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US11701055B2	Using personalized physiological parameters for sleep/wake detection Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for accurately determining sleep and wake onset based on a user's personalized physiological parameters for sleep and wake. First, a user is determined to be asleep using population level data. Thereafter, sensor collected data is used to determine the user's distribution of values of a physiological parameter when the user is asleep. This distribution of values is then used, instead of population-level data, to determine the user is asleep in real-time. As a result, the content and interventions are provided to help users get back to sleep. Further, the described techniques allow more accuracy in determining sleep statistics which can guide recommended interventions and therapies.
US11701054B2	Systems and methods for measuring behavior changes of processes The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for characterizing a behavior change of a process. A behavior model that can include a set of behavior parameters can be generated based on behavior data characterizing a prior behavior change of a process. A stimulus parameter for a performance test can be determined based on the set of behavior parameters. An application of the performance test to the process can be controlled based on the stimulus parameter to provide a measure of behavior change of the process. Response data characterizing one or more responses associated with the process during the performance test can be received. The set of behavior parameters can be updated based on the response data to update the behavior model characterizing the behavior change of the process. In some examples, the behavior model can be evaluated to improve or affect a future behavior performance of the process.
US11701053B2	Method for hosting mobile access to high-resolution electroencephalography data One variation of a method for hosting mobile access to dense electroencephalography data includes: receiving a set of signals, in a raw resolution, recorded by a set of channels in an electroencephalography headset during an electroencephalography test; receiving, from a client computing device, a view parameters for viewing the set of signals on a display; calculating a quantity of raw signal points per pixel column of the display based on the view parameters and a length of a segment of the electroencephalography test; for each signal in the set of signals, for each discrete contiguous sequence of the quantity of raw signal points within the segment of the signal, calculating a value set characterizing the discrete contiguous sequence of the quantity of raw signal points in the signal; and generating a static image representing value sets for each channel, in the set of channels, across the segment of the electroencephalography test.
US11701049B2	Hand held device for automatic cardiac risk and diagnostic assessment Method and apparatus for performing automatic cardiac diagnosis. The apparatuses described herein may be handheld devices which enables self-recording of cardiac signals by the patient, including entering relevant data by patients regarding their cardiac history, including cardiac disease risk factors, and/or current conditions and symptoms. Based on recorded cardiac signals, cardiac risk factors and the current symptoms, the apparatus may calculates a cardiac risk score and may provide simplified diagnostic information and actionable instructions to the patient.
US11701047B2	Systems, methods, and devices for detecting the threshold of nerve-muscle response using variable frequency of stimulation A method for determining a lowest stimulation threshold current level in a group of channels of a neuromonitoring device. The method includes stimulating tissue at a current level from a predetermined range of current levels as a sequence of pulses delivered at a frequency. The stimulating includes increasing the current level of each pulse in the sequence of pulses from an immediately preceding pulse by a first current increment. The method includes determining that a first evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses evokes a first muscular response. The method includes stimulating the tissue with a second evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses to evoke a second muscular response. The stimulating includes decreasing the frequency of the delivery of each pulse in the sequence of pulses and increasing the current level of each pulse in the sequence of pulses from the immediately preceding pulse by a second current increment. The method includes determining that the second evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses evokes the second muscular response.
US11701041B2	Robotic interactions for observable signs of intent Described herein are assistant robots that anticipate needs of one or more people (or animals). The assistant robots may recognize a current activity, knowledge of the person's routines, and contextual information. As such, the assistant robots can provide or offer to provide appropriate robotic assistance. The assistant robots can learn users' habits or be provided with knowledge regarding humans in its environment. The assistant robots develop a schedule and contextual understanding of the persons' behavior and needs. The assistant robots may interact, understand, and communicate with people before, during, or after providing assistance. The robot can combine gesture, clothing, emotional aspect, time, pose recognition, action recognition, and other observational data to understand people's medical condition, current activity, and future intended activities and intents.
US11701039B2	Diagnostics systems and methods A point-of-care diagnostic system that includes a cartridge and a reader. The cartridge can contain a patient sample, such as a blood sample. The cartridge is inserted into the reader and the patient sample is analyzed. The reader contains various analysis systems, such as an electrophoresis detection system that uses electrophoresis testing to identify and quantify various components of the blood sample. The reader can process data from the various patient sample analysis to provide interpretative results indicative of a disorder, condition, disease and/or infection of the patient.
US11701037B2	Method and electronics unit for detecting in-vivo properties of a biosensor A method for detecting in-vivo properties of a biosensor. In the inventive method, a sensitivity-to-admittance relation is provided and a raw current in the biosensor is measured. An in-vivo current response is also measured at first and second operating points. A time constant τ is determined by the electrical capacitance C of the working electrode and the electrical resistance RM of the membrane by τ=RM·C. The first and second operating points are selected below and above τ, respectively. An analyte value in a sample of a body fluid is determined by using the raw current and compensating sensitivity drift in the biosensor, which in turn is compensated by using the measured value for the raw current and a corrected value for the sensitivity. The failsafe operation of the biosensor is monitored by using the in-vivo current response measured at the first and second operating points.
US11701035B2	Noninvasive blood glucose detector and method using IR The blood glucose (BG) detector (BGD) stores baseline BG data therein. The BGD has a housing with legs forming a U-shaped sensing channel for a finger web or ear antihelix. The sensory channel limits insertion of the web/antihelix. A positional light sensor subsystem audibly and/or visually indicates a test-to-test detection position. A BG sensor on the legs uses IR 1550 bandwidth light to detect BG by transmission through the web/antihelix ro generate a detected BG signal. A comparator (in processor-memory system) compares detected BG signal to baseline BG data and generates a displayable BG level to the user via a display module. Alternatively, a leg-to-leg distance sensor may be used. A keypad enables upload of the BD baseline data (or an I/O port).
US11701024B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processor, and image processing method An automatic clipping technique capable of satisfactorily extracting blood vessels to be extracted is provided. A specific tissue extraction mask image which is created by extracting a specific tissue (for example, a brain) from a three-dimensional image acquired by magnetic resonance angiography and a blood vessel extraction mask image which is created by extracting a blood vessel from an area (a blood vessel search area) which is determined using a preset landmark position and the specific tissue extraction mask image are integrated to create an integrated mask. By applying the integrated mask to the three-dimensional image, a blood vessel is clipped from the three-dimensional image.
US11701020B2	Systems and methods for micro impulse radar detection of physiological information A micro impulse radar (MIR) system includes an MIR transceiver circuit configured to transmit, towards a subject, at least one transmitted radar signal, and receive at least one radar return signal. The system includes a control circuit configured to generate a control signal defining a radar signal parameter of the at least one transmitted radar signal, provide the control signal to the MIR transceiver circuit to cause the MIR transceiver circuit to transmit the at least one transmitted signal based on the radar signal parameter, and determine, based on the at least one radar return signal, a physiological parameter of the subject.
US11701016B2	Facilitating assessment of blood flow and tissue perfusion using fluorescence-mediated photoplethysmography Methods and systems for facilitating assessment of blood flow in a tissue volume of a subject are disclosed. In some variations, the method may include: after a predetermined amount of a fluorescence agent has been administered to the subject, exciting the fluorescence agent in the tissue volume such that the excited fluorescence agent emits fluorescent light, acquiring fluorescence data based on the fluorescent light emitted during blood flow through the tissue volume, estimating a molar concentration of the fluorescence agent in the blood flowing through the tissue volume, and generating an assessment of blood flow in the tissue volume based at least in part on the fluorescence data and the estimated molar concentration of the fluorescence agent. The estimated molar concentration may be based on the predetermined amount of the fluorescence agent and an estimated circulating blood volume of the subject.
US11701014B2	Valve, gas control device, and sphygmomanometer A gas control device includes a pump, a valve, a cuff, and a controller. The valve includes a first plate having a first vent hole and a first vent hole, a channel forming plate having an exhaust hole and an exhaust channel, a second plate having a second vent hole, and an edge separation plate. A manchette rubber tube in the cuff is joined to the periphery of the second vent hole in the second plate by an adhesive, and thus the valve is connected to the cuff. The exhaust hole is opened to the atmosphere. The pump includes a pump housing having a discharge hole and a discharge hole. The upper surface of the pump housing is joined to the bottom surface of the edge separation plate.
US11701012B2	Microcatheter sensor design for minimizing profile and impact of wire strain on sensor A catheter, such as a fractional flow reserve catheter, includes an elongate shaft having a pressure sensing wire extending to the distal portion of the elongate shaft. The wire has a pressure sensor mounted on the distal end for measuring a pressure of a fluid within lumen of vessel. The pressure sensor wire is disposed within a pocket formed adjacent to the pressure sensor thereby minimizing the profile of the catheter. Bending stresses experienced by a pressure sensor mounted to a fractional flow reserve catheter when tracking the catheter through the vasculature creates a distortion of the sensor resulting in an incorrect pressure reading or bend error. In order to isolate the sensor from bending stresses, the sensor is spaced apart from the pressure sensor wire to allow the pressure sensor and the pressure sensor wire to move independently from one another.
US11701007B2	Systems and methods for biometric tamper detection Various embodiments provide systems and methods for detecting tampering with a monitoring device using biometric data.
US11701000B2	Modification profile generation for vision defects related to double vision or dynamic aberrations In certain embodiments, double-vision-related vision defects determinations or modifications may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a stimulus may be to be presented at a first time at a position on a first display for a deviating eye of a user (e.g., without a stimulus being presented on a second display of for a reference eye of the user) to cause the deviating eye to fixate on the position on the first display. A deviation measurement for the deviating eye may be determined based on an amount of movement of the deviating eye occurring upon the presentation on the first display for the deviating eye at the first time. In some embodiments, a modification profile associated with the user may be determined based on the deviation measurement, where the modification profile includes one or more modification parameters to be applied to modify an image for the user.
US11700995B2	Speckle removal in a pulsed fluorescence imaging system Speckle removal in a pulsed fluorescence imaging system is described. A system includes a coherent light source for emitting pulses of coherent light, a fiber optic bundle connected to the coherent light source, and a vibrating mechanism attached to the fiber optic bundle. The system includes and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of coherent light emitted by the coherent light source comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 790 nm.
US11700994B2	Coaxial micro-endoscope A deflectable endoscope including an imaging structure, an outer member having a proximal portion and a distal portion, an elongated column member extending distally from the outer member and an inner member positioned coaxial with the outer member and attached to the column member. The inner member extends distally of the outer member and has a distal tip portion. A reinforcement member is positioned over the column member to restrict axial movement of the column member such that when one of the inner member or outer member is moved with respect to the other, axial compression of the column member is restricted by the reinforcement member causing the distal tip portion of the inner member to deflect laterally.
US11700990B2	Robot cleaner A robot cleaner includes a main body forming an exterior and having a water tank housing formed at a rear side thereof. The water tank housing may form a space in which a water tank is mounted. At least one spin mop is rotatably provided at a lower side of the main body, moving the main body by rotating, and configured to clean a floor using water in the water tank. A supply nozzle is provided at one side of the water tank housing, and when connected to a discharge nozzle of the water tank, communicates with the discharge nozzle to supply water stored in the water tank to each of the spin mops. The robot cleaner further includes a locking device rotatably provided at a position spaced apart from a circumferential surface of the water tank housing, and configured to secure the water tank in the water tank housing when mounted or to release the water tank by pushing backward on the water tank.
US11700986B2	Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes an upright handle assembly, a foot assembly adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned and having a suction nozzle, a multi-axis joint swivelably mounting the upright handle assembly to the foot assembly and defining a first axis about which the upright handle assembly twists relative to the foot assembly and a second axis about which the upright handle assembly pivot relative to the foot assembly, and a detachable vacuum module supported on the upright handle assembly by the module platform.
US11700984B2	Configuration of a surface cleaning apparatus A surface cleaning apparatus has a surface cleaning head having a pivoting connector, an upper end of the pivoting connector providing an air outlet of the surface cleaning head. A support consisting of an upflow duct is pivotally mounted to the surface cleaning head by the pivoting connector. A surface cleaning unit is vertically removably mounted to an upper end of the support. The surface cleaning unit comprises a cyclone unit, a pre-motor filter, a suction motor and flexible hose.
US11700981B1	Portable toilet A portable assembly for housing a toilet having an enclosure having a doorframe cutout having a first perimeter portion formed around the doorframe cutout, the first perimeter portion comprises a knife edge extending out from an outer side of the front sidewall. The portable assembly further includes a door having a second perimeter being sized and shaped to substantially correspond to a shape and a size of the doorframe cutout, a gasket fit inside of a cavity in the door, wherein the gasket comprises a divot sized and shaped to correspond a shape and a size of the knife edge to accommodate the knife edge when the door is configured in the closed position, and a lock assembly configured to engage a wedge to provide a knife-edge seal via the gasket and knife edge.
US11700979B2	Sanitary tissue product rolls Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.
US11700978B2	Vehicle-mounted hand sanitizing system A vehicle-mounted hand sanitizing system includes a fluid storage container having a main body and connectors for securement along or within a motor vehicle. A pump is in communication with the main body and a power supply. At least one mirror dispensing unit is connected to the pump by a control and supply line. Each of the at least one mirror dispensing units includes an automobile mirror assembly having a mirror housing, attachment column, mirrored surface, and a fluid discharge nozzle. A control switch is disposed along the mirror housing and is connected to a controller located within the at least one mirror housing. A hand sensor is provided along the mirror housing and is in communication with the control switch to activate the pump upon detecting the presence of a user's hand within a detection area.
US11700976B1	Baby bath chair The present invention discloses a baby bath chair, including a seat, a backrest, and a dish tray. The backrest is hinged with a back end of the seat. The backrest can be adjustably rotated in multiple stages forwards and rearwards. A left-side middle portion and a right-side middle portion of the seat are formed with a left convex portion and a right convex portion, respectively. A back end of the dish tray is formed backward with a left connecting portion and a right connecting portion. The left connecting portion and the right connecting portion are detachably connected to the left convex portion and the right convex portion, respectively. The left connecting portion and the right connecting portion can be rotated around the left convex portion and the right convex portion, respectively. A top surface of the seat is provided with a drainage hole. The present invention can be used as a bath chair or as a dining chair. The backrest can be adjusted in multiple stages to adapt to different dining spaces or bathing angles of a baby. The dish tray can be rotated around the left convex portion or the right convex portion. When the baby needs to enter the seat, the dish tray can be rotated around the left convex portion or the right convex portion, so that the baby can enter the seat from a front side of the seat conveniently.
US11700975B1	Bathing chair A bathing chair is a removable toilet seat having a pair of handles having a plank extending from a first side of the toilet seat suitable to permit a user to slide from the toilet seat across the plank. The bathing chair also has a wall support which may be removably secured to a shower or bath wall. The wall support retains the plank in a horizontal position of a tub or shower area.
US11700972B2	Turbo fan steam milk frother A fan-based steaming and foaming device is provided with a fan assembly and an activation device between a steam tube and an ejection tube. The invention employs an air pressure difference of a fan to directly inject, into a liquid, air required for foaming.
US11700965B2	Method for operating a food processor The invention relates to a method (100) for operating a food processor (10), in which, in a preparation mode, at least one processor device (50) of said food processor (10) is actuated so as to prepare food at least partly automatically, wherein a monitoring device (200) determines detection values (106) by detecting (105), at said processor (10), at least two detection variables (102) specific to a state of preparation.
US11700961B2	Hanging device and assembly A garment hanger comprising a rail engaging portion and garment supporting means in the form of a deformable elongate member. The end of the elongate member distal from the rail engaging portion comprises a first part of a connection mechanism such that the elongate member can be deformed back upon itself and connected to a second part of the connection mechanism of the hanger to form a closed loop. The hanger further comprises an aperture for attaching the hanger to the garment.
US11700958B2	Sneeze guard air curtain attachment Provided is a sneeze guard attachment for creating an air curtain between display food covered by a sneeze guard and a person. The device includes a panel, a frame affixed to the panel that creates a chamber between the panel and the sneeze guard, and a means for forcing air into the chamber. The chamber includes an open end, which allows the air to be forced out of the chamber in order to create an air curtain. The air curtain separates the display food contained in a food bar/food prep area from the consumer. The device can be retrofitted on any preexisting food shield or sneeze guard, and can be utilized with various types of display food, including food items found in buffets, salad bars, hot food bars, roller grills, made-to-order food operations, catering stands, roller grills, sandwich preparation areas, and the like.
US11700954B2	Child carrying system with adaptable head support A child carrying system for carrying a child includes a carrier portion having a top portion; a middle portion having a pair of tabs extending away from a center of the middle portion in a lateral direction; a pair of adjustment mechanisms, each adjustment mechanism fixedly attached to a respective tab of the pair of tabs; and a bottom portion. The child carrying system also includes a pair of straps, each strap having a first end and a second end. Each first end is fixedly attached proximate a respective top corner of the top portion. Each second end is detachably connected to an adjustment mechanism of the pair of adjustment mechanisms. A width of each strap of the pair of straps is wider than a conventional shoulder strap on a backpack.
US11700953B2	Child care apparatus A child care apparatus includes a standing frame including a mounting portion, a child support frame held on the standing frame via at least one hanging bar that is pivotally connected with the mounting portion, the hanging bar being rotatable for swinging the child support frame, and a latching mechanism for rotationally locking the hanging bar, the latching mechanism including a latch connected with the mounting portion, and a latch actuator movably linked to the latch, the latch actuator having an operating portion exposed for operation, the latch actuator being movable along with the latch between a locking state where the latch is engaged with the hanging bar and an unlocking state where the latch is disengaged from the hanging bar.
US11700952B2	Infant seat with angle adjustment function An infant seat includes a seat back member including an outer hub, a seat support member including an inner hub, a seat structure connected to the seat back member, and a locking mechanism including a slide gear and operably disposed on the seat back member. The inner hub is pivotably connected to the outer hub to make the seat back member rotatably connected to the seat support member for forming a cross bar structure. The slide gear is slidable within the outer and inner hubs for engaging with the outer and inner hubs to stop rotation of the inner hub on the outer hub. When the locking mechanism translates the slide gear to an unlocked position, the slide gear is disengaged from the outer hub to make the seat back member rotatable relative to the seat support member for adjusting a tilt angle of the seat structure.
US11700950B2	Adjustable support and bed frame having same Disclosed are adjustable supports and frames. An adjustable support includes an inner bar, an outer bar and a locking/unlocking mechanism for controlling the relative movement of the inner and outer bars. The locking/unlocking mechanism includes a casing pivotally connected with the outer bar, a pin coupled with the casing, and an elastic member to engage the pin with the inner and outer bars.
US11700949B1	Folding bed The invention relates to a folding bed, belonging to the field of furniture, comprising a mattress, a pillow and a bed frame. Seven X-shaped support frames are adopted to constitute a main structure of the bed frame, and an upper edge of the X-shaped support frame is provided with foldable support rods and connecting pieces. The whole structure may be folded longitudinally and transversely to form a columnar body after folding, which can sufficiently reduce the gap between the support rods, so as to minimize the volume, and it is convenient to carry and store after use. The pillow is filled with memory cotton to fit the human body and is comfortable for sleeping.
US11700947B1	Convertible support assembly A support assembly for an individual convertible into a plurality of different supportive orientations, including a base having opposed front and rear segments and a leg structure connected thereto. The base is selectively disposable in a chair configuration along the front segment or a bench configuration along the rear segment. The support assembly includes structural and operative features which facilitate support thereof in the chair configuration or the bench configuration by at least the base, the arm structure and outer ends of the leg structure being movably and/or relatively positioned to engage a support surface in supporting relation to the support assembly, dependent on its orientation in either the chair or bench configuration.
US11700944B2	Support apparatus The present invention relates to support apparatus for supporting at least a portion of a gluteal region of a user while the user is seated in a seating apparatus comprising a seating surface, a back support surface and a transition region at the intersection of the seating surface and the back support surface. The support apparatus a support member structured to support at least a portion of the gluteal region of the user. The support apparatus further comprises a support element structured to position the support member at the transition region of seating apparatus such that the support member extends between the seating surface and the back support surface of the seating apparatus.
US11700943B1	Foldable chair A foldable chair includes a base, a plurality of retractable arms connected to the base, and a plurality of legs connected to the base. The base includes a support defining an inner cavity and a locking assembly received in the inner cavity. The support includes an upper receiving portion connected to the arms and a lower receiving portion connected to the legs. An end of each leg connected to the lower receiving portion is arranged with leg teeth. Leg teeth of the plurality of legs are engaged with each other to allow the plurality of legs to move synergistically. In this way, the user may not operate each leg respectively when unfolding or folding the foldable chair, operations performed on the foldable chair may be simplified, and the user experience may be improved.
US11700942B2	Mechanically stretchable apparatus for a sofa and sofa thereof A mechanically stretchable apparatus for a sofa and a sofa thereof are provided. The mechanically stretchable apparatus includes: a seat component, a linkage component, a back component and a leg component. The seat component further includes a base, a first rotating part, the second rotating part, and the seat linkage structure placed between the first and second rotating parts. The seat linkage structure includes a back linkage with a seat connection point, a transmission connection point, and a back connection point. The seat connection point is connected to the first rotating part. The back connection point is connected to the back component. The back component and the leg component are respectively connected to the linkage component, and the linkage component is connected to the seat linkage structure.
US11700941B2	Resizable furniture pads The present disclosure provides furniture pads having multiple segments that can coupled and decoupled to accommodate a desired size. The pads include a body of a protective material, with an inner segment and a first outer segment. The inner segment has at least one smaller cross-sectional dimension than the outer segment. Additional outer segments can have progressively increasing cross-sectional dimensions such that the all resulting segments are nested.
US11700940B1	Combination shelf with dual-pole vertical columns A combination shelf includes at least four column units, at least two storage layers, and multiple clips. The column unit consists of two parallel, vertical poles on the left and right, and multiple connections connecting the left and right vertical poles. The clip has a vertical groove with a wing located on both sides at the lower halves of the front and rear ends of the groove opening. The grooves of the clips can be embedded by the vertical poles. The front and rear ends of both sides of the storage layer each offers an outward-opening U-shaped fastener. The front and rear edges of the lower half of the fastener each has a top pusher. The fasteners of the storage layer can each cover the exterior of the clips of the column units. The inner faces of the two top pushers each presses the two wings. By fitting together the corresponding bevels of the top pushers and the two wings, the clips and the fasteners press each other and therefore clamping the vertical pole.
US11700939B2	Customizable cabinet A system and method for a cabinet. The cabinet has at least two mounts. The cabinet further has at least two covers. The covers are releasably couple to the mounts. When the covers are coupled there is an opening between adjacent covers which houses an item which can be retrieved through the opening. The covers can have tabs which couple with slots in the mounts. The result is an interchangeable cabinet which allows the user to change the contents being housed by moving the covers and adjusting the size of the opening to account for larger or smaller contents.
US11700938B1	Suspended storage rack A suspended storage rack includes a first rack body for suspending, and a second rack body hingedly connected to a lower side of the first rack body and used for storing articles. The second rack body includes: a storage part and a first limiting part arranged on one side of the storage part and tilted upward. A middle part of the first limiting part arranged in a vertical direction is hingedly connected to the lower side of the first rack body, an upper part of the first limiting part arranged in the vertical direction is used to prevent the second rack body from being excessively expanded relative to the first rack body, and a lower part of the first limiting part arranged in the vertical direction is used to make the storage part lean against the first rack body after the second rack body is rotated upward for storage.
US11700933B2	Interdental brush An interdental brush comprising an interdental brush bar and a grip, the interdental brush bar having a central shaft and a joint portion, the central shaft surface axially staggering a plurality of first bristle sets and a plurality of second bristle sets, the first bristle set has two first bristles, and the second bristle set has two second bristles, and each of the first bristles is connected with an adjacent second bristles to form a squeegee. The grip connects the joint portion, and the squeegee can increase the contact area with the teeth to enhance the cleaning effect.
US11700930B2	Hinged applicator for a cosmetic product and associated packaging and application assembly This invention relates to a cosmetic product applicator, including: an application member (30) comprising an application element (42); and a gripping member (32) hinged to the application member, with the gripping member being mobile with respect to the application member around an axis of rotation (38), between a first and a second stable configurations. The application member and the gripping member respectively comprise first and second (75) guiding elements, configured to slide against one another during a rotation of the gripping member with respect to the application member, with each one of the first and second stable configurations corresponding to a minimum of elastic stress between said first and second guiding elements, said elastic stress being considered in the radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation (38).
US11700927B2	Smart multifunction electrically powered suitcase A container, such as a suitcase, bag, cart, valise, or trunk includes various only one of its kind wheel sets combinations, including a wheel set combining both spinner wheels and inline skate wheels in the same article, wheels that extends and retracts for ultimate maneuverability in different scenarios, and utilizing powered wheels incase located at the corner or back side to provided added stability and control when tilting the container or transporting it up stairs. The container also may include advanced convenience features to include other than power assisted motion, may include telescopic handle with electronic components and various additional “high tech” options, such as built-in communication, navigation, navigation and/or direction indication capabilities, mobile phone, WiFi capabilities, USB outlet, rechargeable batteries, electronic power bank charging ports, smart locking, identification and/or tracking, and various safety features.
US11700924B2	Integrated self-opening and self-closing stairs-climbing trolley case An integrated self-opening and self-closing stairs-climbing trolley case is provided. The integrated self-opening and self-closing stairs-climbing trolley case includes a case body, wherein a bottom of the case body is provided with universal wheels, a telescopic draw bar is arranged on a side of the case body, a bottom of a sliding plate is provided with unidirectional wheels, an inner bracket is respectively connected with the telescopic draw bar and the case body, limiting connecting rods on left and right sides are movably connected with the inner bracket via a first connecting rod and are movably connected with the sliding plate via a second connecting rod, torsional spring connecting rods on the left and right sides are movably connected with the inner bracket via a third connecting rod and are movably connected with the sliding plate via a fourth connecting rod.
US11700923B2	Stealth micro-ballistic billfold A wallet is designed to be folded in half along a central bill loop that can hold paper currency thereunder. The opened wallet, on each side of the bill loop, can include a card slot formed therein. When opened, the wallet can have four corners that, when folded, meet to form two outside corners of the folded wallet while two inside corners are formed at ends of the folded portion. The left-side card slot can be offset from the right-side card slot such that, when folded, cards in the left-side card slot can provide support adjacent one outside corner of the wallet, while cards in the right-side card slot can provide support adjacent the other outside corner of the wallet. Thus, the wallet is structurally supportive without requiring any additional elements to provide such support, outside of the user's own cards stored in the wallet.
US11700922B2	Lightweight collapsible chair with trekking poles supports Embodiments of chair systems incorporating trekking poles include a low-back design employing fixed-length trekking poles, and a high-back design employing adjustable-length trekking poles that allow for adjusting the recline angle of the chair. The chair system generally includes a tubular frame that releasably engages a flexible seat. The tubular frame includes a front hub and a rear hub spaced one from the other by a cross bar, plus front and rear footings which stabilize the chair system on the ground or undersurface. A V-shaped upper support extending from the front hub supports and holds open the leg portion of the flexible seat, while the trekking poles are releasably engaged with and extend upwardly from the rear hub to support, and hold open and upright the back portion of the flexible seat.
US11700917B2	Agile manufacturing processes and systems A manufacturing process involving a series of discrete operations can be modified by adding, removing, or reordering operations, without design changes to the equipment. The manufacturing process uses a frame comprising one or more alignment tabs. Each alignment tab comprises an alignment element. The alignment element interacts with a corresponding alignment element at a manufacturing station to identify to the manufacturing station the position and orientation of the frame. The frame supports a material in a known position and orientation relative to the frame, allowing the manufacturing station to infer the position and orientation of the pliable material on the frame from the interaction of the alignment elements on the frame and the manufacturing station. The operations at any particular manufacturing station can therefore be positioned independent of what operations, if any, have come before, or in what order.
US11700913B2	Footwear sole structure having a fluid-filled chamber including a tensile member A footwear sole structure having a fluid-filled chamber including a tensile member is provided. The fluid-filled chamber includes a first barrier sheet, a second barrier sheet and the tensile member. The first barrier sheet is formed from a first thermoplastic material. The second barrier sheet is attached to the first barrier sheet and is formed from a second thermoplastic material. The first barrier sheet and the second barrier sheet cooperate to define an internal cavity. The tensile member is disposed within the internal cavity and is formed from a third thermoplastic material. A first weld attaches the first barrier sheet, the second barrier sheet, and the tensile member together by melding the first thermoplastic material of the first barrier sheet, the second thermoplastic material of second barrier sheet, and the third thermoplastic material of the tensile member.
US11700912B2	Item of footwear The invention relates to an item of footwear in which is provided a mid-sole (10) with features that provide comfort to the wearer when walking. An item of footwear comprising: a sole (1) comprising a mid-sole (10), the mid-sole having a first major surface (11) for facing the foot of a wearer, a second major surface (12) opposite the first, the mid-sole (10) having an inner edge (13) corresponding to the inside of a wearer's foot and an outer edge (14) corresponding to the outside of a wearer's foot; and a securing means for securing the item of footwear to a foot of a wearer such that the first surface (11) of the sole (1) contacts the foot, wherein: the mid-sole (10) has formed therein a plurality of generally transverse grooves (20) and a generally longitudinal primary groove (30a), thereby dividing the sole (1) into an array of lands (50); and the primary groove (30a) is substantially parallel to the outer edge (14) of the sole (1) over a majority of the length of the sole (1) and defines with 15 the transverse grooves (20) a plurality of lands (50).
US11700911B2	Shoe sole including laminate-structured midsole A midsole includes an upper layer and a lower layer made of a foamed material; the upper layer is a low-hardness foamed material; the lower layer is a high-hardness foamed material; the low-hardness foamed material of the upper layer is a low-hardness, high-resilience material that has a higher specific gravity than the high-hardness foamed material, that has a low hardness that is lower than the hardness of the high-hardness foamed material, and that has a higher speed at which to recover to an original shape after being deformed than that of the high-hardness foamed material.
US11700908B1	Adhesive footwear and devices Footwear used for high performance activities such as running can be adhesively attached to the plantar surface of feet rather than uppers or straps. The upper surface of the protective layer of the footwear can have adhesive regions that secure the foot to the footwear and other regions that are not adhesively coupled to the foot. The adhesive regions can be under the heel, along the lateral side of the foot, under the first through fifth metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joints and around the perimeter of the foot above the plantar surface.
US11700897B2	Pocket for a garment Examples of a pocket for a garment are described. The pocket for a garment, such as sport apparel, comprises an outer pocket panel and an inner pocket panel attached along respective side edges and bottom edges so that a pocket opening is formed therebetween. An elastic or silicone gripping surface is formed on an inner face of the pocket so that when an item is inserted into the pocket, it removably adheres or sticks to the griping surface preventing or reducing bouncing action of the item within the pocket.
US11700896B2	Upper body garment with enhanced mobility portions The present invention relates to upper body garments designed to provide an enhanced range of motion to the arms and shoulders of a wearer. This is accomplished by having a layered construction comprising different fabric/textile materials where the enhanced range of motion is desired. In aspects, the upper body garment includes an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve where the garment is structured so that the outer sleeve is decoupled from the inner sleeve in one or more locations.
US11700894B2	Ambidextrous fish scale-textured glove The described invention relates to an ambidextrous working glove having fish scale-textured inner and outer surfaces and methods of making same.
US11700887B2	Electronic cigarette The present disclosure discloses an electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette includes a cigarette pipe having a cavity, an atomizer device received in the cavity and a cartridge detachably mounted to the atomizer device. The atomizer device is provided with a heating element. The cartridge includes a main body inserted in the cavity, a channel extending through the main body, an e-liquid storage member detachably installed in the main body, and an e-liquid carrier. The channel is in communication with the outside. The e-liquid carrier is received in the channel. The e-liquid carrier is capable of absorbing e-liquid in the e-liquid storage member. The heating element includes a heating end extending into the e-liquid carrier.
US11700884B2	Aerosol generation device and heater for aerosol generation device Provided according to an exemplary embodiment is a heater for an aerosol generation device, the heater comprising a plurality of segments combined together to form an insertion portion into which an object-to-be-heated is inserted; one or more electrically conductive tracks printed on one surface of each of the plurality of segments and disposed toward the object-to-be-heated; and an elastic member configured to surround at least a part of the plurality of segments.
US11700878B2	Modular cigar A modular cigar and methods are provided for assembling and use of the modular cigar. The modular cigar includes an inner bound module, removable end cap, and removable outer wrapper. The removable outer wrapper is coupled with the inner bound module in an adhesive-free manner.
