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US11588121B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices New organometallic complexes having bis- or tris-heteroleptic ligands and large aspect ratio in one direction and their use in OLEDs to enhance the efficiency is disclosed.
US11588117B2	Materials for electronic devices The invention relates to compounds comprising functional substituents in a specific spatial arrangement, devices containing same, and the preparation and use thereof.
US11588116B2	Organic light emitting device Provided is an organic light-emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a first compound of Chemical Formula 1 and a second compound of Chemical Formula 2: wherein: A is Chemical Formula 1a or 1b: Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently a C6-60 aromatic ring or a C2-60 heteroaromatic ring, and Ar1 and Ar2 are unsubstituted, or substituted with C1-60 alkyl, C6-60 aryl, or C2-60 heteroaryl; Ar′1 and Ar′2 are each independently substituted or unsubstituted C6-60 aryl or substituted or unsubstituted C2-60 heteroaryl; provided that a1+b1+c1+d+e+f is 1 or more; or a2+b2+c2+d+e+f is 1 or more; R′1 and R′2 are each independently hydrogen, deuterium, C1-60 alkyl, C6-60 aryl, or C2-60 heteroaryl; and r and s are each independently 0 to 7.
US11588114B2	Organic molecules for use in optoelectronic devices An organic molecule, comprising a structure of Formula III: especially for use in optoelectronic components.
US11588107B2	Integrated circuit structure An IC structure comprises a substrate, a first material layer, a second material layer, a first via structure, and a memory cell structure. The substrate comprises a memory region and a logic region. The first material layer is disposed on the memory region and the logic region. The second material layer is disposed on the first material layer only at the memory region. The first via structure formed in the first material layer and the second material layer. The memory cell structure is over the first via structure.
US11588104B2	Resistive memory with vertical transport transistor Embodiments of the present invention include a memory cell that has a vertically-oriented fin. The memory cell may also include a resistive memory device located on a first lateral side of the fin. The resistive memory device may include a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a resistive element between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The memory cell may also include a vertical field-effect transistor having a metal gate and a gate dielectric contacting a second lateral side of the fin opposite the first lateral side.
US11588102B2	Semiconductor material for resistive random access memory Embodiments include a resistive random access memory (RRAM) storage cell, having a resistive switching material layer and a semiconductor layer between two electrodes, where the semiconductor layer serves as an OEL. In addition, the RRAM storage cell may be coupled with a transistor to form a RRAM memory cell. The RRAM memory cell may include a semiconductor layer as a channel for the transistor, and also shared with the storage cell as an OEL for the storage cell. A shared electrode may serve as a source electrode of the transistor and an electrode of the storage cell. In some embodiments, a dielectric layer may be shared between the transistor and the storage cell, where the dielectric layer is a resistive switching material layer of the storage cell.
US11588096B2	Method to achieve active p-type layer/layers in III-nitrtde epitaxial or device structures having buried p-type layers An optoelectronic or electronic device structure, including an active region on or above a polar substrate, wherein the active region comprises a polar p region. The device structure further includes a hole supply region on or above the active region. Holes in the hole supply region are driven by a field into the active region, the field arising at least in part due to a piezoelectric and/or spontaneous polarization field generated by a composition and grading of the active region.
US11588089B2	Printed wiring board having thermoelectric emlement accommodatred therein A printed wiring board includes a core substrate including core material and having opening such that the opening penetrates through the core substrate, thermoelectric elements including P-type and N-type thermoelectric elements such that the thermoelectric elements are accommodated in the opening of the core substrate, a first build-up layer that mounts a heat-absorbing element thereon and includes a first resin insulating layer such that the first resin insulating layer is formed on first surface of the core substrate and covering the opening of the core substrate, and a second build-up layer that mounts a heat-generating element thereon and includes a second resin insulating layer such that the formed on the second resin insulating layer is foamed on second surface of the core substrate on the opposite side and covering the opening of the core substrate and has thickness that is greater than thickness of the first resin insulating layer.
US11588086B2	Micro-LED display A micro-LED display includes a casing, a light-transmitting cover, a micro-LED array substrate, a circuit board, and at least one functional component. The light-transmitting cover is disposed on the casing and has a display area, a non-display area, and a plurality of first vias. The first vias are located in the display area. The micro-LED array substrate is disposed between the light-transmitting cover and the casing. The micro-LED array substrate has a plurality of second vias overlapped with the first vias in an orthogonal projection direction. The circuit board is disposed between the micro-LED array substrate and the casing, and the circuit board has a functional component disposing area overlapped with the display area in the orthogonal projection direction. The functional component is disposed in the functional component disposing area. The functional component is overlapped with the second vias in the orthogonal projection direction.
US11588085B2	Light emitting drive substrate and manufacturing method thereof, light emitting substrate and display device A light emitting drive substrate, a manufacturing method of the light emitting drive substrate, a light emitting substrate and a display device. The light emitting drive substrate includes a first light-emitting subregion, a second light-emitting subregion, a periphery area, a first power supply wire and a second power supply wire. A resistance between the first end and the second end of the first power supply wire is equal to a resistance between the first end and the second end of the second power supply wire, and a wire length between the first end and the second end of the first power supply wire is not equal to a wire length between the first end and the second end of the second power supply wire.
US11588083B2	High voltage monolithic LED chip with improved reliability Monolithic LED chips are disclosed comprising a plurality of active regions on a submount, wherein the submount comprises integral electrically conductive interconnect elements in electrical contact with the active regions and electrically connecting at least some of the active regions in series. The submount also comprises an integral insulator element electrically insulating at least some of the interconnect elements and active regions from other elements of the submount. The active regions are mounted in close proximity to one another to minimize the visibility of the space during operation. The LED chips can also comprise layers structures and compositions that allow improved reliability under high current operation.
US11588080B2	Optical apparatus and three-dimensional modeling apparatus The illumination optical system includes a beam shaper which converts an intensity distribution of a laser beam in each of a short axis direction and a long axis direction, which is a Gaussian distribution, into an intensity distribution of a parallel beam on a modulation surface of the optical modulator in each of the short axis direction and the long axis direction, which is a top hat distribution. The modulation surface and an irradiated surface are optically conjugated with respect to the long axis direction by a third lens and a fourth lens. Further, the modulation surface and a front focus position of the fourth lens are optically conjugated with respect to the short axis direction by a first lens, a second lens, and the third lens. The fourth lens condenses a beam having a top hat distribution at the front focus position onto the irradiated surface.
US11588077B2	Display with quantum dot or quantum platelet converter A display device including an array of pixels, each pixel including at least three sub-pixels having a LED device emitting light with a blue color point. The first sub-pixel is designed to emit red light having a first color point, the second sub-pixel is designed to emit green light having a second color point, where the LED device of the third sub-pixel is covered with a third wavelength converting layer designed to emit light having a fourth color point. The fourth color point being such that the combination of light emitted by the LED device not converted by the wavelength converting layer and the light converted by the wavelength converting layer results in light having a third color point, where the first, the second and the third color points define a second color space in which a set color space is included.
US11588076B2	Radiation-emitting optoelectronic component A radiation-emitting optoelectronic component may include a semiconductor chip or a semiconductor laser which, in operation of the component, emits a primary radiation in the UV region or in the blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The optoelectronic component may further include a conversion element comprising a first phosphor configured to convert the primary radiation at least partly to a first secondary radiation having a peak wavelength in the green region of the electromagnetic spectrum between 475 nm and 500 nm inclusive. The first phosphor may be or include BaSi4Al3N9, SrSiAl2O3N2, BaSi2N2O2, ALi3XO4, M(1−x−y−z) Zz[AaBbCcDdEeN4-nOn], and combinations thereof.
US11588073B2	Light emitting device with reflector This application describes a light emitting device or an assembly of light emitting devices. In the completed light emitting device, a distributed Bragg reflector minimizes the possibility of disturbing adjacent light emitting devices. Methods to fabricate such devices and assemblies of devices are also described.
US11588069B2	Photovoltaic devices and method of making Embodiments of a photovoltaic device are provided herein. The photovoltaic device can include a layer stack and an absorber layer disposed on the layer stack. The absorber layer can include a first region and a second region. Each of the first region of the absorber layer and the second region of the absorber layer can include a compound comprising cadmium, selenium, and tellurium. An atomic concentration of selenium can vary across the absorber layer. The first region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. The second region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. A ratio of an average atomic concentration of selenium in the first region of the absorber layer to an average atomic concentration of selenium in the second region of the absorber layer can be greater than 10.
US11588066B2	Tandem solar cells having a top or bottom metal chalcogenide cell Tandem solar cell configurations are provided where at least one of the cells is a metal chalcogenide cell. A four-terminal tandem solar cell configuration has two electrically independent solar cells stacked on each other. A two-terminal solar cell configuration has two electrically coupled solar cells (same current through both cells) stacked on each other. Carrier selective contacts can be used to make contact to the metal chalcogenide cell (s) to alleviate the troublesome Fermi level pinning issue. Carrier-selective contacts can also remove the need to provide doping of the metal chalcogenide. Doping of the metal chalcogenide can be provided by charge transfer. These two ideas can be practiced independently or together in any combination.
US11588058B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Provided are a transistor which has electrical characteristics requisite for its purpose and uses an oxide semiconductor layer and a semiconductor device including the transistor. In the bottom-gate transistor in which at least a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating film, and the semiconductor layer are stacked in this order, an oxide semiconductor stacked layer including at least two oxide semiconductor layers whose energy gaps are different from each other is used as the semiconductor layer. Oxygen and/or a dopant may be added to the oxide semiconductor stacked layer.
US11588055B2	Thin-film transistor and method for manufacturing the same, array substrates, display devices The present disclosure provides a thin-film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, an array substrate, and a display device. The thin film transistor of the present disclosure include a plurality of insulating layers, among which at least one insulating layer on the low temperature polysilicon layer comprises organic material, so vias could be formed in the organic material by an exposing and developing process, thereby effectively avoiding the over-etching problem of the low temperature polycrystalline silicon layer caused by dry etching process. By adopting the method for manufacturing the film transistors of the present disclosure, the contact area and uniformity of the drain electrode and the low temperature polysilicon material layer can be increased; the conductivity can be improved; and the production cycle of products can be greatly reduced and thereby improving the equipment capacity.
US11588053B2	Display device and method of fabricating the same A display device includes a buffer layer disposed on a substrate and comprising a first buffer film, and a second buffer film, wherein the first buffer film and the second buffer film are sequentially stacked in a thickness direction of the display device; a semiconductor pattern disposed on the buffer layer; a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor pattern; and a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, wherein the first buffer film and the second buffer film comprise a same material, and a density of the first buffer film is greater than a density of the second buffer film.
US11588052B2	Sub-Fin isolation schemes for gate-all-around transistor devices Sub-fin isolation schemes for gate-all-around (GAA) transistor devices are provided herein. In some cases, the sub-fin isolation schemes include forming one or more dielectric layers between each of the source/drain regions and the substrate. In some such cases, the one or more dielectric layers include material native to the gate sidewall spacers, for example, or other dielectric material. In other cases, the sub-fin isolation schemes include substrate modification that results in oppositely-type doped semiconductor material under each of the source/drain regions and in the sub-fin. The oppositely-type doped semiconductor material results in the interface between that material and each of the source/drain regions being a p-n or n-p junction to block the flow of carriers through the sub-fin. The various sub-fin isolation schemes described herein enable better short channel characteristics for GAA transistors (e.g., employing one or more nanowires, nanoribbons, or nanosheets), thereby improving device performance.
US11588051B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof Semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a fin on the substrate. The fin includes channel layers stacked along a normal direction of a substrate surface. The channel layers includes a first channel layer and a second channel layer under the first channel layer, and the second channel layer has recessed sidewalls with respect to corresponding sidewalls of the first channel layer. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure, disposed around each of the first channel layer and the second channel layer; and a doped source/drain layer in the fin on two sides of the gate structure. The doped source/drain layer is respectively connected to the second channel layer and the first channel layer.
US11588047B2	Semiconductor component and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure discloses a semiconductor component and a method for forming the semiconductor component. The semiconductor component includes a substrate, a III-V layer, a doped III-V layer, a gate contact, a first field plate, and a second field plate. The gate contact has first and second sides away from the doped III-V layer. The first field plate has first and second sides, and the first side is closer to the second side of the gate contact than the second side. The second field plate has first and second sides, and the first side is closer to the second side of the gate contact than the second side. The first field plate is closer to the doped III-V layer than the second field plate and the first side and the second side of the gate contact.
US11588044B2	Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structure and related method Embodiments of the disclosure provide a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structure and related method. A BJT according to the disclosure may include a base over a semiconductor substrate. A collector is over the semiconductor substrate and laterally abuts a first horizontal end of the base. An emitter is over the semiconductor substrate and laterally abuts a second horizontal end of the base opposite the first horizontal end. A horizontal interface between the emitter and the base is smaller than a horizontal interface between the collector and the base.
US11588043B2	Bipolar transistor with elevated extrinsic base and methods to form same Aspects of the disclosure provide a bipolar transistor structure with an elevated extrinsic base, and related methods to form the same. A bipolar transistor according to the disclosure may include a collector on a substrate, and a base film on the collector. The base film includes a crystalline region on the collector and a non-crystalline region adjacent the crystalline region. An emitter is on a first portion of the crystalline region of the base film. An elevated extrinsic base is on a second portion of the crystalline region of the base film, and adjacent the emitter.
US11588039B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes an active region in a substrate, at least one nano-sheet on the substrate and spaced apart from a top surface of the active region, a gate above or below the nano-sheet, a gate insulating layer between the at least one nano-sheet and the gate, and source/drain regions on the active region at both sides of the at least one nano-sheet. The at least one nano-sheet includes a channel region; a gate disposed above or below the nano-sheet and including a single metal layer having different compositions of metal atoms of a surface and an inside thereof; a gate insulating layer between the nano-sheet and the gate; and source/drain regions disposed in the active region of both sides of the at least one nano-sheet.
US11588038B2	Circuit structure with gate configuration The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure in accordance with some embodiment. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first circuit region and a second circuit region; active regions extended from the semiconductor substrate and surrounded by isolation features; first transistors that include first gate stacks formed on the active regions and disposed in the first circuit region, the first gate stacks having a first gate pitch less than a reference pitch; and second transistors that include second gate stacks formed on the active regions and disposed in the second circuit region, the second gate stacks having a second pitch greater than the reference pitch. The second transistors are high-frequency transistors and the first transistors are logic transistors.
US11588035B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, gate electrodes stacked in the first region and forming a pad region having a stepped shape extending by different lengths in the second region, interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked with the gate electrodes, channel structures passing through the gate electrodes in the first region and including a channel layer, separation regions passing through the gate electrodes in the first and second regions, an etch-stop layer disposed on uppermost gate electrodes, among the gate electrodes forming the pad region in the second region, not to overlap the first region and the separation regions, a cell region insulating layer covering the gate electrodes and the etch-stop layer, and contact plugs passing through the cell region insulating layer and the etch-stop layer in the second region and connected to the gate electrodes in the pad region.
US11588034B2	Field effect transistor including gate insulating layer formed of two-dimensional material Provided is a field effect transistor including a gate insulating layer having a two-dimensional material. The field effect transistor may include a first channel layer; a second channel layer disposed on the first channel layer; a gate insulating layer disposed on the second channel layer; a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first channel layer; and a second electrode electrically connected to the second channel layer. Here, the gate insulating layer may include an insulative, high-k, two-dimensional material.
US11588033B2	Uniform threshold voltage non-planar transistors Transistors having nonplanar electron channels in the channel width plane have one or more features that cause the different parts of the nonplanar electron channel to turn on at substantially the same threshold voltage. Advantageously, such transistors have substantially uniform threshold voltage across the nonplanar electron channel. Devices, image sensors, and pixels incorporating such transistors are also provided, in addition to methods of manufacturing the same.
US11588032B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The three-dimensional semiconductor devices include an electrode structure with sequentially-stacked electrodes disposed on a substrate, semiconductor patterns penetrating the electrode structure, and memory elements including a first pattern and a second pattern interposed between the semiconductor patterns and the electrode structure, the first pattern vertically extending to cross the electrodes and the second pattern horizontally extending to cross the semiconductor patterns.
US11588031B2	Semiconductor structure for memory device and method for forming the same A semiconductor structure for a memory device includes a first gate structure and a second gate structure adjacent to the first gate structure. The second gate structure includes a first layer and a second layer, and the first layer is between the second layer and the first gate structure. The first layer and the second layer include a same semiconductor material and same dopants. The first layer has a first dopant concentration, and the second layer has a second dopant concentration different from the firs dopant concentration.
US11588024B2	High voltage blocking III-V semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a type IV semiconductor base substrate, a first type III-V semiconductor layer formed on a first surface of the base substrate, and a second type III-V semiconductor layer with a different bandgap as the first type III-V being formed on the first type III-V semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device further includes first and second electrically conductive device terminals each being formed on the second type III-V semiconductor layer and each being in ohmic contact with the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. The base substrate includes a first highly doped island that is disposed directly beneath the second device terminal and extends to the first surface of the base substrate. The first highly-doped island is laterally disposed between portions of semiconductor material having a lower net doping concentration than the first highly-doped island.
US11588019B2	Bipolar junction transistor with constricted collector region having high gain and early voltage product A semiconductor device includes a bipolar junction transistor having a collector, a base, and an emitter. The collector includes a current collection region, a constriction region laterally adjacent to the current collection region, and a contact region laterally adjacent to the constriction region, located opposite from the current collection region. The current collection region, the constriction region laterally, and the contact region all have the same conductivity type. The base includes a current transmission region contacting the current collection region and a constricting well laterally adjacent to, and contacting, the current transmission region and contacting the constriction region. The current transmission region and the constricting well have an opposite conductivity type than the current collection region, the constriction region laterally, and the contact region.
US11588016B2	Semiconductor device having a super junction structure and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device having a super junction and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device capable of obtaining a high breakdown voltage are provided, whereby charge balance of the super junction is further accurately controlled in the semiconductor device that is implemented by an N-type pillar and a P-type pillar. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a blocking layer including a first conductive type pillar and a second conductive type pillar that extend in a vertical direction on the semiconductor substrate and that are alternately arrayed in a horizontal direction, wherein, in the blocking layer, a density profile of a first conductive type dopant may be uniform in the horizontal direction, and the density profile of the first conductive type dopant may vary in the vertical direction.
US11588012B2	Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a preliminary lower electrode layer on a substrate, the preliminary lower electrode layer including a niobium oxide; converting at least a portion of the preliminary lower electrode layer to a first lower electrode layer comprising a niobium nitride by performing a nitridation process on the preliminary lower electrode layer; forming a dielectric layer on the first lower electrode layer; and forming an upper electrode on the dielectric layer.
US11588010B2	Capacitor structure A capacitor structure includes a first metal structure, a second metal structure, and a dielectric material. The second metal structure is disposed below the first metal structure. Each of the first metal structure and the second metal structure includes at least three conductive components. The conductive components have a fish-bone shape. The dielectric material is disposed in a plurality of isolators of the first metal structure, in a plurality of isolators of the second metal structure, and between the first metal structure and the second metal structure.
US11588006B2	Displaying backplane and fabricating method thereof, and displaying device A displaying region of a displaying backplane is delimited into a first displaying region and a second displaying region, the light transmittance of the first displaying region is less than that of the second displaying region, the displaying backplane has a metal signal line in a trace region, a plurality of sub-pixels located within the first displaying region are connected to a common cathode, and the common cathode is connected to the metal signal line. At least some of the sub-pixels located within the second displaying region are connected to independent cathodes, the independent cathodes are separate from each other, the displaying backplane further includes a first electrically conductive layer, and the independent cathodes are connected to the metal signal line via the first electrically conductive layer. The first electrically conductive layer is a planar electrode, and the orthographic projection of the planar electrode covers the second displaying region.
US11588004B2	Foldable, flexible display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A foldable, flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel which displays an image and includes a display side on which the image is displayed and of which portions thereof face each other in a folded state of the flexible display apparatus; a cover window on the display side of the flexible display panel and including: a window film comprising a transparent plastic film having a modulus of elasticity of about 6.3 gigapascals or more; and a coating layer on the window film, and configured to be transparent and to protect the window film from physical damage thereto; and an adhesive layer between the window film and the display side of the flexible display panel, and configured to have elasticity and bond the window film and the flexible display panel to each other.
US11588000B2	Display device A display device that can improve transmittance of a sensor area that overlaps a display area includes a substrate that includes a display area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, a sensor area in the display area, the sensor area overlapping a sensor, and a wiring connection area between the display area and the sensor area; a first wiring and a second wiring disposed in the display area and that extend in a first direction and are connected to the plurality of pixels; and a third wiring disposed in the sensor area and that extends in the first direction, wherein the third wiring is connected to the second wiring and overlaps the first wiring in a plan view. The third wiring is spaced apart from the first wiring with a first insulating layer interposed therebetween.
US11587997B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a first TFT in a display area including a first semiconductor pattern including a polysilicon, a first gate electrode overlapping with the first semiconductor pattern under conditions that a first gate insulating layer is interposed, and first source and drain electrodes connected to the first semiconductor pattern, a second TFT in the display area including a second semiconductor pattern including a first oxide semiconductor, a second gate electrode overlapping with the second semiconductor pattern under conditions that second and third gate insulating layers are interposed, second source and drain electrodes connected to the second semiconductor pattern, and a third TFT in a non-display area including a third semiconductor pattern including a second oxide semiconductor, a third gate electrode overlapping with the third semiconductor pattern under conditions that the third gate insulating layer is interposed, and third source and drain electrodes connected to the third semiconductor pattern.
US11587996B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a first transistor, a first pixel electrode, a second transistor, and a second pixel electrode. The first transistor includes a first drain electrode. The first pixel electrode is positioned between an edge of the display apparatus and a center of the display apparatus and includes a first recessed structure. The first recessed structure directly contacts the first drain electrode. The second transistor includes a second drain electrode. The second pixel electrode is positioned between the edge of the display apparatus and the first pixel electrode and includes at least one recessed structure. The at least one recessed structure includes a second recessed structure. The second recessed structure directly contacts the second drain electrode. A total maximum width of the at least one recessed structure is greater than a maximum width of the first recessed structure.
US11587993B2	Display panel including barrier holes formed through stack of planarization layer and pixel defining layer A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided in the present application. The display panel includes a substrate, a planarization layer disposed on the substrate, and a pixel definition layer disposed on the planarization layer. The display panel includes a test region, wherein a plurality of virtual pixel openings are disposed in the pixel definition layer positioned in the test region, and a plurality of barrier holes in a one-to-one correspondence to the virtual pixel openings are disposed in the planarization layer positioned in the test region, and a barrier layer fills each of the barrier holes.
US11587990B2	Display device and touch input system including the same A display device includes a display unit comprising a plurality of light-emitting areas emitting light. A touch sensing unit is disposed on the display unit to sense a touch. A buffer part is disposed on the touch sensing unit to cushion an external impact. A metal pattern is disposed on the buffer part and has a mesh structure. The metal pattern includes a plurality of code patterns having a cut shape that encodes position information.
US11587980B2	Display device A display device includes a display substrate, a light emitting element layer disposed on a surface of the display substrate and including display pixels, a sensing substrate having a surface attached to another surface of the display substrate, a sensing element layer disposed on another surface of the sensing substrate and including sending pixels that each sense light of a color, and a photorefractive layer disposed on the sensing element layer and including micro lenses.
US11587978B2	Phase change memory with improved recovery from element segregation A method is presented for reducing element segregation of a phase change material (PCM). The method includes forming a bottom electrode, constructing a layered stack over the bottom electrode, the layered stack including the PCM separated by one or more electrically conductive and chemically stable materials, and forming a top electrode over the layered stack. The PCM is Ge—Sb—Te (germanium-antimony-tellurium or GST) and the one or more electrically conductive and chemically stable materials are titanium nitride (TiN) segments.
US11587977B2	Memory device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a memory device includes sequentially forming and then etching a preliminary selection device layer, a preliminary middle electrode layer, and a preliminary variable resistance layer on a substrate, thereby forming a selection device, a middle electrode, and a variable resistance layer. At least one of a side portion of the selection device or a side portion of the variable resistance layer is removed so that a first width of the middle electrode in a first direction parallel to a top of the substrate is greater than a second width of the variable resistance layer in the first direction or a third width of the selection device in the first direction. A capping layer is formed on at least one of a side wall of the etched side portion of the selection device or a side wall of the etched side portion of the variable resistance layer.
US11587974B2	Micro LED transferring method and display module manufactured by the same A micro light emitting diode (LED) transferring method includes setting a micro LED transfer substrate and a target substrate to initial positions and transferring a plurality of micro LEDs arranged in a partial region of the micro LED transfer substrate to the target substrate. Once the micro LEDs in the partial region are transferred to the target substrate, the micro LED transfer substrate is rotated and a plurality of micro LEDs, arranged in a remaining region of the micro LED transfer substrate, are then transferred to the target substrate.
US11587972B2	Wafer level light-emitting diode array A light emitting device including a substrate, first and second light emitting diodes (LEDs) each including first and second semiconductor layers, a first upper electrode disposed on the second LED, electrically connected to the first LED, and insulated from the second semiconductor layer of the first LED, and a second upper electrode disposed on the second LED, electrically connected to the second LED, and insulated from the second semiconductor layer of the second LED, in which a portion of the substrate between the LEDs does not overlap the semiconductor layers, the first upper electrode has a portion electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer of the second LED and covering the first portion and portions of the LEDs, and the second upper electrode has a groove partially enclosing the portion of the first upper electrode in a plan view.
US11587968B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of suppressing deterioration in dark characteristics, and an electronic apparatus. The device includes a photoelectric conversion section; a trench between the photoelectric conversion sections in adjacent pixels; and a PN junction region on a sidewall of the trench and including a P-type region and an N-type region, the P-type region having a protruding region. The device can include an inorganic photoelectric conversion section having a pn junction and an organic photoelectric conversion section having an organic photoelectric conversion film that are stacked in a depth direction within a same pixel; and a PN junction region on a sidewall of the inorganic photoelectric conversion section. The PN junction region can further include a first P-type region and an N-type region; and a second P-type region. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor.
US11587966B2	Fingerprint acquisition apparatus, display panel and electronic device A fingerprint acquisition apparatus includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a first shading pattern. The first shading pattern includes at least one first shading block including a first opening, and an orthographic projection of the first opening in the first shading block on the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of a target photoelectric conversion unit corresponding to the first shading block on the base substrate.
US11587965B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof, display device and operation method thereof A color filter (CF) substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, a display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The CF substrate includes: a base substrate, a CF pixel array and image sensors. The CF pixel array is provided on the base substrate and includes CF pixel units in an array. The image sensors are provided on the CF pixel array, correspond to the CF pixel units, and are configured to receive light travelling through the CF pixel units for imaging.
US11587963B2	Solid-state imaging element and electronic apparatus To enhance a charge transfer efficiency in a transfer gate having a vertical gate electrode. A solid-state imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion section, a charge accumulating section, and a transfer gate. The photoelectric conversion section is formed in a depth direction of a semiconductor substrate, and generates charges corresponding to a quantity of received light. The charge accumulating section accumulates the charges generated by the photoelectric conversion section. The transfer gate transfers the charges generated by the photoelectric conversion section to the charge accumulating section. The transfer gate includes a plurality of vertical gate electrodes which is filled to a predetermined depth from an interface of the semiconductor substrate, and at least a part of a diameter is different in the depth direction of the semiconductor substrate.
US11587962B2	Imaging system including analog compression for simultaneous pulse detection and imaging An imaging system includes a light sensor, a pulse detection imaging (PDI) circuit, and an image processing unit. The light sensor generates one or both of an image signal and a pulse signal. The pulse PDI circuit includes a first terminal in signal communication with the light sensor to receive one or both of the image signal and the pulse signal and a second terminal in signal communication with a voltage source. The image processing unit is in signal communication with the PDI circuit to receive one or both of the image signal and the pulse signal and to simultaneously perform imagery and pulse detection based on the image signal and the pulse signal, respectively.
US11587960B2	Photodetector A photodetector device comprising n-type and p-type light absorbing regions arranged to form a pn-junction and n+ and p+ contact regions connected to respective contacts. The light absorbing regions and the contact regions are arranged in a sequence n+ p n p+ so that, after a voltage applied between the n+ and p+ contacts is switched from a reverse bias to a forward bias, electrons and holes which are generated in the light absorbing regions in response to photon absorption drift towards the p+ and n+ contact regions respectively, which causes current to start to flow between the contacts after a time delay which is inversely proportional to the incident light intensity.
US11587957B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device that is less influenced by variations in characteristics between transistors or variations in a load, and is efficient even for normally-on transistors is provided. The semiconductor device includes at least a transistor, two wirings, three switches, and two capacitors. A first switch controls conduction between a first wiring and each of a first electrode of a first capacitor and a first electrode of a second capacitor. A second electrode of the first capacitor is connected to a gate of the transistor. A second switch controls conduction between the gate and a second wiring. A second electrode of the second capacitor is connected to one of a source and a drain of the transistor. A third switch controls conduction between the one of the source and the drain and each of the first electrode of the first capacitor and the first electrode of the second capacitor.
US11587955B2	TFT backplane and micro-LED display A TFT backplane and a micro-LED display are provided A metal light shielding layer is placed at the lower surface of the substrate and the position of the metal light shield layer is corresponding to the active layer. This reduces the size of the side frame, which is used when assembling multiple displays in a large-size micro LED display application. This could meet the demand of large-size micro-LED display. In addition, this could further reduce the steps of depositing and patterning a conventional shield metal layer in a convention process of manufacturing the TFT. Therefore, the manufacturing steps of the TFT backplane are simplified and thus the manufacturing cost is reduced.
US11587950B2	Memory device and method of forming the same A memory device includes a multi-layer stack, a plurality of channel layers and a plurality of ferroelectric layers. The multi-layer stack is disposed on a substrate and includes a plurality of gate layers and a plurality of dielectric layers stacked alternately. The plurality of channel layers penetrate through the multi-layer stack and are laterally spaced apart from each other, wherein the plurality of channel layers include a first channel layer and a second channel layer, and a first electron mobility of the first channel layer is different from a second electron mobility of the second channel layer. Each of the plurality of channel layers are spaced apart from the multi-layer stack by one of the plurality of ferroelectric layers, respectively.
US11587943B2	Bonded die assembly using a face-to-back oxide bonding and methods for making the same A first semiconductor die includes a first substrate, first semiconductor devices, first dielectric material layers having a first silicon oxide surface as an uppermost surface and forming first metal interconnect structures. A second semiconductor die includes a second substrate, second semiconductor devices, and second dielectric material layers forming second metal interconnect structures. A handle substrate is attached to a topmost surface of the second semiconductor die. The second substrate is thinned, and a second silicon oxide surface is provided as a bottommost surface of the second semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is bonded to the first semiconductor die by inducing oxide-to-oxide bonding between the second silicon oxide surface and the first silicon oxide surface. The handle substrate is detached, and inter-die connection via structures are formed through the second substrate and the bonding interface to contact the first metal interconnect structures. External bonding pads may be subsequently formed.
US11587942B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a substrate; a semiconductor above the substrate functioning as a channel of a cell transistor; a first silicon nitride layer above the semiconductor having an internal compressive stress of a first value; and a second silicon nitride layer above the first silicon nitride layer having an internal compressive stress of a second value. The second value is greater than the first value.
US11587940B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices Disclosed is a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device comprising a peripheral circuit structure on a first substrate, a second substrate on the peripheral circuit structure, first to fourth stack structures spaced apart in a first direction on the second substrate, first and second support connectors between the second and third stack structures, third and fourth support connectors between the third and fourth stack structures, and a through dielectric pattern penetrating the first stack structure and the second substrate. A first distance between the first and second support connectors is different from a second distance between the third and fourth support connectors.
US11587939B2	Etch method for opening a source line in flash memory Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for opening a source line in a memory device. An erase gate line (EGL) and the source line are formed elongated in parallel. The source line underlies the EGL and is separated from the EGL by a dielectric layer. A first etch is performed to form a first opening through the EGL and stops on the dielectric layer. A second etch is performed to thin the dielectric layer at the first opening, wherein the first and second etches are performed with a common mask in place. A silicide process is performed to form a silicide layer on the source line at the first opening, wherein the silicide process comprises a third etch with a second mask in place and extends the first opening through the dielectric layer. A via is formed extending through the EGL to the silicide layer.
US11587931B2	Multiplexor for a semiconductor device A memory device can comprise an array of memory cells comprising a plurality of vertically stacked tiers of memory cells, a respective plurality of horizontal access lines coupled to each of the plurality of tiers, and a plurality of vertical sense lines coupled to each of the plurality of tiers. The array of memory cells can further comprise a plurality of multiplexors each coupled to a respective vertical sense line and configured to electrically couple the respective vertical sense line to a horizontal sense line. The memory device can also comprise a semiconductor under the array (SuA) circuitry, comprising a plurality of sense amplifiers, each sense amplifier coupled to a respective subset of the plurality of multiplexors.
US11587930B2	3-D DRAM structures and methods of manufacture Memory devices incorporating bridged word lines are described. The memory devices include a plurality of active regions spaced along a first direction, a second direction and a third direction. A plurality of conductive layers is arranged so that at least one conductive layer is adjacent to at least one side of each of the active regions along the third direction. A conductive bridge extends along the second direction to connect each of the conductive layers to one or more adjacent conductive layer. Some embodiments include an integrated etch stop layer. Methods of forming stacked memory devices are also described.
