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US11791566B2	Extremely electrically small antennas based on multiferroic materials A multiferroic antenna apparatus and method are described which provides increased energy efficiencies and ease of implementation. Magnetoelastic and/or magnetostrictive resonator are coupled to a piezoelectric substrate, along with electrodes coupled to its opposing surfaces. In receive mode the resonators create mechanical waves in response to being excited into magnetic oscillation by receiving electromagnetic radiation, and these mechanical waves coupled to the piezoelectric substrate causing it to generate an electrical output signal at said electrodes. In transmit mode an electrical signal coupled through the electrodes induces mechanical waves in the piezoelectric substrate directed to the resonators which are excited into magnetic oscillation to output electromagnetic waves.
US11791563B1	Deployable mesh antenna based on dome-type tensegrity A deployable mesh antenna based on dome-type tensegrity includes: a wire mesh reflector, a dome-type reflector support system, and a peripheral deployable truss which are coaxially arranged; the peripheral deployable truss includes: a annular main rod and end-to-end truss units disposed on the main rod; an outermost cable boundary of the dome-type reflector support system is fixedly connected to the peripheral deployable truss, and the dome-type reflector support system includes: an inner strut ring, an outer circumference of the inner strut ring is connected to radial rib units, each radial rib unit is arranged at a radial direction of the inner strut ring, and the radial rib units are connected through hoop cables; the wire mesh reflector is covered on the dome-type reflector support system to form a parabolic structure, the wire mesh reflector is petal-shaped, and the wire mesh reflector has a grid structure.
US11791562B2	Ring focus antenna system with an ultra-wide bandwidth A ring focus antenna system has an ultra-wide bandwidth for receiving and transmitting electromagnetic (EM) signals. The system includes a main reflector having an axis of rotation and a splash plate feed assembly consisting of a waveguide and a sub-reflector which is substantially aligned with the axis of rotation. The sub-reflector has surfaces that include segments of a displaced ellipse, having a first focal point which coincides with an ISO phase center located inside the waveguide and a second focal point located on a ring focus of the main reflector. A dielectric support for the sub-reflector has a shaped boundary which eliminates refraction at the dielectric-air interface. In one embodiment, the ultra-wide bandwidth includes EM frequencies belonging to Ku-band and Ka-band communication frequencies. The waveguide may be configured as a quad-ridged polarizing waveguide.
US11791548B2	Radome with aperture and method making same A radome and a method for manufacturing same. A radome apparatus (10) has a radome body (12) having an aperture (14), a film (16) covering the aperture, and a support (18) installed into the aperture. The film and the support have a low loss at a desired operating frequency. The support provides backing, support, and rigidity for the film so that distortion of the film by weather conditions, such as wind, is reduced. Thus, the integrity of the RF transmission characteristics of the radome are preserved. The aperture, film, and support are in the boresight of an antenna (20, 28) and are large enough to accommodate a desired beam steering range. The radome body may be manufactured with the aperture and the film included therein by using an in-mold labeling process. The support may be installed in the aperture by a subsequent molding process.
US11791546B2	Antenna device and electronic device including same Disclosed is an antenna device including an antenna substrate in which an array antenna comprising at least one radiation element is disposed, and a cover separated by a predetermined distance or more from the antenna substrate and comprising at least one repeating radiation element disposed to correspond to the at least one radiation element.
US11791541B2	Base station antenna A base station antenna includes a smart bias tee (SBT), an antenna array, a phase shifter, and a filter circuit. The antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements. The phase shifter includes a plurality of output terminals. Each of the plurality of output terminals is coupled to an antenna element. The filter circuit includes a first filter. An input terminal of the first filter is coupled to either one of output terminals of two ends of the phase shifter. The output terminals are coupled to the SBT. The output terminals of the two ends of the phase shifter have weaker power compared to other output terminals.
US11791540B2	Signal feeding assembly, antenna module and electronic equipment A signal feeding assembly to a radiating element which is not formed from a metal frame or casing includes a substrate, a signal coupling unit, a switching unit, and a transmission unit. The switching unit includes at least two switching output ends. The transmission unit can transmit and receive a baseband signal and an RF signal. The signal coupling unit is spaced from a radiation element and can generate a plurality of radiation modes. The signal coupling unit includes at least two coupling pieces. Each coupling piece is electrically connected to a switching output end. The switching unit controls switching of the coupling pieces through the switching output ends and can switch a plurality of radiation modes. The application also provides an antenna module and an electronic device.
US11791539B2	Antenna structure and display device including the same An antenna structure according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a film antenna including a dielectric layer, an upper electrode layer disposed on an upper surface of the dielectric layer and including a radiation pattern, a transmission line, and a ground pad, and a lower ground layer disposed on a lower surface of the dielectric layer, and a flexible circuit board including a core layer, a power supply wiring layer disposed on a lower surface of the core layer and electrically connected to the transmission line, and a ground plate disposed on an upper surface of the core layer and disposed in overlapping with the power supply wiring layer in a planar direction. Thereby, it is possible to reduce a radiation signal generated from the power supply wiring through the ground plate, suppress a noise of the antenna and increase radiation efficiency.
US11791537B2	Module component, antenna module, and communication device A module component includes a substrate having a first principal surface, a semiconductor substrate disposed on the first principal surface of the substrate, multiple terminals, and a resin layer. The terminals include multiple reference-potential terminals, which are electrically connected to the reference potential, and multiple signal terminals, which are disposed adjacent to at least one of the reference-potential terminals in the direction along an end portion of the substrate and which are supplied with a signal. In a plan view in the direction perpendicular to the first principal surface of the substrate, in at least one of the reference-potential terminals, the support portion is disposed between an end surface of the connection portion and the end portion of the substrate, and, in at least one of the signal terminals, the end surface of the connection portion is disposed between the support portion and the end portion of the substrate.
US11791535B2	Non-galvanic interconnect for planar RF devices A radio frequency (RF) system including first and second planar RF devices coupled by non-galvanic interconnect. According to various embodiments, a first RF device and a second RF device are separated by a dielectric layer, each of the first and second RF devices including a plurality of pads disposed on surface and surrounded by a common electrode, the common electrode configured as a grounded metal shield, wherein pads of the first RF device and pads of the second RF device face each other to provide capacitive coupling between the pads. The disclosure may reduce complexity and size of the system, and offer more reliable and easily producible interconnection between elements of the RF system.
US11791531B2	Electronic power divider for RF-signals and electronic RF-signal transceiver system comprising such device An electronic power divider for radio frequency signals, and an electronic system containing such electronic power divider, includes one or more inputs designed to be fed by an electromagnetic radio frequency signal having a predetermined wavelength; at least two outputs for the radio frequency signal, each of which is connected to the same input; electric paths adapted to connect each output to the corresponding input, and a system of selective variation of the electric impedance associated with each of the electric paths during the passage of the signal. The impedance variation system is adapted to vary the impedance associated with the paths discreetly between a lower and an upper value, and to simultaneously maintain the value of the impedance associated with two or more paths at least at the lower value.
US11791530B2	Waveguide power divider A waveguide power divider device comprises four two-port orthomode junctions arranged with their common waveguides extending in parallel, wherein the two ports of each orthomode junction extend in orthogonal directions, four E-plane T-junctions, each T-junction coupling two of the four orthomode junctions to each other via respective ones of their ports, a four-port turnstile junction, wherein waveguides of the four ports are bent to extend in parallel to an extension direction of a common waveguide of the turnstile junction, and four waveguide twists, each waveguide twist coupling a common waveguide of a respective one of the T-junctions to the waveguide of a respective one of the ports of the turnstile junction, with broad walls of the common waveguide of the T-junction and of the waveguide of the port of the turnstile junction being orthogonal to each other. An array antenna may include one or more such waveguide power divider devices.
US11791529B2	Radio-frequency devices and associated production methods A radio-frequency device comprises a printed circuit board and a radio-frequency package, which is mounted on the printed circuit board at a first mounting point and has a radio-frequency chip and a radio-frequency radiation element, wherein the printed circuit board has a first elasticity at least in a first section comprising the first mounting point. The radio-frequency device further comprises a waveguide component, which is mounted on the printed circuit board at a second mounting point and has a waveguide, wherein the radio-frequency radiation element is configured to radiate signals into the waveguide and/or to receive signals by way of the waveguide. The printed circuit board has a second elasticity at least in a second section with an increased elasticity between the first mounting point and the second mounting point, wherein the second elasticity is higher than the first elasticity.
