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US11742679B2	System for establishing a primary function display in an electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft A system for establishing a primary function display for an electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The system further includes a plurality of sensors that detects at least a metric and generates at least a datum based on the at least a metric. Specifically, state of charge is at least generated based on the performance metric of an energy source. The system further includes a display to show the at least a datum. The system further includes a controller that receives the at least a datum and generates a visual to the pilot.
US11742677B2	Energy efficient battery charger Provided is a battery charger. The battery charger comprises a power converter, an input power connector, and an output power connector. The input power connector is configured to be connected to a power source such that the input power connector is arranged between the power converter and the power source. The output power connector is configured to be connected to an electronic device such that the output power connector is arranged between the power converter and the electronic device. The battery charger further includes a power control relay configured to connect the power converter to the input power connector. The battery charger further includes a timer device configured to disconnect the power converter from the input power connector after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed.
US11742675B2	Method of controlling charging and discharging of power station equipped with multiple battery packs A method of controlling charging and discharging of a power station equipped with multiple battery packs, performed by a power station including N (N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) battery packs mounted to be electrically charged/discharged and including a main controller controlling the charging/discharging, includes charging, by the main controller, the N battery packs in a determined charge order by controlling N input relay units connecting the N battery packs to an external charge source, and when a load is connected from the outside during the charging operation, calculating, by the main controller, an amount of electricity required by the load, controlling N output relay units connecting the N battery packs to the load to connect battery packs by the number corresponding to the calculated amount of electricity to the load and perform a discharging operation, wherein the charging operation and the discharging operation are performed simultaneously.
US11742663B2	Integrated energy conversion, transfer and storage system An integrated hybrid energy recovery and storage system for recovering and storing energy from multiple energy sources is disclosed. The system includes an accumulator unit having a high pressure accumulator and a low pressure accumulator. At least one piston is mounted for reciprocation in the high pressure accumulator. The accumulator unit is configured to receive, store, and transfer energy from the hydraulic fluid to the energy storage media. The system further includes two or more rotational directional control valves, in which at least one rotational directional control valve is positioned on each side of the accumulator unit. Each rotational directional control valve includes multiple ports. The system also includes two or more variable displacement hydraulic rotational units. At least one variable displacement hydraulic rotational unit is positioned adjacent each of the rotational directional control valves.
US11742659B2	Generator load control A power system for an electrical system with highly fluctuating loads is powered by one or more power sources that are slow to react to load changes. The power sources are connected to electrical equipment used on the drill rig which provide active load to the generate. One or more load banks may be positioned to provide passive load to the generators to maintain generally constant generator load, while allowing for instant access to power as active load increases. Generators may be run at 100% capacity, a maximum efficient capacity, or at a high enough level to allow for a sufficiently rapid increase in power output. At least one parameter of a drilling operation may be utilized to anticipate load demand changes.
US11742657B2	Electrostatic discharge protection circuit An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a capacitor, a voltage dividing circuit, and a first diode. The first transistor is coupled between a first power rail and a second power rail. The second transistor is coupled between the first power rail and the second power rail. A bulk of the second transistor is coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor. The capacitor is coupled between the first power rail and a control terminal of the second transistor. The voltage dividing circuit is coupled between the control terminal of the second transistor and the second power rail, and has a divided voltage output terminal coupled to the bulk of the second transistor. The first diode is coupled between the divided voltage output terminal and the second power rail.
US11742654B2	Systems and methods for automatic threshold sensing for UVLO circuits in a multi-battery environment A disclosed under-voltage lockout (UVLO) circuit includes an automatic UVLO threshold configuration. The UVLO circuit may include an over-voltage protection circuit that receives power from a power source, a peak detector that detects a peak voltage output for the power source, a voltage threshold generator that sets a UVLO threshold based on the peak voltage output, and a comparator that compares an instantaneous voltage with the UVLO threshold and configures an operating mode of a device based on the comparison.
US11742652B2	Method and device for starting direct-current (DC) transmission line protection, and storage medium A method and device for starting direct-current (DC) transmission line protection, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining whether a sudden change of a DC line current at a present moment is greater than a sum of a memory start threshold and a maximum value in sudden changes of the DC line current within a time period preceding the present moment that is multiplied by a preset proportional coefficient, the time period being a time period between a moment preceding the present moment by a first duration and a moment preceding the present moment by a second duration; and starting DC transmission line protection in response to determining that the sudden change of the DC line current at the present moment is greater than the sum.
US11742650B2	Method and device for estimating source impedances across one or more transmission lines The present invention relates to estimating source impedances across one or more transmission lines connecting at least two substations. Each substation is associated with an equivalent source having a respective source impedance. Voltage and current measurements and status signals are obtained. The voltage and current measurements provide terminal or bus voltages and line currents at each terminal, and the status signals are associated with switching events at the one or more transmission lines or at the substations. An event associated with a disturbance or current injection is detected from one or more of the obtained measurements and the obtained status signals. The source impedance of each equivalent source is estimated based on the event, using line parameters and the voltage and current measurements associated with the event.
US11742647B2	Bracket for stand mounted outdoor equipment Approaches for bracket for strand mounted equipment. The bracket comprises a body having a first end and a second end opposing the first end. The first end comprises one or more resting hooks sized to be positioned over a strand. The resting hooks allow for resting the strand mounted equipment temporarily onto the strand in a position that readily accommodates the permanent attachment of the strand mounted equipment to the strand. The first end of the bracket also comprises a clamp for securing the bracket to the strand, while the second end comprises a securing mechanism for securing the bracket to the strand mounted equipment. The bracket may be formed from a single piece of shaped metal. The strand mounted equipment may be a variety of equipment, such as CATV outdoor equipment and Internet access equipment.
US11742641B2	Branch block The present invention is related to passages for electrical wires, and more specifically, to a branch block that allows various conduits to be joined while the wires and connections remain separated throughout their path, while and after passing through the branch block. A branch block is generally constructed as a parallelepiped having a plurality of sidewalls, a top wall, and a bottom wall to form a water resistant enclosure having at least one inlet conduit port that branches into two or more independent channels terminating in outlet conduit ports. The diverging nature of the branch points allow wire to be pulled through an outlet conduit, the branch block, and the inlet conduit without opening the branch block. In addition, the wires are generally separated as they pass through the branch block, eliminating cross signals. This construction also provides a sealable structure that is suitable for wet or explosive environments.
US11742639B2	Switchgear system having truck driven shutter mechanism A switchgear system may include a switchgear frame and a truck carrying a circuit breaker and supported for linear movement on the switchgear frame. A drive mechanism may rack in the truck and the circuit breaker is in electrical connection with primary circuit contacts, and may rack out the truck and the circuit breaker is electrically disconnected from the primary circuit contacts. As the drive mechanism racks in the circuit breaker, a shutter linkage moves a shutter opened, and as the drive mechanism racks out the circuit breaker, the shutter linkage moves the shutter closed over the primary circuit contacts.
US11742638B2	Switchgear system having contact arm assembly for switchgear circuit breaker A contact arm assembly includes a contact arm defining a central axis and having a first end configured for electrical connection with a pole of a circuit breaker and a second end having a distal end defining a shoulder and an engagement that protrudes from the contact arm proximal to the shoulder. A plurality of contact fingers are mounted circumferentially on the second end of the contact arm and configured to electrically engage a primary circuit contact. Each contact finger has a body with a depression that receives the engagement for electrical contact.
US11742630B2	Diffractive optical element with off-axis incidence for structured light application A structured light system may include a semiconductor laser to emit light and a diffractive optical element to diffract the light such that one or more diffracted orders of the light, associated with forming a structured light pattern, are transmitted by the diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element may be arranged such that the light is to be incident on the diffractive optical element at a substantially non-normal angle of incidence. The substantially non-normal angle of incidence may be designed to cause the diffractive optical element to transmit a zero-order beam of the light outside of a field of view associated with the diffractive optical element.
US11742626B2	Active cable avoiding influence of RX power consumption An active cable avoiding influence of RX power consumption, comprising: the host connection end, the device connection end and the data wire and the auxiliary wire located between them. The auxiliary wire consists of the main power wire and the auxiliary power wire, wherein, the main power wire is used for current transmission between the VBUS of the host and the device; the auxiliary wire, one end of it is located at the host connection end and connected with the main power wire, and another end at the device connection end and is used for supply power to the active component at the device connection end. The active cable disconnects an active module of the device connection end from the VBUS and also arranges the power module between the active component and the auxiliary wire.
US11742623B2	Ethernet bridge mounting arrangement An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.
US11742617B2	RJ type connector including a disengagement feature acting on the latch of the connector The invention relates to a connector (1) for data connections, in particular of the RJ type, with a latch element (6) for securing a connection to a counter-connector. In order to simplify a disconnection of the connector (1) and the counter-connector, even when the connection is secured by the latch connection, the invention provides that the connector (1) is provided with a gripping end (5, 5′) that is adapted to transfer the latch element (6) from its latch position (L) and to disconnect the connector (1) from the counter-connector by a single movement.
US11742616B2	Electrical connection device A vehicle side electrical connector. The vehicle side electrical connector comprises a first mounting seat, a first high-voltage assembly and a first low-voltage assembly; wherein the first high-voltage assembly comprises of a first high-voltage pole, wherein the first high-voltage pole includes an electrical contact end and a wiring end, wherein the first high-voltage assembly comprises a flexible electrical connector and a high-voltage plug, one end of the flexible electrical connector is in a floating electrical connection with the wiring end of the first high-voltage pole, and the other end of the flexible electrical connector is in a floating electrical connection with the high-voltage plug; the flexible electrical connector adapts the relative displacement change in axial, radial and all directions between the first high-voltage pole and the high-voltage plug through a flexible cavity. By means of the vehicle side electrical connector, the first high-voltage assembly can be prevented from hard damage.
US11742615B2	Electrical connection device A battery side electrical connector. The battery side electrical connector including a second mounting seat, a second high-voltage assembly and a second low-voltage assembly, wherein the second high-voltage assembly and the second low-voltage assembly are configured to be inserted through the second mounting seat, the second high-voltage assembly includes a second high-voltage pole, the second mounting seat is provided with a high-voltage mounting hole, wherein the second high-voltage pole is configured to be inserted through the high-voltage mounting hole, wherein outer wall surface of the second high-voltage pole is provided with a positioning section which is used to limit the movement of the second high-voltage pole relative to the second mounting seat along axial direction of the high-voltage mounting hole. By means of the battery side electrical connector, the second high-voltage assembly can be prevented from hard damage.
US11742613B2	Floating auto-centering cable connector assembly A floating connector assembly for an information handling system includes a first float bracket and a connector. The first float includes a bar. The connector includes a first receptacle and a first compressible component. The first compressible component is placed in physical communication with the bar of the first float bracket. In response to a force exerted on the connector, a region of the first compressible component is compressed. The connector floats with respect to the first float bracket in a direction of the force exerted on the connector.
US11742610B2	Electric connector with unlatching mechanism The disclosure provides an electric connector, which includes a base, a cover, and an elastic member. The cover covers the base and is formed with a chamber. The cover is disposed with a key and a trough. The elastic member is disposed in the chamber and includes a lower plate, an upper plate, and a flexible arm. The lower plate is fixed on the base. The upper plate is formed above the lower plate. The flexible arm is connected between the lower plate and the upper plate. The upper plate is extended with a hook. The hook movably enters or leaves each trough. The upper plate is disposed with a pressed portion corresponding to the key in position. The pressed portion drives each hook to move out from each trough through pressing of the key so as to implement unlatching of the electric connector.
US11742605B2	Apparatus and method for high density detachable electrical interface The present disclosure relates to a high density electrical interconnect apparatus for interfacing with remotely located electrical components. The apparatus may have a housing, a substrate element supported within the housing, and a plurality of independent substrate interface connect subsystems arranged in a planar grid on the substrate element. The apparatus further has a plurality of independent electrical interface connector subassemblies, each configured to be coupled to an associated subplurality of the substrate interface connect subsystems, to form a plurality of electrical communication channels with the remotely located electrical components.
US11742600B2	Flat cable connection The present invention relates to a first metal cable (1) having a flat upper (A) and a flat lower (B) surface, comprising at least one hollow riser (2) extending approximately 90 degrees from one of the flat surfaces of the first metal cable, the hollow riser being 5 configured to house an end of a second metal cable (3). A connected structure comprising a first metal cable wherein a second metal cable is inserted into the hollow riser (2) of the first metal cable and joined with the first metal cable. it also relates to a method of making a connected structure, joining a first metal cable to a second metal cable by friction welding the second metal cable (3) to the first metal cable by 10 contacting a rotating tool (4) with the lower surface of the first metal cable in the area underneath the hollow riser.
US11742592B2	Arrayed antenna module An arrayed antenna module includes a first antenna group, a second antenna group, a front conductive connecting assembly and a rear conductive connecting assembly. The first antenna group includes a plurality of first antenna structures arranged in parallel thereon. The second antenna group includes a plurality of second antenna structures arranged in parallel thereon. The front conductive connecting assembly includes a first front conductive connecting element electrically connected to the first antenna group, and a second front conductive connecting element electrically connected to the second antenna group. The rear conductive connecting assembly includes a first rear conductive connecting element electrically connected to the first antenna group, and a second rear conductive connecting element electrically connected to the second antenna group. Therefore, the arrayed antenna module provided can be applied to a portable electronic device so as to receive or transmit signals.
US11742584B2	Radiating coaxial cable Disclosed is a radiating coaxial cable comprising an inner conductor, an insulating layer surrounding the inner conductor, a conductive shield surrounding the insulating layer and a jacket surrounding the shield. The conductive shield comprises a radiating longitudinal shield portion with radiating apertures and a non-radiating longitudinal shield portion with no radiating apertures. The jacket comprises a first jacket portion facing the radiating shield portion and a second jacket portion facing the non-radiating shield portion. The first jacket portion is thicker than the second jacket portion. This way, the cable is more protected against detrimental effects of metal objects brought near to or in contact with its radiating side.
US11742581B2	Tapered slot antenna A tapered slot antenna includes a cavity, first and second antenna flanges, a tapered slot, and first and second current wings. The first and second antenna flanges can be disposed on a first half and a second half of the tapered slot antenna, respectively. The second antenna flange can be electrically coupled to the first antenna flange, the first and second antenna flanges tapering from a greater flange width proximate to a top of the tapered slot antenna to a lesser flange width proximate to the cavity. The first current wing can be disposed on the first half of the antenna and the second current wing can be disposed on the second side of the antenna. The first and second sidewalls can be disposed on the first and second halves of the tapered slot antenna, respectively, can taper from the top to a bottom of the tapered slot antenna.
US11742579B2	System and method for a digitally beamformed phased array feed Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
US11742578B2	System and method for a digitally beamformed phased array feed Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
US11742577B2	Feed systems for multi-band parabolic reflector microwave antenna systems Microwave antenna systems include a parabolic reflector antenna having a feed bore and a feed assembly. The feed assembly includes a coaxial waveguide structure that extends through the feed bore, a sub-reflector, and a first dielectric block that is positioned between the coaxial waveguide structure and the sub-reflector. The coaxial waveguide structure includes a central waveguide and an outer waveguide that circumferentially surrounds the central waveguide. One of the central waveguide and the outer waveguide extends further from the feed bore towards the sub-reflector than the other of the central waveguide and the outer waveguide.
US11742574B2	Distributed antenna systems Antenna monitoring modules associated with antennas and test antennas communicating test signals, input blocking modules, and addressable mixed signal processors determining antenna performance. Distributed antenna systems including global transceivers, splitters or tappers, monitoring modules, antennas and test antennas, that monitor antenna presence and performance indications, and centrally report antenna status. Distributed antenna systems including a trunk, multiple coupled branch runs with corresponding antenna monitoring modules, antennas and switches, capable of selectively decoupling antennas. Distributed antenna systems with programmable attenuators for adjusting transmission levels for a trunk and its segments, branches, and corresponding antennas. Distributed antenna systems for over the air antenna transmission and reception testing using local or global signals. Distributed antenna systems with a system controller selectively depowering and repowering segments thereof. Distributed antenna systems with switches coupled to an antenna monitoring module by multiple selectable routes. Distributed antenna systems with loop-based antenna configurations supplying power in multiple directions.
US11742573B2	Antenna device and orientation adjustment mechanism An antenna device and an orientation adjustment mechanism are provided. The orientation adjustment mechanism includes a holder, a rotation carrier assembled to the holder, and a torsion spring. The rotation carrier is counterclockwise rotatable from an initial position by a first predetermined angle or is clockwise rotatable from the initial position by a second predetermined angle. The torsion spring has an elastic portion disposed on the holder and two extending arms that extend from the elastic portion. When the rotation carrier is rotated from the initial position by the first predetermined angle or the second predetermined angle, the rotation carrier presses and moves one of the two extending arms, and another one of the two extending arms abuts against the limiting portion, so that the elastic portion is deformed to store an elastic force that tends to move the rotation carrier toward the initial position.
US11742568B2	Small cell installation structure In aspects of a small cell installation structure, a support structure provides stability and an attachable framework to mount wireless technology equipment. A formable aesthetic housing is formed around the support structure, and a hardened polymer coating over the formable aesthetic housing is adapted to a shape of the formable aesthetic housing and the support structure. The hardened polymer coating resists environmental conditions that may otherwise interfere with performance of the wireless technology equipment. Additionally, an antenna housing module encloses antennas of the wireless technology equipment, is integrated with the support structure, and is designed to pass millimeter wave (mmW) spectrum wireless signals.
US11742564B2	Fan-out package structure with integrated antenna A semiconductor package structure is provided. The semiconductor package structure includes a semiconductor die surrounded by a first molding compound layer. A redistribution layer (RDL) structure is formed on a non-active surface of the semiconductor die and the first molding compound layer. A second molding compound layer is formed on the RDL structure. An insulating capping layer covers the second molding compound layer. An antenna is electrically coupled to the semiconductor die and includes a first antenna element formed in the RDL structure and a second antenna element formed between the second molding compound layer and the insulating capping layer.
US11742555B1	Separable self-aligning waveguide connector using a ball detent assembly having ball elements engaged with mating divots Provided herein are various examples of separable waveguide couplers. In one example, a collar element is provided to surround a member comprising a faying surface, a waveguide conduit, and alignment protrusions arranged radially about a perimeter of the faying surface, where the collar element is configured to accept insertion of a mating member comprising a mating faying surface and a mating waveguide conduit. A ball detent assembly is provided having a spring element that retains ball elements in holes formed through the collar element. The waveguide conduit and the mating waveguide conduit are configured to be aligned radially by at least engagement of the alignment protrusions with alignment channels in the mating member and restrained axially by at least engagement of the ball elements with mating divots in the mating member.
US11742552B1	Hybrid battery interconnects The embodiments describe a system and the corresponding assembly techniques of a battery submodule top cover. The battery submodule top cover has at least one electrical hybrid interconnect coupled to a substrate. The hybrid interconnect comprises at least a first portion made of a first metal type, and a second portion made of a second metal type. The first portion and the second portion of the hybrid interconnect are joined together such that an electrical connection may be made between two battery cell tabs where each battery cell tab is made of a different type of metal.
US11742546B2	Systems and methods for redundant electric power for an electric aircraft A system and method for redundant electric power for an electric aircraft is provided. The system includes a plurality of battery packs which includes at least a first pack monitor unit and at least a second pack monitor unit configured to detect a first battery pack datum and a second battery pack datum, and transmit the pair of battery pack datum to a controller. Each battery pack. The system further includes a contactor coupled to the electric aircraft, a plurality of loads communicatively coupled to each battery pack of the plurality of battery packs, and a controller, wherein the controller is designed and configured to receive the first battery pack and the second battery pack datum, compare the first battery pack datum to the second battery pack datum as a function of a differential threshold, and generate an alert datum as a function of the comparison.
US11742542B2	Explosion-proof enclosure for energy storage device and energy storage device The present disclosure discloses an explosion-proof enclosure for an energy storage device and an energy storage device. The explosion-proof enclosure includes: a housing body, having a through hole; and an explosion-proof element, including a central portion and a pressure relief portion provided around the central portion, wherein the pressure relief portion is loop-shaped, the pressure relief portion is provided in the through hole and is in sealed connection with the through hole, the pressure relief portion is configured to crack and split from the housing body in response to the deformation of the housing body when the pressure intensity in the housing body reaches a first set value, and to detach from the housing body when the pressure intensity reaches a second set value, wherein the second set value is greater than the first set value.
US11742540B2	Methods and systems for battery pack thermal management Provided are methods and systems for battery pack thermal management, such as heating and cooling of individual batteries arranged into battery packs. The methods and systems use thermal control modules, specifically configured to thermally couple to the side wall and the bottom end of each battery in a battery pack. In some examples, a thermal control module comprises a thermal plate and one or two battery engagement components, connected and thermally coupled to the thermal plate. Each battery engagement component comprises a plurality of battery receiving openings. When the batteries are installed into these openings, the side wall and the bottom end of each battery are thermally coupled to the thermal control module. Thermal fluid is circulated through at least the thermal plate to provide cooling or heating to the batteries without any direct contact between the thermal fluid and the batteries.
US11742539B2	Systems and methods for battery tab cooling Systems and methods for a battery pack are disclosed. A battery pack tab cooling system is disclosed that includes a pouch cell comprising a first tab and a second tab. The battery pack tab cooling system also includes an enclosure configured to contain a cooling material. The first tab and the second tab extend from the pouch cell into the enclosure and are in contact with the cooling material. A method of manufacturing a battery pack that includes forming the battery pack, the battery pack comprising and cooling the at least one of the first tab and the second tab to cool the pouch cell.
US11742537B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes: battery cells, each including first and second end portions that are opposite each other in a length direction; a case having an accommodation space in which the battery cells and a fluid to cool the battery cells are configured to be accommodated, the case including first and second covers respectively covering the first and second end portions; first and second tab plates respectively on the first and second covers and connected to the first and second end portions; a circuit board on the first tab plate; and a first lead and a second lead through which the first and second tab plates are connected to the circuit board, the first and second leads connected to a first side portion of the circuit board. An arrangement of the leads connected to electrodes of the battery cells is improved, and heat is efficiently dissipated from a switch device.
US11742531B2	Charging method, electronic apparatus, and storage medium A method of a charging battery includes the following steps: charging the battery with a first charging current in an nth charge and discharge cycle, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and charging the battery with a second charging current in an (n+m)th charge and discharge cycle, where m is a preset integer greater than or equal to 1, Ib=k1×Ic, 0.5≤k1≤1, and Ic is a third charging current, where the third charging current is a smaller one of a first maximum charging current and a second maximum charging current in a same state of charge. This application further provides an electronic apparatus and a storage medium.
US11742528B1	Rollable, foldable, and stackable zinc bromine electrochemical cell A zinc bromine electrochemical cell comprises an anode-side subassembly, an insulating porous separator, and a cathode-side subassembly. The anode-side subassembly comprises an anode current collector, an anode sheet, and an anode insulating net. The cathode-side subassembly comprises a cathode insulating mesh, a cathode graphite felt, and a cathode current collector. The zinc bromine electrochemical cell is rollable, foldable, or stackable.
US11742527B2	Closed-loop lead acid battery recycling process and product A closed-loop system of tracking and managing the recycling and manufacturing a lead acid battery is described herein. The system includes collecting one or more used lead acid batteries, collecting data related to the one or more lead acid batteries, and processing the one or more lead acid batteries. Processing the one or more lead acid batteries includes separate the batteries into lead, polymer, acid, and separator components and isolate the components. The lead and polymer are then recycled, and data is collected related to the recycled lead and recycled polymer. A new lead acid battery is created using the recycled lead and the recycled polymer and provided to a point of sale location.
US11742526B2	Rechargeable battery Provided is a rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly comprising an electrode assembly body and an electrode tab protruding from the electrode assembly body, and a connecting member comprising a guiding plate and a first connecting plate connected to the guiding plate. The guiding plate extends in a width direction and the first connecting plate extends away from a plate surface of the guiding plate along the width direction or extends toward the plate surface of the guiding plate along the width direction. The electrode tab has a stacked multi-layer structure, the electrode tab protrudes from a portion of an end surface of the electrode assembly body in a longitudinal direction at a side of a split of the electrode assembly body perpendicular to the width direction, and the electrode tab is bent with respect to a longitudinal direction and is connected to the first connecting plate.
US11742522B2	Non-aqueous electrolytic solution and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution including a predetermined cyano ester compound and a cyclic sulfuric acid ester.
US11742521B2	Electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising same The electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery includes: a lithium salt; a solvent; and an anode additive including 5-(4-cyanophenyl)-1-(4-fluorobenzyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbonitrile represented by Chemical Formula 1 below:
US11742518B2	Electrolyte, and electrochemical device and electronic device using the same An electrolyte includes at least one of a compound of Formula I, a compound of Formula II or a compound of Formula III; and a compound of Formula IV; where, R11, R12, R13, R21, R22, R31, R32, R33 and R34 are independently selected from H, halo, cyano, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2-C10 alkenyl, and substituted or unsubstituted C6-C12 aryl; R41 and R44 are independently selected from H, F, cyano, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2-C10 alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6-C12 aryl, Ra—(O—Rb), or (O—Rb); and R42 and R43 are independently selected from Rc—(O—Rd) or (O—Rd). Rb is selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C4 alkyl; Ra, Rc and Rd are independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C4 alkylene, C2-C5 alkenylene, or C6-C12 aryl.
US11742517B2	All-solid-state battery The all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode layer, a separator layer, and a negative electrode layer. The separator layer includes a sulfide solid electrolyte. In a cross section parallel to the thickness direction of the separator layer, a line analysis is performed by SEM-EDX to measure an atom concentration of sulfur and an atom concentration of iodine on a straight line extending from the negative electrode layer to the positive electrode layer in parallel to the thickness direction. A regression line is derived from the results of the line analysis, and the regression line has a slope of 0.019 to 0.036. The independent variable of the regression line is a position in the thickness direction of the separator layer. The dependent variable of the regression line is a ratio of the atom concentration of iodine to the atom concentration of sulfur.
US11742516B2	Secondary battery and method of manufacturing the secondary battery A solid electrolyte-cathode assembly including a plurality of cathode layers spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and an electrolyte layer including an amorphous solid electrolyte and a crystalline solid electrolyte including a plurality of crystalline solid electrolyte particles, wherein the amorphous solid electrolyte is on a surface of a cathode layer of the plurality of cathode layers and the crystalline solid electrolyte is within the amorphous solid electrolyte.
US11742514B2	Porous film, separator for secondary batteries, and secondary battery A porous film includes a porous substrate, and a porous layer laminated on at least one surface of the porous substrate. The porous layer contains an organic resin different from a resin constituting the porous substrate. A height of a projection of the porous layer in an interface between the porous substrate and the porous layer is 200 nm or more, and a distance between projections is 1 μm or more.
US11742513B2	Separator for lithium-sulfur batteries and lithium-sulfur battery comprising the same A separator for lithium-sulfur batteries and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. The separator for lithium-sulfur batteries includes a separator substrate, a first coating layer formed on at least one surface of the separator substrate, and a second coating layer formed on the first coating layer. The first coating layer includes a polydopamine, and the second coating layer includes a lithium-substituted water-soluble polymer. Also a method for preparing the separator.
US11742511B2	Linked battery module and linked battery pack A linked battery module includes a first battery module and a second battery module having a same configuration. The first battery module includes: a battery stack that includes rectangular batteries, stacked in a row in a thickness direction; a restraint member on one side that restrains one side, in a Y direction, of the battery stack; a restraint member on the other side that restrains the other side, in the Y direction, of the battery stack; an end plate on one side that restrains one side, in an X direction, of the battery stack; and an end plate on the other side that restrains the other side, in the X direction, of the battery stack. A linking unit links the end plate on one side of the first battery module to the end plate on the other side of the second battery module.
US11742510B2	Cell stack device, module, and module housing device A cell stack device may include a cell stack comprising a plurality of cells, a manifold configured to supply a reaction gas to the plurality of cells, and a reaction gas supply pipe connected to the manifold. The manifold may include an insertion portion configured to connect the reaction gas supply pipe to the manifold and a first joining portion configured to join the insertion portion and the reaction gas supply pipe. A module may include the cell stack device contained in a housing container. A module housing device may include the module, an auxiliary device configured to operate the module, and an external casing configured to contain the module and the auxiliary device therein.
US11742509B2	Energy generation from salinity gradients using asymmetrically porous electrodes Disclosed herein is a system and method for energy generation from salinity gradients using asymmetrically porous electrodes. In certain embodiments, an energy generation system includes at least one pair of asymmetrically porous electrodes positioned within a chamber in selective fluidic communication with a freshwater source (e.g., a river) and a saltwater source (e.g., an ocean). Asymmetry between a first average percent volume per unit pore-width of a first electrode and a second average percent volume per unit pore-width of a second electrode creates differing interfacial potentials between the first electrode and the second electrode when such electrodes are immersed in freshwater and saltwater. By cyclically immersing the electrodes in freshwater and saltwater, energy is harvested from Gibbs free energy from mixing saltwater and freshwater. Such a system does not require a membrane or an external charge source. Methods of generating energy using asymmetrically porous electrodes are also provided.
US11742501B2	Methods and apparatus for decoupling reactant activation and reaction completion Methods and apparatus for decoupling reactant activation and reaction completion. Various embodiments of the present disclosure leverage electrodynamic inversion principles to provide fuel cell-like operation. In one exemplary embodiment a fuel cell-like apparatus is configured to: create reactant ions (e.g., fuel ions, oxidant ions, etc.) in isolation, transport the reactant ions to a reaction interface, enable a chemical reaction, harvest the resulting electrical current, and eliminate the exhaust products. The exemplary fuel cell-like device decouples the reactants from directly powering the load. Notably, the redox reaction is allowed to proceed at a reaction interface rather than directly at the anode and cathode.
US11742500B2	Structural gaseous material storage tank A tank has a body defining a chamber therein, the chamber is configured to store a gas at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, a first mounting element extending from the body, and a second mounting element extending from the body. The first mounting element and the second mounting element are configured for coupling to a first component of a vehicle and a second component of the vehicle, respectively, and the body is configured to carry a structural load between the first component and the second component when the first mounting element and the second mounting element are coupled thereto. The first component carries a propulsion device and the second component comprises at least one of a wing and a landing element. The tank further includes a stem having an orifice and the stem is configured for delivering the gas to the propulsion device through the orifice.
US11742499B2	Fuel cell system To provide a fuel cell system configured to reduce false cross leak judgment. A fuel cell system wherein the controller preliminarily stores a first data group indicating a relationship between the flow rate of the oxidant gas, the opening degree of the bypass valve, and the hydrogen concentration of the oxidant off-gas; and wherein before the controller determines whether or not a cross leak has occurred, the controller varies the hydrogen concentration threshold used for determining whether or not a cross leak has occurred, by comparing the flow rate of the oxidant gas measured by the oxidant gas flow rate sensor and the opening degree of the bypass valve with the first data group.
US11742497B2	Method and device for producing a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell A method for producing a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell includes providing a first component of the membrane electrode assembly as part of a continuous material web which passes through a plurality of processing stations and connecting a second component of the membrane electrode assembly to the first component by a firmly bonded connection.
US11742496B2	Bipolar plate for fuel cell A bipolar plate for a fuel cell includes an anode plate and a cathode plate. The anode plate has hydrogen flow channels on a first side of the anode plate and coolant channels on a second side of the anode plate. The cathode plate has a first side disposed against the second side of the anode plate to cover the coolant channels and has a second side defining a recessed pocket configured to receive a stream of air. A flow guide is disposed in the pocket such that an inlet manifold is formed along a first edge of the flow guide and an outlet manifold is formed along a second edge of the flow guide. The flow guide defines channels extending from the inlet manifold to the outlet manifold. A plurality of openings is defined by through the flow guide.
US11742495B2	Ni—Fe based cathode functional layers for solid oxide electrochemical cells A solid oxide electrochemical cell includes a solid oxide electrolyte, an anode located on a first side of the solid oxide electrolyte, and a cathode located on a second side of the solid oxide electrolyte. The cathode includes lanthanum nickel ferrite.
US11742493B2	Electrode plate of an electrochemical battery and electrochemical battery comprising such electrode plate An electrochemical battery is disclosed. The electrochemical battery has an electrode plate comprising a frame and a generally flat grid connected to the frame, the frame comprising at least a top frame member having a contact lug, wherein the grid comprises a plurality of grid wires and a plurality of window-like open areas between the grid wires, further comprising an active mass within the open areas and/or on the grid wires, wherein the electrode plate comprises on one outer surface or on both opposing outer surfaces of the active mass a pattern of grooves, wherein the grooves extend diagonally from a position closer to the top frame member to a position further away from the top frame member. A method for producing an electrode plate is also disclosed.
US11742490B2	Positive electrode, battery, battery pack, electronic device, electric motor vehicle, power storage device, and power system A battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator; and an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is provided between the positive electrode and the separator and includes one or both of a fluororesin and a particle. The positive electrode has a positive electrode active material layer including a fluorine-based binder having a melting point of 166° C. or less, and a content of the fluorine-based binder in the positive electrode active material layer is from 0.5% by mass to 2.8% by mass.
US11742486B2	Positive active material for lithium-sulfur battery and method of fabricating the same A positive active material for a lithium-sulfur battery is provided. The positive active material for a lithium-sulfur battery includes carbon layers and metal compound layers alternately and repeatedly stacked. Each of the metal compound layers includes molybdenum and sulfur. Sulfur of the positive active material for a lithium-sulfur battery is provided from the metal compound layer through a preliminary charge/discharge process.
US11742484B2	Synthesis of alkali metal-based phosphorous compounds using a lower pressure A method for synthesizing an alkali metal-based phosphorous compound includes contacting an elemental alkali metal with elemental phosphorous to create a mixture and applying a pressure of less than 20 gigapascals to the mixture for forming the alkali metal-based phosphorous compound.