US11587929B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a stack including a plurality of layers vertically stacked on a substrate, each of the layers including a bit line extending in a first direction and a semiconductor pattern extending from the bit line in a second direction crossing the first direction, a gate electrode along each of the semiconductor patterns stacked, a vertical insulating layer on the gate electrode, a stopper layer, and a data storing element electrically connected to each of the semiconductor patterns. The data storing element includes a first electrode electrically connected to each of the semiconductor patterns, a second electrode on the first electrode, and a dielectric layer between the first and second electrodes. The stopper layer is between the vertical insulating layer and the second electrode.
US11587926B2	Semiconductor structure Semiconductor structures are provided. Each transistor includes a first source/drain region over a semiconductor fin, a second source/drain region over the semiconductor fin, a channel region in the semiconductor fin and between the first and second source/drain regions, and a metal gate electrode formed on the channel region and extending in a second direction. In a first transistor of the transistors, the first source/drain region is formed between the metal gate electrode of the first transistor and the metal gate electrode of a second transistor of the transistors. The second source/drain region is formed between the metal gate electrode of the first transistor and the dielectric-base dummy gate. A first contact of the first source/drain region is separated from a spacer of the metal gate electrode of the first transistor. A second contact of the second source/drain region is in contact with a spacer of the dielectric-base dummy gate.
US11587922B2	Process control for package formation A method includes bonding a first and a second device die to a third device die, forming a plurality of gap-filling layers extending between the first and the second device dies, and performing a first etching process to etch a first dielectric layer in the plurality of gap-filling layers to form an opening. A first etch stop layer in the plurality of gap-filling layers is used to stop the first etching process. The opening is then extended through the first etch stop layer. A second etching process is performed to extend the opening through a second dielectric layer underlying the first etch stop layer. The second etching process stops on a second etch stop layer in the plurality of gap-filling layers. The method further includes extending the opening through the second etch stop layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a through-via.
US11587920B2	Bonded semiconductor die assembly containing through-stack via structures and methods for making the same A bonded assembly includes a first three-dimensional memory die containing a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers and first memory structures located in the first alternating stack, a second three-dimensional memory die bonded to the first three-dimensional memory die, and containing a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers, and second memory structures located in the second alternating stack. The first electrically conductive layers have different lateral extents along the first horizontal direction that decrease with a respective vertical distance from driver circuit devices, and the second electrically conductive layers have different lateral extents along the first horizontal direction that increase with the respective vertical distance from the driver circuit devices.
US11587919B2	Microelectronic devices, related electronic systems, and methods of forming microelectronic devices A microelectronic device comprises a first die comprising a memory array region comprising a stack structure comprising vertically alternating conductive structures and insulative structures, and vertically extending strings of memory cells within the stack structure. The first die further comprises first control logic region comprising a first control logic devices including at least a word line driver. The microelectronic device further comprise a second die attached to the first die, the second die comprising a second control logic region comprising second control logic devices including at least one page buffer device configured to effectuate a portion of control operations of the vertically extending string of memory cells. Related microelectronic devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US11587918B2	Semiconductor devices, semiconductor device packages, electronic systems including same, and related methods Semiconductor devices and semiconductor device packages may include at least one first semiconductor die supported on a first side of a substrate. The at least one first semiconductor die may include a first active surface. A second semiconductor die may be supported on a second, opposite side of the substrate. The second semiconductor die may include a second active surface located on a side of the second semiconductor die facing the substrate. The second semiconductor die may be configured to have higher median power consumption than the at least one first semiconductor die during operation. An electronic system incorporating a semiconductor device package is disclosed, as are related methods.
US11587916B2	Package structure and manufacturing method thereof A package structure includes a semiconductor die, an antenna substrate structure, and a redistribution layer. The semiconductor die is laterally wrapped by a first encapsulant. The antenna substrate structure is disposed over the semiconductor die, wherein the antenna substrate structure includes a circuit substrate and at least one antenna element inlaid in the circuit substrate. The redistribution layer is disposed between the semiconductor die and the antenna substrate structure, wherein the at least one antenna element is electrically connected with the semiconductor die through the circuit substrate and the redistribution layer. The at least one antenna element includes patch antennas.
US11587914B2	LED chip and manufacturing method of the same A light emitting chip including a first LED sub-unit, 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 passivation layer disposed on the third LED sub-unit, and a first connection electrode electrically connected to at least one of the first, second, and third LED sub-units, in which the first connection electrode and the third LED sub-unit form a first angle defined between an upper surface of the third LED sub-unit and an inner surface of the first connection electrode that is less than about 80°.
US11587913B2	Light emitting diode package structure A light emitting diode package structure is provided. The light emitting diode package structure includes first and second chips. A value of an intensity of a peak wavelength of a first shoulder wave of the first chip divided by an intensity of a peak wavelength of a first main wave of the first chip is defined as a first intensity ratio. A value of an intensity of a peak wavelength of a second shoulder wave of the second chip divided by an intensity of a peak wavelength of a second main wave of the second chip is defined as a second intensity ratio. The first and second chips satisfy “a difference between the intensities of the peak wavelengths of the first and second main waves being less than or equal to 2.5 nanometers” and “a difference between the first and second intensity ratios being greater than 0.1”.
US11587911B2	Process for producing a high-frequency-compatible electronic module The field of the invention is that of producing 3D electronic modules, compatible with components operating beyond 1 GHz. The invention relates to a 3D electronic module featuring an interconnection between a horizontal conductor and a vertical conductor to which it is connected exhibits, in a vertical plane, a non-zero curvature. It also relates to the associated production process.
US11587910B2	Stacked semiconductor structure and method A device comprises a first chip comprising a first connection pad embedded in a first dielectric layer and a first bonding pad embedded in the first dielectric layer, wherein the first bonding pad comprises a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being in contact with the first connection pad and a second chip comprising a second bonding pad embedded in a second dielectric layer of the second chip, wherein the first chip and the second chip are face-to-face bonded together through the first bonding pad the second bonding pad.
US11587909B2	High bandwidth die to die interconnect with package area reduction Package structure with folded die arrangements and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a package structure includes a first die and vertical interposer side-by-side. A second die is face down on an electrically connected with the vertical interposer, and a local interposer electrically connects the first die with the vertical interposer.
US11587907B2	Package structure A package structure includes a first die, a second die, a bonding die, a gap fill structure and conductive vias. The bonding die includes a bonding dielectric layer and bonding pads. The bonding dielectric layer is bonded to a first dielectric layer of the first die and a second dielectric layer of the second die. The bonding pads are embedded in the bonding dielectric layer and electrically bonded to a first conductive pad of the first die and a second conductive pad of the second die. The gap fill structure is disposed on the first die and the second die, and laterally surrounds the bonding die. The conductive vias penetrates through the gap fill structure to electrically connect to the first die and the second die.
US11587906B2	Package structures having underfills A package structure includes a lower substrate, substrate connection terminals on the lower substrate, a semiconductor package on the substrate connection terminals, the semiconductor package including a package substrate and a first encapsulant covering the package substrate, first underfills between the lower substrate and the semiconductor package, the first underfills covering corner portions of the semiconductor package, as viewed in a plan view, and covering at least one of the substrate connection terminals, and a second underfill between the lower substrate and the semiconductor package, the second underfill covering a side surface of the semiconductor package in a plan view.
US11587905B2	Multi-chip package and manufacturing method thereof A multi-chip package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The multi-chip package includes a redistribution circuit structure; a first semiconductor chip disposed on the redistribution structure and having a first active surface on which a first conductive post is disposed; a second semiconductor chip disposed above the first semiconductor chip and having a second active surface on which a first conductor is disposed; and a first encapsulant disposed on the redistribution circuit structure and encapsulating at least the first semiconductor chip, wherein the first conductive post and the first conductor are aligned and bonded to each other to electrically connect the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip.
US11587903B2	Semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a first substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a second substrate adjacent to the first surface of the first substrate, and an encapsulant encapsulating the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate defines a space. The second substrate covers the space. The second surface of the first substrate is exposed by the encapsulant. A surface of the encapsulant is coplanar with the second surface of the first substrate or protrudes beyond the second surface of the first substrate.
US11587891B2	Ceramic semiconductor package seal rings In examples, a semiconductor package comprises a ceramic substrate and first and second metal layers covered by the ceramic substrate. The first metal layer is configured to carry signals at least in a 20 GHz to 28 GHz frequency range. The package comprises a semiconductor die positioned above the first and second metal layers and coupled to the first metal layer. The package comprises a ground shield positioned in a horizontal plane between the semiconductor die and the first metal layer, the ground shield including an orifice above a portion of the first metal layer. The package includes a metal seal ring coupled to a top surface of the ceramic substrate, the metal seal ring having a segment that is vertically aligned with a segment of the ground shield. The segment of the ground shield is between the orifice of the ground shield and a horizontal center of the ground shield. The package comprises a metal lid coupled to a top surface of the metal seal ring.
US11587890B2	Tamper-resistant circuit, back-end of the line memory and physical unclonable function for supply chain protection A tamper-resistant memory is formed by placing a solid-state memory array between metal wiring layers in the upper portion of an integrated circuit (back-end of the line). The metal layers form a mesh that surrounds the memory array to protect it from picosecond imaging circuit analysis, side channel attacks, and delayering with electrical measurement. Interconnections between a memory cell and its measurement circuit are designed to protect each layer below, i.e., an interconnecting metal portion in a particular metal layer is no smaller than the interconnecting metal portion in the next lower layer. The measurement circuits are shrouded by the metal mesh. The substrate, metal layers and memory array are part of a single monolithic structure. In an embodiment adapted for a chip identification protocol, the memory array contains a physical unclonable function identifier that uniquely identifies the tamper-resistant integrated circuit, a symmetric encryption key and a release key.
US11587889B2	Reduced pattern-induced wafer deformation A semiconductor device wafer includes a plurality of device patterns formed in or over a semiconductor substrate, and a scribe area from which the device patterns are excluded. A plurality of dummy features are located in at least one material level in the scribe area, including over laser scribe dots formed in the semiconductor substrate.
US11587888B2	Moisture seal for photonic devices The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a moisture seal for photonic devices and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first trench in at least one substrate material; a guard ring structure with an opening and which at least partially surrounds the first trench; and a second trench at a dicing edge of the substrate, the second trench being lined on sidewalls with barrier material and spacer material over the barrier material.
US11587884B2	Patterned ground shield device including multiple pattered ground shield layers A patterned ground shield device includes a first patterned ground shield layer and a second patterned ground shield layer. The first patterned ground shield layer is located on a first layer, and the second patterned ground shield layer is located on a second layer. The first patterned ground shield layer includes a plurality of first strip-shaped structures, and each of the first strip-shaped structures includes an oxide diffusion material. The second patterned ground shield layer includes a plurality of second strip-shaped structures, and each of the second strip-shaped structures includes a conductive material, wherein the first strip-shaped structures and the second strip-shaped structures are disposed to each other in an interlaced manner.
US11587879B2	Electronic apparatus and manufacturing method thereof An electronic device includes a first part, and a circuit plate including a circuit substrate, a plating film made of a plating material and being disposed on a front surface of the substrate. The plating film includes a first part region on which the first part is disposed via a first solder, and a liquid-repellent region extending along a periphery side of the first part region in a surface layer of the plating film, and having a liquid repellency greater than a liquid repellency of the plating film. The liquid-repellent region includes a resist region. The plating film includes a remaining portion between the liquid-repellent region and the front surface of the circuit substrate in a thickness direction of the plating film orthogonal to the front surface. The remaining portion is made of the plating material and is free of the oxidized plating material.
US11587878B2	Substrate having electronic component embedded therein A substrate having an electronic component embedded therein includes a core structure including a first insulating body and core wiring layers and having a cavity penetrating through a portion of the first insulating body, an electronic component disposed in the cavity, an insulating material covering at least a portion of each of the core structure and the electronic component and disposed in at least a portion of the cavity, a wiring layer disposed on the insulating material, and a build-up structure disposed on the insulating material and including a second insulating body and a build-up wiring layer. A material of the first insulating body has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) less than a CTE of the second insulating body, and the insulating material has a CTE less than a CTE of a material of the second insulating body.
US11587870B2	Apparatus comprising aluminum interconnections, memory devices comprising interconnections, and related methods An apparatus comprising a multilevel wiring structure comprising aluminum interconnections. The aluminum interconnections comprise a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, where the second portion is between the first portion and the third portion. The third portion comprises a greater width in a lateral direction than a width in the lateral direction of the second portion. A memory device comprising a memory array comprising memory cells and a control logic component electrically connected to the memory array. At least one of the memory cells comprises a multilevel wiring structure comprising interconnect structures, where the interconnect structures comprise a first portion, a second portion adjacent to the first portion, and a third portion adjacent to the second portion. The third portion comprises a greater width in a lateral direction than a width in the lateral direction of the second portion. Related apparatus, memory devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11587865B2	Semiconductor device including capacitor and resistor A semiconductor device includes a capacitor and a resistor. The capacitor includes a first plate, a capacitor dielectric layer disposed over the first plate, and a second plate disposed over the capacitor dielectric layer. The resistor includes a thin film. The thin film of the resistor and the first plate of the capacitor, formed of a same conductive material, are defined in a single patterning process.
US11587863B2	Semiconductor structure and method of forming semiconductor package The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a capacitor. The capacitor includes a first electrode and a second electrode respectively electrically connected to a first conductor and a second conductor; and a first dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. In some embodiments, the first dielectric layer contacts with a sidewall surface of the first conductor. The semiconductor structure further includes a second dielectric layer over and adjacent to the capacitor. A method of forming the semiconductor package is also provided.
US11587862B2	Microelectronic devices having air gap structures integrated with interconnect for reduced parasitic capacitances Embodiments of the invention include a microelectronic device that includes a substrate, at least one dielectric layer on the substrate and a plurality of conductive lines within the at least one dielectric layer. The microelectronic device also includes an air gap structure that is located below two or more of the plurality of conductive lines.
US11587861B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device including an insulating circuit board. The insulating circuit board has an insulating plate, a plurality of circuit patterns disposed on a front surface of the insulating plate, any adjacent two of the circuit patterns having a gap therebetween, each circuit pattern having at least one corner, each corner being in a corner area that covers the corner and a portion of each gap adjacent to the corner, and a buffer material containing resin, applied at a plurality of corner areas, to fill the gaps in the plurality of corner areas.
US11587859B2	Wiring protection layer on an interposer with a through electrode An interposer includes a base layer having a first surface and a second surface, a redistribution structure on the first surface, an interposer protection layer on the second surface, a pad wiring layer on the interposer protection layer, an interposer through electrode passing through the base layer and the interposer protection layer and electrically connecting the redistribution structure to the pad wiring layer, an interposer connection terminal attached to the pad wiring layer, and a wiring protection layer including a first portion covering a portion of the interposer protection layer adjacent to the pad wiring layer, a second portion covering a portion of a top surface of the pad wiring layer, and a third portion covering a side surface of the pad wiring layer. The third portion is disposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first to third portions have thicknesses different from each other.
US11587858B2	Zinc-cobalt barrier for interface in solder bond applications A microelectronic device has bump bond structures on input/output (I/O) pads. The bump bond structures include copper-containing pillars, a barrier layer including cobalt and zinc on the copper-containing pillars, and tin-containing solder on the barrier layer. The barrier layer includes 0.1 weight percent to 50 weight percent cobalt and an amount of zinc equivalent to a layer of pure zinc 0.05 microns to 0.5 microns thick. A lead frame has a copper-containing member with a similar barrier layer in an area for a solder joint. Methods of forming the microelectronic device are disclosed.
US11587856B2	Solid state switching device Solid state switching device including: a pair of line terminals including first and second line terminals for electrical connection with a corresponding phase conductor of an electric line; a switching assembly including one or more solid state power switches, the switching assembly having a first and second power terminals electrically connected with the first and second lines terminals, respectively; a heat sink element in thermal coupling with the switching assembly to adsorb heat from the switching assembly; an additional heat extraction arrangement to extract heat from the switching assembly and convey at least a portion of the adsorbed heat along the phase conductor through the first and second line terminals.
US11587855B2	Method of attaching an insulation sheet to encapsulated semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: preparing a power semiconductor chip, a lead frame having a die pad part and a terminal part integrally connected to the die pad part, and an insulating sheet in a semi-cured state; disposing the power semiconductor chip on a front surface of the die pad part and performing wiring; encapsulating the lead frame and the power semiconductor chip with an encapsulation raw material in a semi-cured state, to thereby form a semi-cured unit, the terminal part projecting from the semi-cured unit, and a rear surface of the die pad part being exposed from a rear surface of the semi-cured unit; pressure-bonding a front surface of the insulating sheet to the rear surface of the semi-cured unit to cover the rear surface of the die pad part; and curing the semi-cured unit and the insulating sheet by heating.
US11587851B2	Embedded bridge with through-silicon vias An integrated circuit (IC) package comprising a-substrate having a first side and an opposing a second side, and a bridge die within the substrate. The bridge die comprises a plurality of vias extending from a first side to a second side of the-bridge die. The-bridge die comprises a first plurality of pads on the first side of the bridge die and a second plurality of pads on the second side. The plurality of vias interconnect ones of the first plurality of pads to ones of the second plurality of pads. The bridge die comprises an adhesive film over a layer of silicon oxide on the second side of the bridge die.
US11587842B2	Semiconductor die with improved ruggedness A semiconductor die includes a substrate, a first passivation layer over the substrate, and a second passivation layer over the first passivation layer and the substrate. The substrate has boundaries defined by a substrate termination edge. The first passivation layer is over the substrate such that it terminates at a first passivation termination edge that is inset from the substrate termination edge by a first distance. The second passivation layer is over the first passivation layer and the substrate such that it terminates at a second passivation termination edge that is inset from the substrate termination edge by a second distance. The second distance is less than the first distance such that the second passivation layer overlaps the first passivation layer.
US11587839B2	Device with chemical reaction chamber A device is disclosed. The device includes a housing that defines a chamber. The chamber is to be at least partially filled with an electrolyte material. The device also includes a plurality of electrodes that are at least partially embedded in the housing and exposed to the chamber. The device further includes an access port that provides fluid communication between an interior of the housing and the outside environs.
US11587838B2	Grinding control method and device for wafer, and grinding device A grinding control method and device for a wafer, and a grinding device are provided. A grinder is controlled to grind a mass production wafer with a set grinding parameter. In a case that it is determined to perform a test using a test wafer, the grinder may be controlled to grind the test wafer with the set grinding parameter. A first total thickness variation of the grinded test wafer is acquired by a dedicated measurement device, and an updated grinding parameter is acquired based on the first total thickness variation. The grinder is controlled to grind the mass production wafer with the updated grinding parameter. In this way, a wafer with a uniform thickness can be obtained, thereby improving flatness of the grinded wafer.
US11587837B2	Oxygen vacancy passivation in high-k dielectrics for vertical transport field effect transistor Embodiments of the present invention are directed to fabrication method and resulting structures for vertical tunneling field effect transistors (VFETs) having an oxygen vacancy passivating bottom spacer. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a first semiconductor fin is formed in a first region of a substrate and a second semiconductor fin is formed in a second region of the substrate. A bilayer bottom spacer is formed in direct contact with sidewalls of the semiconductor fins. The bilayer bottom spacer includes a first layer and an oxygen-donating second layer positioned on the first layer. A first dielectric film is formed on the sidewalls of the first semiconductor fin. The first dielectric film terminates on the first layer. A second dielectric film is formed on the sidewalls of the second semiconductor fin. The second dielectric film extends onto a surface of the oxygen-donating second layer.
US11587836B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure by forming a mask layer using side wall spacers as an alignment mark A semiconductor structure and its fabrication method are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes providing a layer to-be-etched, including first regions and second regions. The method further includes forming a plurality of discrete first sacrificial layers on the layer to-be-etched, where a plurality of openings is between the plurality of first sacrificial layers and includes first openings on the first regions. The method further includes forming initial sidewall spacer structures on sidewalls of the plurality of first sacrificial layers, where the initial sidewall spacer structures include first sidewall spacers, and the first sidewall spacers fill the first openings. The method further includes, using the first sidewall spacers as an alignment mark, forming a first mask layer on the layer to-be-etched and the initial sidewall spacer structures, where the first mask layer exposes a portion of the layer to-be-etched and a portion of the initial sidewall spacer structures.
US11587834B1	Protective coating for plasma dicing The present invention provides a method for an improved protective coating for plasma dicing a substrate. A work piece having a support film, a frame and the substrate, the substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface of the substrate having a plurality of device structures and a plurality of street areas is provided. The work piece is formed by adhering the substrate to a support film and then mounting the substrate with the support film to a frame. A composite material coating having a matrix component and a filler component is applied to the top surface of the substrate. The filler component has a plurality of particles. The composite material coating is removed from at least one street area to expose the street area. The exposed street area is plasma etched. The composite material coating is removed from the top surface of the substrate.
US11587831B2	Method for machining workpiece Provided is a method for machining a workpiece including a substrate that has front and back surfaces and a ductile material layer that contains a ductile material and is disposed on the front or back surface. The method includes a tape bonding step of bonding a tape on a side of the substrate of the workpiece, a holding step of holding the workpiece by a holding table via the tape, and a cutting step of relatively moving the holding table and a cutting blade to cause the cutting blade to cut into the ductile material layer and the substrate. In the cutting step, the cutting blade is rotated such that a portion of the cutting blade, the portion being located on a forward side in a moving direction of the cutting blade relative to the holding table, cuts into the workpiece from the ductile material layer toward the substrate.
US11587828B2	Semiconductor device with graphene conductive structure and method for forming the same The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor device with a graphene conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes a first gate structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a first source/drain region disposed in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the first gate structure. The semiconductor device also includes a first silicide layer disposed in the semiconductor substrate and over the first source/drain region, and a graphene conductive structure disposed over the first silicide layer. The semiconductor device further includes a first dielectric layer covering the first gate structure, and a second dielectric layer disposed over the first dielectric layer. The graphene conductive structure is surrounded by the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11587825B2	Method of preparing an isolation region in a high resistivity silicon-on-insulator substrate A multilayer composite structure and a method of preparing a multilayer composite structure are provided. The multilayer composite structure comprises a semiconductor handle substrate having a minimum bulk region resistivity of at least about 500 ohm-cm and an isolation region that impedes the transfer of charge carriers along the surface of the handle substrate and reduces parasitic coupling between RF devices.
US11587822B2	Structures for improving radiation hardness and eliminating latch-up in integrated circuits Structures and processes for improving radiation hardness and eliminating latch-up in integrated circuits are provided. An example process includes forming a first doped buried layer, a first well, and a second well, and using a first mask, forming a second doped buried layer only in a first region above the first doped buried layer and between at least the first well and the second well, where the first mask is configured to control spacing between the wells and the doped buried layers. The process further includes using a second mask, forming a vertical conductor located only in a second region above the first region and between at least the first well and the second well, where the vertical conductor is doped to provide a low resistance link between the second doped buried layer and at least a top surface of the substrate.
US11587818B2	Chuck design and method for wafer An apparatus for securing a wafer includes a chuck, at least one O-ring disposed on the chuck, a vacuum system connected to the chuck, such that the vacuum system comprises a plurality of vacuum holes through the chuck connected to one or more vacuum pumps, and a controller configured to control the height of the at least one O-ring relative to the top surface of the chuck. The controller is connected to pressure sensors capable of detecting a vacuum. The at least one O-ring may include a plurality of O-rings.
US11587814B2	Vertical batch furnace assembly A vertical batch furnace assembly for processing wafers comprising a cassette handling space, a wafer handling space, and an internal wall separating the cassette handling space and the wafer handling space. The cassette handling space is provided with a cassette storage configured to store a plurality of wafer cassettes provided with a plurality of wafers. The cassette handling space is also provided with a cassette handler configured to transfer wafer cassettes between the cassette storage and a wafer transfer position. The wafer handling space is provided with a wafer handler configured to transfer wafers between a wafer cassette in the wafer transfer position and a wafer boat in a wafer boat transfer position. The internal wall is provided with a wafer transfer opening adjacent the wafer transfer position for a wafer cassette from or to which wafers are to be transferred. The cassette storage comprises two cassette storage carousels.
US11587808B2	Chip carrier device A chip carrier device includes a frame, a chip support and a limiter. The chip support is disposed on the frame, and includes a supporting film for chips to be adhered thereto. A peripheral portion of the supporting film is attached to a surrounding frame part of the frame. A crossing portion of the supporting film passes through a center of the supporting film, and interconnects two opposite points of the peripheral portion. The supporting film is formed with through holes. The limiter includes a limiting part that interconnects two opposite points of the surrounding frame part, that is positioned corresponding to the crossing portion, and that is positioned on one side of the supporting film where the chips are to be arranged.
US11587807B2	Annealing apparatus and method thereof An annealing apparatus includes a heater plate and a cooler plate disposed in a chamber, a delivering robot, a sensor and circuitry. The delivering robot is configured to deliver a wafer between the heater plate and the cooler plate in the chamber. The sensor is located on the delivering robot and configured to output a first signal in response to a motion of the delivering robot. The circuitry is coupled to the sensor and configured to detect whether an abnormality of the delivering robot occurs according to the first signal.
US11587805B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes: a rotary holder configured to hold and rotate a substrate; a liquid supplier including a nozzle that ejects a processing liquid; a driver configured to move the nozzle between a center of the substrate and a peripheral portion of the substrate; and a controller configured to: execute a supply control to supply the processing liquid to the surface of the substrate so as to form a supply trajectory in a spiral shape, by ejecting the processing liquid from the nozzle while rotating the substrate and moving the nozzle from the center of the substrate toward the peripheral portion of the substrate; and when executing the supply control, gradually reduce an ejection amount of the processing liquid per unit area on the surface of the substrate, at least in a portion forming an outermost periphery of the supply trajectory.
US11587803B2	Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus processes a surface of a substrate with a processing fluid and includes a support tray in which a concave part for housing the substrate is provided on an upper surface thereof; a storage container in which a cavity is formed, wherein the support tray may be stored in a horizontal posture in the cavity; and a fluid supply part supplying the processing fluid to the cavity, wherein the storage container has a flow path which receives the processing fluid and discharges the processing fluid in a horizontal direction into the cavity from a discharge port that opens on a side wall surface of the cavity and toward the cavity, and a lower end position of the discharge port in a vertical direction is the same as or higher than a position of the upper surface of the support tray stored in the cavity.
US11587799B2	Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, the method can include depositing a first layer of metal on a first substrate; depositing a second layer of metal atop the first layer of metal; depositing a third layer of metal on a second substrate; depositing a fourth layer of metal atop the third layer of metal; and bringing the second layer of material into contact with the fourth layer of material under conditions sufficient to cause the first substrate to be bonded to the second substrate by a diffusion layer formed by portions of the first layer of metal diffusing through the second layer of metal and portions of the third layer of metal diffusing through the fourth layer of metal.
US11587791B2	Silicon intermixing layer for blocking diffusion A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes forming a gate dielectric on a wafer, forming a work function layer over the gate dielectric, depositing a capping layer over the work function layer, soaking the capping layer in a silicon-containing gas to form a silicon-containing layer, forming a blocking layer after the silicon-containing layer is formed, and forming a metal-filling region over the blocking layer.
US11587790B2	Integrated circuits with capacitors Examples of an integrated circuit with a capacitor structure and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, an integrated circuit device includes a substrate and a trench isolation material disposed on the substrate. An isolation structure is disposed on the trench isolation material. A first electrode disposed on the isolation structure, and a second electrode disposed on the isolation structure. A capacitor dielectric is disposed on the isolation structure between the first electrode and the second electrode. In some such examples, the isolation structure includes a first hard mask disposed on the trench isolation material, a dielectric disposed on the first hard mask, and a second hard mask disposed on the dielectric.
US11587784B2	Smooth titanium nitride layers and methods of forming the same The disclosed technology generally relates to forming a titanium nitride layer, and more particularly to forming by atomic layer deposition a titanium nitride layer on a seed layer. In one aspect, a semiconductor structure comprises a semiconductor substrate comprising a non-metallic surface. The semiconductor structure additionally comprises a seed layer comprising silicon (Si) and nitrogen (N) conformally coating the non-metallic surface and a TiN layer conformally coating the seed layer. Aspects are also directed to methods of forming the semiconductor structures.
US11587783B2	Si precursors for deposition of SiN at low temperatures Methods and precursors for depositing silicon nitride films by atomic layer deposition (ALD) are provided. In some embodiments the silicon precursors comprise an iodine ligand. The silicon nitride films may have a relatively uniform etch rate for both vertical and the horizontal portions when deposited onto three-dimensional structures such as FinFETS or other types of multiple gate FETs. In some embodiments, various silicon nitride films of the present disclosure have an etch rate of less than half the thermal oxide removal rate with diluted HF (0.5%).
US11587782B2	Semiconductor arrangement and method for making A method for fabricating a semiconductor arrangement is provided. The method includes forming a first dielectric layer and forming a first semiconductive layer over the first dielectric layer. The first semiconductive layer is patterned to form a patterned first semiconductive layer. The first dielectric layer is patterned using the patterned first semiconductive layer to form a patterned first dielectric layer. A second semiconductive layer is formed over the patterned first dielectric layer and the patterned first semiconductive layer.
US11587779B2	Multi-pass mass spectrometer with high duty cycle A multi-pass time-of-flight mass spectrometer is disclosed having an elongated orthogonal accelerator (30). The orthogonal accelerator (30) has electrodes (31) that are transparent to the ions so that ions that are reflected or turned back towards it are able to pass through the orthogonal accelerator (30). The electrodes (31) of the orthogonal accelerator (30) may be pulsed from ground potential in order to avoid the reflected or turned ion packets being defocused. The spectrometer has a high duty cycle and/or space charge capacity of pulsed conversion.
US11587776B1	Ion detection systems An ion detection system comprising an upper plate configured for propagation of ions therethrough, a lower plate comprising a converter configured for converting ions impinging thereon to secondary electrons, a secondary electron multiplication assembly configured for receiving the secondary electrons and comprising at least one or optionally a series of oppositely facing pairs of dynodes, wherein in the optional series of oppositely facing pairs of dynodes, each pair is spaced apart from an adjacent pair, and wherein a first electric field is created in between the oppositely facing pair of dynodes. A magnetic system is provided for generating a magnetic field.
US11587773B2	Substrate pedestal for improved substrate processing A substrate pedestal includes a thermally conductive substrate support including a mesh, a thermally conductive shaft including a plurality of conductive rods therein, each conductive rod having a first end and a second end, and a sensor. The first end of each conductive rod is electrically coupled to the mesh, and the sensor is disposed between the first and second ends of each conductive rod and configured to detect current flow through each conductive rod.
US11587772B2	Multi-layer protective coating Methods and apparatus for preparing a protective coating are described. In one example aspect, an apparatus for preparing a protective coating includes a chamber, a substrate positioned within the chamber configured to hold at least a target object, an inlet pipe configured to direct a monomer vapor into the chamber, and one or more electrodes configured to perform a chemical vapor deposition process to produce a multi-layer coating. The chemical vapor deposition process comprises multiple cycles, each cycle comprising a pretreatment phase and a coating phase to produce a layer of the multi-layer coating.
US11587768B2	Nanosecond pulser thermal management Some embodiments include a thermal management system for a nanosecond pulser. In some embodiments, the thermal management system may include a switch cold plates coupled with switches, a core cold plate coupled with one or more transformers, resistor cold plates coupled with resistors, or tubing coupled with the switch cold plates, the core cold plates, and the resistor cold plates. The thermal management system may include a heat exchanger coupled with the resistor cold plates, the core cold plate, the switch cold plate, and the tubing. The heat exchanger may also be coupled with a facility fluid supply.
US11587766B2	Symmetric VHF source for a plasma reactor The disclosure pertains to a capacitively coupled plasma source in which VHF power is applied through an impedance-matching coaxial resonator having a symmetrical power distribution.
US11587764B2	Magnetic housing systems Embodiments described herein relate to magnetic and electromagnetic systems and a method for controlling the density profile of plasma generated in a process volume of a PECVD chamber to affect deposition profile of a film. In one embodiment, a plurality of retaining brackets is disposed in a rotational magnetic housing of the magnetic housing systems. Each retaining bracket of the plurality of retaining brackets is disposed in the rotational magnetic housing with a distance d between each retaining bracket. The plurality of retaining brackets has a plurality of magnets removably disposed therein. The plurality of magnets is configured to travel in a circular path when the rotational magnetic housing is rotated around the round central opening.
US11587762B2	Device and method for determining a property of a sample that is to be used in a charged particle microscope The invention relates to a device and method for determining a property of a sample that is to be used in a charged particle microscope. The sample comprises a specimen embedded within a matrix layer. The device comprises a light source arranged for directing a beam of light towards said sample, and a detector arranged for detecting light emitted from said sample in response to said beam of light being incident on said sample. Finally, the device comprises a controller that is connected to said detector and arranged for determining a property of said matrix layer based on signals received by said detector.
