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| US11607431B2 |
Systems and methods for thrombosis prevention
The disclosure provides a composition for inhibiting thrombosis. The composition includes 5 to 25% by weight of Fish Oil, 15 to 55% by weight of Willow Bark Extract, and 0.2 to 5% by weight of Vitamin E. |
| US11607428B2 |
Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles and uses thereof for treating and diagnosing fibrotic diseases
The described invention provides compositions and methods for treating a fibrotic condition in a subject. The methods include administering a therapeutic amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising synthetic extracellular vesicles (EVs) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| US11607420B2 |
Formulation
The present invention relates to a new formulation of specific nutritional ingredients (nutraceuticals) and/or pharmaceutical compounds. |
| US11607410B2 |
Diketopiperazine microparticles with defined specific surface areas
Disclosed herein are diketopiperazine microparticles having a specific surface area of less than about 67 m2/g. The diketopiperazine microparticle can be fumaryl diketopiperazine and can comprise a drug such as insulin. |
| US11607408B2 |
Method of treatment of schizophrenia
The invention relates generally to improvements in the treatment of psychotic symptoms, and more particularly, to improvements in the identification of an individual or a population of individuals for whom treatment with iloperidone, an iloperidone metabolite, or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof may provide a particular benefit in treating an individual's psychotic symptoms based on the individual's genotype at the PPEF2 locus. |
| US11607407B2 |
Dermal pharmaceutical compositions of 1-methyl-2′,6′-pipecoloxylidide and method of use
The present invention is directed to therapeutic pharmaceutical compositions of 1-Methyl-2′, 6′-pipecoloxylidide or it pharmaceutically acceptable salts for application to the skin and the use thereof. |
| US11607401B2 |
Blended cannabis compounds and methods of making the same
Blended, processed marijuana and/or hemp cannabis compounds and methods of making the same are provided. In particular, the compound includes one or more species of cannabis mixed in various ways with other ingredients in order to produce a new matter, food product, oil, or drink, in the form of gummies, creams, salves, tablets, capsules, pastes, gelatin suppositories, crystals, ointments, jellies, e-juices, powders, pills, syrups, drops, patches, chewing gums, dried whole or partial plant parts, and dusts, such that it is safe for mammals and provides assistance in dealing with various ailments and diseases. |
| US11607392B2 |
Encapsulation system for prolonged release of active agents
The present technology generally relates to an encapsulation system for delivery of an active agent, the encapsulation system comprising a matrix of microcapsules, wherein a first portion of microcapsules in the matrix of microcapsules has an average diameter of from about 0.1 microns to about 10 microns; a second portion of the microcapsules has an average diameter of from about 10 microns to about 100 microns; and a third portion of the microcapsules has an average diameter of from about 100 microns to about 500 microns; and wherein the active agent is encapsulated in the microcapsules. |
| US11607391B2 |
Mineral-coated microspheres
Provided is a microsphere comprising a bead coated with a first calcium-containing mineral. Also provided is a method of producing a microsphere. Additionally, a method of administering a compound to a vertebrate is provided. |
| US11607388B2 |
Drug-loaded microbead compositions, embolization compositions and associated methods
Drug-loaded microbead compositions include microbeads of a water-swellable polymer material and a complex of a carrier and a therapeutic agent chemically bonded to the carrier. The complex is embedded in the polymer material. The therapeutic agent is not chemically bonded to the water-swellable polymer material. The drug-loaded microbead composition has a water content of less than 1% by weight, based on the total weight of the drug-loaded microbead composition. The drug-loaded microbead composition may be rehydrated to form an embolization composition for use in in embolization therapy. Methods for preparing the drug-loaded microbead compositions and the embolization compositions include loading a therapeutic agent into a water-swellable polymer material to form microbeads, then removing water from the microbeads. |
| US11607385B2 |
Liposomes comprising sphingomyelin
Liposomes which comprise sphingomyelin in the lipid bilayer. The liposomes are configured to cross the blood-brain barrier for the treatment of neuro-degenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries. The liposomes are essentially free of ganglioside. A method of producing liposomes is also disclosed along with use of liposome as a medicament. |
| US11607383B2 |
Conductive polymer microneedle arrays for electronically-controlled drug release
The present disclosure describes a method of delivering a therapeutic agent providing a microneedle array including a plurality of microneedles, the plurality of microneedles including a conductive coating disposed thereon, wherein the conductive coating includes the therapeutic agent and a conducting polymer; implanting the microneedle array in a dura mater of a subject in need thereof, wherein the microneedle array pierces the dura mater; and applying an electrical stimulus to the microneedle array to provide a controlled release of the therapeutic agent from the conductive coating, across the dura mater, to the central nervous system of the subject. |
| US11607381B2 |
Remineralization of teeth using Brazilian green propolis
Method for remineralizing teeth or increasing hardness of tooth enamel by application of Brazilian green propolis oil or its components. |
| US11607380B2 |
Topical skin care formulations comprising plant extracts
A method for treating skin of a person is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to the skin of the person a composition comprising an effective amount of an aqueous, alcoholic, or aqueous-alcoholic extract from Vinca major, wherein the composition reduces melanin production in the skin, increases antioxidant activity in the skin, and/or increases skin moisture content. |
| US11607379B2 |
Composition for combating the signs of ageing of the skin and hair and nails
A composition for topical application containing at least one combination of (a) polyphenols selected from proanthocyanidin monomers and oligomers (OPC), hydroxystilbenes, flavonoid monomers and oligomers, and derivatives and mixtures thereof, (b) a spruce extract having at least one lignan selected from: hydroxymatairesinol, secoisolariciresinol, conidendrin, lariciresinol and liovile. It also relates to the cosmetic use of such a combination for combating the signs of ageing of the skin or hair and nails or the effects of pollution, and a cosmetic treatment method using said combination. |
| US11607376B2 |
Oil-in-water microemulsions and the preparation thereof
The invention relates to transparent, stable, film-forming oil-in-water microemulsions, and the use of the microemulsions in leave-on products or wash-off products of hair care application. The microemulsions contain an aminoalkyl-functional organopolysiloxane, a silicone resin, optionally a low viscosity oil, and a surfactant composition, are storage stable, and form coherent crosslinked films upon drying. |
| US11607375B2 |
Oil-in-water type emulsion and method for producing oil-in-water type emulsion
An oil-in-water type emulsion is characterized in that a fumed silica particle group in which lower order aggregates are aggregated with each other to form a higher order aggregate by a non-chemical bond forms a network-like surrounding structure including an oil inside the network-like surrounding structure. |
| US11607372B2 |
Depilatory wax additive and process
A depilatory wax additive and process. The depilatory wax additive may modify a depilatory hard wax composition to include visual, olfactory, or skin treatment components. A depilatory wax additive may include molded hard wax component and glitter, a color modifier, a scent modifier, or a skin treatment. A preexisting hard wax composition of solid particles may be heated to a liquid. The depilatory wax additive may be added to the liquefied preexisting hard wax composition, mixed, and heated to disperse the glitter, a color modifier, a scent modifier, or a skin treatment in the wax mixture. |
| US11607370B2 |
Dental composition
The present invention provides a dental composition that exhibits high adhesive property for both dental restoration materials, such as porcelain, and tooth structure. The present invention relates to a one-part dental composition comprising a compound (A) represented by the following general formula (1), a monomer (B) having an acidic group, and water (C), Y—SiRnX(3-n) (1), wherein Y represents a monovalent organic group having a polymerizable group, R represents a group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group, X represents a hydroxyl group or a hydrolyzable group, and n represents an integer of 1 or 2, in which the plurality of R may be the same or different, and the plurality of X may be the same or different, and the content of the water (C) 1.0 to 50 mass %. |
| US11607364B2 |
Stimulating device
The invention discloses a stimulation device comprising: a belt (10) containing at least two vibration modules (5, 7, 9), wherein each of the at least two vibration modules (5, 7, 9) comprises: a pod (4) with a casing (6, 26) and a vibration pad (24) arranged within the casing (6, 26), and a vibration motor (20) with a flywheel (28) within the housing (6, 26), a control panel (15) operating said vibration motors (20) of the at least two vibration modules (5, 7, 9); wherein the vibration motors (20) are mounted to the vibration pad (24) via at least one elastic motor housing (22). The invention further discloses the use of such a device for treating hypoventilation and respiratory depression and a method of treating hypoventilation and respiratory depression by fastening a belt (10) to the abdomen of a user and operating the belt (10), wherein the at least two vibration modules are externally applied to an abdominal region of a user to stimulate the diaphragm, to enhance pulmonary function. |
| US11607357B2 |
Positioning device for beam radiation treatment and imaging
A system and method are disclosed for a patient positioning device for beam radiation therapy and radiological imaging. The system includes a base and a patient support surface coupled to the base, and the patient support surface includes a lower patient support hingedly coupled to the base and an upper support hingedly coupled to the lower patient support. The system also includes a substantially flat hinge that forms a continuous upper surface with an upper support surface of the lower patient support and the lower patient support. |
| US11607352B2 |
Method for producing absorbent article having stretchable region with high peeling strength
A method for producing an underpants-type disposable diaper including a stretchable region stretchable at least in one direction in an outer body. The stretchable region is formed by stacking an elastic film between a first sheet layer composed of a nonwoven fabric and a second sheet layer composed of a nonwoven fabric. When the elastic film is stretched in the stretching and contracting direction, the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer are joined via through holes formed in the elastic film at a large number of sheet bond portions arranged at intervals in each of a stretching and contracting direction and a direction orthogonal thereto, and in the sheet bond portions, the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer (20B) are joined at least by a melted and solidified material of the elastic film among the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer. |
| US11607351B2 |
Methods of making laminates for absorbent articles
A method of making a laminate for an absorbent article is provided. The laminate comprises elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate two substrates. The first substrate has a primary fiber bond pattern formed therein and comprising a plurality of primary fiber bonds. The method comprises forming densified regions in the first substrate. A perimeter of each of the densified regions is larger than a perimeter of each of the primary fiber bonds. The densified regions together form a pattern of densified regions in the first substrate. The method comprises adhesively attaching the elastic elements to the first substrate, joining the second substrate to the first substrate or to some of the elastic elements, and forming a plurality of rugosities in the first substrate by allowing the elastic elements to at least partially contract. The frequency and amplitude ranges of the rugosities result from the pattern of the densified regions. |
| US11607350B2 |
Wearable article having elastic belt
An article with the entirety of the length of the belt side edge of the front belt seamed with a certain length of the belt side edge of the back belt to define a seam length LS. The front and back belts may each be divided into 4 zones extending in the transverse direction and defined by its location from the distal edge to the proximal edge relative to the percentage of the seam length LS where: 0-25% is the waist zone, 25-50% is the distal tummy zone, 50-85% is the proximal tummy zone, and 85-100% is the leg zone. The tensile stress of the front leg zone may be no more than 50% of the tensile stress of the front proximal tummy zone, and the tensile stress of the back leg zone may be no more than 100% of the tensile stress of the back proximal tummy zone. |
| US11607348B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for making elastomeric laminates
The present disclosure relates to methods for making elastomeric laminates that may be used as components of absorbent articles. Aspects of the methods for assembling elastomeric laminates may utilize elastic strands supplied from beams that may be joined with first and second substrates, and may be configured to carry out various types of operations, such as bonding and splicing operations. |
| US11607345B2 |
Chitosan materials with entrapped enzyme and biocatalytic textiles and other biocatalytic materials comprising same
Methods of entrapping enzymes in chitosan matrices using mild conditions, such as methods that are compatible with the entrapment of acid-sensitive and/or heat sensitive enzymes, are described. The methods can provide biocatalytic materials with high chitosan to enzyme mass ratios where one or more enzymes can remain active and stably entrapped in the chitosan matrix for many months and/or after repeated washings. Also described are materials including a solid chitosan matrix having at least one enzyme stably entrapped therein, including fabrics, textiles and other flexible materials at least partially coated with one or more layer of the solid chitosan matrix having at least one enzyme stably entrapped therein and the use of the materials as biocatalyst systems, for example in biogas upgrading and other applications. |
| US11607340B2 |
Vacuum device and method of monitoring an ophthalmological patient interface
A vacuum device comprises a vacuum generator and a vacuum interface for fluidically coupling the vacuum generator to a vacuum cavity for affixing an ophthalmological patient interface on a patient's eye. The vacuum device comprises a movement detector which is configured to detect movements of the patient's eye and a control unit that is configured to detect a faulty fluidic coupling of the vacuum cavity on the basis of a pressure that is ascertained by a coupled pressure sensor and to produce a control signal for interrupting an ophthalmological treatment that is carried out by an ophthalmological treatment device if an eye movement is detected by the movement detector at the same time as the detected faulty fluidic coupling of the vacuum cavity. |
| US11607336B2 |
Therapeutic oral device for sleep apnea
The present disclosure provides generally for a therapeutic oral device for sleep apnea and associated methods for using the device. According to the present disclosure, the device may comprise a hard palate portion, mouth guard portion, and a tongue retainer portion. The hard palate portion may comprise one or more materials. The hard palate portion may also comprise a composite of materials, including but not limited to embedded materials. The mouth guard portion may comprise one or more components that provide stability and maintain the position of the therapeutic oral device within the mouth. The tongue retainer portion may comprise an airway and a predetermined length. A method of use may comprise the utilization of one or more incremental oral devices to overcome a gag reflex. When the oral device is formed from a mold, the mouth guard portion and the hard palate portion may be custom fit to the dimensions of the intended mouth. |
| US11607323B2 |
Patellofemoral trial extractor
Disclosed herein are insertion and extraction instruments for orthopaedic procedures that are used for inserting and extracting trials and implants. The instruments include a body extending along a central axis having first and second arms extending from the body along first and second axes. The first and second arms may be moveable with the distal ends of the arms being configured to engage first and second engagement feature of a trial or an implant. The first and second axes define an angle therebetween such that when the distal end of the first arm is received in a first engagement feature of the implant and the distal end of the second arm is in the second engagement feature, the distal ends of the arms are urged against respective first and second side walls of the first and second arms to secure the instrument to the trial or implant. |
| US11607319B2 |
System and method for repairing articular surfaces
A joint replacement system for repairing an articular surface of a first bone of a joint includes an anchor portion and an implant portion. The anchor portion includes an anchor to be secured to the bone, and an anchor fixation head including a bone-facing surface (BFS) extending radially outward from the anchor and an implant facing surface (IFS) extending from a periphery of the BFS. The implant portion is formed from a material (e.g., CoCr) more dense than the material of the anchor portion (e.g., Ti) and includes a fixation cavity to receive at least a portion of the anchor fixation head (AFH), the fixation cavity includes an anchor facing surface (AFS) configured to form a frictional connection with the IFS, and a load bearing surface having a contour for articulating against a cooperating articulating surface of a second bone of the joint. |
| US11607316B2 |
Physical 3D anatomical structure model fabrication
In one aspect of the invention a system and method is claimed for providing model parameters for three dimensional fabrication of anatomical structures by obtaining and reconstructing three dimensional image data with a medical imager wherein imaging acquisition parameters of the imaging system and/or reconstruction input parameters of the reconstructor are optimized for maximum geometry precision. Advantageously, the imaging system is further configured to obtain material and/or functional information of the anatomical structure model and that material information is used to incorporate the material information in the anatomical model. |
| US11607312B2 |
Mechanical prosthetic heart valve
The invention relates to a mechanical prosthetic heart valve (10) comprising: an annular support (12) having an internal peripheral wall (14) centered about a longitudinal axis (X) and delimiting an internal passage, and at least two mobile leaflets, preferably three mobile leaflets (40), arranged in such a way as to each be able to effect a rotational movement about an axis of rotation perpendicular to said longitudinal axis (X) so that the valve (10) can pass from a closed configuration to an open configuration and vice versa. Each leaflet (40) comprises a leading edge (42) designed to come against a portion of the internal peripheral wall (14) of the annular support (12) when the valve is in a closed configuration, an internal surface (46b) extending from the leading edge (42), and an external surface (46a) opposite the internal surface (46b) and extending from the leading edge (42). The annular support (12) comprises, on the internal peripheral wall (14), at least one lower bearing member (16a, 16b) per leaflet situated between two of said extensions (30) and designed to be in contact against the corresponding leaflet when the valve (10) is in the closed configuration, and two upper bearing members (20a, 20b). The two upper bearing members (20a, 20b) comprise each a distal end (21). Each distal end (21) is designed to come to bear against a bearing zone of the external surface (46a) of the leaflet (40). The center of the bearing zone is set back from the leading edge (42) of the leaflet (40) by a distance greater than a thickness of said leaflet at the center of said bearing zone. |
| US11607311B2 |
Stents for prosthetic heart valves
A stented valve including a stent structure including a generally tubular body portion having a first end, a second end, an interior area, a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of vertical wires extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis around a periphery of the body portion, wherein the plurality of vertical wires includes multiple commissure wires and at least one structural wire positioned between adjacent commissure wires, and a plurality of V-shaped wire structures having a first end, a second end, and a peak between the first and second ends, wherein a first end of each V-shaped structure extends from a first vertical wire and a second end of each V-shaped structure extends from a second vertical wire that is adjacent to the first vertical wire, wherein each V-shaped structure is oriented so that its peak is facing in the same direction relative to the first and second ends of the body portion, and a valve structure including a plurality of leaflets attached to the stent structure within the tubular body portion. |
| US11607303B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for treating pulmonary disease
Devices, systems, and methods for improving airflow within an airway. One example embodiment includes a method for treating a subject. The method includes (1) placing an expandable object into one or more airways of the bronchial tree of the subject, (2) expanding the expandable object within at least one of the one or more airways such that at least a portion of a wall of the one or more airways is expanded, and (3) placing a stent in the airway such that a portion of the stent is adjacent to the portion of the wall of the one or more expanded airways. |
| US11607293B2 |
Method for constructing at least one dental prosthetic part or a bracket having at least one adhesive surface
The invention relates to a method for constructing at least one dental prosthetic part or a bracket, with at least one adhesive surface, in which a 3D model is made of the dental prosthetic part. Recesses are constructed on the adhesive surface of the 3D model. |
| US11607277B2 |
Registration of surgical tool with reference array tracked by cameras of an extended reality headset for assisted navigation during surgery
A camera tracking system is disclosed for computer assisted navigation during surgery. The camera tracking system is configured to identify a reference array tracked by a set of tracking cameras attached to an extended reality (XR) headset, and determine whether the reference array is registered as being paired with characteristics of one of a plurality of surgical tools defined in a surgical tool database. The camera tracking system is further configured to, based on the reference array being determined to not be registered and receiving user input, register the reference array to be paired with characteristics of one of the plurality of surgical tools selected based on the user input. The camera tracking system is further configured to provide a representation of the characteristics to a display device of the XR headset for display to the user. |
| US11607269B2 |
Stone sense with fiber erosion protection and camera saturation prevention, and/or absence-detection safety interlock
A system and method for detecting relative location of a surgical laser fiber tip relative to a surgical laser target during a surgical laser procedure utilizes a spectrophotometer to detect radiation indicative of the relative location. For example, the detected radiation may indicate contact between the fiber tip and a stone being subjected to laser lithotripsy, so as to prompt the surgeon to withdraw the fiber tip from the stone and/or take other action to limit contact-induced erosion of the fiber tip, and to avoid saturation of the endoscope camera resulting from the flash that occurs following contact. In addition, the absence of any detected radiation by the spectrophotometer may be used to indicate that the stone is no longer present, or that the fiber tip is no longer aimed at the stone, prompting the operator to reposition the fiber and/or temporarily cease firing of the laser. The main surgical laser may be a pulsed Holmium laser, which is delivered to the target through the optical fiber together with a pulsed 532 nm aiming beam. |
| US11607262B2 |
N2O thermal pressurization system by cooling
A system and method of using a source of low-pressure refrigerant for a cryotherapy procedure. The system may generally include a fluid reservoir and a fluid flow path in thermal exchange with the fluid reservoir, the fluid flow path including a thermal exchange device in thermal exchange with the fluid reservoir, a compressor in fluid communication with the thermal exchange device, a condenser, a reversing valve located between the compressor and the condenser, and an expansion valve located between the condenser and the thermal exchange device. The method may include transferring a low-pressure refrigerant to a first fluid reservoir, reducing the temperature of the refrigerant within the first fluid reservoir, increasing the temperature of the refrigerant within the first fluid reservoir, and transferring the pressurized refrigerant from the first fluid reservoir to a second fluid reservoir. |
| US11607258B2 |
Curable material dispensing system and methods of operating and packaging the same
A system (30) for dispensing curable material. A lead screw (62) is rotatably fixed relative to a first control surface (60) and includes external threads (94). A locking nut (90) includes internal threads (92) threadably engaging the external threads. An engagement feature (98) of the locking nut is adapted to be selectively engaged with an actuator (120) having a second control surface (122). The threads provide for rotation of the locking nut about a translation axis when the actuator is in a disengaged position. Rotation of the locking nut permits the lead screw to move proximally along the axis and the compressed curable material to at least partially decompress within a dispensing volume. The threads further provide for distal advancement of the lead screw along the axis when the actuator is in an engaged position rotatably fixing the locking nut about the axis. Methods for operating and packaging the curable material dispensing system are also described. |
| US11607254B2 |
Bone stabilization systems
Bone plates for engaging bone members are described herein. The bone plates can receive one or more screws to secure the bone plates to an underlying bone member. The one or more screws can be inserted into bone plate holes that can be considered locking or non-locking. The bone plates described herein can have particular combinations of locking and/or non-locking holes. The bone plates can include features that accommodate the underlying anatomy of different types of bone, such as the condylar region of a femur. |
| US11607237B2 |
Gear arrangement and surgical instrument with a gear arrangement
A gear arrangement including two drive units (210, 220, 310, 320, 410), and two translatory transmission elements (151, 152, 251, 252, 351, 352), to each of which a rotationally movable function unit (141, 142) of a distally arranged two-part end effector (140) can be coupled. The first drive unit (210, 310, 410) has at least one proximally arranged rotation element (311, 411) or a thrust element (210) for opening or closing the end effector (140) by rotation of at least one function unit (141, 142). The second drive unit (220, 320), with which the translatory transmission elements (151, 152, 251, 252, 351, 352) are movable in opposite directions, has at least one proximally arranged rotation element (224, 320, 421) for simultaneous and unidirectional pivoting of the function units (141, 142) of the end effector (140). A surgical instrument includes the gear arrangement (200, 300, 400) in the handle (180). |
| US11607235B2 |
Endosurgical extraction bag for collection of large specimen
Provided is an intra-abdominal tissue retrieval bag. The bag has an inflated state and a deflated state. The bag is introduced into the abdomen in a deflated state through a small incision and placed underneath the specimen to be retrieved. The bag is defined by an inflatable defining circumferential ring at the opening and an inflatable collection sac. Both inflated using external pneumo source sequentially, the same that is used to maintain pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopic surgery. After insufflation, the specimen becomes fully contained and ready for retrieval after desufflation. |
| US11607234B2 |
Systems and methods for traversing a site of obstruction
Systems for providing access across a site of obstruction and methods for manufacturing and using such systems are provided. Such systems may include a cannula having a lumen, an everting member coupled to the cannula, and a push assembly having a pathway. The push assembly may be slidably disposed within the lumen of the cannula and connected to a proximal end of the everting member to move the everting member from an inverted position inside the cannula to an everted position outside the cannula. The systems may also include a hard tube having a passageway, the hard tube slidably disposed on or within the pathway of the push assembly. The hard tube being designed to create and opening within and traverse and obstruction within a structure. |
| US11607232B2 |
System and a drill bit for drilling a bore in a bone and measuring a depth of the bore during surgery
A system for drilling a bore in a bone (7) and measuring a depth of the bore during surgery, said system comprising: a drill (5) comprising a drill chuck (6) for holding a drill bit; a drill bit (3) mounted in the drill chuck; at least one sensor (11,12) arranged to produce signals for determining the depth of the bore, preferably comprising a strain gauge (11) arranged to produce a signal representing a force exerted on the system during drilling, and a distance sensor (12) arranged to produce a signal representing a distance between a reference point on the system and the bone surface during drilling; first communication means (19) arranged to communicate said signals to electronic processing means; electronic processing means (16) arranged to receive said signals from said first communication means and to determine a depth of a bore from said signals; second communication means (13a) arranged to communicate said determined depth to output means; output means (2) for outputting information about the determined depth of the bore received from said second communication means; wherein said drill bit is part of a rotatable drill bit unit (1), which may or may not comprise said drill chuck; and said at least one sensor and one of said first and second communication means are mounted in the drill bit unit. |
| US11607230B2 |
Osteotome with a distal portion for simultaneous advancement and articulation
Medical devices for creating or expanding a cavity within bone of a patient are disclosed. In some circumstances, a medical device, such as an osteotome is designed to facilitate simultaneous advancement and articulation of a distal portion of the osteotome. Simultaneous advancement and articulation of the distal portion may reduce one or more forces on the distal portion of the osteotome relative to other methods in which advancement and articulation are separated in time, thereby decreasing the risk of breakage or other damage to the osteotome. |
| US11607227B2 |
Surgical clip and clip applier
A clip applier assembly may include a surgical clip and a clip applier. The surgical clip may include first and second leg members configured to ligate tissue. The first leg member may include a first proximal portion, a first distal portion, a first inner surface, and a first outer surface. The first outer surface may have a convex curvature. The second leg member may include a second proximal portion, a second distal portion, a second inner surface, and a second outer surface. The second leg member may further include an inner portion and an outer portion separated by a channel. The second outer surface may be formed on the outer portion and have a convex curvature. The clip applier may have a first jaw member configured to engage the first outer surface and a second jaw member configured to engage the second outer surface. |
| US11607226B2 |
Layered braided aneurysm treatment device with corrugations
An implant including an open end and a pinched end can have a predetermined shape. When in the predetermined shape, the tubular braid can include a proximal inversion and two segments, and the braid can be composed of one or more wires. The first segment can extend from the open end of the tubular braid to the proximal inversion. The second segment can be at least partially surrounded by the open end and extend from the proximal inversion to the pinched end. The tubular braid can also include at least one corrugated fold. The one or more corrugated folds can be located within the first segment, second segment, or both. The corrugated folds can be configured to assist in anchoring the example device when in the implanted shape within an aneurysm in a similar manner to stent struts to help the tubular braid hold its shape. |
| US11607225B2 |
System and method for treating heart tissue
Some embodiments of a system or method for treating heart tissue can include a control system and catheter device operated in a manner to intermittently occlude a heart vessel for controlled periods of time that provide redistribution of blood flow. In particular embodiments, the system can be configured to provide an estimation of the cumulative effects of the treatment. For example, some embodiments of the system or method can treat myocardium that is at risk of infarction by intermittently altering blood flow in a venous system to induce microcirculation within the myocardium, and can output a cumulative dosage value indicative of a measurement of progress of reducing an infarct size. |
| US11607224B2 |
Systems and methods for powered surgical circular stapling instrument rotation adjustment
A method for powered surgical stapling instrument rotation adjustment includes measuring a change in position of a first motor shaft of the surgical stapling instrument relative to a stored rotation verification position of the first motor shaft resulting from manual rotation of an adapter assembly of the surgical stapling instrument in relation to a handle assembly of the surgical stapling instrument, determining a distance traveled by a first drive assembly of the adapter assembly of the surgical stapling instrument resulting from the change in position of the first motor shaft, comparing the determined distance traveled to a first stored rotation verification position of the first motor shaft, determining if the compared distance falls into a predetermined acceptable range of rotation positions, and adjusting the position of the drive shaft if the compared distance is not within the predetermined range. |
| US11607222B2 |
Feedback controlled anastomosis devices
A system and a method are disclosed for forming an anastomosis between a first layer of tissue and a second layer of tissue of a patient's body. The system includes a first anastomosis device component and a second anastomosis device component configured to interact with the first anastomosis device component. The first anastomosis device component is configured to be delivered to a first lumen inside the patient's body. The second anastomosis device component is configured to be delivered to a second lumen inside the patient's body. The second anastomosis device includes one or more sensors configured to capture sensor data for determining an alignment of the second anastomosis device component relative to the first anastomosis device component, or for characterizing the position or orientation of the second anastomosis device component in three-dimensional space. |
| US11607219B2 |
Staple cartridge comprising a detachable tissue cutting knife
A staple cartridge comprising a firing member and a sled releasably attachable to the firing member is disclosed. |
| US11607216B2 |
Adaptive responses from smart packaging of drug delivery absorbable adjuncts
In general, adaptive responses from smart packaging of drug delivery absorbable adjuncts and methods of using smart packaging of drug delivery absorbable adjuncts are provided. |
| US11607214B2 |
Curled suture device apparatus and method
The present invention provides a suturing device to minimize interference and obstructions during intricate surgeries. The curled suture device is significantly shorter than traditional suturing kits by featuring a needle attached to a specially manufactured thread incorporating a stopping mechanism preceding an angular, semi-rigid portion of thread followed by a curled portion of thread arranged in a corkscrew configuration. The stopping mechanism halts the movement of the thread as the needle and thread intermediate the needle and stopping mechanism is pulled through the suture point, securing the remainder of the thread for access. The semi-rigid portion of thread is thereby utilized in conjunction with its curled portion of thread, allowing for the user's unabated access to the corkscrew configuration to form a ready-made knot, minimizing interference and obstruction during surgery. The thread may be manufactured to form an additional semi-rigid and curled portions of thread upon creation of a knot. |
| US11607213B2 |
Heart valve repair method
The present disclosure provides a heart valve repair method, comprising: advancing a distal end of a suture implanting apparatus from an outside of a body through a transapical approach into a left ventricle or a right ventricle of a heart; holding each leaflet of a heart valve with the distal end of the suture implanting apparatus; implanting at least one suture into the leaflet; withdrawing the suture implanting apparatus from the body; advancing a distal end of a suture locking apparatus from the outside of a body through a transapical approach into the corresponding left ventricle or the corresponding right ventricle; using the suture locking apparatus to lock the plurality of sutures; and withdrawing the suture locking apparatus from the body. The heart valve repair method has a simple surgical procedure, a low degree of patient trauma, and a high success rate of surgery. |
| US11607205B2 |
Biopsy system for enhanced tissue harvesting
A biopsy system for harvesting larger volumes of tissue as compared to standard core biopsy needles. The system has a needle with a lumen, an aperture disposed at the distal end of the needle and connected to the lumen, and a cutting mechanism adapted to cut tissue. When the needle is rotated after it is inserted into a target tissue, the cutting mechanism cuts from the tissue and directs the cut tissue portions into the lumen. Multi-bioimpedance measurements are used to guide a needle and direct the application of electricity for cauterizing tissue. |
| US11607203B2 |
Fluid sampling device
An absorbent member, and a recorder that identifies a time and a date of fluid absorbed by the absorbent member. |
| US11607193B2 |
Ultrasonic probe
An ultrasonic probe for acquiring an ultrasonic image is provided. The ultrasonic probe includes a transducer generating an ultrasonic signal and including a lens provided to transmit the ultrasonic signal to the outside, a case accommodating the transducer and having an opening at one side so that the lens is brought into contact with an external target object, and a buffer member provided along a circumference of the transducer to protect the transducer from external impact and disposed between the case and the transducer. |
| US11607189B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing blood vessel image, storage medium, and imaging device
The present invention relates to a blood vessel image processing method, a blood vessel image processing apparatus, a computer storage medium, and an imaging device. The method includes: obtaining blood vessel geometric structure information of a blood vessel segment of interest; obtaining vital feature information of the blood vessel segment; establishing an association relationship between the blood vessel geometric structure information and the vital feature information; and displaying the blood vessel geometric structure information and the vital feature information in the same image in a mutual fusion manner by using the association relationship as a reference. In this way, work efficiency of users can be improved by the solution. |
| US11607187B2 |
System and method for low-dose multi-spectral X-ray tomography
A multi-spectral tomography imaging system includes one or more source devices configured to direct beams of radiation in multiple spectra to a region of interest (ROI), and one or more detectors configured to receive the beams of radiation. The system includes a processor configured to cause movement in at least one of the components such that a first beam of radiation with a first spectrum is directed to the ROI for less than 360 degrees of movement of the ROI. The processor is also configured to process data detected by the one or more detectors, where the data results at least in part from the first beam of radiation with the first spectrum that is directed to the ROI for less than the 360 degrees of movement of the ROI. The processor is further configured to generate an image of the ROI based on the processed data. |
| US11607185B2 |
Cantilevered x-ray CT system for multi-axis imaging
A multi-axis imaging system comprising an imaging gantry with an imaging axis extending through a bore of the imaging gantry, a support column that supports the imaging gantry on one side of the gantry in a cantilevered manner, and a base that supports the imaging gantry and the support column. The imaging system including a first drive mechanism that translates the gantry in a vertical direction relative to the support column and the base, a second drive mechanism that rotates the gantry with respect to the support column between a first orientation where the imaging axis of the imaging gantry extends in a vertical direction parallel to the support column and a second orientation where the imaging axis of the gantry extends in a horizontal direction parallel with the base, and a third drive mechanism that translates the support column and the gantry in a horizontal direction along the base. |
| US11607183B2 |
Automated method of manufacturing oral appliances
Disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing an oral appliance, the method comprising the steps of: a) importing into a computer aided design (CAD) computer program a digitized data set obtained from a three-dimensional scan of a patient's dentition; b) preparing a three-dimensional electronic model of the patient's dentition; c) subtracting the three-dimensional electronic model of the patient's dentition from an image of a solid block to obtain an appliance data set; and d) manufacturing a dental appliance in accordance with the appliance data set. Also disclosed are devices made by the above method, and methods of treating a condition, for example a sleep breathing disorder, by using a device made by the above method. |
| US11607176B2 |
Systems and methods for denoising physiological signals during electrical neuromodulation
Systems and methods are described for denoising, or filtering out, unwanted noise or interference, from biological or physiological parameter signals or waveforms such as ECG signals caused by application of electromagnetic energy (e.g., electrical stimulation) in a vicinity of sensors configured to obtain the biological or physiological parameter signals. |
| US11607174B2 |
Insertable device for in vivo sensing
Embodiments described relate to a medical device including an invasive probe such as a guidewire that, when inserted into a duct (e.g. vasculature) of an animal (e.g., a human or non-human animal, including a human or non-human mammal), may be used to aid in diagnosing and/or treating a lesion of the duct (e.g. a growth or deposit within vasculature that fully or partially blocks the vasculature). The invasive probe may have one or more impedance sensors to sense characteristics of the lesion, including by detecting one or more characteristics of tissues and/or biological materials of the lesion. There is further described a method of assembling such a medical device. |
| US11607171B2 |
Mouth guard having low-profile printed circuit board for sensing and notification of impact forces
A mouth guard senses impact forces and determines if the forces exceed an impact threshold. If so, the mouth guard notifies the user of the risk for injury by haptic feedback, vibratory feedback, and/or audible feedback. The mouth guard system may also remotely communicate the status of risk and the potential injury. The mouth guard uses a local memory device to store impact thresholds based on personal biometric information obtained from the user and compares the sensed forces relative to those threshold values. The mouth guard and its electrical components on the printed circuit board are custom manufactured for the user such that the mouth guard provides a comfortable and reliable fit, while ensuring exceptional performance. |
| US11607168B2 |
Method of assessing hair
A method for assessing the state of hair by releasably engaging a first end (5) of hair fibres (3) with a holder (1) so that an opposite, second end (4) of said hair fibres (3) hangs free and applying sufficient force to the first end (5) of the hair fibres (3) such that the hair fibres (3) at the second end (4) are pulled across the holder (1), wherein the force is in an upwards direction and applied by action of an encapsulated gas having a density of less than that of air (7). |
| US11607161B2 |
Bi-directional neuron-electronic device interface structures
An interface structure for a biological environment including at least one composite electrical impulse generating layer comprising a matrix phase of a piezo polymer material, a first dispersed phase of piezo nanocrystals, and second dispersed phase of carbon nanotubes, the first and second dispersed phase presented through the matrix phase. The piezo polymer material and piezo nanocrystal convert mechanical motion into electrical impulses and accept electrons to charge the composite impulse generating layer. The carbon nanotubes provide pathways for distribution of the electrical impulses to a surface of the composite impulse generating layer contacting the biological environment. The carbon nanotubes further provide for the delivery of the byproducts of the free radical degradation from the biological environment to both piezo-nanocrystals and piezo-polymer. |
| US11607160B2 |
System and method for multi modal deception test scored by machine learning