US11700876B1	Device and method for production of a smoking product tubular element A device for production of a smoking product tubular element that consists of a set of components for a paper workpiece processing. The set of components including a working table with a moving platform and a master form fixed. The master form's working surface is formed by a first side wall surface, a second side wall surface and a bottom surface. The device also includes a first moving forming unit and a second moving forming unit on the working table and at least one moving mandrel with a flat working section and equipped with a non-flat shape tip.The moving mandrel is designed for pressing the paper workpiece to the working surface of the master form, and the moving mandrel is designed to be folded by the paper workpiece around the flat working section by the first and second moving forming units.
US11700874B2	Inductively heatable consumable for aerosol generation An inductively heatable consumable for aerosol generation includes an aerosol forming substrate in the form of particles and a susceptor in the form of a plurality of particles, wherein the susceptor is a combination of an aerosol forming substrate and a susceptor for obtaining a rigid susceptor, wherein the rigid aerosol forming substrate layer has a rigidity greater than the rigidity of the susceptor layer.
US11700870B2	Use of tri- and tetra-saccharides as taste modulators Tri- and tetra-saccharides are used in foods, beverages and other consumable products to mask or reduce the unpleasant taste of certain components also present in such products, such as the bitter taste of certain high intensity sweeteners. The organoleptic qualities of the products are thereby improved. In particular, melezitose, maltotriose and maltotetraose effectively reduce the bitterness of consumable products containing steviol glycosides such as rebaudioside A.
US11700866B2	Food products resembling whole muscle meat and seafood The present invention relates to the creation of meat-analogs, including bacon or jerky. The present invention further can relate to the use of hydrocolloid gels or films as structural components of meat analog food products. Hydrocolloid gels or films are used in order to improve the similarity of meat analog food products to whole muscle cuts of meat and seafood, including animal sourced bacon.
US11700865B2	Dairy-based meat substitute and methods of producing the same Meat substitutes include at least a dried milk product, a carbohydrate, and a liquid such as water. The dried milk product includes one or both of non-fat dry milk and buttermilk powder. The carbohydrate includes one or both of syrup solids, such as corn syrup solids, and a starch, such as modified corn starch. The meat substitutes include amino acids and sugars that undergo a Maillard reaction during preparation of the meat substitutes, yielding flavor compounds in, and non-enzymatic browning of, the meat substitutes. The meat substitutes can be used in the production of food products such as dairy-based jerky.
US11700864B2	Methods for preparation of gelatin-based products A device for preparing a gelatin-based product may include a mix tank, a mix pod that is fluidly coupled to the mix tank via a pod spike, and a hot water tank, where the hot water tank is coupled to the mix pod via the pod spike. In at least one example, the pod spike may include an outer tube and an inner tube. In one or more examples, the pod spike of the device may include a hub, where a first end of the outer tube is coupled to the hub. Further, in some examples, a first end of the inner tube may also be coupled to the hub.
US11700859B2	Pizza sauce applicator A pizza saucer having a housing in which components may be mounted. The housing includes a base having an upwardly facing deck, a neck that extends from the base to a head, and a manifold mounted to the head facing the deck. The housing contains at least one pump to convey pizza sauce from a source to the manifold, and a computer that controls a rotary prime mover in the base with a driveshaft extending through the deck to a tray drivingly linked to the driveshaft. An input, such as a touchscreen, is mounted to the head and faces the user during operation. With the touchscreen, the user may input the crust size. The computer actuates the pumps and the rotary prime mover, simultaneously causing the crust to rotate 360-370 degrees and the manifold to dispense sauce onto the crust until the crust is coated.
US11700858B2	System for inverted casting mold for producing a comestible baked product in complex forms A system and method for producing a comestible baked product in complex shapes using cast molding wherein a portion of the interior cavity forms a baking cup which can optionally receive a liner. Embodiments generally include a first part and second part that are configured to be joined together along a seam. When configured, an outer surface is created and an inner surface cavity which creates a contiguous internal hollow space in the form of a three dimensional shape is formed. A portion of this internal hollow space forms a cup. The mold may provide a means for supporting the mold in a special and beneficial baking orientation such as inverted; the cup may be in a form other than circular shape. Other embodiments may include a single piece that is attachable to the rim of a cup of a multi-cup baking pan or to a single stand-alone cup.
US11700856B2	Microbial agent YF favorable for growth of corn in saline-alkali land, and use thereof The present disclosure provides a microbial agent YF, including four strains: Bacillus sonorensis B-2, Bacillus paralicheniformis B-26, Bacillus sonorensis N-16, and Bacillus pumilus N-17. The four strains were all deposited in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) on Mar. 5, 2020. The Bacillus sonorensis B-2 has a deposit accession number of CGMCC NO. 19454, the Bacillus paralicheniformis B-26 has a deposit accession number of CGMCC NO. 19449, the Bacillus sonorensis N-16 has a deposit accession number of CGMCC NO. 19448, and the Bacillus pumilus N-17 has a deposit accession number of CGMCC NO. 19450. The microbial agent provided by the present disclosure can effectively prevent stem rot of corn in saline-alkali land, improve the quality of saline-alkali land, and significantly promote the growth of corn.
US11700855B2	Method for preventing or reducing growth of a microorganism on a surface Methods of synthesizing Bi2S3—CdS particles in the form of spheres as well as properties of these Bi2S3—CdS particles are described. Methods of photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants employing these Bi2S3—CdS particles and methods of preventing or reducing microbial growth on a surface by applying these Bi2S3—CdS particles in the form of a solution or an antimicrobial product onto the surface are also specified.
US11700854B2	Silver antimicrobials Disclosed is a method for synthesizing an antimicrobial base. The method comprises treating a Silver salt in a reaction mixture. The method further comprises adding one or more reactants to the reaction mixture in a pre-defined ratio. Further, the method comprises heating the reaction mixture at a first temperature between 45° C. to 90° C. for a first period of 5 to 8 hours. Furthermore, the method comprises stabilizing the conversion by adding a ligand and a stabilizing agent. Subsequently, the method comprises digesting the reaction mixture at a second temperature between 45° C. to 65° C. for a period of 2 to 4 hours to form an end product. Finally, the method comprises filtering the reaction mixture. The sub-micron particle forms a dispersion containing the colloidal silver particles (Ag0), thereby forming the antimicrobial base.
US11700853B2	Plant health compositions comprising a water-soluble pesticide and a water-insoluble agrochemical Compositions for improving plant health, the compositions comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide and at least one non-herbicidal water-insoluble agrochemical, are described. Also described are processes for preparing the compositions and methods of improving agronomic crop plant health using the compositions.
US11700849B2	Method for preparation of attapulgite-based pH-responsive antibacterial material Disclosed is a method for preparing an attapulgite-based pH-responsive antibacterial material, including: directly spraying a natural aldehyde-based antibacterial agent onto an attapulgite powder under stirring, and constantly stirring the attapulgite powder for 20-30 min; grinding the attapulgite powder in a ball mill for 30-60 min to obtain a ground attapulgite powder; placing the ground attapulgite powder in a stirred tank, and spraying a chitosan-citric acid aqueous solution onto the ground attapulgite powder; after spraying, constantly stirring the ground attapulgite powder for 30-120 min; and finally drying the ground attapulgite powder to obtain a dried attapulgite powder, sieving the dried attapulgite powder to obtain a sieved attapulgite powder, and packaging the sieved attapulgite powder to obtain the antibacterial material.
US11700844B2	Pest control and detection system with conductive bait matrix A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.
US11700840B2	L-serine compositions, methods and uses for treating neurodegenerative diseases and disorders L-serine, L-serine precursors, L-serine derivatives and L-serine conjugates for treatment, amelioration and/or prevention of protein aggregation/tangles/plaques and diseases associated with protein aggregation/tangles/plaques. In particular, treatments and uses for L-serine, L-serine precursors, L-serine derivatives and L-serine conjugates include Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and Huntington disease (HD).
US11700839B2	Calibration target for ultrasonic removal of ectoparasites from fish Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for a calibration target for ultrasonic removal of ectoparasites from fish. In some implementations, the calibration target includes a fish-shaped structure, sensors positioned at different locations of the fish-shaped structure, a processor that receives sensor values from the sensors, and a transmitter that outputs sensor data from the calibration target based on the sensor values.
US11700832B2	Animal bed assembly An animal bed for supporting an animal includes a body having a bottom member and a bolster forming an outer wall of the body. The outer wall is positioned about a perimeter of the bottom member and extends outwardly therefrom to define a recessed area for accommodating the animal. A plurality of straps is coupled to and extending at least partially across the bottom member opposite the recessed area. Each of the plurality of straps includes a degree of elasticity configured to hold a rigid member in contact with the bottom member.
US11700817B1	Maize inbred 1PCWH37 A novel maize variety designated 1PCWH37 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PCWH37 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PCWH37 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PCWH37 or a locus conversion of 1PCWH37 with another maize variety.
US11700813B1	Maize hybrid X95P913 A novel maize variety designated X95P913 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95P913 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95P913 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X95P913, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95P913 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95P913 and methods of using maize variety X95P913 are disclosed.
US11700812B2	Wheat variety 6PUMH97B A wheat variety designated 6PUMH97B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PUMH97B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PUMH97B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PUMH97B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PUMH97B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PUMH97B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US11700810B2	Triticale cultivar 343CMS and novel sequences for male sterility A cytoplasmic male sterile triticale cultivar, designated 343CMS, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of triticale cultivar 343CMS, to the plants of triticale 343CMS, and to methods for producing a triticale plant produced by crossing the cultivar 343CMS with itself or another triticale variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a triticale plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic triticale plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to triticale varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from triticale cultivar 343CMS, to methods for producing other triticale varieties, lines or plant parts derived from triticale cultivar 343CMS, and to the triticale plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid triticale seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 343CMS with another triticale cultivar.
US11700809B2	Herbicide-resistant grain sorghum A fluazifop-resistant sorghum cultivar designated ‘21534_ACCase-R’ and plants comprising a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 39 are disclosed herein. The present invention provides seeds, plants, and plant parts derived from sorghum cultivar ‘21534_ACCase-R’ and those including SEQ ID NO: 39. Further, it provides methods for producing a sorghum plant by crossing ‘21534_ACCase-R’ with itself or another sorghum variety. The invention also encompasses any sorghum seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by the methods disclosed herein, including those in which additional traits have been transferred into ‘21534_ACCase-R’ through the introduction of a transgene or by breeding ‘21534_ACCase-R’ with another sorghum cultivar.
US11700807B2	Hybrid cantaloupe plant named HMC458279 A hybrid cantaloupe plant designated HMC458279 is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid cantaloupe designated HMC458279, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid cantaloupe designated HMC458279, and to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant by crossing the hybrid cantaloupe HMC458279 with itself or another cantaloupe plant.
US11700806B2	Lettuce cultivar patton A lettuce cultivar, designated Patton, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Patton and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Patton with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Patton, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Patton and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Patton with another lettuce cultivar.
US11700805B2	Regeneration of plants in the presence of histone deacetylase inhibitors The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding and in particular to the regeneration of plants from cells and other tissues. More particularly, the invention provides methods and means for improving callus formation and regeneration of plants from callus tissue using a histone deacetylase inhibitor.
US11700794B2	Plant growth via vibrations The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of applying vibration stimuli to a plant. In some implementations, an actuator generates a vibration. The vibration may be transmitted to a vibration transmitter and from the vibration transmitter to the plant. In some implementations, the vibration may be based on recorded biometric information such as a heartbeat, pulse, nerve impulses, or the like.
US11700791B2	Grain cart with folding auger A grain cart and foldable auger assembly having an upper auger assembly portion with a discharge portion, a lower auger assembly portion with an intake portion, and a joint that allows the upper auger assembly portion to be moved between operating and transport positions. When in an operating position, the upper auger portion and the lower auger portion are offset from each other by an operating offset angle. The grain cart also has a hitch for allowing the grain cart to be towed. The discharge portion is forward of the hitch when in the operating position. Embodiments of the present invention provide, for example, increased forward and side reach, additional storage capacity of the hopper, increased discharge rate from the hopper, and a more compact transport position.
US11700789B2	De-leafing apparatus for removing leaves of harvestable crops A harvester selectively harvests edible crowns ready for harvesting. The harvester may include an imaging system for capturing image(s) of the edible crowns and a de-leafing component that removes leaves of the broccoli plant. For example, broccoli plants typically have an abundance of leaves that reside beneath, alongside of, and even above the edible crowns. The leaves may conceal the edible crowns and impact a quality of the image(s). The de-leafing component may be positioned in front of the imaging system, relative to a direction of travel of the harvester, to remove the leaves and isolate or expose the edible crown. Therein, the imaging system may image the edible crowns for use in determining whether the edible crowns are ready for harvesting.
US11700781B2	Ground opener with skewed support assembly A ground opener for an agricultural implement. The ground opener comprising an opening disc, and a support assembly securing the opening disc to the agricultural implement. The support assembly comprises an upper bar, a lower bar, a forward bar, and a rearward bar. At least a portion of each of the bars is orientated at an offset angle with respect to a direction of travel of the agricultural implement.
US11707004B2	Phase-change memory A phase-change memory (PCM) device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a memory layer, and a heater. The memory layer includes a phase-change material and is electrically coupled between the first electrode and the second electrode. The heater is arranged near the memory layer and is configured to heat a programming region of the memory layer in response to an electric current that passes through the heater. The heater is coupled to a power source via an electric current path that does not pass through the memory layer.
US11706999B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device Semiconductor device includes pair of active devices, composite spin Hall electrode, and a magnetic tunnel junction. Composite spin Hall electrode is electrically connected to pair of active devices. Magnetic tunnel junction is disposed on opposite side of composite spin hall electrode with respect to pair of active devices. Spin Hall electrode includes pair of heavy metal layers, and spacer layer disposed in between pair of heavy metal layers. Pair of heavy metal layers is made of a heavy metal in a metastable state. Spacer layer comprises first material different from the pair of heavy metal layers.
US11706998B2	Magnetic tunnel junction and magnetic memory device comprising the same In one embodiment, the magnetic memory device includes a free layer structure having a variable magnetization direction. The free layer structure includes a first free layer, the first free layer being a first Heusler alloy; a coupling layer on the first free layer, the coupling layer including a metal oxide layer; and a second free layer on the metal oxide layer, the second free layer being a second Heusler alloy, the second Heusler alloy being different from the first Heusler alloy.
US11706989B2	Methods for designing and producing a device comprising an array of micromachined elements, and device produced by said methods A design process is used for designing a device comprising a plurality of micro-machined elements, each comprising a flexible membrane, the elements being arranged in a plane in a determined topology. The design process comprises a step of defining the determined topology so that it has a character compatible with a generic substrate having cavities, the characteristics of which are pre-established. Each flexible membrane of the micro-machined elements is associated with one cavity of the generic substrate. The present disclosure also relates to a fabrication process for fabricating a device comprising a plurality of micro-machined elements, and to this device itself, wherein only some of the pairs of cavities and flexible membranes are configured to form a set of functional micro-machined elements.
US11706988B2	Piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing the same A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric single crystal body with a homogeneous polarization state and of which at least a portion flexurally vibrates, an upper electrode on an upper surface of the piezoelectric single crystal body, a lower electrode on a lower surface of the piezoelectric single crystal body, and a supporting substrate below the piezoelectric single crystal body. A recess extends from a lower surface of the supporting substrate toward the lower surface of the piezoelectric single crystal body.
US11706987B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming a semiconductor device A semiconductor device may include: a substrate wafer, a bonding layer at least partially covering a front surface of the substrate wafer, a plurality of silicon pillars bonded to the front surface of the substrate wafer by the bonding layer, a single-crystal piezoelectric film having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a top electrode arranged adjacent to the first surface of the single-crystal piezoelectric film, and a bottom electrode arranged adjacent to the second surface of the single-crystal piezoelectric film. The single-crystal piezoelectric film may be supported by the plurality of silicon pillars such that the second surface of the piezoelectric film and the front surface of the substrate wafer enclose a cavity therebetween.
US11706986B2	Thermoelectric material The present invention provides a thermoelectric material excellent in heat resistance with less degradation of thermoelectric characteristics even in a high temperature environment. The thermoelectric material comprises a compound represented by a chemical formula Mg2Si1-xSnx (0
US11706983B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device (OLED) includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an electron-transporting host and a hole-transporting host, a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer and including a hole transport layer, and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode and including an electron transport layer, wherein the OLED satisfies Equations 1 and 2 below: 0.75 eV≤\|LUMOH(ET)−LUMOH(HT)\|≤0.90 eV \|E(S1,H(ET))−E(S1,H(HT))\|<0.15 eV wherein in Equations 1 and 2, LUMOH(ET) refers to a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level of the electron-transporting host, LUMOH(HT) refers to an LUMO energy level of the hole-transporting host, E(S1, H(ET)) refers to a singlet energy level of the electron-transporting host, and E(S1, H(HT)) refers to a singlet energy level of the hole-transporting host.
US11706981B2	Organic light emitting device and compounds for use in same Specific polycyclic compounds of the general formula (I) and a process for its preparation, an electronic device comprising at least one of these compounds, an emitting layer, preferably present in an electronic device, comprising at least one compound of general formula (I) and the use of compounds according to general formula (I) in an electronic device as a host material, a charge transporting material, charge and/or exciton blocking material, preferably as a host material or an electron transporting material.
US11706979B2	Disubstituted diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compounds Disubstituted diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound of general formula (I): in which: Z represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a selenium atom; or an NR5 group in which R5 is selected from linear or branched C1-C20, or from optionally substituted aryl groups; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the claims. The disubstituted diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound of general formula (I) can advantageously be used as a spectrum converter in luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) which are in turn capable of improving the performance of photovoltaic devices (or solar devices) selected, for example, from photovoltaic cells (or solar cells), photovoltaic modules (or solar modules) on either a rigid substrate or a flexible substrate.
US11706978B2	Fluorescent organic light emitting elements having high efficiency The present invention relates to organic light emitting elements, comprising thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters and/or hosts of formula which have a sufficiently small energy gap between S1 and T1 (ΔEST) to enable up-conversion of the triplet exciton from T1 to S1. The organic light emitting elements show high electroluminescent efficiency.
US11706975B2	Compound for organic optoelectronic device, composition for organic optoelectronic device, organic optoelectronic device and display apparatus Disclosed are a compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by Chemical Formula 1, a composition for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic optoelectronic device including the same, and a display device. Details of Chemical Formula 1 are the same as defined in the specification.
US11706966B2	Display device A display device with improved viewing angle characteristics is provided. A display device with suppressed mixture of colors between adjacent pixels is provided. The display device includes a first coloring layer, a second coloring layer, and a structure body therebetween. The structure body has a portion closer to a display surface side than a bottom surface of the first coloring layer or a bottom surface of the second coloring layer.
US11706963B2	Display panel and large display apparatus having the same A large-area display apparatus may include: a cover plate; a plurality of unit display panels arrayed on one surface of the cover plate, each of the unit display panels including a substrate; a display area defined at middle portions of the substrate; a non-display area around the display area; a pad portion disposed in the non-display area; a first terminal disposed outside the pad portion in the non-display area; and a second terminal apart from the first terminal disposed outside the pad portion in the non-display area; and a connecting member disposed between two unit display panels, the connecting member connecting the first terminals of the unit display panels and the second terminals of the unit display panels, respectively.
US11706960B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes a substrate, a driving pad disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer covering the driving pad, disposed on the substrate, and including an engraved pattern through which at least a portion of the driving pad is exposed, and a circuit board including a circuit pad having a shape inserted into the engraved pattern and making contact with the driving pad.
US11706959B2	Testing structure and display device including the same A display device is provided. The display device includes: a substrate including a display area including pixels at which an image is displayed and a peripheral area at which the image is not displayed, the peripheral area disposed outside the display area. In the peripheral area, the display device further includes: a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the pixels and with which operation of the pixels is tested, the thin film transistors including gate electrodes arranged separated from each other on the substrate; and a bridge wiring electrically connecting adjacent gate electrodes of the plurality of thin film transistors to each other.
US11706952B2	Display panel, display apparatus including the same, and method for manufacturing the display panel A display panel includes an emitting part including a light emitting element and a transmitting part adjacent to the emitting part and including a low adhesion part including a carbon compound. The low adhesion pattern includes fluorine (F).
US11706951B2	OLED including inter-pixel sections having different resistances The first light-emitting layer is higher in light-emission start voltage than each of the second light-emitting layer and the third light-emitting layer. The second light-emitting layer is higher in visibility of the emission color than each of the first light-emitting layer and the third light-emitting layer. The electroluminescence layer has an inter-pixel section between an adjacent pair of the openings and along the upper surface of the insulation layer. The inter-pixel section between the first opening and the second opening has a first resistance value. The inter-pixel section between the second opening and the third opening has a second resistance value. The inter-pixel section between the third opening and the first opening has a third resistance value. The first resistance value is larger than each of the second resistance value and the third resistance value.
US11706946B2	Stretchable display device Provided is a stretchable display device. The stretchable display device includes a substrate and a base pattern on the substrate, wherein the base pattern comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a connection portion configured to connect the first portion to the second portion. The stretchable display device includes a lower electrode on the first portion of the base pattern; an upper electrode on the lower electrode, a light emitting structure between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and a protective layer configured to cover top and side surfaces of the upper electrode, side surfaces of the light emitting structure, a side surface of the lower electrode, and a portion of a side surface of the base pattern. The upper electrode extends to a top surface of the connection portion and a top surface of the second portion of the base pattern, and the first portion and the second portion of the base pattern extend in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate. The first portion and the second portion are parallel to the top surface of the substrate and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction. The connection portion extends in the second direction. A level of the lowermost surface of the protective layer is disposed between a bottom surface of the lower electrode and a bottom surface of the base pattern.
US11706944B2	Display device and method of manufacturing display device A method of manufacturing a display device may include sequentially forming a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer including copper (Cu), a third conductive layer, and a fourth conductive layer on a substrate, patterning the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, the third conductive layer, and the fourth conductive layer together to form a conductive pattern including a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer sequentially on the substrate, removing the fourth layer of the conductive pattern, forming a protective layer covering at least a sidewall of the conductive layer on the substrate, and forming a display element on the protective layer.
US11706934B2	Cross-point memory array and related fabrication techniques Methods and apparatuses for a cross-point memory array and related fabrication techniques are described. The fabrication techniques described herein may facilitate concurrently building two or more decks of memory cells disposed in a cross-point architecture. Each deck of memory cells may include a plurality of first access lines (e.g., word lines), a plurality of second access lines (e.g., bit lines), and a memory component at each topological intersection of a first access line and a second access line. The fabrication technique may use a pattern of vias formed at a top layer of a composite stack, which may facilitate building a 3D memory array within the composite stack while using a reduced number of processing steps. The fabrication techniques may also be suitable for forming a socket region where the 3D memory array may be coupled with other components of a memory device.
US11706931B2	Variable resistance memory device A variable resistance memory device including a substrate; horizontal structures spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; variable resistance patterns on the horizontal structures, respectively; and conductive lines on the variable resistance patterns, respectively, wherein each of the horizontal structures includes a first electrode pattern, a semiconductor pattern, and a second electrode pattern arranged along a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate, and each of the variable resistance patterns is between one of the second electrode patterns and a corresponding one of the conductive lines.
US11706930B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, a sidewall spacer, and a data storage element. The sidewall spacer is disposed aside the top electrode. The data storage element is located between the bottom electrode and the top electrode, and includes a ferroelectric material. The data storage element has a peripheral region which is disposed beneath the sidewall spacer and which has at least 60% of ferroelectric phase. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor device and a method for transforming a non-ferroelectric phase of a ferroelectric material to a ferroelectric phase are also disclosed.
US11706928B2	Memory device and method for fabricating the same An integrated circuit device includes a ferroelectric layer that is formed with chlorine-free precursors. This ferroelectric material may be of the composition HFxZr1-xO2. The ferroelectric layer may be used in a memory device such as a ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET). A ferroelectric layer formed with chlorine-free precursors has no chlorine residue. The absence of chlorine ameliorates time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) and Bias Temperature Instability (BTI).
US11706926B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device, with which a manufacturing method is associated, includes a substrate. The semiconductor memory device also includes a source structure disposed on a first region of the substrate, memory cell strings connected to the source structure, and a capacitor structure disposed on a second region of the substrate. The capacitor structure is spaced apart from the source structure in a horizontal direction.
US11706924B2	Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The insulative levels have a same primary composition as one another. At least one of the insulative levels is compositionally different relative to others of the insulative levels due to said at least one of the insulative levels including dopant dispersed within the primary composition. An opening extends vertically through the stack. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11706923B2	Semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor memory device including: a common source line; a substrate on the common source line; a plurality of gate electrodes arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the common source line; a plurality of insulation films arranged among the plurality of gate electrodes; a plurality of channel structures penetrating through the plurality of gate electrodes and the plurality of insulation films in the first direction; and a plurality of residual sacrificial films arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, wherein the plurality of gate electrodes are disposed on opposite sides of the plurality of residual sacrificial films.
US11706922B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a channel layer with an impurity region A semiconductor device includes a core insulating layer extending in a first direction, an etch stop layer disposed on the core insulating layer, a channel layer extending along a sidewall of the core insulating layer and a sidewall of the etch stop layer, conductive patterns each surrounding the channel layer and stacked to be spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and an impurity region formed in an upper end of the channel layer.
US11706918B2	Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers. The stack comprises laterally-spaced memory-block regions. Channel-material strings extend through the first tiers and the second tiers. Material of the first tiers is of different composition from material of the second tiers. Conducting material is formed in one of the first tiers. The conducting material comprises a seam in and longitudinally-along opposing sides of individual of the memory-block regions in the one first tier. The seam is penetrated with a fluid that forms intermediate material in the seam longitudinally-along the opposing sides of the individual memory-block regions in the one first tier and comprises a different composition from that of the conducting material. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11706911B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor memory having a second active region disposed at an outer side of a first active region The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same, and the semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, an active structure and a shallow trench isolation. The active structure is disposed within the substrate and includes a first active region and a second active region. The first active region includes a plurality of active region units, and the second active region is disposed at an outer side of the first active region to directly connect to a portion of the active region units. The second active region includes a plurality of first openings disposed an edge of the second active region. The shallow trench isolation is disposed within the substrate, to surround the active structure.
US11706909B2	Integrated assemblies comprising memory cells and shielding material between the memory cells Some embodiments include a memory device having a buried wordline, a shield plate, and an access device. The access device includes first and second diffusion regions and a channel region. The diffusion regions and the channel region are arranged vertically so that the channel region is between the first and second diffusion regions. The wordline is adjacent to a first side surface of the channel region, and the shield plate is adjacent to a second side surface of the channel region; with the first and second side surfaces being in opposing relation to one another. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11706908B2	Programmable wire filaments and devices A switchable wire includes filaments, each of which includes a heat-activated material layer that may be indirectly heated to change its state between different states having different electrical conductivity. In an example embodiment the indirect heating may be electrically resistance heating by passing electrical current through an electrically-resistive core of the filament. The heat passing through an electrically-insulative coating around the core, and into a heat-activated material layer around the electrically-insulative coating. The heat-activated material may be a chalcogenide material that is shiftable between a crystalline electrically-conducting state and an amorphous electrically-insulating state. The state of the material may be controlled by controlling the heating profile through controlling heating in the core. Many such filaments may be twisted together to form a switchable wire. Such wires may be used in any of a variety of devices where switchable electrical conductivity is desired.
US11706904B2	Electronic device including heat dissipation member An electronic device is provided, which may include a first housing; a second housing configured to accommodate at least a portion of the first housing and guide a sliding movement of the first housing; a display including a first display area disposed on the first housing and a second display area extending from the first display area; a PCB configured to accommodate at least one electronic component; a support member configured to support the PCB; a side wall member connected to the support member and facing at least a portion of the first housing; a heat dissipation sheet configured to receive heat from the at least one electronic component, the heat dissipation sheet being disposed on the support member and the side wall member; and a heat dissipation member disposed on the side wall member and facing the heat dissipation sheet.
US11706899B2	Electronics enclosure with heat-transfer element A compressor may include a compressor shell, a motor, a compression mechanism, an enclosure, a control module, a fan, and an airflow deflector. The compression mechanism is disposed within the compressor shell. The motor drives the compression mechanism. The enclosure defines an internal cavity. The control module is in communication with the motor and is configured to control operation of the motor. The fan may be disposed within the internal cavity. The airflow deflector may include a base portion, a first leg, and a second leg. The first and second legs may be spaced apart from each other and may extend from the base portion. The fan may force air against the base portion. A first portion of the air may flow from the base portion along the first leg, and a second portion of the air may flow from the base portion along the second leg.
US11706892B1	Apparatus for board installation An apparatus is provided for loading an electronic device, e.g., a populated GPU board, onto a device tray, e.g., a GPU tray, where the electronic device is cumbersome and the device tray presents obstacles that prevent simply lowering the device into the tray. The apparatus includes a dolly and a base, the base configured to position the dolly against the device tray so that the dolly, carrying the board, may slide the device into position and then be removed from beneath the device.
US11706891B2	Perceptible indicators of wires being attached correctly to controller Tools and techniques are described to automate line testing when wiring devices (such as equipment and sensors) to controllers. Controllers have access to databases of the devices that are controlled by them, including wiring diagrams and protocols, such that the controller can automatically check that each wire responds correctly to stimulus from the controller. After testing, a reporting device rapidly shows the results of the line testing.
US11706888B2	Positioning structure A positioning structure adapted for installing and fixing at least two storage devices having different sizes is provided. Each storage device has a plugging end and a fixing end. The positioning structure includes a casing, a socket disposed on the casing, at least two position-limiting components protruding from the casing, and a fixing bracket detachably engaged with any one of the position-limiting components. The plugging end of each storage device is adapted to be plugged into the socket. The position-limiting components respectively keep a first distance and a second distance greater than the first distance from the socket. According to the size of the storage device to be installed, the fixing bracket is engaged with the position-limiting component keeping the first distance from the socket or the position-limiting component keeping the second distance from the socket to fix the fixing end of the storage device to the fixing bracket.
US11706887B2	Electronic device including waterproof structure An electronic device including a waterproof structure is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first face, a second face that faces in a direction substantially opposite to the first face, and a side surface that at least partially encloses a space between the first face and the second face, a middle plate arranged between the first face and the second face inside the housing to be substantially parallel to the first face, extending from the side surface, and including at least one opening, a printed circuit board arranged between the middle plate and the second face, a display arranged between the middle plate and the first face, and including a face directed toward the second face, and a seal member configured to hermetically seal the at least one opening of the middle plate, and arranged between the face of the display and the middle plate.
US11706885B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel, a first lift member connected to a side of the display panel and including a first elevation member rotating in a first rotation direction, a second lift member connected to another side of the display panel and including a second elevation member rotating in a second rotation direction different from the first rotation direction, a drive member connected to the first lift member and the second lift member, the drive member rotating the first elevation member and the second elevation member, a first link member having a side connected to the first elevation member, a second link member having a side connected to the second elevation member, a first sync gear connected to another side of the first link member, and a second sync gear engaged with the first sync gear and connected to another side of the second link member.
US11706882B2	Display apparatus and tiled display apparatus including the same Disclosed are a display apparatus and a tiled display apparatus including the same, including a display panel and a support module configured to support the display panel, wherein the support module includes a body supporting the display panel, a plurality of support portions movably coupled to the body, a plurality of connection portions connected to the plurality of support portions, respectively, and a rotating portion connected to the plurality of connection portions and configured to move the plurality of support portions in an insertion direction toward an inside of the body or a protrusion direction toward an outside of the body. Since the display panel is easily attached to and detached from the frame, a time for replacement, repair, and installation work of the display panel may be reduced.
US11706879B2	Subrack and module assembly comprising the subrack A subrack including a frame defining a subrack space and adapted to receive a device module to an operative position, the frame comprising four side walls and an end wall. The subrack comprises a coupling system adapted for coupling the subrack to four other subracks in order to form a subrack matrix, the coupling system comprising at least one wall recess on an inner surface of each of the side walls, and at least one primary screw hole in each of the side walls such that the at least one primary screw hole is located in the at least one wall recess.
