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| US11637840B2 |
Method and system for forensic data tracking
The present invention relates to a method and system for tracking the movement of data elements as they are shared and moved between authorized and unauthorized devices and among authorized and unauthorized users. |
| US11637839B2 |
Automated and adaptive validation of a user interface
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an automated and adaptive validation of a user interface. A computing platform may extract, from a webpage, one or more components of the webpage. Subsequently, the computing platform may determine, for a component, one or more attributes and one or more rules. Then, the computing platform may associate, by applying a clustering algorithm and based on the one or more attributes and the one or more rules, the component with a cluster of a plurality of clusters. Then, the computing platform may retrieve, from a database and for the cluster, a master test script. Subsequently, the computing platform may generate, from the master script, a test script for execution, and may run, for the webpage, the test script to validate the component. Subsequently, the computing platform may trigger one or more recommendations based on a determination whether the test script is successful. |
| US11637838B2 |
System for intrusion detection using resource activity analysis
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for intrusion detection using resource activity analysis. The present invention is configured to receive, from a computing device of a user, an indication that the user has accessed a resource allocation portfolio of a customer; determine a geographic information of the user; retrieve a geographic information of the customer; determine that the geographic information of the user does not match the geographic information of the customer; determine an exposure level associated with the user access of the resource allocation portfolio of the customer; determine that the exposure level is greater than a predetermined threshold; and automatically trigger a transmission of a notification to a computing device of an administrator indicating that the exposure level associated with the user access of the resource allocation portfolio of the customer is greater than the predetermined threshold. |
| US11637834B2 |
Dynamic passcodes in association with a wireless access point
A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device. |
| US11637833B2 |
Unified workspace for thin, remote, and SAAS applications
Application-manager software authenticates a user of a client device over a channel. The authentication operation is performed using a directory service. The application-manager software presents a plurality of applications in a GUI displayed by the client device. The plurality of applications depends on the authentication, the client device, and the channel. And the plurality of applications includes a thin application and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The application-manager software receives a selection as to an application from the user. If the selection is for the SaaS application, the application-manager software provisions the SaaS application. The provision includes automatically logging the user onto an account with a provider of the SaaS application using a single sign-on and connecting the user to the account so that the user can interact with the SaaS application. If the selection is for the thin application, the application manager software launches the thin application. |
| US11637832B2 |
Vehicle, server, and method for controlling the same
A server assigns a vehicle to be provided with a vehicle sharing service to a user based on the received at least one piece of schedule information and position information of a plurality of the vehicles when at least one of schedule information of the user and use information of a vehicle sharing service is received by a terminal for the user. The server operates a communication device to transmit identification information of the assigned vehicle to the terminal for the user, and operates the communication device to transmit user information to the assigned vehicle. |
| US11637830B2 |
Authentication, authorization and accounting in managed cloud computing services
In an embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving, at a first computing device associated with a managing entity, a request to perform an operation of a managed service; publishing to a first block of a distributed ledger system, by the first computing device associated with the managing entity, identification information of the managing entity; identifying, by a second computing device associated with the managed service, the identification information published to the first block of the distributed ledger system; publishing to a second block of the distributed ledger system, by the second computing device associated with the managed service, acknowledgement information comprising an indication that the identification information of the managing entity published to the first block was received and verified; publishing to a third block of the distributed ledger system, by the second computing device associated with the managed service, management request information comprising an operation request for the managing entity; identifying, by the first computing device associated with the managing entity, the management request information published to the third block of the distributed ledger system; publishing to a fourth block of the distributed ledger system, by the first computing device associated with the managing entity, management request acknowledgment information comprising an indication that the management request information of the third block was received; and in response to a performance of an operation included in the management request information published to the third block, publishing to a fifth block of the distributed ledger system, by the first computing device associated with the managing entity, management operation record information including a history of operations performed by the managing entity. |
| US11637829B2 |
Systems, methods, and media for authenticating multiple devices
Systems, methods, and media for authentication are provided. In accordance with some implementations, the system comprises: a hardware processor that is programmed to: receive, from a device, a message relating to an authentication status of a user account associated with the device; transmit an authentication request to the device that is transmitted to an authentication server; receive, from the device, a response to the authentication request that includes authentication data relating to a session corresponding to the user account on the authentication server; cause an interface to be presented that requests authorization to authenticate the device with the authentication server using the user account; and transmit the authentication data to the device that causes the device to retrieve a corresponding authentication token from the authentication server, wherein the corresponding authentication token authenticates the user account on the device. |
| US11637822B2 |
Onboarding for cloud-based management
In some examples, a cloud-based management system receives information identifying electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management by the cloud-based management system, receives, from a first electronic device, a request to establish a secure connection between the cloud-based management system and the first electronic device, and receives, from the first electronic device, a certificate. The cloud-based management system confirms, based on information in the certificate and the information identifying the electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management, that the cloud-based management system is to perform the cloud-based management of the first electronic device over the secure connection. |
| US11637821B2 |
System and method for certificate based authentication for tethering
A method includes enabling, by a tethering device that is tethered to a tethered device, a firewall to redirect network traffic from the tethered device to an authentication application executing on the tethering device. The method also includes receiving, by the tethering device from the tethered device, a user certificate of the tethered device during an authentication process. The method further includes verifying, by the tethering device, the user certificate of the tethered device using a certificate authority (CA) certificate of the tethered device that is installed on the tethering device. In addition, the method includes, in response to successful verification of the user certificate of the tethered device, disabling the firewall to allow the network traffic to and from the tethered device. |
| US11637820B2 |
Customizable sign-on service
Techniques are described for providing customizable sign-on functionality, such as via an access manager system that provides single sign-on functionality and other functionality to other services for use with those services' users. The access manager system may maintain various sign-on and other account information for various users, and provide single sign-on functionality for those users using that maintained information on behalf of multiple unrelated services with which those users interact. The access manager may allow a variety of types of customizations to single sign-on functionality and/or other functionality available from the access manager, such as on a per-service basis via configuration by an operator of the service, such as co-branding customizations, customizations of information to be gathered from users, customizations of authority that may be delegated to other services to act on behalf of users, etc., and with the customizations that are available being determined specifically for that service. |
| US11637819B2 |
Establishing connectivity between user devices
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system is provided for establishing connectivity between user devices. The computer-implemented method includes: broadcasting a message to running processes on an operating system of the first user device to indicate that a requesting application is looking for a live connection channel to attempt discovery with a second user device to ascertain virtual proximity of the first user device with the second user device. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving a response from a live connection channel and attempting to verify pairing via the live connection channel to confirm a virtual proximity of the second user device with the first user device. The pairing provides information for establishing a subsequent connection between the first and second user devices via the requesting application. |
| US11637813B2 |
Container deployment for a network
A device can determine that a container is deployed in a front-end of a private network. The container can include a self-contained execution environment. The container can include an interface that is configured for directing network traffic between the front-end of the private network and one or more applications operating in a back-end of the private network. The device can configure an interface of the container for directing network traffic between an external network and the container. The device can configure a firewall of the front-end of the private network to permit routing of network traffic between the external network and the container. The device can advertise a route for directing network traffic between the external network and the container. The device can perform routing of network traffic between the one or more applications operating in the back-end of the private network and the external network using the container. |
| US11637811B2 |
Automated firewall feedback from network traffic analysis
Security rule feedback systems and methods include capturing network traffic data, the network traffic data including a plurality of traffic records. The traffic records are grouped into first and second traffic records having corresponding first and second source address identifiers, first and second source port identifiers, first and second destination address identifiers, and first and second destination port identifiers. Network interfaces associated with the first and second records are identified based on source address identifiers. Security rule populations are associated to the network interfaces. A determination is made as to a direction of network traffic based on the security rule populations. Thereby, dispensable security rules may be identified. |
| US11637810B2 |
Link-layer authentication for legacy network nodes using a remote network access server
A method for link layer authentication includes receiving, at an edge network access node, a link layer authentication packet from a client, seeking network access, using a remote NAS agent running on the edge network access node. The method transmits, using a tunneling connection, the link layer authentication packet to a remote NAS in a link layer authentication process. The link layer authentication process exchanges the link layer authentication packet with an authentication server to authenticate the client. The method includes receiving a link layer authentication packet from the remote NAS over the tunneling connection. The received link layer authentication packet includes a response from the authentication server regarding the transmitted link layer authentication packet. The method includes transmitting the received link layer authentication packet to the client and, in response to link layer authentication packets resulting authorization, authorizing the client for network access through the edge network access node. |
| US11637803B2 |
Switch device and communication control method
A switch device for relaying flow data in an in-vehicle network, being equipped with an acquiring section for acquiring correspondence information indicating at least a correspondence relationship among a transmission destination IP address, a transmission source IP address, transmission destination port information, transmission source port information and a transmission destination MAC address and a relay section for acquiring the transmission destination MAC address from the correspondence information on the basis of the transmission destination IP address, the transmission source IP address, the transmission destination port information and the transmission source port information included in a frame that is received by the switch device and constitutes the flow data and for performing transmission processing to transmit the frame including the acquired transmission destination MAC address. |
| US11637797B2 |
Automated image processing and content curation
Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system receives a content message from a first content source, and analyzes the content message to determine one or more quality scores and one or more content values associated with the content message. The server computer system analyzes the content message with a plurality of content collections of the database to identify a match between at least one of the one or more content values and a topic associated with at least a first content collection of the one or more content collections and automatically adds the content message to the first content collection based at least in part on the match. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate content collections. |
| US11637793B2 |
Communication system facilitating delivery of a predefined message to end user devices on initial communications with an entity
Techniques for generating pre-defined outbound messages in response to a first inbound message or a first outbound message in a configured interval of time, including prioritization over configured autoreply messages. Source- or destination-messages conforming to business rules are sent to accompany outbound messages in particular orders and under particular circumstances. |
| US11637789B2 |
Orchestrating apparatus, VNFM apparatus, managing method and program
An orchestrating apparatus, comprising: a receiving part that receives virtual resource information attached to a VNF (Virtualized Network Function) from a VNFM (Virtualized Network Function Manager) that generated the VNF; a storage part that stores the virtual resource information in correspondence with the VNF; and a synchronizing part that transmits the virtual resource information corresponding to a designated VNF to a VNFM that has lost correspondence between the VNF and the virtual resource information, and causes the VNFM to restore the virtual resource information assigned to the VNF. |
| US11637787B2 |
Preventing duplication of packets in a network
In one example, a collection network node comprising a plurality of ingress ports obtains, at a first one of the plurality of ingress ports, a first copy of a packet of a packet flow comprising a plurality of packets. The collection network node determines whether the collection network node had previously obtained a copy of any of the plurality of packets of the packet flow. When it is determined that the collection network node had previously obtained a copy, the collection network node determines whether the collection network node had previously obtained a copy at the first one of the plurality of ingress ports or at a different one of the plurality of ingress ports. When it is determined that the collection network node had previously obtained a copy at a different one of the plurality of ingress ports, the collection network node refrains from forwarding the first copy. |
| US11637786B1 |
Multi-destination traffic handling optimizations in a network device
When a measure of buffer space queued for garbage collection in a network device grows beyond a certain threshold, one or more actions are taken to decreasing an enqueue rate of certain classes of traffic, such as of multicast traffic, whose reception may have caused and/or be likely to exacerbate garbage-collection-related performance issues. When the amount of buffer space queued for garbage collection shrinks to an acceptable level, these one or more actions may be reversed. In an embodiment, to more optimally handle multi-destination traffic, queue admission control logic for high-priority multi-destination data units, such as mirrored traffic, may be performed for each destination of the data units prior to linking the data units to a replication queue. If a high-priority multi-destination data unit is admitted to any queue, the high-priority multi-destination data unit can no longer be dropped, and is linked to a replication queue for replication. |
| US11637783B2 |
Providing communication services using sets of I/O user devices
A user terminal emulation server maintains a database identifying network addresses, UI capabilities, and communication protocols of I/O user devices. Communication sessions are established between a user terminal emulation application and a network entity and I/O user devices proximately located to a user and provide a combined I/O user interface. Delay profiles are determined between the application and the I/O user devices. A downlink flow from the network entity is split into a plurality of downlink flow components assigned to the I/O user devices. For each of the downlink flow components, the server formats the component for transmission to the assigned I/O user device, initiates transmission of the formatted downlink flow component to the assigned I/O user device, and controls timing for when the formatted downlink flow component is transmitted to the assigned I/O user device based on the delay profile associated with the assigned I/O user device. |
| US11637781B1 |
Method, apparatus and system for managing traffic data of client application
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for managing traffic data of a client application is provided. The method described herein comprises: detecting a transmission of user data of a target user from the client application to a server; analyzing the traffic data of the transmission at different layers of the transmission based on types of the traffic data; and in accordance with a determination that the analysis indicates that the traffic data satisfies a data exchange constraint corresponding to the target user, transmitting the traffic data to a server in compliance with the data exchange constraint. In this way, by analyzing the traffic data at different layers of the transmission and restricting traffic data that does not satisfy the data exchange constraint, it is possible to effectively prevent user data from being transmitted to unauthorized servers via various types of traffic data. |
| US11637779B2 |
Application classification distribution to network devices
Some examples relate to distributing application classification entries to network devices. An example includes receiving, by a processing resource in a cloud computing system, an application classification entry for an application from respective network devices on a network. The application classification entry may comprise a given application identifier for identifying the application and control information for routing a network packet originating from the application. For the given application identifier, the processing resource may generate a consolidated set of application classification entries, based on the application classification entry received from respective network devices. The processing resource may then determine appropriate network devices to distribute the consolidated set of application classification entries. |
| US11637778B2 |
Filter with engineered damping for load-balanced fine-grained adaptive routing in high-performance system interconnect
A switch is provided for routing packets in an interconnection network. The switch includes a plurality of egress ports to transmit packets. The switch also includes one or more ingress ports to receive packets. The switch also includes a port and bandwidth capacity circuit configured to obtain (i) port capacity for a plurality of egress ports of the switch, and (ii) bandwidth capacity for transmitting packets to a destination. The switch also includes a network capacity circuit configured to compute network capacity, for transmitting packets to the destination, via the plurality of egress ports, based on a function of the port capacity and the bandwidth capacity. The switch also includes a routing circuit configured to route one or more packets received via one or more ingress ports of the switch, to the destination, via the plurality of egress ports, based on the network capacity. |
| US11637776B2 |
Network device and packet replication method
A network device and a packet replication method are provided. The network device includes a classification engine, a forwarding engine, and a packet replication device. The packet replication device includes an interface circuit, a replication control circuit, and a storage unit. The interface circuit retrieves a packet of a flow from the forwarding engine and correspondingly outputs a replicated packet to the replication control circuit. The replication control circuit calculates a current rate corresponding to the replicated packet, checks a flow table for a cumulative number of replicated packets of the flow, and determines, according to the current rate and the cumulative number of replicated packets, to forward the replicated packet. The storage unit stores the flow table. The replication control circuit transmits the replicated packet to at least one application engine through at least one communication port for security inspection. |
| US11637774B2 |
Service routing packet processing method and apparatus, and network system
A service routing packet processing method, apparatus and system. The method includes obtaining, by a first service router (SR), a first service routing packet, where the first service routing packet includes path identification information and identification information of a service node (SN), and sending, by the first SR, the first service routing packet to the SN. |
| US11637772B2 |
Machine generated content naming in an information centric network
Systems and techniques for machine generation of content names in an information centric network (ICN) are described herein. For example, a node may obtain content. An inference engine may be invoked to produce a name for the content. Once the content is named, the node may respond to an interest packet that includes the name of the content. The response is a data packet that includes the content. |
| US11637769B2 |
Automatic application-based multipath routing for an SD-WAN service
Example network devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. In an example, a network device includes memory configured to store information associated with one or more service level agreements (SLAs) for applications in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and an application-based multipath routing (AMR) module including processing circuitry. The AMR module is configured to identify, based on criteria, one or more of the applications for AMR, wherein each criterion of the criteria is associated with a corresponding property of an application. The AMR module is configured to determine a breach of one of the SLAs on each WAN link associated with a first application of the identified one or more applications. The AMR module is configured to apply, in response to determining the breach, AMR for the first application. |
| US11637768B2 |
On demand routing mesh for routing packets through SD-WAN edge forwarding nodes in an SD-WAN
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of facilitating routing through a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) defined for an entity. A first edge forwarding node located at a first multi-machine site of the entity, the first multi-machine site at a first physical location and including a first set of machines, serves as an edge forwarding node for the first set of machines by forwarding packets between the first set of machines and other machines associated with the entity via other forwarding nodes in the SD-WAN. The first edge forwarding node receives configuration data specifying for the first edge forwarding node to serve as a hub forwarding node for forwarding a set of packets from a second set of machines associated with the entity and operating at a second multi-machine site at a second physical location to a third set of machines associated with the entity and operating at a third multi-machine site at a third physical location. The first edge forwarding node serves as a hub forwarding node to forward the set of packets from the second set of machines to the third set of machines. |
| US11637762B2 |
MDL-based clustering for dependency mapping
Systems and methods are provided for automatically discovering applications/clusters in a network and mapping dependencies between the applications/clusters. A network monitoring system can capture network flow data using sensors executing on physical and/or virtual servers of the network and sensors executing on networking devices connected to the servers. The system can determine a graph including nodes, representing at least the servers, and edges, between pairs of the nodes of the graph indicating the network flow data includes one or more observed flows between pairs of the servers represented by the pairs of the nodes. The system can determine a dependency map, including representations of clusters of the servers and representations of dependencies between the clusters, based on the graph. The system can display a first representation of a first cluster of the dependency map and information indicating a confidence level of identifying the first cluster. |
| US11637754B2 |
Roadside infrastructure deployment
A set of first candidate topologies of first candidate roadside infrastructure nodes at respective mounting locations in a geographic area is randomly generated. For each of the first candidate topologies, first simulations, including detection of objects according to selected sensor parameters, installation parameters, and environment parameters for the candidate nodes at the respective mounting locations, are executed. First fitness scores are determined for each of the first candidate topologies by comparing results of the first simulations to ground truth data. Upon identifying one of the first fitness scores as exceeding a threshold, the candidate topology associated with the identified first fitness score is identified for deployment. |
| US11637747B2 |
Wearable electronic device, main electronic device, system and control method thereof
A wearable electronic device includes: an input module configured to receive a user manipulation for changing a configuration setting value of a main electronic device; and a communication module configured to transmit a control signal for changing a configuration setting value to the main electronic device. |
| US11637745B2 |
Configuring a remote electronic device by a peer electronic device in a networked environment
A method for configuring multiple electronic devices in a batch, is described. The method can include initializing, by a first computing device a communication network based on a pre-defined configuration parameter. The pre-defined configuration parameter is associated with a first instance of an application on the first computing device. Further, the method includes identifying, by the first computing device, an initialization of a second instance of an application at a second computing device. In response to identifying the initialization of the second instance of the application at the second computing device, the method includes, sending, by the first computing device configuration settings for the second computing device over a secured communication network. In this regard, the configuration settings can comprise at least the pre-defined configuration parameter for configuring the second computing device. |
| US11637744B2 |
Methods and systems for managing health of devices in an IoT environment using inter-device correlation
Methods and systems for managing health of devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment. A method includes detecting an occurrence of at least one event on a device of a plurality of devices and determining a change in ambience in the device. The method also includes detecting at least one anomaly in the device if the determined change in the ambience of the at least one device does not satisfy threshold criteria determined for the at least one event. The method further includes determining at least one root cause for the at least one anomaly detected in the device. |
| US11637743B2 |
Communications device and method of communications
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves at a communications device, receiving a request for changing a network parameter of the communications device and at the communications device, granting or denying the request based on link status information that is stored in the communications device, where the link status information specifies a link failure status of a communications link within a wired communications network that involves the communication device. |
| US11637742B2 |
Action recommendation engine (ARE) for network operations center (NOC) solely from raw un-labeled data
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for recommending actions to be taken in a network for optimizing or improving the operability of the network. A method, according to one implementation, includes a first step of receiving raw, unprocessed data that is obtained directly from one or more network elements of a network. The method includes second step of determining one or more remedial actions using a direct association between the raw, unprocessed data and the one or more remedial actions. |
| US11637741B2 |
System and method for providing fault tolerant streaming of segmented content and cache coherency on multi-hosted origin systems
Multiple segmentation servers are synchronized to provide failover capacity in such a way that should a failover occur, the segment numbers/playlists/encryption keys/decryption keys are identical on each of the segmentation servers. Synchronizing the contents of a segmentation server on one or more backup segmentation servers ensures that the delivery of a content stream is immune to the failure of segmentation servers, provided at least one segmentation server remains fault-free. A caching server may further facilitate the fault tolerance by checking the availability of the individual segmentation servers, collect content segments from one of the segmentation servers, and serve the content segment to clients. The caching server automatically checks a primary segmentation server to ensure it is available (e.g., online), and provides automatic failover to a backup segmentation server should the primary server experience a fault (e.g., go offline). |
| US11637740B2 |
Intelligent anomaly detection and root cause analysis in mobile networks
A method for automated root cause analysis in mobile radio access networks, including: determining mobile radio access network data (e.g., RAN data); detecting an anomaly for a set of user sessions and/or cells from the RAN data; and classifying the detected anomalies using a set of root cause classifiers. |
| US11637735B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and mapping method thereof
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme. |
| US11637734B2 |
Radio-frequency circuit, communication device, and radio-frequency circuit designing method
A radio-frequency circuit that conveys a radio-frequency signal that is of a predetermined frequency band and modulated using 256-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). The magnitude slope, which is the ratio of (i) the change in a magnitude ratio between an input signal and an output signal to (ii) the change in the frequency of the input signal, is at least −0.1 dB/MHz and at most 0.1 dB/MHz in the predetermined frequency band. |
| US11637732B2 |
Method and apparatus for high-resolution CSI reporting in advanced wireless communication systems
Method and apparatus for high-resolution channel state information (CSI) reporting in advanced wireless communication systems. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes selecting, from a full basis set comprising N bases for a plurality of v layers, an intermediate basis set comprising N′ bases that are common among the plurality of v layers and selecting, from the selected intermediate basis set, a basis subset comprising Ml bases for each layer l of the plurality of v layers. The method further includes transmitting, to a base station (BS), indices of the N′ bases included in the selected intermediate basis set and indices of the Ml bases included in the selected basis subsets. N, N′, and Ml are positive integers; N′ |
| US11637731B2 |
Joint rate matching and puncturing for channel oriented tone reservation
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that tone reservation is to be applied, to a subsequent communication, including applying rate matching on a first set of tone reservation (TR) subcarriers and applying puncturing on a second set of the TR subcarriers. The UE may receive the subsequent communication based at least in part on rate matching being applied to the first set of the TR subcarriers and puncturing being applied to the second set of the TR subcarriers. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11637728B2 |
Waveform coding with modulation for single-user and multiple-user transmissions
Methods and apparatuses for performing wake-up radio (WUR) are described herein. A receiving device may comprise a receiver configured to receive a first preamble using a first frequency range. The receiver may be configured to receive, using the first frequency range, a WUR packet after the first preamble, wherein a bandwidth associated with the first WUR packet is smaller than a bandwidth associated with the first preamble. The receiving device may be further configured to receive a second preamble and a second WUR packet, wherein the first preamble is frequency division multiplexed with the second preamble and the first WUR packet is frequency division multiplexed with the second WUR packet, and wherein a bandwidth associated with the second WUR packet is smaller than a bandwidth associated with the second preamble. The first WUR packet and the second WUR packet may have an equal duration of transmission. |
| US11637725B2 |
Transceiving method for phase noise compensation in SC-FDE scheme, and apparatus therefor
An operation method of a receiving apparatus may comprise: receiving an N-th data block belonging to a frame including a plurality of data blocks from a transmitting apparatus, each of the plurality of data blocks including a data period and a UW period; storing a first UW received in a UW period of the N-th data block in a buffer; receiving an (N+1)-th data block belonging to the frame from the transmitting apparatus; estimating a phase noise in a time domain by combining the first UW with a second UW received in a UW period of the (N+1)-th data block; and applying time-domain compensation according to the estimated phase noise to the (N+1)-th data block, and demodulating data of the (N+1)-th data block, wherein the first UW and the second UW are configured with a same sequence. |
| US11637723B2 |
Transmitter schemes to facilitate side channel information estimation
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some systems (e.g., Wi-Fi systems), a transmitting device such as an access point (AP) or mobile station (STA), may identify a number of spatial streams for a data transmission that is less than a number of transmit antennas, and may transmit a packet over a channel. In a first implementation, the packet may be formatted in a multi-user frame format, with a number of long training field (LTF) symbols equal to the number of transmit antennas. In a second implementation, the packet may be a null data packet (NDP), and the device may transmit a separate data packet. In a third implementation, the packet may be formatted in single-user frame format with a modified LTF. A receiving device may receive the packet, and may perform channel estimation and power amplifier (PA) distortion cancellation based on the received packet. |
| US11637722B2 |
Method for determining transmission parameters of uplink signal, terminal and network device
Provided are methods for determining a transmission parameter of an uplink signal, a terminal and a network device. The method includes that: a terminal determines a first SRS resource set receives, from a network device, first indication information which is for instructing the terminal to transmit an aperiodic SRS, determines a target SRS resource set according to the first indication information and the first SRS resource set, sends the aperiodic SRS to the network device on an SRS resource in the target SRS resource set, receives, from the network device, second indication information which is for indicating a target SRS resource in the target SRS resource set; and the terminal determines a transmission parameter used to transmit an uplink signal according to the target SRS resource. |
| US11637716B1 |
Connected automation controls using robotic devices
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for using a robotic device to manipulate a manual control of a device. In one aspect, the system includes a robotic device, a first device that is located at a property and that has a manual control, and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may include a network interface, a processor, and a storage device that includes instructions to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining an operating state of the first device, determining the state of the monitoring system, determining whether one or more of the manual controls associated with the first device should be manipulated to alter the operating state of the first device, and transmitting one or more instruction to the robotic device that instruct the robotic device to manipulate one or more manual controls that are associated the first device. |
| US11637710B2 |
Systems and methods for federated privacy management
Systems and methods for federated privacy management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for federated privacy management may include: (1) receiving, at a user management node, and from a client application executing on an electronic device, a device identifier; (2) receiving, by the user management node, and from a second layer node in a multi-layer federated privacy management network, data comprising at least one of browsing data and application data from a web host or a server, wherein the data is in response to an internet protocol request from the client application via a first layer node and the second layer node to the web host or the server, and the data is associated with the device identifier; (3) receiving, at the user management node, a request for the data from the client application using the device identifier; and (4) communicating the data to the client application. |
| US11637709B2 |
Split-key wallet access between blockchains
An approach is disclosed for running a first smart contract on a first blockchain platform restricting access to a client's funds appropriated to a second smart contract running on a second blockchain platform. A transaction is received by invoking the first smart contract authorizing the second smart contract. In response to receiving an indication of a successful completion of the first smart contract, a plurality of client's authorization tickets are sent to the second smart contract. The invoked smart contract receives the set of authorization information and records the set of authorization information. After receiving a set of authenticated authorization tickets exceeding a predetermined threshold, the funds are released. |
| US11637707B2 |
System and method for managing installation of an application package requiring high-risk permission access
This application discloses a mobile device and method for managing installation of an application package (APK) in the mobile device. The device receives an installation request for installing the APK. The device retrieves a permission certificate for the APK according to the installation request. The permission certificate includes a cryptographic signature. The device determines validity of the permission certificate by verifying the cryptographic signature included in the permission certificate using a permission certification public key provided by a manufacturer of the device. The permission certification public key is stored in the device. The installation of the APK in the device is allowed when the permission certificate is determined to be valid. Using the method, the APK requires the device to grant specific high-risk permissions to the application upon installation. |
| US11637705B2 |
System having tracker data validation
Methods and apparatus for providing validation of data from the tracker devices. In embodiments, a method includes registering a tracker device with a device registry and issuing by an issuer the tracker device to a third party. Raw and signed data is collected from the tracker device is hashed and stored to enable later validation of the data. |
| US11637704B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining trust status of TPM, and storage medium
Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a trust status of a TPM, and a storage medium, and pertains to the field of data security technologies. In those embodiments, a verifier send an unsealing request to a host, so that the host unseals current PCR values in the TPM based on a seal key handle carried in the unsealing request, and sends verification information to the verifier based on the unseal verification key obtained after the unsealing. Therefore, any verifier that establishes an encrypted channel with the host can determine the trust status of the TPM in the host based on a second verification key transmitted on the encrypted channel, and there is no need to pre-deploy a remote attestation server to determine the trust status of the TPM. |
| US11637702B2 |
Verifiable computation for cross-domain information sharing
Techniques for verifiable computation for cross-domain information sharing are disclosed. An untrusted node in a distributed cross-domain solution (CDS) system is configured to: receive a first data item and a first cryptographic proof associated with the first data item; perform a computation on the first data item including one or more of filtering, sanitizing, or validating the first data item, to obtain a second data item; generate, using a proof-carrying data (PCD) computation, a second cryptographic proof that indicates (a) validity of the first cryptographic proof and (b) integrity of the first computation on the first data item; and transmits the second data item and the second cryptographic proof to a recipient node in the distributed CDS system. Alternatively or additionally, the untrusted node may be configured to transmit a cryptographic proof to a trusted aggregator in the CDS system. |
| US11637700B2 |
Method and apparatus with encryption based on error variance in homomorphic encryption
A processor-implemented encryption method using homomorphic encryption includes: receiving data; generating a ciphertext by encrypting the received data; determining a coefficient of an approximating polynomial for performing a modular reduction on a modulus corresponding to the ciphertext, based on an error between the approximating polynomial and a modular reduction function; and performing bootstrapping on the ciphertext by performing the modular reduction based on the determined coefficient of the approximating polynomial. |
| US11637696B2 |
End-to-end communication security
In one implementation, a method for providing end-to-end communication security for a controller area network (CANbus) in an automotive vehicle across which a plurality of electronic control units (ECU) communicate is described. Such an automotive vehicle can include, for example, a car or truck with multiple different ECUs that are each configured to control various aspects of the vehicle's operation, such as an infotainment system, a navigation system, various engine control systems, and/or others. |
| US11637688B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a distributed blockchain transaction processing element in a datacenter
Methods and systems for implementing a distributed blockchain transaction processing element in a data center are described. A call to a function is received. The call for the function is dispatched to a first runtime environment of a first server. Code is fetched from the blockchain database. The code is executed in the first runtime environment resulting in a blockchain transaction. A copy of the blockchain transaction is written in a storage medium that is locally accessible by the first server. The blockchain transaction is added to a first block. A consensus mechanism is used to determine whether the first block is to be added to the blockchain database; and responsive to determining that the first block is to be added to the blockchain database, the first block is caused to be stored in a persistent storage as part of the blockchain database. |
| US11637687B2 |
Methods and apparatus to determine provenance for data supply chains
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine provenance for data supply chains are disclosed. Example instructions cause a machine to at least, in response to data being generated, generate a local data object and object metadata corresponding to the data; hash the local data object; generate a hash of a label of the local data object; generate a hierarchical data structure for the data including the hash of the local data object and the hash of the label of the local data object; generate a data supply chain object including the hierarchical data structure; and transmit the data and the data supply chain object to a device that requested access to the data. |
| US11637685B2 |
System and method for transition encoding with flexible word-size
A method of encoding input data includes identifying an input packet of the input data, the input packet including a plurality of input words, each of the input words including pre bits, groupID bits, and post bits, organizing the plurality of input words into a plurality of groups based on groupID bits of the plurality of input words, identifying a key group of the plurality of groups based on a number of input words in each of the plurality of groups, determining a key value based on the pre bits, the groupID bits, and the post bits of one of the plurality of input words corresponding to the key group, and generating a plurality of coded words based on the key value and the plurality of input words. |
| US11637682B2 |
Extended sync network
An apparatus is provided for converting the form in which a synchronisation request for a barrier synchronisation is provided. The synchronisation request is provided from a first synchronisation circuitry to a second synchronisation circuitry by asserting one of a set of separate signals that may each correspond to a bit in a register or a signal on a wire. The second synchronisation circuitry provides for the packetisation of the sync request by sending a packet comprising the sync request over a network to be received at a further subsystem. |
| US11637681B2 |
Fast ACK/NACK in wireless communication networks
A receiver is configured to receive and process a radio signal. The radio signal includes a first frequency band including a first signal, the first signal including a plurality of TDD-frames. The receiver is configured to evaluate reception of downlink data to obtain evaluation data. The receiver is further configured to transmit the evaluation data in a second frequency band outside of the first frequency band. |
| US11637677B2 |
Method and device for transmitting DMRS for PSSCH in NR V2X