US11791527B2	Printed circuit boards and methods for manufacturing thereof for RF connectivity between electro-optic phase modulator and digital signal processor A Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and methods for manufacturing the PCB board are provided. The PCB includes a Radio Frequency (RF) signal transition at a RF signal pad. Multiple conductive layers other than a conductive signal layer of the PCB and conductive portions of the conductive signal layer not in electrical contact with a RF signal transmission trace have common ground connections forming a ground cage structure within the PCB around the RF signal pad and RF the signal transmission trace.
US11791525B1	Asynchronous reversible flux soliton logic gates A reversible superconducting circuit includes two Josephson transmission lines. Inductors connect Josephson Junctions in the array. Each transmission line passes a fluxon along the Junctions. The circuit includes an interface with first and second shunt capacitors coupled to the first and second transmission lines, and a third shunt capacitor, forming a connecting circuit with the first and second shunt capacitors. The shunt capacitors include Josephson junctions in parallel. The connecting circuit receives an input fluxon and transmits an output fluxon. The circuit also includes a Josephson Junction and inductor in parallel with the third shunt capacitor, forming a storage circuit. The storage circuit stores a SFQ. The output fluxon has polarity based on the SFQ stored when the first fluxon is received. The input fluxon causes the polarity of the stored SFQ to be the same as the polarity of the input fluxon, immediately after the input fluxon is received.
US11791523B2	Bandpass filter This invention reduces, in a type of bandpass filter that is called a strip-line filter or a microstrip filter, a variation in filter characteristics that can occur in a case where the design of the first line and the second line is changed. The bandpass filter (filter 10) includes a ground conductor layer, n resonators (141 to 146), and first and second lines (lines 151, 152), wherein the first and second lines (lines 151, 152) are respectively connected to a third side (side R13) of a first resonator (resonator 141) and a seventh side (side R63) of an n-th resonator, a gap (G1) is provided in an area of a fourth side (side R14) which area is close to a second resonator (resonator 142), and a gap (G6) is provided in an area of an eighth side (side R64) which area is close to an n−1-th resonator (resonator 145).
US11791511B2	Thermally insulating compressible components for battery packs Batteries including electrochemical cells, associated components, and arrangements thereof are generally described. In some aspects, batteries with housings that undergo relatively little expansion and contraction even in cases where electrochemical cells in the battery undergo a relatively high degree of expansion and contraction during charging and discharging are provided. Batteries configured to apply relatively high magnitudes and uniform force to electrochemical cells in the battery, while in some cases having high energy densities and a relatively low pack burden, are also provided. In certain aspects, arrangements of electrochemical cells and associated components are generally described. In some aspects, thermally conductive solid articles that can be used for aligning components of the battery are described. In some aspects, thermally insulating and compressible components for battery packs are generally described.
US11791510B2	Two phase exothermic cooling A method of cooling a battery cell includes: atomizing a cooling fluid by driving it through a micro-nozzle at a pressure sufficient to create a jet of aerosolized liquid droplets while retaining sufficient momentum in flow of the fluid to travel from the nozzle to an outer surface of the battery cell; impinging the spray of the jet of aerosolized liquid droplets on an outer surface of the battery cell; partially evaporating the liquid droplets on the outer surface to conduct heat from the outer surface; and convecting heat from the outer surface of the battery via the cooling fluid.
US11791507B2	Method controlling heating by lithiumion battery system including combined internal and external heating A lithium-ion battery system and a control method for combined internal and external heating are provided. A battery is heated in a low-temperature environment through combined internal and external heating. The energy released during self-heating of the battery is fully used, and rapid heating of the battery in the low-temperature environment is implemented. A current adjustment module in a heating module is controlled to adjust a switch on-off frequency and a current on-off time during the heating, and loops with different heating resistances in a multi-loop heating film are selected through a resistance adjustment switch. In this way, target heating requirements of the battery are met, such as a high heating rate in a low-temperature environment, low energy consumption during the heating, and a small impact on battery life without jeopardizing safety during the heating.
US11791506B2	Modular heat exchangers for battery thermal modulation A modular heat exchanger for battery thermal management having a plurality of similarly constructed heat exchange elements affixed to a cover plate and fluidly coupled with one another via a single external manifold structure that functions as both an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold for each of the heat exchange elements. Rigidity is improved with alternating tabs or overlapping tabs between adjacent elements, and/or side edges between adjacent elements having cutouts for receiving stiffening ribs formed in the cover plate. The external manifold structure provides additional stiffening for the interconnected heat exchange elements.
US11791505B2	Methods for purifying and recycling lead from spent lead-acid batteries The present disclosure relates to methods by which lead from spent lead-acid batteries may be extracted, purified, and used in the construction of new lead-acid batteries. A method includes: (A) forming a mixture including a carboxylate source and a lead-bearing material; (B) generating a first lead salt precipitate in the mixture as the carboxylate source reacts with the lead-bearing material; (C) increasing the pH of the mixture to dissolve the first lead salt precipitate; (D) isolating a liquid component of the mixture from one or more insoluble components of the mixture; (E) decreasing the pH of the liquid component of the mixture to generate a second lead salt precipitate; and (F) isolating the second lead salt precipitate from the liquid component of the mixture. Thereafter, the isolated lead salt precipitate may be converted to leady oxide for use in the manufacture of new lead-acid batteries.
US11791501B2	Direct current power supplying system The life of a plurality of storage batteries as a whole is increased. A DC power supplying system includes power conditioners that supply generated power generated at power generators to a DC bus, storage batteries, storage batteries that have a superior cycle characteristic, bidirectional DC/DC converters that perform power conversion between generated power supplied to the DC bus and charging power of the storage batteries, bidirectional DC/DC converters that perform power conversion between generated power and charging power of the second storage batteries, DC/DC converters that supply the generated power and the charging power to load appliances, and an energy management system that is operable when an absolute value of a power difference between the generated power and the load power supplied to the load appliances is equal to or greater than a power threshold to operate the DC converters.
US11791499B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte solution and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery employing the same Disclosed herein is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing at least a positive electrode capable of the absorbing and releasing of a lithium ion, a negative electrode capable of the absorbing and releasing of the lithium ion, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a non-aqueous solvent and an electrolyte dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, where the negative electrode contains a carbonaceous material, and the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains, in addition to an electrolyte and a non-aqueous solvent: (A) a compound having at least two isocyanate groups per molecule, (B) a monofluorophosphate salt or a difluorophosphate salt, at from 0.001 mass % or more to 5 mass % or less in the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.
US11791498B2	Lithium secondary battery The lithium secondary battery of the present disclosure comprises an anode including an anode current collector and an anode active material; an electrolyte liquid; and a cathode including a cathode active material layer disposed on a cathode current collector. The anode includes a material capable of forming an alloy with lithium during charge. The electrolyte liquid contains lithium ions and the counter anions thereof, contains at least one substance selected from the group consisting of phenanthrene, biphenyl, triphenylene, acenaphthene, acenaphthylene, fluoranthene, and benzyl at a concentration of not less than 0.00625 mol/L and not more than 0.05 mol/L, and includes, as a solvent, at least one selected from the group consisting of a cyclic ether, a glyme, and a sulfolane.
US11791497B2	Solid-state battery and method for producing the same A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.
US11791493B2	Button cells and method of producing same A method for producing a button cell includes providing a cell cup, a cell top and an electrode-separator assembly winding, the electrode-separator assembly winding having a positive electrode and a negative electrode. An electrically insulating seal is applied at least to an outer portion of the cell top casing. The electrode-separator assembly winding is inserted into the cell top. The cell top is inserted into the cell cup to form a housing. A pressure is applied in a radial direction perpendicular to an axis of the electrode-separator assembly winding so as to seal the housing.
US11791490B2	Housing A housing that houses a fuel cell system including: a hydrogen storage unit; a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage unit; a pipe that connects the hydrogen storage unit and the fuel cell stack; and a power storage unit, the housing includes: an upper surface portion; a plurality of side surface portions; a ventilation hole, provided with the upper surface portion, configured to ventilate an inside and an outside of the housing; a ventilation hole, provided with a side surface portion of the plurality of side surface portions, configured to ventilate the inside and the outside of the housing; and an air supply device configured to discharge air taken in through one ventilation hole of the ventilation hole of the upper face portion and the ventilation hole of the side face portion from the other ventilation hole.