Systems and methods for measuring physiological responses caused by cognitive load and stress to calculate a probability of deception. The system comprises modules to determine changes in pupil dilation, flicker frequency, pupil eye trajectory, face temperature, respiratory rate, position of the user's facial points, heart rate, skin conductivity, body movements, arm temperature, temperature, and electroencephalography signals; and modules to provide stimuli to the user, record conscious responses from the user, receive physiological signals, and determine changes in the user's physiological variables associated with stress and cognitive load in response to the stimuli generated, to calculate a likelihood of deception in conscious responses. |
| US11607158B2 |
Sensor and biosensor
A sensor may include a light source, a light detector, and a housing. The housing may have a first upper side and extend from the first upper side, a first cavity and a second cavity. The light detector is arranged in the first cavity. The light source is arranged in the second cavity. A strut may be arranged between the first cavity and the second cavity and is made from a material that absorbs or reflects light. A first cover may be mounted above the first cavity and comprises a deflection region and a plane of incidence. The deflection region is designed such that 80% of the light which is incident in the deflection region on the plane of incidence of the first cover from a predetermined direction and which is incident on the light detector, is directed away from the light detector based on an optical element. |
| US11607156B2 |
Non-invasive transdermal sampling and analysis device incorporating redox cofactors
Systems and methods are provided for determining levels of an analyte in a biological fluid sample. A transdermal sampling and analysis device may include a substrate, at least one disruptor mounted on the substrate, a reservoir configured to collect and contain a biological fluid sample; a sensing element comprising at least two sensing electrodes, and at least one layer of a cofactor covering the sensing element in which the cofactor catalyzes a reaction to determine levels of an analyte in the biological fluid sample. The at least one disruptor of the transdermal sampling and analysis device may generate a localized heat capable of altering permeability characteristics of a stratum corneum layer of skin of an organism. The surface of at least one of the sensing electrodes of the transdermal sampling and analysis device may be coated with a sensing layer in which an enzyme immobilized within a hydrogel. |
| US11607155B2 |
Method to estimate hearing impairment compensation function
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of generating a hearing impairment compensation function to process audio reproduced by an earphone device. The compensation function includes processing the audio to compensate for frequency sensitivity to improve speech intelligibility. |
| US11607153B2 |
Abnormal data processing system and abnormal data processing method
The abnormal data processing system is provided with: a storage unit for holding a multiple-subject DB in which data on multiple subjects are accumulated and individual-subject DB in which data on individual subjects are accumulated; an individual-subject DB divergence-degree calculation unit for calculating an individual-subject DB divergence degree which is the degree of divergence of the new data from the individual-subject DB; a multiple-subject DB divergence degree calculation unit for calculating a multiple-subject DB divergence degree which is the degree of divergence of the new data from the multiple-subject DB; and a composite divergence degree calculation unit for determining a composite divergence by compositing the individual-subject DB divergence degree and the multiple-subject DB divergence degree using the number of data instances in the individual-subject DB. The abnormal data processing system determines whether or not the new data is abnormal on the basis of the composite divergence degree. |
| US11607150B2 |
Medical device placement system and a method for its use
A system and method for locating a medical device within a body uses wireless technology to transmit the information obtained from the sensors to a mobile device or other computing system. A software application on the mobile device or computing system can be used to display the information, wherein the user can control the display without needing to contact any items that are not sterile. |
| US11607147B2 |
Component analyzing apparatus and component analyzing method, and impedance measuring apparatus
A component analyzing apparatus is provided. The component analyzing apparatus includes: an impedance measurer including: a plurality of electrodes having an electrode width that is determined based on an effective measurement depth for analyzing a component of an analyte and a gap between two electrodes among the plurality of electrodes, and an electrode controller configured to apply a first current to a first electrode and a second electrode among the plurality of electrodes and configured to measure impedance based on a voltage between a third electrode and a fourth electrode; and a processor configured to analyze the component of the analyte based on the impedance measured by the electrode controller. |
| US11607146B2 |
Photoplethysmography device with thermal trapping and/or warming capability and associated methods
A photoplethysmography (PPG) device includes an equipment module which includes a photodetector and first and second light emitting diodes (LED's) adapted to emit light of first and second wavelengths, respectively. The PPG device also includes a mask covering the patient facing extremity of the equipment module so that when the device is applied to a patient the mask is situated between the patient and the patient facing extremity. A processor is adapted to control drive current and/or operating time of the second LED to achieve an elevated localized body tissue temperature of a patient to which the PPG device is applied. |
| US11607143B2 |
Sensing physiological parameters through an article
Various examples are described for detecting heart rate and respiratory rate by using measurements of light applied to skin through an article. For example, a sensor application obtains a set of measurements of light. The application compensates for a contribution of the article based on one or more known optical properties of the article. The sensor application further determines, from the set of measurements of light, a periodic change in amplitude. The sensor application identifies the periodic change in amplitude as a heart rate having an identical periodicity. The sensor application identifies a respiratory rate as equal to the rate of change of the heart rate. |
| US11607141B2 |
Optical fiber blood pressure continuous detection wristband and wearing apparatus
An optical fiber blood pressure continuous detection wristband, comprising: an optical fiber sensing assembly module, the optical fiber sensing assembly module includes a sensing band and an optical fiber configured to extend along the sensing band and form a sensing area to sense a pulse wave; the sensing band includes an inner layer configured to be placed adjacent to the wrist to be detected, and the outer surface of the inner layer is abutted against the optical fiber; an outer layer, the inner surface of the outer layer is provided with a first concave-convex structure with a corrugate shaped, the first concave-convex structure being abutted against the optical fiber; wherein a active space is formed between the sensing band and the inner watchband and configured for the radial artery to beat; a calibration assembly configured to continuously calibrate blood pressure values; and a signal process assembly. |
| US11607139B2 |
Congenital heart disease monitor
A congenital heart disease monitor utilizes a sensor capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of optical radiation into a tissue site and detecting the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flowing within the tissue site. A patient monitor is capable of receiving a sensor signal corresponding to the detected optical radiation and calculating at least one physiological parameter in response. The physiological parameter is measured at a baseline site and a comparison site and a difference in these measurements is calculated. A potential congenital heart disease condition in indicated according to the measured physiological parameter at each of the sites or the calculated difference in the measured physiological parameter between the sites or both. |
| US11607135B1 |
Low noise response detection using optical probe
Signal processing techniques that can include an embedded software low-noise response pulse detection, which can help provide an enhanced signal-to-noise characteristic, such as can help permit highly specific fast IR spectroscopic tissue analysis. Using a difference between (1) response signal values during a first time period duration of a response pulse from a tissue sample illuminated by illumination pulse, and (2) response signal values for a similar first time period duration between response pulses, for a low duty cycle (e.g., less than 50%, 10% or even at about 5% duty cycle) illumination pulse, accumulation of noise in the response signal between electromagnetic illumination pulses can be limited. In particular, the described signal pre-processing techniques can help extract meaningful information for performing spectroscopic analysis and characterization of the tissue sample despite amplitude and temporal variations that can be encountered when using the system. |
| US11607133B2 |
Biological component measuring apparatus and biological component measuring method
A biological component measuring apparatus may include: a first light source configured to emit a first light of a first wavelength range onto an object; a second light source configured to emit a second light of a second wavelength range onto the object, the second wavelength range being different from the first wavelength range; a detector configured to detect the first light and the second light which are scattered from the object; and a processor configured to determine a scattering coefficient based on the detected first light, obtain blood vessel depth information based on the detected second light, and measure a biological component by correcting the scattering coefficient based on the blood vessel depth information. |
| US11607131B2 |
Apparatus for measuring implant osseointegration
Provided is an apparatus for measuring implant osseointegration, and the apparatus for measuring implant osseointegration includes: a vibration generation unit configured to apply multiple vibrations with frequencies in different bands, respectively, to an implant fixture; a vibration sensor configured to measure three-axis vibration information of the implant fixture caused by the vibrations from the vibration generation unit; and a control unit configured to determine the degree of osseointegration based on the measured vibration information. |
| US11607126B2 |
Electrodes for biopotential measurement, biopotential measuring apparatus, and biopotential measuring method
A biopotential can be measured with high accuracy without the electrodes coming into direct contact with the skin and without being affected by any motion artifact. The present invention comprises a first lead which detects a biopotential containing noise components, a second lead which is electrically isolated from the first lead and detects noise components, and a differential amplifier circuit which is input with a first signal output from the first lead and a second signal output from the second lead, and which amplifies and outputs a difference between the first signal and the second signal, wherein a value of an input impedance on the second signal side of the differential amplifier circuit is set so that the noise components detected from the second lead will have a frequency that is higher than a frequency spectrum of the biopotential. |
| US11607124B2 |
System and method for measuring pupillary distance
A method implemented on a computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network may include: obtaining a head image of a user with one or more dimension indicators, determining an eye region in the head image of the user and determining a pupillary distance of the user based on the one or more dimension indicators and the determined eye region. A method implemented on a computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network may include: receiving a request at a user terminal, recording a video of a user wearing a wearable device with the user terminal, determining a pupillary distance of the user based on the video and synchronously displaying the pupillary distance on the video of the user during recording. The wearable device may include one or more dimension indicators. |
| US11607123B2 |
Ophthalmologic apparatus
An ophthalmologic apparatus includes: an optical system configured to acquire data of a subject's eye; a housing unit configured to house the optical system; and an attachment member including a holding member configured to hold a face of the subject movably in a state where a peripheral site of the subject's eye is in contact with the holding member, a passing part through which an optical axis of the optical system passes being formed in the holding member, and the attachment member configured to be detachable between the housing unit and the subject's eye. |
| US11607120B2 |
Capsule endoscopic receiving device, capsule endoscope system including the same, and operating method of capsule endoscopic receiving device
Provided are a capsule endoscopic receiving device, a capsule endoscope system including the same, and an operating method of the capsule endoscopic receiving device, the capsule endoscopic receiving device including an analog front end configured to receive a preamble from one receiving electrode pair from among a plurality of receiving electrodes, a valid signal detection circuit configured to compare a reference voltage with input data generated on a basis of a voltage level of the preamble, and a preamble processor configured to select a final electrode pair configured to receive the image data on a basis of a correlation value of the preamble and a comparison result of the input data and the reference voltage. According to the inventive concept, stability of receiving image data may be secured by selecting an optimal receiving electrode pair. |
| US11607117B2 |
Endoscope handle holder with angulation lever lock-out
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses for holding an endoscope handle and locking out an angulation lever of an endoscope handle. Given by way of illustration only and not of limitation, in an embodiment an illustrative apparatus includes: a frame; a support mechanism attached to the frame and configured to hold thereon an endoscope handle having an angulation lever; an attachment device configured to hold an endoscope handle in place on the support mechanism; and an angulation lever engagement mechanism configured to prevent an angulation lever of an endoscope handle from returning to a neutral position. |
| US11607116B2 |
Endoscopic device having a rotational optical element
The endoscopic device includes a main member having a front slot and a shaft member having a spiral strip selectively running through the slot. The spiral strip is connected to a rotational element whose front end is provided with an optical element. A camera support element is extended from the main member and a camera element is supported by the camera support element. By running the spiral strip through the slot to turn the rotational element and the optical element, a viewing direction of the camera element is altered by the optical element. |
| US11607115B2 |
Endoscopic ultrasound fine needle aspiration device
A handle for a medical device includes a proximal segment defining a proximal lumen extending therethrough and sized and shaped to receive an endoscopic medical device therein. A medial segment is received within a distal portion of the proximal segment and has an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter thereof. A medial lumen extends through the proximal segment and is open to the proximal lumen. A distal segment is received within a distal portion of the medial segment and defines a distal lumen extending therethrough open to the medial lumen. The distal segment has an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the medial segment. The medial segment includes a first movement limiting mechanism limiting movement of an endoscopic medical device inserted therethrough along an axis of the distal lumen and a second movement limiting mechanism limiting advancement of an endoscope attached to the distal body portion. |
| US11607114B2 |
Endoscope, method for adjustment of endoscope, and image pickup apparatus
An endoscope includes in order from an object side, an objective optical system, an optical-path splitter, an image sensor, and an image processor. A λ/4 wavelength plate is disposed between the objective optical system and the splitter. The splitter includes first and second prisms, and has a beam splitting surface at which the first prism and the second prism are brought into close contact. The splitter splits light at the beam splitting surface, into a first optical path through which P-polarized light is transmitted and a second optical path through which S-polarized light is reflected. The first and second prisms are slid relative to one another along the beam splitting surface to adjust optical path lengths of the first and second optical paths, and are disposed at positions to cancel an amount of shift in focusing positions of extraordinary and ordinary light, and satisfy specific conditional expressions. |
| US11607112B2 |
Endoscope and method of use
Medical devices and methods related to endoscopic systems suitable for hysterectomy and other purposes. |
| US11607111B2 |
Medical signal processing apparatus and medical observation system
A medical signal processing apparatus processes image signals input from an imaging device. The image signals corresponds to a result of examining a subject, and the imaging device sequentially outputs the image signals from multiple pixels arrayed in a matrix according to a raster to the medical signal processing apparatus. The medical image signal processing apparatus includes: a signal divider configured to divide the image signals according to the raster sequentially output from the imaging device into first divided image signals each according to a pixel group consisting of multiple pixels arrayed in connected multiple columns; and a plurality of pre-processors configured to process, in parallel, sets of pixel information of the multiple first divided image signals divided by the signal divider. |
| US11607110B2 |
Electronic endoscope processor and electronic endoscope system
An electronic endoscope processor for processing an image signal of a subject imaged using an imaging element in an electronic endoscope system includes: an illuminating light switch that alternatingly switches the illuminating light to be emitted to the subject, between a first illuminating light and a second illuminating light; and an imaging element control circuit that controls an exposure time of the imaging element and a charge readout timing. The imaging element control circuit controls the exposure time T1 of the imaging element when the first illuminating light is being emitted to the subject and the exposure time T2 of the imaging element when the second illuminating light is being emitted to the subject, based on a time-integrated amount of luminous flux per unit time of the first illuminating light and a time-integrated amount of luminous flux per unit time of the second illuminating light. |
| US11607109B2 |
Endoscopic image processing device, endoscopic image processing method, endoscopic image processing program, and endoscope system
There are provided an endoscopic image processing device, an endoscopic image processing method, an endoscopic image processing program, and an endoscope system that appropriately notify region-of-interest information about a region of interest included in an endoscopic image according to an endoscope operator's action.An endoscope operator's action on a portion to be observed of an endoscopic image is recognized from endoscopic images, and first emphasis display where region-of-interest information is displayed in the endoscopic image at a first emphasis level and second emphasis display where the region-of-interest information is displayed at a second emphasis level relatively lower than the first emphasis level are switched according to a recognition result. |
| US11607108B2 |
Surgical robotic tool multi-motor actuator and controller
A first input coupling and a second input coupling are coupled to rotatably drive an output coupling at the same time. In one embodiment, the output coupling rotates a robotic surgery endoscope about a longitudinal axis of the output coupling. A first motor drives the first input coupling while being assisted by a second motor that is driving the second input coupling. A first compensator produces a first motor input based on a position error and in accordance with a position control law, and a second compensator produces a second motor input based on the position error and in accordance with an impedance control law. In another embodiment, the second compensator receives a measured torque of the first motor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US11607104B1 |
Quick-wash feature for dishwasher appliance
A dishwasher appliance including a quick-wash feature. A secondary door attached is attached to a main door and forms a quick-wash compartment. A quick-wash assembly provides fluid for cleaning. Articles may be supported on the secondary door during cleaning or may be manually supported by the user at the quick-wash assembly. Various modes of operation may be used for cleaning including wash and rinse functions. |
| US11607103B2 |
Robot maintenance station and robot cleaning system
A robot maintenance station and a robot cleaning system. The robot maintenance station includes a dock base and a maintenance station body, the maintenance station body is configured on the dock base and provided with a suction unit, the suction unit is configured to provide suction power for sucking garbage. The maintenance station body is provided with a garbage receptacle and a suction tube, the suction tube is in flow communication with the suction unit and is configured to guide the garbage into the garbage receptacle, and the garbage receptacle is detachably mounted at a side wall of the maintenance station body. The embodiments realize automatic emptying of the dust box of the cleaning robot, thereby reducing user burden and improving user experience. |
| US11607099B2 |
Robotic vacuum cleaner and docking station for a robotic vacuum cleaner
A docking station for a robotic vacuum cleaner has a pneumatic transfer mechanism that is used to direct air to the robotic vacuum cleaner to thereby transfer dirt from the robotic vacuum cleaner to a docking station. |
| US11607098B2 |
Cyclonic air treatment member and surface cleaning apparatus including the same
A hand vacuum cleaner has an openable air treatment stage. The air treatment stage has a lower openable portion that is moveably mounted to a forward portion of the pre-motor filter housing. |
| US11607091B1 |
Deployable handle devices
Handle devices for building, including bathing, environments that can be stored in and deployed from recesses in the walls of the environments. The handle devices may include emergency contact capabilities to enable a user to contact an emergency contact. Universal handle devices can be mounted to the contoured walls of a free standing tub. Handle devices may have a handle, a handle housing, a gear shaft connected to the handle, a spring and a lock housing. Other handle devices have housings with a gear rod and a guide channel. Some handle devices have a plurality of links rotatably coupled to the housing and the handle, and a stowage locking lever housed within the handle. |
| US11607089B1 |
Interactive smart toilet training device
An interactive smart toilet training device is provided in the form of a potty-training chair that resembles/mocks the traditional toilet in miniature form and has special/smart features to assist with potty training. The smart features enable the device to maintain the functionality of a standard toilet while attracting and engaging with the child and identifying, recording, and tracking metrics/history associated with the child's use of the device. Multiple interactive features include smart software applications, songs, and phrases to gain the toddler's attention, and a transparent lighted seat that lights on command, when in use, and/or when there was a successful sit/use. Tracking metrics/history to identify the frequency and conditions of successful sits/uses enable a more timely, accurate, and efficient means for successful completion of toilet training. |
| US11607074B2 |
Cooking assembly, cooking pot and pot lid with vapour passage
In a first aspect, the invention relates to an assembly (1) comprising a cooking pot (2) and a corresponding pot lid (3), for closing off the cooking pot, in which the assembly is provided with a vapour passage (14) for leading vapour out of the assembly. In particular, said vapour passage extends in the direction of the cooking pot. In further aspects, the invention relates to a method for downdraft extraction of vapour, and to a cooking pot (2) and a pot lid (3), which preferably are appropriate for use in said assembly. |
| US11607073B2 |
Device for producing a beverage
Proposed is a device for producing a beverage, more particularly a cold beverage, comprising a cartridge mount having a cartridge holder for holding a cartridge filled with a beverage substance, wherein: the cartridge holder has a receiving opening; the cartridge holder has a water supply for introducing water into the cartridge and a compressed air supply for introducing compressed air into the cartridge; the cartridge holder can be transferred between a loading position, in which the cartridge can be inserted into or removed from the receiving opening, and an operating position, in which a beverage can be produced in the cartridge and dispensed from a beverage outlet of the cartridge by the introduction of the water and the compressed air into the cartridge and by the interaction of the water with the beverage substance; the cartridge holder has a first holding element and a second holding element between which the receiving opening is formed; the first holding element is moveable in relation to the second holding element in order to transfer the cartridge holder from the loading position to the operating position or from the operating position to the loading position. |
| US11607071B1 |
Portable coffee brewer
The portable coffee brewer is configured for use in brewing coffee. The portable coffee brewer comprises a containment pan, a brewing pan, a lid structure, and a control circuit. The lid structure and the containment pan attach to the brewing pan. The control circuit mounts in the brewing pan. The control circuit controls the operation of the portable coffee brewer. The lid structure encloses the brewing pan. The containment pan contains accessories associated with the brewing and consumption of beverages. The beverage pan forms the space within which the beverage is brewed. The control circuit heats and circulates a fluid stored within the beverage pan for the purpose of preparing the beverage for consumption. |
| US11607068B2 |
Defrost system for smart locker in package delivery
Defrost system for smart locker in package delivery are disclosed herein. An example method can include receiving a delivery message from a delivery unit that a package is to be delivered to a locker unit, the delivery message including an expected delivery time, determining a frozen condition for the locker unit, and activating a defroster element associated with the locker unit before delivery of the package by the delivery unit according to expected delivery time. |
| US11607065B2 |
Methods and systems for controlling and maintaining the temperature of a drink within a drinking vessel
Disclosed herein are systems for regulating a temperature of a drink, the system comprising: a receptacle system defining a recess for receiving a drinking vessel, including: an outer receptacle, and an inner receptacle that is removably couplable to the outer receptacle, wherein a cavity is defined between the outer receptacle and the inner receptable, the receptacle system comprising a top end portion, a bottom end portion, an inner wall portion, and an outer wall portion, the top end portion defines a top opening of the recess. |
| US11607064B2 |
Reusable drinking straw
A drinking straw has an elongated body with a longitudinal flow channel. The user end of the body is closed and rounded for safety. A pair of lateral channels open onto the body adjacent the user end and provide fluid communication to the flow channel. The straw is injection molded, and a mold is provided which accommodates thermal expansion of a rod forming the flow channel. A pair of opposed cavity inserts form the lateral channels. To reduce bending stresses on the rod upon removal of the cavity inserts, one cavity insert is formed longer to the other. This longer cavity insert is removed prior to opening of the mold plates, and as such the straw and rod are supported against bending during this removal. |
| US11607063B2 |
Headrest cushion assembly for neck pain
A headrest assembly for a user to recline thereon. The headrest assembly comprises an upper portion for supporting the user's head and a lower portion for supporting the user's upper back. There is a rigid base that supports the upper and lower portions. At the upper portion, there are one or more upper cushions coupled to the rigid base. The upper cushion(s) are configured to support a user's head. At the lower portion, one or more elongated back support(s) are coupled to the rigid base. Also disclosed are methods for using a headrest assembly. |
| US11607058B2 |
Changing table cover
A changing table cover comprises a sheet, a pillow and a bag. The sheet includes a plurality of corner portions, at least two of which include elastic material. The pillow is affixed to a top surface of the sheet. The bag is affixed to an end portion of the sheet. |
| US11607054B1 |
Automated bed-making apparatus and method
An apparatus and a method for automatically making a bed includes a sheet holder suspended from a sheet holder support, a head-end duvet cover holder suspended from a head-end duvet cover holder support, a foot-end duvet cover holder suspended from a foot-end duvet cover holder support, a duvet holder suspended from a duvet holder support, a plurality of connectors on each of the sheet holder, the head-end duvet cover holder, the foot-end duvet cover holder, and the duvet holder, the connectors adapted to be connected to mating connectors on a sheet, a head-end of a duvet cover, a foot end of the duvet cover, and a duvet, respectively, and a framework upon which the sheet holder support, the head-end duvet cover holder support, the foot-end duvet cover holder support, and the duvet holder support are mounted. A sheet, duvet and duvet cover are manually attached to the holders, the duvet is automatically inserted into the duvet cover, and the sheet and the duvet are draped over the bed. |
| US11607049B2 |
Illuminated seat panel
A seat panel for assembly into a rear surface of a seat assembly includes a light assembly which generates task lighting directed to a task area and of sufficient brightness to be useful in performing a task within the task area. The light assembly is selectively actuable to emit light through an aperture defined by the seat panel in a defined light pattern to illuminate a recessed space in the seat panel. The seat assembly when configured as a forward seat assembly of a vehicle provides task lighting for a passenger seated rearward of the forward seat assembly, to illuminate a task area which can include one or more of the exterior surface of the seat panel, a leg space between the forward seat assembly and the passenger's seat assembly, and/or a seat space generally including a portion of the upper leg and/or lap area of the passenger. |
| US11607046B2 |
Seating with a mechanism to raise and lower an armrest
A mechanism for raising and lowering an armrest for a seat includes an armrest, a rotatable hub, and an actuating linkage between the armrest and the hub, the rotatable hub having a cam that operates the actuating linkage to raise the armrest wherein the cam can rotate through a first angle of rotation where the actuating linkage is not operated a second angle of rotation where the actuating linkage is operated. The cam can rotate through a third angle of rotation where the actuating linkage is not operated, this angle being different to the first angle of rotation. The cam is torsionally linked to the rotation of a seat member. |
| US11607045B2 |
Portable folding seat and back system to relieve back discomfort using various therapeutic methods
A portable therapeutic unit and system for treating a back, a neck, or the back and the neck of a user is disclosed. The therapeutic unit includes a first seat, a back support, a hinge, and a metal back. The first seat is designed for the user to sit thereupon. The back support is designed to support a back of the user. The hinge pivotally connects the first seat and the back support. The metal back is connected to the back support, with the metal back magnetically coupling with an attachment magnet. Further, the attachment magnet couples to a therapeutic aid to deliver treatment to the user. |
| US11607042B1 |
Television mounting systems
A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. The linkage assembly moves to another configuration to move the object. The object can be held in a lowered position. A biasing mechanism can facilitate convenient movement of the object. |
| US11607034B2 |
Supporting device for a height adjustable table frame
A supporting device for a height adjustable table (1) comprises a first (3) and a second supporting element (3′) respectively having a first, a second, and a third liner component (5, 5′, 6, 6′, 7, 7′) arranged in a manner displaceable relative to each other to cause a change of length (L) of the supporting elements (3, 3′). The first (5, 5′), the second (6, 6′) and the third liner component (7, 7′) are coupled such that a displacement of the second to the first liner component synchronously causes a displacement of the third to the second liner component. The supporting device comprises a synchronization device to synchronize the displacement of the second liner component (6, 6′) to the first liner component (5, 5′) or the displacement of the third liner component (7, 7′) to the second liner component (6, 6′) between the first and the second supporting elements. |
| US11607033B2 |
Whitening system
An oral care kit comprising an oral care implement having a first reservoir containing a first oral care agent comprising a first whitening reagent that includes triacetin; and a container having a second reservoir containing a second oral care agent, the second oral care agent comprising a catalytic enzyme and a second whitening reagent that includes peroxide forming compound. |
| US11607031B2 |
Reconfigurable modular brush and associated brush kits
A reconfigurable modular brush has a brush head including brush-head upper and lower surfaces extending longitudinally along a brush-head axis between brush-head first and second ends. Laterally opposed brush-head first and second sides extend between the brush-head upper and lower surfaces and longitudinally between the brush-head first and second ends. A bristle array is defined by a plurality of bristles protruding from the brush-head lower surface. A brush handle includes a grip portion and a brush-head mount, the brush handle having a lengthwise extent disposed generally along a handle axis between handle proximate and distal ends. The brush head and brush-head mount are cooperatively configured such that the handle can selectively capture and retain the brush head. Moreover, the longitudinal orientation in which the brush head is captured and retained by the brush handle is selectively reversible. |
| US11607029B2 |
Luggage systems
A system comprises a first body, comprising: a backpack suspension; a first storage region; and a first portion of a first attachment mechanism. A second body comprises: a second storage region; and a first portion of a second attachment mechanism. A third body comprises: a third storage region; a second portion of the first attachment mechanism; and a second portion of the second attachment mechanism. In a first configuration, the first portion of the first attachment mechanism is coupled to the first portion of the second attachment mechanism. In a second configuration, the first portion of the first attachment mechanism is coupled to the second portion of the first attachment mechanism, and the first portion of the second attachment mechanism is coupled to the second portion of the second attachment mechanism. |
| US11607028B2 |
Baby accessory utility bag
Embodiments of the present invention are related to a baby accessory utility bag including a front incorporating a plurality of pockets with a plurality of upper pockets, a plurality of medial pockets, and a plurality of lower pockets. The bag has a bag body and a back including a back pocket spanning the length of the bag body. The back includes a removably attached changing pad. The bag also includes a carrying strap structured to fit separately overtop a user's shoulder and a baby stroller handlebar. |
| US11607018B2 |
Ring with rotation and lock function to selectively display multiple jewels
A ring with a rotation and a lock function to selectively display multiple jewels is configured to comprise a first side including a first hole; a second side positioned in an opposite side to the first side and including a second hole that is smaller than the first hole; a third side bended from the first side; a fourth side bended from the first side and positioned in an opposite side to the third side; a space formed between the first and the second side; a plurality of receivers positioned in the space and meeting with the second side; elastic members respectively positioned in the plurality of receiver, and jewels respectively sitting on the elastic members, wherein the second side and the plurality of the receivers are rotatable in a state that the first, the third, and the fourth side are fixed. |
| US11607013B2 |
Lacing engine for automated footwear platform
Systems and apparatus related to footwear including a modular lacing engine are discussed. In an example, a modular footwear apparatus including an upper portion, a lower portion, and a lacing engine is described. The upper portion can include a lace to adjust fit of the upper portion against a foot, the lace adjustable between a first position and a second position based at least in part on manipulation of an effective length of the lace. The lower portion can include a mid-sole and an out-sole, and the lower portion can be coupled to the upper portion at the mid-sole. The lacing engine can include a top-loading lace spool to engage a loop of the lace to enable manipulation of the effective length of the lace through rotation of the lace spool, the lacing engine received within a cavity in the lower portion. |
| US11607010B2 |
Sole structure for article of footwear
A sole structure for an article of footwear having an upper includes a heel region, a forefoot region, and a mid-foot region disposed between the heel region and the forefoot region. The sole structure also includes a fluid-filled chamber including a first barrier layer cooperating with a second barrier layer to define a segment extending along a medial side of the sole structure within the heel region, a second segment extending along a lateral side of the sole structure within the heel region, a third segment extending from one of the first segment and the second segment and terminating at a distal end intermediate the first segment and the second segment, and a web area disposed between and connecting the first segment and the second segment. The first barrier layer is attached to the second barrier layer within the web area. |
| US11607009B2 |
Article of footwear
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a cushioning element having a top surface, a bottom surface formed on an opposite side of the cushioning element from the top surface, a ramp surface spaced apart from the bottom surface in a heel region of the cushioning element, a heel pocket extending through the cushioning element from the top surface to the ramp surface, and a plurality of pillars extending from the ramp surface and surrounding the pocket. The sole structure additionally includes a plurality of cushioning particles disposed within the pocket, an outsole attached to the cushioning element and enclosing a first end of the pocket, and an upper barrier layer attached to the top surface of the cushioning element and covering a second end of the pocket. |
| US11607008B2 |
Sole structure with transversely movable coupler for selectable bending stiffness
A sole structure for an article of footwear comprises a first plate and a second plate both extending longitudinally in a flexion region of the sole structure. The second plate is disposed above the first plate in the flexion region. The second plate has a fixed portion fixed to the first plate, and has a free portion. A coupler is operatively connected to one of the first plate and the free portion of the second plate. The coupler is selectably movable transversely relative to the first plate and the second plate between a first position and a second position. The coupler is spaced apart from the other one of the first plate and the free portion of the second plate in the first position, and operatively engages the other one of the first plate and the free portion of the second plate in the second position. |
| US11607007B2 |
Insole and outsole two-piece shoe
An article of footwear includes an injection molded outsole of a first material having a durometer reading of at least 28 to at most 38 on the Asker C scale, an injection molded insole of a second material having a durometer reading of at least 28 to at most 38 on the Asker C scale, and an upper, at least a section of a peripheral edge of the upper being sandwiched between the insole and the outsole. |
| US11607006B2 |
Shoe for limb length discrepancy correction
A shoe includes a shoe upper that holds a wearer's foot when worn. A shoe sole is connected to the shoe upper and has a collapsible section including a body that at least partially defines a pocket in the collapsible section. An insert is installed in the pocket. The insert has a vertical thickness that expands the collapsible section and increases the vertical thickness of the shoe sole compared to when no insert is installed in the pocket. The shoe may be used for limb length correction. |
| US11607005B2 |
Moisture-permeable waterproof shoe
A moisture-permeable waterproof shoe includes an upper unit, an inner sleeve unit, and an outsole unit. The upper unit defines an inner space having a top open end and a bottom closed end. The inner sleeve unit is fixedly disposed in the inner space, and includes a moisture-permeable waterproof shoe-like inner sleeve and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) sheet. The moisture-permeable waterproof shoe-like inner sleeve has an inner sleeve bottom surface and defines a wearing space having a top open end and a bottom closed end. The TPU sheet has a top surface fixedly connected to the inner sleeve bottom surface by a high-frequency welding method. The outsole unit is fixedly connected to an underside of the upper unit. |
| US11607003B2 |
Shoe with bubble creation device
A bubble creation device is disposed in a sole of a shoe and include a soapy water container for storing soapy water, a bubble blowing module, and at least one tube having two ends connected to the soapy water container and the bubble blowing module respectively and being in fluid communication therewith. The bubble blowing module includes a channel in a housing and having an outlet open to the atmosphere, and an air inlet open to the atmosphere; a blowing unit in the housing for flowing air from the channel to the outlet; a film forming unit through the outlet and communicating with the at least one tube; a power unit in the housing for supplying power to the blowing unit; and an on/off switch on the sole for controlling an activation of the blowing unit. |
| US11607002B2 |
Rapid-entry footwear having a pocket for a compressed medium
A rapid-entry shoe having an upper, a sole portion, and at least one pocket coupled to a rear portion of the upper and encapsulating a compressed medium that biases a topline of the shoe toward an uncollapsed configuration. |
| US11607000B2 |
Helmet dampening fit system
A fit system for a helmet can include an adjuster including a width adjustment track, and first and second pods moveably coupled to the width adjustment track with a first and second support arm, the second pod comprising a lateral offset from the first pod. The fit system can further include a dial moveably coupled to the adjustor, such that movement of the dial changes a size of the lateral offset between the first pod and the second pod. The fit system can further include a hanger flexibly coupled to both the first pod and the second pod and adapted to allow for adjustment of the lateral offset between the first pod and the second pod. The hanger can further be adapted to allow for movement of the first pod and the second pod in a direction substantially perpendicular to the lateral offset without movement of the dial. |
| US11606999B2 |
Helmet system
Protective clothing and/or equipment may comprise a modular helmet assembly which comprises a plurality of impact mitigation modules positioned between an outer layer and an interior layer of the helmet, optionally with a plurality of perforations or openings in an outer shell of the helmet. The plurality of impact mitigation assemblies may comprise an impact absorbing array of impact mitigation structures having at least one filament and a lateral support wall or connecting element. When force is applied to the exterior surface, the structures of the impact absorbing materials deform in a desired and controlled manner, reducing the force received by the interior layer. |
| US11606998B2 |
Data collecting head guard systems and methods thereof
A head guard is provided. The head guard includes one or more sensors as part of an sensory input and communications system. The head guard wirelessly communicates data to remote computing devices for intelligent data collection. |
| US11606992B2 |
Vented garment
The technology described herein relates to breathable, vented, and insulating garments. More particularly, the technology described herein relates to garments with chambers to retain an insulating fill material. Openings along seams between the insulating chambers may achieve evaporative moisture or air transfer from the inside (proximal to the body of a wearer) of the garment to the outside environment. In an aspect, the garments comprise one or more insulated zones provided with one or more vented-insulation sections provided at locations on the garment configured to align with one or more areas of a wearer's body that are more sensitive to environmental conditions (e.g. temperature) and/or are prone to faster heat loss. |
| US11606991B2 |
Grip strenthening support device