US11706878B2	Multilayer circuit board The present disclosure discloses a multilayer circuit board comprising a plurality of metal layers, a blind via and/or a buried via, the multilayer circuit board is capable of transmitting signal between the different metal layers. The blind via has a pad on a non-opening side of the blind via. An upper or lower layer metal layer on the non-opening side of the blind via adjacent to the blind via has a first hole which is located in a position corresponding to the pad on the non-opening side of the blind via in a depth direction of the blind via; and/or an upper and/or lower layer adjacent to the buried via has a second hole which is located in a position corresponding to the pad of an upper and/or lower orifice of the buried via in a depth direction of the buried via.
US11706864B1	Systems and methods for verifying operation and configuration of a lighting network The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for verifying operation and configuration of a lighting network. In some embodiments, a site controller is configured to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors and to transmit commands to nodes of a lighting network for controlling light sources based on the sensor data. The site controller is also configured to store a site plan including a listing of the nodes and, for each of the nodes, indicating a number of sensors to be coupled to the respective node. The site controller is further configured to detect the sensors coupled to the nodes based on the sensor data and to compare the detected sensors to the site plan for determining whether the detect sensors is consistent with the site plan. If not, the site controller is configured to provide an alert.
US11706861B2	Devices and methods for synchronized signaling of the positions of moving pedestrians or vehicles Position indicating devices, systems and methods useable for signaling the positions of pedestrians or vehicles.
US11706860B2	Horticultural lighting scenarios management system and method A computer implemented method for managing horticultural lighting scenarios including the steps of receiving lighting scenarios and storing lighting scenario attributes thereof in a data storage; transmitting the lighting scenarios to a horticultural structure for deployment on at least one horticultural lighting apparatus; acquiring runtime data generated during the execution of the lighting scenarios and storing the runtime data on the data storage. The method also comprises: receiving search parameters relative to user defined lighting scenario attributes, generating a scenario data inquiry relative to the user defined lighting scenario attributes and querying the data storage to identify and retrieve lighting scenarios having lighting scenario attributes matching the searched parameters; and receiving a trading request for one of the retrieved lighting scenarios, retrieving the trading policies of the corresponding lighting scenario and enforcing the trading policies of the corresponding lighting scenario. A system for managing horticultural lighting scenarios is also provided.
US11706859B2	Input device with backlight function and backlight color adjustment method thereof An input device with a backlight function and a backlight color adjustment method are provided. The input device with the backlight function includes a casing, plural color light-emitting elements, a control module and a charge-coupled device. The control module provides electric power to at least two selected color light-emitting elements through a power supply circuit. By the control module, the chromaticity value of a mixed white light beam from the color light-emitting element is adjusted to be consistent with the chromaticity value of a white light beam, and the luminance value of the mixed white light beam from the color light-emitting element is adjusted to be consistent with the luminance value of the white light beam.
US11706857B2	Surgical light system and method for operating the surgical light system A surgical light system comprises several light sources configured to respectively generate a specific light field on at least one surgical site to generate a surgical light field, and a controller configured to control the several light sources such as to provide and adjust a brightness of the specific light fields. The surgical light field is divided into several adjacent sections, the several light sources are configured such that the sections are respectively covered by at least one of the specific light fields in order to have a resulting brightness, wherein the size of the at least one specific light field) correspond to the size of the covered section, and the controller is configured to control the light sources such that the resulting brightness of the sections is adjustable to a specific brightness.
US11706856B2	Band-pass filtering adaptive response method and system for music lamp strip The present invention provides a band-pass filtering adaptive response method and system for music lamp strip. The method comprises the following steps: Step 1: obtaining sound data acquired by a microphone in real time, and sequentially filtering the obtained sound data through a low-pass filter; Step 2: classifying the filtered sound data by a volume classifier, so as to classify the continuous changes of sound into a number of discrete classifications; Step 3: determining a BPM of the sound data according to a classification result of the volume classifier; Step 4: determining a acquisition frequency of MCU according to the determined BPM; Step 5: acquiring the classification result of the volume classifier by MCU according to the determined acquisition frequency; Step 6: controlling color change and/or brightness change of LED lamp on the music lamp strip according to the classification result acquired by MCU.
US11706854B2	LED drive control circuitry, electronic circuitry, and LED drive control method LED drive control circuitry according to one embodiment outputs an LED drive control signal serving as driving a light emitting diode included in a photocoupler that performs insulation communication in synchronization with a reference clock signal. The LED drive control circuit includes a duty cycle changer that changes a duty cycle of the LED drive control signal in accordance with the reference clock signal and a signal synchronized with the reference clock signal.
US11706845B2	End cell heater for fuel cell Provided is an end cell heater for a fuel cell capable of preventing water existing in reaction cells of a fuel cell stack from being frozen to improve initial start ability and initial driving performance of the fuel cell at the time of cold-starting the fuel cell during winter by disposing heaters on end cells disposed at both ends of the fuel cell stack and capable of securing air-tightness and pressure resistance properties of air passages and fuel passages formed in the end cell.
US11706841B2	Plug-in network device A plug-in network device is disclosed. The plug-in network device can be used in association with a network management system and an infrastructure network device. The plug-in network device includes two antenna arrays, one of which is up-facing and one of which is front-facing. The plug-in network device can achieve wireless communication with the infrastructure network device via the up-facing antenna array and provide network services to wireless stations through the front-facing antenna array. The network management system can manage both the infrastructure network device and the plug-in network device.
US11706839B2	Portable communication device cooperation system, master portable communication device, and slave portable communication device A portable communication device cooperation system includes a slave portable communication device that can communicate with a master portable communication device. Each of a plurality of slave-side slots of a slave-side storage unit included in the slave portable communication device stores a slave application program transferred from a master-side slot disposed in the master portable communication device. The slave application program includes part of information of a master application program, and causes the slave portable communication device to operate by being executed by a slave-side control unit of the slave portable communication device. As a result, the portable communication device cooperation system, the master portable communication device, and the slave portable communication device exhibit an effect of enabling the slave portable communication device to be variously used.
US11706838B2	Method and apparatus for performing efficient layer 2 function in mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring an efficient hierarchical layer 2 architecture and main functions thereof in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US11706837B2	Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink signals In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) receives an UL grant that can be used while the UE is not in RRC_CONNECTED state. If the UE receives a message indicating to leave RRC_CONNECTED state, the UE starts a time alignment timer (I-TAT) when the UE leaves RRC_CONNECTED state. The UE transmits UL data using the UL grant if the UL data becomes available for transmission when the UE is not in RRC_CONNECTED state and if the I-TAT is running.
US11706836B2	Communications device, apparatus, system, method and computer implementable instructions product A system is disclosed in which a network entity determines whether a radio bearer should be maintained or released for a communications device. The communications device establishes the radio bearer via a base station of the communications system and communicates data using the established radio bearer. The communications device determines whether any further data is to be sent or received and/or whether a user-plane connection is required. The communications device then provides information to the network entity identifying a result of said determination for use in determining whether the radio bearer should be maintained or released.
US11706835B2	Handling QoS mobility and dual connectivity in NR Systems and methods are provided herein for handling Quality of Service (QoS) mobility and dual connectivity. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node in a cellular communications network includes deciding to split an existing Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session that includes a current uplink tunnel information; and setting up resources for the split PDU session. In this way, it may be possible to support QoS mobility in the different tunnel during dual connectivity. In some embodiments, the network node is a Master Next Generation—Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node, and setting up resources for the split PDU session includes sending an S-Node Addition/Modification Request including the current uplink tunnel information for the split PDU session to a Secondary NG-RAN node in the cellular communications network; and receiving a newly added additional downlink tunnel information from the Secondary NG-RAN node.
US11706834B2	User equipment communications while operating in a secondary cell group deactivated state Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform radio link monitoring (RLM) reference signal measurements on a primary secondary cell (PSCell) while the UE is operating in a secondary cell group (SCG) deactivated state. The UE may perform beam failure detection (BFD) reference signal measurements while the UE is operating in the SCG deactivated state. The UE may transmit, to a master node associated with a master cell group (MCG), an SCG failure information message based at least in part on one of: a PSCell radio link failure (RLF) detection based at least in part on the RLM reference signal measurements, or a BFD based at least in part on the BFD reference signal measurements. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11706830B2	Multi-active electronic subscriber identity module profiles for multi-service user equipment A wireless communication device for establishing two different user equipment (UE) radio access network (RAN) attachments. The wireless communication device comprises an application processor; a baseband processor; a non-transitory memory; a virtual user equipment (UE) application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the application processor as a first virtual UE instance accesses a first eSIM profile stored in the non-transitory memory, establishes a first UE attachment to a radio access network based on credentials accessed from the first eSIM profile, and conducts a first wireless communication session via the first UE attachment, and when executed by the application processor as a second virtual UE application instance accesses a second eSIM profile stored in the non-transitory memory, establishes a second UE attachment to a radio access network based on credentials accessed from the second eSIM profile, and conducts a second wireless communication session via the second UE attachment.
US11706819B2	Method and apparatus for supporting two-step random access channel usage in a wireless communication system Methods and apparatuses related to a two-step RACH procedure are provided. Channel conditions can be estimated based on a UE PRACH transmission rather than the subsequent PUSCH transmission in the first part of the two-step RACH. A variable length gap can be provided between the PRACH preamble transmission and the PUSCH transmission. Other solutions are also provided.
US11706812B2	Method for performing uplink transmission in wireless communication system, and device therefor The present specification relates to a method for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method performed by a terminal comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a base station, a plurality of PRACH preambles related to a plurality of transmission units indicating a physical layer resource set; receiving, from the base station, a plurality of random access responses (RARs) corresponding to the plurality of PRACH preambles, wherein each of the plurality of RARs comprises a temporary cell (TC)-RNTI; and transmitting, to the base station, a plurality of uplink signals on the basis of the plurality of RARs, wherein the uplink signals comprise information on overlapped TC-RNTIs.
US11706809B2	Random access channel and associated uplink data channel structure construction The implementations disclosed provide apparatus, systems, and methods for channel structure construction for a two-step random access channel (RACH) using a new radio (NR) user equipment (UE) wireless device. The wireless device includes one or more computer processors configured to generate a physical RACH (PRACH) preamble mapped to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource unit. The PRACH preamble is associated with a preamble group indicating a configuration of the PUSCH. The preamble group has a size indicated by radio resource control (RRC) signaling performed by the wireless device. A message is encoded including the PRACH preamble and a payload carried by the PUSCH. The configuration of the PUSCH includes parameters for decoding the message. The wireless device couples communicatively to a base station using the PUSCH. The message is transmitted to the base station. The base station decodes the message based on the parameters of the PUSCH configuration.
US11706806B2	Methods, terminal devices, network elements and apparatuses for random access process Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, terminal devices, network nodes and apparatus for random access process in a wireless network. The method at the terminal device may comprise: receiving additional information related to a terminal device together with a random access preamble. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the additional information related to a terminal device can be transmitted to the network node together with a random access preamble; in such a case, further useful information is available for the eNB, which might substantially facilitate the random access process for either initial access or non-initial access.
US11706800B2	Category-2 listen-before-talk (LBT) options for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) Wireless communications systems and methods related to performing listen-before-talk (LBT) before a transmission after a link switch in a frequency spectrum shared by multiple network operating entities are provided. A first wireless communication device receives, from a second wireless communication device, a first communication signal. The first wireless communication device determines a first measurement period in a first portion of a gap duration between the first communication signal and a second communication signal, the first portion being adjacent to a start time of the second communication signal. The first wireless communication device performs an LBT based at least in part on a first channel measurement in the first measurement period. The first wireless communication device transmits, to the second wireless communication device, the second communication signal based on the LBT.
US11706798B2	User apparatus and base station apparatus A user apparatus receives an instruction to execute a random access procedure from a base station apparatus and includes a reception unit that receives first information specifying an available random access channel from the base station apparatus; a control unit that identifies, on the basis of the first information, a resource of the available random access channel in a time domain or a frequency domain; and a transmission unit that transmits a random access preamble using the identified resource.
US11706797B2	Method for generating preamble, method for configuring preamble and equipment thereof, random access method, device, user equipment and base station The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method for generating a preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information, wherein the dedicated preamble configuration information comprises root sequence configuration information and/or cyclic shift value configuration information; determining dedicated root sequence configuration information, dedicated cyclic shift value configuration information and dedicated preamble index according to the dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information.
US11706796B2	Method, terminal device, base station for power control in random access procedure A method, a terminal device, and a base station for power control in random access procedure. The method implemented at a terminal device includes: obtaining at least one power control parameter to be used for a request message for a random access; and transmitting, to a base station, the request message for the random access. A power of the request message for the random access is controlled based on the at least one power control parameter. The request message comprises: a random access channel (RACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The power control may be achieved in a RACH procedure different with 4-step RACH procedure, such as in a 2-step RACH procedure.
US11706793B2	User equipment and methods of bearer operation for carrier aggregation Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) to support dual-connectivity with a Master Evolved Node-B (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) are disclosed herein. The UE may receive downlink traffic packets from the MeNB and from the SeNB as part of a split data radio bearer (DRB). At least a portion of control functionality for the split DRB may be performed at each of the MeNB and the SeNB. The UE may receive an uplink eNB indicator for an uplink eNB to which the UE is to transmit uplink traffic packets as part of the split DRB. Based at least partly on the uplink eNB indicator, the UE may transmit uplink traffic packets to the uplink eNB as part of the split DRB. The uplink eNB may be selected from a group that includes the MeNB and the SeNB.
US11706791B2	Data processing method and device, and storage medium Disclosed is a data processing method, comprising: a first terminal device mapping data to a quality-of-service flow or a side-link bearer according to a first configuration; and a second terminal device sending the first configuration to the first terminal device, wherein the first configuration is used for the first terminal device to map data to the quality-of-service flow or the side-link bearer. Further disclosed are a terminal device and a storage medium.
US11706789B2	Communication method and related device A communication method and a related apparatus for data transmission in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, the apparatus including at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a program to be executed by the at least one processor, the program including instructions for obtaining a first parameter value of an uplink, obtaining a second parameter value of a sidelink, and transmitting, according to a comparison between the first parameter value and the second parameter value, at least one of an uplink media access control protocol data unit or a sidelink media access control protocol data unit, where the uplink is a wireless communications link from the apparatus to a network device, and where the sidelink is a wireless direct transmission link between the apparatus and another terminal device.
US11706788B2	Method and system for ran intelligent controller A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio service is provided. The radio service may provide radio resource control of radio resources of at least three different time scales. The radio service may include machine learning or artificial intelligent devices that include radio network information of the at least three different time scales.
US11706785B2	Method for transmitting uplink signal, terminal and network device The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting an uplink signal, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes the following steps. The terminal device receives resource configuration information carried by a RRC message. The resource configuration information is used to indicate a plurality of resources configured for zero-power DMRS. The terminal device receives activation information carried by DCI. The activation information is used to indicate: 1) whether to enable the zero-power DMRS; and 2) selecting a resource occupied by the enabled zero-power DMRS in the plurality of resources. The terminal device determines he resource occupied by the zero-power DMRS based on the resource configuration information and the activation information. The resource occupied by the zero-power DMRS is not used for sending uplink data, and the resource occupied by the zero-power DMRS is not used for sending non-zero-power DMRS.
US11706781B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting downlink control information in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for monitoring downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system, especially in a new radio access technology (NR) is provided. A user equipment (UE) monitors first DCI having a first size in a UE specific search space (USS). The first size is determined based on an active bandwidth part (BWP). The UE further monitors second DCI having a second size in a common search space (CSS). The second size is determined based on a default BWP.
US11706778B2	Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and communication method A mobile station (MS) communicates with a base station (BS) by a carrier aggregation using a plurality of downlink component carriers (DCCs). The MS receives on one or more activated DCCs. The MS receives using a PDCCH on one of activated DCCs, from the BS, first information including an information field for requesting a transmission of channel state information (CSI), the first information being used for scheduling of a PUSCH. The MS transmits using the PUSCH in a first subframe on an uplink component carrier, to the BS, first CSI for more than one activated DCCs. The MS transmits using the PUSCH in a second subframe on the uplink component carrier, to the BS, second CSI for only one activated downlink component carrier. The transmission of the second CSI is scheduled by the first information received using the PDCCH on the only one activated downlink component carrier.
US11706776B2	Signaling of control information in a communication system Method and apparatus are provided for decoding a downlink control information (DCI) format that schedules a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission and includes a field indicating whether or not data information is multiplexed in the PUSCH and for transmitting the PUSCH with or without data information depending on the indication by the field.
US11706775B2	Wireless communication method and device The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method and device, which can implement normal operation of a terminal device having multiple capabilities. The method includes reporting, by a first terminal device, capability information of the first terminal device and capability information of a third terminal device to a network device; acquiring, by the first terminal device, a first transmission resource set configured by the network device for performing sidelink communication; and performing, by the first terminal device, the sidelink communication with the third terminal device using a resource in the first transmission resource set.
US11706774B2	Downlink control information for scheduling multiple component carriers Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station over a set of component carriers according to a carrier aggregation configuration. In some cases, the UE may receive an indication of one or more groups of units, where each group may include one or more component carriers and/or one or more time intervals of each component carrier. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) including one or more fields that are common to a group of units that may schedule a set of data transmissions over the one or more groups of units such that the single DCI may schedule multiple component carriers (e.g., two or more) over one or more time intervals. The UE may transmit or receive the set of data transmissions (e.g., uplink or downlink data transmissions) over the scheduled units based on receiving the DCI.
US11706771B2	Control channel design for shared wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that may enable a user equipment (UE) to monitor a shared spectrum to receive control signaling and data transmissions associated with different transmission time intervals (TTIs). For example, a base station may communicate with a UE according to a first transmission mode during a first, shortened TTI. The base station may transmit a downlink control channel for a shortened TTI based on a subset of a number of blind decodes or control channel elements. Additionally, a downlink control channel for a shortened TTI may contain grants for multiple TTIs. In some cases, the base station may transmit a signaling to the UE via a reference signal, downlink control channel, or radio resource control which may indicate a change from the shortened-TTI transmission mode to a transmission mode with a TTI duration that is longer than the first, shortened TTI duration.
US11706768B2	Uplink control channel transmission in high band operation Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine an increased bandwidth configuration for an enhanced physical uplink control channel (ePUCCH) based at least in part on an ePUCCH format of the ePUCCH, wherein the increased bandwidth configuration uses a plurality of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) for the ePUCCH; and transmit the ePUCCH using the increased bandwidth configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706767B2	HARQ protocol The present invention relates to a method for configuring a retransmission protocol on the uplink between a network node and a relay node in a mobile communication system, the configuration being performed at a network node or at a relay node, and to the corresponding relay node apparatus and network node apparatus capable of configuring the retransmission protocol. In particular, the number of transmission processes is determined based on the position of time intervals available for the transmission and may be selected in order to control the round trip time of the retransmission protocol. Once the number of transmission processes has been configured, the transmission processes are mapped on the available time intervals in a predefined order and repetitively.
US11706766B2	PUCCH collision handling for multi-slot long PUCCH in 5G NR A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a first parameter. The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive a second parameter. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform, based on the first parameter, the first PUCCH repetitions in first multiple slots. The transmitting circuitry is also configured to perform, based on the second parameter, the second PUCCH receptions in second multiple slot. For a case that the first PUCCH repetitions collide with the second PUCCH receptions, a priority for different types of uplink control information (UCI) is applied. Hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) has a higher priority than a scheduling request (SR) and channel state information (CSI). The SR has a higher priority than the CSI.
US11706765B2	Modifying a number of uplink or downlink information streams A method, in abase station of a wireless telecommunications system comprising multiple radiating elements, the method comprising modifying a number of uplink or downlink information streams, each information stream corresponding to an element in a space sampling basis for the system, wherein, in the downlink, the space sampling basis is configured so that the number of information streams is the same as the number of radiating elements of the system, and in the uplink, the space sampling basis is configured using a composite antenna derived from multiple radiating elements of the system to form a synthesised beam.
US11706760B2	Method and apparatus for handling repetitions of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a wireless communication system A method performed by a BS for handling repetitions of transmissions is provided. The method includes transmitting an RRC configuration including a first parameter configured with a first value and a second parameter configured with at least one second value; and transmitting DCI on a PDCCH scheduling a PUSCH transmission. The DCI enables the UE to select one of the first parameter and the second parameter to determine a number of PUSCH repetitions; determine the number of PUSCH repetitions as the first value when the first parameter is selected; determine the number of PUSCH repetitions as one of the at least one second value indicated by the DCI when the second parameter is selected; and perform the PUSCH transmission for a number of times based on the number of PUSCH repetitions. A BS using the aforementioned method is also provided.
US11706753B2	Minimum time delay between sidelink grant and scheduled sidelink data transmission Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink grant scheduling a sidelink data transmission associated with one or more sidelink resources. The UE may determine a minimum time delay between the sidelink grant and the sidelink data transmission scheduled by the sidelink grant based at least in part on a value associated with a sidelink minimum-k parameter configured for the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706751B2	Base station controlled temporal filtering of channel state information A base station determines a temporal filter configuration for a user equipment (UE) and transmits the temporal filter configuration to the UE. The temporal filter configuration indicates whether the UE should apply a temporal filter to channel state information (CSI) measurements to generate CSI values, or identifies which temporal filter to apply. The UE generates CSI values based on the temporal filter configuration and reports the generated CSI values to the base station.
US11706749B2	Cooperative resource allocation method and apparatus for downlink simultaneous wireless information and power transfer network Cooperative resource allocation method and apparatus for downlink simultaneous wireless information and power transfer are proposed. A cooperative resource allocation method for downlink simultaneous wireless information and power transfer network, which is implemented through a central processor, according to one example of embodiments, may be configured to include allocating subcarrier for wireless information transfer and power transfer; and allocating power for wireless information transfer with the allocated subcarrier and divided transfer power.
US11706748B2	Communication apparatus, control method of communication apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A communication apparatus complying with an IEEE802.11 series standard, determines, based on information received from another communication apparatus connected to the communication apparatus, whether UL MU (Uplink Multiuser) communication of the other communication apparatus is enabled or disabled, acquires, from the other communication apparatus by a method according to a result of the determination, a BQR (Bandwidth Query Report) representing a state of a communication resource usable by the other communication apparatus, and decides the communication resource used to communicate with the other communication apparatus based on the acquired BQR.
US11706745B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods A method of operating a terminal device and network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system for communicating on a primary cell supporting a primary component carrier on radio resources within a first frequency band and a secondary cell supporting a secondary component carrier on radio resources within a second frequency band. The infrastructure equipment establishes plural configuration settings for the secondary carrier based on measurements of radio usage in the second frequency band which are conveyed to the terminal device. The terminal device makes channel quality measurements for the secondary component carrier according to the different configuration settings and reports these to the infrastructure equipment. Based on these measurements of channel quality for the different configurations, the infrastructure equipment selects one of the configuration settings, and conveys an indication of this to the terminal device in association with an allocation of transmission resources on the secondary component carrier.
US11706738B2	Communication system A communication system is disclosed in which a base station receives, from a core network entity, a paging request for paging an MTC device. The base station determines a paging occasion for sending to said MTC device paging related information, wherein the paging occasion is defined such that it identifies a plurality of subframes in which the paging related information can be sent and repeated. The base station sends (and repeats, as appropriate) the paging related information in the plurality of subframes identified by the paging occasion.
US11706729B2	Synchronized playback and control of media Methods and systems provide synchronized sharing of multimedia between multiple devices. The multiple devices may form an ad-hoc network for sharing of multimedia. In an embodiment, group members may have playlist manipulation privileges such as pausing, rewinding, fast forwarding, or adding tracks to the playlist. A system may stream or distribute content according to the shared playlist. Playback may be synchronized for group members so that everyone is exposed to a same part of the content as the same time.
US11706727B2	Communication device and communication method An electronic device that is configured to receive synchronization signals transmitted from each of a plurality of devices, select at least one synchronization signal from among the synchronization signals to perform a synchronization process based on a determination that the electronic device is moving toward a location at which at least one of the synchronization signals is not available, and perform the synchronization process based on the selected synchronization signal.
US11706723B2	Radio frequency generator with automatic level control A radio frequency (RF) generator incorporates an automatic level control (ALC) circuit to control the output level of the RF signal where the ALC circuit implements synchronized ADC sampling, pulse sample indexing, gated accumulation to enable fast ALC loop control, especially for pulse-modulated RF signals. In other embodiments, the ALC circuit implements multi-level control for multi-level RF signals. In this manner, the RF generator uses the ALC circuit to generate an RF signal having a constant power level for RF signals having any pulse shape or output levels. In other embodiments, a clock generation circuit in an impedance matching network synchronizes a slave clock to a clock signal of the RF signal when the load impedance is resistive only or when the clock signal of the RF signal has a given phase condition.
US11706718B2	Uplink power control for advanced wireless communication systems A method of a user equipment (UE) for an uplink power control is provided. The method comprises transmitting, to a base station (BS), UE capability information including a full power transmission capability of the UE, receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including a transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI), determining a power level for each antenna port at the UE based on the full power transmission capability of the UE and the TPMI, and transmitting, to the BS, UL data via physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the determined power level for each antenna port at the UE and the TPMI wherein the TPMI indicates a precoding matrix and a number of layers used to transmit the UL data via the PUSCH.
US11706717B2	Systems and methods for providing automatic enabling and disabling of wireless communications for user equipment A user equipment (“UE”) described herein may use automated techniques to receive one or more mode triggers, each including one or more sensor profiles. The UE may monitor data from one or more sensors associated with the UE and may compare the data to the profiles. The UE may determine that the sensor data matches a profile; and may disable one or more wireless features. The UE may continue to monitor sensor data and may determine that an exit trigger condition has been satisfied based on the received data. The exit trigger condition may specify a particular mode trigger; and a set of exit sensor profiles that corresponds to an exit of the particular mode trigger. The UE may, based on determining that the exit trigger condition has been satisfied, activate one or more wireless features. The sensor profiles and/or exit trigger conditions may be received from a cloud-based entity.
US11706712B2	Elastic resource control in a container orchestration environment Controlling server power usage in a data center is provided. Power usage among a plurality of server racks in active mode processing a set of workloads in the data center is managed. It is detected that a new server rack in standby mode is being added to the plurality of server racks. It is ensured that the new server rack in the standby mode is properly controlled and monitored prior to transitioning the new server rack to the active mode. It is determined whether power safety criteria are met to safely join the new server rack to the plurality of server racks prior to transitioning the new server rack from the standby mode to the active mode. The new server rack is transitioned to the active mode in without exceeding a power budget for the plurality of server racks in response to determining that the power safety criteria are met.
US11706710B2	Optimizing service period negotiations in WLAN networks Systems and methods are configured to receive a first request to schedule a Time To Wake (TWT) service period (SP) for a first station. The first request can be based on individual TWT protocol. That the TWT SP satisfies a threshold level of similarity with an existing TWT SP maintained for a group of at least one station scheduled to communicate over the existing TWT SP can be determined. The group can include a second station. The first station can be assigned to the group. A first packet can be transmitted to the first station and a second packet can be transmitted to the second station over the existing TWT SP.
US11706708B2	Wireless communication method and terminal device A method for wireless communication, applied to a network device in communication with a terminal device, is disclosed. The terminal device connects with a first network and a second network and the network device is in the second network. The method includes reducing, by the network device when an uplink duty cycle of the second network is greater than a maximum uplink duty cycle of the second network, the uplink duty cycle of the second network. The uplink duty cycle of the second network is a proportion of time domain resources that can be used for uplink transmission in a time unit.
US11706705B2	Multimedia priority service A wireless device sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a request for a multimedia priority service (MPS). The wireless device receives, from the AMF, a connection capability indication indicating network support for a connection of the wireless device for the MPS. The wireless device sends to the AMF, based on the connection capability indication, a request for a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment.
US11706704B2	Managing user plane entities at different locations in a PDU session This application discloses a session management method, a network device, and a communications system. According to embodiments of the present invention, an intermediate session management entity is selected based on UE location information and PDU session requirement information. In this way, an intermediate session management entity near UE can provide a service for a PDU session, and a delay of data transmission is reduced. In addition, the intermediate session management entity selects a user plane entity based on the UE location information and the PDU requirement information, and the intermediate session management entity is responsible for managing user plane entities within a specified area, and does not need to manage user plane entities in the entire PDU session, thereby reducing management complexity.
US11706703B2	Configuring an SDR capable user equipment In a method for configuring a Software Defined Radio (SDR) capable user equipment, the SDR capable user equipment wirelessly loads an SDR program from a radio access network. The SDR capable user equipment executes the loaded SDR program, the SDR program on execution configuring the SDR capable user equipment to support a desired wireless communication technology. The SDR capable user equipment loads the SDR program using a dedicated SDR configuration channel, the dedicated SDR configuration channel being disjoint with any communication channel defined by the desired wireless communication technology. The SDR capable user equipment scans a predetermined frequency spectrum searching a broadcasted beacon. The SDR capable user equipment receives the broadcasted beacon and tunes to the dedicated SDR configuration channel or a subchannel thereof pointed to by a pointer for loading the SDR program.
US11706702B2	Network entity, user equipment and method for the control and use of network slices A network entity is proposed for controlling the use, by a user equipment, of network slices of a communication network comprising a plurality of slice support areas. Each slice support area comprises at least one cell, and all cells of a given slice support area support the same network slices. A registration area for the registration of the user equipment with the communication network comprises at least one slice support area. The network entity is adapted to transmit, to the user equipment, slice support information for at least one slice support area of the communication network. The slice support information for a given slice support area indicates at least one network slice supported by the given slice support area and/or at least one network slice not supported by the given slice support area.
US11706700B2	Medium access control layer based mobility signaling Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving radio resource control (RRC) signaling indicating a set of cells that support physical (PHY) layer or medium access control (MAC) layer mobility signaling, receiving at least one MAC control element (CE) indicating mobility information for the set of cells, and updating one or more features of the set of cells based on the MAC CE.
US11706699B2	System and method for optimized load balancing on 6 GHz radios using out-of-band discovery in a mixed AP deployment Systems and methods are provided by which all APs in a particular deployment can be used to assist in the out-of-band discovery of 6 GHz radios by client devices. That is, a series of iterative operations can be performed to: (I) determine the state of 6 GHz radios in a zone/deployment area; (II) identify what radios can be considered near-neighbors to non-6 GHz radios for purposes of advertising one or more of the 6 GHz radios; (Ill) rank neighboring 6 GHz radios for a given non-6 GHz radio based on certain radio metrics; and (IV) ultimately determine those 6 GHz radios that can be advertised by the given non-6 GHz radio.
US11706694B1	System and method for closed subscriber group identity allocation for radio access network sharing Systems and methods for closed subscriber group identity (CSG ID) allocation for radio access network (RAN) sharing between different wireless telecommunication network providers can include a second CSG administration server receiving a unique first list of CSG IDs from a first CSG administration server, comparing the CSG IDs of the unique first list with a unique second list of CSG IDs associated with the second CSG administration server, and automatically adding to the unique second list ones of the CSG IDs from the unique first list that are absent from the unique second list. If a first one of the CSG IDs from the unique first list is already assigned in the unique second list, a new E-UTRAN Cell Global Identifier (ECGI) is added for use with the first one of the CSG IDs and sent therewith to the first CSG administration server to be added to the unique first list.
US11706692B2	Access control in new radio A method for a wireless device to establish an RRC connection with a network for accessing a network slice of the network is provided. The method receives, from the network, an access control parameter configuration of an access category associated with the network slice while the wireless device is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive state (RRC INACTIVE). The method then initiates a random access procedure for establishing the RRC connection with the network to access the network slice according to an access control indicator of the access control parameter configuration of the access category.
US11706691B2	Cell barring procedure in NTN A UE may receive, from at least one cell via at least one bit in a MIB or a SIB, a barring indication based on a supported network of the at least one cell and a supported network of the UE. The supported network of the at least one cell may correspond to a TN or an NTN, and the supported network of the UE may correspond to a TN or an NTN. The UE may skip, based on the received barring indication, a selection of the at least one cell for communication. Accordingly, the UE may not camp on the at least one cell. The barring indication for NTN-supporting UEs and for TN-supporting UEs may be separately indicated via the MIB or the SIB.
