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| US11770497B2 |
Method and device for processing video, and storage medium
A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for processing a video are provided. A terminal determines a subject region of a video frame in a video and a background region. A target object is located in the subject region. The background region is a region of the video frame other than the subject region. The terminal overlays the subject region in at least one of a first video frame having the target object on at least one of a second video frame having the target object and generates a special effect frame including at least two subject regions in each of which the target object is located. |
| US11770495B2 |
Generating virtual images based on captured image data
Systems and methods for generating a virtual view of a virtual camera based on an input image are described. A system for generating a virtual view of a virtual camera based on an input image can include a capturing device including a physical camera and a depth sensor. The system also includes a controller configured to determine an actual pose of the capturing device; determine a desired pose of the virtual camera for showing the virtual view; define an epipolar geometry between the actual pose of the capturing device and the desired pose of the virtual camera; and generate a virtual image depicting objects within the input image according to the desired pose of the virtual camera for the virtual camera based on an epipolar relation between the actual pose of the capturing device, the input image, and the desired pose of the virtual camera. |
| US11770491B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium
A quantized value for a pixel of interest in an input image is derived by using a predetermined threshold value matrix. Then, based on a pixel value group in a predetermined reference area including the pixel of interest in the input image and a threshold value group corresponding thereto, directionality of correction is determined. Further, based on the pixel value group and the threshold value group, whether or not the pixel of interest satisfies a predetermined condition for changing the quantized value is determined. Then, based on both the determination results, the quantized value is corrected. |
| US11770489B2 |
Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a document, a processing unit configured to perform character recognition processing of recognizing characters included in an image of the document read by the reading unit, an identification unit configured to identify transfer destination information regarding a transfer destination and a transfer amount from a result obtained by the character recognition processing performed by the processing unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination and the transfer amount which are identified by the identification unit, a storage unit configured to store the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination, and an object display unit configured to display an object to call the transfer destination information regarding the transfer destination stored in the storage unit. |
| US11770482B2 |
Hand engagement interface
Examples dis closed herein relate to displaying, proximate to a hand engagement interface, a plurality of user interface elements, receiving, via a freeform input interface associated with the hand engagement interface, a freeform input from a user, identifying a command associated with a first element of the plurality of user interface elements associated with the freeform input, and updating the display of the plurality of user interface elements according to the command associated with the first element of the plurality of user elements. |
| US11770476B2 |
Intent analysis for call center response generation
A system obtains conversation data corresponding to conversations between users and agents of a client. The system identifies a set of intents from the conversations and identifies a set of contexts, explicit elements, and implied elements of these intents. The system identifies actions that can be performed to recognize new explicit and implied elements from new conversations and to address intents in these new conversations. Based on these actions, the system generates a set of recommendations that can be provided to the client. As agents communicate with users, the system monitors adherence to the set of recommendations. |
| US11770475B2 |
Computerized system and method for robocall steering
Disclosed are systems and methods for robocall steering over voice-hosted traffic networks. The disclosed framework provides novel systems and methods for increasing the accuracy and efficiency in tracking, identifying, blocking and preventing robocalls and robocallers. The disclosed systems and methods provide mechanisms for identifying and removing unwanted voice traffic from networks. The disclosed systems and methods analyze voice traffic over a predetermined period of time (e.g., 1 day or 30 days, for example), and leverage this information into a “know your customer” (KYC) score. This score enables incoming calls to be routed, controlled and/or blocked as they are communicated over voice networks. |
| US11770473B2 |
Avoid and react to sudden possibility of damage to receiver in self-interference measurement
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for detecting the possibility of damage to a receiver during a self-interference measurement procedure and taking action to avoid or mitigate such damage. |
| US11770472B2 |
Method and apparatus for opt-in compliance with regulations
Disclosed are methods, systems and paradigms for opt-in compliance with regulations. A region in physical space is defined. A condition for the region is defined, the condition being a capability of a communicator such as video recording, still image recording, audio recording, audio output, text messaging, audio communication, or remote connection. The presence and location of a communicator with the capability is detected in the region, and a message is sent to the communicator with a request for a response accepting or rejecting remote deactivation of the capability of the communicator. If an acceptance response is received, the communicator capability is deactivated. If an acceptance response is not received, a notification is generated that includes the lack of acceptance response and the location of the communicator. |
| US11770469B2 |
Housing member and electronic device
A housing member and an electronic device are provided. The housing member is configured to accommodate a receiver audio assembly, and includes a rear shell, a middle frame and a sound transmission gap for sound transmission. The rear shell and the middle frame define an accommodating cavity for accommodating the receiver audio assembly, the accommodating cavity is provided with an opening for sound transmission, and the opening is opposite to the rear shell. The middle frame is provided with a sound transmission channel for communicating the opening of the accommodating cavity with the sound transmission gap. The electronic device includes the receiver audio assembly and the housing member. The receiver audio assembly is fixed in the accommodating cavity. The sound exiting direction of the receiver audio assembly is opposite to the rear shell and coincides with a direction of the opening of the accommodating cavity. |
| US11770465B2 |
Supporting multiple transport options for border gateway protocol
A first router transmits a first message including information identifying a first set of transport layer protocols supported by the first router. The first router receives a second message including information identifying a second set of transport layer protocols supported by a second router. A common transport layer protocol is selected from a subset of transport layer protocols that are common to the first and second sets of transport layer protocols. The first router then establishes a border gateway protocol (BGP) session with the second router over the common transport layer protocol. The first message is unicast to the second router or broadcast/multicast over a plurality of links to a plurality of routers that includes the second router. In some cases, the common transport layer protocol is selected by the router having a higher priority, based on preferences, or a combination thereof. |
| US11770462B2 |
Techniques for virtual time slotting of communications packets
Techniques for transmitting data packets on a shared channel in a data communications network, include determining a time slot interval, T, based on a longest data packet to be transmitted on a shared channel in a data communications network. At a first node in the data communications network a local base time, t0, is determined equal to a time at an end of receipt of a successful acknowledgement control packet on the shared channel. A local data packet is transmitted from the first node onto the shared channel at a transmit time that is an integer multiple n of T after the local base time t0. The local data packet is determined to be successfully transmitted when a successful acknowledgement control packet that uniquely indicates the local data packet is received on the shared channel within the interval T of transmitting the local data packet. |
| US11770461B2 |
Methods and arrangements for short beacon frames in wireless networks
Embodiments provide a new short beacon frame format and its operation with full beacon frame transmissions for wireless communications devices. Many embodiments comprise a medium access control (MAC) sublayer logic to build frames comprising the short beacon frame for a first communications device. In some embodiments, the MAC sublayer may determine a frame control field comprising a type field indicative of an extension frame and a subtype indicative of a short beacon. In further embodiments, the frame control field may comprise a service set identifier (SSID) control field, and a reserved field. Some embodiments may store the short beacon frame or frame format in memory, in logic, or in another manner that facilitates transmission of the short beacon frames. Some embodiments may receive and detect communications with the short beacon frames. Further embodiments may generate and transmit a communication with the short beacon frames. |
| US11770460B2 |
Method and system for sharing multi-protocol port, and server
The present disclosure discloses a method and system for sharing a multi-protocol port and a server, where a designated field for storing a listening structure is newly added to a listening structure of an HTTP protocol. The method includes: writing, with respect to a target port, a listening structure of an RTMP protocol into the designated field of the HTTP protocol if the HTTP protocol and the RTMP protocol share the target port; detecting a target protocol corresponding to a connection request when the connection request is received by the target port; and reading the listening structure of the RTMP protocol from the designated field to obtain configuration information of the RTMP protocol if the target protocol is the RTMP protocol, and processing the connection request using the configuration information of the RTMP protocol. |
| US11770454B2 |
Native application integration for enhanced remote desktop experiences
Methods and systems for enhancing remote desktop experiences are described herein. A computing device may launch a remote desktop session. During the remote desktop session, the computing device may receive user input requesting a file to be launched at the computing device using a native application. The computing device may receive, from a remote desktop server, the file. Using a local application, the computing device may launch the file. |
| US11770451B2 |
System and method for automatic block storage volume tier tuning
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for automatic block storage volume tuning by simulating usage characteristics for data/block volumes. The block storage performance associated with usage by a cloud instance of a block volume can be simulated, and the manner in which data is stored or cached, for example within a combination of SSD/NVMe block storage and/or HDD object storage, can be automatically adjusted, for example to associate the block volume with a particular volume performance tier. The described approach allows the system to tune block volume performance in a dynamic manner, without further manual input from a user—the volume performance can be automatically increased when the user needs it, and otherwise reduced down to save costs (both for the user and the cloud provider). A user can enable tuning on a particular block volume, and thereafter automatically receive appropriate price/performance characteristics. |
| US11770449B2 |
Methods and systems for extending RDMA for dynamic/programmable remote operation registration and invocation
InfiniBand transport protocol today supports RDMA operations such as read and write with each operation having an opcode defined in the InfiniBand standard. Currently, new RDMA operations require extending the transport protocol by defining a new opcode, its respective header and enhancing InfiniBand implementations to support this new behavior. A more robust way of extending RDMA without requiring an expanding set of opcodes is to register computer code by associating it with a code key similar to a memory key. An InfiniBand channel adapter receiving an RDMA request that includes a code key executes the associated computer code, perhaps compiling it first, in response to receiving the RDMA request. The RDMA response returned to the requester includes an execution result indicating an outcome of executing the executable computer code. |
| US11770442B2 |
Electronic device for performing edge computing service and method for the same
An electronic device includes a memory, a communication circuit, and a processor. The memory is configured to store an application and an edge enabler client. The communication circuit is configured to communicate with at least one of a first server, a second server, or a third server. The application is configured to perform one or more functions corresponding to the third server. The processor is configured to receive access information for accessing the second server from the first server. The processor is configured to receive access information of the third server from each of a plurality of second servers. The processor is configured to check at least one or more third servers capable of providing a service The processor is configured to select the third server to request access among a plurality of third servers. The processor is configured to perform the service using the selected third server. |
| US11770436B2 |
Web client with response latency awareness
Methods and systems for handling web requests with latency awareness are described herein. A system may receive a web request from a web client, and determine, based on an exponential moving average of past response times, whether to allow the web request to be sent out to the server. Based on this determination, the system may send the web request to the server. The system may receive a response to the web request and update the exponential moving average based on the response time associated with the received response. The response may be forwarded back to the web client. |
| US11770427B2 |
Immersive audio in a media playback system
Embodiments described herein involve an auxiliary zone contributing audio to a primary zone. In an example implementation, a network media system determines that a first zone in the network media system is playing back a first type of audio content and that a second zone in the network media system is not playing back audio content. While the first zone is playing back the first type of audio content and the second zone is not playing back audio content, the network media system forms a temporarily playback configuration. In the temporary playback configuration, the first zone plays back primary audio content including full frequency range audio content and the second playback device of the second zone plays back auxiliary audio content including low frequency range audio content. |
| US11770426B2 |
Software-defined media platform
A software-defined media platform having one or more media processing units that may be dynamically instantiated, interconnected and configured according to changes in demand, resource availability, and other parameters affecting system performance relative to demand. In one example media processing method, a source media stream may be received via multicast or unicast. The source media stream may be processed into one or more levels of work product segments having different media characteristics by a plurality of transcoding processing units, as needed. One or more levels of work product segments, or the source media stream, may be packaged (e.g., including resegmenting) into final work product segments having select media characteristics, which may be uploaded to a cloud storage unit for delivery to end users. |
| US11770425B2 |
Dynamic management of presenters of a communication session
A system for managing a communication session between a number of participants is provided. The system can analyze activity of each participant and generate recommendations on the communication flow of a meeting. For instance, the system can analyze user activity and other contextual data for each user to determine a recommended speaking arrangement for the participants. The recommendations can be presented to a moderator who can then utilize the recommendations to control the flow of the meeting. Inputs received from the moderator can modify speaking and viewing permissions to emphasize or deemphasize displays and audio of individual participants. In some configurations, the recommendations can be utilized by a system to automatically control permissions for each participant for the purposes of controlling communication and flow of an event, such as an online meeting. |
| US11770422B2 |
Real-time engagement analytics for communication sessions
Methods and systems provide for presenting real-time engagement analytics for communication sessions. In one embodiment, a method maintains a communication session with a number of participants, wherein session content is presented during the communication session to the participants, and wherein participants can request real-time notes to be generated for the session content to be captured. The method determines one or more engagement metrics for participants based on the participants requesting real-time notes to be generated during the communication session. Finally, the method presents, to one or more participants of the communication session, information corresponding to at least a subset of the determined engagement metrics. |
| US11770417B2 |
Information infrastructure management tools with extractor, secure storage, content analysis and classification and method therefor
Data processing method organizing and processing data in a distributed computing system. By organizing select/secret content with [enterprise and external designated] categorical filters (content, contextual and taxonomic) to create further search terms for data mining both enterprise and external data sources (databases, data collections, data stores). The result being aggregated select/secret content. The aggregated select/secret content is stored in the corresponding select/secret content data store. The aggregated select/secret content is further processed for convergent or divergent characteristics. By identifying unknown data elements, another search gathers supplemental documents. Data element ranges are set by taxonomic filter and said contextual filters. Relevancy factors are identified by relationship between input and supplemental documents. Search is controlled by user selection, continuous search, iterative search (n cycles), search within m search terms, and search time. |
| US11770414B2 |
Information handling systems and methods to provide a secure platform control point for cloud-native applications
Various embodiments of information handling systems and related methods provide a secure platform control point, which enables cloud-native applications to access the local hardware resources and platform capabilities of the information handling system. The embodiments disclosed herein provide the same level of security, manageability and compute/intelligence for cloud-native applications, as endpoint-native applications run locally on the information handling system. |
| US11770412B2 |
Secure password log in on insecure devices
One example method includes logging into websites through devices including insecure devices. A logon device may store credentials. The logon device is configured to connect with an insecure device and then communicate with a website for authentication purposes without exposing a user's credentials to the insecure device. After the user is authenticated, the session is transferred to the insecure device. |
| US11770411B2 |
Prioritize endpoint selection based on criteria
A method, system, and computer program product for prioritizing endpoints to be checked during a change window based on certain criteria. The method may include receiving a request for processing from a plurality of servers. The method may also include determining a priority for each server of the plurality of servers based on specified criteria, where the specified criteria includes at least compliance-check history. The method may also include determining whether each server belongs to one or more groups. The method may also include determining a notification order for the plurality of servers based on the priority and whether each server belongs to the one or more groups. The method may also include sending a notification to each server in the notification order. |
| US11770410B1 |
Enhancing network security
A method including determining, by a transmitting device in communication with a receiving device, encrypted decoy messages based at least in part on encrypting decoy data utilizing an encryption key; determining, by the transmitting device, one or more encrypted content messages based at least in part on encrypting content data utilizing a cryptographic key, different from the encryption key; and transmitting, by the transmitting device to the receiving device, the one or more encrypted content messages among the encrypted decoy messages. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11770409B2 |
Intrusion management with threat type clustering
A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for threat management. A set of features used by a machine learning model is collected by the computer system to determine a threat type for an access attempt when the access attempt is detected. A cluster is determined, by the machine learning model in the computer system, for the access attempt using the set of features, wherein the machine learning model implements clustering to determine the cluster for the access attempt, and wherein the cluster for the access attempt corresponds to the threat type for the access attempt. A set of actions is performed by the machine learning model in the computer system based on the threat type determined for the access attempt. |
| US11770402B2 |
Systems and methods for network device discovery and vulnerability assessment
Various embodiments are discussed that provide systems and methods for identifying possible unsecured devices on a network. In some cases, embodiments discussed relate to systems and methods for identifying possible unsecured devices; clustering the identified devices with other similar devices, and/or determining default or simplified access processes for a given cluster of the identified devices. |
| US11770400B2 |
Presenting, at a graphical user interface, device photos and risk categories associated with devices in a network
Presenting, at a graphical user interface (GUI), device photos and risk categories associated with devices in a network is described. Data packets communicated in a network are detected. Based on the detected data packets, a set of devices in the network are determined. A set of device photos associated respectively with the set of devices are determined. A GUI concurrently presents the set of device photos to indicate the set of devices detected in the network. The set of devices may be filtered, sorted, and/or grouped based on various criteria. The GUI may present the device photos according to the filtering, sorting, and/or grouping. Additionally or alternatively, risk scores associated respectively with the set of devices are determined. The set of devices are categorized into respective risk categories based on the associated risk scores. A GUI concurrently presents a set of risk categories and information associated with each risk category. |
| US11770397B2 |
Malicious port scan detection using source profiles
A method, including identifying, in network traffic during multiple periods, scans, each scan including an access of multiple ports on a given destination node by a given source node, and computing, for each given source in the scans, an average of destinations whose ports were accessed by the given source during any scan by the given source, and a fraction of periods when the given source accessed at least one of the destinations in at least one scan performed by the given source node. A whitelist is assembled sources for which one or more of the following conditions applies: the average of destinations accessed in the scans was greater than a first threshold, and the fraction of periods during which at least one destination was accessed in at least one scan was greater than a second threshold. Upon detecting a scan by any non-whitelisted node, a preventive action is initiated. |
| US11770395B2 |
Information processing apparatus, computer program product, and information processing system
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a list storage unit and processor. The list storage unit stores therein allow lists for module processing types, and each allow list describes an execution-permitted system operation. The processor functions as an operation detecting unit, a process specifying unit, a log specifying unit, a type specifying unit, and an output unit. The operation detecting unit detects execution of any of system operations. The process specifying unit specifies a target process that has executed execution-detected system operation. The log specifying unit specifies a target operation log. The type specifying unit specifies a type of target module processing that executed execution-detected system operation by analyzing the target operation log. The output unit outputs anomaly information when the allow list for the target module processing type does not include the execution-detected system operation. |
| US11770393B2 |
System and method for target behavior discovery and detection
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for detecting a target behavior are disclosed. A processor implements a machine learning cadence model that implements an algorithm to obtain, on a per session basis, cadence data that indicates average time between each call and a standard deviation of times across each call across all active sessions of a desired target. The processor compares the cadence data to predefined background cadence data to identify whether the desired target is a new threat target or a background traffic; generates an internet protocol (IP) address of the new threat target; inputs the IP address of the new threat target into a machine learning behavior model that implements an algorithm to generate a fingerprint of all known places that the new threat target is operating; and applies a mitigation algorithm to all active sessions of the new threat target. |
| US11770392B2 |
Method and system for data communication with anomaly detection
Methods, systems, and computing platforms for data communication are disclosed. A computer-data communication based network, including receiving a set of virtual nodes each with a data payload may include an originating node attribute, an infosec data attribute, an behavioral data attribute, a biometric enterprise attribute and at least one data element associated with the originating node attribute. A machine learning module may learn from across multiple of collection points to determine control triggers and control durations. A user anomaly collector/module may be configured to identify an unusual or anomalous usage of an application. |
| US11770391B1 |
Network traffic classification system
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for classifying traffic flow using a plurality of learning machines arranged in multiple hierarchical levels. A first learning machine may classify a first portion of the input stream as malicious based on a match with first classification rules, and a second learning machine may classify at least part of the first portion of the input stream as malicious based on a match with second classification rules. The at least part of the first portion of the input stream may be classified as malicious based on the matches in the first and second learning machines. |
| US11770390B2 |
Context-aware network-based malicious activity warning systems
A computer system is configured to generate alerts related to malicious activity on an audited computing system. The computing system is provided with instructions to receive activity information associated with activity of an entity performed in an audited computing network, access contextual information associated with the entity, determine, based on the contextual information, a set of weights associated with the activity information and combine the weight and the entity activity information to generate a risk score. In response to the risk score satisfying a threshold value, the computer system may generate an alert, and, in response to receiving a user input associated with the alert, update the set of weights. In certain embodiments, the updated weights may be used for determining the risk score of future alerts. |
| US11770385B2 |
Systems and methods for malicious client detection through property analysis
Systems and methods for detecting malicious clients through inspecting application properties are described. These may include requesting application properties from a client application, receiving a digital fingerprint from the client device, determining whether the digital fingerprint indicates that the client application is likely a malicious client, and taking a mitigation action based on determining that the client application is likely a malicious client. |
| US11770384B2 |
Artificial reality collaborative working environments
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating and administering artificial reality collaborative working environments and providing interaction modes for them. An XR work system can provide and control such artificial reality collaborative working environments to enable, for example, A) links between real-world surfaces and XR surfaces; B) links between multiple real-world areas to XR areas with dedicated functionality; C) maintaining access, while inside the artificial reality working environment, to real-world work tools such as the user's computer screen and keyboard; D) various hand and controller modes for different interaction and collaboration modalities; E) use-based, multi-desk collaborative room configurations; and F) context-based auto population of users and content items into the artificial reality working environment. |
| US11770380B1 |
Systems and methods for enhanced network detection
A system for detecting and profiling endpoints of a computer network is provided. The system includes a first computing device including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The first computing device is in communication with a computer network. The at least one memory device stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to receive a plurality of packets transmitted to the computer network, determine an identity of a first end point device associated with the plurality of packets, determine a behavior pattern for the first end point device based on the plurality of packets, and generate a synthetic profile for the first end point device based on the identity and the behavior pattern. |
| US11770378B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling access to a blockchain
Systems and methods for controlling access to a blockchain are disclosed. The systems and methods are comprised of a security agent, a controller, an authenticator, a rules engine, and a policy engine. In certain embodiments, the security agent receives a message from an application, parses the message, and transmits the message to the controller if the message comprises one or more predetermined applicable rules or policies. The controller receives the message with its rules and policies, queries the rules engine and the policy engine to apply the rules and policies, and transmits an authentication request to the authenticator. The authenticator then requests an authentication signal from a user and transmits the results to the controller. The controller applies the results and forwards them to the security agent, which may or may not release the message to the blockchain depending the results. |
| US11770376B2 |
Computer-implemented systems for distributed authorization and federated privacy exchange
Computer-implemented systems and methods for authorization are provided. A system for distributed authorization includes a resource server which stores a protected resource of a resource owner and a service provider client device which provides a service which uses the protected resource. The system also includes a federated privacy exchange system configured to provide an authorization service for allowing the service provider client device to access the protected resource according to permissions data. The federated privacy exchange system includes a privacy-respecting authorization server configured to store a resource definition for the protected resource, and an agent device configured to provide an agent interface for managing credentials and controlling permissions and policies at the authorization server and store protected data including any one or more of account identifier data, authenticator data, resource server relationship data, and permissions data. |
| US11770371B2 |
Systems and methods for connecting private devices to public devices according to connection parameters
Systems and methods for connecting a private device to a public device based on various connection parameters. For example, a media guidance application may receive a communication requesting to use the public device from a private device that is implementing a private interface application (e.g., Netflix™ a streaming media application). In response, the media guidance application may generate an authorization key that is unique to the private device and comprises connection parameters. The media guidance application may transmit the authorization key to the private interface application to initiate a session between the public device and the private device. Whenever a command is received from the private device, the media guidance application may verify the authorization key and determine whether the connection parameters are satisfied. In response to verifying the authorization key and the connection parameters, the public device may execute the received command. |
| US11770370B2 |
System and method for transferring data
According to one example, a system includes a first computing device that includes one or more processors configured to generate a first encryption key, and encrypt data, using the first encryption key, for transmittal to a second computing device. The one or more processors are further configured to determine a first set of tokens; determine, from the first set of tokens, a plurality of tokens for the first encryption key; generate a packet comprising the encrypted data, and further comprising the plurality of tokens; and transmit the packet for receipt by the second computing device. |
| US11770369B2 |
System and method for identity verification across mobile applications
Embodiments are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for authenticating a user on a user device across multiple mobile applications. The identity of the user is validated by encoding and subsequently validating cryptographically encrypted data in a shared data store accessible by the mobile applications tied to the same entity. Specifically, the application leverages the authentication process of a trusted mobile application (e.g. a banking mobile application) to authenticate the same user on a untrusted mobile application (e.g. a merchant mobile application). |
| US11770368B2 |
Techniques for shared private data objects in a trusted execution environment
Techniques for sharing private data objects in a trusted execution environment using a distributed ledger are described. The techniques described herein may enable sharing of data objects, referred to herein as private data objects (PDOs), between individuals and organizations with access and update policies mediated by execution of code (referred to herein as a “smart contract”) carried with the PDO in a secure enclave. A distributed ledger may serve as a “public commit log” to ensure that there is a single, authoritative instance of the object and provide a means of guaranteeing atomicity of updates across interacting objects. |
| US11770366B2 |
Blockchain autonomous agents
A method of associating user identity with an autonomous agent embodied on a blockchain stored in a blockchain network, the method comprising the following steps: a user engaging in a user authentication process to obtain a set of one or more verified identity attributes of the user; computing an identity hash, by applying a hash function to input data comprising the set of verified identity attributes; and sending to the blockchain network a data package comprising the identity hash and an identifier of the autonomous agent; wherein the autonomous agent is embodied on the blockchain as program code and at least one associated state register for storing associated program state, and wherein the data package causes at least a portion of the autonomous agent's program code to be executed on a node of the blockchain network, which upon execution stores the identity hash in the at least one state register of the autonomous agent. |
| US11770365B2 |
Contextual awareness with Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for managed devices
Disclosed are various examples for providing contextual awareness with an internet of things (IoT) infrastructure in an enterprise workspace. IoT devices can connect to a network through a gateway or other edge device enrolled in a management service. The gateway device can provide context-based services defined by the management services to users in an enterprise through interactions with IoT devices. A gateway device can identity managed user devices within a service range of the gateway device. When a managed user device is within the service range of the gateway device, the gateway device can provide a context-based service by interacting with connected IoT devices. |
| US11770362B2 |
Access control in a mesh network
A method including determining, by a first device in communication with a second device in a mesh network, an access policy associated with processing communications received from the second device; processing, by the first device based at least in part on the access policy, a first communication received from the second device over an exclusive meshnet connection between the first device and the second device; determining, by the first device, a change in the access policy associated with processing communications received from the second device; processing, by the first device based at least in part on the change in the access policy, a second communication received from the second device in real-time; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device, access policy information indicating the change in the access policy to the second device over the exclusive meshnet connection or via a relay server. |
| US11770358B2 |
Security for virtual extensible local area networks
Presented herein are embodiments of mechanisms to add security in the communication of messages between devices, particularly in the context of VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (LAN)) environments. When a VXLAN device sends a multicast message to discover other devices in the network, there is possibilities for rogue devices to respond and then receive data that is not intended for them. In one or more embodiments, information handling systems operating as a VTEP (VXLAN tunnel endpoint) may use enhanced encryption that is shared with other authorized VTEP—but not shared with rough VTEP devices—to verify other authorized VTEPs. In one or more embodiments, information used to verify a VTEP device is included in the message, such as included in the header, which a properly configured receiving VTEP will recognize and use to verify that that sending VTEP is not a rogue device. |
| US11770356B2 |
Method and device for providing location based avatar messenger service
A method for providing a location based avatar messenger service includes transmitting, by a user terminal, location information of the user terminal to an external system; receiving, by the user terminal, information on users located in a vicinity of the user terminal from the external system; obtaining, by an image sensor of the user terminal, at least one image; and displaying, on a display of the user terminal, the at least one image and a first set of avatars associated with the users located in the vicinity such that the first set of avatars is superimposed on the at least one image, the first set of avatars including one or more avatars, the one or more avatars corresponding, respectively, to one or more users from among the users located in the vicinity. |
| US11770355B2 |
System and method for automated message delivery prioritization
Systems and methods for message delivery prioritization that can include receiving a messaging request through an application programming interface, the messaging request being associated with message-associated delivery attributes; selecting a message transmission plan based on the message-associated delivery attributes, the message transmission plan including at least one timing priority related property; and executing the message transmission plan with a timing of transmission based in part on the timing priority property. |
| US11770353B2 |
System and method for securely performing multiple stage email processing with embedded codes
A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores instructions and data such as the results from the email pre-processing into an internet email header added to the email message. The instructions and data placed into the email header may be encrypted for privacy and security. A later email program may extract the instructions and data from the internet email header and continue the email processing. One disclosed application of the multi-stage email processing system is email authentication. |
| US11770349B2 |
System and method for supporting configurable legacy P_Key table abstraction using a bitmap based hardware implementation in a high performance computing environment
System and method for supporting configurable legacy P_Key table abstraction using a bitmap based hardware implementation in a high performance computing environment. A mapping table in DRAM can be provided through the use of a software based SMA that implements the mapping table. With this mapping table, it is possible to provide a legacy compliant view of a bit map based P_Key table. Such a legacy compliant view can be called a virtual P_Key table, or a configurable legacy P_Key table abstraction. |
| US11770342B2 |
Methods and systems for gateway load balancing
Methods and systems for load balancing of payment requests among payment gateways by an e-commerce platform. The method may include detecting an anticipated load event and identifying a first payment gateway to be impacted by the anticipated load event, wherein a merchant account is associated with the first payment gateway. The platform may then identify, based on merchant parameters associated with the merchant account, a second payment gateway and, during the anticipated load event, transmit at least some payment requests first to the second payment gateway instead of to the first payment gateway. |
| US11770340B2 |
Host driven modem uplink packet prioritization
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a host processor at a user equipment (UE) may packetize data for uplink transmissions from the UE and provide packets to a wireless modem of the UE for uplink transmission. The host processor may provide multiplexing and aggregation headers for the packets that include a prioritization indication, and the wireless modem may order the data packets for transmission based at least in part on the prioritization indication. In some cases, a priority for each packet is indicated in a priority field of a corresponding multiplexing and aggregation header. The wireless modem may transmit the data packets based on the ordering, to provide higher priority packets ahead of lower priority packets to a receiver. Additionally, data packets may be further ordered based on tuple information associated with the data packets. |
| US11770339B2 |
Dynamic policy control
Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments are described herein for controlling policy in integrated small cell and Wi-Fi networks (ISWNs). It is recognized herein that multiple actors within an ISWN may have needs or preferences that conflict with each other, and that the best way of reconciling those conflicting needs is not always to simply give one actor preference over another. As described herein, optimum management decisions may be dynamically based on current network conditions and preferences of multiple actors. |
| US11770338B2 |
Increasing multi-path size using hierarchical forwarding equivalent classes
Techniques for operating a network device for increasing the logical multi-path size of a hardware forwarding table are provided. In some embodiments, the network device may determine that a number of data points in a first node is greater than a maximum node capacity; generate second nodes; update the first node to refer to the second nodes; distribute the data points among the second nodes; and program a hardware table with the updated first node and the second nodes. |
| US11770337B2 |
Packet reflect system
A packet reflect subsystem in a server device receives a host Ethernet packet generated by a host from a networking device, provides an entry in a packet reflect table that includes a networking device address from the host Ethernet packet, generates a host IP packet based on the host Ethernet packet and including an entry identifier for the entry, and transmits the host IP packet to a packet processing subsystem in the server device. The packet processing subsystem then generates a server IP packet including the entry identifier and transmits it to the packet reflect subsystem. The packet reflect subsystem then uses the entry identifier to identify the entry in the packet reflect table, retrieves the networking device address from the entry, and generates and transmits a server Ethernet packet to the networking device using the networking device address. |
| US11770334B2 |
End-to-end path selection using dynamic software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) tunnels
Techniques for utilizing a cloud service to compute an end-to-end SLA-aware path using dynamic software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) tunnels between a user device and an access point-of-presence (POP) node and inter-POP tunnels of the SDCI. The cloud service may include a performance aware path instantiation (PAPI) component including a POP database for storing performance metrics associated with the POPs of the SDCI, an enterprise policy database for storing user specific policies, and/or a path computation component. The path computation component may compute the path, based on the user specific policies, performance metrics associated with the POP nodes, and/or real-time contextual data associated with the user device and/or destination device. The path may include a first tunnel between the user device and the most optimal access POP node of the SDCI and a second tunnel between the access POP node, through the internal POP nodes, and to the destination device. |
| US11770328B2 |
Network including data integrity monitoring
A method for monitoring data integrity on a network includes reading error data from an interface associated with a particular link of the network in response to error data being present in a message received on the particular link. The method also includes creating a report message including the error data and transmitting the report message to a network monitoring algorithm operable on a processor circuit. The network monitoring algorithm is configured to determine a data integrity of the particular link based on the error data. |
| US11770326B2 |
Producing deadlock-free routes in lossless cartesian topologies with minimal number of virtual lanes
An apparatus includes a network interface and a processor. The network interface communicates with a network including switches interconnected in a Cartesian topology having multiple dimensions. The processor predefines turn types of turns in the Cartesian topology, each turn traverses first and second hops along first and second dimensions having same or different respective identities, and each turn type is defined at least by identities of the first and second dimensions. The processor searches for a preferred route from a source switch to a destination switch, by evaluating candidate routes based on the number of VLs required for preventing a deadlock condition caused by the candidate route. The number of VLs required depends on a sequential pattern of turn types formed by the candidate route. The processor configures one or more switches in the network to route packets from the source switch to the destination switch along the preferred route. |