Proposed is a method for a first device for communicating wirelessly. The method can comprise a step of, from a second device, transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) comprising information relating to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern by means of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) to the second device, mapping the DMRS on resources relating to a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) on the basis of the information relating to the DMRS pattern and the length of a symbol duration of the PSSCH relating to the PSCCH, and transmitting the DMRS to the second device by means of the PSSCH. |
| US11637674B2 |
Information transmission method, network device and terminal
The present disclosure provides an information transmission method, a network device and a terminal. The information transmission method includes: receiving an uplink signal, the uplink signal including a target DMRS; and determining uplink data for a terminal in accordance with the target DMRS in the uplink signal. The terminal corresponds to at least two DMRS identities, and the target DMRS is one of DMRSs indicated by the at least two DMRS identities. |
| US11637673B2 |
Sounding reference signal transmissions in enhanced machine type communication
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in enhanced machine type communication (MTC). An example method generally includes determining one or more narrowband regions partitioned from wider system bandwidth for communicating with a base station, determining resources, within the one or more narrowband regions of a first subframe, for transmission of sounding reference signals (SRS) by the UE, deciding whether or not to transmit SRS on the determined resources of the first subframe, and transmitting or not transmitting the SRS on the determined resources of the first subframe based on the decision. |
| US11637670B2 |
Method and apparatus for CSI-RS in RRC_IDLE/inactive state
Methods and apparatus for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) in RRC_IDLE/INACTIVE state. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first configuration for periodic CSI-RS/tracking reference signal (TRS) reception occasions for idle/inactive UEs. A periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasion includes one or more CSI-RS resources, and each of the one or more CSI-RS resources is associated with a spatial reception parameter. The method further includes receiving a second configuration for a paging occasion (PO). The PO includes a number of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reception occasions The method further includes receiving an availability indication for one or more periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasions from the periodic CSI-RS reception occasions, receiving the one or more periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasions in time before the PO; and determining a time or frequency offset based on the one or more periodic CSI-RS/TRS reception occasions. |
| US11637669B2 |
Single frequency network transmission procedure based on sounding reference signals
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A serving cell may configure one or more neighbor cells to perform measurements on sounding reference signals (SRSs) received from a user equipment (UE). The serving cell and a subset of the one or more neighbor cells may then transmit data to the UE in a single frequency network (SFN) transmission based on the SRS measurements. For instance, the serving cell may determine whether to add each of the one or more neighbor cells to an SFN cell group for an SFN transmission to a UE based on measurements performed by each neighbor cell on SRSs received from the UE. A neighbor cell of the one or more neighbor cells may also determine which beam to use for an SFN transmission to a UE based on measurements performed by the neighbor cell on SRSs received from the UE. |
| US11637667B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving uplink signal, storage medium, and electronic device
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an uplink signal, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The transmitting method includes: a second communication node receives configuration information transmitted by a first communication node through physical downlink control signaling or high-layer signaling, and the second communication node transmits an uplink signal to the first communication node based on the configuration information; or a second communication node transmits, according to a rule appointed with a first communication node, an uplink signal to the first communication node. |
| US11637665B2 |
Forwarding table generation method and forwarding device
A forwarding table generation method is provided. The method includes: determining, by a forwarding device, a first timeslot set, where the first timeslot set includes multiple timeslots during which the forwarding device sends, to a first device by using a first flexible Ethernet group, multiple encoded data blocks generated by a physical coding sublayer; determining, by the forwarding device, a second timeslot set, where the second timeslot set includes multiple timeslots during which the forwarding device receives, by using a second FlexE group, the multiple encoded data blocks sent by a second device; and generating, by the forwarding device, a forwarding table, where the forwarding table includes a mapping relationship between the second FlexE group and the multiple timeslots included in the second timeslot set, and between the first FlexE group and the multiple timeslots included in the first timeslot set. |
| US11637662B2 |
Data transmission method for ultra-low latency and highly-reliable communication in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
Provided are a repetitive transmission method for ultra-low latency and highly-reliable communication in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. A method for transmitting data by a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information on the repetition number of transmission for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) from a base station; receiving, from the base station, information on frequency hopping applied to the the PUSCH repetition configuring the the PUSCH repetition; determining a frequency resource for the PUSCH repetition based on the information on the frequency hopping; and performing the the PUSCH repetition. |
| US11637661B2 |
System and method for time domain grant-free PUSCH resource allocation
A user equipment (UE) may determine that a transmission resource includes a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol that is configured as a downlink symbol or as flexible, where the transmission resource is allocated for uplink (UL) transmissions during a time duration, and includes K transmission occasions (TOs). The UE may transmit a first UL transmission in the transmission resource omitting the first OFDM symbol. The first UL transmission includes K repetitions to be transmitted in the respective K TOs, and the K repetitions includes an initial transmission and at least one retransmission of the initial transmission. |
| US11637660B2 |
Communication apparatus and retransmission control method
Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified. |
| US11637659B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback information in an enhanced carrier aggregation system
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat-request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback information in an enhanced carrier aggregation system. A user equipment (UE) determines the number of HARQ-ACK feedback information bits that the UE needs to transmit in an uplink subframe, and determines the number of uplink control information (UCI) bits to be transmitted in the uplink subframe based on the number of the HARQ-ACK feedback information bits, the number of channel state information (CSI) bits, and the number of scheduling request (SR) bits that need to be transmitted in the uplink subframe, and transmitting the UCI according to the PUCCH format and the resource for transmission of PUCCH determined. With the present disclosure, UCI information may be transmitted using different formats in different PUCCH formats. |
| US11637655B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and interleaving method thereof
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol. |
| US11637654B2 |
OFDM packing and LDPC framing for constellation shaping in NG WLANs
An apparatus for a station (STA) configured for operating in a next-generation (NG) wireless local area network (WLAN) comprises the processing circuitry configured to modify probabilities of constellation points to generate a more Gaussian distribution. In these embodiments, for LDPC framing and OFDM packing, the transmitter circuitry may be configured to compute a number of output bits (bout) to be transmitted based on a number of payload bits (bin) at an output of a shaping encoder, a shaping rate (rshaping), and an overhead percent (Boverhead). A shaping gain of up to 1.53 dB may be achieved. A new shaping encoder is provided to address the issue that the number of bits is not fixed. |
| US11637653B2 |
Method and apparatus of rate-matching for communication and broadcasting systems
A communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The 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. The method and apparatus for polar encoding and rate-matching are disclosed. |
| US11637643B2 |
Machine learning-based link adaptation
Aspects for machine learning-based link adaptation are described. For example, an apparatus can determine k-nearest neighbors (K-NNs) based on training data associated with the sub-band and on the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) of the sub-band. In aspects, the apparatus can identify a channel quality indicator (CQI) associated with the lowest error rate for the k-NNs and provide the identified CQI to a base station. In aspects, a neural network (NN) can provide labels for CQIs that indicate probability of choosing a CQI, and the CQI having highest probability will be provided to a base station. In aspects, a covariance matrix based on samples of a communication channel can be provided to a NN to determine a rank indicator (RI) corresponding to the channel, and channel state information associated with the (RI) can be sent to the base station. Other aspects are described. |
| US11637641B1 |
Systems, methods, and devices for electronic spectrum management
Methods for tracking a signal origin by a spectrum analysis and management device are disclosed. Signal characteristics of other known emitters are used for obtaining a position of an emitter of a signal of interest. In one embodiment, frequency difference of arrival technique is implemented. In another embodiment, time difference of arrival technique is implemented. |
| US11637640B2 |
Self-calibration for implicit beamforming
A user equipment (UE) configured to perform self-calibration. The UE includes a first radio configured to perform implicit beamforming and further configured to transmit and receive signals during the calibration procedure. The UE further includes a first plurality of antennas communicatively coupled to the first radio, a second radio configured to transmit and receive signals during the calibration procedure and at least one second antenna communicatively coupled to the second radio. The calibration procedure includes the second radio transmitting a tone signal over the calibration frequency and a first antenna of the first radio receiving the tone signal and a second antenna of the first radio receiving the tone signal. |
| US11637639B2 |
Passive noise dampeners
Methods and systems for a passive noise dampener. A system includes a hybrid fiber-coaxial network which carries content signals between a service provider system and premises, where the hybrid fiber-coaxial network is susceptible to receiving wireless noise signals, a plurality of passive noise dampeners, each passive noise dampener connected between the hybrid fiber-coaxial network and a premise of the premises. Each passive noise dampener includes an antenna based on medium used in the hybrid fiber-coaxial network. The antenna receives the wireless noise signals. A phase shifting device phase shifts 180 degrees phase shift the wireless noise signals received by the antenna to generate a counter signal. A directional coupler injects the counter signal into the hybrid fiber-coaxial network to mitigate impact of the wireless noise signals received by the hybrid fiber-coaxial network on the content signals. The antenna, the phase shifting device, and the directional coupler are passive devices. |
| US11637629B2 |
Flexible capacity satellite communications system
Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an allocation of capacity between forward and return traffic; and a satellite including: pathways; at least one LNA, an output of which is for coupling to a pathway and to amplify uplink beam signals in accordance with the allocation; and at least one HPA, an input of which is for coupling to the pathway and to amplify downlink beam signals in accordance with the allocation, and wherein the frame definition specifies at least one pathway as a forward pathway for at least one timeslot and as a return pathway for at least one other timeslot in the frame. |
| US11637626B2 |
Signal processing device, signal processing method, recording medium, and mobile body
A signal processing device includes: a transmission path estimator that estimates a first transmission path characteristic of a transmission signal using a vertical signal out of vertical and horizontal signals resulting from being received by a vertical polarization antenna and a horizontal polarization antenna; a transmission path estimator that estimates a second transmission path characteristic of the transmission signal using the horizontal signal; a weight calculator that calculates a first weight for the vertical signal and a second weight for the horizontal signal, using the first transmission path characteristic and the second transmission path characteristic; and a weighting applier that applies weighted summation to the vertical signal and the horizontal signal using the first weight and the second weight. |
| US11637620B2 |
Coverage enhancement for distributed antenna systems and repeaters by time-division beamforming
Systems and methods for enhancing coverage of repeater systems by time-division beamforming are provided. A repeater system includes an interface configured to communicate signals with a base station and a phased antenna array. The phased antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements, wherein the phased antenna array is configured to generate a beam in a plurality of predefined directions and wirelessly communicate signals with user equipment in a coverage area of the phased antenna array. The repeater system further includes a beamforming circuit communicatively coupled to the phased antenna array, wherein the beamforming circuit is configured to adjust a direction of the beam generated by the phased antenna array to correspond to one of the plurality of predefined directions at a particular time according to a schedule. |
| US11637619B2 |
Radio frequency signal boosters serving as outdoor infrastructure in high frequency cellular networks
Radio frequency signal boosters serving as outdoor cellular infrastructure are provided. In certain embodiments, a signal booster system for a high frequency cellular network includes a parabolic base station antenna configured to receive a downlink signal of a frequency band higher than 20 gigahertz and to transmit an amplified uplink signal of the frequency band, booster circuitry configured to amplify an uplink signal to generate the amplified uplink signal and to amplify the downlink signal to generate an amplified downlink signal, and a mobile station antenna configured to receive the uplink signal and to transmit the amplified downlink signal. |
| US11637615B2 |
Random access and consistent LBT failure recovery
A wireless device receives configuration parameters comprising first random access parameters and second random access parameters. The wireless device may initiate, based on the first random access parameters, a first random access process on a first BWP of a primary cell. The wireless device may stop the first random access process in response to triggering consistent LBT failure for the primary cell. The wireless device may switch from the first BWP to a second BWP of the primary cell as an active BWP. The wireless device may initiate a second random access process on the second BWP for consistent LBT failure recovery and based on the second random access parameters. |
| US11637612B2 |
Macro-diversity using hybrid transmissions via twisted pairs
An orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) base station operative to transmit a sequence of spatially multiplexed OFDM signals simultaneously using at least two separate twisted pairs, in which each of the OFDM signals is modulated by a plurality of sub-carriers. At least two converters are connected to the OFDM base station using the at least two twisted pairs, respectively, in which each of the converters, and simultaneously with the other converters, is configured to receive each of the OFDM signals from the OFDM base station using the respective twisted pair, up-convert the OFDM signal into a radio-frequency (RF) band, and re-transmit wirelessly the OFDM signal, in conjunction with the RF band, from at least one antenna associated with each converter, thereby together creating a macro-diversity effect in conjunction with the spatially multiplexed OFDM signals. |
| US11637609B2 |
Array antenna adaptive digital pre-distortion with bayesian observation analysis
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for array antenna adaptive digital pre-distortion with Bayesian observation analysis are provided. One method may include selecting a plurality of patch elements from an array antenna of a network element. The method may also include determining an accuracy confidence value for each patch element. A set of coefficients of the antenna array may be generated. In addition, an ensemble of non-linear forward models may be generated using the accuracy confidence value and the set of coefficients. Further, an array of pre-distortion signals may be generated using the ensemble of non-linear forward models, and each antenna of the array antenna may be configured with a corresponding pre-distortion signal from the array of pre-distortion signals. |
| US11637601B2 |
Signal cancellation in radio frequency (RF) device network
A system, in a programmable active reflector (AR) device associated with a first radio frequency (RF) device and a second RF device, receives a request and associated metadata from the second RF device via a first antenna array. Based on the received request and associated metadata, one or more antenna control signals are received from the first RF device. The programmable AR device is dynamically selected and controlled by the first RF device based on a set of criteria. A controlled plurality of RF signals is transmitted, via a second antenna array, to the second RF device within a transmission range of the programmable AR device based on the associated metadata. The controlled plurality of RF signals are cancelled at the second RF device based on the associated metadata. |
| US11637598B2 |
MIMO transmission method for discrete modulated signals
The present invention provides a MIMO transmission method for discrete modulated signals. The method is mainly characterized in maximizing the mutual information of symbol vectors of a transmitter and a receiver by joint optimization of a source distribution and a precoding matrix. When the current precoding matrix G is determined, the distribution of source multi-dimensional vectors x is maximized by a Lagrange multiplier method to maximize a source entropy; and when the distribution of the current source multi-dimensional vectors x is determined, the precoding matrix G is optimized by a gradient descent method to maximize the mutual information of the transmitted and received vectors. The transmission rate approximates the Shannon limit under a MIMO scenario by joint optimization of the source distribution and the precoding matrix. After the transmitter determines a marginal distribution of symbols of each channel, a non-uniform modulation is performed by using a probabilistic amplitude shaping technology. |
| US11637597B2 |
System and method for geospatial planning of wireless backhaul links
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, calculating a Fresnel zone about a line of sight (LoS) between a pair of antennas positioned on antenna mounts. The Fresnel zone is projected onto a geospatial grid of 3D cells, each having a height above a horizontal plane. Cells that intersect the Fresnel zone projection are selected to obtain a subset cells with constraint heights determined according to heights of the subset cells that are adjusted according to the Fresnel zone. The LoS is revised according to an algorithm to obtain a set of updated LoS. Those updated LoS that do not intersect the set of adjusted constraint heights are identified as solutions that include an optimal solution, should one exist. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11637596B2 |
Electronic device, communication method and storage medium in wireless communication system to make an optimum compromise between the accuracy of the channel state information and the overhead
An electronic device for a base station in a wireless communication system including processing circuitry configured to indicate a user equipment to report a first type of channel statement information based on a reference signal for the first type of channel statement information, wherein the base station serves the user equipment in a way of SU-MIMO, make a determination that a second type of channel statement information is required in a case that the base station changes the way serving the user equipment from SU-MIMO to MU-MIMO, and notify the user equipment to report the second type of channel statement information based on a reference signal for the second type of channel statement information. |
| US11637594B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus via a plurality of beams
A data transmission method, comprises: receiving a plurality of pieces of control information issued by a base station via a plurality of beams, each piece of control information comprising resource information, the resource information indicating one or more transmission units configured by the base station for a terminal; using the plurality of beams to perform data transmission on the plurality of transmission units indicated by the plurality of pieces of control information. |
| US11637593B2 |
Machine type communication (MTC) configuration, interference management, and retuning time for uplink transmissions
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically increasing user capacity through a frame structure which supports enhanced Machine Type Communication (eMTC) UL multi-user multiplexing. For example, a User Equipment (UE) identifies at least one narrowband region within a wider system bandwidth. The UE receives signaling, from a base station, indicating a sub-region of the narrowband region assigned to the UE for transmitting symbols of a physical uplink channel that are multiplexed with symbols transmitted by one or more other UEs in the narrowband region. The UE transmits the physical uplink channel in the assigned sub-region. Similar techniques are also provided that may be applied to DL multi-user multiplexing. |
| US11637592B2 |
Systems and methods for long-distance mobile wireless power
Wireless power may be transferred between systems that are magnetically coupled in reactive near-field proximity. A magnetic field between a first antenna and a second antenna are coupled. The first and second antenna are (i) resonant at an operating frequency, and (ii) located within reactive near-field proximity. The reactive near field proximity represents a region that is less than a distance of 0.159 of the free space wavelength for the operating frequency. The wireless power provides a receiving system with a threshold amount of wireless inductive power exceeding 1 watt. Each of the first and second antennas have a spherical volume with a diameter less than 1/20 of the free space wavelength of the operating frequency and the energy dissipated to far-field radiation, per cycle, due to circulating currents from the first antenna is less than ½ the peak energy stored in the magnetic field. |
| US11637584B2 |
Multi-radio synchronization within a single connected system
A multi-radio border router for synchronizing communications of multiple border router radios is provided. For example, the border router includes a border router component connected to each of the plurality of border router radios. The border router component configured for selecting one of the plurality of border router radios as a master radio and assigning channel offset parameters for each of the plurality of border router radios. The master radio is configured for broadcasting synchronization beacons based on which the non-master radios synchronize their respective clocks with that of the master radio. After the synchronization, each of the border router radios communicates with endpoints associated therewith according to a channel hopping pattern modified by applying a channel offset determined based on the channel offset parameters assigned to the respective radio. |
| US11637583B2 |
Symbol-group based spreading schemes
Methods, systems, and devices for the design of symbol-group based spreading schemes are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a terminal, a first spread signal that is generated by spreading a first group of N data symbols using a first set of N sequences, where N is a symbol-group length, L is a spreading length, each of the first set of N sequences is from an orthogonal spreading sequence set that comprises L sequences, and each of the L sequences is of length L. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a network node, an indication of a first set of N sequences, and receiving a first spread signal comprising a group of N data symbols spread using the first set of N sequences. |
| US11637581B2 |
System and method for power amplifier control in a millimeter wave communication system
A system for power amplifier control includes a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, wherein the processor and the memory are configured to simultaneously provide input signal strength of each of a plurality of power amplifiers in a millimeter wave (mmW) phased array system, determine an average input signal strength of the plurality of power amplifiers based on the provided input signal strengths using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), determine a voltage headroom for the plurality of power amplifiers based on the determined average input signal strength, estimate a power backoff value based on the voltage headroom, and determine a gain control value based on the estimated power backoff value. |
| US11637580B2 |
Systems and methods for designing and powering wireless communication mesh network nodes
Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to wireless communication mesh network design, installation, and deployment. In one aspect, a wireless communication node may be located at a building to include one or more antenna mounts, one or more wireless communication radios mounted on the one or more antenna mounts, and a portable power supply coupled to each of the one or more wireless communication radios via a respective cable, where the portable power supply is configured to provide power to each of the one or more wireless communication radios. In another aspect, a wireless communication node located at a building may include a coaxial interface coupled to a power supply installed at the building via a pre-existing cable for a satellite dish, where the coaxial interface may receive power from the power supply via the pre-existing cable and supply the received power to one or more wireless communication radios. |
| US11637576B2 |
Radio-frequency module and communication device
A radio-frequency module is able to simultaneously communicate a signal of a first communication band and a signal of a second communication band and does not simultaneously communicate a signal of the first communication band and a signal of a third communication band. The radio-frequency module includes a mounting substrate, a filter, a filter, and a filter. The filter is provided on the mounting substrate and has the first communication band as the pass band thereof. The filter is provided on the mounting substrate and has the second communication band as the pass band thereof. The filter is provided on the mounting substrate and has the third communication band as the pass band thereof. The filter and the filter are indirectly stacked on top of each other and the filter and the filter are not stacked on top of each other. |
| US11637574B2 |
Data transmission of value pair in network systems
A method for data transmission of a value pair in a network system. The method is performed in a network node and comprises transforming a value pair, wherein the value pair is represented as a complex number, by changing a magnitude of the value pair with a factor of 2 raised to the power of N/2, where N is an integer, and when N is odd the transform comprises a rotation in the complex plane of an odd integer multiple of 45 degrees, and transmitting the transformed value pair to another network node, wherein the transmission comprises an indication of the value of N. Network nodes, computer programs and a computer program product for data transmission of a value pair in a network system are also presented. |
| US11637573B1 |
CFR error deposition out of the transmission band
An apparatus comprises a digital processing device configured to generate a digital transmission signal, a digital-to-analog converter connected to the digital processing device and configured to convert the digital transmission signal into an analog transmission signal, and a power amplifier connected to the digital-to-analog converter and configured to amplify the analog transmission signal. An antenna filter is connected to the power amplifier and configured to filter the amplified analog transmission signal; the antenna filter is configured to pass frequencies in at least one passband and to attenuate frequencies in at least one stopband. The digital processing device is configured to perform a process of reducing peak power in the digital transmission signal; in this process error components having different frequencies are produced. A frequency spectrum of the error components is manipulated such that a part of the error components is deposited in the stopband of the antenna filter. |
| US11637571B2 |
Transmitter and repetition method thereof
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate an LDPC codeword including the input bits and parity bits; a repeater configured to select at least a part of bits constituting the LDPC codeword and add the selected bits after the input bits; and a puncturer configured to puncture at least a part of the parity bits. |
| US11637570B2 |
Decoding method and apparatus and device
One example method includes obtaining L1 first decoding paths of an (i−1)th group of to-be-decoded bits, where i is an integer, received data corresponds to P groups of to-be-decoded bits, and 1 |
| US11637563B2 |
Decoding circuit and chip
A decoding circuit and a chip are disclosed. The decoding circuit includes, connected in a sequence, a charge/discharge unit, a capacitor and a conversion unit. The charge/discharge unit is able to charge and discharge the capacitor, and a ratio of a total time required to transfer any amount of charge into the capacitor to a total time required to transfer the same amount of charge from the capacitor is a predetermined value. The conversion unit is configured to output a third level when a voltage on the capacitor exceeds a predetermined voltage and to otherwise output a fourth level. This arrangement alleviates the computational burden of an MCU, eliminates any adverse effect of noise in a transmitted signal, allows an extended effective transmission distance when using an HBS protocol and is self-adaptive to signals transmitted at different clock rates, thus solving the problems with the prior art including heavy MCU computational burden, a tradeoff between error correction and transmission distance and insufficient adaptiveness to signals transmitted at different clock rates. |
| US11637562B2 |
Compensation circuit for delta-sigma modulators, corresponding device and method
A delta-sigma modulation circuit has a sampling period and, in operation, generates a delta-sigma modulated signal based on the analog input signal. The delta-sigma modulation circuit includes: a first integrator; an analog-to-digital converter; a feedback-loop coupled between an input of the first integrator and the output interface; a second integrator coupled between the first integrator and the analog-to-digital converter. The delta-sigma modulation circuit has loop-delay compensation circuitry having a plurality of switches. The loop delay compensation circuitry, in operation, controls the plurality of switches based on a time interval of a duration of half the sampling period and generates a loop-delay compensation signal. |
| US11637559B2 |
Method of operating analog-to-digital converter by reversed switching technique and analog-to-digital converter utilizing same
A method of operating an analog-to-digital converter includes in a first conversion period, a comparator generating a first comparison result, a first selection circuit switching a voltage output to a first capacitor of a set of larger capacitor of a first capacitor array, and a second selection circuit switching a voltage output to a second capacitor of a set of larger capacitor of a second capacitor array, and in a second conversion period after the first conversion period, the comparator generating a second comparison result different from the first comparison result, the first selection circuit switching back the voltage output to a first capacitor portion of the first capacitor of the set of larger capacitor of the first capacitor array, and the second selection circuit switching back the voltage output to a first capacitor portion of the second capacitor of the set of larger capacitor of the second capacitor array. |
| US11637558B2 |
Analog-to-digital converter capable of reducing nonlinearity and method of operating the same
An analog-to-digital converter includes a switch circuit, a first capacitor array, a second capacitor array and a comparator. A method of operating the analog-to-digital converter includes switching a swap signal to a first level in a first sampling period for the switch circuit to couple the first capacitor array to a first input terminal of the comparator and a first signal source, and couple the second capacitor array to a second input terminal of the comparator and a second signal source, and switching the swap signal to a second level in a second sampling period for the switch circuit to couple the first capacitor array to the second input terminal of the comparator and the second signal source, and couple the second capacitor array to the first input terminal of the comparator and the first signal source. |
| US11637556B2 |
Method and system for providing word addressable nonvolatile memory in a programmable logic device
A programmable integrated circuit device able to be selectively programmed to perform one or more logic functions includes multiple configurable logic blocks (“LBs”), routing fabric, and a nonvolatile memory (“NVM”). While the configurable LBs are able to be selectively programmed to perform one or more logic functions, the routing fabric selectively routes information between the configurable LBs and input/output ports based on a routing configuration signals. The NVM, such as magnetoresistive random access memory (“MRAM”), phase-change memory, or ferroelectric RAM (“FeRAM”), is flexibly organized to contain a configuration NVM storage and a user NVM storage, wherein the user NVM storage is a word addressable memory capable of facilitating random memory access. |
| US11637551B2 |
Comparator with configurable operating modes
A multiple operating-mode comparator system can be useful for high bandwidth and low power automated testing. The system can include a gain stage configured to drive a high impedance input of a comparator output stage, wherein the gain stage includes a differential switching stage coupled to an adjustable impedance circuit, and an impedance magnitude characteristic of the adjustable impedance circuit corresponds to a bandwidth characteristic of the gain stage. The comparator output stage can include a buffer circuit coupled to a low impedance comparator output node. The buffer circuit can provide a reference voltage for a switched output signal at the output node in a higher speed mode, and the buffer circuit can provide the switched output signal at the output node in a lower power mode. |
| US11637548B2 |
Resilient storage circuits
The present disclosure includes storage circuits, such latches. In one embodiment, a circuit includes a plurality of latches, each latch including a first N-type transistor formed in a first P-type material, a first P-type transistor formed in a first N-type material, a second N-type transistor formed in a second P-type material, and a second P-type transistor formed in a second N-type material. The first and second N-type transistors are formed in different P-wells and the first and second P-type transistors are formed in different N-wells. In other storage circuits, charge extraction transistors are coupled to data storage nodes and are biased in a nonconductive state. These techniques make the data storage circuits more resilient, for example, to an ionizing particle striking the circuit and generating charge carriers that would otherwise change the state of the storage node. |
| US11637546B2 |
Pulse density modulation systems and methods
Systems and methods for programmable pulse density modulation (PDM) components enable backwards compatibility while maintaining reasonable tolerances. A system includes a programmable PDM device, a PDM master device and a bus communicably coupling the programmable PDM device to the PDM receiver. The PDM device may include an audio sensor, audio input circuitry, a delta-sigma converter and a PDM transmitter and receiver. The PDM transmitter and receiver may send out PDM data from the PDM device and receive programming data from the PDM Master device. The PDM device may further include register space controlled by the PDM master device, a buffer storing audio data for wakeup word systems that store audio data when the PDM receiver is powered down, a bus holder to hold the previous value on the bus if no device is driving it, and/or a clock multiplier to multiply the incoming clock by a factor. |
| US11637533B2 |
Amplifier and electronic device including amplifier
An amplifier includes an input circuit that amplifies a difference between a first input voltage and a second input voltage to generate a first current and a second current. A positive feedback circuit amplifies a difference between the first current and the second current to generate a third current and a fourth current and outputs a difference between the third current and the fourth current through an output node. A temperature compensation circuit adjusts an amplification factor of the positive feedback circuit in response to a change of temperature. |
| US11637531B1 |
Supply generator and associated control methods
Described are concepts, circuits, systems and techniques directed toward N-phase control techniques useful in the design and control of supply generators configured for use in a wide variety of power management applications including, but not limited to mobile applications. |
| US11637528B1 |
Wide frequency range voltage controlled oscillators
Transformer based voltage controlled oscillator circuitry for phase-locked loop circuitry includes upper band circuitry and lower band circuitry. The upper band circuitry operates in a first frequency range and includes a first capacitor array having a variable capacitance. The lower band circuitry operates in a second frequency range and includes a second capacitor array having a variable capacitance. The first frequency range higher than the second frequency range. In a first operating mode, the first capacitor array has a first capacitance value and the second capacitor array has a second capacitance value. In a second operating mode, the second capacitor array has a third capacitance value different than the second capacitance value. |
| US11637524B2 |
Solar tracking apparatuses including one or more solar panels, systems including the same, and methods of using the same
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to solar tracking apparatuses, systems that include the same, and methods of operating the same. An example solar tracking apparatus includes a structure attachment portion configured to be attached to a structure (e.g., a moveable or stationary structure) and to remain relatively stationary relative to the structure. The structure attachment portion may include one or more mounts configured to attach the structure attachment portion to the structure. The solar tracking apparatus also includes at least one solar panel portion coupled to the structure attachment portion. The solar panel portion may be configured to move relative to the structure attachment portion and the structure. For example, the solar tracking apparatus may include one or more actuators coupled to solar panel portion configured to move at least a portion of the solar panel portion relative to the structure attachment portion. |
| US11637518B2 |
Motor drive control device and motor drive control method
A motor drive control device includes a drive circuit configured to drive a motor with a drive control signal for driving the motor, and a control circuit configured to perform a vector control arithmetic operation based on a detection result of drive currents of coils of the motor, to generate the drive control signal and supply the drive control signal to the drive circuit. When generating the drive control signal, the control circuit estimates a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor and a rotation speed of the rotor with a q-axis current value of a two-phase rotating coordinate system calculated with a detection result of the drive current, and a q-axis voltage command value of the two-phase rotating coordinate system, by using a linear Kalman filter including a prediction step and an update step, using a stationary Kalman filter with the prediction step expressed linearly and time-invariantly. |
| US11637517B2 |
Method and device for estimating individual phase resistance of an electric motor
The present invention relates to a method for estimating individual phase resistance of a motor by means of an adjustable speed drive (ASD) while the motor controlled by the ASD is running and/or is at standstill. The motor is an asynchronous motor or a synchronous motor. The invention also relates to an adjustable speed drive for executing a corresponding method. |
| US11637512B2 |
Object table comprising an electrostatic clamp
Disclosed is an object table for holding an object, comprising: an electrostatic clamp arranged to clamp the object on the object table; a neutralizer arranged to neutralize a residual charge of the electrostatic clamp; a control unit arranged to control the neutralizer, wherein the residual charge is an electrostatic charge present on the electrostatic clamp when no voltage is applied to the electrostatic clamp. |
| US11637508B2 |
Linear drive for precision positioning
The present disclosure relates to a linear drive, including: an actuator unit with at least one actuator; two guide elements and a movement element, wherein the movement element is displaceable along both guide elements by a movement generated by the actuator unit as a result of a stick-slip effect. In order to allow a more accurate displacement of the movement element in a compact design of the linear drive, the movement element can be brought into engagement with each of the two guide elements by static friction in order to be displaced along the two guide elements as a result of the stick-slip effect. |
| US11637506B2 |
Low loss shunt regulator
A direct-current (DC) power generation system for a vehicle, a boosting shunt regulator, and a method of regulating the output of an AC generator with the boosting shunt regulator are provided. The boosting shunt regulator includes gated power switches electrically coupled between AC generator contacts and output contacts. A shunt operates the power switches at duty cycles selected to boost the AC voltages output by the AC generator. |
| US11637503B2 |
Frequency converter, frequency converter assembly, and control method thereof
A frequency converter adapted to be connected to another frequency converter via a direct current bus is provided. The frequency converter comprises: a positive bus interface adapted to be interconnected with a positive bus interface of the other frequency converter; an external bleeder resistor interface adapted to be interconnected with an external bleeder resistor interface of the other frequency converter; and a first control logic which controls a parallel connection, between the frequency converter and the other frequency converter and realized by a direct current bus, to be turned on or off. A corresponding frequency converter assembly, a control method, and a computer readable storage medium are also provided. |
| US11637502B2 |
Startup process for a dual active bridge converter to prevent over-voltage failure and thermal run-away
A system and method for controlling a dual active bridge based DC/DC converter. A controller implements a startup control scheme and DC bus pre-charge routine to prevent damage to the converter upon startup. During startup of the converter, the startup control process can be used to prevent excessive phase-shift and the DC bus pre-charge routine adjusts the pulse width modulated duty cycle by increasing the dead time between signals, resulting in a decreased DC bus capacitor. |
| US11637496B2 |
Adaptive on-time control for four-switch switching converter
A switching converter has four switches and a control circuit. The control circuit provides a first drive signal to control a first switch and a second drive signal to control a second switch based on a first set signal, and provides a third drive signal to control the third switch and a fourth drive signal to control the fourth switch based on a second set signal. When an output voltage is larger than an input voltage, an on-time period of the third switch is adaptively adjusted according to the input voltage, the output voltage and a first parameter. When the output voltage is less than the input voltage, the on-time period of the third switch is adaptively adjusted according to the input voltage, the output voltage and a second parameter. |
| US11637493B2 |
Electrical circuits for power factor correction by measurement and removal of overtones and power factor maximization
Provided are electrical circuits and methods for power factor correction. An example method includes receiving, by converter, an input voltage at a fundamental frequency and generating an output voltage; generating, based on the output voltage, a first measurement signal; subtracting a first reference signal from the first measurement signal to obtain a first error signal; generating an adaptive current sense signal, generating a reference voltage based on the input voltage, subtracting the reference voltage from the current sense signal thus generating a second measurement signal to control the current measurement; subtracting the second measurement signal from the input voltage to obtain a difference signal, wherein the difference signal is largely minimized by removing overtones of the fundamental frequency; generating, based on the difference signal, a second error signal; using a sum of the second error signal as a first order correction to the first error signal to regulate the converter. |
| US11637489B2 |
Isolated DC/DC converter and AC/DC converter
There is provided an isolated DC/DC converter including a primary side control circuit disposed on the primary side and switching a switching element connected in series with a primary side winding of a power transformer; a secondary side control circuit disposed on the secondary side and generating a control signal including first control information and second control information on the basis of the secondary side voltage; and an insulated transmission circuit transmitting, in an insulated manner, each piece of control information included in the control signal to the primary side control circuit. The primary side control circuit controls a switching frequency of the switching element on the basis of the first control information indicating the frequency of the control signal, and controls a peak value of a primary side current on the basis of the second control information indicating the pulse width of the control signal. |
| US11637487B2 |
Motor assembly and manufacturing method thereof
A motor assembly includes a first bearing installed on a rotating shaft adjacent to an impeller to support a first support part of the rotating shaft, a second bearing installed on the rotating shaft adjacent to the rotor to support a second support part of the rotating shaft, a bearing bracket receiving the first and second bearings therein, an elastic member inserted between the first bearing and the bearing bracket or between the second bearing and the bearing bracket to press either the first bearing or the second bearing to get closer to each other, and a separation preventing member installed on the bearing bracket to fix the first bearing, the second bearing and the elastic member to an inner space of the bearing bracket such that at least one portion of the separation preventing member overlaps with one of the first bearing, the second bearing and the elastic member. |