US11706690B2	Handover command delivery via a target path in an integrated access and backhaul configuration Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may receive, from a first IAB donor centralized unit (CU) via a first parent distributed unit (DU), a first indication to establish a first connection with a second parent DU associated with a second IAB donor CU. The IAB node may establish the first connection with the second parent DU. The IAB node may establish a second connection with the first IAB donor CU via the second parent DU, the first connection and the second connection forming a target path between the IAB node and the first IAB donor CU. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706688B2	Method and apparatus for registration type addition for service negotiation An apparatus and method are provided for steering a PDU session associated with traffic routed to a selected UPF. The method includes receiving, from an AF entity, a first message including information for selecting a UPF entity for traffic routing of a terminal and information on a spatial condition associated with a location of the terminal; transmitting, to an SMF entity, a second message to receive information associated with the location of the terminal indicating that the terminal entered or left a specific area, the specific area being determined by the PCF entity based on the spatial condition; receiving, from the SMF entity, a third message including the information associated with the location of the terminal; and transmitting, to the SMF entity, a fourth message based on the information associated with the location of the terminal included in the third message, the fourth message including the information for selecting the UPF entity for traffic routing of the terminal.
US11706687B2	IPV6 node mobility management method based on RPL routing protocol The present invention relates to an IPv6 wireless sensor network node mobility management method based on RPL routing protocol. The present invention achieves the following: first, placing an RSSI in an ACK frame so as to detect the mobile state of a node and improve the accuracy of mobile detection; second, on the premise of compatibility with an original RPL routing protocol, improving the options for DIS and DAO in selecting the optimal parent node and updating a routing table; and finally, designing a cache method to prevent messages sent to the mobile node from being lost in the process of moving, and designing a new 6LoWPAN header so as to complete message caching.
US11706686B2	Communication system and method for operating 5G mesh network for enhanced coverage and ultra-reliable communication A communication system includes a central cloud server to establish a primary communication path between a radio access network (RAN) node and one or more user equipment (UEs) via a first set of edge devices of a plurality of edge devices, where each edge device is configured as a mesh node of a mesh network. The central cloud server determines a plurality of secondary communication paths between the RAN node and the one or more UEs via different sets of edge devices. The central cloud server ranks each of the plurality of secondary communication paths in terms of one or more signal quality parameters and controls switching from the primary communication path to one or more secondary communication paths configured as backup communication paths within a threshold time to maintain a continuity in service to the one or more UEs for uplink and downlink communication.
US11706678B2	Network edge centralized location determination A method for centralized device tracking includes: obtaining, at a first UE from multiple sources, first multi-source position information corresponding to a second UE; determining, based on the first multi-source position information, second multi-source position information corresponding to the second UE; identifying a third UE, separate from the first UE, to which the second multi-source position information is relevant; and sending migration information to the third UE, the migration information comprising an identifier of the second UE and comprising the first multi-source position information, or the second multi-source position information, or a combination thereof.
US11706676B2	Power-saving mode based selection of a target node Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive an indication of a plurality of sets of reference signal identifiers, wherein each set of reference signal identifiers of the plurality of sets of reference signal identifiers identifies reference signals of candidate neighbor nodes associated with the set, and wherein each candidate neighbor node associated with the set is in a same operating mode, and transmit a measurement report based at least in part on measuring one or more reference signals identified in the plurality of sets of reference signal identifiers. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706675B2	Providing handover thresholds to the RAN Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for handovers including fallbacks. In some example embodiments, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including program code which when executed causes the apparatus to at least: receive, during creation or modification of a bearer, a message including a handover threshold based at least in part on a type of codec for the bearer; receive, from a user equipment, a measurement report providing an indication of a condition of the bearer and/or perform a measurement, by the base station, providing the indication of the condition of the bearer; determine, based at least on the handover threshold, whether to initiate a handover. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US11706672B2	Techniques for prioritization associated with a cell group change Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may connect to a set of source cell groups (CGs). The UE may receive a target cell group setup information, the target cell group setup information being associated with a set of target CGs. The UE may connect to the set of target CGs based at least in part on the target cell group setup information during a handover from the set of source CGs to the set of target CGs. The UE may disconnect from the set of source CGs after connecting to the set of target CGs. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11706661B2	Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, and computer program product A wireless communication device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors: collect forwarding load information about wireless communications in a wireless multi-hop network; determine, based on the forwarding load information, a degree of forwarding priority for a packet corresponding to a forwarding determination target; perform a forwarding control such that the packet corresponding to the forwarding determination target is forwarded earlier as the degree of forwarding priority is higher; and, when the packet corresponding to the forwarding determination target is forwarded, transmit the packet corresponding to the forwarding determination target by multi-cast communications or broadcast communications.
US11706658B2	5G admission by verifying slice SLA guarantees In a 5G network, a slice controller is arranged to dynamically configure a radio access network (RAN) by allocating physical radio resources into RAN slices by making predictions of channel state information (CSI) for user equipment (UE) executing applications that make connectivity requests for admission to particular identified slices. The slice controller grants or denies admission requests based on the predicted CSI to ensure that applicable service level agreement (SLA) guarantees are satisfied for traffic across all the RAN slices. Each time new admission requests are received from applications, the slice controller determines whether a suitable RAN configuration exists that will enable SLA guarantees for the slices to continue to be satisfied for the current traffic while also meeting the SLA guarantees applicable to the new admission request.
US11706655B2	Data transmission method and terminal Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and a corresponding apparatus. The method includes obtaining, by a second terminal, first information, wherein the first information indicates a correspondence between a downlink quality of service (QoS) flow and a downlink device-to-device (D2D) bearer; and sending, by the second terminal to a first terminal based on the correspondence, a downlink data packet on the downlink D2D bearer corresponding to the downlink QoS flow, wherein the downlink data packet is carried on the downlink QoS flow.
US11706653B2	Sidelink measurement reporting in next generation wireless networks Some of the present implementations provide a method for a first user equipment (UE) to deliver a sidelink measurement report to a second UE. The method receives sidelink measurement configuration through a PC5 radio resource control (RRC) connection between the first and second UEs. The method then generates the sidelink measurement report by monitoring at least one target resource pool allocated to the first UE via the sidelink measurement configuration and transmits the sidelink measurement report to the second UE through the PC5 RRC connection between the first and second UEs. The at least one target resource pool is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the PC5 RRC connection between the first and second UEs is associated with a second RAT.
US11706650B2	Orchestration of multiple wireless sensors for monitoring a wireless spectrum and protocols Method for orchestrating wireless sensors, including registering each of a plurality of monitoring sensors that are attached to a respective plurality of wireless hosting equipment, with an orchestrator, generating, for each sensor, a monitoring plan including a description of wireless channels/protocols for the sensor to monitor, and amounts of time that the sensor should spend monitoring each channel/protocol prior to advancing to a next channel/protocol, wherein the monitoring plan for a sensor includes directives that instruct the sensor what to do when a monitoring period for a channel/protocol is interrupted before its intended monitoring time is finished, attempting, by the sensors, to monitor the channels/protocols specified in the sensor's monitoring plan in accordance with the time specified in the sensor's monitoring plan, and generating, by each sensor, an execution report including time spent at each channel/protocol, amount of data collected from each channel/protocol, and data captured from each channel/protocol.
US11706648B2	Methods and apparatus to monitor WI-FI media streaming using an alternate access point Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor wireless traffic. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: establish, via a first wireless interface, a wireless connection with first network credentials to match second network credentials of a primary access point; monitor traffic via a second wireless interface, the second wireless interface different than the first wireless interface; identify, via the traffic monitored via the second wireless interface, a connection of a client to the primary access point; capture, via an alternate access point, a management frame transmitted from the primary access point to the client; insert a change channel announcement into the captured management frame; and re-transmit, via the first wireless interface, the captured management frame including the change channel announcement.
US11706644B2	Access points with virtual clients According to one example of the present disclosure, an access point (AP) comprises a wired interface and a wireless interface. External wireless client devices may associate with the AP and the AP may forward traffic received from the wireless clients. The AP includes a virtual client which is to simulate a wireless client device.
US11706643B2	Route connectivity optimization mapping Novel techniques are described for generation, distribution, and management of route connectivity optimization (RCO) mapping. For example, as mobile devices traverse travel routes serviced by one or more mobile networks, they can experience periods of different levels of connectivity with the mobile network(s). Embodiments can collect route segment connectivity data as experienced by consumer devices during traversal through mobile networks (e.g., indicating, for each route segment, which carriers are providing service to a mobile device, the level of service being provided, etc.). A RCO can be computed and stored for the set of route segments as a function of the route segment connectivity data. The RCO can be requested by consumers, and a corresponding link can be generated. Selecting the link can provide the consumers with remote access to the RCO, with which the consumers can generate connectivity-optimized route guidance maps.
US11706641B2	Parameterized radio waveform techniques for operating in multiple wireless environments Techniques for operating a wireless network in a plurality of radio operating environments are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus receives a first parameter value set that is selected from a group of multiple parameter value sets, wherein the first parameter value set is appropriate for a first target radio operating environment that corresponds to one or more of: a first level of mobility of user devices or a first range of wireless transmission. In some embodiments, the apparatus is reconfigured to receive wireless broadcast transmissions from a second broadcast transmitter using a second parameter value set that is appropriate for a second target radio operating environment. The first and second broadcast transmitters may be the same or different. The parameter value sets may include a first parameter based upon which the apparatus is configured to determine subcarrier spacing and a second parameter that indicates a cyclic prefix size.
US11706632B1	AiNO: an AI network operator An artificial intelligence network operator (aiNO) that autonomously and dynamically acquires network resources on an open marketplace includes software running a machine learning model and a processor that controls backhaul connectivity and a network communication component. In some embodiments, the aiNO facilitates resale of the acquired network resource to end users.
US11706628B2	Network cyber-security platform A security platform of a data network is provided that includes security services for computing devices in communication with the data network. The security platform may apply a security policy to the computing devices when accessing the Internet via a home network (or other customer network) and when accessing the Internet via a public or third party network. To provide security services to computing devices via the home network, the security platform may communicate with a security agent application executed on the router (or other gateway device) of the home network. In addition, each of the devices identified by the security profile for the home network may be instructed or otherwise be provided a security agent application for execution on the computing devices. The security agent application may communicate with the security platform when the computing device connects to the Internet over a third party or public access point.
US11706627B2	System and method for encounter identity verification Systems and methods for verifying an identity of a first user involves receiving, at a server, a request from a communicatively coupled device of a second user to access information of the first user. The request includes information retrieved from a passive communication device associated with the first user and location information of the communicatively coupled device. In response, a location of an authenticated mobile device of the first user is determined, and when a location match is present, the identity of the first user is confirmed to the second user, and the second user is permitted to provide input into an account of the first user, such as for rating and reporting the performance of the first user. When a location match is not present, a message is transmitted to the second user indicating the identity of the first user is not confirmed and instructions provided to take action.
US11706626B2	Methods and systems for mitigating denial of service (DoS) attack in a wireless network The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution. Methods and systems for mitigating Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in wireless networks, by performing admission control by verifying a User Equipment's (UE's) registration request via a Closed Access Group (CAG) cell without performing a primary authentication are provided. Embodiments herein disclose methods and system for verifying permissions of the UE to access a CAG cell based on the UE's Subscription identifier, before performing the primary authentication. The method for mitigating DOS attacks in wireless networks includes requesting a public land mobile network for accessing a non-public network (NPN) through a CAG cell, verifying the permissions of a UE to access the requested NPN through the CAG cell, and performing a primary authentication.
US11706614B2	Direct SMF control plane with gNB The disclosed technology separates session management function signaling from the AMF. In particular, an SMF key is created for each SMF following the AMF generating an SM context request that contains gNB information and UE subscription information. Each PDU session creates a direct connection between the SMF and a local gNB. The gNB communicates with each SMF directly over a new interface (N3-C) for session management that is independent of the N2 interface used by the gNB to communicate with the AMF for mobility management. In this way, each SMF independently handles NAS signaling with the UE, using the SMF key and gNB related session-management signaling over an independent interface with the gNB. This removes the burden of relaying these communications through the AMF, which is then freed up to solely to handle mobility management signaling, resulting in an improved architecture.
US11706611B2	Method for reporting multi-connection transmission capability, method for configuring multi-connection transmission mode, method for preventing retransmission of data, UE and base station The present disclosure provides a method for reporting multi-connection transmission capability, a method for configuring multi-connection transmission modes, a method for preventing retransmission of data, and corresponding user equipment and a base station which support multi-connection transmission. The method for reporting a multi-connection transmission capability comprises: receiving, from a base station, a UE capability query message, the UE capability query message being used to request the UE to send a wireless access capability of the UE for accessing an access network; generating a UE capability information message in response to the received UE capability query message, the UE capability information message being used to indicate the wireless access capability of the UE for accessing the access network and comprising bearer types and/or transmission manners supported by the UE; and sending to the base station the UE capability information message.
US11706608B2	Dynamic user equipment (UE) group creation to coordinate devices A network function selectively supports a mobile device with network settings appropriate for the device context of the mobile device. The network function obtains a device profile for the mobile device, which identifies multiple device groups, with each device group being associated with a corresponding set of network settings. The network function selects a device group among the device groups in the device profile based on the device context of the mobile device. The network function directs at least one network function in the network to support the mobile device with a set of network settings corresponding to the selected device group.
US11706605B2	911 app A system for identifying local emergency response resources and sending emergency response to the location of a third party communication device by identifying the location of a third party communication device based on the device's geospatial placement, street address associated with the communication device, user designated address, or IP address, and from the location, using a National Emergency Telephone Number System (NETNS) to identify an emergency dispatch office location nearest to and that serves the area where the third party communication device is located, communicating the location of the third party communication device to the local dispatch office, and communicating with that emergency dispatch office the nature of the emergency so that the user of the third party communication device can get assistance.
US11706598B2	Interface of an M2M server with the 3GPP core network A network node is configured to initiate a first authentication and key establishment procedure with a machine to machine (M2M) device. The network node is configured to determine a key agreement between the network node and the M2M device using the first authentication and key establishment procedure. The network node is configured to initiate a second authentication and key establishment procedure with an M2M server. The network node is configured to receive a request from the M2M server for the key agreement to be used to communicate with the M2M device using the second authentication and key establishment procedure. The network node is configured to send the key agreement to the M2M server using the second authentication and key establishment procedure.
US11706594B2	Tow and emergency roadside assistance locating and tracking mobile application A system for providing dynamic roadside assistance coordination may include a customer mobile device or vehicle in direct, or indirect, wireless communication with an insurance provider and/or service provider remote server. The customer's device may transmit a request for roadside assistance (e.g., towing services), and a current GPS location. In response, a closest, trusted service provider vehicle may be determined, and then directed to the customer's location. For instance, a software application may receive the customer location and compare it with availability information to match the customer with a close and trusted service provider. The customer's device may receive an acknowledgement that help is on the way, and be able to track the current location of the service provider vehicle while en route. Payment for the roadside assistance may be automatically and electronically paid by the insurance provider. As a result, prompt and safe roadside assistance may be provided.
US11706592B2	System and method for determining data usage in a converged charging system Systems and methods described herein include receiving, at a network device and from a session management device, a first message that includes a first identifier associated with a subscriber and a second identifier associated with a first service that is charged using an online charging system. The network device transmits a second message that indicates a first time period in which to report data usage associated with the first service and a second time period in which to report data usage associated with one or more second services that are charged using an offline charging system. The network device receives first data usage information associated with the first service after the first time period and second data usage information associated with the one or more second services after the second time period. The network device processes the data usage information.
US11706590B1	Method and system to facilitate media-content delivery A method and system for enabling MMS message delivery to a recipient device. An MMSC receives and stores MMS message content to be delivered to the recipient device, and the MMSC responsively sends to the recipient device an MMS-notification message carrying an address of the MMS message content stored at the MMSC and then receives a reply indicating that the recipient device received the MMS-notification message. The MMSC then detects that, after the MMSC received the reply, (i) at least a predefined threshold amount of time has passed and (ii) the MMSC has not yet received from the recipient device a request to download the MMS message content. And responsive to at least the detecting, the MMSC then sends to the recipient device a data-service-trigger message that triggers turning on data service of the recipient device, thus enabling MMS-message delivery to the recipient device.
US11706587B2	Management system, management method, and location finding method A management system, a management method, and a location finding method for managing a plurality of physical locations having multi-dimensional coordinates within a room are provided. The management system includes a plurality of terminal devices, at least one coordination device, and a management device. The management device stores a first and a second pairing table. The management device is configured to, in response to an external command, perform: obtaining an identification number of a first terminal device of the terminal devices from the first pairing table; determining, from the second pairing table, a first coordination device that is configured to manage the first terminal device; and transmitting a task command to the first coordination device such that the first coordination device assigns the first terminal device to complete the task command.
US11706581B2	Sound spatialisation method A sound spatialisation method includes determining digital processing parameters to be applied to sound signals to be broadcast by a set of at least two loudspeakers in order to reproduce a virtual sound source at a desired position, and restoring sound signals by the loudspeakers during which the digital processing parameters are applied to the sound signals. The sound spatialisation method also includes defining a trajectory defined by a set of N points, with two consecutive points of the trajectory being connected together by a curve, and positioning during which the desired position of the virtual sound source is defined on the trajectory.
US11706578B2	Portable calibration system for audio equipment and devices A portable calibration system is disclosed that calibrates an audio equipment without using a dedicated sound level meter. The calibration system comprises a coupler configured to couple a transducer to an energy sensor, where an output of the transducer is provided to the energy sensor via the coupler, an analyzer module configured to receive information from the energy sensor regarding the output of the transducer, a processor, in the analyzer module, configured to process the information to provide a result of a calibration for the audio equipment with respect to expected results, and a display configured to display the result of the calibration.
US11706575B2	Binaural hearing system for identifying a manual gesture, and method of its operation The disclosure relates to a hearing system comprising a first hearing device and a second hearing device configured to be worn at a respective ear of a user, each hearing device comprising a displacement sensor configured to provide respective displacement data indicative of a rotational displacement and/or a translational displacement of the hearing device, and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the displacement sensors. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding method of operating a hearing system, and a computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the method.
US11706567B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus is capable of outputting a stereo sound. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image; a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel; a rear cover on the rear surface of the display panel and configured to support the sound generating device; a partition member between the rear surface of the display panel and the rear cover and configured to divide the display panel into first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas; and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth sound generating devices attached to the rear surface of the display panel and configured to vibrate the display panel. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth sound generating devices are in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas, respectively.
US11706566B2	Playback transitions Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as “smart” headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system. Exemplary techniques facilitate continuity of playback when transitioning between locations (e.g., from at home to on-the-go or vice versa) or between listening paradigms (e.g., personal or out-loud playback of audio content). An example implementation includes detecting a swap trigger, determining the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s), and performing a playback session swap between the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s).
US11706564B2	Processing of microphone signals for spatial playback Disclosed are methods and systems which convert a multi-microphone input signal to a multichannel output signal making use of a time- and frequency-varying matrix. For each time and frequency tile, the matrix is derived as a function of a dominant direction of arrival and a steering strength parameter. Likewise, the dominant direction and steering strength parameter are derived from characteristics of the multi-microphone signals, where those characteristics include values representative of the inter-channel amplitude and group-delay differences.
US11706563B2	Submersible speaker system with a compressible spacer A camera system includes an internal loudspeaker assembly for emitting sound waves from the interior of the camera body to the exterior of the camera body through external ports using internal electronic components. Some components of the loudspeaker assembly are sensitive to wet conditions and are protected from the environment by a membrane. The membrane and its support structures are configured to allow the sound waves to translate through the membrane and external to the camera body in both wet and dry environments. The loudspeaker assembly includes a support structure that prevents the membrane from deforming to the point of breaking or to the point of contacting the loudspeaker when submerged.
US11706562B2	Transducer steering and configuration systems and methods using a local positioning system Transducer steering and configuration systems and methods using a local positioning system are provided. The position and/or orientation of transducers, devices, and/or objects within a physical environment may be utilized to enable steering of lobes and nulls of the transducers, to create self-assembling arrays of the transducers, and to enable monitoring and configuration of the transducers, devices, and objects through an augmented reality interface. The transducers and devices may be more optimally configured which can result in better capture of sound, better reproduction of sound, improved system performance, and increased user satisfaction.
US11706561B1	Balanced armature receiver with liquid-resistant pressure relief vent A balanced armature receiver includes a gas permeable barrier located on a portion of the receiver defining a back volume to provide barometric relief. The barrier can be located in a wall portion or diaphragm of the receiver to vent the back volume to an exterior of the receiver directly, via a front volume, or via a nozzle. The gas permeable barrier is impermeable to liquid infiltration and can be configured to influence the low frequency response of the receiver.
US11706558B2	Earphone case and earphone assembly The present invention discloses an earphone cover and an earphone assembly. The earphone cover having a through hole running axially through thereof. The earphone cover comprises a first attachment end, a second attachment end, a support portion, and a space defined by the support portion. The first and second attachment ends are positioned at each end of the through hole respectively. The support portion is set between the first and second attachment ends. The space is configured between an inner surface of the support portion and an outer surface of the earphone. The support portion deforms and air in the space escapes via the first and/or the second attachment ends under compression, and the support portion recovers to an original shape when the compression is removed.
US11706554B2	Earphone with an acoustic rear chamber vent An earphone comprising a rear chamber and a vent structure. The vent structure comprises a longitudinal recess in the housing wall, which recess is defined by a bottom wall and recess walls connecting the bottom wall and the housing wall, a recess opening in the recess, which recess opening connects the recess and the rear chamber, a mesh device arranged parallel with the bottom wall, whereby a longitudinal recess cavity is provided between the bottom wall and the mesh structure. The invention also relates to the manufacturing such an earphone.
US11706553B1	Headphone device A headphone device includes a covering member, a sound chamber casing and a speaker unit. The sound chamber casing is combined with the covering member, so that a sound chamber is formed. The speaker unit is installed within the sound chamber. The sound chamber includes a gas channel. The gas channel has a bend portion.
US11706551B2	Contaminant-proof microphone assembly Presented herein are contaminant-proof microphone assemblies for use with devices/apparatuses, such as auditory prostheses, that include one or more microphones disposed within a housing. A contaminant-proof microphone assembly in accordance with certain embodiments presented herein includes a microphone, a microphone plug, and a contaminant-proof membrane. The microphone plug has a first end coupled to the microphone and a second end that is configured to be positioned adjacent the contaminant-proof membrane. As such, the microphone plug is disposed between a sound inlet of the microphone and the contaminant-proof membrane. The microphone plug may be configured to mate with the housing or a gasket attached to the housing.
US11706548B2	MEMS microphone and method of manufacturing the same A MEMS microphone includes a substrate, a diaphragm disposed over the substrate to cover the cavity, the diaphragm defining an air gap together with the back plate, and the diaphragm being spaced apart from the substrate, a back plate disposed over the diaphragm and in the vibration area, an upper insulation layer to cover the back plate, a plurality of chamber portions provided in the supporting area, a lower insulation layer provided under the upper insulation layer and on the substrate, and an intermediate insulation layer provided between the lower insulation layer and the upper insulation layer and disposed further from the vibration area than the chamber portions.
US11706546B2	Image sensor with integrated single object class detection deep neural network (DNN) An image sensor, electronic device and method thereof that performs on-sensor single object class detection using an on-sensor single object class detection deep neural network (DNN), such as a face detection DNN. The single object class detection DNN includes a pixel array layer configured to capture an image and transfer image data of the captured image, and a logic and single object class detection deep neural network (DNN) layer that receives the image data directly from the pixel array layer and outputs the image data with the single object class detection data to a communication bus of an electronic device.
US11706544B2	Imaging device with image encryption An imaging device includes an image sensing device, a private key generation unit, and an image encryption unit. The image sensing device includes an image generator configured to generate image data acquired by capturing as image, and a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator configured to generate physical unclonable function (PUF) data including information about at least one fixed pattern noise (FPN) data value and at least one random telegraph noise (RTN) data value. The private key (KEY) generation unit generates a private key based on the at least one FPN data value and the at least one RTN data value that are acquired from the PUF data. The image encryption unit encrypts the image data using the private key. A first transistor included in the PUF generator exhibits different properties from a second transistor that is included in the image generator and corresponds to the first transistor.
US11706543B2	Image sensor with voltage supply grid clamping An image sensing device includes an image sensing circuit, a voltage supply grid, bitlines, and a control circuit. The image sensing circuit includes pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each one of the bitlines is coupled to a corresponding one of the columns. The voltage supply grid is coupled to the pixels. The control circuit is coupled to output at least a row select signal and a transfer signal to the rows. Each one of the rows is selectively coupled to the bitlines to selectively output image data signals in response to the row select signal and the transfer signal. Each one of the rows is further selectively coupled to the bitlines to selectively clamp the bitlines in response to the row select signal and the transfer signal. Each one of the rows is selectively decoupled from the bitlines in response to the row select signal.
US11706540B2	Event-driven image sensor and method of reading the same The present disclosure relates to an event-driven sensor comprising: a pixel array (102); a column readout circuit (104) comprising, for each of the column output lines, a column register cell (108) configured to activate a column event output signal (addrx) when it receives a first token while the detection of an event is indicated on the column output line; and a row readout circuit (106) comprising, for each of the row output lines, or for each of a plurality of sub-groups of the row output lines, a row register cell (108) configured to activate a row event output signal (addry) when it receives a second token while an event is indicated on the row output line, or on one of the row output lines of the sub-group.
US11706538B2	Imaging system and imaging device An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code. The above-described processing device restricts the function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of a result of the diagnosis processing.
US11706537B2	Image sensor and method for reading out signal of image sensor An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels that is arranged in a matrix and each of which outputs a signal in response to incident light, wherein readout of data can be performed with respect to the plurality of pixels, and simultaneous readout of data of a plurality of columns of pixels can be performed, and at least one pixel of the plurality of columns of pixels to be read simultaneously can be read for phase detection with respect to each of divided sub-pixels. The image sensor is configured to, with n rows as a readout unit where n is an integer of 2 or more, perform readout for at least one sub-pixel of at least one pixel in one readout cycle within the readout unit, perform readout for each pixel including phase detection readout for the other sub-pixel of the at least one pixel in which the at least one sub-pixel has been read in the one readout cycle, in another readout cycle within the readout unit, and end the readout for the readout unit with the n+1 readout cycles.
US11706532B2	Method for providing image and electronic device supporting the same According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a display; a camera disposed under the display; and a processor configured to, obtain a first image using the camera in a first state in which a first portion of the display corresponding to a position where the camera is disposed is in a first mode, obtain a second image, using the camera in a second state in which the first portion of the display is in a second mode, calculate correction values, based on first data for a first area of the first image and second data for a second area of the second image, wherein the second area of the second image corresponds to the first area of the first image, and correct at least one image among a plurality of images, using the correction values, wherein one of obtaining the first image and obtaining the second image is responsive to the other of obtaining the first image and the second image.
US11706530B2	Imaging device, method for controlling imaging device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program for controlling imaging device An imaging device has a computer executing instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to: acquire a current position in an imaging direction of the imaging device; perform a process of controlling the imaging direction of the imaging device; and control, in a case where the imaging direction is controlled to a target position, a timing of starting a stop process for stopping controlling the imaging direction based on a speed at which the imaging direction is changed.
US11706529B2	Blur correction device, imaging apparatus, monitoring system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A blur correction device includes a processor and a memory that is built into or coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to acquire an amount of blur correction used to correct blurring of an image obtained by imaging of an imaging element during exposure for one frame in the imaging element, and correct the blurring by performing image processing based on a most recently acquired amount of blur correction, on an unfinished image that is the image less than one frame that is being read from the imaging element. In a case in which a first reading period does not overlap with a second reading period, the processor corrects the blurring by performing the image processing based on the amount of blur correction acquired during exposure between the first reading period and the second reading period, on the unfinished image of the subsequent frame.
US11706521B2	User interfaces for capturing and managing visual media Media user interfaces are described, including user interfaces for accessing media controls or settings (e.g., accessing controls and/or settings to capture photos and/or videos to capture videos).
US11706517B2	Vertically long apertures for computing device cameras A computing device includes a display panel having a first end and a second end, a sensor, and a processing circuitry. The display panel includes a matrix of pixels and defines an aperture surrounded by pixels of the matrix of pixels but that does not include pixels of the matrix of pixels. A length of the aperture parallel to an axis connecting the first end and the second end is greater than a length of the aperture perpendicular to the axis. The sensor is configured to capture light that passes through the aperture. The processing circuitry, disposed proximal to the second end, is configured to output control signals to pixels of the matrix of pixels.
US11706514B2	Camera module and molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing methods thereof, and electronic device A camera module and a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing methods thereof, and an electronic device are disclosed. The molded photosensitive assembly includes an imaging assembly, a molded base and a filter assembly. The imaging assembly includes a circuit board and at least one photosensitive element, and each photosensitive element is conductively connected to the circuit board. The molded base has at least one stepped peripheral groove to define a light window through each stepped peripheral groove, the molded base embeds a part of the imaging assembly, and a photosensitive region of each photosensitive element respectively corresponds to each light window of the molded base. The filter assembly includes at least one filter element, and each filter element is correspondingly arranged in each stepped peripheral groove of the molded base, so that each filter element respectively corresponds to each light window of the molded base.
US11706508B2	Light lamp assembly for multi-sensor camera The embodiments of the present application relates to a camera, comprising a first housing, a stitching lens mechanism, and a driving assembly. The stitching lens mechanism is mounted in the first housing, and the stitching lens mechanism comprises at least two first assemblies, the first lens assembly comprises a first lens, a first included angle is formed between at least two first lenses. A driving assembly is connected to the first lens assembly through a rotating assembly. At least two first lenses are distributed in a first plane, the first housing is rotatably arranged in a second plane, and the second plane is perpendicular to the first plane. Each of the first lens assemblies takes pictures in different orientations for the same scene, so that the imaging field of view is larger. So that the first housing can rotate under the drive of the driving assembly, that is, the stitching lens mechanism can rotate. Compared with the existing stitching camera with a fixed structure, the imaging field of view of the camera of the present application is larger. That is, the camera of the present application can further expand the range of the imaging field of view compared to the existing camera.
US11706506B2	Imaging apparatus Provided is an imaging apparatus that captures a multispectral image having a good image quality. An imaging apparatus (1) includes an imaging optical system (10) that includes a pupil region which is split into a plurality of regions including a first pupil region and a second pupil region different from the first pupil region, and a polarization filter which polarizes light beams passing through the first pupil region and the second pupil region in directions different from each other, an imaging element (100) that includes a first pixel which receives the light beam passing through the first pupil region and a second pixel which receives the light beam passing through the second pupil region, and a signal processing unit (200) that processes signals output from the imaging element (100), and outputs at least first image data consisting of an output signal of the first pixel and second image data consisting of an output signal of the second pixel. In the imaging optical system (10), wavelengths of the light beams passing through the first pupil region and the second pupil region are different from each other, and aberration characteristics of regions corresponding to the first pupil region and the second pupil region are different from each other.
US11706505B1	Processing method, terminal device, and medium Provided are a processing method, a terminal device, and a medium. The method includes the steps described below. Basic information of a target video is determined; attribute information of the target video is determined based on the basic information; in a case where the attribute information indicates that the target video is a video capable of being structured, chapter division is performed on the target video based on the basic information to obtain at least two video clips; and chapter description information of the at least two video clips, a key frame of the at least two video clips and video description information of the target video are determined.
US11706502B2	Segment types as delimiters and addressable resource identifiers An example device for processing media data is configured to parse a bitstream including the media data, the bitstream being formatted according to Common Media Application Format (CMAF), detect, during the parsing, a file type (FTYP) value for a CMAF track file of the bitstream, determine that a CMAF header of the CMAF track file starts with the FTYP value, and process one or more CMAF fragments following the CMAF header of the CMAF track file. The device may additionally be configured to detect one or more segment type (STYP) values in the bitstream, determine that each of the one or more STYP values corresponds to a start of a respective one of the CMAF fragments, and process each of the CMAF fragments starting from the corresponding STYP value.
US11706499B2	Watermarking synchronized inputs for machine learning A method and system for providing synchronized input feedback, comprising receiving an input event, encoding the input event in an output stream wherein the encoding of the input event is synchronized to a specific event and reproducing the output stream through an output device whereby the encoded input event in the reproduced output stream is imperceptible to the user.
US11706491B2	Deep reinforcement learning for personalized screen content optimization Systems and methods are described for selecting content item identifiers for display. The system may identify a set of content items that are likely to be requested in the future based on a history of content item requests. The system then selects a first plurality of content categories using a category selection neural net and selects a first set of recommended content items for the first plurality of content categories. The system increases a reward score for the first plurality of content categories based on receiving a request for a content item that is included in the first set of recommended content items. The system also decreases the reward score for the first plurality of content categories based on determining that the requested content item is included in the set of content items that are likely to be requested in the future. The neural net is trained based on the reward score of the first plurality of content categories to reinforce reward score maximization. The trained neural net is the used to select content items for display.