| US11770325B2 |
Automatically selecting an optimized communication channel for communications with a deflect in an overlay network
In accordance with one or more preferred implementations, an overlay network in the form of a dispersive virtual network is implemented utilizing data deflects to implement and facilitate routing in a data plane and call processing deflects to implement and facilitate routing in a control plane. Various nodes in the dispersive virtual network, such as end devices running dispersive virtual networking client software, establish communication channels to these deflects running dispersive virtual networking protocols transported by user datagram protocol (UDP) frames, transmission control protocol (TCP) streams, and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) streams. In accordance with one or more preferred implementations, software allows nodes in a dispersive virtual network to automatically detect the channel types that are available at the time the node must initiate a new session, and automatically configure the most efficient communication channel without requiring input from an end user or from a network administrator. |
| US11770322B1 |
Electronic circuit to communicate information as an electrical current on two wires such that the electrical current is stabilized by measuring a voltage on a transistor within the electronic circuit
A two-wire electronic circuit can sense a voltage across terminals of a transistor and control an electrical current of the two-wire electronic circuit in accordance with the sensed voltage. |
| US11770321B2 |
Systems and methods for testing wireless mobile network devices
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user may select a cable modem (CM) at a graphical user interface (GUI) of a network device for testing. The network device may receive the indication of a selected query from GUI and transmit the selected query to the CM. The network device may receive a response message from the CM and compare the response message to an expected response message. The network device may generate a report indicating a status of the CM based on the comparing. The status of the CM may relate to a compliance of the CM to a standard. Additionally or alternatively, the status of the CM may indicate a performance level of the CM. |
| US11770313B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for optimizing performance of a communication unit by a remote server
Described herein are apparatus, system, and method for optimizing performance of one or more communication units by a remote server. The method comprises: collecting data from the one or more communication units; generating a policy, for each of the one or more communication units, based on the collected data; and sending the policy to each of the one or more communication units, wherein the policy comprises conditions for operation of the one or more communication units, wherein the one or more communication units implement the policy according to time-varying data. The system comprises: one or more communication units; and a server operable to communicate with the one or more communication units, wherein the server comprises: a memory; and a processor, coupled to the memory, and operable to perform the method discussed above. |
| US11770308B2 |
System and method for cloud-based user interface application deployment
Systems and methods are provided for user interface deployment that include a server with a cloud application and a client device with a client application. The cloud application is a fully functional application, such as a headless application, and transmits scene graph data including presentation data and behavior data for a first set of user interface elements viewable at the client device in a first operational state. The client application locally renders the first set of user interface elements on a client device display to locally render the portion of the scene graph related to the first operational state. In response to a user input, the client application transmits event or state data to the cloud application and may perform an action associated with the user input while awaiting receipt of updated scene graph data, possibly related to a subsequent operational state, reducing or eliminating the perception of latency. |
| US11770307B2 |
Recommendation engine with machine learning for guided service management, such as for use with events related to telecommunications subscribers
A service management system can obtain a service request message indicating an event that affects a user device of a telecommunications network. The system can store an indication of the event at a memory device that stores historical information of events and can process the event with a machine learning (ML) model that is trained based on the historical information to simulate the effect of the event on the telecommunications network. The system generates an output for display on a computing device. The output includes a recommendation and identifies an attribute of the event and a predicted value configured to reduce a workload or increase operational efficiency. The recommendation is configured to make the event actionable. The system receives feedback that a reviewer has acted on the recommendation. In response to the feedback, the system can re-train the ML model and configure the process for handling the service request. |
| US11770305B2 |
Distributed machine learning in edge computing
Approaches presented herein enable deploying a distributed machine learning framework in an edge computing environment. More specifically, a status of a connection between a computing system and an edge node of a plurality of edge nodes is monitored. At least one server node and a group of worker nodes from the plurality of edge nodes are identified based on the status. A path for distributing the training data to the worker nodes is determined based on the status. The training data from the edge node to the worker nodes is distributed via the path. |
| US11770302B2 |
Assignments of IoT device types
According to examples, a processor may receive data pertaining to a communication sent over a network by a device, extract a set of characteristics associated with the communication from the received data, and determine whether the extracted set of characteristics meets a predefined similarity threshold with respect to a previously identified set of characteristics, in which the previously identified set of characteristics is assigned with a certain device type. The processor may also, based on a determination that the extracted set of characteristics meets the predefined similarity threshold with respect to the previously identified set of characteristics, assign the device with the certain device type. |
| US11770301B2 |
Configuring network nodes in communication network
A cluster computing device is defined, associated with a plurality of network nodes of the communications network, and it generates a performance model relating configuration parameters of a network node to at least one energy performance parameter of the network node. The cluster computing device transfers the generated performance model to the plurality of network nodes, and then receives information from network nodes, indicating configuration parameters and at least one energy performance parameter of the respective network node. When the cluster computing device identifies a first network node as having a poor performance, it also identifies a second network node as having a good performance, and it causes the first network node to operate with cloned configuration parameters of the second network node. |
| US11770296B2 |
Decentralized data storage and processing for IoT devices
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for decentralized data storage and processing for IoT devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; and a processor to cause storage of a contract in an off-chain datastore; generate a hash value of the contract; cause storage of the hash value on a blockchain to be accessible to multiple nodes in an IoT network; and cause storage of a transaction on the blockchain, the transaction corresponding to an objective of the contract based on data sensed by an IoT device in the IoT network. |
| US11770294B1 |
Dedicated virtual computing system servers
A virtual computer system service receives a request from a customer to provision a dedicated server for the exclusive use of the customer. The dedicated server may be used to launch one or more virtual machine instances. The virtual computer system service subsequently selects, from a pool of available servers, a server that can be dedicated to the customer and that does not have capacity allocated to any other customer. The virtual computer system service may update a database to specify, in an entry corresponding to the selected server, that the server has been dedicated for the exclusive use of the customer. Once the database has been updated, the virtual computer system service will enable the customer to launch a virtual machine instance using the dedicated server. |
| US11770292B2 |
Extending remote diagnosis cloud services
A cloud extension agent can be provided on a customer premise for interfacing, via an outbound secure connection, cloud based services. |
| US11770285B2 |
Method and device for transmitting data in wireless communication system
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system. The method, performed by a transmission apparatus, of transmitting data includes performing π/2-binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation on M symbols, performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the M symbols on which the π/2-BPSK modulation has been performed, performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on M/2 symbols among the M symbols on which the DFT has been performed, and transmitting, to a reception apparatus, the M/2 symbols on which the IFFT has been performed, wherein a constellation of the M symbols on which the π/2-BPSK modulation has been performed may have only real components or imaginary components. |
| US11770284B1 |
Per carrier scaling of a cancellation pulse of a multi-carrier signal
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for per carrier scaling of a cancellation pulse of a multi-carrier signal are disclosed. One method includes identifying a target PAPR (peak to average power ratio) for the multi-carrier signal, identifying a target EVM (error vector magnitude) for each of cj carriers of the multi-carrier signal, setting a scaling factor for each of the cj carrier to an initial value, or each carrier cj adjusting the scaling factor for the carrier cj until a measured EVM of the carrier cj satisfies the target EVM for the subcarrier cj while maintaining the PAPR target for the multi-carrier signal, and the cancellation pulse of the multi-carrier signal with the adjusted scaling factor for each of the cj carriers. |
| US11770283B2 |
Selecting the location of peak reduction tones for reducing a peak-to-average power ratio of a wireless transmission
Aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction based on a tone reservation (TR) algorithm. For a TR algorithm, a suitable subset of tones from among a full set of tones in a given resource allocation are reserved for use as peak reduction tones (PRT). An apparatus, such as a wireless communication device, selects a set of PRTs based on a deterministic pseudo-random tone selection algorithm, such as quadratic sampling, cubic sampling, or Fibonacci-type sampling. The apparatus determines a PAPR reduction waveform for transmission on the PRTs and transmits a data waveform multiplexed with the PAPR reduction waveform on resources corresponding to the resource allocation. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. |
| US11770282B2 |
Modulation scheme for low peak average power ratio (PAPR)
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing Peak Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in signal transmissions are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining, for a time-domain sequence x(i), an output sequence s(k). The output sequence s(k) is an inverse Fourier transform of a frequency-domain sequence S(j), and S(j) represents a dot-multiplication of a frequency-domain sequence Y(j) corresponding to the time-domain sequence x(i) and a frequency-domain sequence Z(j) corresponding to a three-coefficient function associated with 2 2 , 1, and 2 2 . The method also includes generating a waveform using the output sequence s(k), where i is from 0 to I−1, j is from 0 to J−1, k is from 0 to K−1, and I |
| US11770278B2 |
Reference signal having variable structure
A method for transmitting a data demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. To this end, a basic DMRS is transmitted via the first OFDM symbol in a data transmission region of a predetermined subframe, and an additional DMRS is transmitted in the predetermined subframe in accordance with a level determined by a transmission environment, wherein the basic DMRS is characterized by being transmitted via the first OFDM symbol in the data transmission region of the predetermined subframe regardless of a transmission link, the structure of the subframe, and the transmission environment. |
| US11770263B1 |
Systems and methods for enforcing cryptographically secure actions in public, non-permissioned blockchains using bifurcated self-executing programs comprising shared digital signature requirements
Systems and methods for a bifurcated self-executing program that wraps a first self-executing program (e.g., a first smart contract) on a blockchain within a second self-executing program (e.g., a second smart contract), in which the second self-executing program enforces the digital signature requirement. The bifurcated self-executing program comprises a single compiled self-executing program that combines the first self-executing program and the second self-executing program. |
| US11770262B2 |
Odd index precomputation for authentication path computation
In one example an apparatus comprises a computer-readable memory, signature logic to compute a message hash of an input message using a secure hash algorithm, process the message hash to generate an array of secret key components for the input message, apply a hash chain function to the array of secret key components to generate an array of signature components, the hash chain function comprising a series of even-index hash chains and a series of odd-index hash chains, wherein the even-index hash chains and the odd-index hash chains generate a plurality of intermediate node values and a one-time public key component between the secret key components and the signature components and store at least some of the intermediate node values in the computer-readable memory for use in one or more subsequent signature operations. Other examples may be described. |
| US11770259B2 |
System and method for securing a resource
A system and method for securing a resource includes a combination code generator configured to receive a first input sequence and a first panel context and generate a first computed combination code. A second computed combination code is generated from a received second input sequence and a second panel context. A set panels module receives the first computed combination code and the first panel context and re-orders the panels of the first panel context to set the second panel context. a hash key generator converts the received second panel context and the second combination code into a first hash key. |
| US11770258B2 |
Accelerators for post-quantum cryptography secure hash-based signing and verification
In one example an apparatus comprises a computer readable memory, hash logic to generate a message hash value based on an input message, signature logic to generate a signature to be transmitted in association with the message, the signature logic to apply a hash-based signature scheme to a private key to generate the signature comprising a public key, and accelerator logic to pre-compute at least one set of inputs to the signature logic. Other examples may be described. |
| US11770257B1 |
Blockchain incorporated system for verifying ingredients in agricultural products and byproducts
A method verifies the ingredients in an agricultural product or byproduct. Data packages related to compound purity are uploaded and assigned a hash within a blockchain directory. These compounds are combined according to a formula in order to create batches of a product. The formula is tracked through the system and the batches become tied to the data packages associated with the compounds found within the batch. The data packages associated with the compounds within the formula can be accessed by merchants or consumers who wish to verify the ingredients contained in the batch. This method collects data to assist with supply chain management while assuring the quality of products delivered to consumers. |
| US11770247B2 |
Method for providing end-to-end security over signaling plane in mission critical data communication system
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide method and system for end-to-end security over signaling plane in a mission critical data (MCData) communication system. The proposed method includes various ways of securing MCData data payload transmitted over signaling plane using short data service (SDS). The proposed method allows usage of multiple security keys to encrypt the MCData SDS message as per the requirements. Various Keys such as, signaling plane key or media plane key or a dedicated MCData data payload signaling key can be used independently or in a combination thereof to achieve the desired security context. The proposed method allows protection of all the application level components with the signaling plane security context. |
| US11770246B2 |
Securely transferring key materials between processors in a multi-processor device
A multi-processor device includes a first processor implemented with a secured key derivation and storage component and a second processor implemented without a secured key derivation and storage component. In operation, the second processor is configured to execute an initial boot process by loading a limited functionality boot image when the multi-processor device is powered on. During the execution of the initial boot process, the second processor provisions a secure storage container to hold a key material and sends a request to the first processor for a key material. In response, the second processor receives a key material derived at the first processor. The second processor then stores the key material in a volatile memory portion of the secure storage container. The second processor executes a main boot process only after erasing instances of the key material temporarily stored outside of the secure storage container. |
| US11770243B2 |
Grouping data in an organized storage system
A method including determining, by a device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an assigned private key; determining, by the device for a group associated with a folder, a group access key pair including a group access public key and a group access private key; encrypting, by the device, the group access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; and accessing, by the device, the folder based at least in part on decrypting the group access private key. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11770241B2 |
Stateless system to encrypt and decrypt data
A method including determining, by a user device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an associated assigned private key; determining, for content to be encrypted, an access key pair including an access public key and an associated access private key; encrypting the access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; encrypting a randomly generated key by utilizing the access public key; and encrypting content utilizing the randomly generated key. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11770240B2 |
Electronic device and method for receiving push message stored in blockchain
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit configured to communicate, at least one processor operatively connected to the communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the at least one processor to request a management server to encrypt a push key received from a push server, using the communication circuit, in response to the request, receive the encrypted push key from the management server, generate at least one transaction based on the encrypted push key, and transmit the transaction to a blockchain network. |
| US11770239B1 |
Systems and methods for trigger based synchronized updates in a distributed records environment
A computerized system and method may include, in response to receiving a blockchain via a communications network that includes information associated with an event, parsing, by a blockchain parsing engine being executed by a blockchain node, the information to identify a status state of an item related to the event. The blockchain may be inclusive of the information along with the status state of the item may be stored in a storage unit. An event tracking engine may determine from the parsed information that the status state of the item transitioned from a first state to a second state. Responsive to the event tracking engine determining that a qualifying state is satisfied by the item being in the second state, automatically executing, by the blockchain node, a smart code inclusive of initiating communications between a first party and a second party. |
| US11770238B2 |
Decentralized computation system architecture based on node specialization
Described are systems, methods, and media for providing secure and scalable decentralized computation for one or more decentralized applications. Features include a blockchain; and a plurality of nodes comprising a plurality of each of three specialized node types, the specialized node types comprising access nodes, security nodes, and execution nodes. |
| US11770235B2 |
Time synchronization of controller
A controller includes circuitry configured to: synchronize a master clock with an external global clock and set a master time based on the master clock; synchronize a controller clock with the master clock and perform time synchronization to synchronize a controller time based on the controller clock with the master time; transmit controller time data indicating the synchronized controller time to at least one local device; set a plurality of time windows corresponding to a plurality of clock cycles of a clock signal for the time synchronization; determine whether one clock cycle of the plurality of clock cycles has started within one time window of the plurality of time windows, the one time window corresponding to the one clock cycle; and suspend the time synchronization corresponding to the one clock cycle, in response to determining that the one clock cycle has not started within the one time window. |
| US11770229B2 |
Method and device in communication node used for wireless communication with multiple antenna panels
The disclosure provides a method and device in communication node used for wireless communication. A first node receives a first signaling, the first signaling being used for indicating a first time-frequency resource group and the first time-frequency resource group being reserved for a first bit block, receives a second signaling, the second signaling being used for determining a second time-frequency resource group and the second time-frequency resource group being reserved for a second bit block, transmits the first bit block in time-frequency resources in the first time-frequency resource group other than a first resource subgroup, and transmits the second bit block in the second time-frequency resource group. The first time-frequency resource group and the second time-frequency resource group are partially overlapping; the first signaling is used for determining a first index group, and the second signaling is used for determining a second index group. |
| US11770226B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving sounding reference signal in wireless communication system and device therefor
Systems and techniques or transmitting and receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system. In some implementations, a method for transmitting, by a terminal, an SRS in a wireless communication system includes: receiving configuration information for transmission of the SRS from a base station; and transmitting the SRS to the base station by using one or more SRS resources for transmission of the SRS, the configuration information including the one or more SRS resources and information relating to usage of the one or more SRS resources, wherein a guard period relating to the one or more SRS resources is configured, and when the transmissions of the guard period and a particular uplink channel configured for the terminal overlap each other, the priority between the guard period and the particular uplink channel is configured to be the same as that between the SRS and the particular uplink channel. |
| US11770219B2 |
Downlink retransmission by relay node
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for retransmission of a communication by a relay node based on a failure of a target node to receive the communication. In some aspects, the relay node may determine that the second wireless node has failed to receive the second communication, or an upstream wireless node (such as a distributed unit) may determine that the target node has failed to receive the communication. The relay node may retransmit the communication based on such a determination. In some aspects, the relay node may buffer the communication or information used to generate the communication, and may retransmit the buffered communication. In some aspects, a configuration for the retransmission may be modified based on a capability of the relay node or another concern. |
| US11770205B2 |
Optical signal processing apparatus, optical signal processing method and computer program
An optical signal processing apparatus of an embodiment is an optical signal processing apparatus for separating and detecting an optical signal transmitted in a mode division multiplexing optical communication method by signal processing based on a multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-type linear filter. The device includes a signal processing unit configured to estimate weighting factors of the MIMO-type linear filter by sequential calculation based on an affine projection method. In the sequential calculation of the signal processing device, an output signal by the sequential calculation is expressed by a correlation vector indicating a correlation between the plurality of input signals, a smoothing prefilter vector indicating, of smoothing prefilter factors indicating a relationship between the weighting factors at current time and input signals from a first time being a past predetermined time to the current time, smoothing prefilter factors corresponding to each time from the first time to a second time that corresponds to an affine projection order in the affine projection method, and input signals from the first time to the second time. |
| US11770204B1 |
System and methods for time and frequency division passive optical network
A coherent passive optical network includes a downstream transceiver and first and second upstream transceivers in communication with an optical transport medium. The downstream transceiver includes a downstream processor for mapping a downstream data stream to a plurality of sub-bands, and a downstream transmitter for transmitting a downstream optical signal modulated with the plurality of sub-bands. The first upstream transceiver includes a first local oscillator (LO) for tuning a first LO center frequency to a first sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands, and a first downstream receiver for coherently detecting the downstream optical signal within the first sub-band. The second upstream transceiver includes a second downstream receiver configured for coherently detecting the downstream optical signal within a second sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands. The downstream processor dynamically allocates the first and second sub-bands to the first and second transceivers in the time and frequency domains. |
| US11770203B2 |
Matching transmitters with receivers for making network-level assignments
Systems and methods for controlling network configurations or assignments are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of calculating transmission characteristics between each pair of a plurality of pairs of modems at opposite ends of a Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transport link using specifications of the modems measured during production. The method also includes the step of selecting a pair of modems from the plurality of pairs of modems based on results obtained by calculating the transmission characteristics and based on one or more user-defined service requests. |
| US11770199B2 |
Traffic data self-recovery processing method, readable storage medium, server and apparatus
Embodiments of the present application disclose a traffic data self-recovery processing method, including: monitoring an operation result of traffic data synchronization operation of a target system; repeatedly performing the traffic data synchronization operation of the target system until the traffic data synchronization is successful or cumulative number of traffic data synchronization failures exceed a failure frequency threshold, if the monitored operation result is that the traffic data synchronization is failed; clearing the cumulative number if the monitored operation result is that the traffic data synchronization is successful; stopping the traffic data synchronization operation of the target system and sending out a message indicative of the traffic data synchronization failure if the cumulative number of traffic data synchronization failures exceeds the failure frequency threshold, wherein the failure frequency threshold is determined by current network signal intensity of the target system and is in a positive correlation with current network signal intensity. |
| US11770198B2 |
Non-line-of-sight detection
A wireless device can perform non-line-of-sight detection. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with another wireless device using a wireless channel. The wireless device may perform one or more channel measurements for the wireless channel. The wireless device may determine whether a line-of-sight path is available for the wireless channel based at least in part on the one or more channel measurements. The wireless device may determine whether to trigger beamforming selection, antenna selection, and/or any other link maintenance operations based at least in part on the determined line-of-sight availability. |
| US11770197B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for accurate wireless monitoring
Methods, apparatus and systems for improving accuracy and efficiency of wireless monitoring are described. In one example, a described method comprises: transmitting a first wireless signal from a first wireless device with transmit antennas through a wireless multipath channel of a venue; receiving a second wireless signal by a second wireless device with receive antennas through the wireless multipath channel, wherein the second wireless signal differs from the first wireless signal due to the wireless multipath channel that is impacted by a motion of an object in the venue; obtaining a number of time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the second wireless signal, wherein each TSCI is associated with a respective one of the transmit antennas and a respective one of the receive antennas; preprocessing the number of TSCI; and monitoring the motion of the object based on the number of preprocessed TSCI. |
| US11770194B2 |
Apparatus for a single edge nibble transmission (SENT) multi transmission mode
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for a single edge nibble transmission (SENT) multi-transmission mode are described. In an example, a system can include a transmitter and a receiver connected to one another. The transmitter may encode an identifier of a device in a synchronization nibble of a SENT signal. The transmitter may transmit the SENT signal with the encoded identifier to the receiver. The receiver may receive the SENT signal from the transmitter. The receiver may decode the identifier of the device from the synchronization nibble of the SENT signal to identify the device. |
| US11770193B2 |
Mitigating instability in cascaded optical power controllers
Systems and methods for stabilizing power levels from excessive oscillations in an optical line system of a communications network are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of detecting a perturbation of an optical power level in an optical line system having a plurality of cascaded optical power controllers. The method also includes the step of determining an estimated location to which a power controller of the plurality of cascaded optical power controllers is positioned downstream of the perturbation with respect to other power controllers of the plurality of cascaded optical power controllers. Based on the estimated location to which the power controller is positioned downstream of the perturbation, the method also includes the step of providing feedback in a control loop to reduce the effects of the perturbation. |
| US11770191B2 |
Fiber to the home network incorporating fully connectorized optic fiber tap assembly
A fully connectorized optic fiber tap assembly is described that includes a first upstream connector interface configured to receive a downstream connector of a first upstream optic fiber line, and a first downstream connector interface configured to receive an upstream connector of a first downstream optic fiber line. The tap assembly further includes a set of service drop line connector interfaces. Moreover, an optic fiber tap of the assembly is configured to: receive an optical signal from the upstream connector interface, extract a portion of the optical signal, direct the extracted portion of the optical signal to the set of service drop line connector interfaces, and pass a remaining portion of the optical signal to the downstream connector interface. The fully connectorized optic fiber tap assembly is configured to be connected to the first upstream optic fiber line and the first downstream optic fiber line without splicing. |
| US11770186B2 |
Method and apparatus for a restoration network with dynamic activation of pre-deployed network resources
An optical network having a first terminal node, a second terminal node, and a network service system is described. The first terminal node has a plurality of ports and a signal restoration component to create a restored path. The second terminal node has a plurality of ports and a failure monitor to issue a path failure notice. A working path, a protection path, and the restored path are each fiber optic lines optically coupling the first terminal node to the second terminal node to enable a service, each path requiring a quantity of exclusive licenses. The network service system receives a path failure notice indicating a working path failure, calculates the quantity of licenses required by the restored path, releases the quantity of licenses required by the working path and applies at least a portion of the quantity of licenses to the quantity of licenses required by the restored path. |
| US11770183B2 |
Compensation for attenuation of carrier power by a transmission path
A system and method for compensating for attenuation of carrier power by a transmission path. The method includes defining a path from a gateway to a measurement tap, where the path may include an output port of the gateway and path components used to reach the measurement tap; sweeping, in bands, an RF spectrum served by the RFT by sending a signal at a respective band and a band power from the output port over the path; measuring, at the measurement tap, a power metric for each of the bands; capturing, for each of the bands, power level (PL) data including a frequency start of the respective band, a frequency end of the respective band, the respective band power and the respective power metric at the measurement tap; and setting a carrier power level (CPL) of a carrier having a frequency start and a frequency end, where the CPL is based on the PL data associated with one more of the bands included in the frequency start and the frequency end, where the path components may include one or more connecting cables, one or more switches, and one or more equipment in the path. |
| US11770182B2 |
Adapting PHY layer procedures for a moving RAN in non-terrestrial networks
A wireless device is operable to communicate with a network node of a communications network via a non-terrestrial communication path that includes satellites and satellite gateways. The wireless device determines that communication between the wireless device and the network node will experience a communication interrupting transition during a transition period in which the non-terrestrial communication path between the wireless device and the network node will be interrupted. The wireless device adjusts a PHY layer procedure of the wireless device to mitigate switching problems with one of the of satellites during and/or after the interruption. |
| US11770181B2 |
Multibeam VSAT for cluster of slightly inclined GSO satellites
A source terminal, for communications with a destination terminal via satellite links to two clusters of satellites, comprises a transmitter and a multibeam antenna system. The transmitter includes a preprocessor and a bank of modulators. The preprocessor performs a K-muxing transform, which has an inverse transform, on M concurrent input data streams to generate concurrently M output data streams, M>1. Each output data stream is a linear combination of the M concurrent input data streams. The bank of modulators transforms N of the M output data streams into N signal streams, N≤M. The multibeam antenna system transforms the N signal streams into N shaped beams and radiating N1 of the N shaped beams towards the first cluster of satellites and N2 of the N shaped beams towards the second cluster of satellites, where N1 and N2 are positive integers and N1+N2=N. |
| US11770180B1 |
Satellite communications system
A phased array antenna system that reduces the high number of active elements and complexity. In order to achieve this reduction, the RF chain is designed for summation of all radiators in a single row. This reduces the hardware complexity from N2 to N where the array size is N×N. This reduction allows the antenna to electronically steer in one axis. The other axis is mechanically steered using a rotating platform. The loss between the LNA or PA with the row summation scheme is very low resulting in very high performance. Receiving and transmitting take place from the same aperture. |
| US11770172B2 |
Dynamic antenna selection in millimeter wave systems
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications in millimeter wave (mmW) systems are described. A mmW wireless device may identify a plurality of subsets of antennas from available antennas. The wireless device may compare effective array gain values for each subset in the plurality of subsets of antennas. An effective array gain value may be determined based on a realized array gain for each subset normalized or penalized by a radio frequency (RF) power consumption for antennas corresponding to each subset in the plurality of subsets of antennas. Based on the comparison, the wireless device may select one or more subsets of the plurality of subsets of antennas, the selected one or more subsets may correspond to antenna combinations of one or more antenna subarray units. The mmW wireless device may then communicate using the selected one or more subsets. |
| US11770164B2 |
Bypassable radio frequency filters
Devices having bypassable radio frequency (RF) filters are provided. A device includes a bypassable RF filter and an adjustable-length RF transmission line that is coupled thereto. Moreover, the device includes a component that is coupled to the adjustable-length RF transmission line and is configured to change an electrical length of the adjustable-length RF transmission line between a first length and a second length. Related methods of bypassing the bypassable RF filter are also provided. |
| US11770162B2 |
Uplink transmissions in wireless communications
Methods, apparatus, and systems for using multiple messages by the base station to indicate sub-band information without incurring big signaling overhead are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a user device from a base station, a first message that includes a first set of information for configuring a transmission from the user device to the base station. The first message includes one or more fields indicating an association between the first message and a second message for configuring the transmission. The method includes receiving, by the user device, the second message from the base station. The second message includes a second set of information for configuring the transmission. The method also includes performing the transmission based on the first and the second set of information. |
| US11770161B2 |
Assisted multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) communication system
Systems, methods, and devices for grouping client devices based on sensor data in an assisted wireless communication system are provided. Sensor data may include device mobility, device type, and device application data usage, among other characteristics. An assisted wireless communication system may include client devices sending data to an access point. The clients may send conventional protocol data over a channel and, concurrently, send sensor data over an alternative channel. In some cases, client devices may exchange their protocol data, modify their own protocol data based on the exchanged data, and send the modified protocol data to the access point. This may allow the clients to adjust their grouping. |
| US11770154B2 |
Device and system for preventing drowning
A system for increased safety levels at swimming venues includes an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) tag, a control terminal, and at least three base stations. The UWB tag transmits positioning data of the tag worn by a swimmer and transmits a signal to the at least three base stations. The base stations receive the signal and the positioning data, record time when receiving same, and send the signal, the positioning data, and the time to the control terminal. The control terminal calculates position of the swimmer's UWB tag according to the positioning data and the time when a period of attenuation or disappearance of the wireless connection signal from the immersed UWB tag exceeds a first preset time, generates alarm information, and sends the position of the UWB tag and the alarm information to notify a security officer. |
| US11770146B2 |
Apparatus and method for removing high-frequency radio frequency interference
An apparatus and method for removing high-frequency radio frequency interference are disclosed. The apparatus includes a filtering unit for filtering an original electroencephalogram signal to obtain an intermediate electroencephalogram signal; a high-frequency signal extraction unit for filtering the intermediate electroencephalogram signal to extract a high-frequency signal from the intermediate electroencephalogram signal; a marking unit for comparing the amplitude of the high-frequency signal with a comparison threshold value, and performing classification marking on the intermediate electroencephalogram signal according to a comparison result; a collection unit for sampling the intermediate electroencephalogram signal that has been performed with the classification marking to obtain a desired electroencephalogram signal and inputting the desired electroencephalogram signal into a processor; and the processor for setting the comparison threshold value and controlling the collection unit to perform sampling. |
| US11770145B2 |
System and method for efficient initialization of memory digital pre-distorter coefficients to reduce calibration time
An electronic device configured to apply, to a first power amplifier (PA) input, one or more updated memory digital pre-distorter (mDPD) coefficient values is provided. The electronic device includes a processor; and a memory including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to preload, from values stored in the memory of the electronic device, one or more mDPD coefficient values; transmit a training signal sequence while using the preloaded one or more mDPD coefficient values; receive the training signal sequence; update the one or more mDPD coefficient values based on the transmitted training signal sequence, the received training signal sequence, and the preloaded one or more mDPD coefficient values; and apply the updated one or more mDPD coefficient values to distort the first PA input. |
| US11770137B1 |
Error floor performance improvement of generalized product codes
Systems and methods for improving the error floor performance in decoding generalized product codes (GPC) are described. The systems and methods can implement a two stage process to decode a GPC block code and break a stall error pattern for the decoding the block code. In the first stage, erroneuous bits in a codeword can be flagged. In the second stage, some of these bits and related bits in a codeword can be toggled to generate one or more test patterns. The test patterns can be decoded and one of them can be selected using a particular selection criteria to ultimately break the stall error pattern and improve the error floor performance. |
| US11770134B2 |
Methods and apparatus for CRC concatenated polar encoding
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for encoding and decoding bits of information using cyclic redundancy check (CRC) concatenated polar encoding and decoding. A method generally includes obtaining the bits of information to be transmitted. The method includes performing CRC outer encoding of the bits of information using an even-weighted generator polynomial to produce CRC encoded bits. The method includes performing polar inner encoding of the CRC encoded bits to generate a codeword. The method includes discarding a first code bit at a beginning of the codeword. The shortened codeword is transmitted over a wireless medium. In another method, bit-level scrambling is performed on the CRC encoded bits before the polar encoding to. In another method, only odd-weighted generator polynomials are selected. |
| US11770130B2 |
Mixed-signal dot product processor with single capacitor per multiplier
A mixed-signal logic processor is provided. The mixed-signal logic processor includes a plurality of mixed-signal multiplier branches. Each of the plurality of mixed-signal multiplier branches has a set of branch-dedicated switches and a single branch-dedicated capacitor. The mixed-signal logic further includes a common switch. The common switch is external and common to each of the plurality of mixed-signal multiplier branches. The mixed-signal logic also includes a first shared branch-external capacitor and a second shared branch-external capacitor. The first and the second shared branch-external capacitors are external to and shared by each of the plurality of mixed-signal multiplier branches. Various settings of the set of switches and the common switch enable various modes of the mixed-signal dot product processor. |
| US11770126B2 |
Noise-shaping enhanced gated ring oscillator based analog-to-digital converters
A noise-shaping enhanced (NSE) gated ring oscillator (GRO)-based ADC includes a delay which delays and feedbacks an error signal to an input of the NSE GRO-based ADC. The feedback error signal provides an order of noise-shaping and the error signal is generated at the input of the NSE GRO-based ADC from an input signal, the feedback error signal, and a front-end output. A voltage-to-time converter converts the error signal to the time domain. A GRO outputs phase signals from the time domain error signal by oscillating when the error signal is high and inhibiting oscillation otherwise. A quantization device quantizes the phase signals to generate the front-end output. A quantization extraction device determines a quantization error from the quantized phase signals. A time-to-digital converter digitizes the quantization error to generate a back-end output. An output device generates a second order noise-shaped output based on the front-end and the back-end outputs. |
| US11770125B2 |
Hybrid analog-to-digital converter with inverter-based residue amplifier
An apparatus and method for analog to digital conversion of analog input signals are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an analog-to-digital (ADC) may comprise: a first successive approximation register (SAR) circuit comprising a fast SAR (FSAR) circuit and a residue digital-to-analog converter (RDAC) circuit and a residue amplifier circuit, coupled to the RDAC circuit, comprising an amplifier circuit that is configured to amplify a residual signal generated by the RDAC circuit, wherein the amplifier circuit comprises a deadzone control circuit and a first, second and third inverter stages, wherein the third stage is biased to operate in a sub-threshold region. |
| US11770124B2 |
Integrated circuit with high-speed clock bypass before reset
An integrated circuit includes: a clock domain having a clock domain input; and clock management logic coupled to the clock domain. The clock management logic includes: a PLL having a reference clock input and a PLL clock output; a divider having a divider input and a divider output, the divider input coupled to the PLL clock output; and bypass logic having a first clock input, a second clock input, a bypass control input, and a bypass logic output, the first clock input coupled to divider output, the second clock input coupled to the reference clock input, and the bypass logic output coupled to the clock domain input. The bypass logic selectively bypasses the PLL and divider responsive to a bypass control signal triggered by a reset signal. The reset signal also triggers a reset control signal delayed relative to the bypass control signal. |