US11742483B2	Nickel manganese composite hydroxide and method for producing same, positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for producing same, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery Provided are a nickel-manganese composite hydroxide capable of producing a secondary battery having a high particle fillability and excellent battery characteristics when used as a precursor of a positive electrode active material and a method for producing the same. A nickel-manganese composite hydroxide is represented by General Formula: NixMnyMz(OH)2+α and contains a secondary particle formed of a plurality of flocculated primary particles. The primary particles have an aspect ratio of at least 3, and at least some of the primary particles are disposed radially from a central part of the secondary particle toward an outer circumference thereof. The secondary particle has a ratio I(101)/I(001) of a diffraction peak intensity I(101) of a 101 plane to a peak intensity I(001) of a 001 plane, measured by an X-ray diffraction measurement, of up to 0.15.
US11742478B2	All-solid secondary battery and method of preparing the same An all-solid secondary battery, including: a cathode; an anode; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises an anode current collector; a first anode active material layer in contact with the anode current collector and comprising a first metal; a second anode active material layer disposed between the first anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer and comprising a carbon-containing active material; and a contact layer between the second anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer, and disposed such that the contact layer prevents contact between the second anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the contact layer comprises a second metal, and has a thickness less than a thickness of the first anode active material layer.
US11742474B2	Electrodes with silicon oxide active materials for lithium ion cells achieving high capacity, high energy density and long cycle life performance Improved negative electrodes can comprise a silicon based active material blended with graphite to provide more stable cycling at high energy densities. In some embodiments, the negative electrodes comprise a blend of polyimide binder mixed with a more elastic polymer binder with a nanoscale carbon conductive additive. The silicon-based blended graphite negative electrodes can be matched with positive electrodes comprising nickel rich lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides to form high energy density cells with good cycling properties.
US11742468B2	LED display module and LED displayer An LED display module and an LED displayer are disclosed. The LED display module comprises a module bottom shell and a circuit board installed in the module bottom shell. The module bottom shell comprises a shell body and a first heat-dissipation cover disposed over a first open region of the shell body. The LED display module further comprises a power supply and a receiving card which are electrically connected to the circuit board. The power supply is located between the first heat-dissipation cover and the circuit board. The receiving card is located between the shell body and the circuit board. The LED display module is ultra-thin, and the LED displayer is made ultra-thin, accordingly.
US11742464B2	Light-emitting devices and methods for manufacturing the same A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first substrate. The light-emitting device also includes a second substrate including a light-shielding structure. The light-emitting device further includes a first light-emitting module and a second light-emitting module being adjacent to each other. The first light-emitting module and the second light-emitting module are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first light-emitting module and the second light-emitting module are spaced apart by a gap, and the light-shielding structure at least partially covers the gap in a top view direction of the light-emitting device.
US11742462B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a display device includes: providing a plurality of light emitting elements on a substrate; providing a first photosensitive resin layer on the light emitting elements; driving a plurality of first light emitting elements among the plurality of light emitting elements, the driving of the plurality of first light emitting elements hardening a portion of the first photosensitive resin layer which corresponds to the plurality of first light emitting elements; and providing a first color converting layer as the portion of the first photosensitive resin layer which is hardened, by removing a remaining portion of the first photosensitive resin layer.
US11742457B2	Electronic device and manufacturing method thereof The disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing light-emitting diode (LED) chips. The manufacturing method includes: providing a plurality of LED elements; randomly mixing the plurality of LED elements; performing a mesa process on the plurality of LED elements; and forming at least one pair of electrodes on the plurality of LED elements. An electronic device includes the LED chips.
US11742453B2	Method for manufacturing monocrystalline silicon wafer containing arced side, method for manufacturing monocrystalline silicon cell, and photovoltaic module Provided is a method for manufacturing at least one solar cell, a method for manufacturing a monocrystalline silicon wafer and a photovoltaic module. The method for manufacturing a monocrystalline silicon wafer includes: providing a monocrystalline silicon rod; squaring the monocrystalline silicon rod to form a quasi-square silicon rod with quasi-square cross-section having an arc, a length of the arc being not less than 15 mm; slicing the quasi-square silicon rod to form at least one quasi-square silicon wafer having the arc. The method for manufacturing at least one solar cell includes: using the method described above to obtain a quasi-square silicon wafer having an arc; forming a first solar cell by processing the quasi-square silicon wafer; scribing the first solar cell to obtain a square-shaped sub-solar cell and at least one strip-shaped sub-solar cell. The above methods improve the utilization rate of the monocrystalline silicon rod and reduce production cost.
US11742448B2	Multijunction solar cells A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap and positioned for receiving an incoming light beam; and a second solar subcell disposed below and adjacent to and lattice matched with said upper first solar subcell, and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; wherein at least one of the solar subcells has a graded band gap throughout the thickness of at least a portion of its emitter layer and base layer.
US11742446B2	Wire-based metallization and stringing for solar cells Wire-based metallization and stringing techniques for solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, modules, and equipment, are described. In an example, a substrate has a surface. A plurality of N-type and P-type semiconductor regions is disposed in or above the surface of the substrate. A conductive contact structure is disposed on the plurality of N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The conductive contact structure includes a plurality of conductive wires, each conductive wire of the plurality of conductive wires essentially continuously bonded directly to a corresponding one of the N-type and P-type semiconductor regions.
US11742438B2	Solar cell and solar cell module A method for manufacturing a solar cell having a P-type silicon substrate wherein one main surface is a light-receiving surface and another is a backside, a plurality of back surface electrodes formed on a part of the backside, an N-type layer in at least a part of the light-receiving surface, and contact areas in which the substrate contacts the electrodes; wherein the P-type silicon substrate is a silicon substrate doped with gallium and has a resistivity of 2.5 Ω·cm or less; and a back surface electrode pitch Prm [mm] of contact areas in which the P-type silicon substrate is in contact with the back surface electrodes and the resistivity Rsub [Ω·cm] of the substrate satisfy the relation represented by the following formula (1). log(Rsub)≤−log(Prm)+1.0 (1)
US11742436B2	Semiconductor device with an integrated deep trench capacitor having high capacitance density and low equivalent series resistance A semiconductor device includes an integrated trench capacitor in a substrate, with a field oxide layer on the substrate. The trench capacitor includes trenches extending into semiconductor material of the substrate, and a capacitor dielectric in the trenches on the semiconductor material. The trench capacitor further includes an electrically conductive trench-fill material on the capacitor dielectric. A portion of the capacitor dielectric extends into the field oxide layer, between a first segment of the field oxide layer over the trench-fill material and a second segment of the field oxide layer over the semiconductor material. The integrated trench capacitor has a trench contact to the trench-fill material in each of the trenches, and substrate contacts to the semiconductor material around the trenches, with no substrate contacts between the trenches.
US11742435B2	Integrated capacitor and method of producing an integrated capacitor Integrated capacitor including a first electrode structure, a second electrode structure, and an interposed dielectric layer structure. The dielectric layer structure includes a layer combination having an SiO2 layer, an Si3N4 layer, and an SixNy layer. The SixNy layer includes a non-stoichiometric silicon nitride material with an increased proportion of silicon.
US11742434B2	Memory device having recessed active region A device includes an active region, a select gate, a control gate, a first metal alloy layer, and a second metal alloy layer. The active region has a source region and a drain region. The select gate is over the active region and between the source region and the drain region. The control gate is over the active region and between the source region and the select gate. The first metal alloy layer is in contact with the source region. The second metal alloy layer is in contact with the drain region and higher than a top surface of the control gate.
US11742432B2	Logic circuit and semiconductor device A logic circuit includes a thin film transistor having a channel formation region formed using an oxide semiconductor, and a capacitor having terminals one of which is brought into a floating state by turning off the thin film transistor. The oxide semiconductor has a hydrogen concentration of 5×1019 (atoms/cm3) or less and thus substantially serves as an insulator in a state where an electric field is not generated. Therefore, off-state current of a thin film transistor can be reduced, leading to suppressing the leakage of electric charge stored in a capacitor, through the thin film transistor. Accordingly, a malfunction of the logic circuit can be prevented. Further, the excessive amount of current which flows in the logic circuit can be reduced through the reduction of off-state current of the thin film transistor, resulting in low power consumption of the logic circuit.
US11742431B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device with favorable reliability is provided.The semiconductor device includes a first insulator; a second insulator positioned over the first insulator; an oxide positioned over the second insulator; a first conductor and a second conductor positioned apart from each other over the oxide; a third insulator positioned over the oxide, the first conductor, and the second conductor; a third conductor positioned over the third insulator and at least partly overlapping with a region between the first conductor and the second conductor; a fourth insulator positioned to cover the oxide, the first conductor, the second conductor, the third insulator, and the third conductor; a fifth insulator positioned over the fourth insulator; and a sixth insulator positioned over the fifth insulator. An opening reaching the second insulator is formed in at least part of the fourth insulator; the fifth insulator is in contact with the second insulator through the opening; and the first insulator, the fourth insulator, and the sixth insulator have a lower oxygen permeability than the second insulator.
US11742429B2	Thin-film transistors with low contact resistance Techniques are disclosed for forming thin-film transistors (TFTs) with low contact resistance. As disclosed in the present application, the low contact resistance can be achieved by intentionally thinning one or both of the source/drain (S/D) regions of the thin-film layer of the TFT device. As the TFT layer may have an initial thickness in the range of 20-65 nm, the techniques for thinning the S/D regions of the TFT layer described herein may reduce the thickness in one or both of those S/D regions to a resulting thickness of 3-10 nm, for example. Intentionally thinning one or both of the S/D regions of the TFT layer induces more electrostatic charges inside the thinned S/D region, thereby increasing the effective dopant in that S/D region. The increase in effective dopant in the thinned S/D region helps lower the related contact resistance, thereby leading to enhanced overall device performance.
US11742428B2	Formation method of semiconductor device with isolation structure A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming first nanostructures and second nanostructures over a semiconductor substrate. The method also includes forming a dielectric fin between the first nanostructures and the second nanostructures. The method further includes forming a metal gate stack wrapped around the first nanostructures, the second nanostructures, and the dielectric fin. In addition, the method includes forming an insulating structure penetrating into the metal gate stack and aligned with the dielectric fin.
US11742426B2	Forming crossbar and non-crossbar transistors on the same substrate A method of forming a transistor structure is provided. The method includes forming on a substrate first and second mandrels for forming two-dimensional (2D) transistor fin elements defining a pitch gap region, depositing and anisotropically etching back the first spacer material to form first and second spacers in and around the first and second mandrels, respectively, conformally depositing and anisotropically etching back second spacer material around the first and second spacers and in the pitch gap region to define space for forming an odd number of one-dimensional (1D) transistor fin elements in the pitch gap region and depositing and anisotropically etching back the first spacer material in the space with enough cycles to fill the space to form a third spacer.
US11742425B2	FinFET device with partial interface dipole formation for reduction of gate induced drain leakage A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a field effect transistor disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The field effect transistor includes a vertical fin defining a longitudinal length along a first axis, a width along a second axis and a vertical height along a third axis. The vertical fin includes source and drain regions separated by a gate region and a gate structure over the gate region. The gate structure includes a dipole layer and a gate electrode layer over the dipole layer. A first longitudinal section of the gate structure includes the dipole layer and a second longitudinal section of the gate structure is devoid of the dipole layer.
US11742423B2	Laterally double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor device A laterally double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor device is provided, including: a drift region (3) having a first conductivity type; a first body region (10) disposed on the drift region (3) and having a second conductivity type, the first conductivity type and the second conductivity type being opposite conductivity types; a first conductivity type region (13) disposed in the first body region (10); a second body region (12) disposed in the first conductivity type region (13) and having the second conductivity type; a source region (11) disposed in the second body region (12) and having the first conductivity type; and a contact region (9) disposed in the first body region (10) and having the second conductivity type.
US11742421B2	Trench-gate field effect transistor with improved electrical performances and corresponding manufacturing process A field effect transistor has a semiconductor layer with a top surface extending in a horizontal plane, and an active area defined in which are trench gate regions, which extend in depth with respect to the top surface and have an insulating coating layer and a conductive inner layer, and source regions, adjacent to the trench gate regions so as to form a conductive channel extending vertically. The trench gate regions have a plurality of first gate regions, which extend in length in the form of stripes through the active area along a first direction of the horizontal plane, and moreover a plurality of second gate regions, which extend in length in the form of stripes through the same active area along a second direction of the horizontal plane, orthogonal to, and crossing, the first gate regions. In particular, the first gate regions and second gate regions cross in the active area, joining with a non-zero curvature radius.
US11742419B2	Cap structure coupled to source to reduce saturation current in HEMT device In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a channel layer disposed over a base substrate, and an active layer disposed on the channel layer. A source contact and a drain contact are over the active layer and are laterally spaced apart from one another along a first direction. A gate electrode is arranged on the active layer between the source contact and the drain contact. A passivation layer is arranged on the active layer and laterally surrounds the source contact, the drain contact, and the gate electrode. A conductive structure is electrically coupled to the source contact and is disposed laterally between the gate electrode and the source contact. The conductive structure extends along an upper surface and a sidewall of the passivation layer.
US11742410B2	Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes an oxide sub-fin structure having a top and sidewalls. An oxidation catalyst layer is on the top and sidewalls of the oxide sub-fin structure. A vertical arrangement of nanowires is above the oxide sub-fin structure. A gate stack is surrounding the vertical arrangement of nanowires and on at least the portion of the oxidation catalyst layer on the top of the oxide sub-fin structure.
US11742405B2	Separate epitaxy layers for nanowire stack GAA device The current disclosure describes techniques for forming gate-all-around (“GAA”) devices from stacks of separately formed nanowire semiconductor strips. The separately formed nanowire semiconductor strips are tailored for the respective GAA devices. A trench is formed in a first stack of epitaxy layers to define a space for forming a second stack of epitaxy layers. The trench bottom is modified to have determined or known parameters in the shapes or crystalline facet orientations. The known parameters of the trench bottom are used to select suitable processes to fill the trench bottom with a relatively flat base surface.
US11742397B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Embodiments of this application disclose a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and having a first bandgap, and a second nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a second bandgap. The second bandgap is larger than the first bandgap. The semiconductor device further includes a gate contact disposed over the second nitride semiconductor layer and a first field plate disposed over the gate contact. The first field plate has a first surface facing the substrate, a second surface facing the substrate, and a protruded portion. The protruded portion has a bottom surface facing the substrate. The bottom surface is located between the first surface and the second surface.
US11742395B2	Selective etching to increase threshold voltage spread A method includes forming a gate dielectric comprising a portion extending on a semiconductor region, forming a barrier layer comprising a portion extending over the portion of the gate dielectric, forming a work function tuning layer comprising a portion over the portion of the barrier layer, doping a doping element into the work function tuning layer, removing the portion of the work function tuning layer, thinning the portion of the barrier layer, and forming a work function layer over the portion of the barrier layer.
US11742387B2	Hybrid channel semiconductor device and method A device includes a first semiconductor strip protruding from a substrate, a second semiconductor strip protruding from the substrate, an isolation material surrounding the first semiconductor strip and the second semiconductor strip, a nanosheet structure over the first semiconductor strip, wherein the nanosheet structure is separated from the first semiconductor strip by a first gate structure including a gate electrode material, wherein the first gate structure partially surrounds the nanosheet structure, and a first semiconductor channel region and a semiconductor second channel region over the second semiconductor strip, wherein the first semiconductor channel region is separated from the second semiconductor channel region by a second gate structure including the gate electrode material, wherein the second gate structure extends on a top surface of the second semiconductor strip.
US11742384B2	Vertical power semiconductor device including a field stop region having a plurality of impurity peaks A vertical power semiconductor device is proposed. The vertical power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface along a vertical direction. The vertical power semiconductor device further includes a drift region in the semiconductor body. The drift region includes platinum atoms. The vertical power semiconductor device further includes a field stop region in the semiconductor body between the drift region and the second main surface. The field stop region includes a plurality of impurity peaks. A first impurity peak of the plurality of impurity peaks has a larger concentration than a second impurity peak of the plurality of impurity peaks. The first impurity peak includes hydrogen and the second impurity peak includes helium.
US11742379B2	Functional panel, display device, input/output device, and data processing device A novel functional panel that is highly convenient or highly reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first element, a color conversion layer, and a first functional layer. The first functional layer is positioned between the first element and the color conversion layer. The first element has a function of emitting light and contains gallium nitride. The color conversion layer has a function of converting the color of light emitted from the first element into a different color. The first functional layer includes a first insulating film and a pixel circuit. The first insulating film includes a region positioned between the pixel circuit and the first element, and has an opening. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor. The first transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor film and is electrically connected to the first element through the opening.
US11742378B2	High density interconnect for segmented LEDs A light emitting diode (LED) may include a conductive via in a first portion of an epitaxial layer and a first contact on a second portion of the epitaxial layer. The first portion and the second portion may be separated by an isolation region. The LED may include a transparent conductive layer on the epitaxial layer.
US11742372B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a front surface on which a transistor is provided and a back surface opposite to the front surface, and a conductive member that penetrates through the semiconductor layer. In the semiconductor device, between a second plane including the back surface and a third plane, a solid material that is an insulator is provided between the conductive member and the semiconductor layer, and, between a first plane including the front surface and the third plane, a hollow part is provided between the conductive member and the semiconductor layer, and a center of the hollow part in a direction crossing the first plane and the second plane is positioned between the first plane and the third plane.
US11742367B2	I-TOF pixel circuit for background light suppression A pixel circuit for background light suppression includes: a 2-tap pixel circuit including first and second pixel capacitors, first and second storage switches, and first and second transfer switches; an in-pixel sigma delta circuit including a plurality of switching switches and a storage capacitor for storing charge transferred from the first and second pixel capacitors; an adaptive sigma delta controller configured to determine switching states of the plurality of switching switches according to a first state of the first pixel capacitor, or a second state of the second pixel capacitor, or both; and a chopping controller configured to instruct the storage switches and the transfer switches of the 2-tap pixel circuit to be selectively switched according to an output of the adaptive sigma delta controller.
US11742366B2	Solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment that allow an increase in the signal charge amount Qs that each pixel can accumulate. A solid-state imaging element according to the first aspect of the present technology includes: a photoelectric conversion section formed in each pixel; and an inter-pixel separation section separating the photoelectric conversion section of each pixel, in which the inter-pixel separation section includes a protruding section having a shape protruding toward the photoelectric conversion section. The present technology can be applied to a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11742363B2	Barrier stacks for printed and/or thin film electronics, methods of manufacturing the same, and method of controlling a threshold voltage of a thin film transistor The present disclosure pertains to a barrier stack for thin film and/or printed electronics on substrates having a diffusible element and/or species, methods of manufacturing the same, and methods of inhibiting or preventing diffusion of a diffusible element or species in a substrate using the same. The barrier stack includes a first barrier layer on the substrate, an insulator layer on the first barrier layer, a second barrier layer on the insulator layer in a first region of the substrate, and a third barrier layer on the insulator layer in a second region of the substrate and on the second barrier layer in the first region. Each of the second and third barrier layers has a thickness less than that of the first barrier layer.
US11742362B2	Hybrid high-k dielectric material film stacks comprising zirconium oxide utilized in display devices Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide methods of forming a hybrid film stack that may be used as a capacitor layer or a gate insulating layer with a high dielectric constant as well as film qualities for display applications. In one embodiment, a thin film transistor structure include gate, source and drain electrodes formed on a substrate, and an insulating layer formed on a substrate, wherein the insulating layer is a hybrid film stack having a dielectric layer comprising a zirconium containing material disposed on an interface layer formed above or below the gate, source and drain electrodes.
US11742359B2	Electronic device An electronic device of an embodiment of the disclosure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driving layer. The first substrate and the second substrate are disposed opposite to each other, and the driving layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The driving layer includes a scan line and a data line. The scan line is disposed on the first substrate and includes a first scan line segment. The first scan line segment has an opening and includes a first branch and a second branch. The first branch and the second branch are located on two opposite sides of the opening and are electrically connected in parallel with each other. The data line is disposed on the first substrate and intersects with the scan line. The electronic device of the embodiment of the disclosure may exhibit ideal display effect.
US11742354B2	Top epitaxial layer and contact for VTFET A semiconductor device includes first and second vertical transport field-effect transistor (VTFET) devices. Each of the first and second VTFET devices includes a bottom epitaxial layer, a plurality of channel fins formed on the bottom epitaxial layer, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer formed between the channel fins, a high-κ metal gate formed between the channel fins and the first ILD layer, a top epitaxial layer formed discretely on each of the channel fins, and a trench epitaxial layer formed continuously across the top epitaxial layer, a portion of the first ILD layer also being formed between the first and second VTFET device. The semiconductor device also includes a second ILD layer formed on the portion of the first ILD layer that is between the first and second VTFET devices, the second ILD layer separating the top epitaxial layers of the first and second VTFET devices.
US11742353B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A device includes a substrate, a channel layer, a gate structure, a source/drain epitaxial structure, and a bottom dielectric structure. The channel layer is over the substrate. The gate structure is over the substrate and surrounds the channel layer. The source/drain epitaxial structure is over the substrate and is connected to the channel layer. The bottom dielectric structure is between the source/drain epitaxial structure and the substrate.
US11742352B2	Vertical semiconductor device with steep subthreshold slope A semiconductor device includes first and second source/drain structures, a channel layer, a gate structure, and an epitaxial layer. The channel layer is above the first source/drain structure. The second source/drain structure is above the channel layer. The gate structure is on a first side surface of the channel layer. The epitaxial layer forms a P-N junction with a second side surface of the channel layer.
US11742351B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device comprises a first transistor on a substrate, and a second transistor on the substrate. Each of the first and second transistors includes a plurality of semiconductor patterns vertically stacked on the substrate and vertically spaced apart from each other, and a gate dielectric pattern and a work function pattern filling a space between the semiconductor patterns. The work function pattern of the first transistor includes a first work function metal layer, the work function pattern of the second transistor includes the first work function metal layer and a second work function metal layer, the first work function metal layer of each of the first and second transistors has a work function greater than that of the second work function metal layer, and the first transistor has a threshold voltage less than that of the second transistor.
US11742350B2	Metal gate N/P boundary control by active gate cut and recess Embodiments of the present invention are directed to fabrication methods and resulting structures that provide metal gate N/P boundary control in an integrated circuit (IC) using an active gate cut and recess processing scheme. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a gate cut is formed in an N/P boundary between an n-type field effect transistor (FET) and a p-type FET. A first portion of a first work function metal is removed over a channel region of the n-type FET. The gate cut prevents etching a second portion of the first work function metal. The first portion of the first work function metal is replaced with a second work function metal. The gate cut is recessed, and a conductive region is formed on the recessed surface of the gate cut. The conductive region provides electrical continuity across the N/P boundary.
US11742349B2	Semiconductor devices having gate dielectric layers of varying thicknesses and methods of forming the same A method includes forming a first channel region, a second channel region, and a third channel region over a substrate, depositing a first interfacial layer over the first, second, and third channel regions, removing the first interfacial layer from the first and second channel regions, depositing a second interfacial layer over the first and second channel regions, thinning a thickness of the second interfacial layer over the first channel region, depositing a high-k dielectric layer over the first, second, and third channel regions, and forming a gate electrode layer over the first, second, and third channel regions.
US11742345B2	Method of forming an array of multi-stack nanosheet structures having a dam structure isolating multi-stack transistors An array of multi-stack transistor structures is provided, wherein the multi-stack transistor structures are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns in the array, wherein each of the multi-stack transistor structures includes two or more vertically arranged transistor stacks, and wherein a dam structure is formed between adjacent two rows in a same column so that a multi-stack transistor structure in one of the adjacent two rows is electrically isolated from a multi-stack transistor structure in the other of the adjacent two rows in the same column.
US11742343B2	Electrostatic discharge protection device An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device includes a pad, a diode, a gate ground NMOS (GGNMOS) transistor and a thyristor. The diode includes an anode connected with the pad. The GGNMOS transistor is connected between a cathode of the diode and a ground terminal. The thyristor is formed between the diode and the ground terminal when an ESD current may flow from the pad.
US11742337B2	Radio-frequency module and communication device A radio-frequency module including a module substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface on opposite sides; a low-noise amplifier disposed on the second main surface; and a power amplifier circuit in a Doherty configuration. The power amplifier including a first phase circuit; a second phase circuit; a carrier amplifier disposed on the first main surface and including an input terminal connected to a first end of the first phase circuit and an output terminal connected to a first end of the second phase circuit; and a peaking amplifier disposed on the first main surface and including an input terminal connected to a second end of the first phase circuit and an output terminal connected to a second end of the second phase circuit.
US11742336B2	Semiconductor device and power management IC Semiconductor device has a regulator circuit having an even number of switching regulators that generate output power from an input power supply and a power management IC that controls the output potential generated by the switching regulator. semiconductor device is characterized in that a group of half of the even number of switching regulators is arranged on a first surface of semiconductor device system board, and a group of switching regulators, which is the remaining half, is arranged on a second surface that is in front-back relation with the first surface. This semiconductor device reduces semiconductor device board-area (pattern-resource).
US11742334B2	Light-emitting assembly with raised adhesive layer A light emitting assembly includes a substrate, an adhesive layer on the substrate, and a plurality of light emitting units on the adhesive layer. Each of the light emitting units includes a first-type semiconductor layer, a second-type semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed between the first-type and second-type semiconductor layers, a first electrode electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second-type semiconductor layer. A light emitting apparatus including the light emitting assembly is provided. Methods for making the light emitting assembly and the light emitting apparatus are provided.
US11742330B2	High connectivity device stacking The present disclosure generally relates to stacked miniaturized electronic devices and methods of forming the same. More specifically, embodiments described herein relate to semiconductor device spacers and methods of forming the same. The semiconductor device spacers described herein may be utilized to form stacked semiconductor package assemblies, stacked PCB assemblies, and the like.
US11742329B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package including a circuit substrate including a plurality of interconnections; a first chip on the circuit substrate; a second chip stacked on the first chip; a plurality of first pads on the circuit substrate, the plurality of first pads overlapping the first chip; a plurality of bumps between the circuit substrate and the first chip; a plurality of second pads on an edge portion of a first side of the circuit substrate, the plurality of second pads electrically connected to the second chip through a conductive wire; an underfill that fills a space between the circuit substrate and the first chip; and a first dam on the circuit substrate, the first dam overlapping the first chip. The first dam includes a conductive material and overlaps at least one of the plurality of interconnections.
US11742323B2	Semiconductor structure and method of forming the same A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor package, a second semiconductor package, a heat spreader and an underfill layer. The first semiconductor package includes a plurality of lower semiconductor chips and a first dielectric encapsulation layer disposed around the plurality of the lower semiconductor chips. The second semiconductor package is disposed over and corresponds to one of the plurality of lower semiconductor chips, wherein the second semiconductor package includes a plurality of upper semiconductor chips and a second dielectric encapsulation layer disposed around the plurality of upper semiconductor chips. The heat spreader is disposed over and corresponds to another of the plurality of lower semiconductor chips. The underfill layer is disposed over the first semiconductor package and around the second semiconductor package and the heat spreader.
US11742318B2	Split tie bar for clip stability A gang clip includes a plurality of clips formed from a metal each having a center region oriented along a first plane and an angled clip foot having a foot height, a length and a bend angle sufficient to electrically contact a lead terminal of the leadframe to be used to form a device. Adjacent ones of the plurality of clips are joined to one another by a first tie bar also oriented along the first plane. The first tie bar extends to a saw street region located between adjacent ones of the clips. A second tie bar attached to the first tie bar is positioned in the saw street region.
US11742313B2	Pressure-contact semiconductor device An object of the present invention is to suppress electrical contact between an outer peripheral portion of an intermediate electrode and a front surface electrode of a semiconductor chip without increasing the area of the semiconductor chip. A facing surface of the first intermediate electrode facing a first main electrode is smaller than a facing surface of the first main electrode facing the first intermediate electrode, and has an outer peripheral protective region and a connection region surrounded by the protective region. A pressure-contact semiconductor device includes a plurality of first conductor films partially formed in the connection region, and a first insulating film formed in regions in the connection region where no first conductor films are formed and in the protective region.
US11742309B2	Bump coplanarity for semiconductor device assembly and methods of manufacturing the same Improved bump coplanarity for semiconductor device assemblies, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, when openings in a passivation layer of a semiconductor device are formed to expose surfaces of bond pads, additional openings may also be formed in the passivation layer. The additional openings may have depths shallower than the openings extending to the surfaces of bond pads by leveraging partial exposures to the passivation layer using a leaky chrome process. Subsequently, when active bumps (pillars) are formed on the exposed surfaces of bond pads, dummy bumps (pillars) may be formed on recessed surfaces of the additional openings such that differences in heights above the surface of the passivation between the active bumps and the dummy bumps are reduced to improve coplanarity.
US11742305B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a lower insulating layer formed on a primary surface of a semiconductor substrate; a sealing layer formed in contact with a top surface of the lower insulating layer; and a conductive member including a first conductive member formed on the sealing layer and having a first film thickness and a second conductive member formed on the sealing layer in contact with a first conductive member and having a second film thickness that is smaller than the first film thickness.
US11742303B2	Systems for millimeter-wave chip packaging Various system embodiments for millimeter-wave chip packaging are disclosed in the present disclosure for smooth millimeter wave signal transition and good multi-channel signal isolation. The chip packaging features a substrate and a chip electrically connected using a plurality of metal pillars. A signal pillar and surrounding metal pillar may form a ground-signal-ground (GSG) pillar structure. A chip coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure may be formed on the chip around a signal path. A substrate CPW structure may also be form around a signal strip, which is electrically connected to the signal path. Characteristic impedances of the GSG pillar structure, the chip CPW structure and the substrate CPW structure may be within a predetermined range of each other to ensure smooth millimeter wave signal transition with minimum signal loss or distortion.
US11742299B2	Determination method and apparatus, program, information recording medium, exposure apparatus, layout information providing method, layout method, mark detection method, exposure method, and device manufacturing method A determination apparatus has a calculation section, where first and second direction pitches intersecting within a predetermined plane of a plurality of detection areas are D1 and D2, respectively, sizes in the first and second directions of each of a plurality of divided areas arranged two-dimensionally along the first and second directions on a substrate are W1 and W2, respectively, and first and second direction pitches of a plurality of marks arranged on the substrate are p1 and p2, respectively, calculates pitch p1 and pitch p2 of the plurality of marks that satisfy formulas (a) and (b) below, based on pitch D1, pitch D2, size W1, and size W2. p1=D1/i (i denotes a natural number)=W1/m (m denotes a natural number) (a) p2=D2/j (j denotes a natural number)=W2/n (n denotes a natural number) (b)
US11742298B2	Alignment mark design for packages A package includes a device die, a molding material molding the device die therein, a through-via penetrating through the molding material, and an alignment mark penetrating through the molding material. A redistribution line is on a side of the molding material. The redistribution line is electrically coupled to the through-via.
US11742297B2	Semiconductor packages A semiconductor package includes a first die, a plurality of second dies and a through via. The second dies are disposed over and electrically connected to the first die. The through via is disposed between the second dies and electrically connected to the first die. The through via includes a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width different from the first width and disposed between the first portion and the first die. The first portion includes a first seed layer and a first conductive layer, and the first seed layer is disposed aside an interface between the first portion and the second portion.
US11742291B2	Diffusion barrier layer for conductive via to decrease contact resistance Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure including a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a lower conductive structure within a first dielectric layer over a substrate. An upper dielectric structure is formed over the lower conductive structure. The upper dielectric structure comprises sidewalls defining an opening over the lower conductive structure. A first liner layer is selectively deposited along the sidewalls of the upper dielectric structure. A conductive body is formed within the opening and over the lower conductive structure. The conductive body has a bottom surface directly overlying a middle region of the lower conductive structure. The first layer is laterally offset from the middle region of the lower conductive structure by a non-zero distance.
US11742287B2	Stacked integrated circuit devices including a routing wire Integrated circuit devices including standard cells are provided. The integrated devices may include a lower transistor region and an upper transistor region. The lower transistor region may include a lower active region, lower source/drain regions, and lower gate structures arranged alternately with the lower source/drain regions. The upper transistor region may include an upper active region, upper source/drain regions, and upper gate structures arranged alternately with the upper source/drain regions. The upper gate structures may include a first upper gate structure. The integrated devices may also include an input wire, an input via electrically connecting the input wire to the first upper gate structure, and a routing wire electrically connecting a pair of the lower source/drain regions or a pair of the upper source/drain regions. An upper surface of the routing wire may be closer to the substrate than an upper surface of the input wire.
US11742277B2	Packaged integrated device having memory buffer integrated circuit asymmetrically positioned on substrate Disclosed is an integrated circuit die of a memory buffer integrated circuit that is placed aggregately closer to the solder balls that connect to the input (i.e., host command/address—C/A) signals than the output solder balls (i.e., memory device C/A) signals. This decreases the length of the host C/A signals from the memory controller to the memory buffer device when the memory module is placed in a system.
US11742276B2	Semiconductor package and manufacturing process thereof A package manufacturing process and semiconductor packages are provided. An interposer having a crystal structure is provided. A first die and a second die are bonded on the interposer. The second die is positioned to be spaced apart from the first die with a gap extending direction that is perpendicular to a shortest distance of the gap, and the gap extending direction is not parallel with a crystallographic orientation of the crystal structure of the interposer. A molding compound is formed over the interposer covering the first and second dies. The molding compound and the interposer are cut into packages.
