestige vector for each node in each subgraph in the plurality of k-hop neighborhood contextual subgraphs based on the propagated label and the computed eigenvector centrality score associated with each node in each subgraph in the plurality of k-hop neighborhood contextual subgraph; and unsupervised predict a subsequent label for one or more subsequent nodes, subgraphs, or graphs utilizing the calculated attributable prestige vectors for each node in each subgraph. |
US11526703B2 |
GPU accelerated perfusion estimation from multispectral videos
In an approach for classifying regions of tissue captured in multispectral videos into medically meaningful classes using GPU accelerated perfusion estimation, a processor receives one or more multispectral videos of a subject tissue of a patient. A processor extracts one or more fluorescence time series profiles from the one or more multispectral videos. A processor estimates one or more sets of perfusion parameters based on the one or more fluorescence time series profiles. A processor inputs one or more feature vectors into a classifier, wherein the one or more feature vectors are derived the one or more sets of perfusion parameters. A processor receives a classification result for each of the one or more feature vectors, wherein the classification result comprises a set of medically relevant labels for each of the one or more feature vectors with a level of certainty for each label of the set of medically relevant labels. |
US11526702B2 |
Unsupervised multi-scale disparity/optical flow fusion
An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive images from a capture device. The processor may be configured to (i) extract features from the images, (ii) generate fused disparity maps in response to the features extracted, (iii) generate regenerated images by performing warping on a first subset of the images based on (a) the fused disparity maps and (b) first parameters, (iv) perform a comparison of a sample image to one of the first subset of the images, (v) perform a classification of the sample image based on second parameters, and (vi) update the first parameters and the second parameters in response to whether the classification is correct, wherein (a) the classification comprises indicating whether the sample image is one of a second subset of the images or one of the regenerated images and (b) the regenerated images are used as a training dataset. |
US11526701B2 |
Method and system of performing data imbalance detection and correction in training a machine-learning model
A method and system for performing semi or fully automatic data imbalance detection and correction in training a machine-learning (ML) model includes receiving a request to train the ML model, receiving access to a dataset for use in training the ML model, identifying a feature of the dataset for which data imbalance detection is to be performed, examining the dataset to determine a distribution of the feature across the dataset, determining if the distribution of the feature across the dataset indicates data imbalance, upon determining that the distribution of the feature across the dataset indicates data imbalance, identifying a desired distribution for the identified feature, selecting a subset of the dataset that corresponds with the selected feature and the desired distribution, and using the subset to train the ML model. |
US11526700B2 |
Annotating unlabeled data using classifier error rates
An example system includes a processor to evaluate a trained first classifier on a test set of labeled data to generate error rates for a number of labels. The processor is to process a set of unlabeled data via the trained first classifier to generate annotated data including labels and associated error rates. The processor is to train a second classifier using the annotated data and the associated error rates. |
US11526698B2 |
Unified referring video object segmentation network
Systems and methods for video object segmentation are described. Embodiments of systems and methods may receive a referral expression and a video comprising a plurality of image frames, generate a first image mask based on the referral expression and a first image frame of the plurality of image frames, generate a second image mask based on the referral expression, the first image frame, the first image mask, and a second image frame of the plurality of image frames, and generate annotation information for the video including the first image mask overlaid on the first image frame and the second image mask overlaid on the second image frame. |
US11526697B1 |
Three-dimensional pose estimation
Devices and techniques are generally described for estimating three-dimensional pose data. In some examples, a first machine learning network may generate first three-dimensional (3D) data representing input 2D data. In various examples, a first 2D projection of the first 3D data may be generated. A determination may be made that the first 2D projection conforms to a distribution of natural 2D data. A second machine learning network may generate parameters of a 3D model based at least in part on the input 2D data and based at least in part on the first 3D data. In some examples, second 3D data may be generated using the parameters of the 3D model. |
US11526692B2 |
Systems and methods for domain agnostic document extraction with zero-shot task transfer
A system for performing document extraction is configured to: (a) receive a first document; (b) extract the first document into document elements, the document elements including pages, lines, paragraphs, or any combination thereof; (c) determine a first set of fields of interest for the first document, wherein the first set of fields of interest are determined via a type of the first document or via a first set of queries for probing the first document; (d) determine, from a plurality of closed domain question answering (CDQA) models, a first set of CDQA models that provides answers to each field of interest included in the first set of fields of interest; and (e) provide answers to the first set of fields of interest to the client device. |
US11526691B2 |
Learning device, learning method, and storage medium
Provided is a learning device that can generate a feature deriving device capable of deriving, for an identical object, feature amounts which respectively express a feature of the object in different forms and which are mutually related. This learning device comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires first data and second data, with different forms of the object recorded therein; an encoder that derives a first feature amount from the first data; a conversion unit that converts the first feature amount to a second feature amount; a decoder that generates third data from the second feature amount; and a parameter updating unit that updates, on the basis of a comparison between the second data and the third data, the value of a parameter used in the derivation of the first feature amount, and the value of a parameter used in the generation of the third data. |
US11526684B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for removing a security tag
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for receiving a confirmation signal to unlock the security tag being detachably locked to a merchandise, wherein the confirmation signal includes a RFID device identifier associated with a RFID device of the security tag, and the RFID device is associated with a wireless device of the security tag, identifying the wireless device associated with the RFID device based on the RFID device identifier, transmitting a wireless signal to the wireless device to enable a controller to receive a release signal used to unlock the security tag from the merchandise, and transmitting the release signal to the controller to unlock the security tag from the merchandise. |
US11526678B2 |
Attention over common-sense network for natural language inference
A training system includes: a first training dataset including first entries, wherein each of the first entries includes: a first sentence; a second sentence; and an indicator of a relationship between the first and second sentences; a training module configured to: generate a second dataset including second entries based on the first entries, respectively, wherein each of the second entries includes: the first sentence of one of the first entries; the second sentence of the one of the first entries; a first surface realization corresponding to first facts regarding the first sentence; the indicator of the one of the first entries; and train a model using the second dataset and store the model in memory. |
US11526672B2 |
Systems and methods for term prevalance-volume based relevance
Techniques for prevalence-volume based relevance are provided. Corresponding systems and methods may include ingesting a corpus of documents; receiving a search operator; segmenting the corpus of documents into (i) a first set of documents that matches the search operator, and (ii) a second set of documents that do not match the search operator; extracting a first and second token list of tokens; calculating a prevalence-volume value for tokens included in the first and second token lists; generating a prevalence-volume ratio (PVR) matrix that associates tokens included in the first and/or second token lists with a PVR value, wherein the PVR value for a particular token is a ratio between the prevalence-volume value of the particular token for the first set of documents and the prevalence-volume value of the particular token for the second set of documents; and associating the search operator with the generated PVR matrix. |
US11526668B2 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining word vectors based on language model, device and storage medium
A method and apparatus for obtaining word vectors based on a language model, a device and a storage medium are disclosed, which relates to the field of natural language processing technologies in artificial intelligence. An implementation includes inputting each of at least two first sample text language materials into the language model, and outputting a context vector of a first word mask in each first sample text language material via the language model; determining the word vector corresponding to each first word mask based on a first word vector parameter matrix, a second word vector parameter matrix and a fully connected matrix respectively; and training the language model and the fully connected matrix based on the word vectors corresponding to the first word masks in the at least two first sample text language materials, so as to obtain the word vectors. |
US11526664B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating digest for message, and storage medium thereof