A grip strengthening device having a finger portion for enhancing the grip by means of at least one artificial tendon arranged along at least one finger portion, wherein the finger portion comprises material along both sides and a tip, and possible along a dorsal side, the at least one artificial tendon is attached along both sides so that the artificial tendon may move, wherein the artificial tendon runs closer to a ventral side than the dorsal side of the finger portion, at least at positions corresponding to joints of a wearer's finger, the finger portion will transfer a force to provide a movement of the finger when the artificial tendon is retracted, wherein the artificial tendon runs in a detour towards or to a position in the middle between the dorsal and ventral side or closer to the dorsal side at a proximal portion of the finger portion. |
| US11606989B2 |
Touch protector
An apparatus includes a first base portion coupled with a second base portion. The apparatus also includes a first backing member extending from the first base portion and a second backing member extending from the second base portion. A first length of the first base portion is equal to a second length of the second base portion and a first width of the first base portion is equal to a second width of the second base portion. A maximum distance between an outer surface of the first backing member and the first base portion is less than a maximum distance between an outer surface of the second backing member the second base portion such that a first space is less than a second space. |
| US11606988B2 |
Glove with clip
The glove with clip is a clip on the outside of the back of a glove having a spring loaded raised lip urged against the glove or a spring base on the glove to removably hold papers, notes, instructions or lightweight material such as sand paper. The clip may be a flat metal clip having a spring base on the glove, a spring wire attached to the glove or a magnetic closure adapted to releasably hold papers or similar material used by a worker such as a plumber or electrician. |
| US11606982B2 |
Expandable and flexible garment yoke and garment with same
A garment has a yoke attached to the garment body, wherein the yoke is formed from a material having stretch and recovery in at least two directions thereof. The material may be formed from a fusible substrate combined with a particular fabric having stretch properties. The yoke may have an inner piece and an outer piece having substantially the same shape and size as the inner piece, and wherein at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece is formed from a material formed from a fusible substrate combined with a particular fabric having stretch properties. The garment body includes a back and a front, and the yoke includes at least one back portion configured with the back of the garment body, and at least one front portion configured with the front of the garment body. The first material has stretch and recovery properties at offset angles with respect to the at least one direction. |
| US11606981B2 |
Vaporizer
Vaporizer and/or electronic cigarette chargers useful for the recharging of rechargeable vaporizer or electronic cigarette power supplies such as batteries, compatible vaporizers and/or electronic cigarettes, their components, charging contacts, methods of their use and kits containing such chargers are disclosed. |
| US11606980B2 |
Vaporizer apparatus having both a vacuum pump and a heating element, and method of using same
A vaporizer apparatus includes a pump housing, a main housing containing an evacuation chamber, and an operation unit attached to the main housing. The operation unit selectively isolates the evacuation chamber from communication with an air inlet. At least one vacuum pump is operable to generate a vacuum in the evacuation chamber, while a heating element also operates. A mouthpiece is attached to the main housing, and may be selectively placed in communication with the evacuation chamber. When oil is placed in the evacuation chamber and the operation unit is operated, the evacuation chamber is temporarily sealed off from the inlet, creating a vacuum sealed chamber connected with the pump(s). Then, the pump(s) is/are activated to reduce pressure in the evacuation chamber, and the oil is vaporized at reduced pressure and at an elevated temperature. When the operation unit is released, the evacuation chamber is emptied via the mouthpiece. |
| US11606979B2 |
Aerosol-generating system comprising a fluid permeable susceptor element
A cartridge is provided for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system, the cartridge including: an aerosol-forming substrate including a liquid held in a capillary material; and a susceptor element including first and second fluid-permeable portions, the first fluid-permeable portion being disposed on a first side of the capillary material, and the second fluid-permeable portion being disposed on a second side of the capillary material opposite to the first side such that the capillary material is located in between the first and the second fluid-permeable portions of the susceptor element, the susceptor element being electrically isolated from other electrically conductive components. A heater assembly for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system, and an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system, are also provided. |
| US11606978B2 |
Vaporiser insert for an inhaler, in particular an electronic cigarette product, vaporiser-tank unit, and an electronic cigarette product
A vaporiser insert for an electronic cigarette product comprises at least one electrical vaporiser for vaporising fluid supplied to the vaporiser and for supplying the vaporised fluid to an airflow, a main part having a lateral face which surrounds an airflow duct through which the airflow can flow, at least one fluid opening for supplying vaporisable fluid from the outside into the vaporiser insert and to the vaporiser being arranged on the lateral face of the main part. The vaporiser insert comprises a support for retaining the vaporiser, and the support comprises a passage opening that corresponds to the fluid opening in order to supply fluid to the vaporiser. |
| US11606965B2 |
Lactic acid bacteria for a heat-treated food product for storage at ambient temperature
Process for producing an ambient storage food product comprising providing a food product with a pH of between 3.4 and 4.4, subjecting the food product to a heat treatment to obtain a heat treated food product, adding aseptically to the heat treated food product one or more of ambient storage lactic acid bacteria strains to obtain an ambient storage food product, and storing the ambient storage food product at ambient temperature for a period of time, wherein the ambient storage lactic acid bacteria strain is selected from the group consisting of strains, (i) wherein the strain is capable of retaining viability at the end of 150 days at a temperature of 25#C, and (ii) wherein the pH at most decreases 0.8 units during the storage period, and (iii) wherein the strain is selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, and mutants and variants thereof. |
| US11606964B2 |
Bread crumb-coated food item and methods of making
Breadcrumbs have a grain size distribution in which the proportion of a fraction of breadcrumbs that have a grain size 2.36 mm is 8-21 mass % and the proportion of a fraction of breadcrumbs that have a grain size ≤1.18 mm is ≤45 mass %, and have a bulk density of 270-600 ml/100 g. A breadcrumb powder shaker container includes: the breadcrumbs or breadcrumb mix; and a shaker container containing a breadcrumb powder to be shaken out including the breadcrumbs or the breadcrumb mix, the shaker container having a shake-out hole. The shake-out hole has a maximum diametric length of 10-55 mm. This enables simply applying the breadcrumbs or the breadcrumb mix directly to a food material, enabling a high-quality cooked breadcrumb-coated food item, while retaining the flavor of the food material to a high level irrespective of the amount of oil used in deep frying. |
| US11606962B2 |
Flavoring composition concentrates
Rapidly dissolving flavoring composition concentrates are provided. The flavoring composition concentrates have a flavor, a solvent system, a flavor carrier system, and a densifier. The densifier is an acid modifier present in an amount such that it optimizes the rate of dispersion of the concentrate in water. |
| US11606961B2 |
Flavoring composition concentrates
Rapidly dissolving flavoring composition concentrates are provided. The flavoring composition concentrates have a flavor, a solvent system, a flavor carrier system, and a densifier. The densifier is an acid modifier present in an amount such that it optimizes the rate of dispersion of the concentrate in water. |
| US11606954B2 |
Stable S-(+)-abscisic acid nonaqueous liquid solutions
Stable S-(+)-abscisic acid (S-ABA) non-aqueous liquid solutions are generally achieved without the use of an effective amount of an antioxidant and/or an ultraviolet absorber to S-(+)-abscisic acid. In a preferred embodiment, the stable S-(+)-abscisic acid (S-ABA) nonaqueous liquid solutions includes at least one organic solvent, such as at least one polyethylene glycol, at least one glycol, and/or at least one lactamide and/or at least one pentanoate. |
| US11606951B1 |
Organ preservation system
An organ preservation system is provided. The organ preservation system is embodied in a sleeve adapted to maintain a pre-transplant organ at a temperature lower than ambient temperature through a plurality of bladders interconnected by a deformable mesh. With the organ in the sleeve, each vessel of the organ can pass through separate, deformable holes of the mesh, facilitating ease of identification of each vessel needed for the pending vascular anastomosis. |
| US11606950B2 |
Game bait decoy
A non-edible game attractant that visually attracts game in the form of a game bait decoy is provided. The game bait decoy may provide a decoy sheet having outward-facing attractant simulating indicia. The decoy sheet may be anchored to the ground over a pile structure to mimic the shape of a bait pile. The decoy sheet may provide flaps defined by slots for enabling animal access to the pile structure and allowing sufficient air flow through the decoy sheet to prevent the decoy sheet from catching sail in windy conditions as well as to aerate the pile structure. |
| US11606948B2 |
Chemical applicator for plant material
There is proposed an apparatus for introducing a chemical into a plant tissue of a target plant, including a body being graspable by a user, and an applicator portion attachable to or forming a part of the body, the applicator portion including a reservoir chamber for holding the chemical, and one or more elongate porous piercing elements, in fluid communication with the reservoir chamber, being configured to pierce the plant tissue, wherein the chemical within the reservoir chamber is drawn or moves into the one or more elongate porous piercing elements, such that as the one or more elongate porous piercing elements penetrate into or through the plant tissue the chemical is applied to an edge of a resultant incision therein. |
| US11606945B2 |
Portable fishing rod holder that floats
A portable fishing rod holder is provided with a body that is buoyant and has first and second ends. The first end is constructed of a material that deforms upon contact by an object. A plurality of apertures is provided at the first end, the plurality of apertures include a large portion and a narrow portion that is oriented toward a center point of the body. The second end includes a base dimensioned to support the body in an upright orientation. Fishing rods are inserted into the apertures and are secured by a strap that urges the fishing rods toward the center point of the body. An angler may grasp the shaft of a fishing rod to safely transport multiple fishing rods using one hand. The portable fishing rod holder avoids the hassle of tangled lines, broken tips, or broken guides that occur when transporting multiple rods using one hand. |
| US11606941B2 |
Animal models and therapeutic molecules
The invention discloses methods for the generation of chimaeric human—non-human antibodies and chimaeric antibody chains, antibodies and antibody chains so produced, and derivatives thereof including fully humanised antibodies; compositions comprising said antibodies, antibody chains and derivatives, as well as cells, non-human mammals and vectors, suitable for use in said methods. |
| US11606939B2 |
Aquarium system with controlable light and methods
An aquarium system includes an aquarium tank arrangement and a light source. The light source has a controllable output of colored light projecting into the aquarium tank arrangement. The light source can provide a cycle of projecting light of at least two different colors. |
| US11606938B2 |
Ornament assembly
A method for decorating a housing using a decorative ornament assembly includes a base and plurality of decorative elements irremovably disposed therein. The width and depth of the base is less than or equal to the width and depth of inner surface dimension of the housing such that the bottom inner surface area of the housing is entirely covered by one or more bases. A decorative elements on the decorative ornament assembly is configured for use in easy removal of the assembly from the housing. |
| US11606936B2 |
Two queen bee hive queen excluder assembly
A queen excluder assembly for a two queen beehive includes a queen excluder, a frame surrounding a perimeter of the queen excluder, and a central filler piece provided over a portion of the queen excluder. A removable divider board can be inserted over the queen excluder to separate a queen's chamber below the queen excluder from a remainder of the beehive above the queen excluder. |
| US11606935B2 |
Self-balancing poultry water distribution system
An improved, self-balancing water distribution system uses siphon characteristics to maintain negative pressure within the water system and to enable distribution of water to one or more distribution points, such as drinker lines with drinker nipples, at a controlled pressure, for consumption by poultry. The system includes water conduit connected to and configured to distribute water from a water supply reservoir to the one or more distribution points. The water level of the water supply reservoir is used to control the water pressure within the system. A vacuum apparatus is connected to the water conduit to remove entrapped air within the system to help maintain negative pressure within the conduit and throughout the system. |
| US11606934B2 |
Semirigid poultry and/or swine enclosure
An at least partially floorless semirigid poultry enclosure configured to flex and/or adjust to accommodate undulating terrain during movement across a field. The semirigid poultry enclosure may comprise a semirigid foundation. The semirigid foundation may include one or more flexible portions disposed between two or more rigid structural elements. The semirigid poultry enclosure may include an automated movement system configured to facilitate movement of the semirigid poultry enclosure on a field. The automated movement system may be configured to move a semirigid poultry enclosure that is at least 90 feet in length via multiple drive units coupled to a semirigid foundation. |
| US11606933B2 |
Wild bird treatment system and methods
A wild bird treatment system includes an enclosure for accommodating a plurality of wild coveying birds targeted for treatment with at least one ground level entrance of a size and location to permit the targeted birds to freely enter and exit the enclosure while excluding non-targeted animals. An electronic bird caller for attracting wild coveying birds is provided. A feeder assembly, slidably removable from the enclosure, includes a slider assembly and a feed hopper. The slider assembly, slidably removable from the feeder assembly, includes a feed plate assembly and a feed slide for controlling flow of medicated feed. The feed plate assembly, slidably removable from the slider assembly, includes a feed plate of a size and a food delivery box with outlets of a size to control the rate of medicated feed released from the feed hopper specific to the birds targeted for treatment. |
| US11606932B2 |
Dog rope leash with integrated storage function
A dog rope leash with a storage function, including: a rope body, a handle on one end of the rope body, a clasp on the other end of the rope body, and a connection box mounted on the handle and/or rope body. The inside of the connection box has a storage cavity, and the surface of the connection box has an access port connected to the storage cavity. Garbage bags or other items in the storage cavity of the connecting box by designing the connection box on the dog rope leash, which is simple in structure and convenient in use. |
| US11606922B2 |
Watermelon variety NUN 31812 WMW
The disclosure provides a hybrid watermelon variety NUN 31812 WMW as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 31812 is a triploid, round, crimson sweet type watermelon variety, comprising intermediate resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. s.p niveum Race 0, Fusarium oxysporum f. s.p niveum Race 1, and Colletotrichum lagenarium Race 1. |
| US11606917B2 |
Battery-powered backpack blower
The battery-powered backpack blower includes a back support assembly including a back plate configured to permit a user to mount the blower to the user's back, and a volute assembly including a first volute portion and a second volute portion. The backpack blower further includes a housing assembly including a battery assembly and a motor assembly therein, the housing assembly is provided intermediate to the back assembly and the volute assembly. |
| US11606916B2 |
Grooved stackable panel for floating cultivation of plants
Panel for floating cultivation of plants on water, including parallel grooves at a top side extending longitudinally, adapted for receiving a substrate and a number of plants or precursors in the substrate, each groove extending through the panel from a first top plane to a second parallel plane. The panel includes air chambers at a lower side extending substantially below the second plane, each of the air chambers allowing therein formation of air roots of plants supported in the substrate of the grooves. At the second plane, each groove is spaced apart from the circumferential side wall of the air chamber it debouches in when projected onto a plane normal to the longitudinal direction, each of the grooves including at least two side support surfaces extending parallel to the groove and below the top side, the side support surfaces adapted for substantially completely supporting the substrate in the groove. |
| US11606915B2 |
Apparatus and methods for automated control for a performance vegetation wall system
A method of monitoring at least one aspect in a vegetation wall system and an apparatus for doing the same. The method comprising measuring, by a sensor, a first component and a second component in the vegetation wall system; determining, by a processor, a change in the at least one aspect based on: the first component, the second component, and an amount of time between the measurement of the first component and the second component; determining whether the change in at least one aspect is outside a threshold range; and in response to determining the change in the at least one aspect is outside the threshold range, determining an anomalous condition exists. |
| US11606913B1 |
Plant growing lamp
A plant growing lamp includes a lighting unit and a hanging unit. The lighting unit includes a control box and a sliding part, and the hanging unit includes connection lines and a rope ratchets. Cables such as the rope ratchets and the connection lines can be roughly pulled straightly and fully by weight of the lighting unit. The rope ratchets can be pulled to adjust a distance between the lighting unit and the hanger, so as to change an interval between a lamp of the lighting unit and the plants under the lighting unit, thereby appropriately adjusting light intensity for plant growth to prevent from burning the plants. |
| US11606905B2 |
Crop canopy gleaning machine
Some crops, such as soybeans, grow close to the ground, having a low canopy relative to that of weeds growing interspersed in the crop. A farm implement removes weed growth above the crop canopy. The implement has a chassis with at least three wheels connected to the chassis, a cutting mechanism, mounted at a front end of the chassis, a means for collecting weed growth cut by the cutting mechanism, mounted on the chassis, means for generating and selectively applying rotational torque to at least one of the at least three wheels and means for a user to guide the chassis down the rows in which the crop is grown. |
| US11606896B2 |
Predicting soil organic carbon content
Implementations are described herein for predicting soil organic carbon (“SOC”) content for agricultural fields detected in digital imagery. In various implementations, one or more digital images depicting portion(s) of one or more agricultural fields may be processed. The one or more digital images may have been acquired by a vision sensor carried through the field(s) by a ground-based vehicle. Based on the processing, one or more agricultural inferences indicating agricultural practices or conditions predicted to affect SOC content may be determined. Based on the agricultural inferences, one or more predicted SOC measurements for the field(s) may be determined. |
| US11606893B2 |
Automated leveling and depth control system of a work machine and method thereof
An agricultural implement includes a transversely extending frame forming a first, a second, and a third frame section. A first actuator is coupled to the first frame section, a second actuator coupled to the second frame section, and a third actuator coupled to the third frame section. Sensors are coupled to each frame section to detect a height of the respective frame section relative to an underlying surface. A control unit is disposed in electrical communication with the sensors and operably controls the actuators to adjust the height of each frame section. |
| US11612091B2 |
Feeder management device and component-mounting system provided with same
A tape feeder management device includes a feeder classifying unit and a feeder arrangement setting unit. The feeder classifying unit classifies a plurality of tape feeders into a plurality of types of tape feeders. The feeder arrangement setting unit sets arrangement of the plurality of tape feeders in a component feeding unit, according to classification of the tape feeders made by the feeder classifying unit. The feeder arrangement setting unit includes a first setting unit. The first setting unit extracts a special type feeder classified as a tape feeder of a special type by the feeder classifying unit, and sets arrangement of the plurality of tape feeders such that a given reference number or more of the special type feeders are arranged consecutively in a row in an area of the component feeding unit, the area being defined by at least excluding both ends of the component feeding unit. |
| US11612090B2 |
Component management system, component mounting device, and component management method for predicting component exhaustion
It is an object of the present invention to provide a component management system or the like that can accurately predict component exhaustion in a component mounting device that performs work at a line. Specifying section updates the time table based on the arrival time point or the unloading time point in each of component mounting devices. Arrival predicting section predicts the arrival time point in each component mounting device based on the time table and updates a prediction table. Since component-exhaustion predicting section acquires the arrival time point of a circuit board for which a component will be exhausted from the prediction table and calculates a component exhaustion time point, it is possible to predict the component exhaustion time point with high accuracy. An operator can perform a replenishment work based on the component exhaustion time point. |
| US11612085B2 |
Vehicular display device
A vehicular display device includes: an emitting portion; a reflection portion configured to reflect the display light that is emitted from the emitting portion and is subjected to crossing, to a display surface such that the display light is reflected from the display surface to a previously defined eye point; and a casing including: an inner case; and a lower case housing the inner case inside, in which the inner case includes an inner wall part facing a focal area on which external light reflected from the reflection portion after being incident on the reflection portion from outside the casing focuses, the lower case includes a lower wall part located along the inner wall part, and the casing has a heat-discharge structure of conducting heat from the inner wall part to the lower wall part to discharge the heat outward. |
| US11612071B2 |
Flexible throat/duct between cabinets
A duct assembly for covering electrical connections between electrical equipment enclosures having a gap therebetween. The duct assembly includes a first frame configured to be mounted to one of the enclosures, where the first frame includes a flange mounted to the enclosure and a flange to which a gasket is secured that extends all of the way around the first frame. The duct assembly also includes a second frame configured to be mounted to the other enclosure, where the second frame includes a flange mounted to the enclosure and a flange to which a gasket is secured that extends all of the way around the second frame. The duct assembly further includes a duct that compresses and is coupled only to the gaskets that enclose each end of the gap. |
| US11612069B2 |
Hinge for enclosure for electrical network protection element
The disclosure generally relates to an exemplary hinge of an enclosure that can house an electrical network protection element and provide protection to the electrical network protection element against damage in various environments such as when the enclosure is placed in an underground vault that may be flooded during rain, or when a liquid (e.g., oil) comes into contact with the enclosure. The hinge may include two portions, one portion attached to one or more doors of the enclosure and one portion attached to a housing of the enclosure. The hinge may be configured such that it may be adjusted in multiple directions (for example, beyond one plane of rotation that typical hinges may offer), and thus allow for greater adjustability of the one or more doors of the enclosure relative to the housing of the enclosure. |
| US11612066B2 |
Electronic device including metal housing
An electronic device includes a front plate, a back plate that faces away from the front plate, a display, a frame, a polymer member, and an adhesive layer. The display is disposed between the front plate and the back plate and visible through the front plate. The frame surrounds an interior space between the front plate and the back plate and formed of a metallic material. The frame includes a first metal part and a second metal part. The polymer member is coupled to the frame and contains a polymer material. The adhesive layer bonds the polymer member and the frame. The frame includes an opening formed in a first part thereof. The opening is formed through the first metal part and being formed to a specified depth through the second metal part. The polymer member forms at least part of an inner surface of the opening. |
| US11612065B2 |
Foldable display module and formation method thereof, and foldable display device
A foldable display module and its formation method, and a foldable display device are provided in the present disclosure. The module includes a foldable display panel and a support plate which are disposed oppositely. The support plate includes a first support part and a second support part; the first support part is made of a first material; and the second support part is made of a second material; the foldable display module includes a bendable region and a non-bendable region; the foldable display panel includes a bendable portion and a non-bendable portion; the bendable portion is at the bendable region; and the non-bendable portion is at the non-bendable region; the first support part includes a first portion configured to support the bendable portion of the foldable display panel; and the second support part is configured to support the non-bendable portion of the foldable display panel. |
| US11612061B2 |
Laser direct structuring of switches
Methods and systems for creating a device having a switch trace are disclosed. The systems and methods described herein may include a device that has a chassis, the chassis having a top and a bottom, at least one antenna affixed to the top of the chassis, a first laser direct structuring-fabricated (LDS) trace, a second LDS trace, and a button, the button connected to the first LDS trace and the top of the chassis, wherein the button is configured to contact the second LDS trace when the button is depressed and complete a circuit between the first LDS trace and the second LDS trace upon contact. |
| US11612059B2 |
Display panel and terminal device
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a terminal device. The display panel can include a display screen, a flexible circuit board, and a control chip. The display screen can further include a main display portion and a bent portion extending from an edge of the main display portion. The bent portion is bent towards a lower side of the main display portion. The flexible circuit board is connected to an end of the bent portion away from the main display portion and extends to below the main display portion. The control chip is mounted on the flexible circuit board. |
| US11612057B2 |
Opening in the pad for bonding integrated passive device in InFO package
A package includes a conductive pad, with a plurality of openings penetrating through the conductive pad. A dielectric layer encircles the conductive pad. The dielectric layer has portions filling the plurality of openings. An Under-Bump Metallurgy (UBM) includes a via portion extending into the dielectric layer to contact the conductive pad. A solder region is overlying and contacting the UBM. An integrated passive device is bonded to the UBM through the solder region. |
| US11612052B2 |
Circuit board and display device including the same
A circuit board for a display device includes: a signal line to transmit signal, a first metallic layer overlapping the signal line, a first conductive layer spaced apart from the first metallic layer, a base layer insulating the signal line from the first metallic layer and from the first conductive layer, and a first capacitor including a first terminal electrically coupled to the first metallic layer and a second terminal electrically coupled to the first conductive layer. |
| US11612051B1 |
Radio frequency (RF) system with RF isolation chambers and method of manufacture
A system includes a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB includes a radio frequency (RF) circuit that includes a plurality of circuit modules and signal trace lines. Each circuit module is electrically connected to at least one other circuit module by a signal trace line. The system includes a via fence comprising fence walls having at least two materials laminated using a printed wire board (PWB) process. The fence walls include a plurality of vias. The fence walls form a plurality of free-form RF isolation chambers, each chamber includes chamber walls that surround each circuit module outside of the PCB. The embodiments also include a method of manufacturing and/or isolating the system or components of the system. |
| US11612048B2 |
Ion beam target assemblies for neutron generation
Provided herein are systems, devices, articles of manufacture, and methods for generating neutrons employing a high energy ion beam target (HEIB target) and a target backing configured to be in contact with the bottom surface of the HEIB target (e.g., to generate an ion beam target assembly). In certain embodiments, the HEIB target has a thickness that is less than the penetration depth of protons or deuterons in the high energy ion beam that strikes the target. In certain embodiments, the target backing comprises a high hydrogen diffusion metal (e.g., palladium), has open spaces dispersed throughout for reduced proton diffusion distances, and has a shape and thickness such that all, or virtually all, of the protons or deuterons that pass through the HEIB target are stopped. Also provided herein are systems, devices, and methods for changing targets in an ion beam accelerator system. |
| US11612047B2 |
Planar transformer for an x-ray source
It would be advantageous to reduce weight and size of high voltage power supplies, to increase frequency of pulses of high voltage, and to improve control of magnitude of high voltage. The embodiments of high voltage power supplies described herein can solve these problems. The high voltage power supply can be used with an x-ray tube. The high voltage power supply can comprise an array of planar transformers each defining a stage with an AC input and a DC output. Each stage can comprise a pair of flat, coil windings adjacent one another and including a primary winding electrically-coupled to the AC input and configured to induce a current in a secondary winding. At least two stages can be electrically-coupled together in series with the DC output of one stage electrically-coupled to an input of the other stage such that a voltage is amplified across the stages. |
| US11612042B2 |
Method and a controller for configuring a replacement lighting device in a lighting system
A method (400) of configuring a replacement lighting device in a lighting system is disclosed. The method (400) comprises: obtaining (402) a light scene from a memory (106, 108), wherein the light scene is indicative of lighting control settings for a plurality of lighting devices (112, 114, 116) of the lighting system, receiving (404) a signal indicative of an addition of a new lighting device (118) to the lighting system, determining (406) that a first lighting device (116) of the plurality of lighting devices (112, 114, 116) has been removed from the lighting system, obtaining (408) first data indicative of first light rendering capabilities of the first lighting device (116), obtaining (410) second data indicative of second light rendering capabilities of the new lighting device (118), comparing (412) the first light rendering capabilities to the second light rendering capabilities to identify a difference between the first and second light rendering capabilities, and generating (414) an updated light scene, wherein the updated light scene comprises a lighting control setting for the new lighting device (118), wherein the lighting control setting is based on the original light scene and the difference between the first and second light rendering capabilities. |
| US11612039B2 |
Rear lamp unit control system
A rear lamp unit control system for a vehicle including: a first lamp provided on a vehicle body side of a vehicle rear face; a second lamp provided on an opening-closing body side of the vehicle rear face; and a controller configured to control the first lamp and the second lamp. When an opening-closing body of the vehicle is in a closed state, the controller is configured to control the first lamp and the second lamp so that the first lamp and the second lamp turn on at different luminous intensities to each other. In response to the second lamp being in need to be turned on when the opening-closing body is in an open state, the controller is configured to turn the first lamp on at a luminous intensity that is equivalent to a luminous intensity of the second lamp when the second lamp is turned on. |
| US11612037B2 |
Lighting apparatus
A lighting apparatus includes a wireless circuit board, a driver circuit board, a light source plate, a metal cover and a metal housing. The wireless circuit board is mounted with a wireless circuit. The wireless circuit has a first reference ground terminal. The driver circuit board is mounted with a driver circuit. The driver circuit has a second reference ground terminal. The light source plate is mounted with a LED module. The light source plate is placed on a top side of the metal cover. The first reference ground terminal and the second reference ground terminal are connected to the metal cover as a reference ground. The metal housing and a bottom side of the metal cover forms a container space for holding the driver circuit board and a first portion of the wireless circuit board. |
| US11612032B2 |
LED device with lateral light emission
An LED device with lateral light emission includes a circuit board, a rectifying circuit, and an LED light source. The rectifying circuit includes a positive lead, a negative lead, a rectifier, a first resistor, and a second resistor, the positive lead and negative lead are provided on an end of the circuit board, the rectifier is provided on a first surface of the circuit board, and the first resistor and second resistor are provided on a second surface of the circuit board. The LED light source is provided on a side surface of the circuit board. By configuring the LED light source on the side surface of the circuit board through via holes, the layout of the electronic components is more compact and flexible, and adaptable to more light distribution designs. |
| US11612026B2 |
Streetlight asset module, streetlights and related systems
A streetlight asset module (SAM) is provided including at least one memory block configured to store operating configuration settings of a streetlight associated with the SAM. The SAM is configured to communicate the operating configuration settings of the streetlight to a control and monitoring system (CMS) node coupled to the streetlight. The CMS node is configured to communicate the operating configuration settings to a remote location using a radio communications network. Related streetlights and systems are also provided. |
| US11612023B2 |
Wireless vehicle lighting
A flexible, sheet-like, multi-layered lighting assembly for applying to a surface. The lighting assembly includes an on-board power source for powering the lighting assembly. The lighting assembly includes a sheet-like electroluminescent light source that is activated by power from the power source, and when activated, emits light. The power source may include a flexible thin sheet-like battery, a wireless power receiver, or a combination thereof. The wireless power receiver may receive power from a power signal generated by a wireless power transmitter; and may operate to directly power the electroluminescent light source, or may recharge the battery. The lighting assembly includes outer and inner polymer layers for protecting the other layers of the lighting assembly, and an adhesive layer on the inner polymer layer for adhering the lighting assembly to a surface. |
| US11612020B2 |
Cooking apparatus and method for controlling thereof
A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus acquires input of a plurality of power supplies of different phases. The cooking apparatus includes a plurality of heating coils including a first heating coil and a second heating coil, a plurality of inverters including a first inverter and a second inverter, and a switching circuit configured to selectively provide power from among a first power or a second power supply to at least one of the first inverter or the second inverter. |
| US11612019B2 |
Air heater
The present disclosure provides an air heater. The air heater comprises: a direct heat generating portion configured to be heated by an electric current supplied from outside; an indirect heat generating portion configured to be heated by conductive heat, which is supplied by physical contact with the heated direct heat generating portion, and configured to heat air coming in through an inlet opening formed on one side while the air is passing through an outlet opening formed on the other side; and a housing made of an insulating material that provides a space where the direct heat generating portion and the indirect heat generating portion are placed, and that comprises an air inlet on one side through which the air is drawn in from outside and an air vent on the other side through which the air is released. |
| US11612016B2 |
Fronthaul interface for advanced split-radio access network (RAN) systems
One embodiment is directed to a system comprising a distributed unit (DU) and a plurality of remote units (RUs) to wirelessly transmit and receive radio frequency signals to and from the user equipment using a wireless interface. The DU and RUs are communicatively coupled to each other over a fronthaul and are configured to communicate over the fronthaul using an O-RAN fronthaul interface. The DU and RUs are configured to communicate O-RAN control-plane and user-plane messages that include a new O-RAN section extension for use in communicating different section data to different RUs. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11612014B2 |
Communication device, communication method thereof, information processing device, control method thereof, and storage medium
A communication device that transmits or receives a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY) is provided. The preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), an EHT-SIG (Extremely High Throughput Signal Field), an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field), and the EHT-SIG includes a subfield in which information on whether NOMA (Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access) is used in transmission of data included in the data field is set. |
| US11612010B2 |
System and method for ultra low latency wireless media streaming
A system for wireless media streaming in ultra-low latency including: a source device transmitting payload to at least one destination device and receiving acknowledgement from at least one destination device; at least one destination device receiving payload from the source device and transmitting acknowledgement to the source device; wherein the source device is a primary wireless module which provides a primary wireless link and a secondary wireless module which provides a secondary wireless link, the primary wireless link for transmitting of payload to at least one destination device and the secondary wireless link for receiving acknowledgement from at least one destination device. The destination device is a primary wireless module providing a primary wireless link and a secondary wireless module providing a secondary wireless link, the primary wireless link for receiving payload from the source device and the secondary wireless link for transmitting acknowledgement to the source device. |
| US11612008B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for performing radio link monitoring (RLM) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining at least one subband for RLM by a UE restricted to use a subband corresponding to a part of a system transmission bandwidth, wherein the subband is a preconfigured part of the system transmission bandwidth, performing RLM in the determined at least one subband, and determining a radio link quality of the at least one subband based on the RLM. |
| US11612005B2 |
Unit selection for a node
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first node of a wireless communications network may determine a service type of the first node. The first node may transmit, to a second node during a random access procedure, an indication of the service type of the first node. The first node may then establish a connection with a unit of the second node that is for serving nodes of the wireless network associated with the service type. The connection may be established based on transmitting the indication of the service type. |
| US11612004B2 |
User equipment, control apparatus, and communication control method
Provided is a communication unit configured to allow a function for CIoT to be used even in a 5GS that supports a network-initiated configuration update procedure and a plurality of types of session and service continuities. Further provided is a communication unit configured to appropriately manage, by a user equipment, connection established between the user equipment and a network even in a case that a network-initiated change of a state of the user equipment has been performed. Thereby, the communication unit for implementing the function for CIoT in the 5GS and the communication unit for implementing a network-initiated procedure of changing the state of the user equipment are provided. |
| US11611997B2 |
Random access channel (RACH) optimization for interference coordination in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interference coordination between wireless nodes (e.g., nodes of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network). The techniques generally include determining, by a first wireless node, resources for sending an indication of interference coordination to a second wireless node, and sending the indication to the second wireless node using the determined resources, as part of an interference coordination procedure. |
| US11611996B2 |
Method for grant free uplink transmission, user equipment and base station device
The present disclosure provides a grant free uplink transmission method, the method is performed at a user equipment side, comprising: determining, according to configuration information for grant free uplink transmission received from a base station, a radio network temporary identifier GF-RNTI for grant free uplink transmission, and transmitting an uplink signal; and monitoring feedback from the base station in a downlink control channel by using the determined GF-RNTI. The present disclosure also provides a user equipment and a base station for grant free uplink transmission. |
| US11611994B2 |
Random access method, user equipment, and network device
A method and a device are provided. The method includes: selecting, by user equipment, a random access preamble from a random access preamble set, and selecting a random access channel resource from a random access channel resource set; sending, by the user equipment, the random access preamble by using the random access channel resource; and receiving, by the user equipment, a random access response message on a first downlink bandwidth part; wherein at least one of the random access preamble set or the random access channel resource set corresponds to the first downlink bandwidth part, and the random access channel resource includes at least one of a random access channel time domain resource or a random access channel frequency domain resource. |
| US11611992B2 |
Bandwidth extension indication and negotiation in wireless communications
A first station (STA) and a second STA perform bandwidth negotiation with a bandwidth extension indication. Then the first STA and the second STA communicate wirelessly according to the bandwidth negotiation. |
| US11611989B2 |
Method and apparatus for extending coverage in communication system
An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise receiving first random access (RA) configuration information and second RA configuration information from a base station; transmitting a Msg1 to the base station based on the second RA configuration information; receiving a Msg2, which is a response to the Msg1, from the base station; and repeatedly transmitting a Msg3 K times to the base station. |
| US11611985B2 |
Grant of resources for downlink and uplink communication via one or more relay user equipment
A data pipeline between a base station and a user equipment (UE) may be formed via a relay UE. In this regard, a base station is configured to send a joint grant to the first UE, the joint grant including a first resource assignment for transmission of data via a first communication link between the base station and the first UE, and a second resource assignment for transmission of data via a second communication link between the first UE and a second UE. The first and second communications link may form a downlink pipeline for transmitting data from the base station to the UE. The first and second communications link may be used to transmit uplink data in parallel from the first UE to the base station. |
| US11611980B2 |
Sidelink shared channel demodulation reference signal configuration schemes