| US11637485B2 |
Method of manufacturing rotor in which magnet is inserted into magnet hole of rotor core
A method of manufacturing a rotor is disclosed. A magnet is inserted into a magnet hole of a rotor core. The method comprises inserting an insertion member into the magnet hole having a first opening and a second opening. The method comprises fixing the magnet to the insertion member extending out from the second opening. The method comprises inserting the magnet, which is fixed to the insertion member, into the magnet hole from the second opening by pulling the insertion member extending out from the first opening in a direction separating away from the rotor core. The method comprises cutting the insertion member extending out from the first opening. |
| US11637484B2 |
Cover retention
A low profile electric pump arrangement having a motor housing connected to a pump element of a transmission for a vehicle. An inverter housing connected to the motor housing and has a where an electronics control unit (ECU) connects through the inverter housing to selectively supply power to the motor within the motor housing. The recess and the ECU are covered and sealed off from the elements by a plastic cover. In order to obtain a low profile of the electric pump arrangement so it can fit within a desired packaging line on a transmission casing a metal bracket is over molded into the plastic cover. The metal bracket has at least one exposed surface that engages the inverter housing to hold the plastic cover onto the inverter housing in a position so that the plastic cover covers and seals the ECU and recess at the second side of the inverter housing. |
| US11637480B2 |
Power plant having a cooling system, method for operating such a power plant, method for modifying a power plant
A power plant and a method for operating such a power plant having at least one generator, which is cooled by a cooling gas cooled by a generator heat exchanger, and a closed cooling water system, to which the generator heat exchanger and additional heat exchangers of the power plant are connected, wherein the generator heat exchanger is a component of an additional cooling water circuit, which serves solely to cool the generator, which is connected to the cooling water system and can be selectively disconnected therefrom by at least one shut-off valve, and which has a pump and at least one refrigerating machine for cooling the cooling water flowing through the additional cooling water circuit. |
| US11637479B2 |
Wave energy harvester
A linear generator includes one or more helices, and one or more magnet members movable relative to a first helix to generate electric energy within the first helix. The first helix includes a first coil. The first helix and/or the magnet members have a density less than that of water such that the first helix and/or the magnet members have buoyant properties when the linear generator is at least partially submerged in the water. |
| US11637478B2 |
Pulley assisted electromagnetic water pump
An electrically and mechanically driven automotive accessory including a housing, an electric motor, a pulley, and a pulley assist mechanism. The electric motor comprises a stator assembly that is mounted to the housing and a rotor assembly that is mounted to a shaft. The electric motor creates a primary torque flow path that drives rotation of the rotor assembly relative to the stator assembly. The pulley is rotatable relative to the shaft and the rotor assembly. The pulley assist mechanism includes a plurality of claw-pole structures that are arranged circumferentially about the rotor assembly and an electromagnet that is configured to induce a magnetic field between the claw-pole structures and the pulley, which creates a secondary torque flow path between the pulley and the rotor assembly. |
| US11637477B2 |
Rotating machine
Example aspects of a rotating machine, a method for pre-loading a rotating machine, and a method for using a rotating machine are disclosed. The rotating machine can comprise a stator; a rotor, wherein one of the stator and the rotor comprises a mounting flange formed monolithically therewith; a bearing directly mounted to the mounting flange; and the other of the stator and the rotor directly mounted to the bearing. |
| US11637476B2 |
Elastic bush and motor using same
An elastic bush and an electric motor using the elastic bush are proposed. The elastic bush includes a bush body having in a central portion thereof a coupling hole into which a rotating shaft is inserted, a circular separation plate spaced apart from an end of the bush body in an extending direction of the rotating shaft and coming into close contact with a neighboring associated component, and a plurality of connecting legs each connected at both ends thereof to the bush body and the separation plate, and elastically deformed to vary a relative distance between the bush body and the separation plate. An entire length of the elastic bush is varied through elastic deformation. Therefore, a gap between two components located on both sides of the elastic bush, such as a front bush and an armature assembly, may be more effectively reduced. |
| US11637475B2 |
Terminal block for integrated tail cone and mounted generator
Tail cone assemblies for gas turbine engines are described. The tail cone assemblies include a generator housing having an electrical connector, the generator housing defining a longitudinal axis. A first casing is arranged radially outward from the generator housing relative to the longitudinal axis and a second casing arranged radially outward from the first casing relative to the longitudinal axis. A hollow strut extends radially between the first casing and the second casing and defining an interior cavity, the hollow strut located circumferentially relative to the longitudinal axis at a location radially aligned with the electrical connector of the generator housing. An electrical conductor is arranged within the interior cavity of the hollow strut and an adapter is configured to electrically connect the electrical conductor with the electrical conductor. |
| US11637474B2 |
Throughflow vacuum motor with reverse airflow
A throughflow motor assembly includes a motor assembly having a rotatable shaft and a housing with a motor assembly mounted to one end and a housing opening therethrough. A fan assembly is rotated by the rotatable shaft and received in the housing at an end opposite the motor assembly. The housing includes a partition which partitions the fan assembly and the motor assembly from one another, and includes at least one centrally located flow passage extending therethrough. The fan assembly draws air over the motor assembly, through the housing opening and at least one centrally located flow passage, and then into the fan assembly which exhausts the air. |
| US11637472B2 |
Motor
The present invention may provide a motor including a housing, a cover which covers the housing, a stator disposed inside the housing, a rotor disposed inside the stator, a rotary shaft coupled to the rotor, a bearing disposed on the cover, and a nut which is coupled to the cover and which is in contact with an outer ring of the bearing, wherein the cover incudes a first pocket accommodating the bearing and a second pocket which is disposed above the first pocket and to which the nut is rotation-coupled, the nut includes a body disposed to be lower than an upper surface of the cover and including a screw thread and an extension portion disposed to be higher than the upper surface of the cover, the body incudes a protrusion protruding outward from the screw thread, and the second pocket includes a first groove in which the protrusion is positioned. |
| US11637471B2 |
Rotary electric machine and assembling method thereof
The present disclosure provides a rotary electric machine including a housing, a stator, a rotor, an outer cover and a plurality of power cables. The stator is disposed in the housing and includes a stator core, a plurality of windings, a circuit board and a plurality of conductive pillars. The plurality of windings are wound around the stator core. The circuit board is fixed on the top of the stator core. The plurality of conductive pillars are electrically coupled with the circuit board. The rotor includes and an end cover. The end cover is disposed between the outer cover and the housing. The plurality of conductive pillars partially penetrate through a notch of the end cover, respectively. Two ends of each of the plurality of power cables are electrically coupled with the corresponding one of the plurality of conductive pillars and a connector, respectively. |
| US11637468B2 |
Rotor for an electric machine
A rotor for an electric machine, having a laminated core, which is arranged on a shaft and provided with magnets. Multiple individual adjoining plates pushed onto a shaft or of partial laminated cores having multiple plates have a central borehole accommodating the shaft. At least a part of the plates or partial laminated cores are pushed onto the shaft pivoted by a predetermined pivot angle (α). Every plate or partial laminated core includes multiple coolant passages arranged distributed around the center (Z) of the borehole. The angle offset of two adjacent coolant passages corresponds to the pivot angle (α). |
| US11637467B2 |
Adhesive mixture including hard magnetic material for e-machine rotor
A rotor for an electric machine includes a core comprised of stacked laminations that define pockets between a hub portion and a pole portion. Each of the pockets are configured to receive magnetic material and define center cavities between regions of magnetic material to eliminate a flux leakage path between the magnetic materials. A cured mixture including an epoxy and a magnetic powder is disposed within the center cavities. The magnetic material may include sintered magnets and a cured mixture. |
| US11637466B1 |
Mechanical and electromechanical arrangements for field-weakening of an electric machine that utilizes permanent magnets
Methods, systems, and mechanical and electromechanical arrangements for field-weakening of an electric machine that utilizes permanent magnets are disclosed herein. One rotor assembly for an electric motor includes a rotor body that moves with respect to a central axis, the rotor body having a core and a number of permanent magnets that move with the rotor body, and the rotor body also having a number of movable field-weakening magnetic materials that move with respect to the permanent magnets and to the central axis. |
| US11637464B2 |
Rotor structure, permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and electric vehicle
A rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and an electric vehicle are provided. The rotor structure includes a rotor body. A permanent magnet groove group is provided on the rotor body, the permanent magnet groove group includes an outer layer permanent magnet groove and an inner layer permanent magnet groove, and a magnetic conduction channel is formed between the outer permanent magnet groove and the inner layer permanent magnet groove which are adjacent. A deflection segment is formed on at least one end of the magnetic conduction channel, and a distance from the deflection segment to a quadrature-axis of the rotor body is decreased gradually outward in a radial direction, so that an end of the magnetic conduction channel is disposed near the quadrature-axis. |
| US11637463B1 |
Double rotor brushless direct-current motor with fluid cooling
The present disclosure provides a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor comprising: a double rotor comprising: an inner rotor and outer rotor secured to a rotor housing having a plurality of N-pole and S-pole magnets, a stator comprising: a stator base portion, a plurality of cooling structures distributed around the stator base portion, a plurality of stator teeth, each of the plurality of stator teeth being disposed in a slot and having a plurality of windings wound around the stator tooth; and a liquid distribution comprising: a liquid introduction module comprising: a liquid introduction base portion, and a plurality of fluid channels being secured to the liquid introduction top surface, and housed within the plurality of cooling structures, and a liquid injection portion configured to channel liquid into the cavity and the plurality of cooling structures; a liquid egress module comprising: a liquid egress base portion secured to the stator. |
| US11637460B2 |
Wireless power transfer system having an electric field shield member
A wireless power transfer system includes a power transmitter including a high frequency power converter circuit that converts a direct current power into a high frequency power using a switching circuit, a power transmitter coil, and an electric field shield member close to the power transmitter coil and having a structure that uses a conductive member to form an equivalent capacitance between the electric field shield member and the power transmitter coil by electric coupling therebetween during a power transmitting operation such that the value of the equivalent capacitance becomes greater than the value of an equivalent capacitance formed between the power transmitter coil and ground. The power transmitter causes electric potentials in the electric field shield member to be identical using the conductive member, suppresses changes in an electric field in a vicinity of the power transmitter coil, and suppresses radiation of the electric field noise. |
| US11637456B2 |
Near-field antennas for accumulating radio frequency energy at different respective segments included in one or more channels of a conductive plate
Near-field antennas and methods of operating and manufacturing near-field antennas are provided herein. An example near-field antenna for transmitting radio frequency (RF) power transmission signals includes: (i) a conductive plate including one or more channels extending through the conductive place, a respective channel of the one or more channels having first and second segments, and (ii) a feed element configured to direct a plurality of RF power transmission signals towards the conductive plate. At least some of the RF power transmission signals cause an accumulation of RF energy within a near-field distance of the conductive plate. Furthermore, the accumulation of RF energy includes: (i) a first zone of accumulated RF energy at the first segment, and (ii) a second zone of accumulated RF energy at the second segment, the second zone of accumulated RF energy being distinct from the first zone of accumulated RF energy. |
| US11637455B2 |
Wireless power transmission apparatus, electronic apparatus for receiving power wirelessly and operation method thereof
A wireless power transmission apparatus according to various embodiments may comprise a plurality of patch antennas, a communication circuit, and a processor. The processor may be configured to perform a control to form an RF wave of a first beam width via the plurality of patch antennas, receive, from an electronic apparatus, via the communication circuit, sensing data for at least one of a movement of the electronic apparatus or an orientation of the electronic apparatus, and adjust a beam width of the RF wave formed by the plurality of patch antennas from the first beam width to a second beam width at least on the basis of the received sensing data. |
| US11637453B2 |
Synchronous rectifier for use in a wireless power transfer system and method for synchronous rectification in wireless power transfer
A rectifier for use in a receiver of a wireless power transfer system for receiving wireless power transferred for a transmitter of the wireless power transfer system. The rectifier comprises a field effect transistor (FET) comprising: a source terminal electrically connected to ground; a drain terminal electrically connected to a receive element of the receiver. The receive element is for extracting power from the transmitter of the wireless power transfer system. The FET further comprises a gate terminal electrically connected to the receive element. The gate terminal is driven by a gate signal in phase with an input signal received at the receive element. |
| US11637449B2 |
Wireless charging air compressor
A wireless charging air compressor includes a housing having a motor operably connected to an air pump, which forces air into a cavity, and an actuator operably connected to the cavity for selectively discharging air through a nozzle secured to the housing. A rechargeable battery is operably connected to the motor for providing power to the motor. A wireless charging receiver mechanism is operably connected to the rechargeable battery. The wireless charging receiver mechanism is configured to recharge the rechargeable battery upon interacting with a wireless charging transmission mechanism. This allow the rechargeable battery to be recharged without the need for a hardwired connection. |
| US11637447B1 |
Wireless power transmitter with removable magnetic connector panel
A power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a control and communications unit, an inverter circuit, at least one coil, a shielding, a housing, and a removable front plate. The housing is configured to house, at least in part, one or more of the control and communications unit, the invertor circuit, the at least one coil, the shielding, or combinations thereof. The removable front plate is configured to mechanically connect to the housing, the removable front plate including at least one magnet, the at least one magnet configured to attract a receiver magnet when a power receiver is proximate to the removable front plate. |
| US11637445B2 |
Method for operating an electric island power network
A method for operating an electric island power network having a renewable energy generation plant, a conventional energy generation plant, an energy store, and an energy consumer, includes: defining first operating parameters for the network for when a frequency and/or voltage of the network is outside defined limits; operating the network using the first operating parameters causing the frequency and voltage of the network to both be within the defined limits; defining second operating parameters for the network after the expiration of a defined time span over which the frequency and voltage have remained within the defined limits, the second operating parameters being defined such that operating the network using the second operating parameters causes the network to operate cost-optimally. If verified that the second operating parameters ensure that the frequency and voltage remain within the defined limits, operation using the second operating parameters is maintained. Otherwise, it is discontinued. |
| US11637443B2 |
Backup power supply for electronic system and operation method thereof
An operation method for a backup power supply of an electronic system is provided. The backup power supply includes a fuse. The operation method includes: estimating a reading voltage error and a resistance of the fuse; reading a real-time battery discharging current; reading and calculating a voltage difference between two terminals of the fuse; and determining whether to send a fuse replacement message to the electronic system according to the voltage difference between the two terminals of the fuse, the reading voltage error, the resistance of the fuse and the real-time battery discharging current. |
| US11637438B2 |
Battery powered electrical appliance for personal hygiene
The present invention relates to the field of battery powered electrical appliances or personal hygiene, in particular to a hair removal device such as an electric shaver or epilator as well as an electric toothbrush. A control device for a battery powered electrical appliance for personal hygiene is described, wherein the control device is adapted to cause the battery powered electrical appliance to perform automated contact fritting of a battery contact by controlling the battery powered electrical appliance such that a current pulse exceeding a wetting threshold is applied across the battery contact during a standby period. |
| US11637431B2 |
Inverter
An inverter includes a direct-current conversion unit, a busbar unit, and an inversion unit. The direct-current conversion unit includes a first positive input terminal, a first negative input terminal, a second positive input terminal, a second negative input terminal, a first direct current DC-to-DC module, a second DC-to-DC module, a first on/off control device, a second on/off control device, a first switch, and a second switch. The first positive input terminal and the first negative input terminal are configured to connect a first photovoltaic string, the second positive input terminal and the second negative input terminal are configured to connect a second photovoltaic string, and a connection relationship of a circuit in the direct-current conversion unit can be changed based on combinations of turning-on or turning-off of the first switch and the second switch. |
| US11637427B2 |
Damping oscillations using active filters
Provided is an arrangement for controlling a converter of a power generation system, for example, a wind turbine, the converter being connected to a connection point to a utility grid, the arrangement including: a measurement section adapted to provide measurement values indicative of values of current and voltage at the connection point, a main converter controller adapted to receive the measurement values and to generate a main converter control signal based on the measurement values, an active filter system adapted to receive the measurement values and to generate an active filter control signal based on the measurement values, an addition element adapted to add the main converter control signal and the active filter control signal and to supply the sum signal as a control signal to the converter. |
| US11637424B2 |
Electrical stress protection circuit and electronic device including the same
An electrical stress protection circuit includes a detection circuit including a first transistor connected to a driving voltage rail and turned on when electrical stress is provided, and a bypass transistor turned on in response to a signal output when the first transistor is turned on and configured to provide electrical stress to a reference voltage rail. An electronic device configured to perform a predetermined function, includes a detection circuit including a first transistor connected to a driving voltage rail and turned on when electrical stress is provided, and an electrical stress protection circuit including a bypass transistor turned on in response to a signal output when the first transistor is turned on and configured to provide electrical stress to a reference voltage rail. |
| US11637423B2 |
Overcurrent protection by depletion mode MOSFET or JFET and bi-metallic temperature sensing switch in mini circuit breaker
A miniature circuit breaker for providing short circuit and overload protection is disclosed herein. The miniature circuit breaker features a field effect transistor (FET), which may be a depletion mode metal oxide semiconductor FET (D MOSFET), a junction field-effect transistor (JFET), or a silicon carbide JFET, the FET being connected to a bi-metallic switch, where the bi-metallic switch acts as a temperature sensing circuit breaker. In combination, the D MOSFET and bi-metallic switch are able to limit current to downstream circuit components, thus protecting the components from damage. |
| US11637421B2 |
Ground impedance and fault detection system and method
A system and method that identify a location and/or magnitude of a ground fault in a circuit having a bus that connects battery strings with loads and a ground reference between the loads are provided. Potential of the bus is shifted relative to a ground reference in a first direction. A first impedance in the bus between the battery strings and the ground reference is determined, and the bus is shifted relative to the ground reference in a second direction. A second impedance in the bus between the battery strings and the ground reference is determined. A location and/or severity of a ground fault is determined based on a relationship between the first impedance and the second impedance. |
| US11637416B2 |
Conductor trimmer system
A conductor trimmer may be provided. The conductor trimmer may include a grip and a trimmer. The grip may include a grip handle and a trimmer groove. The trimmer may include a trimmer handle. The trimmer may engage the trimmer groove. With trimmer snuggly attached to both the grip and a conductor, the trimmer may be rotated about conductor by a user holding the grip handle stationary and rotating the trimmer by the trimmer handle. As the trimmer rotates about the conductor, a first roller rail and a second roller rail may ride in the trimmer groove as a blade cuts layers of strands from the conductor. |
| US11637414B2 |
Three phase switchgear using single phase equipment in single casing
A three phase switchgear or control gear includes: at least one compartment; a plurality of components for a first phase; a plurality of components for a second phase; and a plurality of components for a third phase. The plurality of components for the first phase, the plurality of components for the second phase, and the plurality of components for the third phase each include a main busbar, a three position linear or rotational movement disconnector switch, a single phase circuit breaker pole, and a cable connection. The plurality of components for the first phase, the plurality of components for the second phase, and the plurality of components for the third phase are housed in the at least one compartment. |
| US11637413B2 |
Methods for making an energized parts guard system
An energized parts guard is disclosed comprising a panel of substantially rigid, electrically insulative material wherein the substantially rigid panel further comprises a first one or more apertures and a second one or more apertures. The first one or more apertures are so dimensioned to accept one or more circuit breakers inserted into the first one or more apertures such that there is less than a 12.5 mm gap between the panel and the circuit breaker on at least two sides of the one or more circuit breakers. The second one or more apertures are positioned to facilitate access to at least one terminal of each of the one or more circuit breakers when the one or more circuit breakers are inserted into the first one or more apertures. |
| US11637412B2 |
Spark plug
The spark plug includes: an insulator having an axial hole extending in an axial direction; a center electrode disposed at a front end in the axial direction of the axial hole and having a front end portion that protrudes from a front side of the axial hole; a tubular metal shell holding the insulator; and a ground electrode having one end portion that is fixed to a through hole provided in the metal shell, the ground electrode having another end portion that forms a discharge gap between the other end portion and the front end portion of the center electrode. The through hole extends toward the front side in the axial direction, in a direction from an outer peripheral surface toward an inner peripheral surface of the metal shell. The one end portion is located on a rear side relative to the other end portion in the axial direction. |
| US11637409B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting module and control method therefor
A semiconductor light-emitting module according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements each outputting light of a desired beam projection pattern; and a support substrate holding the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a phase modulation layer configured to form a target beam projection pattern in a target beam projection region. The plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements include first and second semiconductor light-emitting elements that are different in terms of at least any of a beam projection direction, the target beam projection pattern, and a light emission wavelength. |
| US11637406B2 |
Electrical connector and method for producing same
Provided is an electric connector, which is to be arranged between a connection terminal of a first device and a connection terminal of a second device, and is configured to electrically connect the connection terminal of the first device and the connection terminal of the second device to each other, the electric connector including a composite, the composite including: an elastic body having a plurality of through holes that penetrate therethrough in a thickness direction; and a conductive member, which is joined to an inner wall of each of the through holes, and is configured to electrically connect the connection terminal of the first device and the connection terminal of the second device to each other, wherein at least a part of a vicinity of at least one of distal ends of the conductive member is hollow. |
| US11637403B2 |
Electrical connector with high speed mounting interface
An electrical interconnect for passing high speed signals through an electronic system with a high density of signals and high signal integrity. The interconnect includes an electrical connector and a transition portion of a printed circuit board to which the connector is mounted. Signal conductors are connected to pads on the surface of the PCB using edge-to-pad mounting. The pads align with intermediate portions of the signal conductors such that transitions within the connector that could degrade signal integrity are avoided. The signal conductors may be positioned as individually shielded broadside coupled pairs extending in rows within the connector. Surface traces on the PCB connect the pads to signal vias aligned for vertical routing out of the connector footprint. Ground planes underlying the surface traces facilitate a transition from the signal paths in the connector to those in the PCB with low mode conversion avoiding resonances in the connector shields. |
| US11637399B2 |
Connector combination structure and connector thereof
A connector combination structure is provided. The connector combination structure includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a first joint and at least one wedging portion. The second connector includes a housing, a second joint and at least one wedging arm. The second joint and the wedging arm are disposed in the housing. The wedging arm is adapted to be rotated between a first arm position and a second arm position. The first joint is adapted to be inserted into the housing to be connected to the second joint. When the wedging arm is located in the first arm position, the wedging arm is adapted to wedge the wedging portion. When the wedging arm is in the second arm position, the wedging arm is adapted to release the wedging portion. |
| US11637396B2 |
Electrical connector assembly with a releasable locking structure
An electrical connector assembly has a moving plate for protecting a terminal, which may easily separate the moving plate from a male plate for a rework operation for realigning a terminal pin without damage and may decrease a force when a female connector is inserted into and fastened to the male connector to push the moving plate. This improves the quality by reducing the difficulty when the female connector is inserted into and fastened to the male connector and improves a locking projection structure of the female connector such that the moving plate may easily return to the original location at all times when the female connector is separated. |
| US11637395B2 |
Socket structure
The present disclosure provides a socket structure including a casing, a main body, a frame and a cover. The casing includes plural lateral walls, a bottom, an opening and an accommodation space. The opening is defined by the lateral walls. The accommodation space is defined by the lateral walls and the bottom and is in communication with the opening. The main body is disposed in the accommodation space and includes a circuit board and a connection port disposed on the circuit board. The frame includes at least one plate and a first extending portion. The plate surrounds the periphery of the opening. The first extending portion is extended from the plate and is connected to one of the lateral walls. The cover covers the opening and includes a through hole. The through hole is configured to allow a plug to pass through and connect to the connection port. |
| US11637394B2 |
Electrical connector having power contacts assembled in a height direction
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of power contact pairs, the insulative housing has a mounting section for installing on a printed circuit board, a mating section and a plurality of contact-receiving passageways extending along a front-and-back direction. The power contact pairs are retained in corresponding contact-receiving passageways and divided into two rows along a height direction, each power contact pair in each row has two flaky power contacts, each power contact has a retaining portion held in the relative contact-receiving passageway, at least one contacting portion extending forwards from the retaining portion and at least one soldering portion bending from a rear end of the retaining portion. One row of power contact pairs is assembled into the insulative housing along a back-to-front direction, and the other row of power contact pairs is assembled into the insulative housing in an up-and-down direction. |
| US11637393B2 |
Electrical connector with structure for preventing inflow of coating
An electrical connector includes: an insulating spacer formed including an insulating material; a shell formed including a conductive material, the shell being configured to cover at least a part of the insulating spacer; and a plurality of terminals configured to be held by the insulating spacer. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a contact portion that contacts a terminal of a counterpart connector, and a board connection portion that is connected to a circuit on a board where the electrical connector is mounted, and the insulating spacer includes a cavity for preventing the inflow of a coating along a surface facing the board, between the board connection portion and the contact portion in the surface facing the board. |
| US11637386B2 |
Terminal and terminal wire assembly
A terminal coupled to an electric wire includes a terminal body and a shell. The shell includes a tubular portion and pressing portions 25A and 25B that protrudes from an inner wall of the tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a bottom wall, a first sidewall that projects upward from a first side edge of the bottom wall, a second sidewall that projects upward from a second side edge of the bottom wall, a ceiling that extends from the first sidewall to the second sidewall and is opposite the bottom wall, and a restricting portion that extends from the second sidewall to the first sidewall and overlaps an outer surface of the ceiling. |
| US11637382B2 |
Method for manufacturing an antenna array, antenna array, and test system
A method of manufacturing an antenna array is described. The method includes: providing several antennas; determining at least one set of quasi-random positions for the antennas based on a predefined algorithm for limiting aliasing effects, wherein the positions are arranged on a manifold having at least one dimension in an irregular manner; and arranging the antennas according to the at least one set of quasi-random positions obtained from the predefined algorithm for limiting aliasing effects. Further, an antenna array and a test system are described. |
| US11637378B2 |
Coiled dipole antenna
An antenna system comprises a transmission member and an antenna at a distal end of the transmission member. The antenna includes a first conductive arm, an insulator extending around the first conductive arm, and a second conductive arm wound around at least a first portion of the insulator to form a second conductive arm coil. A property of the insulator varies along an insulator longitudinal axis of the insulator. The insulator includes a set of formed patterns along at least a portion of the insulator longitudinal axis. |
| US11637376B2 |
Antenna packaged substrate and manufacturing method thereof, packaged antenna, and terminal
An antenna packaged substrate includes: a substrate, a first antenna radiating patch disposed on a surface of the substrate, a second antenna radiating patch disposed over the first antenna radiating patch, and a dielectric stack disposed between the first antenna radiating patch and the second antenna radiating patch. The dielectric stack includes a first dielectric layer, a bonding layer disposed on a side that is of the first dielectric layer and faces the first antenna radiating patch, and a second dielectric layer disposed on a side that is of the first dielectric layer and faces the second antenna radiating patch. A dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer is lower than a dielectric constant of the substrate, and an expansion coefficient of the second dielectric layer is lower than an expansion coefficient of the first dielectric layer. |
| US11637373B2 |
Multi-band antennas having enhanced directors therein that inhibit radiation interference across multiple frequency bands
An antenna includes a first radiating element configured to emit first electromagnetic radiation in response to at least one feed signal having a frequency within a first radio frequency (RF) band. A director is provided, which is positioned forwardly of the first radiating element, and in a path of the first electromagnetic radiation. The director includes first and second passive impedance elements that provide respective first and second frequency-dependent reactances to first currents induced within the director in response to the first electromagnetic radiation. The first and second passive impedance elements may include a first inductor and a first capacitor, which are electrically coupled in series. The director may also be configured to include a plurality of passive impedance elements that are connected within an impedance loop containing a second LC circuit in series with a first LC circuit. |
| US11637372B2 |
Mobile computing device having a modal antenna
A mobile computing device including a modal antenna is disclosed. The mobile computing device may include a radio frequency circuit and a modal antenna mechanically coupled to a portion of the mobile computing at a location that is remote from the radio frequency circuit. The modal antenna may include a driven element and a parasitic element positioned proximate to the driven element. The modal antenna may be operable in a plurality of different modes. Each mode may be associated with a different radiation pattern. The mobile computing device may include a transmission line coupling the radio frequency circuit to the modal antenna. The radio frequency circuit may be configured to transmit an RF signal over the transmission line to the modal antenna and configured to communicate a control signal to adjust the mode of the modal antenna over the transmission line. |
| US11637368B2 |
Phased array passband calibration
Systems and methods are provided for phased array passband calibration, which permits repeated calibration of the antenna system in the field without a moving far field sensor. An implementation includes an equalization filter coupled to a phased array feed; a calibration probe disposed to couple with an antenna array to transfer radio frequency (RF) energy; a database of probe-to-far-field (FF) transforms having a probe-to-FF transform for each of a plurality of incidence angles; a calibration component operable to: receive calibration probe measurements for a plurality of frequencies; and determine a calculated phased array passband response for at least a first incidence angle, based at least on the calibration probe measurements and a probe-to-FF transform for the first incidence angle; and a filter generation component operable to generate a tuning configuration for the equalization filter, based at least on the calculated phased array passband response. |
| US11637365B2 |
Polymer composition for use in an antenna system
A polymer composition comprising a dielectric material distributed within a polymer matrix is provided. The dielectric material has a volume resistivity of from about 0.1 ohm-cm to about 1×1012 ohm-cm, wherein the polymer matrix contains at least one thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer, and further wherein the polymer composition exhibits a dielectric constant of about 4 or more and a dissipation factor of about 0.3 or less, as determined at a frequency of 2 GHz. |
| US11637360B2 |
Compact dual-band GNSS antenna
An antenna includes a substrate layer having a first surface and an opposite second surface, the second surface having a metallization layer; a conductive layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate layer; a slot formed in the conductive layer, the slot including a first part and a second part that are symmetric to each other about a diagonal of the conductive layer; and at least one feed point on the conductive layer and spaced from the slot by a predetermined distance. |
| US11637358B2 |
Carrier-containing metal foil and method for manufacturing millimeter-wave antenna substrate using same
Provided is a carrier-attached metal foil which has excellent carrier-releasability and excellent selective metal layer-etchability, and can achieve a reduction in transmission loss and resistance in a semiconductor package (for example, a millimeter-wave antenna substrate) manufactured using the same. The carrier-attached metal foil includes: (a) a carrier; (b) a release functional layer on the carrier and including (b1) an adhesion layer disposed closer to the carrier and having a thickness of more than 10 nm and less than 200 nm and (b2) a release assistance layer disposed farther from the carrier and having a thickness of 50 nm or more and 500 nm or less; and (c) a composite metal layer on the release functional layer and including (c1) a carbon layer disposed closer to the release assistance layer, and (c2) a first metal layer disposed farther from the release assistance layer and mainly composed of Au or Pt. |
| US11637353B2 |
Electrodes, heaters, sensors, and associated articles and methods
Articles and electrochemical devices containing electrodes, current collectors, heaters, and/or sensors and associated systems and methods, are provided. The sensors, when present, may be temperature sensors or pressure sensors. In some cases, the heaters and/or sensors are adjacent to the article or electrochemical device. In certain cases, the heaters and/or sensors are thin films that are integrated into the article or electrochemical device. |
| US11637352B2 |
Battery terminal
Disclosed is a lead acid battery including a housing having an exterior. The battery also includes a lead terminal extending through the housing to the exterior of the housing. A coating covers the lead terminal such that there is no exposed lead exterior to the housing. |
| US11637349B2 |
Substrate for lithium ion battery separators and lithium ion battery separator
It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.18 mm is used as a screening plate and the concentration of a sample is 0.1%. |
| US11637344B2 |
Nickel-plated, heat-treated steel sheet for battery cans
The present invention provides a nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can (1), having a nickel layer with a nickel amount of 4.4 to 26.7 g/m2 on a steel sheet (11), wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured along the depth direction from the surface of the nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can, by using a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the difference (D2-D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is less than 0.04 μm. |
| US11637343B2 |
Charger operable in different charging modes for charging an accumulator of the charger and an accumulator of an audio device
A charger for charging an audio-device-accumulator of an audio device which is wearable on a head of a user and contains an interface for the transfer of electrical energy to the audio-device-accumulator. The charger contains an energy source configured as a hybrid battery for supplying the interface in a first charging mode. The hybrid battery contains a charger-accumulator and a fuel cell. |
| US11637342B2 |
Electrochemical cell
An electrochemical cell includes a fuel electrode, an air electrode containing a perovskite type oxide as a main component, the perovskite type oxide being represented by a general formula ABO3 and containing La and Sr at an A site, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the fuel electrode and the air electrode. The air electrode includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being located on a side opposite to the solid electrolyte layer, the second portion being located on the solid electrolyte layer side. A first ratio of an La concentration to an Sr concentration detected at the first portion through Auger electron spectroscopy is at least 1.1 times a second ratio of an La concentration to an Sr concentration detected at the second portion through Auger electron spectroscopy. |
| US11637339B2 |
Battery module
A battery module includes a cell stack in which a plurality of unit cells including terminal parts are aligned in a first direction and an insulating member surrounds the plurality of unit cells; and a module housing in which a plurality of receiving parts, into each of which the cell stack is configured to be inserted, are provided and are aligned in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein each of the plurality of receiving parts includes a fixing wall around the cell stack and having at least a portion which is in contact with the cell stack. The cell stacks adjacent to each other in the second direction are electrically connected to each other, and the cell stacks adjacent to each other in the first direction are electrically disconnected from each other, when not connected to an end module. |
| US11637338B2 |
Battery module assembly and assembling method thereof
A battery module assembly with a plurality of unit modules stacked therein is provided. Each of the plurality of unit modules includes a cartridge including a cooling plate having a plate shape and two pouch type battery cells mounted on each of both side surfaces of the cooling plate with the cartridge therebetween. A partition having a tetragonal frame shape and including an internal empty space is disposed between adjacent unit modules among the plurality of unit modules. |
| US11637333B2 |
Sensing substrate and battery module including the same
According to the present invention, a dummy terminal is provided on a sensing substrate and the sensing substrate may be thus commonly used on both side surfaces of a battery module, and as a result, since only one type of sensing substrate provided with the dummy terminal needs to be manufactured instead of manufacturing two types of sensing substrates having different arrangements of the substrate terminals, mass productivity of the sensing substrate and the battery module including the same may be significantly improved. |
| US11637331B2 |
Neural-network state-of-charge and state of health estimation
An approach to control or monitoring of battery operation makes use of an artificial neural network (ANN), which receives one or more battery attributes for a Lithium ion (Li-ion) battery, and determines, based on the received one or more battery attributes, a state-of-charge (SOC) and/or a state-of-health (SOH) estimate for the Li-ion battery. The ANN includes at least one of a recurrent neural network (RNN) and a convolutional neural network (CNN), and the series of values of the battery attributes includes at one of battery voltage values, battery current values, and battery temperature values. |
| US11637327B2 |
Composition for non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer, battery component for non-aqueous secondary battery, method of producing laminate for non-aqueous secondary battery, and non-aqueous secondary battery
Provided is a composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer with which it is possible to form a functional layer that can cause a battery component including the functional layer to display a balance of both high blocking resistance and high process adhesiveness. The composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer contains a particulate polymer having a core-shell structure including a core portion and a shell portion at least partially covering an outer surface of the core portion. The core portion is formed by a polymer A and the shell portion is formed by a polymer B including not less than 1 mass % and not more than 20 mass % of a cyano group-containing monomer unit. |
| US11637326B2 |
Laminate
Provided is a laminate that is configured to suppress a deterioration in the all-solid-state battery even if the end part of the anode layer is cracked. The laminate may be a laminate comprising an anode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a cathode layer in this order, wherein an area in a planar direction of the cathode layer is smaller than an area in a planar direction of the anode layer; wherein an end part of the cathode layer comprises, on the solid electrolyte layer, a thin film part having a smaller thickness than a thickness of a central part of the cathode layer; and wherein the end part of the cathode layer comprises, on the thin film part, a space part formed by a level difference between the thin film part and the central part. |
| US11637325B2 |
Large capacity solid state battery