US11706490B2	Methods and apparatus to correct errors in audience measurements for media accessed using over-the-top devices An example to predict demographics for impressions includes a prediction manager to: determine that first demographic data corresponding to a first database proprietor subscriber does not match second demographic data corresponding to a media delivery device, both the first and second demographic data corresponding to an impression; obtain third demographic data corresponding to an Internet protocol address, the third demographic data obtained from a second database proprietor; and generate matched demographic data based on comparing the third demographic data to the first demographic data; and a modeler to generate a prediction model based on the matched demographic data, the prediction model to predict fourth demographic data for the impression.
US11706489B2	Display apparatus with intelligent user interface A display apparatus includes presence detection circuitry for detecting an individual in proximity to the display apparatus; a display for displaying video content and a user interface; a processor in communication with the user input circuitry, the display, and the search history database; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code is executed by the processor and causes the processor to: a) determine, from the presence detection circuitry, a user in proximity of the display apparatus; b) determine one or more program types associated with the user; c) determine available programs that match the predicted one or more programs; and d) update the user interface to depict a listing of one or more of the available programs that match the predicted one or more programs.
US11706487B2	Methods and systems for determining user engagement based on user interactions during different time intervals Systems and methods are described herein for determining a level of user engagement based on user interactions. A media guidance application is configured to retrieve a first record of a first plurality of user inputs, including input type, received during consumption of a media asset. A second time interval, prior to the first time interval, is selected by shifting the first start time and the first end time. A second record of a second plurality of user inputs received during the second time interval, including input type, is retrieved. A first media asset consumed during the first time interval and a second media asset consumed during the second time interval are determined, and the level of user engagement for the first media asset is determined based on the first record and the second record.
US11706484B2	Video processing method, electronic device and computer-readable medium A video-processing method includes: obtaining a video frame rate of received video data; determining whether the video frame rate is less than the refreshing frame rate of a screen; and if yes, modifying at least one of the video frame rate of the video data or the refreshing frequency, so that the video frame rate of the video data is greater than or equal to the refreshing frame rate after modification. According to the present application, the effect that the video frame rate of a video file is greater than or equal to the refreshing frequency of the screen can be guaranteed, thus images corresponding to the video file can be displayed when the screen is refreshed, thereby avoiding standstill phenomena of video playback.
US11706483B2	Video playing method and apparatus, and electronic device A video playing method, apparatus and electronic device. The method comprises: obtaining to-be-played video frames; inputting the obtained to-be-played video frames into a preset decoder, and decoding the to-be-played video frames by the preset decoder to obtain decoded to-be-played video frames; storing the decoded to-be-played video frames as texture data in a texture storage area of a graphic processing unit; determining, from the decoded to-be-played video frames stored in the texture storage area, a decoded to-be-played video frame that satisfies a rendering condition as a to-be-rendered video frame; rendering and the determined to-be-rendered video frames by the graphic processing unit and playing the rendered video frame. With the embodiments of the present application, rendering speed of a graphic processing unit (GPU) can be increased to a certain extent. Therefore, video playing performance of the electronic device can be improved.
US11706479B2	Methods and systems for storing user-specific media sequences Methods and systems are described for storing content. The content may be divided into user-specific portions and common portions. One or more selection rules may be used to divide the content into the user-specific portion and the common portions. The one or more selection rules may be selected such that the common portion is not decodable without the user-specific portions. The user-specific portions or data indicating a location of the user-specific portion may be stored in user-specific storage. The user-specific storage may be used to determine content for playback to a user.
US11706473B2	Priority media content A cloud-based computing system is configured to (i) maintain a scheduled playlist of media items, a current playback position within the scheduled playlist, and a priority media item for playback, (ii) receive, from a first playback device associated with a user account, a first request to play back the scheduled playlist, (iii) transmit the priority media item to the first playback device for playback before any media item from the scheduled playlist, (iv) receive, from a second playback device associated with the user account, a second request to play back the scheduled playlist, (v) determine that the priority media item should not be transmitted to the second playback device, and (vi) after determining that the priority media item should not be transmitted to the second playback device, transmit one or more media items from the scheduled playlist to the second playback device based on the current playback position within the scheduled playlist.
US11706470B1	Enhanced on-target rate optimization for video using machine learning Devices, systems, and methods are provided for on-target rate optimization for video. A method may include receiving streaming video advertisement impression data; receiving user activity data indicative of day-parts when viewers watch content; generating, based on the streaming video advertisement impression data and the survey data, using a machine learning model, a demographic probability vector, wherein each entry of the demographic probability vector is indicative of a probability that a viewer is in a respective age range of the non-overlapping demographic groups; generating, using the machine learning model, an audience recognition model with the demographic probability vector; generating a synthetic audience model predicting future advertisement viewing behavior; generating an assignment of an advertisement bid to a respective demographic group of the non-overlapping demographic groups; and generating, based on the assignment, a list of target demographic groups of the non-overlapping demographic groups for a bid request associated with the advertisement bid.
US11706466B2	Devices for presenting video program segments in accordance with definition documents Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for presenting segments of at least one video program in accordance with a definition document are disclosed. For example, a processor may load a definition document for at least one video program. The definition document may specify segments of the at least one video program for presentation and further specify segment types for the segments. The segment types may identify whether a segment is to include video content, include audio content, or include both video and audio content. The processor may further obtain the at least one video program, present a first segment of the at least one video program in accordance with the definition document, and present a second segment of the plurality of segments of the at least one video program in accordance with the definition document.
US11706465B2	ATSC 3.0 advertising notification using event streams An Event Streams ‘event’ which contains information about ads is sent via ATSC 3.0 to a receiver player along with an xlinkResolution signal. This information includes but is not limited to time stamps for when the ads will start and stop. When this xlinkResolution is sent to the receiver player, the receiver player sends a notification to a broadcaster app containing the information about start and stop time for presenting the ad. Using this information, the broadcaster app updates itself so that, for example, the broadcaster app can present a message on a user interface regarding the subject of the ad, or present content related to but different from the ad along with the ad itself.
US11706464B2	Activating media function on particular media device at hospitality establishment utilizing passkey generated according to current time and identifier of the particular media device A media system includes a plurality of set-top boxes coupled to a coax network and a controller. The controller displays a first passkey to a user in response to receiving a request from the user to activate playback of a media content on a particular set-top box. The set-top box receives the first passkey from the user and determines whether the user is authorized to activate playback of the media content by comparing the first passkey received from the user with a second passkey obtained from a passkey module on the set-top box. When the user is determined by the set-top box to be authorized to activate playback of the media content, the set-top box determines a radio frequency channel of the coax network according to the first passkey received from the user and begins playback of the media content received on the radio frequency channel on a display device.
US11706460B2	Storage and delivery of video data for video coding A device for processing video data can be configured to receive a configuration record for decoding a bitstream of the video data, wherein the configuration record for the bitstream includes a toolset indication syntax element that includes information identifying, from a set of video decoding tools, tools that are required to decode the bitstream associated with the configuration record; based on the toolset indication syntax element, determine whether to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record; and based on the determination to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record, retrieve the bitstream and outputting the bitstream to a video decoder for decoding.
US11706454B2	One-level transform split A method of partitioning a coding unit (CU) into one or more transform units (TUs) for encoding a video sequence using at least one processor includes determining a height of the CU; determining a width of the CU; determining a TU size of each of the one or more TUs based on the height of the CU and the width of the CU; determining one or more TU positions of the one or more TUs based on the height of the CU and the width of the CU; and partitioning the CU into the one or more TUs based on the determined size of the one or more TUs and the one or more positions of the one or more TUs.
US11706450B2	Partial decoding and reconstruction of a video-based point cloud compression bitstream A decoding device for point cloud decoding includes a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface configured to receive a bitstream. The processor is configured to identify, from the bitstream, messages and one or more sub-bitstreams representing a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The processor is configured to identify a query label indicating an object of the 3D point cloud for decoding. In response to determining that the query label corresponds to a label, the processor is configured to identify a 3D scene object associated with the query label. The processor is configured to identify a 2D tile that correspond to the 3D scene object. The processor is configured to determine to decode, based on an identification of the 2D tile from the sub-bitstream, a portion of the sub-bitstream corresponding to the 2D tile to generate a portion of a video frame representing a portion of the 3D scene object.
US11706445B2	Method for parameter set reference constraints in coded video stream There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data comprising data of a plurality of semantically independent source pictures, determining, among the video data, whether references are associated with any of a first access unit (AU) and a second AU according to at least one picture order count (POC) signal value included with the video data, and outputting a first quantity of the references set to the first AU and a second quantity of the references set to the second AU based on the at least one POC signal value.
US11706444B2	Inter prediction method and apparatus An inter prediction method, including: when a prediction mode of a to-be-processed picture block is an affine motion model-based advanced motion vector prediction mode, obtaining control point motion vectors of the to-be-processed picture block, where the control point motion vectors meet preset first motion vector resolution and/or first motion vector bit depth; then, deriving a motion vector of each motion compensation unit in the to-be-processed picture block based on the control point motion vectors; and obtaining a reconstructed block of the to-be-processed picture block based on the motion vector of each motion compensation unit.
US11706443B2	Construction of affine candidates in video processing A method of video processing is provided. The method includes: determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, a mode of operation of an UMVE mode; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein the current video block is coded with an affine merge mode and motion vector differences in the affine UMVE mode, and wherein one or more fields in the coded representation correspond to the mode of operation, and wherein the one or more fields include: a list size field that indicates a size of a base affine merge candidate list for an affine merge mode with prediction offsets that is used by the UMVE mode, or a table field that signals a distance table or a direction table for the affine merge mode with prediction offsets.
US11706441B2	Interaction of asymmetric weighted merges and other coding tools Devices, systems and methods for asymmetric weighted bi-predictive merging in video coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for decoding video data includes determining that a current video block of the video data is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, wherein different weights are used for a first reference block and a second reference block, and making, based on the determination, a determination between enabling and disabling a coding tool for the current video block. In a case that the current video block is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, the coding tool is not applied to the current video block.
US11706440B2	Video signal processing method and apparatus using adaptive motion vector resolution A video signal decoding device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain reference samples corresponding to a first side of a current block and reference samples corresponding to a second side of the current block, obtain a direct current (DC) value for prediction of the current block based on a reference sample set comprising at least some of the reference samples corresponding to the first side and the reference samples corresponding to the second side, and reconstruct the current block based on the DC value.
US11706439B2	Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding video The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for decoding video. The method includes receiving a bitstream including a coding unit of a video frame, the coding unit being coded in a skip mode or a direct mode; determining whether the coding units has a width greater than a threshold width or a height greater than a threshold height; in response to the coding unit having the width greater than the threshold width or the height greater than the threshold height, enabling a motion vector angular prediction process to store one or more motion vector angular prediction candidates in a candidate list storing a plurality of motion candidates associated with the coding unit; and performing an inter prediction to the coding unit according to the candidate list and an index parsed from the bitstream.
US11706438B2	Method and device for encoding and decoding image An image decoding method according to the present invention includes reconstructing a residual block by inverse-quantizing and inverse-transforming an entropy-decoded residual block, generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction on a current block, and reconstructing an picture by adding the reconstructed residual block to the prediction block, wherein generating the prediction block includes generating a final prediction value of a prediction target pixel included in the current block based on a first prediction value of the prediction target pixel and a final correction value calculated by performing an arithmetic right shift on a two's complementary integer representation for an initial correction value of the prediction target pixel by a binary digit of 1. Accordingly, upon image encoding/decoding, computation complexity may be reduced.
US11706437B2	Systems and methods for performing inter prediction in video coding A method of decoding video data by a device is provided. A merge subblock flag specifying whether subblock-based inter prediction parameters for a coding unit are inferred from neighbouring blocks is decoded. A motion vector difference merge flag is decoded if a value of the merge subblock flag is equal to zero and a value of a motion vector difference flag is equal to one. The motion vector difference merge flag specifies a prediction parameter with a motion vector difference is used, and the motion vector difference flag specifies whether a merge mode with motion vector difference is enabled.
US11706430B2	Method for encoding/decoding block information using quad tree, and device for using same Disclosed decoding method of the intra prediction mode comprises the steps of: determining whether an intra prediction mode of a present prediction unit is the same as a first candidate intra prediction mode or as a second candidate intra prediction mode on the basis of 1-bit information; and determining, among said first candidate intra prediction mode and said second candidate intra prediction mode, which candidate intra prediction mode is the same as the intra prediction mode of said present prediction unit on the basis of additional 1-bit information, if the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit is the same as at least either the first candidate intra prediction mode or the second candidate intra prediction mode, and decoding the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit.
US11706425B2	Multiple transform set signaling for video coding A video decoder may be configured to receive a block of video data, and determine a value of a multiple transform set index for the block of video data based on a presence of non-zero transform coefficients in the block of video data other than a DC coefficient. The video decoder may then apply a transform to the block of video data based on the determined value of the multiple transform set index.
US11706420B2	Method and device for entropy coding/decoding The present invention relates to an entropy decoding method which includes: generating context related to a bin that forms a codeword of a syntax element; and performing arithmetic decoding of the bin based on the context.
US11706417B2	Video decoding method and video decoder A video decoding method includes obtaining a to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element in a current block by parsing a received bitstream, where the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element includes a syntax element 1 or a syntax element 2 in the current block, obtaining a context model corresponding to the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element, where both of a context model corresponding to the syntax element 1 and a context model corresponding to the syntax element 2 are determined from the same preset context model set, entropy decoding the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element based on the context model corresponding to the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element, and obtaining a reconstructed image of the current block based on the syntax element obtained by entropy decoding.
US11706413B2	Unified transform type signaling and transform type dependent transform coefficient level coding A picture in a data stream is subdivided into different size transform blocks. For a transform block, a transformation is selected by checking whether the block's size exceeds a threshold. If it does, a default technique is used to select the transformation. If it does not, a transformation is used from a list of transformations as identified by an index, the list including an identity transformation and non-identity transformations. A coefficients block in the data stream is decoded, and if the selected transformation is the identity transformation, then the coefficients block is used as a residual sample array, and if the selected transformation is not the identity transformation, the coefficients block is subjected to an inverse transformation corresponding to the selected transformation to obtain a residual sample array used to correct a prediction for the transform block.
US11706412B2	Apparatus and method for filtering in video coding A filter for video coding is configured for processing a block for generation of a filtered block, where the block comprises a plurality of pixels. The filter includes one or more processor configured to: scan a current pixel of the block and its neighboring pixels of the current pixel according to a predefined scan template, obtain spectrum components by performing transform for the current pixel and its neighboring pixels, obtain filtered spectrum components based on a filtering parameter and the spectrum components, obtain filtered pixels by performing inverse transform for the filtered spectrum components, and generate a filtered block based on the filtered pixels.
US11706411B2	Content adaptive segmented prediction Systems and methods for content-adaptive segmented prediction mode are provided. A method includes receiving a coded picture and reconstructing a current block of the coded picture. The reconstructing includes: segmenting samples of the current block into a plurality of segments including a first segment and a second segment; predicting the first segment of the current block of the coded picture by using a first prediction mode; and predicting the second segment of the current block of the coded picture by using a second prediction mode, different from the first prediction mode.
US11706410B2	Methods and systems for combined lossless and lossy coding A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream identify, in the bitstream, a current frame, wherein the current frame includes a first region and a third region, detect, in the bitstream, an indication that the first region is encoded according to a lossless encoding protocol, and decode the current frame, wherein decoding the current frame further comprises decoding the first region using a lossless decoding protocol corresponding to the lossless encoding protocol.
US11706403B2	Positional zero latency Based on viewing tracking data, a viewer's view direction to a three-dimensional (3D) scene depicted by a first video image is determined. The first video image has been streamed in a video stream to the streaming client device before the first time point and rendered with the streaming client device to the viewer at the first time point. Based on the viewer's view direction, a target view portion is identified in a second video image to be streamed in the video stream to the streaming client device to be rendered at a second time point subsequent to the first time point. The target view portion is encoded into the video stream with a higher target spatiotemporal resolution than that used to encode remaining non-target view portions in the second video image.
US11706398B2	Signaling a cancel flag in a video bitstream A method of coding implemented by a video encoder. The method includes encoding a representation of video data into a bitstream, the bitstream being prohibited from including a fisheye supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message and one of a projection indication SEI message and a frame packing indication SEI message that both apply to any particular coded picture in the bitstream; and transmitting the bitstream to the video decoder.
US11706390B1	Inferred activity based conference enhancement method and system A method and system for optimizing conference session activities within a conference space, the system comprising at least a first sensor for sensing session characteristics and a processor receiving the sensed session characteristics and identifying a conference paradigm based on the sensed session characteristics, identifying an action sequence to perform as a function of the conference paradigm and performing the action sequence, wherein the action sequence results in automatic presentation of at least some information to at least a subset of conferees within the conference space.
US11706386B1	Identifying an activity specifying thematic content for a video exchange session between users of an online system using a trained model When a user creates a new video exchange session via an online system, the user specifies an activity for the video exchange session. The activity may specify a name for the video exchange session, as well as other thematic content (e.g., visual effects, backgrounds) displayed via the video exchange session. The online system trains a machine learned model that predicts a likelihood that other users will accept an invitation to join the video exchange session if a certain activity is specified for the video exchange session. The online system may then use these likelihoods to rank and sort the activities for the user or to highlight activities with threshold likelihoods.
US11706385B2	Machine learning-based multi-view video conferencing from single view video data Machine learning-based multi-view video conferencing from single view video data, including: identifying, in video data, a plurality of objects; and generating a user interface comprising a plurality of first user interface elements each comprising a portion of the video data corresponding to one or more of the plurality of objects.
US11706363B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method for inspecting presence/absence of a defect in a print product An image processing apparatus includes a print setting acquisition unit configured to acquire a print paper size, a threshold setting unit configured to set, based on the print paper size, a threshold for a protruding portion of a print product, the protruding portion protruding from a reading range, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a scanned image of the print product, a detection unit configured to detect the protruding portion from the scanned image, and a conveyance displacement abnormality detection unit configured to detect conveyance displacement abnormality from the threshold and a result of the detection.
US11706358B2	Image display method, image display apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display control for displaying images in different forms A method includes displaying, in a first display area, a first display image obtained by reducing a first image, and a second display image obtained by reducing a second image, which has a size different from the first image, displaying, when the first display image is selected, a first intermediate image based on the first image in a second display area, calculating and storing, when the first intermediate image is commanded to be enlarged and moved, the display coordinates of the first intermediate image with respect to an enlargement ratio and a prescribed position, and displaying, when the second display image is selected, a second intermediate image based on the second image and enlarged with respect to a position of the second image, the position corresponding to the prescribed position, in the second display area, according to the stored enlargement ratio and display coordinates.
US11706355B2	System and method for performing service registration processing in response to access request from client terminal Provided is a system including: a printing apparatus; an information processing apparatus; and a server system. The printing apparatus outputs identification information on the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits the identification information obtained from the printing apparatus based on acceptance of an instruction for receiving a first service, and performs display control of the information processing apparatus. The server system executes processing for confirmation as to whether or not the printing apparatus identified by the identification information transmitted from the information processing apparatus is registered for a second service, and provides data for displaying an item for the second service in a case where the printing apparatus is not registered for the second service. The information processing apparatus displays an item for registering the printing apparatus for the second service on a display unit of the information processing apparatus based on the provided data.
US11706353B2	System and method for sending, delivery or receiving of faxes, over a computer based network according to security or other protocols Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes according to particular protocols are disclosed. Certain embodiments may receive a fax from a sender and determine if the ability exists to send the fax over a computer based network according to a particular protocol. If there is no destination associated with the fax number for the protocol the fax may be sent according to the fax number. If, however, there is a destination for the protocol associated with the fax number an attempt is made to send the fax to the destination according to the protocol.
US11706349B2	System and method for processing telephony sessions In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
US11706343B2	Unified communications incorporation in a contact center The technology disclosed herein enables incorporation of feature sets of a unified communications system and a contact center system. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, in a contact center system, in response to an agent logging into the contact center system, establishing a first connection between the contact center system and a unified communications endpoint operated by the agent. The first connection is established using a unified communications system that services the unified communications endpoint. After establishing the first connection, the method includes identifying a call on a second connection between the contact center system and a second endpoint operated by a user. In response to selecting the agent to handle the call, the method includes bridging the first connection and the second connection.
US11706341B2	System and method for intent-based active callback management A system and method for intent-based active callback management, utilizing a cloud callback system comprising at least a profile manager, callback manager, interaction manager, media server, and environment analyzer, allowing users to call businesses, agents in contact centers, or other users who are connected to a cloud callback system, and, failing to connect to the individual they called, allow for an automatic callback object to be created, whereby the two users may be automatically called and bridged together at a time when both users are available.
US11706335B2	System and method for determining unwanted call origination in communications networks A method and system for discovering and locating the source of unwanted communication origination in a communications network, the method comprising compiling a communication campaign database storing data of one or more communication campaigns along with automatically identified instances of those campaigns, and simultaneously or sequentially matching those instances against known communication traffic of a set of cooperating telecommunication carriers. The one or more communications campaigns include a grouping of related fingerprints and patterns that identify a sequence of characters, audio or video associated with instances of a same likely campaigns, either legitimate or illegitimate/fraudulent.
US11706334B2	Customization of CNAM information for calls placed to mobile devices One example method of operation may include identifying a call from a calling device destined for a mobile device, identifying a calling device number associated with the calling device and a mobile device number associated with the mobile device, determining whether a stored calling relationship exists between the calling device number and the mobile device number, and appending one of a plurality of caller identification names (CNAM) to the call based on the determination as to whether there is a stored calling relationship.
US11706333B1	Region-based bridging of calls using client-specific control and revised caller identifiers Apparatus and methods are disclosed for client-based control of revising caller identifications (IDs) for communications between a private network and a public network. An apparatus including a telecommunications-providing server and processing circuit that communicates client-specific sets of data over an interface protocol. The telecommunications-providing server revises a caller ID for a VoIP call based on the client-specific sets of data, an identifier that corresponds to a requesting endpoint, and a geographic region determined from the call request. Further, the telecommunications-providing server causes control data to be sent to activate an analog-telephone bridging circuit and redirect the VoIP call by obtaining a dial tone and passes at least a subset of the data packet through the analog-telephone bridging circuit for connecting over the local line. The subset of the data packet includes the revised caller ID which is a local number identified by the determined geographic region.
US11706332B2	Smart notification system for voice calls Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing smart notifications during voice call transitions from hold status to active status are described. An example method can include establishing a call between an endpoint and a remote device; after a determination that the call was placed on hold by the remote device, monitoring, by the endpoint, the call for an indication of a call resume transition, the indication of the call resume transition including at least one of a particular keyword transmitted by the remote device, an active speaker at the remote device, and a dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) input from the remote device; detecting, by the endpoint, the indication of the call resume transition; and in response to detecting the indication of the call resume transition, generating, by the endpoint, a notification indicating that the hold has ended and the call has resumed.
US11706326B2	Handheld device case with activatable shield to block wireless signals A technique for selectively configuring a case of a handheld device to shield an antenna from receiving or transmitting wireless signals is disclosed. The technique includes moving a blocking element on the case between a first position and a second position. The blocking element is a physical structure that is rotatable, slidable, or removable to switch between the first position and the second position. In response to moving the blocking element to the first position, the blocking element blocks wireless signals received or transmitted by the antenna of the handheld device. In response to moving the blocking element to the second position, wireless signals can be received or transmitted through the case by the antenna.
US11706323B2	Managing a reordering timer Embodiments include methods for managing a reordering timer performed by a processor of a wireless device. The processor may receive packets from a communication network and store the packets in a memory buffer of the wireless device. The processor may detect one or more conditions that affect an amount of time required to reorder or reassemble at least some of the packets received from the communication network. The processor may determine a timer adjustment based on the detected one or more conditions. The processor may adjust a timer with the determined timer adjustment. The processor may deliver one or more packets from the memory buffer in response to expiration of the adjusted timer.
US11706322B2	Method and device for identifying packet in wireless LAN system An example according to the present disclosure relates to a technique for identifying a wireless LAN (WLAN) packet. For example, when a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) includes a legacy signal field, a field contiguous to the legacy signal field may be used to identify a type of the PPDU. A field contiguous to the legacy signal field may include information indicating that the PPDU is an extreme high throughput (EHT) PPDU. The field contiguous to the legacy signal field may include at least one of information related to a frame format, a transmission opportunity, an STA ID, and/or a bandwidth.
US11706320B2	Scalable leader-based total order broadcast protocol for distributed computing systems A Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed computing system of nodes configured to process client requests, executes a leader-based total order broadcast (LBTOB) protocol. The computing system concurrently executes multiple instances of the LBTOB protocol at the nodes, on respective disjoint partitions of the client requests, and the disjoint partitions are assigned to the instances using a deterministic function of a state of the system. The computing system multiplexes outputs of the executing instances in an ordered log of the client requests, and the ordered log is maintained at each of the nodes.
US11706317B2	Optimization of data access and communication in memory systems A memory system having one or more memory components and a controller. The controller can receive access requests from a communication connection. The access requests can identify data items associated with the access requests, addresses of the data items, and contexts of the data items in which the data items are used for the access requests. The controller can identify separate memory regions for separate contexts respectively, determine placements of the data items in the separate memory regions based on the contexts of the data items, and determine a mapping between the addresses of the data items and memory locations that are within the separate memory regions corresponding to the contexts of the data items. The memory system stores the data items at the memory locations separated by different memory regions according to different contexts.
US11706309B2	Discovery of a collaborative proxy node in a 3GPP communication network There is provided mechanisms for enabling discovery of a collaborative proxy node in a 3GPP communication network. A method is performed by a network exposure function. The method comprises obtaining, from a content providing application function, a request for a cooperative performance enhancement service to be performed for application traffic between the application function and a user equipment, the cooperative performance enhancement service being performed by the cooperative performance enhancement node. The method comprises providing, upon having authorized the request, parameters as obtained in the request to a policy control function, thereby enabling discovery of the cooperative performance enhancement node.
US11706308B2	Automated network account transfers based on determined inactivity Systems, devices, and methods for automating network account transfers based on predicted inactivity are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a mail server providing access to an email account of a user; a social graph monitor configured to: periodically query, over a network, a social graph associated with the user to retrieve at least one social network feed associated with the user, calculate a sentiment score for the social network feed based on parsing the social network feed using a natural language parser, and determining that a transfer condition has occurred if the sentiment score exceeds a pre-defined sentiment score threshold; and a condition processor configured to: transmit, via the mail server, a password reset request to a network application associated with the transfer condition, intercept an email from the network application, via the mail server, transmitted in response to the password reset request, forward, via the mail server, the email to a recipient associated with the transfer condition, determine that the recipient has reset a password associated with the network application, and forward, to the recipient via the mail server, subsequent emails from the network application.
US11706307B1	System and method for selecting and providing zone-specific media A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
US11706304B1	System for setting and controlling functionalities of mobile devices A system for presenting a clinical process of a patient in a clinical facility having a network, a system backend communicable with the network, and at least one mobile device communicable with the system backend, the mobile device comprising a mobile processor and a display, the mobile processor configured to operate in at least one first user interface mode and at least one second user interface mode, where the mobile processor is configured to enable the operation of at least one built-in function when operating in the at least one first user interface mode and where the mobile processor is configured to disable the operation of the at least one built-in function when operating in the at least one second user interface mode. The mobile processor operating in the at least one second user interface mode is configured to present a list of one or more patients each with a corresponding clinical process, each patient listing configured to re-enable access to the at least one built-in function associated with the corresponding clinical process of the listed patient.
US11706303B2	Survivability method for LISP based connectivity The present disclosure provides systems, methods and computer-readable media for maintaining network connectivity, in a LISP based network, when one or more network edge nodes lose connectivity to a LISP control plane of the network, using multicast messaging. In one example, a method includes receiving a connection request from a first endpoint to a second endpoint communicatively coupled to a second edge node; determining, by the first edge node, that a connection session to a control plane for locating the second endpoint has failed; querying one or more available edge nodes for locating the second endpoint using a multicast message; locating the second endpoint based on at least one query response received from the one or more available edge nodes, at least one query response including an identifier of the second endpoint; and establishing the connection request between the first endpoint and the second endpoint upon locating the second endpoint.
US11706300B2	In-room device control system Internet of things (IoT) hubs are distributed in a hospitality establishment and are connected to a control server. Various IoT devices are installed in each room or other separate guest area within the hospitality establishment. The hubs are located such that each IoT device is within a predetermined distance from at least one hub. The control server has mappings of which IoT devices are in which rooms and has mappings of which hubs are used to control which IoT devices. When a state change message is received from a user device, the control server confirms the user device is currently associated with at least one guest room and then determines which target IoT devices are affected by the state change message. The control server then sends commands to the various one or more hubs that control the target IoT devices in order to effect the state changes.
US11706299B2	Data sharding for transmission over a high generation cellular network Aspects of the disclosure relate to data sharding for transmission over a high generation cellular network. A computing platform may detect, via a communication network, transmission of data from a first computing device to a second computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may intercept, prior to receipt of the transmission by the second computing device, the data. Then, the computing platform may shard the data into a first shard and a second shard. Then, the computing platform may identify, within the communication network, a first communication channel and a second communication channel. Then, the computing platform may send, to the second computing device, the first shard via the first communication channel, and the second shard via the second communication channel. Subsequently, the computing platform may merge, the first shard and the second shard, to reconfigure the data.
US11706298B2	Multichannel virtual internet protocol address affinity A plurality of virtual internet protocol addresses for a first single network interface card of a node of a storage cluster are provided to a client. A separate connection is established between the client and the node for each of the plurality of virtual internet protocol addresses. The separate connections are utilized together in parallel to transfer data between the client and the node.
US11706293B1	Buffer profile assignment management based on peer network device data A network device including a first data structure storing a set of buffer profile types. Each buffer profile type is associated with one or more configuration parameters. The network device further includes a second data structure storing a set of peer device identifiers, wherein each peer device identifier of the set of peer device identifiers is associated with a buffer profile type. The network device includes a buffer management application to receive first data associated with a first peer network device coupled via a first link to an interface component of the network device, determine the first data matches a first peer device identifier stored in the second data structure, and assign a first buffer profile type to the interface component of the network device, wherein the first buffer profile type is associated with the first peer device identifier in the second data structure.
US11706290B2	Direct server reply for infrastructure services An edge server of an infrastructure service establishes a transport connection in user space with a client and in accordance with a transport layer network protocol. The edge server receives a packet over the transport connection with the client that comprises a request for an object. If the edge server cannot serve the object, it forwards the request to a cluster server with an intent indicated for the cluster server to reply directly to the client. The cluster server receives the forwarded request and determines whether to accept the intent indicated by the edge server. If so, the edge server conveys instructions to the cluster server for sending at least a portion of the object directly to the client. The cluster server then sends at least the portion of the object to the client in accordance with the instructions.
US11706284B2	Methods and systems for network service management in a distributed architecture A method for storing of at least one dataset in a distributed data processing network includes: sending, from a specific network node to all close network nodes, an ADD message for adding a value to a dataset, wherein the ADD message comprises the key of the dataset and the value to be added; based on a close network node receiving the ADD message and the key not being known to the close network node, creating a new dataset in an internal table of the close network node comprising the key and the value; and based on the close network node receiving the ADD message and the key being known to the close network node, adding the value to the one or more values in the dataset of the key in the internal table of the close network.
US11706277B2	System and method for dynamically expanding conferencing capabilities and facilitating on demand transactions within social network environments A web-based, online session system is provided in which a host server manages a multi-participant session. A plurality of participating devices may join the online session using a web-based interface and receive session content (e.g., video, audio, text, graphics, etc.) via the web-based interface. A user of a participating device may dynamically expand its resources/capabilities during an ongoing online session by adding accessory/supporting devices under its own participant account to the session. The added devices may communicate directly with the host server via a separate stream than the participating device. Additionally, the participating device may also transfer its complete participation in the online session to another device via the web-based interface.
US11706272B2	Adaptive streaming with early client indication Methods and systems for early identification of bitrates for segments in adaptive bitrate streaming can allow the server to begin processing or transcoding content as necessary for delivery, reducing processing and transmission latency. In a first aspect, a client may request a second segment before the first segment has been completely received. The server may begin any transcoding processes for preparing the second segment, and once the server has completed sending the first segment, the server may begin transmitting the now-prepared or partially prepared second segment. The server can then transmit the first and second segment contiguously, with essentially no network dead time. In a second aspect, the client may transmit an early notification of parameters for the request of the second segment, allowing the server to begin transcoding. The client may subsequently request the already-prepared or partially prepared second segment, similarly reducing request-response processing latency.