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a first example, the user equipment (UE) may receive sidelink control information scheduling resources for a sidelink data transmission spanning a set of tones and indicating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern. The UE may identify that each tone of the set of tones is configured to carry a DMRS for a symbol of the DMRS pattern and may receive the sidelink data transmission based on the symbol of the DMRS pattern carrying the DMRS for each tone. In a second example, the UE may receive control signaling indicating a configuration for a non-overlapping relationship between a first resource for receiving a DMRS and a second resource for receiving a phase tracking reference signal. The UE may receive the DMRS over the first resource and the phase tracking reference signal over the second resource based on the non-overlapping relationship. |
| US11611979B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising: receiving at least one PDSCH, wherein each PDSCH belongs to one of two PDSCH groups; receiving DCI for scheduling a PUSCH, wherein the DCI includes a single DAI related to only one of the two PDSCH groups; and transmitting the control information including an A/N codebook for at least one of the two PDSCH groups. |
| US11611975B2 |
Uplink (UL) transmission with flexible starting positions for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U)
Wireless communications systems and methods related to uplink (UL) communications in a wireless network are provided. In some instances, a wireless communication device is configured to: transmit, to a second wireless communication device, a transmission grant indicating a transmission period; transmit a configuration indicating a plurality of reference signal symbols within the transmission period and an association between a plurality of starting locations and the plurality of reference signal symbols; monitor, in response to the transmission grant, for a communication signal from the second wireless communication device in the transmission period; and identify, upon detection of the communication signal, a starting location of the communication signal from among the plurality of starting locations within the transmission period. |
| US11611973B2 |
User equipment uplink latency in wireless communications
Examples pertaining to improvement on user equipment (UE) uplink latency in wireless communications are described. When an apparatus is in a special mode, a processor of the apparatus transmits to a network a request for permission to perform an uplink (UL) transmission for a plurality of times. The processor then receives from the network a grant. In response to receiving the grant, the processor performs the UL transmission to the network. In transmitting the request for the plurality of times, the processor transmits the request for the plurality of times at a frequency higher than a frequency at which the request to perform UL transmissions is transmitted to the network when the apparatus is in a normal operational mode. |
| US11611972B2 |
Method and apparatus of handling multiple device-to-device transmissions in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a device, a grant is received on a first interface. The grant is associated with transmission on a second interface. A first resource and/or a second resource are derived based upon the grant. A first transmission for delivering a transport block is performed on the first resource on a first transmission beam. The first transmission is on the second interface. A second transmission for delivering the transport block is performed on the second resource on a second transmission beam. The second transmission is on the second interface. |
| US11611964B2 |
Base station configured for operation based on persistent resource allocation information
Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel. |
| US11611963B2 |
Channel location indication method, and related product
The embodiments provide a channel location indication method and a related product, including that: a network side device sends at least one piece of indication information, the at least one piece of indication information being configured to indicate a location offset between a data channel and a first control channel or between a second control channel and the first control channel, the location offset including a time-domain location offset and/or a frequency-domain location offset and the time-domain location offset being a symbol-level offset. The embodiments are favorable for improving flexibility and efficiency of channel resource allocation in a wireless communication system. |
| US11611961B2 |
Latency reduction in shared or unlicensed spectrum
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit uplink (UL) messages in unlicensed spectrum with a reduced UL timing delay. The UL timing delay may be reduced by using a shortened transmission time interval (TTI) (e.g., a TTI that is reduced in duration relative to other TTIs in the system or in a legacy system) or by reducing the number of TTIs between a grant and the corresponding UL message. The reduced UL timing delay may decrease the likelihood that the UE will wait for a subsequent transmit opportunity (TxOp) to transmit the UL message. In some cases, the reduced UL timing delay corresponds to a reduced hybrid automatic repeat request (HARM) processing delay. In some cases, a time difference (e.g., measured in TTIs) between a measurement reference TTI a corresponding channel state information (CSI) report may also be reduced. |
| US11611957B2 |
Device, system and method employing unified flexible 5G air interface
An eNodeB (eNB), user equipment (UE) and method of providing a flexible Radio Access Technology (FRAT) are generally described. The information (resource allocation, partition information and numerology) of at least one of a plurality of RATs used by the eNB is provided to a UE. Each RAT has a flexible subcarrier spacing and symbol duration, which are integer multiples of a base subcarrier spacing and symbol duration, and is associated with at least one of different temporal and frequency resources. The symbol and/or frame structure of each RAT are independent. A Transmission Time Interval (TTI) boundary between the RATs is common, and the RATs comprise a common reference TTI duration. The information of the RATs is provided either via a different RAT than the RAT used by the UE for communication or via a dedicated carrier in the RAT used by the UE for communication. |
| US11611956B2 |
Mapping of control information to control channel elements
The invention relates to a new structure of a control channel region within a sub-frame of a 3GPP-based based communication system using OFDM in the downlink. This new structure of a control channel region is inter alia particularly suitable for conveying physical downlink control channel information from a donor eNodeB to a relay node. The control channel region is divided in CCEs that have equal size irrespective of the presence of further cell-specific and/or UE-specific reference signals within the control channel region. This is achieved by dividing the control channel region in plural sub-CCEs that are combined to CCEs all having equal size (in terms of resource elements that can be used for the signaling of control information). The control channel region is divided in the frequency domain and/or time domain in a FDM respectively TDM fashion in order to obtain the sub-CCEs. |
| US11611955B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control and data channels in wireless communication system
Method of terminal, terminal, method of base station, and base station in wireless communication system are provided. Method of terminal in wireless communication system includes receiving, from base station, rate matching information for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) by a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the rate matching information includes time resource information and frequency resource information; and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate except for a PDCCH candidate overlapped with a resource indicated by the time resource information and the frequency resource information, wherein a search space is defined by a set of PDCCH candidate for an aggregation level, a PDCCH candidate is defined by a set of control channel element (CCE) corresponding to the aggregation level, a CCE is defined by 6 resource element groups (REGs), and a REG is defined by one resource block (RB) daring one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. |
| US11611953B2 |
NR DCI configuration for uplink power transmission
Systems and methods for transmission of full power uplink transmission in 5G networks are described. The gNB provides TPMI precoding information in DCI of a PDCCH in which the field size for precoding information and number of layers are fixed irrespective of the SRI. The gNB indicates in RRC signaling the use of codebook-based transmission for UL. If different SRS resources with different number of antenna ports are configured, the bitwidth of the SRI field is the maximum number of ports among the configured SRS resources in an SRS resource set with usage set to ‘codebook’. If the number of ports for a configured SRS resource in the set is less than the maximum number of ports, the most significant bits of the field have a value of ‘0’. The bitwidth is dependent on UE coherence capabilities and a maxrank of the UE. |
| US11611950B2 |
Information transmission method, equipment and computer-readable storage medium
An information transmission method, equipment and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes that: the base station sends indication information on a first channel for performing a first service, wherein the indication information comprises at least one of information associated with a second channel or a timing instance at which a terminal monitors the second channel, the second channel being used for performing a second service, and sends configuration information for the terminal on the second channel. The method can avoid the high power consumption caused by the continuous monitoring of the terminal and reduce the impacts on performance of the other terminals. |
| US11611949B2 |
Keeping the UE awake
When mobile terminated devices sleep, the devices might not be reachable when needed, for instance when the device is a recipient of data from a third party server. As described herein, a third party application server may inform the network that it has data to send to a particular UE or group of UEs. In an example, the mobile core network (MCN) may use information from the third party server to ensure that the UE is awake when it needs to be. For example, a given UE or group of UEs can be prevented from entering a sleep state before a data transfer is completed. |
| US11611948B2 |
Paging techniques for balanced power savings and public warning system monitoring
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a UE and a network device for wireless communication. The UE sends an indication to a network device indicating a capability of receiving a PWS signal and/or a delay requirement for receiving the PWS signal. The UE receives, from the network device, a configured DRX cycle value associated with the indication and a paging signal corresponding to the PWS signal associated with the configured DRX cycle value. The network device determines whether the UE is capable of receiving the PWS signal and whether the UE desires to receive the PWS signal within a duration. The network device configures a DRX cycle value based on the determination and sends, to the UE, the configured DRX cycle value and a paging signal corresponding to the PWS signal based on the configured DRX cycle value. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described. |
| US11611945B2 |
Synchronization method, user equipment, and base station
Embodiments of the present invention provide a synchronization method, user equipment, and a base station. The synchronization method includes: obtaining, by user equipment, synchronization information, where the synchronization information includes at least one of the following information: synchronization source selection parameter information, synchronization source indication information, or synchronization source priority information; receiving, by the user equipment, a first synchronization signal sent by at least one synchronization source; and determining, by the user equipment, a synchronization reference source according to the synchronization information and the first synchronization information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the synchronization information is obtained, and the synchronization reference source is determined according to the synchronization information and the synchronization signal of the at least one synchronization source, so that synchronization can be implemented. |
| US11611941B2 |
Roaming method based on MESH WIFI, electronic device and computer program product
A roaming method based on MESH WIFI executable by an electronic device, comprising: calculating noise values and interference coefficients of a primary access point (AP) and surrounding APs, adjusting power values between the primary AP and the surrounding APs based on the noise values and the interference coefficients according to normalization, and, when a target AP from the surrounding APs reaches a preset condition, switching the client to connect to the target AP. |
| US11611937B1 |
Network-assisted charging prioritization for cellular unmanned aerial vehicles
Methods are provided for enabling network operators to play a key role in allowing Cellular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to recharge batteries based on RF parameters and/or a class of service the UAVs provide to users/customers. For example, a particular mobile network operator (MNO) has a UAV charging station deployed in it leased towers where it has base stations (eNB/gNB) deployed. The MNO can provide charging as a service to the UAVs. When more than one drone is requesting a charge, the MNO can prioritize which UAV has the highest priority. In some aspects, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Quality of Service identifier. Additionally or alternatively, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Network Slice Selection Assistance Information indicator. |
| US11611934B2 |
Method and system for battery life improvement for low power devices in wireless sensor networks
A method at a module within a sensor system for updating a timing profile, the method including: turning on a radio of the sensor module for a first time duration; detecting signals from other modules within the sensor system; for each signal, storing data comprising a time such signal is received and an identifier for a module sending such signal; sending the data to a server; and receiving the timing profile from the server. |
| US11611932B2 |
WLAN access method and apparatus
The present application provides a WLAN access method. The method includes: obtaining an access location of a UE; obtaining AP access information of the UE at the access location; selecting an AP according to the obtained AP access information to access a WLAN; and sending AP access information of the selected AP to the UE. The present application further provides another WLAN access method and a corresponding apparatus. |
| US11611929B2 |
Network slice selection method, radio access device, and terminal
A network slice selection method, a radio access device, and a terminal, where the method includes obtaining, by a radio access network (RAN) device, network slice information, sending, by the RAN device, a first message to a terminal, where the first message includes the network slice information, receiving, by the RAN device, a first access request message from the terminal after the terminal selects, based on the network slice information, first attribute information of a first network slice to be accessed by the terminal, and selecting, by the RAN device based on the first attribute information of the first network slice, a second network slice to be accessed by the terminal. The method enables an operator to flexibly configure a network slice, and reduces a communication latency and signaling overheads in a process in which a terminal selects a network slice. |
| US11611928B2 |
Spatial preemption indication for downlink, uplink, and sidelink transmissions
Some aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving signaling of a spatial preemption indication (PI), identifying, based on the spatial PI, at least one beam that the UE is preempted from using for at least one of transmitting or receiving at least one target signal, and refraining from using the identified beam for transmitting or receiving the target signal, for at least a time period. |
| US11611923B2 |
Methods and apparatus for supporting quality of service in a system including a cable modem termination system and wireless communications link
A cable communications network provides an alternative communications path between a user equipment device and a data network to a cellular path for a communications session with a desired level of Quality of Service. A cable modem termination system, coupled to a wireless core network, e.g., a 5G core network, interacts with the wireless core network to attempt to establish a PDU session for a UE with a desired QoS level. The core sends a QoS service request message to the CMTS including a requested level of QoS, an IP address and port number for the session. The CMTS and cable modem, corresponding to the UE, negotiate and decide if the request desired QoS level can be supported over the cable between the CMTS and the cable mode for the session. |
| US11611922B2 |
System and methods for network slice reselection
There is provided method for managing network resources by switching the slice used to support a user equipment (UE), in a process referred to as slice handover or slice switching. There are several reasons why a slice handover may be implemented, include movement of the UE and network load balancing. Further the UE can be switched to a new slice operated by the same service provider (intra-operator handover) or a different service provider (inter-operator handover). |
| US11611919B2 |
Non-anchor based radio resource measurements
According to an aspect, a wireless device (50) performs idle mode radio resource management, RRM, measurements in a wireless network comprising a first carrier that supports a broadcast of system information, provides radio resources for paging and random access, and supports idle-mode measurements and further comprises a second carrier, distinct from the first carrier, that also provides radio resources for paging and random access. The wireless device (50) performs (502) at least one of a signal strength measurement and quality measurement on each of the first and second carriers, the first carrier being an anchor carrier for the wireless device and the second carrier being a non-anchor carrier. Based on the at least one measurement for each of the respective carriers, the wireless device (50) determines (504) whether to perform idle-mode RRM measurements on the second, non-anchor, carrier. |
| US11611918B2 |
Conditional handover (CHO) execution with network slice service continuity prioritization
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for conditional handover (CHO) execution with network slice service continuity prioritization are provided. A radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message sent by a source radio access network (RAN) node to the user equipment (UE) may include, for each CHO configuration, an associated network slice-related priority index. The UE may take this index into account when selecting a suitable cell during CHO recovery. Additionally, or alternatively, the RRC reconfiguration message sent by a source RAN node may include, for each CHO configuration, an associated network slice support information of the candidate target cell. The message may also include network slice remapping information for any network slice associated with one of the candidate target cells. Using the above network slice-related information received from the network, the UE can prioritize the cell to select during CHO recovery in case more than one suitable cell is available. |
| US11611916B2 |
Primary cell and primary secondary cell management for cells within an activated cell set
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for using layer one (L1) or layer two (L2) signaling to indicate a primary cell (PCell) or primary secondary cell (PSCell) to a user equipment (UE). The use of L1 or L2 signaling to indicate a PCell or PSCell may be referred to as L1 or L2 mobility and may lower the latency at the UE associated with transitioning to communicating with the PCell or PSCell. A UE may receive radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station indicating a set of cells configured for L1 or L2 mobility and indicating a list of candidate cells for a PCell or PSCell. The UE may then receive L1/L2 signaling from the base station identifying the PCell or indicating activation of the PSCell. |
| US11611914B2 |
Wireless control plane having centralized and distributed control messages
According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include communicating with a core network device of a core network by employing a first wireless connection to a first base station device communicatively coupled to the core network device. The operations can further include establishing a second wireless connection with a user equipment to enable the user equipment to communicate with the core network device. The operations can further include communicating a first control message and a second control message to the user equipment, wherein the first control message comprises first parameters associated with the first wireless connection and the second control message comprises second parameters associated with the second wireless connection. |
| US11611911B2 |
Methods and apparatus for networking on moving platform
A routing device for installation on a moving platform connects with multiple wireless access devices for wireless interconnection with a wide-area network (WAN). The routing device routes traffic to the WAN through an active one of the wireless access devices. The routing device monitors connection quality between each of the wireless access devices and the WAN and in response to the metric of connection quality for the wireless access device at the active port dropping below a threshold value, reconfigure the routing device to route data traffic to the WAN through a wireless access device at a targeted one of the ports, different from the active one of the ports. |
| US11611907B2 |
Fast signal identification of Bluetooth, ZigBee and other network protocols
A system and method for detecting the presence of a Bluetooth or Zigbee signal within a short period of time is disclosed. The signal identification circuit has two stages, a first stage that processes windows to determine whether noise is present, and a second stage that processes long windows to determine whether the signal is a particular lower-power network protocol. The signal identification circuit can be configured to detect Bluetooth at 1 Mbps, Bluetooth at 2 Mbps or Zigbee. The signal identification signal may be used to allow a lower-power network controller to coexist with a high duty cycle WiFi controller. The signal identification circuit may also be used for other functions, such as powering on a lower-power network controller, determining CCA, or determining which channel a packet is being transmitted on. |
| US11611903B2 |
Data transmission method and device for multi-link Wi-Fi system
Data transmission method and device are provided. The method includes: determining a portion of a plurality of links as dedicated link, and the other portion of the plurality of links as ordinary link, wherein the dedicated link is configured to transmit control frames which include ordinary control frames and dedicated control frames, and the ordinary link is configured to transmit data frames and ordinary control frames; determining links for control frames to be transmitted and data frames to be transmitted; and when the dedicated link or the ordinary link obtains a transmission opportunity, transmitting a control frame or a data frame at a head of a queuing list of the link. By configuring the dedicated link, transmission efficiency of the control frames may be improved, compatibility with existing systems is relatively good, and complexity of design is relatively low. |
| US11611900B2 |
Long buffer status report usage to increase throughput
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect a trigger for transmitting a buffer status report (BSR). The UE may transmit, to a base station, a long BSR for a single logical channel group (LCG) with data to be transmitted based at least in part on at least one of a determination that a current buffer size for the single LCG is greater than a maximum buffer size indication in a short BSR or a determination that a current achievable uplink throughput using the short BSR is less than a configured uplink throughput. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11611897B2 |
Multi-cell signals in OFDM wireless networks
Wireless devices may receive channel state information (CSI) measurement resources for a plurality of cells, including cells of a first transmission point and cells of a second transmission point. The wireless device may measure CSI for each cell, and may quantize the measured CSI jointly across the cells. The wireless device may send the jointly quantized CSI to a base station, and the jointly quantized CSI may be used in communications via the first transmission point and the second transmission point. |
| US11611896B2 |
Measurement techniques for reporting beams
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may identify a configuration for reporting a set of directional beams and measurement information for the set of directional beams to a base station. The configuration may include a first metric for selecting the set of directional beams and a second metric for determining the measurement information. During a beam management procedure, the UE may select the set of directional beams according to the first metric and transmit a report indicating the selected set of directional beams along with the measurement information according to the second metric. |
| US11611893B2 |
Intelligent distributed antenna system monitoring
An intelligent distributed antenna system is disclosed which improves upon known distributed antenna systems particularly with respect to identifying failures or anomalies in the system. The disclosed system includes a signal source, a master unit, and one or more remote units each connected to antennas for transmitting radio frequency signals to terminal units and each connected to the master unit through fiber. The remote units, the master unit, or both may include power signal readers. The remote units may be configured to determine a point of failure in the system based on the power measured from reflected signals. The master unit can be in communication with the remote units to generate alarms and reports as well as to control the system in response to detection of a failure or anomaly. |
| US11611891B2 |
Data analytics management (DAM), configuration specification and procedures, provisioning, and service based architecture (SBA)
The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for service based architecture (SBA) for data analytics management (DAM). Configuration specifications are provided for configuring DAM entities for infrastructure management by infrastructure managers (InfMs), customer service managers (CSMs) for network slice subnet instance (NSSI), network slice instance (NSI) and service instance (SI) management, content and forwarding managers (CFM) for content and content cache management. Also provided are methods and apparatus for data analytics service provisioning regardless of DAM architecture. |
| US11611889B2 |
Automatic transmission point handling in a wireless communication network
Disclosed is a method for improving system performance in a wireless communication network comprising one or more network cells. Each network cell comprises one or more transmission points transmitting cell specific information. The method comprises determining (201, 401) whether a first TRxP comprised in a first network cell fulfills a utilization criterion. When it is determined that the first TRxP fulfills the utilization criterion (202, 401) the method further comprises gathering (204, 403) utilization statistics associated with the first TRxP and/or with the first network cell, evaluating (205, 404) the gathered utilization statistics and determining (206,405), based on the evaluated utilization statistics, whether moving the first TRxP to a second network cell will improve overall system performance of the wireless communication network. Also disclosed are arrangements, transmission points, radio control functions and computer program products. |
| US11611888B2 |
Methods and apparatus for using wireless base station antennas to support macro base station MIMO communications with user equipment devices
Methods, apparatus, and systems for using multiple antennas located in Citizens Broadcast Radio Service Devices (CBSDs) to communicate with a user equipment device. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: (i) receiving by a macro base station a first set of data to be transmitted to a user equipment device (UE), (iii) dividing by the macro base station said first set of data into a plurality of N data blocks, and (iv) communicating by the macro base station to each of a plurality of different Citizens Broadband Radio Service Devices (CBSDs) one or more different ones of said plurality of N data blocks; and (v) operating the plurality of CBSDs to transmit the one or more data blocks which they receive from the macro base station to the UE. In various embodiments, the macro base station also transmits one or more of the N data blocks to the UE. |
| US11611878B2 |
Vehicle communication device
Traveling road information including traveling roads of another vehicle and the own vehicle is acquired on the basis of own-vehicle information and other-vehicle information received by a reception unit. Whether or not verification processing is needed for verification information accompanying the other-vehicle information received by the reception unit is determined on the basis of the traveling road information and the other-vehicle information. Thus, a message unnecessary for the own vehicle is not subjected to verification, so that the load on the vehicle communication device is reduced. |
| US11611874B2 |
Thincloud mesh access point (AP) and internet of things (IoT) device onboarding
A computing device determines an onboarding algorithm to use for onboarding a wireless device. The computing device determines, based on the onboarding algorithm, a first set of predefined information and a second set of dynamically generated information to use as inputs to the onboarding algorithm. The computing device generates, via the onboarding algorithm, a set of credentials based on the first set of predefined information and the second set of dynamically generated information, and uses the set of credentials to secure a connection for onboarding the wireless device. |
| US11611869B2 |
Secure system and method for onboarding router
A Wi-Fi access point device (APD) includes a controller, a radio, and a memory. The memory contains instructions for establishing a programmed secure Wi-Fi onboarding SSID with the client device with connection to the external network. The controller is configured to instruct the radio to broadcast the open Wi-Fi onboarding SSID for a predetermined period of time. The controller is also configured to: instruct the radio to broadcast an established programmed secure Wi-Fi onboarding SSID; onboard the Wi-Fi APD to the external network, based on information communicated between the Wi-Fi client device and the Wi-Fi APD over the established programmed secure Wi-Fi onboarding SSID; and instruct the radio to stop the broadcast of the open Wi-Fi onboarding SSID at the earlier of a termination of the predetermined time period and the onboarding of the Wi-Fi APD to the external network. |
| US11611868B2 |
Mobile transceiver having device-based alarm profile and a method of operation
A method of configuring a mobile transceiver, a system, and a mobile transceiver are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising: assigning a device profile to a mobile transceiver in accordance with a device identifier (ID) of the mobile transceiver, wherein the device profile is selected from a plurality of predefined device profiles in accordance with the device ID of the mobile transceiver, each device profile defining the types of alarms capable of being configured on the mobile transceiver; assigning an alarm profile to the mobile transceiver in accordance with the device ID in dependence on the types of alarms capable of being configured on the mobile transceiver defined by the assigned device profile, wherein the alarm profile defines a plurality of alarms, each alarm including a trigger condition and one or more actions; and sending the assigned alarm profile to the mobile transceiver, wherein the assigned alarm profile is applied by the mobile transceiver subsequent to being received by the mobile transceiver. |
| US11611863B2 |
Method and apparatus for low energy discovery
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating efficient device discovery. In regards to a method implemented by a master device, a first identifier is received from a remote source. The method also receives one or more wireless device discovery packets comprising a second identifier from a proximate device, wherein the wireless device discovery packet comprises information compliant with a short-range communication technology to advertise presence of the proximate device or information compliant with a short-range communication technology to scan for proximate devices according to proximity-based communication technology. The method then, causes, in an instance in which at least the portion of the first identifier matches at least the portion of the second identifier, a wireless short-range communication connection procedure to be initiated between the apparatus and the proximate device, wherein the wireless short-range communication connection procedure complies with the proximity-based communication technology. |
| US11611857B2 |
Vehicle-mounted transmission system
An on-vehicle transmission system includes: an antenna-side circuit unit including a plurality of wireless circuits connected in series and configured to receive radio signals in frequency bands different from each other, the antenna-side circuit unit configured to combine the radio signals received by the respective wireless circuits and output a resultant radio signal; and a path part configured to transmit the radio signal resulting from the combination and received from the antenna-side circuit unit, to an on-vehicle device side mounted on the vehicle, wherein, in the antenna-side circuit unit, each wireless circuit is connected according to an order determined for each wireless circuit. |
| US11611854B2 |
Coordinated slot-based radar sensing
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for coordinated slot-based radar sensing. A first radar device, which may be a radar group leader, may broadcast information indicative of a wireless device group that includes the first wireless device. The first wireless device may receive, from a second wireless device that receives the broadcast information, a request to join the wireless device group that includes the first wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit, to the second wireless device based on the request, a grant or rejection to join the wireless device group that includes the first wireless device. The first wireless device may further transmit a transmission schedule to at least one wireless device of the wireless device group, where the at least one wireless device may include the second wireless device if the first wireless device transmits the grant. |
| US11611853B2 |
Sidelink group management for transmit power controlled group communications
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) participating in a sidelink communications group communicates with one or more member UEs of the sidelink communications group, and transmits group presence announcement messages for the sidelink communications group based on a determination, based on communicating with the one or more member UEs, of at least a transmit power for the group presence announcement messages and that the UE is expected to transmit the group presence announcement messages for the sidelink communications group. |
| US11611849B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic path management
Methods and systems are provided for path management. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, path management system may be configured to perform a series of operations for real time path analysis. The embodiments may determine a user location based on received location data, and then determine a user path based on a sequence of user locations. The embodiments may calculate a path map based on user locations, and then determine one or more of a user density map and a user velocity map based on the path map. The embodiments may determine regions of the user density maps and user velocity maps, and provide instructions to one or more of an environment and a user device. The embodiments may provide guidance to a user of user of the path management system, and/or instructions to change a status of a service location; or modify a product layout or fixture arrangement. |
| US11611847B2 |
Antenna selection and device orientation
Systems may provide feedback that may include antenna selection or mobile device configuration. Antennas may be automatically configured throughout the device or the orientation or location of the mobile device may be altered to increase performance. Historical performance information of the mobile device may be maintained in order to determine proactive manipulations of the mobile device. In addition, multiple mobile devices may cooperatively determine the orientation or location that may increase performance. |
| US11611836B2 |
Transcutaneous bone-anchored hearing aid with improved packaging
A transcutaneous bone-anchored hearing aid device for a recipient patient is described. The transcutaneous bone-anchored hearing aid device for a recipient patient comprising; a receiver coil for transcutaneous receiving of an externally generated communication signal; a signal processor configured for converting the externally generated communication signal into an electrical stimulation signal; an electromagnetic vibrator configured for receiving the electrical stimulation signal, and wherein the electromagnetic vibrator including; a coil unit configured to generate a dynamic magnetic flux based on the electrical stimulation signal; a permanent magnet configured to generate a static magnetic flux; a mass unit connected to the permanent magnet; a bobbin unit configured to engage with the coil unit, the permanent magnet, and the mass unit; a spring unit configured for maintaining an air gap below a moving mass, wherein the moving mass includes the coil unit, the permanent magnet, the mass unit and the bobbin unit, and where the moving mass and the spring unit is configured to generate an acoustical vibration; a vibrator plate configured to receive the acoustical vibration, and where the air gap is between the vibrator plate and a part of the moving mass, and wherein the mass unit has at least one insert configured to receive at least one of a group that includes at least a part of the permanent magnet, the coil unit, the vibrator plate and/or the spring unit. |
| US11611835B2 |
Combined corrugated piezoelectric microphone and corrugated piezoelectric vibration sensor
A MicroElectroMechanical Structure (MEMS) accelerometer includes a piezoelectric membrane including at least one electrode and an inertial mass, the piezoelectric membrane being affixed to a holder; and a circuit for evaluating sums and differences of signals associated with the at least one electrode to determine a three-dimensional acceleration direction, wherein the at least one electrode includes a segmented electrode, and wherein the segmented electrode includes four segmentation zones. |
| US11611831B1 |
Electrodynamic actuator for acoustic oscillations
The present disclosure relates to an electrodynamic actuator configured to operate within a wide frequency range up to the entire spectrum of audio frequencies (20 Hz to 20 KHz). The actuator comprises an open-ended hollow body, a package-type magnetic system comprising one or more pairs of magnets arranged in the hollow body, a sound-emitting membrane arranged externally to the hollow body, a support frame extending from the membrane into the hollow body and having two or more coils attached thereto, and conductive tracks connecting each of the coils with an AC power source. Each pair of magnets comprises two coaxially fixed magnets, one of which surrounds another in the form of a ring. There is a magnetic gap between the magnets in each pair of magnets. Moreover, the magnets in each pair of magnets have different magnetizations, so that their magnetic fields are directed in opposite directions. |
| US11611828B2 |
Systems and methods for improving audio virtualization
Virtual sound room rendering is most realistic when the listener has themselves been the subject of the binaural room impulse response measurements, and most pleasing when the sound room involved has a high acoustic fidelity. Where the listener has no access to good sound rooms non-personalised high fidelity sound rooms are modified using information from a listener's personalised binaural impulse response data to improve the realism of such rooms. Where sound rooms are available, information from higher fidelity non-personalised sound rooms are used to improve the sound quality of the listener's personalised room data. Alternatively either personalised or non-personalised rooms can be improved through modification of their reverberation characteristics according to the listener's taste. |
| US11611824B2 |
Microphone pattern based on selected image of dual lens image capture device
An image capture device may include a sensor, a microphone array, and a processor. The microphone array may include a first microphone, a second microphone, a third microphone, or any combination thereof. The first microphone may be configured to face a first direction. The second microphone may be configured to face a second direction. The second direction may be diametrically opposed to the first direction. The third microphone may be configured to face a third direction. The third direction may be substantially perpendicular to the first direction, the second direction, or both. The processor may be configured to determine a microphone capture pattern. The microphone capture pattern may be determined based on data obtained from the sensor. The sensor data may include image data, audio data, image capture device orientation data, location data, accelerometer data, or any combination thereof. |
| US11611823B2 |
Headphone
A headphone include a speaker unit, a baffle plate, and an ear pad. The baffle plate supports the speaker unit. The ear pad is attached to a front surface of the baffle plate. The baffle plate has at least one cell having a cavity. A part of the at least one cell has a hole communicated with the cavity. The hole is provided in at least one of the front surface of the baffle plate and a back surface of the baffle plate opposite to the front surface. |
| US11611820B2 |
Methods and devices for occluding an ear canal having a predetermined filter characteristic
Occlusion devices, earpiece devices and methods of forming occlusion devices are provided. An occlusion device is configured to occlude an ear canal. The occlusion device includes an insertion element and at least one expandable element disposed on the insertion element. The expandable element is configured to receive a medium via the insertion element and is configured to expand, responsive to the medium, to contact the ear canal. Physical parameters of the occlusion device are selected to produce a predetermined sound attenuation characteristic over a frequency band, such that sound is attenuated more in a first frequency range of the frequency band than in a second frequency range of the frequency band. |
| US11611818B1 |
Metallic audio speaker cover with a multi-color cloth-like appearance and method of manufacturing
A metallic audio speaker cover and a related method of manufacturing that has a surface with a cloth-like appearance. The metallic audio speaker cover has a base of expanded metal through which sound may pass; a pretreatment film which adheres to the expanded metal base; and one or more multi-color powder coating films that adhere to the pretreatment film. In some embodiments, the surface also has anti-microbial properties. |
| US11611817B2 |
Time division multiplexing and wavelength division multiplexing hybrid distribution component and systems
Systems and assemblies for providing both cellular and passive optical local area network (POLAN) data signals along a single, shared fiber optic backbone within an in-building network architecture are provided herein. Systems include a headend unit that combines data signals from a cellular network and optical line terminal (OLT) onto the fiber optic backbone, which is then connected to a series of daisy-chained fiber optic assembly units. An example fiber optic assembly unit includes an asymmetric coupler that splits an input fiber optic signal from the fiber optic backbone into an output fiber optic signal and a throughput fiber optic signal that is fed back onto the continuing fiber optic backbone. The output fiber optic signal is filtered into dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) channels for providing data signals to a wireless or cellular network and further split into multiple passive optical network (PON) outputs for a local area network (LAN). |
| US11611815B2 |
Railcar sensor communication system
According to some embodiments, a railcar monitoring system for monitoring one or more conditions associated with a railcar comprises a railcar controller and one or more sensors disposed throughout the railcar and communicably coupled to the railcar controller. The railcar controller is configured to exchange data with the one or more sensors and transmit data from the one or more sensors to a remote location. An amount of data exchanged between the railcar controller and the one or more sensors is controlled based on a railcar context. The railcar context is based on a location and/or activity associated with the railcar. |
| US11611814B2 |
System and method for monitoring temperature on a roof
A temperature monitor, a system, and a method monitor temperature on a roof. The temperature monitor includes a base for attaching to the roof, a temperature sensor for detecting changes in temperature, the temperature sensor is attached to the base and positioned periodically on the base, and a roof sensor device attached to the base for transmitting measurement data received from the temperature sensor. |
| US11611809B2 |
Video processing method and apparatus, and storage medium
Embodiments of this application disclose a video processing method. The method may include: obtaining bullet comment data corresponding to a video data; obtaining keyword information entry matching the bullet comment data from a key information library as target keyword information entry, the key information library comprising keyword information entries and classification recognition models of target objects respectively corresponding to each of the keyword information entries; obtaining a target video frame from a plurality of video frames of the video data; recognizing an image region of a target object corresponding to the target keyword information entry in the target video frame based on a classification recognition model of the target object; determining the recognized image region as a target region; and performing animation processing on the target region in the target video frame in response to the target video frame in the video data being played. |