US11791484B2	Method for dealing with fault in fuel cell system A method for operating a fuel cell system having a fuel cell stack includes detecting a failure of a first cooling fan that blows exterior air to a first radiator, opening a first valve such that first cooling water that passes via the fuel cell stack flows toward the fuel cell stack, controlling an RPM of a blower of an air conditioning system to a maximum level, controlling an opening degree of a second valve according to a cooling degree of the first radiator and a cooling degree of the air conditioning system, and controlling an RPM of a first pump that pumps the first cooling water to a maximum level.
US11791482B2	Fuel cell system and condensate water storage device A condensate water storage device including a storage container defining a storage space to store condensate water, and having a discharge hole through which the condensate water is discharged to the outside, a valve unit to selectively open and close the discharge hole, a connection cable connected to the valve unit, and a winding unit connected to the connection cable to selectively wind the connection cable and manipulate an operation of the valve unit, thereby selectively discharging the condensate water, which is produced from a fuel cell.
US11791474B2	Electrolyte membrane for fuel cells including hydrogen peroxide generating catalyst and hydrogen peroxide decomposing catalyst, and method of manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to an electrolyte membrane for fuel cells including a hydrogen peroxide generating catalyst and a hydrogen peroxide decomposing catalyst, the electrolyte membrane exhibiting highly improved durability, and a method of manufacturing the same. Specifically, the electrolyte membrane includes a support and a catalyst particle including a catalyst metal supported by the support, the catalyst metal including one selected from the group consisting of a first metal having catalyst activity to generate hydrogen peroxide, a second metal having catalyst activity to decompose hydrogen peroxide, and a combination thereof.
US11791472B2	Positive current collector, secondary battery, and electrical device A positive current collector, a secondary battery, and an electrical device are provided. In some embodiments, the positive current collector includes: a support layer; and a conductive layer located on at least one surface of the support layer, where the conductive layer includes a first metal portion configured to connect to a tab, where, along a thickness direction of the conductive layer, the first metal portion includes at least three sublayers, and melting points of the at least three sublayers rise stepwise in ascending order of distance from the support layer. In the embodiments of this application, the first metal portion includes at least three sublayers, and the melting points of the at least three sublayers rise stepwise in ascending order of distance from the support layer, thereby helping increase a bonding force between the conductive layer and the support layer and reducing the probability of peel-off and delamination between the layers.
US11791468B2	Secondary Li ion battery and Li capacitor electrode compositions An electrode material useful as a dry in place deposit comprising at least one metal chelating polymer; an active material capable of reversibly intercalating lithium ions; a plurality of electrical conductor particles; a binder polymer. The electrode material is formed into a slurry using a non-aqueous solvent. The metal chelating polymer may be a reaction product of a polyphenolic polymer; an aldehyde, a ketone, or mixtures thereof; and an amine. The electrode material slurry is deposited on a current collector and dried to form a positive electrode in a secondary lithium ion battery. The deposited electrode material has high flexibility, adhesion to the current collector, resistance to electrolyte damage, and low electrical resistance. The electrode material forms a superior positive electrode at a relatively low additional cost and with no increase in process complexity.
US11791467B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with a positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer that is supported by a first main surface and a second main surface. The first main surface includes a first exposed section on which the positive electrode active material layer is not arranged. A positive electrode lead is connected to the first exposed section and includes an extension section and an overlapping section. At least a portion of the first exposed section, along with at least a portion of the overlapping section, is covered with a positive electrode insulating tape which has a base, a first layer that adheres to the first exposed section and to the overlapping section, and a second layer interposed between the base and the first layer; and the second layer expands when heated above a threshold.
US11791466B2	Modified graphite and preparation method thereof, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack, and electrical device Graphite and a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery containing the modified graphite, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical device are provided. In particular, the modified graphite according to this disclosure includes a graphite moiety and a binder moiety covalently linked to the graphite moiety. The binder moiety possesses a structure expressed as Formula (IV´). The modified graphite according to this disclosure solves the problem that the binder floats up during the preparation of the negative electrode plate of the secondary battery.
US11791464B2	Cathode active material and secondary battery using same Provided is a cathode active material comprising particles each containing a lithium composite oxide; and a coating layer containing an ammonium phosphate compound and coating each of the particles.
US11791462B2	Modified silicon monoxide material for use in negative electrode of lithium-ion battery and preparation method therefor A modified silicon monoxide material is used for a negative electrode of a lithium battery, and is prepared by reacting raw materials of silicon, silicon dioxide and metal silicate under high-temperature and vacuum conditions to prepare silicon monoxide; and meanwhile, reacting the metal vapor with silicon monoxide in the preparation process to in situ form metal silicate. In the modified silicon monoxide material, the metal silicate is uniformly dispersed around the silicon and the silicon monoxide to form silicon-containing particles, and a carbon material coats the surfaces of the silicon-containing particles.
US11791458B2	Anode active material for lithium secondary battery, anode active material slurry and lithium secondary battery including the same According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery including a silicon oxide which includes a carbon coating layer on a surface thereof and is doped with magnesium. A ratio of peak area at 1303 eV to a sum of a peak area at 1304.5 eV and a peak area at 1303 eV, which appear in a Mg1s spectrum when measuring by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 60% or less.
US11791451B2	Devices, systems, and methods for molten fluid electrode apparatus management An apparatus comprises a reaction chamber and at least one negative electrode reservoir configured to contain a negative electrode material. An electrode material distribution system is configured to manage the transfer of fluid electrode material between the at least one negative electrode reservoir and the reaction chamber.
US11791443B2	Light emitting diode with high melanopic spectral content This specification discloses lighting device the includes a combination of a royal-blue and blue pump LEDs with a mixture of phosphors to provide light with a high melanopic content and maximize an m/p ratio while maintaining high color fidelity, and a tunable lighting system including the lighting device.
US11791440B2	Method of manufacturing light emitting element A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes forming an n-side electrode at a lateral surface of an n-type semiconductor layer so as not to cover a light extraction surface. Using a portion of a silicon substrate left on an n-type semiconductor layer as a mask, an insulating film formed at a lateral surface of a semiconductor layered body is removed, to expose a lateral surface of the n-type semiconductor layer and a lateral surface of a resin layer. An n-side electrode positioned between the lateral surface of the n-type semiconductor layer and the lateral surface of the resin layer and connected to the exposed lateral surface of the n-type semiconductor layer is formed. Thereafter, the portion of the silicon substrate is removed, to expose the n-type semiconductor layer.
US11791432B2	Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices Lateral and vertical microstructure enhanced photodetectors and avalanche photodetectors are monolithically integrated with CMOS/BiCMOS ASICs and can also be integrated with laser devices using fluidic assembly techniques. Photodetectors can be configured in a vertical PIN arrangement or lateral metal-semiconductor-metal arrangement where electrodes are in an inter-digitated pattern. Microstructures, such as holes and protrusions, can improve quantum efficiency in silicon, germanium and III-V materials and can also reduce avalanche voltages for avalanche photodiodes. Applications include optical communications within and between datacenters, telecommunications, LIDAR, and free space data communication.
US11791431B2	Back contact solar cell string and preparation method therefor, module, and system A back contact solar cell string includes at least two cell pieces, each cell piece including P-type doped regions and N-type doped regions that are alternately arranged, the P-type doped regions including positive electrode thin grid lines, and the N-type doped regions including negative electrode thin grid lines; and a plurality of conductive wires connected to the positive electrode thin grid lines and the negative electrode thin grid lines. The conductive regions configured for electrical connection between each conductive wire and the positive electrode thin grid lines or the negative electrode thin grid lines and insulation regions configured for insulating connection between each conductive wire and the negative electrode thin grid lines or the positive electrode thin grid lines are alternately disposed at joints between each conductive wire and the positive electrode thin grid lines, and at joints between each conductive wire and the negative electrode thin grid lines.
US11791430B2	Solar panel and method for producing the solar panel A solar panel includes a substrate. The substrate includes a front portion and a back portion that are bonded together. The front portion includes an electrical insulation layer and a front face sheet layer that is bonded to the electrical insulation layer. The back portion includes a honeycomb core layer and a back face sheet layer that is bonded to the honeycomb core layer. A channel is defined in the honeycomb core layer. The solar panel also includes a first wire that is positioned at least partially in the channel.