| US11770123B2 |
Optical keyswitch comprising a keycap having a light transmission area and a keycap projection area projected on a circuit board
An optical keyswitch includes a keycap, a support mechanism, and a switch module. The support mechanism is disposed below the keycap and configured to support the keycap moving upward and downward, the support mechanism comprising a first frame and a second frame, the first frame having a sliding end. The switch module includes a circuit board, an emitter, and a receiver, the emitter and the receiver are electrically connected to the circuit board, and the emitter emitting an optical signal to the receiver. When the keycap is pressed, the first frame is driven by the keycap to slide substantially parallel to the circuit board and block the optical signal with the sliding end, so the switch module is triggered to generate a triggering signal. |
| US11770120B2 |
Bootstrap circuit supporting fast charging and discharging and chip
A bootstrap circuit supporting fast charging and discharging and a chip. A voltage measurement module (12) and a switch module (11) are arranged, and the voltage measurement module (12) controls an operating state of the switch module (11); during charging, under a specific condition, the switch module (11) is enabled to be in an on state so as to achieve fast charging of a voltage output end; and during discharging, the purpose of fast discharging is achieved by means of a second field effect transistor (MP5) arranged in the bootstrap circuit. |
| US11770116B1 |
Duty cycle correction for high-speed clock signals
A duty cycle correction circuit, and method of operating the same, to correct the duty cycle of an input clock signal having a frequency divided-down from a reference clock by an odd-valued integer. A delay stage outputs the input clock signal delayed by one half-cycle of the reference clock, and a logic circuit outputs an extended clock signal by a logical OR of the input and delayed clock signals. A latch latches the extended clock signal when enabled by the reference clock, and a flip-flop latches the extended clock signal responsive to the reference clock. A gate selects the latch output or the flip-flop output based on the state of the delayed clock signal as an intermediate signal. A multiplexer generates the output clock by selecting between the intermediate signal and the input clock signal in alternating reference clock phases. |
| US11770114B2 |
Subband adaptive filter for systems with partially acausal transfer functions
A noise reduction system includes sensors configured to generate an input signal, an adaptive filter configured to represent a transfer function of a path traversed by the input signal, one or more processing devices, and one or more transducers. The processing devices receive the input signal and generate an updated set of filter coefficients of the adaptive filter by separating the input signal into frequency subbands; determining for each subband, coefficients of a corresponding subband adaptive module; and combining the coefficients of multiple subband adaptive modules. Determining the coefficients of the corresponding subband adaptive module includes selecting a subset of a precomputed set of filter coefficients of the adaptive filter. The processing devices process a portion of the input signal using the updated set of filter coefficients of the adaptive filter to generate an output that destructively interferes with another signal traversing the path represented by the transfer function. |
| US11770112B1 |
MEMS resonator with co-located temperature sensor
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator includes a substrate having a substantially planar surface and a resonant member having sidewalls disposed in a nominally perpendicular orientation with respect to the planar surface. Impurity dopant is introduced via the sidewalls of the resonant member such that a non-uniform dopant concentration profile is established along axis extending between the sidewalls parallel to the substrate surface and exhibits a relative minimum concentration in a middle region of the axis. |
| US11770109B2 |
Programmable chopping architecture to reduce offset in an analog front end
An integrated circuit can include an amplifier coupled to receive an analog input signal, an anti-aliasing filter (AAF) coupled to an output of the amplifier, a buffer circuit coupled to an output of the AAF, a sigma-delta modulator configured to generate a digital data stream in response to an output of the buffer, and a plurality of chopping circuits nested within one another, including a first pair of chopping circuits having at least the amplifier disposed therebetween and configured to remove offset in the analog input signal, and a second pair of chopping circuit having at least the first pair of chopping circuits disposed therebetween. The amplifier, AAF, sigma-delta modulator, and chopping circuits can be formed with the same integrated circuit substrate. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US11770103B2 |
Passive mixer, operating method thereof, and devices including the same
A method and apparatus for input matching of a passive mixer are disclosed. The passive mixer includes a differential transistor pair including a first transistor and a second transistor, a first inductor having one end connected to the first transistor and another end connected to a ground, a second inductor having one end connected to the second transistor and another end connected to a ground, and a third inductor having one end for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and another end connected to a ground. |
| US11770102B2 |
Oscillator and imaging device
An oscillator is comprising a plurality of resonators and a voltage bias circuit that applies voltages to the plurality of resonators. Each of the plurality of resonators has a negative resistance element. In the oscillator, the plurality of resonators are connected in parallel to the voltage bias circuit respectively via separate inductors. |
| US11770101B2 |
Radio frequency oscillator
The invention relates to a radio frequency oscillator, the radio frequency oscillator comprising a resonator circuit being resonant at an excitation of the resonator circuit in a differential mode and at an excitation of the resonator circuit in a common mode, wherein the resonator circuit has a differential mode resonance frequency at the excitation in the differential mode, and wherein the resonator circuit has a common mode resonance frequency at the excitation in the common mode, a first excitation circuit being configured to excite the resonator circuit in the differential mode to obtain a differential mode oscillator signal oscillating at the differential mode resonance frequency, and a second excitation circuit being configured to excite the resonator circuit in the common mode to obtain a common mode oscillator signal oscillating at the common mode resonance frequency. |
| US11770097B1 |
Rail-attached bottom clamp for solar panels secured to roofs and building structures
A device, system, and method for mounting solar PV panels to rails. The device can include a bottom clamp that secures the solar PV panel to the rail by creating tension between the return flange of the solar panel frame and the rail. The bottom clamp can be structured to snap onto the rail sides. Mid-clamp versions of the bottom clamp can be so structured that the solar PV panel and bottom clamps can be removed by prying the opposing sides of the bottom clamp from above the solar PV panels. |
| US11770096B2 |
Support connector, solar panel connector attachable to the support connector, and attaching system comprising said support connector and said solar panel connector
A system for attaching a solar panel to a support, includes a support connector and a solar panel connector, where the support connector includes a U-shaped profile having a lower wall and two side walls, where an upper end of the side walls is bent inwards to provide vertical rails for receiving the panel connector; and the panel connector include a profile having: an upper C-shaped portion configured for receiving a side edge of a solar panel; a lower, upwardly oriented channel portion configured for receiving the vertical rail of the support connector; and at least one box-shaped portion connecting the upper C-shaped portion and the lower channel portion. |
| US11770094B2 |
Motor controller
A motor controller includes individual drive circuits, a plurality of energization systems, and a processing circuit that outputs a plurality of individual control signals. The processing circuit executes a first calculation process, a second calculation process, a third calculation process, and a fourth calculation process for each of the energization systems. The first calculation process is a process of calculating individual current command values. The second calculation process is a process of calculating the estimated temperatures of protection targets. The third calculation process is a process of calculating individual limit values. The fourth calculation process is a process of calculating the individual control signals based on the individual current command values that are limited by the individual limit values. The processing circuit calculates the estimated temperatures of the protection targets where current of a target system flows. |
| US11770092B2 |
Drive circuit of three-phase DC motor and electronic device using thereof
A bridge circuit includes a high-side transistor connected between a power supply terminal and an output terminal, and a low-side transistor connected between the output terminal and a ground terminal. A high-side pre-driver and a low-side pre-driver drive the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor. A first transistor is connected between the output terminal and the ground terminal in a manner to form the regenerative path parallel to the low-side transistor. In a regenerative state in which a current sinks from the output terminal, a regenerative control circuit controls the voltage of a control terminal of the first transistor in a manner that an output voltage of the output terminal approaches a target voltage higher than the power supply voltage of the power supply terminal by a first voltage width. |
| US11770090B2 |
Interconnected inverter system and method of manufacturing interconnected inverter system
An interconnected inverter system includes an inverter circuit that converts DC power from a DC power supply into AC power and provides AC power to an AC power line, a voltage sensor that detects a voltage of DC power on a DC power supply side of the inverter circuit, a DC current sensor that detects a current of DC power on the DC power supply side of the inverter circuit, and a motor ECU that controls the inverter circuit. The motor ECU calculates actual power of AC power provided from the inverter circuit by using a product of a voltage value detected by the voltage sensor and a current value detected by the DC current sensor and controls the inverter circuit such that calculated actual power follows a power command value from outside of the interconnected inverter system. |
| US11770086B2 |
Operation device and vibration generating device
An operation device includes a movable portion, a vibration generating unit, a fixed portion, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The vibration generating unit includes a movable yoke attached to the movable portion, and a fixed yoke attached to the fixed portion and disposed facing the movable yoke in a first direction. The vibration generating unit includes a permanent magnet attached to one yoke among the movable yoke and the fixed yoke, both ends of the permanent magnet in the first direction being opposite magnetic poles created by magnetization. The vibration generating unit includes an exciting coil attached to a different yoke from the one yoke among the movable yoke and the fixed yoke, the exciting coil being configured to induce magnetic flux in response to a current flowing through the exciting coil. |
| US11770083B2 |
Electric machine control
Controlling a DC-AC inverter of an electric machine, where the electric machine comprises a resonant main exciter having rotary transformer. A voltage level of DC power received at a DC-AC inverter is monitored and the frequency of AC power generated by the DC-AC inverter and supplied to the rotary transformer is controlled based at least in part on the voltage level of the DC power. |
| US11770074B2 |
Multiphase power converter having daisy chain control circuit and method for controlling the same
A multiphase power converter having a daisy chain control circuit and a method for controlling the same are provided. A main control circuit outputs an initial pulse width modulation signal having a plurality of initial pulses. One of a plurality of slave control circuits is connected to an output terminal of the main control circuit, and outputs a pulse width modulation signal according to the received initial pulse width modulation signal. Each of the rest of the plurality of slave control circuits outputs the next pulse width modulation signal to the next slave control circuit or the main control circuit according to the pulse width modulation signal received from the previous slave control circuit. The main control circuit automatically counts a quantity of the control circuits according to the received pulse width modulation signal and outputted initial pulse width modulation signal. |
| US11770073B2 |
Methods and apparatus for regulated hybrid converters
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for regulated hybrid converters. An example apparatus includes an input terminal; an output terminal, a first converter circuit coupled between the input terminal and an intermediate node, the first converter circuit having a first switch node, a second converter circuit coupled between the intermediate node and the output terminal, the second converter circuit having a second switch node; a first inductor coupled between the first switch node and the second switch node, and a second inductor coupled between the second switch node and the output terminal. |
| US11770070B2 |
Capacitance calculation apparatus and method thereof
A method includes providing a current flowing through a first flying capacitor of a switched-capacitor power converter, measuring a first voltage at one terminal of the first flying capacitor at a first voltage measurement time instant, measuring a second voltage at the one terminal of the first flying capacitor at a second voltage measurement time instant, and calculating a capacitance value of the first flying capacitor based on the first voltage, the second voltage, the first voltage measurement time instant and the second voltage measurement time instant. |
| US11770061B2 |
Electrodynamic drive
The invention relates to a handheld nail setting device comprising highly dynamic electromagnetic drive in the manner of a Thomson coil with soft-magnetic frame, comprising a first excitation coil (30) whose winding height is greater than its length, which hence is flat; a soft-magnetic frame in which the first excitation coil is arranged and against which it abuts, and which in in the manner of a pot magnet constitutes an open magnetic circuit which includes an outer region, a bottom and an inner region, and which is open on its end face, wherein the first excitation coil at least partly encloses the inner part of the frame; a short circuit armature preferably formed hollow cylindrical at least on its side facing the first excitation coil, which is movably mounted along an axis and which in its stroke starting position dips into the end-face opening of the frame and thereby at least partly encloses the inner part of the frame, wherein the frame entirely or predominantly is formed of a soft-magnetic composite material or one or more sheet stacks, which has a saturation flux density of at least 1.5 T and an effective specific electrical conductivity of not more than 106 S/m, and the first excitation coil and/or the frame include at least one means for strain relief, in particular in the form of an enclosure in order to at least partly absorb at least the radial forces occurring on the first excitation coil during an actuating operation vertically to the direction of movement, and wherein the Lorentz force acting on the short circuit armature is used to perform work. |
| US11770060B2 |
Vibration motor
A vibration motor having an insulating housing, a bidirectional coil and a magnetic ring is provided. The insulating housing is of cylindrical shape and at least three position-limiting ribs are protruded from an internal surface thereof. Each position-limiting rib is extended parallel to a central axial line of the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a pair of end plates on two ends thereof. The end plates are made of insulating material. The bidirectional coil is accommodated in the insulating housing and spaced apart from the internal surface of the insulating housing. The magnetic ring is movably accommodated in the insulating housing, and the magnetic ring is arranged coaxially with the insulating housing to surround the bidirectional coil. The position-limiting ribs are disposed adjacent to the magnetic ring and surround an outer edge of the magnetic ring. |
| US11770059B2 |
Vibration motor
The present invention provides a vibration motor including an installation housing having a through opening; a vibrator; an elastic member suspending the vibrator; a stator; a magnet; a coil; and a flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a first conduction part, a second conduction part, and a bending part. The vibration motor further comprises a connection bracket having a first connection part connected to the vibrator and a second connection part connected to the elastic member. By virtue of the configuration described in the invention, the assembly accuracy of the vibration motor is ensured. |
| US11770054B2 |
Motor
A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electronic component arranged at the second substrate. The stator includes a stator core, an insulator, and a coil wound around the stator core via the insulator. The insulator includes a coupling part connected to an external device. The first substrate is fixed to the insulator. The second substrate is fixed to the first substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are spaced apart in a rotation axis direction of the rotor. |
| US11770053B2 |
Method of determining a voice coil position and voice coil system
A method for determining a voice coil position of a voice coil includes providing a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap and suspending the voice coil in the magnetic gap, applying a driving signal to the voice coil to produce an electromotive force, providing inductive sensors mechanically coupled to the voice coil, measuring inductive sensor signals based on outputs from the inductive sensors, processing the measured inductive sensor signals by determining at least one inductive sensor signal ratio, and determining a representation of the voice coil position based on the at least one inductive sensor signal ratio. A voice coil system, which can be incorporated in a loudspeaker, is configured to carry out the method. |
| US11770051B2 |
Brushless motor assembly
A brushless motor assembly includes a motor body, a circuit board, and a plurality of electronic elements. The circuit board is disposed on the motor body and has a first surface and a second surface which face opposite directions. The first surface faces the motor body. The second surface has a plurality of thermoconductive layouts. The electronic elements include a plurality of power switching elements disposed on the second surface. A plurality of heat sinks is disposed on the second surface. Each of the power switching elements and each of the heat sinks are connected to each of the thermoconductive layouts, so that a thermal energy generated by each of the power switching elements is transferred to each of the heat sinks through each of the thermoconductive layouts. This configuration thereby reduces an overall volume of the brushless motor assembly. |
| US11770050B2 |
Heat exchange system and motor
The present application discloses a heat exchange system and a motor. The heat exchange system includes: a first heat exchange unit disposed in a to-be-cooled area of the motor for heat exchange, the first heat exchange unit including a plurality of first heat exchange branches connected in parallel; a second heat exchange unit disposed outside the motor, and being connected to the first heat exchange unit through a pipeline assembly to form a closed heat exchange loop. Each first heat exchange branch is connected with a first heat exchanger, a first valve group, and a first pressure information component, and the opening and closing of the first valve group is controlled according to the first pressure information of the first pressure information component. |
| US11770049B2 |
Generating electric power for a robotic end effector
A robot device includes a first link and a second link coupled to the first link via an elbow. One or more of the first link or the second link rotates about an axis of the elbow. The robot device further includes a generator disposed in the elbow. The generator is configured to generate electrical power based on relative angular mechanical movement associated with the elbow. The robot device further includes an end effector configured to transport a substrate within a substrate processing system. The end effector is disposed at a distal end of the second link. The end effector is to receive the electrical power generated by the generator. |
| US11770042B2 |
Baffle with integrated cooling for hybrid drive
A hybrid drive assembly is provided having a hybrid drive housing with an electric motor and a disconnect clutch therein. A transmission is connected to the hybrid drive housing and a torque converter is provided between the electric motor and the transmission. A baffle extends radially between the torque converter and the hybrid drive housing. The baffle includes a ring-shaped body that is affixed to the hybrid drive housing and extends completely around a transmission side periphery of the hybrid drive housing. A fluid pathway is located on or in the baffle, and orifices extend from the fluid pathway toward the electric motor. A fluid inlet port is connected to the fluid pathway, and a fluid connection is provided from a pressurized fluid source to the fluid inlet port. This allows fluid circulated by a pump within the transmission, to be sprayed on the electric motor for cooling. |
| US11770039B2 |
Rotor cooling with heat conductive material
A rotor core for an electric motor includes a core stack including a plurality of identical lamination plates, each lamination plate including a plurality of magnet slots formed therein, the magnet slots of each of the lamination plates axially aligned and adapted to support a plurality of permanent magnets therein, and a plurality of heat conductive inserts extending axially through the core stack and adapted to conduct heat from inner portions of the core stack outward toward distal ends of the core stack. |
| US11770034B2 |
Core for, rotating electrical machine
A core is a core included in a rotor or a stator of an axial-gap rotating electrical machine, in which the core includes a block-shaped first member and a plate-shaped second member that are constituted by powder compacts; the first member includes a first surface that faces the second member, and a first coupling portion that is formed at the first surface; the second member includes a second surface that faces the first surface, and a second coupling portion that is formed at the second surface and that is coupled to the first coupling portion; one of the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion is constituted by a protrusion, and the other one is constituted by a recess having a shape corresponding to the protrusion. |
| US11770030B2 |
Electronic device transmitting data in response to receiving power wirelessly and method thereof
An electronic device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a wireless power reception unit for wirelessly receiving power from an external device; a communication unit for transmitting data to the external device; and a processor for controlling the communication unit such that the communication unit transmits data to the external device when power is received from the external device through the wireless power reception unit, and since data is transmitted to the external device on the basis of a signal outputted from the wireless power reception unit, the data can be transmitted to the external device without requiring separate settings. |
| US11770028B2 |
Method and system for wireless charging of implantable medical devices
An RF charging system for implantable medical devices. The RF charging system includes a radio frequency (RF) signal, a first antenna configured to transmit the RF signal, a second antenna configured to receive the RF signal transmitted by the first antenna, tune characteristics of the RF signal, and improve power transfer with impedance matching circuitry, an RF to direct current (DC) converter configured to convert the RF signal of the second antenna into a DC signal, and a battery management circuit configured to receive the DC signal and provide voltage to a battery. |
| US11770026B2 |
Low gain wireless power transfer system and method
An apparatus includes a controller configured to control switches of a receiver, the receiver comprising a first receiver coil configured to be magnetically coupled to a transmitter coil of a wireless power transfer system, a rectifier circuit coupled to two terminals of the first receiver coil, a second receiver coil and a first auxiliary switch, wherein the second receiver coil is connected in series with the first auxiliary switch, and the second receiver coil is configured to be magnetically coupled to the transmitter coil, and wherein in response to a low power mode of the apparatus, the controller is configured to turn on the first auxiliary switch such that the first receiver coil and the second receiver coil are connected in series to boost a gain of the wireless power transfer system. |
| US11770025B2 |
Wireless power transmission appratus and control method thereof
Provided are a wireless power transmission apparatus and a control method thereof. The apparatus includes a transmitting unit which includes an inverter circuit, a first compensation circuit, and a transmitting coil; a receiving unit which includes a receiving coil, a second compensation circuit, and a rectifier circuit; a power regulation unit configured to regulate an output signal of the wireless power transmission apparatus; and a control unit configured to: acquire a voltage-and-current phase difference of the transmitting unit, a detection signal, and a power detection value of the wireless power transmission apparatus; control an operating frequency of the inverter circuit according to the voltage-and-current phase difference and a preset phase difference, and generate a power derating signal according to the detection signal, and control, according to the power derating signal, the power detection value and a power reference signal, the power regulation unit to regulate the output signal. |
| US11770024B2 |
Mouse pad having multi-coil capable of a dynamically adjusted configuration
A mouse pad suitable for operating with a wireless mouse is provided. The mouse pad includes a first charging circuit, a second charging circuit, a control circuit, a power supply module, a conversion circuit and a main body. The first charging circuit, the second charging circuit and the conversion circuit are each electrically connected to the control circuit, and the power supply module is electrically connected to the conversion circuit. The first charging circuit and the second charging circuit each outputs an electromagnetic energy to the wireless mouse. When the control circuit receives a load current flowing through the first charging circuit and the load current flowing through the second charging circuit, through the control circuit, a power supply current of the power supply module to the first charging circuit and to the second charging circuit are dynamically adjusted. |
| US11770023B2 |
Wireless power transfer method, circuit and apparatus
A method for wirelessly providing power to a LED includes: receiving an AC input voltage having a first frequency via a cable; generating a first rectified voltage at a first node from the AC input voltage, the first node coupled to a first filtering non-electrolytic capacitor; powering a driver with the first rectified voltage; wirelessly transmitting power by driving a first resonant tank with the driver with a driving voltage at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, the driving voltage having a sinusoidal envelope at the first frequency and approximating a square-wave at the second frequency; receiving the wirelessly transmitted power with a second resonant tank; generating a second rectified voltage at second node from a voltage across the second resonant tank, the second node coupled to a second filtering capacitor; generating a DC voltage from the second rectified voltage; and powering the LED with the DC voltage. |
| US11770019B2 |
System and method for charging electronic devices in a controlled environment
A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for providing electrical charge to residents of a controlled-environment facility. In an embodiment, a charging station may be provided in an area accessible to an inmate to allow charging of in an inmate smart device, such as a phone or tablet. In an embodiment, a portable charger may be provided to an inmate for charging a smart device. |
| US11770018B2 |
Method and device for charging a storage device with energy from an energy harvester
A method for charging a storage device, such as a capacitor or a supercapacitor, with energy from an energy harvester and using a voltage converter having a coldstart voltage convertor and a main voltage converter is provided. After charging a buffer capacitor with the coldstart voltage converter up to the first voltage V1, the method repetitively performs steps of a) charging the buffer capacitor with the main voltage converter up to a voltage V2>V1, followed by transferring charges from the buffer capacitor to the storage device, b) stopping transferring charges to the storage device when the voltage of the buffer capacitor is below a third voltage value V3, with V1 |
| US11770013B2 |
Stand for charger
A stand for a charger includes an attachment portion attachable and detachable to and from the charger and a leg portion configured to be capable of supporting the charger with the charger being lifted up off the ground surface when the stand is attached to the charger. |
| US11770009B2 |
Power source apparatus and a system
A power source apparatus includes a plurality of first power sources, each connected to a load through a power supply line, and at least one second power source, which is a sub power source to be used when the first power source is unable to output a predetermined voltage. The second power source is connected in parallel to the power supply line of at least one of the first power source through a diode. The second power source is provided on an anode side of the diode, the load is configured to operate at a voltage equal to or more than a first voltage, the first power source outputs a second voltage higher than the first voltage, the second power source outputs a third voltage, which is higher than the first voltage, the voltage output through the diode from the second power source being lower than the second voltage. |
| US11770005B2 |
Fault handling
This application relates to methods and apparatus for handling a fault associated with a voltage source converter (VSC) for exchanging electrical power between an AC system (101, 102) and a DC system (106-1, 106-2). The VSC (104) is connected to the AC system via an interface apparatus, comprising a transformer (107) with a set of primary windings (202) for coupling to a plurality of AC phases (A, B, C) of the AC system. In embodiments of the disclosure the set of primary windings having a neutral point (N) and the interface apparatus includes a fault module (301) having an energy storage element (302) connected in parallel with a resistive element (303) between the neutral point of the set of primary windings and a reference voltage, such as ground. The fault module does not interfere with normal operation but in the event of a phase-to-ground fault on the secondary side of the transformer, can induce earlier zero-crossing in the AC phases than otherwise would be the case, thus allowing AC breaker (108) to open with a reduced arcing time. |
| US11770004B2 |
Battery inverter system
A battery inverter system includes a plurality of battery inverter units, wherein each of the battery inverter units includes a multiphase inverter and a battery unit connected to the inverter on the DC side. The battery unit includes a plurality of individual units connected in parallel to one another and protected against overcurrent by means of rack fuses, and the battery inverter units are connected in parallel on the AC side and are configured to operate with a common drive pulse pattern. The battery inverter units are interconnected on the DC side via compensation fuses, wherein the compensation fuses are provided such that in the event of a short circuit in one of the inverters, the compensation fuses are triggered faster than the rack fuses. |
| US11770001B2 |
Stability monitoring device and method
A power system stability monitoring device comprising: a simple stability calculation unit that calculates the angular velocity and internal phase angle of a generator in each fault case based on fault conditions and the system configuration of the power system; a severity indicator calculation unit that calculates a severity indicator that represents the degree of system instability based on the angular velocity and internal phase angle; a PCS power supply severe parallel-off condition extracting unit that calculates a PCS power supply parallel-off severity indicator based on a parallel-off sensitivity indicator representing a degree of influence of PCS power supply parallel-off on the degree of instability and the severity indicator, and that extracts fault cases where the parallel-off severity indicator exceeds a prescribed threshold; and a detailed stability calculation unit that performs a detailed stability calculation for each extracted fault case based on the severity indicator or parallel-off severity indicator. |
| US11770000B2 |
Input voltage limiter for a microcontroller
An electronic control unit includes a microcontroller. The microcontroller includes a power supply pin configured to receive power and at least one input/output (I/O) pin. A voltage regulator includes a power input configured to connect to a power source and to a regulated power output connected to the power supply pin via an I/O fault protection circuit. |
| US11769998B2 |
Electric transmission line ground fault prevention systems using dual, high sensitivity monitoring devices
A system for preventing ground fault in a three-phase electric transmission line system caused by a line break, includes: the transmission lines, a programmable relay protection system, including a plurality of relay devices on each line, programmed to include: preset parameter ranges of at least two electric operating conditions, at least one high sensitivity instantaneous undercurrent and at least one high sensitivity condition selected from line differential overcurrent and negative sequence overcurrent (and combinations thereof), the preset ranges being acceptable operating parameter ranges; monitoring; permitting closed circuit operation when all of the lines show that the two operating conditions are within the preset acceptable operating parameter ranges; tripping a circuit breaker on a broken line when that line shows that the two operating conditions are outside the preset parameter ranges; and shutting down power to the broken line before it otherwise causes a ground fault or other short circuit. |
| US11769996B2 |
Systems and methods for utilizing electricity monitoring devices to mitigate or prevent structural damage
Methods and systems for identifying and correcting abnormal electrical activity about a structure are provided. An electricity monitoring device may monitor electrical activity including transmission of electricity via an electrical distribution board to devices about the structure. Electrical activity may be correlated with respective electrical devices to build an electrical profile indicative of the structure's electricity usage. Based on the electrical profile, abnormal electrical activity may be identified and corrective actions may be taken to mitigate or prevent structural damage. |
| US11769993B2 |
Electrical junction box housing
An electrical junction box housing includes: a case having an opening portion; a cover closes the opening portion; and a gasket fitted to a groove portion of the opening portion. The groove portion includes a case-side seal face in contact with the gasket, an inner wall is located on the inner side of the case-side seal face and protrudes upward, and an outer wall is located on the outer side of the case-side seal face and protrudes upward. The cover includes a cover-side seal face in contact with the gasket, and a water stop wall protruding downward from the outer side of the cover-side seal face. A first clearance is formed in the vertical direction between the water stop wall and an outer surface of the case, and a second clearance is formed in the radial direction between the water stop wall and the outer wall. |
| US11769977B2 |
Wire feeding and attaching system for camera lens suspensions
A wire feeding and bonding tool and method for attaching wires to a component having first and second spaced-apart wire attach structures. Wire from a supply is fed through a capillary having at least a linear end portion with a feed opening. The capillary is positioned with respect to the component to locate a first portion of the wire extending from the feed opening adjacent to the first wire attach structure, and the wire is attached to the first attach structure. The capillary is moved with respect to the component along a wire feed path to feed the wire from the first wire attach structure to the second wire attach structure and to locate a second portion of the wire extending from the feed opening adjacent to the second attach structure. The wire is attached to the second wire attach structure, and cut from the supply. |
| US11769972B2 |
Coaxial connector device
A signal contact member and a ground contact member to which a center conductor and an outer conductor of a coaxial cable are connected are supported by an insulating housing member. The ground contact member has an annular fitting portion that fits and connects to the ground contact portion of a mate connector device. The annular fitting portion is provided with an opening for disposing a center conductor connection portion of the signal contact member. A shell portion of a ground contact member or an insulating housing member is provided with a conductive member given a ground potential. The conductive member partially fills the opening in the annular fitting portion. |
| US11769967B2 |
Cover and locking member for electrical devices
A locking member particularly adapted to lock a cover onto an electrical connector which connects an electrical transmission conductor to a distribution conductor is provided. The locking member includes a tip portion, a gripping portion, a holding portion, and a head portion, where the tip portion has a smaller cross-sectional area than the gripping portion and where the head portion is a widest portion of the locking member. The present disclosure is also directed insulating cover assemblies that include an insulating cover and a locking member contemplated by the present disclosure. |
| US11769962B2 |
Electrical connector having a rear sealing member formed in a rear chamber partially occupied by a rib of an insulative housing
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue; plural contacts extending rearward through the base and exposing to the tongue; an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing to define a rear chamber therebetween; and a sealing member formed in the chamber to seal an interface between the base and the outer cover and an interface between the base and the contacts, wherein the base has a rear face and a rib protruding rearward from the rear face into the rear chamber. |
| US11769961B2 |
Electrical connector module and heat dissipation housing
The present disclosure provide an electrical connector module and a heat dissipation housing. The electrical connector module comprises a heat dissipation housing and a plurality of electrical connectors. The heat dissipation housing comprises a metal housing, a positioning component, a plurality of heat dissipating members, and a plurality of buckling members. The metal housing comprises a housing body, which comprises a disposing surface, an accommodating space, and a plurality of first openings. The plurality of first openings is disposed on the disposing surface and is in communicating with the accommodating space. The positioning component comprises a component body and a plurality of positioning members. The component body is disposed on the disposing surface and comprises a plurality of second openings corresponding to the plurality of first openings respectively. Two opposite side edges of each of the second openings are respectively connected with at least one of the positioning members. |
| US11769960B2 |
Connector with improved terminal locking device
Included are terminal metal parts mounted on ends of electric wires, a housing housing the terminal metal parts at a housing completion position thereinside and to be inserted and fit into a counterpart fitting portion headed by a tip, a terminal locking member mounted on the housing from outside along a direction crossing an insertion direction of the housing to the counterpart fitting portion and locking the terminal metal parts as they are at the housing completion position at a mounting completion position with respect to the housing, and a front holder causing the housing to be inserted headed by the tip and locking the terminal locking member at the mounting completion position. |
| US11769959B2 |
Terminal and wire with terminal
A terminal of the present disclosure is to be connected to a mating terminal and includes a tube portion and a wire connecting portion provided on a rear end part of the tube portion. A resilient contact piece is provided inside the tube portion. The resilient contact piece presses the mating terminal inserted from front of the tube portion toward an inner wall of the tube portion. An upper inspection opening and a lower inspection opening are formed in side walls of the tube portion. The upper inspection opening is formed on an upper side. The lower inspection opening is formed on a lower side (other side). The resilient contact piece is partially exposed from the upper and lower inspection openings with an optical path of light entering from either one of the upper or lower inspection opening and coming out from the other secured. |
| US11769957B2 |
Electrical connector with metal latch and grounding terminal brazing soldered to the shield and and product using the same
The present application relates to an electrical connector and an electronic product. The electrical connector includes a metal terminal; an insulating body configured to fixing the metal terminal; a metal shield covering an outer side of at least a portion of the insulating body; a metal latch connected to the insulating body, and provided with a ground terminal thereon, and wherein the insulating body, the metal shield, and the metal latch enclose an accommodating space; and a brazing solder disposed at least partially within the accommodating space, and the brazing solder being configured to be melted during welding and to fixedly connect the metal shield and the metal latch after being cooled, such that the metal shield is electrically connect to the metal latch. |
| US11769953B2 |
Antenna device and method for designing same
An antenna device provided with a single reflecting mirror having multiple focal points, and multiple primary radiators provided at respective positions of the multiple focal points. |
| US11769952B2 |
Antenna element and electronic device
An antenna element includes a substrate, a first vertically polarized dipole antenna, a second vertically polarized dipole antenna, a reflector and a first feeding structure. The substrate has a ground plate. The first vertically polarized dipole antenna includes a first antenna branch and a second antenna branch that are disposed in the substrate at an interval. The second vertically polarized dipole antenna includes a third antenna branch and a fourth antenna branch that are disposed in the substrate at an interval. The reflector includes several reflection pillars that are arranged in the substrate at intervals along a parabola. The first feeding structure electrically connects each of the first antenna branch, the second antenna branch, the third antenna branch, and the fourth antenna branch to the ground plate. |
| US11769950B2 |
Wireless communication device
A wireless communication device includes: a substrate containing a dielectric; a zeroth-order resonance antenna; a high frequency circuit mounted on the substrate and a metal body mounted on the substrate. The zeroth-order resonance antenna includes: a main plate providing a ground potential, a patch portion, a feeder line extending from a feeding point to the patch portion to electrically connect the patch portion and the high frequency circuit, at least a part thereof being arranged on a same surface as the patch portion on the substrate, and a short circuit portion. The metal body has a same potential as the main plate. The metal body has a longer length (greater height) than the patch portion in a Z direction. |
| US11769948B2 |
Dual-band dual-polarized antenna for 5G applications
A dual-polarized antenna is presented for 5G mobile communications. The antenna includes two discrete elements—a folded dipole and a folded monopole, which generate two orthogonal polarizations. Parasitic elements are used to realize higher-band operation. In one example, the antenna covers both the 28 GHz band and the 39 GHz band. The entire structure is designed on an ultra-thin four-layer laminate and is intended to be incorporated along the edges of smartphones to enable 5G operation. |
| US11769946B2 |
Electronic device comprising antenna
An electronic device according to an embodiment may comprise: a housing including a first slit having a length corresponding to a first frequency and a second slit extending from one point of the first slit in a different direction from the first slit and having a length corresponding to a second frequency, and configured to resonate at the first frequency and the second frequency by the first slit and the second slit; a printed circuit board disposed in the housing and at least partially made of a non-conductive material in regions corresponding to the first slit and the second slit; and a power supply unit for supplying power through one point of the housing, adjacent to the first slit or the second slit. Various other embodiments recognized from the specification are also possible. |
| US11769945B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device provided includes a host device and a display device. The host device includes a base shell and a handle, wherein the base shell has a first accommodating space and a fourth accommodating space. The handle has a second accommodating space and a third accommodating space. The electronic device further includes a first array antenna, a second array antenna, and a third array antenna. The first array antenna, the second array antenna, and the third array antenna are respectively arranged in three of the first accommodating space, the second accommodating space, the third accommodating space, and the fourth accommodating space, wherein the first array antenna, the second array antenna, and the third array antenna respectively have a first beam, a second beam, and a third beam facing a first axis. Accordingly, the electronic device provides stable connection quality and a higher transmission rate. |
| US11769944B2 |
Reconfigurable antenna array of individual reconfigurable antennas
Among other things, a reconfigurable antenna array (RAA) includes individual pattern reconfigurable antennas (PRA). Each of the PRAs has (a) an antenna, (b) components controllable to generate and effect any of two or more modes of the PRA, the modes having respectively different steered radiation patterns, and (c) inputs to receive drive signals for the antenna and control signals for the controllable components. Control circuitry has outputs coupled to the inputs of the PRAs to drive the antennas of the PRAs to form an array beam having an array peak in a particular direction and at the same time to deliver control signals for the controllable components to effect a selected mode of each of the PRAs for which the steered radiation pattern has a peak in the particular direction of the array beam and has one or more nulls in the directions of one or more of the side-lobes of the array beam. |
| US11769943B2 |
Antenna device and communication device
To implement an antenna device capable of further reducing an influence of proximity to a metal and feeding power to an antenna element in a more suitable manner.An antenna device includes: a substantially-flat-plate-shaped dielectric substrate; a metal base plate arranged on a first surface of the dielectric substrate; substantially-flat-plate-shaped first and second antenna elements arranged on a second surface of the dielectric substrate that is opposite to the first surface and on an opposite side of the dielectric substrate from the metal base plate so that a slit is formed; a first feeding pin that feeds power to the first antenna element; and a second feeding pin that feeds power to the second antenna element, in which a phase difference between feeding signals supplied to the first and second feeding pins, respectively, is approximately 180 degrees. |