US11587761B2	Charged particle beam apparatus and setting assisting method A GUI (graphical user interface) image includes an input portion and a reference image. The reference image includes a plan diagram and numerical value information. The plan diagram includes a figure indicating an electron penetration range, a figure indicating a characteristic X-ray generation range, and a figure indicating a back-scattered electron generation range. The numerical value information includes numerical values indicating sizes of these ranges.
US11587758B2	Apparatus of plural charged-particle beams A multi-beam apparatus for observing a sample with high resolution and high throughput is proposed. In the apparatus, a source-conversion unit forms plural and parallel images of one single electron source by deflecting plural beamlets of a parallel primary-electron beam therefrom, and one objective lens focuses the plural deflected beamlets onto a sample surface and forms plural probe spots thereon. A movable condenser lens is used to collimate the primary-electron beam and vary the currents of the plural probe spots, a pre-beamlet-forming means weakens the Coulomb effect of the primary-electron beam, and the source-conversion unit minimizes the sizes of the plural probe spots by minimizing and compensating the off-axis aberrations of the objective lens and condenser lens.
US11587757B2	X-ray tube insulation, window, and focusing plate X-ray transparent insulation can be sandwiched between an x-ray window and a ground plate. The x-ray transparent insulation can include aluminum nitride, boron nitride, or polyetherimide. The x-ray transparent insulation can include a curved side. The x-ray transparent insulation can be transparent to x-rays and resistant to x-ray damage, and can have high thermal conductivity. An x-ray window can have high thermal conductivity, high electrical conductivity, high melting point, low cost, and matched coefficient of thermal conductivity with the anode. The x-ray window can be made of tungsten. For consistent x-ray spot size and location, a focusing plate and a filament can be attached to a cathode with an open channel of the focusing plate aligned with a longitudinal dimension of the filament. Tabs of the focusing plate bordering the open channel can be bent to align with a location of the filament.
US11587755B2	Power switch with independent light-emitting chamber A power switch with an independent light-emitting chamber includes a housing, a press-key, a power assembly, at least one light-emitting unit, and a circuit board. The housing is provided therein with a partition wall that divides the interior of the housing into a first receiving space and a second receiving space. The press-key and the power assembly can be disposed in the first receiving space. The press-key can bring the power assembly into a power-off state or a power-on state. The light-emitting unit can be disposed in the second receiving space and thereby turn the second receiving space into an independent light-emitting chamber. The circuit board can be disposed in the housing and electrically connected to the power assembly and the light-emitting unit. The power switch is enhanced in safety as the partition wall keeps the light-emitting unit and the power assembly from each other and hence from short-circuiting.
US11587753B2	Performance improvement unit for pulsed-ultraviolet devices Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for improving a performance of a pulsed-ultraviolet (PUV) device. The method includes monitoring an input current across a circuit breaker in communication with a UV lamp, where the input current is delivered by a power signal and is interrupted by the circuit breaker upon exceeding a predefined cut-off current; generating a pulse signal having a set of frequencies based on the power signal for driving the UV lamp, where the pulse signal is associated with a predetermined cut-off frequency that increases the input current beyond the cut-off current; determining a predefined threshold current less than the cut-off current; and configuring the pulse signal with multiple distinct pulse frequencies per second for a predefined configuration period based on the input current exceeding the threshold current. The distinct pulse frequencies per second include at least one pulse frequency greater than the cut-off frequency.
US11587752B2	Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay includes a movable element, a movable yoke, a fixed yoke, a movable section, and a stopper. The movable element includes a movable contact point. The movable yoke is connected to the movable element to move together with the movable element. The movable section includes a movable core made of an inorganic magnetic material and a shaft made of an inorganic material. The fixed yoke is made of an inorganic magnetic material and disposed between the movable core and the movable yoke. The stopper protrudes from either one of the fixed yoke or the movable section toward the other to contact with the other when the movable section moves toward the fixed yoke. The stopper is integrally formed with the either one of the fixed yoke or the movable section.
US11587751B2	Electromagnetic relay and terminal block An electromagnetic relay and a terminal block each include a voltage converter. The voltage converter is located adjacent to a coil and electrically connected to first coil terminals and second coil terminals. The voltage converter converts a power supply voltage input through one of the first coil terminals to a set value different from the input power supply voltage and outputs the power supply voltage to an electromagnet through one of the second coil terminals.
US11587749B2	Contact unit for a switching device and switching device A contact unit for a switching device includes: a first fixed contact; a second fixed contact; a contact bridge; a first movable contact and a second movable contact that are arranged at the contact bridge; a first arc extinguishing chamber, a second arc extinguishing chamber, and a third arc extinguishing chamber; and an arc guiding system. The first fixed contact is in contact with the first movable contact and the second fixed contact is in contact with the second movable contact in a switched-on state of the contact unit. The first fixed contact is free of contact with the first movable contact and the second fixed contact is free of contact with the second movable contact in a switched-off state of the contact unit. The first and the second arc extinguishing chamber and the arc guiding system in coordination with each other extinguish a first arc.
US11587747B2	Operating device An operating device is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The operating device basically includes a base, a first electric switch, a second electric switch, a first operating member and a second operating member. The first operating member is movable with respect to the base to activate the first electric switch as the first operating member moves from a non-operated position to an intermediate operating position, and then activate the second electric switch as the first operating member moves from the intermediate operating position to an additional operating position. The second operating member is movable with respect to the base to activate the second electric switch as the second operating member moves from a non-operated position to an intermediate operating position, and then activate the first electric switch as the second operating member moves from the intermediate operating position of the second operating member to an additional operating position.
US11587745B1	Backlight module A backlight module includes a circuit board, a light-shielding plate, and a light guide plate. The circuit board is provided with first and second light-emitting units. The light-shielding plate is disposed above the circuit board. The light guide plate is disposed between the circuit board and the light-shielding plate and includes first and second single-key light guide areas. The first and second single-key light guide areas respectively have first and second through holes respectively accommodating the first and second light-emitting units. A distance between the geometric center of the first single-key light guide area and that of the light guide plate is greater than a distance between the geometric center of the second single-key light guide area and that of the light guide plate. A current flowing through the first light-emitting unit is greater than a current flowing through the second light-emitting unit.
US11587741B2	Compositions and methods for energy storage device electrodes An energy storage device can include a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode, where the anode and/or electrode includes an electrode film having a super-fibrillized binder material and carbon. The electrode film can have a reduced quantity of the binder material while maintaining desired mechanical and/or electrical properties. A process for fabricating the electrode film may include a fibrillization process using reduced speed and/or increased process pressure such that fibrillization of the binder material can be increased. The electrode film may include an electrical conductivity promoting additive to facilitate decreased equivalent series resistance performance. Increasing fibrillization of the binder material may facilitate formation of thinner electrode films, such as dry electrode films.
US11587735B2	Multilayer electronic component and manufacturing method thereof A multilayer electronic component, in which the external electrode may be thinned to secure capacitance per unit volume, while securing the external electrode at a corner in a specific thickness or higher with improved reliability for moisture resistance.
US11587728B2	Assembly process of Halbach magnetic ring component An assembly process of a Halbach magnetic ring component, including an adsorbing each magnetic shoe on the outer surface of a positioning cylinder; sleeving the sleeve on the outer surface of a circular ring; moving the sleeve downwards so that the upper part of each magnetic shoe is exposed; performing first dispensing on the exposed part of the upper part of each magnetic shoe; sleeving the aluminum ring on the outer surface of the exposed part of the upper part of each magnetic shoe, so that the aluminum ring covers the first dispensing area of each magnetic shoe; moving the sleeve downwards until the sleeve is completely separated from the magnetic shoe, and performing second dispensing on the lower region of each magnetic shoe; moving the aluminum ring downwards until the aluminum ring is completely sleeved on the outer surface of each magnetic shoe.
US11587726B2	Coupled inductor structure A system comprises a first inverter and a second inverter connected in parallel, a coupled inductor connected to outputs of the first inverter and the second inverter, wherein the coupled inductor comprises a plurality of windings formed by a single winding wire and an output filter coupled to an output of the coupled inductor.
US11587725B2	Inductor component An inductor component includes a core including a winding core portion, a first collar disposed at a first end of the winding core portion in an axial direction, and a second collar disposed at a second end of the winding core portion in the axial direction. The inductor component further includes a first electrode disposed on the first collar; a second electrode disposed on the second collar; and a wire electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode and wound around the winding core portion in such a manner as to form a plurality of wound regions arranged along the axial direction of the winding core portion. A distance between adjacent ones of the wound regions is greater than a winding pitch of the wire in each of the wound regions.
US11587723B2	Reactor having relay member with input/output terminal A reactor includes: an outer peripheral iron core; three leg iron cores; and three coils, each of the coils having an input side coil end and an output side coil end projecting from a same end surface on an end side in the axial direction of the three leg iron cores, where the three coils include two first coils in which a projecting position of the input side coil end and a projecting position of the output side coil end has a first relative positional relationship and include one second coil having a second relative positional relationship opposite to the first relative positional relationship and where winding directions from the input side coil end to the output side coil end of the first and the second coils are reversed to each other.
US11587722B2	Coil component A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface opposing each other in one direction, and a plurality of walls each connecting the one surface to the other surface; a coil portion buried in the body, and having both ends exposing to one of the plurality of walls of the body; first and second external electrodes respectively including first and second terminal electrodes disposed on one surface of the body and spaced apart from each other, and first and second connection electrodes respectively connecting the first and second terminal electrodes to both ends of the coil portion; a first external insulating layer disposed on the other surface of the body; and a first shielding layer disposed on the external insulating layer.
US11587720B2	Multilayer coil component A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers in a length direction and that has a built-in coil, and first and second outer electrodes that are electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by a plurality of coil conductors stacked in the length direction being electrically connected to each other. The first and second outer electrodes respectively extend along and cover at least parts of first and second end surfaces and parts of a first main surface. A stacking direction of the multilayer body and a coil axis direction of the coil are parallel to the first main surface. A low-dielectric-constant layer having a smaller relative dielectric constant than the insulating layers is provided between the multilayer body and the part of the first outer electrode that extends along the first main surface.
US11587717B2	Inductor element An inductor element includes a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion, and a magnetic core. The first conductive portion includes a first round-about portion, a first mount portion, and a second mount portion. The second conductive portion includes a second round-about portion, a third mount portion, and a fourth mount portion. The magnetic core houses at least a part of the first and second conductive portions so that each mount surface of the first to fourth mount portions is exposed from one side of the magnetic core. The first and second conductive portions are arranged so that the first and second directions are substantially parallel and opposite to each other. The first and third mount portions are at least partially overlapped with each other in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions.
US11587712B2	Coil component Terminal electrodes are disposed on mounting surfaces of flanges of a substantially drum-shaped core that are directed to a mounting substrate. A rounded surface is formed on the mounting surface. An end portion of the wire extends along the rounded surface from a side on which the inner end surface is present toward a side on which the outer end surface is present.
US11587708B2	Magnetic device with a hybrid free layer stack In one aspect, the disclosed technology relates to a magnetic device, which may be a magnetic memory and/or logic device. The magnetic device can comprise a seed layer; a first free magnetic layer provided on the seed layer; an interlayer provided on the first free magnetic layer; a second free magnetic layer provided on the interlayer; a tunnel barrier provided on the second free magnetic layer; and a fixed magnetic layer. The first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer can be ferromagnetically coupled across the interlayer through exchange interaction.
US11587707B2	Magnet arrangement for producing a field suitable for NMR in a concave region A magnet system for use in a nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) apparatus includes a first magnet and a second magnet located on a backplane to form a gap therebetween, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are each shaped to form trapezoidal prisms with dimensions selected to optimize a magnetic field at a target region in space external to the magnet system.
US11587706B2	Magnetic fastener A novel magnetic fastener is realized that utilizes a pair of multipole magnets rotatable relative to each other, allowing the holding force to be selected for ease of operation, namely closing and opening. Each multipole magnet includes a striped pattern of alternating polarity (north and south poles), with the striped patterns having the same pole spacing or pitch. When the stripes of alternating north and south poles are oriented lengthwise, the stripes of the south poles can judiciously align with the stripes of the north poles from the other magnet, creating a strong magnetic force between them to form a fastener. However, when the striped pattern of alternating north and south poles are oriented substantially orthogonal, the stripes are mutually being alternating attracted and repelled, allowing the magnets to be easily separated to effect opening.
US11587705B2	Electromagnetic wave absorbing composition and electromagnetic wave absorbing body Provided is an electromagnetic-wave absorber composition and an electromagnetic-wave absorber that can favorably absorb a plurality of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies in a high frequency band in or above the millimeter-wave band. The electromagnetic-wave absorber composition includes a magnetic iron oxide that magnetically resonates at a high frequency in or above the millimeter-wave band and a resin binder. The electromagnetic-wave absorber composition has two or more extrema separated from each other on a differential curve obtained by differentiating a magnetic property hysteresis loop at an applied magnetic field intensity of from 16 kOe to −16 kOe. The electromagnetic-wave absorber includes an electromagnetic-wave absorbing layer formed of the above-described electromagnetic-wave absorber composition.
US11587703B2	Electronic device and surge handling An electronic isolator device arranged for receiving field wiring from a field element includes a connector configured to receive a surge element for providing surge functionality to the electronic isolator device, and to provide surge protection to the connectivity by way of the field wiring. The connector is configured to connect the surge element to the electronic isolator device and to the field wiring. The connector is arranged for parallel connection of the surge element with respect to the field wiring such that the surge element can be connected and disconnected with the isolator device without disrupting the connection of the isolator device with the field elements.
US11587702B2	Grommet with a plurality of zones having different levels of elasticity The invention relates to a grommet made of a material that is elastic at least in portions for receiving at least one elongate object for strain relief and sealing, comprising an outer frame element that can be opened along a slit and comprises at least two membranes that are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the elongate object to be received and each comprise a hole of equal size, so as to be flush with one another, for receiving the elongate object.The invention is characterised in that the respective hole of the at least two membranes contacts the material of the frame element on the side of the slit.
US11587701B2	Series-connected superconducting magnet cables A superconducting device includes a superconducting cable having a plurality of superconducting tapes in a plurality of phases, including a first phase, and at least one further phase. One or more superconducting tapes of the first phase is in electrical contact with one or more superconducting tapes of the at least one further phase through at least one resistive barrier that prevents current from passing between the first phase and the at least one further phase in the absence of a voltage between one or more of the superconducting tapes of the first phase or the at least one further phase. The first phase is electrically connected in series to at least one further phase.
US11587700B2	High strength dielectric member for a communications cable A new dielectric material for a communication cable has a dielectric base with strength members embedded therein. By a new process, vacuum voids are formed in the dielectric base and at least partially contain or abut the strength members. The material is particularly well suited for a first dielectric tape, where the cable includes a first insulated conductor, the first dielectric tape and a second insulated conductor, with the first insulated conductor being twisted with the second insulated conductor with the first dielectric tape residing between the first insulated conductor and the second insulated conductor. The material is also suitable for a separator of the cable serving to separate twisted pairs from each other within the cable, as well as other components of the cable, such as an insulation layer of one or more of the insulated conductors of the twisted pairs.
US11587693B2	Solidifying method of hydroxides of radionuclides The present disclosure provides a solidifying method of a radionuclide. The solidifying method of the radionuclide includes operations of: providing a low melting point glass including Bi2O3, B2O3, ZnO and SiO2; providing a glass mixture mixing a mixture to be treated containing a hydroxide of radionuclide and BaSO4 and the low melting point glass; and heating the glass mixture.
US11587691B2	Radiation-shielding material A radiation shielding material that is lighter and has lower installation restrictions than conventional methods, and that exhibits excellent shielding efficiency against radiation in the high energy region. The radiation shielding material comprises a complex containing a fibrous nanocarbon material, a primary radiation shielding particle, and a binder, wherein the fibrous nanocarbon material and the primary radiation shielding particle are dispersed in the binder.
US11587688B2	Apparatus and method for providing healthcare services remotely or virtually with or using an electronic healthcare record and/or a communication network An apparatus, including a memory or a database which stores an electronic healthcare record of or for an individual or a patient a comment, note, or message, in advance of a video call, and information regarding an appointment for or regarding the video call; a processor which generates an appointment message or reminder message containing information regarding the appointment and containing a link or hyperlink for initiating the video call, wherein the video call is initiated via the link or the hyperlink; a receiver which receives information regarding the individual or the patient during the video call, receives information input into or entered into a provider communication device or a user communication device, wherein the processor or a computer generates a report containing information regarding the video call; and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the report to the user communication device.
US11587684B2	Prediction of target ablation locations for treating cardiac arrhythmias using deep learning Systems and methods for generating an ablation map identifying target ablation locations on a heart of a patient are provided. One or more input medical images of a heart of a patient and a voltage map of the heart of the patient are received. An ablation map identifying target ablation locations on the heart is generated using one or more trained machine learning based models based on the one or more input medical images and the voltage map. The ablation map is output.
US11587683B2	Methods and systems for detecting environment features in images, predicting location-based health metrics based on environment features, and improving health outcomes and costs Various aspects described herein relate to a location-based and population-based health metric processes. In one example, a computer-implemented method for generating one or more predicted health metrics for a location includes receiving a request to assess the one or more health metrics associated with the location, and identifying at least one current or future built, social, or natural environment parameter associated with the location. The method may further include calculating one or more predicted health metrics associated with the location based upon at least one of the current or future built, social, or natural environment parameters associated with the location, monetizing the healthcare costs of the predicted health metrics and displaying the one or more predicted health metrics and costs.
US11587682B2	Method and system to integrate data, analyze and develop improved care plan for a patient at home A method and system for connecting, capturing, managing and predicting outcomes for an improved care for home based patients by collecting data from caregivers and home-based patients. The method and system implemented as a mobile technology is more efficient and effective method for delivering healthcare that will ease the caregiving burden. Providing resources and information to communicate, capture and deliver by the caregivers (formal and informal), patients and healthcare providers communicate helps integrate essential data and care. Through the use of this mobile technology and associated devices vital information from informal caregivers, which is currently not regularly used in remotely located patients, can be captured and implemented in the decisions and adjustments to patients' care plans. In addition, the technology helps with adherence of patient specific treatment guidelines for home-based patients.
US11587679B2	Generating computer models from implicitly relevant feature sets Mechanisms are provided for training a hybrid machine learning (ML) computer model to simulate a biophysical system of a patient and predict patient classifications based on results of simulating the biophysical system. A mechanistic model is executed to generate a training dataset. A surrogate ML model is trained to replicate logic of the mechanistic computer model and generate patient feature outputs based on surrogate ML model input parameters. A transformation ML model is trained to transform patient feature outputs of the surrogate ML model into a distribution of patient features. A generative ML model is trained to encode samples from a uniform distribution of input patient data into mechanistic model parameter inputs that are coherent to the target distribution of patient features and are input to the surrogate ML model. Input patient data for a patient is processed through the ML models to predict a patient classification for the patient.
US11587676B2	Managing health conditions using preventives based on environmental conditions A computer system manages a health condition based on conditions of an environment. Health information of a user is analyzed to determine a health condition affected by environmental conditions. One or more events for the user are obtained based on personal information. The environmental conditions for one or more event locations are determined. One or more preventive items are indicated for the user to attend the one or more events in order for the health condition to tolerate the environmental conditions of the one or more event locations. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for managing a health condition based on conditions of an environment in substantially the same manner described above.
US11587674B2	Electronic identification, location tracking, communication and notification system with beacon clustering A system and method for identifying a customer's location at a business and provide notification to a company representative upon arrival of the customer at the business location. Real-time location determinations for the customer and customer location tracking can be provided. One or more wireless beacons communicate with the customer's electronic device. The beacons provide the system with real-time data about the customer's whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking of the customer at the location. A first non-limiting example of use, include a company that provides food and beverage allowing the customer to place an order for food and beverages on their electronic device and having the order delivered to the person at their current location as determined by the system. Another non-limiting example includes a company using the notification system to have assigned staff members notified of the customer's arrival.
US11587671B2	Automatic association of medical elements An infusion system automatically determines when an infusion device moved within a physical area associated with a patient, and automatically displays an electronic list of procedures or prescriptions associated with the patient based on determining the infusion device moved within the physical area associated with the patient and receiving the indication of the operation. When a selection is received from the electronic list, operating parameters associated with the selection and the patient are automatically downloaded from a remote computing device to the infusion device.
US11587668B2	Methods and systems for a medical image annotation tool Various methods and systems are provided for suggesting annotation shapes to be applied to a medical image. In one example, a method includes outputting, for display on a display device, a set of annotation icons from an icon library based on a current image displayed on the display device and displaying an annotation on the current image in response to selection of an annotation icon from the set. The method further includes automatically adjusting the annotation to a corresponding anatomical feature in the current image and saving the current image with the annotation.
US11587667B2	Contextually adaptive digital pathology interface A method, system, and computer program product for an image visualization system (120) that includes a contextually adaptive digital pathology interface. At least one image of a biological sample stained for the presence of one or more biomarkers is obtained (300). The image is displayed on a display screen at a first zoom level (310), in which a first subset of user selectable elements are contemporaneously displayed (320). As a result of user input, the image being is displayed at a second zoom level (330), in which a second subset of user selectable elements are contemporaneously displayed with the image (340). The one or more elements within the second subset of user selectable elements are disabled or hidden at the first zoom level, or one or more elements within the first subset of user selectable elements are disabled or hidden at the second zoom level.
US11587666B2	Delivery of an extended digital therapeutic (ExRx) based on an emotional/mental state (EMS) and/or home-bound state (HBS) The current invention describes a method and system for delivering reconfigured digital content or reconfigured delivery of digital content designed to allay the effects of Q/D-related EMS. Disclosed is a system/method for delivering an extended digital therapeutic (ExRx) based on a selected emotional/mental state (EMS) and home-bound state (HBS).
US11587665B2	Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for estimating maximum heart rate and maximal oxygen uptake from submaximal exercise intensities A system for estimating maximum heart rate and maximal oxygen uptake from submaximal exercise intensities can include an exercise intensity monitor, a cardiopulmonary monitor, and one or more computers. The computers can be configured, by virtue of appropriate programming, to receive submaximal exercise intensity data from the exercise intensity monitor and submaximal cardiopulmonary data from the cardiopulmonary monitor while a user, who coupled to the exercise intensity monitor and the cardiopulmonary monitor, is performing an exercise at a submaximal exercise intensity. The one or more computers then determine a heuristic estimate of a maximal cardiopulmonary state of the user based on the submaximal exercise intensity data and the submaximal cardiopulmonary data.
US11587664B2	Glucose level control system with therapy customization Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing a configuration code for customizing a glucose level control system for at least an initial period. The configuration code can be based on one or more dosing parameters from a tracked medicament therapy administered to a subject over a tracking period by the glucose level control system. The configuration code includes encoded dosing parameters including a correction dosing parameter based on at least some of the correction boluses of medicament administered during the tracking period, a food intake dosing parameter comprising an indication of a food intake bolus size of medicament based on one or more food intake boluses provided during the tracking period, and a basal dosing parameter based on at least some of the basal doses of medicament administered during the tracking period.
US11587662B2	Medical system The invention refers to a medical device for supporting health control. In order to provide safe access to a dose helper functionality, the device has a first storage means arranged to store an initial data matrix with at least one initial parameter set containing at least two initial data entries for one parameter of the dose helper functionality; receiving means arranged to receive initialization data and/or security data, preferably from a second storage means, for example provided by a hardware key; selecting means operable to select based at least in part on the initialization data one data entry for each initial parameter set as initial data or one initial parameter template containing a reference to one data entry for each initial parameter set as initial data; and first activation means arranged to activate, preferably based at least in part on the security data, execution of the dose helper functionality based on the selected initial data. The invention further refers to a respective medical system, a method for providing such information, a respective computer program and a respective computer program product.
US11587661B2	Real time adaptive controller medication dosing Systems and methods for monitoring accurate, real-time medicament device events, performing analytics on that data, and providing notifications are described. In various embodiments, an application server receives controller medication events, analyzes the events, associated event times, and controller medication dosage plans to characterize event times and send notifications for future doses. The controller medication dosage plan may specify a dose time for a planned dose, a narrow time window comprising the dose time, and an expanded time window comprising the narrow time window and longer in duration than the narrow time window, and the events may be characterized based on their time relative to the dose time, the time windows, and other events.
US11587660B2	Methods and systems for managing patient treatment compliance Provided are computer implemented method and systems for providing and monitoring patient compliance with a patient healthcare treatment plan. The method includes receiving, from a healthcare provider over a network, application features for generating a patient application including patient instructions for using a medical therapy, and generating an application for a patient. The application includes at least an input for the user to input data for use in evaluating patient compliance with a treatment plan. In addition, the method includes receiving, from the healthcare provider over the network, a prescription for the application for the patient, and activating the application after the patient receives training on use of the application. The method also may include receiving patient compliance data from the application over the network based on the input.
US11587659B2	Pill pack packaging Pill pack packaging that monitors and reports on pill compliance is disclosed. The pill pack packaging includes a circuit disposed on the cover of pill receptacles. A processor monitors the changes in electrical signals from the circuit. When the electrical signals change, the processor records the time and date. The processor may also report the time and date of pill receptacle opening to a mobile device via wireless transmission. The device may also be capable of providing alerts regarding lack of compliance or loss of the pill pack.
US11587658B2	Communication loop and record loop system for parallel/serial dual microfluidic chip A method for a microfluidic testing device includes pumping a portion of a biologic sample into each of a first plurality of parallel pathways from the first reservoir using a micro-pump, applying a separate treatment agent of the plurality of treatment agents within each of the first plurality of parallel pathways to the portion of the biologic sample within the parallel pathway, pumping a second portion of the biologic sample into a selected second parallel pathway associated with a determined treatment agent of a second plurality of parallel pathways from the first reservoir using a second micro-pump, applying the determined treatment agent at a plurality of different dosage levels within the selected second parallel pathway to the second portion of the biologic sample within the selected second parallel pathway, and determining a dosage level of the plurality of different dosage levels of the determined treatment agent providing the treatment efficacy.
US11587657B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing an alternative evaluation procedure in response to an electronic message A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for parsing a message received from a requesting computer to identify an indication of a transaction, an entity identifier, and an identifier of a first evaluation system. The entity identifier is evaluated based on historical data and/or eligibility data to determine an alternative evaluation procedure. The alternative evaluation procedure is preformed to obtain response information regarding the transaction, that may differ from response information otherwise obtained via the first evaluation system. A response to the message is constructed that includes the response information and is transmitted to the requesting computer.
US11587654B2	Data command center visual display system A data command center visual display system presents dynamic data to a display screen. The command center visual display system includes a plurality of adjustable display panels configured to display predetermined combinations of patient identification information, patient insurance information, patient medical history information, a patient's insurance billing regulations, preferred practice patterns, and patient payment information, and a patient flowsheet that integrates the patient medical history information and patient payment information into a table that presents the patient's medical history by visit to one or more physicians with respective procedures or actions performed during each visit represented as icons identifying the procedure performed and icons indicating whether the procedure has been paid for in part or in full, the icons providing links to associated medical history data and/or financial data. The respective procedures or actions may also be activated directly from the table or display panels without leaving the display screen. In response to selection by a user of the visual display system, the adjustable display panels and patient flowsheet are moved into a task-based or specialty-specific display configuration such that the patient identification information, patient insurance information, patient medical history information, and patient payment information may be accessed without leaving the display screen.
US11587652B1	System and method for handling exceptions during healthcare record processing Methods, systems, and apparatuses to improve the handling of exceptions during the retrieval and processing of health records from various data sources are provided. During the retrieval and processing of health records, exceptions to typical behavior are recorded with context at the data extraction protocol level, at the health record level and at the level of elements with the document. Accordingly, insights may be developed and configurations, rules, or coding changes, based on the detected exceptions may be proposed. In some instances, an operator may be notified about the exceptions such that the operator may act on the insight. In some instances, the processing of extracted records (documents, messages) may be deferred until the operator has made appropriate changes to configuration, rules, or code. In some instances, the system may supplement and/or replace the operator with machine learning engines that act on the developed insights.
US11587648B1	Systems and methods for analyzing captured biometric data A computer system for analyzing biometric data of a user collected from a plurality of user devices and used to generate an insurance policy for the user includes a processor and a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: (i) receiving, from a wearable electronic user device, biometric data associated with a user; (ii) analyzing, based upon a plurality of rules, the biometric data; (iii) determining a health score associated with the user, based in part upon the analysis of the biometric data, wherein the health score represents a likelihood that the user will maintain a level of health for a predefined period of time; (iv) retrieving terms and conditions for an insurance policy from a database based upon the health score; and (v) generating, based upon the determining, an insurance policy for the user based upon the terms and conditions.
US11587644B2	Methods of profiling mass spectral data using neural networks Methods are provided to classify and identify features in mass spectral data using neural network algorithms. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained to identify amino acids from an unknown protein sample. The CNN was trained using known peptide sequences to predict amino acid presence, diversity, and frequency, peptide length, subsequences of amino acids classified by features include aliphatic/aromatic, hydrophobic/hydrophilic, positive/negative charge, and combinations thereof. Mass spectra data of a sample unknown to the trained CNN was discretized into a one-dimensional vector and input into the CNN. The CNN models can potentially be integrated to determine the complete peptide sequence from a spectrum, thereby improving the yield of identifiable protein sequences from mass spec analysis.
US11587643B2	Methods and apparatuses for a unified artificial intelligence platform to synthesize diverse sets of peptides and peptidomimetics In one aspect, a method is disclosed wherein an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled automated flow synthesis platform is configured to generate optimized synthesizing recipes which enable a sequence to be synthesized using an automated flow process. The method includes receiving a synthesizing recipe including parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, receiving spectral data from detectors monitoring the automated flow process in a reaction chamber, where the spectral data corresponds to a reaction point in the automated flow process, and determining, based on indicators associated with the spectral data, characteristics of a chemical reaction at the reaction point in the automated flow process. An artificial intelligence engine determines the chemical reaction. The method includes associating, based on the spectral data, the synthesizing recipe with the chemical reaction.
US11587641B2	Fuse fault repair circuit A fuse fault repair circuit includes a fuse array, a signal storage module, and a scan repair module. The fuse array includes a redundant fuse array and a non-redundant fuse array. When the fuse array is not faulty, the redundant fuse array has no signal output, and the non-redundant fuse array outputs S first logic signals. Each storage unit in the signal storage module is configured to store a first logic signal sent by one fuse unit connected thereto. The scan repair module is configured to scan the storage units in the signal storage module, determine, when a faulty storage unit is scanned, that a first fuse unit connected to the faulty storage unit is faulty, and replace the first fuse unit with a first redundant fuse unit corresponding to the first fuse unit. The first logic signal corresponding to the first redundant fuse unit is a normal signal.
US11587640B2	Carrier based high volume system level testing of devices with pop structures A testing apparatus comprises a tester comprising a plurality of racks, wherein each rack comprises a plurality of slots, wherein each slot comprises: (a) an interface board affixed in a slot of a rack, wherein the interface board comprises test circuitry and a plurality of sockets, each socket operable to receive a device under test (DUT); and (b) a carrier comprising an array of DUTs, wherein the carrier is operable to displace into the slot of the rack; and (c) an array of POP memory devices, wherein each POP memory device is disposed adjacent to a respective DUT in the array of DUTs. Further, the testing apparatus comprises a pick-and-place mechanism for loading the array of DUTs into the carrier and an elevator for transporting the carrier to the slot of the rack.
US11587639B2	Voltage calibration scans to reduce memory device overhead A voltage calibration scan is initiated. A first value of a data state metric measured for a sample block of a memory device based on associated with a first bin of blocks designated as a current is received. The first value is designated as a minimum value. A second value of the data state metric for the sample block is measured based on a set of read voltage offsets associated with a second bin of blocks having an index value higher than the current bin. In response to determining that the second value exceeds the first value, the first bin is maintained as the current bin and the voltage calibration scan is stopped.
US11587637B1	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for error correction of selected bit pairs Apparatuses, systems, and methods for error correction for selected bit pairs. A memory device may include an error correction code (ECC) circuit which may receive data bits as part of a read or write operation and generate parity bits based on the data bits. The parity bits may be used to locate and correct errors in the data bits. The parity bits may be generated based on a syndrome value. Each of the individual data bits may be associated with a syndrome value. In addition, some selected pairs of data bits may also be associated with a syndrome value. This may allow the ECC circuit to correct errors in individual data bits or in one of the selected pairs of data bits. In some embodiments, the selected pairs may represent adjacent memory cells along a word line.
US11587632B1	Semiconductor device structure having fuse elements A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a plurality of fuse elements, a reference resistor unit, a first conductive terminal, a first switching circuit, and a second switching circuit. Each of the plurality of fuse elements has a first terminal and a second terminal. The reference resistor unit is configured to receive a first power signal and electrically couple with the first terminal of each of the plurality of fuse elements. The first conductive terminal is configured to receive a second power signal and is electrically connected to the second terminal of each of the plurality of fuse elements.
US11587627B2	Determining voltage offsets for memory read operations A processing device of a memory sub-system is configured to identify a read level of a plurality of read levels associated with a voltage bin of a plurality of voltage bins of a memory device; assign a first threshold voltage offset to the read level of the voltage bin; assign a second threshold voltage offset to the read level of the voltage bin; perform, on block associated with the read level, a first operation of a first operation type using the first threshold voltage offset; and perform, on the blocks associated with the read level, a second operation of a second operation type using the second threshold voltage offset.