Embodiments of this application provide a message digest generation method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The generation method is performed by an electronic device, and includes: obtaining a plurality of associated messages from a to-be-processed message set; generating a function label distribution model, a sentiment label distribution model, a word category label distribution model, and a word sentiment polarity label distribution model corresponding to each of the plurality of associated messages; determining, based on the function label distribution model, the sentiment label distribution model, the word category label distribution model, and the word sentiment polarity label distribution model, a distribution probability that a category of a word included in the plurality of associated messages is a subject content word; and generating a digest of the plurality of associated messages according to the distribution probability of the subject content word. |
US11526663B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, devices, and computer-readable storage media for determining category of entity
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, an apparatus, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for determining a category of an entity are provided. The method includes: based on a suffix of the entity, obtaining a suffix feature associated with the suffix; determining one or more candidate categories of the entity based on a name of the entity; and determining a set of categories of the entity based on the one or more candidate categories and the suffix feature. |
US11526662B2 |
System for collaboration on the drafting of a shared digital contract
The system and method for providing clause-based tailored editing in a collaborative digital contract drafting system. The collaborative digital contract drafting system allows multiple users from different parties to collaborate on the digital drafting, editing, and virtual negotiation of a digital contract. The system allows users to collaborate in real time during the drafting process and provides version control of the digital contract that is siloed between clauses and stored and tracked separately in a tracking database. Siloing the version control between clauses allows toggling between different versions of different clauses independent of one another. |
US11526660B2 |
Information processing apparatus for complementing a heading of a table
An embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of complementarily adding an attribute not included in a table in order to detect tables having a corresponding relationship. An information processing apparatus as an embodiment of the present invention includes a complementer. The complementer complementarily adds an attribute not included in a first table based on a content of at least one of the first table and an electronic document including the first table. |
US11526659B2 |
Converting text to digital ink
Systems and methods for converting text to digital ink. One system includes a memory configured to store instructions and an electronic processor coupled to the memory. The electronic processor, through execution of the instructions stored in the memory, is configured to generate an image of text, trace characters within the generated image to establish a plurality of ink points and a plurality of digital strokes, generate a digital ink instance based on the plurality of ink points and the plurality of digital strokes, and provide the digital ink instance within a user interface. |
US11526656B2 |
Logical, recursive definition of data transformations
Techniques and solutions are described for defining transformation specifications in a programming-language independent language and converting such specifications to one or more executable formats. The language can provide for defining rules and actions. Rules can refer to (e.g., be based at least in part on) data targets, such as attributes of a schema, whose identifiers are to be read or updated, or to other rules. Rules can be reused, and can recursively refer to one another, such that a large number of complex schema transformations can be accomplished using a series of first order logic statements. Actions can define what, and how, values will be changed when a predicate rule is satisfied. A transformation specification in the language can be parsed and selectively complied to one or more executable formats, including in programming languages such as the structured query language. Disclosed technologies can facilitate data transformations by non-technical users. |
US11526652B1 |
Automated optimization of displayed electronic content imagery
Images in e-book and other electronic media content can be automatically enhanced for viewing on client devices, using various image categories, attributes, and expected qualities. Should systems and methods determine, based on the categories and attributes, that a given media object does not satisfy at least one rule for optimized presentation of the content on a particular client device, an updated presentation of the content can be generated, possibly in accordance with a predetermined specification. The updating may be in the form of image enhancement through adjustment of the size of the images in the media object. Machine learning schema can assist in recognizing images by category, importance and readability scoring, and in adjusting the images for optimal viewing. |
US11526651B1 |
Predictive antenna diode insertion in a macro having a clock mesh
Embodiments of the invention include protecting against antenna violations in a macro having a clock mesh. Aspects include obtaining a design of the macro, the design including a clock layer having a plurality of clock pins and determining a longest vertical wire and a longest horizontal wire allowed based on a design of the clock mesh. Aspects also include identifying, based at least in part on the longest vertical wire and the longest horizontal wire, a plurality of checkbox regions for a clock pin of the plurality of clock pins and calculating a total diffusion area for each of the plurality of checkbox regions. Aspects further include adding, to the design of the macro, an antenna diode to the clock pin based on a determination that the total diffusion area for any of the plurality of checkbox regions is less than a threshold value. |
US11526647B2 |
Isolation circuit between power domains
An integrated circuit includes a first type-one transistor, a second type-one transistor, a first type-two transistor, a second type-two transistor, a third type-one transistor, a fourth type-one transistor, and a fifth type-one transistor. The first type-one transistor has a gate configured to have a first supply voltage of a first power supply. The first type-two transistor has a gate configured to have a second supply voltage of the first power supply. The first active-region of the third type-one transistor is connected with an active-region of the first type-one transistor. The second active-region and the gate of the third type-one transistor are connected together. The first active-region of the fifth type-one transistor is connected with the gate of the third type-one transistor. The second active-region of the fifth type-one transistor is configured to have a first supply voltage of a second power supply. |
US11526642B1 |
Clock network power estimation for logical designs
An implementation-quality synthesis process begins with a logical design of an integrated circuit and, through a series of steps, generates a fully synthesized physical design of the integrated circuit. One of the steps is clock synthesis, which generates the clock network for the integrated circuit. In certain embodiments, a method includes the following steps. A reduced clock synthesis process is applied, rather than the implementation-quality clock synthesis process. This generates a clock network for the logical design, which will be referred to as a proxy clock network because it is used as a proxy to estimate power consumption of the fully synthesized clock network. Because the reduced clock synthesis process runs much faster than the implementation-quality clock synthesis process, the front end designer may use these power estimates in the front end design process, including to explore different design variations in the logical design. |
US11526639B2 |
Fractional-order KiBaM battery model considering nonlinear capacity characteristics and parameter identification method
A fractional-order KiBaM battery model considering nonlinear capacity characteristics and a parameter identification method includes a temporary capacity portion and an available capacity portion for describing nonlinear capacity characteristics of a battery, wherein the temporary capacity portion represents the power that can be directly obtained during the discharge, indicating the state of charge (SOC) of the battery; the available capacity portion represents the power that cannot be directly obtained, and such two portions are connected; when the battery is discharged, the load current i flows out from the temporary capacity portion, and a power passing rate coefficient of such capacity portions is obtained; and the nonlinear capacity effect and recovery effect of the battery are denoted by the height ratio of the temporary capacity and available capacity portions in view of the magnitude of the fractional order of battery capacity characteristics. |
US11526638B1 |
Techniques for generating one or more scores and/or one or more corrections for a digital twin representing a utility network
Techniques are provided for generating score(s) and/or correction(s) for a digital twin representing a utility network. One or more bridges transform data, from a plurality of system and associated with a utility network, to a different format, e.g., relational database format. A process generates a digital twin of the utility network utilizing the data in the different format. A data quality service (DQS) performs evaluations and/or analyses of the digital twin to generate a baseline score and an updated score representing a state of the digital twin if corrections are applied. If the updated score meets or is above a threshold value, the DQS automatically applies and save the corrections to the digital twin. If the updated score does not meet the threshold value, the DQS presents a failure notification and one or more graphical representations of the utility network such that incremental corrections can be made. |
US11526636B2 |
Modeling and testing of hinged flight control surfaces of aircraft
Methods and systems relating to the design and testing of systems that include hinged flight control surfaces of aircraft are disclosed. The systems and methods disclosed herein make use of a structural model representing a structural environment of the system in a relatively simple manner. In various embodiments, the structural model comprises one or more actuation branches having a common linear actuation direction, a load mass, and a massless connector representative of a hinge line of the flight control surface. The massless connector is connected to and disposed between the one or more actuation branches and the load mass and is movable along the common linear actuation direction so that linear movement of the massless connector is correlated to rotational movement of the hinged flight control surface. |