| US11769933B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The present disclosure aims to suppress, in a winding type electrode body in which a negative electrode lead is bonded to a winding start side end of a negative electrode collector, electrode plate deformation in association with charge/discharge cycles. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a winding type electrode body (14). A negative electrode (12) includes a negative electrode lead (20a) bonded to a winding start side end of a negative electrode collector and is wound at least one turn from a winding-direction inner end so as not to face a positive electrode (11) with a separator (13) interposed therebetween. The negative electrode (12) includes an insulating tape (40) adhered to the negative electrode collector so as to straddle a surface of the negative electrode lead (20a) in a winding direction. |
| US11769932B2 |
Electrode construct, electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, vehicle, and stationary power supply
According to one embodiment, an electrode construct including an electrode and a composite membrane is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer and a current collecting layer. The active material-containing layer includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface. The current collecting layer is in contact with the second principal surface. The composite membrane includes a composite layer in contact with the first principal surface. The composite layer contains inorganic solid particles and a polymeric material. A peel strength σ1 at a first interface between the active material-containing layer and the composite layer and a peel strength σ2 at a second interface between the active material-containing layer and the current collecting layer satisfy a relationship of σ1>σ2, and σ2≤1 N/cm. |
| US11769919B2 |
Multi-functional high temperature structure for thermal management and prevention of explosion propagation
A system for thermal management and structural containment includes an enclosure, a heat source disposed within the enclosure; and a wick encompassing at least a portion of an outer surface of the heat source. |
| US11769910B2 |
Electrolyte and electrochemical device
An electrolyte including a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the weight percentage of the dinitrile compound is X, the weight percentage of the trinitrile compound is Y, and the weight percentage of the propyl propionate is Z, wherein, about 2.2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 8 wt %, about 0.1≤(X/Y)≤about 2.3, about 5 wt %≤Z≤about 50 wt %, 1 wt % |
| US11769908B2 |
Lithium and sodium superionic conductors
Presented are new, earth-abundant lithium superionic conductors, Li3Y(PS4)2 and Li5PS4Cl2, that emerged from a comprehensive screening of the Li—P—S and Li-M-P—S chemical spaces. Both candidates are derived from the relatively unexplored quaternary silver thiophosphates. One key enabler of this discovery is the development of a first-of-its-kind high-throughput first principles screening approach that can exclude candidates unlikely to satisfy the stringent Li+ conductivity requirements using a minimum of computational resources. Both candidates are predicted to be synthesizable, and are electronically insulating. Systems and methods according to present principles enable new, all-solid-state rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. |
| US11769904B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly is impregnated with at least part of the electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The separator separates the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes graphite. The following relation of a formula (1) is satisfied: “1.60≤NPR/AAR≤2.55”. “NPR” represents a ratio of a negative electrode charging capacity to a positive electrode charging capacity. “AAR” represents a ratio of an effective discharging capacity of the negative electrode to a total of a capacity corresponding to an amount of inactive lithium adhered to the negative electrode and the effective discharging capacity of the negative electrode. |
| US11769897B2 |
Fuel cell
A fuel cell includes a cell stack including unit cells stacked in a first direction, first and second end plates at first and second ends of the cell stack, respectively, the first and second end plates each including a metal part and a resin part, an enclosure engaged with the first and second end plates to surround the cell stack, a first outer gasket between the resin part of the first end plate and the enclosure and a second outer gasket between the resin part of the second end plate and the enclosure, each of the resin parts including cutoff portions spaced apart from each other, and each of the cutoff portions extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction or in a third direction intersecting each of the first direction and the second direction to expose the metal parts. |
| US11769890B2 |
SOEC system and method for operating a SOEC system
The present invention relates to an SOEC system (1), comprising a fuel cell stack (2) having a gas side (3) and an air side (4), and an ejector (5) for supplying a process fluid to a gas inlet (6) on the gas side (3), wherein the ejector (5) comprises a primary inlet (7), for introducing a water-containing primary process fluid through a primary line (8) of the SOEC system (1) into a primary portion (9) of the ejector (5), and a secondary inlet (10), for introducing recirculated secondary process fluid through a recirculation line (11) of the SOEC system (1) from a gas outlet (12) on the gas side (3) into a secondary portion (13) of the ejector (5), wherein the SOEC system (1) further comprises a control gas supply portion (14) for supplying control gas into the primary portion (9) and into the secondary portion (13) in order to control a pressure and/or mass flow in the primary portion (9) and in the secondary portion (13), and wherein the control gas supply portion (14) comprises a valve arrangement (19, 20) for controlling the pressure and/or the mass flow in the primary portion (9) and in the secondary portion (13).The invention further relates to a method for operating an SOEC system (1) according to the invention. |
| US11769887B2 |
Combustion system and combustion control method
A control method of a combustion system for controlling combustion of fuel within a combustor, the combustion system including the combustor having a catalyst for promoting the combustion and a first heater arranged so as to be able to supply heat to the catalyst, including: supplying the fuel and oxidizing gas to the combustor along with providing the heat to the catalyst by the first heater; and deactivating the first heater at a prescribed timing and increasing a flow rate of the fuel greater than that have been set before deactivating the first heater, wherein the prescribed timing is determined as a timing at which a generated heat of the fuel prior to deactivation of the first heater becomes equal to or greater than a heat required for raising a temperature of the fuel having the flow rate after increased up to a light-off temperature of the catalyst. |
| US11769886B2 |
Battery cell, cell stack, and redox flow battery
A battery cell that has a supply edge to which an electrolyte solution is supplied and a discharge edge from which the electrolyte solution is discharged has an introduction port that connects with the supply edge and a discharge port that connects with the discharge edge, and includes a plurality of meandering flow paths each of which is serially formed from the introduction port to the discharge port, the plurality of meandering flow paths being arranged in parallel in a widthwise direction. Each of the meandering flow paths has an introduction-side section extending from the introduction port toward a discharge edge side, a turn-back section that is turned back from an end portion on the discharge edge side of the introduction-side section toward a supply edge side, and a discharge-side section reaching the discharge port from an end portion on the supply edge side of the turn-back section. |
| US11769881B1 |
Ion-based electrochemical cell formulations and methods of preparation thereof
An organic electrochemical cell includes a cathode including a quinone compound, an anode including dipotassium terephthalate, an electrolyte, and a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic electrochemical cell configured such that, during a discharging operation, potassium ions travel through the separator and the electrolyte to the cathode. |
| US11769879B2 |
Structural energy storage with carbon fiber
A coaxially arranged energy storage device suitable for energy storage and structural support for a composite component is provided. The coaxially arranged energy storage device contains an anode core of a continuous carbon fiber;, an electrolyte coating coaxially arranged on the continuous carbon fiber core; and a cathode layer coating coaxially arranged to the continuous carbon fiber core on the electrolyte coating. The electrolyte coating comprises a gel or elastomer of a cross-linked polymer and a lithium salt and a Young's modulus of the gel or elastomer of a cross-linked polymer is from 0.1 MPa to 10 Mpa. The cathode layer comprises particles of a cathode active material embedded in a matrix of an electrically conductive polymer. Methods to prepare the coaxially arranged energy storage device are described and utilities described. |
| US11769878B2 |
Solid-state lithium-ion conductor and methods of manufacture thereof
A solid-state ion conductor includes a compound of Formula (I): Li4+xB7O12+0.5xX1aX21−a Formula (I) wherein, in Formula (I), 0≤x≤1; X1 is a pseudohalogen; X2 is a halogen; and 0 |
| US11769874B2 |
All-solid secondary battery
An all-solid secondary battery includes a cathode layer; an anode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer. The cathode layer includes a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer disposed on the cathode current collector, the anode layer includes an anode current collector and a first anode active material layer disposed on the anode current collector, the cathode active material layer includes a porous oxide-based composite solid electrolyte, and the solid electrolyte layer includes a sulfide-based solid electrolyte. |
| US11769872B2 |
Pre-lithiated silicon particles and methods of forming the same
The present disclosure provides a method of making a negative electrode material for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions. The method includes centrifugally distributing a precursor including silicon, lithium, and an additional metal (M) selected from the group consisting of: aluminum (Al), chromium (Cr), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), zirconium (Zr), yttrium (Y), cerium (Ce), and combinations thereof by contacting the precursor with a rotating surface in a centrifugal atomizing reactor and solidifying the precursor to form a plurality of substantially round solid electroactive particles that include Li4.4xSixMy, where x is greater than 0 to less than or equal to about 0.85 and y corresponds to a weight percent of M that is greater than or equal to 0.1 wt. % to less than or equal to about 10 wt. %. |
| US11769869B1 |
Battery having zinc plated copper electrode and method of making the same
A method uses an apparatus for fabricating a zinc plated copper electrode for a zinc anode battery. The method comprises the steps of: placing a zinc sheet and a copper sheet in a container of the apparatus; applying a first positive potential to the copper sheet; applying a first negative potential to the zinc sheet; passing a first predetermined current density; applying a second positive potential to the zinc sheet; applying a second negative potential to the copper sheet; and passing a second predetermined current density. |
| US11769867B2 |
Forming battery electrodes and associated battery
In certain embodiments, a method includes forming a battery electrode on a substrate. Forming the battery electrode on the substrate includes depositing a first electrode active material layer on a first portion of a surface of the substrate and depositing, to form a current collector, a conductive material using a thin film deposition process on a surface of the first electrode active material layer. The conductive material is deposited over an edge of the first electrode active material layer and onto a second portion of the surface of the substrate, the second portion of the substrate being adjacent to the first portion of the substrate. The method includes removing the battery electrode from the substrate, the battery electrode including the first electrode active material layer and the current collector. |
| US11769865B2 |
System and method of manufacture for LED packages having fill and dam wall planar with substrate end
A light emitting diode (LED) package includes an aluminum nitride (AlN) substrate, a patterned copper layer with polished portions formed on a first side of the substrate, at least one LED disposed over the polished portions of the patterned copper layer, covers incorporating one or more phosphors disposed over the LEDs, a silicone fill and dam walls. The silicone fill, which is bordered by silicone dam walls and silicone fill surfaces, is formed in between the LEDs and covers. In some embodiments, the silicone fill does not extend over the covers. The silicone fill surface and the ends of the dam walls are substantially planar with an end of the substrate. The LED package can also include a thermal pad disposed on an opposite side of the substrate. Embodiments also include methods for make the LED package. |
| US11769864B2 |
Substrate for mounting a light-emitting element and circuit board for mounting a light-emitting element that includes it, and light-emitting element module
A substrate for mounting a light-emitting element according to the present disclosure contains a crystal particle of aluminum oxide and is composed of an alumina-based ceramic that contains 97% by mass or more of Al as a value of an Al2O3 equivalent among 100% by mass of all components thereof. An average value of an equivalent circle diameter of the crystal particle is 1.1 μm or greater and 1.8 μm or less and a standard deviation of an equivalent circle diameter thereof is 0.6 μm or greater and 1.4 μm or less. |
| US11769859B2 |
Mid-infrared light emitting diode with graphene and black phosphorous layers and manufacturing method thereof, silicon photonic circuit including the mid-infrared light emitting diode and manufacturing method thereof
A mid-infrared light emitting diode is provided, including a graphene lower electrode layer, a black phosphorous layer, and a graphene upper electrode layer sequentially arranged along a thickness direction of the mid-infrared light emitting diode, in which the black phosphorous layer contacts the graphene lower electrode layer and the graphene upper electrode layer. A manufacturing method of the mid-infrared light emitting diode, a silicon photonic circuit and a manufacturing method thereof are also provided. |
| US11769858B2 |
Light emitting device and method of making the same
A light emitting device for emitting UVC radiation. The device comprises a substrate and a patterned layer. The patterned layer comprises a plurality of mask regions on the substrate. Exposed portions of the substrate are disposed between the mask regions. A plurality of nanostructures are disposed on the exposed portions of the substrate and over the mask regions, the plurality of nanostructures being a single crystal semiconductor and comprising a core tip. An active layer is disposed over the plurality of nanostructures. The active layer is a quantum well structure and comprises at least one material chosen from AIN, AlGaN and GaN. A p-doped layer is disposed over the active layer. Both the active layer and the p-doped layer are conformal to the plurality of nanostructures so as to form an emitter tip over the core tip. |
| US11769857B2 |
Micro light-emitting device
A micro light-emitting device, including a first type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, a second type semiconductor layer, a first type electrode, a second type electrode, and a light reflection layer, is provided. The light-emitting layer is arranged on the first type semiconductor layer. The second type semiconductor layer is arranged on the light-emitting layer. The first type electrode and the second type electrode are both arranged on the second type semiconductor layer. The light reflection layer is arranged between the light-emitting layer and the first type electrode. The light reflection layer includes an oxidized area and a non-oxidized area. A reflectance of the oxidized area is greater than a reflectance of the non-oxidized area. An orthographic projection of a part of the oxidized area on the first type semiconductor layer and an orthographic projection of the first type electrode on the first type semiconductor layer at least partially overlap. |
| US11769855B2 |
Micro light emitting device and display apparatus having the same
Provided is a micro light emitting device and a display apparatus having the micro light emitting device. The micro light emitting device includes a first-type semiconductor layer provided on a substrate, a superlattice layer provided on the first-type semiconductor layer, a current blocking layer provided on a side portion of the superlattice layer, an active layer provided on the superlattice layer and the current blocking layer, and a second-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer. |
| US11769846B2 |
Photodetector and method for forming the same
A photodetector is provided. The photodetector includes a bottom electrode region in a semiconductor layer, a light absorption material in the semiconductor layer, and a first buffer layer sandwiched between a bottom surface of the light absorption material and the semiconductor layer. The first buffer layer includes, from bottom to top, a first Si layer, a first SiGe layer, a second Si layer, and a second SiGe layer. A first atomic percentage of Ge in the first SiGe layer is less than a second atomic percentage of Ge in the second SiGe layer. The photodetector further includes a top electrode region over the light absorption material. |
| US11769844B2 |
Photovoltaic device including a p-n junction and method of manufacturing
A photovoltaic device includes a substrate structure and a p-type semiconductor absorber layer. A photovoltaic device may include a CdSeTe layer. A process for manufacturing a photovoltaic device includes forming a CdSeTe layer over a substrate. The process includes forming a p-type cadmium selenide telluride absorber layer. |
| US11769843B1 |
Photonic integrated module with metal embedded chips
A photonic module and a method of making same, the module having one or more optoelectronic chips, such as a laser diode typically having six sides, with each optoelectronic chip having two opposing sides (a first side and a second side) abutting and electrically connected to metal regions (preferably electro-formed), the two metal regions are physically distinct and electrically separate from each other, the two electro-formed metal regions serving, in use, as heat spreaders for conducting heat away from the optoelectronic chip. |
| US11769840B2 |
Oxide semiconductor substrate and schottky barrier diode
A schottky barrier diode element having a silicon (Si) substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer and a schottky electrode layer, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer includes a polycrystalline and/or amorphous oxide semiconductor having a band gap of 3.0 eV or more and 5.6 eV or less. |
| US11769833B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate structure on a substrate, forming an epitaxial layer adjacent to the gate structure, and then forming a first cap layer on the epitaxial layer. Preferably, a top surface of the first cap layer includes a curve concave upward and a bottom surface of the first cap layer includes a planar surface higher than a top surface of the substrate. |
| US11769831B2 |
High performance floating body VFET with dielectric core
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a floating body vertical field effect transistor with dielectric core and a method for fabricating the same. The floating body vertical field effect transistor can include a first semiconductor device including sidewall structures of a first gate metal sandwiched by dielectric layers, a first epitaxially grown channel surrounded by the sidewall structures and can include a second semiconductor device formed on the same substrate adjacent to the first semiconductor device; a salicide layer or doped layer formed between the first and second semiconductor devices and metallization contacting each of the S/D regions and the gate regions. The floating body vertical field effect transistor may include a P+ epitaxially grown channel formed on the same substrate adjacent to an N+ epitaxially grown channel, the P+ epitaxially grown channel separated from N+ epitaxially grown channel by a diffusion break. |
| US11769829B1 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer in a rectangular shape in a plan view; a transistor provided in a first region; and a drain lead-out region provided in a second region. A border line is a straight line parallel to longer sides of the semiconductor layer. The first region includes a plurality of source pads and gate pads. The second region includes a plurality of drain pads. One gate pad among the gate pads is disposed to dispose none of the plurality of source pads between (i) the one gate pad and (ii) one longer side and one shorter side. One drain pad among the plurality of drain pads is in the same shape as the one gate pad and is disposed close to a second vertex. The plurality of source pads include a source pad that is in a rectangular shape or an obround shape having a longitudinal direction parallel to the longer sides of the semiconductor layer. |
| US11769828B2 |
Gate trench power semiconductor devices having improved deep shield connection patterns
A power semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor layer structure comprising a drift region that comprises a wide band-gap semiconductor material and has a first conductivity type, a first gate structure and an adjacent second gate structure in an upper portion of the semiconductor layer structure, a deep shielding region in the drift region, and a connection region protruding upwardly from the deep shielding region and separating the first gate structure and the second gate structure from each other. The deep shielding region extends from underneath the first gate structure to underneath the second gate structure, and the deep shielding region has a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type. |
| US11769824B2 |
Gallium nitride transistor with a doped region
In some examples, a transistor comprises a gallium nitride (GaN) layer; a GaN-based alloy layer having a top side and disposed on the GaN layer, wherein source, drain, and gate contact structures are supported by the GaN layer; and a first doped region positioned in a drain access region and extending from the top side into the GaN layer. |
| US11769822B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor fin, gate spacers, a gate structure. The semiconductor fin is on the substrate. The gate spacers are over the semiconductor fin. The gate structure is on the semiconductor fin and between the gate spacers. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a first work function metal over the gate dielectric layer, in which a top surface of the first work function metal is lower than a top surface of the gate dielectric layer, and a distance between the top surface of the first work function metal and the top surface of the gate dielectric layer is less than about 1 nm. |
| US11769821B2 |
Semiconductor device having a corner spacer
A device includes a fin protruding from a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack over and along a sidewall of the fin; a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate stack and along the sidewall of the fin; an epitaxial source/drain region in the fin and adjacent the gate spacer; and a corner spacer between the gate stack and the gate spacer, wherein the corner spacer extends along the sidewall of the fin, wherein a first region between the gate stack and the sidewall of the fin is free of the corner spacer, wherein a second region between the gate stack and the gate spacer is free of the corner spacer. |
| US11769820B2 |
Methods of manufacturing a FinFET by forming a hollow area in the epitaxial source/drain region
Methods and devices formed thereof that include a fin structure extending from a substrate and a gate structure is formed over the fin structure. An epitaxial feature is formed over the fin structure adjacent the gate structure. The epitaxial feature can include a hollow region (or dielectric filled hollow region) in the epitaxial source/drain region. A selective etching process is performed to remove at least a portion of an epitaxial region having a second dopant type to form the hollow area between the first epitaxial portion and the third epitaxial portion. |
| US11769819B2 |
Semiconductor device structure with metal gate stack
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a metal gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a spacer element over a sidewall of the metal gate stack. The spacer element is doped with a dopant, and the dopant reduces a dielectric constant of the spacer element. An atomic concentration of the dopant decreases along a direction from an inner surface of the spacer element adjacent to the metal gate stack towards an outer surface of the spacer element. |
| US11769818B2 |
Field effect transistors with negative capacitance layers
The present disclosure describes a method includes forming a fin structure including a fin base portion and a stacked fin portion on a substrate. The stacked fin portion includes a first semiconductor layer on the fin base portion, a second semiconductor layer above the first semiconductor layer, and a sacrificial semiconductor layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The method further includes replacing the sacrificial semiconductor layer with a negative capacitance (NC) layer and forming gate electrodes around the NC layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer. The NC layer includes an NC dielectric material. |
| US11769817B2 |
Method for forming source/drain contacts
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor fin connected to the substrate, an epitaxial layer disposed over the semiconductor fin, and a silicide feature over and in contact with the epitaxial layer. The epitaxial layer including silicon germanium and further includes gallium in an upper portion of the epitaxial layer that is in contact with the silicide feature. |
| US11769812B2 |
Semiconductor device having multiple wells and method of making
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure over the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a source in the substrate on a first side of the gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a drain in the substrate on a second side of the gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a first well having a first dopant type, wherein the first well contacts at least two surfaces of the source. The semiconductor device further includes a second well having the first dopant type, wherein the second well contacts at least two surfaces of the drain. The semiconductor device further includes a deep well below the first well and below the second well, wherein the second well extends between the first well and the deep well. In some embodiments, the deep well has a second dopant type, and the second dopant type is opposite the first dopant type. |
| US11769811B2 |
Semiconductor device including gate structure and separation structure
A semiconductor device includes first and second gate structures respectively on first and second active regions and an insulating layer between the first and second active regions and a separation structure between a first end portion of the first gate structure and a second end portion of the second gate structure and extending into the insulating layer. The separation structure includes a lower portion, an intermediate portion, and an upper portion, a maximum width of the intermediate portion in the first direction is greater than a maximum width of the lower portion in the first direction, and the maximum width of the intermediate portion is greater than a maximum width of the upper portion in the first direction. |
| US11769810B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, and the gate electrode, a first electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, a second electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer provided at at least one position between the oxide semiconductor layer and the first electrode and between the oxide semiconductor layer and the second electrode, the first conductive layer containing a first metal element, a first element different from the first metal element, and one of oxygen (O) or nitrogen (N), and a second conductive layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer containing oxygen (O) and a second element different from both of the first metal element and the first element. The gate electrode is between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first direction. |
| US11769806B2 |
Bipolar junction transistors including wrap-around emitter and collector contacts
Structures for a bipolar junction transistor and methods of forming a structure for a bipolar junction transistor. The structure includes a first terminal having a first raised semiconductor layer having a top surface and a side surface, a second terminal having a second raised semiconductor layer, and a base layer positioned in a lateral direction between the first raised semiconductor layer of the first terminal and the second raised semiconductor layer of the second terminal. The structure further includes a contact positioned to overlap with the top surface and the side surface of the first raised semiconductor layer. |
| US11769798B2 |
Method of manufacturing a field effect transistor using carbon nanotubes and a field effect transistor
In a method of forming a gate-all-around field effect transistor (GAA FET), a fin structure is formed. The fin structure includes a plurality of stacked structures each comprising a dielectric layer, a CNT over the dielectric layer, a support layer over the CNT. A sacrificial gate structure is formed over the fin structure, an isolation insulating layer is formed, a source/drain opening is formed by patterning the isolation insulating layer, the support layer is removed from each of the plurality of stacked structures in the source/drain opening, and a source/drain contact layer is formed in the source/drain opening. The source/drain contact is formed such that the source/drain contact is in direct contact with only a part of the CNT and a part of the dielectric layer is disposed between the source/drain contact and the CNT. |
| US11769796B2 |
Hybrid complementary metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor nanosheet device
A semiconductor device formed by forming a stack of alternating horizontal nanosheet layers, recessing the stack for an n-type field effect transistor (nFET), growing crystalline semiconductor adjacent to the stack, forming vertical nanosheets from the crystalline semiconductor, forming inner spacers between the vertical nanosheets, and forming a high-k metal gate structure around the horizontal nanosheets and the vertical nanosheets. |
| US11769795B2 |
Channel conduction in semiconductor devices
An example apparatus includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region formed in a substrate to form an active area of the apparatus. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are separated by a channel. The apparatus includes a gate opposing the channel. A sense line is coupled to the first source/drain region and a storage node is coupled to the second source/drain region. An isolation trench is adjacent to the active area. The trench includes a dielectric material with a conductive bias opposing the conductive bias of the channel in the active area. |
| US11769793B2 |
Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor module
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor module is provided. The MIM capacitor module includes a bottom electrode base formed in a lower metal layer, a bottom electrode conductively coupled to the bottom electrode base, a planar insulator formed over the bottom electrode, and a top electrode formed in an upper metal layer over the insulator. The bottom electrode includes a cup-shaped bottom electrode component and a bottom electrode fill component formed in an interior opening defined by the cup-shaped bottom electrode component. |
| US11769788B2 |
High-resolution display device
A high-resolution display device is provided. The high-resolution display device includes a light-emitting layer including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, a plurality of transparent electrodes respectively formed on the second semiconductor layer in sub-pixel regions, a first electrode connected to the first semiconductor layer, a plurality of second electrodes connected to the plurality of transparent electrodes, a color-converting layer arranged over the light-emitting layer and configured to emit light of a predetermined color based on light generated by the light-emitting layer, which are sequentially stacked on a substrate including a plurality of sub-pixel regions. One or more ion injection regions corresponding to current injection regions corresponding to the plurality of the sub-pixel regions is formed in the second semiconductor layer. |
| US11769787B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to be spaced apart from each other on the substrate; a first insulating layer on the substrate; a light emitting element on the first insulating layer, located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including a first end portion and a second end portion; a third electrode on the substrate and electrically connected to the first electrode and the first end portion; a fourth electrode on the substrate and electrically connected to the second electrode and the second end portion; a second insulating layer on the substrate and covering the light emitting element, the third electrode, and the fourth electrode; and a light diffusion layer on the second insulating layer and including a light diffusion particle. |
| US11769784B2 |
Imaging device, electronic apparatus, and method of manufacturing imaging device
The present technology relates to an imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a method of manufacturing an imaging device capable of thinning a semiconductor on a terminal extraction surface while maintaining a strength of a semiconductor chip. There is provided an imaging device including: a first substrate having a pixel region in which pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, the pixels performing photoelectric conversion of light; and a second substrate in which a through silicon via is formed, in which a dug portion is formed in a back surface of the second substrate opposite to an incident side of light of the second substrate, and a redistribution layer (RDL) connected to a back surface of the first substrate is formed in the dug portion. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip. |
| US11769782B2 |
Solid-state imaging element and imaging apparatus
A solid-state imaging element including a photoelectric conversion layer of a first electrical conductivity type including a plurality of pixel regions, an electrode electrically coupled to the photoelectric conversion layer and provided for each of the pixel regions, a semiconductor layer provided between the electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer and having a bandgap larger than a bandgap of the photoelectric conversion layer, a diffusion part disposed in a vicinity of an edge of the pixel region and including an impurity of a second electrical conductivity type that is diffused from the semiconductor layer across the photoelectric conversion layer, and a non-diffusion part provided inside the diffusion part and not including the impurity of the second electrical conductivity type in the photoelectric conversion layer. |
| US11769780B2 |
Image sensors with stress adjusting layers
An image sensor with stress adjusting layers and a method of fabrication the image sensor are disclosed. The image sensor includes a substrate with a front side surface and a back side surface opposite to the front side surface, an anti-reflective coating (ARC) layer disposed on the back side surface of the substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the ARC layer, a metal layer disposed on the dielectric layer, and a stress adjusting layer disposed on the metal layer. The stress adjusting layer includes a silicon-rich oxide layer. The concentration profiles of silicon and oxygen atoms in the stress adjusting layer are non-overlapping and different from each other. The image sensor further includes oxide grid structure disposed on the stress adjusting layer. |
| US11769777B2 |
Circuit board, semiconductor device, and electronic apparatus
The present technology relates to a circuit board, a semiconductor device, and an electronic apparatus that reduce the generation of noise signals. A circuit board includes: a first conductor layer that has a first conductor portion including a conductor having a planar or mesh-like first basic pattern repeatedly disposed in the same plane; and a second conductor layer that has a second conductor portion including a conductor having a planar or mesh-like second basic pattern repeatedly disposed in the same plane, and a third conductor portion including a conductor having a planar, linear, or mesh-shaped third basic pattern repeatedly disposed in the same plane. The repeating cycles of the first and second basic patterns are substantially the same cycles, and the third basic pattern is different than the second basic pattern. The present technology can be applied to a circuit board of a semiconductor device and the like, for example. |
| US11769774B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and electronic device
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device for increasing the degree of freedom regarding arrangement of transistors. Provided are a photoelectric conversion unit, a trench penetrating a semiconductor substrate in a depth direction and formed between the photoelectric conversion units respectively formed in adjacent pixels, and a PN junction region configured by a P-type region and an N-type region on a sidewall of the trench, in which a part of sides surrounding the photoelectric conversion unit includes a region where the P-type region is not formed or a region where the P-type region is thinly formed. The PN junction region is formed on at least one side of four sides surrounding the photoelectric conversion unit, and the P-type region is not formed on the remaining sides. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated-type CMOS image sensor. |
| US11769772B2 |
Integrated circuit with active region jogs
An IC structure includes first and second gates, first and second source/drain regions, and an isolation region. The first and second gates each have a first portion extending along a first direction and a second portion extending along a second direction. The first source/drain regions are respectively on opposite sides of the first portion of the first gate. The second source/drain regions are respectively on opposite sides of the first portion of the second gate. The isolation region has a lower portion between a first one of the first source/drain regions and a first one of the second source/drain regions, and an upper portion partially overlapping with the second portion of first gate and the second portion of the second gate. A width of the lower portion is a less than a width of the upper portion. |
| US11769767B2 |
Diode triggered silicon controlled rectifier
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to diode triggered Silicon controlled rectifiers and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a diode string comprising a first type of diodes and a second type of diode in bulk technology in series with the diode string of the first type of diodes. |
| US11769766B2 |
Integrated circuit with mixed row heights
An integrated circuit structure includes: an integrated circuit structure includes: a first plurality of cell rows extending in a first direction, and a second plurality of cell rows extending in the first direction. Each of the first plurality of cell rows has a first row height and comprises a plurality of first cells disposed therein. Each of the second plurality of cell rows has a second row height different from the first row height and comprises a plurality of second cells disposed therein. The plurality of first cells comprises a first plurality of active regions each of which continuously extends across the plurality of first cells in the first direction. The plurality of second cells comprises a second plurality of active regions each of which continuously extends across the plurality of second cells in the first direction. At least one active region of the first and second pluralities of active regions has a width varying along the first direction. |
| US11769762B2 |
Semiconductor package and stacked package module including the same
A semiconductor package includes a lower redistribution layer having a plurality of lower ball pads forming a plurality of lower ball pad groups, a semiconductor chip on the lower redistribution layer, an expanded layer surrounding the semiconductor chip on the lower redistribution layer, and an upper redistribution layer on the semiconductor chip and the expanded layer and having a plurality of upper ball pads forming a plurality of upper ball pad groups. The number of the plurality of upper ball pad groups may be the same as the number of the of the plurality lower ball pad groups. Each of the upper ball pads in one of the plurality of upper ball pad groups, from among the plurality of upper ball pads, may be a dummy ball pad. |
| US11769758B2 |
Light emitting diode array containing a black matrix and an optical bonding layer and method of making the same
A light emitting device includes a backplane, an array of light emitting diodes attached to a front side of the backplane, a transparent conductive layer contacting front side surfaces of the light emitting diodes, an optical bonding layer located over a front side surface of the transparent conductive layer, a transparent cover plate located over a front side surface of the optical bonding layer, and a black matrix layer including an array of openings therethrough, and located between the optical bonding layer and the transparent cover plate. |
| US11769745B2 |
Chip structure, packaging structure and manufacturing method for chip structure
The present disclosure provides a chip structure, a packaging structure and a manufacturing method for the chip structure. The chip structure includes at least one chip body, each of which includes at least one radio frequency front-end device; the chip structure further includes a redistribution layer stacked on the chip body and at least one pin on the redistribution layer; each radio frequency front-end device corresponds to one pin, which is electrically connected to the radio frequency front-end device through an electrical connector extending through the redistribution layer; an extending direction of the radio frequency front-end device is consistent with an extending direction of the pin corresponding to the radio frequency front-end device; a surface of the pin distal to the redistribution layer is a first plane. In the present disclosure, with the first plane, the chip may be directly and electrically connected to a flexible circuit board. |
| US11769738B2 |
Apparatuses exhibiting enhanced stress resistance and planarity, and related microelectronic devices and memory devices
An apparatus comprises conductive segments comprising an uneven topography comprising upper surfaces of the conductive segments protruding above an upper surface of underlying materials, a first passivation material substantially conformally overlying the conductive segments, and a second passivation material overlying the first passivation material. The second passivation material is relatively thicker than the first passivation material. The apparatus also comprises structural elements overlying the second passivation material. The second passivation material has a thickness sufficient to provide a substantially flat surface above the uneven topography of the underlying conductive segments at least in regions supporting the structural elements. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, and related methods are also disclosed. |
| US11769729B2 |
Metal structures, devices, and methods
Provided herein are metal structures that may include a cobalt alloy, a nickel alloy, or nickel, as well as related devices and methods. The metal structures may be formed by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and may include trace amounts of precursor materials used during the CVD process. |
| US11769728B2 |
Backside power distribution network semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a semiconductor architecture including a carrier substrate, a landing pad included in the carrier substrate, a first semiconductor device provided on a first surface of the carrier substrate, the first semiconductor device including a first component provided on the landing pad, and a second semiconductor device provided on a second surface of the carrier substrate, a second component protruding from the second semiconductor device being provided on the landing pad. |
| US11769727B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided in the present invention. An under-cut structure is formed at an edge of a bit line contact opening in the process of forming the bit line contact opening for avoiding short problems caused by alignment shifting, and the process window of the process of forming the bit line contact opening may be improved accordingly. |
| US11769726B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode disposed on a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, a first gate contact and a dummy gate contact, which are spaced apart from each other in the first horizontal direction and are in contact with a top surface of the first gate electrode, a first interconnect line extending in a second horizontal direction and overlapping the first gate contact in a vertical direction with respect to the upper surface of the substrate, and a voltage generator configured to generate a first voltage and apply the first voltage to the first gate electrode via the first interconnect line and the first gate contact. The first gate electrode receives the first voltage via the first interconnect line and the first gate contact from the voltage generator. The dummy gate contact receives the first voltage via the first gate electrode. |
| US11769725B2 |
Integrated circuit device and formation method thereof
Disclosed are an integrated circuit device and a formation method thereof. The formation method of an integrated circuit device comprises the following steps: providing a substrate, wherein a first plug and a second plug are disposed inside the substrate; forming a first covering layer covering the substrate; forming, in the first region, a first opening exposing the first plug; forming a first conductive layer in the first opening; forming an isolation layer covering the first conductive layer and the first covering layer; forming, in the first region, a contact hole exposing the first conductive layer and a trench located above the contact hole and connecting with the contact hole, and forming, in the second region, a second opening exposing the second plug; and forming a conductive connection layer in the contact hole, forming a second conductive layer in the trench, and forming a fuse wire in the second opening. |
| US11769724B2 |
Package having different metal densities in different regions and manufacturing method thereof
A package has a first region and a second region surrounded by the first region. The package includes a first die, a second die, an encapsulant, and an inductor. The first die extends from the first region to the second region. The second die is bonded to the first die and is located within a span of the first die. The encapsulant is aside the second die. At least a portion of the encapsulant is located in the second region. The inductor is located in the second region. The inductor laterally has an offset from the second die. A metal density in the first region is greater than a metal density in the second region. |
| US11769723B2 |
Three dimensional integrated circuit with monolithic inter-tier vias (MIV)
A monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) device includes a lower tier including a lower tier cell and an upper tier arranged over the lower tier. The upper tier has a first upper tier cell and a second upper tier cell separated by a predetermined lateral space. A monolithic inter-tier via (MIV) extends from the lower tier through the predetermined lateral space, and the MIV has a first end electrically connected to the lower tier cell and a second end electrically connected to the first upper tier cell. |
| US11769719B2 |
Dual trace thickness for single layer routing