| US11611802B2 |
Systems and methods for optimized discovery of fresh content in a dynamic interactive guide
Methods and systems for facilitating discovery of fresh content in a grid guide are described herein. The system generates for display a grid guide with a first set of content identifiers populating the grid guide. The system receives an input to shift the grid guide and, in response, identifies a second set of content identifiers that would populate the grid guide following the shift. The system determines duplicative content identifiers between the first and second sets of content identifiers. The system then removes the duplicative content identifiers or highlights the non-duplicative content identifiers in order to emphasize fresh content in the grid guide. The system may additionally add identifiers to the content identifiers to indicate recorded or previously watched content and may collapse the grid guide if there are blank rows or columns. These methods and systems provide the user with easier access to fresh content in the grid guide. |
| US11611799B2 |
ATSC 3 application context switching and sharing
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. When automatically switching from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, the current broadcaster application is notified and depending on the context, may continue executing or send data to the new broadcaster application. |
| US11611789B2 |
Adaptive bitrate streaming
Systems and methods are described for performing adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming. A user device may request a segment of a first version of a plurality of versions of a content asset from a content provider, and may receive the segment. An estimated time to receive a second segment of a second version of the content may be determined based on metrics associated with receipt of the segment of the first version and in a manner that takes into account latency with the network, such that a determination whether to switch to a higher or lower bitrate version of a content asset during ABR streaming may be more accurately made. |
| US11611786B2 |
Intelligent assignment and data management of stored media content
A remote storage digital video recorder (RSDVR) retains multiple copies of media programs so long as the copies are expected to be useful to at least one user. Rather than assigning copies to specific users at the time the program is recorded, copies can be assigned as the users request access to the particular media programs. Copies of unassigned programs can be deleted according to a schedule to reduce disk storage and processing demands on the system. A pool of program copies that are not initially assigned to particular users can be maintained until the user makes a specific request to view the program. This “late assignment” of program copies can substantially reduce the amount of data stored by the RSDVR system without substantially impacting the viewer experience. |
| US11611785B2 |
Systems and methods for encoding and streaming video encoded using a plurality of maximum bitrate levels
Systems and methods for streaming and playing back video having a variety of resolutions, frame rates, and/or sample aspect ratios, where the video streams are encoded at one of a number of maximum bit rate levels, in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes a processor, and storage containing data relating combinations of resolution and frame rates to maximum bitrates, where a plurality of resolution and frame rates that are related to the same maximum bitrate form a maximum bitrate level. In addition, an encoding application configures the processor to encode a video stream as a plurality of video streams having different resolutions and frame rates, where the target maximum bitrate used during the encoding is selected based upon the maximum bitrate levels of the resolution and frame rate combinations indicated within the data relating combinations of resolution and frame rates to maximum bitrates. |
| US11611784B2 |
System and method for transferring large video files with reduced turnaround time
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems and computer program products for transfer of video signals at a destination with reduced turnaround time. According to one embodiment, a method includes performing transfer of a series of video chunks of a video signal, each video chunk of the series of video chunks comprising a sequence of video frames, wherein for each video chunk, one or more processors perform a processing cycle comprising: receiving the sequence of video frames from a source; processing the received sequence of video frames to generate a processed sequence of video frames, wherein receiving of a consecutive video chunk of the series of video chunks comprising a consecutive sequence of video frames is initiated simultaneously while initiating said processing of the received sequence of video frames; and transmitting the processed sequence of video frames for consumption at a destination. |
| US11611780B2 |
Level-based signaling of video coding tools
An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream representation of the video. The bitstream representation conforms to a format rule that specifies, in case a first syntax element is included in a first video unit in the bitstream representation, whether a corresponding second syntax element in a second video unit is included in the bitstream representation. |
| US11611779B2 |
Multiple secondary transform matrices for video processing
A video processing method is provided to comprise: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the current video block, wherein the coded representation conforms to a format rule specifying that a syntax element corresponding to side information of a secondary transform tool for the current video block is signaled in the coded representation before transform related information, wherein the secondary transform tool includes applying, during encoding, a forward secondary transform to an output of a forward primary transform applied to a residual of a video block prior to quantization, or applying, during decoding, an inverse secondary transform to an output of dequantization of the video block before applying an inverse primary transform. |
| US11611778B2 |
Systems and methods for signaling general constraint information in video coding
A device may be configured to general constraint information according to one or more of the techniques described herein. |
| US11611777B2 |
Transformations for signal enhancement coding
Measures are provided to encode a signal. An input frame is received and down-sampled to obtain a down-sampled frame. The down-sampled frame is passed to an encoding module which encodes the down-sampled frame to generate an encoded frame. A decoded frame is obtained from a decoding module which generates the decoded frame by decoding the encoded frame. A set of residual data is generated by taking a difference between the decoded frame and the down-sampled frame and is encoded to generate a set of encoded residual data. The encoding comprises transforming the set of residual data into a transformed set of residual data. The set of encoded residual data is output to a decoder to enable the decoder to reconstruct the input frame. Measures are also provided to decode a signal. |
| US11611776B2 |
Method and apparatus for coding image on basis of transform
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving a first variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a region excluding a DC region from a current block; deriving a second variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a second region excluding a first region formed at the upper left end of the current block; when the first variable indicates that the valid coefficient exists in the region excluding the DC region, and the second variable indicates that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region, parsing an LFNST index from the bitstream; and applying an LFNST matrix derived on the basis of the LFNST index to transform coefficients in the first region, to derive the modified transform coefficients. |
| US11611770B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that determines directionality information of a restoration filter unit included in a video frame based on at least one of a constrained directional enhancement filter (CDEF) process or an intra prediction mode. The processing circuitry determines one of a plurality of sets of filter parameters of a restoration filter process based on the directionality information of the restoration filter unit. The processing circuitry performs the restoration filter process on the restoration filter unit based on the one of the plurality of sets of filter parameters. The processing circuitry reconstructs the video frame based on the filtered restoration filter unit. |
| US11611768B2 |
Implicit signaling of adaptive resolution management based on frame type
A method includes receiving a bit stream; determining, using the bit stream and for a current frame, whether the current frame is available to be used as a reference frame; setting, in response to determining that the current frame is available to be used as a reference frame, a variable characterizing that an adaptive resolution management mode is disallowed; and reconstructing pixel data of the current frame, wherein the adaptive resolution management mode is disallowed. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US11611763B2 |
Extensions of inter prediction with geometric partitioning
A method for processing a video includes performing a determination, by a processor, that a first video block is partitioned to include a first prediction portion that is non-rectangular and non-square; adding a first motion vector (MV) prediction candidate associated with the first prediction portion to a motion candidate list associated with the first video block, wherein the first MV prediction candidate is derived from a sub-block MV prediction candidate; and performing further processing of the first video block using the motion candidate list. |
| US11611761B2 |
Inter-plane reuse of coding parameters
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane. |
| US11611759B2 |
Merge mode coding for video coding
An example device for coding video data determines for a first block of the video data whether to use a sub-block merge mode. Based on the determination not to use the sub-block merge mode for the first block, the device determines whether to use a merge mode with blending for the first block. Based on the determination to use the merge mode with blending for the first block, the device codes the first block with the merge mode with blending. |
| US11611756B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
A method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information includes an index for prediction offset associated with an affine model in an inter prediction mode. The affine model is used to transform between the block and a reference block in a reference picture that has been reconstructed. Further, the processing circuitry determines parameters of the affine model based on the index and a pre-defined mapping of indexes and offset values, and reconstructs at least a sample of the block according to the affine model. |
| US11611755B2 |
Layered scene decomposition codec system and methods
A system and methods for a CODEC driving a real-time light field display for multi-dimensional video streaming, interactive gaming and other light field display applications is provided applying a layered scene decomposition strategy. Multi-dimensional scene data is divided into a plurality of data layers of increasing depths as the distance between a given layer and the plane of the display increases. Data layers are sampled using a plenoptic sampling scheme and rendered using hybrid rendering, such as perspective and oblique rendering, to encode light fields corresponding to each data layer. The resulting compressed, (layered) core representation of the multi-dimensional scene data is produced at predictable rates, reconstructed and merged at the light field display in real-time by applying view synthesis protocols, including edge adaptive interpolation, to reconstruct pixel arrays in stages (e.g. columns then rows) from reference elemental images. |
| US11611753B2 |
Quantization process for palette mode
Devices, systems and methods for video processing are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a block of a video, a quantization parameter associated with the block, coding the block of the video into a bitstream representation of the video as a palette coded block in part based on a modified value of the quantization parameter, and signaling coded information related to the quantization parameter in the bitstream representation. |
| US11611750B2 |
Entropy coding of transform coefficients suitable for dependent scalar quantization
Concepts for transform coefficient block coding are described which enable coding of coefficients of a transform block in a manner suitable for dependent quantization and effectively implementable by entropy coding in terms of coding efficiency. |
| US11611745B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for intra-prediction in a video signal processing
According to an aspect, a video encoder selects a block of intermediate size from a set of block sizes for intra-prediction estimation for encoding a video signal. A set of neighbouring blocks with the intermediate size are tested for combining. If the set of neighbouring blocks are determined to be combinable, the video encoder selects a larger block size formed by the tested neighbouring blocks for encoding. On the other hand, if the set of neighbouring blocks are determined to be not combinable, the video encoder selects a smaller block size from the set of tested neighbouring blocks for prediction. According to another aspect, the best mode for intra-prediction is determined by first intra-predicting a block with intermediate modes in a set of modes. Then the intra-predictions are performed for the neighbouring modes of at least one intermediate mode. |
| US11611743B2 |
Conditional implementation of motion candidate list construction process
A visual media processing method includes determining that a first video block of a visual media data uses a geometric partitioning mode (GPM) and a second video block of the visual media data uses a non-GPM mode; constructing, based on a unified pruning process, a first merge list for the first video block and a second merge list for the second video block, wherein the first merge list and the second merge list comprise merge candidates, and the pruning process includes adding a new merge candidate to the merge list based on comparing motion information of the new merge candidate with motion information of at least one merge candidate in the merge list, wherein the GPM comprises splitting the first video block into multiple prediction partitions to apply motion prediction separately, and at least one partition having a non-rectangular shape. |
| US11611742B2 |
Image signal encoding/decoding method and device therefor
An image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: generating a merge candidate list of a current block; selecting one merge candidate from merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; and performing motion compensation of the current block on the basis of motion information of the selected merge candidate. |
| US11611741B2 |
Video decoding device and video decoding method
A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures. |
| US11611738B2 |
User interface module for converting a standard 2D display device into an interactive 3D display device
A 2D/3D conversion interface component is configured to override the video processing capabilities associated with a conventional 2D display, re-formatting an incoming 3D video stream into a version compatible with a 2D display while preserving the 3D-type of presentation. An incoming “side-by-side” (SBS) 3D video stream is re-formatted into a “frame sequential” (serialized) format that appears as a conventional video stream input to the 2D display. The interface component also generates as an output a timing signal (synchronized with the converted frames) that is transmitted to a 3D viewing device (e.g., glasses). Therefore, as along as the 3D viewing device remains synchronized with the sequence of frames shown on the 2D display, the user will actually be viewing an interactive 3D video. |
| US11611737B2 |
System for illuminating a viewer of a display device
Provided is a display device comprising a display panel having an array of display pixel elements for producing a display output; a viewer detecting system rendering data representing 1) the illumination intensity of a body part of the viewer and 2) another property of the body part; at least one illumination source for providing illumination of a body part of the viewer; and a processor configured to 1) process the data representing the illumination intensity of a body part of the viewer and 2) drive the at least one illumination source dependent on said illumination data to adapt the illumination intensity of a body part of the viewer. |
| US11611729B2 |
Display method, apparatus and system
A display system for use in a Pepper's Ghost illusion includes a light emissive display, a sensor operable to detect the position of an attachment member of a cone, relative to the light emissive display, and a positioning processor operable to position images, which have been distorted by an inverse of the distortion caused by the reflection of the cone, responsive to the detected position of the cone relative to the light emissive display. |
| US11611726B2 |
Apparatus, method and computer program for image capturing
Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling sub-pixel information to be determined in captured images. The apparatus can comprise means for activating at least one filter wherein the at least one filter is positioned in front of at least one image sensor. The at least one filter is configured to at least partially filter light such that the at least one filter has a spatial variation of transparency on an analogue scale across an area covered by the at least one filter. The apparatus also comprises means for detecting an image captured by the at least one image sensor; and using information relating to the spatial variation of transparency of the at least one filter to determine sub-pixel information in the captured image. |
| US11611723B2 |
Self-healing video surveillance system
A method for configuring a computing device in a network of at least one remote device is disclosed. The method includes: storing, in a remote device, a configuration data archive relating to an existing computing device, wherein the remote device is at least one of a traffic camera or an aerial drone camera; determining, by a computing device to be configured, whether the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive; and transferring data from the configuration data archive to the computing device to be configured in response to a determination that the remote device has stored therein a configuration data archive. |
| US11611722B2 |
Microscope system, control method, and recording medium
A microscope system is provided with a microscope that acquires images at least at a first magnification and a second magnification higher than the first magnification, and a processor. The processor is configured to specify a type of a container in which a specimen is placed, and when starting observation of the specimen placed in the container at the second magnification, the processor is configured to specify a map region corresponding to a map image constructed by stitching together a plurality of second images acquired by the microscope at a higher magnification than the first magnification by performing object detection according to the type of the container on a first image that includes the container acquired by the microscope at the first magnification, and cause a display unit to display the first image and a range of the map region on the first image. |
| US11611715B2 |
System and method for event camera data processing
In some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with a processor, non-transitory memory, and an event camera including pixel sensors distributed across an area. The method includes converting an event stream from a pixel sensor over a first time period into event frames by dividing the first time period into sub-periods, and binning pixel events of the event stream, where each of the sub-periods is associated with a frame sub-period identifier. The method further includes addressing the pixel sensors by sub-dividing the area into tiles, where each of the tiles includes a grouping of the pixel sensors, and a tile address of a particular pixel sensor is a combination of a tile identifier and a position locator of the particular pixel sensor. The method further includes encoding the pixel events as a function of a tile address, a frame sub-period identifier, and a brightness indicator value. |
| US11611714B2 |
Generating customized, personalized reactions to social media content
The present disclosure is directed toward systems, computer-readable media, and methods for generating a personalized selfie reaction-element in connection social media content. For example, the systems and methods described herein generate a personalized selfie reaction-element including a multi-media item and one or more elements and/or enhancements. The systems and method described herein can then provide the personalized selfie reaction-element for use in connection with various types of social media content including communication threads, ephemeral content, posts, and direct messages. |
| US11611710B2 |
Light sensor chip adaptable to low illumination environment
There is provided an image processing device including a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor is used to detect light and output an image frame. The processor identifies intensity of ambient light according to an image parameter associated with the image frame. When the ambient light is identified to be strong enough, the processor performs an object identification directly using the image frame. When the ambient light is identified to be not enough, the processor firstly converts the image frame to a converted image using a machine learning model, and then performs the object identification using the converted image. |
| US11611708B2 |
Apparatus for stabilizing digital image, operating method thereof, and electronic device having the same
A method of operating a digital image stabilization apparatus including acquiring motion information by a first camera for capturing an image of a first field of view, controlling a prism of a second camera using the motion information, acquiring a main image and a peripheral image by a second camera for capturing an image of a second field of view, the second field of view being narrower than the first field of view, and generating a stabilized frame image related to the main image using the motion information and the peripheral image may be provided. |
| US11611706B2 |
Multi-aperture cameras with at least one two state zoom camera
Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLW and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFLT,min in one zoom state to EFLT,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFLTmin>1.5×EFLW and wherein EFLTmax>1.5×EFLTmin. |
| US11611702B1 |
Systems and methods for stabilizing videos using optical flow derived motion and motion solve derived motion
An image capture device may capture a video while experiencing motion. Motion of the image capture device during video capture may be determined based on optical flow and structure from motion solve of the video. Optical flow derived motion and/or the motion solve derived motion of the image capture device may be selected to perform stabilization of the video. |
| US11611701B2 |
Method and apparatus for video shooting, terminal device and storage medium
Techniques for video shooting are provided by the present disclosure, which comprising: detecting a user's selection on a video shooting mode control on a target interface and a triggering on a video shooting control on the target interface; obtaining a video segment corresponding to the selected video shooting mode; in response to a determination that the user's triggering operation on a next step control on the target interface is not detected, repeatedly detecting the selection on the video shooting mode control, the triggering on the video shooting control and a release operation on the video shooting control to obtain corresponding video segments until the user's triggering operation on the next step control on the target interface is detected; and displaying, on the video storage interface, a result of synthetizing video segments to obtain a target video. |
| US11611694B2 |
Vehicle control systems and methods and optical tethering techniques
The present disclosure generally relates to vehicle remote parking assistance, and, more specifically, systems and methods for determining a distance between a vehicle and a mobile device during a remote parking procedure. In particular, the systems and methods include selecting a camera lens or focal length for use with a first method of determining a distance between a vehicle and a mobile device based on an image of the vehicle and a digital model of the vehicle. |
| US11611691B2 |
Computer implemented method and a system for coordinating taking of a picture using a camera and initiation of a flash pulse of at least one flash device
The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method and system for coordinating taking of a picture using a camera and initiation of a flash pulse of at least one flash device. The method is adapted for a system including a first device and at least one remote device. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a time base for a processor element of the first device, estimating a time base for a processor element of each at least one remote device in relation to the time base of the processor element of the first device, scheduling a timing for initiation of the flash pulse of the respective at least one flash device and/or a timing for taking a picture using the camera in the time base of the first device so that the coordination with the timing for taking the picture is obtained, and obtaining at the respective remote device of the system the scheduled timing of initiation of the remote device in the time base of that device. |
| US11611682B2 |
Communication system, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal, server system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for server
A processor of a server is configured to receiving a first registration request from a terminal, storing first account and first authentication data in a memory of the server in association with each other, transmitting the first authentication data to terminal, receiving a third registration request from a communication device, storing device identification data and second authentication data in the memory in association with each other, transmitting the second authentication data to the communication device, receiving a fourth registration request including the first authentication data and the second authentication data, and storing the first account data associated with the first authentication data included in the fourth registration request and the device identification data associated with the second authentication data included in the fourth registration request in the memory in association with each other. |
| US11611679B2 |
Precise circular halftones
Embodiments are disclosed for generating a vector object that comprises a precise circular halftone representation of an input image. A method of precise circular halftone generation includes receiving an input image, dividing the image into a grid comprising a plurality of cells, determining a color of a portion of the input image associated with a first cell, determining a radius of circular halftone elements to represent the color associated with the first cell, and generating a path object representing the portion of the input image using circular halftone elements having the determined radius. |
| US11611678B2 |
Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image; and a modifying unit that modifies the image acquired by the acquisition unit by turning an intermittent line different from a line that constitutes a character into a mark by using machine learning in a stage before the image is classified into the character and a mark by a classifying unit. |
| US11611676B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method for adding and changing image processing
An image processing apparatus includes: a processor that executes a script and a native instruction sequence; a controller that instructs execution of an image processing function selected by a user; an operation manager that receives an instruction from the controller and manages progress of plural procedures constituting the image processing function; and a processing module that executes processing according to each of the procedures. The processing module is written as a script, the controller assigns an identifier corresponding to each of different image processing functions and provides a common instruction to the operation manager, and the operation manager calls and executes the processing module corresponding to the assigned identifier via common calling processing to the image processing functions. |
| US11611674B2 |
Image forming apparatus and method of detecting rise of recording medium
An image forming apparatus includes a reading table, an image reading device, an image forming device with an exposure device, and circuitry. The reading device reads a pattern on a recording medium on the table, and generates image data of the pattern. The exposure device includes a light emitting element to form an electrostatic latent image, based on which the image forming device forms the pattern. Based on first and second correction values, the circuitry calculates a third correction value to correct a light amount of the light emitting element. The exposure device includes a driving device that drives the light emitting element based on the third correction value. The circuitry sets at least two or more determination areas in each of a white area and a pattern area of the medium, and determines whether the medium has a rise based on density data in the determination areas. |
| US11611670B2 |
Computer-readable medium, information processing device, and communication system to display images regarding processing functions executable by image processing device
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the information processing device to obtain image data of an image processing screen image regarding an image processing function from the image processing device and control the display to display the image processing screen image, when transmitting an image data request to the image processing device while an image processing input screen is displayed on the display, and obtain image data of a non-image processing screen image regarding a non-image processing function from the image processing device and control the display to display the non-image processing screen image, when transmitting an image data request to the image processing device while a non-image processing input screen is displayed on the display. |
| US11611664B2 |
Voice quality assessment system
A new audio quality assessment system includes an assessment system running in a receiver system of a VoIP communication system. The new audio quality assessment system determines an accurate MOS of a VoIP call within a time window. The audio quality assessment system determines an effective PLC counter, a PLC impact factor, an effective AS counter, an AS impact factor, a network impact factor, a codec type of the received voice packets, a bitrate of the received voice packets, an initial MOS from a configured codec-bitrate MOS table, and determines the accurate MOS based on these data. The determined MOS is more accurate and efficiently obtained since it is based on efficiently collected statistics of the receiver system's modules and a pre-configured codec-bitrate MOS table. |
| US11611658B2 |
System and method for adaptive cloud conversation platform
An adaptive cloud conversation platform capable of making automated decisions regarding when and how to establish ongoing communications with consumers so as to maximize the relationship between the consumer and a given brand. The system has a connection management services layer which determines what communications should be established and how they should be established, an initiation management services layer which determines when communications should be established, and a user management services layer which stores information about consumers and brands for determination of when and how communications should be established. Certain of these services have machine learning algorithms incorporated into them trained to perform analyses of the particular type of operation handled by that service. The outputs of each service can be used as inputs to other services, such that a network of machine learnings algorithms is created which determines when and how to establish ongoing communications with consumers. |
| US11611657B2 |
AI-based compliance and preference system
A method of providing artificial intelligence (AI) functionality to target legacy customer outreach platforms of a plurality of tenant enterprises includes storing a plurality of AI templates, each of which is associated with one or more AI routines, generating a campaign object associating one or more of the AI templates with a tenant enterprise from among the plurality of tenant enterprises, transforming a communication on a switching network associated with the tenant enterprise according to the one or more AI templates associated with the campaign object, and providing the transformed communication to a target legacy customer outreach platform of the tenant enterprise. |
| US11611655B2 |
Systems and methods for processing calls
Methods and systems are described for processing calls. An example method may comprise receiving a message for establishing a call. Identification information in the message may be compared to screening data. If a match is found, the message may be forwarded to a screening server. The screening server may establish a call based on the session and provide information indicative of a level of trust associated with the call. |
| US11611653B1 |
Systems and methods for contextual communication between devices
An artificial intelligence (AI) model, using logistic regression and gradient boosting tree, may determine a priority score for a user. The priority score may be associated with a likelihood of redemption of investment funds of the user by the user. Based on the priority score for the user, a server may prioritize transmission of a communication message to the user via one of a plurality of communication channels. The communication message may describe why the user should continue with their investment funds without redemption. |
| US11611644B1 |
911 call assistance for assisted device user
A system and method for use with an assisted user's communication device that includes a display. The method includes providing a user communication device including a processor that is programmed to perform the step of, upon disconnection of an emergency call to a hearing user in which a captioning service has provided text transcription of voice messages from the hearing user, maintaining a link to the captioning service for a predetermined period of time. The processor also is programmed to perform the step of recognizing the call as an emergency call upon placement of the call, and the captioning service is automatically initiated upon the processor performing that recognition. |
| US11611642B2 |
Mobile terminal, housing, and method for manufacturing housing
The disclosed are a mobile terminal, a housing therefor, and a method for manufacturing the housing. The housing includes a transparent main body formed integrally. The transparent main body has an outer surface and an inner surface opposite to each other and includes a flat plate portion and a side portion connected with each other, the side portion is disposed at a periphery of the flat plate portion, and a through hole is provided in the side portion. The outer surface of the transparent main body is provided with a light-shielding layer jointed with a side wall of the through hole. An orthographic projection area of the side wall of the through hole on a reference plane is located within an orthographic projection area of the light-shielding layer on the reference plane, and the reference plane is a geometric plane in parallel with the flat plate portion. |
| US11611639B2 |
Apparatus and method for an accelerated and offload dual border relay
Methods and systems for an accelerated and offload dual border relay. A method includes receiving, by a hardware border relay from a network device, an Internet Protocol (IP) packet, determining, by the hardware border relay, a packet type of the IP packet, translating, by the hardware border relay provisioned with IPv6 transition technology rules, the IP packet to a hardware translated IP packet when the IP packet is a first type, translating, by the offload border relay provisioned with MAP-T rules, the IP packet to an offload translated IP packet when the IP packet is a second type, transmitting, by the offload border relay to the hardware border relay, the offload translated IP packet when the IP packet is the second type, and transmitting, by the hardware border relay, one of the offload translated IP packet and the hardware translated IP packet to another network device. |
| US11611632B2 |
Cloud to on-premise port forwarding with IP address bound to loopback alias
An example method to provide communication between a first computer in a first computer network and a second computer in a second computer network is disclosed. The method includes aliasing the second computer's address in the second computer network to a loopback interface of a third computer in the first computer network and establishing a tunnel between the third computer and a fourth computer in the second computer network. Establishing the tunnel includes configuring the fourth computer to forward traffic received from the tunnel to the second computer. The method further includes configuring routing in the first computer network to direct traffic destined for the second computer network to the third computer, and configuring the first computer to transmit packets destined for the second computer with the second computer's address in the second computer network. |
| US11611627B2 |
Action flow fragment management
Action flow fragment management includes executing a parent action flow including multiple steps. At least two steps are distinct pages of a web application. During execution of the parent action flow, an action flow fragment expression is obtained and executed using data gathered from a data source to obtain an action flow fragment identifier. An action flow fragment corresponding to the action flow fragment identifier is selected and executed. When execution of the action flow fragment completes, execution of the parent action flow continues. |
| US11611625B2 |
Providing stateful services in a scalable manner for machines executing on host computers
Some embodiments provide a method for performing services on a host computer that executes several machines in a datacenter. The method configures a first set of one or more service containers for a first machine executing on the host computer, and a second set of one or more service containers for a second machine executing on the host computer. Each configured service container performs a service operation on data messages associated with a particular machine. For each particular machine, the method also configures a module along the particular machine's datapath to identify a subset of service operations to perform on a set of data messages associated with the particular machine, and to direct the set of data messages to a set of service containers configured for the particular machine to perform the identified set of service operations on the set of data messages. |
| US11611623B2 |
Trusted system for providing customized content to internet service provider subscribers
A method includes receiving, by a processing system of a user endpoint device, a network cookie directly from an internet service provider who provides a subscriber who is associated with the user endpoint device with connectivity to the internet, storing, by the processing system, the network cookie in a local memory of the user endpoint device, generating, by the processing system, a request to send to the Internet service provider, wherein the request comprises a request for an internet protocol address associated with a uniform resource locator of an internet content provider, attaching, by the processing system, the network cookie to the request, and sending, by the processing system, the request including the network cookie to the Internet service provider. |
| US11611622B1 |
Edge computing network topology hiding
A method of establishing an application layer connection between a user equipment (UE) and an application executing on an edge computing node via a communication network. The method comprises receiving an application service availability message by the UE that identifies a plurality of networks that provide access to an identified application executing on an edge computing node within the network; for each network identified in the application service availability message, receiving by the UE an application service figure-of-merit determined by that network associated with a prospective application layer connection between the UE and an edge computing node executing the identified application that is located in that network; based on evaluating the figure-of-merit associated with each network establishing an application layer connection by the UE via the selected network to the application executing on the edge computing node in the selected network. |
| US11611619B2 |
Policy-based data placement in an edge environment
Data can be placed by an edge node in a computing environment using multiple criteria in a placement policy. For example, a processing device of an edge node can receive a write request for storing a data object. The processing device can select first and second criteria from a placement policy based on a tag for the data object. The processing device can determine a set of remote components that fulfill the first criterion. The processing device can then identify, from the set, a destination component that fulfills the second criterion. The processing device can transmit the data object to the destination component. |
| US11611616B1 |
Service availability zones for high availability workloads
Techniques are described for providing service availability zones for computing-related services provided by a cloud provider network. According to some embodiments, the use of service availability zones enables users to achieve greater availability assurance for workloads sensitive to downtime or outages. The sensitivity of such workloads to downtime may be due to financial, regulatory, safety, or other reasons. Such availability-sensitive applications may in some cases be configured to run in multiple regions of a cloud provider network to increase their availability compared to running in a single availability zone. However, for some applications, the implementation of an application across multiple regions may not be feasible or desirable. The use of service availability zones provides user-visible fault domains within a single region of a cloud provider network, thereby enabling users to readily and reliably achieve application layer availability of approximately 99.999% for a service within a single region. |
| US11611610B2 |
System and method for notification of listening devices
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a transceiver; a local user display; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: locate via the transceiver at least one nearby device; receive observational profile information for the nearby device; and display on the local user display information about the nearby device's observation abilities. |
| US11611609B2 |
Distributed network recording system with multi-user audio manipulation and editing
A method for editing a remote audio recording session is disclosed. The method may be performed by a server computer connected to a plurality of user computers over a communication network. The method may include receiving instructions from a first computer to edit an attribute of a first proxy audio file of a high-quality audio file at a timestamp synchronized with at least one frame of the first video clip. The method may further include merging the edit of the attribute into the high-quality audio file of the master recording session using the instructions from the first computer to edit the attribute. The method may further include transmitting the instructions received from the first computer to the second computer to edit the attribute such the second computer renders a second proxy audio file of the high-quality audio file stored in local memory of the second computer with the edit of the attribute. |
| US11611606B1 |
Selecting hosting servers for interactive electronic activities
This disclosure describes selecting the best hosting server(s) in a particular geographical location for the majority of participants in an interactive electronic activity. A request for an electronic interactive activity involving a plurality of nodes is received. At least one factor related to a plurality of potential servers is evaluated with respect to the plurality of nodes, where at least two of the plurality of potential servers are located in different geographical locations. Based at least in part on evaluating the factors, one or more of the potential servers is selected to host the electronic interactive activity, where the one or more of the potential servers selected are located in the same geographical location. |
| US11611605B2 |
Dynamically modifying an execution environment for varying data
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of dynamically modifying execution environment for varying data or executables. The data or executables may be a multimedia file and the execution environment may be multimedia playback settings. In aspects, content comprising various media items may be received by a client device. The media items may be evaluated to determine a set of characteristics for the media items. The set of characteristics may be compared to a user's preferred configuration settings or previously-played media items. Based on the comparison, the set of characteristics may be altered to be consistent with the preferred configuration settings (e.g., a modified set of characteristics may be estimated). The modified media items may then be played under known playback settings. In aspects, the media item under consideration may be played as is using an estimated playback configuration to enable a user-preferable playback experience. |
| US11611597B2 |
Display of virtual room