US11526635B2 |
Method, design device, and design program for cross-sectional shape of fuselage
A method for designing the cross-sectional shape of the fuselage of a flying body having the fuselage extending in the roll axial direction, the section being taken on a plane perpendicular to the roll axial direction. This method is provided with: an initial setting step S12 for setting an initial cross-sectional shape, which is the initial cross-sectional shape of the fuselage having a cross-sectional shape that is not truly circular; load application steps S14, S21, S28 for analytically or experimentally preloading the fuselage having the initial cross-sectional shape; and a design shape setting step S17 for acquiring the cross-sectional shape of the preloaded fuselage as the design cross-sectional shape of the fuselage. |
US11526634B2 |
Method and system for identifying conflicts in a wall panel to wall panel horizontal interface
The present invention is a method for accessing a model of a building; selecting a set of wall panels; isolating a plurality of the wall panels, wherein the wall panels interface with another wall panels in a horizontal type interface; selecting members of the wall panels involved in the interface, wherein the interface is identified as a connection between the wall panels; detecting the member type and the interface type; calculating a set of actual values associated with the interface type; comparing the set of actual values with a set of required values and determining the delta of the actual values and the required values; and identifying each interface where the delta is outside a predetermined range. |
US11526629B2 |
Method and system for providing data privacy based on customized cookie consent
The disclosure herein describes a method and a system for providing data privacy based on customized cookie consent. The proposed customized cookie consent system enables user's data privacy by facilitating the user to customize a plurality of features for each individual cookie, wherein a cookie is customized for multiple features that includes a consent and expiry customization, a drill down at individual cookie, an online masking unmasking cookie data—an offline masking-unmasking cookie data, a consent lineage and a data subject rights for cookie data that further include data access, data portability, right to erasure based on machine learning techniques. Further the customized cookie consent system also provides recommendation for data privacy and obscured cookies using machine learning techniques. |
US11526628B2 |
Method and apparatus for device-side trajectory anonymization based on negative gapping
An approach is provided for device-side probe trajectory anonymization based on negative gapping. The approach involves, for example, collecting a probe trajectory stream from a sensor of a probe device, wherein the probe trajectory stream comprises a time-sequence of location data points representing a sensed movement of the probe device. The approach also involves generating a plurality of subtrajectory streams from the probe trajectory stream. The approach further involves processing the plurality of subtrajectory streams to create a negative gap between the plurality of subtrajectory streams. The approach further involves providing the plurality of subtrajectory streams as an output in place of the probe trajectory. |
US11526621B2 |
Method and system for capturing asset protection metadata pertinent to analytics
A method and system for capturing asset protection metadata pertinent to analytics. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail aggregating and maintaining asset protection metadata—i.e., metadata descriptive of performed asset backup and recovery operations—in a central location. The asset protection metadata may include information relevant to backup and recovery analytics and reporting, while the maintaining said metadata in the central location facilitates access of the metadata by third-party analytics services. |
US11526620B2 |
Impersonation for a federated user
Techniques for enabling impersonation without requiring an access manager (AM) controlling access to a computing resource to have direct access to user information. The AM receives an impersonation request for a first user to impersonate a second user, the request being received during a first session initiated by the first user. The second user has an access privilege that permits access to the computing resource. The AM causes information to be obtained from an identity provider, the information being stored in a location inaccessible to the AM and indicating whether the first user has been granted permission to impersonate the second user. An impersonation session is initiated based on determining, using the information obtained from the identity provider, that the first user has been granted permission to impersonate the second user. The initiating comprises switching a user associated with the first session from the first user to the second user. |
US11526617B2 |
Information security system for identifying security threats in deployed software package
A system for detecting security threats in deployed software packages receives a request from a user to access software packages to perform a particular task. The system selects particular software packages based on an experience level of the user in performing the particular task. The system deploys the particular software packages to a computing device associated with the user. The system monitors the deployed software packages to determine whether a security vulnerability is introduced to the computing device by the deployed software packages. In response to determining that the security vulnerability is introduced to the computing device by the deployed software packages, the system recalls the deployed software packages by remotely uninstalling the deployed software packages from the computing device. |
US11526614B2 |
Continuous vulnerability management system for blockchain smart contract based digital asset using sandbox and artificial intelligence
A continuous vulnerability management system for identifying, analyzing, protecting, and reporting on digital assets is disclosed. The continuous vulnerability management system comprises a sandbox engine configured to scan digital assets for vulnerabilities, including a static analysis unit for static code scanning, a dynamic analysis unit for analyzing compiled code, and a statistical analysis unit for processing a risk score and generating an audit report. A knowledge base is also disclosed, including a knowledge base engine configured to acquire information related to new vulnerabilities to digital assets. A risk scoring engine is configured to analyze sandbox engine outcomes and assign a risk score to each vulnerable asset. A security control system is configured to act on an identified vulnerable asset based on the risk score assigned to the identified vulnerable asset. |
US11526613B2 |
Execution environment and gatekeeper arrangement
A computer system has a separation mechanism which enforces separation between at least two execution environments such that one execution environment is a gatekeeper which interposes on all communications of the other execution environment. The computer system has an attestation mechanism which enables the gatekeeper to attest to properties of the at least two execution environments. A first one of the execution environments runs application specific code which may contain security vulnerabilities. The gatekeeper is configured to enforce an input output policy on the first execution environment by interposing on all communication to and from the first execution environment by forwarding, modifying or dropping individual ones of the communications according to the policy. The gatekeeper provides evidence of attestation both for the application specific code and the policy. |
US11526600B2 |
Taint tracking via non-intrusive bytecode instrumentation
Various embodiments of systems and methods to track tainting information via non-intrusive bytecode instrumentation are described herein. The described techniques include, at one aspect, defining a taint-aware class to shadow an original data class. The taint-aware class includes a payload field to store objects of the original data class, a metadata field to store tainting information corresponding to the objects of the original data class, and a method proxying a corresponding method of the original data class. In another aspect, the instances of the original data class are replaced with corresponding instances of the taint-aware class in an application bytecode. Further, in a yet another aspect, when executing the application in a runtime environment, the method propagates the content of the metadata filed and calls the corresponding method of the original data class to manage the content of the payload field. |
US11526594B2 |
Authentication control device, authentication control method, and authentication method
In one aspect, the provided is an authentication control device including: receiving means for receiving an input associated with at least one position among a plurality of positions that are included in an authentication image causing a viewer to perceive depth and are at different apparent depths; and determination means for determining, based on the input, whether or not the input is made by a human. |
US11526592B2 |
Working machine management system and working machine
A working machine management system includes a working machine having a prime mover and a control unit and a key device which is detachable from the working machine and is used for operating the working machine. The key device stores first authentication information for identifying a drivable working machine and second authentication information necessary for the prime mover to continuously operate. When the key device is attached to the working machine, the control unit confirms validity of the key device based on the first authentication information, compares input information from the outside with the second authentication information to determine whether the prime mover can be operated if the key device is valid, and controls operation of the prime mover according to the determination result. |
US11526588B2 |
Systems and methods for digital content anti-counterfeiting