US11706268B2	Social sharing system A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for providing recommendations based on social network sharing activity. Sharing activity relating to the sharing of the content item on a social network by a first user is accessed. Consumption information related to the consumption of the content item. A correlation between the sharing activity and the consumption information is determined. A recommendation is then generated based on the correlation.
US11706264B2	Virtual position based management of collaboration sessions Improved virtual collaboration environments allow participants in a primary collaboration session to initiate side conversations with fellow participants based on virtual locations of each participant within a virtual collaboration layout. The virtual collaboration layout defines virtual locations of each participant in the collaboration session. If a virtual distance between two participants a below a threshold, the participants are able to engage in a side conversation. Management information is provided to a collaboration session host. The management information indicates, for example, a volume or frequency of communication occurring on each side conversation, or an elapsed time since the side conversation was initiated. The host is also provided with controls that allow the host to issue a warning to side conversation participants, to mute the side conversation, or to change a participant’s position within the virtual collaboration layout, thus changing the participant’s eligibility to participate in the side conversation.
US11706262B2	System and method for group communication and information sharing A communication system comprises a set of specialized backend servers 100 and groups of terminals (210, 220) connected through the Internet. Users of the communication system can make video calls and share text messages, images and video clips through the terminals (210, 220). The terminals in this system are organized into private terminal groups 200 of varying sizes. Each group has only one controller terminal 210 and one or more display terminals 220. Both types of terminals provide an easy-to-use graphic user interface for the user to access the communication services provided by the system. Communication and information sharing between any display terminals must be pre-authorized by their controllers. This communication system, while ensuring security and privacy, addresses the needs of caregiver groups that include caregiver professionals, family members and care receivers, to facilitate private conference calls, information sharing and caring activity coordination.
US11706260B2	Security zone policy enforcement in a cloud infrastructure system A cloud-based security solution that provides a robust and secure framework for managing and enforcing security policies related to various resources managed in the cloud is disclosed. The cloud-based security solution is implemented by a security zone policy enforcement system in a cloud service provider infrastructure. The system receives a request to perform an operation on a resource and determines a compartment associated with the resource. The system determines that the compartment is associated with a security zone and determines a set of one or more security zone policies applicable to the resource. The system then determines that the operation on the resource is permitted based on the set of one or more security zone policies and responsive to determining that the operation on the resource is permitted, allows the operation to be performed on the resource.
US11706258B2	Core services detection for a segmented network environment A segmentation server updates enforcement of a segmentation policy based on detection of core services. The segmentation server obtains characteristics of workloads and identifies workloads that provide core services using port matching, supervised learning based classification, semi supervised learning based classification, or a combination thereof. The segmentations server applies labels to workloads identified as core service providers indicative of the detection. Rules of the segmentation are distributed to enforcement modules based on the label sets of associated workloads to enable the enforcement modules to enforce the segmentation policy. Detection of core services reduces the likelihood of administrator inadvertently enforcing a policy that blocks essential core services.
US11706257B2	Device and method for checking properties of resources Device, computer program product and method for checking properties of resources, wherein a checking device for checking properties of resources of a web server includes a calculation unit for calculating an identifier identifying a particular resource using the particular resource, a detection unit for detecting a license requirement for the particular resource using the calculated identifier, and a determination unit for determining an existing license for the web server in the case of a license requirement detected for the particular resource using the calculated identifier, such that unauthorized posting of a particular resource to a web server can be easily detected and prevented.
US11706256B2	Secure traffic optimization in an edge network A client application establishes a connection between the client application and an origin server over one or more networks. The application generates a request to establish a secure session with the origin server over the connection. The request includes information, in a header of the request, that flags traffic sent during the secure session to a network of the one or more networks as subject to one or more optimizations performed by the network. Subsequent to establishing the secure session, the application encrypts the traffic in accordance with the secure session and sends the traffic to the origin server over the connection, subject to the one or more optimizations. The infrastructure service applies the one or more optimizations to the traffic as it passes through the edge network to the origin server.
US11706254B2	Method and apparatus for identifying encrypted data stream A method includes parsing a handshake message of an encrypted data stream according to a secure encrypted transmission protocol corresponding to the encrypted data stream, to obtain a plurality of fields included in the handshake message, determining, from a plurality of rule sets and based on the plurality of fields, a rule set that matches the handshake message, and determining, based on a mapping relationship between the matched rule set and an application, an application corresponding to the encrypted data stream.
US11706250B2	Secure notification on networked devices A system, device and method to securely notify a user of a compromise of a device are provided. The system, device and method may include a detection device adapted for determining a compromise of the device communicatively coupled to the first path, a user database including at least information regarding the device and other devices associated with the user, and the secure signal path to at least one of the other devices.
US11706248B2	Aggregation and flow propagation of elements of cyber-risk in an enterprise A computer-implemented method for computing or modeling the risk of a cyber security breach to an asset begins by gathering coverage information from network sensors, endpoint agents, and decoys related to the asset, as well as gathering importance information related to the asset, alerts and anomalies from an enterprise and vulnerability information related to the asset. From this, a threat-score is computed for the asset. Connections or coupling information is gathered between users and assets, users and data, and assets and data, which is fused to generate a 3-dimensional vector representation of coverage, importance, and threat-score of the assets, users and data. From this 3-dimensional vector, an asset risk score is computed to provide the asset risk score.
US11706244B2	Apparatus, method, and computer program product for automatic network architecture configuration maintenance Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to automatic network architecture configuration maintenance. A network architecture for a particular organization, user, or other entity, may include various networked devices, any of which may be vulnerable to one or more cyberattacks due to outdated software, hardware, and/or firmware configurations. Embodiments include apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for retrieving an updated device configurations data object, identifying a vulnerable networked device set based at least in part on the updated device configurations data object and a detected networked device set, and generating a device cyber risk score data object set that may be output and/or otherwise provided to one or more systems, devices, or the like. Some example embodiments further include identifying update recommendation(s), generating device cyber risk priority data object(s), and/or providing various combinations of such data for rendering to one or more displays associated with a user.
US11706242B2	System and method for performing remote security assessment of firewalled computer Methods and systems for scanning an endpoint terminal across an open computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a scanner engine in a computer server in communication with an open computer network, and establishing a secure connection across the open computer network between the scanner engine and a scanner agent installed on the endpoint terminal in communication with the open computer network. Commands for collecting data regarding the endpoint terminal are sent from the scanner engine across the secure connection to the scanner agent. The scanner engine then receives the collected data from the scanner agent across the secure connection, analyzes the data to assess a current posture of the endpoint terminal, and determines any updates for the endpoint terminal from the analysis. Updates are sent across the secure connection to the scanner agent for installation on the endpoint terminal, and the secure connection may then be terminated.
US11706239B2	Systems and methods for detecting vulnerabilities in network processes during runtime Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are disclosed for detecting vulnerabilities in real-time during execution of a process or an application. In one example, a device may have one or more memories storing computer-readable instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to obtain real-time process information associated with a process executing in an endpoint. The device can then determine package information for a package associated with the process based on the process information. The device can then identify at least one vulnerability associated with the package information using a database of vulnerabilities stored on a backend component of the network. The backend component may have a database of vulnerabilities for packages.
US11706237B2	Threat detection and security for edge devices Disclosed are various examples for threat detection and security for edge devices in communication with Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. In one example, a baseline behavior profile for a gateway virtual machine is transmitted from a management service to a gateway security process executed in a gateway device. The management service receives an anomaly notification including an indication of an anomaly from the baseline behavior profile. The managements service generates a user interface that shows a description of the anomaly.
US11706236B2	Autonomous application of security measures to IoT devices Methods and systems for classifying a device on a network. The systems and methods may receive network activity data associated with an unknown device. A classifier executing one or more machine learning models may then classify the device as an internet of things (IoT) device or a non-IoT device.
US11706235B2	Method and device for processing data of a technical system A method, in particular a computer-implemented method, for processing data of a technical system. The method includes the following steps: ascertaining first pieces of information which are associated with a data traffic of the system, and ascertaining metadata associated with the data traffic of the system based on the first pieces of information.
US11706228B2	Customized view of restricted information recorded into a blockchain Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein to generate a customized view of a blockchain transaction. A blockchain of block entries requested by a plurality of users from user devices is maintained in a distributed network of nodes. The block entries each comprise a plurality of data portions that are each associated with an access level. A request to view one or more data portions of a block entry is received which includes an access code associated with at least one access level. The access code in the request is evaluated with the blockchain of block entries to identify one or more data portions associated with the access level. A customized view of the block entry is generated which includes the one or more data portions associated with the access level.
US11706223B2	Digital data access control and automated synthesization of capabilities A computer system for controlling access to digital data and algorithms, including a multitude of local systems provided at a plurality of remote locations. At least a first subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data acquisition device adapted to generate and provide raw digital data. At least a second subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data processing unit having a memory with a memory capacity and a processor with a computing capacity to process raw digital data to generate processed digital data to be presented to one or more of a plurality of users of the system. The system also includes a filter system, wherein at least one filter is assigned at each local system, each filter having a filter setting for restricting and prohibiting data transfer between the assigned local system and other local systems.
US11706222B1	Systems and methods for facilitating malicious site detection A system for facilitating Internet security for devices on a local area network (LAN) is disclosed. The LAN may connect to a rating server through the Internet and may including at least an anti-malware application for detecting malware. The system may include a black list for being implemented on the LAN for storing identifiers of a set of forbidden sites. The devices may be prevented from accessing content provided by each of the forbidden sites. The system may also include a profiler for being implemented on the LAN for updating the black list utilizing a set of result data. The data may include scan result data and rating result data. The scan result data may pertain to results of scans performed by the anti-malware application; the rating result data may pertain to results of rating performed by the rating server.
US11706221B1	Unidirectional atomic messaging A shared memory system for providing unidirectional communication across a security threshold defined by producer and consumer of a message at different security levels. A unidirectional shared memory element is accessible for read and write access by the message producer (sender), and the consumer (receiver) has only read access. Transmission logic ensures atomic receipt of the message if it is received, as the receiver cannot issue an acknowledgement to the sender as in conventional electronic interfaces. An arrangement of indices and counters allows asynchronous operation by the sender and receiver, as messages may queue up in the shared memory if the producer exceeds the consumer. In the event of a failure, anomaly, or resource overrun, it is known that messages that were received were received in entirety; in other words, atomicity is preserved.
US11706220B2	Securing application behavior in serverless computing A method for securing a serverless application including: (a) receiving a list of components which make up the serverless application and one or more intended usage flows of the serverless application; (b) creating and applying a security policy for each component of the serverless application, the security policy denying all access requests except from authorized components, wherein the authorized components are selected based on access requirements dictated by the one or more intended usage flows.
US11706219B1	Secure session sharing between computing devices Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for authenticating a first computing device to access a secure account. Receiving a request from a second computing device to be authorized to access the secure account. Providing, to the second computing, first data that represents a first machine-readable code for presentation by the second computing device. Receiving, from the first computing device, second data that represents a second machine-readable code as read by the first computing device. Authorizing the second computing device to access the secure account in response to determining that the second data accurately represents the first machine-readable code as sent to the second computing device.
US11706210B2	Computing connection credential verification A computing device may include a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to establish a connection with a client device, with the client device having a first credential to connect the client device to a computing service, and the first credential being provided by a proxy. The processor may further receive a request from the client device via the connection to validate the first credential before use of the first credential by the client device, and validate the first credential with use of a second credential for the computing service obtained independent of the proxy.
US11706208B2	Method and apparatus for securing a remote device A system and method for security of Internet of things (IoT) devices are discussed. A user of a mobile device, such as a customer of a wireless communication network, may remotely lock an IoT device while concomitantly assigning an ad hoc password to the IoT device that can be subsequently used to unlock the device. Alternatively, an IoT device may self-lock and produce a password in response to detecting its motion. The produced password may be provided to the user of a mobile device and used later to unlock the IoT device.
US11706203B2	Method for secondary authentication Described embodiments provide systems and methods for validating a request to perform an action to access at least one file. A computing device can receive a request from the client, the request being to perform an action to access at least one file and including a first computed value indicative of one or more previous actions on files. The computing device may compare the first computed value to a second computed value maintained by the computing device independently from the first computed value. The second computed value may be indicative of the one or more previous actions on the files. The computing device may perform secondary authentication in addition to primary authentication for the client, responsive to an indication of trustworthiness of the client or the file according to the comparison of the first computed value to the second computed value.
US11706202B2	Distributed encryption Examples described herein include systems and methods for performing distributed encryption across multiple devices. An example method can include a first device discovering a second device that shares a network. The device can identify data to be sent to a server and calculate a checksum for that data. The device can then split the data into multiple portions and send a portion to the second device, along with a certificate associated with the server for encrypting the data. The first device can encrypt the portion of data it retained. The first device can receive an encrypted version of the second portion of the data sent to the second device. The first device can merge these two portions and send the merged encrypted data to the server, along with the checksum value. The server can decrypt the data and confirm that it reflects the original set of data.
US11706194B2	Automatic security response using one-way links In one embodiment, a secure network system includes a two-way bridge connecting a protected packet data network with an external packet data network so as to allow bidirectional communication between the protected and external networks, a one-way link unidirectionally connecting the protected network to the external network and physically configured to carry signals in one direction from the protected network to the external network and to be incapable of carrying signals in the opposite direction from the external packet data network to the protected packet data network, and a security server to receive an indication of a security threat to at least one of the networks, and in response to the indication, to deactivate the two-way bridge and activate the one-way link so as to prevent the protected network from receiving packets from the external network while allowing forwarding of packets from the protected network to the external network.
US11706189B2	Domain management and synchronization system A domain management system that manages domain names, network addresses, and other aspects of a computing network domain is provided. The domain management system obtains domain data, such as domain name system (“DNS”) records, from any number of network-accessible providers of the domain data, such as DNS servers. The domain management system can store, transform, and synchronize the domain data among the network-accessible providers, even if the network-accessible providers do not all use or recognize the same format and/or content of domain data.
US11706188B2	Localization for domain name resolution Systems, apparatuses, and method are described for resolving domain names based on localization. A computing device may send, to a name server, a request indicating a domain. The name server may determine one or more servers associated with the domain based on the locations of the one or more servers and/or the computing device. The name server may send, to the computing device, a message indicating the determined one or more servers.
US11706182B2	Local content publishing Local content publishing is disclosed. A queue is obtained. The queue is associated with a geographical region. A set of entities is determined based at least in part on the geographical region associated with the queue. A piece of content assigned to the queue is obtained. The piece of content is published on behalf of the set of entities determined based at least in part on the geographical region associated with the queue.
US11706180B2	Terminal device and information processing apparatus capable of executing message display program that performs different types of processing between when high-importance message is displayed on display device and when high-importance message is not displayed on display device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium with message display program stored thereon A terminal device includes a first communication device, a display device, and a first control device. The first control device functions as a display controller. The display controller allows the display device to display a first massage in a message display area of the display device. When the first message is not a high-importance message and the display controller then receives through the first communication device a second message sent from the information processing apparatus, the display controller allows the display device to execute first processing of scrolling a displayed image in the message display area and displaying the second message in the message display area. When the first message is a high-importance message and the display controller then receives the second message through the first communication device, the display controller allows the display device to execute second processing different from the first processing.
US11706177B2	RNA targeting methods and compositions Provided herein are CRISPR/Cas methods and compositions for targeting RNA molecules, which can be used to detect, edit, or modify a target RNA.
US11706174B1	Identifying responsiveness of an entitty to messages via an online system in a content item identifying the entity An online system allows users to exchange messages with other users, including entities such as businesses. The online system determines a metric describing measure of an entity's responsiveness to messages received via the online system based on a number of messages to which the entity responds and times for the entity to respond to messages. The online system displays an indication of the metric for an entity in connection with content identifying the entity. For example, the indication is displayed in conjunction with a content item identifying the entity, such as a content item including a link to initiate communication of a message to the entity.
US11706173B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for metadata search in a group-based communication platform Method, apparatus and computer program product for querying a group-based communication platform are described herein. For example, the apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least store a plurality of electronic messages to a message corpus; receive a search query associated with the message corpus, wherein the search query comprises reaction metadata criteria; and apply the search query to the message corpus to generate a reaction search results set.
US11706170B2	Collaborative editing method of an electronic mail, electronic device, and storage medium Provided are an information exchange method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes, in response to detecting a coedit trigger operation with regard to a mail, determining a coeditor; acquiring a synchro edit interface containing the content of the mail; and presenting the synchro edit interface to allow the coeditor to coedit the content of the mail through the presented synchro edit interface.
US11706167B2	Generating and accessing video content for products In one or more implementations, video content generated using a client application may be provided to users of the client application in association with one or more products offered for purchase via the client application. Video content items presented to a user may be identified based on a level of interest of the user in relation to the respective video content items. A level of interest of the user in relation to a video content item may be based on profile information of the user.
US11706165B2	Personalized chatbots for inmates A communication system for providing a positive communication to an inmate is provided. The communication system includes memory that stores data, and an application server that that analyzes that data to determine topics that are important to the inmate. The application server includes a topic rating system to rate the topics based on importance to the inmate and based on an emotional tone used by the inmate during a communication. When the application server receives a question from the inmate, the application server searches the data and the Internet and responds based on the answer and the data stored in memory. The application server also provides support to the inmate by suggesting counseling services according to the needs of the inmate. Further, the communication system provides a positive influence to the inmate to encourage educational progression.
US11706161B2	Building system with space use case operation A network switch includes a device interface configured to facilitate communication between the network switch and a plurality of building devices that serve a space, network routing circuitry configured to route network communications associated with the building devices in accordance with one or more network parameters, a control circuit configured to control the plurality of devices via the network communications to provide a plurality of space use cases for the space. and a network manager circuit configured to determine values for the one or more network parameters based on the plurality of space use cases for the space.
US11706160B2	Application port management A computing platform executing an application may receive a response to a request for opening a network port for utilization by the application from a computing platform distinct from the computer platform executing the application. The computing platform executing the application may determine whether to open the network port for utilization by the application based on the response to the request. In some embodiments, the application may invoke at least one call to an application program interface (API) of an operating system (OS) running on the computing platform executing the application, and the request may be generated responsive to the at least one call to the API of the OS.
US11706156B2	Method and system for changing resource state, terminal, and storage medium The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for changing a resource state, a terminal, and a storage medium, which belong to the field of smart home. A system for changing a resource state that includes a first collection resource, a first intermediate-level resource, and leaf node resources can be established. By making the first collection resource obtain link information of each leaf node resource whose resource state needs to be changed, a request that includes a default interface of the leaf node resource may be generated for the leaf node resource, such that a state of the leaf node resource can be changed accurately by the system. Therefore, the present disclosure enables the control request issued by a client to be recognized and executed by each leaf node resource, thereby increasing reliability and stability of system control.
US11706152B2	Methods and systems for queue and pipeline latency metrology in network devices and smart NICs Inbound packets can be received by a network device that determines a receive pipeline latency metric based on a plurality of receive pipeline residency times of the inbound packets and determines a receive queue latency metric based on a plurality of receive queue residency times of the inbound packets. The receive queue latency metric and the receive pipeline latency metric can be reported to a data collector. The network appliance may also receive a plurality of outbound packets on a transmit queue, determine a transmit queue latency metric based on the transmit queue residency times of the outbound packets, and determine a transmit pipeline latency metric based on the transmit pipeline residency times of the outbound packets. The outbound packets may be transmitted toward their destination. The transmit queue latency metric and the transmit pipeline latency metric can be reported to the data collector.
US11706150B2	Data encoding and packet sharing in a parallel communication interface An apparatus includes an interface circuit and an encoder circuit. The interface circuit is configured to send a data packet via a plurality of segments, and to send an idle value via the plurality of segments when no data packet is available. The idle value is configured to cause a segment in a receiving apparatus to idle. The encoder circuit is configured to receive a particular data packet, and, if a portion of the particular data packet has a same value as the idle value for a subset of the plurality of segments, to replace at least a portion of the data packet with a mask value to generate a modified data packet. The mask value indicates how to recreate the particular data packet. The encoder circuit is further configured to send the modified data packet to the receiving apparatus via the plurality of segments of the interface circuit.
US11706149B2	Packet sending method, network node, and system A controller obtains a forwarding latency requirement of a service flow and a destination address of the service flow, and determines a forwarding path that meets the forwarding latency requirement. The controller determines that an ingress node forwards a first cycle time number of a packet and an intermediate node forwards a second cycle time number of the packet, and separately determines a corresponding adjacent segment identifier. A label stack generated by the controller includes the adjacent segment identifier and the adjacent segment identifier. The controller sends the label stack to the ingress node, to trigger the ingress node to forward the packet within a period of time corresponding to the first cycle time number. The controller determines the forwarding path based on the forwarding latency requirement of the service flow, and generates a label stack corresponding to a forwarding time point.
US11706147B2	Method and system for performing diagnostics in a gateway device based on monitoring parameters A gateway device includes a first communication system, a second communication system and a network processor. The first communication system and the network processor communicate first network signals therebetween. The first network signals comprising first higher priority network signals and first lower priority network signals. The second communicate system and the network processor communicating second network signals therebetween. The second network signals comprising second higher priority network signals and second lower priority network signals. The network processor communicates a first congestion notification request signal to the first communication system. The first communication system modifies the first lower priority network signals at the first communication system in response to the first congestion notification signal to form first modified network signals and communicates the first modified network signals from the gateway device.
US11706146B1	Directing network traffic using local routing decisions with a global overview Programming routers in a network is accomplished using a global network manager and a plurality of local network managers. The global network manager analyzes an entire network and demand matrix in order to provide restrictions and recommendations that are communicated to a set of the local network managers. The local network managers can use the restrictions and recommendations to make local routing decisions defining a percentage of traffic routed to each neighboring node. The local network manager collects traffic metrics, such as local topology and traffic information by measuring the capacity available to reach any neighboring node. The local network manager uses the metrics in combination with the restrictions and recommendations from the global manager to make decisions on how to route network traffic.
US11706144B2	Marking packets based on egress rate to indicate congestion A network device includes a rate measurement circuit that is configured to measure respective egress rates at which respective data is being transmitted via respective ports associated with the network device. A marking ratio determination circuit is configured to select respective marking ratios based on respective measured egress rates, the marking ratios for marking packets to be transmitted via the respective ports to indicate respective levels of congestion corresponding to the respective ports. Different marking ratios correspond to different measured egress rates. A packet editor circuit is configured to mark selected packets to be transmitted via respective ports according to the respective selected marking ratios. The respective selected marking ratios indicate to other communication devices that respective network paths via which the selected packets travelled experienced congestion, and the respective marking ratios indicate respective levels of congestion.
US11706139B2	Communication of policy changes in LISP-based software defined networks Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communicating policy changes in a Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) based network deployment include receiving, at a first routing device, a first notification from a map server, the first notification indicating a change in a policy for LISP based communication between at least a first endpoint device and at least a second endpoint device, the first endpoint device being connected to a network fabric through the first routing device and the second endpoint device being connected to the network fabric through a second routing device. The first routing device forwards a second notification to the second routing device if one or more entries of a first map cache implemented by the first routing device are affected by the policy change, the second notification indicating a set of one or more endpoints connected to the second routing device that are affected by the policy change.
US11706135B2	Communications methods, apparatus and systems for providing efficient and scalable media services The present invention relates to communications methods, apparatus and systems for providing media micro-services in a scalable and efficient manner. In an exemplary method embodiment, a packet plane control service entity performs the following operations: (i) receives a request from a Signaling-Session Border Controller to implement one or more micro-services on a media packet stream, the request including information about the media packet stream including stream identification information; generates instructions for one or more entities under the control of the packet plane control service entity to implement the requested one or more micro-services on the media packet stream; and communicates the generated instructions to the one or more entities under the control of the packet plane control service entity for implementation on the media packet stream.
US11706133B2	Inband group-based network policy using SRV6 The present technology pertains to a group-based network policy using Segment Routing over an IPv6 dataplane (SRv6). After a source application sends a packet, an ingress node can receive the packet, and if the source node is capable, it can identify an application policy and apply it. The ingress node indicates that the policy has been applied by including policy bits in the packet encapsulation. When the packet is received by the egress node, it can determine whether the policy was already applied, and if so, the packet is forward to the destination application. If the egress node determines that the policy has not be applied the destination application can apply the policy. Both the ingress node and egress nodes can learn of source application groups, destination application groups, and applicable policies through communication with aspects of the segment routing fabric.
US11706132B2	Stitching label switch paths between autonomous systems with internet protocol routing Systems and methods for routing traffic through a network along Label-Switched Paths (LSPs) that may extend across multiple autonomous systems include performing Internet Protocol (IP) routing lookups as a packet is transmitted along the LSP. In one implementation, a packet having a predetermined value (which may be inserted by an upstream network device) is received at a network device after travelling along a first segment of an LSP. In response to identifying the predetermined label value of the packet, the network device may perform an IP routing lookup using IP routing information included in the packet to identify a next hop for the packet. The network device may then update a label of the packet such that the packet is routed along a second segment of the LSP and transmit the communication packet to the next hop.
US11706119B2	Layer-3 performance monitoring sectionalization A method is disclosed for the collection of performance metrics by establishing service operations administration and maintenance (OAM) sessions between an actuator and a plurality of reflectors in a communication network. Test packets from an actuator simultaneously reach a plurality of reflectors along a test path. Each single test packet results into a plurality of test results, one per reflector, with quasi-synchronous performance metrics to sectionalize a network and more efficiently isolate fault or performance problems without the need for additional test packets to isolate the issue. Another method is disclosed wherein an actuator generates and transmits a plurality of simultaneous test packets, one per NID device, resulting into a plurality of test results, one per reflector, with quasi-synchronous performance metrics to sectionalize a network and more efficiently isolate fault or performance problems without the need for additional test packets to isolate the issue.
US11706116B2	Facilitating the resolution of address conflicts in a networked media playback system Examples are disclosed and described to facilitate resolution of Internet Protocol address conflicts. An example method includes periodically broadcasting, by the playback device over the network, a probe message, detecting, by the playback device, a change in status associated with the connection, based on the detection, obtaining, by the playback device, a new Internet Protocol (IP) address; and based on the detection, including, by the playback device in at least one probe message broadcast subsequent to the detection, an indication for other playback devices on the network to obtain a new IP address.
US11706115B2	System and method for using real-time packet data to detect and manage network issues A system and method is disclosed of extracting information from real-time network packet data to analyze connectivity data for client devices in a network. The method includes: detecting when client devices initiate a connectivity event; after detecting a connectivity event, waiting a period of time for the client device to either reach or fail to reach a network connected state; after waiting a period of time, recording connectivity event information; and sending the recorded connectivity event information to an analytics system for network incident and/or network congestion analysis.
US11706111B1	Anti-fragile network Implementations are directed to improving network anti-fragility. In some aspects, a method includes receiving parameter data from a network of nodes, the parameter data comprising attributes, policies, and action spaces for each node in the network of nodes; configuring one or more interruptive events on one or more nodes included in the network of nodes; determining a first action of each node in the network of nodes in response to the one or more interruptive events; determining a first performance metric, for each node, that corresponds to the first action, wherein the first performance matric is determined based on at least a first reward value associated with the first action; continuously updating the first action in an iterative process to obtain a final action, wherein a performance metric corresponding to the final action satisfies a performance threshold, and transmitting the final action for each node to the network of nodes.
US11706109B2	Performance of traffic monitoring actions Some embodiments provide a method for performing data traffic monitoring. For each packet processing stage of a set of packet processing stages in a packet processing pipeline, the method determines whether a packet received by the packet processing pipeline specifies a set of monitoring actions to be performed on the packet. When the packet specifies a set of monitoring action, the method determines whether the monitoring actions in the set are supported by the packet processing stage. The method executes the supported monitoring actions on the packet in addition to processing the packet according to configuration data for the stage.
US11706108B2	Method and system for determining a quality of experience during a real-time communication session A method for determining a Quality of Experience associated with a real-time communication session between user devices includes monitoring the real-time communication session and determining at least one quality indicator of the Quality of Experience, at least one first performance indicator of a Quality of Service, and at least one second performance indicator of the Quality of Service. Based on the quality indicator and the first performance indicator, the method determines, among a family of correlation functions indicative of the correlation between the Quality of Experience and a Quality of Service in respect of a generic real-time communication session, a correlation function which is indicative of the correlation between the Quality of Experience and the Quality of Service in respect of the monitored real-time communication session. Then the method applies the first performance indicator and the second performance indicator to the correlation function to determine said Quality of Experience.
US11706104B2	Inferring quality of experience (QoE) based on choice of QoE inference model In one example, a location of a potential bottleneck of network traffic in a network is identified. Based on the location of the potential bottleneck, a first QoE inference model is selected from a plurality of respective QoE inference models. The respective QoE inference models are each trained to infer a respective QoE of the network traffic based on one or more respective network traffic metrics generated by monitoring the network traffic at a respective location in the network. One or more first network traffic metrics of the one or more respective network traffic metrics are generated by monitoring the network traffic at a first respective location. The one or more first network traffic metrics are provided to the first QoE inference model to infer a first respective QoE.
US11706096B2	Information processing method, computer-readable recording medium storing information processing program, information processing apparatus, and information processing system An information processing method executed by a computer includes: specifying one or a plurality of first physical resources on which virtual resources used by a first user operate; specifying a device connected to the first physical resource and one or a plurality of second physical resources different from the first physical resource, which is connected to the device and on which virtual resources used by a user other than the first user operate; and outputting information that indicates the first physical resource and information that indicates the second physical resource.
US11706095B2	Cybersecurity incident response and security operation system employing playbook generation through custom machine learning A new cybersecurity incident is registered at a security incident response platform. At a playbook generation system, details are received of the new cybersecurity incident from the security incident response platform. At least some of the details correspond to a set of features of the new cybersecurity incident. A set or subset of nearest neighbors of the new cybersecurity incident is localized in a feature space. The nearest neighbors of the new cybersecurity incident are other cybersecurity incidents having a distance from the new cybersecurity incident within the feature space that is defined by differences in features of the nearest neighbors with respect to the set of features of the new cybersecurity incident. A custom playbook is created for responding to the new cybersecurity incident having prescriptive procedures based on occurrences of prescriptive procedures previously employed in response to the nearest neighbor cybersecurity incidents.
US11706094B2	Device provisioning A computing device may receive, based on a scan of a bar code associated with a device, information associated with the bar code. The information may be used to retrieve a dedicated activation service set identifier (SSID), which may be sent to one or more gateways. A first gateway may indicate that it is connected to the device using the dedicated activation SSID, and the device may be connected to the first gateway using a specific SSID that is different from the dedicated activation SSID.
US11706092B2	Activity-based resource allocation among virtual-computing sessions Dynamically controlling use of a shared computing resource by virtual-computing sessions of a client computing device includes storing per-virtual-channel weights representing contributions of session virtual channels to performance, the stored weights including sets of weights for respective distinct application types. A resource allocation operation includes (i) for each session, selecting a set of weights based on a type of application using the session and applying the selected set of weights to activity state data to produce a session activity value, the activity state data representing activity states of the session virtual channels, and (ii) generating resource usage control signals based on the session activity values of the sessions, the resource usage control signals representing a target pattern of use of the shared computing resource by the sessions. An enforcement operation uses the resource usage control signals to establish the target pattern of use of the shared resource by the sessions.
US11706089B2	Distributed framework for resilient machine-to-machine system management Data is received describing a local model of a first device generated by the first device based on sensor readings at the first device and a global model is updated that is hosted remote from the first device based on the local model and modeling devices in a plurality of different asset taxonomies. A particular operating state affecting one or more of a set of devices deployed in a particular machine-to-machine network is detected and the particular machine-to-machine network is automatically reconfigured based on the global model.
US11706086B1	Method and system for monitoring switch on basis of BMC, and device and medium The present disclosure relates to a baseboard management controller (BMC)-based switch monitoring method, a system, a computer device, and a readable medium thereof. The BMC-based switch monitoring method includes: virtualizing a multi-core BMC into a plurality of logical computers such that each core operates separately; in response to start of a switch, migrating functions of the switch into a first core of the multi-core BMC for start, and monitoring other cores of the multi-core BMC based on a second core of the multi-core BMC; determining, in response to that a new service is received by the switch is detected, whether the new service is a firmware upgrade service; and allocating the new service to the second core in the multi-core BMC for operation, in response to that the new service is the firmware upgrade service.