In one embodiment, a method includes providing, to each of a number of client devices, at least part of a graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to a virtual room. The virtual room contains a number of users. The method further includes providing, to each of the client devices, a first portion of the GUI identifying at least some of the users in the virtual room. The method further includes providing, to each of the client devices, a second portion of the GUI, where the second portion of the GUI displays: (1) one or more user interactions from one or more of the users in the virtual room; and (2) for each user interaction, an identification of each particular user who generated the that user interaction. |
| US11611595B2 |
Systems and methodologies providing collaboration among a plurality of computing appliances, utilizing a plurality of areas of memory to store user input as associated with an associated computing appliance providing the input
A system provides for collaboration among a plurality of users, each user at one of a plurality of computing appliances. Each computing appliance comprised of a display apparatus providing a display presentation. The system is comprised of a memory providing storage structured as a plurality of areas of memory, each associated with one said computing appliance; a source of user data having an associated image, provided responsive to user input at said computing appliance that is associated with said user providing the user input, and display logic generating comprising a combined display presentation as the display presentation provided on the display apparatus of at least one said computing appliance. The memory provides storage of the user data in the area of memory that is associated with said computing appliance that is associated with said user providing the user input. The combined display presentation is generated responsive to at least some of the user data stored in a selected plurality of areas of memory associated with at least two of the computing appliances. The source of user data is provided via at least one of a physical keyboard, virtual keyboard, a touch screen, mouse gestures, camera gesture recognition, voice recognition, scanning an item, from a social network, from selected threads of messaging, in a data file selected by the user input; a link to the user data; an associative mapping to the user data contained in a data file; import from a file, and network data transfer. |
| US11611593B2 |
System and method for establishing first-to-answer call in mission critical push to talk communication
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments herein provide a system for establishing a first-to-answer call in a Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) communication. The system includes a MCPTT originating client configured to initiate a first-to-answer call and transmit a first-to-answer call request to a MCPTT server. The system includes the MCPTT server configured to receive the first-to-answer call request from the MCPTT client. |
| US11611592B1 |
Multiple-master DNS system
In one particular example, a data communications system addresses changes in server load and/or connection latency in connection with data communication services provided through DNS master and slave servers. The system provides dynamic information routing, via a set of DNS master servers being in a multi-master configuration and including a first master DNS server and a second master DNS server, and consistency of DNS records is established between the master servers. Subsequently, the first DNS master server enters into an isolation mode in which updates are not communicated via the network. A set of isolation rules, which indicate how DNS records are to be updated in a communications network, are accessed and used in response to the network connections becoming reliable and the first master server updates the DNS records according to the rules, thereby establishing consistency between the first and the second DNS master servers. |
| US11611590B1 |
System and methods for reducing the cybersecurity risk of an organization by verifying compliance status of vendors, products and services
A system and methods for determining the degree to which a vendor, supplier, or company's compliance or lack of compliance with a specific regulation or requirement contributes to, or could contribute to, the cybersecurity risk of an organization whose employees use that company's products or services. This source of risk may be evaluated for a plurality or set of vendors to determine an estimated total risk arising this source or set of sources. In response to evaluating the degree or level of this source of risk, the system and methods can be used to determine or select the apprFinal opriate security process or protocol that should be applied to employees, devices, systems, and networks to limit the risk to the organization. |
| US11611589B2 |
Data storage system with powered move attack protection
A data storage system can consist of a network controller connected to a data storage device and a remote host. An attack mitigation strategy may be generated with an attack module connected to the network controller in response to detected data storage conditions in the data storage device. The attack mitigation strategy can be executed with the attack module by sending separate first and second security queries to the data storage device over time. At least a powered move attack can then be identified based on the second security query. |
| US11611588B2 |
Deep learning network intrusion detection
One or more computer processors intercept one or more network inputs entering or existing an internal network; synthesize one or more network input images from a random noise vector sampled from a normal distribution of textually embedded network inputs utilizing a trained generative adversarial network; classify one or more synthesized network input images by identifying contained objects utilizing a trained convolutional neural network with rectified linear units, wherein the objects include patterns, sequences, trends, and signatures; predict a security profile of the one or more classified network input images and associated one or more network inputs, wherein the security profiles includes a set of rules and associated mitigation actions, analogous historical network traffic, a probability of infection, a probability of signature match with historical malicious network inputs, and a harm factor; apply one or more mitigation actions based on the predicted security profile. |
| US11611585B2 |
Detection of privilege escalation attempts within a computer network
Techniques are disclosed relating to computer network security. In some embodiments, a computing system generates a plurality of executable binaries that include alerting beacons for a computer network associated with a transaction service. The computing system then deploys, within the computer network, the plurality of executable binaries as traps to detect privilege escalation attempts within the computer network. In some embodiments, the computing system detects that one or more alerting beacons included in the plurality of executable binaries have been triggered. In response to the detecting, the computing system may transmit, to a security management system, a notification indicating the one or more triggered alerting beacons. The disclosed detection techniques may advantageously reduce breaches in network security, which in turn may reduce or prevent the loss of private data. |
| US11611582B2 |
Dynamic phishing detection
A computer implemented method of detecting a phishing threat using a pre-defined statistical model to determine whether a network resource is a potential phishing threat based on features extracted from a network resource identifier for the network resource. The method includes: receiving a request to access a network resource; determining, from the request, a network resource identifier for the requested network resource; extracting one or more features from the network resource identifier; applying the pre-defined statistical model to the extracted features; and classifying the network resource as a phishing threat if the output of the statistical model, when applied to the extracted features, determines that the network resource is a potential phishing threat. |
| US11611581B2 |
Methods and devices for detecting a spoofing attack
Methods and devices for detecting a spoofing attack are provided. The method includes receiving a speech signal; applying a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to the speech signal to extract FFT features therefrom and feeding the extracted FFT features to a pre-trained deep neural network to assign a first confidence score to the speech signal; applying a Discrete cosine transform (DCT) to the speech signal to extract DCT features therefrom and feeding the extracted DCT features to a pre-trained deep neural network to assign a second confidence score to the speech signal; applying a pre-trained deep convolutional network (DCN) based on an end-to-end architecture to the speech signal to assign a third confidence score to the speech signal; computing a total confidence score based on the assigned confidence scores; and comparing the computed total confidence score to a predefined threshold to detect whether the received speech signal is spoofed. |
| US11611579B2 |
Identifying and using DNS contextual flows
In one embodiment, a device in a network captures domain name system (DNS) response data from a DNS response sent by a DNS service to a client in the network. The device captures session data for an encrypted session of the client. The device makes a determination that the encrypted session is malicious by using the captured DNS response data and the captured session data as input to a machine learning-based or rule-based classifier. The device performs a mediation action in response to the determination that the encrypted session is malicious. |
| US11611570B2 |
Attack signature generation
A computer implemented method to generate a signature of a network attack for a network-connected computing system, the signature including rules for identifying the network attack, the method including generating, at a trusted secure computing device, a copy of data distributed across a network; the computing device identifying information about the network attack stored in the copy of the data; and the computing device generating the signature for the network attack based on the information about the network attack so as to subsequently identify the network attack occurring on a computer network. |
| US11611569B2 |
Machine learning-based network device profiling
A method includes applying, by a computer, supervised machine learning to classify a network device that is associated with a security event occurring in a computer system based on data representing features of the network device. The security event is associated with a potential security threat to the computer system, and the classification of the network device by the supervised machine learning is associated with a confidence. The technique includes, in response to the confidence being below a threshold, applying an active machine learning classifier to the data to learn a classification for the data and using the classification learned by the active machine learning classifier to adapt the supervised machine learning to recognize the classification. |
| US11611566B2 |
Automatic verification of safety for virtualized networks
Described are examples for providing a system for managing configuration and policies for a virtualized wide area network (vWAN) support on a wide area network (WAN). The vWAN includes a plurality of virtual network entities associated with geographic locations including the physical computing resources of the WAN and virtual connections between the virtual network entities. The system includes a network safety component for managing configurations and policies of the vWAN on the WAN. The network safety component receives a change to a policy or configuration of the vWAN from an operator of a network connected to the vWAN. The network safety component evaluates a set of safety rules for the operator based on the change and a network state of a physical WAN underlying the vWAN. The network safety component generates an error message in response to at least one of the set of safety rules failing the evaluation. |
| US11611558B2 |
Integration of third-party encryption key managers with cloud services
A method for integrating third-party encryption managers with cloud services includes receiving, at data processing hardware, an operation request requesting a cryptographic operation on data comprising an encryption operation or a decryption operation. When the operation is an encryption operation, the method includes transmitting a data encryption key associated with the data to a remote entity. The remote entity encrypts the data encryption key with a key encryption key and transmits the encrypted data encryption key to the data processing hardware. When the operation is a decryption operation, the method includes transmitting the encrypted data encryption key to the remote entity which causes the remote entity to decrypt the encrypted data encryption key with the key encryption key and transmit the decrypted data encryption key and transmit to the data processing hardware. |
| US11611557B2 |
Media access control (MAC) address anonymization based on allocations by network controller elements
A method is provided to anonymize the media access control (MAC) address of a client device. The method involves generating a plurality of media access control (MAC) addresses for use by a client device in a network. Policies are defined that determine which one of the plurality of MAC addresses is to be used by the client device. The plurality of MAC addresses allocated for use by the client device are registered with a management entity in the network. |
| US11611554B2 |
System and method for assessing authenticity of a communication
Disclosed is a method and system for assessing the authenticity of a communication. The method comprises receiving data of the communication by the processor between one or more participants. Further, extracting one or more features by the processor from the data by using data extraction techniques. Further, comparing the one or more features by the processor with predefined threshold features stored in a feature repository. Further, generating, one or more authenticity attributes by using one or more trained Artificial Intelligence (AI) models applied over the one or more features, along with results of the comparing. Each of the one or more authenticity attributes generates a recommendation output, providing the authenticity of the communication. |
| US11611551B2 |
Authenticate a first device based on a push message to a second device
Examples disclosed herein describe authenticating a first electronic device based on a push message to a second electronic device. In one implementation, a processor receives a user identifier from a first electronic device. The processor may select a message communication type based on the user identifier and transmit an authentication information request to a second electronic device using a push message communication of the selected message communication type. The processor may authenticate the user based on the received response to the request and transmit information related to the user authentication to the first electronic device. |
| US11611549B2 |
System and method of securing access to a secure remote server and database on a mobile device
A new and novel system and method for reliably, securely, and affordably isolating and securing remote access to a secure cloud-based server and database, specifically, a NicheRMS police database, through a secured application, such as the NicheRMS application, over a secure network connection, such as a Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) connection, wherein the data in the sensitive database is accessed, and only present in a secured workspace and never transmitted locally to the endpoint devices. |
| US11611541B2 |
Secure method to replicate on-premise secrets in a cloud environment
Systems and methods for secure sharing of sensitive information in a computing environment. The methods comprise, by a first entity of a first computing environment receiving sensitive information of the first computing environment, receiving a request to share the sensitive information from a second entity of the first computing environment, and determining whether the second entity is a trusted entity included in a list of trusted entities held by a configuration service associated with a second computing environment. If the second entity is not a trusted entity, determining whether the second entity can establish trust by validating a subscription of the second entity with a directory service, and validating a digital certificate corresponding to the second entity with a certificate authority. If the second entity can establish trust or is a trusted entity, sharing the sensitive information with the second entity so as to enable operation of the second entity. |
| US11611540B2 |
Protection of authentication data of a server cluster
This disclosure describes a process for securely instantiating a virtual machine on a server cluster. The virtual machine just after instantiation has access to persistent storage that includes an encrypted region and lacks access to an encryption key configured to provide access to data stored within the encrypted region. The virtual machine receives a communication from a management server associated with the server cluster that includes the encryption key configured to provide access to the data stored within the encrypted region. After the virtual machine receives the encryption key, the server cluster runs services that depend upon the data stored within the encrypted region to operate after receiving the communication from the management server. |
| US11611538B2 |
Secure multiparty detection of sensitive data using private set intersection (PSI)
A method, apparatus and computer program product to detect whether specific sensitive data of a client is present in a cloud computing infrastructure is implemented without requiring that data be shared with the cloud provider, or that the cloud provider provide the client access to all data in the cloud. Instead of requiring the client to share its database of sensitive information, preferably the client executes a tool that uses a cryptographic protocol, namely, Private Set Intersection (PSI), to enable the client to detect whether their sensitive information is present on the cloud. Any such information identified by the tool is then used to label a document or utterance, send an alert, and/or redact or tokenize the sensitive data. |
| US11611523B1 |
Displaying a sponsored content item in conjunction with message threads based on likelihood of message thread selection
A messaging application provides a user interface displaying a user's threads, where each thread includes at least one message between the user and another user. Via the user interface, the user may select a thread to access messages in the thread or to add one or more messages to the thread. The messaging application also displays a sponsored content item along with the threads, but displays the sponsored content item below threads having unread messages to avoid reducing engagement with threads the user is likely to select. In some embodiments, the messaging application predicts a probability that displaying the sponsored content item above a thread including an unread message thread will cause the user not to engage with the thread and displays the sponsored content item above the thread including the unread message if the predicted probability is below a threshold. |
| US11611519B1 |
Event trigger visibility within a group-based communication system
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for managing trigger visibility within a group-based communication system where visibility to a trigger may be determined by one or more trigger visibility parameters including a user parameter associated with one or more users and a resource parameter associated with a specific resource or context within the group-based communication system. If a trigger is determined to be visible, based on the trigger visibility parameters, the trigger is included within the group-based communication system such that the trigger and a corresponding workflow are accessible. |
| US11611518B2 |
System-in-package network processors
This disclosure relates to integrated circuit devices that may include a network processor in a data processing die and an on-package memory in a base die. The data processing die may implement one or more network functionalities that may exchange data with low-latency memory, high capacity in the base die. The data processing die may be programmable fabric, which may be dynamically reconfigured during operation. |
| US11611516B2 |
Systems and methods for resource allocation
A computer-implemented for allocating resources is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, from a client device associated with an entity, input including a selection of a first operation; obtaining a threshold quantity of resources associated with the first operation; allocating a first quantity of resources associated with the entity to the first operation; detecting a trigger condition for obtaining resources associated with the first operation; and in response to detecting the trigger condition for obtaining resources associated with the first operation: determining a second quantity of resources associated with the entity for allocation to the first operation based on a difference between the threshold quantity of resources associated with the first operation and the first quantity of resources; and transmitting, to the client device, a signal representing a message indicating the second quantity of resources. |
| US11611515B2 |
Time interleaver, time deinterleaver, time interleaving method, and time deinterleaving method
A convolutional interleaver included in a time interleaver, which performs convolutional interleaving includes: a first switch that switches a connection destination of an input of the convolutional interleaver to one end of one of a plurality of branches; a FIFO memories provided in some of the plurality of branches except one branch, wherein a number of FIFO memories is different among the plurality of branches; and a second switch that switches a connection destination of an output of the convolutional interleaver to another end of one of the plurality of branches. The first and second switches switch the connection destination when the plurality of cells as many as the codewords per frame have passed, by switching a corresponding branch of the connection destination sequentially and repeatedly among the plurality of branches. |
| US11611513B2 |
System and method for discovering interfaces in a network
A system and method for discovering interfaces in a network is provided wherein a remote system is configured to discover by connecting to plurality of servers, and intelligently stitching together interfaces that exist between different applications. The remote system is configured to identify these interfaces through message queue servers in the network and their queue managers. Further, stitching together the interfaces is done based upon the hops that a message performs from one system to its target application using message queues. Interface name is created by reading message header, applications involved and queue properties. The system capabilities also include tracking the usage of interfaces based on the traffic that is flowing through them. The system provides a repeatable process to obtain accurate repository of interfaces. |
| US11611511B2 |
Edge-node controlled resource distribution
This application describes apparatus and methods for using edge-computing to control resource distribution among access channels, such as a retail banking center. Edge-nodes may be configured to move a product display in response to detected or expected customer traffic flow in or near a retail location. Edge-nodes may be configured to redirect resources provided by a cloud computing environment to or away from the retail location. Based on customer traffic flow, edge-nodes may direct customers/resources to a retail location and ensure the retail location provides a predetermined quality of service. |
| US11611510B2 |
Network latency fairness in multi-user gaming platforms
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques that allow for enforcement of network latency fairness in multi-user gaming platforms. An example method generally includes identifying multiple user equipments (UEs) participating in a multi-user gaming platform across one or more wide area networks (WANs); and taking one or more actions to support latency fairness in delivery of information across the multiple users via the one or more WANs. |
| US11611509B2 |
Communication method, communications device, and communications system
A communications method includes receiving, by a first provider edge (PE) device, a data packet from a second PE device and avoiding, by the first PE device, sending the data packet to the second PE device in response to determining that a source address of the data packet is the same as an address of the second PE device in an entry. The source address of the data packet is the same as the address of the second PE in the entry stored in the first PE device. A customer edge (CE) device is multi-homed to the first PE device and the second PE device in an all-active mode. The CE device is connected to the first PE device through a first connection and the second PE device through a second connection. The first connection and the second connection belonging to a same Ethernet segment. |
| US11611508B2 |
Packet forwarding method and network device
A packet forwarding method includes obtaining, by a network device, a first tunnel identifier of a first packet. When the first tunnel identifier is a first value, and forwarding, by the network device, the first packet based on a first routing group in a virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) table. The first routing group consists of one or more local routes, and each next-hop outbound interface of the one or more local routes is a local outbound interface. The network device forwards the packet based on a local routing group including only a local route in the VRF table such that the packet is forwarded to a local virtual machine for processing, and is not forwarded to another tunnel endpoint device during packet forwarding. |
| US11611507B2 |
Managing forwarding elements at edge nodes connected to a virtual network
Some embodiments provide a method for maintaining a virtual network that spans at least one cloud datacenter separate from multi-machine edge nodes of an entity. This method configures a gateway in the cloud datacenter to establish secure connections with several edge devices at several multi-machine edge nodes (e.g., branch offices, datacenters, etc.) in order to establish the virtual network. The method configures the gateway to assess quality of connection links with different edge devices, and to terminate a secure connection with a particular edge device for a duration of time after the assessed quality of the connection link to the particular edge device is worse than a threshold value. In some embodiments, the gateway is configured to distribute routes to edge devices at the edge nodes, and to forgo distributing any route to the particular edge device along the connection link for the duration of time when the assessed quality of the connection link is worse than (e.g., less than) a threshold value. In different embodiments, the gateway assesses the quality of the connection link based on different factors or different combinations of factors. Examples of such factors in some embodiments include the following attributes of a connection link: packet loss, latency, signal jitter, etc. Also, the routes that the gateway distributes in some embodiments include routes that the edge devices distribute to the gateway, as well as routes that the gateway learns on its own. |
| US11611504B2 |
Planning and managing network probes using centralized controller
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for measuring edge-based quality of experience (QoE) metrics. For instance, a network device may construct a topological representation of a network, including indications of nodes and links connecting the nodes within the network. For each of the links, the network device may select a node device of the two node devices connected by the respective link to measure one or more QoE metrics for the respective link, with the non-selected node device not measuring the QoE metrics. In response to selecting the selected node device, the network device may receive a set of one or more QoE metrics for the respective link for data flows flowing from the selected node device to the non-selected node device. The network device may store the QoE metrics and determine counter QoE metrics for data flows flowing from the non-selected node device to the selected node device. |
| US11611502B2 |
Network latency measurement and analysis system
Deploying a point of presence (PoP) changes traffic flow to a cloud service provider. To determine if the PoP improves the performance of a cloud service to a client, actual network latencies between the client and the cloud service are measured. In more complex scenarios, multiple PoPs are used. The client sends multiple requests for the same content to the cloud provider. The requests are sent via different routes. The cloud provider serves the requests and collates the latency information. Based on the latency information, a route for a future request is selected, resources are allocated, or a user interface is presented. The process of determining the latency for content delivered by different routes may be repeated for content of different sizes. A future request is routed along the network path that provides the lowest latency for the data being requested. |
| US11611497B1 |
Synthetic web application monitoring based on user navigation patterns
In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein comprises: receiving, at a device, a plurality of captured end-user navigation sessions for a monitored application; generating, by the device, a mapping of end-user workflows for the monitored application based on an aggregation of the plurality of captured end-user navigation sessions; determining, by the device, one or more particular end-user workflows from the mapping of end-user workflows for synthetic testing; generating, by the device, one or more synthetic scripts that traverse the one or more particular end-user workflows respectively; and sharing, by the device, the one or more synthetic scripts with a synthetic monitoring system to cause the synthetic monitoring system to synthetically test the monitored application using the one or more synthetic scripts to traverse the one or more particular end-user workflows. |
| US11611492B2 |
Conversational bots platform
Provided herein are system, methods and computer program products for using a bot server for initiating and controlling bot instances, specifically conversation bot instances at client devices for interacting with users associated with the client devices. The bot server may communicate with a remote cloud service providing bot services for initiating and operating the bot instances to retrieve logic metadata used to control the bot instances and may use this metadata to initiate and control one or more bot instances at the client devices to interact with the associated users. In particular, the bot server may be deployed at a network edge in close network proximity to the client devices. |
| US11611489B2 |
Functional discovery and mapping of serverless resources
A computing system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform that manages a managed network, and a software application associated with the platform and configured to: obtain, from an external computing system, information about a function-application arranged to execute source code segment(s) on demand; determine that the obtained information relates to (i) a plurality of authorization-keys each respectively arranged to authorize on-demand execution of one of the source code segments, (ii) a first key-value string pair that enables establishment of connectivity to a service of the external computing system or of another computing system, and/or (iii) a second key-value string pair that enables establishment of connectivity to a data source of the external computing system or of another computing system, and responsively determine association(s) between the source code segment(s), the function-application, the service, and/or the data source; and store the association(s) in the database. |
| US11611482B1 |
Bandwidth throttling
Bandwidth throttling in a browser isolation environment is disclosed. A request is received from a client browser executing on a client device to connect with a remote resource. The browser isolation system provides a surrogate browser to facilitate communications between the client browser and the remote resource. A throttle is applied to a portion of content delivered to the client browser in response to the received request. |
| US11611481B2 |
Policy management method and system, and apparatus
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a policy management method and system, and an apparatus. The method includes: requesting, by a policy decision entity, an NFVO in a management domain of a composite NS to perform a management operation on a policy group. According to the solution provided in this application, consistency between the LCM policy of the composite NS and the LCM policy of the nested NS forming the composite NS is ensured, and policy management execution efficiency is improved in a scenario of providing a composite NS across management domains. |
| US11611477B1 |
Wireless data link between an autonomous vehicle and other vehicles
A system and method including storing a configuration file defining one or more data structures to configure a first radio to communicate with a second radio, the configuration file defining at least a radio frequency (RF) channel and a plurality of data ports; and updating a set of configuration settings of the first radio based on the data structures defined in the configuration file, and to communicate RF data through the plurality of data ports with the second radio. |
| US11611473B2 |
Provisioning a service using file distribution technology
According to certain embodiments, a provisioning manager comprises an interface and processing circuitry. The interface is configured to obtain provisioning data from a provisioning database. The processing circuitry is configured to prepare one or more configuration files based on the provisioning data and provide the one or more configuration files to the one or more service instances using file distribution technology. The one or more configuration files indicate how to provision one or more service instances used in sending or receiving electronic messages. |
| US11611463B2 |
Method and device for transmitting OFDM signal, and method and device for receiving OFDM signal
A method of transmitting, by a transmitting device, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal in a wireless communication system, the method including: generating, by a digital module of the transmitting device, a frequency-shifted OFDM baseband signal by performing frequency up-shift of a first signal by a difference between a carrier frequency f0 and a first frequency fbase, wherein the first frequency fbase is, among frequencies corresponding to integer multiples of 128Δf, closest to the carrier frequency f0, and wherein Δf is an OFDM subcarrier spacing; up-converting, by an analog oscillator of the transmitting device, the frequency-shifted OFDM baseband signal by the first frequency fbase to generate an OFDM symbol signal at the carrier frequency f0; and transmitting the OFDM symbol signal at the carrier frequency f0. |
| US11611462B2 |
Padding and backoff operations when transmitting via multiple frequency segments in a WLAN
A communication device determines that simultaneous transmission and reception via multiple frequency segments in a WLAN is not permitted. The communication device transmits a first packet in a first frequency segment beginning at a first time, and transmits a second packet in a second frequency segment beginning at a second time that is different than the first time. Transmission of the second packet overlaps in time with transmission of the first packet. In response to having determined that simultaneous transmission and reception via multiple frequency segments is not permitted, the communication device includes in the first packet padding so that an end of transmission of the first packet occurs at a same time as an end of transmission of the second packet. |
| US11611461B2 |
On PDCCH DMRS mapping and coreset resource allocation
A UE determines a first DCCH resource candidate in a first CORESET on a carrier, the first DCCH resource candidate including a first set of RBs. The UE also determines a first sequence of DMRSs that are mapped, starting at a reference point, to RBs in a predetermined range within the carrier in a frequency domain, the predetermined range containing the first DCCH resource candidate in the frequency domain. The UE further determines a first reference location of the first set of RBs. The UE determines, based on the first reference location, a first set of DMRSs from the first sequence of DMRSs, the first set of DMRSs being mapped to the first set of RBs. The UE obtains a channel estimation based on the first set of DMRSs; and The UE performs blind decoding of the first DCCH resource candidate based on the channel estimation. |
| US11611455B2 |
Method and device for communication detection and air conditioner
The present application relates to a method for communication detection. The method comprises: determining a length level of a communication link according to a time length of pulse data during transmission of data over the communication link, and determining a detection time point according to the length level of the communication link. The length level of the communication link is determined according to the time length of pulse data during transmission of data over the communication link, and then the detection time point of the data is confirmed, thereby realizing dynamic determination of the detection time point of data according to the time length of the pulse data, and data waveform attenuation caused by an excessively long distance is avoided by means of automatic adjustment of the detection time point, so that the correctness of data detection is ensured, and the stability of long-distance homebus communication is improved. |
| US11611448B2 |
Facilitation of predictive assisted access to content
Edge node networks can be utilized to facilitate predictive access to content for a wide variety of applications. For example, predictive data can be generated based on historical patterns, audio data, calendar invites, etc. The predictive data can include predicted locations, persons present based on usage of their mobile device, edge node and access point usage, etc. The predicted data can be used to facilitate more efficient access to content by proactively sending mobile application and/or content usage data to edge node equipment that is predicted to be used in accordance with a predicted a predicted event. Furthermore, the predictive analysis can be used to modify mobile screens for quicker access to content and/or mobile applications. |
| US11611446B2 |
Intermediary device for daisy chain and tree configuration in hybrid data/power connection
A plurality of intermediary devices may be interposed in a hybrid data/power connection between a power source and a powered device. In one aspect, the intermediary devices may be connected in series. Such connecting may be referred to as “daisy chaining.” In other aspects, the intermediary devices may be connected in a tree or a mesh. Each intermediary device may be configured to consume, for its own use, power that is supplied over the hybrid data/power connection and to deliver remaining power over the hybrid data/power connection to at least one other device. Furthermore, each intermediary device may be configured to independently route data and power to downstream devices. |
| US11611444B2 |
Physically unclonable function device, method and apparatus
A physically unclonable function (PUF) device 1 capable of exhibiting a unique quantum mechanical effect as a result of quantum mechanical confinement exhibited by the device 1. The device 1 comprises a group IV semiconductor heterostructure. The group IV semiconductor heterostructure may comprise Silicon/Germanium. The device 1 may comprise a group IV semiconductor resonant tunnelling diode (RTD).A Si-integrated circuit, method, use, and apparatus are also provided. |
| US11611443B2 |
Network node encryption method and apparatus
A method for network node encryption is provided. A node encryption request is received for a network node. Subsequently, node data information of the network node according to the node encryption request is acquired by the apparatus. The node data information includes a preset link. Next, an application to a third party for an encryption certificate is transmitted via the apparatus and the application includes the node data information. The third party sends a verification file once the application is received to verify an authority to the preset link. The verification file is stored subsequently. The third party verifies the storing of the verification file and sends an encryption certificate. The encryption certificate is received and deployed on the network node via the apparatus. |
| US11611442B1 |
Systems and applications for semi-anonymous communication tagging
Systems and applications are described that use group signature technology to allow for anonymous and/or semi-anonymous feedback while allowing for the application of rules and parameters. The use of group signature technology may serve to potentially mitigate or prevent malicious identification of individuals or entities providing a communication such as feedback. Feedback may range from constructive feedback all the way to the ‘whistleblower’ variety. It may be desirable to identify the individuals as belonging to a particular group or having a particular status or position while maintaining the anonymity of the individuals within the particular group. |
| US11611437B2 |
Blockchain token holding social event history
A crypto token wallet which allows storing reduced size ledgers. |
| US11611434B2 |
Enhanced security in sensitive data transfer over a network
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for authenticating a transaction over a secure network. The method comprises receiving, by a first authentication server, a sensitive data payload and a cryptogram, wherein the first authentication server is configured to either receive or generate a token associated with the sensitive data payload; transmitting, by the first authentication server, the token and the cryptogram to a second authentication server, wherein the second authentication server is configured to validate the token and the cryptogram and generate a first message including a validation result; transmitting, by the second authentication server, the first message to an issuer server to authenticate the transaction; and reviewing, by the issuer server, the validation result and generating an authentication value including a validation flag based on the review of the validation result. |
| US11611433B2 |
Secure memory arrangements
Various examples are directed to secure memory arrangements and methods of using the same. A gateway device of the secure computing system may receiving a first message from an external system. The first message may comprise a first message payload data and first asymmetric access data. The gateway device may determine that the first asymmetric access data matches the first message payload data based at least in part on an external system public key. The gateway device may access a first system controller symmetric key associated with a first system controller in communication with the gateway device and generate a first symmetric access data based at least in part on the first system controller symmetric key and the first message payload data. The gateway device may send the first message payload data and the first symmetric access data to the first system controller. |
| US11611428B2 |
Clock data recovery
A circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a frequency divider. The frequency divider input is coupled to the VCO output. The circuit further includes a phase-frequency detector (PFD). A control output of the PFD is coupled to the VCO. A first PFD input is coupled to a first frequency divider output, and a second PFD input is coupled to a second frequency divider output. The first frequency divider output is configured to provide a first frequency divider signal and the second frequency divider output is configured to provide a second frequency divider signal 90 degrees out of phase with respect to the first frequency divider signal. The PFD is configured to detect an occurrence of at least two edges of a signal on the data input while the second frequency divider signal is continuously logic high across the at least two edges. |
| US11611427B2 |
Optical link channel auto-negotiation method and apparatus, computer-readable storage medium
An optical link channel auto-negotiation method and apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The optical link channel auto-negotiation method may include at least one of the following: configuring a receiving rate, determining whether a receive clock recovered from received data by a physical layer (PHY) module is locked, and in response to determining that the receive clock recovered from the received data by the PHY module is locked, determining that the receiving rate is configured correctly; configuring a first predetermined parameter in response to determining that the receiving rate is configured correctly, determining whether code block data of the PHY module is in a synchronized state, and in response to determining that the code block data of the PHY module is in a synchronized state, determining that the first predetermined parameter is configured correctly. |
| US11611425B2 |
Variable rate sampling in a bluetooth receiver using connection status
A Bluetooth receiver has an RF front end which has a gain control input, the RF front end converting wireless packets into a baseband signal which is coupled to the input of an analog to digital converter (ADC). A clock generator provides a clock coupled to the ADC, and an AGC processor performs an AGC process to provide a gain which places the baseband symbols in a range that is less than 90% of the input dynamic range of the ADC. When in a connected state, the clock generator provides a clock which is slower than is required to complete the AGC process during a preamble interval, and the AGC process uses a few initial bits of the address field. The remaining bits of the address field is compared with the corresponding address bits of the receiver to determine whether to receive the packet. |
| US11611422B2 |
Sub-band-full-duplex adaptive base station transceiver
A base station is disclosed that includes two separated antenna arrays. In a TDD mode of operation, both arrays are used for either transmit or receive. In a sub-band full-duplex mode of operation, one array is used to transmit downlink symbols while the remaining array is used to receive uplink symbols. |
| US11611420B2 |
CSI-RS for AMM measurements
According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting a measurement signal for evaluating a quality of a link from a cell comprises: determining (412) a first virtual identifier for a first link; determining (414) a group of one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) sequences that are available to be transmitted from the cell; associating (420) one or more of a frequency resource allocation, a time resource allocation, a CSI- RS sequence from the group of one or more CSI-RS sequences, and a layer allocation with the first virtual identifier; and transmitting (422) a first CSI-RS for measurement using one or more of the frequency resource allocation, time resource allocation, CSI-RS sequence, and layer allocation associated with the first virtual identifier. |