Embodiments include a package substrate, a method of forming the package substrate, and a semiconductor package. A package substrate includes a conductive layer in a dielectric, a first trace and a first via pad of the conductive layer having a first thickness, and a second trace and a second via pad of the conductive layer having a second thickness. The second thickness of second trace and second via pad may be greater than the first thickness of the first trace and first via pad. The dielectric may include a first dielectric thickness and a second dielectric thickness, where the second dielectric thickness may be less than the first dielectric thickness. The package substrate may include a third via having a third thickness on the first via pad, and a fourth via having a fourth thickness on the second via pad, wherein the third thickness is greater than the fourth thickness. |
| US11769718B2 |
Packages with Si-substrate-free interposer and method forming same
A method includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of redistribution lines in the plurality of dielectric layers, etching the plurality of dielectric layers to form an opening, filling the opening to form a through-dielectric via penetrating through the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a dielectric layer over the through-dielectric via and the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of bond pads in the dielectric layer, bonding a device die to the dielectric layer and a first portion of the plurality of bond pads through hybrid bonding, and bonding a die stack to through-silicon vias in the device die. |
| US11769710B2 |
Heterogeneous integration module comprising thermal management apparatus
Some examples described herein provide for a heterogeneous integration module (HIM) that includes a thermal management apparatus. In an example, an apparatus (e.g., a HIM) includes a wiring substrate, a first component, a second component, and a thermal management apparatus. The first component and the second component are communicatively coupled together via the wiring substrate. The thermal management apparatus is in thermal communication with the first component and the second component. The thermal management apparatus has a first thermal energy flow path for dissipating thermal energy generated by the first component and has a second thermal energy flow path for dissipating thermal energy generated by the second component. The first thermal energy flow path has a lower thermal resistivity than the second thermal energy flow path. |
| US11769708B2 |
Packaging-level chip and chip module packaged with magnetic cover, and electronic product
The present disclosure provides a packaging-level chip and a chip module packaged with a magnetic cover, and an electronic product. The packaging-level chip packaged with a magnetic cover comprises a die, a packaging material, a substrate and a magnetic cover. The packaging material is packaged on the outside of the die which is arranged on the substrate, and the magnetic cover is packaged on the top of the packaging material and is magnetic. |
| US11769705B2 |
Chip component and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a chip component including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side from the first surface, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other, an external surface resin configured to cover at least the third surface of the substrate, and a terminal electrode formed on the first surface of the substrate and exposed from the external surface resin. A recessed portion is formed in an end portion of the third surface of the substrate, the end portion being on the first surface side. The external surface resin is embedded in the recessed portion. |
| US11769700B2 |
Semiconductor substrate, semiconductor package including semiconductor substrate, and test method of semiconductor substrate
A semiconductor substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface may include a bump pad unit disposed on the upper surface. The semiconductor substrate may also include test pads disposed on the upper surface or the lower surface. The semiconductor substrate may also include traces configured to connect the bump pad unit and the test pads. The bump pad unit includes a main bump pad disposed on the upper surface, and a plurality of side bump pads disposed on the upper surface to be spaced apart from the main bump pad. The traces may connect the main bump pad and the plurality of side bump pads to the test pads in a one-to-one manner. |
| US11769699B2 |
Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing method
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a sound measuring unit that measures a first polishing sound of a film formed on a wafer, a sound pressure prediction regression model generation unit that generates a first regression model for obtaining a first sound pressure prediction value of the first polishing sound, a sound pressure prediction value calculation unit that performs a first calculation of the first sound pressure prediction value by using the first regression model, a residual difference calculation unit that performs a second calculation of a first residual difference, the first residual difference being a difference between a first sound pressure actual measurement value of the first polishing sound and the first sound pressure prediction value, and an end point determination unit that determines a polishing end point of the film by using the first residual difference. |
| US11769695B2 |
Semiconductor structure including low-resistance interconnect and integrated circuit device having the same
Integrated circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes providing a workpiece including a first metal feature in a dielectric layer and a capping layer over the first metal feature, selectively depositing a blocking layer over the capping layer, depositing an etch stop layer (ESL) over the workpiece, removing the blocking layer, and depositing a second metal feature over the workpiece such that the first metal feature is electrically coupled to the second metal feature. The blocking layer prevents the ESL from being deposited over the capping layer. |
| US11769694B2 |
Contact plug with impurity variation
A method includes forming an opening in a dielectric layer, depositing a seed layer in the opening, wherein first portions of the seed layer have a first concentration of impurities, exposing the first portions of the seed layer to a plasma, wherein after exposure to the plasma the first portions have a second concentration of impurities that is less than the first concentration of impurities, and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a conductive feature. In an embodiment, the seed layer includes tungsten, and the conductive material includes tungsten. In an embodiment, the impurities include boron. |
| US11769692B2 |
High breakdown voltage inter-metal dielectric layer
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes depositing an etch-stop layer (ESL) over a first dielectric layer. The ESL layer deposition can include: flowing a first precursor over the first dielectric layer; purging at least a portion of the first precursor; flowing a second precursor over the first dielectric layer to form a sublayer of the ESL layer; and purging at least a portion of the second precursor. The method can further include depositing a second dielectric layer on the ESL layer and forming a via in the second dielectric layer and through the ESL layer. |
| US11769689B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method may include forming a stack, forming a preliminary stepped structure by patterning the stack, forming a first stepped structure, a second stepped structure, and an opening located between the first stepped structure and the second stepped structure by etching the preliminary stepped structure, forming a passivation layer that fills the opening and covers the first stepped structure, and forming a third stepped structure by etching the second stepped structure using the passivation layer as an etching barrier. |
| US11769688B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor memory having reduced interference between bit lines and word lines
A method for manufacturing a flash memory device is provided. The method includes: providing a substrate structure including a substrate, a plurality of active regions and a plurality of first isolation regions alternately arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of gate structures on the substrate, the gate structures being spaced apart from each other and extending in the second direction, and a gap structure between the gate structures; forming an overhang surrounding an upper portion of the gate structures to form a gap structure between the gate structures; and forming a second isolation region filling an upper portion of the gap structures and leaving a first air gap between the gap structures. |
| US11769686B2 |
Methods and apparatus for electroless plating dispense
A single-substrate electroless (EL) plating apparatus including a workpiece chuck that is rotatable about rotation axis and inclinable about an axis of inclination. The chuck inclination may be controlled to a non-zero inclination angle during a dispense of plating solution to improve uniformity in the surface wetting and/or plating solution residence time across the a surface of a workpiece supported by the chuck. The angle of inclination may be only a few degrees off-level with the plating solution dispensed from a nozzle that scans over a high-side of the chuck along a radius of the workpiece while the chuck rotates. The angle of inclination may be actively controlled during dispense of the plating solution. The inclination angle may be larger at commencement of the plating solution dispense than at cessation of the dispense. |
| US11769682B2 |
Storage apparatus for storing cassettes for substrates and processing apparatus equipped therewith
A storage apparatus to store cassettes for substrates comprising a moveable base plate constructed and arranged to hold cassettes, an outer wall provided with an opening to receive and remove the cassettes from the base plate, and a moving device constructed and arranged to move the base plate with respect to the opening. The storage apparatus is provided with a stationary sensor near the opening for detecting at least one of a presence and a correct orientation of a substrate cassette on the base plate at the opening. |
| US11769675B2 |
Apparatus for plasma dicing
An apparatus is for plasma dicing a semiconductor substrate of the type forming part of a workpiece, the workpiece further including a carrier sheet on a frame member, where the carrier sheet carries the semiconductor substrate. The apparatus includes a chamber, a plasma production device configured to produce a plasma within the chamber suitable for dicing the semiconductor substrate, a workpiece support located in the chamber for supporting the workpiece through contact with the carrier sheet, and a frame cover element configured to, in use, contact the frame member thereby clamping the carrier sheet against an auxiliary element disposed in the chamber. |
| US11769672B2 |
Semiconductor structure and forming method thereof
A semiconductor structure and a forming method thereof are provided. In one form, a forming method includes: forming separated mandrel lines, where opposite sidewalls of adjacent mandrel lines in a second direction are a first sidewall and a second sidewall; forming a sacrificial spacer on a sidewall of the mandrel line; forming a sacrificial layer on a part of the base between adjacent sacrificial spacers; forming a filling layer on the base; removing the sacrificial layer to form an opening; removing the sacrificial spacer to form a trench; forming a mask spacer on a sidewall of the trench, where the mask spacer is further filled between the sidewall of the mandrel line and the filling layer, and the mask spacer located on the sidewall of the trench forms a first groove; forming a second groove running through the filling layer between the sidewall of the trench and the mask spacer located on the second sidewall; removing the mandrel line to form a third groove, where a cutting layer is formed in at least one of the third groove, the second groove, and the first groove, and the cutting layer cuts the corresponding groove along the first direction; and patterning a target layer below the third groove, the second groove, and the first groove to form a target pattern. The embodiments in the present disclosure improve the pattern precision of the target pattern. |
| US11769670B2 |
Methods for forming a rhenium-containing film on a substrate by a cyclical deposition process and related semiconductor device structures
Methods for forming a rhenium-containing film on a substrate by a cyclical deposition are disclosed. The method may include: contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a rhenium precursor; and contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant. Semiconductor device structures including a rhenium-containing film formed by the methods of the disclosure are also disclosed. |
| US11769667B2 |
Template, method for producing template, and method for producing semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a template for nanoimprint lithography includes a substrate having a main surface and a mesa structure on the main surface. The mesa structure has an upper surface that can be patterned with recesses or the like. A film containing a quantum dot or quantum dots is on the main surface other than the upper surface of the mesa structure. The quantum dot can absorb ultraviolet light and emit visible light. |
| US11769666B2 |
Selective deposition of silicon using deposition-treat-etch process
Methods for selective silicon film deposition on a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface are described. More specifically, the process of depositing a film, treating the film to change some film property and selectively etching the film from various surfaces of the substrate are described. The deposition, treatment and etching can be repeated to selectively deposit a film on one of the two substrate surfaces. |
| US11769654B2 |
Two dimensional MSMS
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising: performing a plurality of cycles of operation during a single experimental run, wherein each cycle comprises: mass selectively transmitting precursor ions of a single mass, or range of masses, through or out of a mass separator or mass filter at any given time, wherein the mass separator or mass filter is operated such that the single mass or range of masses transmitted therefrom is varied with time; and mass analysing ions. |
| US11769653B2 |
Thermionic wave generator (TWG)
Energy conversion systems that may employ control grid electrodes, acceleration grid electrodes, inductive elements, multi-stage anodes, and emissive carbon coatings on the cathode and anode are described. These and other characteristics may allow for advantageous thermal energy to electrical energy conversion. |
| US11769652B2 |
Devices and methods for controlling wafer uniformity in plasma-based process
Devices and methods for controlling wafer uniformity in plasma-based process is disclosed. In one example, a device for plasma-based processes is disclosed. The device includes: a housing defining a process chamber and a gas distribution plate (GDP) arranged in the process chamber. The housing comprises: a gas inlet configured to receive a process gas, and a gas outlet configured to expel processed gas. The GDP is configured to distribute the process gas within the process chamber. The GDP has a plurality of holes evenly distributed thereon. The GDP comprises a first zone and a second zone. The first zone is closer to the gas outlet than the second zone. At least one hole in the first zone is closed. |
| US11769648B2 |
Ion source gas injection beam shaping
An ion source for extracting a ribbon ion beam with improved height uniformity is disclosed. Gas nozzles are disposed in the chamber proximate the extraction aperture. The gas that is introduced near the extraction aperture serves to shape the ribbon ion beam as it is being extracted. For example, the height of the ribbon ion beam may be reduced by injecting gas above and below the ion beam so as to compress the extracted ion beam in the height direction. In some embodiments, the feedgas is introduced near the extraction aperture. In other embodiments, a shield gas, such as an inert gas, is introduced near the extraction aperture. |
| US11769647B2 |
Fluid cooled reflective x-ray source
During operation of a reflection target x-ray source, heat must be removed from many components. The electron beam must be steered to the target and may interact with structures along this path. There is also heat generated in the target itself. This can be excessive, since only a very small percentage of the electron beam's energy is transformed into x-rays. Finally, the x-rays must exit the vacuum through the window, which can also be heated both by the x-rays, reflected electrons, and radiant heat from the target. A water cooled reflective x-ray source provides for water or other fluid cooling of the centering aperture, x-ray target, and/or exit window. |
| US11769645B2 |
Motor device
A motor device includes a shell, a motor body and a connection terminal. The motor body is supported on the shell and includes a power supply terminals a support and a lead wire. The power supply terminal penetrates a through hole of the support in a first direction and is pressed into a pressing portion of the connection terminal. The lead wire extends from the power supply terminal in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, or extends in a direction inclined with respect to the first direction toward a side approaching the connection terminal. A first protrusion restricting movement of the power supply terminal in the first direction toward a side opposite to the connection terminal is provided at a position on the shell facing the power supply terminal in the first direction. |
| US11769643B2 |
Underwater device with rotary switch and related switch assembly and method
An underwater device may include a waterproof housing defining a dry cavity and having a nonferrous switch interface wall. The underwater device may include a rotary switch within the dry cavity and including a switch body, and a switch shaft extending outwardly from the switch body. The underwater device may include a first magnetic body within the dry cavity and coupled between the switch shaft and the nonferrous switch interface wall, and a second magnetic body external from the waterproof housing and adjacent the nonferrous switch interface wall in alignment with the first magnetic body so that rotation of the second magnetic body rotates the switch shaft. Each of the first magnetic body and the second magnetic body may include a permanent magnet. |
| US11769638B2 |
Power storage device comprising an electricity storage element, a case with an opening, and a sealing member sealing the opening
A power storage device includes an electricity storage element, a case, and a sealing member which includes an elastic member. The elastic member contains an elastic polymer and a hindered phenol compound. The hindered phenol compound having a phenol skeleton includes a first hindered group and a second hindered group. The first hindered group is bonded to a first substitution site of the phenol skeleton, and the second hindered group is bonded to a second substitution site of the phenol skeleton. Each of the first substitution site and second substitution site is adjacent to a substitution site of the phenol skeleton to which a phenolic hydroxy group is bonded. One of one or more tertiary carbon atoms in the first hindered group and one of one or more tertiary carbon atoms in the second hindered group are bonded to the first substitution site and the second substitution site, respectively. |
| US11769635B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing same
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body. The element body includes a stack of first internal electrode layers, dielectric layers and second internal electrode layers. The element body has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The multilayer ceramic capacitor also includes a first external electrode formed on the first surface of the element body and a second external electrode formed on the second surface of the element body. The first internal electrode layer has a first current path extending in a first plane perpendicular to the first surface such that the first current path has a shorter component on the first plane in a first direction toward the first surface than in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second internal electrode layer has a second current path that possesses a similar anisotropy to the first internal electrode layer. |
| US11769627B2 |
Ignition coil for internal combustion engine
An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes a primary bobbin including a winding cylinder part and a connection part between the winding cylinder part and a connector part, a primary coil including a primary main coil and a primary sub coil, and a secondary coil. When one of the primary main coil and the primary sub coil that includes an innermost coil part around the winding cylinder part is defined as a firstly-wound coil and the other is defined as a secondly-wound coil, firstly-wound ends, which are ends of the firstly-wound coil, and secondly-wound ends, which are ends of the secondly-wound coil, are attached to the connection part, and a shortest distance from a central axis of the winding cylinder part to each of the firstly-wound ends is smaller than a shortest distance from the central axis of the winding cylinder part to each of the secondly-wound ends. |
| US11769626B2 |
Electromagnetic device equipped with at least one wireless sensor
An electromagnetic device comprises an enclosure, at least one winding in the interior of the enclosure, at least one wireless sensor attached to the winding for sensing at least one property or deficiency of the electromagnetic device and at least one active communication unit comprising transceiving circuitry and at least one antenna, wherein the transceiving circuitry is placed on the exterior of the enclosure and the least one antenna is placed inside the enclosure for communication with the at least one sensor, wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least one sensor attached to the winding, and wherein the at least one sensor attached to the winding is a printed electronic sensor comprising electronics printed on an insulating substrate, where the substrate faces the at least one winding. |
| US11769624B2 |
Coil electronic component
A coil electronic component includes a body including a coil portion disposed therein, and including a plurality of magnetic particles, and external electrodes connected to the coil portion. The body includes an internal region and a protective layer disposed on a surface of the internal region. A first particle of the plurality of magnetic particles included in the protective layer includes an oxide film disposed on a surface of the first particle, and a second particle, having a size greater than a size of the first particle, of the plurality of magnetic particles includes a coating layer disposed on a surface of the second particle and having a composition different from a composition of the oxide film. |
| US11769622B2 |
Inductor device and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed is an inductor device and method of manufacturing the same. The inductor device includes an insulating layer, a coil pattern formed on two opposing surfaces of the insulating layer, a first insulating film and a second insulating film formed with different insulating materials on the coil pattern, and a magnetic member formed to enclose the insulating layer, the coil pattern and the first and the second insulating films. By forming thin dual insulating films having a high adhesive strength and breaking strength on an inductor coil, it is possible to improve Ls characteristics of the inductor device and increase the inductance. |
| US11769621B2 |
Inductor with an electrode structure
A method to form an electrical component, comprising: overlaying a conductive and adhesive layer on a body and covering a first portion of a terminal part of a conductive element, wherein a second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element is not covered by the conductive and adhesive layer; and overlaying at least one metal layer on the conductive and adhesive layer and covering the second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element, wherein the at least one metal layer is electrically connected to the second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element for electrically connecting with an external circuit. |
| US11769614B2 |
Coil component and method for producing magnetic powder-containing resin material used therefor
A coil component that can maintain a high magnetic permeability and improve a DC superposition characteristic, and a method for producing a magnetic powder-containing resin material used to provide such a coil component. A coil component according includes an element body including a coil conductor and a magnetic portion. The coil conductor is formed of a wound conductor wire. The magnetic portion containing metal magnetic material grains covered with an insulating coating, a resin, and insulator grains. The coil component further includes an external electrode electrically connected to an extended portion of the coil conductor and disposed on a surface of the element body. The insulator grains have a relative permeability lower than a relative permeability of the metal magnetic material grains, and the insulator grains and the insulating coating are a compound whose main component is the same. |
| US11769611B2 |
Sealing arrangement for a bushing and a bushing with such a sealing arrangement
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a sealing arrangement of a bushing for a power electrical device and a bushing comprising the sealing arrangement. The sealing arrangement includes a top cover; a central conductor going through the top cover; a guide element having a cylinder portion and a flange portion extended from a middle part of the cylinder portion, wherein the cylinder portion is arranged between the top cover and the central conductor, and the flange portion is connected onto the top cover; a static sealing structure provided between the guide element and the top cover; and a dynamic sealing structure provided between the guide element and the central conductor. With the new sealing structure design, it could provide a good sealing performance so that the bushing can be used in various environments. |
| US11769609B1 |
Moisture resistant seal for electrical cable assemblies
A waterproof seal for electrical assemblies wherein an outer sheath of an electrical cable is removed to expose the wires and the insulation is removed from the wires to form a window of exposed electrical conductor, the electrical conductors being maintain apart from each other and contained in a cover that may comprise a connector, an epoxy applied to the electrical conductors to fill in all the space in and around the electrical conductors and the cover to form a waterproof seal that prevents water from wicking past the waterproof seal via an interior of the electrical cable. |
| US11769608B2 |
MFC in pressboards for HV devices
A pressboard for high-voltage devices is disclosed. The pressboard has a density of 0.6-1.3 g/cm3 according to IEC60641-2, and includes 1-15% microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) based on the total dry weight of the pressboard. The pressboard also includes an insulation element. For example, the pressboard is impregnated with an electrically insulating compound. The insulation element may be used in a high-voltage device, such as a power transformer. |
| US11769599B2 |
Evaluation of decision tree using ontology
A system and method are provided for use in evaluating a clinical guideline which is represented in a machine readable version by a decision tree comprising at least one node and a decision rule associated with the node. The decision rule comprises at least one variable representing a biomedical quantity. The biomedical quantity is extracted from the patient data using an ontology which defines concepts and their relationships in a medical domain of the clinical guideline and which thereby relates the variable of the decision rule to the patient data. If said extraction is not possible, a view of the patient data is presented to the user to enable the user to determine the biomedical quantity from the view. Advantageously, the user is assisted in evaluating the clinical guideline even when it is not possible to automatically extract the biomedical quantity from the patient data. |
| US11769598B2 |
Pre-emptive asthma risk notifications based on medicament device monitoring
This description provides risk notifications for a geographic region to inform patients and effect behavior changes to prevent rescue events and exacerbations from occurring. A risk analysis for a geographic region is based on data gathered from a population of patients who may experience respiratory events within the geographic region. Rescue medication events, environmental conditions relevant to the rescue medication events, and other contextually relevant information are detected by sensors associated with a population of patients' medicament device/s and are collected from other sources, respectively, to provide a basis to determine a risk score. This data is analyzed to determine the severity of the risk of a respiratory event occurring within a geographical region and accordingly sending a notification to patients within that geographical region. |
| US11769596B2 |
Plasma based protein profiling for early stage lung cancer diagnosis
The invention provides biomarkers and combinations of biomarkers useful in diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer. Measurements of these biomarkers are inputted into a classification system such as Random Forest to assist in determining the likelihood that an individual has non-small cell lung cancer. Kits comprising agents for detecting the biomarkers and combination of biomarkers, as well as systems that assist in diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer are also provided. |
| US11769588B2 |
Radiography control apparatus, radiography system, display control method, and storage medium
A radiography control apparatus includes a display that includes a display screen and a hardware processor. In causing the display screen to display a list of information on an examination that is set for a patient and that relates to taking a radiographic image, the hardware processor causes the display screen to display, in a display area, an imaging item that is included in the examination and categorized into a category based on a set categorization criterion, separating the imaging item by the category. |
| US11769586B2 |
Medical cloud platform data sharing system and method based on third-party business
The present application relates to a system and method for sharing data on a medical cloud platform based on third-party business. The system includes: a terminal device and a cloud platform. The cloud platform receives a massive quantity of vital-sign data that are sent by the terminal device, analyzes and processes the massive quantity of vital-sign data by using the deep-learning framework of distributed parallel computation, screens abnormal data, and sends an abnormal-event warning to the user, to prompt the medical care personnel to quickly intervene. The terminal device may send an instruction to the cloud platform, including a user-self-defined-term setting instruction, a real-time-data service instruction, a data invoking instruction, a medical-document service instruction, a consultation-service instruction, a medical-cooperation-information issuing instruction, a data analyzing and counting instruction, a patient-state evaluating instruction, a data-analysis-report managing instruction, and a medical-tool-library inquiring instruction, to obtain the support from various third-party-business services. |
| US11769582B2 |
Systems and methods of managing medical images
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for managing one or more images. An example method for indexing involves operating a processor to, divide an image portion of an image of the one or more images into a plurality of patches, for each patch of the image: detect one or more features of the patch; and assign the patch to at least one cluster of a plurality of clusters of the image, based on the one or more features of the patch. The processor is operable to, for each cluster of the image, select at least one patch from the cluster as at least one representative patch for the cluster; for each representative patch, generate an encoded representation based on one or more features of the representative patch; and generate an index identifier for the image based on the encoded representations of the representative patches of the image. |
| US11769581B2 |
System and method for clinical assessments and interventions using multidimensional scaling analysis
Given longstanding problems with patient engagement across the continuum of care and the need to address growing health disparities, individualized assessments represent an important element in clinical interventions. The present method (and system that executes this method) is a novel procedure that employs idiographic techniques, an n-tier cross-platform architecture, and system features that automatically and quickly generate individualized patient assessment data for use in clinical interventions. |
| US11769579B2 |
Facilitating pulmonary and systemic hemodynamics
The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for monitoring and for facilitating pulmonary and systemic hemodynamics in the treatment and/or prevention of cardiac arrhythmias or structural cardiac changes, caused by altered preload. The system comprises: a pressure generator; a first sensor configured to generate output signals conveying information related to venous blood accumulation during cardiac preload in the subject; a second sensor configured to generate output signals conveying information related to systemic arterial circulation in the subject; and one or more hardware processors configured by machine-readable instructions to control the pressure generator to adjust the pressure levels of the flow of breathable gas during one or both of inhalation and exhalation to facilitate the pulmonary and systemic circulation based on the output signals from the first sensor and the second sensor. |
| US11769576B2 |
Method and system for improving care determination
Embodiments of a method and system for improving care determination for care providers in relation to a condition of a user associated with a mobile device can include: collecting a log of use dataset associated with user digital communication behavior at the mobile device; collecting a mobility supplementary dataset corresponding to a mobility-related sensor of the mobile device; determining a medical status analysis for a condition of the user based on at least one of the log of use dataset and the mobility supplementary dataset, the medical status analysis including at least one of a diagnosis and a therapeutic intervention associated with the condition; and promoting the at least one of the diagnosis and the therapeutic intervention to a care provider. |
| US11769570B2 |
Method and systems for genome sequence compression
Systems and methods for genome sequence compression and decompression are provided. The method for compression encoding of a genome sequence includes partitioning a genome sequence into a plurality of Group of Bases (GoBs) and processing each of the plurality of GoBs independently to encode the genome sequence into a bit stream. Processing each of the plurality of GoBs includes dividing each of the plurality of GOBs into a first part and a second part, the first part including an initial context part and the second part including a learning-based inference part. The processing each of the plurality of GoBs further includes encoding the first part in accordance with a Markov model, encoding the second part in accordance with a learning-based model, and encoding the encoded first part and the encoded second part into the bit stream with an arithmetic encoder. The learning-based model may include Long and Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based neural networks. |
| US11769564B2 |
Reduced-leakage apparatus for sampling electrical signals and associated methods
An apparatus includes a sample-and-hold (S/H) circuit. The S/H circuit includes a first switch coupled to provide an input signal to be sampled, and a second switch coupled to the first switch and to a first capacitor. The S/H circuit further includes a third switch coupled to the second switch and to a second capacitor, and a fourth switch to selectively couple to ground a node between the first and second switches. |
| US11769562B2 |
Semiconductor device including an electronic fuse control circuit
The present application discloses an electronic fuse control circuit, a semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor device including an electronic fuse control circuit. The electronic fuse control circuit includes a program voltage pad, a fuse element, a latch, an operation switch unit, resistor selection pads, and bonding option units. The fuse element includes a first terminal coupled to the program voltage pad, and a second terminal. The operation switch unit forms an electrical connection between the second terminal of the fuse element and a ground terminal during a program operation, and forms an electrical connection between the second terminal of the fuse element and an input terminal of the latch during a read operation. Each of the bonding option units includes a resistor and a selection switch coupled in series between the input terminal of the latch and a resistor selection pad. |
| US11769557B2 |
Techniques for preventing read disturb in NAND memory
Techniques for preventing read disturb in NAND memory devices are described. In one example, reads are tracked for sub-groups. When the number of reads to a sub-group meets a threshold, the data at the wordline on which the threshold was met is moved along with the data at neighboring wordlines to an SLC block without moving the entire block. The performance impact and write amplification impact of read disturb mitigation can be significantly reduced while maintaining some data continuity. |
| US11769555B2 |
Read threshold voltage estimation systems and methods for parametric PV-level modeling
Embodiments provide a scheme for estimating an optimal read threshold voltage using a deep neural network (DNN) with reduced number of processing. A controller receives first and second program voltage (PV) levels associated with read operations on cells. The controller estimates first and second probability distribution parameter sets representing skew normal distributions of the first and second PV levels, respectively. The controller estimates an optimal read threshold voltage based on the first and second probability distribution parameter sets. The optimal read threshold voltage is a read threshold voltage such that first probability density function (PDF) value of the skew normal distribution of the first PV level is the same as the second PDF value of the skew normal distribution of the second PV level. |
| US11769554B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device of embodiments includes: a substrate; a memory pillar; first to sixth conductive layers provided above the substrate; first to sixth memory cells formed between the first to sixth conductive layers and the memory pillar, respectively; and a control circuit. The control circuit applies a first voltage to the first, second, a sixth conductive layer and applies a second voltage to the third, fifth conductive layer, then applies a third voltage to the first conductive layer, applies a fourth voltage to the sixth conductive layer, and applies a fifth voltage to the second conductive layer, and then applies a sixth voltage to the first conductive layer, applies a seventh voltage to the sixth conductive layer, and applies an eighth voltage lower than the fifth voltage to the second conductive layer. |
| US11769553B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a first wiring, a first memory transistor connected to the first wiring, a first transistor connected between the first wiring and the first memory transistor, a second transistor connected between the first wiring and the first transistor, and second to fourth wirings respectively connected to gate electrodes of the first memory transistor, the first transistor, and the second transistor. From a first timing to a second timing, a voltage difference between the first wiring and the third wiring is maintained at a predetermined value, a voltage difference between the third wiring and the fourth wiring is maintained at a predetermined value, a voltage of the first wiring becomes larger than a voltage of the third wiring, and the voltage of the third wiring becomes larger than a voltage of the fourth wiring. |
| US11769550B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing standby power in floating body memory devices
Methods, devices, arrays and systems for reducing standby power for a floating body memory array. One method includes counting bits of data before data enters the array, wherein the counting includes counting at least one of: a total number of bits at state 1 and a total number of all bits; a total number of bits at state 0 and the total number of all bits; or the total number of bits at state 1 and the total number of bits at state 0. This method further includes detecting whether the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; setting an inversion bit when the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; and inverting contents of all the bits of data before writing the bits of data to the memory array when the inversion bit has been set. |
| US11769549B2 |
Memory device comprising an electrically floating body transistor
A memory cell comprising includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, an electrically floating body transistor fabricated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a charge injector region. The floating body transistor is configured to have more than one stable state through an application of a bias on the charge injector region. |
| US11769548B2 |
Stable memory cell identification for hardware security
A method includes setting an output of each memory cell in an array of memory cells to a same first value, decreasing power to the array of memory cells and then increasing power to the array of memory cells. Memory cells in the array of memory cells with outputs that switched to a second value different from the first value are then identified in response to decreasing and then increasing the power. A set of memory cells is then selected from the identified memory cells to use in hardware security. |
| US11769546B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device, system including the same and method for fabricating the same
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first lower interlayer insulation layer and a second lower interlayer insulation layer that are sequentially stacked in a first direction; a lower metal layer disposed in the first lower interlayer insulation layer; and a plurality of lower bonding metals disposed in the first lower interlayer insulation layer and the second lower interlayer insulation layer and spaced apart from each other in a second direction that intersects the first direction. An uppermost surface in the first direction of the lower metal layer is lower than an uppermost surface in the first direction of the plurality of lower bonding metals, and the lower metal layer is placed between the plurality of lower bonding metals. |
| US11769545B2 |
Low-leakage row decoder and memory structure incorporating the low-leakage row decoder
Disclosed are embodiments of a low-leakage row decoder and a memory circuit incorporating the row decoder. The row decoder includes wordline driver circuitry including first devices (pre-drivers) and second devices (wordline drivers). Each second device is connected in series between a first device and a wordline for a row in a memory array. The first devices can be directly connected to a positive supply voltage rail and connected to a ground rail through a footer. The second devices can be connected to the positive supply voltage rail through a header and directly connected to the ground rail. The on/off states of the header and footer are controlled by clock signal-dependent control signals so that they are either concurrently on or off. With this configuration, leakage power consumption of the wordline driver circuitry is minimized while the memory structures as idle and also while it operates in a normal active mode. |
| US11769541B2 |
Memory device based on ferroelectric capacitor
The present disclosure relates to a memory device based on a ferroelectric capacitor, which includes a control unit for writing data into a memory cell or reading data from the memory cell and a plurality of memory cells arranged in an array; each memory cell includes an external interface, a first switch, a transistor, a first capacitor and a second capacitor, wherein at least one of the first capacitor and the second capacitor is a ferroelectric capacitor; the first switch has a first port connected with a first word line, a second port connected with a bit line, and a third port connected with one end of the first capacitor; and the transistor has a gate electrode connected with another end of the first capacitor and one end of the second capacitor, a source electrode connected with a first read terminal, and a drain electrode connected with a second read terminal, wherein another end of the second capacitor is connected with a second word line. According to the present disclosure, a polarized state of the ferroelectric capacitor in the memory cell is held or changed based on hysteresis characteristics of the ferroelectric capacitor, and the control unit is used to write data into or read data from the memory cell, which can implement non-destructive reading of data and longer endurance of a write operation. |
| US11769540B2 |
Giant spin hall-based compact neuromorphic cell optimized for differential read inference
A non-volatile data retention circuit includes a complementary latch configured to generate and store complementary non-volatile spin states corresponding to an input signal when in a write mode, and to concurrently generate a first charge current signal and a second charge current corresponding to the complementary non-volatile spin states when in read mode, and a differential amplifier coupled to the complementary latch and configured to generate an output signal based on the first and second charge current signals. |
| US11769533B2 |
Semiconductor chip having memory and logic cells
A semiconductor chip is provided. The semiconductor chip includes a SRAM cell, a logic cell, a signal line and a ground line. The SRAM cell includes a storage transmission gate, a read transmission gate and a latch circuit. The latch circuit is serially connected between the storage and read transmission gates, and includes a first inverter, a second inverter and a transmission gate connected to an output of the first inverter, an input of the second inverter and an output of the storage transmission gate. The logic cell disposed aside the SRAM cell is connected with the SRAM cell by first and second active structures. The signal and ground lines extend at opposite sides of the SRAM and logic cells, and are substantially parallel with the first and second active structures. The SRAM and logic cells are disposed between and electrically connected to the signal and ground lines. |
| US11769531B1 |
Content system with user-input based video content generation feature
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining a first segment of video content; (ii) outputting for presentation, the obtained first segment; (iii) after outputting for presentation the obtained first segment, causing a user to be prompted for user-input data; (iv) receiving user-input data provided in response to the prompting; (v) using at least the received user-input data to synthetically generate a second segment of the video content, wherein the generated second segment is static, non-interactive content; and (vi) outputting for presentation, the generated second segment. |
| US11769529B2 |
Storyline experience
A processing device provides, on a mobile device, a storyline content user interface (UI) for adding video content to a storyline, the storyline content UI having a first area allowing video playback, a second area including visual representations of video clips of one or more storylines, and a third area including a first UI element to record video content. In response to a user activation of the first UI element, the processing device causes recording of a new video clip to be initiated, determines that a duration of the new video clip satisfies a predetermined threshold, creates a visual representation of the new video clip, associates the new video clip with an additional storyline, and adds the visual representation of the new video clip to the second area. In response to a user selection of the visual representation of the new video clip in the second area of the storyline content UI, the processing device causes the new video clip to be associated with the storyline. In response to a user selection of the visual representation of the new video clip, the processing device plays, in a predetermined order on the mobile device, the new video clip and at least one of the video clips having the visual representations in the second area. |
| US11769527B2 |
Heat-assisted magnetic recording head near-field transducer with a heat sink
A heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes a near-field transducer (NFT). The NFT includes a near-field emitter configured to heat a surface of a magnetic disk, and a heat sink. The heat sink includes at least one of rhodium, copper, tungsten, tantalum, iridium, platinum, ruthenium, nickel, or iron. |
| US11769525B1 |
Seek-induced vibration compensation