US11587626B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device of an embodiment includes a wiring layer M1 and a wiring layer M2. The wiring layer M1 includes a signal line through which a data signal is transferred, and a plurality of dummy patterns formed of a material same as a material of the signal line. The wiring layer M2 includes a voltage supply line through which voltage Vdd is supplied and another voltage supply line through which voltage Vss is supplied. Each of the dummy patterns is electrically connected with any one of the voltage supply lines. In a dummy pattern disposed adjacent to the signal line, a surface facing the signal line is constituted by a first surface positioned at a first distance to the signal line and a second surface positioned at a second distance to the signal line, the second distance being different from the first distance.
US11587624B2	Coarse calibration based on signal and noise characteristics of memory cells collected in prior calibration operations A memory device to perform a calibration of read voltages of a group of memory cells. For example, the memory device can measure signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells to determine an optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells and determine an amount of accumulated storage charge loss in the group of memory cells. Subsequently, the memory device can perform a read voltage calibration based on the determined amount of accumulated storage charge loss and a look up table.
US11587621B1	Foggy-fine programming for memory cells with reduced number of program pulses Apparatuses and techniques are described for programming memory cells with a reduced number of program pulses. A program operation includes a first, foggy program pass followed by a second, fine program pass. The number of program loops in the foggy program pass is minimized while providing relatively narrow Vth distributions for the foggy states. The program loops include one or more checkpoint program loops in which a program speed of the memory cells is determined through a read operation. In a next program loop, the fast-programming memory cells are inhibited from programming while the slow-programming memory cells are programmed with a reduced speed by applying a program speed-reducing bit line voltage. This brings the threshold voltage of the slow-programming memory cells into alignment with the threshold voltage of the fast-programming memory cells.
US11587619B2	Block configuration for memory device with separate sub-blocks A memory device is provided in which blocks of memory cells are divided into separate portions or sub-blocks with respective sets of word line switching transistors. The sub-blocks can be arranged on a substrate on opposite sides of a dividing line, where a separate set of bit lines is provided on each side of the dividing line. Each block has a row decoder which provides a common word line voltage signal to each sub-block of the block. However, each sub-block can have an independent set of word line switching transistors so that the common word line voltage signal can be passed or blocked independently for each sub-block. The blocks of memory cells can be provided on a first die which is inverted and bonded to a second die which includes the sets of word line switching transistors.
US11587615B2	Cross-point memory compensation The apparatuses and methods described herein may operate to measure a voltage difference between a selected access line and a selected sense line associated with a selected cell of a plurality of memory cells of a memory array. The voltage difference may be compared with a reference voltage specified for a memory operation. A selection voltage(s) applied to the selected cell for the memory operation may be adjusted responsive to the comparison, such as to dynamically compensate for parasitic voltage drop.
US11587609B2	Multi-level signal receivers and memory systems including the same A multi-level signal receiver includes a data sampler having (M−1) sense amplifiers therein, which are configured to compare a multi-level signal having one of M voltage levels with (M−1) reference voltages, to thereby generate (M−1) comparison signals. The data sampler is further configured to generate a target data signal including N bits, where M is an integer greater than two and N is an integer greater than one. An equalization controller is provided, which is configured to train the (M−1) sense amplifiers by: (i) adjusting at least one of (M−1) voltage intervals during a first training mode, and (ii) adjusting levels of the (M−1) reference voltages during a second training mode, based on equalized values of the (M−1) comparison signals, where each of the (M−1) voltage intervals represents a difference between two adjacent voltage levels from among the M voltage levels.
US11587608B2	Volatile memory device, storage device, and operating method of decreasing a leakage current There are provided a volatile memory device, and an operating method. The volatile memory device includes: a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns and structured to store data; word lines; bit lines; a row decoder; a column decoder; and a control logic coupled to communicate with the row and column decoders and configured to, in an active period, provide the row decoder with a first command, and provide the column decoder with a second command, wherein the row decoder is further configured to: apply a first word line voltage higher than a ground voltage to a selected word line, from when the first command is provided; and for a duration over which the row decoder is activated, apply either a second word line voltage lower than the first word line voltage to the selected word line or no voltage to the selected word line.
US11587604B2	Sense amplifier with split capacitors Methods and devices for reading a memory cell using a sense amplifier with split capacitors is described. The sense amplifier may include a first capacitor and a second capacitor that may be configured to provide a larger capacitance during certain portions of a read operation and a lower capacitance during other portions of the read operation. In some cases, the first capacitor and the second capacitor are configured to be coupled in parallel between a signal node and a voltage source during a first portion of the read operation to provide a higher capacitance. The first capacitor may be decoupled from the second capacitor during a second portion of the read operation to provide a lower capacitance during the second portion.
US11587600B2	Address/command chip controlled data chip address sequencing for a distributed memory buffer system One or more memory systems, architectural structures, and/or methods of storing information in memory devices is disclosed to improve the data bandwidth and or to reduce the load on the communication links. The system may include one or more memory devices, one or more memory control circuits and one or more data buffer circuits. The memory system, architectural structure and/or method improves the ability of the communications links to transfer data downstream to the data buffer circuits. The memory control circuit receives a store command and a store data tag (Host tag) from a Host and sends the store data command and the store data tag to the data buffer circuits. No store data tag or control signal is sent over the communication links between the Host and the data buffer circuits, only data is sent over the communication links between the Host and the data buffer circuits.
US11587598B2	Memory device for generating pulse amplitude modulation-based DQ signal and memory system including the same A memory device includes a memory cell array and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter includes a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) encoder configured to generate a PAM-n first input signal (where n is an integer greater than or equal to 4) from data read from the memory cell array; a pre-driver configured to generate a second input signal based on the first input signal and based on a calibration code signal, and output the second input signal using a first power voltage; and a driver configured to output a PAM-n DQ signal using a second power voltage lower than the first power voltage in response to the second input signal.
US11587596B2	Flexible desiccant tape A hard disk drive includes a base deck and a cover. The cover is coupled to the base deck to create an enclosure. The hard disk drive also includes tape that covers at least a portion of the cover and the base deck. The tape includes an adhesive layer, which includes an adhesive material and a moisture-absorbent material.
US11587591B2	Identifying and removing restricted information from videos A video is provided to viewers using a web-based platform without restricted audio, such as a copyrighted soundtrack. To do so, a video comprising at least two audio layers is received. The audio layers can include separate and distinct audio layers or a mix of audio from separate sources. A restricted audio element is identified in a first audio layer and a speech element is identified in a second audio layer. A stitched text string can be generated by performing speech-to-text on both audio layers and removing the text corresponding to the restricted audio element of the second audio layer. When playing back the video, a portion of the video is muted based on the restricted audio element. A voice synthesizer is employed to generate audible sound during the muted portion using the stitched text string.
US11587588B1	Digital timing recovery for constant density servo read operations A method of reading servo wedge data from a rotating constant-density magnetic storage medium having a plurality of tracks, where each track is written at a track pattern frequency, the respective track pattern frequencies varying from a lowest frequency at an innermost one of the tracks to a highest frequency at an outermost one of the tracks, includes, for each respective track, determining, based on the pattern frequency of the respective track, a desired sampling position, sampling actual samples of servo wedge data based on a sampling clock used for all tracks, having a sampling frequency at least equal to the track pattern frequency of the outermost track, determining a phase relationship of the desired sampling position to the sampling clock, and, depending on the phase relationship between the sampling position and the sampling clock, interpolating a sample, or omitting interpolation of a sample and squelching the interpolation clock.
US11587587B1	Method to measure thermal protrusion by sensing spacing change due to pre-lasing Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising: one or more disks; an actuator assembly comprising a head, and configured to position the head over a corresponding disk surface; and one or more processing devices, the head comprising: a write element; a laser unit; and a fly height control element, and wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to: iteratively perform spiral write operations of spiral patterns comprising a plurality of sync marks with the head on the corresponding disk surface, wherein the spiral write operations are performed at: a plurality of values of laser pre-bias current, write backoff, and/or start disk phase; detect pattern signal amplitudes of the spiral patterns on the corresponding disk surface; and determine a relation of write backoff to laser pre-bias current for the head, based on the pattern signal amplitudes of the spiral patterns.
US11587582B2	Reader noise reduction using spin hall effects A read head is disclosed wherein a Spin Hall Effect (SHE) layer is formed on a free layer (FL) in a sensor and between the FL and top shield (S2). Preferably, the sensor has a seed layer, an AP2 reference layer, antiferromagnetic coupling layer, AP1 reference layer, and a tunnel barrier sequentially formed on a bottom shield (S1). In a three terminal configuration, a first current flows between S1 and S2 such that the AP1 reference layer produces a first spin torque on the FL, and a second current flows across the SHE layer thereby generating a second spin torque on the FL that opposes the first spin torque. When the stripe heights of the FL and SHE layer are equal, a two terminal configuration is employed where a current flows between one side of the SHE layer to a center portion thereof and then to S1, or vice versa.
US11587580B2	Magnetic storage apparatus A magnetic storage apparatus includes a disk-shaped magnetic recording medium, a motor which drives and rotates the magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head, including a first magnetic head element which reads information from the magnetic recording medium, and a second magnetic head element which writes information to the magnetic recording medium, and a bias circuit which supplies a predetermined bias voltage to the first magnetic head element. The magnetic recording medium has a laminated structure including a magnetic layer disposed above a substrate, and a carbon protective layer disposed above the magnetic layer. The bias circuit supplies to the first magnetic head element a voltage which is in a range of −0.2 V to −1.0 V with respect to a potential of the magnetic recording medium.
US11587579B2	Vowel sensing voice activity detector Methods and apparatuses for detecting user speech are described. In one example, a method for detecting user speech includes receiving a microphone output signal corresponding to sound received at a microphone and identifying a spoken vowel sound in the microphone signal. The method further includes outputting an indication of user speech detection responsive to identifying the spoken vowel sound.
US11587577B2	Mobile emulator determination using sound detection A method and apparatus for mobile emulator determination using sound fingerprinting is disclosed. The method includes a verification computer system receiving a transaction request from a computing device purporting to be a mobile device. Responsive to receiving the request, the verification computer system transmits a request for verification information to the computing device. The verification system includes information regarding a tone to be generated by a speaker of the computing device. Thereafter, verification information is received from the computing device. The verification information includes information tone information generated by the computing device, wherein the tone is, after generation, detected by a microphone. The verification system then verifies, based on the receive verification information, whether the information indicates that the computing device is a mobile device.
US11587576B2	Background noise estimation using gap confidence A noise estimation method including steps of generating gap confidence values in response to microphone output and playback signals, and using the gap confidence values to generate an estimate of background noise in a playback environment. Each gap confidence value is indicative of confidence of presence of a gap at a corresponding time in the playback signal, and may be a combination of candidate noise estimates weighted by the gap confidence values. Generation of the candidate noise estimates may but need not include performance of echo cancellation. Optionally, noise compensation is performed on an audio input signal using the generated background noise estimate. Other aspects are systems configured to perform any embodiment of the noise estimation method.
US11587574B2	Voice processing method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium Provided in the present disclosure are a voice processing method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium, the method comprising: detecting the working state of a current call system, and when the working state is a two-end speaking state or a remote-end speaking state, performing compression processing on a subsequent remote-end voice signal, acquiring a near-end voice signal by means of a microphone, performing echo processing on the basis of the near-end voice signal and the compression-processed remote-end voice signal to obtain an echo-processed near-end voice signal and a remaining echo signal, performing non-linear suppression processing on the near-end voice signal and the remaining echo signal, and performing gain control on the suppression-processed near-end voice signal.
US11587573B2	Speech processing method and device thereof The disclosure provides a speech processing method and a device thereof. The method includes: acquiring a speech sampling signal frame in a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech coding system and estimating signal quality of the speech sampling signal frame; determining, based on the signal quality, a specific linear prediction coding (LPC) order used by an LPC circuit; controlling the LPC circuit to convert the speech sampling signal frame into a line spectrum pair parameter based on the specific LPC order; replacing a speech signal spectrum of the speech sampling signal frame with the line spectrum pair parameter to generate a predicted speech signal; and performing a speech coding operation and a signal synthesizing operation of the MELP speech coding system based on the predicted speech signal.
US11587570B2	Interactive playground system with enhanced user interaction and computerized method for providing enhanced user interaction in a playground system An interactive playground system including a user interface including a speaker and at least one of a microphone and a camera; a plurality of nodes distributed over a surface of the playground system, each one of the nodes including a printed circuit board with at least one sensor and at least one output component connected thereto; and a central unit in data communication with the plurality of nodes. The central unit comprises a memory and a processor; at least one of a speech recognition module and a motion recognition module and an interaction control module in data communication with the at least one of the speech recognition module and the motion recognition module, the speaker and the nodes. The interaction control module implements at least one of conversation instructions through output of audio data on the speaker and game action instructions through control of the output components of the nodes.
US11587566B2	Agent system, terminal device, and computer readable recording medium using speech interaction for services An agent system includes: a first server including a first processor including hardware; a second server including a second processor including hardware; and a third server including a third processor including hardware. The first processor is configured to output first content to a terminal device in response to a request from a user. The second processor is configured to output second content to the terminal device in response to a request from the user. The third processor is configured to acquire the second content from the second server when execution of the second content is requested by the user during execution of the first content acquired from the first server. The third processor is further configured to determine whether to execute the first content and the second content based on a competition processing policy set in advance.
US11587564B2	Enhancing signature word detection in voice assistants Systems and methods detecting a spoken sentence in a speech recognition system are disclosed herein. Speech data is buffered based on an audio signal captured at a computing device operating in an active mode. The speech data is buffered irrespective of whether the speech data comprises a signature word. The buffered speech data is processed to detect a presence of the sentence comprising at least one command and a query for the computing device. Processing the buffered speech data includes detecting the signature word in the buffered speech data, and in response to detecting the signature word in the speech data, initiating detection of the sentence in the buffered speech data.
US11587563B2	Determining input for speech processing engine A method of presenting a signal to a speech processing engine is disclosed. According to an example of the method, an audio signal is received via a microphone. A portion of the audio signal is identified, and a probability is determined that the portion comprises speech directed by a user of the speech processing engine as input to the speech processing engine. In accordance with a determination that the probability exceeds a threshold, the portion of the audio signal is presented as input to the speech processing engine. In accordance with a determination that the probability does not exceed the threshold, the portion of the audio signal is not presented as input to the speech processing engine.
US11587559B2	Intelligent device identification Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.
US11587558B2	Efficient empirical determination, computation, and use of acoustic confusability measures A computer-implemented method includes generating an empirically derived acoustic confusability measure by processing example utterances and iterating from an initial estimate of the acoustic confusability measure to improve the measure. The method can further include using the acoustic confusability measure to selectively limit phrases to make recognizable by a speech recognition application.
US11587557B2	Ontology-based organization of conversational agent According to a first aspect of the present invention, a computer implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product for creating an ontological conversational agent, the method including creating an ontological specification of a domain of discourse of the ontological conversational agent, and creating a description of one or more goals of the ontological conversational agent. In an embodiment, the ontological description includes classes of entities, their associated attributes and relationships between the classes of entities. In an embodiment, the ontological description includes language-related descriptions. In an embodiment, the method, computer system and computer program product further includes creating a description of services of the ontological conversational agent. An embodiment including receiving a first utterance from a user during a conversation, identifying a first intent based on the first utterance, and recognizing a first goal of the one or more goals, based on the first intent.
US11587550B2	Method and apparatus for outputting information A method and an apparatus for outputting information are provided. The method includes acquiring voice information received within a preset time period before a device is awakened, where the device is provided with a wake-up model for outputting preset response information when a preset wake-up word is received; performing speech recognition on the voice information to obtain a recognition result; extracting feature information of the voice information in response to determining that the recognition result does not include a preset wake-up word; generating a counterexample training sample according to the feature information; and training the wake-up model using a counter-example training sample, and outputting the trained wake-up model.
US11587544B2	Active road noise control An active road noise control system method for a vehicle includes picking up noise at a multiplicity of positions in or on the vehicle and generating a multiplicity of noise sense signals representative of road noise originating from a road noise source in or at the vehicle, and processing, according to a beamforming scheme, the multiplicity of noise sense signals to generate a reference signal and to provide a sensitivity characteristic for picking up the noise that comprises one main lobe directed to the road noise source. The system and method further includes iteratively and adaptively processing the reference signal to provide a noise reducing signal, and generating at one or more positions in an interior of the vehicle, from the noise reducing signal, noise reducing sound at a listening position in the interior of the vehicle.
US11587543B2	Calibration of active noise-cancelling headphones Methods for calibrating active noise-cancelling headphones, including placing the active noise-cancelling headphones on a measuring device; exciting the active noise-cancelling filter; measuring one or more relevant transmission pathways selected from x(n), m(n), and p(n) for feedforward and/or h(n) for feedback; defining at least one goal function for feedforward or feedback; calculating a complementary function for the defined goal function for at least one branch of the active noise-cancelling filter; calculating an impulse response of the complementary function from the measurements of the relevant transmission pathways; approximating operating parameters for the active noise-cancelling filter using the Prony method; and implementing the approximated operating parameters in the active noise-cancelling filter on the signal processor in order to create an approximated complementary active noise-cancelling filter, thereby calibrating the active noise-cancelling headphones.
US11587542B2	Temporary noise pollution interruption wall system and method A noise barrier system and method for quickly and modularly installing or erecting a temporary sound interruption wall. The system can include one or more panels each, a leveling bracket adjustably mountable to a support member, a clamping bracket for mounting a panel to a support member, a double clamping bracket for clamping a pair of panels together and mounting them to a support member, and a panel clamp for clamping a pair of panels together. The leveling bracket can include a support wall to support portions of adjacent panels, and an arm for removably securing to a flange of the support member. The panel clamp, the clamping bracket and the double clamping bracket can each include open channel configuration configured to receive a single portion of a panel or portions of pair panels, and a slidably adjustable clip for securing the portion of the panels therein.
US11587539B2	Wind instrument support apparatus According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wind instrument apparatus, comprising: an attachment element configured to attach the apparatus to a wind instrument, a spring structure attached to or comprised by the attachment element, and a support bar. The support bar is partially insertable into the elastic structure and the apparatus comprises a fastening mechanism configured to selectively fasten the support bar in relation to the elastic structure, so that the flexibility of the attachment element is adjustable in relation to the support bar.
US11587538B1	Woodwind musical instrument finger rest and a system including the same A woodwind musical instrument finger rest and a system including the same are disclosed herein. The woodwind musical instrument finger rest includes an outer body portion, the outer body portion defining an inner recess, the outer body portion being formed from a first material; and an inner sleeve portion disposed in the inner recess of the outer body portion, the inner sleeve portion being formed from a second material that is different from the first material, the inner sleeve portion being configured to be disposed against an outer surface portion of a tubular wall of a woodwind musical instrument. The woodwind musical instrument finger rest is configured to facilitate a holding of the woodwind musical instrument by a user, and the woodwind musical instrument finger rest is configured to dissipate forces transferred between the woodwind musical instrument and a hand of the user.
US11587534B2	Projection control device, projection apparatus, projection control method, and projection control program A projection control device that controls a projection portion which projects an image to a projection surface includes a ray position detection portion that detects an irradiation position of a ray irradiated on the projection surface, and a specific image superimposition control portion that superimposes a predetermined specific image on a region corresponding to the irradiation position in the image. In a state where the specific image is superimposed on a first region corresponding to a first position detected by the ray position detection portion in the image, the specific image superimposition control portion, in a case where the irradiation position moves out of a predetermined range including the first position, moves the specific image to a region corresponding to the irradiation position that has moved, and in a case where the irradiation position moves within the range, continues superimposition of the specific image on the first region.
US11587532B2	Content presentation on display screens Content presented on a display screen is updated responsive to a user input. Content is retrieved and segmented into bands that are rendered onto the display screen incrementally to provide a visual effect similar to an animation. A band is rendered at a starting location and after a refresh interval passes a subsequent band is rendered at a second starting location. The bands may be rendered until the content is shown on the display screen.
US11587529B2	Perceptual luminance nonlinearity-based image data exchange across different display capabilities A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
US11587524B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may be displayed in a so-called slide show manner. A plurality of pictures for thumbnail may be produced from the plurality of pieces of picture information and be arranged together to be displayed in one picture screen of a display device.
US11587522B2	Display device A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, two electrodes in the liquid crystal display panel, a switching element having a source and a drain one of which is coupled to one of the two electrodes, a scan line coupled to a gate of the switching element, a signal line coupled to the other of the drain and the source, an inversion driver, and a scan circuit configured to provide, to the scan line, any of a first potential, a second potential, and a third potential lower than the second potential. The scan circuit switches a potential of the scan line from the second potential to the third potential at a timing at which the potential of the other of the two electrodes is made lower than that of the one of the two electrodes in a period in which the source and the drain are electrically disconnected.
US11587521B2	Gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and display device solving problem of electrical stress easily biasing threshold voltage of thin film transistor (TFT) Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit and display device solving problem of electrical stress easily biasing threshold voltage of thin film transistor (TFT), are provided. The GOA circuit including m cascaded GOA units, wherein an nth GOA unit includes a pull-up control unit, a pull-up unit, a compensation control unit, and a pull-down unit.
US11587519B1	Display device A display device includes: first and second substrates with a liquid crystal therebetween; pixel electrodes and a common electrode provided to the first or second substrate; a light source including first to third light sources; and an image processor generating a signal to be provided to each pixel based on an input image signal. A frame period includes a first subframe period in which the first light source is on, a second subframe period in which the second light source is on, a third subframe period in which the third light source is on, and a fourth subframe period in which one or more of the first to third light sources are on. The image processor divides a gradation value into two values smaller than the gradation value, allocates one of the two values to the fourth subframe period, and allocates the other value to the other first subframe period.
US11587514B2	Display device and driving method thereof Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device and a driving method thereof, and the display device includes a demultiplexer connected to a first data line and transferring a data signal from the first data line to a plurality of second data lines during a data writing period of one frame, a compensator calculating an on-pixel ratio (OPR) using input data in the one frame and generating compensation data corresponding to a calculated OPR, and a data driver supplying the data signal to the first data line using the input data during the data writing period, and supplying a compensation data signal to the first data line using the compensation data in a blank period of the one frame, and the demultiplexer supplies the compensation data signal from the first data line to a second data line during the blank period.
US11587511B2	Display panel, display device and driving method The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a driving method. The display panel includes a display substrate and a driving chip. The display panel is configured to write a data signal to a corresponding pixel circuit at a pre-writing phase and a target data writing phase. The driving chip includes a voltage compensation module configured to obtain a compensation voltage value for the pixel circuits in each row in accordance with the quantity of pre-writing phases. Each pixel circuit is configured to write a pre-writing voltage stored in a parasitic capacitor to a gate electrode of a driving transistor in response to a pre-scanning signal at the pre-writing phase, and write a target writing voltage stored in the parasitic capacitor to the gate electrode of the driving transistor in response to a target scanning signal at the target data writing phase.
US11587510B2	Display device and driving method thereof A display device includes: a first pixel including a first organic light emitting diode; an initialization voltage generator for generating a first initialization voltage to be supplied to an anode of the first organic light emitting diode; and a timing controller including a first lookup table in which a plurality of first initialization voltage values corresponding to a plurality of maximum luminances are recorded, the timing controller being configured to determine a value of the first initialization voltage, based on reception information on a target maximum luminance and the first lookup table.
US11587501B2	Display apparatuses, pixel circuits and methods of driving pixel circuit The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, a pixel circuit and a method of driving a pixel circuit. In one or more embodiments, the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data signal module and a bias signal module. A first electrode of the driving transistor is connected with a first power signal terminal, a second electrode of the driving transistor is connected with a first terminal of a light emitting element, and the driving transistor includes a first control electrode and a second control electrode. The data signal module is connected with the driving transistor, a data writing signal terminal and a data signal terminal. The bias signal module is connected with the driving transistor, a bias writing signal terminal and a bias signal terminal, and is configured to adjust a threshold voltage of the driving transistor under control of the bias writing signal terminal and the bias signal terminal.
US11587500B2	Data display method and device, and readable storage medium A data display method and device based on an ARM micro-controller, and a readable storage medium are provided. The data display method includes receiving data signals of a display image, and storing the data signals; extending the stored data signals into multiple data signal sets in a preset sequence, and synchronously caching the multiple data signal sets in a rising edge and a falling edge of a clock signal; and controlling the multiple data signal sets to be respectively output to multiple output ports to control a display unit to display the image.
US11587498B2	Driving method and device for light-emitting element The invention discloses a driving method and a device for a light-emitting element. The method includes: acquiring a display image; calculating a backlight brightness required for the display image; and selecting at least one pulse signal from the preset plurality of pulse signals to drive the light emitting element according to the backlight brightness.
US11587495B2	Electro-optical module, power supply substrate, wiring substrate, and electronic apparatus This invention provides an electro-optical module with reduced noise in driving voltage. The invention can include a power supply substrate that is arranged separately from the flexible substrate having a driver, so that the noise of the driving voltage supplied from the power supply substrate is reduced. The electro-optical module includes a first connecting portion connecting a first end of the flexible substrate to a display panel and configured to receive a signal from the driver, and a second connecting portion connecting the first end of the flexible substrate to the display panel and configured to receive the driving voltage from a third connecting portion at a second end of the flexible substrate.
US11587493B2	Display substrate and display device including the same A display substrate and a display device including the display substrate are disclosed. In one aspect, the display substrate includes a plurality of pixels formed in a substantially circular pixel area and a driving circuit formed in a peripheral area surrounding the pixel area and configured to drive the pixels. A boundary is formed between the pixel area and the peripheral area, and the boundary is substantially concentric with respect to an arc defining the substantially circular pixel area. The driving circuit comprises a conductive pattern having a first side which extends in a peripheral direction crossing the boundary.
US11587492B2	Full-panel display for display apparatus A full-panel display with hybrid regional subpixel layouts is provided. The full-panel includes a display panel having a first region with an array of first subpixels of respective a first color, a second color, and a third color, and a second region with an array of second subpixels of respective the first color, the second color, and the third color. The array of first subpixels and the array of second subpixels are collectively configured to achieve a higher transmission rate in the first region to an accessory installed therein while keep a luminance ratio between the first subpixels unchanged from that between the second subpixels. Optionally, a number density and/or a unit subpixel area of the first subpixels of at least one color is smaller in the first region than that in the second region.
US11587486B2	Display device, driving method thereof, and display system A display device includes a control circuit and a driving circuit driving a display panel to display an image. In response to determining that the driving circuit is to be switched from a running state to a standby state, the control circuit stops supplying power to the driving circuit. In response to determining that the driving circuit is to be switched from the standby state to the running state, the control circuit resumes the power supply to the driving circuit, and transmits a target reset signal to the driving circuit. The target reset signal is the same as a reset signal sent by a host computer to the driving circuit in response to a coupling being established between the driving circuit and the host computer.
US11587485B2	Display panel, method for driving the same, and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area. The display panel includes pixels arranged in H columns and Hx data lines arranged in the display area and DEMUX circuits arranged in the non-display area. Each pixel includes x sub-pixels, and the data line is electrically connected to the sub-pixel. Each DEMUX circuit includes signal output terminals electrically connected to the data lines. The DEMUX circuits include M first DEMUX circuits and N second DEMUX circuits. Each first DEMUX circuit includes a first signal input terminal and al first signal output terminals. Each second DEMUX circuit includes a second signal input terminal and b1 second signal output terminals. Hx=Ma1+Nb1, where H, x, M, N, a1, and b1 are positive integers, M>N, a1>2, b1≥2, a1>b1, and (M+N) is an even number.
US11587483B2	Image display device and motion detection method of image display device Disclosed are an image display device and a motion detection method of an image display device. The image display device includes a motion detection unit for detecting a motion of a user and provides a welcome feedback to the user in the form of a visual signal, an audio signal, or both according to whether the motion of the user is detected or not, thereby drawing attention of the user or switching a display state to reduce power consumption of the image display device. The image display device determines a motion exception event that is not regarded a user motion on the basis of an overall change or a local change in pixel value between image frames, thereby preventing the display panel from being activated by a non-human-related factor such as a sudden change in illuminance or a movement of a periodically operating object.
US11587482B2	Flexible displays with curved electrodes, display devices and control methods thereof The present application relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to display substrate devices. One of the described display substrates comprises: a flexible substrate; a pinhole array configured to transmit light on the flexible substrate; at least one curved electrode responsive to bending of the flexible substrate around the pinhole array on the flexible substrate; and a plurality of detecting lines; wherein the at least one curved electrode comprises a plurality of curved sub-electrodes connected in series; and at least one of the plurality of curved sub-electrodes is coupled to one of the plurality of detecting lines.
US11587481B2	Display device and method of driving the same A display device can include a display panel having a plurality of sub pixels, each of the sub pixels including a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a sensing transistor, a storage capacitor, and a light emitting element; and a detector configured to sense a voltage difference between a first electrode of the sensing transistor and a second electrode of the sensing transistor for determining that an anode and a cathode of the light emitting element are shorted, in which a gate electrode of the switching transistor and a gate electrode of the sensing transistor are connected to a same gate line.
US11587480B2	Display screen lighter and display screen detection device A display screen lighter and a display screen detection device are provided. The display screen lighter comprises a mainboard, a switching board and an electrostatic discharge assembly, wherein the mainboard comprises a mainboard signal connecting port and is configured to generate a detection signal for electrically testing a display screen to be detected; the adapter plate comprises an adapter signal connecting port and is configured to transmit the detection signal to the display screen to be detected; the static charges releasing assembly comprises a signal transmission structure and a electrostatic discharge structure, the signal transmission structure is respectively and electrically connected with the mainboard signal connecting port and the display screen binding structure to form a plurality of signal channels, and the electrostatic discharge structure and the display screen to be detected are connected between the signal channels and the grounding terminal in parallel to discharge static charges in the display screen to be detected into the grounding terminal through the electrostatic discharge structure.
US11587471B2	Recyclable liner for label assembly In accordance with the present application, there is provided a release liner and method of preparing a liner for a label assembly. The release liner includes paper having a first side that does not have a machine finish or gloss finish or a coating; and a silicone treatment applied to the first side of the paper. The method of preparing a liner for a label assembly includes applying a coat of silicone to a paper at a side of the paper that does not have a machine finish or gloss finish and is otherwise uncoated; and curing the silicone. The release liner includes paper having a silicone coat weight of 0.5 lb/ream or less.
US11587470B1	Business form and methods of making and using same A business form comprises a first portion and a second portion adhesively secured to the first portion via a control bond adhesive. The control bond adhesive is a mixture comprising: between about 1 kg and 2 kg of a flexible adhesive; between about 1 kg and 2 kg of water; between about 12 g and 16 g gypsum, and between about 13 g and 23 g fumed silica.
US11587469B2	Indicators for industrial devices An indicator is provided that can couple, without a fastener, to a housing of an industrial device.
US11587468B2	Peel-able, tamper-evident security label for concealing information A visual-information security system that includes an information security label positioned to conceal visual information on a substrate. The information security label may include a spiral-shaped cut (or other complex shape) within the body of the label and a pull-tab, such that when a user pulls on the tab, the label peels off of the substrate in a spiral pattern, revealing the information concealed beneath the label. The complex-shaped cut makes reapplication of the label difficult and evident, thus providing security to consumers. The label may include multiple layers of material, for example, a peel-off layer and an adhesive layer.
US11587463B2	Patient training device for use with a safety syringe injector A reusable safety syringe training device is provided. The device comprises a syringe contained within a syringe protective member. The syringe protective member is movable vertically within an outer protective sheath from a first position to a second position and back to the first position. In the first position, the device is in an injection-ready position with the needle exposed and the syringe protective member in a locked vertical position with respect to the outer protective sheath. In the second position, the device is in a post-injection position such that the syringe protective member is no longer vertically locked with respect to the outer protective sheath and has moved vertically upward thereby rendering the needle within the outer protective sheath. The plunger carries a release flange sufficient to engage release latches that otherwise retain the syringe protective member in the first position. The release flange engages that release latches when the user pushes the plunger down to effectuate the injection. Once pressure is removed from the plunger after the injection has concluded, a springe mechanism drives the syringe protective member upwards to the second position. The user can then turn the plunger such that the release flange is no longer able to engage the release latches and push the plunger back down to lock the syringe protective member in its first position. The user is then able to pull the plunger back up while the syringe protective member remains locked, turn the plunger back to a position where the release flange is in a position to engage the release latches again, and perform another injection.
US11587461B2	Context-sensitive adjustment of off-road glance time Methods and systems involve obtaining information from one or more sources to determine a real-time context. A method includes determining a situational awareness score indicating a level of vigilance required based on the real-time context, obtaining images of eyes of a driver to detect a gaze pattern of the driver, determining a relevant attention score indicating a level of engagement of the driver in the real-time context based on a match between the gaze pattern of the driver and the real-time context, and obtaining images of the driver to detect behavior of the driver. A driver readiness score is determined and indicates a level of readiness of the driver to resume driving the vehicle based on the behavior of the driver. An off-road glance time is obtained based on using the situational awareness score, the relevant attention score, and the driver readiness score.