US11742271B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes; a redistribution substrate including a redistribution pattern, a semiconductor chip mounted on a top surface of the redistribution substrate, and a connection terminal between the semiconductor chip and the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate further includes; a pad structure including a pad interconnection and a pad via, disposed between the redistribution pattern and the connection terminal, wherein the pad structure is electrically connected to the redistribution pattern and a top surface of the pad structure contacts the connection terminal, a shaped insulating pattern disposed on a top surface of the redistribution pattern, and a pad seed pattern disposed on the redistribution pattern and covering the shaped insulating pattern.
US11742269B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first die pad, a second die pad, a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, an insulating element, first terminals, second terminals, and a sealing resin. The sealing resin has a top surface, a bottom surface, and first to third side surfaces. The first terminals include a first edge terminal located closest to the third side surface. The second terminals include a second edge terminal located closest to the third side surface. A first creepage distance, which is a shortest distance from the first edge terminal to the second edge terminal along the first side surface, the third side surface, and the second side surface, is shorter than a second creepage distance, which is a shortest distance from the first edge terminal to the second edge terminal along the first side surface, the bottom surface, and the second side surface.
US11742266B2	Electronic device topside cooling A method comprises removing a portion of molding compound from a side of a package structure by a laser ablation process to create an opening that exposes a portion of a conductive clip, depositing solder paste on the exposed portion of the conductive clip, and reflowing the solder paste. The laser ablation process in one example is a pulsed laser ablation process that includes raster scanning a laser along a portion of the side of the package structure to create the opening. Depositing the solder paste in one example includes performing a dispense process or a screening process that deposits solder paste in the opening onto the exposed portion of the conductive clip.
US11742261B2	Nested architectures for enhanced heterogeneous integration Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such electronic packages. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a base substrate. The base substrate may have a plurality of through substrate vias. In an embodiment, a first die is over the base substrate. In an embodiment a first cavity is disposed into the base substrate. In an embodiment, the first cavity is at least partially within a footprint of the first die. In an embodiment, a first component is in the first cavity.
US11742257B2	Apparatus and methods for processing exfoliated graphite materials Methods and apparatus for processing flexible graphite sheet material involve patterning the material, on at least one major surface, prior to further processing of the material such as densification, lamination, folding or shaping into three-dimensional structures. For densification and lamination, the patterning is selected to facilitate the removal of air from the flexible graphite sheet material during the densification and lamination process. For folding or shaping, the patterning is selected to render the graphite sheet material more flexible. In some embodiments, methods for increasing the through-plane conductivity of flexible graphite sheet material are employed. Integrated heat removal devices include sheets of graphite material that have been selectively patterned in different regions to impart desirable localized properties to the material prior to it being shaped or formed into an integrated heat removal device. Coatings and/or resin impregnation can also be used to impart desirable properties to the material or device.
US11742256B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device incudes: a semiconductor chip that includes an active area and an outer peripheral area surrounding the active area; a metal member that includes one face including a mounting portion on which the semiconductor chip is mounted and a peripheral member surrounding the mounting portion; a joining member that connects the semiconductor chip and the metal member; and a sealing resin body. The metal member includes, as the peripheral portion, an adhesive portion that surrounds the mounting portion and adheres to the sealing resin body, and a non-adhesive portion that is placed between the mounting portion and the adhesive portion. An entire width is placed in an area overlapping the semiconductor chip in a projection view in a thickness direction of the semiconductor chip.
US11742254B2	Sensor package and method In an embodiment, a device includes: a sensor die having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the sensor die having an input/output region and a first sensing region at the first surface; an encapsulant at least laterally encapsulating the sensor die; a conductive via extending through the encapsulant; and a front-side redistribution structure on the first surface of the sensor die, the front-side redistribution structure being connected to the conductive via and the sensor die, the front-side redistribution structure covering the input/output region of the sensor die, the front-side redistribution structure having a first opening exposing the first sensing region of the sensor die.
US11742250B2	Test circuit for detecting parasitic capacitance of TSV Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a first semiconductor chip, and a first TSV penetrating the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first resistor coupled between a first power supply and a first node, a switch circuit coupled between the first node and the first TSV, a pad electrode operatively coupled to the first node, and a constant current source operatively coupled to either one of the first node and the pad electrode.
US11742249B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method for semiconductor device A fabrication method for a semiconductor device includes measuring a thickness of a semiconductor substrate in which a bulk donor of a first conductivity type is entirely distributed, adjusting an implantation condition in accordance with the thickness of the semiconductor substrate and implanting hydrogen ions from a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate to an upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and annealing the semiconductor substrate and forming, in a passage region through which the hydrogen ions have passed, a first high concentration region of the first conductivity type in which a donor concentration is higher than a doping concentration of the bulk donor.
US11742243B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method and wafer-attached structure A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a step of preparing a semiconductor wafer source which includes a first main surface on one side, a second main surface on the other side and a side wall connecting the first main surface and the second main surface, an element forming step of setting a plurality of element forming regions on the first main surface of the semiconductor wafer source, and forming a semiconductor element at each of the plurality of element forming regions, and a wafer source separating step of cutting the semiconductor wafer source from a thickness direction intermediate portion along a horizontal direction parallel to the first main surface, and separating the semiconductor wafer source into an element formation wafer and an element non-formation wafer after the element forming step.
US11742242B2	Method for manufacturing through-silicon via with liner Provided are a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. A first device structure layer is between a first substrate and a second substrate. A second device structure layer is between the second substrate and the first device structure layer. A first dielectric layer is between the first and second device structure layers. A second dielectric layer is on the second substrate. A through-silicon via (TSV) structure is in the second dielectric layer, the second substrate, the second device structure layer and the first dielectric layer. A connection pad is at the surface of the second dielectric layer and connected to the TSV structure. A first liner is between the TSV structure and the second dielectric layer, the second substrate and the second device structure layer. A second liner is between the top of theTSV structure and the second dielectric layer and a part of the second substrate.
US11742237B2	Mechanism for FinFET well doping The embodiments of mechanisms for doping wells of finFET devices described in this disclosure utilize depositing doped films to dope well regions. The mechanisms enable maintaining low dopant concentration in the channel regions next to the doped well regions. As a result, transistor performance can be greatly improved. The mechanisms involve depositing doped films prior to forming isolation structures for transistors. The dopants in the doped films are used to dope the well regions near fins. The isolation structures are filled with a flowable dielectric material, which is converted to silicon oxide with the usage of microwave anneal. The microwave anneal enables conversion of the flowable dielectric material to silicon oxide without causing dopant diffusion. Additional well implants may be performed to form deep wells. Microwave anneal(s) may be used to anneal defects in the substrate and fins.
US11742234B2	System for positioning a plate System for positioning (DP) a plate handling device relative to a plate of a given shape, said device including a securing face (8) for being secured to a face of the plate: a tray (16) comprising a face for facing a face of the plate, a support (18) supporting the tray, pins (32) protruding from the face of the tray (16) and delimiting the external shape of the plate between them, a housing (28) in the tray (16) for mounting the handling device so that said securing face (8) of the handling device is oriented to the side of the face of the tray (16), the position of the housing (28) relative to the pins (32) ensuring positioning of the device relative to the plate.
US11742231B2	Movable wafer holder for film deposition chamber having six degrees of freedom The present disclosure provides a flexible workpiece pedestal capable of tilting a workpiece support surface. The workpiece pedestal further includes a heater mounted on the workpiece support surface. The heater includes a plurality of heating sources such as heating coils. The plurality of heating sources in the heater allows heating the workpiece at different temperatures for different zones of the workpiece. For example, the workpiece can have a central zone heated by a first heating coil, a first outer ring zone that is outside of the central zone heated by a second heating coil, a second outer ring zone that is outside of the first outer ring zone heated by a third heating coil. By using the tunable heating feature and the tilting feature of the workpiece pedestal, the present disclosure can reduce or eliminate the shadowing effect problem of the related workpiece pedestal in the art.
US11742228B2	Substrate processing method and substrate processing system A substrate processing method of processing a substrate using a gas supplied to a chamber includes: (a) setting a threshold value of a pressure of the gas, which is a control target in a flow rate controller configured to measure the pressure of the gas supplied to the chamber and control a flow rate of the gas; (b) supplying the gas into the chamber; (c) measuring the pressure of the gas by the flow rate controller; (d) stopping the supply of the gas into of the chamber; (e) calculating a time when the pressure of the gas measured in (c) becomes equal to or higher than the threshold value; and (f) calculating a total flow rate of the gas supplied into the chamber based on the pressure of the gas measured in (c) and the time calculated in (e).
US11742222B2	Apparatus for removing a photoresist and apparatus for manufacturing a comiconductor device An apparatus for fabricating a semiconductor device may include a nozzle having a slit configured to eject solution and an ultraviolet emitter provided outside the nozzle. The ultraviolet emitter and the nozzle may be configured to move horizontally. The slit may be provided on a bottom surface of the nozzle.
US11742217B2	Passive devices in package-on-package structures and methods for forming the same A device includes a polymer. A device die is disposed in the polymer. A passive device includes three Through Assembly Vias (TAVs) penetrating through the polymer, wherein the TAVs are coupled in series. A Redistribution Line (RDL) is underlying the polymer. The RDL electrically couples a first one of the TAVs to a second one of the TAVs.
US11742216B2	System and method for laser assisted bonding of an electronic device A system and method for laser assisted bonding of semiconductor die. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods that enhance or control laser irradiation of a semiconductor die, for example spatially and/or temporally, to improve bonding of the semiconductor die to a substrate.
US11742215B2	Methods for forming a semiconductor device A method of forming a semiconductor device, including forming a first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor layer being of the same dopant type as the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor layer having a higher dopant concentration than the semiconductor substrate, increasing the porosity of the first semiconductor layer, first annealing the first semiconductor layer at a temperature of at least 1050° C., forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer and separating the second semiconductor layer from the semiconductor substrate by splitting within the first semiconductor layer.
US11742212B2	Directional deposition in etch chamber Methods for forming a vertical growth mask for use in etching applications are described herein. Disclosed embodiments include introducing a tungsten-containing deposition precursor and one or more carrier gases while igniting a plasma to deposit tungsten selectively on field regions of positive features of a patterned etch mask without substantial deposition on sidewalls of the positive features or on an exposed surface of a target layer underlying the patterned etch mask.
US11742207B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes substrate, a first gate structure, a second gate structure, and an epitaxy layer. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are over the substrate, in which the first gate structure and the second gate structure each comprises a shielding electrode, a gate electrode over the shielding electrode, and a first gate dielectric layer vertically separating the shielding electrode from the gate electrode. The epitaxy layer is over the substrate and cups an underside of the first gate structure and the second gate structure, in which the epitaxy layer comprises a doped region laterally between the first gate dielectric layer of the first gate structure and the first gate dielectric layer of the second gate structure, a dopant concentration of the doped region being non-uniform along a lateral direction.
US11742206B2	Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device can include: a well region having a second doping type; a reduced surface field effect layer of a first doping type formed by an implantation process in a predetermined region of the well region, where a length of the reduced surface field effect layer is less than a length of the well region; a body region of the first doping type extending from a top surface of the well region into the well region; a drain portion of the second doping type extending from the top surface of the well region into the well region; and an insulating structure located between the body region and the drain portion, at least a portion of the insulating structure is located on the top surface of the well region.
US11742203B2	Method for growing III-V compound semiconductor thin films on silicon-on-insulators The present disclosure relates to a method for growing III-V compound semiconductors on silicon-on-insulators. Starting from {111}-oriented Si seed surfaces between a buried oxide layer and a patterned mask layer, the III-V compound semiconductor is grown within lateral trenches by metal organic chemical vapor deposition such that the non-defective portion of the III-V compound semiconductor formed on the buried oxide layer is substantially free of crystalline defects and has high crystalline quality.
US11742202B2	Methods for making radio frequency (RF) semiconductor devices including a ground plane layer having a superlattice A method for making a radio frequency (RF) semiconductor device may include forming an RF ground plane layer on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate and including a conductive superlattice. The conductive superlattice may include stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including stacked doped base semiconductor monolayers defining a doped base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent doped base semiconductor portions. The method may further include forming a body above the RF ground plane layer, forming spaced apart source and drain regions adjacent the body and defining a channel region in the body, and forming a gate overlying the channel region.
US11742198B2	Structure including SiOCN layer and method of forming same A method for forming a layer comprising SiOCN on a substrate is disclosed. An exemplary method includes thermally depositing the layer comprising SiOCN on a surface of the substrate. The layer comprising SiOCN can be used for various applications, including spacers, etch stop layers, and etch resistant layers.
US11742187B2	RF capacitive coupled etch reactor In a capacitive coupled etch reactor, in which the smaller electrode is predominantly etched, the surface of the larger electrode is increased by a body e.g. a plate, which is on the same electric potential as the larger electrode and which is immersed in the plasma space. A pattern of openings in which plasma may burn is provided in the body so as to control the distribution of the etching effect on a substrate placed on the smaller electrode.
US11742183B2	Plasma processing apparatus and control method A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; an electrode that places a substrate thereon within the processing container; a plasma generation source that supplies plasma into the processing container; a bias power supply that supplies bias power to the electrode; a part exposed to the plasma in the processing container; a DC power supply that supplies a DC voltage to the part; a controller that executes a process including a first control procedure in which a first state in which the DC voltage has a first voltage value and a second state in which the DC voltage has a second voltage value higher than the first voltage value are periodically repeated, and the first voltage value is applied in a partial period in each cycle of a potential of the electrode, and the second voltage value is applied such that the first state and the second state are continuous.
US11742179B2	Proximity effect correcting method, master plate manufacturing method, and drawing apparatus According to one embodiment, a proximity effect correcting method includes acquiring drawing information for drawing a pattern on a substrate with irradiation of an electron beam. The method further includes acquiring surface profile information related to a surface profile of the substrate. The method further includes calculating an energy distribution of a backscattered beam to be produced by backscattering of the electron beam in the substrate on a basis of the acquired drawing information and surface profile information. The method further includes calculating a required energy amount of the electron beam on a basis of the calculated energy distribution.
US11742176B2	Transmission electron microscope and method of adjusting optical system A transmission electron microscope includes a control unit that: determines an excitation amount of a second illumination system lens based on an excitation amount of first illumination system lens such that the second illumination system lens satisfies a first optical condition; and determines a control amount of a first deflector and a control amount of a second deflector based on the excitation amount of the second illumination system lens such that the first deflector and the second deflector satisfy a second optical condition. The first optical condition is for a convergence angle of the electron beam to be constant even if the excitation amount of the first illumination system lens has changed, and the second optical condition is for an illuminating position of the electron beam and an illuminating angle of the electron beam to be constant even if the excitation amount of the first illumination system lens has changed.
US11742173B2	Integrated optical and charged particle inspection apparatus The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for inspecting a sample. The apparatus includes a sample holder for holding the sample, at least the sample holder comprises a cooling system which is configured for cooling at least the sample, preferably to cryogenic temperatures; a charged particle exposure system includes an assembly for projecting a focused beam of primary charged particles onto the sample held by the sample holder; and a light optical microscope. The sample holder includes a sheet of a scintillator material, and the sample holder is configured to position the sample in between the charged particle optical column and the sheet of the scintillator material. The light optical microscope includes a detection system configured for acquiring an optical image of at least a part of the sheet of the scintillator material.
US11742172B2	Charged particle beam device and control method thereof A charged particle beam device includes: a movement mechanism configured to hold and move a sample; a charged particle source configured to emit charged particles with which the sample is irradiated to obtain an image of the sample; and a control unit configured to control the movement mechanism to move the sample and to obtain the image of the sample. The control unit obtains a reference image of the sample in a reference arrangement state by the charged particles, generates a goal image of the sample in a target arrangement state different from the reference arrangement state by calculation from the reference image, moves the sample to each of different arrangement states by the movement mechanism, obtains a candidate image of the sample in each of the different arrangement states by the charged particles, and generates a comparison result between respective candidate images and the goal image.
US11742171B2	Method for imaging a sample A method for imaging a sample by means of an X-ray detector is disclosed, including providing an electron beam interacting with a target to generate X-ray radiation emitted from an X-ray spot on the target, moving the sample relative to the target, deflecting the electron beam such that the X-ray spot is moved over the target simultaneously and in accordance with the movement of the sample, and detecting X-ray radiation emitted from the X-ray spot and interacting with the sample.
US11742169B2	Ultra-fast moving conductor with removable core pin An ultra-fast moving conductor for use with a circuit breaker is provided. The moving conductor includes a hollow outer stem and a removable core. Multiple removable cores are produced for use with the moving conductor for different purposes. The outer stem is produced from annealed copper that must be brazed before the circuit breaker is placed into operation, and a first removable core produced from copper is inserted into the outer stem to provide structural reinforcement to the outer stem during brazing. After brazing is complete, the copper core is removed from the outer stem, and a significantly lighter work hardened aluminum core is inserted into the outer stem. The lightweight aluminum core enables the moving conductor to open the circuit breaker much faster than the copper core would, and the copper core prevents contamination of the brazing furnace that would result from using the aluminum core during brazing.
US11742166B2	Switching device for switching an electrical load In an embodiment a switching device includes a first fixed contact element, a second fixed contact element, a movable contact bridge, a movable shaft configured to move the contact bridge, wherein the contact bridge is arranged at an end of the shaft, wherein the shaft is movable to a first position at which the contact bridge contacts the first and second contact elements, and wherein the shaft is movable to a second position at which the contact bridge is arranged at a distance from the first and second contact elements and a setting device configured to set the distance between the contact bridge and the first and second contact elements in the second position, wherein the setting device is arranged at the end of the shaft, and wherein the switching device is configured to switch an electrical load.
US11742161B2	Rotary diaphragm in vacuum interrupter switch An insulating rotary diaphragm for a vacuum interrupter (VI) electrical switch. The insulating diaphragm is designed for use in underground or pad-mounted VI switches where an external lever is rotated by a line worker to manually open the switch. A torsional insulating rod is coupled between a switch actuator and the external lever, and the diaphragm maintains constant contact with the insulating rod and an outer housing when the lever and rod are rotated, thus ensuring adequate isolation between the actuator and the lever. The diaphragm deforms torsionally when the lever and rod are rotated. This configuration allows the actuator to be at medium voltage, eliminates the need for a translational insulating rod between the medium voltage switch components and the lever, and thereby reduces the overall length of the VI switch.
US11742159B2	Switch A switch that includes a sensor device capable of transmitting data related to a sensor signal of at least one sensor of the sensor device to an external unit through wireless communication.
US11742155B2	Power storage device, battery management unit, and electronic device A repeatedly bendable power storage device. A highly reliable power storage device. A long-life power storage device. A repeatedly bendable electronic device. A flexible electronic device. The power storage device includes a film, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode. The film includes a plurality of projections. A difference between the maximum height and the minimum height of a surface of the film is greater than or equal to 0.15 mm and less than 0.8 mm. The modulus of rigidity of the film is less than 6.5×109 N. The film includes a metal layer. The thickness of the metal layer is greater than or equal to 5 μm and less than or equal to 200 μm. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are surrounded by the film.
US11742149B2	Hermetically sealed high energy electrolytic capacitor and capacitor assemblies with improved shock and vibration performance A capacitor and capacitor assemblies are provided, configured to prevent damage from shock and/or vibration. A capacitor assembly according to the invention comprises an anode plate having an anode plate wire extending from a surface of the anode plate. An anode wire holder is positioned around at least a portion of the anode plate wire. A wire separator comprising a channel is provided, at least a portion of the anode plate wire received within the channel. Methods of forming capacitors and capacitor assemblies are also provided.
US11742146B2	Multi-layer ceramic electronic component A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a multi-layer ceramic electronic component main body including a multi-layer body including stacked ceramic layers, stacked internal electrode layers, first and second main surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces, first and second external electrodes respectively on sides where the first and second end surfaces are located, and first and second metallic terminals respectively connected to the first and second external electrodes. The multi-layer ceramic electronic component main body and at least portion of the first and second metallic terminals are covered with an external material. The second main surface is connected to the metallic terminals. The first and second external electrodes cover a portion of the second main surface. A gap is provided between the multi-layer body and tips of the first and second external electrodes. The external material is in the gap.
US11742143B2	Multi-layer ceramic capacitor and method of producing the same A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic multi-layer chip, a side margin, and a bonding portion. The ceramic multi-layer chip includes a capacitance forming unit including internal electrodes, the internal electrodes being laminated in a first direction and including a base metal material as a main component, positions of end portions of the internal electrodes in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction being aligned with one another within a range of 0.5 μm in the second direction, and a cover that is disposed outside the capacitance forming unit in the first direction and includes ceramics as a main component. The side margin includes ceramics as a main component and covers the ceramic multi-layer chip in the second direction. The bonding portion is disposed on a bonding surface and includes an oxide including the base metal material, the bonding surface being bonded to the side margin on the cover.
US11742140B2	Wound core and method for producing same Provided is a wound core formed by laminating a plurality of bent bodies obtained by forming a coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in which a coating is formed on at least one surface of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet so that the coating is on an outside, in a sheet thickness direction, in which the bent body has a bent region obtained by bending the coated grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and a flat region adjacent to the bent region, the number of deformation twins present in the bent region in a side view is five or less per 1 mm of a length of a center line in the sheet thickness direction in the bent region, and when a region extending 40 times a sheet thickness to both sides in a circumferential direction from a center of the bent region on an outer circumferential surface of the bent body is defined as a strain affected region, a proportion of an area where the coating is not damaged at any position along the circumferential direction in a flat region within the strain affected region is 90% or more.
US11742132B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes an insulating layer that has a principal surface, a passive device that includes a low voltage pattern that is formed in the insulating layer and a high voltage pattern that is formed in the insulating layer such as to oppose the low voltage pattern in a normal direction to the principal surface and to which a voltage exceeding a voltage to be applied to the low voltage pattern is to be applied, and a shield conductor layer that is formed in the insulating layer such as to be positioned in a periphery of the high voltage pattern in plan view, shields an electric field formed between the low voltage pattern and the high voltage pattern, and suppresses electric field concentration with respect to the high voltage pattern.
US11742130B2	High current integrated circuit-based transformer An integrated circuit transformer (150) is formed with a primary winding (91) located in at least a first winding layer having a first thickness, a secondary winding (92) located in at least the first winding layer and having a first center point at the first side of the transformer and two secondary terminals at a second, opposite side of the transformer, and a first center tap feed line (81) located along a symmetry axis of the transformer in an upper metal layer having a second thickness that is at least equivalent to the first thickness of the first winding layer, wherein the first center tap feed line has a direct electrical connection to the first center point in the secondary winding.
US11742128B2	Transformers A transformer having a transformer core that forms a magnetic flux path between and through a top yoke, leg, and bottom yoke of the transformer core. A winding can be disposed about the leg. Further, a flitch plate, which can have at least one slot that is configured to reduce eddy losses generated by the winding, can be disposed adjacent to the leg and extend between the top yoke and the bottom yoke. The flitch plate can be clamped to the top and bottom yokes by top and bottom clamps, respectively. The top and bottom clamps can each include at least one cutout that reduces an attraction of stray flux from the winding and into the corresponding top and bottom clamps. Additionally, at least one of the top clamp and the bottom clamp can include an internal lattice structure.
US11742125B2	Cover for tissue penetrating device with integrated magnets and magnetic shielding A cover for magnetizing a shaft of a tissue-penetrating medical device is disclosed including a sleeve member having a hollow body to form a protective closure over the shaft of the tissue-penetrating medical device. The proximal end of the hollow body provides a receiving space for receiving the shaft of the tissue-penetrating medical device. One or more magnet is disposed on the sleeve member. A magnetic shield composed of one or more shielding materials associated with the cover that minimizes any effects to the clinical environment from magnetic fields generated within the cover. Medical devices, assemblies and methods of magnetizing the shaft of a tissue-penetrating medical device using the cover are also disclosed.
US11742124B2	Controller and control method for linear solenoid valve A controller executes a dither control that cyclically increases and decreases an exciting current in a linear solenoid valve so as to vibrate a spool of the linear solenoid valve. A vibration cycle of the spool obtained through the dither control is referred to a dither cycle. The dither control includes a first dither control that vibrates the spool in a first dither cycle and a second dither control that vibrates the spool in a second dither cycle that is shorter than the first dither cycle. The controller executes the first dither control and the second dither control when an oil temperature of the hydraulic oil is between a first oil temperature and a second oil temperature that is higher than the first oil temperature.
US11742120B2	Two-step diffusion method for preparing high-performance dual-main-phase sintered mischmetal-iron-boron magnet A two-step diffusion method for preparing high-performance dual-main-phase sintered mischmetal-iron-boron magnet belongs to the preparing technical field of rare earth permanent magnet materials. The compositions of the two main phase alloys are RE-Fe—B (RE is Nd or Pr) and (Nd, MM)-Fe—B (MM is mischmetal), respectively. First, PrHoFe strip-casting alloy is used as a diffusion source. Next, a PrHo-rich layer is uniformly coated on the surface of (Nd, MM)-Fe—B hydrogen decrepitation powders. The higher anisotropic fields of Pr2Fe14B and Ho2Fe14B are used to improve the coercivity. Then, the ZrCu strip-casting alloy is used as a diffusion source. A Zr-rich layer is uniformly coated on the surface of the powders after the first-step diffusion, which prevents the growth of the MM-rich main phase grains during the sintering process and the inter-diffusion between the two main phases, thus obtaining high coercivity.
US11742113B2	Form board preparation for wire bundling Systems and methods for designing and assembling form boards with attached wire routing devices for use in wire bundle assembly. The assembly method comprises: (a) establishing a coordinate system of a form board having a multiplicity of holes; (b) using a computer system to determine locations of form board devices of different types with reference to the coordinate system of the form board based on engineering data specifying a wire bundle configuration; and (c) fastening the form board devices of different types to respective holes of the form board having centers closest to respective locations determined in step (b). The form board devices may be inserted robotically or manually.
US11742110B2	Reinforced electric wire and methods of making the same The present invention is for reinforced electric wires as used in holiday lighting such as Christmas light strings. The reinforced electric wire comprises a conductor, reinforcing threads, and an insulator jacket.
US11742105B2	Scanning magnet and particle therapy system A scanning magnet that deflects a charged particle beam has a winding U provided with grooves SL1 and SL4 provided at facing positions. A passing direction of a conductive wire forming the winding U passes through the groove SL1 in a γ-axis positive direction, and passes through the groove SL4 in a γ-axis negative direction. The winding U has a loop path SL1-SL4 in which the groove SL1 is directed to the γ-axis positive direction, and the groove SL4 is directed to the γ-axis negative direction. When a current flows in the γ-axis positive direction in a winding section U+ disposed in the groove SL1, a current flows in the γ-axis negative direction in a winding section U− disposed in the groove SL4. A yoke, the winding U, a winding V, and a winding W have a 120° rotationally symmetric structure with respect to a central axis of the yoke.
US11742104B2	Adjusted segmented collimator comprising a Soller slit A collimator assembly for an x-ray optical system having a Soller slit for collimation of x-ray radiation with respect to a direction of an axis (z) of the Soller slit, wherein the Soller slit has a plurality of lamellae spaced apart from one another and having lamella planes parallel to one another, is characterized in that the Soller slit comprises a plurality of segments which are arranged along the axis and are separated from one another. The arrangement also has a collimator frame for enclosing and guiding the plurality of segments, and at least one of the plurality of segments is displaceable with respect to the collimator frame and relative to other segments. A simple but nonetheless accurate adjustment of the spectral resolution of an x-ray spectrometer to a respective different analytical application is thus enabled in a compact and cost-effective manner.
US11742102B2	System and method for preparing a container loaded with wet radioactive elements for dry storage A system for preparing a container holding radioactive waste for dry storage. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for preparing a container having a cavity loaded with radioactive elements for dry storage, the system comprising: a gas circulation system comprising a condenser module, a desiccant module, and a gas circulator module; the gas circulation system configured to form a hermetically sealed closed-loop path when operably connected to the cavity of the container; and means for adding and removing the desiccant module as part of the hermetically sealed closed-loop path.
US11742099B2	Very simplified boiling water reactors for commercial electricity generation Nuclear reactors have very few systems for significantly reduced failure possibilities. Nuclear reactors may be boiling water reactors with natural circulation-enabling heights and smaller, flexible energy outputs in the 0-350 megawatt-electric range. Reactors are fully surrounded by an impermeable, high-pressure containment. No coolant pools, heat sinks, active pumps, or other emergency fluid sources may be present inside containment; emergency cooling, like isolation condenser systems, are outside containment. Isolation valves integral with the reactor pressure vessel provide working and emergency fluid through containment to the reactor. Isolation valves are one-piece, welded, or otherwise integral with reactors and fluid conduits having ASME-compliance to eliminate risk of shear failure. Containment may be completely underground and seismically insulated to minimize footprint and above-ground target area.
US11742098B2	Nuclear reactor core support system providing radial and axial support A nuclear reactor core mechanical support bracket is disclosed. The support bracket includes a housing, a spring disposed internally within the housing, a shaft slidingly disposed within the housing, a shaft travel pin, and a flange. The shaft is configured to engage the spring to compress and decompress the spring as the shaft travels in and out of the housing. The shaft travel pin controls the travel of the shaft. The flange is configured to mount the nuclear reactor core mechanical support bracket to a canister of a nuclear reactor. The shaft includes an inset configured to interface with a nuclear reactor core component.
US11742096B2	Aqueous additive production method for the fabrication of metallic bodies A green body for a 3D ceramic and/or metallic body is produced by providing a metal or a mixture of metals and/or a metalloid and/or a non-metal or mixtures thereof in form of at least one aqueous solutions, such as a metal nitrate solution; if more than one aqueous solutions are provided, they differ in composition and/or isotope concentration. One aqueous metal solution is mixed with a gelation fluid at a first temperature to suppress an internal gelation of the feed solution mixture prior to its ejection. The feed solution mixture is ejected by inkjet printing to the green body under construction. The ejected feed solution is heated mixture on the green body to a second temperature to fix it on the green body under construction. Several process steps are repeated according to a 3D production control model until a desired form of the green body is attained.
US11742095B2	Nuclear reactor core loading and operation strategies Cores include different types of control cells in different numbers and positions. A periphery of the core just inside the perimeter may have higher reactivity fuel in outer control cells, and lower reactivity cells may be placed in an inner core inside the inner ring. Cores can include about half fresh fuel positioned in higher proportions in the inner ring and away from inner control cells. Cores are compatible with multiple core control cell setups, including BWRs, ESBWRs, ABWRs, etc. Cores can be loaded during conventional outages. Cores can be operated with control elements in only the inner ring control cells for reactivity adjustment. Control elements in outer control cells need be moved only at sequence exchanges. Near end of cycle, reactivity in the core may be controlled with inner control cells alone, and control elements in outer control cells can be fully withdrawn.
US11742092B2	Health information transformation system Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transforming raw healthcare data into relevant healthcare data are provided. Transformation of raw healthcare data into relevant data is accomplished by receiving raw data from a plurality of disparate data sources, indexing the data, and mapping the data. Embodiments transform raw data into relevant data through the use of natural language processing, synonymy and ontology mapping, and adaptive knowledge processing. The relevant data is stored in a one record that includes information necessary to understand and represent that patient.
US11742090B2	Method for estimating mental health and providing solution for mental health by learning psychological data and physical data based on machine learning and mental health estimating device using the same The method for estimating mental health and providing solution for mental health by learning psychological data and biological data based on machine learning includes: (a) acquiring, by mental health estimating device, psychological data for testing and biological data for testing of test subject from terminal of the test subject in state in which first estimated model is learned by referring to estimated mental health data for learning output from the first estimated model and ground truth mental health data corresponding to the estimated mental health data after psychological data for learning and biological data for learning of learning subjects are input to the first estimated model; and (b) inputting, by the mental health estimating device, the psychological data for testing and the biological data for testing to the first estimated model to allow the first estimated model to output estimated mental health data for testing.
US11742089B2	Customized cosmetics provision system and operating method thereof The objective of the present invention is to provide customized cosmetics personalized for individual users. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a customized cosmetics provision system can comprise: a diagnosis device for diagnosing a skin condition, recommending customized cosmetics on the basis of the diagnosis result of the skin condition, and transmitting, to a manufacturing device, information on the customized cosmetics having been recommended; and the manufacturing device for receiving information on the customized cosmetics from the diagnosis device, and providing customized cosmetics on the basis of the information on the customized cosmetics having been received.
US11742086B2	Systems and methods for determining and using health conditions based on machine learning algorithms and a smart vital device In some instances, the disclosure provides a method performed by a smart vital device. The method comprises receiving sensor information indicating one or more health characteristics associated with an individual, wherein the sensor information comprises audio information indicating audio signals from a surrounding environment and temperature information indicating temperature readings from the surrounding environment, determining one or more health audio characteristics of the individual based on inputting the audio signals into one or more health condition machine learning datasets, determining one or more health temperature characteristics of the individual based on the temperature readings from the surrounding environment, determining one or more health conditions of the individual based on the one or more health audio characteristics and the one or more health temperature characteristics, and outputting the one or more health conditions of the individual.
US11742085B2	Medical information processing apparatus, medium, and medical information processing method A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured: to receive an input of first transition data indicating a transition up to the present time of a biological index value exhibiting a condition of a patient and second transition data indicating a transition up to the present time of a treatment means implemented on the patient; to set a goal value of the biological index value as a treatment index value; and to predict a time at which the biological index value of the patient will reach the treatment index value, on the basis of such first transition data and second transition data of one or more past patients different from the patient that have characteristics similar to characteristics of the first transition data and the second transition data of the patient.