| US11611417B2 |
Physical layer parsing for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) punctured transmission and apparatus
A data unit comprising bits to transmit over one or more frequency segments in a frequency range is obtained. An effective bandwidth in each frequency segment of the frequency range is determined, where the effective bandwidth excludes bandwidth of one or more punctured subchannels in a respective frequency segment. Bits are encoded based on the effective bandwidth of each frequency segment followed by parsing the encoded bits to one or more streams and parsing the encoded bits of a stream to the one or more frequency segments. The parsing of the encoded bits of the stream comprises allocating a first number of consecutive encoded bits to a first frequency segment and allocating a second number of consecutive encoded bits to a second frequency segment, wherein the first number and the second number are based on the effective bandwidth of the first frequency segment and the second frequency segment. The encoded bits are modulated and mapped to subcarriers for transmission. |
| US11611413B2 |
Method and device for transmitting or receiving signal in wireless communication system
A UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure receives DCI of a DL grant format through a PDCCH and transmits a HARQ-ACK report, in a state in which the DCI of the DL grant format indicates a specific type codebook-based HARQ-ACK report for one-shot-based transmission of ACK/NACKs for all HARQ processes of serving cells, the UE may determine a time resource for the specific type codebook-based HARQ-ACK report based on whether a PDSCH is scheduled by the DCI. |
| US11611411B2 |
Downlink control information for dormancy indication and one-shot hybrid automatic repeat request feedback
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a control channel in a primary cell, one or more downlink control information (DCI) messages that include a secondary cell (SCell) dormancy indication and a request for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. The DCI messages may have a format associated with downlink scheduling, and fields used to carry the SCell dormancy indication and the request for HARQ feedback may have a configuration that depends on whether the DCI messages are used to schedule a downlink data transmission. Furthermore, in some aspects, a DCI message may include a field that has a value to indicate whether the DCI message does or does not schedule a downlink data transmission, to enable the UE to correctly receive and decode the SCell dormancy indication and the request for HARQ feedback. |
| US11611410B2 |
Method and a device for improved status reports
A method for use in a cellular communications system in which system traffic can be exchanged between transceivers comprises receiving traffic from a second transceiver at a first transceiver. The traffic includes data units that are each associated with an identifier. The data units are also divided into segments. The method additionally includes sending status information from the first transceiver to the second transceiver. The status information pertains to one or more data units transmitted by the second transceiver. Additionally, sending the status information includes, for non-received and partially received data units, sending information indicating the data units were non-received or partially received and, for partially received data units, sending information indicating which parts of the data units were not received. |
| US11611409B2 |
Communication system and communication method for reporting compromised state in one-way transmission
A communication system and a communication method for reporting a compromised state in one-way transmission are provided. The communication method includes: receiving a packet by a first port; coupling an error checking circuit to the first port, wherein the error checking circuit checks a header of the packet; coupling a first unidirectional coupler to the first port and the error checking circuit, and coupling a second unidirectional coupler to the first port and the error checking circuit; in response to an error being in the header, disabling the first unidirectional coupler and the data inspection circuit and enabling the second unidirectional coupler by the error checking circuit; receiving the packet from the communication device by a receiving server; and in response to determining the received packet is incomplete by the receiving server, outputting the compromised state by the receiving server. |
| US11611408B2 |
Methods, systems and computer readable media for reconstructing uncorrectable forward error correction (FEC) data
A method for reconstructing uncorrectable forward error correction (FEC) data includes generating and transcoding a known bit sequence and transmitting a FEC encoded codeword that includes a payload containing the transcoded known bit sequence through a component under test. The method further includes receiving the FEC encoded codeword transmitted via the component under test and determining that the encoded contents of the FEC encoded codeword contains a number of symbol errors that exceeds a predefined threshold. The method also includes utilizing stored scramble seed bits corresponding to an immediately preceding FEC encoded codeword and the transcoded known bit sequence to generate a reconstructed codeword. |
| US11611406B1 |
Systems and methods for DOCSIS profile management
A profile optimizing method is provided for a downstream channel transmission of active subcarriers to user devices. The method includes steps of receiving channel measurement data from each user device for each subcarrier, calculating a maximum bit-loading value for each user device per subcarrier, grouping the user devices into a plurality of clusters based on a proximity of the maximum bit-loading values of a first user device to those of a second user device within the particular cluster, assigning each user device within the particular cluster to a single cluster profile. A plurality of single cluster profiles for the plurality of clusters forms a set of cluster profiles. The method further includes steps of determining a channel capacity ratio for the set of cluster profiles, and combining at least two single profiles of the set of cluster profiles into a coalesced profile pair. |
| US11611404B2 |
Four-dimensional over the air performance test method for dynamic scene channel
The present disclosure discloses a four-dimensional over the air performance test method for a dynamic scene channel. By constructing a time-domain non-stationary dynamic scene channel model, and selecting over the air (OTA) probes of appropriate number, positions and power weight in a four-dimensional multi-probe anechoic chamber (4D-MPAC) test system through a probe selection algorithm, finally a 4D-MPAC dynamic channel test system for a target channel in a DUT test area is constructed, which makes a contribution to solve the current problem of OTA performance test for a time-domain non-stationary channel. The present disclosure aims to provide a four-dimensional multi-probe anechoic chamber (4D-MPAC) for the dynamic scene channel, which can effectively and accurately reproduce a target dynamic scene channel model in an anechoic chamber on the basis of reducing the cost of the test system as much as possible by constructing the dynamic scene channel model, and provide an index for judging the accuracy of constructing the dynamic scene channel model. |
| US11611403B2 |
Average environmental channel estimation
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for estimating one or more environmental factors at a first user equipment (UE). The one or more environmental factors may be based on estimates of a Doppler spread and a power delay profile (PDP) taken over a set of subsets of a time period, based on multiple signals received from a second UE or a base station over the time period. The first UE may estimate the Doppler spread and PDP for a channel over each of the set of subsets of the time period, and may combine the Doppler spread over the set of subsets and combine the PDP over the set of subsets. The first UE may use the combined Doppler spread and the combined PDP to determine one or more communication parameters for the channel. |
| US11611399B2 |
Acoustic communication system and data transmission and reception method therefor
An acoustic communication system and a data transmission and reception method thereof are provided. The acoustic communication system may include a transmitter configured to generate data to be transmitted as an acoustic signal using a multi-tone encoding technique in a vehicle and output the generated acoustic signal and a receiver configured to receive the acoustic signal, decode the received acoustic signal using a multi-tone decoding technique, analyze the decoded acoustic signal, and output a warning signal. |
| US11611393B1 |
Spatially resolved monitoring of cable perturbations using multichannel information
A monitoring system. The monitoring system may include an optical receiver configured to receive an optical signal, the receiver comprising a plurality of equalizers to partition the optical signal over a plurality of optical channels corresponding to a plurality of optical wavelengths. The monitoring system may also include an analysis component, coupled to the receiver, comprising logic, where the logic is configured to construct a plurality of sensor matrices, corresponding to the plurality of optical channels, based upon the optical signal, after reception at the receiver; determine, using the plurality of sensor matrices, a correlation between at least one pair of sensor matrices corresponding to at least one pair of optical channels of the plurality of optical channels; and determine a location of a perturbation, external to the transmission system, based upon the correlation. |
| US11611391B1 |
Satellite communications solid-state block upconverter with gain compensation
An apparatus including a circuit, a temperature sensor, a sensor and a control system. The circuit may be configured to receive an input signal and a configuration signal and generate an output signal in response to performing an upconversion of the input signal to a selected frequency band and an amplification of the input signal in response to the configuration signal. The temperature sensor may be configured to measure a temperature. The sensor may be configured to measure a sensor value. The control system may be configured to generate the configuration signal in response to the temperature and the sensor value. The configuration signal may be generated to maintain a gain of the amplification at a target level over a range of an operating condition during the upconversion. The target level of the gain for the operating condition may be determined in response to a pre-determined calculation. |
| US11611387B2 |
Restarting primary cell bandwidth part inactivity timer based on expiration of secondary cell deactivation timer
A wireless device may receive one or more messages comprising configuration parameters for a primary cell and a secondary cell. The configuration parameters may indicate a deactivation timer for the secondary cell and a bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer for the primary cell. The wireless device may start the deactivation timer in response to activating the secondary cell. The wireless device may start the BWP inactivity timer in response to switching an active BWP of the primary cell. The wireless device may stop the BWP inactivity timer of the primary cell based on initiating a random-access procedure for the secondary cell. In response to the deactivation timer of the secondary cell expiring during the random-access procedure, the wireless device may restart the BWP inactivity timer of the primary cell. |
| US11611385B2 |
Base station, system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a base station, a system, a method, and a program capable of improving DL MU-MIMO characteristics. A base station according to the present disclosure includes: a calculation unit that calculates a spatial multiplexing antenna weight VJL of each of a plurality of antennas owned by the base station based on information about at least one spatial multiplexing terminal and Down Link (DL) channel information of the at least one spatial multiplexing terminal; and an interference elimination unit that calculates an interference elimination antenna weight WJL that reduces interference power with respect to other terminals to a desired level or lower based on the spatial multiplexing antenna weight VJL, and calculates a desired signal power loss PLJL of the at least one spatial multiplexing terminal based on the spatial multiplexing antenna weight VJL and the interference elimination antenna weight WJL. |
| US11611382B2 |
Self-learning based on Wi-Fi-based monitoring and augmentation
Technologies for attestation techniques, systems, and methods for determining an individual's movement are provided. The individual's movement is determined by passive indoor positioning technology using channel state information (CSI). A first set of data associated with an impulse or frequency response determined using channel state information (CSI) may be received from a Wireless access point located in proximity to a monitored space. A second set of data may also be received from an Internet of Things (IoT) device located in proximity to the monitored space. The first set of data may be compared to the second set of data. A profile database may be updated to replace the first set of data with the second set of data when the first and second sets of data are different. |
| US11611381B2 |
Wireless communications system, a radio network node, a machine learning unit and methods therein for transmission of a downlink signal in a wireless communications network supporting beam forming
A wireless communications system and a method therein for transmission of a downlink signal in a wireless communications network supporting beamforming. The system estimates uplink channel information for a radio link from a wireless device to a radio network node. Further, the system obtains downlink beamforming information related to the estimated uplink channel information from a machine learning unit. The machine learning unit comprises relationships between beamforming information and uplink channel information determined based on stored pairs of reported downlink beamforming information and measured uplink channel information. The obtained downlink beamforming information is applicable for the radio cell sector. Furthermore, the system transmits, towards the wireless device, a beamformed downlink signal using the obtained downlink beamforming information. |
| US11611377B2 |
Orthogonal differential vector signaling
Using a transformation based at least in part on a non-simple orthogonal or unitary matrix, data may be transmitted over a data bus in a manner that is resilient to one or more types of signal noise, that does not require a common reference at the transmission and acquisition points, and/or that has a pin-efficiency that is greater than 50% and may approach that of single-ended signaling. Such transformations may be implemented in hardware in an efficient manner. Hybrid transformers that apply such transformations to selected subsets of signals to be transmitted may be used to adapt to various signal set sizes and/or transmission environment properties including noise and physical space requirements of given transmission environments. |
| US11611372B1 |
Band identifier system for wearable devices
Wearable electronic devices, such as smart watches, can be provided with a band for securing the device to a wearer. The device and the band can include near-field communications (NFC) components that allow the device to uniquely identify the band. Device operations such as the color, theme, or content displayed on the device can be based, in part, on the identification of a particular band. The band may include a miniature NFC tag in an attachment portion of the band that is configured to be received in a recess in a housing of the device. An NFC module for reading the NFC tag can be provided within the recess of the housing, so that the attachment portion of the band and the recess in the device housing position and align the NFC tag with the NFC module when the band is attached to the device. |
| US11611371B2 |
Communication system
A communication system performs wireless communication using electromagnetic field coupling between a transmission coupler and a reception coupler and moves at least one of the transmission coupler and the reception coupler so as to change the position in a predetermined direction of the reception coupler relative to the transmission coupler. In the communication system, the greater the distance between an overlap portion where the transmission coupler and the reception coupler overlap as viewed from a vertical direction to the predetermined direction and an input end of the transmission coupler is, the higher the degree of coupling between the transmission coupler and the reception coupler becomes. |
| US11611370B2 |
Antenna system
An antenna system comprises at least one antenna, a feeding line and a cable guide for a line not feeding the at least one antenna. The at least one antenna has a feeding portion to which the feeding line is assigned. The cable guide has an opening that is provided in the feeding portion. |
| US11611367B2 |
Radio-frequency module and communication device
A radio-frequency module includes a mount board, an antenna terminal and a ground terminal, a low-noise amplifier, a first inductor, and a second inductor. The mount board has a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the mount board from one another. The low-noise amplifier includes a transistor configured to amplify a signal. The first inductor is disposed on one of the first principal surface and the second principal surface of the mount board. The first inductor is connected to the antenna terminal. The second inductor is disposed on the other of the first principal surface and the second principal surface of the mount board. The second inductor is connected between the transistor and the ground terminal. |
| US11611364B1 |
Millimeter-wave isolation device
The present invention discloses a millimeter-wave isolation device, comprising a first isolated circuit and a second isolated circuit and further comprising a millimeter-wave transceiver. An output end of the first isolated circuit is connected to an input end of the millimeter-wave transceiver. An output end of the millimeter-wave transceiver is connected to an input end of the second isolated circuit. The first isolated circuit and the second isolated circuit are isolated by virtue of the millimeter-wave transceiver. By adopting a short distance transmission mode with millimeter-waves taken as carrier waves, a bandwidth can reach 200 kHz to 20 GHz, and a transmission speed can reach 100 kbps to 10 Gbps. The speed is high, whereby the millimeter-wave isolation device can be applicable to any scenario. A millimeter-wave carrier wave antenna is small, and through the antenna, either wireless transmission or signal isolation can be achieved. |
| US11611360B2 |
Apparatus for receiver with concurrent detection and associated methods
An apparatus comprises an RF receiver for receiving an RF signal. The RF receiver includes front-end circuitry to generate a first down-converted signal, and a plurality of signal detectors to generate a corresponding plurality of detection signals from signals derived from the down-converted signal. The RF receiver further includes a controller to provide at least one control signal to the front-end circuitry based on the plurality of detection signals. |
| US11611358B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting or preventing false detection of three error bits by SEC
Various implementations described herein relate to correcting errors in Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). A memory controller uses an Error Correcting Code (ECC) to store an encoded data word within a DRAM die. The DRAM die is communicatively coupled the memory controller by a memory data bus. The DRAM die includes on-die error correction for data bits stored in the DRAM. Upon reading the encoded data word, the memory controller corrects and detects one or more errors. The one or more errors are introduced by at least one of the on-die error correction of the DRAM die or the memory data bus. |
| US11611354B2 |
Data encoding method, decoding method, related device, and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a data encoding method, a decoding method, a related device, and a storage medium. The data encoding method first passes a first bit stream of an original encoded data through a logical operation to obtain a second bit stream. Then, through signal determination, negating processing, and insertion of corresponding flag bit, encoded data having a certain jump amplitude is obtained. A problem that signal is prone to error in transmission process is solved, reliability of coding is improved, and signal transmission is facilitated. |
| US11611350B2 |
Analog-to-digital converter, wireless communication apparatus, and analog-to-digital conversion method
An analog-to-digital converter (1) includes an S/H circuit (10) configured to sample and hold an analog input signal (IN) in synchronization with a sampling clock signal (CLK), a delay circuit (20) configured to delay the sampling clock signal (CLK), an ADC circuit (30) configured to sample an output signal (S/H_out) of the S/H circuit (10) in synchronization with the sampling clock signal (CLK_delay) that is delayed, and output a digital signal (OUT) corresponding to an amplitude of the output signal that is sampled, and a delay adjustment circuit (40) configured to adjust a delay time of the sampling clock signal (CLK) in the delay circuit (20) in accordance with a change in frequency of the sampling clock signal (CLK). |
| US11611345B1 |
NAND based sequential circuit with ferroelectric or paraelectric material
A low power sequential circuit (e.g., latch) uses a non-linear polar capacitor to retain charge with fewer transistors than traditional CMOS sequential circuits. In one example, a sequential circuit includes pass-gates and inverters, but without a feedback mechanism or memory element. In another example, a sequential uses load capacitors (e.g., capacitors coupled to a storage node and a reference supply). The load capacitors are implemented using ferroelectric material, paraelectric material, or linear dielectric. In one example, a sequential uses minority, majority, or threshold gates with ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitors. In one example, a sequential circuit uses minority, majority, or threshold gates configured as NAND gates. |
| US11611344B2 |
Touch detection circuit with different charging and discharging currents and operating method thereof
There is provided a touch detection circuit including a charging circuit, a discharging circuit, a counter and a processor. The charging circuit charges a detection capacitor within a charging interval using different currents. The discharging circuit discharges the detection capacitor within a discharging interval using different currents. The counter counts the charging interval and the discharging interval. The processor subtracts a baseline time from a counted charging time and a counted discharging time to cancel the noise interference. |
| US11611342B2 |
Electrostatic discharge clamp topology
A clamping circuit comprises a first field-effect transistor (FET) having a gate, a source, and a drain, a diode, a first voltage source, and coupling circuitry configured to couple the first voltage source to the drain of the first FET and the diode to the source of the first FET. |
| US11611330B2 |
Micro-electro-mechanical resonators
A tunable non-reciprocal frequency limiter with an asymmetric micro-electro-mechanical resonator has two independent transducer ports. One port has a film stack including a 10 nm hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) and another port has a film stack including a 120 nm aluminum nitride (AlN) film. These film stacks are deposited on top of 70 nm single crystal silicon substrate applying CMOS compatible fabrication techniques. The asymmetric transducer architecture with dissimilar electromechanical coupling coefficients force the resonator into mechanical nonlinearity on actuation with transducer having larger coupling. A proof-of-concept electrically-coupled channel filter is demonstrated with two such asymmetric resonators at ˜253 MHz with individual Qres of ˜870 and a non-reciprocal transmission ratio (NTR) ˜16 dB and BW3 dB of 0.25%. |
| US11611329B2 |
Vibrating element, vibrator, electronic device, and vehicle
A vibrating element includes a base and a first vibrating arm and a second vibrating arm extending from the base. The first vibrating arm includes a first arm and a first weight. The second vibrating arm includes a second arm and a second weight. In the vibrating element, 0.952 |
| US11611320B2 |
Differential operational transconductance amplifier for chopper-stabilized amplification
A differential operational transconductance amplifier, or DOTA, intended to be used in zero-drift precision operational amplifiers as chopper amplifier stage is disclosed. The DOTA is configured to function with a low-voltage power supply and to have good performance based on circuitry configured to provide a constant gain over a range of common-mode voltages, or VCM. The DOTA further includes bias circuitry configured to respond to the common mode voltage in order to prevent large currents, which can result from the constant gain circuitry, from negatively affecting performance. The DOTA further includes current sources that are configured to prevent temperature variations from negatively affecting performance. The DOTA further includes VCM-driven bias voltages used to optimize the operating point of the differential output stage. The DOTA uses input and input replica transistors having medium threshold voltage, which results in capability to operate at low supply voltages. |
| US11611318B1 |
Dynamic amplifier of large output swing
A dynamic amplifier includes a common-source amplifier configured to receive a gate voltage at a gate node and output a drain current to a drain node; a current mirror configured to mirror the drain current into an output current to an output current; a source capacitor connected to the source node; a load capacitor connected to the output node; a first switch configured to conditionally connect the gate node to an input voltage; a second switch configured to conditionally connect the gate node to a gate-resetting voltage; a third switch configured to conditionally connect the source node to a source-resetting voltage; a fourth switch configured to conditionally connect the drain node to a drain-resetting voltage; and a fifth switch configured to conditionally connect the output node to an output-resetting voltage. |
| US11611317B2 |
Circuitry applied to multiple power domains
The present invention provides a circuitry applied to multiple power domains, wherein the circuitry includes a first circuit block and second circuit block, the first circuit block is powered by a first supply voltage of a first power domain, and the second circuit block is powered by a second supply voltage of a second power domain. The first circuit block includes a first amplifier and a switching circuit. The first amplifier is configured to receive an input signal to generate a processed input signal. When the second circuit block is powered by the second supply voltage, the switching circuit is configured to forward the processed input signal to the second circuit block; and when the second circuit block is not powered by the second supply voltage, the switching circuit disconnects a path between the first amplifier and the second circuit block. |
| US11611311B2 |
Systems and methods for terrain based backtracking for solar trackers
A system is provided. The system includes a tracker configured to collect solar irradiance and attached to a rotational mechanism for changing a plane of the tracker and a controller in communication with the rotational mechanism. The controller is programmed to store a plurality of positional information and a shadow model for determining placement of shadows based on positions of objects relative to the sun, determine a position of the sun at a first specific point in time, retrieve height information for the tracker and at least one adjacent tracker, execute the shadow model based on the retrieved height information and the position of the sun, determine a first angle for the tracker based on the executed shadow model, and transmit instructions to the rotational mechanism to change the plane of the tracker to the first angle. |
| US11611306B2 |
Motor driving apparatus, electric blower, vacuum cleaner, and hand dryer
A motor driving apparatus for driving a single-phase motor includes an inverter disposed between a battery and the single-phase motor, the inverter applying a first voltage to the single-phase motor at startup and applying a second voltage to the single-phase motor during a normal operation. A stop time period is present after application of the first voltage, application of the first voltage being stopped during the stop time period, and the inverter applies the second voltage after a lapse of the stop time period. |
| US11611304B1 |
System and method for minimizing demagnetization in rotor magnets
A propulsion system for a device includes an electric motor configured to generate torque to propel the device. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor with one or more permanent magnets. A controller is in communication with the electric motor and has recorded instructions for a method for minimizing demagnetization in the one or more permanent magnets. The controller is adapted to select a starting point and an intermediate point on a current trajectory in a stator current graph. The controller is adapted to obtain a final point on the stator current trajectory based on a comparison of the intermediate point and a predetermined voltage limit. A demagnetized torque capability is generated based on the final point on the current trajectory. |
| US11611298B2 |
Motor device
A motor device 100 includes an SPM motor 1 that includes a stator 2 including an iron core 21 and a plurality of windings 23 wound on the iron core 21, and a rotor 3 which is rotatable with respect to a rotation axis and in which a plurality of permanent magnets 33 are mounted along a circumferential direction to form a plurality of magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a power supply unit 5 that supplies a current to the plurality of windings 23 of the SPM motor 1. Each of the plurality of magnetic poles is oriented such that directions of axes of easy magnetization are concentrated toward a stator side, and the current supplied from the power supply unit is a trapezoidal wave. |
| US11611295B2 |
Infrastructure conversion, adaption and symbiotic stabilization system thereof
A system to sustain and develop a terrestrial and extraterrestrial economy is provided. A thermodynamic energy component is provided for generating electricity and is in electrical communication with a distributing power grid. A dynamic electrical charging matrix with transportation systems, a habitat, an irrigation and agriculture topology and resources for manufacturing recycling provisions are each also in electrical communication with the distributing power grid. An auxiliary depot is further provided for auxiliary storage of energy-related resources. |
| US11611292B2 |
Power conversion device
An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device including a plurality of inverter circuits connected in parallel to a load, the power conversion device being capable of performing control with a smaller number of microcomputers, having high reliability, and being advantageous for miniaturization and cost reduction. Provided are: a plurality of inverter circuits connected in parallel to a load; a microcomputer which controls the plurality of inverter circuits; a plurality of signal selection units which select a drive signal of each of the plurality of inverter circuits; and a first transmission path and a second transmission path which are connected in parallel between the microcomputer and the plurality of signal selection units and transmit the drive signal of each of the plurality of inverter circuits from the microcomputer to each of the plurality of signal selection units. Each of the plurality of signal selection units selects any one of a first drive signal transmitted from the first transmission path and a second drive signal transmitted from the second transmission path. |
| US11611290B2 |
Wind turbine with reduced DC-voltage reserve
The invention relates to a method for operating a wind turbine which comprises a power generator, a generator side converter, a grid side converter, a DC link electrically connected to an output of the generator side converter and an input of the grid side converter. The method comprises monitoring a wind turbine signal for detection of an operational condition which requires an increase of an output voltage of the grid side converter, upon detection of the operational condition, initiate an over-modulation mode wherein the grid side converter is operated with a modulation index in an over-modulation range, and upon the detection of the operational condition, initiate a DC-voltage adjustment mode wherein the a DC-voltage of the DC link is increased from a first voltage level towards a second voltage level. |
| US11611287B2 |
Dual sourced common 3-level VSCF
A system comprises a first 3-phase rectifier having a positive DC lead and a negative DC lead and a second 3-phase rectifier having a positive DC lead and a negative DC lead. The system also includes a 4-phase, 3-level inverter connected to the first and second 3-phase rectifiers. A method comprises receiving variable frequency, 3-phase power from a first generator, receiving variable frequency, 3-phase power from a second generator, rectifying the variable frequency, 3-phase power from each of the first and second generators into DC power. And inverting the DC power into 4-phase, constant frequency power for powering a load. |
| US11611276B2 |
Charge pump circuit
A charge pump circuit includes a sub-circuit, which is a pumping stage circuit or an output stage circuit. The sub-circuit includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a transistor, a first capacitive device, a first diode device, and a second diode device. The transistor has a first source/drain (S/D) terminal coupled with the input terminal, a second S/D terminal coupled with the output terminal, and a gate terminal. The first capacitive device has a first end coupled with the gate terminal of the transistor and a second end configured to receive a first driving signal. The first diode device has a cathode coupled with the second S/D terminal of the transistor and an anode coupled with the gate terminal of the transistor. The second diode device has a cathode coupled with the gate terminal of the transistor and an anode coupled with the second S/D terminal of the transistor. |
| US11611275B2 |
Positive and negative charge pump control
A voltage supply circuit and a method for controlling a voltage supply circuit are provided. The voltage supply circuit includes a positive charge pump stage that generates a positive voltage and a negative charge pump stage that generates a negative voltage. The voltage supply circuit also includes a control stage that compares a voltage representative of the negative voltage with a reference voltage and causes a slope of the positive voltage to decrease when the voltage representative of the negative voltage exceeds the reference voltage. |
| US11611265B2 |
Electric compressor
An electric compressor includes a compression part, an electric motor, an inverter device, and a housing. The inverter device includes an inverter circuit, a noise reduction unit, and a circuit board. The noise reduction unit includes a common mode choke coil and a smoothing capacitor. The common mode choke coil includes an annular core, a pair of winding wires, and an annular electrical conductor. The electrical conductor is split into a first metal plate and a second metal plate in a circumferential direction. The first metal plate is thermally coupled to the housing. The second metal plate is electrically connected to the first metal plate. An electrical resistance value of the first metal plate is larger than that of the second metal plate. |
| US11611264B2 |
Circuit board, motor and electronic power steering system
A circuit board comprising a first power terminal, a second power terminal spaced apart from the first power terminal, a first ground terminal, a second ground terminal spaced apart from the first ground terminal, a first magnetic element part disposed along a first circular arc having a first radius, and a second magnetic element part disposed along a second circular arc having a second radius greater than the first radius, wherein an angle of at least one portion of the first circular arc is not overlapped with an angle of the second circular arc. |
| US11611261B2 |
Rotary actuator
A rotary actuator includes a motor, an output shaft, and a speed reducer. The motor includes a motor shaft rotating about an axial direction. The output shaft is disposed in parallel with the motor shaft. The speed reducer reduces a rotational speed of the motor and transmits rotation of the motor at a reduced rotational speed to the output shaft. The speed reducer includes a parallel-shaft type reducer that has a drive gear on the motor shaft and a driven gear on the output shaft. One side and the other side in the axial direction are defined as a first side and a second side, respectively. The motor is located on the first side of the speed reducer in the axial direction. The driven gear includes a teeth portion having a gear end surface on the first side of the teeth portion. The motor includes a stator having a stator end surface on the second side of the stator. The gear end surface is located on the first side of the stator end surface in the axial direction. |
| US11611259B2 |
Systems for a cooling jacket in an electric motor
Methods and systems are provided for a cooling jacket for an electric motor. In one example, a system may include a channel extending along a circumference of an inner surface of the cooling jacket between an inlet and an outlet of the cooling jacket. A cross-section of the channel may gradually change from the inlet to the outlet along the circumference in order to compensate an increase in coolant temperature by an increase in convective heat transfer such that cooling is balanced around a circumferential surface of the electric motor. |
| US11611257B2 |
Method and stator for optimized slot base insulation
A method is provided for producing a slot base insulation in a stator (210, 220), wherein the stator (210, 220) is part of an electrical machine and is constructed from a ferromagnetic material. The stator (210, 220) is provided with at least one slot (204) to fit a winding wire (122) in the at least one slot (204). The at least one slot (204) is coated with a soft-magnetic insulation material. A stator (210, 220) also is provided with the slot base insulation. |
| US11611255B2 |
High-speed edge-wound rotor
A rotor having multiple poles is provided and includes at each pole an end winding support forming a channel, a bus bar disposed in the channel and edge-wound coils disposed to extend around the end-winding support and the bus bar. The edge-wound coils are stacked radially and include an inner diameter coil routed to an adjacent pole and brazed to an inner diameter coil of the adjacent pole and an outer diameter coil brazed to the bus bar. |
| US11611251B2 |
Motor having asymmetric rotor core
The present disclosure provides a motor having an asymmetric rotor core that can more effectively improve operation efficiency of a motor and improve NVH performance in correspondence to the tendency of high power and high efficiency of motors by asymmetrically forming a first slot and a second slot for inserting permanent magnets of the rotor core, arranging a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet at different embedment angles, and forming a separation wall inclined at a predetermined angle and having a uniform thickness between the first slot and the second slot. |
| US11611249B2 |
Electric machine and motor vehicle
An electric machine comprising a rotor having a rotor body. The rotor body has multiple poles each carrying at least one rotor winding formed from multiple conductor loops. The poles extend in a radial direction of the rotor and the conductor loops pass through slots each formed between two adjacent poles. A support element extending in the radial direction is arranged in each of the slots between the rotor windings of the adjacent poles. The support element applies pressure to the conductor loops when the rotor rotates and/or heats up. A pressure distribution element extending at least in portions in the radial direction along the support element and the adjacent rotor winding is arranged between the support element and the rotor windings, which pressure distribution element distributes the pressure applied by the support element onto the adjacent rotor winding. |
| US11611247B2 |
Transverse flux machine
A stator pole for a stator of a transverse flux machine is provided. The stator includes a stator winding arranged in a winding space, and the winding space being formed circumferentially in a circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of a rotor. The stator pole has a body element made of a ferromagnetic material, which has at least one pole head which, in the installation position, may be arranged opposite the one rotor, and a magnetic return path region, which may be arranged facing away from the one rotor, wherein a number of the pole heads of the stator pole correspond to a number of the rotors. The stator pole is configured to occupy only a portion of a circumference of the winding space in the circumferential direction, and the magnetic return path region has a curved shape which adjoins the at least one pole head, as a result of which the magnetic return path region is designed to define the winding space in part transversely to the circumferential direction. |
| US11611246B2 |
Low frequency sensor based apparatus and method for measuring vehicle position
A method for measuring a position, is performed by a vehicle assembly (VA) for alignment between a ground assembly (GA) and the VA. The method includes transmitting low frequency (LF) signals to initiate alignment with the GA and estimating a position of a vehicle using at least one sensor mounted on the vehicle. Information regarding the estimated position of the vehicle is provided to the GA and information regarding a position of the vehicle measured by LF receive antennas of the GA and an acceleration flag calculated by the GA is received. Accordingly, a transmission strength of the LF signals transmitted by the VA is adjusted based on the information regarding the position of the vehicle measured by the LF receive antennas and the acceleration flag. |
| US11611244B2 |
Mobile terminal, charging device for wirelessly charging the mobile terminal and charging method thereof
The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal, a charging device and a charging method thereof. A first communication module is disposed in the mobile terminal and a second communication module is disposed in the charging device to perform match verification. After the match verification is successful, the mobile terminal may transmit a charging request including a charging parameter required by the mobile terminal to the charging device, and then receive first energy that matches the charging parameter and is transmitted by the charging device. After the mobile terminal converts the first energy into a direct current voltage for charging, the mobile terminal can directly use the direct current voltage corresponding to the first energy for charging. |
| US11611241B2 |
Wireless power transfer to an extravehicular mobility unit
An extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) includes a resonant coil on a surface of the EMU to be coupled to a second resonant coil affixed to a structure via a resonant magnetic field. The EMU also includes a receiver in the EMU coupled to the resonant coil to provide a direct current (DC) voltage based on the resonant magnetic field. A battery in the EMU is charged based on the DC voltage. |
| US11611240B2 |
Pinless power coupling
A pinless power plug for receiving wireless power from a pinless power jack, comprises at least one secondary coil for inductively coupling with a primary coil. The primary coil is associated with the pinless power jack. The primary coil is shielded behind an insulating layer. The pinless power jack further comprises at least two magnetic anchors arranged around a perimeter of the at least one secondary coil in an annular configuration concentric and non-overlapping with the at least one secondary coil. The at least two magnetic anchors are configured to magnetically couple with at least two magnetic snags in the pinless power jack. |
| US11611239B2 |
Wireless charging system with solenoids
A wireless power transmitting device may transmit wireless power signals to a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device may have a housing. A display may be mounted in the housing on a front face of the device. A rear housing wall on a rear face of the device may be provided with a wireless power receiving solenoid. The solenoid may have a linear strip shape that extends along a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis may extend perpendicularly to a wrist strap coupled to the housing. The wireless power receiving solenoid may have opposing first and second ends. The wireless power transmitting device may have a wireless power transmitting solenoid with opposing first and second ends that are configured to transmit the wireless power signals respectively to the first and second ends of the wireless power receiving device when the wireless power receiving solenoid is within the cradle. |
| US11611238B2 |
Wireless charging transfer apparatus and methods
Wireless charging transfer devices are described herein that are configured to achieve wireless charging of portable electronic devices across a gap from a wireless charger. The devices include coil configuration including a receiver coil, a transmitter coil, and a bridge electrically coupling the receiver and transmitter coils across the gap. The coil configuration can be received within a housing that can provide storage space or can incorporate an expandable grip accessory. |
| US11611237B2 |
Wireless power reception apparatus and mobile terminal
A wireless power reception apparatus and a mobile terminal are provided. The wireless power reception apparatus includes the following. A coil includes a first end, a second end, and a tap. The coil defined by the first end and the second end is configured to provide a first voltage, and the coil defined by the first end and the tap is configured to provide a second voltage. A first rectifying unit coupled with the first end and the second end of the coil. A second rectifying unit coupled with the first end and the tap of the coil. A charging unit coupled with the first rectifying unit and configured to apply the first voltage to a battery for charging. A power supply unit coupled with the second rectifying unit and configured to apply the second voltage to power a wireless receiving chip. |
| US11611235B2 |
Wireless power transfer holder