US11587451B2	VR education system A VR education system includes a teaching plan storage unit that stores the teaching plan for each lecture including lecture information and at least one keyword and key image, an instructor evaluation unit that converts the instructor's voice data, input through the voice module of the instructor's terminal, into text data by speech-to-text processing and compares the converted data with the teaching plan data stored in the teaching plan storage unit, an instructor recommendation unit that generates an instructor list in the order of matching rate, from highest to lowest, based on the matching rates calculated by the instructor evaluation unit, a lecture providing unit that provides the lecture of an instructor, selected from the instructor list from a trainee terminal, to the trainee terminal, and a lecture monitoring unit that monitors lectures in progress to detect any event that may occur during the lecture.
US11587450B2	Apparatus for evaluating contextual learning An apparatus for clinical evaluation of sensitivity of individuals to learning context provides a visual search task in which a target symbol to be located is associated with context images that cluster around the target symbol to varying degrees. Measurement of a rate of unconscious exploitation of the context symbols in finding the target symbols is used to sort the individuals into categories believed to be useful for characterizing their learning styles.
US11587449B2	Systems and methods for guiding a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle to an emergency landing zone The present disclosure provides systems and methods for guiding a vertical takeoff and landing, VTOL, vehicle to an emergency landing zone. The systems and methods include determining, via at least one processor, candidate landing zone data by interrogating an emergency landing zone database based at least on VTOL vehicle location, the candidate landing zone data representing a list of candidate emergency landing zones. A target emergency landing zone is selected from the list of candidate emergency landing zones based at least on VTOL vehicle related issues including at least one of unanticipated yaw issues, ground effect issues and modified trend vector issues, thereby providing target emergency landing zone data. Guidance for the VTOL vehicle is determined based on the target emergency landing zone data.
US11587448B2	Systems and methods for manifolds learning of airline network data Methods and systems for using manifolds learning of airline network traffic to detect airline network traffic disruptions. In an embodiment, a computer processor transmits a request for abnormal airline network traffic simulation data to a simulation device, receives the abnormal airline network traffic simulation data, and generates, utilizing a manifolds learning process, simulated abnormal airline network traffic manifolds representation data. In some embodiments, the process may next include transmitting a request for current airline network traffic data to a current network traffic computer, receiving the current airline network traffic data, and generating a current airline network traffic dataset. In some implementations, the current airline network traffic dataset is then mapped to the abnormal airline network traffic manifolds representation, a determination made that a threshold number of data points of the current airline network traffic dataset maps to the abnormal airline traffic manifolds representation, and then an alarm is transmitted to an operator device indicating that a disruption of airline network traffic is imminent.
US11587438B2	Control apparatus and method for causing light demitting devices to display crosswalk A control apparatus is a control apparatus for causing light emitting devices to display a crosswalk when the control apparatus detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a road. The control apparatus includes a controlling portion configured to perform: detect, as a first vehicle, a vehicle traveling in a crosswalk display region where a crosswalk is to be displayed; determine whether or not the speed of the first vehicle is less than a reference speed; and in a case where the speed is less than the reference speed and a predetermined safety standard is satisfied, determine to cause the light emitting devices to display the crosswalk.
US11587435B2	Method for guiding path by extracting guiding information in lane and electronic device for executing the method The present disclosure relates to a method for guiding a path of an electronic device and an electronic device. The method for guiding a path according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring a top-view image; extracting guiding information in a lane from lane information extracted from the top-view image; and guiding a path of a vehicle using the extracted lane information and the guiding information in the lane. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to promote safe driving by guiding a possible traveling direction on the path to a driver in real time through image analysis of a traveling road. In addition, it is possible to provide more detailed path guidance by providing the path guidance reflecting the necessity of lane change by recognizing the lane of the driving path.
US11587420B2	Systems and methods of combining RFID and VMS for people tracking and intrusion detection A system of identifying and tracking occupants of a building is provided. The system includes multiple detector devices that each receive an identification signal from an identification device and multiple image capture devices that each output an image signal depicting a respective monitored location of the building. The system further includes a processing circuit that receives the identification signal from one of the detector devices, associates the detector device with a detector location, retrieves a user attribute, and receives the image signal from one of the image capture devices depicting a monitored location corresponding to the detector location. The processing circuit further generates an annotated video signal including the user attribute overlaid on the video signal, and displays the annotated video signal on a display device.
US11587418B2	System, device, and method for camera placement based on access tier attributes A system, device, and method for camera placement based on access tier attributes is disclosed. The method includes correlating, by an at least one electronic processor, a geographical location and existing tiered camera deployments with electronically stored indications of crime rates across a geographic area associated with a security agency. The method also includes generating, by the at least one electronic processor, at least one new proposed security camera deployment at at least a first proposed location in the geographic area associated with the security agency having a proposed tier selected from one of a plurality of tiers determined as a function of the correlating.
US11587414B2	Geo-locked field device A geo-locked field device that is situated in a non-moving position and is operable as long as its position, including altitude and direction, is unchanged. If the position of the device is changed or disturbed, then the device will become inoperable. If the position is returned to its former position after being disturbed and rendered inoperable, then the device will continue to be inoperable. Providing a special signal to the device may cause it to become operable.
US11587410B2	Systems and methods for using transparent surfaces in an automated teller machine The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using transparent surfaces at an automated teller machine. In one implementation, a method of visualizing a deposit at an automated teller machine includes receiving a command to deposit at least one depository element; determining an amount associated with the command; displaying, on a transparent surface of the automated teller machine configured to allow a user of the automated teller machine to view the at least one depository element, a visual representation of the determined amount; and receiving, concurrent with or after displaying, a verification of the amount.
US11587406B2	Gaming system and method for increasing the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for a play of a game Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method for increasing the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for a play of a game. In certain embodiments, when a triggering event occurs in association with a play of a game, the gaming system increases the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for that play of the game. In other embodiments, when a triggering event occurs in association with a play of a game, the gaming system increases the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for another play of the game, such as the next play of the game.
US11587405B2	Lottery gaming system, ticket, and method A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket with a pre-draw cash-in amount based on the player symbols of the lottery ticket.
US11587399B2	Electronic gaming using multiple virtual currencies Aspects of the present disclosure may address a virtual gaming system. The virtual gaming system may present various graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to a user, in conjunction with a device used by the user, in a client-server configuration. The virtual gaming system may facilitate play of games using at least two virtual currencies, where one virtual currency is purchased and has no monetary value and the second virtual currency may not be purchased but has monetary value. Separate sets of games may be provided for play using the at least two virtual currencies. It may also be possible, in some cases, to obtain first virtual currency, second virtual currency, or both, other than by purchase.
US11587397B2	Single action betting system and method A method and system are disclosed for placing a bet via the Internet on a computing device. The bet is placed by a player using the computing device and received by a backend system over a link using a single action methodology.
US11587395B2	System and method for utilizing mobile device application to locate electronic gaming machines The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes an application running on a mobile device to notify a user of the state of an electronic gaming machine in wireless communication with the mobile device.
US11587388B2	Determining a player's emotional state using player gaze movement at gaming devices Gaming devices, systems, and methods include a gaming device that includes a display device and an image capture device to capture a plurality of images of an eye of a player of the gaming device at a plurality of respective times. The gaming device generates, for each image of the plurality of images, gaze direction data indicative of a gaze direction of the eye of the player at the respective time corresponding to the image. The gaming device accesses a player database including player data for a plurality of players, the player data including, for each player, stored gaze data. Based on the gaze direction data and the stored gaze data, the gaming device determines a player parameter value corresponding to a player parameter for the player. Based on the player parameter value, the gaming device modifies a game feature of a wagering game at the gaming device.
US11587385B2	Security revolving door assembly A security revolving door assembly including a revolving door, a controlling unit and a LIDAR sensor. The LIDAR sensor is appropriately disposed in the top or canopy of the revolving door and advantageously directed downwardly into the passage space of the revolving door. In particular, a first LIDAR sensor is centrally disposed in a first quadrant of the canopy, and a second LIDAR sensor is centrally disposed in a third quadrant of the canopy.
US11587384B1	Group determination and association Described are implementations that facilitate group determination and association at entry into a facility so that activities of group members of the group are associated with the group and/or applied to a single account designated for the group. For example, if four individuals enter the facility together, the disclosed implementations determine whether the four individuals are to be associated as a group. If associated as a group, an account, such as an account of one of the individuals, is also determined and associated with the group. Activities, such as an item pick, performed by one of those individuals is associated with the group and if there is a fee or charge associated with the activity it is applied to the associated account.
US11587382B1	Package delivery system and method of use A package delivery system for secured delivery of packages without the need for a person to be present to accept them in person is disclosed. The package delivery system includes a vertical structure such as a wall, a door, and a garage door; a package delivery door dispositioned within the vertical structure; and one or more user devices in communication with the package delivery door via a network.
US11587378B2	Electronic device for efficiently saving historic data of ambient sensors and associated method A device includes sensing circuitry, compression circuitry, and a memory. The sensing circuitry, in operation, generates sensor data. The compression circuitry is coupled to the sensing circuitry, and, in operation, determines environmental contexts based on variation rates of sensor data and compresses sensor data based on determined environmental contexts. The compressed data is stored in the memory.
US11587376B2	Systems and methods for delivering vehicle parameters to a remote device via vehicle module identities Embodiments of the invention include a vehicle telematics system that receives different types of identification information from different vehicle modules on the vehicle bus of a vehicle, identifies a vehicle platform based on the identification information by matching the identification information with information stored in a database that has been reverse engineered for a vehicle with a same and/or similar platform and identifies a set of communication data associated with the vehicle platform for communicating with the at least one vehicle module.
US11587370B2	Distributed maintenance system and methods for connected fleet A system and related methods for management, planning and control of a connected fleet of vehicles. A unique, single integrated platform may be provided for management, planning and control of a connected fleet of vehicles, including fleet planning, in-fleeting operations, vehicle acquisition and provisioning, vehicle assignment, vehicle transfers, vehicle use operations, vehicle servicing, vehicle maintenance and repairs, and de-fleeting operations. Fleet communications can be by cellular, wireless, or low earth orbit satellite communications. Fleet vehicles include a programmable TCU installed in the vehicle and connected, directly or indirectly, to the CAN bus or similar vehicle network, and carries out various operations, including controlling vehicle access. The systems combines self-reporting and self-management of a connected fleet vehicle (with on-board and installed sensors configured to identify actual or potential issues or problems in the vehicle, and report, request, and obtain/dispatch servicing via its cloud or network communications interfaces), and predictive failure algorithms (based on historical and current connected fleet vehicle data), with multiple probabilistic distributions for the distributed fleet to dynamically, in real time, determine and dispatch service with greater efficiency and lower costs for fleet operations.
US11587368B2	Method and system for accident detection using contextual data A system includes: a mobile device comprising a plurality of sensors; a display device; a memory that stores instructions; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to: operate the plurality of sensors over a plurality of time intervals during a trip in a vehicle to collect driving data; detect, using the driving data, a driving event that occurred during the trip and cause the mobile device to collect additional data associated with the trip in response; receive the additional data associated with the trip; determine that a vehicle accident event occurred during the trip based on the driving data and the additional data; and cause the display device to output an indication of the vehicle accident event.
US11587366B1	Systems and methods for selecting locations to validate automated vehicle data transmission A system for validating automated vehicle data transmission capabilities of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a vehicle data transmission diagnostics (VDTD) server in communication with the vehicle and a plurality of roadside evaluation units. The VDTD server includes at least one processor and at least one memory device, and is programmed to: (i) determine that a data latency risk evaluation (DLRE) should be performed for the vehicle, (ii) transmit a DLRE request to the vehicle, (iii) receive, from the vehicle, a response to the transmitted DLRE request including trip data, the trip data including a selected route to be taken by the vehicle, (iv) interrogate the plurality of roadside evaluation units based upon the received trip data, and (v) select, based upon the interrogation, one of the plurality of roadside evaluation units to be a data latency evaluation checkpoint for the vehicle during the upcoming trip.
US11587362B2	Techniques for determining sign language gesture partially shown in image(s) In one aspect, a device may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to receive at least one image that indicates a first gesture being made by a person using a hand-based sign language, with at least part of the first gesture extending out of the image frame of the image. The instructions may then be executable to provide the image to a gesture classifier and to receive plural candidate first text words for the first gesture from the gesture classifier. The instructions may then be executable to use at least a second text word correlated to a second gesture to select one of the candidate first text words, combine the second text word with the selected first text word to establish a text string, and provide the text string to an apparatus different from the device.
US11587360B2	Augmented reality (AR) device and method of predicting pose therein An augmented reality (AR) device and a method of predicting a pose in the AR device is provided. In the augmented reality (AR) device inertial measurement unit (IMU) values corresponding to the movement of the AR device are obtained at an IMU rate, intermediate 6-degrees of freedom (6D) poses of the AR device are estimated based on the IMU values and images around the AR device via a visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (VI-SLAM) module, and a pose prediction model for predicting relative 6D poses of the AR device is generated by performing learning by using a deep neural network.
US11587352B2	Fingerprint detection control circuit, fingerprint detection control method and display device A fingerprint detection control circuit, a fingerprint detection control method and a display device. The fingerprint detection control circuit includes a sensing circuitry, a resetting circuitry, a control circuitry and a conversion circuitry. The control circuitry provides a switch control signal to a control end of the resetting circuitry under the control of a first control signal. The resetting circuitry provides a resetting voltage to a conversion control end under the control of a potential at its control end. The conversion circuitry converts a photovoltage signal into a corresponding current signal under the control of a potential at the conversion control end when a first voltage end is electrically connected to a first signal output end, and outputs the current signal via the first signal output end.
US11587349B2	Using identity information to facilitate interaction with people moving through areas A system receives a digital representation of a biometric for a person, uses the digital representation of the biometric to determine and/or otherwise retrieve identity information associated with the person, and uses the identity information to perform one or more actions related to the person's presence in one or more areas. For example, the system may estimate a path for the person and signal an agent electronic device based on the path. In another example, the system may determine a presence of a person within the area and/or transmit information to an agent electronic device regarding the determined presence. In still another example, the system may receive a request to communicate with the person and forward the communication to the person using the identity information.
US11587346B2	Detecting ink gestures based on spatial and image data processing Ink-processing technology is set forth herein for detecting a gesture that a user performs in the course of interacting with an ink document. The technology operates by identifying a grouping of ink strokes created by the user. The technology then determines whether the grouping expresses a gesture based on a combination of spatial information and image information, both of which describe the grouping. That is, the spatial information describes a sequence of positions traversed by the user in drawing the grouping of ink strokes using an ink capture device, while the image information refers to image content in an image produced by rendering the grouping into image form. The technology also provides a technique for identifying the grouping by successively expanding a region of analysis, to ultimately provide a spatial cluster of ink strokes for analysis.
US11587342B2	Using attributes for identifying imagery for selection A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing an image, the image being represented in the data by a collection of visual elements. Operations also include determining whether to select the image for presentation by one or more entities using a machine learning system, the machine learning system being trained using data representing a plurality of training images and data representing one or more attributes regarding image presentation by the one or more entities.
US11587341B2	Method of detecting at least one element of interest visible in an input image by means of a convolutional neural network A method of detecting at least one element of interest visible on an input image, by means of a convolutional neural network, CNN, the method comprises the steps of: (a) extracting, by means of an ascending branch of a first subnetwork of said CNN of feature pyramid network, FPN, type, a plurality of initial feature maps (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) representative of the input image at different scales, said FPN further comprising a descending branch and lateral connections between the ascending branch and the descending branch, at least one lateral connection comprising an attention module; (b) generating, by means of said descending branch of the FPN, a plurality of enriched feature maps (P2, P3, P4, P5) also representative of the input image at different scales, each enriched feature map (P2, P3, P4, P5) incorporating the information from the initial feature maps (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) of smaller or equal scale; (d) detecting at least one element of interest visible on an input image, by means of a second subnetwork of said CNN, referred to as detection network, taking said enriched feature maps (P2, P3, P4, P5) as input.
US11587339B2	Method for reading a code stored in a halftone image and comparison with a retrievable value A method for checking the authenticity of products, by checking an image (A) of a product. The proof of authenticity is not visible to the human eye and cannot be copied. This is characterized in that a code stored in a halftone image by manipulation of dots and/or a manipulated field bounded in the halftone image can be read by means of an optical device and compared with a retrievable value in at least one database. In at least one field (F1 to F5) a part of a serial number is determined which describes the structure of the serial number and a hash function used for transmitting the serial number to the database, and this is also characterized in that the serial number is subsequently assembled and encrypted with the corresponding hash function.
US11587337B2	Intelligent image segmentation prior to optical character recognition (OCR) A medical device monitoring system and method extract information from screen images from medical device controllers, with a single OCR process invocation per screen image, despite critical information appearing in different screen locations, depending on which medical device controller's screen image is processed. For example, different software versions of the medical device controllers might display the same type of information in different screen locations. Copies of the critical screen information, one copy from each different screen location, are made in a mosaic image, and then the mosaic image is OCR processed to produce text results. Text is selectively extracted from the OCR text results, depending on contents of a selector field on the screen image, such as a software version number or a heart pump model identifier.
US11587331B2	Lane keeping for autonomous vehicles A system for a lane keeping feature of a vehicle is provided. The lane keeping feature has a predefined safety requirement criterion for keeping the vehicle within bounds while the lane keeping feature is active. The system comprises a road estimation module and a trajectory planning module. The road estimation module is configured to receive sensor data comprising information about a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and to determine a drivable area based on the sensor data. The drivable area comprises a left boundary and a right boundary extending along a direction of travel of the vehicle, wherein each boundary comprises a plurality of points distributed along each boundary, each point being associated with a confidence level. The trajectory planning module is configured to receive the determined drivable area, and to determine a nominal trajectory for the vehicle based on the received drivable area.
US11587330B2	Visual analytics platform for updating object detection models in autonomous driving applications Visual analytics tool for updating object detection models in autonomous driving applications. In one embodiment, an object detection model analysis system including a computer and an interface device. The interface device includes a display device. The computer includes an electronic processor that is configured to extract object information from image data with a first object detection model, extract characteristics of objects from metadata associated with image data, generate a summary of the object information and the characteristics, generate coordinated visualizations based on the summary and the characteristics, generate a recommendation graphical user interface element based on the coordinated visualizations and a first one or more user inputs, and update the first object detection model based at least in part on a classification of one or more individual objects as an actual weakness in the first object detection model to generate a second object detection model for autonomous driving.
US11587326B2	Video identification and analytical recognition system An analytical recognition system includes one or more video cameras configured to capture video and a video analytics module configured to perform real-time video processing and analyzation of the captured video and generate non-video data. The video analytic module includes one or more algorithms configured to identify an abnormal situation. Each abnormal situation alerts the video analytics module to automatically issue an alert and track one or more objects or individuals by utilizing the one or more video cameras. The abnormal situation is selected from the group consisting of action of a particular individual, non-action of a particular individual, a temporal event, and an externally generated event.
US11587324B2	Control apparatus, control method, storage medium, and imaging control system A control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object area in an image captured by an image capturing apparatus, a dividing unit configured to divide the image into a plurality of divided areas, a first calculation unit configured to calculate a luminance difference as a difference between a luminance value of the object area and a luminance value of each of the divided areas, a second calculation unit configured to calculate a first amount of change as a difference between luminance values of the object area before and after the image capturing apparatus executes exposure control and a second amount of change as a difference between luminance values of the divided area before and after the image capturing apparatus executes exposure control, and a determination unit configured to determine a photometric area.
US11587322B2	Load control system having a visible light sensor A visible light sensor may be configured to sense environmental characteristics of a space using an image of the space. The visible light sensor may be controlled in one or more modes, including a daylight glare sensor mode, a daylighting sensor mode, a color sensor mode, and/or an occupancy/vacancy sensor mode. In the daylight glare sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to decrease or eliminate glare within a space. In the daylighting sensor mode and the color sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to provide a preferred amount of light and color temperature, respectively, within the space. In the occupancy/vacancy sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to detect an occupancy/vacancy condition within the space and adjust one or more control devices according to the occupation or vacancy of the space. The visible light sensor may be configured to protect the privacy of users within the space via software, a removable module, and/or a special sensor.
US11587321B2	Enhanced person detection using face recognition and reinforced, segmented field inferencing The frame or image of a video stream of a videoconference is divided into a series of segments for analysis. There is a primary grid, which covers the entire frame, and an alternate grid, which is shifted from the primary grid. Each segment is small enough to allow a neural network to efficiently operate on the segment without requiring downsampling. By operating on full resolution images, a participant can be identified at a greater distance from the camera. The entire frame is analyzed at a lower frequency, such as once per five seconds, but each segment containing a participant in the conference is scanned at a higher frequency, such as once per second, to maintain responsiveness to participant movement but also allow the full resolution operation.
US11587318B1	Video target tracking Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for finding lost objects. In some implementations, a video frame is displayed. An input drawing a shape around an area of the video frame is received. A second video frame is displayed. An indication of the shape in the second video frame is displayed. An input to adjust the shape such that the shape is drawn around a second area is received.
US11587315B2	Apparatus and methods for augmented reality measuring of equipment Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for augmented reality measuring of equipment. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes an image comparator to compare camera data with reference information of a reference vehicle part to identify a vehicle part included in the camera data, and an inspection image analyzer to, in response to the image comparator identifying the vehicle part, measure the vehicle part by causing an interface generator to generate an overlay representation of the reference vehicle part on the camera data displayed on a user interface, and determining, based on one or more user inputs to adjust the overlay representation, a measurement corresponding to the vehicle part.
US11587309B2	Object detection system, object detection device, and object detection method An object detection system includes a first detection device configured to control a first camera to acquire a first image of a container and detect an object in the container based on the first image, and a second detection device configured to control a second camera to acquire a second image of the container. The second image is a more detailed or accurate image than the first image for detecting the object in the container based on the second image. The first detection device is further configured to train a learning model for detecting the object in the container based on the first image using detection results from the second detection device as an indication of the correct result, and then use the trained learning model for detecting the object in the container based on the first image.
US11587308B2	Object determining system and electronic apparatus applying the object determining system An object determining system, comprising: an optical sensor, comprising a kind determining region and an element analyzing region, wherein the optical sensor acquires first optical data via the kind determining region, and acquires second optical data via the element analyzing region, wherein the kind determining region and the element analyzing region are different regions of the optical sensor; a kind determining circuit, configured to determine an object kind of the object according to the first optical data; and an element analyzing circuit, configured to analyze element of the object according to the second optical data.
US11587306B1	Method and system for unique, procedurally generated digital objects via few-shot model Disclosed herein is digital object generator that makes uses a one-way function to generate unique digital objects based on the user specific input. Features of the input are first extracted via a few-shot convolutional neural network model, then evaluated weight and integrated fit. The resulting digital object includes a user decipherable output such as a visual representation, an audio representation, or a multimedia representation that includes recognizable elements from the user specific input.
US11587304B2	System and method for occluding contour detection A system and method for occluding contour detection using a fully convolutional neural network is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving an input image; producing a feature map from the input image by semantic segmentation; learning an array of upscaling filters to upscale the feature map into a final dense feature map of a desired size; applying the array of upscaling filters to the feature map to produce contour information of objects and object instances detected in the input image; and applying the contour information onto the input image.
US11587301B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing system Provided are: an amodal segmentation unit that generates a set of first amodal masks indicating a probability that a particular pixel belongs to a relevant object for each of objects, with respect to an input image in which a plurality of the objects partially overlap; an overlap segmentation unit that generates an overlap mask corresponding only to an overlap region where the plurality of objects overlap in the input image based on an aggregate mask obtained by combining the set of first amodal masks generated for each of the objects and a feature map generated based on the input image; and an amodal mask correction unit that generates and outputs a second amodal mask, which includes an annotation label indicating a category of each of the objects corresponding to a relevant pixel, for each of pixels in the input image using the overlap mask and the aggregate mask.
US11587300B2	Method and apparatus for generating three-dimensional virtual image, and storage medium The disclosure provides a method for generating a three-dimensional virtual image. The method includes: obtaining a face image to be processed and a three-dimensional reference model; obtaining a three-dimensional face model, face attribute information and face image information by inputting the face image to be processed into a trained neural network; obtaining a three-dimensional image model by performing a deformation process on the three-dimensional reference model based on the three-dimensional face model; and obtaining a target virtual image by adjusting the three-dimensional image model based on the face attribute information and the face image information.
US11587298B2	Caching and updating of dense 3D reconstruction data A method to efficiently update and manage outputs of real time or offline 3D reconstruction and scanning in a mobile device having limited resource and connection to the Internet is provided. The method makes available to a wide variety of mobile XR applications fresh, accurate and comprehensive 3D reconstruction data, in either single user applications or multi-user applications sharing and updating the same 3D reconstruction data. The method includes a block-based 3D data representation that allows local update and maintains neighbor consistency at the same time, and a multi-layer caching mechanism that retrieves, prefetches, and stores 3D data efficiently for XR applications. Between sessions of an XR device, blocks may be persisted on the device or in remote storage in one or more cache layers. The device may, upon starting a new session, selectively use the blocks from one or more layers of the cache.
US11587289B2	Determination of vertices of triangular grids for three-dimensional object representations An example of a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing machine-readable instructions. The instructions may cause the processor to receive a three-dimensional (3D) object representation and subdivide it into a triangular grid. Curved triangles may be calculated for triangles in the triangular grid. The triangles may be subdivided and differences calculated between corresponding sections of the curved triangles and the received 3D object representation.
US11587285B2	Head-mounted display and method thereof A Head-Mounted Display (HMD) is provided which comprises a camera configured to capture a video of a real-world scene with a first field-of-view (FoV), a network interface circuit configured to stream video to a receiving display device, and processing means which is operative to generate a 3D model of the real-world scene, and to generate a video from the 3D model using a second FoV which is wider than the first FoV. The processing means is further operative to estimate a motion of the camera, and to stream the generated video to the receiving display device if the estimated motion of the camera satisfies one or more conditions indicative of rapid motion, else stream the captured video to the receiving display device.
US11587281B2	Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments A graphics processor architecture provides for scan conversion and ray tracing approaches to visible surface determination as concurrent and separate processes. Surfaces can be identified for shading by scan conversion and ray tracing. Data produced by each can be normalized, so that instances of shaders, being executed on a unified shading computation resource, can shade surfaces originating from both ray tracing and rasterization. Such resource also may execute geometry shaders. The shaders can emit rays to be tested for intersection by the ray tracing process. Such shaders can complete, without waiting for those emitted rays to complete. Where scan conversion operates on tiles of 2-D screen pixels, the ray tracing can be tile aware, and controlled to prioritize testing of rays based on scan conversion status. Ray population can be controlled by feedback to any of scan conversion, and shading.
US11587279B2	Augmented facial animation Examples of systems and methods for augmented facial animation are generally described herein. A method for mapping facial expressions to an alternative avatar expression may include capturing a series of images of a face, and detecting a sequence of facial expressions of the face from the series of images. The method may include determining an alternative avatar expression mapped to the sequence of facial expressions, and animating an avatar using the alternative avatar expression.
US11587277B2	Weight maps to generate off-center split maps of a shape A method for generating split-shapes. The method including generating a three dimensional (3D) wire frame of a shape that corresponds to an expression of a face. The method including generating a UV map that corresponds to the 3D wire frame. The method including identifying an isolated area of the shape using vertex weights or the UV map, wherein the isolated area corresponds to a portion of the face. The method including generating a weight map based on the vertex weights or the UV map, wherein the weight map identifies the isolated area. The method including generating a sub-shape of the shape based on the weight map, wherein the sub-shape is editable using an editing application.
US11587275B2	Method for generating a handwriting vector One variation of a method includes: accessing a handwriting sample comprising a set of user glyphs handwritten by a user; for each character in a set of characters, identifying a subset of user glyphs corresponding to the character in the handwriting sample, characterizing variability of a set of spatial features across the subset of user glyphs, and storing variability of the set of spatial features across the subset of user glyphs in a character container corresponding to the character; and compiling the set of character containers into a handwriting model for the user. The method further includes: accessing a text string comprising a combination of characters in the set of characters; for each instance of each character in the text string, inserting a set of variability parameters into the handwriting model to generate a synthetic glyph representing the character; and assembling the set of synthetic glyphs into a print file.
US11587267B2	Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, display system, and vehicle An imaging apparatus captures a rear area behind a vehicle and generates an image, and displays on the image at a position in the image corresponding to the position between the vehicle and a detection object a recognition image extending a predetermined distance in a height direction with respect to road surface and having transmittance that increases with height distance from the road surface. A display control apparatus simultaneously displays a bird's-eye view image of a vehicle, a rear area image behind the vehicle, and a guide image extending rearward and being spaced apart in the width direction of the vehicle, and displays an image on lower right or left of the bird's-eye view image based on a position of an obstacle existing on right or left rear side of the vehicle, and a second image on right edge or on left edge of the image outside the guide image.
US11587264B2	Method and device for generating an augmented image An electronic device and method for generating an augmented image. The device includes an image sensor and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive an image, retrieve a set of keywords, and identify a first set of features within the image corresponding to at least one keyword from the set of keywords, producing first metadata. The electronic processor is configured to compress the image, identify a second set of features within the compressed image, producing second metadata, and determine missing metadata between the first metadata and the second metadata. The electronic processor is configured to generate an augmented image by associating the missing metadata to the compressed image and perform at least one selected from the group consisting of transmitting the augmented image to another device and decompressing the augmented image to create a decompressed image and presenting the decompressed image including the missing metadata.
US11587263B2	Method and apparatus for enhanced patch boundary identification for point cloud compression A method and apparatus for decoding a video stream encoded using video point cloud coding, the decoding including obtaining a geometry-reconstructed point cloud based on one or more patches; identifying a first boundary of a patch including a plurality of first boundary points; identifying a second boundary including a plurality of second boundary points inside the first boundary; performing smoothing on the first boundary points and the second boundary points; obtaining a smoothed geometry-reconstructed point cloud based on the smoothed first boundary points and the smoothed second boundary points; and reconstructing a dynamic point cloud using the smoothed geometry-reconstructed point cloud.
US11587262B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating predicted position information using position information on three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional reference data associated with a time different from a time associated with current three-dimensional data; and encoding position information on three-dimensional points included in the current three-dimensional data, using the predicted position information.
US11587257B1	Camera calibration system Implementations set forth herein relate to a camera calibration system for generating various types of calibration data by maneuvering a camera through a variety of different calibration test systems. The calibration data generated by the camera calibration system can be transmitted to the camera, which can locally store the calibration data. The calibration data can include spatial frequency response value data, which can be generated according to a spatial frequency response test that is performed by the camera calibration system. The calibration data can also include field of view values and distortion values that are generated according to a distortion test that is also performed by the camera calibration system. The camera calibration system can maneuver the camera through a variety of different calibration tests, as well as transmit any resulting calibration data to the camera for storage.
US11587255B1	Collaborative augmented reality eyewear with ego motion alignment Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two eyewear devices by using alignment between respective 6DOF trajectories, also referred to herein as ego motion alignment. An eyewear device of user A and an eyewear device of user B track the eyewear device of the other user, or an object of the other user, such as on the user's face, to provide the collaborative AR experience. This enables sharing common three-dimensional content between multiple eyewear users without using or aligning the eyewear devices to common image content such as a marker, which is a more lightweight solution with reduced computational burden on a processor. An inertial measurement unit may also be used to align the eyewear devices.
US11587253B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for displaying virtual graphical data based on digital signatures A method, apparatus and computer program product utilize digital signatures to efficiently identify objects of interest within images and cause graphical presentation data to be accurately displayed for the objects of interest. The method receives one or more images generated by an image capture device. The method determines one or more digital signatures associated with one or more objects within the one or more images. Based on the one or more digital signatures, the method also determines graphical data placement information comprising one or more graphical data placement regions for the one or more objects. The method also receives graphical presentation data comprising one or more graphical assets. The method also causes display of the graphical presentation data that includes overlaying at least one graphical asset of the one or more graphical assets on the at least one graphical data placement region.
US11587248B2	Method and system for multiple stereo based depth estimation and collision warning/avoidance utilizing the same The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of determining depth information in autonomous driving. Stereo images are first obtained from multiple stereo pairs selected from at least two stereo pairs. The at least two stereo pairs have stereo cameras installed with the same baseline and in the same vertical plane. Left images from the multiple stereo pairs are fused to generate a fused left image and right images from the multiple stereo pairs are fused to generate a fused right image. Disparity is then estimated based on the fused left and right images and depth information can be computed based on the stereo images and the disparity.
US11587243B2	System and method for position tracking using edge computing A tracking system includes a camera subsystem that includes cameras that capture vide of a space. Each camera is coupled with a camera client that determines local coordinates of people in the captured video. The camera clients generate frames that include color frames and depth frames labeled with an identifier number of the camera and their corresponding timestamps. The camera clients generate tracks that include metadata describing historical people detections, tracking identifications, timestamps, and the identifier number of the camera. The camera clients send the frames and tracks to cluster servers that maintain the frames and tracks such that they are retrievable using their corresponding labels. A camera server queries the cluster servers to receive the frames and tracks using their corresponding labels. The camera server determines the physical positions of people in the space based on the determined local coordinates.