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for asserting the authenticity of digital content being communicated among client devices of a communication or computer system by configuring the digital content with one or more sensor responsive elements. The sensor responsive element may be a visual interface that dynamically reacts or responds to sensor data generated by one or more sensors (such as a gyroscope sensor, a microphone, and a camera) of a receiving client device. If the sensor responsive element does not dynamically react or respond to movement data, image data, or sound data generated by the one or more sensors, the digital content may fail user inspection and may indicate to the recipient that the digital content is a fake or a counterfeit. |
US11526586B2 |
Copyright detection in videos based on channel context
The herein disclosed technology provides methods and systems that utilize machine learning solutions to identify web-based channels that are sources pirated copyright material, such as by using a machine learning classifier that is trained on historical copyright piracy data and channel features that may be determined and analyzed for each of a collection of channels without analyzing video or audio content of the channel. |
US11526585B2 |
Vendor software activation using distributed ledger
Techniques for managing activation of software, e.g., an operating system, in an information processing system are provided. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A data object is obtained for a system having an un-activated computer program stored thereon. The data object comprises information about the system encrypted by a private value. The method then causes the data object to be securely stored on a distributed ledger for subsequent access during a process to activate the computer program. |
US11526583B2 |
Subset-difference broadcast encryption with blacklisting
An encryption scheme is provided in which subset-difference lists are generated by blacklisting subsets corresponding to compromised devices and splitting subset difference lists corresponding to the blacklisted subsets into multiple subset difference lists. In some embodiments, a subset-difference tree is generated. The subset-difference tree includes a plurality of subsets. The subset-difference tree covers a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of subsets has an apex node among the plurality of nodes. At least one blacklisted node of the plurality of nodes is determined. A first subset among the plurality of subsets is identified that covers the at least one blacklisted node. A plurality of substitute subsets is determined. Each of the plurality of substitute subsets overlaps the first subset and does not cover the at least one blacklisted node. The plurality of substitute subsets are substituted for the first subset. |
US11526573B1 |
System and method for controlling electronic communications
Example embodiments include a controlled content repository, wherein the controlled content repository is accessible according to an access protocol, wherein the access protocol comprises at least one set of access rules, wherein the access protocol enables determining if first data associated with a first object and second data associated with a second object can be made available to a first computing device; a data structure for storing a first object and a second object; and a controlling computing device, in communication with the controlled content repository, for providing the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object to the first computing device after determining that the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object is authorized to be made available to the first computing device in accordance with the access protocol. |
US11526570B2 |
Page-based prediction of user intent
Techniques are described herein for determining a predicted intent of a user and displaying additional content selected based on the predicted intent of the user. A method includes: receiving information identifying a webpage that a user is visiting and a navigational path of the user in navigating to the webpage; determining a predicted intent of the user based on the information identifying the webpage that the user is visiting and the navigational path of the user in navigating to the webpage; selecting additional content based upon the predicted intent of the user; and displaying an overlay, on a portion of the webpage, that includes the additional content. |
US11526569B2 |
Generating directions and routes with personalized landmarks
Aspects of the technology evaluate places that are familiar to a given user in order to provide contextualized location information about other places of interest. This may include evaluating the actual number of visits by the given user to one or more locations in a given geographical area. For instance, places that have been visited a sufficient number of times within a particular timeframe are identified as personal landmarks for that user. Thus, when the user searches for a specific place or otherwise requests results that fit a query, the system can use the personalized landmark information to help rank search results and to provide location cues to aid the user to quickly and efficiently arrive at the location of the search result. Personal landmarks are necessarily familiar to the user, and thus can reduce the number of turn-by-turn directions or simplify the graphical interface of the client device. |
US11526563B2 |
System and method of embedding and launching a form from third-party knowledge content
In the field of government engagement management, for users of an employee desktop web client, it is now possible, within the web client application, to search and read articles and/or knowledge content that has been authored to external locations. Due to this integration to external, third-party applications, content and/or articles can be displayed to an agent on the employee desktop web client graphical user interface. Agents can enter free text into a specific search field and review the results in summary form, and then select an article in HTML format to progress the current interaction with the client. An additional feature extending from this capability is to add an amount of coding to external knowledge content websites that are owned and/or operated by the owner of the system such that when the website is viewed through the third-party integration module, a button or icon appears within the website that when selected takes the agent to an appropriate form. This button or icon does not appear when the website is viewed outside of the system. This functionality adds value to the agent experience and enables the agent to provide an improved service to the end client. Results may be filtered by the search engine as well. Moreover, this system and method improves the operation of the computer in that the computer running such a system in the past was not able to integrate in such a fashion in a web client format. This system and method also enables an agent to handle calls with the web client more efficiently, and allows agents on the web client to automatically classify. |
US11526554B2 |
Preventing the distribution of forbidden network content using automatic variant detection
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to preventing the distribution of forbidden network content. In one aspect, a system includes a front-end server that receives content for distribution over a data communication network. The back-end server identifies, in the query log, a set of received queries for which a given forbidden term was used to identify a search result in response to the received query even though the given forbidden term was not included in queries included in the set of received queries. The back-end server classifies, as variants of the given forbidden term, a term from one or more queries in the set of received queries that caused a search engine to use the given forbidden term to identify one or more search results in response to the one or more queries and prevents distribution of content that includes a variant. |
US11526552B2 |
Systems and methods of optimizing the use of user questions to identify similarities among a large network of users
A system and method for enabling users to create, view, respond to, query, search and collaborate on questions for the purpose of discovering similarities among themselves and others are provided. The methods can include synthesizing question responses into a question management architecture to facilitate computation and display of similarity for one or more respondents to a question or collection of questions, enabling users to create and share questions, and to optimize searching across a database of questions and associated media and enabling users to manage and interact with volumes of questions across a network of users. The methods can provide fidelity of measurement of user similarity based on question complexity and the user's question response choices; and facilitate the navigation of a database of questions that have been responded to and interacted with by a network of users to gain insight into who is like them. |
US11526551B2 |
Search query generation based on audio processing
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating search queries based on audio processing. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
US11526550B2 |
System for building data communications using data extracted via frequency-based data extraction technique
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for building intelligent data communications. The system is configured for performing frequency based extraction of data from at least one entity data source, indexing the data extracted from the at least one entity data source, in response to indexing the data, correlating the data extracted from the at least one entity data source, receiving a data input from a user, in response to receiving the data input, generating at least one data output based on indexed and correlated data, and presenting the at least one data output to the user. |
US11526547B2 |
Multi-input playlist selection
A device includes a processor that is configured to identify a base topic of a personalized media stream and to identify a first media item based on first data. The first data is assigned a first weighting based on an identified level of familiarity associated with the first media item and an identified level of popularity of the first media item in another personalized media stream. The processor is configured to build a collection of candidate media items that includes the first media item and a second media item and to order the collection of candidate media items to form the personalized media stream. Ordering the collection includes ordering the first media item within the collection based on the first weighting. The processor is configured to initiate transmission of the first media item to a client device for playback based on ordering of the first media item within the collection. |
US11526542B2 |