US11742082B2	System and method for assuring patient medication and fluid delivery at the clinical point of use A system for confirmation of fluid delivery to a patient at the clinical point of use is provided. The system includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device has a housing; at least one imaging sensor associated with the housing; a data transmission interface; a data reporting accessory for providing data to the user; a microprocessor for managing the at least one imaging sensor, the data transmission interface, and the data reporting accessory; and a program for acquiring and processing images from the at least one imaging sensor. The system further includes a fluid delivery apparatus; and one or more identification tags attached to or integrally formed with the fluid delivery apparatus. The program processes an image captured by the at least one imaging sensor to identify the one or more identification tags and acquires fluid delivery apparatus information from the one or more identification tags.
US11742079B2	Methods and apparatus for troubleshooting instrument malfunctions Methods of troubleshooting non-event malfunctions. The methods include providing a database including pre-populated non-event issues and associated corrective actions, inputting search criteria regarding a particular non-event issue via entry of a search string at the user interface, parsing and normalizing the search string into a meta-data schema to produce a normalized search string, searching the database with the normalized search string to generate a listing of one or more particular corrective actions, and receiving the listing of one or more particular corrective actions that are associated with the normalized search string. Apparatus configured to carry out the methods are provided, as are other aspects.
US11742078B2	System and methods of administering a status check to a medical device A system for administering a status check to a medical device. The system includes a medical device unit comprising a control system, a writing device, and one or more components, the control system configured to transmit to the one or more components a request for status data regarding a status of the one or more components, receive status data from the one or more components, and write, using the writing device, the status data to a transmitting device, the transmitting device configured to store and transmit the status data.
US11742077B2	System and method for core-device monitoring In some examples, a computing device may receive diagnostic data of a medical device implanted in a patient. The computing device may determine a use case associated with analyzing the diagnostic data out of a plurality of use cases for analyzing the diagnostic data. The computing device may determine, based at least in part on the use case, one or more device characteristics data to be compared against the diagnostic data. The computing device may analyze, based at least in part on comparing the diagnostic data with the one or more device characteristics data, the diagnostic data to determine an operating status of the medical device.
US11742076B2	Machine learning systems for generating multi-modal data archetypes Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating multi-modal data archetypes. In one aspect, a method comprises obtaining a plurality of training examples, wherein each training example corresponds to a respective patient and includes multi-modal data, having a plurality of feature dimensions, that characterizes the patient; jointly training an encoder neural network and a decoder neural network on the plurality of training examples; and generating a plurality of multi-modal data archetypes that each correspond to a respective dimension of a latent space, comprising, for each multi-modal data archetype: processing a predefined embedding that represents the corresponding dimension of the latent space using the decoder neural network to generate multi-modal data, having the plurality of feature dimensions, that defines the multi-modal data archetype.
US11742075B2	Network-based systems and methods for providing readmission notifications Networks and methods include receiving healthcare information and with a computer identifying when a patient is readmitted to a healthcare provider. A readmission notification is generated for identified readmissions. The notification may identify the patient being readmitted, the readmitting event, prior event(s) and provider(s), substantive healthcare and clinical status for the patient, treatment dates, and/or any other desired information. Readmission alerts can be formatted and provided in accordance with their consumers' parameters. Example methods and embodiments may receive, process, store, compare, and otherwise use any of HL7 messages, CCDA information, clinical feeds, or any other type of electronic healthcare record. This information may be received from any number of different healthcare information sources and providers. With example networks and methods, readmitting providers or other consumers of readmission notifications can know exactly when a patient is readmitted and adjust the healthcare response accordingly.
US11742074B2	Systems and methods for dispensing medications based on proximity to an electronic medication storage cabinet A method includes providing, on a computing device, when a user of the device is authorized, a user interface including respective representations of first medication administration functions and second medication administration functions associated with storage of the one or more medications and, in response to determining that the computing device is within the first predetermined area, enabling the computing device to perform the one or more first medication administration functions associated with the first predetermined area to cause, responsive to a selection of a displayed representation of the one or more first medication administration functions, a respective electronic medication storage cabinet associated with the selected displayed representation to perform an operation regarding a physical storage of a medication associated with a patient of the one or more patients, and preventing the computing device from performing the one or more second medication administration functions not associated with the first predetermined area.
US11742073B2	Methods and devices for grading a medical image Method and system for grading a medical image. For example, a system for grading a medical image comprising a grading network configured to provide a grading result corresponding to the medical image based on at least the medical image and/or a list of lesion candidates generated by a lesion identification network.
US11742064B2	Automated quality assurance testing of structured clinical data A method for checking the quality of data content in a structured clinical record is disclosed. The method may include the steps of providing a data quality test that checks the content of at least a portion of the data content in the structured clinical record, applying the data quality test to the portion of the data content, and returning the results of the data quality test.
US11742059B1	System and method for non-invasive quantification of blood biomarkers A system, method and corresponding software product are presented, the method comprising: providing a training data set comprising one or more spectrogram data pieces obtained from a plurality of individuals and respective data on a selected set of blood biomarkers of said individuals; selecting one or more groups of biomarkers selected from said selected set of biomarkers, wherein each group includes two or more (three or more) biomarkers; training one or more prediction models based on said training data, said one or more prediction model comprising one or more prediction routes for prediction of said one or more groups of biomarkers respectively. Accordingly, the prediction model comprises a selected number of prediction routes, each trained for predicting biomarkers concentrations of a respective groups of biomarkers.
US11742057B2	Systems and methods for artificial intelligence-based prediction of amino acid sequences at a binding interface Presented herein are systems and methods for prediction of protein interfaces for binding to target molecules. In certain embodiments, technologies described herein utilize graph-based neural networks to predict portions of protein/peptide structures that are located at an interface of custom biologic (e.g., a protein and/or peptide) that is being designed for binding to a target molecule, such as another protein or peptide. In certain embodiments, graph-based neural network models described herein may receive, as input, a representation (e.g., a graph representation) of a complex comprising a target and a partially-defined custom biologic. Portions of the partially-defined custom biologic may be known, while other portions, such an amino acid sequence and/or particular amino acid types at certain locations of an interface, are unknown and/or to be customized for binding to a particular target. A graph-based neural network model as described herein may then, based on the received input, generate predictions of likely acid sequences and/or types of particular amino acids at the unknown portions. These predictions can then be used to determine (e.g., fill in) amino acid sequences and/or structures to complete the custom biologic.
US11742056B2	Method for designing RNA-binding protein utilizing PPR motif, and use thereof A method for designing a protein capable of binding in an RNA base selective manner or RNA base sequence specific manner is provided. The protein of the present invention is a protein containing one or more of PPR motifs (preferably 2 to 14 PPR motifs) each consisting of a polypeptide of 30- to 38-amino acid length represented by the formula 1 (wherein Helix A is a moiety of 12-amino acid length capable of forming an α-helix structure, and is represented by the formula 2, wherein, in the formula 2, A1 to A12 independently represent an amino acid; X does not exist, or is a moiety of 1- to 9-amino acid length; Helix B is a moiety of 11- to 13-amino acid length capable of forming an α-helix structure; and L is a moiety of 2- to 7-amino acid length represented by the formula 3, wherein, in the formula 3, the amino acids are numbered “i” (−1), “ii” (−2), and so on from the C-terminus side, provided that Liii to Lvii may not exist), and combination of three amino acids A1, A4 and Lii, or combination of two amino acids A4, and Lii is a combination corresponding to a target RNA base or base sequence.
US11742055B2	Carrier based high volume system level testing of devices with pop structures A testing apparatus comprises a tester comprising a plurality of racks, wherein each rack comprises a plurality of slots, wherein each slot comprises: (a) an interface board affixed in a slot of a rack, wherein the interface board comprises test circuitry and a plurality of sockets, each socket operable to receive a device under test (DUT); and (b) a carrier comprising an array of DUTs, wherein the carrier is operable to displace into the slot of the rack; and (c) an array of POP memory devices, wherein each POP memory device is disposed adjacent to a respective DUT in the array of DUTs. Further, the testing apparatus comprises a pick-and-place mechanism for loading the array of DUTs into the carrier and an elevator for transporting the carrier to the slot of the rack.
US11742051B2	Sensor for performance variation of memory read and write characteristics Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having a first memory structure and a second memory structure. The first memory structure is disposed in a first area of the integrated circuit, and the first memory structure has first memory cells with first transistors. The second memory structure is disposed in a second area of the integrated circuit that is different than the first area, and the second memory structure has second memory cells with second transistors that are separate from the first transistors. The second transistors of the second memory cells are arranged to provide an output oscillating frequency for detecting variation of performance of the first transistors of the first memory cells.
US11742049B2	Hardware accelerator device, corresponding system and method of operation A device includes a set of processing circuits arranged in subsets, a set of data memory banks coupled to a memory controller, a control unit, and an interconnect network. The processing circuits are configurable to read first input data from the data memory banks via the interconnect network and the memory controller, process the first input data to produce output data, and write the output data into the data memory banks via the interconnect network and the memory controller. The hardware accelerator device includes a set of configurable lock-step control units which interface the processing circuits to the interconnect network. Each configurable lock-step control unit is coupled to a subset of processing circuits and is selectively activatable to operate in a first operation mode, or in a second operation mode.
US11742044B2	Memory built-in self-test with adjustable pause time An apparatus with a memory array having a plurality of memory cells. The apparatus also including a memory built-in self-test circuit to test the memory array. The memory built-in self-test circuit includes one or more processing devices to write a data pattern to one or more memory cells to be tested in the memory array, pause for a time period corresponding to a predetermined pause time setting, and read the written data pattern from the one or more memory cells after the time period has elapsed. The predetermined pause time setting is automatically adjusted based on memory device conditions, which can include the temperature of the apparatus.
US11742043B2	Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) training acceleration A method for performing read training of a memory channel includes writing a data pattern to a memory using a data bus having a predetermined number of bit lanes. An edge of a read data eye is determined individually for each bit lane by reading the data pattern over the data bus using a read bust cycle having a predetermined length, grouping data received on each bit lane over the read burst cycle to form a bit lane data group, and comparing the bit lane data group to corresponding expected data of the data pattern for each bit lane, logging a phase of each bit lane on which said edge is found, and repeating the reading, grouping, comparing, and logging until the edge is found for all of the bit lanes.
US11742041B2	Fuse based replay protection with dynamic fuse usage and countermeasures for fuse voltage cut attacks A TPM with programmable fuses in an SOC includes an on-die RAM storing a blown-fuse count and a TPM state read from off-die NV memory. During initialization, if the blown-fuse count is greater than a TPM state fuse count, a TPM state PIN-attempt-failure count is incremented, thereby thwarting a replay attack. If a PIN satisfies a PIN failure policy, and if a TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to true, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented depending on the PIN being incorrect, but if the TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to false, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented independent of whether the PIN is correct or incorrect. The TPM state fuse count is set equal to the blown-fuse count. If a counter cleared before processing the PIN remains cleared during the next initialization, a fuse voltage cut is detected and a penalty imposed.
US11742034B2	Memory device including dynamic programming voltage Some embodiments include apparatus and methods using access lines, first memory cells coupled to an access line of the access lines, and a control unit including circuitry. The control unit is configured to apply a first voltage to the access line; check first threshold voltages of the first memory cells after applying the first voltage; obtain offset information based on a determination that at least one of the first threshold voltages is greater than a selected voltage; generate a second voltage, the second voltage being a function of the first voltage and the offset information; and apply the second voltage to one of the access lines during an operation of storing information in second memory cells.
US11742031B2	Memory system including the semiconductor memory and a controller According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory and a controller. The semiconductor memory includes first blocks including a memory cell capable of storing data of one bit, a second block including a memory cell capable of storing data of two or more bits. The semiconductor memory stores first data in a first latch circuit, and second data in a second latch circuit, and writes the first data into one of the first blocks in page units, and the second data into one of the first blocks in page units. The semiconductor memory writes data of at least two pages into the second block, using the first data stored in the first latch circuit and the second data stored in the second latch circuit.
US11742030B2	Method and apparatus for reading data stored in flash memory by referring to binary digit distribution characteristics of bit sequences read from flash memory A method for reading data stored in a flash memory includes at least the following steps: controlling the flash memory to perform a plurality of read operations upon a plurality of memory cells included in the flash memory; obtaining a plurality of bit sequences read from the memory cells, respectively, wherein the read operations read bits of a predetermined bit order from the memory cells by utilizing different control gate voltage settings; and determining readout information of the memory cells according to binary digit distribution characteristics of the bit sequences.
US11742026B2	Memory system including a memory controller and a memory chip that executes a two-stage program operation In connection with a write operation, a memory controller transmits a first command sequence to a memory chip, thereby causing the memory chip to execute a first-stage program operation that includes a first operation and a first part of a second operation after the first operation, and a second command sequence to the memory chip after the first-stage program operation is executed, thereby causing the memory chip to execute a second-stage program operation that includes a second part of the second operation and no part of the first operation. During the first operation, a program voltage is applied a plurality of times while increasing the program voltage each of the times by a first step size. During the second operation, the program voltage is applied a plurality of times while increasing the program voltage each of the times by a second step size smaller than the first step size.
US11742025B2	Memory device and operation method thereof A memory device and an operation method thereof are provided. The memory device comprises: a memory array including a plurality of memory cells; a first local signal line decoder coupled to the memory array; a second local signal line decoder coupled to the memory array; and a controller coupled to and controlling the memory array, the first local signal line decoder and the second local signal line decoder, wherein in programming, a threshold voltage distribution of the memory cells is lower than a read voltage; and in erase, the threshold voltage distribution of the memory cells is higher than the read voltage.
US11742022B2	Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile functionality comprising resistive change material and method of operating A semiconductor memory cell including a capacitorless transistor having a floating body configured to store data as charge therein when power is applied to the cell, and a non-volatile memory comprising a bipolar resistive change element, and methods of operating.
US11742021B2	Memory device with write pulse trimming A memory device includes: a memory cell array comprising a plurality of memory cells; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the memory cell array; a write circuit configured to write data into the plurality of memory cells; and a controller coupled to the temperature sensor and the write circuit, wherein the controller is configured to determine a target write pulse width used by the write circuit based on the detected temperature of the memory device.
US11742018B2	Signal generator for generating control signals for page buffer of memory device A signal generator includes a first amplifier for outputting an amplified voltage in response to a reference voltage and a feedback voltage, a divider circuit for dividing the amplified voltage to generate a divided voltage and the feedback voltage, and a buffer group for outputting a common sensing signal in response to the amplified voltage and outputting a sensing signal in response to the divided voltage, and a memory device including the signal generator.
US11742015B2	Controller and memory system for refreshing memory based on fail bits and temperature A memory system is provided to include a storage device including memory cells for storing data, and a controller in communication with an external device and configured to control the storage device based on a request from the external device. The controller is configured to receive a request from the external device to perform a refresh operation of re-writing stored data in the memory cells, read data from the memory cells included in the storage device, set a refresh period based on a number of fail bits included in the read data and a temperature of the controller or the storage device, and perform the refresh operation of the storage device based on the refresh period.
US11742013B2	Apparatus and method for controlling erasing data in ferroelectric memory cells Methods and apparatuses for erasing data on a plurality of ferroelectric memory cells in a memory cell array in a memory apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a memory cell array including a first plurality of word lines; a digit line; and a plurality of ferroelectric memory cells; a control circuit that provides a section select signal and a word line select signal to select a second plurality of word lines among the first plurality of word lines responsive to an address; and an address decoder that activates the second plurality of word lines. Each ferroelectric memory cell includes: a ferroelectric capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a cell plate node and a second terminal coupled to a selection circuit that couples the digit line to the second terminal responsive to a signal on a corresponding word line of the second plurality of word lines.
US11742005B2	Selectively cross-coupled inverters, and related devices, systems, and methods An apparatus may include a first inverter and a second inverter cross-coupled between a first node and a second node to store a signal state represented by complementary voltages at the first node and the second node. The apparatus may further include a first path defined by the second inverter that includes an impedance element to resist a flow of charge suitable to change the signal state. The apparatus may further include the first inverter and a third inverter selectively cross-coupled between the first node and the second node to store a received signal state represented by the complementary voltages at the first node and the second node responsive to an assertion of a write enable signal.
US11741999B2	Video processing device, video freezing determination method and display system A video processing device includes: a frame number generating unit that generates frame numbers representing respective frames to which successively supplied video data belongs, the frame numbers differing between one frame and a next frame; a writing unit that writes a data block including a piece of the video data and the frame number corresponding thereto in a frame memory for every frame; a reading unit that reads out the data block written in the frame memory in the order of frames; and a video freezing determination unit that generates an abnormality determination signal that indicates video freezing when a current value of the frame number of the data block read stays the same as a previous value over a prescribed number of times.
US11741996B1	Method and system for generating synthetic video advertisements In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining a set of user attributes for a user of a content-presentation device; (ii) based on the set of user attributes, obtaining structured data and determining a textual description of the structured data; (iii) transforming, using a text-to-speech engine, the textual description of the structured data into synthesized speech; and (iv) generating, using the synthesized speech and for display by the content-presentation device, a synthetic video of a targeted advertisement comprising the synthesized speech.
US11741995B1	Systems and methods for switching between video views A graphical user interface may provide presentation of a video edit during video edit playback. The video edit may include a segment of a video. When a user modifies the segment of the video included in the video edit, the graphical user interface may automatically switch the presentation of the video edit into presentation of the original video.
US11741990B2	Flexure assembly configured to reduce electrical coupling and maintain a high signal bandwidth In a disk drive having a flexible circuit tail that is routed within a recess in the actuator arm, a dielectric spacer is added to the top of the tail in order to space the circuit traces within the tail further away from the electrically conductive actuator arm, and to make more repeatable that spacing. The added spacing reduces electrical coupling and thus increases the bandwidth of the circuit. The spacer can be in the form of a section of the same viscoelastic material that is used elsewhere as a vibration dampener on the suspension, the viscoelastic material being adhered to the tail before the tail is inserted within the recess. Alternatively, the spacer can be a thickened region of the flexible circuit covercoat in the area where the tail will reside within the recess.
US11741986B2	System and method for passive subject specific monitoring A method includes obtaining, by an electronic device, an audio segment comprising one or more audio events of a target subject. The method also includes extracting, by the electronic device, audio embeddings from the one or more audio events using an embedding model, the embedding model comprising a trained machine learning model. The method further includes comparing, by the electronic device, the extracted audio embeddings with a match profile of the target subject, the match profile generated during an enrollment stage. The method also includes generating, by the electronic device, a label for the audio segment based on whether or not the extracted audio embeddings match the match profile, wherein the label enables correlation of the audio segment with the target subject for monitoring a health condition of the target subject.
US11741981B2	Voice recognition with timing information for noise cancellation Systems, devices, and methods are described for reducing degradation of a voice recognition input. An always listening device may always be listening for voice commands via a microphone and may experience interference from unwanted audio such as from the output audio of television speakers. The always listening device may receive data associated with the output audio over a first communications channel. The always listening device may also receive, on a second communications channel, timing information associated with data. The always listening device may adjust admission of the audio received by the microphone to enable it to arrive at approximately the same time as the data received via the first communications channel. The unwanted output audio included in the audio received via the microphone may then be determined and may be removed so that a voice command in the audio received by the microphone may be processed.
US11741979B1	Playback of audio content on multiple devices Audio content may be played on multiple audio-enabled devices via a voice command issued by a user. The voice command is received at a first audio-enabled device and processed, via speech recognition, to identify the audio content to be played and the target devices on which the audio content is to be played. In addition, the voice command can also indicate the time periods associated with the audio playback to provide synchronized playback. Device set information can be used to determine if the first audio-enabled device shares audio functionality with the target devices. If shared functionality is confirmed, one or more commands are sent to the respective target devices to instruct the corresponding playback of the audio content.
US11741973B2	Audio encoder for encoding a multichannel signal and audio decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal A schematic block diagram of an audio encoder for encoding a multichannel audio signal is shown. The audio encoder includes a linear prediction domain encoder, a frequency domain encoder, and a controller for switching between the linear prediction domain encoder and the frequency domain encoder. The controller is configured such that a portion of the multichannel signal is represented either by an encoded frame of the linear prediction domain encoder or by an encoded frame of the frequency domain encoder. The linear prediction domain encoder includes a downmixer for downmixing the multichannel signal to obtain a downmixed signal. The linear prediction domain encoder further includes a linear prediction domain core encoder for encoding the downmix signal and furthermore, the linear prediction domain encoder includes a first joint multichannel encoder for generating first multichannel information from the multichannel signal.
US11741968B2	Personalized voice conversion system A personalized voice conversion system includes a cloud server and an intelligent device that communicates with the cloud server. The intelligent device upstreams an original voice signal to the cloud server. The cloud server converts the original voice signal into an intelligible voice signal based on an intelligible voice conversion model. The intelligent device downloads and plays the intelligible voice signal. Based on the original voice signal and the corresponding intelligible voice signal, the cloud server and the intelligent device train an off-line voice conversion model provided to the intelligent device. When the intelligent device stops communicating with the cloud server, the intelligent device converts a new original voice signal into a new intelligible voice signal based on the off-line voice conversion model and plays the new intelligible voice signal.
US11741966B2	Automated calling system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an automated calling system are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance spoken by a user who is having a telephone conversation with a bot. The actions further include determining a context of the telephone conversation. The actions further include determining a user intent of a first previous portion of the telephone conversation spoken by the user and a bot intent of a second previous portion of the telephone conversation outputted by a speech synthesizer of the bot. The actions further include, based on the audio data of the utterance, the context of the telephone conversation, the user intent, and the bot intent, generating synthesized speech of a reply by the bot to the utterance. The actions further include, providing, for output, the synthesized speech.
US11741964B2	Transcription generation technique selection A method to transcribe communications may include selecting a first transcription generation technique from among multiple transcription generation techniques for generating transcriptions of audio of one or more communication sessions that involve a user device and obtaining performances of the multiple transcription generation techniques with respect to generating the transcriptions of the audio. The method may also include monitoring comparisons between the performances of the multiple transcription generation techniques and obtaining input from the user with respect to the comparisons. The method may further include selecting a second transcription generation technique from among the multiple transcription generation techniques based on the input from the user.
US11741962B1	Generating content recommendation based on user-device dialogue Techniques for generating a recommendation for content based on user-device dialogue are described. In an example, a computer system receives a request for audio output at a user device. The computer system determines a response for the request. The computer system determines a topic and value associated with the request and the response. The computer system also determines a recommendation for content based on the request and the response. The computer system generates prompt data including a question of whether to initiate an action associated with the recommendation. The computer system sends the prompt data and the response data to the user device or a different user device.
US11741958B2	Using structured audio output to detect playback and/or to adapt to misaligned playback in wireless speakers Implementations are directed to causing a computing device to transmit an audio data stream, via a communication channel, to a vehicle computing device of a vehicle. Various implementations include one or more vehicle speakers driven by the vehicle computing device to render audible output. Additionally or alternatively, various implementations include determining whether the audible output is captured by at least one microphone of a vehicle interface device within the vehicle. In many implementations, the vehicle interface device is communicatively coupled to the computing device.
US11741956B2	Methods and apparatus for intent recognition A system for generating a response to a customer query includes a computing device configured to obtain a first dataset, including a plurality of first phrase-intent pairs associated with a first domain. Each first phrase-intent pair includes a first phrase and a corresponding first intent. The computing device is configured to retrieve a set of configuration rules to configure a plurality of environments. The computing device is also configured to configure a first environment using the first dataset and the set of configuration rules to determine a result user intent based on a requested query associated with the first domain. The first environment embeds the plurality of first phrase-intent pairs in a vector space based on the set of configuration rules. The computing device is configured to perform operations based on the first environment.
US11741950B2	Method and apparatus with speech processing A processor-implemented method includes performing speech recognition of a speech signal, generating a plurality of first candidate sentences as a result of the performing of the speech recognition, identifying a respective named entity in each of the plurality of first candidate sentences, determining a standard expression corresponding to the identified respective named entity using phonemes of the corresponding named entity, determining whether to replace the identified named entity in each of the plurality of first candidate sentences with the determined standard expression based on a similarity between the named entity and the standard expression corresponding to the named entity and determining a plurality of second candidate sentences based on the determination result; and outputting a final sentence selected from the plurality of second candidate sentences.
US11741945B1	Adaptive virtual assistant attributes An adaptive virtual assistant system can be configured to change an attribute of a virtual assistant based on user responses, environmental conditions, and/or topics of discussion. For example, the virtual assistant system can determine, based at least in part on user data, a communication profile that is associated with the virtual assistant and determine first communication data comprising a first communication attribute based on the communication profile. In some instances, the system can transmit the first communication data to a user device and receive, from the user device, input audio data representing a user utterance. Based at least in part on the input audio data, the system can determine second communication data comprising a second communication attribute and transmit the second communication data to the user device.
US11741943B2	Method and system for acoustic model conditioning on non-phoneme information features A method and system for acoustic model conditioning on non-phoneme information features for optimized automatic speech recognition is provided. The method includes using an encoder model to encode sound embedding from a known key phrase of speech and conditioning an acoustic model with the sound embedding to optimize its performance in inferring the probabilities of phonemes in the speech. The sound embedding can comprise non-phoneme information related to the key phrase and the following utterance. Further, the encoder model and the acoustic model can be neural networks that are jointly trained with audio data.
US11741941B2	Configurable neural speech synthesis A discriminator trained on labeled samples of speech can compute probabilities of voice properties. A speech synthesis generative neural network that takes in text and continuous scale values of voice properties is trained to synthesize speech audio that the discriminator will infer as matching the values of the input voice properties. Voice parameters can include speaker voice parameters, accents, and attitudes, among others. Training can be done by transfer learning from an existing neural speech synthesis model or such a model can be trained with a loss function that considers speech and parameter values. A graphical user interface can allow voice designers for products to synthesize speech with a desired voice or generate a speech synthesis engine with frozen voice parameters. A vector of parameters can be used for comparison to previously registered voices in databases such as ones for trademark registration.
US11741935B2	Communication apparatus with ambient noise reduction A host device configured to be wirelessly coupled to an accessory device, the host device comprising noise reduction circuitry, wherein, in use of the host device: a signal generated by a microphone of the accessory device in response to ambient noise is supplied to the noise reduction circuitry; the noise reduction circuitry applies a noise reduction transfer function to the signal supplied thereto to generate a noise cancellation signal; and the noise cancellation signal is supplied to at least one loudspeaker of the accessory device; and wherein the noise reduction transfer function applied by the noise reduction circuitry is user selectable or user adjustable.
US11741932B2	Unmanned aircraft and information processing method An unmanned aircraft includes: rotor blades; a duct that shrouds the rotor blades and through which airflow generated by rotation of the rotor blades passes; and a processor that controls rotation of the rotor blades. The height to width ratio of an inner space of the duct in which the rotor blades are shrouded is at least 0.5.
US11741931B2	Electronic stethoscope device with noise cancellation An electronic stethoscope device can be integrated into a conventional stethoscope to digitize auscultated sounds from the body of a patient. The device can be switched off so that the conventional stethoscope can be used as a standard stethoscope. When the device is switched on, the digitized auscultated sounds can be modified to remove the noise. Such modified sounds can be sent wirelessly from the electronic stethoscope device to a peripheral device that can receive such wireless signals, such as computer, cell phone, or cloud application, where the data can be viewed and manipulated further as desired.
US11741929B2	Dynamic network based sound masking An example process may include identifying an area of an environment to emit one or more sound masking signals, determining a noise level of one or more surrounding areas adjacent to the area, selecting one or more frequency ranges and respective amplitudes of the one or more sound masking signals to apply to the area based on the noise level, and emitting the masking signals via one or more emitters disposed in the area.
US11741927B2	Friction damped insert for highly stressed engineering components A friction damped insert for highly stressed engineering components is disclosed. The disclosed inventive concept provides a method and system for increasing the damping capacity of an engineering system by adding a non-flat solid, highly damped insert to a system component that contributes most to the system's dynamic response. The insert can either be embedded into a system component during casting or be fastened to the system component outer surface. The insert is made of the single layer of flexible material by forming it into a rigid elongated body. The layer of material can be turned over on itself without folding to create a cylinder or can be folded over a number of times to create a prismatic bar. The layer of material may be shaped into a corrugated panel. The layer of flexible material may have a number of relatively small openings or perforations with a uniform spatial distribution.
US11741919B2	Permanent data indicator, permanent-data-indicator-managing and -adapting methods, terminal using same A permanent data indicator and managing and adapting methods are provided. In particular, the permanent indicator is a pictogram permanently present on a screen of a terminal in active mode. The permanent indicator relates to a second datum and being able, furthermore, to form a permanent indicator relating to a first datum distinct from the second datum, the first datum being delivered by a first process implemented by the terminal. Thus, a given indicator is able to permanently inform the user of an active terminal of the value of the distinct datum, for example the permanent pictogram of a clock will indicate the time but also the time remaining to the next alarm, the weather forecast for the next 12 or 24 hours, air-quality, etc. The management of the permanent indicators will therefore be optimized.
US11741918B1	Display with a vignetting mask It may be desirable to implement a vignetting effect in a display. The vignetting effect causes the display to have a light-emitting area that gradually fades to a black, non-light-emitting area. The vignetting effect allows for the size and shape of the light-emitting area to be controlled while still being aesthetically pleasing to a viewer. To implement a vignetting mask for the vignetting effect, control circuitry in the electronic device may apply dimming factors to image data for the display. To avoid artifacts caused by the vignetting mask, an initial array of dimming factors for implementing the vignetting mask may have a range between −0.5 and 1.5. After upsampling, clamping may be performed to reduce the range of the dimming factors to between 0 and 1. Ultimately, the dimming factors are applied to image data for each frame to implement the vignetting mask in each frame.
US11741917B2	Eclipse cursor for mixed reality displays Systems and methods for displaying a cursor and a focus indicator associated with real or virtual objects in a virtual, augmented, or mixed reality environment by a wearable display device are disclosed. The system can determine a spatial relationship between a user-movable cursor and a target object within the environment. The system may render a focus indicator (e.g., a halo, shading, or highlighting) around or adjacent objects that are near the cursor. The focus indicator may be emphasized in directions closer to the cursor and deemphasized in directions farther from the cursor. When the cursor overlaps with a target object, the system can render the object in front of the cursor (or not render the cursor at all), so the object is not occluded by the cursor. The cursor and focus indicator can provide the user with positional feedback and help the user navigate among objects in the environment.
US11741915B2	Display driver suppressing color unevenness of liquid crystal display The disclosure includes bus wiring constituted by wiring lines; a gradation voltage generation circuit that generates M gradation voltages representing brightness levels with M gradations, and applies the M gradation voltages to an intermediate portion on M wiring lines belonging to the bus wiring; a plurality of decoders, each of which receives M gradation voltages via the M wiring lines and selects one of the M gradation voltages according to the pixel data pieces to output the selected gradation voltage; a plurality of output amplifiers that individually amplifies the voltages output from the plurality of decoders and generates the amplified voltages as the plurality of pixel drive voltages; and first and second inter-gradation short circuits that short-circuit one ends of each of the M wiring lines and the other ends of each of the M wiring lines according to a load signal for capturing the pixel data pieces.
US11741913B2	Methods and circuits for diode-based display backplanes and electronic displays An electronic display includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a data line, first and second selection lines and a common electrode. A control circuit element includes first and second diode-like elements coupled between the first and second selection lines and a charging node. A charging capacitive element is coupled between the charging node and the date line. An active pixel element is coupled between the charging node and the common electrode. The common electrode can overly the entire electronic display and is a suitable transparent conductive material. Each of the first and second diode-like elements includes an amorphous metal non-linear resistor. The active pixel element may include one of liquid crystal display circuitry, light emitting diode circuitry, and electrophoretic circuitry.
US11741911B2	Display device and driving method for the same A display device includes a display panel with unit-pixels disposed thereon, each of the unit-pixels being formed of a plurality of pixels; a data driver applying data voltage to the plurality of pixels during a display period and applying sensing data voltage to the plurality of pixels during a sensing period; a sensing unit sensing an electrical characteristic of the plurality of pixels during the sensing period; and an external compensation unit compensating for the data voltage based on a result of the sensing.
US11741910B2	Display panel and display device using the same The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same. The display panel includes a pixel array in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines, and a plurality of pixels are disposed; a first gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to gate lines connected to pixels disposed in a first area of the pixel array; and a second gate driver configured to receive a carry signal from the first gate driver and supply a gate signal to gate lines connected to pixels disposed in a second area of the pixel array. The second gate driver includes a signal transmission unit disposed in the pixel array to receive the carry signal from the first gate driver.
US11741909B2	Pixel circuit and driving method therefor, and display substrate and display device A pixel circuit and a driving method therefor, and a display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit may output an initial power supply signal to a first node, and a driving circuit may drive a light-emitting element to emit light according to a potential of the first node and a second power supply signal provided by a second power supply end. And, each driving circuit which the display panel includes may start to work from the same bias situation and drive the corresponding light-emitting element to emit light.
US11741904B2	High frame rate display A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.
US11741900B2	Display device The embodiments relate to a display device that includes an input terminal through which a feedback voltage of a high-potential driving voltage is received from a display panel. An output terminal is included through which a high reference voltage and a low reference voltage generated on the basis of the feedback voltage are output. A flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) includes at least one capacitor connected between the input terminal and the output terminal.
US11741893B2	Display device and method of driving display device A display device includes a display panel, a power supply unit, and a low frequency offset compensator. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The power supply unit generates a first initialization voltage and a second initialization voltage and provides the first initialization voltage and the second initialization voltage to the pixels. The low frequency offset compensator selectively applies an offset to the second initialization voltage when the display panel is driven at a low frequency.
US11741887B2	Pixel and display device having a frame frequency with a plurality of non-emission periods A display device includes a pixel, a scan driver supplying first to third scan signals in a first non-emission period and supplying the second scan signal in a second non-emission period, an emission driver supplying an emission control signal in the first and second non-emission periods, and a data driver supplying a data signal in the first non-emission period. The pixel includes a light-emitting element, a first transistor, a second transistor connected between the data line and a second node, a first capacitor connected between the first and second nodes, a third transistor connected between a third power line and the first node, a storage capacitor connected between the first and third nodes, a fourth transistor connected between the third node and a fourth power line, a fifth transistor connected between the first power line and the first transistor, and a sixth transistor supplying a fifth supply voltage.