A technique relating to a battery structure is disclosed. A base substrate and a battery layer having a support substrate are prepared. The battery layer includes a protection layer formed on the support substrate, a film battery element formed on the protection layer and an insulator covering the film battery element. The battery layer is placed onto the base substrate with the bottom of the support substrate facing up. The support substrate is then removed from the battery layer at least in part by etching while protecting the film battery element by the protection layer. A stacked battery structure including the base substrate and the two or more battery layers is also disclosed. |
| US11637324B2 |
Lithium ion battery electrolytes and electrochemical cells including the same
An electrolyte for a lithium ion battery includes a nonaqueous aprotic organic solvent and a lithium salt dissolved in the organic solvent. The organic solvent includes a cyclic carbonate, an acyclic carbonate, and an acyclic fluorinated ether for improved low temperature and high voltage performance as well as enhanced thermostability. The ether group has a general formula of R1—O—[R3—O]n—R2, where n=0 or 1, R1 and R2 are each straight-chain C1-C6 fluoroalkyl groups, and, when n=1, R3 is a methylene group or a polyethylene group. |
| US11637322B2 |
Lithium battery
A lithium battery includes a cathode including a cathode active material; an anode including an anode active material; and an organic electrolytic solution between the cathode and the anode. The cathode active material includes a nickel-containing layered lithium transition metal oxide. A content of nickel in the lithium transition metal oxide is about 60 mol % or more with respect to a total number of moles of transition metals. The organic electrolytic solution includes a first lithium salt; an organic solvent; and a bicyclic sulfate-based compound represented by Formula 1 below: wherein, in Formula 1, each of A1, A2, A3, and A4 is independently a covalent bond, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C5 alkylene group, a carbonyl group, or a sulfinyl group, in which both A1 and A2 are not a covalent bond and both A3 and A4 are not a covalent bond. |
| US11637318B2 |
Solid electrolyte for organic batteries
A process can be used to produce a charge storage unit, especially a secondary battery, the electrodes of which contain an organic redox-active polymer, and which includes a polymeric solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte is obtained by polymerizing from mixtures of acrylates with methacrylates in the presence of at least one ionic liquid, which imparts advantageous properties to the charge storage unit. |
| US11637317B2 |
Solid polymer electrolyte compositions and methods of preparing same
A solid polymer electrolyte precursor composition includes (i) one or more organic solvents; (ii) one or more cellulosic polymers dissolved in the organic solvent(s); (iii) one or more polymerizable components dissolved or dispersed in the organic solvent(s); (iv) one or more photo-initiators dissolved or dispersed in the organic solvent(s), where at least one of the one or more photo-initiators, following irradiation with light, promotes polymerization of at least one of the one or more polymerizable components; (v) one or more lithium ion sources dissolved or dispersed in the organic solvent(s); (vi) one or more plasticizers dissolved or dispersed in the organic solvent(s); and (vii) one or more ceramic particles dissolved or dispersed in the organic solvent(s). |
| US11637316B2 |
Ceramic powder material, sintered body, and battery
A ceramic powder material containing: a first garnet-type compound containing Li, La, and Zr; and a second garnet-type compound containing Li, La, and Zr and having a composition different from a composition of the first garnet-type compound, in which the first garnet-type compound and the second garnet-type compound are represented by Formula [1] Li7-(3x+y)M1xLa3Zr2-yM2yO12, where M1 is Al or Ga, M2 is Nb or Ta, the first garnet-type compound satisfies 0≤(3x+y)≤0.5, and the second garnet-type compound satisfies 0.5<(3x+y)≤1.5. |
| US11637312B2 |
Sulfide solid electrolyte
A sulfide solid electrolyte containing the following (A) and (B): (A) a sulfide solid electrolyte having an argyrodite-type crystal structure; and (B) a sulfide solid electrolyte having a crystal structure different from the argyrodite-type crystal structure of the above-mentioned (A). |
| US11637310B2 |
Lithium secondary battery including sulfone-based additive
A lithium secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive active material represented by Formula 1, and the electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent, and a sulfone compound represented by Formula 2.wherein, in Formula 1, 0.9≤x≤1.2, 0.7≤y≤0.98, 0≤z<0.2, M comprises Al, Mg, Mn, Co, Fe, Cr, V, Ti, Cu, B, Ca, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, Sr, Sb, W, Bi, or a combination thereof, and A is a monovalent anion, a divalent anion, or a combination thereof, and in Formula 2, R1 and R2 are each independently a halogen, an unsubstituted C1-C10 alkyl group, or a C1-C10 alkyl group substituted with a halogen, and a1 and a2 are each independently an integer from 0 to 5. |
| US11637309B2 |
Rechargeable battery, electrode assembly, and a method for manufacturing electrode assembly
An embodiment of the present invention provides an electrode assembly including: a plurality of first electrodes provided with one side edges connected to each other by a first fixing portion; a plurality of second electrodes provided with one side edges connected to each other by a second fixing portion and inserted between the other side edges of the first electrodes; a separator interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and lead tabs including a first current collecting tab connected to the first electrode and a second current collecting tab connected to the second electrode. |
| US11637307B2 |
Modular and scalable flow battery system
A modular flow battery includes a battery stack container housing a plurality of redox flow battery stacks in fluid communication with at least one pair of electrolyte containers including an anolyte container for holding an anolyte and a catholyte container for holding a catholyte. Additional pairs of electrolyte containers can be connected to the battery stack container to increase an amount of energy that can be stored by the modular flow battery system. Respective housings enclosing each of the battery stack container and the electrolyte containers are configured for operation in a stacked configuration. In this manner, the energy storage capacity of the modular flow battery system can be further increased with substantially no increase in a lateral area occupied by the system. |
| US11637305B2 |
Power generation control system, power generation control method, and storage medium
A power generation control system includes a plurality of fuel cell systems mounted in an electric device that operates using electric power, a battery mounted in the electric device, and a control device configured to control each of the plurality of fuel cell systems on the basis of states of the plurality of fuel cell systems, a state of the battery, and required power of the plurality of fuel cell systems. |
| US11637304B2 |
Fuel cell system and control method for fuel cell system
The low efficiency power generation part of a control device is provided with an operating point setting part setting a target current and a target voltage defining an operating point of the fuel cell at the time of low efficiency power generation and a generated electric power control part making the generated electric power of the fuel cell increase and decrease at the time of low efficiency power generation by controlling the current of the fuel cell to the target current while making the flow rate of feed of oxidizing agent gas supplied to the fuel cell fluctuate so that the voltage of the fuel cell increases and decreases above and below the target voltage within a range where the charged and discharged electric powers of the rechargeable battery do not become larger than the allowable charged and discharged electric powers. |
| US11637300B2 |
Fuel cell based power generator
A controller for a fuel cell based power generator includes a memory and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a pressure in an anode loop of the fuel cell based power generator, wherein the anode loop includes a hydrogen generator and an anode loop blower, and control the anode loop blower such that the hydrogen generator provides hydrogen to an anode of a fuel cell via the blower and the anode loop at a controlled pressure. In further embodiments, the temperatures of the fuel cell and hydrogen generator are independently controlled. |
| US11637297B2 |
Fuel cell system
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a cathode off-gas discharge channel, a gas-liquid separator, and a cover member. The gas-liquid separator includes a body, a first discharge channel including a first valve seat at an end, and a first valve device including a first valve element and a first driver. The cover member covers at least the first discharge channel and the first valve seat in the gas-liquid separator, and includes a gas channel defining portion that defines a gas channel communicating with the cathode off-gas discharge channel between the cover member and the gas-liquid separator. The gas channel is configured such that a cathode off-gas flowing into the cover member comes into contact with the first discharge channel and the first valve seat and does not come into contact with the first driver. |
| US11637294B2 |
Method for producing fuel cell separator
Provided is a method for producing a fuel cell separator, capable of easily roughening the surface of a sheet-like metal substrate to become a fuel cell separator and thus reducing the contact resistance of the resulting fuel cell separator. Specifically, the method is a method for producing a fuel cell separator from a sheet-like metal substrate, including pulling the metal substrate at least in one direction to plastically deform the metal substrate, thereby increasing the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface of the metal substrate after being pulled compared to that before being pulled. |
| US11637291B2 |
Lithium-protecting polymer layer for an anode-less lithium metal secondary battery and manufacturing method
Provided is a lithium secondary battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte or separator-electrolyte assembly disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises: (a) An anode current collector, initially having no lithium or lithium alloy as an anode active material when the battery is made and prior to a charge or discharge operation; and (b) a thin layer of a high-elasticity polymer in ionic contact with the electrolyte and having a recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 700%, a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10−8 S/cm, and a thickness from 0.5 nm to 100 μm. Preferably, the high-elasticity polymer contains a cross-linked network of polymer chains having an ether linkage, nitrile-derived linkage, benzo peroxide-derived linkage, ethylene oxide linkage, propylene oxide linkage, vinyl alcohol linkage, cyano-resin linkage, triacrylate monomer-derived linkage, tetraacrylate monomer-derived linkage, or a combination thereof in the cross-linked network of polymer chains. |
| US11637286B2 |
Carbonaceous material for negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and production method of carbonaceous material
The present invention provides a carbonaceous material suitable for a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries (e.g., lithium ion secondary batteries, sodium ion secondary batteries, lithium sulfur batteries, lithium air batteries) having high charge/discharge capacities, and preferably high charge/discharge efficiency and low resistance, a negative electrode comprising the carbonaceous material, a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising the negative electrode, and a production method of the carbonaceous material. The present invention relates to a carbonaceous material having a nitrogen content obtained by elemental analysis of 3.5 mass % or more, a ratio of nitrogen content and hydrogen content (RN/H) of 6 or more and 100 or less, a ratio of oxygen content and nitrogen content (RO/N) of 0.1 or more and 1.0 or less, and a carbon interplanar spacing (d002) observed by X-ray diffraction measurement of 3.70 Å or more. |
| US11637285B2 |
Over-lithiated cathode material
The present disclosure relates to over-lithiated positive electroactive materials for use within an electrochemical cell. For example, the electrochemical cell includes a positive electrode that includes an over-lithiated positive electroactive material that includes one of LixMn2O4 (where 1.05≤x≤1.30) and LiMn(2−x)NixO4 (where 0≤x≤0.5). The electrochemical cell can include a negative electrode that includes a silicon-containing negative electroactive material having a Columbic Efficiency greater than or equal to about 80% and less than or equal to about 90%. |
| US11637283B2 |
Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, production method therefor, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries using said positive electrode active material
Provided is a positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries for making high capacity and high output compatible, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, to which the positive electrode active material is adopted, and a production method for a positive electrode active material in which the positive electrode active material can be easily produced even on an industrial scale. A positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, comprising: primary particles of a lithium nickel composite oxide represented by at least General Formula: LizNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 (0.95≤z≤1.03, 0 |
| US11637280B2 |
Precharged negative electrode material for secondary battery
Provided are methods of producing a negative electrode including comminuting Li-Group IVA alloy particles in a solvent to a desired particle size distribution range, exposing surfaces of the Li-Group IVA alloy particles to a monomer or polymer surface modifier present during the comminution process, the surface modifier forming a continuous coating on an exposed surface of the Li-Group IVA alloy particles, removing the solvent, and adding the surface-modified Li-Group IVA alloy particles to a negative electrode material by a coating process. |
| US11637276B2 |
Molten fluid electrode apparatus with solid lithium iodide electrolyte having improved lithium ion transport characteristics
Performance of a thermal lithium battery is improved by improving the ion-transport characteristics of a solid lithium iodide electrolyte. The lithium iodide lattice of the solid electrolyte includes defects that improve the ion-transport characteristics of the solid lithium iodide electrolyte. In one example, the defects are due to the introduction of nanoparticles that result in grain boundary defects. The defects resulting at the grain boundaries with the nanoparticles improve the ion transport characteristics of the electrolyte. In another example, defects originating from the synthesis process are pinned by the presence of nanoparticles and/or the reinforcing structure. In another example, the defects are aliovalent substitution defects. A cation that is aliovalent to the lithium cation (Li+), such as a barium cation (Ba2+), creates an aliovalent substitution defect in the lithium iodide lattice. In order to maintain charge neutrality in the lattice, two lithium cations are replaced by a single barium cation creating the defect in the lattice. |
| US11637269B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method therefor
An organic EL display device includes an organic EL element disposed on a flattening film, and a sealing film disposed over the organic EL element, a display region, and a frame region disposed around the display region. The frame region includes a plurality of mask spacers. The flattening film has a recess disposed between the display region and the mask spacers adjacent to the display region. The recess is filled with an organic film. |
| US11637268B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device including a base layer; a light emitting element layer disposed on the base layer; and a thin-film encapsulation layer disposed on and encapsulating the light emitting element layer, where the thin-film encapsulation layer includes an inorganic layer having at least one inorganic sub-layer pair, where the at least one inorganic sub-layer pair includes a first inorganic sub-layer having a first refractive index and a second inorganic sub-layer disposed on the first inorganic sub-layer and having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. |
| US11637266B2 |
Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
The display substrate may include a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels in an array on the base substrate, an isolation layer on a side of a second electrode layer opposite from the light-emitting layer, and an auxiliary conductive layer on a side of the isolation layer opposite from the second electrode layer. The isolation layer may comprise via openings, orthographic projection of each of the via openings on the base substrate may substantially overlap with orthographic projection of the pixel defining layer on the base substrate, and the auxiliary conductive layer may be connected to the second electrode layer through the via openings. |
| US11637265B2 |
Display substrate having pixel definition layer comprises a lyophilic and lyophobic materials
Disclosed are a display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes: a driving substrate, a first electrode, an auxiliary electrode, a pixel definition layer and a hole injection layer. The driving substrate includes a driving circuit and a dielectric layer covering the driving circuit; the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode are on a side of the dielectric layer of the driving substrate away from the driving circuit; the auxiliary electrode at least partially surrounds the first electrode; the pixel definition layer is on a side of the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode away from the driving substrate; the pixel definition layer includes a pixel opening, and the first electrode is at least partially exposed through the pixel opening and is electrically connected to the driving circuit; and the hole injection layer is in the pixel opening and stacked with the first electrode. |
| US11637263B2 |
Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device each including TADF organic compound
A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency is provided.The light-emitting element includes a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a third organic compound. The first organic compound has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The second organic compound is preferably a TADF material. The third organic compound is a fluorescent compound. Light emitted from the light-emitting element is obtained from the third organic compound. Triplet excitation energy in a light-emitting layer is transferred to the third organic compound by reverse intersystem crossing caused by the second organic compound or through the first organic compound. |
| US11637262B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method therefor, and display panel
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a substrate and a pixel defining layer provided on the substrate, the pixel defining layer including a plurality of opening areas, and the plurality of opening areas being provided with a plurality of quantum dot light-emitting devices in a one-to-one correspondence manner; each of the quantum dot light-emitting devices includes a quantum dot light-emitting layer, and the quantum dot light-emitting layer is made of a quantum dot material. At least one of the pixel defining layer and the quantum dot material is magnetic. |
| US11637259B2 |
Electroluminescent device, and display device comprising the same
An electroluminescent device and a display device including the device are disclosed, wherein the electroluminescent device includes a first electrode; a hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode; an emission layer disposed on the hole transport layer, the emission layer including quantum dots;a self-assembled monomolecular layer disposed on the emission layer, the self-assembled monomolecular layer including self-assembled monomolecules; an electron transport layer disposed on the self-assembled monomolecular layer; and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport layer. |
| US11637255B2 |
Organic light emitting diode, lighting device and organic light emitting display device
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode comprising a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a first emitting material layer including a first delayed fluorescent dopant and a first phosphorescent dopant and disposed between the first and second electrodes, wherein a percentage by weight of the first phosphorescent dopant with respect to the first delayed fluorescent dopant is equal to or less than 5. |
| US11637252B2 |
Display apparatus including a substrate having a hole
A display apparatus includes a substrate including at least one hole disposed in a hole area of the substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, a light-emitting component disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the thin film transistor, an insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a thin film encapsulation layer disposed on the substrate, and a laser blocking layer. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area that is disposed between the display area and the hole area. The laser blocking layer is disposed on the insulating layer in the non-display area. |
| US11637251B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Novel compounds comprising heteroleptic iridium complexes are provided. The compounds have a particular combination of ligands which includes a single pyridyl dibenzo-substituted ligand. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, particularly as emitting dopants, to provide devices having improved efficiency, lifetime, and manufacturing. |
| US11637243B2 |
Formation of aligned periodic patterns during the crystallization of organic semiconductor thin films
Self-organizing patterns with micrometer-scale feature sizes are promising for the large area fabrication of photonic devices and scattering layers in optoelectronics. Pattern formation would ideally occur in the active semiconductor to avoid the need for further processing steps. The present disclosure includes approaches to form period patterns in single layers of organic semiconductors by an annealing process. When heated, a crystallization front propagates across the film, producing a sinusoidal surface structure with wavelengths comparable to that of near-infrared light. These surface features form initially in the amorphous region within a micron of the crystal growth front, likely due to competition between crystal growth and surface mass transport. The pattern wavelength can be tuned by varying film thickness and annealing temperature, millimeter scale domain sizes are obtained. Aspects of the disclosure can be exploited for self-assembly of microstructured organic optoelectronic devices, for example. |
| US11637240B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same
A semiconductor memory structure includes a memory cell, an encapsulation layer over a sidewall of the memory cell, and a nucleation layer between the sidewall of the memory cell and the encapsulation layer. The memory cell includes a top electrode, a bottom electrode and a data-storage element sandwiched between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The nucleation layer includes metal oxide. |
| US11637237B2 |
Spin current magnetization rotational element
This spin current magnetization rotational type magnetoresistive element includes a magnetoresistive effect element having a first ferromagnetic metal layer having a fixed magnetization orientation, a second ferromagnetic metal layer having a variable magnetization orientation, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic metal layer and the second ferromagnetic metal layer, and spin-orbit torque wiring which extends in a direction that intersects the stacking direction of the magnetoresistive effect element, and is connected to the second ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein the electric current that flows through the magnetoresistive effect element and the electric current that flows through the spin-orbit torque wiring merge or are distributed in the portion where the magnetoresistive effect element and the spin-orbit torque wiring are connected. |
| US11637236B2 |
Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistance effect element and magnetic memory
A spin-orbit torque magnetoresistance effect element according to the present embodiment includes an element part including a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer positioned between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, a spin-orbit torque wiring positioned in a first direction with respect to the element part, facing the first ferromagnetic layer of the element part, and extending in a second direction, a first conductive part and a second conductive part facing the spin-orbit torque wiring at positions sandwiching the element part when viewed from the first direction, and a gate part positioned between the first conductive part and the second conductive part when viewed from the first direction, facing a second surface of the spin-orbit torque wiring on a side opposite to a first surface which faces the element part, and including a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode in order from a position near the spin-orbit torque wiring, in which the spin-orbit torque wiring includes a semiconductor to which a scattering element is added. |
| US11637235B2 |
In-plane spin orbit torque magnetoresistive stack/structure and methods therefor
The present disclosure is drawn to, among other things, a magnetoresistive device and a magnetoresistive memory comprising a plurality of such magnetoresistive devices. In some aspects, a magnetoresistive device may include a magnetically fixed region, a magnetically free region above or below the magnetically fixed region, and an intermediate region positioned between the magnetically fixed region and the magnetically free region, wherein the intermediate region includes a first dielectric material. The magnetoresistive device may also include encapsulation layers formed on opposing side walls of the magnetically free region, wherein the encapsulation layers include the first dielectric material. |
| US11637234B2 |
Manufacturing method for multilayer structure of magnetic body and BiSb layer, magnetoresistive memory, and pure spin injection source
A magnetoresistive memory cell includes an MTJ element including a magnetization free layer and a pure spin injection source. The pure spin injection source includes a BiSb layer coupled to the magnetization free layer. By flowing an in-plane current through the BiSb layer, this arrangement is capable of providing magnetization reversal of the magnetization free layer. |
| US11637233B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a MRAM region of a substrate, forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the MTJ, forming a patterned mask on a logic region of the substrate, performing a nitridation process to transform part of the first IMD layer to a nitride layer, forming a first metal interconnection on the logic region, forming a stop layer on the first IMD layer, forming a second IMD layer on the stop layer, and forming a second metal intercom in the second IMD layer to connect to the MTJ. |
| US11637232B2 |
Acoustic wave device including Li2CO3 layer on piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3 or LiTaO3
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3 or LiTaO3 and including first and second main surfaces that face each other, a functional electrode provided on the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate to excite acoustic waves, and a Li2CO3 layer provided on the second main surface of the piezoelectric substrate. |
| US11637227B2 |
Semiconductor device including multiple distributed bragg reflector layers
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment may include a plurality of light emitting structures, a first electrode disposed around the plurality of light emitting structures, a second electrode disposed on an upper surface of the plurality of light emitting structures, a first bonding pad electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second bonding pad electrically connected to the second electrode. The plurality of light emitting structures may include a first light emitting structure that includes a first DBR layer of a first conductivity type, a first active layer disposed on the first DBR layer, and a second DBR layer of a second conductivity type disposed on the first active layer; and a second light emitting structure that includes a third DBR layer of the first conductivity type, a second active layer disposed on the third DBR layer, and a fourth DBR layer of the second conductivity type disposed on the second active layer. The first electrode may be electrically connected to the first DBR layer and the third DBR layer, and disposed between the first light emitting structure and the second light emitting structure. The second electrode may be electrically connected to the second DBR layer and the fourth DBR layer, and disposed on an upper surface of the second DBR layer and an upper surface of the fourth DBR layer. |
| US11637225B2 |
Converter with glass layers
A wavelength converting layer may have a glass or a silicon porous support structure. The wavelength converting layer may also have a cured portion of wavelength converting particles and a binder filling the porous glass or silicon support structure. |
| US11637220B1 |
Semiconductor light-emitting element
A semiconductor light-emitting element comprises, in this order, a substrate, a reflective layer, a first conductivity type cladding layer made of InGaAsP containing at least In and P, a semiconductor light-emitting layer having an emission central wavelength of 1000 nm to 2200 nm and a second conductivity type cladding layer made of InGaAsP containing at least In and P, the second conductivity type cladding layer being configured to be on a light extraction side, a surface of a light extraction face of the second conductivity type cladding layer being a roughened surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 0.03 μm or more and has a random irregularity pattern. The surface of the light extraction face has a skewness Rsk of −1 or more, and a protective film is provided on the light extraction face. |
| US11637217B2 |
Method of manufacturing light emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, disposing a plurality of light emitting elements on the substrate, disposing an insulating layer on the plurality of light emitting elements, patterning the insulating layer to form a partition wall defining a plurality of cavities corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements, filling a light conversion ink in at least a part of the cavities, and baking the light conversion ink, wherein the partition wall is configured to block the light conversion ink from overflowing in the step of filling the light conversion ink in at least the part of the cavities. |
| US11637212B2 |
Apparatus and method for manufacturing a solar cell arrangement, and solar cell arrangement
An apparatus includes a first processing line. The first processing line includes a cleaving station adapted for separating a solar cell into two or more solar cell pieces. The apparatus includes a second processing line. The second processing line includes a storing station adapted for storing a plurality of solar cell pieces. The second processing line includes a transportation system adapted for transporting a solar cell piece from the storing station to the first processing line. |
| US11637208B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a first conductive layer. The semiconductor layer, the second insulating layer, and the first conductive layer are stacked in this order over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer has a stacked-layer structure in which a first insulating film, a second insulating film, and a third insulating film are stacked in this order. The first insulating film, the second insulating film, and the third insulating film each contain an oxide. The first insulating film includes a portion in contact with the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer contains indium, gallium, and oxygen and includes a region with an indium content percentage higher than a gallium content percentage. |
| US11637206B2 |
Metal gate structure and methods of fabricating thereof
A semiconductor device and method of forming thereof includes a first fin and a second fin each extending from a substrate. A first gate segment is disposed over the first fin and a second gate segment is disposed over the second fin. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is adjacent the first gate segment and the second gate segment. A cut region (e.g., opening or gap between first gate structure and the second gate structure) extends between the first and second gate segments. The cut region has a first portion has a first width and a second portion has a second width, the second width is greater than the first width. The second portion interposes the first and second gate segments and the first portion is defined within the ILD layer. |
| US11637205B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a channel pattern including a first semiconductor pattern and a second semiconductor pattern, which are sequentially stacked on a substrate, and a gate electrode that extends in a first direction and crosses the channel pattern. The gate electrode includes a first portion interposed between the substrate and the first semiconductor pattern and a second portion interposed between the first and second semiconductor patterns. A maximum width in a second direction of the first portion is greater than a maximum width in the second direction of the second portion, and a maximum length in the second direction of the second semiconductor pattern is less than a maximum length in the second direction of the first semiconductor pattern. |
| US11637203B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same
A semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a channel layer, a gate dielectric layer, a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region and a first spacer. The channel layer is disposed on the gate electrode. The gate dielectric layer is located between the channel layer and the gate electrode. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are disposed on the channel layer at opposite sides of the gate electrode, and at least one of the first and second source/drain regions includes a first portion and a second portion between the first portion and the gate electrode. The first spacer is disposed on the channel layer. The first spacer is disposed on a first sidewall of the second portion of the at least one of the first and second source/drain regions, and the first portion is disposed on the first spacer. |
| US11637200B2 |
Power semiconductor device
A power semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, a drain, a source, a first gate structure, a second gate structure and a doping region. The first well has a first conductivity and extends into the substrate from a substrate surface. The second well has a second conductivity and extends into the substrate from the substrate surface. The drain has the first conductivity and is disposed in the first well. The source has the first conductivity and is disposed in the second well. The first gate structure is disposed on the substrate surface and at least partially overlapping with the first well and second well. The second gate structure is disposed on the substrate surface and overlapping with the second well. The doping region has the first conductivity, is disposed in the second well and connects the first gate structure with the second gate structure. |
| US11637198B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor device including semiconductor element of inversion type
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor element is provided. The semiconductor element includes a saturation current suppression layer formed above a drift layer and including electric field block layers arranged in a stripe manner and JFET portions arranged in a stripe manner. The electric field block layers and the JFET portions are alternately arranged. The semiconductor element includes trench gate structures. A longer direction of the trench gate structure intersects with a longer direction of the electric field block layer and a longer direction of JFET portion. The JFET portion includes a first layer having a first conductivity type impurity concentration larger than the drift layer and a second layer formed above the first layer and having a first conductivity type impurity concentration smaller than the first layer. |
| US11637197B2 |
Epitaxial structure of GaN-based radio frequency device based on Si substrate and its manufacturing method
An epitaxial structure of a GaN-based radio frequency device based on a Si substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The epitaxial structure is composed of a Si substrate (1), an AlN nucleation layer (2), AlGaN buffer layers (3, 4, 5), a GaN:Fe/GaN high-resistance layer (6), a GaN superlattice layer (7), a GaN channel layer (8), an AlGaN barrier layer (9) and a GaN cap layer (10) which are stacked in turn from bottom to top, wherein the GaN:Fe/GaN high-resistance layer (6) is composed of an intentional Fe-doped GaN layer and an unintentional doped GaN layer which are alternately connected; the GaN superlattice layer (7) is composed of a low-pressure/low V/III ratio GaN layer and a high-pressure/high V/III ratio GaN layer which are periodically and alternately connected. |
| US11637195B2 |
Metal gate patterning process including dielectric Fin formation
A method of fabricating a device includes providing a fin extending from a substrate, the fin having a plurality of semiconductor layers and a first distance between each adjacent semiconductor layers. The method further includes providing a dielectric fin extending from the substrate where the dielectric fin is adjacent to the plurality of semiconductor layers and there is a second distance between an end of each of the semiconductor layers and a first sidewall of the dielectric fin. The second distance is greater than the first distance. Depositing a dielectric layer over the semiconductor layers and over the first sidewall of the dielectric fin. Forming a first metal layer over the dielectric layer on the semiconductor layers and on the first sidewall of the dielectric fin, wherein portions of the first metal layer disposed on and interposing adjacent semiconductor layers are merged together. Finally removing the first metal layer. |
| US11637193B2 |
Gate-all-around field effect transistor and method for manufacturing same
This application discloses a gate-all-around field effect transistor and a method for manufacturing same. In some implementations the method may include: forming a first fin structure on a substrate, where each first fin structure includes one first laminated structure, where the first laminated structure sequentially includes a sacrificial layer, a support layer, and a channel layer from bottom to top; forming a dummy gate structure across the first fin structure, where the dummy gate structure includes a dummy gate dielectric layer, a dummy gate on the dummy gate dielectric layer, and a first spacer on a side surface of the dummy gate; removing parts of the first fin structure located on two sides of the dummy gate structure, to form a second fin structure; performing first etching on a side surface of the sacrificial layer in the second fin structure, to form a first space; forming a second spacer in the first space; performing second etching on a side surface of the channel layer in the second fin structure, to form a second space; and performing selective epitaxy on the side surface of the channel layer in the second fin structure, to form a source region and a drain region, where along a direction of a channel, compared with a side surface, distal to the sacrificial layer, of the second spacer, the side surface of the channel layer after the second etching is closer to the sacrificial layer. |
| US11637192B2 |
Metal oxide semiconductor-controlled thyristor device having uniform turn-off characteristic and method of manufacturing the same
The present invention forms an off-FET channel having a uniform and short length by using a self-align process of a method of forming and recessing a spacer, thereby enhancing the current driving capability of an off-FET and the uniformity of a device operation. |
| US11637190B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device
The present technology provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a stack including insulating patterns and conductive patterns stacked alternately with each other, a channel layer including a first channel portion protruding out of the stack and a second channel portion in the stack, and passing through the stack, and a conductive line surrounding the first channel portion, and the first channel portion includes metal silicide. |
| US11637185B2 |
Contact stacks to reduce hydrogen in semiconductor devices
Embodiments herein describe techniques for an integrated circuit that includes a substrate, a semiconductor device on the substrate, and a contact stack above the substrate and coupled to the semiconductor device. The contact stack includes a contact metal layer, and a semiconducting oxide layer adjacent to the contact metal layer. The semiconducting oxide layer includes a semiconducting oxide material, while the contact metal layer includes a metal with a sufficient Schottky-barrier height to induce an interfacial electric field between the semiconducting oxide layer and the contact metal layer to reject interstitial hydrogen from entering the semiconductor device through the contact stack. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11637184B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device, power converter, method of manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing power converter
A drift layer is formed of silicon carbide and has a first conductivity type. A trench bottom protective layer is provided on a bottom portion of a gate trench and has a second conductivity type. A depletion suppressing layer is provided between a side surface of the gate trench and the drift layer, extends from a lower portion of a body region up to a position deeper than the bottom portion of the gate trench, has the first conductivity type, and has an impurity concentration of the first conductivity type higher than that of the drift layer. The impurity concentration of the first conductivity type of the depletion suppressing layer is reduced as the distance from the side surface of the gate trench becomes larger. |
| US11637171B2 |
Package-embedded thin-film capacitors, package-integral magnetic inductors, and methods of assembling same
A semiconductor package substrate includes an integral magnetic-helical inductor that is assembled during assembly of the semiconductor package substrate. The integral magnetic-helical inductor is located within a die footprint within the semiconductor package substrate. |
| US11637170B2 |
Display device having gate driving circuit stages located between pixels in the display area
A display device, includes: pixels at a display area; gate lines at the display area, and connected to the pixels; carry clock lines and scan clock lines at the display area; and a gate driving circuit distributedly located at the display area, and connected to the carry clock lines, the scan clock lines, and the gate lines. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages, each of the stages to output, as a carry signal, a carry clock signal supplied through a corresponding carry clock line from among the carry clock lines, and to output, as a scan signal, a scan clock signal supplied through a corresponding scan clock line from among the scan clock lines. The corresponding carry clock line and the corresponding scan clock line corresponding to one stage from among the stages are spaced from each other with at least one of the pixels interposed therebetween. |
| US11637168B2 |
Display device
A display device includes an opening area formed in a display area and a non-display area surrounding the opening area, wherein the display area includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of lines connected to the plurality of pixels, the non-display area includes a connection member connected to at least one of the plurality of lines of the display area, and the connection member is disposed in a different layer from the connected line and is electrically connected to the line by a via-electrode. |
| US11637164B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including pixels. One of the pixels includes a light emitting diode, a first capacitor connected between a power line receiving a power supply voltage and a first reference node, a first transistor connected between the power line and an anode of the light emitting diode, a second transistor connected between a data line and a first electrode of the first transistor, a third transistor including a plurality of sub-transistors connected between a second electrode of the first transistor and the first reference node in series, and a fourth transistor connected to a second reference node among a plurality of second reference nodes between the sub-transistors and receiving an initialization scan signal. |
| US11637162B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first transistor including a first gate electrode, a first source region, and a first drain region, a second transistor connected to the first source region of the first transistor, a third transistor connected to the first gate electrode and the first drain region of the first transistor, a fifth transistor connected to the first source region of the first transistor, and a sixth transistor connected to the first drain region of the first transistor. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to each other. The first and second pixels share a fourth transistor connected to the third transistor of the first pixel and the third transistor of the second pixel, and share a seventh transistor connected to the sixth transistor of the first pixel and the sixth transistor of the second pixel. |
| US11637160B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a third area that is between the first area and the second area; a plurality of first to third display elements respectively arranged in the first to third areas, each of the plurality of first to third display elements including a pixel electrode; and an insulating layer including a plurality of first to third openings that respectively expose at least portions of the pixel electrodes of the plurality of first to third display elements. A number of the plurality of first openings is greater than a number of the plurality of second openings per unit area. In a plan view, an area of the plurality of first openings is greater than an area of the plurality of third openings. |
| US11637159B2 |
Display panel and display device with completed covered hollowed regions in frame region
Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region and a frame region surrounding the display region. In the frame region, the display panel includes a base substrate, a planarization layer, an anode layer and a pixel defining layer. The planarization layer includes a first region and a second region. The anode layer includes first hollowed regions and second hollowed regions. The first hollowed regions at least partially overlap the first region, and the second hollowed regions at least partially overlap the second region. The pixel defining layer includes first covering parts and second covering parts. The first covering parts cover the first hollowed regions and extend to cover edges of the anode layer. The second covering parts cover the second hollowed regions and extend to cover edges of the anode layer. Orthographic projections of the first covering parts on the base substrate are larger than orthographic projections of the second covering parts on the base substrate. |
| US11637155B2 |
Display device for changing a sensing mode and operating method thereof
A display device includes: a display panel; an input sensor on the display panel; a panel driving circuit to drive the display panel, and to output a synchronization signal; and a sensor controller to control the input sensor. The sensor controller determines a sensing mode in response to the synchronization signal, and changes the sensing mode to a second sensing mode when the synchronization signal is activated in a first sensing mode. |
| US11637152B2 |
Array substrate and method for manufacturing the same, and display device having photosensitive element, light emitting device and sensing transistor
The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a photosensitive element located between the base substrate and a light emitting device and configured to sense light emitted from the light emitting device and generate a sensing signal according to the light; a capacitor configured to store the sensing signal; and a sensing transistor located between the base substrate and the photosensitive element and configured to transmit the sensing signal to a sensing line, wherein an orthographic projection of the sensing transistor on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the photosensitive element on the base substrate. |