A wireless power transfer holder composed of a receiving space formed by first walling portions to be provided opposite side surfaces, respectively, defining width directions of an electronic device, second walling portions to be provided opposite front and back surfaces, respectively, defining thickness directions of the electronic device, a bottom portion, and an open portion formed opposite the bottom portion, first and second supporting members movable symmetrically forward or backward in the width directions from the first walling portions, respectively, toward the electronic device, to exert bias forces on the side surfaces, respectively, of the electronic device, and an inductive power transferring device mounted on one of the second walling portions to inductively transfer an electric power in a non-contact manner to the electronic device held in the receiving space. The first and second supporting members are configured to be moved while having symmetrical tilts, respectively, toward the electronic device. |
| US11611234B2 |
Control method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium and control device in communication with display device to display power consumption information
A control device is connected to power loads installed in a consumer facility so as to be able to communicate with the power loads. The control device includes: a control unit; and a display unit. The control unit determines the power loads and predicted power consumption when the power loads are used, determines at least one usable power load out of the power loads based on a remaining amount of available electric power in the consumer facility and the predicted power consumption, displays the usable power load on the display unit such that the usable power load is selectable, and controls use of the selected power load. |
| US11611231B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply system having stranded power recovery
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with stranded power recovery has a plurality of UPS modules with one or more of the UPS modules usable to provide stranded power to a recovered power bus. When a UPS module is used to provide stranded power to the recovered power bus, the AC/AC converter associated with that UPS module provides AC power that is synchronized with AC power being provided to the recovered power bus by each of the other AC/AC converters that are providing AC power. In this manner all of the AC/AC converters that are providing AC power to the recovered power bus have the same voltage, the same frequency, and are in phase. |
| US11611230B2 |
Power supply facility for a magnetic resonance facility, magnetic resonance system, and method for operating a power supply facility
A power supply facility for supplying a magnetic resonance facility with electrical power includes a control facility, a network connection to a power network, and an electrical energy store, such as a battery. The network connection is configured for an installed power level that is lower than a maximum power level that may be demanded by the magnetic resonance facility. The control facility is configured, in the event that a power demand of the magnetic resonance facility exceeds the installed power, to provide the power from the network connection and the energy store. |
| US11611224B2 |
Electronic device and charging module system comprising same
An electronic device of a charging module system may include a housing having a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a display device at least partially is exposed through the first surface to display information to the outside; a biometric sensor disposed to be exposed in at least an area of the second surface and sensing biometric information of a user; a battery disposed between the display device and the biometric sensor; and a plurality of electrodes disposed adjacent to the at least an area of the second surface and formed to be exposed in at least another area of the second surface, in which the plurality of electrodes may surround at least a portion of the biometric sensor, and each of the plurality of electrodes has a notch protruding or recessed at least at one end. |
| US11611222B2 |
Portable vehicle battery jump starter with air pump
A portable or handheld jump starting and air compressing apparatus for jump starting a vehicle engine and air inflating an article such as a tire. The apparatus can include a rechargeable lithium ion battery or battery pack and a microcontroller. The lithium ion battery is coupled to a power output port of the device through a FET smart switch actuated by the microcontroller. A vehicle battery isolation sensor connected in circuit with positive and negative polarity outputs detects the presence of a vehicle battery connected between the positive and negative polarity outputs. A reverse polarity sensor connected in circuit with the positive and negative polarity outputs detects the polarity of a vehicle battery connected between the positive and negative polarity outputs. |
| US11611219B2 |
System of critical datacenters and behind-the-meter flexible datacenters
Systems include one or more critical datacenter connected to behind-the-meter flexible datacenters. The critical datacenter is powered by grid power and not necessarily collocated with the flexboxes, which are powered “behind the meter.” When a computational operation to be performed at the critical datacenter is identified and determined that it can be performed at a lower cost at a flexible datacenter, the computational operation is instead routed to the flexible datacenters for performance. The critical datacenter and flexible datacenters preferably shared a dedicated communication pathway to enable high-bandwidth, low-latency, secure data transmissions. |
| US11611214B2 |
Power isolation systems and devices for micro grids for information and communication technology infrastructure and related methods of providing power to micro grids
A power system includes a power sourcing device, a first splice enclosure including a first power input port, a first power output port, and a first power tap port that is connected to a first remote powered device, and a second splice enclosure including a second power input port, a second power output port, and a second power tap port that is connect to a second remote powered device. The power system includes a composite power-data cable configured to carry power signals transmitted from the power sourcing device to the first splice enclosure and to the second splice enclosure. The power sourcing device is configured to disable the power signals to at least one of the first power input port, the first power output port, or the first power tap port of the first splice enclosure without disabling the power signals at the second splice enclosure. |
| US11611212B2 |
Modular electrical energy storage with fault protection
An apparatus includes a power converter, one or more power source terminal configured to connect to a power source, and one or more load terminal. The apparatus further includes two or more energy storage terminals configured to connect to two or more electrical energy storage devices. Two or more protection circuits, included in the apparatus, one for each of the protection circuits, is electrically connected between the respective energy storage terminal and the power converter. The two or more protection circuits are configured to disconnect the respective terminal from the power converter following a failure of the respective one of the electrical energy storage devices. |
| US11611211B2 |
Multiple trigger electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for integrated circuits with multiple power supply domains
A system having a device for conducting an electrostatic discharge (ESD) current from a designated pin node. The system includes first and second pin nodes, and a switching device having a first switching threshold. The switching device includes a first, terminal coupled to a reference node, and a second terminal, coupled to the first pin node to actuate the switching device to conduct ESD current from the first pin node responsive to a voltage between the first pin node and the reference node exceeding the first switching threshold. The switching device further includes a third terminal, coupled to the second pin node, to actuate the switching device to conduct ESD current from the first pin node responsive to a voltage between the first pin node and the second pin node exceeding a second switching threshold. |
| US11611210B2 |
Tie switch restoration
A control system and method for a group of interconnected feeders which enables fault location, isolation and service restoration without requiring each switch to have topology knowledge of devices in adjacent feeders. The method defines, for each switch, connectivity and X/Y directional information about its neighboring switches and propagates this information throughout each feeder. A leader device is also determined for each feeder. Information about topology of adjacent feeders is not needed by all devices. Only normally-open tie switches which define a boundary between two adjacent feeders have knowledge of the devices in both feeders. Switches which open during fault isolation automatically find open tie switches in a direction opposite the fault, and request service restoration downstream of the fault by providing power from an adjacent feeder. Leader devices ensure an overload condition is not created before initiating opening and closing operations of switches downstream of the fault. |
| US11611208B2 |
Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a main circuit; and a power supply circuit configured to receive external power from an external power supply and supply operating power to the main circuit. The power supply circuit includes: a converter; and a lightning protection circuit that includes: a varistor configured to have a first rated voltage corresponding to a breakdown voltage of a device of the converter; and a surge arrester connected in series to the varistor and configured to have a second rated voltage, and based on the external power being higher than the first rated voltage of the varistor, the varistor is clamped so that a voltage applied to the converter does not exceed the first rated voltage, and based on a voltage applied to the surge arrester being equal to or higher than the second rated voltage, the surge arrester is short-circuited. |
| US11611207B2 |
DC circuit breaker with an alternating commutating circuit
The present disclosure provides a DC mechanical circuit breaker that can utilize two switches, one of which can generate zero-crossing with an alternate oscillatory circuit for the other one, which can be a conventional zero-crossing-based AC breaker and can be used in the main circuit. This is different from the conventional single-switch commute-and-absorb method currently used. The present disclosure shows that disclosed circuit breaker improves the fault current extinction and significantly reduces the voltage rate-of-change while creating the current zero-crossing faster compared to the available technology. Thus, disclosed circuit breaker is capable of interrupting high DC currents with minimal arc through a less expensive AC circuit breaker. Simulation and hardware results are provided to show the efficiency of the disclosed circuit breaker. |
| US11611206B2 |
One-transistor devices for protecting circuits and autocatalytic voltage conversion therefor
Devices having one primary transistor, or a plurality of primary transistors in parallel, protect electrical circuits from overcurrent conditions. Optionally, the devices have only two terminals and require no auxiliary power to operate. In those devices, the voltage drop across the device provides the electrical energy to power the device. A third or fourth terminal can appear in further devices, allowing additional overcurrent and overvoltage monitoring opportunities. Autocatalytic voltage conversion allows certain devices to rapidly limit or block nascent overcurrents. |
| US11611202B2 |
Sealed cable passage
The present invention concerns a transit for leading cables, pipes or wires through a partition in a sealed way. The transit comprises a sleeve (1) and a seal (2) to be received inside a central through opening of the sleeve (1). The seal (2) comprises a base part (7), a front fitting (9) and a rear fitting (10), which front and rear fittings (9, 10) are placed at opposite ends of the base part (7). The base part (7) of the seal (2) is made of a compressible material, whereby the front and rear fittings (9, 10) are arranged to be moved towards each other in order to compress the base part (7) of the seal (2). The sleeve (1) has at least one inner groove (4) at one end of the sleeve (1), which inner grove (4) is designed to receive one or more protruding parts (12) of the front fitting (9). |
| US11611198B2 |
Vehicle-mounted mobile transformer with a position-adjustable lead-out bushing
The present invention belongs to the technical field of mobile transformer substation, and in particular relates to a vehicle-mounted mobile transformer with a position-adjustable lead-out bushing. In view of the shortage that, when the existing conventional transformer is applied to a vehicle-mounted mobile transformer substation, the transportation dimension exceeds the regulated width, height and limit, the present invention adopts the following technical solution: a vehicle-mounted mobile transformer with a position-adjustable lead-out bushing, comprising: a transformer body; and a high-voltage lead-out bushing, the high-voltage lead-out bushing comprising an oil-SF6 gas bushing, an SF6 gas-air bushing and a connecting device, the oil-SF6 gas bushing being mounted on a high-voltage bushing base, the connecting device being mounted on the oil-SF6 gas bushing, the SF6 gas-air bushing being mounted on the connecting device, and the SF6 gas-air bushing being rotatable relative to the connecting device such that the position of the SF6 gas-air bushing is adjustable. The present invention has the beneficial effects that the SF6 gas-air bushing is rotatable, the position is adjustable and thus the transportation requirement of high-voltage (such as 220 kV) equipment is met. |
| US11611196B2 |
Light emitting element
A light emitting element according to the present disclosure includes a first light reflecting layer 41, a laminated structure 20, and a second light reflecting layer 42 laminated to each other. The laminated structure 20 includes a first compound semiconductor layer 21, a light emitting layer 23, and a second compound semiconductor layer 22 laminated to each other from a side of the first light reflecting layer. Light from the laminated structure 20 is emitted to an outside via the first light reflecting layer 41 or the second light reflecting layer 42. The first light reflecting layer 41 has a structure in which at least two types of thin films 41A and 41B are alternately laminated to each other in plural numbers. A film thickness modulating layer 80 is provided between the laminated structure 20 and the first light reflecting layer 41. |
| US11611195B2 |
Fabrication of low-cost long wavelength VCSEL with optical confinement control
Several VCSEL devices for long wavelength applications in wavelength range of 1200-1600 nm are described. These devices include an active region between a semiconductor DBR on a GaAs wafer and a dielectric DBR regrown on the active region. The active region includes multi-quantum layers (MQLs) confined between the active n-InP and p-InAlAs layers and a tunnel junction layer above the MQLs. The semiconductor DBR is fused to the bottom of the active region by a wafer bonding process. The design simplifies integrating the reflectors and the active region stack by having only one wafer bonding followed by regrowth of the other layers including the dielectric DBR. An air gap is fabricated either in an n-InP layer of the active region or in an air gap spacer layer on top of the semiconductor DBR. The air gap enhances optical confinement of the VCSEL. The air gap may also contain a grating. |
| US11611191B2 |
Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component
An optoelectronic component is provided that includes a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip, which emits electromagnetic radiation from a radiation exit surface during operation, a carrier comprising at least two first contact points, and a cover including at least two second contact points, wherein the at least two first contact points and the at least two second contact points are electrically conductively and/or thermally conductively connected to one another by a first plurality of nanowires and a second plurality of nanowires, and the nanowires provide a mechanically stable connection between the carrier and the cover. In addition, a method for producing an optoelectronic component is provided. |
| US11611189B2 |
Systems and methods for addressing pumping of thermal interface materials in high-power laser systems
In various embodiments, laser devices feature means, such as fasteners, for attaching a laser package to a cooling plate, which allow motion of the laser package in response to thermal cycles resulting from operation of a beam emitter therewithin. Embodiments of the invention additionally or instead include laser devices featuring segmented barrier layers for electrically isolating the laser package from the cooling plate. |
| US11611188B2 |
Isolated ring cavity resonator
Described herein are isolated ring cavities that have refractive and heat-generating components physically separated and mechanically held by flexure mounts that are adapted to function in combination with the physically separated structure to moderate the thermal expansion effects of the heat generated by the refractive and other heat-generating elements (e.g., gain element) of the optical cavity. The flexure mounts may be configured as thinned portions of connective elements, reducing the effects of thermal expansion of the baseplate and allowing a thermal isolation from the baseplate. Multiple flexure mounts may be arranged to minimize further the effects of thermal expansion of the baseplate. |
| US11611185B2 |
Tool for treating a seal wiping surface of a sealed connector
A tool configured to apply a lubricant includes an insert disposed within a shroud of an electrical connector. The insert has a central cavity and passages extending from the central cavity to portals defined in an outer surface of the insert and a spray valve disposed within the insert configured to dispense a lubricant mist into the central cavity, through the passages to the portals, and onto a seal wiping surface of the electrical connector. |
| US11611182B2 |
Exchangeable extended life connections for mass interconnects
An interface having a frame with a plurality of slots, a first pass-through insert in the frame and a second pass-through insert in the frame. The first pass-through insert and the second pass-through insert each have a housing and a contact with the type of contact in the first pass-through insert is different than the type of contact in the second pass-through housing. |
| US11611180B2 |
Coaxial cable connector assemblies with contained adhesives and methods for using the same
A coaxial cable connector assembly includes a coupler defining an inner channel extending through the coupler and an outer conductor engagement feature extending inwardly from the inner channel, a rear body, positioned rearward of the coupler, defining a cable channel extending through the rear body, and structurally configured to receive the coaxial cable, and an adhesive reservoir positioned at least partially within the cable channel of the rear body, the adhesive reservoir including an adhesive and an adhesive reservoir breakable material that encapsulates the adhesive, where the adhesive reservoir breakable material is structurally configured to fracture upon the application of force exceeding a predetermined threshold, thereby releasing the adhesive from the adhesive reservoir to adhesively couple the coaxial cable to the rear body. |
| US11611177B2 |
USB type-C male connector
A USB Type-C male connector includes a first terminal assembly including a plurality of first pins and a second terminal assembly including a plurality of second pins. The first pins of the first terminal assembly having an SMD structure are electrically connected to a substrate in the SMT process. The second pins of the second terminal assembly having a DIP structure are electrically connected to the substrate in the SMT process. More pins of the second terminal assembly are used for transmitting data signals, control signals and power signals, thereby improving the signal quality of the USB drive. |
| US11611176B2 |
Structure for preventing connector from being detached from electronic components in vehicles
A structure for preventing a connector from being detached from an electronic component of a vehicle is provided. The structure includes a fixing clip member fixing the connector to a connector inserting groove. The fixing clip member includes a first stopper acting as a hanging jaw so that the fixing clip member is not detached from the connector inserting groove in a state which is mounted in a mounting groove formed in the connector inserting groove, in a process of inserting the fixing clip member to be inserted into the connector inserting groove and a second stopper mounted in a stopper hanging groove formed in a front end portion of the connector to act as a hanging jaw fixing the connector so that the connector is not detached from the connector inserting groove, in a process of inserting the connector into the connector inserting groove. |
| US11611175B2 |
Plug-in connector with a locking mechanism
A connecting plug includes a locking pin arranged at a connector face. The locking pin has at least one latching element and a counter-piece. The latching element is configured for engaging with at least one counter-latching element of a second connector part. The locking pin includes a spring element configured for resiliently pressing the at least one latching element and the counter-piece against each other. The counter-piece is shaped and configured for pressing the at least one latching element in a radially outward direction and for positively locking the at least one latching element in an engaged position as soon as the at least one latching element is engaged with the at least one counter-latching element. |
| US11611174B2 |
Round plug having locking system
On a round plug, outwardly directed detent hooks are arranged between a plug-in region and a contact carrier portion of an insulating body or a base portion of the round plug housing. A mating connector has, on a plug-in side of a threaded portion, an inwardly directed circumferential or interrupted detent lug. The detent arms do not need to reach through the threaded portion. The detent arms can therefore be made particularly strong, and the inner thread can be continuous. The retaining forces of the locking/screwing are thus very high, and the detent arms for example can be integrally molded on a plastic insulation body, and thus be formed in one piece therewith, for simplified production. Operation and manufacture are significantly simplified. |
| US11611173B2 |
Mounting seat for electronic device and electronic apparatus
The present disclosure discloses a mounting seat for an electronic device and an electronic apparatus. The mounting seat mounting seat for an electronic device, comprising a seat body and at least one wire limiting structure, a mounting region for mounting a wire weld portion of the electronic device is on the seat body, the wire limiting structure is on the seat body near the mounting region, and a limiting passage is on the mounting seat, wherein the limiting passage is at one of the following positions: a position between the wire limiting structure and the seat body; and a position on the wire limiting structure. |
| US11611172B2 |
Busbar design that terminates with sealed connector
A novel busbar, suitable for low-power applications, features a u-shaped extension having a male terminal that fits into and establishes electrical connection with a standard female terminal. The housing of an electrical box including the busbar is modified to receive the female terminal in such a way that Ingress Protection ratings of IP67 and IP69K are maintained within the electrical box. The busbar is not riveted to a thicker busbar terminating with a stud and lug nut, as in legacy configurations, thus being simpler and cheaper to manufacture. The female terminal, once connected to the busbar, is removable by inserting a tool into a dedicated opening within the housing. |
| US11611170B2 |
Semiconductor devices having exposed clip top sides and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices
In one example, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having substrate terminals and providing a component having a first component terminal and a second component terminal adjacent to a first major side of the component. The method includes providing a clip structure having a first clip, a second clip, and a clip connector coupling the first clip to the second clip. The method includes coupling the first clip to the first component terminal and a first substrate terminal and coupling the second clip to a second substrate terminal. The method includes encapsulating the component, portions of the substrate, and portions of the clip structure. the method includes removing a sacrificial portion of the clip connector while leaving a first portion of the clip connector attached to the first clip and leaving a second portion of the clip connector attached to the second clip. In some examples, the first portion of the clip connector includes a first portion surface, the second portion of the clip connector includes a second portion surface, and the first portion surface and the second portion surface are exposed from a top side of the encapsulant after the removing. Other examples and related structures are also disclosed herein. |
| US11611168B2 |
Cable connector with contact holder latching to the outer shell
A cable connector includes an outer shell having a bore extending between a mating end and a cable end. The outer shell has latch pockets. The cable connector includes a shield received in the outer shell that divides the bore into chambers. The cable connector includes contact holders received in corresponding chambers. Each contact holder includes at least one contact channel and a deflectable latch having a latching head at a distal end of the latch configured to be received in the corresponding latch pocket of the outer shell to axially secure the contact holder in the outer shell. The latch has an interference bump at an inner end of the latch configured to engage the shield to press the latching head of the latch outward. The cable connector includes contacts received in corresponding contact channels of the corresponding contact holders. |
| US11611165B2 |
Connector
It is aimed to reduce a load to fixing portions of a flat cable and terminal fittings. A connector (A) includes a flat cable formed such that a plurality of conductors are arranged in parallel on a flexible insulating sheet, a plurality of terminal fittings held in a housing and individually fixed to front end parts of the plurality of conductors, and a reinforcing plate laminated on and integrated with a region of the insulating sheet including fixing portions of the conductors and the terminal fittings. The reinforcing plate is provided with hooking portions. The housing is formed with stoppers for restricting a rearward displacement of the flat cable with respect to the housing by being brought into contact with the hooking portions. A low-rigidity portion is formed in a region of the reinforcing plate rearward of the fixing portions and forward of the hooking portions. |
| US11611161B2 |
Tool for soldering an electrical conductor with a connection device
A tool for soldering an electrical conductor with a connection device includes a deformation unit plastically deforming the connection device around the electrical conductor. The deformation unit has a fixed deformation module and a movable deformation module that is movable with respect to the fixed deformation module. The fixed deformation module has an anvil with an electrical contact area on which the electrical conductor and the connection device are disposed. An electric current circulates through the electrical conductor and the connection device by passing through an electrically conductive first part of the anvil that is electrically insulated from a rest of the anvil. |
| US11611159B2 |
Method of manufacturing terminal-equipped electrical wire and terminal-equipped electrical wire
A method of manufacturing a terminal-equipped electrical wire includes: inserting a core-wire exposed part of a core wire of an electrical wire at a terminal between inner wall surfaces of a pair of piece parts of a terminal fitting including a core-wire connection body formed of a bottom part and the piece parts protruding from both ends of the bottom part, and placing the core-wire exposed part on an inner wall surface of the bottom part; melting the core-wire exposed part and the core-wire connection body by emitting a laser beam to the core-wire exposed part and the core-wire connection body from a free end side of each piece part; and fixing the core-wire exposed part and the core-wire connection body melted by the laser beam, with the emission of the laser beam stopped. |
| US11611158B2 |
Connectors for flexible busbar and methods of connecting
A connector for a flexible busbar is provided. The connector includes a jaw and a relief. The jaw has a first member and a second member both depending from a support member and spaced from one another by a distance. The distance is larger than a thickness of the flexible busbar. The relief is defined on first member and/or second member. The jaw is deformably compressible onto the flexible busbar upon application of a deformation force on the first and second members so that the flexible busbar conforms to the at least one relief to form an electrical and mechanical connection. |
| US11611156B1 |
Dual shifter devices and systems for polarization rotation to mitigate interference
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a double trombone shifter device, signals relating to one or more crossed-dipole radiating elements of an antenna system, performing, by the double trombone shifter device, polarization rotation of the signals to derive output signals having polarizations that are rotated in a manner that results in a virtual physical rotation of the one or more crossed-dipole radiating elements, and providing, by the double trombone shifter device, the output signals to enable avoidance of interference. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11611152B2 |
Metamaterial antenna array with isolated antennas
An antenna array that utilizes ground guard rings and metamaterial structures is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the antenna array is constructed from a plurality of antenna unit cells, wherein each antenna unit cell is identical. The antenna unit cell comprises a top surface, that contains a patch antenna and a ground guard ring. A reactive impedance surface (RIS) layer is disposed beneath the top surface and contains the metamaterial structures. The metamaterial structures are configured to present an inductance to the patch antennas, thereby allowing the patch antennas to be smaller than would otherwise be possible. In some embodiments, the metamaterial structures comprise hollow square frames. An antenna array constructed using this antenna unit cell has less coupling than conventional antenna arrays, which results in better performance. Furthermore, this new antenna array also requires less space than conventional antenna arrays. |
| US11611150B2 |
Anisotropic lenses for remote parameter adjustment
One or more anisotropic lenses, where the permittivity and/or permeability is directional, are used to vary one or more of beamwidth, beam direction, polarization, and other parameters for one or more antennas. Contemplated anisotropic lenses can include conductive or dielectric fibers or other particles. Lenses can be spherical, cylindrical or have other shapes depending on application, and can be rotated and/or positioned. Important applications include land and satellite communication, base station antennas. |
| US11611149B2 |
Leaky-wave antenna
A leaky-wave antenna includes a substrate extending along an axis, and a dielectric waveguide extending along the axis and arranged in the substrate. The dielectric waveguide includes at least a top side, a bottom side, and opposite sides arranged between the top and bottom sides. A distance defined between the opposite sides varies along the axis for at least part of a length of the dielectric waveguide. |
| US11611147B2 |
Antenna module, communication device equipped with the same, and manufacturing method of antenna module
An antenna module includes a dielectric substrate and a radiation element disposed on the dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate includes a flat portion (131) and a flat portion (130) having mutually different normal directions, and a bent portion connecting the flat portion (131) and the flat portion (130) to each other. The flat portion (131) has a protruding portion partially protruding in a direction toward the flat portion (130) along the flat portion (131) from a boundary portion between the bent portion and the flat portion (131). The flat portion (131) and the bent portion are connected to each other at a position where the protruding portion is not provided in the flat portion (131). At least a part of the radiation element is disposed on the protruding portion. |
| US11611146B2 |
Antenna array radiation shielding
An antenna array may include shielding elements that provide a degree of radiation shielding to other components of the antenna array, such as a substrate of the antenna array. In some examples, the shielding elements may be positioned to overlap with one or more gaps between antenna elements, or one or more gaps between ground elements (e.g., when viewed from a radiation source, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a substrate). Thus, shielding elements of an antenna array may reflect, absorb, or otherwise dissipate radiation that passes through such gaps before the radiation is incident on the other components of the antenna array, such as the substrate of the antenna array. |
| US11611145B2 |
Ground plane for asymmetric antenna
An antenna structure includes an asymmetric antenna, an antenna feed and a ground plane connected to the asymmetric antenna via the antenna feed. The ground plane includes radials which radiate from the antenna feed. Each of the radials includes: a first conductive element having a first end and a second end, the first end being conductively connected to the antenna feed, a second conductive element conductively unconnected to the first conductive element and to the antenna feed, and a resistor connecting the second end of the first conductive element to the second conductive element. |
| US11611142B2 |
Electronic device including an antenna structure
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing structure that includes a ceramic portion including a ceramic material, and a polymer portion formed on an inner surface of the ceramic portion and including a polymer material, and an antenna structure that is disposed within the housing structure and radiates a radio frequency (RF) signal to an outside of the housing structure. The housing structure includes a first portion including at least a portion of a region through which the RF signal passes, and a second portion formed around the first portion. In the first portion, a ratio of a thickness of the polymer portion to an entire thickness of the first portion is a first ratio. In the second portion, a ratio of a thickness of the polymer portion to an entire thickness of the second portion is a second ratio. |
| US11611141B2 |
Housing, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device having the housing
Disclosed is a portable electronic device including a front cover that forms a front face of the electronic device, a rear cover that forms a rear face of the electronic device, a bezel that surrounds a space formed by the front cover and the rear cover, a display device that is embedded in the space and includes a screen region that is exposed through the front cover, a metal structure that is positioned within the space and includes a first face facing the front cover and a second face facing the rear cover, a non-metal structure that is positioned within the space to partially overlap with the metal structure and includes a first surface facing the front cover and a second surface facing the rear cover, and a metal filler extending from the first surface to the second surface of the non-metal structure through a portion of the non-metal structure. |
| US11611135B2 |
Waveguide section comprising waveguide tubes with plug-in filter devices
The present disclosure relates to a waveguide section having at least one air-filled waveguide conducting tube having an electrically conducting inner wall. Each waveguide conducting tube comprises has a plug-in filter device with two or more electrically conducting elements arranged in series and spaced apart by a connecting arrangement. Each plug-in filter device is adapted to be retained in the corresponding waveguide conducting tube using a dielectric holding arrangement such that the electrically conducting elements are spaced apart from the waveguide conducting tube. The electrically conducting elements are arranged to be electromagnetically coupled such that passing a radio frequency is electromagnetically filtered. |
| US11611128B2 |
Battery and related apparatus, production method and production device therefor
The present application discloses a battery and a related apparatus, production method and production device therefor. The battery includes: a battery cell, the battery cell including a pressure relief mechanism configured to be capable of being actuated when an internal pressure or temperature of the battery cell reaches a threshold, to relieve the internal pressure; an attachment component adapted to be attached to the battery cell by an adhesive; and an isolation component configured to be capable of preventing the adhesive from being applied between the attachment component and the pressure relief mechanism. By providing the isolation component, it is possible to prevent the adhesive from being applied between the attachment component and the pressure relief mechanism in an effective manner in a process of battery production. Meanwhile, application efficiency and accuracy of the adhesive could be improved, thereby improving production efficiency of the battery. |
| US11611125B2 |
Battery module housing having easily reusable, recyclable, and reworkable adhesion structure and battery module comprising same
A battery module housing includes a top plate and a bottom plate forming an upper wall and a lower wall, respectively, and a first side plate and a second side plate forming side walls, respectively, the battery module housing having a rectangular tube shape provided to accommodate battery cells in an inner space thereof, wherein the battery module housing has four bonding portions each including an adhesive along a longitudinal direction, the bonding portions located at two sites between opposing side edges of the top plate and top surfaces of the first side plate and second side plate, respectively, and at two sites between opposing side edges of the bottom plate and bottom surfaces of the first side plate and second side plate, respectively. |
| US11611123B2 |
Battery enclosure for sterilizeable surgical tools having thermal insulation
A battery pack assembly or enclosure comprises one or more batteries having an electrochemical cell and an enclosure having at least an outer wall configured to create a sealed volume of space substantially around the batteries. An atmosphere of the volume of space comprises gas having a thermal conductivity less than 0.018 watts per meter per degree Celsius. This atmosphere of gas provides an insulative layer between the outer wall of the enclosure and the batteries. With this insulative layer, the battery pack assembly can be subjected to autoclaving without damaging the batteries. The battery pack assembly can be used to power surgical tools or other devices that are subjected to autoclaving. |
| US11611119B2 |
Battery module, battery device, and battery system having thermal management design
The present invention utilizes a three-stage thermal management design of battery module, battery device, and battery system that not only prevents the battery cells from being impacted by the environment temperature, but also efficiently controls the temperature of the battery cells, such that the battery cells can reach the requirements of temperature equalization and appropriate opening temperature. The thermal management design of the battery module is mainly a design of a battery cell charging and discharging circuit having heat exchange. |
| US11611116B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes a case and a battery module. The case includes an accommodating cavity and a drain hole in communication with the accommodating cavity. The battery module is mounted inside the accommodating cavity. A reservoir cavity is provided below the battery module to store a liquid, and in communication with the drain hole. A reservoir cavity is provided, such that the liquid can flow into a reservoir portion to prevent dangers such as short-circuit occurring in the battery module inside the case, and optimize the structure and performance of the battery pack when liquid is accumulated inside the case. |
| US11611114B2 |
System and method for detecting battery cell swelling
A system and method for detecting swelling of a battery cell using a temperature sensor pre-mounted on a battery module without a separate additional device. |
| US11611113B2 |
Simultaneous inspection device of multiple secondary battery cell pouches
A simultaneous inspection device of multiple secondary battery cell pouches is provided. The simultaneous inspection device includes a support member installed for support; a movable member installed to face the support member; multiple pressure panels which are installed side by side between the support member and the movable member, and combined so that the gap between them can be adjusted by the back and forth movement of the movable member wherein the secondary battery cell pouches are inserted into each gap; a guide member for guiding the pressing panels to move in the direction necessary for adjusting the gaps; and a pressure driving unit for moving the movable member back and forth to pressurize and pressure-release the secondary battery cell pouch between the pressurizing panels on both sides. |
| US11611109B2 |
All-solid-state secondary battery including anode active material alloyable with lithium and method of charging the same
An all-solid-state secondary battery including: a cathode including a cathode active material layer; an anode including an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer on the anode current collector, wherein the anode active material layer includes an anode active material which is alloyable with lithium or forms a compound with lithium; and a solid electrolyte layer between the cathode and the anode, wherein a ratio of an initial charge capacity (b) of the anode active material layer to an initial charge capacity (a) of the cathode active material layer satisfies a condition of Equation 1: 0.01<(b/a)<0.5, wherein a is the initial charge capacity of the cathode active material layer determined from a first open circuit voltage to a maximum charging voltage, and b is the initial charge capacity of the anode active material layer determined from a second open circuit voltage to 0.01 volts vs. Li/Li+. |
| US11611104B2 |
Solid electrolyte high energy battery
The present invention is directed to a battery including a solid ionically conductive polymer electrolyte having a first surface and a second surface; a first electrode disposed on the first surface of the solid ionically conductive polymer electrolyte; a second electrode disposed on the second surface of the solid ionically conductive polymer electrolyte; and at least a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal, each terminal being in electrical contact with respectively the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode. The invention is also directed to a material including a polymer; a dopant; and at least one compound including an ion source; wherein a liberation of a plurality of ions from the ion source provides a conduction mechanism to form an ionically conductive polymer material. The present invention is further directed to methods for making such batteries and materials. |
| US11611098B2 |
Cell for flow battery
A reaction cell for a flow battery having flow channels positioned within a recess of a non-porous and non-brittle housing that is also a dielectric. Positioning the flow channels within the recess eliminates the need for end plates, gaskets, and insulators of conventional designs. A current collector and an electrode within the recess have areas approximately equal to the area of the recess such that they fit within the recess and maximize the contact area between them. |
| US11611095B2 |
Fuel cell system
A battery and a load device are connected to a fuel cell stack. Electric power is supplied from the battery to fuel cell auxiliary equipment. A controller of a fuel cell system has stored therein a desired output of the fuel cell stack. The controller predicts auxiliary equipment power consumption, which is the amount of electric power that is consumed by the fuel cell auxiliary equipment for operation of the fuel cell stack, and determines estimated input and output power of the battery. The controller determines a requested output, which is an output requested for the fuel cell stack, based on the predicted auxiliary equipment power consumption and the estimated input and output power. The controller determines an operating point of the fuel cell stack based on the desired output. The load device controls its operation so that the difference between the requested output and the desired output becomes zero. |
| US11611094B2 |
Fuel cell system and method of controlling fuel cell system
A fuel cell system is equipped with a control unit that controls a rotational speed of the turbo compressor that supplies air to an air supply flow passage and an opening degree of at least one valve that adjusts a flow rate and a pressure of the air supplied to a fuel cell such that an operating point of the turbo compressor becomes a target operating point. The control unit sets the target operating point within an operating point range that is on the higher flow rate side than at least part of a first region where an amount of change in flow rate is larger than a predetermined value when a pressure ratio of the turbo compressor is changed by a predetermined amount at a same rotational speed, on a higher flow rate side than a surging region, when a predetermined condition is fulfilled. |
| US11611093B2 |
Fuel cell system
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first temperature sensor configured to acquire a first temperature that is a temperature of the fuel cell, a plurality of accessories that is used to operate the fuel cell, a second temperature sensor configured to acquire a second temperature that is a temperature of at least any one of the plurality of accessories, and a controller configured to perform control on the plurality of accessories to execute a warming-up operation of the fuel cell. The controller is configured to execute the warming-up operation when any of a first condition that the first temperature is lower than a predetermined first threshold temperature and a second condition that the first temperature is equal to or higher than the first threshold temperature and the second temperature is lower than a predetermined second threshold temperature is satisfied. |