US11791429B2	Lightweight and flexible photovoltaic module comprising a front layer consisting of a polymer and a rear layer consisting of a composite material The invention relates to a lightweight photovoltaic module (1) comprising: a transparent first layer (2) forming the front face, photovoltaic cells (4), an assembly (3) encapsulating the photovoltaic cells (4), and a second layer (5), the encapsulating assembly (3) and the photovoltaic cells (4) being arranged between the first (2) and the second (5) layer. The invention is characterised in that the first layer (2) comprises a polymer material and has a thickness (e2) of less than 50 μm, in that the second layer (5) comprises at least one composite material of the prepreg type containing polymer resin and fibres and has a areal weight of less than 150 g/m2, and in that the encapsulating assembly (3) has a maximum thickness (e3) of less than 150 μm.
US11791427B2	Doped photovoltaic semiconductor layers and methods of making Provided are structures and methods for doping polycrystalline thin film semiconductor materials in photovoltaic devices. Embodiments include methods for forming and treating a photovoltaic semiconductor absorber layer.
US11791424B2	Device including photoconductor readout circuit for measuring differential voltages of a photoconductor A device includes at least one photoconductor configured for exhibiting an electrical resistance Rphoto dependent on an illumination of a light-sensitive region of the at least one photoconductor and at least one photoconductor readout circuit. The photoconductor readout circuit is configured for determining a differential voltage related to changes of the electrical resistance Rphoto of the photoconductor. The photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one bias voltage source configured for applying at least one periodically modulated bias voltage to the photoconductor such that the electric output changes its polarity at least once. The device further includes at least one electrical circuit configured to balance the differential voltage at a given illumination level.
US11791423B2	Stacked III-V semiconductor diode A semiconductor having a n-doped cathode layer, a p-doped anode layer, and a drift region, arranged between the cathode layer and the anode layer, with a dopant concentration of at most 8·1015 cm−3. The drift region has a lightly n-doped drift layer and a lightly p-doped drift layer, arranged between the n-doped drift layer and the anode layer, both drift layers each have a layer thickness of at least 5 μm. The cathode layer has a first section with a dopant concentration of at least 1·1017 cm−3 and a second section, arranged between the first section and the drift region, the second section has a layer thickness of at least 1 μm and a dopant concentration gradient that increases in the direction of the first section up to a dopant concentration maximum. The dopant concentration maximum is smaller or equal to the dopant concentration of the first section.
US11791422B2	Semiconductor device with fish bone structure and methods of forming the same Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor stack and a second semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein each of the first and second semiconductor stacks includes semiconductor layers stacked up and separated from each other; a dummy spacer between the first and second semiconductor stacks, wherein the dummy spacer contacts a first sidewall of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks; and a gate structure wrapping a second sidewall, a top surface, and a bottom surface of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks.
US11791420B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a channel layer, source/drain contacts, and first barrier liners. The channel layer includes an oxide semiconductor material. The source/drain contacts are disposed in electrical contact with the channel layer. The first barrier liners surround the source/drain contacts, respectively, and include a hydrogen barrier material so as to prevent hydrogen from diffusion through the first barrier liners to the channel layer.
US11791417B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof It is an object to provide a semiconductor device with less power consumption as a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer. It is an object to provide a semiconductor device with high reliability as a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer. In the semiconductor device, a gate electrode layer (a gate wiring layer) intersects with a wiring layer which is electrically connected to a source electrode layer or a drain electrode layer with an insulating layer which covers the oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor and a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween. Accordingly, the parasitic capacitance formed by a stacked-layer structure of the gate electrode layer, the gate insulating layer, and the source or drain electrode layer can be reduced, so that low power consumption of the semiconductor device can be realized.
US11791416B2	Display panel, method for manufacturing display panel, and display device This application discloses a display panel, a method for manufacturing a display panel, and a display device. The method includes steps of forming, in a display region of the display panel, a first active switch including a first semiconductor layer, and forming, in a non-display region of the display panel, a second active switch including a second semiconductor layer. A material of the first semiconductor layer formed is an oxide, a material of the second semiconductor layer formed is polysilicon, and the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are formed on an identical layer.
US11791413B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor device includes a fin protruding from a substrate and extending in a first direction, a gate structure extending on the fin in a second direction, and a seal layer located on the sidewall of the gate structure. A first peak carbon concentration is disposed in the seal layer. A first spacer layer is located on the seal layer. A second peak carbon concentration is disposed in the first spacer layer. A second spacer layer is located on the first spacer layer.
US11791411B2	Relating to SOI wafers and devices with buried stressors A semiconductor structure includes a layer arrangement consisting of, in sequence, a semiconductor-on-insulator layer (SOI) over a buried oxide (BOX) layer over a buried stressor (BS) layer with a silicon bonding layer (BL) intervening between the BOX and the BS layers. The semiconductor structure may be created by forming the BS layer on a substrate of a first wafer; growing the BL layer at the surface of the BS layer; wafer bonding the first wafer to a second wafer having a silicon oxide layer formed on a silicon substrate such that the silicon oxide layer of the second wafer is bonded to the BL layer of the first wafer, and thereafter removing a portion of the silicon substrate of the second wafer.
US11791410B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first layer that includes a first semiconductor material disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and a second layer of a second semiconductor material disposed on the first layer. The semiconductor substrate includes Si. The first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material are different. The second semiconductor material is formed of an alloy including a first element and Sn. A surface region of an end portion of the second layer at both ends of the second layer has a higher concentration of Sn than an internal region of the end portion of the second layer. The surface region surrounds the internal region.
US11791398B2	Nano multilayer carbon-rich low-k spacer A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stack on a substrate. The method further includes depositing a first spacer layer on a sidewall of the gate stack. The first spacer layer includes silicon and carbon. The method includes performing a first nitrogen plasma treatment process on the first spacer layer to increase a density of the first spacer layer. The method further includes depositing a second spacer layer on the first spacer layer. The second spacer layer includes silicon, carbon, and nitrogen.
US11791393B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming the same Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor nanosheets, a bottom dielectric layer, and a gate stack. The substrate includes at least one fin. The plurality of semiconductor nanosheets are stacked on the at least one fin. The bottom dielectric layer is vertically disposed between the at least one fin and the plurality of semiconductor nanosheets. The gate stack wraps the plurality of semiconductor nanosheets. An area of the gate stack projected on a top surface of the substrate is within an area of the bottom dielectric layer projected on the top surface of the substrate.
US11791392B2	Extended-drain metal-oxide-semiconductor devices with a notched gate electrode Structures for an extended-drain metal-oxide-semiconductor device and methods of forming a structure for an extended-drain metal-oxide-semiconductor device. The structure includes a substrate, a source region and a drain region in the substrate, a buffer dielectric layer positioned on the substrate adjacent to the drain region, and a gate electrode laterally positioned between the source region and the drain region. The gate electrode includes a portion that overlaps with the buffer dielectric layer, and the portion of the gate electrode includes notches.
US11791391B1	Inverters, and related memory devices and electronic systems An inverter includes a transistor, an additional transistor overlying the transistor, and a hybrid gate electrode interposed between and shared by the transistor and the additional transistor. The hybrid gate electrode includes a region overlying a channel structure of the transistor, an additional region overlying the region and underlying an additional channel structure of the additional transistor, and further region interposed between the region and the additional region. The region has a first material composition. The additional region has a second material composition different than the first material composition of the region. Memory devices and electronic systems are also described.
US11791390B2	Semiconductor device having an air gap and method for fabricating the same Disclosed is a semiconductor device for improving a gate induced drain leakage and a method for fabricating the same, and the method may include forming a trench in a substrate, lining a surface of the trench with an initial gate dielectric layer, forming a gate electrode to partially fill the lined trench, forming a sacrificial material spaced apart from a top surface of the gate electrode and to selectively cover a top corner of the lined trench, removing a part of the initial gate dielectric layer of the lined trench which is exposed by the sacrificial material in order to form an air gap, and forming a capping layer to cap a side surface of the air gap, over the gate electrode.
US11791387B2	Semiconductor devices with backside via and methods thereof A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same are provided. In an embodiment, an exemplary semiconductor structure includes a gate structure disposed over a channel region of an active region, a drain feature disposed over a drain region of the active region; a source feature disposed over a source region of the active region, a backside source contact disposed under the source feature, an isolation feature disposed on and in contact with the source feature, a drain contact disposed over and electrically coupled to the drain feature, and a gate contact via disposed over and electrically coupled to the gate structure. A distance between the gate contact via and the drain contact is greater than a distance between the gate contact via and the isolation feature. The exemplary semiconductor structure would have a reduced parasitic capacitance and an enlarged leakage window.