Server and method for classifying entities of a query
A server, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for ranking a plurality of data sources are provided. The server includes a network interface, a memory storage unit and a processor. The method involves receiving an input query, identifying entities of the input query using conditional random fields, generating a normalized query and applying a support vector machine to the normalized query. The non-transitory computer readable medium is encoded with programming instructions to direct a processor to carry out the method. |
US11526540B2 |
Systems and methods for compiling and dynamically updating a collection of frequently asked questions
At least one social media channel includes a plurality of user messages, which are accessible via a communication network. At least some of the stored messages are retrieved from the at least one social media channel via the communication network, and a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) is generated or updated by analyzing the retrieved messages to form a plurality of topical issue clusters. Each topical issue cluster is associated with at least one topic parameter from among a plurality of topic parameters, each topic parameter relates to at least one of use, installation or maintenance of a product or service, and each topical issue cluster includes at least one issue identified by a community of users and at least one resolution of the issue identified by the community of users. The generated or updated FAQ is uploaded to a storage location accessible to the community of users. |
US11526530B2 |
Systems and methods for data visualization, dashboard creation and management
Provide is a visualization system that enables generation of a “dashboard” of individual visualizations. In further embodiments, the system enables users to quickly and easily generate these visualizations and integrate complex filters, queries, aggregations, etc., with simple UI input. The visualizations can be provided as a service that requests information from an underlying database. The database itself may also be hosted as a service, permitting granular and native database functions layered with the visualization architecture. The system can support additional functionality and access management to generate visualizations that can be shared with other users and/or integrated into websites, blogs, etc. The system can handle the complex logic, data interactions, dynamic data transformation, dynamic authorization, etc., needed to manage data rules (e.g., access rules layered over database permission based control, summarization/aggregation requirements, etc.) for any data being rendered in individual visualization and/or the dashboard of multiple visualizations. |
US11526527B2 |
Data transfer in a computer-implemented database
Computer-implemented methods, systems and products, the method comprising receiving, at a data server associated with a database, a command for data transfer between a client machine and the data server over a communications network, the data being stored in at least a data table comprising one or more columns; in response to receiving the command for data transfer, determining whether one or more columns of the data table are designated; identifying the one or more designated columns, such that data associated with the one or more designated columns is either considered or not considered for purpose of the data transfer; and executing the command to transfer the data in the database according to the designated columns. |
US11526522B2 |
Collaborative search of databases
A search query is received from a search engine of multiple search engines. One or more search results from each search engine of the multiple search engines in response to the search query are received. Each search result of the one or more search results includes a first search score. A factor is determined for each search result of the one or more search results. A second search score is determined for each search result of the one or more search results based on the first search score and the factor. The one or more search results are displayed to a user of the search engine in an order. The order is based on the second search score. |
US11526520B2 |
Context-based actions from a source application
An action framework system provides context-based actions in association with a source application. The source application detects selection of a content element presented by the source application. The content element is associated with an application identifier identifying a target application and an action identifier identifying an operation to be executed by the target application on the content element. The target application identified by the application identifier is executed to perform the operation identified by the action identifier on the content element, responsive to detection of the selection of the content element. In one implementation, the source application is a search feature providing different contexts of search results (e.g., from a local file system search, a local application content search, a Web search, a remote application content search). |
US11526519B2 |
System and method for automatic docketing and data entry
An automated data entry system comprising target database servers for storing target database(s), a processing server configured to execute a client-application and configured to store a plurality of data objects including a document schema and a target database schema corresponding to the target database(s), and a client terminal connected to the processing server, configured to: generate a first graphical interface for connection to a target database, and to execute a second graphical interface for connection to the client-application. The processing server may also receive an electronic data file representing an unprocessed document, to associate the unprocessed document with a document schema and extract a data variable based on the document schema, and to generate a database operation comprising the data variable configured according to a target database schema. The client terminal is configured to receive the database operation and execute the database server database operation against a target database. |
US11526518B2 |
Data reporting system and method
A data analysis system determines characteristics of a data set such as statistical measures, analytical insights, data trends, or relationships with other data sets. The system determines a level of importance for each determined characteristic using metadata associated with the data set, and, in some cases, user preferences provided by the user. Such metadata may include descriptive names, data types, and data characteristics of the data set and of data elements within the data set. |
US11526515B2 |
Replacing mappings within a semantic search application over a commonly enriched corpus
Techniques include integrating a custom ontology into a semantic search function, the semantic search function being configured to perform a semantic search over a corpus enriched with a separate ontology. The semantic search function is executed using the custom ontology to perform the semantic search of the corpus. Results are generated from the semantic search of the corpus based on input received by the semantic search function. |
US11526511B1 |
Monitoring interface for information technology environment
An example method of implementing a monitoring interface for an information technology environment comprises: identifying machine data reflecting activity in the information technology environment comprising a plurality of entities providing a service; executing a search query to derive, from the machine data, a value of a key performance indicator (KPI) reflecting performance of the service; and causing display of a monitoring interface including: an identifier of the service, a color coded indication of a state of the KPI, and a visual representation of time series data associated with the service. |
US11526509B2 |
Increasing pertinence of search results within a complex knowledge base
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for processing a natural language query. An embodiment may include receiving text of the natural language query. An embodiment may include extracting a set of features from the text through natural language processing. An embodiment may include generating a structured query based on the set of features. An embodiment may include normalizing the text to create a normalized natural language query. An embodiment may include executing a search of a corpus via the structured query and the normalized natural language query. An embodiment may include returning results of the search. |
US11526504B1 |
Search-time field extraction in a data intake and query system
An improved data intake and query system that can perform and display ingest-time and search-time field extraction, redaction, copy, and/or categorization is described herein. As described herein, ingest-time field extraction, redaction, copy, and/or categorization may refer to field or field value extraction, redaction, copy, and/or categorization that is performed by a log observer system of the data intake and query system on raw machine data as the raw machine data is ingested or received from a publisher. As described herein, search-time field extraction, redaction, copy, and/or categorization may refer to field or field value extraction, redaction, copy, and/or categorization that is performed by the log observer system and/or other components of the improved data intake and query system on historical raw machine data that has already been ingested and indexed by the improved data intake and query system. |
US11526503B2 |
Business operating system engine
An engine for resolving a query from a user to provide a dynamic actionable dashboard in a business operating system includes an MLET database, a data interface, a logic configured to process incoming queries, fetch data in relation to those queries, and render an actionable dashboard having data resulting from the queries. The MLET database comprises a plurality of templates (“MLETs”), each MLET being associated with a unique identifier and including a mechanism for accessing data relating to that identifier. The logic processes queries into constructs having a tokens and configurable inputs. If the query includes a unique identifier associated with an MLET in the MLET database, the MLET is used to fetch data responding to the query. If the query includes a unique identifier not associated with an MLET in the MLET database, the logic creates a new MLET using operational intelligence and stores it in the MLET database. |
US11526502B1 |
Parameterized disjoint samples of data sets