| US11637147B2 |
Imaging device
An imaging device including: a semiconductor substrate including a pixel region and a peripheral region; an insulating layer that covers the pixel and peripheral regions; first electrodes located on the insulating layer above the pixel region; a photoelectric conversion layer that covers the first electrodes; a second electrode that covers the photoelectric conversion layer; detection circuitry configured to be electrically connected to the first electrodes; peripheral circuitry configured to be electrically connected to the detection circuitry, and including analog circuitry; and a third electrode electrically connected to the second electrode. The third electrode overlaps the analog circuitry in a plan view, and in all cross-sections perpendicular to a surface of the semiconductor substrate, parallel to the column direction or the row direction, intersecting at least one of the first electrodes, and intersecting the third electrode, no transistor of the digital circuitry is located directly below the third electrode. |
| US11637145B2 |
Multi-component cell architectures for a memory device
Methods, systems, and devices for multi-component cell architectures for a memory device are described. A memory device may include self-selecting memory cells that include multiple self-selecting memory components (e.g., multiple layers or other segments of a self-selecting memory material, separated by electrodes). The multiple self-selecting memory components may be configured to collectively store one logic state based on the polarity of a programming pulse applied to the memory cell. The multiple memory component layers may be collectively (concurrently) programmed and read. The multiple self-selecting memory components may increase the size of a read window of the memory cell when compared to a memory cell with a single self-selecting memory component. The read window for the memory cell may correspond to the sum of the read windows of each self-selecting memory component. |
| US11637144B2 |
Method of forming resistive memory cell having an ovonic threshold switch
The disclosure concerns a resistive memory cell, including a stack of a selector, of a resistive element, and of a layer of phase-change material, the selector having no physical contact with the phase-change material. In one embodiment, the selector is an ovonic threshold switch formed on a conductive track of a metallization level. |
| US11637142B2 |
High-speed light sensing apparatus III
A circuit, including: a photodetector including a first readout terminal and a second readout terminal different than the first readout terminal; a first readout circuit coupled with the first readout terminal and configured to output a first readout voltage; a second readout circuit coupled with the second readout terminal and configured to output a second readout voltage; and a common-mode analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including: a first input terminal coupled with a first voltage source; a second input terminal coupled with a common-mode generator, the common-mode generator configured to receive the first readout voltage and the second readout voltage, and to generate a common-mode voltage between the first and second readout voltages; and a first output terminal configured to output a first output signal corresponding to a magnitude of a current generated by the photodetector. |
| US11637140B2 |
Image sensor package
An image sensor package includes an image sensor chip on a package substrate, a logic chip on the package substrate and perpendicularly overlapping the image sensor chip, and a memory chip on the package substrate and perpendicularly overlapping the image sensor chip and logic chip. The logic chip processes a pixel signal output from the image sensor chip. The memory chip is electrically connected to the image sensor chip through a conductive wire and stores at least one of the pixel signal from the image sensor chip or a pixel signal processed by the logic chip. The memory chip receives the pixel signal output from the image sensor chip through the conductive wire and receives the pixel signal processed by the logic chip through the image sensor chip and the conductive wire. |
| US11637139B2 |
Semiconductor device including light-collimating layer and biometric device using the same
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a light-collimating layer. The substrate has a plurality of pixels. The light-collimating layer is disposed on the substrate, and the light-collimating layer includes a transparent material layer, a first light-shielding layer, a second light-shielding layer and a plurality of transparent pillars. The transparent material layer covers the pixels. The first light-shielding layer is disposed on the substrate and the first light-shielding layer has a plurality of holes corresponding to the pixels. The second light-shielding layer is disposed on the first light-shielding layer. The transparent pillars are disposed in the second light-shielding layer. |
| US11637137B2 |
Pixel group and pixel array of image sensor
A pixel group of an image sensor includes first through fourth unit pixels in a matrix form of two pixels rows and two pixel columns, and a common floating diffusion region in a semiconductor substrate at a center of the pixel group and shared by the first through fourth unit pixels. Each of the first through fourth unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element in the semiconductor substrate, and a pair of vertical transfer gates in the semiconductor substrate and extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The pair of vertical transfer gates transfer photo charges collected by the photoelectric conversion element to the common floating diffusion region. Image quality is enhanced by increasing sensing sensitivity of the unit pixel through the shared structure of the floating diffusion region and the symmetric structure of the vertical transfer gates. |
| US11637132B2 |
Active matrix substrate and method for manufacturing same
An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of gate bus lines, a plurality of source bus lines located closer to the substrate side; a lower insulating layer that covers the source bus lines; an interlayer insulating layer that covers the gate bus lines; a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs disposed in association with respective pixel regions; a pixel electrode disposed in each of the pixel regions; and a plurality of source contact portions each of which electrically connects one of the oxide semiconductor TFTs to the corresponding one of the source bus lines, in which each of the oxide semiconductor TFTs includes an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the lower insulating layer, a gate electrode disposed on a portion of the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source electrode formed of a conductive film, and each of the source contact portions includes a source contact hole, and a connection electrode. |
| US11637124B2 |
Stacked memory structure with insulating patterns
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure with insulating layers and conductive layers that are alternately stacked on each other, a hard mask pattern on the stacked structure, a channel structure penetrating the hard mask pattern and the stacked structure, insulating patterns interposed between the insulating layers and the channel structure, wherein the insulating patterns protrude farther towards the channel structure than a sidewall of the hard mask pattern, and a memory layer interposed between the stacked structure and the channel structure, wherein the memory layer fills a space between the insulating patterns. |
| US11637120B2 |
Vertical semiconductor devices
A vertical semiconductor device includes a substrate, a cell array region and a pad region formed on the substrate, and gate patterns and respective insulation layers. The gate patterns may be stacked in a vertical direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. Each of the gate patterns may extend in a first direction parallel to the upper surface of the substrate on the cell array region and the pad region of the substrate. The gate patterns may include pads, respectively, at edge portions thereof in the first direction. The respective insulation layers may be between adjacent gate patterns in the vertical direction. The gate patterns and the insulation layer on the pad region may serve as a pad structure, and the pad structure may include a first staircase structure having a stepped shape, a second staircase structure having a stepped shape and disposed below the first staircase structure, a flat surface portion between the first and second staircase structures, and a dummy staircase structure formed on the flat surface portion. The dummy staircase structure may be spaced apart from each of the first and second staircase structures. |
| US11637117B2 |
Semiconductor device having selection line stud connected to string selection line
A semiconductor device includes; a memory stack disposed on a substrate and including a lower gate electrode, an upper gate stack including a string selection line, a vertically extending memory gate contact disposed on the lower gate electrode, and a vertically extending selection line stud disposed on the string selection line. The string selection line includes a material different from that of the lower gate electrode, and the selection line stud includes a material different from that of the memory gate contact. |
| US11637112B2 |
Non-volatile memory device and method for manufacturing the same
A non-volatile memory device and its manufacturing method are provided. The non-volatile memory device includes a substrate and a plurality of first gate structures and a plurality of second gate structures formed on the substrate. The substrate includes a center region and two border regions located on opposite sides of the center region. The center region and two border regions are located in an array region. The first gate structures are located in the center region, and the second gate structures are located in one of the border regions. Each of the first gate structures has a first width, and each of the second gate structures has a second width less than the first width. There is a first spacing between the first gate structures, and there is a second spacing which is greater than the first spacing between the second gate structures. |
| US11637111B2 |
Integrated electronic circuit and method of making comprising a first transistor and a ferroelectric capacitor
The present invention relates to an integrated electronic circuit and method of making comprising a first transistor (1) and a ferroelectric capacitor (2). The ferroelectric capacitor (2) comprises a first electrode layer composed of a non-ferroelectric material, a ferroelectric interlayer having a thickness that is less than the thickness of the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer composed of a non-ferroelectric material, wherein the ferroelectric interlayer is arranged between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and the first electrode layer is electrically conductively connected to a gate terminal of the first transistor (1). |
| US11637104B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices including stacked transistors and methods of fabricating the same
Semiconductor memory devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a vertical insulating structure extending in a first direction on a substrate, a semiconductor pattern extending along a sidewall of the vertical insulating structure, a bitline on a first side of the semiconductor pattern, an information storage element on a second side of the semiconductor pattern and including first and second electrodes, and a gate electrode on the semiconductor pattern and extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The bitline may extend in the first direction and may be electrically connected to the semiconductor pattern. The first electrode may have a cylindrical shape that extends in the first direction, and the second electrode may extend along a sidewall of the first electrode. |
| US11637099B2 |
Forming ESD devices using multi-gate compatible processes
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a structure having a frontside and a backside, the structure including a substrate and a stack of a first type and a second type epitaxial layers having different material compositions alternatively stacked above the substrate, wherein the stack is at the frontside of the structure and the substrate is at the backside of the structure; patterning the stack, thereby forming a fin above the substrate; implanting a first dopant into a first region of the fin, the first dopant having a first conductivity type; implanting a second dopant into a second region of the fin, the second dopant having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type; and forming a first contact on the first region and a second contact on the second region. |
| US11637096B2 |
Gallium nitride and silicon carbide hybrid power device
A hybrid silicon carbide (SiC) device includes a first device structure having a first substrate comprising SiC of a first conductivity type and a first SiC layer of the first conductivity type, where the first SiC layer is formed on a face of the first substrate. The first device structure also includes a second SiC layer of a second conductivity type that is formed on a face of the first SiC layer and a first contact region of the first conductivity type, where the first contact region traverses the second SiC layer and contacts the first SiC. The device also includes a second device structure that is bonded to the first device structure. The second device structure includes a switching device formed on a second substrate and a second contact region that traverses a first terminal region of the switching device and contacts the first contact region. |
| US11637094B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device includes a pixel circuit, a first insulating layer covering the pixel circuit, a first electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, a second electrode disposed on the first insulating layer and spaced apart from the first electrode in a first direction, and a light emitting element electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A recess is provided in a first region of the first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode when viewed in a plan view, and a width of the recess in the first direction is greater than a length of the light emitting element in the first direction. The first electrode and the second electrode do not overlap the recess when viewed in a plan view. |
| US11637092B2 |
Semiconductor structure and forming method thereof
A semiconductor structure and a forming method thereof are provided. One form of a semiconductor structure includes: a first device structure, including a first substrate and a first device formed on the first substrate, the first device including a first channel layer structure located on the first substrate, a first device gate structure extending across the first channel layer structure, and a first source-drain doping region located in the first channel layer structure on two sides of the first device gate structure; and a second device structure, located on a front surface of the first device structure, including a second substrate located on the first device structure and a second device formed on the second substrate, the second device including a second channel layer structure located on the second substrate, a second device gate structure extending across the second channel layer structure, and a second source-drain doping region located in the second channel layer structure on two sides of the second device gate structure, where projections of the second channel layer structure and the first channel layer structure onto the first substrate intersect non-orthogonally. The electricity of the first device can be led out according to the present disclosure. |
| US11637086B2 |
Sawing underfill in packaging processes
A method includes bonding a first and a second package component on a top surface of a third package component, and dispensing a polymer. The polymer includes a first portion in a space between the first and the third package components, a second portion in a space between the second and the third package components, and a third portion in a gap between the first and the second package components. A curing step is then performed on the polymer. After the curing step, the third portion of the polymer is sawed to form a trench between the first and the second package components. |
| US11637083B2 |
Flip-chip package assembly
In a described example, a method includes: forming cavities in a die mount surface of a package substrate, the cavities extending into the die mount surface of the package substrate at locations corresponding to post connects on a semiconductor die to be flip-chip mounted to the package substrate; placing flux in the cavities; placing solder balls on the flux; and performing a thermal reflow process and melting the solder balls to form solder pads in the cavities on the package substrate. |
| US11637080B2 |
Method for fabricating an integrated circuit device
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit device is disclosed. A substrate is provided and an integrated circuit area is formed on the substrate. The integrated circuit area includes a dielectric stack. A seal ring is formed in the dielectric stack and around a periphery of the integrated circuit area. A trench is formed around the seal ring and exposing a sidewall of the dielectric stack. The trench is formed within a scribe line. A moisture blocking layer is formed on the sidewall of the dielectric stack, thereby sealing a boundary between two adjacent dielectric films in the dielectric stack. |
| US11637079B2 |
Semiconductor package including antenna
A semiconductor package includes a supporting wiring structure including a first redistribution dielectric layer and a first redistribution conductive structure; a frame on the supporting wiring structure, having a mounting space and a through hole, and including a conductive material; a semiconductor chip in the mounting space and electrically connected to the first redistribution conductive structure; a cover wiring structure on the frame and the semiconductor chip and including a second redistribution dielectric layer and a second redistribution conductive structure; an antenna structure on the cover wiring structure; a connection structure extending in the through hole and electrically connecting the first redistribution conductive structure to the second redistribution conductive structure; and a dielectric filling member between the connection structure in the through hole and the frame and surrounding the semiconductor chip, the frame, and the connection structure. |
| US11637078B2 |
Coaxial through via with novel high isolation cross coupling method for 3D integrated circuits
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device vertically positioned above the first semiconductor device, and a ground shielded transmission path. The ground shielded transmission path couples the first semiconductor device to the second semiconductor device. The ground shielded transmission path includes a first signal path extending longitudinally between a first end and a second end. The first signal path includes a conductive material. A first insulating layer is disposed over the signal path longitudinally between the first end and the second end. The first insulating layer includes an electrically insulating material. A ground shielding layer is disposed over the insulating material longitudinally between the first end and the second end of the signal path. The ground shielding layer includes a conductive material coupled to ground. The ground shielding layer drives radiation signals received therein to ground to prevent induced noise in the first signal path. |
| US11637076B2 |
Electrically isolated gate contact in FINFET technology for camouflaging integrated circuits from reverse engineering
A system and method for adding a source contact, a drain contact, and an apparent gate contact to a FinFET having a fin including a source region, a drain region, and a gate disposed over the fin forming one or more transistor junctions with the fin. The method comprises producing a source contact opening extending downward to a first region electrically coupled to the source region, a drain contact opening extending downward to a second region electrically coupled to the drain region, and a gate contact opening extending downward to a third region electrically isolated from the gate, and filling the source contact opening, the drain contact opening, and the gate contact opening with a conductive metal. |
| US11637073B2 |
Semiconductor package with EMI shield and fabricating method thereof
A semiconductor device with EMI shield and a fabricating method thereof are provided. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes EMI shield on all six surfaces of the semiconductor device without the use of a discrete EMI lid. |
| US11637072B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a semiconductor die, a ring structure and a lid. The semiconductor die is disposed on the substrate. The ring structure is disposed on the substrate and surrounds the semiconductor die, where a first side of the semiconductor die is distant from an inner sidewall of the ring structure by a first gap, and a second side of the semiconductor die is distant from the inner sidewall of the ring structure by a second gap. The first side is opposite to the second side, and the first gap is less than the second gap. The lid is disposed on the ring structure and has a recess formed therein, and the recess overlaps with the first gap in a stacking direction of the ring structure and the lid. |
| US11637070B2 |
Method of fabricating a semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, the redistribution layer including a plurality of first redistribution pads on the first surface, a semiconductor chip on the second surface of the redistribution layer, an active surface of the semiconductor chip facing the redistribution layer, a plurality of conductive structures on the second surface of the redistribution layer, the plurality of conductive structures being spaced apart from the semiconductor chip, and a plurality of external connection terminals on and coupled to the conductive structures, the plurality of first redistribution pads have a pitch smaller than a pitch of the plurality of external connection terminals. |
| US11637066B2 |
Integrated circuit and method for forming the same
An integrated circuit includes a strip structure having a front side and a back side. A gate structure is on the front side of the strip structure. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of channel layers above the front side of the strip structure, wherein each of the plurality of channel layers is enclosed within the gate structure. An isolation structure surrounds the strip structure. The integrated circuit includes a backside via in the isolation structure. An epitaxy structure is on the front side of the strip structure. The integrated circuit includes a contact over the epitaxy structure. The contact has a first portion on a first side of the epitaxy structure. The first portion of the contact extends into the isolation structure and contacts the backside via. The integrated circuit includes a backside power rail on the back side of the strip structure and contacting the backside via. |
| US11637064B2 |
Advanced metal connection with metal cut
Examples of an integrated circuit a having an advanced two-dimensional (2D) metal connection with metal cut and methods of fabricating the same are provided. An example method for fabricating a conductive interconnection layer of an integrated circuit may include: patterning a conductive connector portion on the conductive interconnection layer of the integrated circuit using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, wherein the conductive connector portion is patterned to extend across multiple semiconductor structures in a different layer of the integrated circuit; and cutting the conductive connector portion into a plurality of conductive connector sections, wherein the conductive connector portion is cut by removing conductive material from the metal connector portion at one or more locations between the semiconductor structures. |
| US11637063B2 |
Reduction of OHMIC losses in monolithic chip inductors and transformers of radio frequency integrated circuits
An inductor or transformer with the inductor can include one or more windings split into strands along a radial path of the winding and provide for a more uniform current distribution across a width of the winding. The winding(s) can comprise twisting components as twistings or strand crossings located at various locations along the winding. The twisting components span the winding along a winding width with a connector or crossing strand and change a position of one strand to another at points that different strands of the winding are cut or spliced. |
| US11637062B2 |
Interconnect structure and method for manufacturing the interconnect structure
The present disclosure provides an interconnect structure and a method for forming an interconnect structure. The method for forming an interconnect structure includes forming a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over a substrate, forming a contact in the first ILD layer, forming a second ILD layer over the first ILD layer, forming a first opening in the second ILD layer and obtaining an exposed side surface of the second ILD layer over the contact, forming a densified dielectric layer at the exposed side surface of the second ILD layer, including oxidizing the exposed side surface of the second ILD layer by irradiating a microwave on the second ILD layer, and forming a via in contact with the densified dielectric layer. |
| US11637060B2 |
Wiring board and method of manufacturing the same
A wiring board includes an insulating layer, a wiring layer and a plurality of conductive columns. The insulating layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The wiring layer is disposed in the insulating layer and has a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface. The insulating layer covers the third surface, and the second surface of the insulating layer is flush with the fourth surface of the wiring layer. The conductive columns are disposed in the insulating layer and connected to the wiring layer. The conductive columns extend from the third surface of the wiring layer to the first surface of the insulating layer, and protrude from the first surface. |
| US11637059B2 |
Adapter board and method for forming same, packaging method, and package structure
Provided are an adapter board and a method for forming the same, a packaging method, and a package structure. One form of a method for forming an adapter board includes: providing a base, including an interconnect region and a capacitor region, the base including a front surface and a rear surface that are opposite each other; etching the front surface of the base, to form a first trench in the base of the interconnect region and form a second trench in the base of the capacitor region; forming a capacitor in the second trench; etching a partial thickness of the base under the first trench, to form a conductive via; forming a via interconnect structure in the conductive via; and thinning the rear surface of the base, to expose the via interconnect structure. In the embodiments and implementations of the present disclosure, the capacitor is further formed in the adapter board, so that a process of forming the capacitor and a process of forming the adapter board are integrated, and an additional step of forming the capacitor is omitted, which is beneficial to reduce processes and improve the process integration, and is further beneficial to reduce process costs and shorten the production cycle. Moreover, the functional diversity of the adapter board is further improved, so that an application scenario of the adapter board is diversified. |
| US11637050B2 |
Package architecture utilizing wafer to wafer bonding
The present disclosure relates to a package architecture and a method for making the same. The disclosed package architecture includes a package carrier, a first device die and a second device die mounted on the package carrier, and a heat spreader. The first device die includes a first device body with a thickness between 5 μm and 130 μm, a die carrier, and an attachment section between the first device body and the die carrier, while the second device die includes a second device body. The first device body and the second device body are formed of different materials. A top surface of the die carrier of the first device die and a top surface of the second device body of the second device die are substantially coplanar. The heat spreader resides over the top surface of the die carrier and the top surface of the second device body. |
| US11637045B2 |
Anisotropic conductive film (ACF) for use in testing semiconductor packages
Embodiments described herein provide an anisotropic conductive film (ACF) positioned on a semiconductor package and techniques of using the ACF to test semiconductor devices positioned in or on the semiconductor package. In one example, a semiconductor package comprises: a die stack comprising one or more dies; a molding compound encapsulating the die stack; a substrate on the molding compound; a contact pad on a surface of the substrate and coupled to the die stack; a test pad on the surface of the substrate; a conductive path between the contact pad and the test pad, where an electrical break is positioned along the conductive path; and an ACF over the electrical break. Compressing the ACF by a test pin creates an electrical path that replaces the electrical break. Data can be acquired by test pin and provided to a test apparatus, which determines whether the dies in the die stack are operating properly. |
| US11637041B2 |
Method of forming high mobility complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices with fins on insulator
The subject disclosure relates to high mobility complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices and techniques for forming the CMOS devices with fins formed directly on the insulator. According to an embodiment, a method for forming such a high mobility CMOS device can comprise forming, via a first epitaxial growth of a first material, first pillars within first trenches formed within a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer is formed on a silicon substrate, and wherein the first pillars comprise first portions with defects and second portions without the defects. The method can further comprise forming second trenches within a first region of the dielectric layer, and further forming second pillars within the second trenches via a second epitaxial growth of one or more second materials using the second portions of the first pillars as seeds for the second epitaxial growth. |
| US11637040B2 |
Systems and methods for mitigating crack propagation in semiconductor die manufacturing
A method for mitigating crack propagation during manufacture of semiconductor dies, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. The method includes forming holes into a first side of a wafer substrate opposite a second side. The wafer substrate has active components at the second side. Each hole extends from the first side towards the second side an extend to an intermediate depth within the wafer substrate such that a bottom of the holes is spaced vertically apart from the active components on the second side. The holes are configured to inhibit cracks in the wafer substrate from propagating longitudinally across the wafer substrate. The method also includes backgrinding the first side of the wafer substrate to thin the wafer substrate after forming the holes. The method also includes dicing the wafer substrate after backgrinding to separate individual semiconductor dies from each other. |
| US11637038B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device containing self-aligned lateral contact elements and methods for forming the same
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers having stepped surfaces, memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, a retro-stepped dielectric material portion overlying the stepped surfaces, and pillar-shaped contact-opening assemblies located within a respective pillar-shaped volume vertically extending through the retro-stepped dielectric material portion and a region of the alternating stack that underlies the retro-stepped dielectric material portion. Some of the pillar-shaped contact-opening assemblies can include a first conductive plug that laterally contacts a cylindrical sidewall of a respective one of the electrically conductive layers and a conductive via structure that contacts a top surface of the first conductive plug. |
| US11637037B2 |
Method to create air gaps
Tin oxide films are used to create air gaps during semiconductor substrate processing. Tin oxide films, disposed between exposed layers of other materials, such as SiO2 and SiN can be selectively etched using a plasma formed in an Hz-containing process gas. The etching creates a recessed feature in place of the tin oxide between the surrounding materials. A third material, such as SiO2 is deposited over the resulting recessed feature without fully filling the recessed feature, forming an air gap. A method for selectively etching tin oxide in a presence of SiO2, SiC, SiN, SiOC, SiNO, SiCNO, or SiCN, includes, in some embodiments, contacting the substrate with a plasma formed in a process gas comprising at least about 50% Hz. Etching of tin oxide can be performed without using an external bias at the substrate and is preferably performed at a temperature of less than about 100° C. |
| US11637029B2 |
Load port operation in electronic device manufacturing apparatus, systems, and methods
A load port of a factory interface of an electronic device manufacturing system can include a purge apparats, a docking tray configured to receive a substrate carrier including a substrate carrier door and a substrate carrier housing, a backplane located adjacent to the docking tray, and a carrier door configured to seal an opening in the backplane when the carrier door opener is closed. The carrier door opener can include an inlet gas line therethrough that is coupled to one or more components of the purge apparatus. The load port can also include a controller that is configured to detect that the substrate carrier is placed in a docking position on the docking tray. The substrate carrier placed in the docking position on the docking tray can form a gap between the substrate carrier housing and the backplane. The controller can also purge a space between the carrier door and the carrier housing and/or an area between the carrier door and the carrier door opener via the inlet gas line and the gap between the substrate carrier housing and the backplane. The controller can cause the purge apparatus to stop the purge and close the gap between the substrate carrier housing and the backplane. |
| US11637027B2 |
Thermal reflector device for semiconductor fabrication tool
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a system that includes a susceptor configured to retain a semiconductor substrate, a heating element, and a reflector integrated with the heating element, where the reflector includes a surface defined by a plurality of circumferential ridges having a separation distance that varies from a top portion of the reflector to a bottom portion of the reflector. The method further includes heating the semiconductor substrate and forming an epitaxial layer on the heated semiconductor substrate, where the heating includes emitting thermal energy from the heating element and reflecting the thermal energy from the surface of the reflector onto the semiconductor substrate, where an amount of the thermal energy received by an edge of the semiconductor substrate is more than an amount of the thermal energy received by a center of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11637021B2 |
Metal heterojunction structure with capping metal layer
The current disclosure describes techniques of protecting a metal interconnect structure from being damaged by subsequent chemical mechanical polishing processes used for forming other metal structures over the metal interconnect structure. The metal interconnect structure is receded to form a recess between the metal interconnect structure and the surrounding dielectric layer. A metal cap structure is formed within the recess. An upper portion of the dielectric layer is strained to include a tensile stress which expands the dielectric layer against the metal cap structure to reduce or eliminate a gap in the interface between the metal cap structure and the dielectric layer. |
| US11637019B2 |
Method for forming a semiconductor device having protrusion structures on a substrate and a planarized capping insulating layer on the protrusion structures
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure on a substrate. The stacked structure includes stepped regions and a central region between the stepped regions, an upper insulation layer on the stacked structure, and a capping insulation layer on the stepped regions of the stacked structure. The capping insulation layer includes a first upper end portion and a second upper end portion that are adjacent to the upper insulation layer. The upper insulation layer is between the first upper end portion and the second upper end portion. The first upper end portion and the second upper end portion extends a first height relative to the substrate that is different from a second height relative to the substrate of the second upper end portion. |
| US11637017B2 |
Method of forming memory device
Provided is a memory device including a substrate, a plurality of word-line structures, a plurality of cap structures, and a plurality of air gaps. The word-line structures are disposed on the substrate. The cap structures are respectively disposed on the word-line structures. A material of the cap structures includes a nitride. The nitride has a nitrogen concentration decreasing along a direction near to a corresponding word-line structure toward far away from the corresponding word-line structure. The air gaps are respectively disposed between the word-line structures. The air gaps are in direct contact with the word-line structures. A method of forming a memory device is also provided. |
| US11637016B2 |
Systems and methods for bidirectional device fabrication
Methods and systems for double-sided semiconductor device fabrication. Devices having multiple leads on each surface can be fabricated using a high-temperature-resistant handle wafer and a medium-temperature-resistant handle wafer. Dopants can be introduced on both sides shortly before a single long high-temperature diffusion step diffuses all dopants to approximately equal depths on both sides. All high-temperature processing occurs with no handle wafer or with a high-temperature handle wafer attached. Once a medium-temperature handle wafer is attached, no high-temperature processing steps occur. High temperatures can be considered to be those which can result in damage to the device in the presence of aluminum-based metallizations. |
| US11637014B2 |
Methods for selective deposition of doped semiconductor material
Methods and systems for selectively depositing material, such as doped semiconductor material, are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a substrate, comprising a first area comprising a first material and a second area comprising a second material, selectively depositing a first doped semiconductor layer overlying the first material relative to the second material and selectively depositing a second doped semiconductor layer overlying the first doped semiconductor layer relative to the second material. |
| US11637009B2 |
Cleaning method of glass substrate, manufacturing method of semiconductor device, and glass substrate
A glass substrate is reused. The mass productivity of a semiconductor device is increased.A glass substrate one surface of which includes a first material and a second material. The first material includes one or both of a metal and a metal oxide. The second material includes one or both of a resin and a decomposition product of a resin. A cleaning method of a glass substrate, which includes a step of preparing the glass substrate one surface of which includes a first material and a second material and a step of exposing the first material by removing at least part of the second material. |
| US11637003B2 |
Method for etching film and plasma processing apparatus
A method for etching a film includes: supplying a precursor gas to the substrate, thereby forming a precursor layer on a substrate; and etching the film with a chemical species from plasma formed from a processing gas so as to increase a depth of the opening, and form a protective region from the precursor layer with the chemical species or another chemical species from the plasma. A plurality of cycles each including the supplying the precursor gas and the etching the film is executed. A temperature of the substrate during execution of the etching the film included in at least one cycle of the plurality of cycles and a temperature of the substrate during execution of the etching the film included in at least one other cycle of the plurality of cycles are set to be different from each other. |
| US11637001B2 |
Deposition apparatus and deposition method using the same
A deposition apparatus includes a shield member having a lattice shape in a plan view, the lattice shape including short side edges extending along a first direction and long side edges extending along a second direction, the short side edges including first and second short side edges, a bracket member including a first bracket member coupled to the first short side edge, and a second bracket member coupled to the second short side edge, a plurality of anode bars extending along the second direction and stably placed on each of the first bracket member and the second bracket member, and a target member covering the plurality of anode bars. An anode bar of the plurality of anode bars protrudes outward beyond at least one of the first bracket member and the second bracket member, and the anode bar is physically separated from the shield member by the bracket member. |
| US11636998B2 |
Nanosecond pulser pulse generation
Some embodiments include a high voltage pulsing power supply. A high voltage pulsing power supply may include: a high voltage pulser having an output that provides pulses with an amplitude greater than about 1 kV, a pulse width greater than about 1 μs, and a pulse repetition frequency greater than about 20 kHz; a plasma chamber; and an electrode disposed within the plasma chamber that is electrically coupled with the output of the high voltage pulser to produce a pulsing an electric field within the chamber. |
| US11636997B2 |
Uniform milling of adjacent materials using parallel scanning fib
A method of evaluating a region of a sample that includes two or more sub-regions adjacent to each other that have different milling rates. The method can include: scanning a focused ion beam over the region during a single scan frame such that the ion beam is scanned over a first sub-region of the region having a first milling rate at a first scan rate and then scanned over a second sub-region of the region having a second milling rate at a second scan rate, where the second milling rate is faster than the first milling rate and second scan rate is faster than the first scan rate; and repeating the scanning process a plurality of times to etch the region to a desired depth. |
| US11636991B2 |
Breaker, safety circuit, and secondary battery pack
A breaker includes a fixed piece having a fixed contact, a movable piece having an elastically deformable elastic portion and a movable contact formed at a tip portion of the elastic portion and pushed to contact with the fixed contact, a thermally actuated element deformable according to a temperature change to shift the state of the movable piece from a conductive state to a cut-off state, and a case accommodating the fixed piece, the movable piece, and the thermally actuated element. The movable piece is cantilevered by the case on a base end portion side of the elastic portion, the elastic portion includes a first narrow portion having a smaller width dimension in a short direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the elastic portion than the base end portion, and the first narrow portion has an arc-shaped contour in plan view from a thickness direction of the elastic portion. |
| US11636989B2 |
Trigger switch
A trigger switch may include a first urging member urging a trigger, a shaft including a first end attached to the trigger, a first movable member connected to a second end of the shaft, a second movable member, a second urging member located between the first movable member and the second movable member, and a contact portion to be in contact with the second movable member moved in a depressing direction. In response to a depressing operation on the trigger, the first movable member, the second movable member, and the second urging member move in the depressing direction until the second movable member comes in contact with the contact portion. In response to an additional depressing operation on the trigger with the second movable member in contact with the contact portion, the first movable member moves in the depressing direction, and the second urging member urges the first movable member. |
| US11636982B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component including multilayer external electrodes
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and external electrodes provided on opposing end surfaces of the multilayer body. Each external electrode includes an underlying electrode layer including metal components and ceramic components, and plating layers on the underlying electrode layer. A metal of the plating layer on the underlying electrode layer diffuses into the underlying electrode layer to extend from a surface layer of the underlying electrode layer to an interface of the multilayer body, and exists at an interface where the metal components included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other, an interface where the metal component and the ceramic component included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other, and an interface between the metal component included in the underlying electrode layer and the multilayer body. |
| US11636977B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body, a first internal electrode layer extending to opposing end surfaces of the multilayer body, a second internal electrode layer extending to opposing side surfaces of the multilayer body, first and second external electrodes connected to the first internal electrode layer and provided on the opposing end surfaces, and third and fourth external electrodes connected to the second internal electrode layer and provided on the opposing side surfaces. The second internal electrode layer includes a central section in a central portion of the dielectric layer and an extending section extending to the opposing side surfaces. The first internal electrode layer is larger in number than the second internal electrode layer, at least two first internal electrode layers are successively layered, and the extending section is larger in thickness than the central section located in the central portion of the dielectric layer. |
| US11636976B2 |
Device and method for continuously performing grain boundary diffusion and heat treatment
Disclosed are a device and method for continuously performing grain boundary diffusion and heat treatment, characterized in that the alloy workpiece or the metal workpiece are arranged in a relatively independent processing box together with a diffusion source; the device comprises, in successive arrangement, a grain boundary diffusion chamber, a first cooling chamber, a heat treatment chamber, and a second cooling chamber, and a transfer system provided between various chambers for delivering the processing box; each of the first cooling chamber and the second cooling chamber uses an air cooling system, and the cooling air temperature of the first cooling chamber is above 25° C. and at least differs by 550° C. from the grain boundary diffusion temperature of the grain boundary diffusion chamber; the cooling air temperature of the second cooling chamber is above 25° C. and at least differs by 300° C. from the heat treatment temperature of the heat treatment chamber; and the cooling chamber has a pressure of 50 kPa to 100 kPa. The device provided by the present invention can increase the cooling rate and production efficiency, and improve product consistency. |
| US11636974B2 |
Wound magnetic core manufacturing method and wound magnetic core
A method for manufacturing a non-circular wound magnetic core composed of a nano-crystallized soft magnetic alloy thin strip comprises: a step for acquiring a multilayer body by winding a soft magnetic alloy thin strip; a step for nano-crystallizing the soft magnetic alloy thin strip by inserting a heat treatment inner peripheral jig to the inner peripheral side of the multilayer body, maintaining the multilayer body in a non-circular shape, and subjecting the multilayer body to a heat treatment; and a step for maintaining the nano-crystallized multilayer body in the non-circular shape by using outer and inner peripheral jigs and impregnating resin between the layers of the multilayer body. The resin impregnation inner and outer peripheral jigs are shaped so as to not contact the inner peripheral surface and/or the outer peripheral surface of the multilayer body at a part where the multilayer body has a large degree of curvature. |