US11706084B2	Self-monitoring The present approach relates to event monitoring and management of an instance using a generated service map, allowing monitoring of CIs (e.g., applications) and connections that are currently active in a user's specific instance. A self-monitoring solution is generated for a user (e.g., via an application) that depicts status, configuration, and errors related to the user's instance. In certain implementations, the present techniques involve applying internal knowledge of the working of a user's instance and applications to perform the self-monitoring, and determine when an alert should be generated. Further, the present techniques may involve making a determination to provide a user with a self-help solution in addition or based on the self-monitoring of the user's instance.
US11706079B2	Fault recovery method and apparatus, and storage medium A fault recovery method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided, and belong to the field of Internet technologies. In the method, network composition information and abnormal event information of a target network are obtained, where the network composition information includes a network topology of the target network and device information of a plurality of network devices on the target network, and the device information includes one or more of interface configuration information, protocol configuration information, and service configuration information; and then a possible root cause of a fault of the target network is determined based on the network composition information and the abnormal event information, where the possible root cause of the fault is used to determine a corresponding fault recovery plan.
US11706077B2	Contextual generation of ephemeral networks A method, system, and computer program product for contextual generation of an ephemeral network are provided. The method detects an initiating event for network generation associated with a user of a first computing device. The method determines a duration of the initiating event. A set of network members is determined based on the initiating event and the duration. The method establishes an ephemeral network, connecting at least a portion of computing devices associated with the set of network members. The ephemeral network is terminated in response to detecting a completion event. In response to terminating the ephemeral network, member information for the set of network members is removed from the portion of the computing devices.
US11706076B2	Computer system with computing devices, communication device, task processing device The embodiments of the disclosure provide a computer system, comprising a plurality of computing devices, each computing device comprising a storage unit and at least one computing unit which are connected in parallel, the plurality of computing devices being divided into a plurality of nodes, and the plurality of nodes forming a network topology; a communication device comprising an autonomous domain building module and a first communication module, the first communication module being configured for connecting the plurality of computing devices in a communication manner; and a task processing device comprising an addressing module and a task processing module. Therefore, the solution of the present disclosure meets the explosive demand of massive data and large amount computing power caused by artificial intelligence and blockchain to a certain extent.
US11706069B2	Transmission method, transmission apparatus, reception method and receiver apparatus Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
US11706066B2	Bandwidth adjustable euclidean modulation A method and apparatus for using Euclidean modulation in an antenna are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for controlling an antenna comprises mapping a desired modulation to achievable modulation states, mapping modulation values associated with the achievable modulation states to one or more control parameters, and controlling radio frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements using the one or more control parameters to perform beam forming.
US11706059B2	Adaptation of at least one transmit equalizer setting Selection of equalization coefficients to configure a communications link between a receiver in a host system and a transmitter in an optical or electrical communication module is performed by a management entity with access to management registers in the receiver and transmitter. Continuous modification of the selected equalization coefficients is enabled on the communications link after the communications link is established to handle varying operating conditions such as temperature and humidity.
US11706057B2	Devices, systems, and methods for serial communication over a galvanically isolated channel Devices, systems, and methods for serial communication over a galvanically isolated channel are disclosed. A device includes a first IC device interface, first IO components connected to the first IC device interface, a second IC device interface, second IO components connected to the second IC device interface, an insulator layer having a first major surface and a second major surface, at least one pair of capacitor plates and corresponding interconnection paths on the first major surface, and at least one pair of capacitor plates and corresponding interconnection paths on the second major surface, wherein the at least one pair of capacitor plates on the first major surface of the insulator layer are aligned with the at least one pair of capacitor plates on the second major surface of the insulator layer to form at least one pair of capacitors.
US11706053B2	Differential latency measurement The present invention provides a method of selecting an optimal communication routing between a UE and a core network wherein a plurality of differing communication paths are establishable between the UE and the network. Duplicate packets are transmitted over two communication paths and a latency difference determined between the two paths. This latency difference is used to select a communication path for subsequent communication.
US11706052B2	Smart control apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable recording media for a wireless network An apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable recording media perform smart control in a wireless network, which includes a plurality of wireless devices. Configuration parameters are obtained to set one wireless device as an active master device in the wireless network. The active master device receives updates in the configuration parameters and learned station (STA) information, and periodically transmits the updates to the configuration parameters and the learned STA information to the other wireless devices in the wireless network. Any one of the other wireless devices in the wireless network can use the updates to the configuration parameters and the learned STA information to be set as a new active master device in the wireless network when the active master device becomes out of network.
US11706044B2	Broadcast response method and system A system and method for broadcast response generally employing RDS, DARC, or similar technology is provided, including a method for responding to a broadcast comprising extracting an event identifier from a broadcast signal; detecting a response by a user to the broadcast signal; polling a communications device to determine a user identifier; and communicating the event identifier and the user identifier when the user response is detected.
US11706031B2	Security authentication system for membership login of online website and method thereof A security authentication system for a website provides a safe login without having to directly enter an ID and a password on a user device requesting login to the website. A first user device receives one-time use authentication information from a second user device after the second user device received the one-time use authentication information from an authentication server without the authentication server receiving user login authentication information from the second user device. A request is transmitted to the authentication server based on the one-time use authentication information and the user login authentication information. In response to the request, one-time password (OTP) information is received from the authentication server. The OTP information is presented by the first user device, such that the OTP information can be entered into the second user device and used in a request to log in to the website.
US11706023B2	System and method for mitigating international revenue share fraud Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a call; selecting a next carrier to handoff the call; generating a call data record (CDR) for the handoff to the next carrier; encrypting the CDR using a call encryption key, thereby creating an encrypted CDR; encrypting the encrypted CDR using a committee encryption key, thereby creating a double encrypted CDR; recording the double encrypted CDR to a blockchain; and sending the call encryption key to the next carrier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11706015B2	Side channel timing attack mitigation in securing data in transit A method for side-channel attack mitigation in streaming encryption includes reading an input stream into a decryption process, extracting an encryption envelope having a wrapped key, a cipher text, and a first message authentication code (MAC) from the input stream, generating a second MAC using the wrapped key of the encryption envelope, and performing decryption of the cipher text in constant time by determining whether the encryption envelope is authentic by comparing the first MAC extracted from the encryption envelope and the second MAC generated using the wrapped key.
US11706013B2	Method and apparatus for allocating resources to FDR-mode UE in a wireless communication system A method for allocating resources by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes configuring a Resource Block Group (RBG) dependent on whether a User Equipment (UE) operates in Full Duplex Radio (FDR) mode or Half Duplex (HD) mode, and allocating resources to the UE in units of the configured RBG. The RBG includes a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs).
US11706003B2	Methods and apparatuses for downlink tracking reference signal configuration A method, wireless device and network node are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for a wireless device includes receiving a configuration of a reference signal resource set from the network node, the reference signal resource set being a set of single-symbol and single antenna port reference signal resources in at least one slot; and based on at least one parameter of the received configuration, determining whether the UE can assume a same antenna port for all reference signal resources of the reference signal resource set.
US11705984B2	Method for determining demodulation reference signal for multiple access transmission The present disclosure relates to a method for a terminal device to determine demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising: obtaining (211) a DMRS configuration and a corresponding signature assigned by a network side node; constructing (212) a DMRS according to the DMRS configuration; mapping (213) the DMRS to a physical channel assigned to the terminal device. The signature indicates a processing configuration for the physical channel. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the signature, and DMRS configuration may be configured correspondingly, to obtain low-crosstalk DMRS signals for different terminal devices, thus, the number of the supported terminal devices may be improved.
US11705973B2	Method and device for processing ultrasonic waves A frequency combination corresponding to target data to be transmitted is determined. The frequency combination includes at least two different frequencies. Ultrasonic waves of frequencies in the frequency combination are sent within a predetermined duration.
US11705972B2	Pooled memory system enabled by monolithic in-package optical I/O A computer memory system includes an electro-optical chip, an electrical fanout chip electrically connected to an electrical interface of the electro-optical chip, and at least one dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slot electrically connected to the electrical fanout chip. A photonic interface of the electro-optical chip is optically connected to an optical link. The electro-optical chip includes at least one optical macro that converts outgoing electrical data signals into outgoing optical data signals for transmission through the optical link. The optical macro also converts incoming optical data signals from the optical link into incoming electrical data signals and transmits the incoming electrical data signals to the electrical fanout chip. The electrical fanout chip directs bi-directional electrical data communication between the electro-optical chip and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) DIMM corresponding to the at least one DIMM slot.
US11705970B2	Optical receiver with an optically compensated amplifier control loop An optical receiver can implement a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) to process received light using a closed loop optical pre-amplification. The optical receiver can use an average input value of the TIA to control an semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) or pre-amplification as received average signal varies. The optical receiver can include a gain controller for the TIA that can measure the TIA swing to adjust the gain of the SOA to pre-amplify received light in a closed loop control configuration.
US11705968B2	Adjustment device and adjusting method for stabilizing optical characteristic parameters An adjusting method for stabilizing optical characteristic parameters applicable to transmitter optical subassemblies with silicon photonic chips is provided. The adjusting method might include: sensing an initial optical signal emitted by the transmitter optical subassembly with first control component, controlling phase setting parameter of the silicon photonic chip with the first control component to change the transmitter optical subassembly from emitting the initial optical signal to emitting a first modified optical signal, transmitting a power target value to second control component when the first modified optical signal conforms to the phase target value and sensing the first modified optical signal with the second control component, and controlling a bias current of the transmitter optical subassembly according to the first modified optical signal and the power target value to change the transmitter optical subassembly from emitting the first modified optical signal to emitting a second modified optical signal.
US11705967B2	Reacquiring communication link based on historical data The disclosure provides for a method for reacquiring a communication link between a first communication device and a second communication device. The method includes using one or more processors of the first communication device to receive historical data related to the first communication device and an environment surrounding the first communication device. The one or more processors are then used to determine one or more trends in the historical data related to fading of the communication link. Based on the one or more trends, the one or more processors are used to determine a starting time and an initial search direction for a search for the communication link. The one or more processors then execute the search at the starting time from the initial search direction.
US11705966B2	Framework for handling signal integrity using ASE in optical networks A method and system is described. A signal indicative of a failure of a first channel within a plurality of channels of a transmission signal traversing a signal working path in a network is received. The signal working path has a headend node, a tail-end node and an intermediate node. The first channel has a frequency band and a power level prior to failing. The signal working path is associated with a protection path. The protection path includes the intermediate node, optical cross-connects, and a transmitter supplying (ASE) light. The transmitter is activated to supply the ASE light within a frequency band and having a power level corresponding to the frequency band and power level associated with the first channel. The ASE light is supplied to a cross-connect, such that the cross-connect provides a transmission signal including the ASE light.
US11705962B2	Maritime communication system based on low earth orbit satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle The present disclosure relates to a maritime communication system based on low earth orbit satellites and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The maritime communication system according to one embodiment may include one or more maritime users, one or more satellites connected to a network operator, and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for relaying communication between the maritime users and the satellites.
US11705961B2	Method and system for achieving wireless communication between a sender device and a receiver device by means of a repeater device, without loss of information on a physical property A method for achieving wireless communication between a transmitter and a receiver via a repeater device. The value of a first physical property of a message received from the transmitter is measured by the repeater device. The value of a second physical property to be used for the retransmission of the message is determined by the repeater device depending on the value of the first physical property measured for the received message. The message is retransmitted to the receiver by the repeater device using the determined value of the second physical property.
US11705957B2	Indicating user equipment (UE) polorization tracking capacity A method (20) performed by a wireless terminal (10) in a wireless communication network (10, 30) is provided. In the method (20), based on a (fundamental) polarization tracking capability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one downlink polarization of at least one downlink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and an access node (30) of the wireless communication network (10, 30) is determined (204). A reference polarization from the at least one downlink polarization is selected (207). Based on the reference polarization and a (momentary) polarization tracking ability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one uplink polarization of at least one uplink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30) is configured (210). A corresponding method (40) performed by the access node (30) is also provided, as well as the mentioned wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30).
US11705954B2	Transmission configuration indicator state group indication Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication to apply, for one or more uplink communications of a spatial division multiplexing (SDM) configuration, a group indication associated with downlink beams. The UE may transmit the one or more uplink communications based at least in part on the group indication associated with the downlink beams. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11705951B2	Ultra-reliable low latency communication with multiple transmission-reception points The techniques described herein provide procedures at user equipment (UEs) for performing channel state information (CSI) reporting and sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions based on an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) block error rate (BLER) target and for reliably receiving PDCCH transmissions. For CSI reporting, a UE may be configured to generate a CSI report based on a BLER target and on received CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs), where the CSI-RSs may be transmitted on one or more groups of quasi co-located antenna ports. For SRS transmissions, a UE may be configured to transmit SRS based on an SRS configuration determined based on a BLER target. For receiving PDCCH transmissions, a UE may be configured to receive and combine DCI received from multiple base stations.
US11705949B2	Techniques for channel state information report transmission triggered by negative acknowledgment (NACK) Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a negative acknowledgment (NACK) associated with a downlink communication, and may transmit a channel state information (CSI) report based at least in part on transmitting the NACK associated with the downlink communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, from a UE, a NACK associated with a downlink communication, and may monitor for the CSI report based at least in part on receiving the NACK. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11705948B2	Iterative self interference measurement with power ramping A configuration for a wireless device to perform iterations of SIM to detect clutter echo in order to improve a configuration for SIM. The apparatus performs a SIM for multiple beam pairs based on a first transmission power. The apparatus performs an iteration of the SIM for one or more beam pairs that meet a criteria. The iteration of the SIM is based on a second transmission power. The second transmission power is greater than the first transmission power.
US11705947B2	Techniques for activating or deactivating antenna panels at a user equipment Aspects described herein relate to activating, by a user equipment (UE), or causing activation of, by a base station, one or more antenna panels at the UE. An action time for activating or deactivating the one or more antenna panels may also be used to allow processing time related to activation or deactivation of the antenna panels.
US11705943B1	Distributed network control and link activation for multi-user MIMO communication A network control and rate optimization solution for multiuser multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communications in wireless networks. This solution is decentralized and includes scheduling and routing of the MU-MIMO communication links that adapt to dynamic channel, interference, and traffic conditions. The ergodic sum rates of MIMO multiple access channel (MAC) and interference channel (IC) configurations are analyzed by considering the error, and overhead effects due to channel estimation (training) and quantization (feedback). By taking practical considerations such as channel estimation, quantization error and in-network interference into account, the rate gain is shown with an increasing number of antennas compared with single-input single-output (SISO) systems. A distributed channel access protocol to select and activate MU-MIMO configurations is presented with the maximum achievable sum rates using local information on channel, interference, and traffic conditions. The scheduling algorithm is extended to routing via a cross-layer solution based on a decentralized version of the backpressure algorithm. After accounting for the control message overhead, it is shown that the proposed MU-MIMO scheduling and routing solution improves the stable throughput over the minimum distance routing based on frequency of encounters and single user MIMO communications in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) setting.
US11705942B2	Methods for UE-specific RS multiplexing A method for reference signal processing is provided. In this example, the method includes receiving, by a UE, a message from a network device, where the message indicates both that a first reference signal is to be transmitted over a first resource and that a second reference signal is to be transmitted over a second resource. The method also includes receiving, by the UE, at least the first reference signal in accordance with capabilities of the UE and the message received from the network device.
US11705941B2	Quasi-co-location indication method and apparatus This application relates to the field of communications technologies and provides a quasi co-location indication method and an apparatus, so that a terminal learns of a quasi co-location relationship between a plurality of antenna ports of a first reference signal resource. The method includes: A terminal receives quasi-co-location indication information, where the quasi-co-location indication information is used to indicate M antenna port groups corresponding to a first reference signal resource, each of the M antenna port groups includes one or more CDM groups of the first reference signal resource, the CDM group includes a plurality of antenna ports, and any two antenna ports in a same antenna port group are in a quasi-co-location relationship. Then, the terminal determines a quasi-co-location relationship between a plurality of antenna ports of the first reference signal resource based on the quasi-co-location indication information.
US11705934B2	Wireless communication chip that makes both 5 GHz band and 6 GHz band support two transmit and two receive paths A wireless communication chip includes an analog front-end circuit and a baseband circuit. The analog front-end circuit includes a first transceiver circuit and a second transceiver circuit, wherein the first transceiver circuit is arranged to transmit or receive signals through a first antenna, and the second transceiver circuit is arranged to transmit or receive signals through a second antenna. The baseband circuit is arranged to control the first transceiver circuit to use a first band or a second band for communication, and/or to control the second transceiver circuit to use the first band or the second band for communication. The baseband circuit controls the first transceiver circuit and the second transceiver circuit so that the analog front-end circuit alternately performs 2T2R in the first band and 2T2R in the second band.
US11705933B1	Methods for monitoring state information of items Methods and system for processing shopping activity for a retail store are provided. One example method includes associating a plurality of sensor devices to monitor a shelf of the retail store. The shelf having one or more physical items and each of the physical items is capable of being associated with a state change in response to user interaction. The method includes detecting user interaction by a user in the retail store with a physical item of the one or more physical items. The user interaction causes the state change in a sensor device associated with the shelf, and responsive to the state change transmitting a message related to the state change over a network to an end node. The end node is configured to receive the message causing processing of an action based on the message. The one or more physical items are offered for sale in the store and data regarding the user interaction of the physical item is associated to a user account of the user. The user interaction is one of the physical item being touched, being lifted from the shelf, being moved from the shelf, or being released from the shelf of the retail store.
US11705931B2	Methods and systems for interference management Methods and systems for interference management are described. Methods and systems can be used for minimizing interference among communication and/or electronic devices. Interference data can be gathered/received from interference sources such as weather and natural patterns, various electronic devices, and one or more network protocols. The interference data can be used to generate interference patterns of each interference source in an interference map. The interference map can be used to determine how a particular interference pattern can affect a system. The interference map can also be used to evaluate a new source of interference (e.g., cordless phones, weather conditions) to determine how a system can be affected. The interference data can also be associated with an interference signature (e.g., an interference pattern, a fingerprint) for an interference source in a database. The database can be used based on the interference signature to identify known and/or unknown interference sources.
US11705930B2	Measurement and calibration of mismatch in an isolation channel A method for calibrating an isolator product includes receiving a calibration signal on a differential pair of nodes of a receiver signal path of a first integrated circuit die of the isolator product. The method includes generating a diagnostic signal having a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the calibration signal on the differential pair of nodes. The method includes configuring a programmable receiver signal path based on the diagnostic signal. Generating the diagnostic signal may include providing an analog signal based on a full-wave rectified version of the calibration signal on the differential pair of nodes. Generating the diagnostic signal may include converting the analog signal to a digital signal.
US11705929B2	Integrated radio frequency transceiver A direct digital radio having a high-speed RF front end in communication with an antenna, and a radio subsystem that can be configured to form a programmable multi-standard transceiver system. The high-speed RF front including RF inputs configured to receive a plurality of radio frequencies (e.g., frequencies between 400 MHz to 7.2 GHz, millimeter wave frequency signals, etc.) and wideband low noise amplifiers provides amplified signals to RF data converters, analog interfaces, digital interfaces, component interfaces, etc. The programmable multi-standard transceiver is operable in frequencies compatible with multiple networks such as private LTE and 5G networks as well as other wireless IoT standards and WiFi in multi-standard network access equipment. The programmable multi-standard transceiver can greatly reduce complexity for the baseband processing, lower the cost of the overall transceiver system, reduce power consumption, and at the same time, benefit from improvements on the digital functions through integration.
US11705927B2	Duplexer with impedance inverters A duplexer may be used to isolate a transmitter and a receiver that share a common antenna. By using impedance gradients to provide impedances that cause balance-unbalance transformers (balun) of the duplexer to cut-off access to the common antenna rather than duplicate the antenna impedance, the duplexer is balanced. Such cut-offs may have a lower insertion loss than a duplexer that merely duplicates the antenna impedance to separate the differential signals of the receiver and transmitter from the common mode signal.
US11705925B2	Dynamic bit flipping order for iterative error correction Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving a codeword stored in a memory device. The codeword is error corrected for a first number of iterations. The error correction includes traversing the codeword according to a first order. The codeword is error corrected for a second number of the iterations. The error correction of the codeword during a second iteration from the second number of iterations includes traversing the codeword according to a second order that is different from the first order.
US11705924B2	Low-latency encoding using a bypass sub-stream and an entropy encoded sub-stream A system comprises an encoder configured to entropy encode a bitstream comprising both compressible and non-compressible symbols. The encoder parses the bitstream into a compressible symbol sub-stream and a non-compressible sub-stream. The non-compressible symbol sub-stream bypass an entropy encoding component of the encoder while the compressible symbol sub-stream is entropy encoded. When a quantity of bytes of entropy encoded symbols and bypass symbols is accumulated a chunk of fixed or known size is formed using the accumulated entropy encoded symbol bytes and the bypass bytes without waiting on the full bitstream to be processed by the encoder. In a complementary manner, a decoder reconstructs the bitstream from the packets or chunks.
US11705923B2	Method and apparatus for storing data, and computer device and storage medium thereof Disclosed are a method and apparatus for storing data. The method includes: acquiring data to be stored; converting the data to be stored from an initial data type to a target data type, a data length corresponding to the target data type being less than that corresponding to the initial data type; and storing the data to be stored of the target data type to a database. In the method according to the present disclosure, a storage space occupied by the data to be stored in the database is greatly reduced. In addition, the method according to the present disclosure is performed prior to lossy or lossless data compression storage of the data to be stored in the related art. That is, on the basis of a compression ratio when the data to be stored is stored in the related art, the present disclosure further improves a compression effect of the data to be stored by reducing the data length when the data to be stored is stored, and further saves storage resources of the database.
US11705922B2	Apparatus and system for a programmable resistance circuit A programmable resistance circuit provides a selected resistance by configuring a reference resistor to exhibit an effective resistance, in an operational sense, by achieving an average output voltage between a source line and a return line in the programmable resistance circuit. The average output voltage corresponds to the effective resistance. The effective resistance is achieved by utilizing a modulated voltage source to bias a transistor and intermittently draw current across the reference resistor according to the duty cycle of the modulated voltage source. A programmed resistance circuit can produce a selected resistance corresponding to button selection zones of a vehicle user interface when connected to a remote circuit that acts according to a user selection.
US11705919B2	Successive approximation tree configuration for analog-to-digital converter An analog-to-digital circuit that digitizes an analog voltage. The analog-to-digital circuit includes plural comparators functionally connected to form a tree that has levels i, and each level i has branches j, and an encoder connected to the plural comparators and configured to generate a digitized value of an input analog voltage. Each comparator from a level i has first and second outputs, and each of the first and second outputs is electrically connected to an input of different comparators from a next level i+1 of the tree.
US11705918B2	Incremental analog-to-digital converter and circuit system using the same An incremental analog-to-digital converter including a first-stage non-delay memorization element and other elements is disclosed. An ending time point of a second reset signal received by the first-stage non-delay memorization element is later than an ending time point of a first reset signal received by the other elements by at least one clock cycle, a reset duration of the first-stage non-delay memorization element is longer than a reset duration of the other element, so that the first-stage non-delay memorization element can be prevented from occurring overshoot or spike on an output thereof, and the incremental analog-to-digital converter can maintain a good signal-to-noise and distortion ratio under the condition that the internal elements has low swing limits.
US11705909B1	Frequency-locked circuit for variable frequency topology and frequency-locked method thereof A frequency-locked circuit for a variable frequency topology is configured to trigger a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller to lock a frequency of a driving signal outputted by the PWM controller. The frequency-locked circuit includes an AC wave generating circuit and a comparator. The AC wave generating circuit receives and converts the driving signal to generate an AC wave signal. The comparator is electrically connected to the AC wave generating circuit and receives the AC wave signal. The comparator compares the AC wave signal with a reference signal to generate a comparison output signal. In response to determining that the AC wave signal is greater than the reference signal, the comparison output signal triggers the PWM controller to convert the driving signal from one voltage level to another voltage level so as to lock the frequency. The one voltage level is different from the another voltage level.
US11705906B1	Majority logic gate having ferroelectric input capacitors and a pulsing scheme coupled to a conditioning logic A new class of logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. Input signals in the form of digital signals are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node which provides a majority function of the inputs. In the multi-input majority or minority gates, the non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels. In some examples, the nodes of the non-linear input capacitors are conditioned once in a while to preserve function of the multi-input majority gates.
US11705904B2	System and method for selecting an operating mode, such as a boot mode, of a micro-controller unit A microcontroller includes an input pin and internal pull-up and pull-down circuits. External pull-up and pull-down circuits are also coupled to the input pin. The microcontroller is operable according to different configuration modes which include configuring the input pin in a floating state. A control logic then configures the internal pull-up and pull-down circuits according to an internal pull-up mode to acquire a first input voltage signal (at a first logic value) from the input pin, and further configure the internal pull-up and pull-down circuits according to an internal pull-down mode to acquire a second input voltage signal (at a second logic value) from the input pin. A selection of the operating mode of the MCU is then made based on the acquired first and second logic values.
US11705903B2	Back-gate biasing of clock trees using a reference generator The embodiments herein describe technologies for back-gate biasing of clock trees using a reference generator. A circuit includes a set of clock buffers and a programmable voltage reference generator to apply a voltage to a back gate of a transistor of the set of clock buffers.
US11705902B2	Supply voltage detecting circuit and circuit system using the same A supply voltage detecting circuit has a voltage detection circuit and a current clamping circuit. The voltage detection circuit receives and detects a supply voltage and is used to detect to generate a low-voltage detection signal. When the supply voltage is lower than a set level, the low voltage detection signal output by the voltage detection circuit turns off the current clamping circuit, and a transistor current flowing through the voltage detection circuit is proportional to the supply voltage; and when the supply voltage is higher than or equal to the set level, the low voltage detection signal output by the voltage detection circuit turns on the current clamping circuit, and the current clamping circuit provides a constant current to maintain the operation of the voltage detection circuit, wherein the transistor current flowing through the voltage detection circuit is proportional to the constant current.
US11705900B2	Protection circuitry Circuitry for controlling current between a load and a power supply, the circuitry comprising: an output stage comprising: an input node configured to be coupled to the power supply; and an output node configured to be coupled to the load; and one or more control nodes for controlling a conduction path between the input node and the output node; and protection circuitry coupled to the one or more control nodes, the protection circuitry configured to break the conduction path between the input node and the output node when a load voltage at the output node exceeds a supply voltage at the input node, wherein the protection circuitry comprises: an active protection circuit configured to break the conduction path when the supply voltage exceeds an operational threshold of the active protection circuit; and a passive protection circuit configured to break the conduction path when the supply voltage is below an operation threshold of the active protection circuit.
US11705895B1	Voltage controlled oscillator power supply noise rejection An apparatus comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a first programmable resistance, and a second programmable resistance. The first circuit may be configured to generate a reference signal and a bias signal in response to a supply voltage and a first input signal. The first circuit generally provides supply noise rejection to variations in the supply voltage. The second circuit may be connected to the first circuit and a ring oscillator. The first transistor may be connected to the first circuit and configured to set a first reference current of the first circuit based on the first input signal and the first programmable resistance. The second transistor may be connected in parallel with the first transistor. The second transistor is generally diode-connected. The third transistor may be connected to the first circuit and configured to set a second reference current of the first circuit based on the first input signal and the second programmable resistance. The first circuit generally forms a current mirror with the second circuit. The second circuit may be configured to provide a programmable current ratio for the current mirror based on a value of a second input signal.
US11705892B2	Deglitcher with integrated non-overlap function A driver circuit includes a first deglitcher circuit that delays a rising edge or a falling edge of an input signal according to a mode control signal and supplies a first output signal. A second deglitcher circuit receives the first output signal and delays either a rising edge or a falling edge of the first output signal by a second delay according to the mode control signal and supplies a second output signal. Logic gates combine the first and second output signals to supply gate control signals for output transistors to drive the driver circuit output. A sum of the first delay and the second delay determines the total deglitch time defining a pulse width of pulses that are suppressed by the driver circuit and the second delay determines a non-overlap time. The non-overlap time overlaps in time with the total deglitch time.
US11705888B2	ZQ calibration using current source A memory device includes a terminal calibration circuit having at least one of a pull-down circuit or a pull-up circuit used in calibrating an impedance of a data bus termination. The memory device also includes a reference calibration circuit configured to generate a calibration current. The terminal calibration circuit can be configured to program an impedance of the least one of a pull-down circuit or a pull-up circuit based on the calibration current.
US11705887B2	Electronically tuned RF termination Systems and methods for a tunable impedance are provided. A tunable impedance includes a transistor assembly having two terminals and a control input. The transistor assembly includes one or more transistors electrically connected between the two terminals to provide a first impedance between the two terminals, based upon a control signal. One or more replica transistors react to the control signal in a similar fashion as the transistor assembly, to provide a replica impedance based upon the control signal. A control circuit is configured to generate the control signal based upon a voltage across the replica transistor(s) and/or a current through the replica transistor(s).
US11705885B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator with lateral etch stop Acoustic resonator devices and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate having a front surface and a cavity, a perimeter of the cavity defined by a lateral etch-stop comprising etch-stop material. A back surface of a single-crystal piezoelectric plate is attached to the front surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate that forms a diaphragm that spans the cavity. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the single-crystal piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. The piezoelectric plate and the IDT are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites a primary shear acoustic mode in the diaphragm.
US11705884B2	Bulk acoustic resonator A bulk acoustic resonator includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed to cover at least a portion of the first electrode; a second electrode disposed to cover at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer; a metal pad connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a protective layer disposed to cover at least the metal pad.
US11705883B2	Acoustic wave resonator with mass loading strip for suppression of transverse mode Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave resonator with transverse mode suppression. The acoustic wave resonator can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode, a temperature compensation layer, and a mass loading strip. The mass loading strip can be a conductive strip. The mass loading strip can overlap edge portions of fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode. A layer of the mass loading strip can have a density that is at least as high as a density of a material of the interdigital transducer electrode. The material of the interdigital transducer can impact acoustic properties of the acoustic wave resonator.
US11705874B2	Power amplifier circuit A power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor having a first terminal to which a voltage corresponding to a variable power supply voltage is to be supplied and a second terminal to which a radio-frequency signal is to be supplied, the first transistor being configured to amplify the radio-frequency signal, a bias circuit configured to supply a bias current or voltage to the second terminal of the first transistor, and an adjustment circuit configured to adjust the bias current or voltage in accordance with the variable power supply voltage supplied from a power supply terminal.
US11705870B2	Integrally-formed splitter for multiple-path power amplifiers and methods of manufacture thereof Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a power splitter. The power splitter can include a first splitter branch having a first amplifier with passive components, a second splitter branch having a second amplifier with passive components. The first splitter branch is substantially electrically isolated from the second splitter branch by configuring the first and second splitter branches to have similar phase delays. Outputs of the power splitter can be electrically coupled to the multi-stage amplifier. The power splitter can be manufactured on a single semiconductor die or integrally formed on the same semiconductor die with other circuits such as the multi-stage amplifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11705868B2	System for adapting the voltage of a drain of a power stage A system for adapting the voltage of a drain of a power stage includes at least two transmission paths TXa, a transmission path comprising a resistive element (1n), a phase control module (2n), and a power stage (3n) at the output of which a radiating element (En) is arranged, comprising at least: a device (5n) for determining the value of a reflected power Pr, the value of an incident power Pi in a power stage, and the ratio of the powers R, an analogue device (6n) configured so as to pulse width-modulate the difference signal, a switching cell (7n) receiving a low-power PWM signal and designed to generate a power signal PWMa that is transformed, by a low-pass filter (8n), into a bias signal for biasing the power stage in accordance with a predefined bias control law.
US11705864B2	Voltage-controlled oscillator A first phase adjuster adjusts the phase of any one of first and second AC voltages generated in a negative resistance circuit so that a shift amount Φ in a first variable phase shifter falls within a range of 0 degrees≤Φ<180 degrees, and outputs the phase-adjusted AC voltage to the first variable phase shifter, and a second phase adjuster adjusts the phase of the other one of the first and second AC voltages generated in the negative resistance circuit so that a shift amount Φ in a second variable phase shifter falls within a range of 0 degrees≤Φ<180 degrees, and outputs the phase-adjusted AC voltage to the second variable phase shifter.