A filter request for a data set indicates a query specification and one or more sub-range indicators of a disjoint subset descriptor. Corresponding the individual data records obtained from the data set using the query specification, a respective range mapping value is generated. Using the range mapping values and the sub-range indicators, a result set of the filter request is obtained. |
US11526500B2 |
System and method for initiating bulk inserts in a distributed database
Described herein is a system and method for initiating a bulk insert in a distributed database. The system described herein provides for a client to identify target index servers of the data records by examining the data records. The system identifies a partition criterion of the target index servers and partitions the data records based on a partition criterion, into subsets of data records. The system builds buckets including the subsets of data records that correspond to a partition. The system inserts each bucket including the subset of the data corresponding to a specific partition to the respective target index server where the specific partition is physically located and inserts the subset of data records in the table locally. The system inserts each bucket in each respective target index server in parallel. |
US11526497B2 |
Tenant customization of master data in a multi-tenant computing system
A method can include initiating one or more transactions in response to a request associated with a first tenant in a multi-tenant computing system. The multi-tenant computing system can store a table of system master data. A determination can be made as to whether the first tenant has a table of customized master data that can include customized data values absent from the table of system master data. Based on the determination, one or more of the table of system master data and the table of customized master data can be used to respond to the request. A response to the request can be provided. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided. |
US11526495B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing write-ahead log
A method and apparatus for processing a write-ahead log (WAL) in a storage device that records a WAL set key-value pair and a status key-value pair include determining a status of the WAL set key-value pair based on the status key-value pair, replaying all uncompleted WALs in the WAL set key-value pair when the status of the WAL set key-value pair is in a sealed state, modifying, in the status key-value pair, the status of the WAL set key-value from the sealed state to a completed state, and deleting the WAL set key-value pair in the completed state. |
US11526494B2 |
Blockchain-based computing system and method for managing transaction thereof
A method for managing transaction is performed in a blockchain-based computing system and includes receiving a request for processing a first individual transaction from a client terminal, generating a batch transaction by aggregating a plurality of individual transactions including the first individual transaction, processing the generated batch transaction via a blockchain network, such that a status record associated with the batch transaction is recorded in the blockchain, and providing the client terminal with an identifier of the batch transaction and index information on the first individual transaction, wherein the status record associated with the batch transaction includes a first status record associated with the first individual transaction, and wherein the index information on the first individual transaction is determined based on a location of the first status record in the status record. |
US11526488B2 |
Distributed blockchain data storage under account model
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and non-transitory, computer-readable medium for blockchain data storage. One of the methods includes identifying an account identifier (ID) of a blockchain account involved in the transaction, wherein the transaction is included in a current block to be appended to a blockchain associated with the blockchain network based on performing a consensus algorithm; updating an account state corresponding to the account ID of the blockchain account to an updated account state based on the blockchain transaction after the current block is appended to the blockchain; hashing the updated account state to generate a hash value of the updated account state; identifying the hash value of the account state corresponding to the blockchain account based on the account ID of the blockchain account; and updating, in the current state database, the hash value of the account state to the hash value of the updated account state. |
US11526481B2 |
Incremental dynamic document index generation
A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document. |
US11526477B2 |
System and method for on-demand data cleansing
A system and method for on-demand data cleansing is disclosed. The system includes a processor and a volatile memory including a data object having a plurality of data fields, each field having a tag and a value. The system also includes a cleansing module stored in the volatile memory and executed by the processor. The cleansing module includes a library having a plurality of tag-operation pairs. The cleansing module is configured to receive a pointer locating the data object within volatile memory, and further configured to, for each data field, look up the tag of the data field among the library tags, and execute the operation paired with the matching library tag on the value of the field, modifying the value of the data field while it is stored in volatile memory. The cleansing module is configured to execute the operation in near real-time, and at runtime. |
US11526473B2 |
Database upgrade in a distributed database cluster
A database is selected from a plurality of databases included in the distributed database cluster. A shard map of the database is acquired, wherein the shard map includes a distribution of a plurality of shards on the plurality of nodes, and one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes each includes at least one shard of an old version of the database to be upgraded to a new version. A sustainable serviceability of the database corresponding to each of the one or more nodes is predicted according to the shard map based on the assumption that the at least one shard of each of the one or more nodes has been upgraded from the old version to the new version. |
US11526471B2 |
Model object management and storage system
A model management system provides a centralized repository for storing and accessing models. The model management system receives an input to store a model object in a first model state generated based on a first set of known variables. The model management system generates a first file including a first set of functions defining the first model state and associates the first file with a model key identifying the model object. The model management system receives an input to store the model object in a second model state having been generated based on the first model state and a second set of known variables. The model management system generates a second file including a second set of functions defining the second model state and associates the second file with the model key. The model management system identifies available versions of the model object based on the model key. |
US11526469B1 |
File system reorganization in the presence of inline compression
A method for file system reorganization in the presence of inline compression includes obtaining a virtual block pointer for an original compressed segment to be reorganized, the original compressed segment comprising compressed allocation units of data stored in a storage system, wherein the virtual block pointer comprises an extent list identifying the compressed allocation units in the original compressed segment and a pointer to where the original compressed segment is stored; copying only the referenced compressed allocation units in the original compressed segment to a new compressed segment in a substantially contiguous manner; updating the extent list to identify the referenced compressed allocation units in the new compressed segment, and the pointer to where the new compressed segment is stored; and freeing the original compressed segment. |
US11526468B2 |
Management system and control method
A management system gives an instruction to assign a value of an attribute corresponding to an environment where a processing system including a virtual machine started using a system image file is constructed, to the system image file, determines, based on a condition according to the value of the attribute assigned to the system image file in response to the instruction, whether the system image file is to be deleted, and gives an instruction to delete, from a storage device, the system image file that has been determined to be deleted. |
US11526467B2 |
Document storage and verification
An example operation may include one or more of receive a document identifier (ID), retrieve a document from a storage based on the ID, generate a hash of the document, and compare the hash of the document under the ID against a hash of the document stored on the blockchain for verification. |
US11526463B2 |
Analog processor comprising quantum devices
Analog processors for solving various computational problems are provided. Such analog processors comprise a plurality of quantum devices, arranged in a lattice, together with a plurality of coupling devices. The analog processors further comprise bias control systems each configured to apply a local effective bias on a corresponding quantum device. A set of coupling devices in the plurality of coupling devices is configured to couple nearest-neighbor quantum devices in the lattice. Another set of coupling devices is configured to couple next-nearest neighbor quantum devices. The analog processors further comprise a plurality of coupling control systems each configured to tune the coupling value of a corresponding coupling device in the plurality of coupling devices to a coupling. Such quantum processors further comprise a set of readout devices each configured to measure the information from a corresponding quantum device in the plurality of quantum devices. |
US11526453B1 |
Apparatus including parallel pipelines and methods of manufacturing the same
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to an apparatus are described. The apparatus may include (1) a read state circuit configured to control the schedule/timing associated with parallel pipelines, and (2) a timing control circuit configured to coordinate output of data from the parallel pipelines. |
US11526452B2 |
Memory protection circuit and memory protection method