| US11636972B2 |
Multilayer substrate and method of manufacturing the same
A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body of insulating base material layers and conductor patterns on the insulating base material layers. A thickness adjustment base material layer includes a frame portion, an opening portion inside the frame portion, and an island shaped portion inside the frame portion, and connection portions to connect the island shaped portion to the frame portion. The conductor patterns, in a stacking direction of the insulating base material layers, are wound around the island shaped portion. A line width of the connection portions is smaller than the width of the island shaped portion connected to the frame portion through the connection portions. An area overlapped with the conductor patterns is larger in the opening portion than in the frame portion and the island shaped portion. |
| US11636971B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes a body including a plurality of effective layers stacked in one direction; a coil portion embedded in the body, the coil portion including a plurality of coil patterns respectively disposed in the plurality of effective layers, the coil portion further including a lead-out pattern; and a core penetrating through an interior of the coil portion, wherein the coil portion further includes a resistance reducing portion extending from an outer circumferential surface of each of the coil patterns to an outside of the core in a respective one of the effective layers in a radially outward direction of the coil portion. |
| US11636970B2 |
Method for manufacturing powder magnetic core, and powder magnetic core
The invention provides a powder magnetic core and a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core through simple compression molding and capable of manufacturing a complicatedly shaped powder magnetic core with reliable high strength and insulating properties. A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core with a metallic soft magnetic material powder includes: a first step including mixing a soft magnetic material powder and a binder; a second step including compression molding the mixture obtained after the first step; a third step including performing at least one of grinding and cutting on the compact obtained after the second step; and a fourth step including heat-treating the compact after the third step, wherein in the fourth step, the compact is heat-treated so that an oxide layer containing an element constituting the soft magnetic material powder is formed on the surface of the soft magnetic material powder. |
| US11636967B2 |
Coil device
A coil device has a core including a winding core portion and a flange portion formed on an X-axis-direction end portion of the winding core portion, a coil portion formed by wires being wound around the winding core portion, and terminal electrodes provided on the flange portion. Leadout portions of the wires are respectively connected to the terminal electrodes. A main protuberance having a protuberating shape is formed on an upper surface of the flange portion. The first and second leadout portions of the wires are connected to the first and second terminal electrodes outside the main protuberance in the X-axis direction. |
| US11636966B1 |
System and device for hanging magnetic ornaments
A magnetic ornament system includes: a mounting structure with a mounting surface; a magnetic plate, including a plate body, an adhesive material, and a protective member; and a magnetic ornament, including a magnet, a connector member, and an ornament assembly; such that the magnetic plate is positionable on the mounting surface of the mounting structure, such that the magnetic ornament is detachably connectable to the magnetic plate. |
| US11636962B2 |
R-T-B based permanent magnet
Provided is a permanent magnet including a rare-earth element R, a transition metal element T, B, Zr, and Cu. The permanent magnet contains main phase grains including Nd, T, and B, and grain boundary multiple junctions, the grain boundary multiple junction is a grain boundary surrounded by three or more of the main phase grains, one of the grain boundary multiple junctions contains a ZrB2 crystal and an R—Cu-rich phase, a concentration of B in the grain boundary multiple junction containing both the ZrB2 crystal and the R—Cu-rich phase is from 5 to 20 atomic %, a concentration of Cu in the grain boundary multiple junction containing both the ZrB2 crystal and the R—Cu-rich phase is from 5 to 25 atomic %, and a surface layer part of the main phase grain includes at least one kind of heavy rare-earth element among Tb and Dy. |
| US11636961B2 |
Variable resistor and electronic device
A variable resistor includes: a main body and a rotating part vertically separated away from each other, among which the main body includes: a substrate having a first main surface, a second main surface and a through hole vertically penetrating the first main surface and the second main surface; a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion provided on the first main surface; a resistor body connected thereto; an electrode positioned closer to the through hole than the resistor body; and a third conductive portion (i) provided on each of the second main surface and a partition wall surface for partitioning the through hole and (ii) connected to the electrode, and the rotating part includes: an opposing part rotatable in a circumferential direction; and a slider configured to conductively slide as the rotating part rotates. |
| US11636958B2 |
Communication cable and wire harness
A communication cable includes an insulated wire including a conductor and a covering layer covering the conductor, the covering layer being made of an insulator, and a sheath covering an outer circumferential surface of the insulated wire, the sheath including a resin composition containing a polyolefin and a thermoplastic elastomer. A tensile modulus of elasticity of the sheath is 500 MPa or less, and a mass increase rate of the sheath is less than 50% by mass when the sheath is immersed in a diisononyl phthalate at 100° C. for 72 hours. |
| US11636953B2 |
Method for comparing reference values in medical imaging processes, system comprising a local medical imaging device, computer program product and computer-readable program
A method is for comparing reference values in medical imaging processes of different medical imaging devices. In an embodiment, the method includes providing a data base of reference values, each reference value of the data base being assigned to a defined global identification specifying the medical imaging process; creating a label for the medical imaging process at a local medical imaging device using the defined global identification; and providing a mapping assigning a local identification to the defined global identification, for supporting the creation of the label for the medical imaging process. |
| US11636945B1 |
Practitioner referral platform
A searchable practitioner referral platform, system and method utilizing multiple self-reported objective factors of a practitioner which carry weighted scores based on a frequency of the factor, the weighted scores having a maximum count frequency and accumulating to a total score recalculated for reporting, and where the system is a practitioner-only system utilized in one aspect by a practitioner only after the practitioner inputs his or her own data factor information. |
| US11636944B2 |
Connectivity infrastructure for a telehealth platform
A secure, reliable telehealth delivery platform that also provides flexibility and scalability. The platform includes a plurality of geographically dispersed communication servers that facilitate communication sessions between remotely located patients and healthcare providers over a public communications network. The platform includes a connectivity server that manages access among users and locations. The platform also includes a monitoring server that monitors the health and usage of devices coupled to the network and proactively identifies issues requiring intervention before service interruptions occur. |
| US11636938B2 |
Methods for operating mode transitions and related infusion devices and systems
Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method involves operating an infusion device to deliver fluid to a user in accordance with a first operating mode of a plurality of operating modes, obtaining operational information pertaining to the first operating mode, and obtaining clinical information pertaining to the user. A destination operating mode of the plurality of operating modes is determined based at least in part on the operational information and the clinical information, and the infusion device is operated to deliver the fluid in accordance with the destination operating mode in a manner that is influenced by at least a portion of the operational information pertaining to the first operating mode. |
| US11636937B2 |
Model-based infusion site monitor
A medication delivery monitoring device is disclosed. The device includes a user interface configured to receive input information, and a sensor configured to measure a plurality of fluid state parameters of a fluid delivery channel through which the medication is delivered by a vascular access device (VAD) to an infusion site region of the patient. The device also includes a processor configured to determine a state of the infusion site region based on the plurality of measured fluid state parameters and the input information, and an output device configured to provide a communication regarding the state of the infusion site region. Methods and computer-readable mediums for monitoring medication delivery are also disclosed. |
| US11636933B2 |
Summarization of clinical documents with end points thereof
A system (100) includes an end point prediction engine (150) that predicts an end point (302) using a machine learning model (132) and one or more clinical report objects (152) for a patient, wherein the machine learning model inputs the one or more clinical report objects and outputs the predicted end point according to phrases or n-grams in the one or more clinical report objects. An end point visualization interface (160) visualizes the predicted end point (302) using a scorecard (162) or a timeline (164). An end point modeling engine (130) generates the machine learning model from training data that includes validated end points (122) and clinical report objects (116). |
| US11636930B2 |
Interoperable platform for reducing redundancy in medical database management
Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing redundancy in medical database management. An example system may include an application program interface communicatively linked to a user interface associated with each of: a plurality of hospital information systems, a plurality of source devices associated with each of the plurality of hospital information systems, and a plurality of electronic data management systems. The system may further include a mapping module configured to map lexical tokens between patient-specific data forms used by each of the system components. An example method may performed by a computing device having one or more processors may include receiving, from the source devices, patient-specific health data; generating updates to patient-specific electronic health records (EHR) for patients; generating patient-specific electronic data capture (EDC) data associated with the patients, and updating electronic data management systems with the patient-specific EDC data. |
| US11636929B2 |
Uploading a data record to a cloud repository
A method and a local transmission unit are for uploading a data record to a cloud data repository. The method includes receiving a medical data record by a local transmission software, the local transmission software including a core module and available plug-ins, each available plug-in being associated with a remote application. The method further includes generating an anonymized data record based on the medical data record by a processing plug-in, the processing plug-in being one of the available plug-ins. Finally, the method includes uploading the anonymized data record to a cloud data repository, the anonymized data record in the cloud data repository being accessible by the remote application associated with the processing plug-in. |
| US11636928B1 |
Facilitating computerized interactions with EMRS
A method for using a health information exchange system which stores patient record data regarding a multiplicity of patients, to serve a first plurality of EMRs each interacting with an EMR community including a set of at least one EMR, the method comprising: for each individual EMR within the first plurality of EMRs, performing a computerized context interception process using a processor to intercept context from the individual EMR and to identify there within an event whereby a health provider using the individual EMR calls up an individual patient's record from said individual EMR; and responsive to identification of the event, using a computerized output device for providing patient record data, pertaining to the individual patient, to the health provider. |
| US11636925B2 |
Patient test data processing system and method
A method and system is disclosed for receiving patient test data from a point of care device for a medical test performed on a patient using the point of care device, performing device specific processing on the received patient test data by processing the received patient test data to identify a device type from the received patient test data, and reformatting the received patient test data according to a test type using the identified device type, and transmitting the reformatted patient test data to a remote server system over a network. |
| US11636921B2 |
Systems and methods for inferring cell status
Systems and methods for inferring a status of a cell population are provided. Described techniques allow deconvolving a first clonal population comprising a first plurality of cells of a species, wherein nucleic acid sequence reads from each cell in the first plurality of cells are obtained. The nucleic acid sequence reads are mapped into bins representing portions of a reference genome, and a pattern of sequence read counts for each cell across the multiple bins is used to assign a cell to a group, thereby inferring a mitotic status of the cell. The assignment of nucleic acid sequence reads into bins is also be used for segregating cells into classes based on a status of a certain biological marker in each cell. Comparison of sequence read counts for a subset of bins across the cell classes allows evaluating effect of a compound on a cell status. |
| US11636918B2 |
Transcriptome-wide design of selective, bioactive small molecules targeting RNA
Methods and computer systems are described herein for identifying small molecules that bind to selected RNA structural features (e.g., to RNA secondary structures). Also described are compounds and compositions that modulate RNA function and/or activity. |
| US11636916B1 |
Biological cell simulation heuristics ranking
A whole cell model may be constructed and used to simulate cell behavior. The whole cell model may have a baseline cell state that can be perturbed by a user in order to understand the behavior and importance of various molecules, processes and/or sub-models within the whole cell model. The simulation data is evaluated according to a variety of heuristics. The simulation data is ranked within each heuristic. The heuristic evaluation of the simulation data is then compared to an input perturbation to determine the relative importance of the heuristics. The output is a visualization of the simulation data according to each heuristic within a dynamic ranked display. |
| US11636915B2 |
Command/address channel error detection
A memory component and a controller communicate commands and data with each other The commands to activate and then access data, and the data itself, are all communicated between a controller and the memory component at different times. The controller and memory component each calculate a respective error detecting code (EDC) values on the activate command information (e.g., bank address and row address) and store them indexed by the bank address. When the memory component is accessed, retrieved EDC values are combined with EDC values calculated from the access command information, and the data itself. The memory component transmits its combined EDC value to the controller for checking. |
| US11636914B2 |
Memory system
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes: a controller configured to execute an error correction process on first data read from a first area at a first address of a memory device and determine a read level used for reading data at the first address according to a result of the correction process. The controller executes the correction process on first frame data of the first data. When the correction process on the first frame data has failed, the controller executes the correction process on second frame data of the first data. When the correction process on the second frame data has succeeded, the controller determines the read level based on a result of comparison between the second frame data and a result of the correction process on the second frame data. |
| US11636911B2 |
Leakage source detection for memory with varying conductive path lengths
Methods, systems, and devices for leakage source detection are described. In some cases, a testing device may scan a first set of access lines of a memory die that have a first length and a second set of access lines of the memory die that have a second length different than the first length. The testing device may determine a first error rate associated with the first set of access lines and a second error rate associated with the second set of access lines. The testing device may categorize a performance of the memory die based on the first and second error rates. In some cases, the testing device may determine a third error rate associated with a type of error based on the first and second error rates and may categorize the performance of the memory die based on the third error rate. |
| US11636907B2 |
Integrity verification of lifecycle-state memory using multi-threshold supply voltage detection
An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) and secure power-up circuitry. The NVM is configured to store an operational state of the IC. The secure power-up circuitry is configured to (i) during a power-up sequence of the IC, perform a first readout of the operational state from the NVM while a supply voltage of the IC is within a first voltage range, (ii) if the operational state read from the NVM in the first readout is a state that permits access to a sensitive resource of the IC, verify that the supply voltage is within a second voltage range, more stringent than the first voltage range, and then perform a second readout of the operational state from the NVM, and (iii) initiate a responsive action in response to a discrepancy between the operational states read from the NVM in the first readout and in the second readout. |
| US11636906B2 |
Memory device and method of applying operating voltage
Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a memory block including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit configured to apply a plurality of operating voltages to a plurality of word lines of the memory block during a program operation, wherein, during a verify operation included in the program operation, the peripheral circuit may be configured to allow a selected word line, among the plurality of word lines, to float, and may decrease a potential of the selected word line to a pre-level by decreasing potentials of adjacent word lines to the selected word line. |
| US11636905B2 |
Temperature compensation for unselected sub-block inhibit bias for mitigating erase disturb
A memory apparatus and method of operation is provided. The apparatus includes a block having memory cells connected to word lines and arranged in strings and is divided into a first sub-block and a second sub-block each configured to be erased as a whole in an erase operation. The apparatus has a temperature measuring circuit configured to detect an ambient temperature of the apparatus. A control circuit is configured to determine a word line inhibit voltage based on the ambient temperature. The control circuit applies an erase voltage to each of the strings while simultaneously applying a word line erase voltage to the word lines associated with a selected one of the first and second sub-blocks to encourage erasing and the word line inhibit voltage to the word lines associated with an unselected one of the first and second sub-blocks to discourage erasing in the erase operation. |
| US11636902B2 |
Signal modulation apparatus, memory storage apparatus, and signal modulation method
A signal modulation apparatus, a memory storage apparatus, and a signal modulation method are disclosed. The signal modulation apparatus includes an observation circuit, a signal modulation circuit, and a phase control circuit. The signal modulation circuit is configured to generate a second signal according to a first signal and a reference clock signal. A frequency of the first signal is different from a frequency of the second signal. The phase control circuit is configured to obtain an observation information via the observation circuit. The observation information reflects a process variation of at least one electronic component in the signal modulation apparatus. The phase control circuit is further configured to control an offset between the first signal and the reference clock signal according to the observation information. |
| US11636901B2 |
Memory device
A memory device includes a charge pump connected to a power supply voltage and including a plurality of stages to output an output voltage, a stage counter configured to output a count value that incrementally increases to a number of the stages, and a regulator configured to compare the output voltage with a reference output voltage of the charge pump that is generated using the incrementally increasing count value obtained by the stage counter, and to output a pump operation signal at a time when the reference output voltage becomes greater than or equal to the output voltage, wherein the charge pump operates in response to the pump operation signal. |
| US11636899B2 |
Memory device and method of operating the same
Provided herein may be a memory device capable of completing program operations for multiple pages in one ready/busy period. The memory device may include a plurality of memory cells configured to form a plurality of pages, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a first program operation and a second program operation and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to receive least significant bit (LSB) page data of a page adjacent to a selected page, center significant bit (CSB) page data, and most significant bit (MSB) page data of the selected page from a memory controller, and program the LSB page data of the page adjacent to the page adjacent to the selected page and to obtain LSB page data from the selected page, previously stored in the selected page, and program the LSB page data, the CSB page data and the MSB page data of the selected page to the selected page. |
| US11636897B2 |
Peak current and program time optimization through loop dependent voltage ramp target and timing control
An apparatus includes a plurality of solid-state storage elements, a plurality of control lines coupled to the plurality of solid-state storage elements, and control circuitry in communication with the plurality of control lines. The control circuitry is configured to during a first phase of a control line pre-charging stage, charge one or more unselected control lines of the plurality of control lines using a regulated charging current for a period of time based at least in part on a predicted parasitic capacitance associated with the programming state of the control lines, and during a second phase of the control line pre-charging stage, charge the one or more unselected bit lines to an inhibit voltage level using an unregulated charging current. |
| US11636896B2 |
Memory cell array circuit and method of forming the same
A memory circuit includes a first driver circuit, a first column of memory cells coupled to the first driver circuit, a first current source, a tracking circuit configured to track a leakage current of the first column of memory cells, and a footer circuit coupled to the first column of memory cells, the first current source and the tracking circuit. |
| US11636893B2 |
Memory device with multiple row buffers
An example memory sub-system includes: a plurality bank groups, wherein each bank group comprises a plurality of memory banks; a plurality of row buffers, wherein two or more row buffers of the plurality of row buffers are associated with each bank group; and a processing logic communicatively coupled to the plurality of bank groups and the plurality of row buffers, the processing logic to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a host, a command identifying a row buffer of the plurality of row buffers; and perform an operation with respect to the identified row buffer. |
| US11636891B2 |
Varying a time average for feedback of a memory system
Methods, systems, and devices for varying a time average for feedback of a memory system are described. An apparatus may include a voltage supply, a memory array, and a regulator coupled with the voltage supply and memory array and configured to supply a first voltage received from the voltage supply to the memory array. The apparatus may also include a voltage sensor configured to measure a second voltage of the memory array and a digital feedback circuit coupled with the memory array and regulator and configured to generate feedback comprising information averaged over a duration based at least in part on the second voltage measured by the voltage sensor and to transmit an analog signal to the regulator based at least in part on the feedback. |
| US11636884B2 |
Back-up and restoration of register data
A system includes: a processor; a register configured to store a plurality of words, non-volatile memory having a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to one of the words of the register, and wherein the each cell of the plurality of cells are set to an initial reset value; a first controller that in response to a loss in power: determines the word stored by the register; and changes the initial reset value of the cell of the non-volatile memory corresponding to the determined word stored by the register to a set value; a second controller that in response to detecting a restoration in power: identifies the cell having the set value; writes the word corresponding to the identified cell to the register; and resets the cells of the non-volatile memory to the initial reset value. |
| US11636883B2 |
Semiconductor device and system using the same
To provide a semiconductor device which can execute the product-sum operation. The semiconductor device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, and an offset circuit. First analog data is stored in the first memory cell, and reference analog data is stored in the second memory cell. The first memory cell and the second memory cell supply a first current and a second current, respectively, when a reference potential is applied as a selection signal. The offset circuit has a function of supplying a third current corresponding to a differential current between the first current and the second current. In the semiconductor device, the first memory and the second memory supply a fourth current and a fifth current, respectively, when a potential corresponding to second analog data is applied as a selection signal. By subtracting the third current from a differential current between the fourth current and the fifth current, a current that depends on the sum of products of the first analog data and the second analog data is obtained. |
| US11636879B2 |
Video generating method, apparatus, electronic device, and computer-readable medium
A video generating method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a first video set and an audio material; determining a first music point of the audio material according to an amount of the video materials in the first video set; generating, according to a sorting order of the video materials in the first video set, one video clip for each first music clip in the audio material by respectively using one video material, so as to obtain a first video sequence; adjusting, in response to detecting an editing operation on the video clip in the first video sequence, the video clip in the first video sequence, so as to obtain a second video sequence; and splicing together video clips in the second video sequence, and adding the audio material as a video audio track to obtain a composite video. |
| US11636877B2 |
Content recording apparatus, content editing apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, content recording method, content editing method, and content reproduction method
A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium. |
| US11636876B2 |
Magnetic disk device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a spindle motor, a magnetic head, a ramp load mechanism, a filter, and a control section. The control section rotates the spindle motor at a second rotating speed for a given period of time at startup of the device, and then loads the magnetic head from the ramp load mechanism to a prescribed position on the magnetic disk. The second rotating speed is higher than a first rotating speed at which the spindle motor is rotated at the magnetic head reads/writes data from/to the magnetic disk. |
| US11636872B2 |
Techniques for computing perceived audio quality based on a trained multitask learning model
In various embodiments, a quality inference application estimates perceived audio quality. The quality inference application computes a set of feature values for a set of audio features based on an audio clip. The quality inference application then uses a trained multitask learning model to generate predicted labels based on the set of feature values. The predicted labels specify metric values for metrics that are relevant to audio quality. Subsequently, the quality inference application computes an audio quality score for the audio clip based on the predicted labels. |
| US11636863B2 |
Stereo signal encoding method and encoding apparatus
A stereo signal encoding method includes determining a window length of an attenuation window based on an inter-channel time difference; determining a modified linear prediction analysis window based on the window length of the attenuation window, where values of at least some points from a point (L−sub_window_len) to a point (L−1) in the modified linear prediction analysis window are less than values of corresponding points from a point (L−sub_window_len) to a point (L−1) in an initial linear prediction analysis window, and the window length of the modified linear prediction analysis window is equal to a window length of the initial linear prediction analysis window; and performing linear prediction analysis on a to-be-processed sound channel signal based on the modified linear prediction analysis window. |
| US11636862B2 |
Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method
A processing load at a receiving side is reduced in a case where a plurality of classes of audio data is transmitted.A predetermined number of audio streams including coded data of a plurality of groups is generated and a container of a predetermined format having this predetermined number of audio streams is transmitted. Command information for creating a command specifying a group to be decoded from among the plurality of groups is inserted into the container and/or the audio stream. For example, a command insertion area for the receiving side to insert a command for specifying a group to be decoded is provided in at least one audio stream among the predetermined number of audio streams. |
| US11636861B2 |
Electronic device and method of operation thereof
Various embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing a voice command in an electronic device. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the electronic device includes a microphone, a memory, and a processor operatively coupled to the microphone and the memory. The processor may be configured to wake up on the basis of detection of a voice call command, calculate a score related to recognition of the voice call command, share the score with an external device, decide whether to execute a voice command on the basis of the score, and process the voice command on the basis of the decision result. Various embodiments are possible. |
| US11636860B2 |
Word-level blind diarization of recorded calls with arbitrary number of speakers
Disclosed herein are methods of diarizing audio data using first-pass blind diarization and second-pass blind diarization that generate speaker statistical models, wherein the first pass-blind diarization is on a per-frame basis and the second pass-blind diarization is on a per-word basis, and methods of creating acoustic signatures for a common speaker based only on the statistical models of the speakers in each audio session. |
| US11636851B2 |
Multi-assistant natural language input processing
Techniques for a natural language processing (NLP) system to implement more than one assistant are described. The NLP system may receive a natural language input corresponding to more than one user command. The NLP system may respond to a first command, of the natural language input, using a TTS voice of a first NLP system assistant. The NLP system may respond to a second command, of the natural language input, using a TTS voice of a second NLP system assistant. |
| US11636850B2 |
Method, system, and device for performing real-time sentiment modulation in conversation systems
A method and system for performing real-time sentiment modulation in conversation systems is disclosed. The method includes generating an impact table comprising a plurality of sentiment vectors and a plurality of emotion vectors associated with the plurality of sentences. The method further includes generating for each of the plurality of sentences, a dependency vector based on the associated sentiment vector and the associated emotion vector. The method further includes stacking the dependency vector generated to generate a waveform representing variance in sentiment and emotions across words within the plurality of sentences. The method further includes altering at least one portion of the waveform based on a desired emotional output to generate a reshaped waveform. The method further includes generating a set of rephrased sentences associated with the at least one portion, based on the reshaped waveform, the set of sentences, a user defined sentiment output. |
| US11636845B2 |
Method for synthesized speech generation using emotion information correction and apparatus
A method includes generating first synthesized speech by using text and a first emotion vector configured for the text, extracting a second emotion vector included in the first synthesized speech, determining whether correction of the second emotion information vector is needed by comparing a loss value calculated by using the first emotion information vector and the second emotion information vector with a preconfigured threshold, re-performing speech synthesis by using a third emotion information vector generated by correcting the second emotion information vector, and outputting the generated synthesized speech, thereby configuring emotion information of speech in a more effective manner. A speech synthesis apparatus may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, drone (unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV), robot, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G services, and the like. |
| US11636840B2 |
Vehicle, apparatus, method and computer program for sharing sound data
Embodiments relate to a vehicle, an apparatus, a method and a computer program for sharing sound data. The apparatus (10) for sharing sound data from a vehicle (100) comprises one or more interfaces (12) configured to communicate in a mobile communication system (300) and one or more microphones (16) configured to record sound data. The apparatus (10) further comprises a control module (14), which is configured to control the one or more interfaces (12) and the one or more microphones (12). The control module (14) is further configured to record sound samples using the one or more microphones (16), and to communicate information on the sound samples to another vehicle (200) using the one or more interfaces (12). |
| US11636833B2 |
Go drum
A compact drum kit is provided. The drum kit has a body having a hollow interior cavity and a sound hole for transmitting sound wave from the interior cavity to exterior of the body, the body has a striking head and an opposing resonant head. The drum kit has a top plate attaching to a top side of the body and a platform attaching to a bottom side of the body. A plurality of upward extending component mounting shafts are supported by shaft locking mechanisms. A drum kick assembly is positioned on the striking head side of the body and including a beater positioned to strike the striking head of the body to produce a sound. A hi-hat pedal assembly is positioned on the resonant head side of the body. The hi-hat pedal assembly can be attached to a hi-hat pedal assembly plate at a variety of distances and angles. The hi-hat pedal assembly plate can be pivotally connected to the bottom platform that the hi-hat pedal plate forms a portion of the body when the hi-hat pedal assembly plate is folded up for storage. |
| US11636830B2 |
Driving method and apparatus of display panel
The present disclosure discloses a driving method and apparatus of a display panel. When each of a plurality of obtained display frames is transmitted, only display data, corresponding to each pixel in one row group, in the display frame of image data is transmitted to a driving chip in the display panel, so that the driving chip in the display panel drives the display panel to display an image according to the received display data. Therefore, when a system on chip transmits each of the plurality of obtained display frames, only the display data, corresponding to each pixel in one row group, in the display frame of image data is transmitted to the driving chip in the display panel. |
| US11636829B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area adjacent to the first display area, a processor configured to generate first image data corresponding to the first and second display areas for a first mode, and to generate second image data corresponding to the first display area for a second mode, and a display driver configured to drive the display panel in response to the first image data in the first mode, and to drive the display panel in response to the second image data in the second mode, wherein a supplementary image is displayed in at least a portion of the second display area in the second mode. |
| US11636823B2 |
Method and apparatus of handling signal transmission applicable to display system
A method of handling signal transmission applicable to a display system includes a plurality of steps. The steps include transmitting a reset signal embedded in a first data signal to each of at least one source driver via a first data channel, generating a first control signal for setting the at least one source driver, and transmitting the first control signal embedded in a second data signal to each of the at least one source driver via a second data channel when the reset signal is transmitted via the first data channel. |
| US11636821B2 |
Gate driving circuit and display device including the same
A gate driving circuit includes: a plurality of driving stages, each driving stage configured to provide a gate signal to a corresponding gate line among a plurality of gate lines, wherein each of the plurality of driving stages includes: a first transistor electrically connected between a first clock terminal and a gate output terminal, the first transistor including a gate electrode electrically connected to a first node, the first clock terminal to receive a first clock signal; a second transistor configured to transmit a first carry signal to the first node; and a third transistor electrically connected between the first node and a first voltage terminal, the third transistor including a gate electrode electrically connected to the first voltage terminal, the first voltage terminal to receive a first voltage, wherein the gate output terminal is electrically connected to the corresponding gate line. |
| US11636820B2 |
Interface circuit, source driver, and display device
An interface circuit comprises a timing signal generating unit that generates a timing signal indicating a timing to switch between a data input period and a non-input period, a plurality of driver error detection circuits that detects an error in source drivers, a selector circuit that selects one of the driver error detection circuits in the non-input period and that outputs a driver error detection signal indicating an error detection result, an input error detection circuit that detects an input error of a data signal and outputs an input error detection signal indicating the result, an OR circuit that outputs an OR of the driver error detection signal and the input error detection signal, and a signal output unit connected to an output part of the OR circuit. |
| US11636810B2 |
Scan driver and display device
A scan driver includes: a plurality of stages, each stage including: a logic circuit configured to transfer an input signal to a first node in response to a first clock signal, and to bootstrap the first node in response to a second clock signal; a carry output circuit configured to output the second clock signal as a carry signal that is provided as the input signal for a next stage in response to a voltage of the bootstrapped first node; and a masking controller configured to receive a masking signal and the carry signal, and to output the masking signal as a scan signal provided to a pixel row corresponding to the each stage in response to the carry signal. |
| US11636805B2 |
Display device and driving method of the same
The present specification provides a display device and a driving method thereof performing sampling for sensing a sampling voltage of a driving transistor using a fast mode in which a driving transistor operates by a sampling voltage formed in one storage capacitor, and data writing using the slow mode in which the driving transistor is operated by a data voltage formed in another storage capacitor. |
| US11636804B2 |
Power supply regulation based on image content
A power supply unit adapts based on an image to be displayed by a display panel. The power supply unit includes a controller circuit for generating a control signal, and a converter circuit for generating an output supply voltage based on the control signal. The controller circuit includes a first look-up table (LUT) storing a set of lower limit values, and a second LUT storing a set of upper limit values. Moreover, the controller circuit includes a microcontroller for receiving an on-pixel-ratio (OPR) value and identifying an entry in the first LUT and the second LUT from the received OPR value. The controller circuit further includes an output circuit for generating the control signal between a first voltage corresponding to a lower limit stored in the identified entry in the first LUT and a second voltage corresponding to an upper limit stored in the identified entry in the second LUT. |
| US11636800B2 |
Pixel circuit, photoelectric detection substrate, photoelectric detection device and driving method
A pixel circuit includes: a charge storage circuit with first and second terminals thereof electrically coupled to first and second nodes, respectively; a reset circuit with first, second and third control terminals thereof electrically coupled to a reference signal line, a first initialization signal line, and a second initialization signal line, respectively, with fourth, fifth and sixth terminals thereof electrically coupled to the first node, a cathode of a photodiode and the second node, respectively; a photosensitive control circuit with first, second and third terminals thereof electrically coupled to an anode of the photodiode, the first node and the second node, respectively; an output circuit with first and second terminals thereof electrically coupled to a first level terminal and a fourth terminal of the photosensitive control circuit, respectively. |
| US11636795B1 |
Method of providing display signal, resolution setting device and display system
A method of providing display signal, performed by a first processing device, and the method includes: triggered by a first detection signal to read first identification data of a display, obtaining second identification data according to a reading condition, outputting a second detection signal to a second processing device to obtain an identification data request signal from the second processing device, and outputting the second identification data to the second processing device according to the identification data request signal to instruct the second processing device to output a display signal to the display according to a resolution indicated by the second identification data. The present disclosure further provides a resolution setting device and a display system. |
| US11636794B2 |
Pixel driving device
A pixel driving device includes at least one data line and at least one driver integrated circuit. The at least one data line includes a first area and a second area on both sides. The first area and the second area are separated by the at least one data line. The at least one driver integrated circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit is disposed in the first area, is configured to receive at least one first high-frequency signal so as to at least one first driving signal. The second circuit is disposed in the second area, is coupled to the first circuit and is configured to receive at least one low-frequency signal. |
| US11636790B2 |
Display panel and display drive method thereof, and display device
A display panel and a display drive method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of display regions and a plurality of scan drive circuits, the plurality of display regions includes a first display region and a second display region that are parallel to each other and do not overlap with each other, and the plurality of scan drive circuits includes a first scan drive circuit and a second scan drive circuit, the first and second display regions are connected to the first and second scan drive circuits to respectively receive a first light-emitting control signal, and the display drive method includes: individually adjusting a pulse width of at least one of the first light-emitting control signal and the second light-emitting control signal to adjust the light-emitting durations of light-emitting elements of the first and second display regions within one display period, respectively. |
| US11636789B2 |
Pixel unit, array substrate, display panel, display apparatus, and detection method of pixel circuit
A pixel unit includes a pixel circuit, a light-emitting element, a first sensing line and a second sensing line. The pixel circuit is electrically connected to the light-emitting element, and the pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit has a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the driving sub-circuit is configured to be electrically connected to a first power supply terminal, and is electrically connected to the first sensing line. The second terminal of the driving sub-circuit is electrically connected to the light-emitting element. The control terminal of the driving sub-circuit is electrically connected to the second sensing line. The first sensing line is configured to sense a voltage of the first terminal of the driving sub-circuit. The second sensing line is configured to sense a voltage of the control terminal of the driving sub-circuit. |
| US11636787B2 |
Display panel and electronic apparatus
A display panel and an electronic apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a substrate comprising a display section, a binding section, and a fan-out section disposed between the display section and the binding section. By disposing a first detecting module on the binding section, and a second detecting module on a side of the fan-out section adjacent to the display section to test whether the signal wires is normal, waste of back-end materials caused by broken signal wires is prevented, and product yields are increased. |
| US11636782B2 |
Breast and abdominal augmentation and reconstruction teaching model
An anatomical teaching model can be used to demonstrate principles of breast and/or abdominal surgical procedures. The model can include a female-shaped torso, a pectoralis major muscle piece attachable to the chest wall surface, and a breast tissue piece is positionable over the pectoralis major muscle piece. The model can further include a pair of rectus muscle pieces attachable to the abdominal wall surface and an abdominal tissue piece positionable over the pair of rectus muscle pieces. The pair of rectus muscle pieces have two sections of material positionable symmetrically about a sagittal plane of the female-shaped torso. Relative positions of the pair of rectus muscle pieces and the abdominal tissue piece are manipulable to permit a clinician to demonstrate at least one of a female anatomy, a surgical procedure to the female anatomy, or a condition resulting from the surgical procedure. |
| US11636781B2 |
Urethra and prostate model and method of use
A device and method for education and practice of transurethral entry into and manipulation of the prostate by various instruments that prevent, or at least reduce, unwanted contact and damage to surrounding structures. |