US11741880B2	Driving method, driving circuitry and display device A driving method, a driving circuitry and a display device are provided. The driving method is applied to a touch display panel. A shift register unit in a gate driving circuitry in the touch display panel is electrically coupled with a clock signal terminal, the clock signal terminal is used for providing a clock signal to a pull-up circuit in the shift register unit, and a display cycle includes a display time period and a touch time period. The driving method includes: within a period during which initial N rows of gate lines are turned on after entering the display time period from the touch time period in the display cycle, controlling and adjusting the clock signal to increase a falling speed of a potential of a gate drive signal outputted by the shift register unit; N is a positive integer. The phenomenon of poor horizontal stripes is improved.
US11741879B2	Method, device and apparatus for brightness compensation of display panel The present application discloses a method, device, and apparatus for brightness compensation of a display panel. The display panel has a first display region and a second display region. The method includes selecting at least one first region in the second display region close to the first display region; obtaining current brightness values of sub-pixels in the at least one first region under a target grayscale value; determining an average brightness value of the at least one first region based on the current brightness values of the sub-pixels in the at least one first region; determining a target brightness value of the first display region under the target grayscale value according to the average brightness value; performing brightness compensation on the first display region based on the target brightness value.
US11741877B2	Display panel and display device A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving module. The driving module includes a driving transistor. A time period of one frame of the display panel includes a non-light-emitting stage and a light-emitting stage. The non-light-emitting stage includes a bias adjustment stage. A source or a drain of the driving transistor is configured to receive a bias adjustment signal in the bias adjustment stage. In response to a frame refresh rate of the display panel being F1, a time length of the non-light-emitting stage is A1, and a time length of the bias adjustment stage is B1. In response to the frame refresh rate of the display panel being F2, the time length of the non-light-emitting stage is A2, and the time length of the bias adjustment stage is B2. F1B2/A2 or B1>B2.
US11741876B2	Display panel and display device A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving module. The driving module includes a driving transistor. A time period of one frame of the display panel includes a non-light-emitting stage and a light-emitting stage. The non-light-emitting stage includes a bias adjustment stage. A source or a drain of the driving transistor is configured to receive a bias adjustment signal in the bias adjustment stage. An operation state of the pixel circuit includes a first mode and a second mode. A time length of the non-light-emitting stage in the first mode is L1. A time length of the non-light-emitting stage in the second mode is L2. L1>L2. A time length of at least one sub-bias adjustment stage in a first frame is equal to a time length of at least one sub-bias adjustment stage in a second frame.
US11741871B2	Image compensation for foldable devices Foldable displays may have portions folded into a folded configuration. Each folded portion may be observed by a user at a different viewing angle. As such, folding-artifacts may appear in the displayed image as a result of the different viewing angles. For example, a perceptible color difference and/or a perceptible brightness difference may appear between folded portions. Disclosed here are systems and methods to create compensated images that when displayed reduced the folding artifacts. The creation may include sensing a viewing angle for each portion and determining adjustments for pixels in each portion using a display model. The display model may be created by measuring color and brightness of pixels for various folded configurations, view-points and/or viewing angles.
US11741870B2	Electronic device, method, and computer-readable storage medium for reducing afterimage in display area An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display rollable into the housing, and a display driver circuitry operably coupled to the display. The display driver circuitry is configured to display, while the electronic device is in a first state in which a first display area of the display is exposed and a second display area of the display adjacent to the first display area is rolled into the housing, a first image in the exposed first display area, obtain, a second image based on applying a first weight to a pixel value of a first pixel of a first horizontal line and applying a second weight less than the first weight to a pixel value of a second pixel of the first horizontal line, and display, while displaying the first image, the second image in the second display area rolled into the housing.
US11741855B2	Device for training in ophthalmic surgery The present invention addresses the problem of providing a device for training in ophthalmic surgery that can be used for training in glaucoma surgery. The problem can be solved by a device for training in ophthalmic surgery including: a simulated-eyeball pedestal having a recess into which a simulated eyeball can be directly or indirectly inserted; a simulated eyeball insertable into the simulated-eyeball pedestal, or a member for retaining a simulated eyeball that retains a simulated eyeball, the member for retaining the simulated eyeball being insertable into the simulated-eyeball pedestal; and a mechanism for generating a restoring force that generates a force for restoring a position of the simulated eyeball or the simulated-eyeball retaining member toward a normal state with respect to the simulated-eyeball pedestal; the simulated eyeball or the member for retaining the simulated eyeball rotating along the recess of the simulated-eyeball pedestal.
US11741852B2	Smart reading assistant In an approach for a smart reading assistant that helps users learn to read a new language, a processor detects a language of a digital book opening by a user on a computing device. A processor identifies a user reading capability level for the language of the digital book from a user profile for the user. A processor inputs at least one in context meaning of potential unknown words based on the user reading capability level. A processor detects a user action by the user on the computing device. A processor updates the user reading capability level based on the user action. A processor identifies, using collocation extraction, related words to a word involved in the user action. A processor inputs at least one in context meaning of at least one of the related words.
US11741849B2	Systems and methods for interface-based machine learning model output customization Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.
US11741848B2	Interactive system and method for diagnosing test-taking errors based on blooms taxonomy A computer based interactive system and method of diagnosing test taking errors for educational and psychological processes on a computer while a learner is taking an exam over the internet, when the learner arrives at a wrong answer to an exam question.
US11741842B2	Virtual wall mapping for aerial vehicle navigation An unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”), the UAV including an electronic speed controller and a flight controller. The electric speed controller is interfaced with thrust motors of the UAV. The flight controller is configured to: determine a geographic location and a velocity of the UAV. The flight controller configured to: determine a distance between the geographic location of the UAV and a closest segment of a no-fly-zone. The flight controller in response to the distance being less than a threshold distance, control a speed and thrust applied by the thrust motors through the electric speed controller to reduce both the first component and the second component of the velocity of the UAV based on the distance. The flight controller configured to: override a user input received via a user interface so that the UAV is moved relative to the closest segment of a no-fly-zone according to instructions from the flight controller.
US11741838B2	Target addressing system A system can receive a request for a service from a computing device of a given user of the network service, and select an entrance from multiple entrances for a geographic region associated with the request for the service. Based on the request, the system determines a vehicle stopping location for a driver of a vehicle that is to service the request, where the vehicle stopping location is the entrance for the geographic region. The system then transmits an instruction set to a computing device of the driver, where the instruction set indicates the vehicle stopping location for a vehicular portion of the service.
US11741837B2	Smart building management suite using robot command and control A computer-implemented method includes displaying a bot client application including an active channel indicator, receiving bot input, analyzing the bot input, generating an output, and displaying the output. A smart building system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to display a bot client application including an active channel indicator, receive bot input, analyze the bot input, generate an output, and display the output. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to display a bot client application including an active channel indicator, receive bot input, analyze the bot input, generate an output, and display the output.
US11741836B2	Methods and systems for performing correlation-based parking availability estimation A method for performing correlation-based parking availability estimation is provided. The method includes retrieving a plurality of parking availability correlation models, wherein each of the parking availability correlation models estimates parking availability for a target parking block based on parking availability for one or more other parking blocks; selecting a subset of the parking availability correlation models, wherein the subset comprises parking availability correlation models that estimate parking availability of the target parking block based on parking availability for one or more other parking blocks for which current parking availability is known; selecting a parking availability correlation model from the subset based on a model quality indicator associated with each parking availability correlation model; and estimating parking availability for the target parking block based on the selected parking availability correlation model.
US11741830B2	Method and apparatus for level of service assessment at signalized intersections A method and apparatus for level of service assessment at signalized intersections is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for estimating an average delay per vehicle at a signalized intersection with a traffic signal, including sampling vehicle arrival rates at the signalized intersection, sampling vehicle departure rates at the signalized intersection, analyzing generated shock waves at the traffic signal, wherein the traffic signal shock wave is a change in vehicle density due to changes in the traffic signal, and estimating the average delay per vehicle based on the vehicle arrival rates, the vehicle departure rates, and the traffic shock waves at the signalized intersection.
US11741829B2	Method of providing traffic related information and device, computer program and computer program product A method of providing traffic related information is provided. The method is performed in a device and comprises obtaining data relating to a first vehicle and data relating to a second vehicle, establishing a relative position between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the obtained data, and providing, to an entity in the first vehicle, information based on the established relative position. A corresponding device, computer program and computer program product are also provided.
US11741826B2	User-configurable weather warning apparatus User-configurable weather warning apparatuses, and methods for providing and configuring user-configurable weather warning apparatuses are presented. For example, according to one aspect, an apparatus comprising a processor and memory may be provided. The processor may be configured to, responsive to a user preference to trigger an alert system only in the event of a particular type of warning.
US11741824B2	Vehicle with emergency reporting function A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a processor, a vehicle communication device, a first calling device, and a vehicle outside occupant detector. The processor determines, by means of the vehicle outside occupant detector, whether an occupant who has been present inside the vehicle before an emergency is present inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle after the emergency. If the occupant is present inside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor uses the first calling device to enable a communication between an occupant inside the vehicle and an operator terminal. If the occupant is present outside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor additionally uses a second calling device to enable a communication between an occupant present outside or inside the vehicle and the operator terminal. The second calling device allows for a communication outside the vehicle.
US11741822B2	System and method of intelligent node detecting events for border protection and security A method, comprising detecting, by a wireless tracking system, a tampering event associated with an asset within an asset container; capturing, by the wireless tracking system, a first digital representation of the field of view including the asset container; determining, based on the wireless tracking system comparing the first representation to a second digital representation of the field of view including the asset container stored in memory, a difference between the first and second digital representations; and displaying, by the wireless tracking system, within a graphical user interface of a client device, the difference between the first and second digital representations, wherein displaying the difference comprises displaying an augmented reality overlay to emphasizes the difference.
US11741820B1	Aerial surveillance for premises security systems A method implemented by a system for security comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an analytics device configured to communicate with a remote monitoring system and the UAV is provided. Media data from the UAV is received at an analytics device, where the media data includes surveillance information corresponding to a premises under surveillance. Security attributes associated with the premises are detected based at least in part on a first level of machine learning (ML) analysis performed on the media data. The media data are transmitted by the analytics device to the remote monitoring system for a second level of ML analysis based at least in part on the security attribute, where the first level of ML analysis is less computationally expensive compared to the second level of ML analysis, and the second level of ML analysis is performed at the remote monitoring system on the media data.
US11741804B1	Redundant video storage among networked video cameras Systems and methods for redundant storage among networked video cameras are described. Video data for a group of video cameras in a backup cluster determined from a network topology is received by a peer video camera. A backup order of the backup cluster is received. The peer video camera sends its source video data for to a backup storage device located at a target peer video camera of the group of video cameras according to the backup order.
US11741801B2	Network sanitization for dedicated communication function and edge enforcement A network sanitization technology for enforcing a network edge and enforcing particular communication functions for untrusted dedicated-function devices such as internet protocol (IP) IP cameras. An untrusted network device is isolated from a network by a network sanitization system such that it cannot communicate with the network. Communications from the untrusted device are intercepted by the system and only allowed communications are used. Allowed communications are used to create new communications according to an allowed framework. Sanitization device may be in small two-port package with visual indicia indicating the untrusted device and the network side. The device may use and provide power over Ethernet (PoE) PoE to device. Abstract is not to be considered limiting.
US11741800B2	Tethered security system with wireless communication Embodiments of the present invention are directed to security systems for securing an item of merchandise from theft or unauthorized removal. For example, the security system may include a sensor configured to be coupled to the item of merchandise and a base configured to removably support the sensor and the item of merchandise thereon. The base includes a charging circuit for providing power to the sensor and/or the item of merchandise. The security system also includes a controller operably coupled to the base and a key configured to wirelessly communicate with the base and/or controller. The sensor is configured to wirelessly communicate with the base.
US11741796B1	No-downtime universal utility cassette for recirculation in multiple systems A utility device for receiving and dispensing bills is disclosed. The utility device includes a sensor structured to detect at least one parameter associated with the bills received by the utility device, a cleaning component structured to perform a cleaning operation on one or more of the bills received by the utility device, and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a utility operation comprising receiving data from the sensor regarding the at least one parameter, and selectively causing the cleaning component to perform the cleaning operation on one or more of the bills received by the utility device from a cash-bearing component based on at least the data and a location of the utility device.
US11741795B1	Systems and methods for reducing ATM deposit losses A provider system includes an automated teller machine (ATM) and a providing computing system that includes an input/output logic configured to receive, from the ATM, deposit information corresponding to an interaction between a customer and the ATM, and that includes an event indicator relay logic configured to extract an event indicator value from the received deposit information, process the event indicator value, determine an event indicator trend for the ATM, and determine, based on the event indicator trend, a service condition of the ATM.
US11741794B2	System and method for conducting a game including a computer-controlled player A system for conducting a game between at least one computer-controlled player and at least one live player includes a plurality of neural nets. Each of the plurality of neural nets are associated with a different game state of a game. A plurality of instructions are stored in a data storage and executable by a data processor. The data processor determines a current state vector for the game responsive to game states of the game. The processor selects a neural net from the plurality of neural nets responsive to the current state vector. The data processor feeds the current state vector to the selected neural net and the selected neural net generates an output vector from the selected neural net responsive to the current state vector. The output vector provides a plurality of candidate meta-actions. The plurality of candidate meta-actions associated with the output vector are weighted responsive to a probability associated therewith. One of the weighted plurality of candidate meta-actions are randomly selected. The randomly selected meta-action are then run for the at least one computer-controlled player.
US11741793B2	Method for administering a package of shuffled playing cards Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
US11741787B2	Method and system for facilitating monetary value gaming ticket redemption In accordance with a method and system for facilitating redemption of monetary value gaming tickets, such as issued by a gaming device upon cash-out, a ticket is presented, such as to a redemption kiosk. If the ticket is validated and has a monetary value which includes a fractional currency value, then the player is presented a wagering game based upon a wager comprising at least the fractional currency value of the ticket or is provided entries into a game or promotional event, wherein winnings may be paid in a whole value as part of the ticket redemption or as separate prizes, whereby dispensing of fractional value, such as coins, may be avoided.
US11741784B2	Game system A game system for participating in a baccarat game includes a bet area includes: a plurality of betting terminals separated from the game table, including a plurality of bet targets including a player win area and a banker win area, and in which a bet is performed by placing a physical token at any of the bet targets; a bet determining device configured to determine a bet target at which the physical token is placed and an amount thereof; and a collecting device and a payment device configured to collect the betted physical token or pay out for the betted physical token based on the bet target and the amount determined by the bet determining device and a result of a baccarat game.
US11741779B2	System and method for executing a remote interactive live game The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system and a method for executing an interactive live game, wherein the system comprising: a game server configured to execute an interactive game including generating game events, to associate the game events with sync data and to transmit the game events and sync data to a player's device, at least one camera positioned in a live studio configured to capture a video of a live studio and to live stream the captured video; a game renderer configured to receive data indicative of the executed interactive game from the game server, to determine game display data; a video processor configured to receive the captured video, receive the game display data, and to create a live game video stream; thereby facilitating the player's device to create composited synchronous video comprising the live game video stream and data pertains to the game events.
US11741776B2	Method of placing wagers through a mobile device through a television wagering platform A system for controlling how wagering odds for individual plays inside of a live sporting event are combined with the broadcast of the live sporting event on a display with a mobile device that is paired with a set top box.
US11741769B2	Detecting a missing global resource locator device A global resource locator (GRL) device can be used to identify a missing asset. The GRL device can include a memory device and a processor. The processor can be coupled to the memory device. The processor can be configured to receive a communication from one or more of a plurality of GRL devices proximate the GRL device. The processor can be configured to store data received from the plurality of GRL devices on the memory device. The processor can be configured to determine that a missing GRL device of the plurality of GRL devices is missing based at least in part upon subsequent communication with a subset of the plurality of GRL devices. The processor can be configured to transmit a notification that the missing GRL device is missing to a non-GRL receiving device.
US11741768B2	Intelligent prevention passage control system for electronic device The present disclosure relates to an intelligent prevention passage control system for an electronic device, which comprises a detection device for an electronic device, a traffic control device integrated with the detection device for the electronic device, an industrial control host, a server, an access controller and a management terminal inside the traffic control device. The present disclosure can more accurately judge violations by scoring violations, and can make the system more intelligent by accurately judging violations, thus realizing no manual attendance, solving the problems of personnel recruitment, shift attendance and personnel management, and saving a lot of labor cost. At the same time, the system can avoid the hidden dangers caused by human feelings, sense of responsibility and inertia brought by manual prevention, and ensure the consistent, accurate and reliable standards of detection work.
US11741767B1	NFC-based enclosure access using passive energy harvesting A near-field communication (NFC) entry device provides remote keyless entry (RKE) into an enclosure having an RKE control unit, a door, and a door actuator. The NFC entry device includes a housing and a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). The housing mounts to the enclosure. The PCBA is enclosed within a cavity of the housing, and includes first and second surfaces, an RF antenna and an inductor coil connected to the first surface, and an NFC communication chipset connected to the second surface. The NFC entry device passively harvests energy from a battery powered mobile device via the inductor coil and stores the energy in the capacitor. The passively harvested energy is used to communicate a control signal to the RKE control unit, via the RF antenna, which activates the door actuator. A standby battery may be used when the capacitor is insufficiency charged.
US11741760B1	Managing a plurality of physical assets for real time visualizations A management server system may obtain sensor data generated by a plurality of sensors from a plurality of gateway devices. The sensor data may be associated with a plurality of vehicles. The management server system may identify, for each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, a subset of the sensor data associated with a particular vehicle. The management server system may generate, in real time, for each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, a virtual representation of the particular vehicle based on the subset of the sensor data associated with the particular vehicle. The management server system may generate a user interface that includes visualizations of virtual representations of the plurality of vehicles. The management server system may update, in real time, the visualizations of the virtual representations of the plurality of vehicles based on obtaining additional sensor data from the plurality of gateway devices.
US11741758B2	Inspection system for manufactured components An inspection station for manufactured components includes a framework and a plurality of cameras. The framework has of a plurality of vertically stacked and spaced apart plates. Each plate defines a central orifice. The central orifices of each plate are aligned along an axis. The manufactured components are configured to freefall through the central orifices defined by the plates. The plurality of cameras is secured to the framework. Each camera is focused toward a region within the framework to capture images of the manufactured components. The plurality of cameras is arranged in an array that extends radially about the axis. At least one of the cameras is positioned at an angle above a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to the axis and intersects the region within the framework. At least one of the cameras is positioned at an angle below the horizontal plane.
US11741755B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing sign language or gesture using 3D EDM A method and apparatus for recognizing a sign language or a gesture by using a three-dimensional (3D) Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) are disclosed. The method includes a two-dimensional (2D) EDM generation step for generating a 2D EDM including information about distances between feature points of a body recognized in image information by a 2D EDM generator, a 3D EDM generation step for receiving the 2D EDM and generating a 3D EDM by using a first deep learning neural network trained with training data in which input data is a 2D EDM and correct answer data is a 3D EDM by a 3D EDM generator, and a recognition step for recognizing a sign language or a gesture based on the 3D EDM.
US11741754B2	Detecting and validating a user activity captured from multiple sensors Conventionally, activity detection has been through one mode i.e., smart watch. Though it works in reasonable cases, there are chances of false positives considerably. Other approaches include surveillance which limits itself to object detection. Embodiments of present disclosure provide systems and methods for detecting activities performed by user from data captured from multiple sensors. A first input (FI) comprising accelerometer data, heart rate and gyroscope data and second input (SI) comprising video data are obtained. Features are extracted from FI and pre-processed for a first activity (FA) detection using activity prediction model. Frames from SI are processed for creating bounding box of user and resized thereof to extract pose coordinates vector. Distance between vector of pose coordinates and training vectors of pose coordinates stored in the system is computed and a second activity (SA) is detected accordingly. Both the FA and SA are validated for determining true and/or false positive.
US11741751B2	Masked face recognition method Provided is a face recognition method comprising acquiring a masked face image including a masked region and an un-masked region; obtaining an image feature from the masked face image; inputting the image feature to a pre-trained segmentation model to automatically estimate a feature of the masked region; and refining the image feature using the estimated feature of the masked region, wherein the refining step comprising focusing on a feature of the un-masked region and discarding the estimated feature of the masked region.
US11741746B2	Electronic device Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, and an input-output assembly. The second housing is arranged on a side opposite to a display screen of the electronic device. The first housing and the second housing are connected to define a receiving space. The second housing defines a light through hole. The input/output assembly is arranged on the first housing and received in the receiving space. A side of the first housing facing the second housing is arranged with a limiting member, and the limiting member is configured to fix the input-output assembly on the first housing. The input-output assembly includes a plurality of input-output modules including a laser transmitter, a laser receiver, and at least one image collector. Each input-output module faces the light through hole.
US11741745B2	Multicolor illumination in an optical fingerprint sensor for anti-spoofing The present invention relates to a method for biometric authentication of a user of an electronic device comprising an optical fingerprint sensor arranged under an at least partially transparent display panel and configured to capture an image of an object located on an opposite side of the transparent display panel, the method comprises the steps of: illuminating the object with light of at least one distinguishable color; capturing at least two images of the object with an image sensor comprising a photodetector pixel array while illuminating the object with the light of at least one distinguishable color, wherein the images are captured for different applied forces by the object on the transparent display panel; and performing biometric authentication at least partly based on at least one relationship between the at least two images, the at least one relationship being related to a difference in pixel intensity from pixels in the photodetector pixel array arranged to detect light of the distinguishable color.
US11741744B2	Fake finger determination apparatus and fake finger determination method The present invention improves an accuracy to discern a fake finger created by attaching a transparent thin film to the surface of a finger. The present invention has: a mounting surface that has a mounting area to mount an authentication target that is an object of fingerprint authentication; a transparent plate that is provided on mounting surface and defines a range of an image used for determining the authenticity of the authentication target; a light source that allows light to directly enter the authentication target mounted on the mounting area, not by way of the transparent plate; and an imaging device that images the authentication target mounted on the mounting area, by way of a the transparent plate, wherein a light emitting surface for emitting light of the light source to outside is disposed on the same plane as the mounting surface.
US11741742B2	Display apparatus with fingerprint identification function A display apparatus with fingerprint identification module within the display region of the display apparatus comprises a first cover and a display module, the fingerprint identification module being between the two. The first cover defines a display region and a non-display region. The fingerprint identification module includes a first substrate, a touch unit, a fingerprint identification unit, a control unit, and a first dummy unit with a plurality of first dummy electrodes. The first dummy unit is coplanar with the fingerprint identification unit. The first dummy electrodes surround the fingerprint identification unit, and cooperate with the fingerprint identification unit to enable uniform light transmittance over the whole display region.
US11741741B2	Detection device According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of photodiodes provided to the substrate and arranged in a first direction; a plurality of lenses provided so as to overlap the photodiodes; and a light-blocking layer provided between the photodiodes and the lenses and having a plurality of openings. More than one of the openings is provided in each of regions overlapping the respective photodiodes, and an arrangement direction of the openings in each of the regions overlapping the respective photodiodes is at an angle to the first direction.
US11741740B2	Fingerprint sensor, method of fabricating the same, and display device including the same A fingerprint sensor includes a light sensing layer having a light sensing element in which a sensing current flows in response to incident light and a light guide layer disposed on the light sensing layer. The light guide layer includes first light-transmitting films spaced apart from one another, a light-blocking film disposed between the first light-transmitting films, and a second light-transmitting film disposed between each of the first light-transmitting films and the light-blocking film.
US11741732B2	Techniques for detecting text In some examples, a system for detecting text in an image includes a memory device to store a text detection model trained using images of up-scaled text, and a processor configured to perform text detection on an image to generate original bounding boxes that identify potential text in the image. The processor is also configured to generate a secondary image that includes up-scaled portions of the image associated with bounding boxes below a threshold size, and perform text detection on the secondary image to generate secondary bounding boxes that identify potential text in the secondary image. The processor is also configured to compare the original bounding boxes with the secondary bounding boxes to identify original bounding boxes that are false positives, and generate an image file that includes the original bounding boxes, wherein those original bounding boxes that are identified as false positives are removed.
US11741729B2	Full resolution color imaging of an object The invention relates generally to both a method and apparatus for the creation of full resolution color digital images of diagnostic cassettes or objects of interest using a gray-scale digital camera or sensor combined with time sequential illumination using additive primary colors followed by post exposure digital processing. Such procedures and equipment is of significant economic value when employed in situations such as diagnostic clinical analyzers where space is limited and image quality requirements are high.
US11741727B2	Driver monitoring system for judging distracted driving A driver monitoring system includes an image capturing device capturing a face of a driver of a vehicle to generate a facial image of the driver, and a processor configured to detect an angle of a facial orientation or a line of sight of the driver based on the facial image, and judge distracted driving by the driver based on the angle. The vehicle is provided with at least one indicator showing a presence of a surrounding vehicle in a rear lateral area of the vehicle. When the indicator is turned on, the processor is configured to ease a condition for judging distracted driving concerning a predetermined angular range when the driver looks at the indicator.
US11741720B2	System and method for tracking objects using using expanded bounding box factors Systems and methods of tracking objects around an ego vehicle, using state estimation of the objects, where state estimation may include an estimate of a position, velocity, acceleration and bounding box size of the tracked object are disclosed. An object may be detected at one or more poses over time. For each pose, a first bounding box may be generated. The largest bounding box may be determined. For each pose, the first bounding box may be expanded to an expanded bounding box. The expanded bounding box may match the largest bounding box. For each pose, the center of the expanded bounding box may be determined. The object may be tracked according to the center of the expanded bounding box.
US11741716B2	Processing environmental data of an environment of a vehicle A method, a computer program code, an apparatus for processing environmental data of an environment of a vehicle, a driver assistance system, which makes use of such a method or apparatus, and an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle comprising such a driver assistance system. Depth data of the environment of the vehicle is received from at least one depth sensor of the vehicle. Furthermore, thermal data of the environment of the vehicle is received from at least one thermal sensor of the vehicle. The depth data and the thermal data are then fused to generate fused environmental data.
US11741714B2	Artificial intelligence-enabled golf course A system for monitoring and recording and processing an activity includes one or more cameras for automatically recording video of the activity. A processor and memory associated and in communication with the camera is disposed near the location of the activity. The system may include AI logic configured to identify a user recorded within a video frame captured by the camera. The system may also detect and identify a user when the user is located within a predetermined area. The system may include a video processing engine configured to process images within the video frame to identify the user and may modify and format the video upon identifying the user and the activity. The system may include a communication module to communicate formatted video to a remote video processing system, which may further process the video and enable access to a mobile app of the user.
US11741713B2	Method of detecting action, electronic device, and storage medium A method of detecting an action, an electronic device, and a storage medium. A method can include: performing a temporal action proposal on at least one target feature data obtained by a feature extraction on a plurality of target frame data of a target resource, so as to obtain at least one first candidate action proposal information; classifying target feature data corresponding to at least one first candidate action proposal interval included in the first candidate action proposal information, so as to obtain at least one classification confidence level corresponding to the at least one first candidate action proposal interval; and determining an action detection result for at least one action segment contained in the target resource according to the at least one classification confidence level corresponding to the at least one first candidate action proposal interval, wherein the action detection result includes an action category and an action period.
US11741712B2	Multi-hop transformer for spatio-temporal reasoning and localization A method for using a multi-hop reasoning framework to perform multi-step compositional long-term reasoning is presented. The method includes extracting feature maps and frame-level representations from a video stream by using a convolutional neural network (CNN), performing object representation learning and detection, linking objects through time via tracking to generate object tracks and image feature tracks, feeding the object tracks and the image feature tracks to a multi-hop transformer that hops over frames in the video stream while concurrently attending to one or more of the objects in the video stream until the multi-hop transformer arrives at a correct answer, and employing video representation learning and recognition from the objects and image context to locate a target object within the video stream.
US11741707B2	Systems and methods for a chronological-based search engine Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing a chronologically-based search engine. Example methods includes presenting, on a display of an end-user device, live image data being captured by a camera of the end-user device, determining a pose of the end-user device, and sending the pose of the device to a server. The method also includes receiving location specific data from the server, the location specific data based on the pose of the end-user device, the location specific data including a first topic, and superimposing, on the live image data, based on the location specific data, (i) at least one highlighted area of an object associated with the first topic, and (ii) a query panel associated with the first topic superimposed proximate the object, the at least one highlighted area and the query panel being interactive elements associated with the first topic.
US11741703B2	In data acquisition, processing, and output generation for use in analysis of one or a collection of physical assets of interest Various examples are provided for data acquisition, processing, and output generation for use in analysis of a physical asset or a collection of physical assets of interest. In one example, a method includes providing a user information goal including user information for acquisition, processing, or output of data associated with a physical asset or collection of physical assets; and evaluating existing database information to determine whether all or part of the first user information goal can be substantially completed by retrieval and processing of an information set obtainable from existing database information. If the user information goal cannot substantially be completed using the information set, then a data acquisition plan configured to acquire data needed to substantially complete first user information goal can be generated. If the user information goal can be substantially completed using the information set, then the formation set can be processed to provide an output.
US11741699B2	Methods and apparatus for detecting features of scanned images, associating tags with images and/or using tagged images Methods and apparatus for using one or more feature recognition system(s) to identify features in a scanned image and to associate tags with identified features are described. Probabilities of a feature being present are taken into consideration in some embodiments. In various embodiments once a tag has been determined as corresponding to a feature which has been confirmed as being in the scanned image synonyms for the tag word are identified and also associated with the scanned image. By using results of multiple automated feature recognition systems and generating overall probabilities that a feature is present in an image more reliable tagging can be implemented in an automated manner than in system which rely on a single AI system without the need for extensive operator input with respect to identification of all features in the image which are to be tagged.
US11741696B2	Advanced path prediction The present disclosure provides systems and methods for mapping a determined path of travel. The path of travel may be mapped to a camera view of a camera affixed to a vehicle. In some embodiments, the path of travel may be mapped to another view that is based on a camera, such as a bird's eye view anchored to the camera's position at a given time. These systems and methods may determine the path of travel by incorporating data from later points in time.
US11741691B2	Distributed learning method, server and application using identification card recognition model, and identification card recognition method using the same A distributed learning method of a server managing an ID card recognition model includes releasing an ID card recognition model performing at least one convolution operation on an ID card image captured in a user terminal so that the user terminal uses the ID card recognition model, receiving update information of the ID card recognition model generated according to an ID card recognition result of the released ID card recognition model, and verifying the update information received from the user terminal and updating the ID card recognition model using the verified update information.
US11741690B2	Method for generating parking model, electronic device, and storage medium The present disclosure discloses a method for generating a parking model, an electronic device and a storage medium, and relates a field of autonomous parking technologies. The detailed implementing solution includes: obtaining multiple sample sets; constructing a parking cruise space for the target vehicle based on each sample set, and extracting a first parking trajectory corresponding to each sample set from each parking cruise space; recognizing an abnormal position on each first parking trajectory, and deleting driving data corresponding to the abnormal position from a sample set corresponding to each first parking trajectory to obtain target sample data in each sample set; and performing model training based on the target sample data in each sample set to generate a target parking model.
US11741682B2	Face augmentation in video Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture and methods for face augmentation in video are disclosed. An example apparatus includes executable code to detect a face of a subject in the video, detect a gender of the subject based on the face, detect a skin tone of the subject based on the face, apply a first process to smooth skin on the face in the video, apply a second process to change the skin tone of the face, apply a third process to slim the face, apply a fourth process to adjust a size of eyes on the face, and apply a fifth process to remove an eye bag from the face. One or more of the first process, the second process, the third process, the fourth process, or the fifth process adjustable based on one or more of the gender or an age. The example apparatus also includes one or more processors to generate modified video with beauty effects, the beauty effects based on one or more of the first process, the second process, the third process, the fourth process, or the fifth process.
US11741681B2	Interaction analysis systems and methods Interaction-based ecosystems are presented. Interaction analysis engine analyze media content to derive a set of media features. The engine can then identify one or more interaction objects (e.g., transactions, searches, game play, etc.) based on the set of media features. Relevant interaction objects can then be instantiated as persistent available or active points of interaction readily accessed by a consumer. The consumer need only capture a digital representation of the content via a user device, a smart phone for example. A second set of media features can be derived from the digital representation and the second set of media features can then be used to find the instantiated interactions.
US11741679B2	Augmented reality environment enhancement Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) environment enhancement using an eyewear device. The eyewear device includes an image capture system, a display system, and a position detection system. The image capture system and position detection system identify feature points within a point cloud that represents captured images of an environment. The display system presents image overlays to a user including enhancement graphics positioned at the feature points within the environment.
US11741672B2	Four-dimensional imaging system for cardiovascular dynamics A system may receive imaging data generated by an imaging device directed at a heart. The system may receive a first input operation indicative of a selected time-frame. The system may display images of the heart based on the intensity values mapped to the selected time-frame. The system may receive, based on interaction with the images, an apex coordinate and a base coordinate. The system may calculate, based on the apex coordinate and the base coordinate, a truncated ellipsoid representative an endocardial or epicardial boundary of the heart. The system may generate a four-dimensional mesh comprising three-dimensional vertices spaced along the mesh. The system may overlay, on the displayed images, markers representative of the vertices. The system may receive a second input operation corresponding to a selected marker. The system may enhance the mesh by adjusting or interpolating vertices across multiple time-frames.