A method includes generating a first feedforward signal based, at least in part, on a sensor signal. The method further includes generating a second feedforward signal based, at least in part, on a feedforward seek table. A control signal is modified based, at least in part, on the first feedforward signal and the second feedforward signal. A position of an actuator is controlled in response to the modified control signal. |
| US11769523B2 |
Magnetoresistance effect element and Heusler alloy
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer positioned between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, and at least one of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer is a Heusler alloy represented by the following General Formula (1): Co2FeαXβ (1) (in Formula (1), X represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Cr, Si, Al, Ga and Ge, and α and β represent numbers that satisfy 2.3≤α+β, α<β, and 0.5<α<1.9). |
| US11769520B2 |
Communication issue detection using evaluation of multiple machine learning models
Techniques are provided for evaluating multiple machine learning models to identify issues with a communication. One method comprises applying an audio signal associated with a communication to at least two of: (i) a trigger word analysis module that evaluates contextual information to determine if a trigger word is detected in the audio signal; (ii) an audio activity pattern analysis module that determines if a silence pattern anomaly is detected; and (iii) a communication application analysis module that evaluates features provided by a communication application relative to applicable thresholds; and combining results of the at least two of the trigger word analysis module, the audio activity pattern analysis module and the communication application analysis module to identify a communication issue. The combining may evaluate an accuracy of the trigger word analysis module, the audio activity pattern analysis module and/or the communication application analysis module to combine the results. |
| US11769518B2 |
Sound analysis system, sound analysis method, and program
A sound analysis system includes: first and second sound pressure acquisition means for respectively acquiring a sound pressure of a voice of a user and disposed in an equipment worn by the user at positions that differ in a distance from a mouth of the user under the state in which the user is wearing the equipment; distance estimation means for estimating a distance between either the first or the second sound pressure acquisition means and the mouth of the user based on the acquired sound pressures; and sound pressure correction means for calculating a difference between a reference value of the distance between the first or the second sound pressure acquisition means and the mouth of the user and the estimated distance, and correcting at least one of the sound pressures acquired by the first and the second sound pressure acquisition means based on the calculated difference. |
| US11769515B2 |
Audio coder window sizes and time-frequency transformations
A method of encoding an audio signal is provided comprising: applying multiple different time-frequency transformations to an audio signal frame; computing measures of coding efficiency across multiple frequency bands for multiple time-frequency resolutions; selecting a combination of time-frequency resolutions to represent the frame at each of the multiple frequency bands based at least in part upon the computed measures of coding efficiency; determining a window size and a corresponding transform size; determining a modification transformation; windowing the frame using the determined window size; transforming the windowed frame using the determined transform size; modifying a time-frequency resolution within a frequency band of the transform of the windowed frame using the determined modification transformation. |
| US11769514B2 |
Methods and systems for rendering object based audio
Methods for generating an object based audio program, renderable in a personalizable manner, and including a bed of speaker channels renderable in the absence of selection of other program content (e.g., to provide a default full range audio experience). Other embodiments include steps of delivering, decoding, and/or rendering such a program. Rendering of content of the bed, or of a selected mix of other content of the program, may provide an immersive experience. The program may include multiple object channels (e.g., object channels indicative of user-selectable and user-configurable objects), the bed of speaker channels, and other speaker channels. Another aspect is an audio processing unit (e.g., encoder or decoder) configured to perform, or which includes a buffer memory which stores at least one frame (or other segment) of an object based audio program (or bitstream thereof) generated in accordance with, any embodiment of the method. |
| US11769512B2 |
Apparatus and method for decoding and encoding an audio signal using adaptive spectral tile selection
An apparatus for decoding an encoded signal includes: an audio decoder for decoding an encoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions to obtain a decoded first set of first spectral portions; a parametric decoder for decoding an encoded parametric representation of a second set of second spectral portions to obtain a decoded representation of the parametric representation, wherein the parametric information includes, for each target frequency tile, a source region identification as a matching information; and a frequency regenerator for regenerating a target frequency tile using a source region from the first set of first spectral portions identified by the matching information. |
| US11769511B2 |
Systems and methods for power-efficient keyword detection
Systems and methods for audio processing include capturing first sound data via at least one microphone of a network microphone device (NMD) and determining, via a voice activity detection process, that the first sound data does not include voice activity. The first sound data is stored in a buffer, and the NMD forgoes spatial processing of the first sound data. The NMD can capture second sound data and determine, via the voice activity process, that the second sound data includes voice activity. The NMD spatially processes the sound data to produce filtered sound data. The NMD detects a wake word based on data in the buffer. After detecting the wake word, the NMD may determine an action to be performed based on the data in the buffer. |
| US11769510B2 |
Microphone authentication
This application relates to microphone authentication apparatus for verifying whether or not an audio signal originated at a microphone. The microphone authentication apparatus has a comparison block configured to receive a first signal indicative of one or more spectral parameters of at least part of an audio signal to be verified, and compare the one or more spectral parameters to one or more predetermined characteristic microphone parameters relating to a characteristic resonance associated with an acoustic port of a microphone. The first signal may be an audio signal and the microphone authentication apparatus may have a feature extract module for determining the spectral parameters. Based on the comparison determination block may whether the audio signal originated from a microphone and may send a verification signal to a voice biometric module. |
| US11769509B2 |
Speech-based contextual delivery of content
In some implementations, one or more computers receive audio data indicating an utterance of a first participant during a call with a second participant. The one or more computers obtain text of the utterance of the first participant. The one or more computers identify an information card associated with the utterance based on the text of the utterance of the first participant. The one or more computers provide information card data causing the identified information card to be provided, for presentation during the call, by a device associated with the second participant. |
| US11769507B2 |
Voice-assistant activated virtual card replacement
A device may receive a command associated with identifying a merchant for a virtual card swap procedure wherein the virtual card swap procedure is to replace a credit card of a user with a virtual card corresponding to the credit card. The device may identify the merchant for the virtual card swap procedure based on the command. The device may obtain the virtual card for the user. The device may determine a virtual card swap procedure template for the merchant. The device may perform the virtual card swap procedure based on the virtual card swap procedure template. |
| US11769498B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for searchable real-time transcribed audio and visual content within a group-based communication system
A computer implemented method that includes receiving a group-based audio feed for an on-going group-based communication session, the audio feed comprising a plurality of sub-feeds, each sub-feed received from a respective client user participating in the group-based communication session and comprising a plurality of sequential audio snippets; converting the audio snippets from the plurality of sub-feeds into text strings using a speech recognition engine; and causing display, to each of the respective client users while the group-based communication session is occurring, of a group-based communication session interface comprising the text strings so that the text strings are simultaneously displayed in real-time to each of the respective client users. |
| US11769492B2 |
Voice conversation analysis method and apparatus using artificial intelligence
The present invention relates to a voice conversation analysis apparatus and a method therefor and, more specifically, to: a voice conversation analysis apparatus categorizing voices generated during a voice conversation so as to predict required functions and further analyzing the voices so as to provide proper functions; and a method therefor. In addition, disclosed are: an artificial intelligence (AI) system for simulating the functions of recognition, decision-making, and the like of the human brain by using a machine learning algorithm; and an application thereof. According to one embodiment, disclosed in an electronic device control method for performing an operation through a suitable operating mode by using an AI learning model so as to analyze a voice conversation, comprising the steps of: receiving a voice and acquiring information on the voice; acquiring category information on the voice on the basis of the information on the voice so as to determine at least one operating mode corresponding to the category information; and performing an operation related to the operating mode by using an AI model corresponding to the determined operating mode. |
| US11769488B2 |
Meaning inference from speech audio
A system and method invoke virtual assistant action, which may comprise an argument. From audio, a probability of an intent is inferred. A probability of a domain and a plurality of variable values may also be inferred. Invoking the action is in response to the intent probability exceeding a threshold. Invoking the action may also be in response to the domain probability exceeding a threshold, a variable value probability exceeding a threshold, detecting an end of utterance, and a specific amount of time having elapsed. The intent probability may increase when the audio includes speech of words with the same meaning in multiple natural languages. Invoking the action may also be conditional on the variable value exceeding its threshold within a certain period of time of the intent probability exceeding its threshold. |
| US11769483B2 |
Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis
A multilingual text-to-speech synthesis method and system are disclosed. The method includes receiving an articulatory feature of a speaker regarding a first language, receiving an input text of a second language, and generating output speech data for the input text of the second language that simulates the speaker's speech by inputting the input text of the second language and the articulatory feature of the speaker regarding the first language to a single artificial neural network multilingual text-to-speech synthesis model. The single artificial neural network multilingual text-to-speech synthesis model is generated by learning similarity information between phonemes of the first language and phonemes of the second language based on a first learning data of the first language and a second learning data of the second language. |
| US11769481B2 |
Unsupervised alignment for text to speech synthesis using neural networks
Generation of synthetic speech from an input text sequence may be difficult when durations of individual phonemes forming the input text sequence are unknown. A predominantly parallel process may model speech rhythm as a separate generative distribution such that phoneme duration may be sampled at inference. Additional information such as pitch or energy may also be sampled to provide improved diversity for synthetic speech generation. |
| US11769473B2 |
Musical string instrument nut and bridge file
A file for use in forming a groove in a nut or bridge of a string musical instrument. The file includes a filing edge that is rounded to the same radius as the string to be fitted in the groove it forms in the nut and bridge. A spine or rib is formed along the upper edge of the file to provide stiffening and permitting the file to not bow or flex when being used. |
| US11769472B2 |
Tuning apparatus for stringed musical instruments with dual-action cam clamp assembly and easy-to-adjust rocker arms
A tuning apparatus for a stringed musical instrument is provided. The apparatus includes a dual-action cam clamp assembly and a plurality of string-contacting members with easy-to-adjust rocker arms. The dual-action cam clamp assembly removably attaches to a desired longitudinal position on the instrument's neck. Each of the string-contacting members is rotatably supported by a rocker arm shaft, and the easy-to-adjust rocker arms are adapted to rotate about the longitudinal axis of a two-part shaft of the clamp assembly independently of the other string-contacting members. Each member also adjustably impinges upon and urges a given string or course thereof on the instrument toward a user-selectable one of three different longitudinal positions on the neck's front surface, these positions including a home position, a home−1 position, and a home+1 position. |
| US11769471B1 |
Barre chord device
A barre chord device can include a strip of rubber, elastomeric or other resilient material with heat formed creases and protruding shims. A guitar player attaches the strip at discrete places to the index finger of his fretting hand. When the guitar musician performs a barre chord, the strip concentrates barre force to the strings. Shims press into the concave mid-finger keeping the strip straight on a string side to provide uniform barre pressure. Muscular effort is minimized. Creases cause the strip to fold neatly to a thumb side when the index finger is curled to perform non-barre chords and scales. |
| US11769466B2 |
Image display method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Embodiments of the present application provide an image display method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: displaying a preceding image in a first display period, the preceding image comprising a video image sequence or a single image; superimposing a foreground target area of a succeeding image on an upper layer of the preceding image in a second display period for display, the succeeding image comprising a video image sequence or a single image; and displaying the succeeding image in a third display period. According to the method, a good playback effect can be achieved in scenarios where time variations are desired. |
| US11769461B2 |
Backlight control method and backlight control circuit
A backlight control method for a surface light-emitting device is provided. The backlight control method includes generating a plurality of driving currents to drive the surface light-emitting device such that a plurality of backlight zones generate a plurality of brightness values, measuring the plurality of brightness values of the plurality of backlight zones, calculating a plurality of uniformities of the plurality of backlight zones according to the plurality of brightness values and setting a plurality of target uniformities, generating a plurality of adjustment values according to the plurality of uniformities, the plurality of target uniformities and a plurality of adjustment coefficients corresponding to the plurality of backlight zones, and generating a plurality of adjusted driving currents to drive the plurality of backlight zones according to the plurality of adjustment values and the plurality of driving currents. |
| US11769457B2 |
Shift register unit set, gate driving circuit and display apparatus
Disclosed is a shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display apparatus and a driving method, the shift register including a first input sub-circuit, configured to receive a first input signal from a first input terminal and output a banking output control signal to a first node in a blanking period of time of a frame; a second input sub-circuit, configured to receive a second input signal from a second input terminal and output a display output control signal to the first node in a display period of time of the frame; an output sub-circuit, configured to output a composite output signal via an output terminal under control of a first node, wherein the composite output signal includes a display output signal outputted in a display period of time and a blanking output signal outputted in a blanking period of time which are independent of each other. |
| US11769453B2 |
Electrostatic discharge circuit and display device including the same
A display panel includes pads and pixels, signal lines electrically connected to the pads, and a protection circuit electrically connected between one signal line among the signal lines and a first voltage line. The protection circuit includes a first transistor, a first resistor, and a first capacitor. The first transistor includes a first electrode electrically connected to the first voltage line, a second electrode electrically connected to the one signal line, and a gate electrode. The first resistor is electrically connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the one signal line. The first capacitor is disposed between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the one signal line. |
| US11769449B2 |
Pixel and display device having the same
A pixel includes: a light emitting element; a first transistor connected between a first node electrically connected to a first driving power source and a second node electrically connected to an anode electrode of the light emitting element, the first transistor to control a driving current; a second transistor connected between a data line and the first node; a third transistor connected between the second node and a third node connected to a gate of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the third node and a first initialization power source; a fifth transistor connected between a second initialization power source and the anode electrode of the light emitting element, the fifth transistor being turned on by a scan signal provided to a scan line; and a boosting capacitor connected between the scan line and the third node. |
| US11769448B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display device and a display panel including a first display region and a second display region. The light transmittance of the first display region is greater than the light transmittance of the second display region. At least one first display unit is disposed in the first display region. At least one second display unit, at least one drive unit, and at least one gating switch unit are disposed in the second display region. The at least one drive unit is connected to the input end of the at least one gating switch unit in a one-to-one manner. The first output end of each gating switch unit is connected to one of a first display unit and a second display unit and the second output end of the each gating switch unit is connected to the other one of the first display unit and the second display unit. |
| US11769446B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate, a pixel array placed on a first surface side of the substrate, light emission control signal lines, scanning signal lines, a scanning signal line driving circuit, and a driving control signal line. The driving control signal line includes a first portion, a second portion, and third portions. The light emission control signal lines include a first light emission control signal line and a second light emission control signal line, and a number of intersecting portions of the first light emission control signal line and the first portion is smaller than a number of intersecting portions of the second light emission control signal line and the third portions. |
| US11769444B2 |
Display panel and display device with virtual pixel circuit
A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first area and a second area, and a plurality of first pixel rows and a plurality of second pixel rows, each of the first pixel row and the second pixel row includes a plurality of pixels. The number of the pixels of each first pixel row is greater than the number of the pixels of each second pixel row. The pixels in the first pixel row are display pixels, and the plurality of pixels in the second pixel row are display pixels and virtual pixels. The display pixel includes a display pixel circuit, the virtual pixel includes a virtual pixel circuit, and the virtual pixel circuit includes a compensation unit. |
| US11769443B2 |
Pixel circuit and display panel comprising working stages
A pixel circuit and a display panel are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a first and a second power supply lines, a light-emitting element, a driving TFT, a storage capacitor, a writing TFT, a first, a second, and a third compensation TFTs. The storage capacitor is electrically connected to the driving TFT, the writing TFT is electrically connected to the driving TFT, the first compensation TFT is electrically connected to the driving TFT, the storage capacitor, and the driving TFT, the second compensation TFT is electrically connected to the storage capacitor and the first compensation TFT, the third compensation TFT is electrically connected to the storage capacitor, and the third compensation TFT is electrically connected to the light-emitting element. |
| US11769437B2 |
Shift-register unit circuit, gate-driving circuit, display apparatus, and driving method
The present application discloses a shift-register unit circuit including a first input sub-circuit configured to receive a display-input signal from a display-input terminal and input a display output-control signal to a first node based on the display-input signal during a display period of one cycle of displaying one frame of image. The shift-register unit circuit also includes a second input sub-circuit configured to receive a blank-input signal for charging a blank-control node, and configured to input a blank-output-control signal to the first node based on the blank-input signal during a blank period of the one cycle. The shift-register unit circuit further includes an output sub-circuit configured to output a hybrid signal controlled by the first node. The second input sub-circuit is also configured, before an end of the blank period, to receive a first blank-reset signal to reset the blank-control node. |
| US11769434B2 |
Display driving circuit and operating method for performing encoding and decoding
A display driver circuit receives externally-encoded image data and processes the data using a memory (graphic RAM), an internal encoder, and an external decoder configured to operate on the externally-encoded image data. The processed data is provided to a display device by a source driver of the display driver circuit. Data is processed through the graphic RAM and an internal decoder or the external decoder depending on whether a slice of the data is a currently received update slice, a recently received standby slice, or a still slice. |
| US11769433B2 |
Information processing device and control method
An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor which executes the program stored in the memory. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: operating state switching processing to switch an operating state of a system among a first operating state, a second operating state in which processing of the system is more limited than that in the first operating state and at least the display is hidden, and a third operating state in which the processing of the system is shut down, display mode switching processing to switch between a first display mode to control display by setting a screen area of the display as one display area, and a second display mode to control display by splitting the screen area into plural display areas, and setting switching processing. |
| US11769431B2 |
Projection display device, display control method, and display control program
A projection display device includes an image display control unit configured to perform a first display control for generating image data in accordance with information received from a control unit that controls the vehicle, and a second display control for generating image data in accordance with the measurement information acquired from the information measuring device without passing through the control unit, and a warning determination unit, wherein the image display control unit performs the second display control when the warning determination unit determines that the warning is necessary, and performs the first display control when the warning determination unit determines that the warning is not necessary, in a first mode in which driving of the vehicle is performed in accordance with an internally generated instruction or an instruction externally and wirelessly received, the image display control unit performs at least the second display control without passing through the control unit. |
| US11769429B2 |
Magnetic erasing device
A magnetic erasing device including a magnet that includes an S pole and an N pole extending along an axial direction of the magnet, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the magnet in a housing around an axis of the magnet, wherein lines of magnetic force generated around the axis of the magnet during rotation of the magnet are designed to be applied to magnetic particles in the microcapsules to erase a visible image on a magnetic panel when the axis of the magnet is spaced from a surface of the magnetic panel by a predetermined distance. |
| US11769425B2 |
Enhancing video language learning by providing catered context sensitive expressions
A computer processing system is provided for enhancing video-based language learning. The system includes a video server for storing videos that use one or more languages to be learned. The system further includes a video metadata database for storing translations of sentences uttered in the videos, character profiles of characters appearing in the videos, and mappings between the sentences and a learner profile. The system also includes a learner profile database for storing learner profiles. The system additionally includes a semantic analyzer and matching engine for finding, for at least a given video and a given learner, alternative sentences for and responsive to the translations of the sentences uttered in the given video that conflict with a respective learner profile for the given learner. The computer processing system further includes a presentation system for playing back the given video and providing the alternative sentences to the given learner. |
| US11769422B2 |
Information processing device, robot manipulating system and robot manipulating method
A robot manipulating system includes a game terminal having a game computer, a game controller, and a display configured to display a virtual space, a robot configured to perform a work in a real space based on robot control data, and an information processing device configured to mediate between the game terminal and the robot. The information processing device supplies game data associated with a content of work to the game terminal, acquires game manipulation data including a history of an input of manipulation accepted by the game controller while a game program to which the game data is reflected is executed, converts the game manipulation data into the robot control data based on a given conversion rule, and supplies the robot control data to the robot. |
| US11769420B2 |
Live operating system examination environment
A method includes receiving, by a processing device of a client device from an external storage device, an operating system image, the operating system image to provide a testing environment for the client device; loading the operating system image into memory of the client device; and providing, by the processor of the client device, testing information via the testing environment. |
| US11769413B2 |
Cut in maneuver alert
A method for cut in maneuver alert, the method may include receiving by a vehicle computerized system of a vehicle, one or more cut in maneuver predictors, each cut in maneuver predictor is (a) indicative of a predicted cut in maneuver initiated by another vehicle, and is (b) generated by a machine learning process; obtaining sensed information regarding an environment of the vehicle; processing the sensed information, wherein the processing comprises searching for a cut in maneuver predictor; and finding the cut in maneuver predictor. |
| US11769412B2 |
Rear side warning system and method for vehicle
A rear side warning system for a vehicle includes at least one processor configured to: sense an external obstacle of the vehicle; classify the external obstacle as either one of a fixed object and a moving object; and control a rear side warning signal of the vehicle based on a result of the classifying of the external obstacle. |
| US11769410B2 |
Techniques for sharing sensor messages in sidelink communications
Some aspects described herein relate to detecting, for a first vehicle, presence of an obstacle in a driving path of a vehicle, determining, for a second vehicle, a sight stopping distance between the second vehicle and the obstacle, and transmitting, to the second vehicle and where the sight stopping distance is within a threshold, a message including a notification of the obstacle. |
| US11769409B2 |
Automated parking lot digital map generation and use thereof
Automated parking lot digital map generation and use thereof is disclosed. Imagery of a parking lot is received from a video camera, the imagery depicting lines that define a plurality of parking spots. A parking lot digital map comprising data that defines a location and dimensions of each parking spot is generated. The parking lot digital map is stored in a memory. |
| US11769408B2 |
Method and system for inter and intra agency communication, tracking and coordination
A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event. |
| US11769407B1 |
System and method to generate position and state-based electronic signaling from a vehicle
A system and method for using a mobile device to capture the proper execution of a series of one or more tasks with pre-assigned constraints that are associated with a specific set of assets, where those assets have certain known physical attributes and characteristics and are configured in a known manner is disclosed herein. The assets are preferably vehicles such as trucks. |
| US11769405B2 |
Communication device and communication method
An object is to share information of detected obstacles on a road among communication devices, using efficient communication. A communication device according to the present disclosure includes: a wireless receiving unit for receiving wireless information including first obstacle information of a first obstacle which is at least one obstacle, from outside; a first obstacle extraction unit for extracting the first obstacle information from the wireless information; a second obstacle detection unit for detecting second obstacle information of a second obstacle which is at least one obstacle present in an own surrounding area by a sensor; and an overlap information removing unit which, if there is overlap obstacle information between the first obstacle information and the second obstacle information, removes the overlap obstacle information from the second obstacle information, to generate difference obstacle information. |
| US11769402B2 |
Augmenting mobile device operation with intelligent external sensors
In embodiments, sensors from an environment in which a mobile device is moving may be used to provide extra input to allow for improved risk analysis and detection in the environment. To prevent unwanted surveillance, proximity to the environment's sensors may be required. It will be appreciated a coordinator in the environment may assist with handling multiple sensor data provided to the mobile device, and may also assist with identifying risk. The environment may also act as a data feed allowing the mobile device to simply receive additional sensor data and perform its analysis and operation. |
| US11769401B2 |
Vehicle, traffic signal control method, and program
A vehicle includes a sensor that detects a traffic signal installed in a travel route of the own vehicle, another vehicle traveling around the own vehicle, and another mobile object around the own vehicle. After recognizing that the own vehicle has passed the traffic signal, the vehicle determines whether or not there are the other mobile object moving toward the traffic signal and the other vehicle moving beside the other mobile object toward the traffic signal. When determining that there are the other mobile object moving toward the traffic signal and the other vehicle moving beside the other mobile object toward the traffic signal, the vehicle controls the traffic signal based on a traveling state of the other vehicle. |
| US11769398B2 |
System and method for widget-assisted setup of a universal remote control
A system and method for enabling set up of a controlling device capable of controlling a plurality of appliances provides an interactive instruction set and associated programming which is downloadable to a controllable appliance having an associated display, such as an Internet enabled television. The programming is accessible by the controllable appliance and is configured to appropriately display interactive instructions from the interactive instruction set to a user during a user initiated set up procedure for setting up the controlling device to communicate commands to another controllable device (e.g., a DVD, VCR, DVR, etc). |
| US11769394B2 |
Security ecosystem
A system, method, and apparatus for implementing workflows across multiple differing systems and devices is provided herein. During operation, a workflow is automatically generated based upon a camera detecting denial of entry of an individual. The workflow can then be implemented or suggested as a newly-created workflow at other various entry points. |
| US11769393B1 |
Fire safety device address and location verification
A system includes a plurality of remote addressable devices, each remote addressable device of the plurality of remote addressable devices being individually programmed with configuration data of the respective addressable device. Each remote addressable device includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver to transmit a RF signal encoded with an address and a physical location of the remote addressable device transmitting the RF signal. The system further includes a plurality of bases. Each base of the plurality of bases includes a RF sensor for receiving the RF signal from the RF transceiver of the corresponding remote addressable device subsequent to the remote addressable device being positioned in the base. |
| US11769391B2 |
In-cabin temperature monitoring for child presence detection applications
An apparatus comprising a radar component and a temperature sensor. The radar component may be configured to detect a presence of a person in a vehicle and determine an age range of the person detected. The temperature sensor may be configured to determine an ambient temperature in the vehicle and operate independently from a heating and cooling system of the vehicle. The apparatus may be configured to operate when the vehicle is turned off. A processor may be configured to determine an urgency level in response to the age range of the person detected and the ambient temperature. The processor may be configured to generate escalating actions in response to the urgency level. |
| US11769390B2 |
Furniture cleaning management system
A furniture cleaning management system (FCMS) for a furniture affordance includes an indicator for indicating a state of the furniture affordance, a sensor option generating a signal indicating that the furniture affordance has been cleaned, and a processor receiving the trigger signal from the sensor option and causing the indicator to indicate that the furniture affordance is a cleaned state. The state of the furniture affordance indicated by the indicator may be selected from the cleaned state and a needs cleaning state. The processor may cause the indicator to indicate that the furniture affordance is in the needs cleaning state according to a schedule of furniture affordance occupancy, a schedule of furniture affordance cleaning, or as a consequence of sensing a user occupancy state at the furniture affordance. |
| US11769388B1 |
Pre-disaster education system
A pre-disaster education system may include a system controller including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving location data from a personal electronic device of a user; receiving forecast data regarding a predicted disaster; receiving data from one or more third parties, wherein the one or more third parties includes a shelter organization and the data from the one or more third parties includes vacancy information from the shelter organization; making a determination of an educational message to be sent to the personal electronic device of the user, based on the location data, the forecast data, and the vacancy information from the shelter organization; and sending the educational message to the personal electronic device of the user at a predetermined time relative to the predicted time of occurrence of the predicted disaster. |
| US11769385B2 |
Online industrial flare smoke auto-detection and off-line smoking event reporting
A system and computer software mechanism is disclosed that can automatically detect smoking conditions for industrial flares. In an online mode, the software mechanism can analyze live video images to identify smoking conditions and generate a “Smoke Level” value to represent the seriousness of the smoking events. In an off-line mode, the software mechanism can load saved video files and analyze video images to identify smoking conditions and generate a “Smoke Level” value to represent the seriousness of the smoking events. In the online mode, the Smoke Level data can be sent to the plant distributed control system (DCS) or other control devices so alarms can be generated and automatic or manual control actions can be taken quickly to stop the flare from smoking. In both online and off-line modes, Smoke Level data can also be saved in historical files for reporting and smoke event tracking purposes. Using the described system and software mechanism, industrial plants can comply with EPA regulations at all times, improve flare control and monitoring, be better prepared for EPA reporting and auditing, and save energy and manpower. |
| US11769381B2 |
Autonomous management and notification on building pathways
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for managing building pathway information. A building and/or security management system can detect, based on receiving input from multiple sensor devices, a possible safety issue in a first pathway to an egress of a building, determine, based on detecting the possible safety issue and based on information regarding other pathways in the building, a second pathway to the egress of the building, and indicate at least the second pathway to another system. |
| US11769380B2 |
Event indications of hazardous environment luminaires using visual sequences
A luminaire whose primary operation is to provide ambient or focused lighting in a hazardous environment is further configured to communicate, within the hazardous environment, alert and/or detected events or conditions via visual sequences. Different visual sequences uniquely identify respective alerts and/or detected conditions, which may include conditions occurring at the luminaire and/or conditions occurring within the hazardous environment. Different visual sequences are defined by respective blink sequences stored in a blink sequence library at the luminaire. Blink sequences are configurable, are distinguished by different amplitudes, frequencies, duty cycles, and other energization/de-energization waveform characteristics, and are applied to one or more illumination sources of the luminaire to thereby generate corresponding visual sequences in the hazardous environment. Visual sequences generated by hazardous environment luminaires allow personnel within the hazardous environment to be informed or alerted to critical conditions upon their occurrences, even without the use of a portable computing device. |
| US11769379B1 |
Intelligent self evolving automated teller machine (ATM) digital twin apparatus for enhancing real time ATM performance
Aspects of the disclosure relate to ATM monitoring and enhancement. A computing platform may detect ATM performance information from an ATM. The computing platform may validate the ATM performance information against baseline ATM performance information. Based on validating the ATM performance information, the computing platform may generate a digital twin for the ATM, and may input the digital twin into a deep learning model for anomaly detection. Based on identifying that the digital twin includes an anomaly, the computing platform may update and simulate the updated digital twin. The computing platform may determine, using smart contracts stored on a distributed ledger, whether or not an update to the ATM based on the updated digital twin is approved. Based on determining that the update to the ATM is approved, the computing platform may direct the ATM to perform a configuration update based on the updated digital twin. |
| US11769377B2 |
Gaming system and method providing wild extra spot indicator feature
Gaming systems and methods that, upon an occurrence of a designated triggering event, associated with a keno game, provide wild ball feature for one or more keno cards of the keno game. |
| US11769375B2 |
Gaming system and method providing a wagering game with a bonus hands feature
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a wagering game which is configured to provided one or more bonus hands. |
| US11769373B2 |
Systems and methods for providing a multi-game bingo game
A gaming machine includes a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to at least control a display device to display a first subgame and a second subgame during a multi-game bingo game, evaluate a first bingo card to determine a first outcome for the first subgame, and evaluate a second bingo card to determine a second outcome for the second subgame. The instructions also cause the processor to control the display device to display the first outcome for the first subgame and the second outcome for the second subgame, and evaluate a game ending win (GEW) bingo card to determine whether a game ending win has been achieved by a player of the electronic gaming machine, where the GEW bingo card is different from the first bingo card and the second bingo card. |
| US11769372B2 |
Systems and methods using modifiable game elements
A gaming machine comprises game-logic circuitry and a display device that presents a plurality of symbol positions and modifier positions. The game-logic circuitry causes the display device to present (i) a modifier outcome by populating one or more modifier positions with modifier symbols, and (ii) an animation of one or more symbol positions being populated with value-bearing symbols having award indicia in response to the modifier outcome including a first modifier symbol at a first modifier position. The game-logic circuitry increases, for a preexisting value-bearing symbol prior to the modifier outcome, the award value of the preexisting value-bearing symbol, wherein the display device presents an updated award indicia based on the increased award value, removes, in response to a termination condition, any locked value-bearing symbols from the symbol positions, and provides an aggregated award as a function of the award values of the locked value-bearing symbols occupying the symbol positions. |
| US11769367B2 |
Systems and methods of electronic gaming
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, a method of electronic gaming includes selecting a plurality of primary game symbols, displaying the plurality of primary game symbols, initiating, based upon the plurality of primary game symbols, a secondary game, displaying a trigger symbol in association with the secondary game, displaying a trigger symbol action associated with the trigger symbol, selecting a plurality of secondary game symbols in association with the secondary game (where one of the secondary game symbols comprising the trigger symbol), displaying the plurality of secondary game symbols, and performing the trigger symbol action based upon the trigger symbol. |
| US11769363B1 |
Feminine hygiene product dispenser with trigger
A feminine hygiene product dispenser for dispensing feminine hygiene products. The dispenser includes a rack to hold the feminine hygiene products. A weight is adapted to fit within the rack, wherein the weight is supported by a last feminine hygiene product to be dispensed from the rack, the weight including an indicator. A housing includes a door, wherein the door has a window through which the indicator appears in the absence the plurality of feminine hygiene products. A product dispensing module includes a suction cup, a delivery tray, and a trigger operatively connected to the suction cup and to the delivery tray, wherein actuation of the trigger moves the suction cup to a holding position and positions the delivery tray to a product delivery position. The trigger slides freely when the suction cup is in the holding position to prevent the delivery tray from dispensing one of the feminine hygiene products. |
| US11769357B2 |
Self-driving vehicles and weigh station operation
The technology involves operation of a self-driving truck or other cargo vehicle when it is being inspected at a weigh station. This may include determining whether a weigh station is open for inspection. Once at the weigh station, the vehicle may follow instructions of an inspection officer or autonomous inspection system. The vehicle may perform predefined actions or operations so that various vehicle systems and safety issues can be evaluated, such as the brakes, lights, tires, connections between the tractor and trailer, exposed fuel tanks, leaks, etc. A visual inspection may be performed to ensure the load is secured, vehicle and cargo documents meet certain criteria, and the carrier's safety record meets any requirements. In addition, the weigh station itself may be operated in a partly or fully autonomous mode when dealing with autonomous and manually driven vehicles. |
| US11769354B2 |
Systems and methods for a virtual vehicle
A system for digital twinning a telehandler and a controller. The telehandler includes a sensor, a device, and an electronic control system. The controller is configured to receive multiple datasets from at least one of the sensor, the device, or the electronic control system of the telehandler. The controller is also configured to generate a virtual telehandler based on the datasets. The virtual telehandler includes a visual representation of the telehandler and the datasets. The controller is also configured to operate a display of a user device to provide the visual representation of the telehandler and one or more of the datasets to a user. |
| US11769352B2 |
Smart and shared services platform
A network of computing devices connected to the central AOG management server execute the process of collecting data from a crew with a maintenance controller, supporting the creation of an unique electronic data package to record the data, submitting a maintenance requests from the server to independent mechanics mobile devices and/or maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) computing systems for maintenance using the collect data, supporting maintenance control center controller to identify the needed materials for the events, providing visibility of the case solution progress to all parties involved and/or effected and providing ways to retrieve all data related to specific cases and creating analyses and reports to support Vehicles Operators (e.g., Airlines), independent mechanics, MROs (maintenance repair overhaulers), material providers and OEMs to improve their processes to solve events. |
| US11769342B2 |
Optical fingerprint identification system and optical fingerprint identification device
An optical fingerprint identification system includes a base, a photo sensor, a light emitting layer and a cover. The photo sensor is disposed on the base. The light emitting layer is disposed above the photo sensor, and the light emitting layer includes a light emitting element. The cover is disposed above the light emitting layer. The optical fingerprint identification system further includes a light path adjusting element between the photo sensor and the cover. The light emitting element is disposed away from the light path adjusting element and the photo sensor in a sideway direction that is different from a stack direction of the optical fingerprint identification system. |
| US11769341B2 |