US11587242B1	Real-time processing of handstate representation model estimates System and methods are provided for providing a dynamically-updated musculoskeletal representation of a hand. The system includes a plurality of neuromuscular sensors configured to continuously record a plurality of neuromuscular signals from a user, and at least one computer processor programmed to provide as input to a trained statistical model, the plurality of neuromuscular signals and temporally smooth in real-time an output of the trained statistical model. The system is also programmed to determine, based on the smoothed output of the trained statistical model, position information describing a spatial relationship between two or more connected segments of the musculoskeletal representation, force information describing a force exerted by at least one segment of the musculoskeletal representation, and update the musculoskeletal representation of the hand based, at least in part, on the position information and the force information.
US11587240B2	Moving body detecting device, moving body detecting method, and moving body detecting program In tracking of a moving body using image data in detecting a target moving body having few externally outstanding features, such as coloring and a shape, from an image in an image frame, if an image of the target moving body overlaps a background image largely and their colorings are the same or similar to one another, it is difficult to detect the target moving body. A template image of the target moving body is superimposed on a background image of a region (periphery) of a candidate position of the target to generate a composite image and the moving body is detected based on a degree of match calculated through comparison of the composite image with an image of the region (periphery) of the candidate position of the target.
US11587237B2	Image segmention via efficient semidefinate-programming based inference for binary and multi-class Markov Random Fields A system for controlling a physical system via segmentation of an image includes a controller. The controller may be configured to receive an image of n pixels from a first sensor, and an annotation of the image from a second sensor, form a coupling matrix, k class vectors each of length n, and a bias coefficient based on the image and the annotation, generate n pixel vectors each of length n based on the coupling matrix, class vectors, and bias coefficient create a single segmentation vector of length n from the pixel vectors wherein each entry in the segmentation vector identifies one of the k class vectors, output the single segmentation vector; and operate the physical system based on the single segmentation vector.
US11587235B2	Method and apparatus for detecting defects on substrate A method for detecting a defect on a substrate, including receiving a first image, generating a second image, by converting the first image to grayscale levels, calculating a first gray level value, having a maximum number of pixels in the second image, and second and third gray level values, having a number of pixels in the second image equal to a predetermined fraction of the first gray level value, from a histogram of the number of pixels respective to the grayscale levels of the second image, converting the second image into a third image having pixels at a level lower than that of the first gray level value and a fourth image having pixels at a level equal to or higher than the first gray level value, generating fifth and sixth images by detecting edges by applying a Canny algorithm to the third and fourth images, respectively.
US11587233B2	Display panel defect enhancement The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for defect enhancement. According to the method, a plurality of proposed regions from a plurality of images taken for a display panel is obtained. Each of proposed region of the plurality of proposed regions include a suspected defect on the display panel. At least two proposed regions from the plurality of proposed regions that deserve to be superimposed based on a set of conditions is determined. The at least two proposed regions for acquiring an enhanced defect are superimposed.
US11587232B1	Systems and methods for preventing errors in medical imaging A method for preventing wrong-patient errors includes receiving a selection of a current imaging subject. The current imaging subject is selected for a current image acquisition session comprising capturing one or more current images of the current imaging subject utilizing at least a first image sensor system of a first imaging modality. The method includes accessing one or more previous images of a previous imaging subject. The one or more previous images depict the previous imaging subject according to at least a second imaging modality that is different from the first imaging modality. The method includes presenting the one or more previous images on a display system and, in response to determining that the previous imaging subject matches the current imaging subject based upon the one or more previous images, performing the current image acquisition session.
US11587231B2	Comprehensive detection device and method for cancerous region The present invention provides a comprehensive detection device and method for a cancerous region, and belongs to the technical field of deep learning. In the present invention, a cancerous region detection network is trained for preprocessed and annotated CT image data to predict bounding box coordinates of a cancerous region and a corresponding cancer confidence score; a clinical analysis network is trained for preprocessed clinical data with a cancer risk level to predict a cancer probability value of a corresponding patient; and a predicted cancer probability value is weighted to a predicted cancer confidence score to realize a comprehensive determination of the cancerous region. The present invention can detect a cancerous region with high accuracy and high performance.
US11587227B2	System for detecting contrast in medical scans An apparatus for analysing a head CT scan, where the head CT scan includes a plurality of cross-sections, includes a processor configured to select a first cross-section from among the plurality of cross-sections in the head CT scan; and analyse the first cross-section to determine whether the whole head CT scan was taken with contrast. The analyzing includes determining whether the first cross-section shows contrast, based on a presence of bright patches in the first cross-section, determining whether an amount of sulci in the first cross-section is below a threshold amount. In response to determining that the first cross-section shows contrast, determine that the whole head CT scan was taken with contrast, and in response to the determining that the first cross-section does not show contrast and that the amount of sulci is below the threshold amount determining that the whole head CT scan was taken without contrast.
US11587221B2	Detailed damage determination with image cropping The present invention relates to the determination of damage to portions of a vehicle. More particularly, the present invention relates to determining whether each part of a vehicle should be classified as damaged or undamaged and optionally the severity of the damage to each part of the damaged vehicle including preserving the quality of the input images of the damage to the vehicle.Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a computer-implemented method for determining damage states of each part of a damaged vehicle, indicating whether each part of the vehicle is damaged or undamaged and optionally the severity of the damage to each part of the damaged vehicle, using images of the damage to the vehicle and trained models to assess the damage indicated in the images of the damaged vehicle, including preserving the quality and/or resolution of the images of the damaged vehicle.
US11587219B2	Method and apparatus for detecting pixel defect of optical module, and device Provided are a method and an apparatus for detecting pixel defect of optical module, and a device, where the method includes: graying an image obtained by imaging a test binary image by an optical module in a darkroom environment to obtain a first grayscale image; determining a first grayscale area and a second grayscale area corresponding to two gray levels in the test binary image from the first grayscale image; determining a pixel point not matching a grayscale feature of respective grayscale region from the first grayscale area and the second grayscale area respectively as a pixel defect point; and determining the pixel defect of the optical module according to the pixel defect point. The technical solution provided in the present disclosure can detect accurately a pixel defect of an optical module which is advantageous in optimizing the processing technology of the optical module.
US11587218B2	Bale shape monitoring system A bale monitoring system includes an imaging device that is operable to capture a stereoscopic image of a bale. A computing compares the stereoscopic image of the bale to a three-dimensional standard to identify a deviation of the bale from the three-dimensional standard. The computing device may then assign the bale a shape quality score based on the deviation of the bale from the three-dimensional standard. The shape quality score may indicate a magnitude of the deviation of the bale from the three-dimensional standard. Additionally, the stereoscopic image may be analyzed to identify characteristics of the bale, such as a broken wrap material or an improperly formed bale.
US11587217B2	Systems and methods for inspecting pipelines using a robotic imaging system Systems and methods for generating and processing images captured while inspecting above-ground pipelines are disclosed. Embodiments may include a robotic crawler or other devices which carry imaging equipment and traverse a target pipe which are configured to capture image data simultaneously from a plurality of angles. Such systems may substantially reduce and in some cases overcome the need to take multiple traversals of a pipeline under inspection. Embodiments may also be directed toward control systems for such devices as well as image processing systems which process the multiple image sets to produce a composite imaging result.
US11587216B2	Detection and identification of objects in images Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for identification of objects in images using neural networks. A method of the disclosure includes: obtaining an image, representing each element of a plurality of elements of the image via an input vector of a plurality of input vectors, each input vector having one or more parameters pertaining to visual appearance of a respective element of the image, providing the plurality of input vectors to a first subnetwork of a neural network to obtain a plurality of output vectors, wherein each of the plurality of output vectors is associated with an element of the image, identifying, based on the plurality of output vectors, a sub-plurality of elements of the image as belonging to the image of the object, and determining, based on locations of the sub-plurality of elements, a location of an image of an object within the image.
US11587215B2	Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, image display device, image display method, and image display program A combination unit generates a plurality of composite two-dimensional images from a plurality of tomographic images acquired by performing tomosynthesis imaging on an object using different generation methods. In this case, the combination unit generates a first composite two-dimensional image having a quality corresponding to a two-dimensional image acquired by simple imaging or a second composite two-dimensional image in which a structure included in the object has been highlighted as at least one of the plurality of composite two-dimensional images.
US11587214B2	Multipath ghost mitigation in vehicle radar system Systems and methods involve detecting objects using a radar system of a vehicle. Tracks of the objects are initiated in a track database. The tracks store data, respectively, for the objects and are updated based on additional detections of the objects. The tracks of the objects are initially unclassified tracks. Two tracks corresponding to two of the objects are selected as a candidate pair. Criteria are applied to the candidate pair to determine whether one track is of a ghost object and another track is of a true object corresponding with the ghost object. The ghost object represents detection of the true object in an incorrect location. The candidate pair is classified as tracks of a true object and ghost object pair based on determining that the one track is of the ghost object and the other track is of the true object corresponding with the ghost object.
US11587212B2	Target-less calibration of turbid media A submersible vehicle comprising: an image sensor; a first illuminator; at least one hardware processor operatively coupled with said image sensor and first illuminator, and the at least one hardware processor being configured to: acquire a first image of a scene inside a medium, when there is no object along the line-of-sight (LOS), under illumination from a first location or orientation, acquire a second image of the scene inside the medium, when there is no object along the LOS, under illumination from a second, different location or orientation, and compute attenuation coefficients, one per color channel, based on backscatter in the first and second images.
US11587211B2	Image distortion correction circuit and display device An image distortion correction circuit according to the present invention comprises; a first distortion correction circuit that performs a mapping process on an input image signal to generate a distortion-corrected image signal; an inspection region defining circuit that defines an inspection image region in the one-frame image; an inspection region extraction circuit that extracts a part corresponding to the inspection image region from the distortion-corrected image signal and outputs the part of the distortion-corrected image signal as a first inspection image signal; a second distortion correction circuit that outputs a second inspection signal, the second inspection signal being generated by performing the mapping process on the part of the input image signal corresponding to the inspection image region; and a failure determination circuit that determines that a failure occurs and outputs a failure detection signal when the first inspection image signal and the second inspection image signal are mutually different.
US11587210B1	Transfer learning for visual semantic information tasks on curvilinear images In one embodiment, a method includes a computer system accessing a curvilinear image captured using a camera lens, generating multiple rectilinear images from the curvilinear image based at least in part on one or more calibration parameters associated with the camera lens, identifying semantic information in one or more of the rectilinear images by processing each of the multiple rectilinear images using a machine-learning model configured to identify semantic information in rectilinear images, and identifying semantic information in the curvilinear image based on the identified semantic information in the one or more rectilinear images.
US11587204B2	Super-resolution radar for autonomous vehicles Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the vehicle.
US11587198B2	Critical workload check A method of initialising rendering at a graphics processing unit configured to perform safety-critical rendering, the method comprising: causing an instruction for initialising rendering of safety critical graphical data at the graphics processing unit to be provided to the graphics processing unit, said instruction comprising a request for response from the graphics processing unit; initialising a timer, said timer being configured to expire after a time period; and monitoring, during said time period, for a response from the graphics processing unit; determining, by a safety controller external to the graphics processing unit, that an initialisation error has occurred if no response is received from the graphics processing unit before the timer expires.
US11587197B2	Critical workload check A method of initialising rendering at a graphics processing unit configured to perform safety-critical rendering within a graphics processing system, the method comprising: generating configuration data for initialising rendering of safety critical graphical data at the graphics processing unit; receiving the configuration data for initialising rendering at the graphics processing unit; configuring the graphics processing unit in accordance with the configuration data for initialising rendering; determining whether the graphics processing unit is correctly configured in accordance with the configuration data; and determining, by a safety controller external to the graphics processing unit, that an initialisation error has occurred in response to determining that the graphics processing unit is not correctly configured in accordance with the configuration data.
US11587196B2	Information handling system remote desktop protocol selection A connection analyzer at a server information handling system analyzes virtual desktop requests from client information handling systems to prioritize available virtual desktop display protocols for responding to the requests based upon the client type and network interface. The virtual desktop is established by reference to a priority list of virtual desktop display protocols available for sending virtual desktops from a server information handling system.
US11587194B2	Vehicle floating fleet systems and methods Embodiments herein are directed to a vehicle floating fleet vehicle system for determining a location of a user and one or more car-sharing vehicles. The system includes a server computing device operated by a floating fleet service provider. The server computing device includes at least one processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; and machine readable instructions stored in the memory. The machine readable instructions cause the vehicle floating fleet system to perform at least the following when executed by the at least one processor receive a request for the one or more car-sharing vehicles, determine the one or more car-sharing vehicles in one or more nearby gated parking facilities, send information about the one or more car-sharing vehicles to the user, and receive a selected car-sharing vehicle in a nearby gated parking facility of the one or more nearby gated parking facilities from the user.
US11587193B2	Smart vehicle parking apparatus and related methods Smart vehicle parking apparatus and related methods are disclosed herein. An example system includes a processor to reserve a personal vehicle for a time interval. The personal vehicle is to park at a location during the time interval. The processor is also to match a vehicle use option to the personal vehicle based on the time interval and the location. The vehicle use option is associated with a person to use the personal vehicle during the time interval.
US11587192B2	System for navigating vehicles associated with a delivery service A method includes receiving, from a user computing device, a transportation request including a proposed arrival time for a package to arrive at a destination and determining a pickup time to pick up the package based on the proposed arrival time and based on one or more factors affecting ability for the package to arrive at the destination at the proposed arrival time. The method further includes receiving, before the package is picked up, changes to the one or more factors and determining a new pickup time based on the proposed arrival time and the changes to the one or more factors. The method further includes transmitting, to a driver computing device associated with a driver based on the new pickup time, navigational data to direct the driver to pick up the package and providing, to the user computing device, status of a driver location of the driver computing device.
US11587188B2	Creating travel plans based on pictorial representations A user interface facility is described. The facility receives an indication that a trip is to be planned for one or more travelers including a first user. In response to receiving this indication, the facility causes to be displayed to the first user a multiplicity of pictorial representations, each of the displayed pictorial representations conveying one or more travel interests. For each of multiplemultiple pictorial representations among the displayed pictorial representations, the y: receives user input selecting the displayed pictorial representation; and, in response to receiving the user input, causes redisplay of the displayed pictorial representation in a manner that visually reflects that it has been selected.
US11587187B2	Robust and fast design of energy systems considering intra-hour variability The disclosed embodiments combine an energy balance (e.g., averaged energy profiles) with original time series data having smaller time steps to establish an energy balance (e.g., averaged profiles) and a power balance (e.g., smaller time step with original time series data) for a Distributed Energy Resources (DER), microgrid, or other energy system. In an embodiment, a method comprises: solving, with at least one processor, a first optimization problem on time series data related to energy system planning, the first optimization including applying a power balancing framework to the time series data that captures intra-hour variability; and selecting, with the at least one processor, technology assets and sizing for the energy system based on an average hourly and sub-hourly datasets.
US11587178B2	Retail deployment model A method of determining and optimizing the location of a new insurance agency is disclosed to increase market penetration of underrepresented markets. The method comprises the use of a scoring algorithm to rank various geographic regions or related zip codes. The scoring algorithm may be implemented by a location modeling system based on variables selected by a user. In addition, the various ranked geographic regions or related zip codes may be analyzed for proximity to natural or man made perils.
US11587175B1	Full balance sheet advisor Disclosed in some examples are systems, machine readable mediums, and methods for providing a Full Balance Sheet Advisor (FBSA). The FBSA may be a network based service accessible to users using one or more computing devices. The FBSA may be accessed using a web-browser, or a dedicated FBSA application. The FBSA looks at the user's full balance sheet to provide advice on how the user can meet their financial goals.
US11587174B2	System and method for analyzing real-estate investment opportunities A system and method for providing analytical insights on real estate investment opportunities. When scouting for real estate investment opportunities, investors are mainly interested in its financial aspects, for example, its estimated performance and how its performance and risk compare against those of other real estate and non-real estate investment opportunities such as equities and bonds, etc. The system was conceived and developed to provide real estate investors with novel insights on such financial aspects so that they can make informed decisions. The system includes an import module that can be connected to a real estate database for importing real estate listings. The system receives a selection of property from an investor and pulls the real estate listing's data related to that property. The system processes real estate listing's data to obtain novel analytical insights. Each analytical insight is presented as a widget on an interface.
US11587169B2	Controlling operation of a trading algorithm based on operating condition rules Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media are provided for controlling operation of a trading algorithm based on operating condition rules. Certain embodiments provide a method including determining, using a computing device, an approval of use of a trading algorithm by monitoring for an occurrence of an operating condition defined in an operating condition rule. The example method includes determining if the trading algorithm complies with the operating condition rule during the occurrence of the operating condition. The example method includes sending, using the computing device, a notification to a trading instrument to approve or not approve the use of the trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is to be used to implement a trading strategy.
US11587167B2	System and method for active order management in an electronic trading environment A trade order may be submitted to an electronic exchange and updated, according to pay-up parameter values, in an attempt to receive a complete fill within a period of time. The trade order may comprise an order price and an order quantity when submitted to the electronic exchange. The pay-up parameters may include a pay-up interval, a pay-up amount, a pay-up counter, or a combination thereof. The price of the trade order may continue to be updated after the expiration of pay-up interval in an attempt to receive a complete fill of the trade order. The price of the trade order may be increased or decreased by the pay-up amount. The trade order may continue to be updated until a complete fill is received, the pay-up counter expires, and/or an ending time expires for which the pay-up parameters may be implemented.
US11587165B2	On-demand auction A method for performing an auction implemented via an exchange computer system, including receiving, from a user device, a security transaction order, receiving a first matching order, initiating a delay timer that runs for a first period of time, determining that the first period of time has expired, initiating an auction timer that runs for a second period of time, receiving, during the second period of time, one or more additional matching orders, wherein each of the one or more additional matching orders includes a request for participation in the auction, determining that the second period of time has expired, and facilitating a transaction based on the security transaction order.
US11587163B1	System and method for providing comprehensive vehicle build information A hosted web-accessible system, computer program and methods are provided for generating comprehensive vehicle trim and detailed equipment information for clients, including providing comparative estimation based on underlying information regarding a particular vehicle. Comprehensive original vehicle data is obtained from vehicle manufacturers via a vehicle source interface, the data including a unique vehicle identifier for each of one or more vehicles associated with the respective source. A vehicle information request with a vehicle identifier is received from a client, and comprehensive original vehicle data is identified based on the unique identifier and the identifier from the client request. A client response interface displays vehicle data from the identified set of comprehensive original vehicle data. Vehicle valuation may be obtained from third party evaluators according to the vehicle request and based on the original vehicle data.
US11587162B2	Blockchain-based digital loan network Systems and methods are provided for minting payment loan tokens to conduct digital loan transactions within a blockchain-based digital loan payment network. The payment loan tokens are pegged to fiat currency or digital currency. The computing system is a node in the blockchain-based digital loan payment network. A number of payment loan tokens to be provided to a borrower can be determined based on a digital loan transaction. The borrower is a network participant associated with the blockchain-based digital loan payment network. The number of payment loan tokens can be provided for deposit in a digital wallet associated with the borrower based on the digital loan transaction. Payees that receive payment loan tokens from the borrower can redeem the payment loan tokens as fiat or digital currency. A data record that represents the digital loan transaction can be generated. The data record is posted to a blockchain associated with the blockchain-based digital loan payment network.
US11587161B2	Explainable complex model Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a human readable summary explanation to a user for an outcome generated by a complex machine learning model. In one embodiment, a risk assessment service can receive a request from a user in which a risk model of the risk assessment service performs a specific task (e.g., determining the level of risk associated with the user). Once the risk model determines the risk associated with the user, in order to comply with regulations from a compliance system, the risk model can provide a user with an explanation as to the outcome for transparency purposes.
US11587157B2	Embedded payment tokens in digital media objects A token specifying a payment account is issued to a party to which payments are to be made and the token is installed in a specially configured camera. Whenever a photograph is captured by the camera, a copy of the token, among other things, is embedded in the photograph's metadata. The metadata may also include photo-specific information and a selling price. When a buyer selects the photo for purchase, the token may be used to facilitate a payment to the party, such as the photographer. The buyer may initiate the transaction by simply dragging the selected photograph or photographs onto a purchase application which automatically extracts price and the token for initiating the purchase transaction. The seller can view the purchase details in the payment account.
US11587156B2	Including content created by an online system user in a page associated with an entity and/or adding data to the content based on a measure of quality of an image included in the content An online system receives a content item including an image from an online system user. The online system accesses and applies a trained item detection model to predict a probability that a region of interest within the image corresponds to an item associated with an entity based on a set of pixel values associated with the region of interest. If the probability is at least a threshold probability, the online system accesses and applies a trained quality prediction model to predict a measure of quality of the image based on a set of attributes of the image. If the measure of quality is at least a threshold measure of quality, the online system includes the content item in a page associated with the entity maintained in the online system and/or adds a set of data associated with the item and/or the entity to the content item.
US11587155B2	Integrating a product model into a user supplied image Techniques for integrating a product model into a user supplied image are presented herein. A method is disclosed that includes receiving an image of a user space from a user, receiving one or more definitions that describe the user space, retrieving, based on search terms provided by the user, one or more items available at a networked marketplace that fit within the definitions of the user space, and generating a composite image by overlaying an image of one of the items on the image of the user space. The method further scales the image of the item according to the definition of the user space and the physical dimensions of the item, and depicts virtual guidelines indicating a current scale of the image of the item.
US11587153B2	Interactive paint product selection and ordering systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable medium Systems and methods are provided and include a server configured to receive a copy of paint product catalog information associated with a coating manufacturer, store a paint product ordering application, receive a measured color of a flooring product from a dealer computer terminal located at a flooring store, determine paint colors that coordinate with the flooring product based on a measured color of the flooring product and the copy of the paint product catalog information, communicate the paint colors to the dealer computer terminal, run the paint product ordering application, receive an order for a paint product from the dealer computer terminal, and communicate the order for the paint product to a computer system located at a coating manufacturer facility, the computer system being configured to receive transmission of the order for the paint product from the server for order fulfillment at the coating manufacturer facility.
US11587151B1	Seamless user retail experience based on location Techniques for providing a seamless user experience across electronic and physical retail stores of a retailer include storing, locally with a session corresponding to a user's visit to the retailer's electronic store, indications of items that were viewed and/or focused on by the user at the electronic store. At least some of said indications may be transferred to a centralized data storage of the retailer for persistence after the session is terminated. Subsequently, an electronic device operated by the user may determine its location and determine, based on its location, a particular physical retail store of the retailer. Via communications with one or more retailer servers, items that were recently viewed by the user at the electronic store may be identified, and indications thereof may be presented on the display of the electronic device in conjunction with information corresponding to the recently viewed items at the particular physical store.
US11587150B1	Systems and methods for eligibility verification In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a requestor, a request for an on-demand product. The method further includes determining an eligibility token format applicable to the request, wherein the eligibility token format comprises a plurality of partial segments of identifying information. The method also includes prompting the requestor to provide a plurality of partial-segment values corresponding to the plurality of partial segments. In addition, the method includes receiving the plurality of partial-segment values in response to the prompting. Moreover, the method includes generating an eligibility token from the plurality of partial-segment values. The method also includes determining the requestor's eligibility for the on-demand product based, at least in part, on a lookup of the eligibility token in an eligibility token repository. The eligibility token repository includes a plurality of eligibility tokens of the eligibility token format.
US11587147B2	Method for purchasing goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service from a plurality of offered goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service A method for purchasing goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service from a plurality of offered goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service. A defined spatial region is subdivided into defined subregions assigned, in each case, to a purchasable good, access authorization or authorization for using a service. A good, an access authorization or an authorization for using a service from a plurality of offered goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service is purchased, and a user registered in advance for carrying out the method on the basis of biometric features and/or on the basis of features, which may be assigned to the user uniquely, or an item registered in advance for carrying out the method is identified and localized in the defined subregion (1, 2, 3) assigned to the good, access authorization or authorization for using a service.
US11587145B1	System, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for artificial intelligence pre-filling grocery cart Systems and methods to predict and optimize automated recipe selection and item delivery for a customer. An item-selection server selects a plurality of predicted recipes based on customer preferences and order history. Hard and soft constraints are obtained to perform the optimization of the predicted recipes. The hard constraints define parameters that cannot be violated by a recipe or set of recipes, and soft constraints define parameters that expresses a tradeoff value associated with a recipe or set of recipes. Optimization includes selecting multiple sets of predicted recipes based on the hard constraints and scoring each recipe set based on the soft constraints, item inventory, and customer preferences. A specific set of recipes is selected for the order based on the scores, and the filling of the order is initiated for the customer with items associated with the selected set of recipes.
US11587140B2	Methods for improving food-related personalization Systems and methods for improving food-related personalization for a user including generating a recipe database including a set of recipe data structures; deriving a recipe vector representation of the recipe data structures; determining a set of user food preferences; extracting a set of recipe vector constraints from the set of user food preferences; determining a personalized food plan for the user, including automatically selecting a subset of the set of recipe data structures associated with recipe vector representations that satisfy the set of recipe vector constraints; determining fulfillment parameters for grocery items associated with the personalized food plan; and automatically facilitating fulfillment of grocery items associated with the personalized food plan based on the fulfillment parameters.
US11587134B2	Internet-based disease monitoring system An Internet-based disease monitoring system may include a network-based disease sensor device, which is coupled to a sensor, such as a spirometer. A remote server may be coupled to the network-based disease sensor device to provide analysis of input signals from the sensor. The remote server may be able to provide various services for grouping or handling functions relating to such input signals. A service may provide the ability to aggregate input signals from multiple sensors coupled to sensor devices and provide predictive modeling or statistical analysis, which may then be used to adjust future input signals. A service may also contain instructions how to handle billing based on usage of the network-based disease sensor device.
US11587133B1	Medium for creating standardized shared service offerings with template for custom unique prices A system and process provide online service providers with a platform to list services. The platform provides standardized templates for various business segments and business services associated within each segment. The electronic templates allow providers to conveniently enable/disable service offerings and input price, service tiers, and optional upgrades by toggling settings. The listing data is then received by the host and available to be listed through an online marketplace which may be presented to mobile application users. A search query by a consumer returns service listings that can be compared one to one by price a service offered.
US11587129B2	Systems and methods for remote real estate inspections and valuations The present disclosure provides computerized, automated real estate valuation systems and methods that take into account subjective factors of the property like curb appeal and property condition. In preferred embodiments, the valuation system uses image recognition of images (photos and/or videos) associated with the property to automatically identify which comparable properties to include and to exclude in determining the value of the property.
US11587125B2	Method and system for managing communications including advertising content Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that include combining an offer with media content to generate a notice within a portion of the media content, providing the notice in the designated portions of the media content with the notice during a media content presentation at equipment of a user, receiving an indication of interest in the portion, retrieving marketing information for the portion of the media content based on the user profile including location based information, time based information, and activity information, monitoring an activity of the mobile communication device to determine when the mobile communication device information satisfies a location, time, and activity information that matches the marketing information and determining a communication for the user based on the marketing information and the monitoring of the activity of the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11587124B2	Passing control of inserting third-party content into a media stream A first server controls insertion of media content into a media stream, and transmits the media stream from the first server to a media player. The first server also transmits, to a second server, information linking a particular consumer to both a third-party service and to the media player. Control of inserting media content into the media stream is passed from the first server to the second server. The second server receives consumer-specific content associated with the particular consumer from the third-party service, and maps the consumer-specific content to the media player based, at least in part, on the information linking the particular consumer to both the third-party service and to the media player. The second server then inserts the consumer-specific content into the media stream during a time period the second server is in control of inserting media content into the media stream.
US11587123B2	Predictive recommendation system using absolute relevance In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for ranking promotions selected for recommendation to consumers based on predictions of promotion performance and consumer behavior. In embodiments, a set of promotions to be recommended to a consumer can be sorted and/or ranked according to respective relevance scores representing a probability that the consumer's behavior in response to the promotion will match a ranking target. In embodiments, calculating scores is based on a relevance model (a predictive function) derived from one or more contextual data sources representing attributes of promotions and consumer behavior. In embodiments, an absolute relevance score represents an absolute prediction of a ranking target variable. In embodiments, absolute relevance may be used to determine personalized local merchant discovery frontiers; featured result set thresholding for impressions; and/or promotion notification triggers. In embodiments, predictive models based on gross revenue may be optimized using promotion category-dependent price boosting.
US11587120B2	Virtual reality and augmented reality systems and methods to generate mobile alerts A mobile device may include a location determination device, a mobile application, a plurality of wireless communication devices, and a user interface for the mobile application. The mobile device may be coupled, via wireless connections, with a wearable device to capture identification information of the object and a remote portal to determine whether a data warehouse coupled with the portal stores a predetermined type of data associating the identification information and the mobile device. If so, the mobile device may generate an alert on the mobile device and prompt the user to accept an operation related to the object. If the user accepts the operation, the mobile application may monitor the location of the mobile device and initiate the operation based on the location of the mobile device.
US11587118B2	Systems and methods for statistical dynamic geofencing Systems and methods for statistical dynamic geofencing are discussed. For example, a method for statistical dynamic geofencing can include operations such as receiving a location-based campaign request, analyzing demographic data, determining a geofence parameter, generating a geofence, and distributing location-aware advertisements. The location-based campaign request can include a list of points of interest (POIs) and a target demographic parameter. The demographic data can include data from geographic areas surrounding at least a portion of the POIs as well as data related to the target demographic parameter. The geofence can be generated based at least in part on the geofence parameter, where the geofence parameter directly affects either the size or shape of the geofence. The location-aware advertisements are distributed to a plurality of mobile devices determined to be within the geofence.
US11587116B2	Predictive recommendation system In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a predictive recommendation system based on an analysis of previous consumer behavior. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data representing a user, the data including user identification and historical data; receiving a set of promotions recommended for the user; assigning the user to a consumer lifecycle model state based in part on the historical data and the user identification; selecting a ranking algorithm associated with the consumer lifecycle model state; and ranking the received set of promotions based on a predicted promotion relevance value associated with each promotion, the predicted promotion value being calculated using the ranking algorithm.
US11587113B2	Batch transaction multiplexing engine Systems and methods for batch multiplexing a plurality of transactions are provided. A system may include a machine-learning (“ML”) based engine configured to receive instructions to execute a first transaction, derive a plurality of sets of delay parameters for the first transaction, and display the sets of delay parameters on a graphical user interface (“GUI”) associated with a sender of the instructions. The engine may be configured to receive a selection of a set of delay parameters, and, based on the selection, append the first transaction to one of a plurality of pending transaction queues. The engine may be further configured to, within a maximum time window, combine the transactions in the pending transaction queue to create a single multiplexed transaction, and execute the multiplexed transaction. The engine may also be configured to demultiplex the multiplexed transaction after it is executed.
US11587112B2	Promotion planning for managing allocation of inventory mix utilizing an optimization framework A media management system that generates a plurality of values associated with a promotion impact measure for each of the promotional campaigns based on historical data that is acquired and an expected audience. Inventory unit needs are determined for each of the promotional campaigns that corresponds to a promotion inventory utilization of a plurality of inventory utilization types, based on at least the generated plurality of values. The determined inventory units for each of the promotional campaigns are utilized to dynamically allocate inventory from a defined amount of inventory units among each inventory utilization types to meet a plurality of defined parameters for the defined amount of inventory units for one or more specified durations until an end of the upcoming time-frame.
US11587104B2	Transaction processing system The transaction processing system and method provide an efficient and effective way to authorize promotion redemption. The transaction processing system may receive an indication of a request for authorization, the indication comprising a merchant identifier, an account number, and a transaction amount. The transaction processing system may determine whether the request for authorization corresponds to a promotion. The system may further transmit a transaction authorization based on whether the request for authorization corresponds to the promotion. The transaction processing system may cause a promotion database to designate the promotion as redeemed. In this fashion, the transaction processing system improves the consumer experience and minimizes the transaction time needed to identify and redeem a promotion.
US11587102B2	Instant qualification cross channel offer targeting A system for instant qualification cross channel offer targeting is disclosed. The system may receive a plurality of personally identifiable information (PII) elements from at least one of a customer device or an affiliate system. The system may determine a credit authorization state in response to the PII element. The system may receive a first request to generate an offer from at least one of the customer device or the affiliate system. The system may generate the offer in response to an offer optimization model, the credit authorization state, and the first request to generate an offer. The system may hash the plurality of PII elements and determine a unique hash based on the plurality of PII elements. The system may associate the unique hash to the offer and store the offer as offer data.
US11587098B2	Automated consent management systems and methods for using same The disclosed embodiments can be used to automate the acquisition and management of user consents for one or more campaigns, thus reducing the possibility of unintended violations of consent requirements as compared with existing systems. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, each user consent may be associated with at least three different values. The consent management system may be configured to filter consent values for various users and send user-consent requests to certain users based on their filtered user-consent values. In some disclosed embodiments, a user may provide consent to allow communications of the user's information to certain “connected parties.” The connected parties, moreover, may need to separately provide user consent(s) as necessary to effectuate communications for a campaign in compliance with one or more laws, rules, or regulations.
US11587094B2	Customer service ticket evaluation using multiple time-based machine learning models customer Techniques are provided for customer service ticket prioritization using multiple time-based machine learning models. One method comprises obtaining a customer service ticket; collecting, in response to the obtaining, features related to the customer service ticket comprising dynamic information regarding activities performed to address the customer service ticket and textual information describing the customer service ticket; applying the collected features to one of multiple machine learning models to obtain a distress score indicating a likelihood that the customer service ticket will become a distressed customer service ticket, wherein the multiple machine learning models each correspond to different time periods and are trained on historical data and the collected features are applied to the one machine learning model based on an age of the customer service ticket; and processing multiple customer support tickets based on the distress score. The machine learning models are trained using cumulative corresponding historical training data associated with a respective one of hourly, daily, weekly and monthly time periods.