US11741671B2	Three-dimensional scene recreation using depth fusion Generating a 3D scene reconstruction using depth fusion can include creating a high-resolution sparse depth map by mapping sensor depths from a low-resolution depth map to points corresponding to pixels of a high-resolution color image of a scene. The high-resolution sparse depth map can have the same resolution as the high-resolution color image. A fused sparse depth map can be produced by combining the high-resolution sparse depth map with sparse depths reconstructed from the high-resolution color image. The high-resolution dense depth map can be generated based on fused sparse depths of the fused sparse depth map.
US11741669B2	Processing and/or transmitting 3D data associated with a 3D model of an interior environment Systems and techniques for processing and/or transmitting three-dimensional (3D) data are presented. A partitioning component receives captured 3D data associated with a 3D model of an interior environment and partitions the captured 3D data into at least one data chunk associated with at least a first level of detail and a second level of detail. A data component stores 3D data including at least the first level of detail and the second level of detail for the at least one data chunk. An output component transmits a portion of data from the at least one data chunk that is associated with the first level of detail or the second level of detail to a remote client device based on information associated with the first level of detail and the second level of detail.
US11741668B2	Template based generation of 3D object meshes from 2D images Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to generate text tags for games. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to generate a 3D mesh for an object using a trained machine learning model includes providing a two-dimensional (2D) image of the object as input to the trained machine learning model, obtaining a template three-dimensional (3D) mesh, and generating, using the trained machine learning model and based on the 2D image and the template 3D mesh, a 3D mesh for the object, wherein the 3D mesh for the object is obtained by deforming the template 3D mesh and is usable to map a texture or to generate a 3D animation of the object.
US11741660B2	Structured light three-dimensional measurement device and method based on defocus-degree-based unwrapping A structured light 3D measurement device and method based on defocus-degree-based unwrapping. Binary fringes varying in fringe width are projected onto an object, and a corresponding fringe image is collected by a camera, and then subjected to phase demodulation to calculate a wrapped phase. The defocus degree is calculated according to modulation degrees of the binary fringes. The defocus degree is plugged into the defocusing phase function to obtain a normalized reference phase. The wrapped phase is subjected to phase unwrapping based on the normalized reference phase to obtain an absolute phase to reconstruct a 3D point cloud.
US11741659B2	Intersection testing in a ray tracing system using three-dimensional axis-aligned box Determining whether a ray intersects a 3D axis-aligned box identifies the front-facing plane of the box which intersects the ray at a position furthest along a direction of the ray. Whether the ray intersects the box is determined by whether the ray intersects the identified front-facing plane at a position that is no further along the ray than positions at which the ray intersects the back-facing planes in a subset of the dimensions. The subset of dimensions comprises the two dimensions for which the front-facing plane was not identified, but does not comprise the dimension for which the front-facing plane was identified. Whether the ray intersects the box is determined without performing a test to determine whether the ray intersects the identified front-facing plane at a position that is no further along the ray than a position at which the ray intersects the back-facing plane in the front-facing plane dimension.
US11741654B2	Edge test and depth calculation in graphics processing hardware A graphics processing hardware pipeline is arranged to perform an edge test or a depth calculation. Each hardware arrangement includes a microtile component hardware element, multiple pixel component hardware elements, one or more subsample component hardware elements and a final addition and comparison unit. The microtile component hardware element calculates a first output using a sum-of-products and coordinates of a microtile within a tile in the rendering space. Each pixel component hardware element calculates a different second output using the sum-of-products and coordinates for different pixels defined relative to an origin of the microtile. The subsample component hardware element calculates a third output using the sum-of-products and coordinates for a subsample position defined relative to an origin of a pixel. The adders sum different combinations of the first output, a second output and a third output to generate output results for different subsample positions defined relative to the origin of the tile.
US11741653B2	Overlapping visibility and render passes for same frame A method of tiled rendering of an image for display is provided which comprises receiving an image comprising one or more three dimensional (3D) objects and executing a visibility pass for determining locations of primitives of the image. The method also comprises executing, concurrently with the executing of the visibility pass, front end geometry processing of one of the primitives determined, from the visibility pass, to be in a first one of a plurality of tiles of the image and executing, concurrently with the executing of the visibility pass, back end processing of the one primitive in the first tile.
US11741649B2	Systems and methods for modifying a safety boundary for virtual reality systems The disclosed computer-implemented method may include establishing a virtual boundary for a virtual-world environment in reference to a real-world environment, and determining whether the virtual boundary requires a correction. The method may include providing, in response to determining that the virtual boundary requires the correction, and alert and, in response to the alert, receiving a request from a user to modify the virtual boundary. The method may further include monitoring, in response to the request from the user, an orientation of a direction indicator to generate orientation data, and modifying the virtual boundary based on the orientation data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11741648B2	Element rendering method and apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and computer device Element rendering method and devices, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer devices are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring at least one to-be-rendered element and a target display position corresponding to each to-be-rendered element; searching a locally stored element bitmap for each to-be-rendered element; if the to-be-rendered element is found from the element bitmap, determining an arrangement position of the to-be-rendered element in the element bitmap; otherwise, drawing the to-be-rendered element in an empty area, and determining an arrangement position of the drawn to-be-rendered element in the element bitmap; and triggering to render and display each to-be-rendered element at a corresponding target display position based on the element bitmap of each to-be-rendered element and the arrangement position of each to-be-rendered element in the element bitmap. The solution provided by this application can efficiently draw rendering elements.
US11741647B2	Hair styles system for rendering hair strands based on hair spline data Systems and methods are provided for rendering hair. The systems and methods include receiving hair spline data comprising coordinates of a plurality of hair strands; selecting a first hair strand of the plurality of hair strands; retrieving coordinates of the first hair strand; identifying based on the respective coordinates of the plurality of hair strands a second hair strand that is adjacent to the first hair strand; storing a reference to the second hair strand in association with the coordinates of the first hair strand; and generating one or more additional hair strands between the first hair strand and the second hair strand based on the coordinates of the first hair strand and the reference to the second hair strand.
US11741645B1	Electronic sports playbook and video annotation system An electronic sports playbook and video annotation system includes a device with a memory coupled to a processor that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate sports playbook content based on coordinate or image data. The processor is configured to detect an object (e.g., a player, etc.) on a surface (e.g., court image, or play image such as a static play drawing or video recording frame), detect a drawing of a path relating to the object (e.g., by user input device or with image processing, machine learning, or other heuristic techniques, etc.), and determine an action (e.g., a pass, a dribbling, a cut, a screen, a handoff, etc.) associated with the object based on at least an attribute of the object (e.g., does the player have the ball?, etc.) and detected path relating to the object.
US11741644B2	Vector graphics based live sketching metods and systems Vector format based computer graphics tools have become very powerful tools allowing artists, designers etc. to mimic many artistic styles, exploit automated techniques, etc. and across different simulated physical media and digital media. However, hand-drawing and sketching in vector format graphics is unnatural and a user's strokes rendered by software are generally unnatural and appear artificial. In contrast to today's hand-drawing and sketching which requires significant training of and understanding by the user of complex vector graphics methods embodiments of the invention lower the barrier to accessing computer graphics applications for users in respect of making hand-drawing or sketching easier to perform. Accordingly, the inventors have established a direct vector-based hand-drawing/sketching entry format supporting any input methodology.
US11741643B2	Reconstruction of dynamic scenes based on differences between collected view and synthesized view A system for generating a 4D representation of a scene in motion given a sinogram collected from the scene while in motion. The system generates, based on scene parameters, an initial 3D representation of the scene indicating linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of voxels of the scene. The system generates, based on motion parameters, a 4D motion field indicating motion of the scene. The system generates, based on the initial 3D representation and the 4D motion field, a 4D representation of the scene that is a sequence of 3D representations having LACs. The system generates a synthesized sinogram of the scene from the generated 4D representation. The system adjusts the scene parameters and the motion parameters based on differences between the collected sinogram and the synthesized sinogram. The processing is repeated until the differences satisfy a termination criterion.
US11741638B2	Methods and devices for entropy coding point clouds Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. A current node associated with a sub-volume is split into further sub-volumes, each further sub-volume corresponding to a child node of the current node, and, at the encoder, an occupancy pattern is determined for the current node based on occupancy status of the child nodes. A probability distribution is selected from among a plurality of probability distributions based on occupancy data for a plurality of nodes neighbouring the current node. The encoder entropy encodes the occupancy pattern based on the selected probability distribution to produce encoded data for the bitstream and updates the selected probability distribution. The decoder makes the same selection based on occupancy data for neighbouring nodes and entropy decodes the bitstream to reconstruct the occupancy pattern.
US11741637B2	Node-based geometry and attribute coding for a point cloud A method and apparatus for coding information of a point cloud may be performed by at least one processor and comprises: obtaining the point cloud including a set of points in a three-dimensional space; partitioning the point cloud into a tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes at different depths; encoding geometry information of the nodes; and encoding attribute information of the nodes before the entire point cloud is partitioned.
US11741634B2	Synchronization of decoded frames before point cloud reconstruction A method and Video-Based Point Cloud Compression (V-PCC) decoder for synchronization of decoded frames before point cloud reconstruction is provided. A V-PCC bit-stream which includes encoded frames associated with a point cloud sequence is received. Sub-streams of the received V-PCC bit-stream are decoded by a group of video decoders of the V-PCC decoder to generate V-PCC components, such as an attribute component, a geometry component, an occupancy map component, and an atlas component. A release of the attribute component, the geometry component, the occupancy map component, and the atlas component to the reconstruction unit is delayed based on a first output delay, a second output delay, a third output delay, and a fourth output delay, respectively. The delayed release synchronizes the attribute component, the geometry component, the occupancy map component, and the atlas component with each other before the reconstruction unit reconstructs a point cloud based on the V-PCC components.
US11741632B2	System, information processing method, method of manufacturing product, and recording medium with images of object that moves relative to cameras being captured at predetermined intervals and having different image capture times A system includes an information processing device. The information processing device is configured to acquire an image group from each of a plurality of cameras. The image group includes a plurality of images of an object that moves relative to each of the plurality of cameras. The plurality of images are captured by a corresponding camera at predetermined intervals and having different image capture times. The information processing device is configured to calculate an amount of movement of the object relative to each of the plurality of cameras, based on the image group acquired from each of the plurality of cameras. The information processing device is configured to detect a lag between image capture timings of the plurality of cameras, by using the amount of movement of the object relative to each of the plurality of cameras.
US11741629B2	Controlling display of model derived from captured image Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose image processing methods and apparatuses, image devices, and storage media. The image processing method includes: obtaining an image; obtaining the feature of the limb of the body based on the image, where the limb includes the upper limb and/or the lower limb; determining first-type movement information of the limb based on the feature; and controlling the movement of the limb of a controlled model according to the first-type movement information.
US11741626B2	Surface projection determination of a multidimensional object in a viewport space Using various embodiments, systems, methods and techniques to determine whether a surface of the multidimensional object is projected on a camera on a viewport space displayed on a graphical user interface. This includes projecting a first vector normal to a surface of the multidimensional object, where the multidimensional object is rendered in an electronically generated multidimensional environment, projecting a second vector from the camera to the surface of the multidimensional object, determining an angle between the first vector and the second vector, and based on the angle determining whether the surface is projected on the viewport space.
US11741617B2	Method and apparatus with object tracking A processor-implemented method with object tracking includes: determining an initial template image based on an input bounding box and an input image; generating an initial feature map by extracting features from the initial template image; generating a transformed feature map by performing feature transformation adapted to objectness on the initial feature map; generating an objectness probability map and a bounding box map indicating bounding box information corresponding to each coordinate of the objectness probability map by performing objectness-based bounding box regression analysis on the transformed feature map; and determining a refined bounding box based on the objectness probability map and the bounding box map.
US11741616B2	Expression transfer across telecommunications networks Methods, devices, and systems for expression transfer are disclosed. The disclosure includes capturing a first image of a face of a person. The disclosure includes generating an avatar based on the first image of the face of the person, with the avatar approximating the first image of the face of the person. The disclosure includes transmitting the avatar to a destination device. The disclosure includes capturing a second image of the face of the person on a source device. The disclosure includes calculating expression information based on the second image of the face of the person, with the expression information approximating an expression on the face of the person as captured in the second image. The disclosure includes transmitting the expression information from the source device to the destination device. The disclosure includes animating the avatar on a display component of the destination device using the expression information.
US11741614B2	Method, system and computer program for determining position and/or orientation parameters of an anatomical structure Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining one or more position and/or orientation parameters of an anatomical structure of a body portion. The anatomical structure has a longitudinal shape defining a longitudinal axis. The method includes generating and/or reading, by a data processing system, volumetric data of at least a portion of a subject. The method further includes generating and/or reading, by the data processing system, a deformable template which provides an estimate for a location of the longitudinal axis in the portion of the subject. The method further includes matching, by the data processing system, the deformable template to the volumetric data, thereby obtaining a matched template. The matching comprises using one or more internal energy functions and one or more external energy functions for optimizing an objective function. The method further includes determining, by the data processing system, the at least one position and/or orientation parameter based on the matched template.
US11741610B2	Method for hospital visit guidance for medical treatment for active thyroid eye disease, and system for performing same According to the present application, provided is a computer-implemented method of predicting a clinical activity score for conjunctival hyperemia. The method described in the present application includes: training a conjunctival hyperemia prediction model using a training set; acquiring a first image include at least one eye of a subject and an outer region of an outline of the at least one eye; outputting, by the conjunctival hyperemia prediction model executing on a processor, a first predicted value for a conjunctival hyperemia, a first predicted value for the conjunctival edema, a first predicted value for an eyelid redness, a first predicted value for an eyelid edema, and a first predicted value for a lacrimal edema; and generating a score for the conjunctival hyperemia based on the selected first predicted value for a conjunctival hyperemia.
US11741607B2	Electronic device, method, and computer program for calculating bleeding site and trajectory of bloodstain scattered by impact A method of calculating a bleeding site and a trajectory of a bloodstain scattered by impact includes: obtaining, by an electronic device calculating the bleeding site and the trajectory of the bloodstain scattered by impact, captured image information; analyzing the obtained captured image information, by the electronic device, and calculating a collision angle and measuring a direction angle of the bloodstain scattered by impact; calculating, by the electronic device, a coordinate value of the bleeding site by using a linear trajectory method; calculating, by the electronic device, a trajectory of a drop of blood based on the calculated coordinate value of the bleeding site by using a parabolic trajectory method considering gravity and air resistance; and displaying and outputting, by the electronic device, a linear trajectory of the drop of blood and a parabolic trajectory considering gravity and air resistance of the drop of blood on a 3D space.
US11741605B2	Method and system for image registration using an intelligent artificial agent Methods and systems for image registration using an intelligent artificial agent are disclosed. In an intelligent artificial agent based registration method, a current state observation of an artificial agent is determined based on the medical images to be registered and current transformation parameters. Action-values are calculated for a plurality of actions available to the artificial agent based on the current state observation using a machine learning based model, such as a trained deep neural network (DNN). The actions correspond to predetermined adjustments of the transformation parameters. An action having a highest action-value is selected from the plurality of actions and the transformation parameters are adjusted by the predetermined adjustment corresponding to the selected action. The determining, calculating, and selecting steps are repeated for a plurality of iterations, and the medical images are registered using final transformation parameters resulting from the plurality of iterations.
US11741600B2	Identifying follicular units A follicular unit harvesting process receives images for analysis and identifies and highlights clusters of hair. The analysis includes pixel type determination, pixel clustering, cluster classification and cluster highlighting or replacement. The analysis of the pixels is performed concurrently, and the results of the analysis are optionally used for automated treatment planning.
US11741599B2	Method for treating arterial stenosis Disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject having arterial stenosis. The method comprises: (a) providing a plurality of image frames of an artery of the subject taken in sequence; (b) in a plurality of cross-sections of the artery, determining a maximum diameter and a minimum diameter of each of the plurality of cross-sections of the artery among the plurality of image frames of the step (a); (c) calculating an average vasodilation ratio of the artery base on the maximum diameter and the minimum diameter determined in the step (b); and (d) treating the subject based on the average vasodilation ratio calculated in the step (c), by implanting a stent to the subject when the average vasodilation ratio is equal to or greater than 0.2; or administering to the subject an effective amount of a vasodilator when the average vasodilation ratio is less than 0.2.
US11741598B2	Method for aiding visualization of lesions in medical imagery and apparatus using the same A computing apparatus for aiding visualization of lesions in a medical image includes a communicator and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a user input for selecting a single point in the medical image to modify a lesion mask representing a lesion area in them medical image, determine a modified lesion mask corresponding to the received user input among a plurality of pre-generated plurality of candidate lesion masks, and provide the modified lesion mask with the medical image.
US11741594B2	Non-contact system and method for detecting defects in an additive manufacturing process A Pulsed Thermography (PT) system and method is provided utilizing a long duration pulse in combination with a radiant heat shield as a non-destructive testing method for quantitatively measuring defect depths within a 3D printed part and for characterizing layer-by-layer surface defects in the 3D printed part.
US11741588B2	Systems and methods for visual anomaly detection in a multi-display system Embodiments described herein are directed to visual anomaly detection for content displayed via multi-display systems. For instance, computing devices may provide content for display by a respective display devices of a multi-display system. Each computing device provides images of the content, along with an identifier identifying the computing device as the source of the image, to a cloud-based storage system. A cloud-based visual anomaly detection system retrieves and analyzes the images from the storage system and determines whether any visual anomalies are present therein. The analysis is performed on a per-computing device basis. For instance, the system may apply a machine-learning based detection model to an image that is specific to the computing device that generated the image based on the identifier associated with the image. Upon detecting an anomaly, an automated action is performed to remediate the cause of the anomaly.
US11741587B2	Mura detecting method, device and readable storage medium The present application discloses a mura detecting method, device and readable storage medium. The method includes obtaining an area of a target test image obtained from an original image signal where mura exists to serve as a target test area; processing the target test area to obtain a grayscale distribution; obtaining a brightness gradient distribution based on the grayscale distribution; calculating a SEMU value based on the brightness gradient distribution; and obtaining a location corresponding to the mura area based on the SEMU value. It realizes objective measurement and evaluation of halo phenomenon.
US11741583B2	Face image processing method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium A face image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining face key points and a face deflection angle in a face image; determining a submalar triangle center in the face image according to the face key points and the face deflection angle; determining a submalar triangle region in the face image according to the face key points and the submalar triangle center; and performing color filling on the submalar triangle region. By means of the present disclosure, a submalar triangle region can be accurately positioned, and submalar triangle filling is performed based on the accurately positioned submalar triangle region, thereby obtaining a more natural filling effect.
US11741578B2	Method, system, and computer-readable medium for improving quality of low-light images In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a digital image; generating, by at least one processor, a resulting digital image by processing the digital image with an encoder-decoder neural network comprising a plurality of convolutional layers classified into a downsampling stage and an upsampling stage, and a multi-scale context aggregating block configured to aggregate multi-scale context information of the digital image and employed between the downsampling stage and the upsampling stage; and outputting, by the at least one processor, the resulting digital image to an output device. Generating the resulting digital image includes performing a pooling operation after every few convolutional layers at the downsampling stage to decrease spatial resolution; performing an upscaling operation before every few convolutional layers at the upsampling stage to increase the spatial resolution; and performing a channel-wise dropout operation following each of the convolutional layers at the downsampling stage and the upsampling stage.
US11741574B2	Method and device for processing blood vessel image on basis of user input The present disclosure relates to a method, performed by a processor, for processing a blood vessel image from a blood vessel image, the method comprising the steps of: extracting a target blood vessel from a blood vessel image; determining a region of interest (ROI) in an extraction result of the target blood vessel on the basis of a first input received from a user; and within the determined ROI, identifying an error portion in the extraction result on the basis of a second input received from the user, and correcting the identified error portion.
US11741569B2	Compression of CT reconstruction images involving quantizing voxels to provide reduced volume image and compressing image A computer-implemented method and system compresses CT reconstruction images and can include: receiving a volumetric density file including one or more voxels; replacing one or more voxel density values below an air density value with the air density value; replacing one or more voxel density values above a material density value with the material density value; determining one or more voxels of interest; replacing one or more non-interesting voxel density values below a material surface density with the air density value; replacing one or more non-interesting voxel density values above the material surface density with the material density value; quantizing all voxels to provide a reduced volume image; and compressing the reduced volume image to provide a compressed volume image.
US11741568B2	Systems and methods for low-power, real-time object detection Described herein are systems and methods for object detection to achieve hard real-time performance with low latency. Real-time object detection frameworks are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a framework comprises a first CPU core, a second CPU core, and a plurality of shaves. In one or more embodiments, the first CPU core handles general CPU tasks, while the second CPU core handles the image frames from a camera sensor and computation task scheduling. In one or more embodiments, the scheduled computation tasks are implemented by the plurality of shaves using at least one object-detection model to detect an object in an image frame. In one or more embodiments, computation results from the object-detection model with a higher detection probability is used to form an output for object detection. In one or more embodiments, the object-detection models share some parameters for smaller size and higher implementing speed.
US11741564B2	Sequence adjustment for executing functions on hems in an order A method for executing orders assigned to a plurality of robots operating in a warehouse, including receiving an order with a plurality of items, each item associated with an item location. The method includes defining a plurality of regions and identifying the regions which include at least one item location associated with the order received by the robot. The method also includes determining, from the regions identified, which regions which include at least one operator and assessing criteria relating to a current location of the robot and to the item locations associated with the regions having at least one operator. The method further includes selecting an item location to which the robot is to navigate from a current location based on an assessment of criteria relating to the current location of the robot and to the item locations associated with the regions in which are located at least one operator.
US11741563B2	Management device, management method, and management program A server (10) stores a task ID of information on a task that is viewed by a client terminal (20) and a screen shot when the client terminal (20) logs out from the server (10) as a user activity log of the client terminal (20). In addition, when the client terminal (20) logs into the server (10) once again, the server (10) refers to the user activity log of the client terminal (20) and displays a screen shot upon a previous logout. Furthermore, the server (10) refers to a task ID included in the user activity log of the client terminal (20) and displays unread tasks of the client terminal (20).
US11741559B1	Customer relationship management with geospatial tools In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems, apparatuses, and methods for customer relationship management (CRM) with geospatial tools. A server device receives a request to display a map image via a graphical user interface (GUI). The server device accesses a data store to retrieve property data items corresponding to the map image. The server device generates and assigns, for each of the property data items, a property quadkey. The server device filters, using a first map quadkey of the map image, the property data items to obtain two or more property data items. The server device aggregates the two or more property data items into an aggregate property marker and generates an aggregate quadkey for the aggregate property marker. The server device transmits a response to cause the user device to display, via the GUI, the aggregate property marker overlaid on the map image.
US11741557B2	Biomarker-based food item design system and method A system and method for biomarker-based personalized food item design. The system is a cloud-based network containing an API connector, portals for restaurants and patrons, to enter their information, and machine learning engine which creates a unique dietary experience for patrons based on a multitude of variables associated with the business enterprises, user biomarker data, a user specific biomarker goal, dietary needs, ingredient information, and preferences both explicit and inferred. The system may be accessed through web browsers or purpose-built computer and mobile phone applications.
US11741556B2	Intelligent fuel dispensers In general, intelligent fuel dispensers are provided. In at least some implementations, an intelligent fuel dispenser can determine customer identities and/or other characteristics and provide customized fueling sessions based on the determined customer identities and/or other characteristics. In at least some implementations, the fuel dispenser includes a touchless interface allowing customers to complete fueling sessions with minimal physical contact with the fuel dispenser.
US11741554B2	Assembling students for a group interaction in an online academic environment Methods and systems for assembling remote students in an online academic environment are provided. The method includes a use of the system to filter a subpopulation from a population stored in a database, the population including students in the self-paced, online environment. The subpopulation can be selected to meet a first set of criteria for a grouping of students for a group interaction. Additional criteria can be added to provide control over the selection of students for the subpopulation and, thus, control over the design of groups to provide a desired group profile for the group interaction. The methods and systems provided can align and group students of the self-paced, online environment for a group interaction, as well as electronically proctor and otherwise monitor and control the interaction.
US11741552B2	Systems and methods for automatic classification of loan collection actions Systems and methods for automatic classification of loan collection actions are disclosed. An example system may include: a data collection circuit to interpret interactions among entities related to at least one transaction of a first set of loans, wherein the at least one transaction involves a first collection action of a set of payments corresponding to the first set of loans; an artificial intelligence circuit to classify the first collection action, wherein the artificial intelligence circuit is trained on the interactions corresponding to the first set of loans; and a robotic process automation circuit that is trained on the interactions and a set of loan collection outcomes corresponding to the first set of loans to implement a second loan collection action on behalf of a party to a second loan.
US11741550B1	Systems and methods for processing multi-party insurance claim payouts A system includes an insurance claim processing circuit having instructions to receive an insurance claim payment request based on an insurance claim regarding an insured entity, evaluate the insurance claim payment request, receive a work progress indicator directly from a contractor device that is operated by a contractor and not the insured entity, the work progress indicator regarding a repair of an insured object associated with the insurance claim payment request, in response to determining a claim amount in the insurance claim payment request is above a predetermined threshold, generate and provide an authorization request including a request to confirm an identity of the contractor, and in response receiving a confirmation of the identity of the contractor, cause dispersal of an amount of funds based on the insurance claim payment request to the insured entity.
US11741546B1	Data capture and integration architecture for a quantamental computer system A system includes a network interface circuit configured to facilitate data transmission over a network, and a processing circuit comprising one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory, wherein the processing circuit is configured to receive a first analyst tracking information from a first analyst device configured to access resources related to a security, receive a second analyst tracking information from a second analyst device configured to access resources related to the security, receive a first analyst feedback response from the first analyst device, receive a second analyst feedback response from the second analyst device, and generate an integrated data synopsis based on the first analyst tracking information data set, the second analyst tracking information data set, the first analyst feedback response, and the second analyst feedback response, wherein the integrated data synopsis includes an integrated analyst rating score for the security.
US11741545B2	Monetizing financial brokerage data Method and systems for monetizing financial brokerage accounts are disclosed. One aspect for certain embodiments includes mining data from financial brokerage accounts and monetizing the mined data and providing to the customer an unlimited number of free trades for an unlimited period of time.
US11741542B2	FPGA circuit for processing electronic messages in a distributed computer system A distributed computer system includes a matcher server that stores an order book of pending orders and a gateway that routes an order message to the matcher server for matching. The gateway also receives individual quote messages bundled into a mass quote message, each individual quote message including a price value for one of a plurality of different instrument identifiers. The gateway routes the mass quote message to a field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuit without involving the matcher server. The FPGA parses and stores data for each individual quote message to a data structure located in the memory of the FPGA. The parsed data is organized in the data structure according to both the instrument identifier and a client identifier that corresponds to a client that sent the mass quote message. The FPGA receives away market feed messages that each include a price value and a corresponding instrument identifier without first being routed through the matcher server or the gateway and updates the data structure. The FPGA delivers, in response to a query sent as part of the matching process performed on the matcher server for the instrument, information stored in the data structure regarding the instrument.
US11741540B2	Alternative value exchange systems and methods This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for exchanging alternative currencies. The method includes creating, at an alternative currency platform, a plurality of user accounts and receiving, from a first user in the plurality of user accounts, an alternative currency exchange offer. The alternative currency exchange offer includes one or more offer terms and associated assets. Furthermore, the method includes extending the alternative currency exchange offer from the first user to the second user, in response to receiving acceptance of the offer from the second user, verifying the associated assets of the first user and the second user, and in response to verification of the assets of the first user and second user, providing settlement of the alternative currency exchange offer.
US11741539B2	Blockchain-based shared appreciation note Blockchain-based systems and methods related to creating and distributing cryptographically secure, digital tokens representing equity in assets corresponding to loan agreements. The system may comprise a transaction interface portal configured to collect and manage information pertaining to the origination of a loan agreement or a token transaction agreement. The system may include an underwriting smart contract configured to autonomously verify the value of an asset corresponding to a loan origination based at least partially on information not originating on the blockchain. The system may deliver tokens through a programmable escrow wallet configured to deliver tokens to buyers upon the satisfaction of encoded regulatory criterion. The system may be configured to determine the price of one or more tokens before delivery and adjust the price based at least on the appreciating value of the assets corresponding to the loan agreements and the number of tokens retired by the system.
US11741536B2	Method and system for redirecting a financial transaction A system and method for redirecting a financial transaction from one account held by a customer at a first issuer to a second account held by the customer at a second issuer comprising receiving a customer request for redirection, identifying the second account to which transactions should be redirected, providing redirection information to a transaction entity, receiving terms for a financial transaction, and performing the financial transaction with respect to the second account.
US11741526B2	Shopping support device, shopping support system, and shopping support method A shopping support device includes a memory, a reading device, a network interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to, upon reading of a first code with the reading device at a store, decode the first code and acquire and, then store in the memory, first and second parameter values, and then control the network interface to connect to a store network using the first parameter value. Upon the reading of a commodity ID for a commodity with the reading device, the commodity ID is transmitted to a store server via the store network for registration. Upon receipt of a request from a user, checkout processing is performed based on the registered commodity ID on the server and the second parameter value.
US11741524B2	Systems and methods for generating basket and item quantity predictions using machine learning architectures Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of: generating a feature vector for a user based, at least in part, on historical data pertaining to the user's previous transactions; generating, using a quantity prediction model of a machine learning architecture, a respective item quantity prediction for each of one or more items included in a predicted basket based, at least in part, on the feature vector for the user; and populating a respective quantity selection option for each of the one or more items included in the predicted basket based on the respective item quantity prediction generated for each of the one or more items. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11741522B2	Method for image product recommendation Embodiments of the present disclosure a method for determining product relevancy including extracting metadata from an image file of a digital image collection, the metadata being indicative of at least one feature of the image file. The method includes creating an input profile corresponding to the metadata extracted from the image files of the digital image collection. The method includes comparing the input profile to a product profile, the product profile having one or more rules corresponding to a consumer product, wherein the rules are indicative of the requirements of the product. The method includes determining a match score, the match score indicative of a relevancy of the product profile to the input profile such that a high relevancy correlates to a consumer product that is suited to the input profile and a low relevancy correlates to the consumer product that is not suited to the input profile.
US11741520B2	Methods and systems for providing crowd information and repeat information related to an establishment using digital image information Systems and methods to provide transaction-related insight information for an establishment. In some aspects of the present disclosure, a digital image captured at a location of a user can be received. The digital image can be analyzed to identify an establishment. Transaction data between customers and the establishment can be retrieved. Transaction-related insight information about the establishment can be generated based on the data. The transaction-related insight information can be provided to the user.
US11741517B1	Smart table system for document management Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media including an interactive surface, a plurality of cameras, a network circuit, and a processing circuit configured to receive an indication of a customer device. The processing circuit is further configured to authenticate the customer. The processing circuit is further configured to determine that a document associated with the customer is on or proximate the interactive surface. The processing circuit is further configured to receive a plurality of digital images. The processing circuit is further configured to create a master digital image. The processing circuit is further configured to save the master digital image. The processing circuit is further configured to update the account of the customer. The processing circuit is further configured to update the account of the customer generate and provide a graphical representation.
US11741512B2	System, method and computer program product for tracking and correlating online user activities with sales of physical goods A vehicle sales matching system may include a vehicle sales lead data database, a vehicle sales information database, and a sales matching system embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and communicatively connected to the vehicle sales lead data database and the vehicle sales information database. The vehicle sales lead data may include validated customer data and third-party customer data. The vehicle sales information may include sales data from vehicle dealers, data extract services, and sales data sources. The sales matching system may be configured for applying one or more matching rules for matching a vehicle sales lead from the vehicle sales lead database to a vehicle sale from the vehicle sales information database.
US11741511B2	Systems and methods of business categorization and service recommendation In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method of generating business descriptions performed by a server, said method may include: receiving a plurality of invoices, each invoice being associated with a business of a plurality of businesses; extracting a plurality of texts from the plurality of invoices; embedding the plurality of texts to a vector space to obtain a plurality of invoice vectors; generating a plurality of clusters in the vector space, each cluster of the plurality of clusters comprising at least one invoice vector of the plurality of invoice vectors; generating a description for a cluster, the description for the cluster representing all invoice vectors assigned to the cluster; for each business of the plurality of businesses that has at least one invoice vector assigned to the cluster, associating the business with the description; and indexing the plurality of businesses within a database by the generated descriptions.
US11741509B2	Systems and methods to assess the condition of a vehicle A computer-implemented method includes receiving a vehicle condition query via a computer network and retrieving condition data corresponding to a vehicle from a vehicle condition database. Further, the method includes determining a condition of the vehicle based on a collective analysis of the condition data, where the condition of the vehicle includes a market value of the vehicle and an overall quality level of the vehicle, and receiving a geographic location of a computing device. Still further, the method includes generating a vehicle condition report, where the vehicle condition report includes an interactive image of a first set of one or more visual condition descriptors indicative of the condition of the vehicle. Moreover, the method includes customizing the vehicle condition report according to the climate associated with the geographic location for the computing device, and communicating the vehicle condition report to the second computing device.
US11741508B2	Desktop extension for readily-sharable and accessible media playlist and media A system and method for distributing and providing access to media and for extending such access to a desktop environment is described. A media player in a webpage or in a desktop environment may reference a centralized location to access a playlist of media files. The playlist itself may reference remotely-located media files that may be streamed to the media player. The media player may be distributed in multiple environments, and updates to the playlist may be automatically distributed to all instances where the playlist is referenced due to the centralized reference in the media player. The embodiments of the media player may also be used in advertising as a mechanism for increasing user contact with an advertising entity and as a mechanism for distributing announcements and information by the advertiser.