| US11636779B2 |
Method, apparatus and terminal device for constructing parts together
The present disclosure is provides a method, an apparatus and a terminal device for constructing parts together. The method includes: determining an assembly progress of an object constructed of parts; determining a currently required part according to the assembly progress; identifying, in a part photo of the object, the currently required part using a pre-trained first neural network model and marking the one or more identified currently required parts in the part photo; and displaying, via a display, a 3D demonstration animation with the marked part photo as a background image. The method is based on the existing 3D demonstration animation, which identifies the currently required part in the captured part photo and marks the identified currently required part in the part photo, and then displays the marked part photo as the background image of the 3D demonstration animation, thereby adding a prompt for the real part. |
| US11636774B2 |
Problem collection/evaluation method, proposed solution collection/evaluation method, server for problem collection/evaluation, server for proposed solution collection/evaluation, and server for collection/evaluation of problem and proposed solution thereto
A method for collecting and evaluating problems and a method for collecting and evaluating proposed solution that can be efficiently performed online are provided. In the first test, various problems are collected from a plurality of examinees via a network, and the examinees are allowed to evaluate each other, and the problem data and problem evaluation data obtained are stored in the server using identifiers. The server can extract a problem evaluation aggregated data and transmit it to a test administrator terminal via the network. In the second test, various proposed solutions are collected from a plurality of examinees via the network, and the examinees are allowed to evaluate each other, and the proposed solution data and proposed solution evaluation data obtained are stored in the server using identifiers. The server can extract a proposed solution evaluation aggregated data and transmit it to the test administrator terminal via the network. |
| US11636771B2 |
Stackable housing containers and related systems
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to house a vehicle, including a first container leg disposed on a first corner of a first container, a second container leg disposed on a second corner of the first container, a third container leg disposed on a third corner of the first container, a fourth container leg disposed on a fourth corner of the first container, at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth container legs each having an upper portion with a ramped receiving slot and a lower portion with a first ramped foot, and wherein the ramped receiving slot is to receive a protrusion associated with a second ramped foot of a second container different from the first container. |
| US11636760B2 |
Detection and estimation of variable speed signs
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for predicting or estimating the value of a variable speed sign (VSS). Probe data is received from multiple vehicles associated with a road segment. Location values are derived from the probe data. Center distance values are calculated based on the location values and the road segment. Clusters are derived from the probe data. Center distance values are grouped according to the respective clusters and a lane is assigned to at least one cluster based on the center distance values. The speed of the cluster predicts or estimates the corresponding lane of the VSS. |
| US11636759B2 |
Traffic recording assembly
A traffic recording assembly includes a plurality of recording units that is each positionable on an emergency vehicle. Each of the recording units can be directed toward oncoming traffic when the emergency vehicle is positioned on the side of a roadway to respond to an emergency. Each of the recording units has video recording capabilities to identify vehicles that are not following traffic laws as they pass the emergency vehicle. Additionally, each of the recording units emits electromagnetic energy to detect the speed of the oncoming traffic. A base unit is positioned within the emergency vehicle to store the video and to store the speed of the oncoming traffic for subsequent prosecution. |
| US11636756B2 |
Multi-modal traffic detection
A method is provided, performed by at least one apparatus, the method including: obtaining probe data including a plurality of probe samples of a multi-dimensional probe sample space, the probe data being representative of a potentially multi-modal traffic scenario; performing a cluster analysis for at least a part of the probe samples of the probe data, the cluster analysis including: associating at least a part of the probe samples with respective clusters, each cluster being representative of a mode of the potentially multi-modal traffic scenario. |
| US11636751B2 |
System for detecting occupant left unattended in vehicle and method thereof
According to the present invention, a system for detecting an occupant left unattended in a vehicle, including a first detection unit that detects a situation in which a vehicle is stopped or parked; a carbon dioxide measurement unit that measures carbon dioxide concentration inside the vehicle; and a determination unit that detects the first detection unit's detection of the situation in which the vehicle is stopped or parked, and determines whether or not an occupant is left unattended in the vehicle based on the carbon dioxide concentration measured by the carbon dioxide measurement unit is disclosed. |
| US11636748B2 |
Artificial intelligence for event response
A method for artificial intelligence (AI) event response includes receiving an event alert or a communication associated with an event alert from a communication device. The method includes an AI system collecting additional information about at least one of the event alert, the communication device, or a user of the communication device. The method includes the AI system categorizing the event alert into one category of multiple categories based on the collected additional information. The method includes prioritizing subsequent handling of the event alert among other event alerts based on the category. |
| US11636746B2 |
Device and method for simulating shadows and/or noises of a person
A method and a device for simulating shadows of a person moving in a building, comprising basic lighting and intended to reproduce a particularly realistic simulation of a moving person in a simple manner. This is achieved by superimposing the at least two sequentially switched lamps on the basic lighting. |
| US11636743B1 |
Home security assembly
A home security assembly includes a first shower head to facilitate bathing. A plurality of first light emitters is each of the first light emitters is integrated into the first shower head to emit light outwardly from the first shower head when the first light emitters are turned on. A second shower head is releasably attachable to the first shower head. A plurality of second light emitters is each integrated into the second shower head to emit light outwardly from the second shower head when the second light emitters are turned on. A control unit is integrated into the second shower head and the control unit is in remote communication with an alarm system. Each of the first light emitters and the second light emitters is turned on when the control circuit receives the intruder alert from the alarm system to visually alert the user to the presence of an intruder. |
| US11636742B2 |
Methods and apparatus for outputting a haptic signal to a haptic transducer
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for outputting a haptic signal to a haptic transducer. A method for triggering a haptic signal being output to a haptic transducer comprises receiving an audio signal for output through an audio output transducer; determining whether the audio signal comprises a haptic trigger based on an indication of a rate of change of an amplitude of the audio signal, and responsive to determining that the audio signal comprises a haptic trigger, triggering the haptic signal to be output to the haptic transducer. |
| US11636737B2 |
Systems and methods for facilitating betting in a game
Systems and methods are provided for high frequency wagering in a game with incremental play events, comprising: receiving a real-time stream of game data for a live game; analyzing the game data to detect a betting event associated with a play event about to take place in the live game; transmitting, to a participant device, a plurality of options associated with an outcome of the play event; receiving, from the participant device, an option indication selected from the plurality of options and option metadata corresponding to the option indication, wherein the option metadata comprises a timestamp of when the option indication was transmitted by the participant device; and accepting the option indication based on a comparison of the timestamp and a betting window configured to close before the outcome of the play event is determined, wherein the betting event is detected and the option indication is received without interrupting the live game. |
| US11636735B2 |
Sticky wilds feature for tournament gaming for electronic gaming machines and other computing devices
Systems and techniques for providing time-based sticky wild features for use in multiplayer gaming tournaments are disclosed, including various mechanisms and techniques for distributing sticky wild patterns for use in provisioning such sticky wild features. |
| US11636731B2 |
Systems, methods and devices for monitoring betting activities
System, processes and devices for monitoring betting activities using bet recognition devices and a server. Each bet recognition device has an imaging component for capturing image data for a gaming table surface. The bet recognition device receives calibration data for calibrating the bet recognition device. A server processor coupled to a data store processes the image data received from the bet recognition devices over the network to detect, for each betting area, a number of chips and a final bet value for the chips. |
| US11636730B2 |
System and method for coordinating transactions involving cashless wagering accounts and gaming establishment retail accounts
A system that interconnects multiple accounts associated with a gaming establishment. |
| US11636728B2 |
Gaming system and method for utilizing a mobile device to fund a gaming session
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for facilitating funds to and from an electronic gaming machine via a mobile device. |
| US11636726B2 |
Systems and methods for gaming machine diagnostic analysis
A diagnostic system for electronic gaming machines (EGMs) includes a power supply, and a diagnostic device in electrical connection with the power supply, the diagnostic device configured for placement within a cabinet of an EGM. The diagnostic device includes an attachment device configured to couple the diagnostic device to the EGM, a sensor array including at least one sensor for sensing a condition associated with the EGM and configured to generate conditions data based on the sensed condition, a communications device configured to transmit the conditions data to a remote location, a memory configured to store the conditions data, and a processor configured to analyze the conditions data and determine a diagnostic evaluation based upon the analyzed conditions data. |
| US11636722B2 |
Storage enclosures
In one example, a physical storage enclosure can include a storage area to enclose a device, a locking mechanism to prevent removal of the device from the storage area, a logical configuration system coupled to the device within the storage area, wherein the logical configuration system includes instructions to identify the device within the storage area and alter instructions associated with the device within the storage area, a hardware logistic system coupled to the locking mechanism to activate and deactivate the locking mechanism, and a firewall to restrict communication between the logical configuration system and the hardware logistic system. |
| US11636719B2 |
Diagnostic data visualization methods
A method includes receiving technician data indicative of at least one diagnostic characteristic associated with one or more vehicles, wherein the at least one diagnostic characteristic is representative of a technician servicing event; interpreting the technician data to facilitate remote monitoring of the one or more vehicles; determining a potential root cause for a fault code of a particular vehicle of the one or more vehicles by comparing data of the particular vehicle to the technician data of one or more other vehicles; receiving a display request for a graphical user interface for formatting the graphical user interface in a desired graphical format based on the technician data; and providing the graphical user interface in the desired graphical format to a display device. |
| US11636718B2 |
Method for operating a motor vehicle accident data memory and accident data memory system
In a motor vehicle accident data memory and method of operating it, a reference time is determined by a satellite navigation system, and a system time is synchronized with the reference time. When an accident is detected, accident data and the system time are recorded in a non-volatile memory. |
| US11636716B2 |
Wireless ECU configuration updating
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for wirelessly updating electronic control unit configuration can include determining operation parameters to be changed of an electronic control unit of an equipment, and generating a write package including the operating parameters to be changed. The systems, apparatuses, and methods include transmitting the write package to the equipment. The write package causes the electronic control unit to change the operation parameters upon verifying that the operation parameters are applicable to the equipment based on values of the parameters. In response to determining that the operation parameters are not applicable to the equipment, the write package can be discarded. |
| US11636714B2 |
Method and system for managing parking by dual location verification
A computerized system for managing a parking lot includes: a beacon in one-way, or location sensor in two-way, communication with a smart device for locating the smart device without it having to determine its own location, a vehicle sensor for sensing the presence of a vehicle, and a computer-implemented server operable to determine from the beacon's identification or receive from the location sensor the location of the smart device. The server authorizes entry or exit of the vehicle when a smart device status indicates acceptance, and the smart device and the vehicle are both at a same appropriate location. The server updates the smart device status after a payment transaction. Entry or exit may be authorized by opening a barrier, displaying an authorization message, communicating a message to the smart device, and/or not issuing a non-authorization alert. The server may receive reservations, and may communicate lot occupancy to third-party systems. |
| US11636711B2 |
Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium
An example embodiment includes: an extraction unit that extracts a determination object image including a side part of an outer circumference of an iris from an image including an eye; and a determination unit that determines whether or not a colored contact lens is worn based on the determination object image. |
| US11636709B2 |
Optical data exchange while preserving social distancing
For scanning optical patterns, such as two-dimensional QR codes, with a mobile device at increased distances, a first image is acquired. A region of interest likely containing the optical pattern in the first image is identified. The mobile device then zooms in on the region of interest and a second image is acquired. The optical pattern is then decoded using the second image. |
| US11636708B2 |
Face detection in spherical images
A face located along a stitch line in a spherical image is detected by rendering views of regions of the spherical image along the stitch line. The spherical image may be produced by combining first and second images. A first view of a projection of the spherical image is rendered. A scaling factor for rendering a second view of the projection is determined based characteristics of the first portion of the face. The second view is then rendered according to the scaling factor. The use of the scaling factor to render the second view causes a change in the depiction of the second portion of the face. For example, the scaling factor can indicate to change the resolution or expected size of the second portion of the face when rendering the second view. A face is then detected within the spherical image based on the rendered first and second views. |
| US11636706B2 |
Under-screen fingerprint sensing device and fingerprint sensing method
An under-screen fingerprint sensing device and a fingerprint sensing method are provided. The under-screen fingerprint sensing device includes a fingerprint sensor and a processor. When the fingerprint sensor senses a target object, a first color pixel, a second color pixel, and a third color pixel of the fingerprint sensor respectively output a first color original value, a second color original value, and a third color original value. The processor performs FFC on the first color original value, the second color original value, and the third color original value respectively to generate a first color correction value, a second color correction value, and a third color correction value. The processor determines whether the target object is a real finger according to the first color correction value, the second color correction value, and the third color correction value. |
| US11636704B2 |
Display module and display device
A display module and a display device are provided. The display module includes a fingerprint recognition layer including photosensitive sensors, a display panel including a function layer containing fingerprint recognition light sources and imaging apertures, and a cover plate. A vertical distance between a surface of the cover plate at a side away from the functional layer and a corresponding imaging aperture is a first distance h1; a vertical distance between a photosensitive sensor and a corresponding imaging aperture is a second distance h2; along a direction parallel to a plane where the display panel is located, a distance between any two adjacent fingerprint recognition light sources is P1, and a distance between any two adjacent photosensitive sensors is P3; K = 2 P 3 × h 1 P 1 × h 2 ; 0.8N |
| US11636701B2 |
Method for calculating deviation relations of a population
A method of calculating the deviation relation of a population registered on an image includes: i.) identifying the objects in the image, ii.) estimating the number of identified objects, iii.) identifying abnormalities in the image, iv.) identifying objects with abnormalities in the image, v.) estimating the number of objects with abnormalities, vi.) calculating the relation of objects with abnormalities to all objects. A computer program, a handheld computer device, and a system are also provided. |
| US11636700B2 |
Camera identification
A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to divide each of one or more images acquired by a camera into a plurality of zones, determine respective camera noise values for respective zones based on the one or more images, determine one or more zone expected values for the one or more images by summing camera noise values multiplied by scalar coefficients for each zone and normalizing the sum by dividing by a number of zones in the plurality of zones, and determine a source of the camera as being one of the same camera or an unknown camera based on comparing the one or more zone expected values to previously acquired expected zone values. |
| US11636698B2 |
Image processing method and apparatus with neural network adjustment
A method and apparatus for adjusting a neural network that classifies a scene of an input image into at least one class is provided. The method generates a feature image having a size that is less than a size of an input image by applying a convolutional network to the input image, determines at least one class corresponding to the feature image, generates a class image having a size corresponding to the size of the input image by applying a deconvolutional network to the feature image, calculates a loss of the class image based on a verification class image preset with respect to the input image, and adjusts the neural network based on the loss. |
| US11636697B1 |
Failure mode discovery for machine components
The failure modes of mechanical components may be determined based on text analysis. For example, a word embedding may be determined based on a plurality of text documents that include a plurality of maintenance records characterizing failure of mechanical components. A vector representation for a particular maintenance record may then be determined based on the word embedding. Based on the vector representation, the particular maintenance record may then be identified as belonging to a particular failure mode out of a set of possible failure modes. |
| US11636690B2 |
Environment perception device and method of mobile vehicle
The disclosure provides an environment perception device and method of a mobile vehicle. The environment perception device includes a camera module, a LiDAR module, a database and a processing circuit. The camera module photographs a field near the mobile vehicle to generate a three-dimensional (3D) image frame. The LiDAR module scans the field to generate a 3D scanned frame. The processing circuit fuses the 3D image frame and the 3D scanned frame to generate 3D object information. The processing circuit compares the 3D object information with a 3D map in the database to determine whether an object is a static object. The processing circuit performs an analysis and calculation on the 3D object information to obtain movement characteristics of the object when the object is not the static object, and skips the analysis and calculation on the 3D object information when the object is the static object. |
| US11636680B2 |
System for event timing and photography
A system for identifying and timing an athlete during a timed sporting event. The athlete is timed using image recognition technology in which one or more images of the athlete taken during the sporting event by a camera (106a, 106b, or 106c) is time-stamped to generate a finish time for the athlete. The athlete is identified by comparing one of the images taken during the sporting event with a profile image of the athlete. |
| US11636678B2 |
Audio and video recording and streaming in a three-computer booth
A system and method are presented for recording audio and video of an individual within a kiosk on separate audio and video computers that are locally connected to the kiosk. Instructions are provided to the individual through a locally connected controller computer. A remote user computer requests recorded data from the kiosk. The controller computer prompts the audio and video computers to separately stream audio and video to the remote user computer. The controller computer divides the audio and video data into time segments, and then presents different versions of the session to different users, with each different version comprising a different set of time segments. A central system server provides searching capabilities to the user computer to search and request data from a plurality of remotely located kiosks, each having separate controller, audio, and video computers. |
| US11636676B2 |
Method and apparatus for extracting color scheme from video
An apparatus for extracting a color scheme from a video is provided. The apparatus comprises: a semi-master shot segmentation part for segmenting an input video into a plurality of semi-master shots through semi-master-shot boundary detection (SBD); a base palette extraction part for extracting base palettes from the segmented semi-master shots; and a color scheme merging part for merging the base palettes extracted from the semi-master shots to extract a color scheme. |
| US11636671B1 |
Image acquisition planning systems and methods used to generate information for structures of interest
The present disclosure relates to improvements in systems and methods in acquiring images via imaging devices, where such imaging devices can be configured, in some implementations, with an unmanned aerial vehicle or other vehicle types, as well as being hand-held. Images are acquired from the imaging devices according to capture plans where useful information types about a structure of interest (or objects, items, etc.) can be derived from a structure image acquisition event. Images acquired from capture plans can be evaluated to generate improvements in capture plans for use in subsequent structure image acquisition events. Capture plans provided herein generate accurate information as to all or part of the structure of interest, where accuracy is in relation to the real-life structure incorporated in the acquired images. |
| US11636666B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying key point locations in image, and medium
The present disclosure provides a method for identifying key point locations in an image. The method includes: obtaining an image to be detected, and obtaining a feature map and a saliency map of the image to be detected; generating a score response map of the image to be detected based on the feature map of the image to be detected; obtaining a first key point location of a key point on the score response map; obtaining a second key point location of the key point mapped on the image to be detected based on the first key point location; and correcting the second key point location based on the saliency map. |
| US11636665B2 |
Streaming image semantic segmentation method, logical integrated circuit system and electronic device
Disclosed are an image semantic segmentation method, a logical integrated circuit, a system and an electronic device. The logical integrated circuit includes a convolution processing module and a deconvolution processing module. The convolution processing module performs convolution operation processing on an image to generate a piece of feature data of each and every feature image block of the image. The deconvolution processing module is configured to perform deconvolution operation processing on each piece of feature data to obtain an respective image block region; determine an approximation degree of the each piece of feature data and each and every preset semantic category of multiple preset semantic categories, and classify the each piece of feature data into a preset semantic category; and fill each image block region corresponding to the each piece of feature data with a filling color to achieve semantic segmentation of the image. |
| US11636659B1 |
Method and system for curating a virtual model for feature identification
Computer-implemented methods and systems for curating virtual models and populating overlays within a virtual environment are described herein. A server may receive a data request from a user electronic device. The data request may comprise a property of interest located at a particular portion of an overall region. The server may then dynamically acquire a virtual model for rendering the property within a virtual environment at the user electronic device based on the data request. The server may then curate the virtual model in accordance with rules that emphasize features associated with the property that are relevant to assessing risks associated with the property when assessing the property. The server may then identify the curated property modeled by the virtual model, obtain annotation records associated with the features of the property, and populate an annotations overlay rendered in the virtual environment with information included in the annotation records. |
| US11636657B2 |
3D captions with semantic graphical elements
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, a video feed from a camera of a user device that depicts a face; receiving a request to add a 3D caption to the video feed; identifying a graphical element that is associated with context of the 3D caption; and displaying the 3D caption and the identified graphical element in the video feed at a position in 3D space of the video feed proximate to the face depicted in the video feed. |
| US11636656B1 |
Depth rate up-conversion
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create additional depth frames where a depth camera runs at a lower frame rate than a light intensity camera. Rather than upconverting the depth frames by simply repeating a previous depth camera frame, additional depth frames are created by adjusting some of the depth values of a prior frame based on the RGB camera data (e.g., by “dragging” depths from their positions in the prior depth frame to new positions for a new frame). Specifically, a contour image is generated, and changes in the contour image are used to determine how to adjust (e.g., drag) the depth values for the additional depth frames. The contour image may be based on a mask (e.g., occlusions masks identifying where the hand occludes the virtual cube). |
| US11636655B2 |
Artificial reality environment with glints displayed by an extra reality device
The present embodiments relate to display of glints associated with real-world objects in an environment displayed on an extra reality (XR) device. The glint can include a virtual object associated with a real-world object, such as an indication of a social interaction associated with a real-world object, a content item tagged to an object, etc. The system as described herein can present glints on a display of an XR device based on a distance between the XR device and a location associated with the glint. Responsive to selection of a glint in the environment, additional information can be presented relating to the glint or another action can be taken, such as to open an application. In some instances, a glint can include a series of search results relating to a corresponding real-world object to provide additional information relating to the real-world object. |
| US11636653B2 |
Method and apparatus for synthesizing virtual and real objects
A method for synthesizing virtual and real objects, includes: acquiring a target object in an image captured by a terminal device; in a depth information fusion mode, acquiring the depth information of the target object by a camera apparatus of the terminal device, wherein the depth information fusion mode is configured to superimpose a virtual object generated by computer modeling on the image, and the depth information of the target object is configured to indicate a distance between the target object and the terminal device; acquiring the depth information of the virtual object; and superimposing the virtual object on the image based on the depth information of the target object and the depth information of the virtual object. |
| US11636651B2 |
Method and system for generating a multidimensional surface model of a geometric structure
A method of constructing a bounding box comprises: acquiring a set of sensed data points; adding, for each sensed data point, at least one calculated data point; and defining a bounding box containing the sensed and calculated data points. A method of identifying voxels in a voxel grid corresponding to a plurality of data points comprises: calculating, for each data point, a distance between it and each voxel; creating a subset of voxels comprising voxels having a distance from one data point that is less than a predetermined distance; creating another subset comprising those voxels that neighbor a voxel in the first subset; computing, for each voxel in the second subset, a distance between it and each voxel in the first subset; and identifying each voxel in the first subset that is a distance away from each voxel in the second subset that exceeds a predetermined distance. |
| US11636650B2 |
System and method for isolating anatomical features in computerized tomography data
The technology relates to generating a three-dimensional point cloud model of an anatomical structure. A computer accessible memory stores a three-dimensional array of data elements describing multiple anatomical features of a subject, each of the data elements having associated therewith positional data and a separate parameter value. A processor may be configured to identify any data elements in the three-dimensional array having an associated parameter value satisfying a predefined threshold value associated with at least one anatomical feature. The processor may be further configured to generate a visually displayable three-dimensional point cloud model of at least one anatomical structure having a first plurality of points in the point cloud model which define an exterior perimeter of the at least one anatomical structure and a second plurality points in the point cloud model which define at least one feature interior of the exterior perimeter of the at least one anatomical structure. |
| US11636647B2 |
System and method for localization of fluorescent targets in deep tissue for guiding surgery
A method for identifying a source of florescence is disclosed which includes shining light on a subject at a first wavelength, causing emission of light at a second wavelength from the source of fluorescence, filtering out light at the first wavelength, capturing at least one 2 dimensional (2D) image of a subject having a plurality of pixels at the second wavelength, and establishing information about approximate location of a source of florescence within a tissue of the subject, selectively generating a 3D geometric model where the model is adapted to provide a model representation of the at least one 2D captured image, comparing the modeled at least one 2D captured image to the captured at least one 2D image and iteratively adjusting the model to minimize the difference, and outputting location and geometric configuration of the source of fluorescence within the tissue within the region of interest. |
| US11636646B2 |
Method and apparatus for rendering image
Embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for rendering an image, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium. An example implementation of the method includes: acquiring a real color parameter and a face skin color parameter in a real user image including a face image area, determining lighting parameter information based on the real color parameter and the face skin color parameter, acquiring a to-be-rendered image obtained based on the real user image, and generating a texture parameter based on the lighting parameter information, and using the texture parameter to perform lighting rendering on the to-be-rendered image to obtain a rendered image. |
| US11636645B1 |
Rapid target acquisition using gravity and north vectors
Techniques for aligning images generated by two cameras are disclosed. This alignment is performed by computing a relative 3D orientation between the two cameras. A first gravity vector for a first camera and a second gravity vector for a second camera are determined. A first camera image is obtained from the first camera, and a second camera image is obtained from the second camera. A first alignment process is performed to partially align the first camera's orientation with the second camera's orientation. This process is performed by aligning the gravity vectors, thereby resulting in two degrees of freedom of the relative 3D orientation being eliminated. Visual correspondences between the two images are identified. A second alignment process is performed to fully align the orientations. This process is performed by using the identified visual correspondences to identify and eliminate a third degree of freedom of the relative 3D orientation. |
| US11636642B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding based on importance values
Embodiments are generally directed to methods and apparatuses for encoding based on importance values. An embodiment of a computing system comprises: a graphics processing unit (GPU) to render a scene of a graphics application that includes a plurality of geometries into a color buffer within a frame buffer of the GPU; and an encoder to encode the content of the color buffer into a video bitstream based on a plurality of importance values that are assigned to each of the plurality of geometries. |
| US11636630B2 |
Vehicle display control device and vehicle display control method for displaying predicted wheel locus
A vehicle display control device includes: a locus determination unit determining a predicted locus of a wheel of a subject vehicle according to a steering angle of the subject vehicle; and a display processing unit displaying an image of a field view of the subject vehicle including a vehicle body of the subject vehicle on a display device, and the display processing unit superimposes the guide line indicating the predicted locus determined by the locus determination unit on the image of the field view regardless of the steering angle of the subject vehicle, while semi-transparently displaying a portion of the guide line which overlaps with the vehicle body, thereby allowing visibility of the vehicle body. |
| US11636627B2 |
System for histological examination of tissue specimens
An interactive apparatus, system and method for image capturing and projecting is integrated into an optical microscope. An image capturing and projecting unit is operatively connected to a processing unit, the processing unit configured to: (a) receive user generated data; and (b) overlay the user generated data onto an optically viewed image visible through the eyepiece. |
| US11636626B2 |
Apparatus and method of using AI metadata related to image quality
An image providing apparatus configured to generate, by using a first artificial intelligence (AI) network, AI metadata including class information and at least one class map, in which the class information includes at least one class corresponding to a type of an object among a plurality of predefined objects included in a first image and the at least one class map indicates a region corresponding to each class in the first image, generate an encoded image by encoding the first image, and output the encoded image and the AI metadata through the output interface. |
| US11636620B2 |
Method for positioning sub-pixel centers of light spots based on pixel movement and cutting
A spot sub-pixel center positioning method based on pixel movement and cutting, the method includes driving the CCD image plane to move along the x direction and the y direction through a displacement platform, selecting target pixels to move and cut the spot, and recording the gray value change of the target pixels, constructing the mapping relationship between gray value and displacement, performing differential transformation on the gray value and displacement curve, and finally performing interpolation fitting to obtain the sub-pixel coordinate value of the center point of the light spot. The measurement accuracy can be maintained within ½ of the single-step displacement of cutting. The method is not only suitable for strong and weak distribution of light spots, but also for fully saturated light spots, and also for asymmetrically distributed and blurred edges. It also has a good measurement effect and can handle a variety of spot scenes. |
| US11636619B2 |
System and method for generating basic information for positioning and self-positioning determination device
A system and method for generating basic information for positioning and a self-positioning determination device are disclosed. The system includes an information supplying device and a computing device. The information supplying device recognizes an object position and an object category of each of a plurality of reference objects and accordingly generates a reference unique feature value for each reference object, and the computing device generates basic information for positioning according to the reference unique feature values. The self-positioning determination device recognizes an object position and an object category of a current object and accordingly generates a current unique feature value for the current object, and determines a position of itself according to the current unique feature value, the basic information for positioning, and a distance and an angle between the self-positioning determination device and the current object. |
| US11636617B2 |
Ascertainment of predistortion data for a projection and projector module
In a method for ascertaining predistortion data (2) for a projection from a projector (4) onto a target surface (13) with known geometry data, a camera (10) is placed in a known relative pose (RKP) with respect to the projector and aligned toward the target surface (13), the relative pose of the camera with respect to the target surface (RKZ) is ascertained from a camera image by means of machine vision, and the relative pose (RPZ) of the projector (4) with respect to the target surface (13) is ascertained herefrom and from the relative pose (RKP), and the predistortion data (2) are ascertained on the basis of the geometry data and of the relative pose (RPZ) of the projector (4) with respect to the target surface (13).A projector module (22) contains a calculation unit (3) for performing the method, and the projector (4) and the camera (10).The camera (10) of the projector module (22) or in the method is used for optically monitoring the interior (5).An interior camera is used as the camera (10) of the projector module (22) or in the method. |
| US11636615B2 |
Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method
A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs: acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring, from the memory, an infrared light image generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging a substantially same scene as the scene of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint as a viewpoint of imaging the infrared light image at a substantially same time as a time of imaging the infrared light image; detecting a flare region from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the flare region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the flare region. |
| US11636613B2 |
Computer application method and apparatus for generating three-dimensional face model, computer device, and storage medium
A computer application method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) face model is provided, performed by a face model generation model running on a computer device, the method including: obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) face image as input to the face model generation model; extracting global features and local features of the 2D face image; obtaining a 3D face model parameter based on the global features and the local features; and outputting a 3D face model corresponding to the 2D face image based on the 3D face model parameter. |
| US11636610B2 |
Determining multiple camera positions from multiple videos
A set of media items to be shared with users of a content sharing service is identified. Each of the set of media items corresponds to a video recording generated by a client device that depicts one or more objects corresponding to a real-world event at a geographic location. A positioning of the client device that generated the video recording corresponding to a respective media item of the set of media items is determined. The positioning is determined based on image features depicted in a set of frames of the video recording. A request for content associated with at least one of the real-world event or the geographic location is received from another client device connected to the content sharing service. The set of media items and, for each of the set of media items, an indication of the determined positioning of the client device that generated the corresponding video recording is provided in accordance with the request for content. |
| US11636607B2 |
Computer vision systems and methods for optimizing correlation clustering for image segmentation using Benders decomposition
Computer vision systems and methods for optimizing correlation clustering for image segmentation are provided. The system receives input data and generates a correlation clustering formulation for Benders Decomposition for optimized correlation clustering of the input data. The system optimizes the Benders Decomposition for the generated correlation clustering formulation and performs image segmentation using the optimized Benders Decomposition. |
| US11636604B2 |
Edge detection method and device, electronic equipment, and computer-readable storage medium
The invention provides an edge detection method and a device of an object in an image, an electronic equipment, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: a line drawing of a grayscale contour in the image is obtained; similar lines in the line drawing are merged to obtain initial merged lines, and a boundary matrix is determined according to the initial merged lines; similar lines in the initial merged lines are merged to obtain target lines, and unmerged initial merged lines are also used as target lines; reference boundary lines are determined from the target lines according to the boundary matrix; boundary line regions of the object in the image are obtained; a target boundary line corresponding to the boundary line region is determined from the reference boundary lines; an edge of the object in the image is determined according to the determined target boundary lines. |
| US11636603B2 |
System and methods for segmentation and assembly of cardiac MRI images
A method and system for image segmentation systems and related methods of automatically segmenting cardiac MRI images using deep learning methods. One example method includes inputting MRI volume data from a MRI scanner, segmenting the MRI volume data with a whole volume segmentation analysis module, assembling the segmented MRI volume data into a 3D volume assembly with a 3D volume assembly module, determining the 3D volume assembly for anatomic plausibility with an anatomic plausibility analysis module, and outputting a final segmented 3D volume assembly. |
| US11636601B2 |
Processing fundus images using machine learning models
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing fundus images using fundus image processing machine learning models. One of the methods includes obtaining a model input comprising one or more fundus images, each fundus image being an image of a fundus of an eye of a patient; processing the model input using a fundus image processing machine learning model, wherein the fundus image processing machine learning model is configured to process the model input comprising the one or more fundus image to generate a model output; and processing the model output to generate health analysis data. |
| US11636600B1 |
Method and apparatus for detecting pores based on artificial neural network and visualizing the detected pores
According to various embodiments, a pore visualization service providing server based on artificial intelligence may include a data pre-processor for obtaining a user's face image captured by a user terminal from the user terminal and performing pre-processing based on facial feature points based on the face image; a pore image extractor for generating a pore image corresponding to the user's face image by inputting the user's face image that has been pre-processed through the data pre-processing into an artificial neural network; a data post-processor for post-processing the generated pore image; and a pore visualization service providing unit for superimposing the post-processed pore image on the face image and transmitting a pore visualization image to the user terminal. |
| US11636599B2 |
Image diagnostic system, and methods of operating thereof
Various image diagnostic systems, and methods of operating thereof, are disclosed herein. Example embodiments relate to operating the image diagnostic system to identify one or more tissue types within an image patch according to a hierarchical histological taxonomy, identifying an image patch associated with normal tissue, generating a pixel-level segmented image patch for an image patch, generating an encoded image patch for an image patch of at least one tissue, searching for one or more histopathological images, and assigning an image patch to one or more pathological cases. |
| US11636598B2 |
Imaging data processing apparatus and imaging data processing program to perform image alignment by deforming images such that imaged observation target sites coincide
In a data processing unit, alignment is performed by appropriately deforming one image among MS imaging images acquired from different samples so that positions and sizes on the MS imaging image are matched (S1 to S5). When the aligned image is displayed on a screen of a display unit and a user sets a region of interest on the image serving as a reference (S6), a micro region including a center point within a range of the set region of interest is extracted in each of an image serving as the reference and an image not serving as the reference (S7). In the image subjected to image deformation, although the shape of each micro region is distorted and micro regions are not arranged in an orderly grid manner, by assuming that the micro regions in which the center point is included within the range of the region of interest is included in the range of the region of interest, it is possible to perform a comparative analysis based on the data value within an appropriate micro region corresponding to the region of interest regardless of the image deformation. |
| US11636596B1 |
Monitoring brain CT scan image