US11791386B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a source region, a drain region, and a plurality of field plates. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The source region and the drain region are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and located at two opposite sides of the gate structure in a first direction respectively. The field plates are disposed on the semiconductor substrate. Each of the field plates is partly located above the gate structure and partly located between the gate structure and the drain region. The gate structure is electrically connected with at least one of the field plates, and the source region is electrically connected with at least one of the field plates.
US11791383B2	Semiconductor device having a ferroelectric gate stack A semiconductor device includes a SiC substrate and a plurality of transistor cells formed in the SiC substrate and electrically connected in parallel to form a transistor. Each transistor cell includes a gate structure including a gate electrode and a gate dielectric stack separating the gate electrode from the SiC substrate. The gate dielectric stack includes a ferroelectric insulator. The transistor has a specified operating temperature range, and the ferroelectric insulator is doped with a doping material such that the Curie temperature of the ferroelectric insulator is in a range above the specified operating temperature range of the transistor. A corresponding method of producing the semiconductor device is also described.
US11791382B2	Power semiconductor A power semiconductor including a gate, a source, a plurality of first long-strip source metal layer, a drain and a plurality of second long-strip drain metal layer is provided. The source includes a first copper particle layer and a first metal layer that covers the bottom surface of the first copper particle layer. The source is bonded to the first long-strip source metal layer via a first metal pillar. The drain includes a second copper particle layer and a second metal layer that covers the bottom surface of the second copper particle layer. The drain is bonded to the second long-strip drain metal layer via a second metal pillar. The thickness of the first copper particle layer and the second copper particle layer are 5 μm˜100 μm. The first copper particle layer and the second copper particle layer are formed by plating and stacking a plurality of large-grain copper.
US11791380B2	Single gated 3D nanowire inverter for high density thick gate SOC applications Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate, and a first transistor of a first conductivity type over the substrate. In an embodiment, the first transistor comprises a first semiconductor channel, and a first gate electrode around the first semiconductor channel. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device further comprises a second transistor of a second conductivity type above the first transistor. The second transistor comprises a second semiconductor channel, and a second gate electrode around the second semiconductor channel. In an embodiment, the second gate electrode and the first gate electrode comprise different materials.
US11791378B2	Superjunction power semiconductor devices formed via ion implantation channeling techniques and related methods Semiconductor devices include a silicon carbide drift region having an upper portion and a lower portion. A first contact is on the upper portion of the drift region and a second contact is on the lower portion of the drift region. The drift region includes a superjunction structure that includes a p-n junction that is formed at an angle of between 10° and 30° from a plane that is normal to a top surface of the drift region. The p-n junction extends within +/−1.5° of a crystallographic axis of the silicon carbide material forming the drift region.
US11791375B2	Capacitor architectures in semiconductor devices Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a three dimensional capacitor. The three dimensional capacitor includes a pole, and one or more capacitor units stacked around the pole. A capacitor unit of the one or more capacitor units includes a first electrode surrounding and coupled to the pole, a dielectric layer surrounding the first electrode, and a second electrode surrounding the dielectric layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11791374B2	Capacitor and method for fabricating the same Disclosed is a capacitor having a high dielectric constant and low leakage current and a method for fabricating the same, wherein the capacitor may include a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a dielectric layer stack between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, a dielectric interface layer between the dielectric layer stack and the second conductive layer, and a high work function interface layer between the dielectric interface layer and the second conductive layer.
US11791371B2	Resistor structure Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to an embodiment includes forming a conductive feature and a first conductive plate over a substrate, conformally depositing a dielectric layer over the conductive feature and the first conductive plate, conformally depositing a conductive layer over the conductive feature and the first conductive plate, and patterning the conductive layer to form a second conductive plate over the first conductive plate and a resistor, the resistor includes a conductive line extending along a sidewall of the conductive feature. By employing the method, a high-resistance resistor may be formed along with a capacitor regardless of the resolution limit of, for example, lithography.
US11791370B2	Light-emitting device This disclosure discloses a light-emitting display module display. The light-emitting display module comprises: a board; and a plurality of light-emitting diode modules arranged in an array configuration on the board; wherein one of the light-emitting diode modules comprises a plurality of encapsulated light-emitting units spaced apart from each other; and one of the encapsulated light-emitting units comprises a plurality of optoelectronic units, a first supporting, and a fence; and wherein the plurality of optoelectronic units are covered by the first supporting structure, and the fence surrounds the first supporting structure and the plurality of optoelectronic units.
US11791368B2	Image pickup element, image pickup apparatus, and method of manufacturing image pickup element Image quality is improved.In an image pickup element, an interval between adjacent light receiving elements on a light receiving surface is changed depending on a position on the light receiving surface. Further, the image pickup element is manufactured by a method of manufacturing the image pickup element including layering photodiodes by repeatedly performing a silicon epitaxial process and an ion injection process. Further, the image pickup element is manufactured by the method of manufacturing the image pickup element including changing an interval between the photodiodes adjacent on the light receiving surface of the image pickup element in each layer depending on a position on the light receiving surface in addition to the layering thereof.
US11791366B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic device The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device capable of improving a saturation characteristic. A photo diode is formed on a substrate, and a floating diffusion accumulates a signal charge read from the photo diode. A plurality of vertical gate electrodes is formed from a surface of the substrate in a depth direction in a region between the photo diode and the floating diffusion, and an overflow path is formed in a region interposed between a plurality of vertical gate electrodes. The present technology may be applied to a CMOS image sensor.
US11791358B2	Method of forming semiconductor device A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming photodiodes extending from a front-side surface of a semiconductor layer into the semiconductor layer; forming transistors on the front-side surface of the semiconductor layer; forming an interconnect structure over the transistors, the interconnect structure comprising an inter-metal dielectric and metal lines in the inter-metal dielectric; etching first regions of a backside surface of the semiconductor layer to form trenches in the semiconductor layer and non-overlapping the photodiodes; after forming the trenches, etching second regions of the backside surface of the semiconductor layer to form pits in the semiconductor layer and overlapping the photodiodes; and depositing a dielectric material in the trenches and the pits.
US11791357B2	Composite BSI structure and method of manufacturing the same Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards image sensors including composite backside illuminated (CBSI) structures to enhance performance. In some embodiments, a first trench isolation structure extends into a backside of a substrate to a first depth and comprises a pair of first trench isolation segments. A photodetector is in the substrate, between and bordering the first trench isolation segments. A second trench isolation structure is between the first trench isolation segments and extends into the backside of the substrate to a second depth less than the first depth. The second trench isolation structure comprises a pair of second trench isolation segments. An absorption enhancement structure overlies the photodetector, between the second trench isolation segments, and is recessed into the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The absorption enhancement structure and the second trench isolation structure collectively define a CBSI structure.
US11791355B2	Image sensor An image sensor is includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a silicon photoconversion region and a material that at least partially surrounds the photoconversion region. The material has a refraction index smaller than the refraction index of silicon, and the interface between the photoconversion region of the pixel and the material is configured so that at least one ray reaching the photoconversion region of the pixel undergoes a total reflection or a plurality of successive total reflections at the interface.
US11791354B2	Method and apparatus for reducing light leakage at memory nodes in CMOS image sensors Disclosed is a CMOS image sensor with global shutters and a method for fabricating the CMOS image sensor. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device, includes: a light-sensing region; a charge-storage region; a light-shielding structure; and at least one via contact; wherein the charge-storage region is spatially configured adjacent to the light-sensing region in a lateral direction, wherein the light-shielding structure is configured over the charge-storage region in a vertical direction so as to prevent incident light leaking from the light-sensing region to the signal-processing region, wherein the light-shielding structure is configured in an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, and wherein the light-shielding structure is simultaneously formed with the at least one via contact.
US11791351B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a manufacturing method of the array substrate. In the manufacturing method of the array substrate, during performing a first wet etching and a second wet etching on a second metal layer, the wet etching is stopped when a copper conductive layer is merely etched completely. Because a wet etching speed of a liner layer is slow, an etching time of the wet etching and a CD loss of the copper conductive layer can be greatly reduced, and the CD loss is relatively small. Meanwhile, an entire CD loss of the second metal layer can be reduced, and an aperture ratio can be improved.