System and method to extract information from unstructured image documents
The present disclosure relates to a system and method to extract information from unstructured image documents. The extraction technique is content-driven and not dependent on the layout of a particular image document type. The disclosed method breaks down an image document into smaller images using the text cluster detection algorithm. The smaller images are converted into text samples using optical character recognition (OCR). Each of the text samples is fed to a trained machine learning model. The model classifies each text sample into one of a plurality of pre-determined field types. The desired value extraction problem may be converted into a question-answering problem using a pre-trained model. A fixed question is formed on the basis of the classified field type. The output of the question-answering model may be passed through a rule-based post-processing step to obtain the final answer. |
| US11769334B2 |
Image collection system and image collection method
An image collection system includes: a captured-image analysis unit that determines whether a captured image, captured by a camera mounted on a mobile object, of surroundings of the mobile object is a first captured image including an image portion of a specified monitoring target object; an image-capturing-condition recognition unit that recognizes a first image-capturing condition that is an image-capturing condition at the time when the camera captures the first captured image; and a monitoring-target-object-information providing unit that transmits monitoring-target-object image information in which the first captured image and the first image-capturing condition are associated with each other, to a specified provision destination. |
| US11769333B2 |
Method and system for detecting block falling disaster in a tunnel based on visual and mechanical perception
A method and system for detecting a tunnel block falling disease based on visual and mechanical perception includes: capturing tunnel inner wall images, and preliminarily identifying a block falling disease using a trained first neural network model; constructing a circle based on a center which is the center position of the suspected disease determined in the preliminary identification process, dividing the circle equally through a plurality of diameters, pressing against the center of the suspected block falling disease in a pose perpendicular to the inner wall of the tunnel, moving in the diameter directions within the range of the suspected block falling disease, recording the displacement, and acquiring force and torque at the suspected block falling disease position during the movement; and determining the suspected tunnel block falling disease based on the acquired displacement, force and torque, using a second neural network model, and determining the tunnel block falling disease. |
| US11769322B2 |
Program creation device, object detection system, anchor setting method, and anchor setting program
A program creation device includes training data including image data, a setting unit configured to set information of a frame specifying a region for each cell for detecting the presence or absence of the object from the image, and a learning unit configured to execute machine learning of the training data and to create a learned program for extracting the object from the image. The setting unit acquires information on a target region of the training data and on aspect ratios of the anchor, calculates a degree of matching between the anchor and the target region for each aspect ratio while changing a size of the anchor, and calculates an adoption rate of the target region whose degree of matching is a proportion no less than a threshold, and determines, based on a result of the calculation, the size of the anchor used in the learned program. |
| US11769320B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamic identification of a surgical tray and the items contained thereon
The invention provides artificial intelligence-enabled image recognition methods and systems for continuously training a computer system to accurately identify a surgical item in a tray using at least 100 randomly created 2-dimensional images of a 3-dimensional synthetic item having unique identifiers assigned to the images or item. The invention also provides an artificial intelligence-enabled image recognition method and system for use to determine whether surgical instruments are present or missing on a surgical tray, and, if applicable, identifying those missing. In one aspect, a server receives an image and analyzes the image with a deep convolutional neural network to classify the type of tray and then compares a list of items that should be on the tray to that which the computer recognizes on the tray to generate an output displayed to a user identifying the items present and/or missing. |
| US11769314B2 |
Display method and electronic device
A display method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a current application scenario in a case that an input of triggering display of a fingerprint icon is received; determining a target light spot based on a target parameter of the application scenario, where target light spots corresponding to different target parameters have different proportions of a red light component, different proportions of a green light component, and different proportions of a blue light component; and displaying a fingerprint icon formed by the target light spot. |
| US11769312B1 |
Video system with scene-based object insertion feature
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining video that depicts an area across multiple frames of the video, wherein the area is part of a scene of the video, and wherein the area is suitable for having an object inserted therein; (ii) detecting the area within the obtained video and determining area characteristic data associated with the detected area; (iii) determining scene attribute data associated with the scene; (iv) using at least the determined area characteristic data and the determined scene attribute data as a basis to select an object from among a set of multiple candidate objects; (v) inserting into the detected area the selected object to generate video that is a modified version of the obtained video; and (vi) outputting for presentation the generated video. |
| US11769305B2 |
Method and devices for presenting and manipulating conditionally dependent synthesized reality content threads
In one implementation, a method includes: instantiating a first objective-effectuator (OE) associated with first attributes and a second OE associated with second attributes into a synthesized reality (SR) setting, wherein the first OE is encapsulated within the second OE; providing a first objective to the first OE based on the first and second attributes; providing a second objective to the second OE based on the second attributes, wherein the first and second objectives are associated with a time period between a first and second temporal points; generating a first set of actions for the first OE based on the first objective and a second set of actions for the second OE based on the second objective; and rendering for display the SR setting for the time period including the first set of actions performed by the first OE and the second set of actions performed by the second OE. |
| US11769298B2 |
Polar stroking for vector graphics
The disclosure introduces polar stroking for representing paths. A system, method, and apparatus are disclosed for representing and rendering stroked paths employing polar stroking. In one example, a method of approximating a path is provided that includes: (1) evaluating, in parallel, multiple links of a path, wherein each link of the multiple links is evaluated in steps based on tangent angle changes of the link, and (2) providing a polar stroked representation of the path employing the steps. A computing system for rendering is also provided. In one example, the computing system includes one or more processing units to perform one or more operations including generating, in parallel, a polar stroked representation of individual links of a path, and rendering a stroked tessellation of the path based on the polar stroked representations of the individual links. |
| US11769295B2 |
System and method of highly-scalable mapping and 3D terrain modeling with aerial images
A system and method for generating a 3D model and/or map of a geographic region is disclosed. A computer designates a geographic region and a number of aircraft, and partitions the designated geographic region into sub-regions, creates waypoints within each sub-region, and plans missions for each aircraft to fly to each waypoint and take pictures. The aircraft are configured to accept and perform missions from the computer, and the computer receives images from the aircraft, assigns each image to a sub-region, and transmits each sub-region and images, as well as instructions, to the computing resource. The computing resource executes the instructions, which perform 3D reconstruction and generate orthophotos and 3D models. The 3D reconstruction comprises trimming distorted portions of the orthophotos and 3D models, and merging the orthophotos and 3D models from each sub-region into a 3D model and/or map of the geographic region. |
| US11769293B2 |
Camera motion estimation method for augmented reality tracking algorithm and system therefor
A camera motion estimation method for an augmented reality tracking algorithm according to an embodiment is a camera motion estimation method for an augmented reality tracking algorithm performed by a sequence production application executed by a processor of a computing device, which includes a step of displaying a target object on a sequence production interface, a step of setting a virtual camera trajectory on the displayed target object, a step of generating an image sequence by rendering images obtained when the target object is viewed along the set virtual camera trajectory, and a step of reproducing the generated image sequence. |
| US11769292B2 |
Treatment procedure planning system and method
A system and method for planning surgical procedure including a treatment zone setting view presenting at least one slice of a 3D reconstruction generated from CT image data including a target. The treatment zone setting view presenting a treatment zone marker defining a location and a size of a treatment zone and configured to adjust the treatment zone marker in response to a received user input. The system and method further including a volumetric view presenting a 3D volume derived from the 3D reconstruction and a 3D representation of the treatment zone marker relative to structures depicted in the 3D volume. |
| US11769285B2 |
Machine learning-based hazard visualization system
A hazard visualization system that can use artificial intelligence to identify locations at which hazards have occurred and a cause therein and to predict locations at which hazards may occur in the future is described herein. As a result, the hazard visualization system may reduce the likelihood of structural damage and/or loss of life that could otherwise occur due to natural disasters or other hazards. For example, the hazard visualization system can train an artificial intelligence model to predict the date, time, type, severity, path, and/or other conditions of a hazard that may occur at a geographic location. As another example, the hazard visualization system can train an artificial intelligence model to identify equipment or other infrastructure depicted in geographic images. |
| US11769284B2 |
System and method for creating customized characters and selectively displaying them in an augmented or virtual reality display
A system and method of creating customized characters and selectively displaying them in an electronic display, such as an augmented reality or virtual reality display is provided. A digital character may be provided by a character provider for customization by others using the system. Such customizations may be instantiated in user devices that provide electronic displays. Instantiation of the custom digital character may be conditioned on one or more trigger conditions, which may be specified by the character customizer. For example, a digital character customized using the system may be conditioned on triggering events in the real-world or in a virtual world. When a relevant triggering condition is satisfied at a user device, the custom character (i.e., information for instantiating the custom character) may be transmitted to that user device. In this manner, the system may push custom characters to user devices that satisfy the triggering condition. |
| US11769282B2 |
System and method for generating and rendering a self-contained report data structure
A system and method for automatically generating and rendering a report data structure is provided. The report data structure is formed in a platform independent manner that includes all data for transactions used in the report. The system analyzes the transactions to be included in the report and selects the type of display component based on a ranking score to best highlight the data contained therein. |
| US11769280B2 |
Cohesive manipulation of Bezier handles
The technology described herein is directed to a Bezier manipulation tool that facilitates a handle-movement paradigm for cohesive manipulation of a selected group of Bezier handles. In some implementations, the Bezier manipulation tool manipulates a selected group of Bezier handles by collectively selecting and synchronously (or concurrently) manipulating multiple handles. For example, when the Bezier manipulation tool detects a user-initiated manipulation of a reference handle of a selected group of Bezier handles, angular and radial length movements of the reference handle occurring as a result of the user-initiated manipulation are calculated relative to an anchor point associated with the reference handle. The Bezier manipulation tool cohesively manipulates other Bezier handles of the selected group of Bezier handles in accordance with the angular and radial length movements of the reference handle, e.g. {delta-theta, delta-r}, concurrent with the user-initiated manipulation of the reference handle. |
| US11769275B2 |
Method and device for predictive encoding/decoding of a point cloud
This method for inter-predictive encoding of a time-varying 3D point cloud including a series of successive frames divided in 3D blocks into at least one bitstream comprises encoding (20) 3D motion information including a geometric transformation comprising rotation information representative of a rotation transformation and translation information representative of a translation transformation, wherein the translation information comprises a vector ΔT representing an estimation error of the translation transformation. |
| US11769269B2 |
Fusing multiple depth sensing modalities
A method includes receiving a first depth map that includes a plurality of first pixel depths and a second depth map that includes a plurality of second pixel depths. The first depth map corresponds to a reference depth scale and the second depth map corresponds to a relative depth scale. The method includes aligning the second pixel depths with the first pixel depths. The method includes transforming the aligned region of the second pixel depths such that transformed second edge pixel depths of the aligned region are coextensive with first edge pixel depths surrounding the corresponding region of the first pixel depths. The method includes generating a third depth map. The third depth map includes a first region corresponding to the first pixel depths and a second region corresponding to the transformed and aligned region of the second pixel depths. |
| US11769267B2 |
Object distance measurement apparatus and method
An object distance measurement apparatus may include: a camera to capture an image of an area around a vehicle; a distance sensor to detect a distance from an object by scanning around the vehicle; and a distance measurement unit that detects a vehicle moving distance using vehicle information generated by operation of the vehicle, and measures the distance from the object in response to each of frames between scan periods of the distance sensor, among frames of the image, based on the vehicle moving distance and the location pixel coordinates of the object within the images before and after the vehicle moves. |
| US11769265B2 |
Skin assessment using image fusion
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for assessing the texture of skin using images thereof. In exemplary embodiments, a texture map of an area of skin is generated from a combination of a parallel-polarized image and a cross-polarized image of the area of skin. The texture map is then flattened to remove the underlying curvature of the skin. A texture roughness metric is then generated based on the flattened texture map. An image of the texture map and the metric can be displayed to provide visual and alphanumeric representations of the texture of skin, thereby facilitating the comparison of baseline and follow-up images of the skin, such as those taken before and after treatment. |
| US11769264B2 |
Method and system for imaging a biological tissue
The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for imaging a biological tissue. A monochromatic image of the biological tissue is obtained. A texture analysis of the biological tissue is performed using spatial information of the monochromatic image to identity features of the biological tissue. A texture image is generated based on the features of the biological tissue. The biological tissue of the subject is classified as normal or abnormal at least in part based on a comparison between first order statistics of the texture image and predetermined values. |
| US11769260B2 |
Cross-camera obstacle tracking method, system and medium
Embodiments of the present provide a cross-camera obstacle tracking method, system and medium. The method includes: obtaining obstacle tracking results of images captured by at least two cameras, wherein each obstacle tracking result comprises results after identifying and tracking at least one obstacle in the image captured by each camera, and each obstacle is labeled with a local identifier for each camera; in response to a triggering condition of a main camera in the cameras to fusion of cross-camera obstacles being satisfied, establishing a mapping relation between local identifiers of the obstacles in the cameras and global identifiers according to the obstacle tracking result of each of the cameras; determining similarities of obstacles according to the obstacle tracking result of each of the cameras, and performing fusion of the global identifiers on the same obstacle according to the similarities; and obtaining final obstacle tracking results labeled with the global identifiers. |
| US11769259B2 |
Region-based stabilized face tracking
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for accessing a set of images depicting at least a portion of a face. A set of facial regions of the face is identified, each facial region of the set of facial regions intersecting another facial region with at least one common vertex that is a member of a set of facial vertices. For each facial region of the set of facial regions, a weight formed from a set of region coefficients is generated. Based on the set of facial regions and the weight of each facial region of the set of facial regions, the face is tracked across the set of images. |
| US11769256B2 |
Image creation for computer vision model training
In some implementations, a device may obtain a set of input images, of an object of interest, that includes images that have a plain background. The device may obtain a set of background images that includes images associated with the object of interest. The device may generate, for an input image, a first modified image of the input image that removes a plain background of the input image. The device may generate, for the input image, a second modified image of the input image that is based on the first modified image and a background image. The device may generate, for the input image, a training image that includes an indication of a location of the object of interest depicted in the training image. The device may provide the training image to a training set, that includes a set of training images, for a computer vision model. |
| US11769253B2 |
Method and system for selecting a region of interest in an image
A system and computer-implemented method for analysing or monitoring a subject, the method comprising: identifying one or more objects of interest that have been segmented from a first image comprising any of a baseline scan, a follow-up scan or a reference image of the subject; identifying predefined landmarks of the objects; determining reference morphometries pertaining to the objects by performing morphometrics on the objects by reference to the landmarks; selecting one or more regions of interest (ROIs) from the objects according to the reference morphometries, comprising identifying respective locations of the ROIs relative to the reference morphometries; performing a first analysis of the one or more ROIs; performing at least one corresponding second analysis of the one or more ROIs in respectively at least one second image comprising any other of a baseline scan, a follow-up scan or a reference image; and generating a comparison of one or more results of the first analysis and one or more corresponding results of the second analysis. |
| US11769249B2 |
Systems and methods for image processing
An image processing method is provided, including: obtaining image data of a cavity wall of an organ; unfolding the cavity wall; and generating an image of the unfolded cavity wall. The unfolding of the cavity wall may include: obtaining a mask and a centerline of the organ; obtaining a connected region of the mask; dividing the connected region into at least one equidistant block; determining an orientation of the equidistant block in a three-dimensional coordinate system including a first direction, a second direction and a third direction; determining an initial normal vector and an initial tangent vector of a center point of the centerline; assigning a projection of the initial normal vector to a normal vector of a light direction of the center point; assigning the third direction or an reverse direction of the third direction to a tangent vector of the light direction of the center point. |
| US11769247B2 |
Exposed pad integrated circuit package
An IC assembly including an exposed pad integrated circuit (“IC”) package having a thermal pad with a top surface and a bottom surface and with at least one peripheral surface portion extending transversely of and continuous with the bottom surface. The bottom surface and the at least one peripheral surface are exposed through a layer of mold compound. Also, methods of making an exposed pad integrated circuit (“IC”) package assembly. One method includes optically inspecting a solder bond bonding a thermal pad of an exposed pad IC package to a printed circuit board. Another method includes wave soldering an exposed pad of an IC package to a printed circuit board. |
| US11769235B2 |
HDR tone mapping methods with scene adaptive parameterized tone map function
A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for video tone mapping. The method includes a target display receiving a quantized video generated by a master display, the quantized video being mastered for a first range of luminance values associated with the master display; receiving metadata from a tone mapping curve parameter extraction, the metadata comprising at least one maximum value of a luminance parameter of the quantized video as mastered for the first range of luminance values; and de-quantizing the quantized video to produce a de-quantized video. The method also includes at least one processor of the target display applying a tone mapping function defined by a normalized Bezier curve to the de-quantized video; and generating, based on applying the tone mapping function, a tone mapped video mastered for a second range of luminance values associated with the target display. |
| US11769233B1 |
Random image substitution used for video redaction
A computer-implemented method for video redaction of disclosure-protected objects is disclosed. A system for video redaction of disclosure-protected objects is also disclosed. A computer program product video redaction of disclosure-protected objects is also disclosed. A video interval may be broken into a plurality of sub-intervals, and unique random image substitution may be carried out over each of the sub-intervals in connection with the video redaction. |
| US11769232B2 |
Machine learning techniques for identifying clouds and cloud shadows in satellite imagery
Systems and methods for identifying clouds and cloud shadows in satellite imagery are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of images of agronomic fields produced using one or more frequency bands. The system also receives corresponding data identifying cloud and cloud shadow locations in the images. The system trains. a machine learning system to identify at least cloud locations using the images as inputs and at least data identifying pixels as cloud pixels or non-cloud pixels as outputs. When the system receives one or more particular images of a particular agronomic field produced using the one or more frequency bands, the system uses the one or more particular images as inputs into the machine learning system to identify a plurality of pixels in the one or more particular images as particular cloud locations. |
| US11769231B2 |
Methods and apparatus for applying motion blur to overcaptured content
Apparatus and methods for applying motion blur to overcapture content. In one embodiment, the motion blur is applied by selecting a number of frames of the captured image content for application of motion blur; selecting a plurality of pixel locations within the number of frames of the captured image content for the application of motion blur; applying motion blur to the captured image content in accordance with the selected number of frames and the selected plurality of pixel locations; and outputting the captured image content with the applied motion blur. In some implementations, motion blur is applied via implementation of a virtualized neutral density filter. Computerized devices and computer-readable apparatus for the application of motion blur are also disclosed. |
| US11769228B2 |
Image enhancement via iterative refinement based on machine learning models
A method includes receiving, by a computing device, training data comprising a plurality of pairs of images, wherein each pair comprises an image and at least one corresponding target version of the image. The method also includes training a neural network based on the training data to predict an enhanced version of an input image, wherein the training of the neural network comprises applying a forward Gaussian diffusion process that adds Gaussian noise to the at least one corresponding target version of each of the plurality of pairs of images to enable iterative denoising of the input image, wherein the iterative denoising is based on a reverse Markov chain associated with the forward Gaussian diffusion process. The method additionally includes outputting the trained neural network. |
| US11769227B2 |
Generating synthesized digital images utilizing a multi-resolution generator neural network
This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that generate synthetized digital images via multi-resolution generator neural networks. The disclosed system extracts multi-resolution features from a scene representation to condition a spatial feature tensor and a latent code to modulate an output of a generator neural network. For example, the disclosed systems utilizes a base encoder of the generator neural network to generate a feature set from a semantic label map of a scene. The disclosed system then utilizes a bottom-up encoder to extract multi-resolution features and generate a latent code from the feature set. Furthermore, the disclosed system determines a spatial feature tensor by utilizing a top-down encoder to up-sample and aggregate the multi-resolution features. The disclosed system then utilizes a decoder to generate a synthesized digital image based on the spatial feature tensor and the latent code. |
| US11769222B2 |
Image processor and a method therein for providing a target image
An image processor and a method therein to provide a target image for evaluation with an object detector. The method comprises: obtaining a source image captured by a camera and depicting an object, and applying an inverse pixel transform to each target pixel of a target image to determine one or more source pixels located at a position in the source image corresponding to a position of each target pixel in the target image. The method further comprises assigning, to each target pixel, a target pixel value determined based on one or more source pixel values of the determined one or more source pixels located at the corresponding position, thereby is a size c in the target image of the depicted object of a specific object type normalized in at least one size dimension. Thereafter, the target image is fed to an object detector for evaluation. |
| US11769215B2 |
Method, system and software program for handling and storing purchase transactions between a user and point-of-sales
A method and system for handling and storing purchase transactions between a user and point-of-sales is described. The method comprises the steps of: a user purchasing an item from a point-of-sale, the point-of-sale generating an electronic receipt related to said item, the point-of sale sending the electronic receipt to an accounting system for bookkeeping of purchase transactions, said system storing the receipt, said system extracting price and information about the item, and said system storing the price and information in a bookkeeping module. |
| US11769204B2 |
Systems and methods of matching customizable data transaction requests
A computer system is provided that allows participants to submit agent data structures for processing. Each agent data structure includes a valuation function for a first resource and a property of a second resource. The computer system performs a dual sided evaluation process to determine when contra-sided agents match with one another. A match is determined by comparing results of valuation functions of the agent data structures. |
| US11769201B1 |
Bond information system and related methods of operation
In various aspects, a computer receives bond market information in digital form via a network cloud from various combinations of a trading computer of an electronic trading platform and an information computer of an information source and the computer then transforms the bond market information into a bond market analysis. Accordingly, the bond market information, which is generally disorganized digital information existing on various combinations of the trading computer and the information computer, is transmitted to the computer via the network cloud and then transformed by the computer into an organized bond market analysis, which is also in digital form, and which may be displayed in various ways. The computer may automatically generate order information in digital form in response to the bond market analysis and the computer may communicate the order via the network cloud to the trading computer for execution. |
| US11769193B2 |
System and method for detecting visually similar items
A computer-implemented method includes determining a set of target listings, retrieving a seed image associated with the seed listing, the seed listing is categorized within a first item category, and generating a seed item feature vector for the seed image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained with images of items. The method also includes identifying a plurality of feature vectors associated with the first item category, comparing the seed item feature vector to the plurality of feature vectors using a k-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm, and generating a set of nearest neighbor listings to the seed listing. The method further includes storing the set of nearest neighbor listings as associated with the seed listing, selecting one or more nearest neighbor listings from the set of nearest neighbors, and presenting the one or more nearest neighbor listings as a recommendation to a user of the online e-commerce system. |
| US11769188B2 |
Subscription management platforms for automated group-based subscriptions
A computing resource of a cloud computing environment receives, from customers in a customer population, requests to enroll in group-based subscriptions provided by third-party providers. The requests include customer preferences associated with the customers. The computing resource determines customer account attributes for customer accounts, and determines, using a customer matching model, scores for the customers based on the customer preferences and the customer account attributes. The scores predict a successful matching among the customers in the customer population. The computing resource assigns a first subset of the customers in the customer population to a first group of customers based on the scores, enrolls the first group of customers in a first account for a first group-based subscription provided by a first third-party provider, and allocates a payment for the first group-based subscription among a first group of customer accounts associated with customers in the first group of customers. |
| US11769186B2 |
Use verification code for validating an exchange item use request
A method for execution by a marketplace server includes receiving a use request regarding an exchange item from a merchant computing device, the exchange item is associated with static exchange item information. The method includes retrieving a verified device identifier associated with the exchange item based on the use request and identifying a user computing device based on the verified device identifier. The method includes generating first dynamic exchange item information based on the static exchange item information and generating a use verification code based on the first dynamic exchange item information and the use request. The method includes sending the use verification code to the identified user computing device and receiving information representing the use verification code from the merchant computing device. The method includes validating the information representing the use verification code and when valid, sending an approval indication regarding the use request to the merchant computing device. |
| US11769183B2 |
Digital asset price regulation system using distributed ledger transaction processing rewards
A system is provided for regulating the price of digital assets through work performed by a plurality of transaction processing (and/or validating) systems incented by rewards to participate on distributed ledgers such as blockchain networks. The system increases the demand for price regulated digital assets through an automated, tamperproof, hence mandatory conversion of a portion of digital assets received as work rewards for processing transactions in exchange for other digital assets targeted for price control. The system, composed of hardware and software, operates with or without intermediaries, where the reward is ultimately distributed to owners of said transaction processing systems. The system provides a means to control the price of digital assets to stabilize digital currencies, assist regulators to enforce anti-money laundering and tax evasion laws, while optionally providing price reductions using rebates to consumers and subsidies to manufacturers of distributed ledger transaction processing and/or validating systems. |
| US11769182B2 |
Purchase information utilization system, purchase information utilization method, and program
A purchase information utilization system according to the present invention includes a system provided with a reception unit that receives purchase information including identification information capable of identifying a product and support information which supports that the product is purchased from a terminal device of a consumer, a purchase information storage unit that stores the purchase information received by the reception unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the consumer has purchased the product using the support information included in the purchase information received by the reception unit. |
| US11769177B2 |
System and method for health risk evaluation
A system for evaluating health risk is provided. The system may be configured for requesting first data from a merchant associated with a user and second data from an activity tracking service associated with the user. The system may also comprise analyzing the item to determine a first health impact for the item based on the item and demographic information associated with the user. The system may further comprise analyzing the level of activity to determine a second health impact from the level of activity based on the level of activity and the demographic information associated with the user. The system may further comprise selecting an advertisement based on medical data, and at least one of the first health impact, the second health impact and the demographic information associated with the user. |
| US11769176B2 |
Targeting an aggregate group
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing content. A method includes receiving a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a slot associated with a third-party content site; identifying a relevant advertisement to be provided in the slot; determining information to be included in an annotation associated with the advertisement; the annotation including customized information to be presented along with the advertisement; providing the advertisement responsive to the request including providing the annotation along with a control for re-publishing the advertisement along with the relevant advertisement; receiving user input selecting the control and designating the advertisement for re-publishing to a group, the group being designated by the user; and targeting additional content to the group based on the received user input. |
| US11769175B2 |
System for assisting in marketing
A system for assisting a customer is provided. The system comprises a database comprising multimedia files, wherein one or more tags are associated with one or more of the multimedia files. The system further comprises a virtual agent server 100 configured to receive input from a first user (customer) and a second user (customer service representative). Further, the virtual agent server 100 processes the received input to understand a context of the input. Subsequently, the virtual agent server 100 identifies one or more multimedia files based on the context and the tags associated with the multimedia files. Subsequently, the virtual agent server 100 shares at least one of the identified multimedia files with at least one of the first user and the second user to enable better understanding between the first user and the second user. |
| US11769172B2 |
Display device for transmitting advertisement content and method for controlling same
The present disclosure relates to a display device for transmitting advertisement content and a method for controlling the display device. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the display device may include a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data, a display to display content, a memory storing one or more instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory. The at least one processor may obtain viewing information about content being displayed, obtain a plurality of smart contracts corresponding to a plurality of advertisement content items, respectively, determine advertisement content related to the content from among the plurality of advertisement content items based on the viewing information and the plurality of smart contracts, receive and reproduce the determined advertisement content, and share blocks including the plurality of smart contracts with an advertiser device, which provides the plurality of advertisement content items, and other display devices. |
| US11769171B1 |
Predicting advertisement impact for audience selection
An influence system for predicting advertisement impact for audience selection. An advertising probe campaign is operated by sending an advertisement to each entity in a treatment group of entities. A control group of entities which excludes the treatment group entities is selected and no campaign advertising content is sent to the treatment group entities. An influence model is created by comparing features of the treatment group converters to features of the control group converters. An individual frequency cap is selected for each entity that is a candidate for the advertising campaign based on a result of applying the influence model to the features of the candidate entity. The entity may be selected to receive an advertisement based on the individual frequency cap. Some embodiments are integrated with a real time bidding (RTB) exchange and a bid response may be configured based on the results of applying the influence model. |
| US11769168B2 |
Loyalty scheme for incremental discounts in the service industry
A method to calculate discounts based on a quantity of visits to a business during a time period is described. A request is received from a first user identified as a customer for a service to be performed at the business during a first time period. If the first time period is within a predetermined time period, a quantity of visits of the customer to the business during the predetermined time period is identified, a first discount is generated based on a first quantity of visits of the customer to the business during the predetermined time period, and a second discount is generated based on a second quantity of visits of the customer to the business during the predetermined time period. The first quantity of visits is greater than the second quantity of visits and the first discount is greater than the second discount. |
| US11769161B1 |
System and method for generating a machine learning script for real estate purposes
A system and method for generating a master realtor script to aid marketing and sales of new development properties with manually entered parameters or parameters gathered through machine learning. The system includes a VR headset that is in communication with a server via a communication network. The server includes a database containing preferred parameters of a given user for a real estate option that are either manually entered or generated by a machine learning module. This may include, number of rooms, color, housing type, preferred furniture, family members, house layout, and other parameters. The system will then predict user preferences based on the predetermined parameters and assign a weight to each different type of parameters. Afterwards, a master realtor script is averaged and provided in real time via a virtual reality headset based on the weighted parameters. |
| US11769158B1 |
Effort classification based on activity and oxygen uptake
A non-transitory memory component including software that, upon execution by a processor, perform operations to classify an activity performed by a user. First, the software receives activity data pertaining to an activity being performed by a user. The activity data may include one or more parameters associated with the activity including steps and time. Thereafter, a step rate is calculated based on the activity data, an activity is determined based on the calculated step rate, and an effort is determined in terms of cardiovascular intensity based, at least in part, on the calculated step rate. An appropriate effort threshold of determined cardiovascular intensity is identified based on oxygen uptake threshold. After, an activity type is classified using the effort and the activity. |
| US11769157B2 |
Container production management system and method
A container production management system including: an adding device (1) which adds object identification code (D) indicating an object identifier (ID); a processing process reader (2a,2b) which reads the object identifier indicated by the object identification code (D) added to the objects to be processed; an inspection process reader (3) which reads the object code (D) added to the object to be inspected in an inspection process; and a computing unit (4) which creates a database (5) in which the object identifier (ID), information on at least one processing process, and inspection results in the inspection process are linked with each other, wherein the adding device (1) adds the object identification code (D) to the material member for each container, or to a portion to be the material member among raw materials (S) before the individual material member is separated therefrom. |
| US11769156B2 |
Automated data projection for smart contract groups on a blockchain
An example operation may include one or more of identifying a data record to be included in a blockchain, creating a group of smart contracts to enable access to the data record to data consumers with access to the blockchain, determining the group of smart contracts have been registered by one or more blockchain peers, and storing the group of smart contracts on the blockchain. |
| US11769155B2 |
Relying party risk-adjusted indicator system and method
Provided is a method including receiving, by a user device, a request from an identity service to approve communicating a user proof-of-identity to a relying party. A user of the user device is prompted to request a one-time transaction identifier based on the request. Based on a first input from the user, the user device requests the one one-time transaction identifier from the identity service. In response to the request for the one-time transaction identifier, the user device receives the one-time transaction identifier from the identity server and displays the one-time transaction identifier on a first user device screen. The user inputs the one-time transaction identifier on a second user device screen and the user device communicates the one-time transaction identifier to the identity service. In response to receiving the at least one inputted one-time transaction identifier, the relying party determines whether to approve or deny a transaction. |
| US11769154B1 |
Token device for distributed ledger based interchange
A portable token device is described, the token device useable to request transactions performed over an interchange system. The token device authenticates a user through the use of biometric data such as a fingerprint. When in proximity to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the token device communicates with the POS terminal over a wireless network to authorize a transaction involving the user. The interchange system employs blockchain elements that can be used in a payment apparatus for managing payments or other types of transactions, and for managing user accounts. The interchange system enables users to enroll in the system, and enables the various users' computing devices to be used as confirmation centers for new transactions and/or funds transfers between users. |
| US11769144B2 |
Provisioning credentials for an electronic transaction on an electronic device
This application relates to electronic devices, and other systems, methods, and processes for conducting electronic transactions. The electronic transactions may involve a vendor transaction platform and a credential provisioning application. The credential provisioning application, when determined to be compatible with the vendor transaction platform, may prompt for input of a credential to be provisioned during the electronic transaction. The vendor transaction platform is kept active or otherwise prevented from performing a time-out operation while the provisioning is conducted. The provisioned credential may be submitted as payment to complete the electronic transaction and may be stored on the electronic device for use in a subsequent electronic transaction. |
| US11769142B2 |
Method for providing a digital representation of a transaction card in a mobile device
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a method is conceived for providing a digital representation of a transaction card in a mobile device, comprising: detecting, by a near field communication unit of said mobile device, that the transaction card is in proximity of the mobile device; upon or after said detecting, performing, by a processing unit of said mobile device, the following steps: retrieving the digital representation of the transaction card from a digitization server; loading the digital representation of the transaction card into a memory of the mobile device; activating the digital representation of the transaction card for a predefined validity period; invalidating the digital representation of the transaction card if no successful near field communication transaction has been performed within said validity period. In accordance with other aspects of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program and a corresponding mobile device are provided. |
| US11769141B2 |
Payment milestones for improved financial health
The disclosed technology provides enhanced financial statements such as credit statements that provide customized payment options to a customer that takes into account the total amount owed by the customer, and past payments made by the customer. The customized payment options are determined with the goal of providing more payment options that encourage financial health, while not overwhelming the customer with too many options or irrelevant options. The customized payment options can be displayed in an interactive user interface for paying a credit statement that can visually inform a user of the benefit of the respective payment options with respect to the impact of the respective payment option on the customer's financial health—at least as it pertains to a credit account for which the statement was issued. |
| US11769140B2 |
System and method for location-based individualized content and mobile wallet offers