US11705856B2	Solar and/or wind powered assembly An assembly comprising at least one electrical device; the at least one electrical device being mounted to at least one support; at least one solar element for creating electric power from solar power; at least one energy storage device for storing electricity generated by the solar element; at least one wind impacting surface operatively associated with the support; at least one energy converter for generating electric power from the wind; and at least one shaft operatively connected to the at least one energy converter and the support. Optionally, the energy converter comprises at least one motor which operates to rotate the support; the at least one motor being operatively connected to the at least one battery for storing electric power therein.
US11705853B2	Solar powered charging station A solar powered charging station uses photovoltaic panels to generate electrical energy for use directly and/or for storage in electrical batteries for use during night operation. The station includes parallel electrical circuits which permit the station to operate during daylight hours in the event of a failure of the battery or the battery charging system. The station is adapted to use stabilizing ballast which can be collected locally at the site of the station. The parallel circuitry is adaptable for use with other forms of electrical power generation having a minimal carbon footprint.
US11705852B2	Motor driving device and electric oil pump device A motor driving device for driving a motor is provided. The motor driving device includes: a driver outputting a drive signal for driving the motor to the motor; and a controller controlling a duty ratio of the drive signal based on three control parameters which are an initial duty ratio, a duty ratio increasing speed, and a target duty ratio. The controller has a normal control mode in which each of the three control parameters is a predetermined value, and a cryogenic control mode in which at least one of the three control parameters is a smaller value than in the normal control mode.
US11705851B2	Open circuit diagnosis apparatus and method for motor drive circuit An open circuit diagnosis apparatus, and method for open circuit diagnosis, for a motor drive circuit with a Miller plateau detection unit that detects whether there is a Miller plateau region in a gate voltage applied to a switching element of a motor drive circuit when the switching element is turned on; a body diode activation detection unit which detects whether the body diode of the switching element has been activated which depends on the on/off state of the switching element; and a control unit which determines whether the motor drive circuit is in the open circuit state on the basis of whether the body diode activation unit has been activated and whether there is a Miller plateau region in a gate voltage.
US11705847B2	Drive device for AC motor, compressor drive device, and refrigeration cycle device A drive device for an AC motor includes: an adaptive observation unit that adaptively estimates an angular velocity of a rotor of an AC motor; a speed control unit that determines a first torque command with which an angular velocity command matches an average value of an estimated angular velocity; a phase lead amount calculation unit that calculates, based on a disturbance frequency, a phase lead amount of a transfer function from a true angular velocity to a model deviation; a vibration suppression control unit that determines, based on a frequency of load torque pulsations, the model deviation, and the phase lead amount, a second torque command with which speed pulsations in the AC motor are suppressed; and a torque control unit that controls a torque of the AC motor based on the first torque command and the second torque command.
US11705845B2	Motor control device This motor control device includes a vector control unit. The vector control unit includes: a current control unit that calculates a before-compensation d-axis voltage command value and a before-compensation q-axis voltage command value; a first non-interference control unit that calculates a first d-axis non-interference compensation value on the basis of a q-axis current command value to compensate for the before-compensation d-axis voltage command value and calculates a first q-axis non-interference compensation value on the basis of a d-axis current command value to compensate for the before-compensation q-axis voltage command value; and a second non-interference control unit that cancels out an interference component of a d-axis current generated in a specific rotation range of a motor with a q-axis current and an interference component of the q-axis current generated in the specific rotation range with the d-axis current by using a variable integral gain varying depending on a motor rotation speed.
US11705838B2	Vibration compensation controller with neural network band-pass filters for bearingless permanent magnet synchronous motor The controller comprises a displacement controller and a rotating speed controller. The displacement controller includes a vibration force compensation control module and a dead-time vibration compensation module. The vibration force compensation control module receives actual displacements and a rotor mechanical angle and outputs corresponding vibration compensation forces. The vibration force compensation control module comprises a first neural network band-pass filter, a second neural network band-pass filter, a third PID controller, and a fourth PID controller. The dead-time vibration compensation module receives a rotor electrical angle and an actual quadrature-direct axis currents and an actual direct axis current and outputs a quadrature-direct axis compensation voltages and a direct axis compensation voltage. The dead-time vibration compensation module consists of a third neural network band-pass filter in a direct axis direction, a fourth neural network band-pass filter in a quadrature axis direction, a sixth PI controller, and a seventh PI controller.
US11705836B2	Ripple count circuit including varying ripple threshold detection A motor control system includes a variable voltage supply in signal communication with a direct current (DC) motor. The DC motor includes a rotor induced to rotate in response to a drive current generated by a variable supply voltage delivered by the voltage supply. The rotation of the rotor 103 generates a mechanical force that drives a component. A ripple count circuit 104 is configured to filter the drive current based on a rotational speed (ω) of the rotor 103 to generate a filtered drive current signal, and to generate a varying threshold based on the filtered drive current signal. Based on a comparison between the filtered drive current signal and the varying threshold, the ripple count circuit 104 generates a pulsed output signal indicative of the rotational speed (ω) of the rotor and a rotational position (θ) of the rotor.
US11705828B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device according to an embodiment includes a cell, a first sensor, a second sensor, a storage, a first controller, and a second controller. The first controller is configured to control or protect the cell on the basis of at least one of an output result of the first sensor and an output result of the second sensor. The second controller, in a case in which a change in at least one of the output result of the first sensor and the output result of the second sensor satisfies a first condition, is configured to execute at least one of a first operation of storing the output result of the first sensor in the storage, a second operation of storing the output result of the first sensor in the storage over a second period longer than a first period, and a third operation of storing the output result of the second sensor instead of the output result of the first sensor.
US11705822B2	Voltage clamp and current clamp systems with power recovery Various embodiments are directed to a voltage clamp system comprising: a rectifier; a protected node, a reference node, and one or more internal nodes, coupled to the rectifier; a power converter, coupled to the rectifier via the one or more internal nodes; and one or more output nodes coupled to the power converter and configured to couple to a power sink. The rectifier and the power converter are configured to output power via one or more output nodes coupled to the rectifier, and to limit a component of the voltage between the protected node and the reference node.
US11705821B2	Architecture for multi-port AC/DC switching mode power supply An architecture for a multi-port AC/DC Switching Mode Power Supply (SMPS) with Power Factor Correction (PFC) comprises power management control (PMC) for PFC On/Off Control and Smart Power Distribution, and optionally, a boost follower circuit. For example, in a universal AC/DC multi-port USB-C Power Delivery (PD) adapter, PMC enables turn-on and turn-off of PFC dependent on output port operational status and a combined load of active output ports. A microprocessor control unit (MCU) receives operational status, a voltage sense input and a current sense input for each USB port, computes output power for each USB port, and executes a power distribution protocol to turn-on or turn-off PFC dependent on the combined load from each USB port. Available power may be distributed intelligently to one or more ports, dependent on load. In an example embodiment, turning-off PFC for low load and low AC line input increases efficiency by 3% to 5%.
US11705819B2	Integrated circuit and power supply circuit An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit configured to generate an output voltage at a target level. The power supply circuit includes a transistor configured to control an inductor current flowing through an inductor. The integrated circuit includes a load detection circuit outputting a detection voltage corresponding to a power consumption of a load and corresponding to an operation mode of the power supply circuit, based on the inductor current, a driver circuit driving the transistor according to the operation mode of the power supply circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the driver circuit to switch the power supply circuit to a second mode upon the detection voltage reaching a first level with a decrease in the power consumption of the load, and to a first mode upon the detection voltage reaching a second level with an increase in the power consumption of the load.
US11705816B2	Isolation transformer, and power conversion device in which the isolation transformer is used The isolation transformer includes two kinds of winding, a high voltage side winding and a low voltage side winding, and the high voltage side winding and the low voltage side winding are formed in winding layers, wherein the high voltage side winding includes windings formed in multiple winding layers, a winding layer having a different number of turns exists in one or more kinds of the two kinds of winding among the windings formed in the multiple winding layers, winding layers wherein current flows in the same direction are stacked in such a way as not to be neighboring, and at least one of winding layers having the greatest number of turns is disposed as a layer other than an outermost layer.
US11705814B2	Switching control circuit and LLC converter A switching control circuit for controlling an LLC converter that includes a first switching device, a first free-wheeling diode connected in parallel with the first switching device, a second switching device connected in series with the first switching device and the first free-wheeling diode, and a second free-wheeling diode connected in parallel with the second switching device. The switching control circuit controls switching of the first and second switching devices. The switching control circuit includes a determination circuit determining whether an operation mode of the LLC converter is a first mode or a second mode based on the resonant current of the LLC converter, and a drive signal output circuit outputting first and second drive signals for respectively switching the first and second switching devices based on the determined operation mode, to thereby prevent a shoot-through current from flowing through the first switching device or the second switching device.
US11705810B2	Multiple-stage power conversion via regulated and unregulated conversion An apparatus includes a first power converter and a second power converter. The first power converter converts an input voltage into a first output voltage; the second power converter converts the first output voltage into a second output voltage that powers a load. The second power converter includes a switched-capacitor converter combined with a magnetic device. The switched-capacitor converter provides capacitive energy transfer; the magnetic device provides magnetic energy transfer. Additionally, the second power converter provides unregulated conversion of the first output voltage into the second output voltage via the capacitive energy transfer and the magnetic energy transfer. To maintain the magnitude of the second output voltage within a desired range or setpoint value, the first power converter regulates a magnitude of the first output voltage based on comparison of a magnitude of the second output voltage with respect to a desired setpoint reference voltage.
US11705803B1	Gate driver with improved switching performance and the driving method thereof A gate driver is configured to drive a normally-on device and a normally-off device coupled in series. The gate driver controls the normally-on device in response to a PWM signal, and to control a normally-off device to maintain ON in normal operations. If an under voltage condition of a negative power supply of a first driver used to drive the normally-on device, or a positive power supply of a second driver used to drive the normally-off device, or an input supply voltage is detected, the normally-off device is controlled to be OFF.
US11705801B2	Power supply with feedback adjustment based on input voltage and method of operating the same A power supply used to convert an input voltage into an output voltage, and the power supply includes an input detection circuit, a conversion circuit, a detection circuit, and a controller. The input detection circuit provides a power good signal or a power fail signal according to the input voltage. The conversion circuit converts the input voltage into an output voltage, and the detection circuit detects the output voltage according to the power good signal to accordingly provide an output feedback signal with a first feedback value. The controller stabilizes a voltage level of the output voltage according to the first feedback value. The detection circuit self-adjusts a feedback condition according to the power fail signal, and correspondingly adjusts the output feedback signal to a second feedback value according to the feedback condition. The controller reduces the voltage level of the output voltage according to the second feedback value.
US11705800B2	Hydraulic actuator device and method for creating a pressure build-up in at least one partial volume of a hydraulic system filled with an electrically conductive medium A hydraulic actuator device for a hydraulic system filled with an electrically conductive medium, the hydraulic actuator device being situatable or being situated on and/or in the hydraulic system, and including at least one actuator module, which in each case is designed in such a way that at least a portion of the electrically conductive medium is acceleratable into at least one partial volume of the hydraulic system due to its interaction with an electrical current flow generated with the aid of the respective actuator module and/or with a magnetic field created with the aid of the respective actuator module, as a result of which a pressure build-up is creatable in the at least one partial volume of the hydraulic system.
US11705799B2	Method for controlling a movement, a control device, a linear drive, a production machine, a packaging machine and a computer program product A control device, linear drive, production- or packaging machine, computer program product and method for controlling movement of at least one rotor in the linear drive, wherein a user or a machine station specifies the movement pattern to the control device to specify the movement, where the specified movement pattern is associated with virtual axes, particularly via the computer program product, the movement pattern is advantageously automatically associated with virtual axes subsequently associated with real axes, a control unit, i.e., a converter, controls movement of the rotor on the segment of the linear drive and the control unit supplies at least one segment with electrical voltage or current, where the segments as part of the linear drive therefore move the rotors in accordance with the specifications of the movement pattern, where such an association occurs automatically, and the user is relieved of this task during specification of the movement pattern.
US11705795B2	Magnetic levitation motor A magnetic levitation motor has a housing, a plurality of stators and a plurality of rotors. The housing has a shaft hole there through, the shaft hole accepting a bearing, the bearing rotatably engages with a rotating shaft that extends from two ends of the housing, and a plurality of fastening portions are disposed on the rotating shaft. A main body section is disposed between at least two of the fastening portions, and the housing having a plurality of dividers to define a plurality of containing spaces. The stator has a fixing disk wrapped with a coil and having a through aperture the fixing disk, and the fixing disk has a plurality of first magnets circularly and radially arranged. The rotor has a moving disk with a toothed hole at a center the moving disk, and the moving disk having a plurality of second magnets arranged circularly and radially.
US11705792B2	Coil insertion device and coil insertion method A coil insertion device includes: a pair of delivery jigs respectively formed with slits into which a pair of side portions of a coil that are parallel with each other can be inserted; and a side portion inserting mechanism configured to push out the side portions inserted into the slits from the slits to insert the side portions into slots of a stator core, the slots facing the slits, the side portion inserting mechanism has: pushing blocks inserted into the slits; and a pushing block moving mechanism configured to move the pushing blocks in a depth direction of the slits.
US11705790B2	Method for producing an arrangement for a plug-in coil of an electrical machine, and arrangement The invention relates to a method for producing an arrangement for a plug-in coil of an electrical machine, comprising the steps of: providing a core with slots; providing coil elements which are rod-shaped and have a proximal end and a distal end; inserting the coil elements into the slots from an end side of the core with the distal end at the front in such a way that the proximal end is arranged in the region of the end side and the distal end is arranged in the region of an opposite end side of the core or adjacent to it; and producing a respective jointed connection for the distal ends or the proximal ends of a first coil element and of a second coil element with an associated first connecting element on the opposite end side or the end side of the core, wherein, here, before joining between the respective joining partners, specifically the distal end or the proximal end of the first coil element and a first joining section of the first connecting element and also the distal end or the proximal end of the second coil element and a second joining section of the first connecting element, a connection is formed in each case, with which the relative position of the joining partners in relation to one another is defined. The invention further provides an arrangement for a plug-in coil of an electrical machine.
US11705789B2	Motor and blower A motor includes a rotating portion rotatable about a center axis that extends vertically and a stationary portion that rotatably supports the rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stator facing at least a part of the rotating portion in a radial direction, a circuit board disposed axially below the stator, and a resin portion covering at least a part of the stator, and the circuit board. The stator includes a plurality of coils disposed in a circumferential direction. The circuit board includes an axially upper surface mounted with an electric element that is disposed at least at one of positions including a position between two coils of the plurality of coils, adjacent to each other in the circumference direction, and a position below the coil.
US11705787B2	Motor connector with integrated motor control functionality A motor assembly includes a motor, a controller controlling at least one aspect of operation of the motor, and a control housing defining a control chamber. The controller is in part received within the control chamber. The controller includes a main electronics board and a modular connector assembly. The modular connector assembly includes a secondary electronics board and a connector at least in part supporting the secondary electronics board. The connector includes an inner connector portion and an outer connector portion. The connector extends through the control housing such that the inner connector portion is disposed inside the control chamber and the outer connector portion is disposed outside the control chamber. The outer connector portion defines a first access portal facilitating access to a first component of the secondary electronics board.
US11705786B1	Power and control assembly for an electric drive apparatus A drive includes an electric motor disposed in a housing and driving a motor shaft, a Hall effect sensor adjacent to the motor, a power and control assembly, and a pinion gear driven by the motor shaft. A planetary gear reduction assembly is driven by the pinion gear, and an output axle has an axis of rotation that is offset from and parallel to the motor shaft axis of rotation. The reduction drive is substantially bilaterally symmetrical about a plane passing through the motor shaft axis of rotation and the output axle axis of rotation. The power and control assembly comprises a control board oriented perpendicular to a power board and includes a heat dissipation apparatus that applies multi-point, localized, indirect pressure to a plurality of field effect transistors mounted on the power board.
US11705782B2	Electric motor cooling with oscillating heat pipes A stator and a motor including a stator. The stator includes a stator hub, a plurality of stator teeth extending from the stator hub that define a stator slot having a stator slot base, at least one winding disposed in the stator slot, and one or more oscillating heat pipes disposed at least partially in the at least one winding. The at least one winding is held apart from the stator slot base so that a cooling channel is defined between an inner winding portion of the at least one winding and a portion of the one or more oscillating heat pipes is disposed in the channel so cooling fluid can be passed between the stator slot base and the inner winding portion to cool the inner winding portion via at least operation of the one or more oscillating heat pipes.
US11705781B2	System and method of active end-turn cooling for an interior permanent magnet motor A system and method of active endturn cooling of an electric motor of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises providing a motor having a coolant nozzle and a cam, and measuring speed, lateral acceleration, and road tilt angle of coolant due to road tilt. The method further comprises calculating coolant angle and coolant acceleration angle based on the road tilt angle and the lateral acceleration if the speed is greater than zero. The method further comprises comparing the coolant angle with a critical angle. The method further comprises calculating a first control angle and a first coolant distance based on the road tilt angle and the lateral acceleration of the vehicle if the acceleration angle is greater than the critical angle. The method further comprises determining a cam position based on the first control angle. The method further comprises moving the cam to the position to move the nozzle and compensate for the lateral acceleration such that coolant drops within a target area of the motor.
US11705779B2	Inverter generator A standby generator includes a standby housing defining a cavity and an internal combustion engine. The engine includes an engine block including a cylinder comprising a piston, an engine housing at least partially covering the engine block, and a crankshaft configured to rotate about a vertical crankshaft axis in response to movement by the piston. The standby generator also includes an alternator configured to generate alternating current electrical power, a controller comprising a rectifier configured to convert the alternating current to a direct current and an inverter configured to convert the direct current to a clean alternating current electrical power, and a transfer switch configured to receive the clean alternating current electrical power from the controller and at least one of grid, solar, or battery power, and configured to supply power to an electrical load. The internal combustion engine, the alternator, and the controller are positioned within the cavity.
US11705778B2	Power tool with compact motor assembly A power tool is provided with a tool housing, a support plate provided within the tool housing, a rear tool cap mounted on a rear end of the tool housing, and a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor received within the housing. The motor includes a stator assembly having a stator core and stator windings, a front motor bearing supported by the support plate, a rear motor bearing supported by the rear tool cap, and a rotor including a rotor core and a magnet ring mounted around the rotor core. The rotor core defines an annular recess within which at portion of the front bearing and a portion of the support plate are located such that the a radial plane intersects the front bearing, the magnet ring, and the stator core.
US11705777B2	Integrated energy storage systems for renewable energy This disclosure describes novel hybrid energy storage systems for providing short-term and long-term storage and delivery of electricity generated by any energy source including renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy. The hybrid energy storage systems described herein have a higher overall real-world efficiency than energy storage systems currently available.
US11705775B2	Electric apparatus An electric apparatus including a connector holding six connecting terminals is provided. Three one-side connecting terminals held by the connector are arranged side by side in a row substantially directly below conductive terminals of three phases of one DC-AC converter. Three another-side connecting terminals held by the connector are arranged side by side in a row at positions offset to a side away from the one-side connecting terminals in an axial direction. Upper-end side connecting parts of the three one-side connecting terminals are set to be lower than upper-end side connecting parts of the three another-side connecting terminals, and are connected to the corresponding conductive terminals above via busbars extending in an up-down direction. The upper end-side connecting parts of the three another-side connecting terminals are connected to corresponding conductive terminals via busbars extending along an arrangement direction of the conductive terminals.
US11705773B2	Integrated magnetic shield and bearing holder An integrated magnetic shield and bearing holder useable with electric motors includes a shaft portion and a cover portion extending radially outward from the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an inner wall defining a channel and a ledge extending radially inward from the inner wall. The cover portion includes a first layer, a second layer extending substantially parallel to the first layer, a magnetic shield extending between the first layer and the second layer, and an outer wall extending from the first layer and/or the second layer such that a space is defined between the outer wall and the shaft portion. The cover portion includes one or more retainers coupled to the magnetic shield to restrict movement of the magnetic shield relative to the first layer and/or the second layer.
US11705769B2	Magnetic gear A magnetic gear may include a stator, having a stator core having a plurality of teeth extending toward a rotation shaft and a plurality of coils wound around the plurality of teeth, a rotor, having a rotor core disposed inside the stator and fixed to the rotation shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the external surface of the rotor core, and a pole-piece unit, having a plurality of first pole pieces and a plurality of second pole pieces arranged radially about the rotation shaft between the stator core and the rotor core such that the plurality of first pole pieces and the plurality of second pole pieces are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction thereof.
US11705765B2	Mounting a stator in a housing using spring elements An electrical machine includes a housing, a stator, and a rotor. The rotor is mounted relative to the stator for rotation about an axis of rotation. The stator radially outwardly surrounds the rotor. The housing is shrunk onto the stator from radially outside. On its radially outer periphery, the stator includes spring dements which are at least partially elastically deflected radially inwards during shrinking of the housing onto the stator such that the projections rest against the housing with a spring force.
US11705764B2	Segmented stator for a generator, in particular for a wind turbine A segmented stator for a generator, for a wind turbine is provided. The stator includes a plurality of teeth and slots for coil windings, wherein the teeth extend from a yoke of the stator in a radial direction of the stator. The stator includes at least a first stator segment having a first end-surface in a circumferential direction of the stator and a second stator segment having a second end-surface in the circumferential direction of the stator, wherein the first and second end-surfaces are arranged adjacent to each other to form the stator. The first end-surface includes first protrusions protruding the circumferential direction of the stator and first recesses therebetween, the first protrusions forming first teeth extending from the yoke of the stator in the radial direction of the stator.
US11705763B2	Implant location detection and adaptive temperature control Devices, systems, and techniques are described to detect when a power transmitting and receiving system is in an inefficient position, which may cause a thermal response that less desirable than a more efficient position. The system may power transmitting device configured to wirelessly transfer electromagnetic energy to a power receiving device. Processing circuitry of the system may compute a target output power deliverable by the power transmitting device for a first duration and control the power transmitting device to output the target output power based in part on a heat limit. The processing circuitry may further calculate an energy transfer efficiency to the power receiving unit, update an adjustment factor based on the calculated energy transfer efficiency, and apply the adjustment factor to the heat limit for a subsequent duration.
US11705757B2	Capacitive coupling device, capacitive coupling system and method for operating a capacitive coupling device A capacitive coupling device for capacitive coupling to a capacitive coupling means which is arrangeable on the capacitive coupling device. The capacitive coupling device can have a first coupling surface, which has at least three coupling surface segments which are arranged separated from one another, a voltage supply configured to provide a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage which is different therefrom, and a control circuit, which is arranged to connect each of the coupling surface segments selectively to the first supply voltage or to the second supply voltage in an electrically conductive manner or to disconnect it from the control circuit in such a way that the coupling surface segments connected to the first supply voltage form, with a first coupling surface area of the capacitive coupling means, a first capacitor, and the coupling surface segments connected to the second supply voltage form, with a second coupling surface area of the capacitive coupling means, a second capacitor.
US11705755B2	Power system restoration incorporating diverse distributed energy resources An example system includes an aggregator configured to receive a service collaboration request and iteratively determine, based on minimum and maximum power values for DERs under its management, an optimized operation schedule. The aggregator may also be configured to iteratively determine, based on the optimized operation schedule, an estimated flexibility range for devices under its management and output an indication thereof. The system may also include a power management unit (PMU) configured to iteratively receive the indication and determine, based on a network model that includes the estimated flexibility range, a reconfiguration plan and an overall optimized operation schedule for the network. The PMU may also be configured to iteratively cause reconfiguration of the network based on the plan. The PMU and aggregator may also be configured to iteratively, at a fast timescale, cause energy resources under their management to modify operation based on the overall optimized operation schedule.
US11705753B2	Integrated PFC and DC DC converter for dual DC bus for online UPS application An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) including an input configured to receive input AC power, a backup power input configured to receive backup DC power having a first voltage level from a backup power source, a converter configured to convert the input AC power from the input and the backup DC power from the backup power input into DC power having a second voltage level, the converter including an input selection circuit configured to selectively couple the converter to the input and the backup power input, an inductor, a first converter switch configured to couple a first end of the inductor to a neutral connection, and a second converter switch configured to couple a second end of the inductor to the backup power input via the input selection circuit.
US11705752B1	Low-voltage direct supply system capable of switching between solar energy and mains supply A low-voltage direct supply system capable of switching between solar energy and mains supply comprises: a solar and stable-voltage energy storage branch system used for providing solar power supply and charging through multiple groups of extensible solar panels and an energy storage battery pack; a mains power supply stable-switching branch system used for quickly switching to mains power supply without shocks through a mains supply conversion module and charging the energy storage battery pack; a power supply load detection and control branch system used for detecting a voltage, a charge/discharge current, and a balance between supply and demand of the energy storage battery pack and performing switching control on branch systems; and an output balance and low-voltage direct supply branch system used for performing balanced low-voltage direct supply on a load side according to a control output signal of the power supply load detection and control branch system.
US11705747B2	Open concept charging computer cart An open concept computer cart has a frame, a lower computer storage shelf supported by the frame, an upper computer storage shelf supported by the frame, and a forward-facing brick storage area formed vertically intermediate the upper and lower computer storage shelves. The upper and lower computer storage shelves are rearwardly inclined to prevent computers stored thereon from sliding off of the shelves. A single wiring retention strip is formed along a front surface of the open concept computer cart, and a power outlet strip is formed along a rear of the brick storage area. The wiring retention strip has wire retention cutouts formed along its length to retain charging tethers for computers stored on both the upper and lower computer storage shelves.
US11705746B2	Receiver for wireless charging system of a portable communication device A receiver for a wireless charging system, capable of receiving power energy using non-contact type magnetic induction, includes a coil capable of receiving the power energy and a part for generating a predetermined output power from the power energy received by the coil, a portable terminal, an NFC coil further provided outside of the coil, and a ferrite sheet further provided at the coil and the NFC coil.
US11705744B2	Battery unit, flavor inhaler, method for controlling battery unit, and program for detecting degradation of a chargeable and dischargeable power supply of a battery unit of a vaporizor A battery unit for a favor inhaler includes a chargeable and dischargeable power supply, a connection part capable of electrically connecting to an external charger, and a controller configured to perform control regarding at least the power supply, wherein when an accumulated value of a connection time period to the charger exceeds a first predetermined time period, the controller determines that the power supply has been degraded.
US11705741B2	Mode-based disabling of communication bus of a battery management system Described herein is a battery system that allows a battery pack to operate in different modes at different times. Each of the different modes may provide its own set of functionality that affects how the battery pack operates and/or reacts to external input signals. A mode may change how the battery pack discharges power by, for example, altering whether terminals are enabled or disabled. A mode may change how the battery pack's hardware operates by, for example, disabling or enabling portions of the battery pack's hardware. A mode may change what battery-related services are provided by the battery pack and available to an end user by, for example, enabling or disabling the sending of battery status information from the battery pack.
US11705740B2	Battery pack and charging management method thereof A battery pack includes a plurality of cells and a control module. The control module is configured to acquire internal resistance of each of the plurality of cells, acquire a terminal voltage of each of the plurality of cells in real time in a case where the plurality of cells are charged with a constant current, determine an electromotive force of each of the plurality of cells based on the internal resistance of each of the plurality of cells and a charging current and the terminal voltage, determine a target cell from the plurality of cells based on the electromotive force of each of the plurality of cells, and perform charging balancing management on the target cell.
US11705739B2	Communication system A communication system includes at least one terminal device for acquiring at least information about a battery; and at least one management device. The management device communicates with the terminal device. One of the management device and the terminal device includes a multi-band communication device configured to perform communication using plural, different frequency bands. The other of the management device and the terminal device includes a specific communication device configured to perform communication using at least one frequency band among the plural, different frequency bands.
US11705737B2	Method for feeding in electrical power by means of a wind power installation A method for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply network using an inverter-controlled infeed unit is provided. The infeed unit has an inverter arrangement with a plurality of inverters to generate an output power and feed same into the network. Each inverter has an associated isolating switch to galvanically isolate the respective inverter from the network. Each inverter has a circuit composed of switches to generate an output current using pulsed actuation. Each inverter generates a variable partial power, and the output power is a sum of all partial powers. Depending on the output power, one or more of the inverters are operated as active inverters that respectively generates a partial power. The other inverters are operated as passive inverters that do not generate a partial power. One or more of the passive inverters are operated as blocked inverters and remain galvanically connected to the network.
US11705734B2	Wind farm comprising a stabilization device and a stabilization device A wind farm, having a nominal power, for feeding electrical power into a supply network, comprising: wind power installations, a wind farm network and a stabilization unit connected to the wind farm network and arranged between the installations and the supply network. The stabilization unit increases a stability of the wind farm and comprises: an energy storage device which is set up to provide an electrical power, an intermediate circuit which is connected to the storage device and which is set up to conduct at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, an inverter connected to the intermediate circuit and set up to form at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, and a control unit set up to control at least the inverter such that the stabilization unit at the wind farm appears, statically as well as dynamically, like an electromechanical synchronous machine.
US11705733B2	Method for controlling an exchange power between a charging infrastructure and an electricity supply grid A method for controlling an exchange of power between a charging infrastructure and an electricity supply grid is provided. A number of power units are formed as electric vehicle. Each power unit has a variable state of charge. From the individual states of charge of the power units, an overall state of charge can be determined. For the overall state of charge, a flexibility range in dependence on time can be predefined for a control time period. The flexibility range is spanned by a progression over time of an upper limit of the overall state of charge and a progression over time of a lower limit of the overall state of charge for the control time period. The flexibility range has range points which can be defined by a value of the overall state of charge and a point in time in the control time period.
US11705732B2	Storage device for storing electrical energy Various embodiments include a storage device for electrical energy, the device comprising: a rechargeable battery; two terminals to connect the battery to at least one of: a supply network, an electrical load, and/or an electrical generator; a control unit to control charging and discharging of the battery; a communication interface configured to provide wireless data access; and a display of machine-readable code including authentication data enabling wireless data access.
US11705729B2	Power control circuit and method for stabilizing a power supply The present invention provides a power control circuit connectable to a load adapted to receive a power supply, the power control circuit adapted to absorb power from the power supply and adapted to deliver power to the power supply to stabilize at least one electrical parameter of the power supply. The present invention also provides an associated method of stabilizing at least one electrical parameter of a power supply connectable to a load, the method including absorbing power from the power supply or delivering power to the power supply. The at least one electrical parameter of the power supply includes parameters such as voltage and frequency.
US11705726B2	Building energy system with predictive control of battery and green energy resources A building energy system includes HVAC equipment, green energy generation, a battery, and a predictive controller. The HVAC equipment provide heating or cooling for a building. The green energy generation collect green energy from a green energy source. The battery stores electric energy including at least a portion of the green energy provided by the green energy generation and grid energy purchased from an energy grid and discharges the stored electric energy for use in powering the HVAC equipment. The predictive controller generates a constraint that defines a total energy consumption of the HVAC equipment at each time step of an optimization period as a summation of multiple source-specific energy components and optimizes the predictive cost function subject to the constraint to determine values for each of the source-specific energy components at each time step of the optimization period.
US11705724B2	Lightning protection spark gap assembly and method for operating a lightning protection spark gap assembly A lightning protection spark gap assembly comprises: a lighting protection spark gap having a first main connection and a second main connection, wherein a first voltage line of a supply network is connectable to the first main connection and a second voltage line of the supply network is connectable to the second main connection; a safety fuse device which is triggerable and which is connectable between the first or second voltage line and the corresponding main connection of the lightning protection spark gap, wherein at least one current path leading via the lighting protection spark gap is formable between the first voltage line and the second voltage line during operation; an indicator device for detecting a current flow in the current path or a corresponding portion of the current flow in the current path and for mechanically or electrically delayed triggering of the safety fuse device.
US11705721B2	Kickback control methods for a power tool including a force sensor A power tool including a housing, a motor having a rotor and a stator, at least one grip sensor configured to generate a grip parameter, and a switching network electrically coupled to the brushless DC motor. An electronic processor is connected to the switching network and the at least one grip sensor and configured to implement kickback control of the power tool. The electronic processor is configured to determine a kickback threshold based on the grip parameter, control the switching network to drive the motor, receive a signal related to a power tool characteristic, determine, based on the power tool characteristic being greater than or equal to the kickback threshold, that a kickback event of the power tool is occurring, and control, in response to determining that the kickback event is occurring, the switching network to cease driving of the motor.

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