US11791349B2	Manufacturing method for display panel and display panel The present application discloses a manufacturing method for a display panel and the display panel, and the manufacturing method includes a manufacture procedure of forming an array substrate, where the manufacture procedure of forming an array substrate includes: forming a buffer layer with a preset pattern on a glass substrate; placing the glass substrate with the buffer layer formed thereon into an electrochemical deposition device, and performing electrochemical deposition to form a copper alloy metal layer corresponding to the buffer layer; heating and annealing the copper alloy metal layer to form a first metal layer; sequentially forming an insulating layer, an active layer, a second metal layer, a passivation layer and a transparent electrode layer on the first metal layer, where the first metal layer includes a buffer layer and a copper alloy metal layer.
US11791348B1	Transistor, gate drive circuit and display device The transistor comprises a first insulation layer and at least one switch region; a first function layer and a second function layer are respectively disposed on each side of the first insulation layer in the x direction; a first source is disposed in a source region of the first semiconductor layer, and a first drain is disposed at a drain region of the first semiconductor layer; a second source is disposed in a source region of the second semiconductor layer, and is connected to the first source by a first connection line; a second drain is disposed in a source region of the second semiconductor layer, and is connected to the first drain by a second connection line; the gate structure is insulated from the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and is disposed opposite to channel regions of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer.
US11791347B2	Light-emitting substrate and display device A light-emitting substrate and a display device are provided. Each light-emitting unit includes a first voltage terminal. The first voltage line includes a first portion, a first connecting portion, and a second portion. The first portion is electrically connected with first voltage terminals of a first row to a Y-th row of light-emitting units in a corresponding column. An extension direction of a second portion of the first voltage line has an included angle with both the first direction and the second direction. The first connecting portion is at boundary of the Y-th row and a (Y+1)-th row of light-emitting units. The first transmission line is electrically connected with first voltage terminals of the (Y+1)-th row to an N-th row of light-emitting units in a corresponding column, and is electrically connected with the first connecting portion of the first voltage line corresponding to light-emitting units of a corresponding column.
US11791346B2	Method for manufacturing a display device The purpose of the present invention is to decrease the resistance of the drain and source in the TFT of the oxide semiconductor as well as to have stable Vd-Id characteristics of the TFT. The structure of the present invention is as follows: A display device having plural pixels including thin film transistors (TFT) having oxide semiconductor films comprising: a gate insulating film formed on the oxide semiconductor film, an aluminum oxide film formed on the gate insulating film, a gate electrode formed on the aluminum oxide film, a side spacer formed on both sides of the gate electrode, and an interlayer insulating film formed on the gate electrode, the side spacer, a drain and a source, wherein in a plan view, and in a direction from the drain to the source, a length of the gate electrode is shorter than a length of the aluminum oxide film.
US11791344B2	Display device, display module, and electronic device A novel display device or the like in which a transistor connected to a scan line has small gate capacitance is provided. A novel display device or the like in which a scan line has low resistance is provided. A novel display device or the like in which pixels can be arranged with high density is provided. A novel display device or the like that can be manufactured without an increase in cost is provided. In a transistor including a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the first gate electrode is formed using a metal material with low resistance and the second gate electrode is formed using a metal oxide material that can reduce oxygen vacancies in an oxide semiconductor layer. The first gate electrode is connected to the scan line, and the second gate electrode is connected to a wiring to which a constant potential is supplied.
US11791341B2	Radio-frequency loss reduction for integrated devices In radio-frequency (RF) devices integrated on semiconductor-on-insulator (e.g., silicon-based) substrates, RF losses may be reduced by increasing the resistivity of the semiconductor device layer in the vicinity of (e.g., underneath and/or in whole or in part surrounding) the metallization structures of the RF device, such as, e.g., transmission lines, contacts, or bonding pads. Increased resistivity can be achieved, e.g., by ion-implantation, or by patterning the device layer to create disconnected semiconductor islands.
US11791338B2	Semiconductor device having doped work function metal layer A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate stack, and epitaxy structures. The substrate has a P-type region. The gate stack is over the P-type region of the substrate and includes a gate dielectric layer, a bottom work function (WF) metal layer, a top WF metal layer, and a filling metal. The bottom WF metal layer is over the gate dielectric layer. The top WF metal layer is over and in contact with the bottom WF metal layer. Dipoles are formed between the top WF metal layer and the bottom WF metal layer, and the dipoles direct from the bottom WF metal layer to the top WF metal layer. The filling metal is over the top WF metal layer. The epitaxy structures are over the P-type region of the substrate and on opposite sides of the gate stack.
US11791335B2	Method for forming semiconductor device A method comprises growing an epitaxial layer on a first region of a first wafer while remaining a second region of the first wafer exposed; forming a first dielectric layer over the epitaxial layer and the second region; forming a first transistor on a second wafer; forming a second dielectric layer over the first transistor; bonding the first and second dielectric layers; and forming second and third transistors on the epitaxial layer and on the second region of the first wafer, respectively.
US11791331B2	Integrated circuit structures including backside vias Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) structures including backside vias, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an IC structure may include: a device layer, wherein the device layer includes a plurality of active devices; a first metallization layer over the device layer, wherein the first metallization layer includes a first conductive pathway in conductive contact with at least one of the active devices in the device layer; a second metallization layer under the device layer, wherein the second metallization layer includes a second conductive pathway; and a conductive via in the device layer, wherein the conductive via is in conductive contact with at least one of the active devices in the device layer and also in conductive contact with the second conductive pathway.
US11791328B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device with integrated decoupling and alignment features The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with integrated decoupling alignment features. The method includes providing a first substrate; forming a plurality of first alignment marks on the first substrate and parallel to each other, wherein the first substrate and the plurality of first alignment marks together configure a first wafer; providing a second wafer comprising a plurality of second alignment marks parallel to each other; and bonding the second wafer onto the first wafer. The plurality of second alignment marks are arranged parallel to the plurality of first alignment marks and adjacent to the plurality of first alignment marks in a top-view perspective. The plurality of first alignment marks and the plurality of second alignment marks comprise a fluorescence material.
US11791327B2	Three-dimensional memory device having support-die-assisted source power distribution and method of making thereof A memory-containing die includes a three-dimensional memory array, a memory dielectric material layer located on a first side of the three-dimensional memory array, and memory-side bonding pads. A logic die includes a peripheral circuitry configured to control operation of the three-dimensional memory array, logic dielectric material layers located on a first side of the peripheral circuitry, and logic-side bonding pads included in the logic dielectric material layers. The logic-side bonding pads includes a pad-level mesh structure electrically connected to a source power supply circuit within the peripheral circuitry and containing an array of discrete openings therethrough, and discrete logic-side bonding pads. The logic-side bonding pads are bonded to a respective one, or a respective subset, of the memory-side bonding pads. The pad-level mesh structure can be used as a component of a source power distribution network.
US11791325B2	Semiconductor package including interposer A semiconductor package includes a processor, a lower memory including a plurality of lower memory chips that are vertically stacked, an interposer mounted on the processor and the lower memory, and an upper memory mounted on the interposer, the upper memory including a plurality of upper memory chips that are vertically stacked. The interposer includes a first physical layer (PHY) transmitting and receiving a signal between the processor and the lower memory and transmitting and receiving a signal between the processor and the upper memory, and the processor includes a second PHY communicating with the first PHY and a first through silicon via (TSV) electrically connecting the first PHY to the second PHY.
US11791324B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element, and a protective element. The substrate includes a support member and a plurality of wirings disposed on an upper surface of the support member. The substrate has a first side extending in a first direction and a second side opposite to the first side. The light emitting element is disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, and the protective element is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate. The plurality of wirings has a plurality of external connecting portions disposed adjacent to the first side and arranged in the first direction in a plan view. The protective element is disposed between the light emitting element and the second side of the substrate.
US11791323B2	Light emitting display device and method of fabricating the same A light emitting display device includes: a display element layer having light emitting elements; a first sub-pixel including a first light emitting element from among the plurality of light emitting elements in a first sub-pixel area of the display element layer; a second sub-pixel including a second light emitting element from among the plurality of light emitting elements in a second sub-pixel area of the display element layer; a third sub-pixel including a third light emitting element from among the plurality of light emitting elements in a third sub-pixel area of the display element layer; a partition wall between the first, second, and third sub-pixels and over an insulating layer, covering the first, second, and third light emitting elements; a first color conversion layer over the insulating layer in the first sub-pixel area and surrounded by the partition wall; and a first color filter over the first color conversion layer.
US11791322B2	Micro LED transfer method and display module manufactured by the same A display module is provided. The display module includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) layer formed on one surface of the substrate; and a plurality of micro LEDs disposed on the TFT layer. The plurality of micro LEDs are transferred from a transfer substrate to the TFT layer by a laser beam radiated to the transfer substrate through openings of a mask. The openings correspond to regions in which the respective micro LEDs of the transfer substrate are arranged and the openings correspond to a width, a length, or a unit area of each of the micro LEDs.