To provide a memory protection circuit and a memory protection method suitable for quick data transfer between a plurality of virtual machines via a common memory, according to an embodiment, a memory protection circuit includes a first ID storing register that stores therein an ID of any of a plurality of virtual machines managed by a hypervisor, an access determination circuit that permits the virtual machine having the ID stored in the first ID storing register to access a memory, a second ID storing register that stores therein an ID of any of the virtual machines, and an ID update control circuit that permits the virtual machine having the ID stored in the second ID storing register to rewrite the ID stored in the first ID storing register. |
US11526450B2 |
Memory system for binding data to a memory namespace
A computer system includes physical memory devices of different types that store randomly-accessible data in a main memory of the computer system. In one approach, an operating system allocates memory from a namespace for use by an application. The namespace is a logical reference to physical memory devices in which physical addresses are defined. The namespace is bound to a memory type. In response to binding the namespace to the memory type, the operating system adjusts a page table to map a logical memory address in the namespace to a memory device of the memory type. |
US11526447B1 |
Destaging multiple cache slots in a single back-end track in a RAID subsystem
A data service layer running on a storage director node generates a request to destage host data from a plurality of cache slots in a single back-end track. The destage request includes pointers to addresses of the cache slots and indicates an order in which the host application data in the cache slots is to be included in the back-end track. A back-end redundant array of independent drives (RAID) subsystem running on a drive adapter is responsive to the request to calculate parity information using the host application data in the cache slots. The back-end RAID subsystem assembles the single back-end track comprising the host application data from the plurality of cache slots of the request, and destages the single back-end track to a non-volatile drive in a single back-end input-output (IO) operation. |
US11526446B1 |
Modifying caching amongst services from a history of requests and responses
Modifications to caching performed between different services may be determined. A history of requests and responses between the different services may be obtained. The history may be evaluated to determine respective frequencies of parameters between the services. The frequencies of parameters may be evaluated to determine one or more modifications to caching among the different services. The modifications may be provided in order to be applied to change caching performance for subsequent requests. |
US11526444B2 |
Method and system for predictively caching data
A method for facilitating predictive caching of data is provided. The method includes retrieving raw data relating to user activity for a plurality of users, the user activity including a history of web resources accessed by a user; converting the raw data into a structured data set based on a predetermined criterion; generating a model based on the structured data set; training the model by using a training data set, the training data set including the user activity for a predetermined period of time; determining, by using the trained model, a predicted first web resource for the user; and automatically caching, in a memory, the predicted first web resource. |
US11526443B2 |
Read-if-hit-pre-PoPA request
Requester circuitry 4 issues an access request specifying a target physical address (PA) and a target physical address space (PAS) identifier identifying a target PAS. Prior to a point of physical aliasing (PoPA), a pre-PoPA memory system component 24, 8 treats aliasing PAs from different PASs which actually correspond to the same memory system resource as if they correspond to different memory system resources. A post-PoPA memory system component 6 treats the aliasing PAs as referring to the same memory system resource. When the target PA and target PAS of a read-if-hit-pre-PoPA request hit in a pre-PoPA cache 24, a data response is returned to the requester circuitry 4. If the read-if-hit-pre-PoPA request misses in the pre-PoPA cache 24, a no-data response is returned. The read-if-hit-pre-PoPA request is safe to issue speculatively while waiting for security checks to be performed, improving performance. |
US11526441B2 |
Hybrid memory systems with cache management
In a general aspect, a hybrid memory system with cache management is disclosed. In some aspects, a memory module includes volatile memory, non-volatile memory, and an internal cache. The internal cache is communicably coupled with the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory. Whether to execute a memory access request is determined by operation of the memory module. In response to the inability of the memory access request to be executed, a data transferring process is performed to copy data between the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory via the internal cache. |
US11526437B1 |
Heap space management
A method for heap space management includes, in response to a determination that consumption of a first heap space of an application exceeds a first threshold, determining whether a second heap space of the application after garbage collection is sufficient to accommodate data stored in the first heap space. The method further includes, in response to a determination that the second heap space after the garbage collection is sufficient to accommodate the data, performing the garbage collection on the second heap space. The method further includes storing the data into the second heap space. |
US11526436B2 |
Memory system and garbage collection control method
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a controller which controls garbage collection for preparing one or more free blocks by writing valid data read from N blocks to one or more blocks of less than the N. The controller calculates a performance ratio between writing of data in response to a request from a host device and writing of data for the garbage collection in accordance with a data writable capacity remaining in a nonvolatile memory, calculates an average performance ratio from calculated performance ratios of M generations including a calculated latest performance ratio, and adjusts a performance cycle of the garbage collection by applying one of the calculated latest performance ratio and the calculated average performance ratio. |
US11526432B2 |
Parallel processing device
There is provided a parallel processing device which allows consecutive parallel data processing to be performed. The parallel processing device includes: a plurality of addition units configured to selectively receive input data among output data from the plurality of input units according to configuration values for each addition unit of the plurality of addition units, and perform addition operation for the input data in parallel; and the plurality of the delay units configured to delay input data for one cycle. Each delay unit of the plurality of the delay units delays output data from each addition unit of the plurality of addition units and outputs the delayed output data to each input unit of the plurality of input units. |
US11526427B2 |
Software code testing system
A software code testing system includes sub-engines and a test case database storing test cases. A test case sub-engine runs each of the test cases on a plurality of software code modules, and a software code coverage determination sub-engine identifies a respective software code coverage for each software code method included in each of the software code modules. A test case/software code coverage mapping sub-engine then maps the respective software code coverage for each of the software code methods included in each of the software code modules with the respective test case that was run on that software code module to provide a test case/software code coverage mapping, which is used by a test suite optimization sub-engine to generate a test suite that includes a subset of the test cases that provide a desired level of software code coverage using a minimum number of test cases. |
US11526411B2 |
System and method for improving detection and capture of a host system catastrophic failure
An information handling system includes a non-volatile storage device communicatively coupled to a boot processor and an application processor. The boot processor, prior to the execution of a hang sensitive transaction, stores information associated with the hang sensitive transaction at a memory device. The application processor is configured to detect a catastrophic failure of the hang sensitive transaction. In response to the detection of the catastrophic failure, the application processor retrieves the information stored at the memory device and store the information at the non-volatile storage device. |
US11526409B2 |
Parallel processing system runtime state reload
A parallel processing system includes at least three processors operating in parallel, state monitoring circuitry, and state reload circuitry. The state monitoring circuitry couples to the at least three parallel processors and is configured to monitor runtime states of the at least three parallel processors and identify a first processor of the at least three parallel processors having at least one runtime state error. The state reload circuitry couples to the at least three parallel processors and is configured to select a second processor of the at least three parallel processors for state reload, access a runtime state of the second processor, and load the runtime state of the second processor into the first processor. Monitoring and reload may be performed only on sub-systems of the at least three parallel processors. During reload, clocks and supply voltages of the processors may be altered. The state reload may relate to sub-systems. |
US11526398B1 |
Determining an error encoding function ratio based on path performance
A method includes determining, by a computing device of a storage network, a pillar width to decode threshold ratio of a dispersed storage error encoding function based on routing path performance information of a set of routing paths with respect to a set of storage units of the storage network. The method further includes dispersed storage error encoding a data object in accordance with the pillar width to decode threshold ratio to produce a plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method further includes sending the plurality of sets of encoded data slices to the set of storage units via the set of routing paths for storage therein. |
US11526397B2 |
Payload distribution in solid state drives