US11741504B2	Parametric tracking and triggering of advertising events in online multimedia environments A method for providing, to a consumer in a mobile device, a digital content to be displayed on the mobile device, is disclosed. The method includes requesting non-personally identifiable information from a consumer in a pixel script of the advertisement payload, tracking an event trigger in the pixel script, the event trigger configured to fire upon completion of a selected portion of the advertising payload, and modifying a consumer account based on the event trigger and the non-personally identifiable information. The method also includes providing an updated feature of the consumer account to a retail store when a configured rule in the pixel script is satisfied. A system including a memory storing instructions to cause the system to execute the above method is also provided.
US11741497B2	System and method for inferring the intent of a user while receiving signals on a mobile communication device from a broadcasting device System and methods are provided to create representations of geographic areas. Such representations enable users to search for items and services of interest and to quickly locate and utilize such items and services. Representations are created using user preferences thus reducing the amount of information presented to a user, i.e., user preferences control the contents of a representation. Control APIs contained within a representation may be used to control devices represented in a representation or to manufacture them using 3-D printing technologies. Methods to learn user preferences via his movements and other actions and impose a user's preferences upon an environment are shown. Some details of the invention are described by applying the invention to problems in retail marketing and figures depicting an implementation illustrate certain aspects of the invention.
US11741492B1	Workflow management system for tracking event objects associated with entities and secondary entities A workflow management system enables an entity to store information components in one or more publicly accessible databases, the information components associated with an acquisition by the acquisition entity. A unique entity identifier is associated with the information components in the databases, such that when reviewing entities access the information component via the databases and perform a similar event, a similar event object with the unique entity identifier is transmitted to the workflow management system. The information components may also be distributed by secondary entities, which may be automatically selected by the workflow management system based on historical data associated with respective secondary entities. When event objects initiated by information components stored by a secondary entity are received at the workflow management system, some or all of a maximum value increment associated with the acquisition is partitioned between the secondary entity and the acquisition entity.
US11741491B2	Distribution of fractional equity rewards based on purchase behavior Herein disclosed are systems and methods for distributing fractional equity rewards to users of a loyalty platform based on tracked user loyalty purchases. The disclosed systems and methods may reduce time between a user loyalty purchase and distribution of a fractional equity reward determined based on the user loyalty purchase. In one example, by maintaining a pre-purchased supply of shares within an inventory account of the loyalty platform, and by distributing fractional equity rewards to user accounts on the loyalty platform from the pre-purchased supply, a reduction in reward distribution time may be enabled. Further, by maintaining the pre-purchased supply of shares of stock within the inventory based on a running average rate of fractional equity reward distribution, and predicted events, the amount of stock in the inventory may be intelligently controlled to reduce excess inventory, while reducing a probability of reward distribution delay.
US11741490B2	Verification of redemption of an electronic offer A system can determine that a mobile device, located at a physical place of business transmits a first electronic communication for redemption of an electronic offer at the physical place of business. The system can further detect a second electronic communication transmitted from the mobile device, which indicates a first identifier. The first identifier can be associated with a verifier of the electronic offer (e.g., a staff member) at the physical place of business. The system can further determine, based on analysis of the first identifier, a second identifier (e.g., contact data, a telephone number, etc.), that corresponds to the verifier, without providing the second identifier to the mobile device. The system can further electronically transmit, utilizing the second identifier, a third electronic communication that indicates information about the redemption of the electronic offer.
US11741489B2	AI enabled coupon code generation for improved user experience An embodiment for generating an electronic coupon based on user preferences is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to one or more reward coupons. The embodiment may also include identifying a contextual situation of the user and one or more preferences of the user regarding a coupon reward type. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more vendors that match with the one or more preferences of the user. The embodiment may also include generating one or more electronic coupons and presenting the one or more generated electronic coupons to the user. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the one or more generated electronic coupons match at least one preference of the user, adding the one or more generated electronic coupons that match the at least one preference of the user to an account of the user.
US11741486B1	Machine learning technique with targeted feature sets for categorical anomaly detection Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for categorical anomaly detection. Embodiments include receiving values for a plurality of data categories for an entity of a plurality of entities. Embodiments include generating a feature vector for the entity based on the values, the feature vector excluding a first value for a first data category of the plurality of data categories. Embodiments include providing one or more inputs to a machine learning model based on the feature vector and determining, based on one or more outputs received from the machine learning model, one or more other entities of the plurality of entities that are grouped with the entity. Embodiments include determining that the first value is anomalous based on respective values for the first data category for the one or more other entities. Embodiments include performing one or more actions based on the determining that the first value is anomalous.
US11741485B2	Methods and apparatus to estimate de-duplicated unknown total audience sizes based on partial information of known audiences Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate de-duplicated unknown total audience sizes based on partial information of known audiences. An example apparatus includes an association controller to generate a tree structure association corresponding to a union of first and second margins of time; and one or more commercial solvers to: perform parallel computations on a processor to determine multipliers by solving equations corresponding to the tree structure association, the multipliers corresponding to the first total audience size for the union, the second total audience size for the first margin, and the third total audience size for the second margin; and determine an estimate for the third total audience size for the second margin of time based on the multipliers.
US11741481B2	Method and/or system for providing and/or analyzing and/or presenting decision strategies A method and/or system that can be implemented on a computing device or tables or board game or otherwise uses a rule set to evaluate data about a situation and actors in order to provide advice regarding strategies for influencing actors and/or other outputs.
US11741479B1	Asset tracker loss alert and notification process A method for tracking insured assets is provided. Asset identifiers corresponding to assets to be monitored are received from a user. Each of the one or more assets is attached to a tracking device. Monitored assets are covered by one or more insurance policies. One or more geofence regions are defined associated with the one or more monitored assets. A location of each of the monitored assets is estimated, at least periodically. In response to determining that the estimated location of at least one of the monitored assets is outside of the corresponding one or more geofence regions, an insurance policy associated with this at least one asset is determined. A policyholder associated with the insurance policy is notified by sending a notification to policyholder's-preferred device. The notification inquires instructions for remedial actions from the policyholder. One or more remedial actions are initiated based on received policyholder's instructions.
US11741476B2	Method, device, and system of detecting mule accounts and accounts used for money laundering Method, device, and system of detecting a mule bank account, or a bank account used for terror funding or money laundering. A method includes: monitoring interactions of a user with a computing device during online access with a bank account; and based on the monitoring, determining that the bank account is utilized as a mule bank account to illegally receive and transfer money, or is used for money laundering or terror funding. The method takes into account one or more indicators, such as, utilization of a remote access channel, utilization of a virtual machine or a proxy server, unique behavior across multiple different accounts, temporal correlation among operations, detection of a set of operations that follow a pre-defined mule account playbook, detection of multiple incoming fund transfers from multiple countries that are followed by a single outgoing fund transfer to a different country, and other indicators.
US11741474B2	Systems and methods for early detection of network fraud events A computing system for detecting a pattern of fraudulent network events in a payment card network is configured to continuously receive a plurality of scored transaction authorization requests each including a respective account number and a respective fraud score. The computing system is also configured to sort the scored transaction authorization requests into account ranges based the account number, and sort the transaction authorization requests within each of the account ranges into a fraud score range stripes based on the corresponding fraud score. The computing system is further configured to calculate, for the scored transaction authorization requests within each fraud score range stripe, a ratio of a cumulative metric for a shorter time period over a longer time period, and detect, in near real-time, a fraud event associated with one of the account ranges based on the ratio for one of the fraud score range stripes within the account range.
US11741469B2	Systems and methods for automatically securing and validating multi-server electronic communications over a plurality of networks In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a first request for a privacy transaction card comprising a plurality of transaction metadata strings associated with a pending transaction between the user device and a first merchant server, analyzing, using a machine learning model, the transaction metadata strings in the first request to determine a risk assessment score for the first request, the machine learning model being trained to determine risk assessment scores based on multiple second requests stored in a privacy transaction database, determining whether the risk assessment score for the first request exceeds a specified risk threshold associated with the pending transaction, generating, upon determining the risk assessment score is below the specified risk threshold, a privacy transaction card comprising a unique privacy payment card number associated with the user device and the first merchant server, and transmitting, to the user device, the privacy transaction card.
US11741461B2	Method for performing non-repudiation, and payment managing server and user device therefor A method for implementing non-repudiation of payment in a payment managing server includes receiving, from a user terminal, a terminal public key of a pair of asymmetric keys generated by the user terminal, receiving user authentication information, the user authentication information having been generated by a user authentication server and transmitted to the user terminal, storing the received terminal public key when validity of the user authentication information is confirmed through a communication with the user authentication server, receiving a payment request from the user terminal, receiving, from the user terminal, electronic signature information that has been encrypted with a terminal private key of the pair of asymmetric keys and decrypting the electronic signature information using the stored terminal public key, is provided.
US11741454B2	Systems and methods to generate a location dependent alert in a mobile device of a user A mobile device having a position determination device and a mobile application configured, in response to the location of the mobile device determined by the position determination device, to: predict a transaction based at least in part on the location of the mobile device; select, based at least in part on the location of the mobile device, a first account for the transaction from a plurality of accounts identified by the identification information; and provide, via the user interface, an alert identifying the first account, before a user of the mobile device begins to make the transaction. The prediction can be made based on a location pattern relative to the location of a transaction terminal and/or the detection of short-range wireless signals of the transaction terminal.
US11741446B2	Electronic system and method for transaction processing A system comprises a server configured for performing steps of receiving, from an acquirer financial institution for a merchant, details of a transaction and a common virtual payment token. The transaction details include details of the merchant. Identification details of a set of consumer payment instruments associated with the common virtual payment token are retrieved from a consumer database. The consumer payment instrument for the merchant is selected from the set of consumer payment instruments, based on the merchant details. Payment details of the selected consumer payment instrument are retrieved from the consumer database. The transaction is processed with the selected consumer payment instrument by communicating to an issuer financial institution for the selected consumer payment instrument, the transaction details and the payment details of the selected consumer payment instrument.
US11741442B1	Infrastructure for maintaining math-based currency accounts A banking system of a financial institution maintains a plurality of customer accounts in math-based currency (“MBC”). The system includes a network interface configured to facilitate data transmission over a network. The system includes a ledger including information relating to the plurality of customer accounts associated with a plurality of customers. The system includes a processor configured to update information contained in the ledger relating to the plurality of customer accounts based on the occurrences of MBC transactions involving the plurality of customers.
US11741432B1	Systems and methods for predictive scoring An apparatus for predictive scoring, the apparatus comprising a processor and a display device. The processor is configured to receive a posting query, generate a past posting datum, determine predictive metrics as a function of the posting query, and provide a score related to an expected value of a posting. The display device is configured to display a predictive score to the originator.
US11741429B2	Augmented intelligence explainability with recourse A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for performing a cognitive information processing operation. The cognitive information processing operation includes: receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the data from the plurality of data sources to provide cognitively processed insights via an augmented intelligence system, the augmented intelligence system executing on a hardware processor of an information processing system, the augmented intelligence system and the information processing system providing a cognitive computing function; performing an explainability with recourse operation, the explainability with recourse operation providing an assurance explanation regarding the cognitive computing function; and, providing the cognitively processed insights to a destination, the destination comprising a cognitive application, the cognitive application enabling a user to interact with the cognitive insights.
US11741426B2	Tracking unique video game digital media assets using tokens on a distributed ledger A system and method for tracking digital assets associated with video games. The digital assets may be in-game digital assets, such as in-game items or characters. The digital assets may be video game digital media assets representing moments of gameplay of a video game, such as video clips or images. The digital asset is created, and a distributed ledger tracking a history of the digital asset is created and stored across devices. A unique token for the digital asset can include a unique identifier and metadata identifying properties of the digital asset. Changes to properties of the digital asset, such as ownership, visual appearance, or metadata, can be identified in a request to update the history. A new block can be generated for, and appended to, the distributed ledger identifying the changes to the history of the digital asset. The new block can include hashes of previous blocks.
US11741424B2	Artificial intelligent refrigerator and method of storing food thereof Disclosed is a method of storing food in an artificial intelligent refrigerator including obtaining an image of a storage chamber through a camera installed in the storage chamber of the refrigerator; transmitting the obtained image to a server; receiving a recognition result of food newly stored in the storage chamber through AI image processing in the server from the server; and displaying notifying information related to the food in a display unit of the refrigerator based on the received result.
US11741423B2	Method and system for automated vehicle transportation A method and system for automated vehicle transportation is disclosed that allows a car shipper, such as a car dealer, to ship a car automatically from a computer or smart phone, and have the car accepted directly electronically by an auto transport trucker on a smartphone to pick up and deliver. The user by enters the vehicle on a website or mobile application, and the auto transporter selects the car for pick up by tapping on a mobile application on a smartphone. The transaction is handled automatically by the system, and manual communication such as phone calls and faxes and paperwork are not required. The system also tracks the location of the vehicle via the transporter's smartphone and displays the real-time location to the customer. The payment may be collected electronically from the customer, and automatically paid to the transporter electronically. A video bill of lading is also provided.
US11741422B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for shifting and staging storage structures and parcels thereon Systems, methods, and apparatuses for selectively shifting and staging storage structures in a storage space are provided. Systems, methods, and apparatuses for dynamically organizing packages based on a travel route are also provided. In embodiments, a plurality of parcels may be stored on storage structures located within a vehicle and each storage structure may be provided in a modular assembly. During a delivery operation, the system may determine which parcels are next to be delivered and, either based on predetermined information or dynamic information, may adjust the position of the storage structures within the vehicle using shifting mechanisms and control systems coupled thereto to present the appropriate parcel for retrieval from the vehicle.
US11741421B2	Systems and methods for obtaining real-time variable product data for an e-commerce platform A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving input of product value data for a product item and a data modifier for the product value data, the data modifier identifying a target margin value associated with the product item; determining at least one current inventory location for the product item; obtaining a shipping rate associated with shipping the product item to a geographical region from the at least one current inventory location; retrieving historical transfer value preference data for the geographical region; modifying at least one of the product value data, the shipping rate, or the target margin value based on the historical transfer value preference data; determining a transfer value of the product item based on the modified at least one of the product value data, the shipping rate, or the target margin value; and generating an indication of the transfer value of the product item.
US11741420B2	Systems and methods for machine vision based object recognition The present disclosure is related to object recognition and tracking using multi-camera driven machine vision. In one aspect, a method includes capturing, via a multi-camera system, a plurality of images of a user, each of the plurality of images representing the user from a unique angle; identifying, using the plurality of images, the user; detecting, throughout a facility, an item selected by the user; creating a visual model of the item to track movement of the item throughout the facility; determining, using the visual model, whether the item is selected for purchase; and detecting that the user is leaving the facility; and processing a transaction for the item when the item is selected for purchase and when the user has left the facility.
US11741410B2	Centralized cloud service management In one aspect, just-in-time authentication is provided to assist an administrator or staff of an IT service end user to invoke a function call to a service. The just-time-authentication can provide on-the-fly authentication to the service. In another aspect, granular permissions in executing a task or tasks for a service is enabled for a given administrator or staff of an IT service end user. In some embodiments, the granular permission involves assigning permissions to users either directly or indirectly via a mediating abstraction (such as groups, roles, etc.). Still in another aspect, stateful execution of a command/function call to a service is provided. In the stateful execution, the command/function call to the service is associated with a key, which can comprise a session id, a function name, a count of function executions for current session, and hash of input parameters for the command/function call, and/or any other information.
US11741409B1	Compliance management system A compliance management system captures an interaction between an enterprise entity and enterprise data subject to a compliance regulation. The compliance management system analyzes the interaction to determine whether the interaction is non-compliant with one or more sections of the compliance regulation and executes a remediation workflow corresponding to each section of the compliance regulation for which the interaction is deemed non-compliant. The compliance management system monitors the remediation workflow to update a compliance status for the corresponding section of the compliance regulation and generates a compliance report listing the sections of the compliance regulation and the compliance status of each section.
US11741408B2	Method and system for managing business deals In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing business deals. The mechanisms and methods for managing business deals may enable embodiments to provide a dynamic and interactive user-interface including any combination of contacts, accounts, opportunities, allowing users to create tasks, events, leads (e.g., from Data.com), reports, dashboards, instant messenger, external deal spaces, email service (e.g., Outlook), a cloud-based productivity suite for businesses that allows work on any device (e.g., Google apps), mobile access, private messaging, lead management, mass email templates, social media monitoring (e.g., from Radian6), role-based sharing and security, and/or additional storage, for example. In an embodiment, the number of contacts may be unlimited.
US11741396B1	Efficient command execution using aggregated compute units Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating distributed data processing for machine learning. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a set of commands in a query to process at an external computing service is identified. For each command in the set of commands, at least one compute unit including at least one operation to perform at the external computing service is identified. Each of the at least one compute unit associated with each command is analyzed to identify an optimized manner in which to execute the set of commands at the external computing service. An indication of the optimized manner in which to execute the set of commands and a corresponding set of data is provided to the external computing service to utilize for executing the set of commands at the external computing service.
US11741388B2	Quantum network node and protocols with multiple qubit species The disclosure describes aspects of using multiple species in trapped-ion nodes for quantum networking. In an aspect, a quantum networking node is described that includes multiple memory qubits, each memory qubit being based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion, and one or more communication qubits, each communication qubit being based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion. The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. In another aspect, a quantum computing system having a modular optical architecture is described that includes multiple quantum networking nodes, each quantum networking node including multiple memory qubits (e.g., based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion) and one or more communication qubits (e.g., based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion). The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. The system further includes a photonic entangler coupled to each of the multiple quantum networking nodes.
US11741383B2	Systems and methods to suggest source ingredients using artificial intelligence Techniques to suggest a set of source ingredients that can be used to recreate functional properties of a target food item, using artificial intelligence, are disclosed. A computer model determines, for the target food item, an ingredient quantities vector and an ingredient inclusion vector based on a matrix of chemical compound source ingredient vectors of all source ingredients. The ingredient inclusion vector indicates which source ingredients from a plurality of source ingredients to include in the ingredient set, and the ingredient quantities vector indicates the quantity or amount of each source ingredient such that a corresponding volatile profile of the ingredient set is similar to that of the target food item. A volatile profile for the ingredient set, which is determined from the matrix of chemical compound source ingredient vectors, the ingredient inclusion vector, and the ingredient quantities vector, mimics the target food item's volatile profile.
US11741378B2	Determining the status of an entity using an expert system Expert systems and methods determine the status of an entity in relation to one or more legal provisions. The one or more legal provisions are defined by one or more rules, which are evaluated using input data from a user which comprises attribute data related to the entity. The status of the entity is determined using the one or more rules and input data and is returned to the user.
US11741377B2	Target system optimization with domain knowledge A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for optimization with domain knowledge requirements. The method includes receiving, by a processor device, domain knowledge requirements for a target system. The method also includes defining, by a domain knowledge manager, a status of the domain knowledge employing a factor responsive to the domain knowledge. The method additionally includes computing, by an effective metric generator, effective performance metrics responsive to the status of the domain knowledge requirements and real performance metrics. The method further includes generating, by an optimization engine, a target system configuration responsive to the effective performance metrics and the real performance metrics. The method also includes improving the target system by changing a state of a function in the target system responsive to the target system configuration.
US11741372B2	Prediction-correction approach to zero shot learning Approaches to zero-shot learning include partitioning training data into first and second sets according to classes assigned to the training data, training a prediction module based on the first set to predict a cluster center based on a class label, training a correction module based on the second set and each of the class labels in the first set to generate a correction to a cluster center predicted by the prediction module, presenting a new class label for a new class to the prediction module to predict a new cluster center, presenting the new class label, the predicted new cluster center, and each of the class labels in the first set to the correction module to generate a correction for the predicted new cluster center, augmenting a classifier based on the corrected cluster center for the new class, and classifying input data into the new class using the classifier.
US11741369B2	Using batches of training items for training a network Some embodiments provide a method for training a machine-trained (MT) network that processes inputs using network parameters. The method propagates a set of input training items through the MT network to generate a set of output values. The set of input training items comprises multiple training items for each of multiple categories. The method identifies multiple training item groupings in the set of input training items. Each grouping includes at least two training items in a first category and at least one training item in a second category. The method calculates a value of a loss function as a summation of individual loss functions for each of the identified training item groupings. The individual loss function for each particular training item grouping is based on the output values for the training items of the grouping. The method trains the network parameters using the calculated loss function value.
US11741364B2	Deep neural networks modeling A promotion value model uses deep neural networks to learn to calculate the promotion value of a commercial brand. The model determines and reports the promotion value of a plurality of electronic media files each containing at least one commercial brand indicator. The learned model identifies the electronic media files and determines at least one context for each of the at least one commercial brand indicators. Promotion value is modeled with a deep neural network that maps the context for each of the commercial brand indicators to feature vectors mapped to an input layer of the neural network. Network parameters are learned to indicate relative weighted values between transitions of the layers of the neural network.
US11741353B2	Bias scheme for single-device synaptic element A neuromorphic synapse array includes a plurality of synaptic array cells being connected by circuitry such that the synaptic array cells are assigned to rows and columns of an array, the synaptic array cells respectively having a single polarity synapse weight, the rows respectively connected to respective input ends of the synaptic array cells, the columns respectively connected to respective output ends of the synaptic array cells, the synaptic array cells aligned in a column of the array being defined as operation column arrays and an array of current mirrors, each current mirror exhibiting a mirror ratio of N:1, wherein N is a number of columns of the synaptic array cells, respectively connected to the respective rows such that weights corresponding to all of the current mirrors are set to average weights of all of the synaptic array cells that are updated during a learning phase.
US11741350B2	Efficient utilization of processing element array A computer-implemented method includes receiving a neural network model for implementation using a processing element array, where the neural network model includes a convolution operation on a set of input feature maps and a set of filters. The method also includes determining, based on the neural network model, that the convolution operation utilizes less than a threshold number of rows in the processing element array for applying a set of filter elements to the set of input feature maps, where the set of filter elements includes one filter element in each filter of the set of filters. The method further includes generating, for the convolution operation and based on the neural network model, a first instruction and a second instruction for execution by respective rows in the processing element array, where the first instruction and the second instruction use different filter elements of a filter in the set of filters.
US11741349B2	Performing matrix-vector multiply operations for neural networks on electronic devices When performing a matrix-vector multiply operation for neural network processing, a set of one or more input vectors to be multiplied by a matrix of data values is scanned to identify data positions of the input vector(s) for which the data value is non-zero in at least one of the input vectors. For each of the data positions identified as having a non-zero value in at least one of the input vectors, the set of data values from the matrix of data values for that data position is fetched from memory and the matrix-vector multiply operation is performed using the data values for the input vectors for the data positions identified as being non-zero and the fetched set(s) of data values from the matrix of data values for those data position(s).
US11741347B2	Non-volatile memory device including arithmetic circuitry for neural network processing and neural network system including the same A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array to which an arithmetic internal data is written; and an arithmetic circuitry configured to receive an arithmetic input data and the arithmetic internal data for an arithmetic operation of a neural network with the arithmetic internal data and the arithmetic input data in response to an arithmetic command, perform the arithmetic operation using the arithmetic internal data and the arithmetic input data to generate an arithmetic result data, and output the arithmetic result data of the arithmetic operation of the neural network.
US11741345B2	Multi-memory on-chip computational network Provided are systems, methods, and integrated circuits for a neural network processing system. In various implementations, the system can include a first array of processing engines coupled to a first set of memory banks and a second array of processing engines coupled to a second set of memory banks. The first and second set of memory banks be storing all the weight values for a neural network, where the weight values are stored before any input data is received. Upon receiving input data, the system performs a task defined for the neural network. Performing the task can include computing an intermediate result using the first array of processing engines, copying the intermediate result to the second set of memory banks, and computing a final result using the second array of processing engines, where the final result corresponds to an outcome of performing the task.
US11741343B2	Source separation method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium A source separation method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided. Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) is used to reduce the number of parameters of a model and speed up computation. Conventional upsampling is replaced with a conversion between time and depth, and a receptive field preserving decoder is provided. In addition, temporal attention with dynamic convolution kernel is added, to further achieve lightweight and improve the effect of separation.
US11741332B2	Securing cryptographic keys A security device includes a covering device that, in response to an input signal, consistently provides a same random output signal that varies according to the microstructure of the covering device, where altering the microstructure of the covering device alters the random output signal, a key generation component that generates a secret key based on the random output signal, and a digital signature component that produces a digital signature of a message received by the security device using the secret key. The covering device surrounds at least a portion of the key generation component and the digital signature component to prevent access thereto and where accessing any of the components alters the microstructure of the covering device to alter the random output signal. The security device may be attached to an object and detaching the security device from the object may alter the microstructure of the covering device.
US11741328B2	Dynamic embedding of machine-readable codes within video and digital media This disclosure relates to technology for embedding machine-readable labels (“MRLs”) into digital media files. Digital media files may be presented on different screen sizes, having different resolutions, different frame refresh rates and other display properties. Each screen may therefore present an MRL differently, potentially negatively impacting scan-ability of the presented MRL. Systems disclosed herein receive a set of design choices for an MRL. The systems may resize pre-existing content in one or more video frames of the media file and create a space within each video frame for displaying the MRL. The systems may render a resultant video file for a target screen size that includes a reliably scannable MRL embedded in the video frame(s).
US11741327B2	Optical assembly and method of producing optical assembly An optical assembly includes a spacer layer which is translucent or transparent; an image forming reflector which has a reflective layer being formed at least in a first region of the spacer layer; and a protective layer which is laminated over the spacer layer and the image forming reflector and the protective layer being translucent or transparent. The spacer layer is made of a polyolefin or/and a polymer containing an aryl group. The image forming reflector includes a visible image which is authenticatable. The image forming reflector has an individual information record in which a code is stored in the form of a plurality of removed linear segments. The image forming reflector has white level regions and a black level region in planar view. Each of the white level regions has the removed linear segments formed therein. The black level region is interposed between the white level regions.
US11741326B2	Payment card with enhanced edge patterns Aspects described herein may allow for a payment card having enhanced edge patterns. The payment card may include a complex edge morphology on the physical card that may make the payment card more likely to be used by consumers and makes the payment card stand out due to the enhanced edge design. The edge of the payment card may be reeded, crenelated, or may include various shapes of various sizes on one or more of the edge walls extending around the payment card. The edge of the payment card may also include dimples, chips, and/or other complex design patterns cut into the face of the payment card close to the edge. The payment card may also include inclusions of other materials, such as metals, ceramic, and/or polymer to be added which fill or partially fill any voids produced by the edge patterns.
US11741321B2	Image forming device According to one embodiment, there is provided an image forming device that prevents write information from being incorrectly written to a non-target RFID tag. The image forming device according to the embodiment includes: a placement unit, a wireless tag communication unit, and a conductor. A sheet provided with a wireless tag can be placed in the placement unit. The wireless tag communication unit can write information to the wireless tag provided on the sheet. The conductor is provided in the placement unit and hinders communication between the wireless tag communication unit and the wireless tag.
US11741320B2	Systems and methods for mitigation of wireless tag cross reads A method for cross read mitigation in a monitoring station for vehicles carrying respective wireless tags having tag identifiers includes: receiving, from a first tag sensor disposed to detect wireless tag signals in a first lane of the monitoring station, a first tag read containing a tag identifier; receiving, from a second tag sensor disposed to detect further wireless tag signals in a second lane, adjacent to the first lane, of the monitoring station, a second tag read containing the tag identifier; in response to receiving the first and second tag reads, providing an updated tag detection parameter to each of the first and second tag sensors; receiving, from one of the first and second tag sensors, a third tag read containing the tag identifier; and in response to receiving the third tag read, instructing the one of the first and second tag sensors to report the tag identifier to a monitoring server.
US11741319B2	Configuration of building automation system controllers using near field communication Generating configuration parameters for a controller includes receiving, by a mobile computing device, identity information associated with the controller via Near Field Communication (NFC) read operations from memory of a NFC tag associated with the controller. The mobile computing device generates one or more configuration parameters for the controller based on the received identity information associated with the controller. The mobile computing device further stores, via NFC write operations, the configuration parameters in the memory of the NFC tag for later retrieval and configuration operations by the controller.
US11741318B2	Open information extraction from low resource languages A method is provided for extracting machine readable data structures from unstructured, low-resource language input text. The method includes obtaining a corpus of high-resource language data structures, filtering the corpus of high-resource language data structures to obtain a filtered corpus of high-resource language data structures, obtaining entity types for each entity of each filtered high-resource language data structure, performing type substitution for each obtained entity by replacing each entity with an entity of the same type to generate type substituted data structures, and replacing each entity with an equivalent a corresponding low-resource language data structure entity to generate code switched sentences. The method further includes generating an augmented data structure corpus, training a multi-head self-attention transformer model, and providing the unstructured low-resource language input text to the trained model to extract the machine readable data structures.
US11741316B2	Employing abstract meaning representation to lay the last mile towards reading comprehension An autonomous agent creates a first semantic tree from a question and second semantic tree from a candidate answer. The agent identifies, between the first semantic tree and the second semantic tree, common subtrees and calculates a semantic alignment score from a sum of sizes of each of the common subtrees. The agent forms a first syntactic tree for the question and a second syntactic tree for the candidate answer. The agent identifies a number of common syntactic nodes between the first syntactic tree and the second syntactic tree. The agent calculates a syntactic alignment score based on the number of common syntactic nodes. Responsive to determining that a sum of the semantic alignment score and the syntactic alignment score is greater than a threshold, the agent outputs the candidate answer to a device.
US11741313B2	Question based chatbot generator from web API specifications A method, apparatus and computer program product for creating and operating a conversational system are described. A user annotated Web API specification is received which includes a set of user annotations The user annotated Web API specification is analyzed to produce an action catalog. The action catalog includes a set of sentences, each sentence describing a respective Web API call. The user annotated Web API specification is also analyzed to produce a rule set, each rule in the rule set has a rule condition which corresponds to an input in the user annotated Web API specification. The action catalog and the rule set are provided to the conversational system. The conversational system uses a question answering (QA) system as a natural language understanding (NLU) component. When the conversational system receives a user input during a dialog between a user and the conversational system, the user input is interpreted by the question answering (QA) system to identify an action from an action catalog. The identified action is set as a goal for a goal-based reasoning engine. A response is issued to the user based on the identified action and results from the goal-based reasoning engine.
US11741311B2	Method and system for bridging disparate platforms to automate a natural language interface Various techniques are disclosed, including receiving at a multiplatform management system a natural language request from a computing device, the multiplatform management system interfacing with multiple disparate platforms including a natural language processing platform, determining an event type based on the natural language request, identifying a user-requested action based on data associated with the natural language processing platform in data communication with the multiplatform management system, selecting a cloud platform to perform the user-requested action, formatting data representing the user-requested action into a formatted user-requested action, and performing the action.
US11741306B2	Controllable grounded text generation A controllable grounded response generation framework includes a machine learning model, a grounding interface, and a control interface. The machine learning model is trained to output computer-generated text based on input text. The grounding interface is useable by the machine learning model to access a grounding source including information related to the input text. The control interface is useable by the machine learning model to recognize a control signal. The machine learning model is configured to include information from the grounding source in the computer-generated text and focus the computer-generated text based on the control signal.
US11741301B2	System and method for using data and angles to automatically generate a narrative story A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features are then used to identify a plurality of angles for the narrative story. The plurality of angles is then filtered, for example through use of parameters that specify a focus for the narrative story, length of the narrative story, etc. Points associated with the filtered plurality of angles are then assembled and the narrative story is rendered using the filtered plurality of angles and the assembled points.
US11741299B2	Smart lens artifact capture and review reception Aspects of an embodiment of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and computing system that receives, at a processor, a review record comprising an image of an artifact and reference links associated with the artifact, wherein the image is recorded with a smart lens. The present invention also assigns the review record to a reviewer based on a qualification associated with the reviewer and the review record and receives a comment from the reviewer. The method performed in embodiments of the present invention also includes relaying the comment to the smart lens.
US11741289B2	Routing of superconducting wires The present disclosure relates to routing superconducting wires in superconducting circuits and in particular to efficiently routing superconducting wires that meet inductance requirements. The superconducting wire routing technique involves modeling the target location not only as a physical location, but as a physical location (e.g., x, y, and z dimensions) combined with inductance (e.g., a target inductance range). One or more other constraints may also be included in the modeling, such as a number of wires that would need to be moved/lifted, a number of circuit-vias allowing passage through layers of the circuit, an amount of cross-coupling with other inductors, and a number of wire segments.
US11741286B2	Method and system of generating a layout diagram A method (of generating a layout diagram) includes identifying, in the layout diagram, a group of three or more cells arranged so as to exhibit two or more edge-pairs (EPs) that are edge-wise abutted relative to a first direction. The method further includes, for each of at least one but fewer than all of the three or more cells, selectively moving a given one of cells corresponding to one of the members of the corresponding EP resulting in at least a minimum gap in the first direction between the members of the corresponding EP.
US11741285B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, first standard cells arranged in a first row on the active region, second standard cells arranged in a second row on the active region and having a first boundary with the first standard cells, a third standard cells arranged in a third row on the active region and having a second boundary with the first standard cells, and a plurality of power supply lines, respectively arranged along boundaries. Each of the first to third standard cells includes a plurality of fin patterns extending in the first direction, and the plurality of fin patterns are arranged in a second direction, so as not to be disposed on at least one boundary, among the first and second boundaries.
US11741283B1	Capacitance extraction systems based on machine learning models Extraction of capacitance values from a design of an electrical circuit can use a set of trained neural networks to generate extracted capacitance values from the circuit using a representation of the Green's function. A method can include the following operations: storing a machine learning model that includes a trained set of one or more neural networks that have been trained to calculate a representation of a Green's function to extract capacitance values from a design of a circuit having a set of conductors; applying, to the machine learning model, a set of inputs representing the set of conductors and their surrounding dielectric materials; encoding the set of inputs through a trained encoder to generate a latent space representation; calculating the values of the Green's function from the latent space representation through a dedicated trained neural network; and calculating the values of the gradient of the Green's function from the latent space representation through another dedicated trained neural network.