US11791321B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor package and semiconductor package A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes preparing a panel package including a redistribution substrate, a connection substrate and a plurality of lower semiconductor chips; sawing the panel package to form a plurality of separated strip packages each of which includes the sawed redistribution substrate, at least two of the lower semiconductor chips, and the sawed connection substrate; and providing a plurality of upper semiconductor chips on one of the strip packages to electrically connect the upper semiconductor chips to the sawed connection substrate.
US11791319B2	Edge-connected semiconductor systems Edge-connected semiconductor systems are described along with methods of making and using the same. First and second integrated circuit packages are obtained, each including a substrate assembly having top and bottom sides and an edge that extends between the top and the bottom sides. Edge contacts are disposed on the edges of the substrate assemblies. A ganged assembly is formed by establishing conductive paths between the edge contacts of the substrate assemblies. The ganged assembly is coupled to a printed circuit board (“PCB”) by coupling host contacts on one or more of the substrate assemblies to corresponding contacts on the PCB.
US11791318B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate, a display element layer disposed on a first surface of the substrate and including a light emitting element that emits light, and a pixel circuit layer disposed on the display element layer and including a transistor electrically connected to the light emitting element. The display element layer includes a first contact electrode electrically connected to a first end of the light emitting element, and a second contact electrode electrically connected to a second end of the light emitting element. The pixel circuit layer includes a reflective layer disposed on the display element layer and overlapping the light emitting element. One of the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode is electrically connected to the transistor. The reflective layer reflects the light emitted from the light emitting element toward a second surface of the substrate.
US11791312B2	MMICs with backside interconnects for fanout-style packaging Monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) with backside interconnects for fanout-style packaging are disclosed. Fanout-style packaging, such as fanout wafer (FOWLP) or fanout panel-level packaging (FOPLP), facilitates a high density package for MMICs. However, the fanout-style packaging may produce undesired electromagnetic (EM) coupling between a MMIC die and metal features in a redistribution layer (RDL) of the FOW/PLP package and/or a next higher assembly (NHA). In an exemplary aspect, a circuit package according to this disclosure includes the MMIC die and an RDL. The MMIC includes a chip side with components which may undesirably couple to metal signal lines (e.g., package metal interconnects) in the RDL. The chip side of the MMIC is oriented away from the RDL to reduce such EM coupling.
US11791308B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a base chip and at least one semiconductor chip disposed on the base chip. An adhesive film is disposed between the base chip and the at least one semiconductor chip and is configured to fix the at least one semiconductor chip on the base chip. The adhesive film includes an inner film portion that overlaps the at least one semiconductor chip in a thickness direction of the base chip, and an outer film portion that does not overlap the at least one semiconductor chip in the thickness direction of the base chip. A width of the outer film portion in a direction perpendicular to a lateral edge of the at least one semiconductor chip is substantially uniform within a deviation range of 20% of an average width of the outer film portion.
US11791307B2	DBI to SI bonding for simplified handle wafer Devices and techniques include process steps for preparing various microelectronic components for bonding, such as for direct bonding without adhesive. The processes include providing a first bonding surface on a first surface of the microelectronic components, bonding a handle to the prepared first bonding surface, and processing a second surface of the microelectronic components while the microelectronic components are gripped at the handle. In some embodiments, the processes include removing the handle from the first bonding surface, and directly bonding the microelectronic components at the first bonding surface to other microelectronic components.
US11791303B2	Semiconductor package including semiconductor chips A semiconductor package may include a semiconductor chip on a package substrate. The semiconductor package may include a plurality of conductive connections connecting the semiconductor chip to the package substrate may be disposed, a plurality of towers which are apart from one another and each include a plurality of memory chips may be disposed, wherein a lowermost memory chip of each of the plurality of towers overlaps the semiconductor chip from a top-down view. The semiconductor package further includes a plurality of adhesive layers be attached between the lowermost memory chip of each of the plurality of towers and the semiconductor chip.
US11791302B2	Thermosetting sheet, dicing die bonding film, and semiconductor apparatus Provided in the present invention is a thermosetting sheet including a thermosetting resin, a thermoplastic resin, a volatile component, and conductive particles. The thermosetting sheet has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.1 μm or more and 1.2 μm or less that is measured in a state before being cured.
US11791301B2	Chip package structure A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a first redistribution structure having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The chip package structure includes a first chip over the first surface. The chip package structure includes a first conductive bump connected between the first chip and the first redistribution structure. The chip package structure includes a first conductive pillar over the first surface and electrically connected to the first redistribution structure. The chip package structure includes a second chip over the second surface. The chip package structure includes a second conductive bump connected between the second chip and the first redistribution structure. The chip package structure includes a second conductive pillar over the second surface and electrically connected to the first redistribution structure.
US11791300B2	Electronic package and circuit structure thereof An electronic package is provided, where a circuit layer and a metal layer having a plurality of openings are formed on a dielectric layer of a circuit portion to reduce the area ratio of the metal layer to the dielectric layer, so as to reduce stress concentration and prevent warping of the electronic package.
US11791299B2	Redistribution layer (RDL) layouts for integrated circuits Exemplary embodiments for redistribution layers of integrated circuits are disclosed. The redistribution layers of integrated circuits of the present disclosure include one or more arrays of conductive contacts that are configured and arranged to allow a bonding wave to displace air between the redistribution layers during bonding. This configuration and arrangement of the one or more arrays minimize discontinuities, such as pockets of air to provide an example, between the redistribution layers during the bonding.
US11791295B2	Semiconductor package with thick under-bump terminal Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a redistribution substrate, and a semiconductor chip on a top surface of the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate includes an under-bump pattern, a lower dielectric layer that covers a sidewall of the under-bump pattern, and a first redistribution pattern on the lower dielectric layer. The first redistribution pattern includes a first line part. A width at a top surface of the under-bump pattern is greater than a width at a bottom surface of the under-bump pattern. A thickness of the under-bump pattern is greater than a thickness of the first line part.
US11791292B1	Embedded touch panel display device An embedded touch panel display device includes: a display unit having a display surface and a non-display surface opposite to the display surface; a touch-control unit disposed inside the display unit; a conductive frame disposed on one side of the display unit and facing the non-display surface thereof; an insulating ink and a first conductive ink disposed on at least one sidewall of the display unit and extended to the non-display surface, in which the first conductive ink overlaps the insulating ink; and a double-sided adhesive disposed between the display unit and the conductive frame to secure them. The first conductive ink and the conductive frame are electrically connected to each other to form an electrostatic discharge path. The present invention can prevent the peripheral area of the viewed area from a blackening phenomenon induced by excessively high electrostatic voltage.
US11791289B2	Semiconductor package substrate with a smooth groove about a perimeter of a semiconductor die A semiconductor package includes a metallic pad and leads spaced from the metallic pad by a gap, the metallic pad including a roughened surface. The semiconductor package further includes a semiconductor die including bond pads, and an adhesive between the roughened surface of the metallic pad and the semiconductor die, therein bonding the semiconductor die to the metallic pad, wherein the adhesive includes a resin. The metallic pad further includes a groove surrounding the semiconductor die on the roughened surface, the groove having a surface roughness less than a surface roughness of the roughened surface of the metallic pad.
US11791288B2	Reinforced semiconductor die and related methods Implementations of methods of forming a plurality of reinforced die may include forming a plurality of die on a substrate and patterning a metal gang frame to form a plurality of metal plates. The plurality of metal plates may correspond to the plurality of die. The method may include coupling the metal gang frame over the plurality of die and singulating the plurality of die. Each die of the plurality of die may include the corresponding metal plate from the plurality of metal plates coupled over the plurality of die.
US11791286B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor package Some example embodiments relate to a semiconductor device and a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a substrate including a conductive layer, an insulating layer coating the substrate, the insulating layer including an opening exposing at least part of the conductive layer, and an under-bump metal layer electrically connected to the at least part of the conductive layer exposed through the opening, wherein the insulating layer includes at least one recess adjacent to the opening, and the under-bump metal layer fills the at least one recess. The semiconductor device and the semiconductor package may have improved drop test characteristics and impact resistance.