A system for displaying customized mobile content to users at a venue via a user device, includes a server system in conjunction with a plurality of machine-readable codes mounted within the venue. The server system performs the following steps: providing mobile content in a database; collecting user data associated with the user; receiving a request from one of the user devices, the request being generated by scanning one of the machine-readable codes with the user device; determining the user data associated with the user who scanned the machine-readable code; selecting, based upon the user data, customized mobile content from the mobile content in the database; and providing the customized mobile content to the user device. |
| US11769127B2 |
Intelligent processing of broken or failed ATM transactions
Aspects of the disclosure relate to intelligent processing of broken or failed ATM transactions. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive transaction data associated with a pending transaction initiated on a mobile computing device and generate hash information corresponding to the received transaction data. Then, the computing platform may identify ATMs previously visited by the user. Based on performing analytics on those previously visited ATMs, the computing platform may identify, from those previously visited ATMs, one or more alternate ATMs for completing the pending transaction. Next, the computing platform may send a notification to the mobile computing device that includes navigation information. Thereafter, the computing platform may cause the alternate ATMs to await input from the user by sending the generated hash information. In response to receiving a message indicating completion of the pending transaction, the computing platform may initiate clearing of a pending status of the pending transaction. |
| US11769114B2 |
Collaboration platform for enabling collaboration on data analysis across multiple disparate databases
A platform and method for enabling collaboration on data analysis of life sciences data across disparate databases are disclosed. The collaboration platform may allow for performing exploratory analysis for drug discovery and development. The collaboration platform may include a search and graph module for generating a user project and determining and displaying one or more matching data assets and one or more potential collaborators; a collaboration module for coordinating a collaboration between the user and one or more selected collaborators; a data management module for receiving a schema for one or more producer projects, receiving data from the one or more selected data assets, and ingesting the received data using common standards and an ontology; and an insight application for generating disease specific inferences relating to a scientific question using the ingested received data, and receiving a feedback from the user and/or the selected collaborators to improve the search and graph module. |
| US11769108B2 |
Determining alternative delivery destinations
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for determining alternative delivery destinations. For example, in various embodiments, a method may be provided comprising receiving shipping information/data for an item indicating the item to be delivered to an original consignee by a carrier and comprising at least a default delivery location, determining whether the original consignee has indicated a first priority alternative consignee among one or more alternative consignees, and in an instance in which a determination is made that the original consignee has indicated the first priority alternative consignee among the one or more alternative consignees, delivering the item to the first priority alternative consignee. |
| US11769104B2 |
Autonomous vehicle delivery system
An example system includes a computing system having computer memory storing instructions that are executable and one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data from a user device that identifies goods, and generating information representing the goods based on the data. Bins are configured to hold the good represented by the information. The bins are climate-controllable to accommodate the goods. An autonomous vehicle is configured to transport the bins. The autonomous vehicle is configured to navigate from a loading station where at least some of the goods are received in the bins to a pick-up station where the goods are released from the bins. |
| US11769102B2 |
Server, information processing system, and information processing method
A server according to the present disclosure includes a communication interface for acquiring ordered product information and vehicle information that are input to an input terminal, wherein the ordered product information relates to an article that is ordered by a user, and the vehicle information relates to a vehicle that the user is scheduled to board, and a controller for determining a delivery schedule for delivery of the article indicated by the ordered product information to the vehicle by a date/time when the user will board the vehicle indicated by the vehicle information. |
| US11769100B2 |
Leading indicators and monitor business KPIs and metrics for preemptive action
Systems and methods for data analytics are described. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure receive target time series data and candidate time series data, where the candidate time series data includes data corresponding to each of a plurality of candidate metrics, train a prediction network to predict the target time series data based on the candidate time series data by setting temporal attention weights corresponding to a plurality of rolling time windows and by setting candidate attention weights corresponding to the plurality of candidate metrics, identify a leading indicator metric for the target time series data from the plurality of candidate metrics based on the temporal attention weights and the candidate attention weights, and signal the leading indicator metric for the target time series data. |
| US11769097B1 |
Systems and methods for objective validation of enterprise protocols involving variable data sources
The present disclosure describes devices and methods of providing a technology environment for analyzing programs or initiatives of an enterprise. In particular, a computing device including a processor with computer readable instructions to access client resolution data that includes information regarding one or more resolutions. A resolution may be associated with a claim made by a client, and include multiple variables including correspondences between the client and the enterprise, an actual value corresponding to the claim, and an expected value corresponding to the claim. The computing system may generate a dataset of all of the resolutions, apply an outlier detection model, and provide an interactive summary of one or more outlier analysis tests via a graphical user interface. |
| US11769094B2 |
System and method for real-time distributed micro-grid optimization using price signals
A system and method for providing real-time distributed micro-grid optimization using price signals to the electrical grid system by allowing bi-directional electricity usage from a distributed network of energy storage stations to form a large, distributed resource for the grid. A machine learning optimization module ingests various forms of data—from grid telemetry to traffic data to trip-to-trip data and more-in order to make informed spatiotemporal decisions about optimal pricing signals as well as strategically placing and balancing energy stores across various regions to support optimum energy usage, risk mitigation, grid fortification, and revenue generation. Energy stores are then sent updated price signals and updated parameters as to the amount of energy to hold or release. |
| US11769093B2 |
Systems and methods for determining path solutions associated with a supply chain network
Input data comprises an order to provide a quantity of one or more finished goods to a site. Software is programmed for: accessing information that defines an architecture of a supply chain network comprising a plurality of sites connected by a plurality of path fragments; generating one or more path solutions to fulfill the order; removing one or more loops from the one or more path solutions; generating based on the one or more path solutions and the one or more removed loops, one or more revised path solutions; outputting the one or more revised path solutions for display on a client device; and transmitting, only to computers of the sites of a revised subset of a plurality of path fragments, a plurality of signals to initiate movement of one or more of raw materials or finished goods. |
| US11769086B2 |
Application-based commercial ground transportation clearinghouse system
A management system for a Permitting Authorities (PA) or their appointed designee to monitor and track application-based commercial ground transportation (ABCT) providers activities within electronically-enabled geo-fenced areas associated with the PAs, all without the need for specialized hardware such as transponders or other tracking equipment. ABCT Providers transmit location and/or transaction information for ABCT Vehicles within geo-fenced areas associated with the PAs to a clearinghouse. The clearinghouse parses the location and/or transaction information to identify the corresponding PA. The clearinghouse transmits the received information to the corresponding PAs in near real-time and periodically creates invoices for each PA based on the activities taken place within the respective goes-fenced areas. |
| US11769078B2 |
Systems and methods for transfer learning of neural networks
Methods and systems may be used for transfer learning of neural networks. According to one example, a method includes: grouping data objects of a first training set into a plurality of clusters; training a base model using a first cluster of the plurality of clusters, the base model being a neural network having a plurality of nodes; generalizing the base model to obtain a generalized base model, the generalizing the base model including setting a portion of the plurality of nodes to have random or predetermined weights; determining that the first cluster is, out of the plurality clusters, most similar to a second training set; and training the generalized base model using the second training set to obtain a trained model. |
| US11769075B2 |
Dynamic machine learning on premise model selection based on entity clustering and feedback
The disclosed technology relates to a process of providing dynamic machine learning on premise model selection. In particular, a set of machine learned models are generated and provided to an on premise computing device. The machine learned models are generated using a cluster of customer data (e.g. telemetric data) stored on a computing network having different ranges of computational complexity. One of the machine learned models from the set of machine learned models will be selected based on the current available computational resources detected at the on premise computing device. Different machine learned models from the set of machine learned models can then be selected based on changes in the available computational resources and/or customer feedback. |
| US11769074B2 |
Collecting observations for machine learning
A method of training a model comprising a generative network mapping a latent vector to a feature vector, wherein weights in the generative network are modelled as probabilistic distributions. The method comprises: a) obtaining one or more observed data points, each comprising an incomplete observation of the features in the feature vector; b) training the model based on the observed data points to learn values of the weights of the generative network which map the latent vector to the feature vector; c) from amongst a plurality of potential next features to observe, searching for a target feature of the feature vector which maximizes a measure of expected reduction in uncertainty in a distribution of said weights of the generative network given the observed data points so far; and d) outputting a request to collect a target data point comprising at least the target feature. |
| US11769073B2 |
Methods and systems for producing an expanded training set for machine learning using biological sequences
Methods and systems for expanding a training set of one or more original biological sequences are provided. An original training set is obtained, wherein the original training set comprises one or more original biological sequences. Saliency values corresponding to one or more elements in each of the one or more original biological sequences are obtained. For each of the original biological sequences, one or more modified biological sequences are produced and the one or more modified biological sequences are associated with the original biological sequence. One or more elements are generated in each of the one or more modified biological sequences using one or more elements in the associated original biological sequence and the corresponding saliency values. The one or more modified biological sequences for each of the original biological sequences are added to the original training set to form an expanded training set. |
| US11769071B2 |
System and method for error correction in quantum computing
As system is provided for performing a method of receiving a superposition state defined by a sum of a plurality of addends, wherein each addend of the plurality of addends is a product between a corresponding coefficient of a plurality of coefficients and a corresponding state of a plurality of states encoded with block unary encoding. The system may identify at least one error state, of the plurality of states, having a string value that is not a block unary code string of a set of block unary code strings. The system may compute an updated superposition state based on the plurality of states without the error state. |
| US11769068B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for generating real-time predictions for vehicle transportation requests using machine learning
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for generating real-time predictions for vehicle transportation requests using machine learning. The method includes generating, with a processor and a machine-learning classification model, a transportation categorization for each consumer of a plurality of consumers based on historic transaction data; processing a plurality of new transactions by each consumer, each new transaction associated with a geographic node of activity; in response to processing the new transactions, generating a plurality of vehicle transportation predictions for the consumers based on the transportation categorization for each consumer and a geographic node of activity associated with a new transaction, each vehicle transportation prediction representing a likelihood that the consumer will request vehicle transportation subsequent to conducting the new transaction; and generating a supply map interface comprising a visual identification of a location in which a number of requests for vehicle transportation is predicted to increase based on the vehicle transportation predictions. |
| US11769064B2 |
Onboarding of entity data
Techniques are described herein to improve onboarding of third party entity data with existing knowledge graphs. In various implementation s, a computing system associated with an existing knowledge graph may receive a request from a third party to onboard, with the existing knowledge graph, a plurality of entities. Each entity may have associated identifier(s) and relationship(s) with other entities of the plurality of entities. First third party entity data that describes the plurality of entities and associated identifiers/relationships may be received from the third party. The first third entity party data may be analyzed to identify semantic fingerprint(s) matching respective subsets of the entities. Results related to the analyzing may be determined. The results may include a statistic representing success or failure of applying rule(s) to a respective subset of entities that match a given semantic fingerprint. Remedial action(s) may be triggered based on the failure statistic. |
| US11769063B2 |
Providing predictive analytics with predictions tailored for a specific domain
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for providing predictions tailored for a specific domain. Each field within a set of datasets is classified with a concept defined in a domain specific ontology. After receiving a target field and identifying a target concept tagged to the target field, concepts that have an influential impact directly to the target concept or indirectly to a concept tagged to a field associated with the target field are identified. Fields are then identified as candidates for predictors from the identified concepts using a semantic relationship and a numeric association combined approach. An influential confidence score and a numeric analytics score are then calculated for each of these candidates upon which a final confidence score is computed. The identified candidates are ranked based on the final confidence scores, and the top ranked candidates for predictors are selected to build a statistical model. |
| US11769061B2 |
Processing computational graphs
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation. |
| US11769058B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying unknown instances
Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide an improved approach for open-set instance segmentation by identifying both known and unknown instances in an environment. For example, a method can include receiving sensor point cloud input data including a plurality of three-dimensional points. The method can include determining a feature embedding and at least one of an instance embedding, class embedding, and/or background embedding for each of the plurality of three-dimensional points. The method can include determining a first subset of points associated with one or more known instances within the environment based on the class embedding and the background embedding associated with each point in the plurality of points. The method can include determining a second subset of points associated with one or more unknown instances within the environment based on the first subset of points. The method can include segmenting the input data into known and unknown instances. |
| US11769046B2 |
Symmetric phase-change memory devices
Variable resistance devices and neural network processing systems include a first phase change memory device that has a first material that increases resistance when a set pulse is applied. A second phase change memory device has a second material that decreases resistance when a set pulse is applied. |
| US11769044B2 |
Neural network mapping method and apparatus
A neural network mapping method and a neural network mapping apparatus are provided. The method includes: mapping a calculation task for a preset feature map of each network layer in a plurality of network layers in a convolutional neural network to at least one processing element of a chip; acquiring the number of phases needed by a plurality of processing elements in the chip for completing the calculation tasks, and performing a first stage of balancing on the number of phases of the plurality of processing elements; and based on the number of the phases of the plurality of processing elements obtained after the first stage of balancing, mapping the calculation task for the preset feature map of each network layer in the plurality of network layers in the convolutional neural network to at least one processing element of the chip subjected to the first stage of balancing. |
| US11769035B1 |
Automatically determining configurations for executing recurrent neural networks
Techniques are described automatically determining runtime configurations used to execute recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for training or inference. One such configuration involves determining whether to execute an RNN in a looped, or “rolled,” execution pattern or in a non-looped, or “unrolled,” execution pattern. Execution of an RNN using a rolled execution pattern generally consumes less memory resources than execution using an unrolled execution pattern, whereas execution of an RNN using an unrolled execution pattern typically executes faster. The configuration choice thus involves a time-memory tradeoff that can significantly affect the performance of the RNN execution. This determination is made automatically by a machine learning (ML) runtime by analyzing various factors such as, for example, a type of RNN being executed, the network structure of the RNN, characteristics of the input data to the RNN, an amount of computing resources available, and so forth. |
| US11769034B2 |
Sense element engagement process of cortical prosthetic vision by neural networks
The invention employs sense element engagement theory to provide a sense element engagement process for producing self-organized patterns of interaction strengths among electronic neurons in an electronic neural network which coordinate with models of patterns of phosphenes experiences and the visual space in which they are located; documented by individuals whose primary visual cortex is stimulated by electric current. The process may be employed for other experiential patterns by substituting desired model patterns for patterns comprising the experience of phosphenes in a visual space. If such experiential patterns are produced, then devices that implement the process can be sentient. Also provided is an understanding of how neural networks produce a specific quality of experience. The phenomena that comprise cortical prosthetic vision (CPV) include two properties: subjective qualities of CPV models can be constructed; and such models can be related to objective aspects of CPV models. |
| US11769033B2 |
System, computer readable storage medium, and method for segmentation and enhancement of brain MRI images
A system and method of 3-D image segmentation of brain images includes obtaining a 3-D MRI image, an employee phase including performing search cycles of generating solutions in a neighborhood, taking into account (a) movement of a bee's current location toward a mean value of a positive direction of a global best location and a positive direction of its own best location, (b) movement of the bee's current location toward the mean value of the positive direction of its own best location and a negative direction of the global best location, and (c) a random number, calculating a fitness value for the solutions based on membership values of pixels and distances between the pixels to cluster centers of pixels until search ends. Image segmentation of the image is performed using centers of clusters. |
| US11769032B2 |
Electronic system, portable electronic device and counting information updating method
An embodiment of the present invention provides a counting information updating method for a portable electronic device having a plurality of spheres connected with each other. The method includes: generating an angular velocity signal by a first sensor of the portable electronic device and generating an acceleration signal by a second sensor of the portable electronic device in response to a sphere moving operation; and estimating counting information corresponding to the sphere moving operation by using the angular velocity signal with an assistance of the acceleration signal. |
| US11769026B2 |
Flexible water-resistant sensor tag
A method for configuring a sensor tag may include providing a flexible substrate layer comprising a thin film of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU); depositing a sensor inlay on the flexible substrate layer; and applying a protective coating over the sensor inlay encapsulating the sensor inlay between the flexible substrate layer and the protective coating. |
| US11769023B2 |
Image processing apparatus, recording apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
A distribution portion that distributes an error based on quantization of a gradation value corresponding to the one pixel, to a first pixel located in a first direction of the one pixel at a first distribution rate, to a second pixel located in a second direction of the one pixel at a second distribution rate, and to a third pixel located in a third direction of the one pixel at a third distribution rate, the second direction is a direction that intersects the first direction, and the third direction is a direction different from an extension direction of a plane defined by the first direction and the second direction. |
| US11769021B2 |
Methods and apparatuses to mitigate specular reflections and direct illumination interference in bioptic barcode readers
Example methods and apparatuses to mitigate specular reflections and direct illumination interference in bioptic barcode readers are disclosed. An example method includes creating a first sub-field of view passing through a first window, creating a second sub-field of view passing through a second window, while activating a first illumination source to illuminate the first sub-field of view and deactivating a second illumination source associated with the second sub-field of view, capturing first images of the first sub-field of view, while activating the second illumination source to illuminate the second sub-field of view and deactivating the first illumination source, capturing second images of the second sub-field of view, and attempting to decode a barcode within at least one of the first images and the second images. |
| US11769019B1 |
Machine translation with adapted neural networks
A translation system receives examples of translations between a first language and a second language. In response to receiving request to translate a source text from the first language to the second language, the system ranks the examples based on the example's applicability to one or more portions of the source text. The system performs additional training of a neural network that was pre-trained to translate from the first language to the second language, where the additional training is based on one or more top-ranking examples. The system translates the source text to the second language using the additionally trained neural network. |
| US11769018B2 |
System and method for temporal attention behavioral analysis of multi-modal conversations in a question and answer system
Methods and systems for attention behavioral analysis for a conversational question and answer system are disclosed. A multi-modality input is selected from a plurality of multimodality conversations among two or more users. The system annotates the first modality inputs and at least one attention region in the first modality input corresponding to a set of entities and semantic relationships in a unified modality is identified by a discrete aspect of information bounded by the attention elements. The system models the representations of the multimodality inputs at different levels of granularity, which includes entity level, turn level, conversational level. The method proposed uses a network that consists of multilevel encoder-decoder architecture that is used to determine unified focalized attention, analyze and construct one or more responses for one or more turns in a conversation. |
| US11769016B2 |
Generating responses to user interaction data based on user interaction-styles
A method includes obtaining user input interaction data. The user input interaction data includes one or more user interaction input values respectively obtained from the corresponding one or more input devices. The user input interaction data includes a word combination. The method includes generating a user interaction-style indicator value corresponding to the word combination in the user input interaction data. The user interaction-style indicator value is a function of the word combination and a portion of the one or more user interaction input values. The method includes determining, using a semantic text analyzer, a semantic assessment of the word combination in the user input interaction data based on the user interaction-style indicator value and a natural language assessment of the word combination. The method includes generating a response to the user input interaction data according to the user interaction-style indicator value and the semantic assessment of the word combination. |
| US11769015B2 |
User interface disambiguation
Systems, methods, and computer programming products for alleviating ambiguity amongst the terms and language displayed by the user interface of software products and services. The disclosed solutions catalog terms displayed by the UI of software and services and identify where overlapping terms with the same or substantially similar term names are presented by the UI but have different meanings than the software most familiar to the user. Natural language processing is leveraged to derive meanings of software terms using the context of the surrounding words and text elements within the UI, as well as product documentation, error messages, sentiment and other textual clues. Ambiguity among overlapping terms is alleviated by modifying the UI, highlighting differences in term definitions from the software or services a user is most familiar with using, and updating the UI in a manner that differentiates the overlapping terms displayed by accessed products or services. |
| US11769007B2 |
Treebank synthesis for training production parsers
An approach for generating synthetic treebanks to be used in training a parser in a production system is provided. A processor receives a request to generate one or more synthetic treebanks from a production system, wherein the request indicates a language for the one or more synthetic treebanks. A processor retrieves at least one corpus of text in which the requested language is present. A processor provides the at least one corpus to a transformer enhanced parser neural network model. A processor generates at least one synthetic treebank associated with a string of text from the at least one corpus of text in which the requested language is present. A processor sends the at least one synthetic treebank to the production system, wherein the production system trains a parser utilized by the production system with the at least one synthetic treebank. |
| US11769006B2 |
Parsing and reflowing infographics using structured lists and groups
This disclosure describes methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for automatically parsing infographics into segments corresponding to structured groups or lists and displaying the identified segments or reflowing the segments into various computing tasks. For example, the disclosed systems may utilize a novel infographic grouping taxonomy and annotation system to group elements within infographics. The disclosed systems can train and apply a machine-learning-detection model to generate infographic segments according to the infographic grouping taxonomy. By generating infographic segments, the disclosed systems can facilitate computing tasks, such as converting infographics into digital presentation graphics (e.g., slide carousels), reflow the infographic into query-and-response models, perform search functions, or other computational tasks. |
| US11769004B2 |
Goal-oriented conversation with code-mixed language
A computer system may create a language model corpus including multilingual alignment for training a combined language model and train (or pre-train) the combined language model. The computer system may create an adverse medication reaction corpus to include adverse medication reaction utterances and label an N-gram of an utterance in the adverse medication reaction utterances as a response to query, for multiple N-grams. The computer system may generate a code-mixed utterance model to perform code-mixed utterances in a turn by turn dialogue, by at least adding additional output layer including at least a start vector, language vector, and a query vector including at least the labeled N-gram, which are additional to the combined language model's predicted next words. |
| US11769002B2 |
Extended data grid components with multi-level navigation
A method creates a data grid component in a GUI. The data grid includes data cells, header cells, corner cells, and may further include footer cells. The data grid component may have headers or footers that contain a scale and/or a ruler that relates to graphs shown in a row or column associated with the header or footer. The scale and/or ruler may be horizontal or vertical.The GUI component may allow for multilevel navigation. One level allows for navigating from component to component in the GUI, including the data grid and any other components. Another level allows for navigating within a component, including in the data grid. Available user navigation inputs include level change commands, for example tied to specific keys. |
| US11768999B2 |
Collaborative in-line content item annotations
A collaborative content management system is disclosed herein for receiving a command to add an annotation object following a character input into a line of a collaborative content item. The system inserts an annotation object onto the line following the character, detects a selection of the annotation object, and displays a secondary collaborative content item in visual association with the character. The system detects textual content that corresponds to a citation within the secondary collaborative content item, and responsive to detecting the textual content, generates for display a template for inputting fields of a citation. The system receives text entered into one or more of the fields, generates a citation based on the text, and inputs the citation into the secondary collaborative content item. |
| US11768997B2 |
Systems and methods for creating, using, and managing fields in electronic content
Systems and methods for creating, inserting, and managing a field. The field comprising a key and a corresponding formula. The key and the formula of the field stored in a database of a field management system. The method for inserting the field including receiving a field insertion request; identifying and forwarding, by the field management system, one or more keys and formulas corresponding to one or more suggested fields for rendering on a user interface of a client device; receiving, at the field management system, indication of selection of a key from the one or more keys; computing, by the field management system, a result for the formula of the field associated with the selected key; and communicating the result from the field management system to the first client application for rendering in line with the electronic content. |
| US11768995B2 |
Offline interactive natural language processing results
Interactive natural language processing (NLP) results may be generated that allow a user to interact with the NLP results but do so in an offline manner so that the documents being processed need not be stored online. To provide interactive NLP results, event handlers may be attached to elements of the NLP results. A user may then select a word or phrase of the NLP results to cause computer software provided with the NLP to present the interactive features. For example, a user may click on a definite noun phrase to view information for diagnosing antecedent basis errors. For another example, a user may click on a word to view information about how that word is used in a document, such as viewing portions of the document that include the word or variants of the word. |
| US11768994B1 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for generating a curated user interface (UI) marker
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for generating a curated user interface (UI) marker are disclosed. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving information for generating a curated UI marker associated with a converged infrastructure management application, wherein the curated UI marker includes a hyperlink to locally stored information associated with the converged infrastructure management application. The method also includes generating, using the information, the curated UI marker associated with the converged infrastructure management application. |
| US11768993B2 |
Methods, systems, apparatus and articles of manufacture for receipt decoding
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute instructions to extract text from the receipt image, the text including bounding boxes; associate ones of the bounding boxes to link horizontally related fields of a the receipt image by selecting a first bounding box; identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box; adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a word sync list; and connecting ones of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box based on at least one of an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the word sync list and a relationship among the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box. |
| US11768991B2 |
Pin access hybrid cell height design
A method of generating a layout diagram for an integrated circuit. The method includes arranging a plurality of cells in the layout diagram. The method further includes placing a plurality of cell pins over a plurality of selected via placement points in a first cell of the plurality of cells, wherein at least one cell pin of the plurality of cell pins extends along a routing track of a plurality of routing tracks across a boundary of the first cell and into a second cell of the plurality of cells abutting the first cell. |
| US11768990B1 |
Interconnect flow graph for integrated circuit design
An integrated circuit design technique utilizes a data structure describing the connections, interconnect routing information of the connections, and bandwidth requirements of the connections in an integrated circuit device to generate an interconnect flow graph having nodes, and edges connecting the nodes. The edges connecting the nodes can reflect the bandwidth requirements of the connections. The interconnect flow graph can be used to optimize and verify the integrated circuit design. |
| US11768989B2 |
Reduced area standard cell abutment configurations
A method of designing a semiconductor device including the operations of analyzing a vertical abutment between a first standard cell block and a second cell block and, if a mismatch is identified between the first standard cell block and the second cell block initiating the selection of a first modified cell block that reduces the mismatch and a spacing between the first modified cell block and the second cell block, the first modified cell block comprising a first abutment region having a continuous active region arranged along a first axis parallel to an edge of the vertical abutment, and replacing the first standard cell block with the first modified cell block to obtain a first modified layout design and devices manufactured according to the method. |
| US11768984B2 |
Parameter sensing and computer modeling for gas delivery health monitoring
A method includes receiving measurement data from multiple sensors positioned along a delivery line that delivers a liquid as a gas to one of a gas panel or a processing chamber; simulating, using a computer-generated model, one or more process parameters associated with the delivery line and a plurality of heater jackets positioned around the delivery line; comparing the measurement data with values of the one or more process parameters; and determining, based on at least a threshold deviation between the measurement data and the values of the one or more process parameters, that a fault exists that is associated with maintaining temperature within the delivery line consistent with a gaseous state of the liquid. |
| US11768983B2 |
Shape optimisation of technical devices via gradient descent using convolutional neural network proxies
The present invention generally relates to a method, a system and a computer program for shape optimisation of a technical device adapted to be exposed to a fluid flowing around a contour of said device with respect to its fluid dynamic parameters. In order to provide an improved method for shape optimisation of a technical device with respect to its fluid dynamic parameters which is faster, a method is provided comprising discretizing the shape of the technical device into a plurality of points along the contour of the technical device or into a surface mesh, and inputting the plurality of points or the surface mesh into a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for computing a prediction of the at least one fluid dynamic parameter. |
| US11768980B2 |
Wear analysis of drill bits
A method includes receiving a drill bit design. The design specifies a design parameter for a plurality of cutter elements of a drill bit. The method also includes estimating a temperature value for the cutter elements based on the design parameter and a drilling parameter; estimating a wear value for the cutter elements based on the design parameter and the temperature value; updating a value of the design parameter for at least one of the cutter elements based on the wear value and a time period; and using the updated design parameter value, repeating the steps of estimating the temperature value, estimating the wear value, and updating the design parameter value until the design parameter value for the at least one of the cutter elements reaches a threshold value. |
| US11768978B1 |
Systems and methods for contextual occupancy simulation
Systems and method for realistic simulation of occupancy are provided herein. A context associated with one or more smart devices associated with a property is reterieved, Then, simulation content specific to the context is requested. The simulation content is then caused to be presented by the one or more smart devices. |
| US11768974B2 |
Building information model (BIM) element extraction from floor plan drawings using machine learning
A method and system provide the ability to generate and use synthetic data to extract elements from a floor plan drawing. A room layout is generated. Room descriptions are used to generate and place synthetic instances of symbol elements in each room. A floor plan drawing is obtained and pre-processed to determine a drawing area. Based on the synthetic data symbols in the floor plan drawing are detected. Orientations of the detected symbols are also detected. Based on the detected symbols and orientations, building information model (BIM) elements are fetched and placed in the floor plan drawing. |
| US11768971B2 |
Tamper detection device, system, and method
It is described a tamper detection device for detecting tampering with respect to a packaging, the device comprising: i) a first electrode comprising a first patterned structure, and ii) a second electrode comprising a second patterned structure. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged so that the first patterned structure and the second patterned structure are at least partially opposite to each other. In a first arrangement state of the first patterned structure and the second patterned structure with respect to each other, a first capacitance is measurable, in a second arrangement state of the first patterned structure and the second patterned structure with respect to each other, a second capacitance is measurable, wherein the first capacitance is different from the second capacitance, and wherein the first arrangement state is different from the second arrangement state. The device further comprising: iii) a detection unit, wherein the detection unit is configured to: a) measure the capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, b) obtain, based on the measured capacitance, an information indicative of the arrangement state, and c) evaluate, based on the information indicative of the arrangement state, if a tampering with respect to the packaging is detected. |
| US11768967B2 |
Address verification for direct memory access requests
An example apparatus can receive a DMA request from a device, where the DMA request comprises an address and an ID of the device that uniquely identifies the device and wherein the device is a bus mastering device. The example apparatus can access a range of addresses using the ID of the device. An example apparatus can determine whether the address is in the range of addresses and can process the DMA request responsive to verifying that the address is in the range of addresses. |
| US11768966B2 |
Secure PUF-based device authentication using adversarial challenge selection
A method comprises generating, during an enrollment process conducted in a controlled environment, a dark bit mask comprising a plurality of state information values derived from a plurality of entropy sources at a plurality of operating conditions for an electronic device, and using at least a portion of the plurality of state information values to generate a set of challenge-response pairs for use in an authentication process for the electronic device. |
| US11768964B2 |
Security plugin for a system-on-a-chip platform
Systems and techniques for a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) security plugin are described herein. A component message may be received at an interconnect endpoint from an SoC component. The interconnect endpoint may pass the component message to a security component via a security interlink. The security component may secure the component message, using a cryptographic engine, to create a secured message. The secured message is delivered back to the interconnect endpoint via the security interlink and transmitted across the interconnect by the interconnect endpoint. |
| US11768958B2 |
System and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy risk
A system and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy-risk of a dataset is disclosed. These include an input-output (IO) interface for receiving at least one input dataset, and a configuration file governing the anonymization; a scoring engine including: a uniqueness sub-engine for determining uniqueness scores at data and data-subject level across both individual columns and combinations of columns; a similarity sub-engine that calculates the overlap, reproducibility and similarity by comparing all columns and subsets of columns between at least two datasets, modified, anonymized or synthetic version of original dataset; a statistical sub-engine that calculates statistics that are an indication of privacy-risks and re-identification risks; a contextual sub-engine for quantifying contextual factors by considering weighted approaches and producing a single context-centric score; and a recommendation engine identifying mitigating measures to reduce the privacy-risks by taking in to account the factors that are contributing to higher risk. |
| US11768957B2 |
Privacy-preserving image distribution
Some embodiments enable distributing data (e.g., recorded video, photographs, recorded audio, etc.) to a plurality of users in a manner which preserves the privacy of the respective users. Some embodiments leverage homomorphic encryption and proxy re-encryption techniques to manipulate the respective data so that selected portions of it are revealed according to an identity of the user currently accessing the respective data. |
| US11768956B2 |
Privacy screen
A first device coupled with a first display and an image sensor receives output data from a second device having a second display different from the first display. The output data represents content displayable by the second device on the second display. The first device determines, using the image sensor, a position of the second display relative to the first device and causes the first display to display content based on the output data received from the second device and the determined position of the second display relative to the first device. |
| US11768952B2 |
Advanced secure intelligent networked architecture, processing and execution
Provided are exemplary systems and methods for secure intelligent networked architecture, processing and execution. Exemplary embodiments include an intelligent networked architecture comprising an intelligent agent, a secure cloud of a plurality of specialized intelligent historical agents, a plurality of secure cloud based specialized insight servers configured to transform secure digital data into a scrubbed situational deployment trigger, and an intelligent operational agent configured to receive the scrubbed situational deployment trigger. |
| US11768950B2 |
Method for data protection across sharing platforms
A method includes: accessing a corpus of messages previously sent from a user account; correlating sequences of words, in the corpus of messages, with behavior signals; aggregating the behavior signals into a behavioral model representing combinations of behavior signals characteristic of behavior in messages sent from the user account; later, accessing a message outbound from the user account to a recipient account, the message including a document associated with a document tag; correlating sequences of words, in the message, with behavior signals; retrieving a data access policy including a threshold at which access to a document associated with the document tag is restricted; and in response to detecting a difference between the behavioral signals from the message and the behavioral model exceeding the threshold, restricting access, by the recipient account, to the document in the message. |
| US11768948B1 |
Enclave-based cryptography services in edge computing environments
Systems and methods for providing cryptographic services. A cryptography service obtains a request to provision a computing device to perform cryptographic operations. The cryptography service generates executable code for a protected execution environment. The computing device obtains and executes the executable code. The computing device fulfills requests for cryptographic operations in the protected execution environment. |
| US11768947B1 |
Distributed data security
First data from a user device is received on an electronic computing device. The first data is encrypted to generate second data. The second data is fragmented and stored in a plurality of data stores. |