US11741265B2	Permission display method, permission display apparatus and storage medium A permission display method, applied to a terminal, includes: acquiring permission information of an application in response to acquiring permission information of an application in response to runtime permission applied by the application running on the terminal, the permission information including the runtime permission and a permission description corresponding to the runtime permission; and parsing the permission information to obtain the runtime permission and the permission description, and displaying the runtime permission of the application and the permission description on a display interface of the terminal. The permission description can be customized for different applications to realize personalization of the permission description.
US11741261B2	Requests and compute resources In an example, a collection of compute resources corresponding to a class of devices is identified with a request and a synthesis routine is performed via a number of destinations corresponding to the class of devices. In an example, a type of compute resource to use with an operation of a request is determined, a device with the type of compute resource determined for the operation of the request is identified; the identified device performs the operation of the request within a bounds of a policy, and a result of the operation is communicated to a remote storage location.
US11741260B1	Systems and methods for selectively scrambling data A technique for selectively scrambling data obtained by electronic sensor devices, such as cameras, voice communication devices, and the like, is provided. A payload of the data is scrambled when one or more characteristics of the data indicate that the data may include sensitive information. The scrambled data is transmitted to a target device.
US11741258B2	Dynamic data dissemination under declarative data subject constraints Dynamic data dissemination is provided. A resolved data subject identifier corresponding to a data subject is selected from a set of resolved data subject identifiers existing in rows of a data asset. In response to determining that the resolved data subject identifier does not correspond to a right to forget list, it is determined that the resolved data subject identifier corresponds to a data subject request list. The rows are transformed to anonymize existing pseudo and personal identifiers in cells of the rows that are tied to columns associated with data classes for which specific consent dimensions have been indicated as revoked by the data subject.
US11741256B2	Open access token for determining that file is accessible to everyone Techniques for implementing proactive data security operations for files using an analysis of access permission levels for the files are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs operations comprising: determining that data of a file includes sensitive information based on an analysis of the data using a data classification model; determining that access to the file is open using an access classification model; and based on the determination that the data of the file includes sensitive information and the determination that the access to the file is open, causing a notification to be displayed on a computing device of a user, the notification comprising an indication that the file includes sensitive information and that access to the file is open.
US11741254B2	Privacy centric data security in a cloud environment Techniques for privacy centric data security. A request to permit a data processor to access private data associated with a user is received at a cloud data privacy service. The request includes a request for a data access block relating to the private data, and a data filter describing one or more access parameters. The cloud privacy data service generates the first data access block, based on the private data and the data filter. The first data access block is transmitted from the cloud privacy service to a user device, which is configured to transmit the first data access block to the first data processor. The cloud data privacy service receives a request for the private data that includes the first data access block. The cloud data privacy service determines that the first data access block is valid, and grants the first data processor access to the private data.
US11741253B2	Operating system service sanitization of data associated with sensitive information A technique includes, in response to an exception occurring in the execution of a process on a computer, invoking an operating system service. The operating system service is used to sanitize data that is associated with the process and is stored in a memory of the computer. The data is associated with sensitive information.
US11741249B2	High performance tokenization platform for sensitive data Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for processing tokenization requests in-memory of an application server. Reliance on remote devices, such as hardware security modules, is reduced because functions associated with processing tokenization requests is performed at the application server instead of the remote devices. Applicant server includes a multi-level cache for storing and accessing data for generating, hashing, and encrypting tokens in response to tokenization requests received from client devices.
US11741242B2	Cryptographic pseudonym mapping method, computer system computer program and computer-readable medium The invention is a cryptographic pseudonym mapping method for an anonymous data sharing system, the method being adapted for generating a pseudonymised database (DB) from data relating to entities and originating from data sources (DSi), wherein the data are identified at the data sources (DSi) by entity identifiers (D) of the respective entities, and wherein the data are identified in the pseudonymised database (DB) by pseudonyms (P) assigned to the respective entity identifiers (D) applying a one-to-one mapping, irrespective of the originating data source. According to the invention, one mapper (M) and one key manager (KM) are applied, and a respective pseudonym (P) is generated by the mapper (M), for each encrypted entity identifier (Ci) encrypted by the data source (DSi), utilizing the mapping cryptographic key (hi) corresponding to the particular data base (DSi).
US11741239B2	Blockchain-based hours-of-service system The described features of the present disclosure generally relate to one or more improved systems for recording and managing the electronic information associated with driving activities (e.g., driver log information) obtained from the one or more mobile computing platforms (ELDs) associated with one or more vehicles in a distributed ledger managed by a blockchain network. Accordingly, features of the present disclosure provide a secure and tamper-resistant way to manage driver log records for audit and compliance purposes.
US11741238B2	Dynamically generating monitoring tools for software applications Dynamically generating monitoring tools for software applications, including: inspecting, using static code analysis, a non-executable representation of the application to identify one or more points in an application for monitoring; and for each of the one or more points in the application: generating a monitoring program; and inserting, into an executable representation of the application, the monitoring program at a location in the executable representation of the application that corresponds to the identified point in the application.
US11741237B2	Content-driven debugging by taint tracking along data flows Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for conducting taint analysis on inputted data from a user to a process, where based on pre-defined rules, input data may be marked as tainted. In a passive mode, logging or deletion actions may be taken on the tainted data. In an active mode, the process may be interrupted and a user prompt may be displayed each time a taint point is reached.
US11741229B2	Inspection system, inspection method, and computer program A requester device 12 registers inspection target data in a file server 18. An inspector device 14 operated by an inspector who inspects whether the inspection target data is illegitimate or not acquires, from the file server 18, the inspection target data registered by the requester device 12 and registers an inspection result of the inspection target data in a blockchain network 22. A viewer device 16 acquires, from the blockchain network 22, the inspection result registered by the inspector device 14 and executes data processing based on the inspection result.
US11741226B2	Adaptive cybersecurity for vehicles A method, implemented by a computing system on-board a vehicle, differentiates whether an anomaly originating from a hardware component of the vehicle is caused by a cybersecurity threat, by a degradation of the performance of the hardware component, or by both. States of the respective nodes in a first group of nodes of the first hardware component are compared with a stored table of sets of states of nodes in the first group. A determination is made of whether the anomaly associated with the first hardware component is caused by a cybersecurity threat or by health degradation of the first hardware component based on the comparison of the states of the nodes of the first group with the sets of possible states of the respective nodes where each set is associated with one of a cybersecurity threat and health degradation.
US11741225B2	Zero day attack detection The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to zero day attack detection. A system can monitor, by a sequence manager, a sequence of transaction requests. The sequence manager can determine whether a transaction request in the sequence is anomalous. In response to determining that the transaction request is anomalous, and before the allowing the system to process the transaction request, the sequence manager can provide the sequence of transaction requests to a sequence emulator. The sequence emulator can attempt to verify an output of the sequence of transaction requests. The sequence manager can receive a notification from the sequence emulator. The notification can indicate whether the output of the sequence of transaction requests can be verified. In response, the sequence manager can instruct the system to deny (if the output cannot be verified) or allow (if the output can be verified) processing of the sequence of transaction requests.
US11741224B2	Attestation with a quantified trusted computing base An apparatus and method include generating a trusted computing base (TCB) component identifier (TCI) of a current component of a computing system, generating a compound device identifier (ID) (CDI) of the current component from a CDI of a previous component of the computing system and the TCI of the current component, and determining a size of the TCI of the current component. The system and method further include summing the size of the TCI of the current component and the cumulative size of the TCIs of previous components of the computing system to generate a current cumulative size, combining the current cumulative size and the CDI of the current component, and including the combined current cumulative size and the CDI of the current component in a chain of measurements for attestation of the computing system.
US11741222B2	Sandbox environment for document preview and analysis Attachments or other documents can be transmitted to a sandbox environment where they can be concurrently opened for remote preview from an endpoint and scanned for possible malware. A gateway or other intermediate network element may enforce this process by replacing attachments, for example, in incoming electronic mail communications, with links to a document preview hosted in the sandbox environment.
US11741219B2	Protocol and system for tee-based authenticating and editing of mobile-device captured visual and audio media In general, one aspect disclosed features a media asset capture and processing method, implemented via a computer-based state machine executing on a computer processor, the method comprising: implementing a first phase including media asset capture and frame processing limited to Rich Execution Environment (REE) read-only (RO) frame access; implementing a second phase including processing with REE read-write (RW) frame access; and implementing a third phase including processing with REE read-only (RO) frame access.
US11741218B2	System and method for improving the security of stored passwords for an organization A hashed fried password method includes receiving a password value, a global pepper value and fry values; generating a random salt value and selecting a fry value; generating a fried password; and authenticating the user when a hashed fried password value matches a candidate hash. The method may include receiving the fried password and/or salt. A system includes processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the system to receive a password value, a global pepper value and fry values; receive a hashed fried password value and salt value; apply a hashing function; and authenticate the user when the hashed fried password value matches a candidate.
US11741215B1	Recipient credentialing leveraging private keys on keystores read by provisioned devices The disclosed technology teaches an implementation for leveraging self-sovereign credentials held on mobile devices to provision credentials that empower one party (“recipient” or “user”, used synonymously herein) to obtain credentialed access to information and resources on behalf of another party (“sender” or “administrator”, used synonymously herein), without either party exposing private key information to each other or to the cloud. The sender is able to revoke user credentials at any time. Parties are able to leverage commodity hardware to automatically mutually authenticate their credentials and access available relevant options and workflows.
US11741211B2	Human trust API in a data confidence fabric One example method includes receiving authorization from a human user to collect data concerning an interaction of the human user with a computing element, interacting with the human user, collecting data concerning the interaction, analyzing the collected data, generating trust and confidence information, concerning the human user, based on analysis of the collected data, and storing the trust and confidence information.
US11741210B2	Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices The described embodiments perform a proximity unlock operation. For the proximity unlock operation, a first electronic device in a locked operating state detects that an authorized second electronic device is in proximity to the first electronic device. Based on detecting the authorized second electronic device in proximity to the first electronic device, the first electronic device transitions from a locked operating state to an unlocked operating state. In the described embodiments, the transition to the unlocked operating state occurs without the user performing a manual authentication step that is performed in existing electronic devices to cause the transition from the locked operating state to the unlocked operating state.
US11741209B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a biometric recognition function and a touch sensor or near touch sensor function is provided. The semiconductor device includes a light-emitting device and an imaging device. The imaging device includes a gate driver circuit and m rows of pixels (m is an integer more than or equal to 2). The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of first register circuits and second register circuits whose number is less than that of the first register circuits. The first register circuits are connected with each other in series and the second register circuits are connected with each other in series. The gate driver circuit has a function of operating in the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, the first register circuits are in the on state and the second register circuits are in the off state, and in the second mode, the second register circuits are in the on state and the first register circuits are in the off state.
US11741204B2	Intelligent real time resource instrument activation using electroencephalogram signals Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for secure communication of information that may be used to authorize communications or transfer of resources by use of an intelligent resource instrument with nano display. The provided systems, methods, and computer program products are designed to select and display viewable information, simultaneously record EEG readings for a user, and use this information to verify user identity. Upon verification of user identity, the intelligent resource instrument may be activated for use in a resource transfer.
US11741199B2	Emergency information access on portable electronic devices Improved techniques for facilitating emergency access to one or more contacts stored on a portable electronic device are disclosed. One or more contacts on the portable electronic device are designated as emergency contacts. While the portable electronic device is password-locked, a request to display the one or more emergency contacts on the password-locked portable electronic device is received. Without requiring a password, the one or more emergency contacts are displayed on the portable electronic device.
US11741193B2	Distance recognition system for use in marine vessel, control method thereof, and marine vessel A distance recognition system for use in a marine vessel includes at least one memory, and a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit both positioned on a hull so that their imaging areas include a water surface. The second imaging unit is higher than the first imaging unit. The distance recognition system further includes at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured or programmed to acquire a first image and a second image captured by the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit, and perform a matching process between the first image and the second image to acquire distance information about any position in the first image.
US11741191B1	Privacy-sensitive training of user interaction prediction models Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collaboratively training an interaction prediction machine learning model using a plurality of user devices in a manner that respects user privacy. In one aspect, the machine learning model is configured to process an input comprising: (i) a search query, and (ii) a data element, to generate an output which characterizes a likelihood that a given user would interact with the data element if the data element were presented to the given user on a webpage identified by a search result responsive to the search query.
US11741190B2	Multi-dimensional language style transfer In some embodiments, a style transfer computing system receives, from a computing device, an input text and a request to transfer the input text to a target style combination including a set of target styles. The system applies a style transfer language model associated with the target style combination to the input text to generate a transferred text in the target style combination. The style transfer language model comprises a cascaded language model configured to generate the transferred text. The cascaded language model is trained using a set of discriminator models corresponding to the set of target styles. The system provides, to the computing device, the transferred text.
US11741188B2	Hardware accelerated discretized neural network An innovative low-bit-width device may include a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second DAC, a plurality of non-volatile memory (NVM) weight arrays, one or more analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and a neural circuit. The first DAC is configured to convert a digital input signal into an analog input signal. The second DAC is configured to convert a digital previous hidden state (PHS) signal into an analog PHS signal. NVM weight arrays are configured to compute vector matrix multiplication (VMM) arrays based on the analog input signal and the analog PHS signal. The NVM weight arrays are coupled to the first DAC and the second DAC. The one or more ADCs are coupled to the plurality of NVM weight arrays and are configured to convert the VMM arrays into digital VMM values. The neural circuit is configured to process the digital VMM values into a new hidden state.
US11741180B2	System and method for the generation and editing of text content in website building systems A text content generation (TCG) system to generate text for a text field for a website building system (WBS). The TCG system includes a data gatherer to gather text samples from sources internal and external to the WBS; an analysis engine to analyze the text samples and to identify common text structures, substructures and website contexts; an HDS creator to receive the output of the analysis engine and to create a hierarchical data structure (HDS) definition for each text sample accordingly, the HDS creator to also create associated rules for handling the application and behavior for each HDS, where each HDS describes a text element alternative for a given field role and a content management system (CMS) to store the HDS definitions and the text samples.
US11741179B2	Web browser remoting across a network using draw commands A server receives from a client device that is executing a web browser application a request to initiate a remote application in the server. The server instantiates an instance of the remote application. The server intercepts draw commands associated with the remote application instance. The server provides the draw commands to the client to cause the web browser application to render portion(s) of output based on the draw commands. The server receives an input event from the web browser application. The server provides the client one or more draw commands based on the input event to cause the web browser application to render portion(s) of output based on those draw commands.
US11741177B2	Entity validation of a content originator A method for entity validation of a content originator includes identifying a content post in a public forum viewable by a user, where an entity claims to be an originator of the content post. The method also includes, responsive to gathering metadata for the content post, determining, utilizing natural language processing and a classification algorithm, a topic for the content post based on a plurality of extracted words from the content post. The method also includes identifying a plurality of similar content posts relative to the content post based on the topic and the entity and determining a score for the entity claiming to be the originator of the content post, where the score represents a likelihood that the claimed entity is the originator of the content post. The method also includes, responsive to the score being below a verification threshold value, performing ameliorative actions on the content post.
US11741175B2	Performance metrics collection and promulgation from within a mobile application A mobile communication device. The device comprises a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), and a memory comprising a mobile application incorporating a search client that. When executed by at least one of the CPU and the GPU, the application receives an input selecting the search client, begins execution in a trusted security zone execution mode wherein instructions of the search client execute in the GPU, creates a genesis block of a block chain via the search client instructions executing in the GPU, creates an event block of the block chain via the search client instructions executing in the GPU, attaches the event block to the block chain via the search client instructions executing in the GPU, transmits the block chain to a data store, and reverts to execution in a normal execution mode.
US11741174B2	Direct leg access for proxy web scraping Embodiments disclose a system that allows for improved generation of web requests for scraping that, because of the nature of the requests and time and manner they are sent out, appear more organic, as in human generated, than conventional automated scraping systems. The system then manages how a client request to scrape a target website is made to the site, masking the request in a manner that makes it appear to the Web server as if the request is not generated by an automated system. In this way, by appearing more organic, Web servers may be less likely to block requests from the disclosed system or may take longer to block requests from the disclosed system. By avoiding Web servers blocking requests and extending the lifetime of IP proxies before they are blocked, embodiments can use a limited IP proxy address space more efficiently.
US11741173B2	Related notes and multi-layer search in personal and shared content Displaying relevant data subsets of at least one data collection includes providing an input data subset, determining a plurality of partial relevance values for different characteristics of each of the plurality of data subsets of the at least one data collection with respect to the input data subset according to a term frequency of terms in the input data subset and term in each of the plurality of data subsets of the at least one data collection and according to an inverse document frequency of the terms, determining a relevance of each of the plurality of data subsets of the at least one data collection based on the partial relevance values of the different characteristics, and displaying at least a portion of the data subsets of the at least one data collection in order of relevance.
US11741165B2	Building management system with semantic model integration A building management system (BMS) includes memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining a BMS ontology data model defining a plurality of BMS model classes and relationships between the BMS model classes, assigning a BMS model class selected from the plurality of BMS model classes to a plurality of BMS object definitions, generating a semantic site model by classifying a plurality of BMS objects associated with a building site according to the BMS object definitions and the BMS model classes assigned thereto, and transmitting a notification using the semantic site model.
US11741163B2	Mapping of personally-identifiable information to a person based on natural language coreference resolution Various corpora of content objects and other information sources beyond the corpora of content objects are processed to identify personally identifiable information (PII). PII that is associated with a named person is codified into a first portion of a graph-oriented data structure. Also, PII that is associated with an alias that might refer to a named person is codified into a second portion of the graph-oriented data structure. A determination is made that the alias that might refer to a named person is indeed an alias that is a coreference to the named person. Based on that determination then, since the first portion of the graph and the second portion of the graph refer to the same person, then the PII of the second portion of the graph can be deemed to be PII of the same person. PII in common and/or language processing can be used to establish coreferences.
US11741158B2	Hierarchical multi-tier language processing platform Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for increasing the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of language processing systems. A provided method may include storing a plurality of modules in a database. The method may include configuring the plurality of modules in a multi-tier tree architecture. The method may include receiving an utterance. The method may include processing the utterance via a natural language processing (NLP) engine. The method may include routing the utterance. The routing may include identifying a highest tier module that matches a predetermined portion of the utterance. The method may include compiling a result set of modules. The method may include transmitting the result set of modules to the system user. The result set of modules may include a comprehensive and narrowly tailored response to the user request.
US11741157B2	Propagating multi-term contextual tags to digital content Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for determining multi-term contextual tags for digital content and propagating the multi-term contextual tags to additional digital content. For instance, the disclosed systems can utilize search query supervision to determine and associate multi-term contextual tags (e.g., tags that represent a specific concept based on the order of the terms in the tag) with digital content. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can propagate the multi-term contextual tags determined for the digital content to additional digital content based on similarities between the digital content and additional digital content (e.g., utilizing clustering techniques). Additionally, the disclosed systems can provide digital content as search results based on the associated multi-term contextual tags.
US11741156B2	Method for proactive creation of image-based products A method for proactively creating an image product includes capturing an image of an object in a first environment by a device, storing a library of personalized products each characterized by a product type, automatically recognizing the object in the image as having a product type associated with the library of personalized products, automatically creating a design for the personalized product of the product type using personalized content, automatically displaying the design of the personalized product of the product type incorporating the selected photo in the first environment on the device, and manufacturing a physical product based on the design of the personalized product.
US11741151B1	Indexing key frames for localization A mobile client device is localized based on a captured image by identifying where the client device is located from a set of known locations. The set of known locations is associated with a set of regions, where each region is associated with a set of key frames representing the important features of the region. Latent vectors and keypoints are calculated for each of the key frames and an image captured by the client device. The system compares the latent vectors of the captured image to the latent vectors associated with the regions to determine a subset of similar regions. The system compares the keypoints of the captured image to the keypoints associated with the regions in the subset to determine a best match. This determined location is considered the region of the client device and may be used with other localization information to maintain localization of the client device.
US11741149B2	Server storage management system capable of generating rack location map A storage server management system includes a management database for storing rack data and storage server data, wherein the rack data includes rack identifications and coordinates of multiple storage servers and the storage server data includes media access control addresses, model name and rail identifications of the multiple storage servers, multiple racks for containing the multiple storage servers, a dynamic host configuration protocol server for configuring the internet protocol addresses to the multiple storage servers, and a management console for generating a rack location map according to the rack data and the storage server data.
US11741148B2	Methods and systems for personalized screen content optimization Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system selects, using a multi-armed bandit solution model, a first plurality of content categories based on a reward score of each content category. The categories are displayed. When a user selects an item from the displayed categories, the system finds all categories that include the selected item, but rewards only the category with the highest score. The system selects, using the multi-armed bandit solution model, the second plurality of content categories based on the updated reward score of each content category. The categories are then displayed. The system may also repeat the steps to refine the multi-armed bandit solution model.
US11741146B2	Embedding multi-modal time series and text data Methods and systems of training and using a neural network model include training a time series embedding model and a text embedding model with unsupervised clustering to translate time series and text, respectively, to a shared latent space. The time series embedding model and the text embedding model are further trained using semi-supervised clustering that samples training data pairs of time series information and associated text for annotation.
US11741143B1	Natural language processing techniques for document summarization using local and corpus-wide inferences As described herein, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing natural language processing operations using a combination of a cross-token attention machine learning, a cross-utterance attention machine learning model, and an integer linear programming joint keyword-utterance optimization model to select an extractive keyword summarization of a multi-party communication transcript data object that comprises a selected utterance subset of U utterances (e.g., U sentences) of a document data object and a selected keyword subset of K candidate keywords of the document data object.
US11741142B2	Systems and methods for abstractive document summarization with entity coverage control Embodiments described herein provide document summarization systems and methods that utilize fine-tuning of pre-trained abstractive summarization models to produce summaries that more faithfully track the content of the documents. Such abstractive summarization models may be pre-trained using a corpus consisting of pairs of articles and associated summaries. For each article-summary pair, a pseudo label or control code is generated and represents a faithfulness of the summary with respect to the article. The pre-trained model is then fine-tuned based on the article-summary pairs and the corresponding control codes. The resulting fine-tuned models then provide improved faithfulness in document summarization tasks.
US11741141B1	Bi-directional voice enabled system for CPE devices The present disclosure describes a communication environment having a service provider server that receives an audio command from a display control device within the communication environment. The service provider server can translate this audio command into an electrical command for controlling the display device. The service provider server autonomously performs a specifically tailored search of a catalog of command words and/or phrases for the audio command to translate the audio command to the electrical command. This specifically tailored search can include one or more searching routines having various degrees of complexity. The most simplistic searching routine from among these searching routines represents a textual search to identify one or more command words and/or phrases from the catalog of command words and/or phrases that match the audio command. The one or more searching routines can include more complex searching routines, such as a keyword search and/or a natural language search, of the catalog of command words and/or phrases to identify one or more command words and/or phrases from the catalog of command words and/or phrases that match the audio command.
US11741140B2	Marketplace for conversational bot skills In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for enabling conversational bot communications are presented. A marketplace comprising an identity of a plurality of skills may be maintained, each of the plurality of skills associated with a manifest and a conversational bot. A request for execution of a specific skill may be received. A plurality of conversational bots may be identified, each of the plurality of conversational bots being associated with a manifest for executing the specific skill. The plurality of conversational bots may be ranked. The specific skill may be caused to be executed by the highest ranked conversational bot. In some examples, a plurality of highest ranked conversational bots may be surfaced and a bot that is selected may execute the specific skill.
US11741139B2	Systems and methods for determining a response to a user query Systems and methods are presented for providing a response to a user query. Reception of a user query is detected. An augmentation machine learning model is utilized to determine one or more variations of the user query that correspond to a semantic meaning of the user query. A plurality of response candidates is determined that correspond to the user query by comparing the user query and the one or more variations of the user query to a plurality of documents. A final response candidate is determined from the plurality of response candidates based on utilizing a semantic machine learning model to perform a semantic comparison between the plurality of response candidates and at least the user query.
US11741138B2	Enabling resource semantics Disclosed are methods and systems for Semantics Node functions which provide semantics support in machine-to-machine systems. In an example, a Semantic node may manage semantics resources capable of being discovered, retrieved, or validated by other devices. In another example, the Semantics Node may be discovered by other nodes, and semantics resources may be discovered with subscription mechanisms.
US11741137B2	Biased string search structures with embedded range search structures A method in a data processing system and apparatus for organizing electronic data, structured or unstructured, of one or more users stored across one or more server computers into structures on a recordable medium of a data processing system. The data items are structured in a heterogeneous string structure, and one or more embedded n-dimensional range structure within the heterogeneous string structure. Searching the plurality of string structures can then be done with a query including at least one term and a range threshold. Each data item is associated with a scoring function that is used to filter and rank the matched results.
US11741136B2	Geolocation-based pictographs A system and method for geolocation-based pictographs are provided. In example embodiments, a current geolocation of a user device is determined. A pictograph is identified based on the current geolocation of the user device. The identified pictograph is presented on a user interface of the user device.
US11741133B1	System and method for information management A system and associated methods can be configured to attribute meaning to elements of input information. In one embodiment, the system can map each input datapoint from an incoming stream of data to classes represented in a hierarchical ontology. The ontology can be displayed in a user interface through which a user can make modifications to the ontology, including associating input datapoints with newly defined classes within the ontology's hierarchy. The new associations can then be used to train a statistical model, which in turn can then be used to classify yet additional incoming data. The system can include a control unit and one or more processing units to which the control unit delegates processing tasks. The control unit can also serve as a user/input/output interface. The mapping can be done in real-time using a low latency process.
US11741131B1	Fragmented upload and re-stitching of journey instances detected within event data Systems and methods are disclosed for efficiently uploading event data of a data intake and processing system and building journey instances using the uploaded event data in a distributed manner. Each journey instance is illustratively associated with a series of events within the event data occurring over a journey duration. For example, a cloud-based hosting system can implement a cloud-based distributed system that receives fragmented uploads of event data from the data intake and query system. Once received, the cloud-based hosting system can combine the event data from one or more uploads and re-stitch portions of the uploaded event data using a set of worker nodes to build journey instances.
US11741129B2	Performance-based evolution of content annotation taxonomies According to one implementation, a system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, a system memory storing a software code; and a machine learning model based classifier. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive tagging quality assurance (QA) data including multiple terms applied as tags and corrections to those tags, to identify, using the tagging QA data, a first problematic term, and to classify, using the machine learning model based classifier, the first problematic term as one of confusing or flawed. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to obtain, when the first problematic term is classified as confusing, a comparative sample for clarifying use of the first problematic term, and to obtain, when the first problematic term is classified as flawed, modification data for editing a predetermined annotation taxonomy including the first problematic term.
US11741121B2	Computerized data compression and analysis using potentially non-adjacent pairs A computerized method of compressing symbolic information organized into a plurality of documents, each document having a plurality of symbols, includes: (i) automatically identifying a plurality of sequential and non-sequential symbol pairs in an input document; (ii) counting the number of appearances of each unique symbol pair; and (iii) producing a compressed document that includes a replacement symbol at each position associated with one of the plurality of symbol pairs, at least one of which corresponds to a non-sequential symbol pair. For each non-sequential pair the compressed document includes corresponding indicia indicating a distance between locations of the non-sequential symbols of the pair in the input document. In some instances the plurality of symbol pairs includes only those pairs of non-sequential symbols for which the distance between locations of the non-sequential symbols of the pair in the input document is less than a numeric distance cap.
US11741117B2	Enterprise search using database views Techniques for implementing enterprise search using database views are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving database queries; generating, for each database query, a corresponding database view comprising a result set arranged in one or more fields of a table; storing the corresponding database views of the database queries; generating a corresponding search configuration for each one of the stored database views, the corresponding search configuration indicating the field(s) of the table of the stored database view; storing the corresponding search configurations for the stored database views; receiving an enterprise search query comprising one or more terms entered via a full-text search field; generating search results for the enterprise search query based on the term(s) using the stored search configurations to access data in the field(s) of the tables of the stored database views; and causing the generated search results to be displayed.
US11741115B2	Dynamic presentation of searchable contextual actions and data Disclosed methods and systems allow a central server to monitor electronic units of work accessible to a group of computers and generate a nodal data structure representing the units of work. The server then uses various protocols, such as hashing algorithms and/or executing artificial intelligence and machine learning models to identify similar and/or related units of work. The server then merges/links the nodes corresponding to the similar/related units of work. The server also monitors all user activities. When a user or a software system/service accesses electronic content on his, her, or its electronic device, the server identifies a node corresponding to the accessed electronic content and associated unit(s) of work and presents searchable data and actions related to the identified node and any related/linked nodes.
US11741113B2	Measurement guide device and simulation computing device used therefor The measurement guide device is able to easily select the next measurement target on the basis of previously obtained measurement results. The measurement guide device includes a database, a similarity search section, and a next-point proposal section. The database stores a virtual measured signal and a measurement procedure that are obtained by simulation. The similarity search section extracts, from the database, virtual measured signals similar to measurement results obtained by a measurement device, and measurement procedures regarding the virtual measured signals. The next-point proposal section selects at least one measurement procedure from the measurement procedures obtained by the similarity search section, and determines the next measurement point.
US11741111B2	Machine learning systems architectures for ranking Computing systems, computing apparatuses, computing methods, and computer program products are disclosed for machine learning ranking. An example computing method includes receiving a search query and determining a plurality of machine learning model execution engines based on the search query and a plurality of search result types. The example computing method further includes generating a plurality of subsets of search results based on the search query and the plurality of machine learning model execution engines. The example computing method further includes generating a set of search results comprising at least one search result from each of the plurality of subsets of search results.
US11741110B2	Aiding discovery of program content by providing deeplinks into most interesting moments via social media A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: retrieve program details data about at least one media program. Retrieve social media posts involving the at least one media program. Match the retrieved program details data with the retrieved social media posts to find matching locations. Store time offset data corresponding to the matched locations within the at least one media program into at least one micropost. Rank the at least one media program by the number of microposts corresponding to the at least one media program. Present the at least one media program, each of the at least one media program with at least one micropost, wherein the at least one micropost comprises a link to the original social media page hosting the social media post and a video deeplink that plays a time off-set video, the time off-set video starting from the stored time offset data.
US11741109B2	Dialogue system, a method of obtaining a response from a dialogue system, and a method of training a dialogue system A method of obtaining a response to a query inputted by a user, the method comprising: receiving a user inputted query; representing the user inputted query as a sequence of embedding vectors using a first model; encoding the sequence of embedding vectors to produce a context vector using a second model; retrieving responses with associated response vectors; scoring response vectors against the context vector, wherein the scoring is a measure of the similarity between the context vector and a response vector; and outputting the responses with the closest response vectors, wherein the first model is configured to segment a user inputted query into a sequence of units from a vocabulary of units and represent each unit in the sequence as an embedding vector, wherein at least one of the units in the vocabulary is an incomplete word, and wherein the first model comprises parameters that are stored using eight bits per parameter; and wherein the second model has been trained using corresponding queries and responses such that an encoding is used that maximises the similarity between the response vector and context vector for a corresponding query and response.
US11741107B2	Travel assisting method and terminal An embodiment of the present invention discloses a travel assisting method, including: extracting trip information from content saved in a terminal and saving the extracted trip information in a trip list; selecting the trip information from the trip list, automatically connecting to a preset network address or a preset server address, and searching by using part or all of content of each piece of the selected trip information as a key word, so as to obtain assisting information corresponding to the trip information; and generating prompting information. Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention further discloses a terminal. The present invention enables the terminal to automatically provide effective reference information for a user according to a trip of the user, solving the problem that an operation is troublesome and time-consuming when the user obtains trip-related assisting information by using the terminal.
US11741102B1	Adaptive model transformation in multi-tenant environment A query processing method includes receiving a query from a requestor. The query is directed to a first data model specifying multiple base data fields. The method includes determining a set of extension bindings for the first data model based on the query. Each binding specifies an extension to the first data model from a set of model extensions and specifies one of the base data fields of the first data model as a node at which the extension is added. The method includes generating a data object from base data values and extension data values according to an extended data model. The extended data model is defined by the first data model extended by, for each binding of the set, adding data fields from the specified extension to the first data model at the specified node. The method includes returning the data object to the requestor.
US11741100B2	Providing matching security between data stores in a database system Methods, systems, and devices for providing matching security between data stores are described. In a database system, an operational data store may store transactional datasets and an analytical data store may store analytics datasets generated based on the transactional datasets. For these analytics datasets to efficiently inherit the security configurations of the transactional datasets, security information may be embedded in datasets retrieved from the operational data store during a data acquisition procedure. This security information may be converted into an embedded multiple-value field for storage in the analytical data store. The analytical data store may receive a query for data in a dataset, and may determine security descriptors associated with the user sending the query. The analytical data store may then filter the data based on comparing these determined security descriptors with the security information in the multiple-value field, and may transmit a query response with the filtered data.
US11741097B2	Tree structure data processing system, tree structure data processing method, tree structure data processing device, and tree structure data processing program [Problem] In reconfiguration of a tree structure in a relational database, to reduce a service response-disabled time by an update lock, and to maintain data retrieving and reading performance without deterioration.[Solution] A tree structure data processing device 10 of a tree structure data processing system 1000 includes a process thread setting unit and a synchronization state management unit. The process thread setting unit starts and performs a request process thread for retrieval processing with reference to a nested set data table and starts and performs a request process thread 150 for updating data of a naive tree data table. The synchronization state management unit switches a state of the request process thread 150 to a synchronization waiting state when receiving synchronization waiting instruction information indicating start of a synchronization process between the naive tree data table and the nested set data table. A synchronization device includes a synchronization processing unit that converts data of the naive tree data table updated in response to an update request into data of the nested set data table to perform synchronization.

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