A method performed by a controller of a solid state drive (SSD) comprising receiving from a host a write request to store write data in a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device of the SSD. The method also comprises identifying a first codeword and a second codeword stored in the nonvolatile storage device, the first codeword and the second codeword configured to store write data corresponding to the write request. Responsive to the write request, the method comprises writing a first portion of the write data to the first codeword and writing a second portion of the write data to the second codeword, and sending a message to the host once the write data has been written to the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device. The first and second codewords are adjacently stored, and the write data has a length that is greater than the length of the first and second codewords. |
US11526396B2 |
Minimum-size belief propagation network for FEC iterative encoders and decoders and related routing method
The invention relates to an interconnection network for forward error correction encoders and decoders, including N input terminals, N output terminals, and M stages. Each stage includes switching elements having input pins and output pins. The input pins of the switching elements of the first stage are connected to the input terminals, and the output pins of the switching elements of the last stage are connected to the output terminals. The input and output pins of the switching elements of immediately successive stages are connected in a hardwired fashion so as to form a plurality of interconnection sub-networks for routing respective input values from respective output pins of the switching elements of the first stage to respective input pins of the switching elements of the last stage. |
US11526395B2 |
Write buffer management
A read operation to retrieve data stored at a memory device is performed. Whether the data retrieved from the memory device includes an error that is not correctable is determined. Responsive to determining that the data retrieved from the memory device comprises the error that is not correctable, a buffer in a data path along which a write operation was performed to write the data at the memory device is searched for the data. |
US11526393B2 |
Memory sub-system with dynamic calibration using component-based function(s)
A system includes a memory circuitry configured to generate multiple results, each result using a different read voltage, in response to one or each received data access command. The multiple read results may be used to dynamically calibrate a read voltage assigned to generate a read result in response to a read command. |
US11526392B2 |
System and method for inferring device model based on media access control address
A system and method for inferring device models. The method includes determining block statistics for each block of a plurality of blocks of a plurality of media access control (MAC) addresses, the plurality of blocks having a plurality of respective prefixes, wherein the plurality of blocks are grouped based on commonalities among the plurality of respective prefixes; generating an aggregated statistical model for the plurality of blocks based on the plurality of MAC addresses and the block statistics, wherein each block is a string of digits included in one of the plurality of MAC addresses; and applying the aggregated statistical model to the block statistics of at least one block of the plurality of blocks in order to determine at least one inferred device model, wherein each of the at least one block is grouped into the same group. |
US11526389B2 |
Fault check without software intervention
A fault check circuit, including a first channel comparator to output a first channel comparator output signal indicating whether a first channel digital signal is outside of a first channel threshold range, wherein the first channel digital signal is A/D converted from a first channel analog signal; a second channel comparator to output a second channel comparator output signal indicating whether a second channel digital signal is outside of a second channel threshold range, wherein the second channel digital signal is A/D converted from a second channel analog signal; and an alarm generator circuit to combine the first and second channel comparator output signals, and output a fault check signal, wherein the first and second channel comparators and the alarm generator circuit are implemented in hardware, and the fault check circuit performs a fault check without software intervention. |
US11526385B1 |
Systems and methods to leverage unused compute resource for machine learning tasks
Systems and methods relating to leveraging inactive computing resources are discussed. An example system may include one or more computing nodes having an active state and an inactive state, one or more processors, and a memory. The memory may contain instructions therein that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to identify a task to be performed by the one or more computing nodes based upon a received request. The instructions may further cause the one or more processors to create one or more sub-tasks based upon the task and schedule the one or more sub-tasks for execution on the one or more computing nodes during the inactive state. The instructions may further cause the one or more processors to collate the one or more sub-tasks into a completed task, and generate a completed task notification based upon the completed task. |
US11526384B2 |
Systems and methods configured for balancing workload among multiple computing systems
A computer-implemented method for balancing workload among one or more locations is disclosed. The method may comprise: receiving data associated with a workload forecast for a first location and a second location, the data comprising a number of orders expected to be received for the first and second locations for a predetermined period of time; determining a first set of ratios of workload forecast for the locations relative to a first sum of the workload forecast for the first and second locations, the first set of ratios comprising at least a first forecast ratio for the first location and a second forecast ratio for the second location; receiving electronic orders for the predetermined period of time, the electronic orders comprising one or more groups of items and being assigned to one of the locations; and reassigning a first subset of electronic orders for the first location to the second location. |
US11526381B2 |
System and method for infrastructure resource optimization
A system and method of altering computer resource allocation may include receiving a first time-series metric describing a processes; receiving a second time-series resource metric describing a computer resource; and analyzing the first time-series metric and the second time-series resource metric as an independent and a dependent variable to determine a gradient coefficient defining the ratio of the rate of change between the first time-series metric and the second time-series resource metric. The result may be used to predict resource usage, and to provision or allocate the resource accordingly. |
US11526367B1 |
Systems and methods for translation of a digital document to an equivalent interactive user interface
Systems and methods for translation of a digital document to an equivalent interactive User Interface (UI), receive the digital document containing content; detect a selection and placement of a plurality of form fields, based at least in part on the content; construct a UI template and corresponding object graph, based at least in part on the selection and placement of each of the plurality of form fields; wherein the UI template represents the content of the digital document according to a predefined document schema; and wherein the object graph is defined by one or more dependencies and one or more validations associated with the selection and placement of each of the plurality of form fields; parse the UI template; and render the UI template as an interactive UI for distribution to an end user based at least in part on a predefined rendering library. |
US11526366B2 |
Dynamically binding data in an application
In a method for dynamically binding data in an application, an expression describing a relation between a first property of a first data of the application to a first property of a second data of the application is received. A binding is created between the first data and the second data based on the relation. A change is propagated to the first property of the second data based on a change to the first property of the first data. The receiving the expression and the creating the binding are repeated to create a plurality of bindings based on a plurality of expressions, and the receiving the expression and the creating the binding occur dynamically during an execution of the application. |
US11526365B2 |
Unified way to track user configuration on a live system
A method of remediating configurations of a plurality of system services running in each of a plurality of hosts, wherein each of the hosts is configured with a virtualization software for supporting execution of virtual machines therein, includes the steps of: retrieving actual configurations of the system services, wherein the actual configurations are stored in accordance with a configuration schema of the system services and include a user configuration, which is a configuration initiated by the user, and a system configuration, which is a configuration initiated by the host in response to the user configuration; retrieving desired configurations of the system services from a desired configuration file; comparing each of the actual configurations with a corresponding one of the desired configurations; and upon determining that at least one actual configuration, which is not a system configuration, is different from a corresponding one of the desired configurations, replacing the at least one actual configuration with the corresponding desired configuration. |
US11526362B2 |
Automatic hydration of feature file batches
A computing device saves storage space by foregoing writing the payloads for batches of feature files to local storage and then automatically downloading payloads for individual batches of feature files as associated features are called upon. In various embodiments, an operating system (OS) that includes both frequently used and infrequently used features is executing on the computing device. Batches of feature files for the frequently used features of the OS may be hydrated on the computing device whereas batches of feature files for the infrequently used features of the OS may be left dehydrated on the computing device. When an infrequently used feature is requested, the computing device automatically downloads a corresponding batch of feature files. Then, the computing device may fulfill the request by implementing the infrequently used feature. Thus, predetermined batches of feature files remain immediately accessible at the computing device without consuming storage space unless called upon. |