US11587092B2	System for dynamic prediction of interchange rates for credit card transaction processing A computer-implemented method for predicting interchange charges includes: retrieving a historical transactions set, where each completed transaction in the set includes transaction features, a bank identification number (BIN), and a corresponding true interchange code; transforming all BINs in the set into a corresponding plurality of BIN features that comprise probabilities; creating a first training set including all transaction features, all pluralities of BIN features, and all true interchange codes associated with the historical transactions set; training a random forest model using the first training set and generating a second training set including rounded BIN features, rounded transaction features, discrete ones of the transaction features, and the true interchange codes; training the random forest model using the second training set to generate a trained random forest model for prediction of the interchange codes; and executing the trained random forest model for new transactions to generate corresponding predicted interchange codes.
US11587089B2	Systems and methods for automated fraud detection and analytics using aggregated payment vehicles and devices Systems and methods are disclosed for automated fraud detection and analytics using aggregated payment vehicles and devices, at the individual and/or household level. One method includes receiving an authorization request for a payment transaction originating at a merchant, using a first payment vehicle; receiving device information of a first device used in the payment transaction; retrieving transaction data and identifying information associated with the authorization request before the authorization request is routed to a financial institution; searching and determining payment vehicles and devices associated with the individual using the retrieved identifying information; aggregating transaction data associated with the payment vehicles and devices from the transaction database; retrieving reported fraudulent activities pertaining to the payment vehicles and devices; and generating a profile data for the individual according to the identifying information associated with the authorization request, personally identifiable information (PII), the aggregated transaction data, and reported fraudulent activities.
US11587088B2	Method and system for hosted order page/silent order post Generally, embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, computer readable medium, servers and systems for enabling merchants to use hosted order pages (HOPs) and/or silent order posts (SOPs) and thereby avoid handling payment information and the costs associated Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, while at the same time utilize third-party fraud detection screens and thereby avoid costs associated with fraudulent transactions.
US11587083B2	Transaction validation service Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing a transaction validation service. A device can receive a request to validate a transaction requested by a user device, where the transaction can be performed by an application and where the request to validate the transaction can be obtained with a first hash that is created by the user device. The first hash can include a hash of transaction data that is hashed using data stored on the user device. The device can receive an indication that the transaction has been approved, obtain a second hash of the transaction data that is hashed using the data stored on the user device, and determine, based on the first hash and the second hash, whether the transaction should be allowed or blocked.
US11587079B2	Digital resource distribution network matrix for secure interactions Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for a single degree tiered bracket matrix for secure digital resource distribution across a digital resource distribution network. In this way, the invention interrupts a digital resource distribution network and displays a tiered bracket matrix for a user to select from on the digital resource distribution network application. The tiered bracket matrix is determined by matching database points with an overlayed, timestamped, resource distribution network distributions for prepopulating of the matrix. Upon matching a user device contact hash value, the system may interrupt a resource distribution network application and splice in recommended users for resource distribution via the resource distribution network application in a tiered matrix display.
US11587076B2	Systems and methods for responsive data transfer and anonymizing data using tokenizing and encrypting Described herein are systems and methods for securely obtaining payment information from a recipient on a payer's mobile device within an application on the payer's mobile device. The securely obtained information can be decrypted in the application, and the recipient information can be extracted. The extracted recipient information can be validated and used by the application to initiate a fund transfer to the recipient's account from the payer's account. The application can include a user interface that can allow the payer to anonymize the payment, securing the privacy of the payer.
US11587072B2	System for secure resource transfer integration Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure resource transfer integration. The present invention is configured to electronically receive an access request to access a cold storage wallet associated with the user; initiate an authentication protocol to determine whether the user is authorized to access the cold storage wallet; provide access to the cold storage wallet to the user based on at least determining that the user is authorized to access the cold storage wallet; electronically receive a user request to transfer at least a portion of resources from the cold storage wallet to a resource distribution account associated with the user; execute the transfer of at least the portion of resources from the cold storage wallet to the resource distribution account; and display a notification indicating the execution of the transfer of at least the portion of resources.
US11587069B2	Digital contracts in blockchain environments Digital or “smart” contracts execute in a blockchain environment. Any entity (whether public or private) may specify a digital contract via a contract identifier in a blockchain. Because there may be many digital contracts offered as virtual services, the contract identifier uniquely identifies a particular digital contract offered by a virtual machine, vendor or supplier. The blockchain is thus not burdened with the programming code that is required to execute the digital contract. The blockchain need only include or specify the contract identifier (and perhaps one or more contractual parameters), thus greatly simplifying the blockchain and reducing its size (in bytes) and processing requirements.
US11587068B2	Systems and methods for supporting legacy and tokenized e-commerce System and methods for supporting legacy and tokenized transactions are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing device comprising at least one computer processor, a method for selecting an electronic payment credential to communicate to a merchant, may include (1) an electronic wallet backend receiving a plurality of payment credentials associated with a payment account; (2) the electronic wallet backend receiving a credential capability for a merchant; (3) the electronic wallet backend selecting one of the payment credentials for a transaction with the merchant based on the credential capability; and (4) the electronic wallet backend communicating the selected payment credential to a point of transaction device for the merchant.
US11587067B2	Digital wallet system and method Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems to enable a digital wallet identifier to be present in communications associated with transaction data for transactions that are facilitated by a digital wallet provider. In one embodiment, a communication device of a user receives a request for payment credentials required to conduct a transaction and obtains the payment credentials. The payment credentials include a digital wallet identifier and at least some of the payment credentials are obtained from a trusted execution environment associated with the communication device. The obtained payment credentials are provided to an access device associated with a merchant. The access device is configured to initiate the transaction by generating an authorization request message including the payment credentials for onward transmission to an issuer computer.
US11587062B1	Mobile wallet for non-tokenized cards Systems and methods for bundling various functionalities and features into a mobile wallet are provided. A method includes: receiving an indication from a user to install a mobile wallet client application on a user device; receiving registration information to install the mobile wallet client application including information regarding a first transaction card associated with the user; determining that the first transaction card is not associated with a token while a second transaction card is associated with a token; registering the user for the mobile wallet client application, the mobile wallet client application configured to present the user with a mobile wallet interface, wherein the mobile wallet interface includes a first graphical depiction of the first transaction card; and updating the first graphical depiction of the mobile wallet interface to remove a depiction of a transaction feature for the first transaction card based on the transaction feature not being utilized.
US11587060B2	System and method for pushing messages to a mobile communications device A method disclosed herein provides for pushing messages to a mobile communications device. An application on the mobile communications receives a pushed message including a set of instructions which when executed cause the mobile communications device to connect to an application server associated with the application executing on the mobile communications device. The pushed message is sent to the mobile communications device by a push mechanism that is one of a plurality of push mechanisms selected by a push service system in response to the push service system receiving a message send request from the application server. Once the mobile communications device is connected to the application server, the mobile communications device receives information messages from the application server.
US11587059B1	System and method for instant purchase transactions via image recognition A system and related method for completing online transactions via mobile device includes a client-side e-commerce platform executing on the mobile device that identifies candidate items for purchase based on images related to an item desired by the user. The client-side platform determines attributes of the item based on an image captured by an onboard camera or otherwise stored on, or downloaded to, the mobile device. Purchase information for items offered by participating vendors, or third-party vendors, is retrieved by the platform via APIs of the vendor network or automated middleware respectively. The user may select items for purchase and complete the transaction via single click, and the middleware forwards payment details to the third-party vendors and retrieves purchase information and transaction records from the third-party vendors. The client-side platform generates a single transaction and invoice whether the selected items are purchased from in-network or third-party vendors.
US11587056B2	Data interaction method and device, and offline credit payment method and device Implementations of the present application provide data interaction and offline credit payment methods and devices. In one implementation, a credit payment code generated by a server is obtained by scanning and parsing a two-dimensional code presented on a mobile computing device for making a payment. The credit payment code is then decrypted based on asymmetric key decryption to obtain a credit payment token. The credit payment token is parsed to obtain security content included in the credit payment token. The payment associated with the credit payment code is then determined to satisfy the security content and the payment is verified with the server that generates the credit payment code at a predetermined time.
US11587054B2	Optical-scan triggered electronic funds transfer for purchase transaction A transaction request is received. The transaction request includes a merchant identifier. The merchant identifier is for identifying a merchant. The merchant's banking details are appended to the transaction request. The transaction request, with the appended banking details, is transmitted to a user's bank. Confirmation is received that a transaction has been performed in accordance with the transaction request. A confirmation is transmitted to the merchant to indicate that the transaction has been performed.
US11587053B1	System and method for facilitating account provisioning In a method for broadcasting account provisioning information, user datum encryption information is transmitted to a plurality of account processing systems. A request to share account provisioning information is received from a user device associated with an account holder. A user datum of the account holder is encrypted using the encryption information and transmitted to the account processing systems. A response is received from at least one of the account processing systems, the response including an indication that the account holder has a transaction account processed by that account processing system. A request for confirmation that the account provisioning information should be shared is sent to the user device and a confirmation response is received from the user device that includes permission to share account provisioning information. Account provisioning information is then transmitted to one or more of the account processing systems.
US11587051B2	Subscription aggregation system In some embodiments, a method to generate a user interface for a subscription management system may include receiving first order data relating to a first subscription offering, receiving second order data related to a second subscription offering, combining the first and second order data into a subscription data structure that, calculating a combined one-time payment amount for both the first and second subscription offerings based on the quantity data, calculating a combined periodic monthly subscription payment amount for both the first and the second subscription offerings based on the quantity and period data, and/or causing presentation of both the combined one-time payment amount and the combined monthly subscription payment amount in the user interface for the subscription management system.
US11587048B2	Method and system for massage apparatus-based user information transaction Provided are a method and a system for a massage apparatus-based user information transaction. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for a massage apparatus-based user information transaction includes the steps of: inquiring whether a user gives prior-consent to provision of user information to the outside; if the user gives prior consent to the provision of user information to the outside, collecting, from the massage apparatus, user information including the user's biometric information, and storing same; providing the stored user information to a third party company server; calculating an amount of money to be paid to the user in accordance with the provision of the user information to the outside; and paying the calculated amount of money to the relevant user's account.
US11587047B2	Transaction methods for mobile wallet operations in a gaming environment Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for transaction methods for mobile wallet operations in a casino. Various embodiments are directed to applying funds to a user's mobile wallet by transactions at a kiosk, cage, Peripheral System, or other system of the casino. Embodiments are also directed to applying credit to an electronic gaming machine of the casino. Embodiments are also directed to returning or redeeming credit from an electronic gaming machine of the casino to the user. Embodiments are also directed to transferring credit from a mobile wallet to external funds.
US11587044B2	Synchronized conversation-centric message list and message reading pane Technologies are described herein for a user interface uniting two primary components, a list view and a reading pane, within a message reading application. Technologies are also described for synchronizing status and parameters between the two primary user interface components. In particular, a user interface for reading messages can represent all components of a conversation with both a list view for presenting a message map, and a reading pane for presenting a content view. The list view can present a list of messages grouped by conversation. The reading pane window can contain smaller windows or frames. Each of the smaller windows or frames can contain a message within a given conversation. Synchronization provided between the list view and a reading pane can allow message selection in one of the user interface components to cause display and selection of the corresponding message in the other user interface component.
US11587042B2	Automated reactive talent matching Improved automated techniques are described that more efficiently match candidates to job opportunities. These techniques include a reactive matching process that uses improved pattern-matching algorithms to determine exactly how well a particular individual matches an employer's requirements. In at least one embodiment, results are displayed in real time using user-friendly visual indicators on job displays and/or on a dashboard.
US11587038B2	Method and apparatus for mobile quality management inspections A mobile Quality Management/Control system for performing mobile product inspections is provided. A mobile device, such as a tablet, is configured to communicate with one or more databases and allow for real time entry (and subsequent access) of the details of product inspections for quality control and management purposes. The details of such inspections are maintained and available for all subsequent inspections. The mobile device is further configured to provide inspectors with inspection procedures and/or tutorials associated with the inspections being performed.
US11587037B1	Rental deposit advocate system and method A system and method for automatically documenting a condition of a property and generating a request for return of a security deposit is described. In one embodiment, a method for automatically documenting a condition of a physical space includes determining an initial condition of one or more inspected elements in a physical space. The method also includes obtaining a current condition of the one or more inspected elements in the physical space. The method includes determining changes between the initial condition and the current condition for each of the one or more inspected elements. The method further includes generating a report documenting the changes of the one or more inspected elements in the physical space.
US11587036B2	System for preparation of modifiable recipe-based products Systems and methods for the preparation of recipe-based products may include a computer-based system for parsing recipe steps and instructions, such that each of a plurality of product preparation stations receives and displays on an associated human-machine interface only those instructions associated with that product preparation station.
US11587035B2	System and method for order fulfillment A system and method for order fulfillment includes receiving an order for a plurality of items, initiating collection of the plurality of items for the order, detecting presence of a user at a selected one of a plurality of delivery locations when the plurality of items are ready for delivery, and initiating delivery of the items to the user at the selected delivery location.
US11587033B2	Systems and methods for autonomous provision replenishment Systems and methods for autonomous provision replenishment are disclosed. Parts used in a manufacturing process are stored in an intermediate stock queue. When the parts are consumed by the manufacturing process and the number of parts in the queue falls below a threshold, a provision-replenishment signal is generated. One or more self-driving material-transport vehicles, a fleet-management system, and a provision-notification device.
US11587031B2	Management device and management system A management device includes a distance sensor, a sensor interface, and a processor. The distance sensor is configured to measure a distance between a predetermined position and a backmost side of a commodity line having commodities biased in an arrangement direction and supported from a foremost side of the commodity line. The sensor interface transmits and receives data to and from the distance sensor. The processor calculates a length of the commodity line based on the distance before a change in the distance and the distance after the change in the distance when the distance is changed, and determines whether the length of the commodity line matches a thickness of the commodity indicated by shelf label information. The processor calculates the increased or decreased number of commodities based on the determination.
US11587029B2	Determining product placement compliance A method for product compliance includes receiving, at data processing hardware, a planogram defining a representative placement of a product on a display shelf and receiving at least one image from an imaging device having a field of view arranged to capture a top surface of the display shelf. The method also includes determining whether the product is disposed on the display shelf based on the at least one image. When the product is disposed on the display shelf, the method includes determining an actual placement of the product on the display shelf and comparing the actual placement of the product to the representative placement of the product defined by the planogram. The method further includes determining a planogram compliance based on the comparison of the actual placement of the product to the representative placement of the product and communicating the planogram compliance to a network.
US11587026B2	RFID based inventory system and method An inventory management system and method using RFID tags for the tracking and management of individual items of inventory or work-in-process. The system uses a cloud-based service device to manage inventory at a facility via a communications hub. RFID printers, RFID readers, and antennas located at the facility relay information through the communications hub. Movement of items is monitored by tracking RFID tags associated with each item. Information on the tracked items may be recorded, displayed, and used to generate reports and notifications by the cloud-based services device. Historical tracking records may also be displayed.
US11587025B2	Procedure tray management A computer implemented method for procedure tray management, comprising storing in a database a set of procedure tray types, displaying, on a user interface, a list of procedure tray types, and displaying, in response to a user input, a list of items included in a selected procedure tray type. The method further includes automatically determining a recommended modification to the selected procedure tray type by identifying recommended item additions as items which are included in a template associated with the selected procedure tray type and not included in the selected procedure tray and electronically communicating the proposed modified procedure tray type to at least some users associated with the selected procedure tray. In response to a confirmation from at least one user the selected procedure tray type is updated in the database.
US11587024B2	Supply chain model generation system A supply chain model generation system independently uses a business entity code and an item code representing an item related to a transaction in result information on a supply chain operation of a plurality of business entities; transaction information is extracted from the result information and a transaction time series information table is generated; a relationship in the transaction time series information table in each business entity is analyzed and a virtual business entity code on a supply side and a virtual business entity code on a demand side are assigned for each business entity code; and further a logical model information table where a virtual item code is assigned with respect to an item code related to the transaction of a business entity of the virtual business entity code on the supply side and a business entity of the virtual business entity code on the demand side is generated.
US11587020B2	Systems and methods for synchronizing delivery of related parcels via computerized locker bank A synchronized delivery system for delivering parcels directly to an alternate delivery location such as a locker bank in lieu of making any delivery attempt at a primary delivery location such as a home or office. The system may deliver parcels directly to the alternate delivery location when a related parcel is currently stored at the alternate delivery location awaiting pickup. A related parcel may include a parcel addressed to the same consignee, to a related consignee (e.g., such as a neighbor, roommate, or spouse), or to another authorized to pick up parcels on behalf of the consignee. When delivering parcels to alternate deliver locations, the system may facilitate a grouping of related parcels in a single locker.
US11587018B2	Intermediated shipping logistics system for facilitating delivery appointment scheduling with outsourced carrier systems A computer system that queries a carrier computer system of a carrier associated with a shipment to determine whether delivery appointment scheduling is available for the shipment, based on a determination that the delivery appointment scheduling is available, generates and transmits a link for a dynamically generated web page to the recipient; receives a signal indicating activation of the link; obtains scheduling information for the shipment from the carrier computer system; dynamically generates page code for the web page and transmits the web page to a client, the web page displaying information associated with the shipment and digital assets that visually correspond to the shipper of the shipment and including a scheduling tool; receives a selection of a time slot from the scheduling tool; and communicates with the carrier computer system to update the carrier computer system with the time slot to schedule delivery of the shipment to the recipient.
US11587017B2	Disaggregation events and decommissioning events Systems and methods are directed to supply chain management. In particular, the tracking, tracing, authenticating, and reporting of supply chain events for products, is disclosed. Various embodiments can store, analyze, and track supply chain events and help to coordinate and maintain trading partner connections. Various embodiments also help to enhance patient safety, secure the supply chains for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products, and help users to follow regulatory requirements.
US11587011B1	Employing real-time performance feedback to manage resource collection Embodiments are directed to executing one or more campaigns. Initialization identifiers may be provided to campaign agents associated with campaign owners. The campaign agents may be associated with campaigns based on the initialization identifiers. Resource collection requests may be provided to sources based on source information provided by the campaign agents. Metrics may be provided based on monitoring actions of the sources. Outlier characteristics associated with the resource collection requests may be identified based on a comparison of the metrics to other campaigns. The resource collection requests may be modified based on predicted metrics associated with the outlier characteristics. The modified resource collection requests may be provided to the sources associated with the outlier characteristics. Resources provided from the sources may be distributed to the campaign owners.
US11587009B2	Risk-based assessment of passenger transfer A system and method for assessment of risk involved in transfer of passengers into or out of a vehicle at a particular transfer location. The assessment may utilize environmental data and dynamic data to estimate a risk level for the passengers. If the estimated risk level is not lower than a threshold, a revised transfer location may be found and assessed.
US11587008B2	Workflow management via block chains Techniques are disclosed for managing workflows using block chains. An entire workflow may be stored as a finite state machine on a block chain. Each data block of the block chain may correspond to a state and related operation of a workflow. Each data block of the block chain may be used as an input to a subsequent state of the workflow. Thus, any input may be used to compute the workflow even if the input is not designed to be used by a workflow. Nested block chains, each corresponding to a different workflow or different part of a workflow may be used to increase performance of computing the workflows.
US11587006B2	Workflow deployment A workflow deployment system comprising at least one computing device having a memory unit and a first communication unit, and a plurality of software agents, wherein each software agent is installable on an electronic apparatus of the plurality of electronic apparatuses, wherein each software agent exchanges data with the electronic apparatus, wherein the memory unit stores workflow data related to a workflow for performing a task, the workflow comprising at least a first workflow package for a first part of the task, wherein the computing device assigns the first workflow package to the first apparatus, and to provide workflow data related to the first workflow package to the software agent of the first apparatus, to receive a problem solution request from the software agent, to perform, upon reception of the request, a workflow modification process; and to provide the customized data to the software agent of the first apparatus.
US11587005B2	Inspection support system According to one embodiment, an inspection support system includes a terminal device, a memory device, and a processing device. The terminal device is auxiliary to a worker inspecting an equipment, and is configured to input and output information. The memory device stores a main scenario of inspection work. The main scenario includes a plurality of block scenarios. The plurality of block scenarios each includes preparation procedure content, inspection item content, and restoration procedure content. The processing device refers to the memory device and transmits instruction information to the terminal device. The instruction information corresponds to at least one of the preparation procedure content, the inspection item content, or the restoration procedure content. The terminal device outputs the instruction information transmitted from the processing device and transmits response information to the processing device. The processing device transmits other instruction information to the terminal device.
US11587003B2	System for construction based proposals and method of use A method for creating highly accurate construction and renovation estimates and proposals for a client is described. The computer implemented method includes providing a platform to include all of the items and assemblies required in a construction project that make up the construction proposal, including all labor costs, material costs, and additional costs for taxes and mark ups. The method simplifies a highly complex and usually inaccurate process of having to calculate all of the costs associated with construction and renovation, in particular for residential properties, and allows clients to select desired items and receive a highly accurate, detailed estimate and proposal very quickly. The process further includes the ability to make any changes and upgrades quickly because of the unique system which includes linked dimensions, linked line items, and linked assemblies that allows a selection to affect multiple related elements, and further includes all hidden costs for better accuracy.
US11586998B2	Gaming apparatus based on competitive use of residential energy Gaming systems and apparatus may be implemented to promote more efficient use of resources by players by monitoring their use of said resources in a competitive gaming system. Some implementations include determining and promoting goals for resource consumption and tracking/monitoring the progression of one or more players in reaching said goals. The competitive gaming system may include tracking different players' progress and providing updates of said progress in a points system where the players are competing to get ahead.
US11586996B2	Method and apparatus for optimized production of sheet-metal parts A method for optimizing production of sheet-metal parts, the production comprising cutting out and singularizing the sheet-metal parts and bending the sheet-metal parts, wherein the method includes: (A) training a neural network, which is executed on a Monte Carlo tree search framework, by means of supervised learning and self-play with reinforcement learning; (B) recording constraints for the sheet-metal parts, the constraints comprising geometric data of the sheet-metal parts; (C) creating an optimized production schedule by way of the neural network; and (D) outputting the production schedule.
US11586992B2	Travel plan recommendation method, apparatus, device and computer readable storage medium Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a travel plan recommendation method, an apparatus, a device and a computer readable storage medium. In the method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the travel plan classification model is obtained by training with the comprehensive consideration of the diversity of users, the diversity of the travel environment in time and space and dynamics of the user's travel preference, and the travel feature vector is generated according to the user persona information and the travel mode distribution information of the user, the current travel environment feature information and the feature information of the starting point and the destination point of the current travel, the travel feature vector is inputted into the travel plan classification model to calculate the scores of the candidate travel plans, and the travel plan recommended to the user according to the scores of the candidate travel plans.
US11586989B2	Method for detecting if a machine learning model has been copied using intermediate outputs of the machine learning model A method is provided for detecting copying of a machine learning model. In the method, the first machine learning model is divided into a plurality of portions. Intermediate outputs from a hidden layer of a selected one of the plurality of portions is compared to corresponding outputs from a second machine learning model to detect the copying. Alternately, a first seal may be generated using the plurality of inputs and the intermediate outputs from nodes of the selected portion. A second seal from a suspected copy that has been generated the same way is compared to the first seal to detect the copying. If the first and second seals are the same, then there is a high likelihood that the suspected copy is an actual copy. By using the method, only the intermediate outputs of the machine learning model outputs have to be disclosed to others, thus protecting the confidentiality of the model.
US11586987B2	Dynamically updated text classifier Methods and systems for dynamically updating machine learning models such as text classifiers. One of the methods includes: receiving first data; producing a first machine learning model using the first data; releasing the first machine learning model for use; receiving second data after receipt of the first data; determining that the second data has a difference metric relative to the first data that exceeds a difference threshold; retraining the first machine learning model using at least part of the second data, the retraining producing a second machine learning model; and releasing the second machine learning model for use.
US11586985B2	Vehicle control apparatus A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle through a control program using at least one parameter. The at least one parameter is corrected by respective at least one correction value that is obtained after start of execution of a learning operation. The vehicle control apparatus includes: a learning-data storage portion configured to store, as learning data, the at least one correction value obtained after the start of the execution of the learning operation; and a learning-data rewrite portion configured, when the control program is updated, to execute a rewriting operation for rewriting the at least one correction value as the learning data from a pre-update correction value to a post-update correction value, such that the post-update correction value has the same sign as the pre-update correction value, and an absolute value of the post-update correction value is smaller than an absolute value of the pre-update correction value.
US11586984B2	Method for verifying the production process of field devices by means of a machine-learning system or of a prognosis system The present disclosure relates to a method for verifying the production process of field devices, including a step of accessing a service platform on which data from field devices, including identification data, the respective type of field device, configuration data, containing application-specific data, environment information of the field devices or parameter data, data relating to the production date of a respective field device and repair or troubleshooting cases of the field devices are stored. The method also includes steps of detecting anomalies by statistically evaluating the repair or troubleshooting cases stored on service platform and creating a notification in the event of a detected anomaly, supplying the data of the field devices and the notifications to a machine learning or prognosis system, and evaluating the data of the field devices and the notifications by means of the machine learning or prognosis system for forecasting series errors of the field devices.
US11586979B2	System, method, and computer program product for distributed cache data placement A method may include obtaining feature data associated with a set of feature inputs of a machine learning model, determining a probability that a subset of the feature data is concurrently used as the set of feature inputs for the machine learning model, and storing the subset of the feature data on a same cache node or server of a plurality of cache nodes or servers based on the probability.
US11586975B2	Machine learning model score obfuscation using multiple classifiers An artefact is received. Thereafter, features are extracted from the artefact and a vector is populated. Later, one of a plurality of available classification models is selected. The classification models use different scoring paradigms while providing the same or substantially similar classifications. The vector is input into the selected classification model to generate a score. The score is later provided to a consuming application or process. The classification model can characterize the artefact as being malicious or benign to access, execute, or continue to execute so that appropriate remedial action can be taken or initiated by the consuming application or process. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11586972B2	Tool-specific alerting rules based on abnormal and normal patterns obtained from history logs A computer-implemented method is presented for automatically generating alerting rules. The method includes identifying, via offline analytics, abnormal patterns and normal patterns from history logs based on machine learning, statistical analysis and deep learning, the history logs stored in a history log database, automatically generating the alerting rules based on the identified abnormal and normal patterns, and transmitting the alerting rules to an alerting engine for evaluation. The method further includes receiving a plurality of online log messages from a plurality of computing devices connected to a network, augmenting the plurality of online log messages, and extracting information from the plurality of augmented online log messages to be provided to the alerting engine, the alerting engine configured to approve and enforce the alerting rules automatically generated by the offline analytics processing.
US11586971B2	Device identifier classification An example method can include tracking, by a network device, a plurality of attributes associated with a plurality of unique client device identifiers stored in a tracking table; deriving, by the network device, a training data set based on the plurality of attributes; and generating, by the network device, a plurality of clusters by inputting the derived training data set to an unsupervised machine learning mechanism. The example method can include receiving, by the network device, a labeling of the plurality of unique client device identifiers in the tracking table based at least on the plurality of clusters; generating, by the network device, a plurality of classifiers by inputting the labelled tracking table to a supervised machine learning mechanism; and classifying, by the network device, a new unique client device identifier in the tracking table based at least on the plurality of classifiers.
US11586970B2	Systems and methods for initial learning of an adaptive deterministic classifier for data extraction This disclosure relates to initial learning of a classifier for automating extraction of structured data from unstructured or semi-structured data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: identifying at least one expected relation class associated with at least one expected relation data; populating at least one expected name entity data from the at least one identified expected relation class; generating training data by tagging the at least one expected relation data and the at least one identified expected relation class with unstructured or semi-structured data; generating feedback data for a relation data and relation class, using a convergence technique on the tagged training data; retuning a NE classifier cluster and a relation classifier cluster by continuously tagging new training data or generating new cascaded expression for a deterministic classifier and a statistical classifier; and extracting the structured data when the NE classifier cluster and the relation classifier cluster converge.
US11586967B2	System and method to control quantum states of microwave frequency qubits with optical signals A quantum computer includes a quantum computing system; a transducer disposed inside the quantum computing system, the transducer being configured to receive an optical control propagating wave and output a microwave control propagating wave; and a quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits, the plurality of qubits being disposed in the quantum computing system, each qubit of the plurality of qubits being configured to receive at least a portion of the microwave control propagating wave to control a quantum state of each qubit of the plurality of qubits.
US11586961B2	System and method for identifying a preferred sensor A system and method for selecting one sensor from among a plurality of sensors. For each of the plurality of sensors, a conditional probability of the sensor correctly identifying the target from among a plurality of objects detected by the sensor, given an association event, is calculated, and multiplied by a reward function for the sensor. The sensor for which this product is greatest is selected.
US11586957B2	Predicting an event timeline for an event that has yet to occur The technology disclosed herein provides a summary of a predicted timeline for an event that has yet to occur. In a particular implementation, a method provides identifying a first event that has yet to occur. The method further provides identifying first data objects from a plurality of data objects obtained from a plurality of information sources. The first data objects include information pertinent to the first event. The method also provides extracting first time information relevant to the first event from the first data objects, determining a confidence level for each portion of the first time information, and generating a summary of the first time information based on the confidence level for each portion of the first time information.
US11586956B2	Searching apparatus utilizing sub-word finite state machines An apparatus that searches an input stream having a sequence of N-bit wide data words for a pattern using a plurality of small FSMs is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of sub-word FSMs and a combiner. Each sub-word FSM has an input word size less than N-bits. Each FSM processes a corresponding segment of the N-bit words and generates a match output indicative of a possible match to the pattern when one of the input words to that FSM is received and that FSM moves to a predetermined match state. The combiner receives the match outputs from all of the sub-word FSMs and generates a pattern match output if all of the sub-word FSMs indicate a match to the pattern. The pattern is a variable pattern. In one embodiment, the FSMs are single bit FSMs.
US11586955B2	Ontology and rule based adjudication In an example, an ontology analyzer may generate an ontology, based on a claim adjudication request. The claim adjudication request may be processed, based on the ontology to provide an ontology based inference. A rule based analyzer may identify a predefined rule corresponding to the claim adjudication request and process the request, based on the predefined rule. A conflict resolver may resolve a conflict which may occur between the ontology based inference and the rule based inference. When a conflict is detected, a predefined criteria may be selected for resolving the conflict, the predefined criteria comprising rules to select one of the ontology based inference and the rule based inference to maximize a probability of accurately processing the claim adjudication request in case of a conflict.
US11586954B2	Predictive analytics and services A device, system, and method use predictive analytics based on an application-centric approach. The method includes receiving a request from an interactive application interacting with a user utilizing a user device for action data indicating an action to be taken by the interactive application during a session with the user device, the request generated by the interactive application based on a decision point associated with the interactive application. The method includes receiving from the interactive application session data associated with the session and the user device. The method includes determining scoring package data associated with the request based on the session data, the scoring package data comprising a predictive model indicative of a plurality of actions to be performed by the interactive application. The method includes generating the action data based on the scoring package data and transmitting the action data to the interactive application.
US11586949B2	State judgment device and state judgment method A state judgment device includes: a data acquisition unit which acquires data related to an industrial machine; an energy state calculation unit which calculates an energy state related to driving of units of the industrial machine on the basis of the data related to the industrial machine acquired by the data acquisition unit; and an abnormal state estimation unit which estimates, on the basis of the energy state related to driving of the units of the industrial machine calculated by the energy state calculation unit, whether operation of the industrial machine is normal or abnormal.
US11586947B2	Visualization system, visualization method, and visualization program A visualization system, in the case where a prediction target is expressed by a sum of a plurality of partial prediction targets, includes: a reception unit 81 for receiving designation of a method of compiling the partial prediction targets into a plurality of groups; a learning unit 82 for learning, for at least one of the groups, a model having, as an objective variable, a sum of partial prediction targets included in the group; and a first display control unit 83 for causing a display device to display parameters constituting the model.
US11586944B2	Allocation filter for prediction storage structure An apparatus comprises: a prediction storage structure comprising a plurality of prediction state entries representing instances of predicted instruction behaviour; prediction training circuitry to perform a training operation to train the prediction state entries based on actual instruction behaviour; prediction circuitry to output at least one control signal for triggering a speculative operation based on the predicted instruction behaviour represented by a prediction state entry for which the training operation has provided sufficient confidence in the predicted instruction behaviour; an allocation filter comprising at least one allocation filter entry representing a failed predicted instruction behaviour for which the training operation failed to provide said sufficient confidence; and prediction allocation circuitry to prevent allocation of a new entry in the prediction storage structure for a failed predicted instruction behaviour represented by an allocation filter entry of the allocation filter.
US11586941B2	Recommendation method and apparatus A recommendation method includes generating a feature sequence based on to-be-predicted data of a user for a target object and according to a preset encoding rule, obtaining probability distribution information corresponding to each feature in the feature sequence, and obtaining, through calculation, a feature vector corresponding to each feature, obtaining a predicted score of the user for the target object based on values of N features and a feature vector corresponding to each of the N features, and recommending the target object to the user when the predicted score is greater than or equal to a preset threshold.