A system and a method for monitoring a brain CT scan image using ASPECTS score. The method includes receiving the brain CT scan image of a patient. Further, a basal ganglia region and a corona radiata level are identified in a plurality of slices in the brain CT scan image. Furthermore, a plurality of anatomical regions, a plurality of infarcts and a plurality of black regions are segmented using deep learning. Subsequently, an overlapping region across the plurality of slices is determined based on the plurality of anatomical regions, the plurality of infarcts, and the plurality of black regions. The overlapping region and a predefined threshold are used to compute an ASPECTS score. The ASPECTS score is further used to recommend a course of action to the patient. |
| US11636594B2 |
System and method for providing an extended image of a patient
A computer based method of obtaining a 3D image of a part of a patient's body is disclosed, based on a fraction image having a limited field-of-view and extending the field of view with information from an image of the patient's outline, obtained from a surface scan of the patient. Anatomical data from the planning image are preferably used to fill in the outline image, by means of a contour-guided deformable registration between the planning image and contour. |
| US11636593B2 |
Robust segmentation through high-level image understanding
A facility identifies anatomical objects visualized by a medical imaging image. The facility applies two machine learning models to the image: a first trained to predict a view probability vector that, for each of a list of views, attributes a probability that the image was captured from the view, and a second trained to predict an object probability vector that, for each of a list of anatomical objects, attributes a probability that the object is visualized by the image. For each object, the facility: (1) accesses a list of views in which the object is permitted; (2) multiplies the predicted probability that the object is visualized by the image by the sum of the predicted probabilities that the accessed image was captured from views in which the object is permitted; and (3) where the resulting probability exceeds a threshold, determines that the object is visualized by the accessed image. |
| US11636592B2 |
Medical object detection and identification via machine learning
An approach for improving object detection performance by using bilateral organ information disclosed. The approach comprises introducing a penalty term to an object localization model. The penalty term encourages the model to identify same physical regions (actual same physical location in the patient's body) in multiple images, which create an image of the same organ. The approach includes a sub-component of the model that can output an entity embedding, in additional to the conventional classification and localization prediction. During optimization process, similar entity embedding for the same logical entity are encouraged, and similar entity embedding for different logical entities are discouraged. |
| US11636590B2 |
Providing a result image data set
Some embodiments relate to solutions to providing a result image data set. At least one embodiment is based on an input image data set of a first examination volume being received. A result image parameter is received or determined. A result image data set of the first examination volume is determined by application of a trained generator function to input data. Input data is based on the input image data set and the result image parameter, and the result image parameter relates to a property of the result image data set. A parameter of the trained generator function is based on a GA algorithm (acronym for the English technical term “generative adversarial”). Finally, the result image data set is provided. Some embodiments relate to solutions for providing a trained generator function and/or a trained classifier function, in particular for use in solutions for providing a result image data set. |
| US11636588B2 |
Apparatus and system for assessing paddy rice grains
Apparatus for assessing paddy rice grains including: a light source; a camera secured in a fixed position spaced from the light source; and a grain tray mountable between the light source and the camera. The grain tray defines openings dimensioned to receive the paddy rice grains. The light source is operable in a first mode to illuminate one end of at least some of the openings, and operable in a second mode to illuminate the opposed end of the at least some of the openings. The camera is operable to capture a first image of the at least some of the openings simultaneously with the light source being operated in the first mode, and a second image of the at least some of the openings simultaneously with the light source being operated in the second mode. |
| US11636586B2 |
Process control system and process control method
The process control system converts, into images, time-varying waveforms of inspection data of an assembled product, parts, and sub-assembling processes that constitute the assembling process, performs matching between an inspection waveform image (IWI) of the assembled product and a predetermined deterioration pattern image (DPI), determines whether IWI of the assembled product is similar to DPI, performs, when IWI is similar to DPI, a first determination for performing matching between an IWI of each of sub-assembling processes and DPI and determining whether there is a sub-assembling process similar to DPI, performs, when there is a sub-assembling process similar to DPI in the first determination, a second determination for performing matching between IWI of each of parts assembled in the sub-assembling process similar to DPI and DPI and determining whether there is a part similar to DPI, and specifies a deterioration factor based on results of the first and second determinations. |
| US11636582B1 |
Stitching quality evaluation method and system and redundancy reduction method and system for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing images
The present disclosure provides a stitching quality evaluation method and system, and a redundancy reduction method and system for low-altitude UAV remote sensing images, and belongs to the technical field of image processing. The method comprises: firstly acquiring ground images using a UAV under a preset overlap degree to obtain a low-altitude UAV remote sensing image set, then stitching the low-altitude UAV remote sensing image set to obtain a stitched image, and finally performing a quality evaluation on the stitched image using an improved BRISQUE algorithm to obtain an image quality score, which is applicable to quality evaluation of visible images and multispectral images at the same time through the improved BRISQUE algorithm. In addition, the present disclosure further provides an image redundancy reduction method based on the improved BRISQUE algorithm, thereby improving the image stitching efficiency and stitching quality. |
| US11636579B2 |
Information processing method, information processing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium
An information processing method includes obtaining information on a deformation factor of a surface of a target substrate; obtaining a surface image of the target substrate; calculating a correction coefficient for correcting an image change due to deformation of the surface, based on the information on the deformation factor of the surface; and generating a corrected image of the target substrate by correcting the surface image of the target substrate using the correction coefficient. |
| US11636577B2 |
Method and apparatus with blur estimation
A processor-implemented method with blur estimation includes: acquiring size information of an input image; resizing the input image to generate a target image of a preset size; estimating a blur of the target image; and estimating a blur of the input image based on the size information of the input image. |
| US11636574B2 |
Scaling method and apparatus, device and medium
The present invention relates to a scaling method, including: for each of coordinate axis directions of a complex object: assigning a scale mode to each sub-object in the complex object in the direction; for each cross section of the complex object perpendicular to the direction, calculating a scale ratio limit of the cross section; combining adjacent cross sections with the same scale ratio to obtain a segmented scale ratio range of the complex object in the direction; according to an adjustment target value of the complex object in the direction, calculating the segmented scale ratio of the complex object in the direction; and according to the scale ratio of each sub-object in each direction, calculating a new position range of each sub-object and adjusting a size of the complex object. In addition, the present invention further relates to a scaling apparatus, a device, and a medium. |
| US11636572B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining and varying the panning speed of an image based on saliency
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for varying panning speeds of images based on saliency such that 360-degree images, panoramic images, video images and/or other wide view area images may be efficiently displayed by varying the panning speed such that the user focuses on salient portions of the image. A panning speed is determined based on the currently displayed area and its saliency relative to the saliency of non-displayed or peripheral portions. As a user pans from one area to another, while the user pans over a salient portion of the image, the actual reflected panning may occur at a relatively slower speed than when the user pans over an area not including a salient portion, or a less salient portion. |
| US11636565B1 |
Tamper detection arrangements, and point of sales systems employing same
Authenticity of a sticker (e.g., a mark-down sticker on a retail item), or integrity of a closure (e.g., on a delivery bag or package), is confirmed by reference to spatial information. In some embodiments a fingerprint is formed from parameters describing spatial placement of a sticker or pattern on a substrate. In some embodiments a digital watermark pattern provides a spatial frame of reference within which one or more other features can be located. A great many other features and arrangements are also detailed. |
| US11636563B1 |
Centralized scheduling for deliveries via vehicles
A central system, or server, may store information for determining the schedules of drivers. For example, the information may include loads assigned to the drivers, training, lunch breaks, time off, and/or other commitments. The central system may centrally store the information to efficiently and conveniently determine and update schedules. The central system may allow drivers and/or carriers to manage driver onboarding, training, compliance, scheduling, work assignment, and reporting, as well as build monthly, weekly, and daily schedules. The central system may also automate matching drivers to loads, balances work distribution, reduce human errors, and assist in audits. |
| US11636553B2 |
Electronic receipt-linking database system
An electronic receipt system may generate electronic documents including receipt content associated with a transaction between an account holder and a third party, and automatically link the electronic documents to secure records corresponding to account transaction records in a secure database. An account holder may subsequently view an electronic document including the receipt from a secure network platform displaying the secure records for multiple transactions in the account. In some aspects, the electronic receipt system may retrieve the receipt from an email message transmitted to an email address assigned to the account holder by the electronic receipt system. In other aspects, the electronic receipt may be retrieved using an application on a user device corresponding to the electronic receipt system. |
| US11636552B2 |
Systems and methods for enhanced personal property replacement
A system for enhanced personal property replacement (i) builds a virtual inventory of personal belongings, such as by performing object recognition techniques on mobile device digital images with the customer's permission or affirmative consent; (ii) receives user preferences transmitted from their mobile device; (iii) receives a request from the user to handle an insurance claim after an insurance-related event; (iv) determines items to purchase for the user based upon the user preferences, and/or the extent of damage; and/or (v) transmits, to a retailer remote server a virtual order for the items to be delivered to the user at a temporary (hotel) or permanent (home) address. Insurance claim monies may be used to pay for the items. As a result, after an event (e.g., fire, tornado, hurricane), household or other goods may be automatically purchased and delivered to a customer to alleviate the negative impact of the event on their life. |
| US11636550B2 |
Using machine learning to classify insurance card information
A system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors to perform: receiving at least one image of an insurance card of a user; extracting one or more feature values from the at least one image of the insurance card of the user; reducing an amount of data in a feature vector of the at least one image of the insurance card of the user to a set of data using dimensionality reduction; determining, by a machine learning model, as trained, a first insurance plan of the user based on machine learning model input data; identifying at least one alternative insurance plan to be displayed to the user based at least in part on historical medical information associated with the user; and a recommendation comprises the at least one alternative insurance plan. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11636546B2 |
Information sharing portal associated with multi-vendor risk relationships
A multi-vendor risk relationship data store may contain electronic records representing a plurality of risk relationships between multiple vendors and an enterprise and, for each risk relationship, an electronic record identifier and a set of attribute values. An information sharing portal computer server may exchange an information request with a remote vendor platform. The information request may be, for example, associated with an employee of a sponsor associated with the vendor platform. The server may process the information request via a customized vendor-specific information sharing portal interface display and execute an algorithm to adjust, based on at least one attribute value, interactions with the vendor platform via the portal interface display. The server may also aggregate information associated with a plurality of vendor platforms and transmit the aggregated information to a remote administrator device associated with the enterprise. |
| US11636544B2 |
Method and apparatus for order entry in an electronic trading system
Orders received by an electronic trading system are processed in batches based on the instrument to which an order relates. An incoming order is assigned to a queue of a queue set that makes up the batch according to a random process. Where orders are received from related trading parties, they are assigned to the same queue set according to their time of receipt. The batch has a random duration within defined minimum and maximum durations and at the end of the batch, the orders held in the queues are transferred to a matching thread of the trading system sequentially with one order being removed from each queue and a number of passes of the queues completed until orders have been removed. |
| US11636541B2 |
Secure system
A device may receive application questions for an individual applying for credit with an organization. The device may broadcast the application questions to additional devices that have access to a distributed ledger for sharing credit worthiness information to cause at least one of the additional devices to generate an application response to the application questions and to process the application response using a smart contract. The device may receive one or more application responses that have been encrypted. Each of the application responses may include particular credit worthiness information relating to the individual. The device may decrypt the application responses. The device may determine a credit worthiness score for the individual using the application responses. The device may perform one or more actions that allow the device or another device associated with the organization to use the credit worthiness score to determine whether to approve the individual for credit. |
| US11636539B1 |
Approving and updating dynamic mortgage applications
A system and computer-implemented method for approving a dynamic mortgage application. In one aspect, the method may include determining a customer is approved for a mortgage and determining a real estate property is mortgage ready, including calculating an appraisal value for the real estate property based upon the information about the real property retrieved from a computer file or memory location/address (such as by using a machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithm). The method may still further include comparing the calculated amount the customer is approved for a mortgage loan with the calculated appraisal value of the real estate property; and approving the mortgage application of the customer for the real estate property when the calculated amount the customer is approved for the mortgage loan meets, or exceeds, the calculated appraisal value of the real estate property. |
| US11636538B1 |
System and method for establishing and managing reserve accounts associated with automotive loan approval
A system and method for providing a corporate “co-signor” for potential purchasers of an automobile who do not meet captive lender or standard bank approval guidelines. The corporate co-signor does not sign or execute loan documents alongside the purchaser in a manner similar to co-signors in the prior art, but instead guarantees the loans that are underwritten using a “cosignloan” product implemented in agreement with a captive lender. The loan is based on a payment-to-income (PTI) basis, supported by the security provided by the corporate co-signor. The dealer will then be able to use the “cosignloan” product parameters to provide appropriate new, used, or certified pre-owned vehicles to the customer/purchaser. The corporate co-signor receives an administration fee for each loan. The administration fee, in one embodiment, is sent to a reserve account by the captive lender from the dealer booking proceeds. The reserve account is controlled by the corporate co-signor and the captive lender, and has specific debit and credit guidelines to ensure that sufficient funds are available to pay defaulted loans for a particular year until all loans booked in that year are satisfied. |
| US11636533B1 |
Interactive shopping system and method
An interactive shopping system, or smart cart. The system allows a user to select items in a store and complete a purchase without having to wait in lines or interact with store personnel. The system can have a container for holding products selected by at least one user, a user interface, a scanner in communication with the user interface, a processor in communication with the user interface, and a data storage comprising computer instructions executable by the processor. A user can select products, place them within the container, scan the products, and initiate a payment transaction to complete a purchase. |
| US11636532B2 |
Text-based secure order processing
Systems and methods for text-based secure order processing are disclosed. The system may receive an order initiation request from a user device. Based on the order initiation request, the system may retrieve a conversational order script having one or more scripted conversation prompts. The system may transmit the conversation prompts to the user device and receive one or more conversation responses from the user device. Based on the conversation responses, the system may transmit a purchase link to the user device. The purchase link may allow the user device to access a web interface to complete the purchase order. |
| US11636531B1 |
Electronic processing of invoices with no purchase orders
An electronic invoicing system performs an integrated method of processing both purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt. A portal is provided by the system. The portal has respective views for a supplier submitting non-PO based type electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt, and a user of an enterprise submitting and/or reviewing non-PO based type electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt. An administrator of the enterprise configures electronic invoice types and processing parameters specific to said electronic invoice types not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt. A submitted non-PO based type electronic invoice of a configured electronic invoice type is processed in accordance with the processing parameters configured by the administrator for that electronic invoice type. |
| US11636530B2 |
Recommendation engine accounting for preference drift
Aspects of the disclosure relate to content prediction. A computing platform may train a collaborative recommendation engine to output recommendation information based on historical preference information and corresponding data drift. The computing platform may receive an account access request from a user device. The computing platform may identify, at a first time and using the collaborative recommendation engine, a preference group for the user device. The computing platform may receive, at a second time later than the first time, a second account access request from the user device. The computing platform may identify, using the collaborative recommendation engine, the preference group and data drift corresponding to the preference group between the first time and the second time, which may indicate a second set of preferences at the second time. The computing platform may generate, based on the second set of preferences, recommendation information for the user device. |
| US11636529B2 |
Method and device for providing keywords related to product information included in image
An electronic device according to various embodiments, may include a camera, a communication circuit, a display and a processor, and the processor may be configured to acquire an image of an external object, transmit the image to an external electronic device, so that the external electronic device transmits product information related to the external object included in the image to the electronic device, using the communication circuit, determine one or more keywords related to the product information transmitted from the external electronic device, identify preference category information and preference brand information of a user, based on a usage record related to a product of the user related to the electronic device, determine weights for the one or more keywords, using the preference category information and the preference brand information, and provide at least some keywords having weights which satisfy a specified condition among the one or more keywords, on the display together with the product information. |
| US11636526B2 |
Vehicle identification driven by augmented reality (AR)
A device receives user rendering data for a 3-D rendering of a user. The 3-D rendering is a proportional representation of the user and the user rendering data is available via an application. The device determines user characteristics of the user. The device receives an indication that a user device has submitted a vehicle search request. The device identifies vehicles to recommend to the user based on an analysis of: the user characteristics, and vehicle characteristics for a collection of vehicles being offered via the application. The device causes vehicle description data for the vehicles to be displayed via an interface of the application. The device receives user interaction data that indicates a user selection of vehicle. The device causes, based on receiving the user interaction data, the interface of the application to display a placement of the 3-D rendering of the user into a 3-D rendering of the vehicle. |
| US11636522B2 |
Real estate buyer feedback application
A method to provide feedback associated with a real estate listing including providing access to a real estate listing via a system including at least a listing recommendation server that communicates with a real estate feedback application. Then receiving feedback regarding the real estate listing from a handheld device operating the real estate feedback application. Then sharing the feedback with a showing agent associated with the real estate listing. |
| US11636509B2 |
Self-optimizing, multi-channel, cognitive digital health and life insurance rate quoting, comparison shopping and enrollment system and method
A performance internet marketing self-optimizing, anthropomorphic, artificial intelligence-based system and method to quote, compare and purchase benefits products from a benefits provider. The system and method collects information from an online advertising platform during the process and returns the collected information to the online advertising platform for optimization of the online advertising platform. |
| US11636506B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for offering and processing promotions
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying merchants. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising providing, a first promotion specifying a redemption and a charge monetary values, the redemption monetary value being specified by redemption parameters of the first promotion and a value indicative of a total amount of funds purchased in response to accepting an instance of the first promotion, wherein the funds purchased can be redeemed for offerings of one or more merchants specified by the promotion, the charge monetary value being a monetary value charged for accepting the first promotion, and providing a first classification classifying the first promotion as a promotion having a redemption monetary value that may be used to purchase offerings of the one or more merchants over the course of multiple transactions. |
| US11636504B2 |
Systems and methods for collaborative offer generation
Systems and methods for a collaborative offer portal is provided. A proposed offer is received from a manufacturer, including an offer structure and a number of consumers they wish to target. Transaction logs of a retailer are accessed to determine an audience for the offer by calculating a return on investment (ROI) for the customer base using the retailer's records given the offer type. The consumers are then grouped by their ROI distribution, and the ROI for the deal is calculated based upon the offer size in light of this distribution. From the offer ROI a discount percentage to be paid by the retailer versus the merchant can be created. The retailer may then choose to accept the offer for deployment. |
| US11636503B2 |
System and method for offering network slice as a service
A method includes defining a first specification for a first network slice, determining a first equilibrium value for a first time period for the first network slice offering, receiving a first bid price for the first network slice for the first time period from a first customer, comparing the first equilibrium value to the first bid price; and providing services using the network slice to the customer during the time period in accordance with the first specification and the bid price if the bid price meets or exceeds the equilibrium value. |
| US11636502B2 |
Robust multichannel targeting
A computer system may access an attributization rule and convert, based on the attributization rule, profile data into attributes for a robust recipient profile. The system may identify, based on tag logic, tags that are associated with the attributes. The tag logic may include instructions to compare the attributes with predetermined attributes associated with the tags. The system may map the identified tags to the recipient identifier. The system may perform communication with a mobile device based on the robust recipient profile and a real-time location of the mobile device. To perform the communication, the system may monitor the plurality of data channels for data comprising real-time location information for the mobile device. The system may determine the mobile device is proximate to a physical object that is associated with the tag and the system may transmit offer information to the mobile device. |
| US11636495B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing an interface of the apparatus
The disclosure refers to a method and a device for addition of products on an interface of a device. The method, as executed by the device, comprises receiving product-metadata and display-content, wherein the product-metadata represents at least one product to be displayed as part of the display-content. Further, an automatic addition of the at least one product or an analog thereof related to the product-metadata is enabled or triggered without a user-intervention on the interface provided on a device. |
| US11636491B2 |
Hydrogen fueling station communication
Fueling verification systems and methods for corroboration of vehicle fueling are described herein. The systems and methods provide for verifiable transmission of data collected from a remote source to assure data integrity and maintain proper fuel transmission as part of vehicle fueling. The systems and methods can include collecting a first fuel measure for a fueling process from a delivery source. A second fuel measure can be recorded into a blockchain. The second fuel measure for the fueling process can be received from a recipient source. Then, the first fuel measure and the second fuel measure can be correlated to determine a fueling offset. Then, the delivery source and/or the recipient source can be compensated based on the fueling offset. |
| US11636480B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for dynamic application selection
A system, method, and computer program product for dynamic application selection for payment transactions determines identification data of an issuer institution associated with a portable financial device based at least partially on transaction data associated with at least one transaction at a merchant with the portable financial device. At least one electronic service application of a plurality of electronic service applications is determined based at least partially on the identification data of the issuer institution. Electronic service application data associated with the at least one electronic service application and stored in association with the issuer institution is accessed at a merchant system of the merchant. The at least one transaction is modified based at least partially on the electronic service application data associated with the at least one electronic service application. Authorization response message is received after communicating an authorization request message associated with the at least one modified transaction. |
| US11636479B2 |
Computer-implemented system and method for performing social network secure transactions
A computer-implemented system and method for performing social network secure transactions is provided. A message with a hashtag associated with a recipient of payment and payment information including at least a payment source for a payment from a payor to a recipient is received. The message is intercepted from the social network platform for transfer to a separate payment platform. The payment information of the payor is validated and the recipient associated with the hashtag is identified using the list of recipients. The payment information is processed on behalf of the recipient associated with the hashtag using the payment source in the message from the payor. |
| US11636478B2 |
Method of performing authentication for a transaction and a system thereof
There is provided a method of performing authentication for a transaction between first and second devices. The method includes: generating a first random number and encrypting it based on a first key of a first private-public key pair; sending the encrypted first random number to the server; receiving a transaction identifier for the transaction, the first random number and a second random number, wherein the transaction identifier, the first random number and the second random number are encrypted based on a first key of a second private-public key pair; decrypting the encrypted transaction identifier, the encrypted first random number and the encrypted second random number based on a second key of the second private-public key pair; and sending the transaction identifier, and the second random number to the second device for authenticating the first device for the transaction. There is also provided a corresponding device and system. |
| US11636476B2 |
System and method for carrying out two factor authentication using augmented/virtual reality
There is provided a method and system for carrying out two factor authentication, which renders an augmented reality environment or a virtual reality environment at the user device to depict an authentication object, and when a user interaction with the authentication object is detected, an authentication code received from an issuer server is displayed at the user device. |
| US11636475B1 |
Predicting and making payments via preferred payment methods
Systems and methods for predicting and making payments via preferred payment methods include determining an amount that a payer owes a payee, predicting a preferred funds transfer method of the payee, providing a notification to a payee device associated with the payee, receiving a user input from the payee device indicating an agreement with the preferred funds transfer method, and initiating, in response to the user input, a funds transfer from a source account of the payer to the payee. Predicting a preferred funds transfer method of the payee can include performing data analytics on at least one data source associated with the payee, such as a smart digital wallet, a social network account, a smart appliance, a financial account, a financial transaction, a shopping list, and a geographic location, etc. In some embodiments, predicting a preferred funds transfer method of the payee includes rerouting the payment to downstream payees. |
| US11636474B2 |
System and method for implementing a key-code based money transfer
A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The non-transitory computer readable medium comprises code that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive a money transfer amount indicative of an amount of funds to be transferred to a recipient. The processor generates a key code associated with the money transfer amount that is provided to a user of the system and given to the recipient by the user. The key code is programmed by the processor to enable the recipient to use the key code to redeem the amount of funds associated with the money transfer amount. |
| US11636470B2 |
Key-value map commitments system and method
A method includes a validation computer receiving an authorization request message comprising a user state and a user proof from a user device. The user state comprises first and second user state elements. The user proof comprises first, second, and third user proof elements. The validation computer computes a first verification value by multiplying the first user proof element raised to the power of the second user state element, and the second user proof element raised to the power of the first user state element. The computer computes a second verification value by raising the second user proof element to the power of the second user state element. The computer compares the first verification value to a first accumulated state element of an accumulated state. The compares the second verification value to a second accumulated state element. The validation computer authorizes the authorization request message based on the comparison steps. |
| US11636467B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for secured, encrypted transaction processing
A system, method, and computer program product is provided for secured, encrypted transaction processing. The method includes receiving a transaction request initiated by a first computing device associated with a first user and/or a second computing device associated with a second user. The transaction request includes a first user token including a first token identifier and a first account balance encrypted with a public key of the first user. The transaction request also includes a transaction value and a second user token including a second token identifier and a second account balance encrypted with a public key of the second user. The method includes generating a new first user token including a new first account balance encrypted with the public key of the first user and a new second user token including a new second account balance encrypted with the public key of the second user. |
| US11636461B2 |
Card reader terminal with external contactless antenna
A secure arrangement for performing secure contactless payments includes an external contactless card reader comprising a short-distance communication antenna. The secure arrangement comprises a card reader terminal comprising a secure controller configured for performing financial transactions, wherein the secure controller is located in a secure area within the card reader terminal, an external contactless card reader comprising a short-distance communication antenna configured for converting an electromagnetic signal comprising card data, received from a contactless payment card, into an analogue signal and a feed line configured for transferring the analogue signal between the external contactless card reader and the card reader terminal. The secure area in the card reader terminal comprises an A/D converter for digitizing the analogue signal to a digital signal that can be processed by the secure controller, within the secure area. |
| US11636460B2 |
Electronic device, method and computer readable recording medium for electronic transaction
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a method, and a computer-readable recording medium for electronic transactions. The electronic device displays a first graphical user interface (GUI) on a touch screen, the first GUI including a currency amount, displays a second GUI corresponding to transmission of the currency amount according to a currency transmission signal input to the touch screen, determines an amount of an electronic transaction according to the currency transmission signal, and transmits a generated signal containing information on the amount of the electronic transaction to an information processing system. |
| US11636458B1 |
Computer-based system for secure curbside banking
Techniques discussed herein describe an example system for verifying the identity and location of a customer in a bank branch parking lot. A server determines whether to provision a service for a vehicle based on telemetry data received from a telemetry module on the vehicle in a fleet of vehicles. The telemetry data includes a first location and status information of the vehicle. The server identifies a vendor to provide the service and directs the vehicle to a second location of the vendor from the first location of the vehicle. The server provides authorization to the vehicle for an on-board transaction module to initiate a request for the service when the vehicle is at the second location of the vendor. |
| US11636455B2 |
Intelligent patient billing communication platform for health services
A system for generating customized patient billing communications includes software executing on a server which receives patient billing data indicative of a patient visit and further indicative of a balance. The software accesses a storage to determine patient visit context data indicative of one or more visit codes associated with the billing data. The software generates a communication for a user based on the patient visit context data with message content altered from a standard message based on the one or more visit codes, the communication including a bill for the balance and being a first communication to the user with the bill. |
| US11636451B2 |
Graphical user interfaces for facilitating end-to-end transactions on computing devices
Methods and systems for facilitating group payment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a group payment system is configured to execute instructions to perform operations that include receiving, from a first computing device, a request to create a group payment event and, in response, providing to the first computing device a first interface associated with the group payment event. The operations further include receiving, from a second computing device, a request to join the group payment event and, in response, providing a second interface to the second computing device. The operations further include receiving, from the first and/or second computing devices, messages associated with the group payment event and modifying the first and second interfaces to display the messages. The operations further include receiving, from the first and/or second computing devices, financial contributions for the group payment event and modifying the first and second interfaces to display the financial contributions. |
| US11636450B2 |
Blockchain system to which proof-of-transaction consensus algorithm is applied, and method therefor
A blockchain system is disclosed. A blockchain system according to one embodiment includes a plurality of nodes for communicating with each other through a distribution network and communicating with a blockchain client device outside the blockchain system, wherein each of the plurality of nodes can be configured to process transactions occurring in the blockchain system, collect vote items included in the transactions and including an account address corresponding to any one of the plurality of nodes, and elect, as a block generator, at least one of the plurality of nodes on the basis of the collected vote items. Other various embodiments identified through the specification are possible. |
| US11636449B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for updating an application programming interface field of a transaction message
Methods for updating an application programming interface (API) field of a transaction message may include receiving, with at least one processor, a payment transaction message, wherein the payment transaction message comprises data associated with a payment transaction; determining, with at least one processor, one or more API fields of the payment transaction message based on the data associated with the payment transaction; and modifying, with at least one processor, one or more API fields of the payment transaction message. Methods may also include transmitting, with at least one processor, a modified payment transaction message based on modifying the one or more API fields of the payment transaction message. Systems and computer program products are also disclosed. |
| US11636446B2 |
Systems and methods for providing status-based maintenance schedules
Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed for automatically changing a maintenance strategy for an asset. In one embodiment, status data from an asset record of an asset to be maintained is read. The status data indicates a current status of the asset. A maintenance schedule record is selected from multiple maintenance schedule records based on the status data. The multiple maintenance schedule records are associated with a maintenance specification record of the asset. The selected maintenance schedule record is assigned to the asset record of the asset. The maintenance schedule record includes at least one trigger record including trigger data indicating when preventive maintenance is to be performed on the asset. A preventive maintenance work order record is transmitted, in accordance with a trigger record, to direct preventive maintenance to be performed on the asset. |
| US11636444B2 |
Resource reservation system, resource reservation method, and non-transitory computer-executable medium
A resource reservation system includes a terminal apparatus including first circuitry; and an information processing apparatus including second circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to transmit, to the information processing apparatus, a request for a start of use of a resource, using an identification information of a user of the terminal apparatus. The second circuitry is configured to: in response to receiving the request for the start of use, in a case in which the identification information of the user is included in next reservation information after a time when the request is received and the resource is not reserved for the time when the request is received, advance a start time of a reservation of the next reservation information after the time when the request is received; and permit the start of use of the resource identified by the next reservation information in which the start time is advanced. |
| US11636438B1 |
Generating smart reminders by assistant systems
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request including an ambiguous mention to create a reminder from a client system associated with a user, disambiguating the mention to identify a first entity referenced in the mention, wherein the first entity is identified based on user profile data associated with the user, determining an activation condition associated with the user request, wherein the activation condition is based on one or more of a time or a location referenced in the user request, wherein the time and/or location are determined based on contextual information associated with the user request, generating the reminder based on the first entity and the activation condition, and sending instructions to the client system for presenting the reminder when the activation condition is satisfied. |
| US11636420B2 |
Configuring, deploying, and operating applications for structured communications within observation platforms
In a method of managing structured communications within an observation platform, responsive to a request interaction, a computer system sets up an action request regarding a structured communication in the observation platform. The computer system analyzes the action request with respect to a programmable policy of the observation platform and applications installed on the observation platform. The computer system analyzes the action request with respect to context in the observation platform, where the context is one of user context in the observation platform and device context in the observation platform. The computer system analyzes the action request with respect to status in the observation platform, where the status is one of user status in the observation platform and device status in the observation platform. The computer system moderates an action in the observation platform with respect to the structured communication based on results of the policy, context, and status analyses. |
| US11636417B2 |
Cognitive analysis for enterprise decision meta model
A computer implemented method is provided that includes creating an industry force graph meta model; and establishing a relationship for each maturity dimension to determine most relevant content. The most relevant content is graphed using a chromatic polynomial to map strongest industry trends in an industry force. The method continues with building traversal logic to determine most relevant technologies for the strongest industry trends in the industry force. Most relevant components of an component business model are identified, and linkages between the strongest industry trends in the industry force are made to the most relevant components of the component business model. |
| US11636416B2 |
Methods and systems for risk data generation and management
Risk data generation for an organizational network involves a risk assessment server that communicates with organizational computing devices. The server transmits risk data request and receives responses identifying organizational risks. The server generates and transmits assessment templates, and receives risk evaluation data from a plurality of computing devices in response. The server automatically generates a risk assessment score for an organizational risk based on the values in the plurality of risk evaluation responses, the risk assessment score defining an expected organizational impact of that particular organizational risk and transmits the risk assessment score to an administrator. The server collects benchmark risk data and risk outcomes from similar networks and generates the scores using the benchmark data. The server also provides comparative results between similar organizational networks. |
| US11636411B2 |
Apparatus for determining role fitness while eliminating unwanted bias
A multicore apparatus determines fitness of a candidate for a role. The apparatus includes a multicore system processing device, a plurality of parallel multicore graphics processing devices, a network interface device, a storage device, and a system interface bus. The network interface device provides remote connection to the multicore system processing device. The storage device stores training data including positive and negative examples. The positive examples represent candidates who would be invited to an interview, and the negative examples represent candidates who would not be invited to an interview. The positive and negative examples are used by the plurality of parallel multicore graphics processing devices to train a deep learning model, which is used by the multicore system processing device to determine fitness of the candidate for the role while eliminating unwanted bias. |