US11586938B2	Building management system having knowledge base A building management system for a building system includes a building system interface configured to receive building system data; a knowledge base configured to receive the building system data, the knowledge base providing a model of the building system, the model including semantic descriptions of the building system data, the semantic descriptions of the building system data being arranged in an ontology; and a user interface configured to access the knowledge base.
US11586935B2	Systems and methods to semantically compare product configuration models Systems and methods to semantically compare product configuration models. A method includes receiving a first configuration model and a second configuration model. The method includes generating a first order logic (FOL) representation of the first configuration model and an FOL representation of the second configuration model. The method includes performing a satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solve for nonequivalence satisfiability on the FOL representation of the first configuration model and the FOL representation of the second configuration model. The method includes storing an indication that the first configuration model is equivalent to the second configuration model when the SMT solve for nonequivalence satisfiability is not satisfied.
US11586934B1	Evolutionary programming techniques utilizing context indications Techniques are provided for determining compatibility of first and second candidate code based on functionality. When the first candidate code and the second candidate code are compatible, third candidate code based is determined based on the first candidate code and the second candidate code. The third candidate that was determined based on the first candidate code and the second candidate code is then provided.
US11586933B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for simulating growth of cells An information processing apparatus includes: a soma-related information storage unit in which two or more pieces of soma-related information having a soma identifier are stored; a connection information storage unit in which one or more pieces of connection information for specifying connection between two or more somas are stored; an information transfer unit that acquires soma identifiers of one or more somas that accept information based on accepted input information; an output information acquiring unit that acquires output information, which is information that is output, using the information accepted by each soma identified with the one or more soma identifiers acquired by the information transfer unit; an information output unit that outputs the output information; and a growth unit that performs soma generation processing for generating soma-related information and accumulating the information in the soma-related information storage unit.
US11586932B2	Model training with variable batch sizing and gradient checkpoint segments A computer-implemented machine learning model training method and resulting machine learning model. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving at a computer memory training data; and training on a computer processor a machine learning model on the received training data using a plurality of batch sizes to produce a trained processor. The training may include calculating a plurality of activations during a forward pass of the training and discarding at least some of the calculated plurality of activations after the forward pass of the training.
US11586931B2	Training trajectory scoring neural networks to accurately assign scores Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network having a plurality of sub neural networks to assign respective confidence scores to one or more candidate future trajectories for an agent. Each confidence score indicates a predicted likelihood that the agent will move along the corresponding candidate future trajectory in the future. In one aspect, a method includes using the first sub neural network to generate a training intermediate representation; using the second sub neural network to generate respective training confidence scores; using a trajectory generation neural network to generate a training trajectory generation output; computing a first loss and a second loss; and determining an update to the current values of the parameters of the first and second sub neural networks.
US11586930B2	Conditional teacher-student learning for model training Embodiments are associated with conditional teacher-student model training. A trained teacher model configured to perform a task may be accessed and an untrained student model may be created. A model training platform may provide training data labeled with ground truths to the teacher model to produce teacher posteriors representing the training data. When it is determined that a teacher posterior matches the associated ground truth label, the platform may conditionally use the teacher posterior to train the student model. When it is determined that a teacher posterior does not match the associated ground truth label, the platform may conditionally use the ground truth label to train the student model. The models might be associated with, for example, automatic speech recognition (e.g., in connection with domain adaptation and/or speaker adaptation).
US11586929B2	Method and system for optimizing memory requirement for training an artificial neural network model This disclosure relates to method and system for optimizing memory requirement for training an artificial neural network (ANN) model employed for natural language processing (NLP). In one embodiment, the method may include receiving a plurality of training parameters and a plurality of model parameters, selecting a set of model parameters from among the plurality of model parameters for training the ANN model based on a characteristic and an architecture of the ANN model, masking the set of model parameters in one or more layers of the ANN model based on a set of pre-defined rules to generate a set of masked model parameters, determining an amount of memory required for training the ANN model based on the set of masked model parameters, and providing the set of masked model parameters for training the ANN model when the amount of memory required is less than a determined threshold.
US11586924B2	Determining layer ranks for compression of deep networks An apparatus of operating a computational network is configured to determine a low-rank approximation for one or more layers of the computational network based at least in part on a set of residual targets. A set of candidate rank vectors corresponding to the set of residual targets may be determined. Each of the candidate rank vectors may be evaluated using an objective function. A candidate rank vector may be selected and used to determine the low rank approximation. The computational network may be compressed based on the low-rank approximation. In turn the computational network may be operated using the one or more compressed layers.
US11586923B2	Neural network learning method and device The disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system for mimicking functions, such as cognition and determination as of the human brain, by utilizing a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, and an application thereof. Provided are a neural network learning method according to an AI system and applications thereof, the method including extracting, by using a masking filter having an effective value in a specific portion of the masking filter including weight information of at least one hidden layer included in a learning network model, characteristics of input data according to weight information of a filter corresponding to the specific portion, comparing output data with target data, the output data being obtained from the learning network model based on extracted characteristics of the input data, and updating a size of the specific portion having the effective value in the masking filter, based on a result of the comparing.
US11586919B2	Task-oriented machine learning and a configurable tool thereof on a computing environment A task-based learning using task-directed prediction network can be provided. Training data can be received. Contextual information associated with a task-based criterion can be received. A machine learning model can be trained using the training data. A loss function computed during training of the machine learning model integrates the task-based criterion, and minimizing the loss function during training iterations includes minimizing the task-based criterion.
US11586917B2	Leveraging simple model predictions for enhancing computational performance A computer-implemented method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for enhancing performance of a first model. The first model is trained with a training data set. A second model receives the training data set associated with the first model. The second model provides the first model with a hardness value associated with prediction of each data point of the training data set. The first model determines a confidence value regarding predicting each data point based on the training data set, and determines a ratio of the hardness value of a prediction of each data point by the second model with respect to the confidence value of the first model. The first model is retrained with a re-weighted training data set when the determined ratio is lower than a value of β.
US11586916B2	Automated ML microservice and function generation for cloud native platforms One example method includes receiving, as an input, an ML pipeline definition, identifying a group of layers required to be created for the ML pipeline definition, for one of more of the layers, receiving input concerning one or more characteristics of the layer, creating the layers for which input has been received, and packaging the created layers with the ML pipeline definition to create a production-ready ML model.
US11586909B2	Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and computer readable storage medium An information processing method includes: reading a layer structure and parameters of layers from each of models of two neural networks; and determining a degree of matching between the models of the two neural networks, by comparing layers, of the respective models of the two neural networks, that are configured as a graph-like form in respective hidden layers, in order from an input layer using breadth first search or depth first search, based on similarities between respective layers.
US11586908B1	System and method for implementing neural networks in integrated circuits Systems and methods for training a neural network model includes providing a quantization function including a quantization log threshold parameter associated with a log value of a quantization threshold. A quantization training to a neural network model is performed to generate quantized neural network parameters. The quantization training includes: generating first values with a first precision for the neural network parameters; performing a first optimization process to generate an updated quantization log threshold parameter; and generating quantized values with a second precision lower than the first precision for the neural network parameters by applying the quantization function with the updated quantization log threshold parameter to the first values. The neural network model with the quantized values for the neural network parameters is provided for performing a task.
US11586907B2	Arithmetic unit for deep learning acceleration Embodiments of a device include an integrated circuit, a reconfigurable stream switch formed in the integrated circuit, and an arithmetic unit coupled to the reconfigurable stream switch. The arithmetic unit has a plurality of inputs and at least one output, and the arithmetic unit is solely dedicated to performance of a plurality of parallel operations. Each one of the plurality of parallel operations carries out a portion of the formula: output=AX+BY+C.
US11586905B2	Systems and methods for customizing kernel machines with deep neural networks A method including receiving an input data set. The input data set can include one of a feature domain set or a kernel matrix. The method also can include constructing dense embeddings using: (i) Nyström approximations on the input data set when the input data set comprises the kernel matrix, and (ii) clustered Nyström approximations on the input data set when the input data set comprises the feature domain set. The method additionally can include performing representation learning on each of the dense embeddings using a multi-layer fully-connected network for each of the dense embeddings to generate latent representations corresponding to each of the dense embeddings. The method further can include applying a fusion layer to the latent representations corresponding to the dense embeddings to generate a combined representation. The method additionally can include performing classification on the combined representation. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11586901B2	High-density neuromorphic computing element A neuromorphic device for the analog computation of a linear combination of input signals, for use, for example, in an artificial neuron. The neuromorphic device provides non-volatile programming of the weights, and fast evaluation and programming, and is suitable for fabrication at high density as part of a plurality of neuromorphic devices. The neuromorphic device is implemented as a vertical stack of flash-like cells with a common control gate contact and individually contacted source-drain (SD) regions. The vertical stacking of the cells enables efficient use of layout resources.
US11586897B2	Reinforcement learning system According to an embodiment, a reinforcement learning system includes a memristor array in which each of a plurality of first direction lines corresponds to one of a plurality of states, and each of a plurality of second direction lines corresponds to one of a plurality of actions, a first voltage application unit that individually applies voltage to the first direction lines, a second voltage application unit that individually applies voltage to the second direction lines, a action decision circuit that decides action to be selected by an agent in a state corresponding to a first direction line to which a readout voltage is applied, a action storage unit that stores action selected by the agent in each state that can be caused in an environment, and a trace storage unit that stores a time at which the state is caused by action selected by the agent.
US11586896B2	In-memory computing architecture and methods for performing MAC operations In-memory computing architectures and methods of performing multiply-and-accumulate operations are provided. The method includes sequentially shifting bits of first input bytes into each row in an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. Each memory cell is activated based on the bit to produce a bit-line current from each activated memory cell in a column on a shared bit-line proportional to a product of the bit and a weight stored therein. Charges produced by a sum of the bit-line currents in a column are accumulated in first charge-storage banks coupled to a shared bit-line in each of the columns. Concurrently, charges from second input bytes accumulated in second charge-storage banks previously coupled to the columns are sequentially converted into output bytes. The charge-storage banks are exchanged after the first input bytes have been accumulated and the charges from the second input bytes converted. The method then repeats.
US11586895B1	Recursive neural network using random access memory Techniques for manipulation of a recursive neural network using random access memory are disclosed. Neural network descriptor information and weight matrices are stored in a semiconductor random access memory device which includes neural network processing logic. The network descriptor information and weight matrices comprise a trained neural network functionality. An input matrix is obtained for processing on the memory device. The trained neural network functionality is executed on the input matrix, which includes processing data for a first layer from the neural network descriptor information to set up the processing logic; manipulating the input matrix using the processing logic and at least one of the weight matrices; caching results of the manipulating in a storage location of the memory device; and processing recursively the results that were cached through the processing logic. Additional data for additional layers is processed until the neural network functionality is complete.
US11586886B2	Neural network apparatus and method with bitwise operation A processor-implemented neural network processing method includes: obtaining a kernel bit-serial block corresponding to first data of a weight kernel of a layer in a neural network; generating a feature map bit-serial block based on second data of one or more input feature maps of the layer; and generating at least a portion of an output feature map by performing a convolution operation of the layer using a bitwise operation between the kernel bit-serial block and the feature map bit-serial block.
US11586885B2	Synapse-inspired memory element for neuromorphic computing Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a memory device including a first memory element and a second memory element. The memory device includes a substrate and a bottom electrode disposed over the substrate. The first memory element is disposed between the bottom electrode and a top electrode, such that the first memory element has a first area. A second memory element is disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The second memory element is laterally separated from the first memory element by a non-zero distance. The second memory element has a second area different than the first area.
US11586880B2	System and method for multi-horizon time series forecasting with dynamic temporal context learning A system and a method for time series forecasting. The method includes: providing input feature vectors corresponding to a plurality of future time steps; performing bi-directional long-short term memory network (BiLSTM) on the input feature vectors to obtain hidden outputs corresponding to the plurality of future time steps; for each future time step: performing temporal convolution on the hidden outputs using a plurality of temporal scales to obtain context features at the plurality of temporal scales, and summating the context features at the plurality of temporal scales using a plurality of weights to obtain multi-scale context features; and converting the multi-scale context features to obtain the time series forecasting corresponding to the future time steps.
US11586878B1	Methods and systems for cascading model architecture for providing information on reply emails Methods and systems for a cascading model architecture for providing information on a reply email. Training sample data can be created using a user's incoming reply emails from external computer devices to a user's computer device. A receptivity neural network model can be trained using the training sample data of the reply emails, and a trained receptivity neural network model can be used to determine a receptivity classification for whether new reply emails are positive reply emails or non-positive reply emails. Sample data of non-positive reply emails can be augmented, and an objection identification neural network model can be trained on the augmented sample data of the non-positive reply emails. A trained objection identification neural network model can be used to determine a objection classification for new non-positive reply emails. Explainability information for a classified reply email can be determined to provide information key words and/or key phrases that were used by the trained receptivity neural network model and the trained objection identification neural network model to classify new positive reply emails and new non-positive reply emails.
US11586875B2	Systems and methods for optimization of a data model network architecture for target deployment Systems and methods are provided for selecting an optimized data model architecture subject to resource constraints. One or more resource constraints for target deployment are identified, and random model architectures are generated from a set of model architecture production rules subject to the one or more resource constraints. Each random model architecture is defined by randomly chosen values for one or more meta parameters and one or more layer parameters. One or more of the random model architectures are adaptively refined to improve performance relative to a metric, and the refined model architecture with the best performance relative to the metric is selected.
US11586874B2	Anomaly score adjustment across anomaly generators Techniques are disclosed for generating an anomaly score for a neuro-linguistic model of input data obtained from one or more sources. According to one embodiment, generating an anomaly score comprises receiving a score indicating how often a characteristic is observed in the input data. Upon receiving the score, comparing the score with an unusual score model to determine an unusualness score and comparing the unusualness score with an anomaly score model based on one or more unusual score models to generate the anomaly score indicating an overall unusualness for the input data.
US11586864B2	Prior knowledge-based topological feature classification Techniques regarding topological classification of complex datasets are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a quantum computing component that can encode eigenvalues of a Laplacian matrix into a phase on a quantum state of a quantum circuit. The computer executable components can also comprise a classical computing component that infers a Betti number using a Bayesian learning algorithm by measuring an ancilla state of the quantum circuit.
US11586863B2	Image classification method and device Provided are an image fusion classification method and device. The method includes that: a three-dimensional weight matrix of a hyperspectral image is obtained by use of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier (101); superpixel segmentation is performed on the hyperspectral image to obtain K superpixel images, K being a positive integer (102); the three-dimensional weight matrix is regularized by use of a superpixel-image-based segmentation method to obtain a regular matrix (103); and a class that a sample belongs to is determined according to the regular matrix (104).
US11586862B2	Enhanced object detection with clustering A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to collect a plurality of data sets, each data set from a respective sensor in a plurality of sensors, and each data set including a range, an azimuth angle, and a range rate for a detection point of the respective one of the sensors on an object to determine, for each detection point, a radial component of a ground speed of the detection point based on the data set associated with the detection point and a speed of a vehicle, and to generate a plurality of clusters, each cluster including selected detection points within a distance threshold from each other and having respective radial components of ground speeds that are (1) above a first threshold and (2) within a second threshold of each other.
US11586860B2	Method for preventing the extraction of a machine learning model A method and data processing system for detecting tampering of a machine learning model is provided. The method includes training a machine learning model. During a training operating period, a plurality of input values is provided to the machine learning model. In response to a predetermined invalid input value, the machine learning model is trained that a predetermined output value will be expected. The model is verified that it has not been tampered with by inputting the predetermined invalid input value during an inference operating period. If the expected output value is provided by the machine learning model in response to the predetermined input value, then the machine learning model has not been tampered with. If the expected output value is not provided, then the machine learning model has been tampered with. The method may be implemented using the data processing system.
US11586853B2	System and method of validating multi-vendor Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices using reinforcement learning The disclosure relates to a system and method of configuring and validating multi-vendor and multi-region Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices using reinforcement learning. In some embodiments, the method includes generating a matching table for each of a plurality of IoT sensors based on a plurality of sensor attributes extracted from a product data associated with an IoT sensor; acquiring an identification information and operational information associated with the IoT sensor and a set of neighboring IoT sensors for each of the plurality of IoT sensors; identifying an appropriate set of IoT sensors from the plurality of IoT sensors, based on a user requirement, the matching table, the identification information and the operational information, using a Reinforcement Learning (RL) model; and dynamically configuring each of the appropriate set of IoT sensors based on a vendor type.
US11586847B1	Experiment management service Artifacts, including parameters are data sets, associated with experiment tasks are stored at an experiment management service. A query specifying a particular value of a parameter and a particular data set is received, and an indication of an experiment result associated with the particular data set and the particular parameter value is provided.
US11586845B2	Method for automatically identifying signals or patterns in time series data by treating series as image A method for using images that represent time-series data to forecast future images depicting future values as pixelated information is provided. The method includes: receiving a first set of time-series data; converting the received first set of time-series data into a first image; and using the first image to forecast a future image depicting future values as pixelated information that corresponds to a future time interval Training sets of time-series data are used to generate historical data that provides input to a machine learning algorithm, which provides, as an output, a composite image that depicts the future values as pixelated information that reflects associated uncertainties in the value predictions.
US11586843B1	Generating training data for speed bump detection An apparatus including a capture device and a processor. The capture device may be configured to generate pixel data corresponding to an exterior view from a vehicle. The processor may be configured to generate video frames from the pixel data, perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects in the video frames and determine characteristics of the objects, detect a change in orientation of the vehicle at a first time, analyze the characteristics of the objects at a second time to determine a cause of the change in orientation of the vehicle and generate annotations for the video frames that comprise the objects determined to have caused the change in orientation of the vehicle. The second time may be earlier than the first time.
US11586840B2	System and method for player reidentification in broadcast video A system and method of re-identifying players in a broadcast video feed are provided herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system generates a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames. Each track includes a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player. Each image patch of the plurality of image patches is a subset of the corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames. For each track, the computing system generates a gallery of image patches. A jersey number of each player is visible in each image patch of the gallery. The computing system matches, via a convolutional autoencoder, tracks across galleries. The computing system measures, via a neural network, a similarity score for each matched track and associates two tracks based on the measured similarity.
US11586839B2	Code completion of method parameters with machine learning A code completion tool uses machine learning models to more precisely predict the likelihood of the parameters of a method invocation. A score is computed for each candidate variable that is used to rank the viability of a variable as the intended parameter. The score is a weighted sum of a scope factor, an edit distance factor and a declaration proximity factor. The factors are based on a scope model, a method overload model, and a weight file trained offline on a training set of source code programs utilizing various method invocations.
US11586835B2	Integrating overlaid textual digital content into displayed data via graphics processing circuitry using a frame buffer An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for generating and displaying a dynamic language translation overlay that include accessing a frame buffer of the GPU, analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a frame representing a section of a stream of displayed data that is being displayed by a display device, based on the analyzed frame, identifying a reference patch that includes an instruction to identify an object comprising original text, based on the instruction included in the reference patch, recognizing the original text, generating translated text, generating an overlay comprising an augmentation layer, the augmentation layer including the translated text, and overlaying the overlay, onto the displayed data such that the translated text is viewable while the original text is obscured from view.
US11586832B2	Parallel unicode tokenization in a distributed network environment Unicode data can be protected in a distributed tokenization environment. Data to be tokenized can be accessed or received by a security server, which instantiates a number of tokenization pipelines for parallel tokenization of the data. Unicode token tables are accessed by the security server, and each tokenization pipeline uses the accessed token tables to tokenization a portion of the data. Each tokenization pipeline performs a set of encoding or tokenization operations in parallel and based at least in part on a value received from another tokenization pipeline. The outputs of the tokenization pipelines are combined, producing tokenized data, which can be provided to a remote computing system for storage or processing.
US11586828B2	Method, system and computer program product for sentiment analysis Methods, systems, and computer program product for automatically performing sentiment analysis on texts, such as telephone call transcripts and electronic written communications. Disclosed techniques include, inter alia, lexicon training, handling of negations and shifters, pruning of lexicons, confidence calculation for token orientation, supervised customization, lexicon mixing, and adaptive segmentation.
US11586827B2	Generating desired discourse structure from an arbitrary text Systems, devices, and methods of the present disclosure use discourse analysis and other techniques to form questions and answers from text. The questions and answers can be used for different applications, including providing a virtual dialogue or generating training data for machine-learning models. For example, a dialogue application generates a discourse tree that represents text and identifies a question from a satellite elementary discourse unit of the discourse tree. The dialogue application annotates the text by inserting the generated question and labeling the satellite elementary discourse unit as an answer.
US11586825B2	Geolocation pathogen-risk assessment with pandemic-bio-surveillance multi pathogen systems Provided is a process, including: obtaining geographic regions and geolocations that are places of interest within those geographic regions; obtaining first data about at least some of the plurality of geolocations, wherein the first data is not pathogen specific; obtaining second data about at least some of the plurality of geolocations, wherein the second data is pathogen-specific; determining geolocation-pathogen-risk scores of the geographic regions based on both the first data and the second data; determining geolocation-pathogen-risk scores of the places of interest with a machine learning model trained to allocate risk of geographic regions to places of interest based on at least some of the first data.
US11586823B2	Semantic representations using structural ontology for assistant systems In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input comprising a natural-language utterance by an assistant xbot from a client system associated with a user, determining a semantic representation of the user input based on a structural ontology defining a labeling syntax for parsing the natural-language utterance to semantic units comprising actions, objects, and attributes, wherein the semantic representation embeds at least one object within at least one action and declares at least one attribute of the embedded object to be acted upon, sending a request based on the semantic representation to an agent for executing a task corresponding to the user input, receiving results of the executed task mapped to a structure determined by the structural ontology from the agent, and sending from the assistant xbot to the client system instructions for presenting a response based on the results of the executed task.
US11586819B2	Interpreting meaning of content A method for execution by a computing device includes obtaining a phrase that includes string of words and generating a valid sequence of words utilizing the phrase. The method further includes identifying a set of identigens for each word of the valid sequence of words to produce sets of identigens. The method further includes identifying, for each identigen of the sets of identigens, a word type associated with phrase structure grammar rules to produce sets of identigen-type associations. The method further includes interpreting, utilizing the phrase structure grammar rules, the sets of identigen-type associations to produce an entigen group. The entigen group represents a most likely interpretation of the phrase.
US11586816B2	Content tailoring for diverse audiences Tailoring textual content to a target audience by receiving an input of a user, wherein the input of the user includes textual data, identifying a target audience of the textual data based at least in part on the input of the user, determining a style of the target audience, wherein the style is a variety of language used by the target audience, generating a modification recommendation to the textual data of the input of the user based at least in part on the textual data and the determined style.
US11586815B2	Method, system and computer program product for generating artificial documents An artificial document generation method generating a larger set of artificial documents which mimics a smaller set of source documents. The method may include deriving metadata parameters from source documents, each parameter characterizing the source documents and having more than one possible value. The deriving may include: determining which ratio of the source documents has each of the values, defining metadata ratios characteristic of the source documents; training a model, on the source documents, to output artificial documents; and running the model as trained thereby to output artificial documents and overriding at least some words generated by the model in the draft artificial documents. Overriding is configured to ensure that at least some of the ratios characteristic of the smaller set of source documents are retained in the larger set.
US11586811B2	Multi-layer graph-based categorization A method may include a obtaining a first data model instance comprising an identifier string and a set of attributes associated with a set of attribute name strings. The method may include obtaining an ontology graph that includes a first label, a second label, and an association between them. The method may include using a prediction model to select the first label based on the first data model instance and determining the second label based on the relationship. The method may include determining a selected set of labels that includes the first label and the second label to associate with the first data model instance. The method may include associating the selected set of labels with the first data model instance in a dataset that includes a plurality of records, where each record is associated with a different data model instance.
US11586808B2	Insertion of standard text in transcription A computer program product, for automatically editing a medical record transcription, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block, determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase, and insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.
US11586806B1	Distributed electronic signature processing A technique for distributed electronic signature processing includes displaying a document for signature on a first device along with an optically-readable code. A second device scans the optically-readable code displayed by the first device, initiating a process that transfers signature entry from the first device to the second device, which may receive handwritten signatures input or otherwise provided thereon. The second device then accepts the physical signature, which is used to effectuate a signing of the document.
US11586805B2	Machine-learning-based natural language processing techniques for low-latency document summarization Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, and/or the like that are configured to effectively and efficiently generate one or more abstractive summaries of one or more multi-section documents. For example, certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, and/or the like that are configured to generate an abstractive summary of a multi-section document comprising one or more sections, by generating one or more section summaries, section input batches for each selected section, model outputs created by one or more text summarization machine learning models through the performance of a batch processing operation sequence, abstractive summaries, and then storing the abstractive summaries.
US11586804B2	Systems and methods for enhancing electronic communications Systems and methods are provided for enhancing text-based electronic communications. In one embodiment, a sending agent automatically, or upon request by a user, disambiguates identifiers and terms included in a communication internally or in collaboration with a remote device or server based on the identity and history of the sending or intended receiving device or user, the content or context of the communication and/or the sending or intended receiving device or user and automatically or at the request of the sender, appends, enhances or provides certain additional information related to the identifier or terms to the message in real time. This additional information is then included or referenced, but not necessarily initially displayed or communicated, in the communication. The integrated system also may include a receiving agent on the receiving device that can disambiguate the identifier or terms and provide additional information and services related to the identifier or terms in the communication.
US11586801B2	Automatically determining a size for a content item for a web page Systems and methods for automatically determining a content item size may be based on a size of a viewport and a width of a parent element. A script may be configured to determine a size of a viewport, determine a width of a parent element of a resource, and determine a content item size based, at least in part, on the size of the view port and the width of the parent element. A dimension of the determined content item size may be used by a content item selection system to determine a set of content items. A content item selection system may select a content item from the determined set of content items and serve data to effect display of the selected content item in the parent element with the resource.
US11586799B1	Systems and methods of eliminating connectivity mismatches in a mask layout block Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically eliminating connectivity mismatches in a mask layout block are provided. The disclosed systems and methods maintain the process design rules (DRC Clean), connectivity (LVS Clean) correctness, and obey Reliability Verification (RV) and DFM (Design for Manufacturability) constraints. Disclosed systems and methods analyze a physical connection of a selected polygon or net in a mask layout block and obtain connectivity information associated with the selected polygon or net from a netlist or external constraints file. The physical connection of the selected polygon or net is compared with the obtained connectivity information to determine whether there is a connectivity mismatch associated with the selected polygon or net. If there is a determined connectivity mismatch, a violation marker representing the connectivity mismatch is generated and the connectivity mismatch is corrected by placing, moving, or editing the selected polygon or net to modify the physical connection.
US11586798B1	Avoiding electrostatic discharge events from cross-hierarchy tie nets A system is configured to avoid establishing an electrostatic discharge (ESD) region in an integrated circuit (IC). The system includes a processor and memory storing an IC simulator. The IC simulator establishes an IC chip that is sub-divided into a plurality of hierarchical levels. The IC simulator further analyzes a first hierarchical level to determine first connectivity information indicating connectivity between the first hierarchical level and one or both of lower-level pins and lower-level nets of a targeted hierarchical level having a lower-level of hierarchy with respect to the first hierarchical level and analyzes the targeted hierarchical level to determine second connectivity information indicating diode connectivity to one or both high-level pins and higher-level nets included in the first hierarchical level. The IC simulator determines an ESD fail region mitigation operation configured to avoid establishing the ESD region based on the first connectivity information and the second connectivity information.
US11586792B2	Scheduling fusion for quantum computing simulation Embodiments are provided to simulate a quantum circuit. A system receives a quantum circuit (or its representation), generates a graph, and adds edges for each n-qubit of fusion to be applied. Costs are estimated or calculated for various paths of gate fusion between endpoints in the graph. One or more paths are selected, for example, the lowest cost path based on a Dijkstra algorithm evaluation. A unitary matrix for each gate fusion is then generated for simulating the quantum circuit. A simulation is performed locally or remotely based on the gate fusions along the selected one or more paths, and thus, improving the memory and processor performance of the simulation.
US11586788B2	Efficient shape-accurate finite element mesh visualization In one embodiment, simulation systems and methods perform tessellation, on a GPU in a simulation system, of finite element method (FEM) elements in one or more simulated objects using physics solution data directly obtained by the GPU from the solver. In one embodiment, software compiled to run on the GPU can process the raw, native physics solution data to tessellate non-linear FEM elements without requiring preprocessing or ray tracing. In one embodiment, the tessellation can be performed on the fly based on a user's selected view of the simulated objects, and the selected view can be used to select a subset of the FEM elements and perform a tessellation on only the subset. In one embodiment, a level of tessellation can be dynamically determined based on the user's selected view.
US11586786B2	Process for gas turbine engine component design A self-contained computerized system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions for causing the self-contained computerized system to perform the process of morphing a finite element mesh of a legacy design to the finite element mesh of a component design and applying measurement variations from the legacy design to the finite element mesh of the component design.
US11586785B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to suitably provide three-dimensional property information.A floor-plan identifying unit that generates floor plan information on the basis of a floor plan image and a model generating unit that generates a three-dimensional model using the floor plan information are included. The floor-plan identifying unit includes: a line-segment detecting unit that detects a line segment corresponding to a wall on a floor plan, a segmentation processing unit that identifies a room region corresponding to a room on the floor plan, a character recognizing unit that recognizes a character string included in the floor plan image, a fixture detecting unit that detects a fixture sign included in the floor plan image, and an integration unit that identifies a type of room of the room region and complements a room structure. The model generating unit includes an estimating unit that estimates a scale of the floor plan and a generating unit that generates a three-dimensional model of the real-estate property on the basis of the floor plan identified from the floor plan information, the scale, and an estimated ceiling height.
US11586781B2	Data loss prevention using machine learning A data loss prevention device that includes a data loss prevention engine implemented by a processor. The data loss prevention engine is configured to receive data in transit to a target network device and to identify content within the data. The data loss prevention engine is configured to determine the content of the data comprises an image and to determine an image type for the image based on objects within the image, and to determine whether the image type matches a restricted image type from a set of restricted image types. The data loss prevention engine is further configured to block transmission of the data to the target network device in response to determining that the image type matches a restricted image type and forward the data to the target network device in response to determining that the image type does not match a restricted image type.
US11586777B2	Device, system and method for verifying an integrity status of a device A device includes at least one first and one second module configured to cooperate to solve a task and/or are configured to communicate with a higher-level apparatus, a certification module configured to issue a cryptographic signature for each of the at least one first and second module, and an identity generation module configured to form a first code as an identity of the first module from a signature of the first module, to form a second code as an identity of the second module from a signature of the second module, and to form an overall code from the first and the second codes. The certification module is further configured to sign the overall code with a key in order to issue a unique certificate for the device, which biuniquely identifies the device.
US11586774B1	Systems and methods for dynamic checksum generation and validation with customizable levels of integrity verification Disclosed is a checksum generation and validation system and associated methods for dynamically generating and validating checksums with customizable levels of integrity verification. The system receives a file with data points defined with positional values and non-positional values, and differentiates a first set of the data points from a second set of the data points. The system generates a checksum based on a combination of two or more values from the positional values and the non-positional values of each data point from the first set of data points, and further based on exclusion of the positional values and the non-positional values of the second set of data points from the checksum. The system may use the checksum to verify the integrity of the data associated with the first set of data points.
US11586771B2	Integrated visualization of multiple app data An integrated third-party API data visualization process (ITPDVP) provides the ability to gather information from multiple different sources into a single view without a user of the device having to navigate to each source from which information is gathered. ITPDVP is a process that allows a user to visualize data from one or more third party API sources from within a context view client.
US11586767B2	Method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a secret recording button on touch screens of a user's and contact's mobile devices, recording a video or a photo by the user's mobile device, applying on the recorded video or photo a re-watch mode by using the secret recording button, displaying in the message box of the user and the contact the recorded video or photo. The re-watch mode causes the mobile device to transmit the recorded video or photo to be saved in the server, displaying on the touch screens of the mobile devices a re-watch button, sending to the server a re-watch command by using the re-watch button in both mobile devices, receiving from the server the recorded video or photo to the mobile devices, and posting it in the message box of the user and the contact.
US11586764B2	Privacy negotiations in a mixed reality environment An application (App)-BOT, scans a context of a user of an application and obtains current scanned user data. The App BOT determines a set of user information entities from the scanned user data containing current information about the user. In a negotiation phase, the App BOT a data access request offer from a mixed reality data (MRD)-BOT. A privacy leak score is estimated that represents a user value attributed to the permission to access the labelled user information entity based on the data access request offer. Responsive to determining that the privacy leak score exceeds a privacy leak score threshold, an acceptance of the data access request offer is sent to the MRD BOT and providing access requested by the data access request. Otherwise, a counteroffer is sent to the offer to the MRD BOT.
US11586761B2	Encrypting database files A method for encrypting database files includes generating a mapping for a plurality of encrypted files. A first encrypted file of the plurality of encrypted files is encrypted with a first encryption key. The method includes generating a second encrypted file by re-encrypting, for a period of time, data in the first encrypted file using a second encryption key. The first encrypted file remains accessible to one or more queries during the period of time. The method includes updating the mapping to associate the second encrypted file with the first encrypted file. The mapping is updated after the second encrypted file has been generated. The method includes preventing a query from accessing the first encrypted file after the second encrypted file has been generated.

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