US11791275B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the semiconductor devices are described herein that are directed towards the formation of a system on integrated substrate (SoIS) package. The SoIS package includes an integrated fan out structure and a device redistribution structure for external connection to a plurality of semiconductor devices. The integrated fan out structure includes a plurality of local interconnect devices that electrically couple two of the semiconductor devices together. In some cases, the local interconnect device may be a silicon bus, a local silicon interconnect, an integrated passive device, an integrated voltage regulator, or the like. The integrated fan out structure may be fabricated in wafer or panel form and then singulated into multiple integrated fan out structures. The SoIS package may also include an interposer connected to the integrated fan out structure for external connection to the SoIS package.
US11791271B2	Monolithic formation of a set of interconnects below active devices An additional set of interconnects is created in bulk material, allowing connections to active devices to be made from both above and below. The interconnects below the active devices can form a power distribution network, and the interconnects above the active devices can form a signaling network. Various accommodations can be made to suit different applications, such as encapsulating buried elements, using sacrificial material, and replacing the bulk material with a dielectric. Epitaxial material can be used throughout the formation process, allowing for the creation of a monolithic substrate.
US11791250B2	Lead frame, semiconductor device, and lead frame manufacturing method A lead frame includes: a lead portion; a plating layer that is provided on a connected area of the lead portion, the connected area being an area connected with a semiconductor element; a recessed portion that is provided around the plating layer on the lead portion; and an oxidized layer that is provided on a surface including the recessed portion of the lead portion.
US11791241B2	Front-to-back bonding with through-substrate via (TSV) Methods for forming a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming a conductive feature in a first wafer, and forming a first bonding layer over the conductive feature. The method includes forming a second bonding layer over a second wafer, and bonding the first wafer and the second wafer by bonding the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The method also includes forming a second transistor in a front-side of the second wafer, and after forming the second transistor in the front-side of the second wafer, forming a first TSV through the second wafer, wherein the first TSV stops at the conductive feature.
US11791240B2	High performance baseboard cooling architecture A vertical architecture for incorporating cooling devices onto a baseboard. The architecture forms four layers: baseboard, electronic device layer, contact layer, and cooling layer. In the electronic device layer multiple electronic chips of different characteristics are mounted onto the baseboard. In the contact layer multiple contact devices are attached to the electronic chips to match the form factor of the chips to the respective cooling device and to function to transfer heat from the chip to the respective cooling device. In the cooling layer multiple cooling devices are used to extract the heat using passive or active air cooling, liquid cooling, or hybrid and/or phase change cooling.
US11791238B2	Semiconductor package with releasable isolation layer protection A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor package, including a package body that includes an encapsulant portion and an isolation structure, a semiconductor die embedded within the package body, and a plurality of leads that protrude out from the encapsulant body, wherein the encapsulant portion and the isolation structure are each electrically insulating structures, wherein the isolation structure has a greater thermal conductivity than the encapsulant portion, and wherein the isolation structure is thermally coupled to the semiconductor die, and a releasable layer affixed to the semiconductor package, wherein a first outer face of the package body includes a first surface of the isolation structure, wherein the releasable layer at least partially covers the first surface of the isolation structure, and wherein the releasable layer is releasable from the semiconductor package.
US11791228B2	Method for forming embedded grounding planes on interconnect layers Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages with a ground plate embedded in the solder resist that extends over signal traces. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a substrate layer, a trace over the substrate layer, and a first pad over the substrate layer. In an embodiment, a solder resist is disposed over the trace and the first pad. In an embodiment a trench is formed into the solder resist, and the trench extends over the trace. In an embodiment, a conductive plate is disposed in the trench, and is electrically coupled to the first pad by a via that extends from a bottom surface of the trench through the solder resist.
US11791227B2	Electronic device package An electronic device package and a method for manufacturing an electronic device package are provided. The electronic device package includes electronic device structure which includes a first electronic device and a first encapsulant, a second electronic device, and a second encapsulant. The first encapsulant encapsulates the first electronic device. The second electronic device is adjacent to the electronic device structure. The second encapsulant encapsulates the electronic device structure and the second electronic device. A first extension line along a lateral surface of the first electronic device and a second extension line along a lateral surface of the first encapsulant define a first angle, the second extension line along the lateral surface of the first encapsulant and a third extension line along a lateral surface of the second electronic device define a second angle, and the first angle is different from the second angle.
US11791224B2	Technique for training neural network for use in in-situ monitoring during polishing and polishing system A method of polishing a substrate includes polishing a conductive layer on the substrate at a polishing station, monitoring the layer with an in-situ eddy current monitoring system to generate a plurality of measured signals values for a plurality of different locations on the layer, generating thickness measurements the locations, and detecting a polishing endpoint or modifying a polishing parameter based on the thickness measurements. The conductive layer is formed of a first material having a first conductivity. Generating includes calculating initial thickness values based on the plurality of measured signals values and processing the initial thickness values through a neural network that was trained using training data acquired by measuring calibration substrates having a conductive layer formed of a second material having a second conductivity that is lower than the first conductivity to generated adjusted thickness values.
US11791221B2	Integration of III-N transistors and semiconductor layer transfer Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors integrated on the same support structure as non-III-N transistors (e.g., Si-based transistors), using semiconductor layer transfer. In one aspect, a non-III-N transistor may be integrated with an III-N transistor by, first, depositing a semiconductor material layer, a portion of which will later serve as a channel material of the non-III-N transistor, on a support structure different from that on which the III-N semiconductor material for the III-N transistor is provided, and then performing layer transfer of said semiconductor material layer to the support structure with the III-N material, e.g., by oxide-to-oxide bonding, advantageously enabling implementation of both types of transistors on a single support structure. Such integration may reduce costs and improve performance by enabling integrated digital logic solutions for III-N transistors and by reducing losses incurred when power is routed off chip in a multi-chip package.
US11791219B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of first providing a substrate having a fin-shaped structure thereon, forming a single diffusion break (SDB) structure in the substrate to divide the fin-shaped structure into a first portion and a second portion, and then forming more than one gate structures such as a first gate structure and a second gate structure on the SDB structure. Preferably, each of the first gate structure and the second gate structure overlaps the fin-shaped structure and the SDB structure.
US11791215B2	Fin field effect transistor device structure A fin field effect transistor device structure is provided. A fin field effect transistor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure on a substrate. The fin field effect transistor device structure also includes a spacer layer surrounding the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The fin field effect transistor device structure further includes a power rail over the spacer layer between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. In addition, the fin field effect transistor device structure includes a first contact structure covering the first fin structure and connected to the power rail.
US11791213B2	Integrated circuit in hybrid row height structure A system includes a non-transitory storage medium encoded with a set of instructions and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions is configured to cause the processor to: obtain, based on a netlist of a circuit, values each corresponding to one of transistors included in the circuit; compare the values with a threshold value; in response to a comparison, generate an adjusted netlist of the circuit by adding redundant transistors; and determine, based on the adjusted netlist, one of layout configurations for the circuit. The layout configurations include first cell rows each having a first row height and second cell rows each having a second row height different from the first row height.
US11791210B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device including a through electrode for connection of wirings Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a cylindrical insulating film, a front surface side pad, a conductor layer, and a back surface side pad. The cylindrical insulating film is configured in a cylindrical shape penetrating a semiconductor substrate. The front surface side pad is formed adjacent to a front surface of the semiconductor substrate inside the cylindrical insulating film. The conductor layer is arranged adjacent to the front surface side pad and an inner side of the cylindrical insulating film after removing the semiconductor substrate inside the cylindrical insulating film adjacent to the front surface side pad. The back surface side pad is arranged on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate and is connected to the front surface side pad via the conductor layer.
US11791209B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using a thermally decomposable layer, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and the semiconductor device Provided are a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using a thermally decomposable layer, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and the semiconductor device. The method includes forming an etch target layer on a substrate, forming thermally decomposable patterns spaced apart from each other on the etch target layer, forming a first mask pattern covering at least sidewalls of the thermally decomposable patterns, and removing the thermally decomposable patterns by a heating method to expose a sidewall of the first mask pattern.
US11791208B2	Method of forming contact metal A semiconductor device is disclosed. The device includes a source/drain feature formed over a substrate. A dielectric layer formed over the source/drain feature. A contact trench formed through the dielectric layer to expose the source/drain feature. A titanium nitride (TiN) layer deposited in the contact trench and a cobalt layer deposited over the TiN layer in the contact trench.
US11791207B2	Unit specific variable or adaptive metal fill and system and method for the same A method of forming a semiconductor device can comprise providing a first shift region in which to determine a first displacement. A second shift region may be provided in which to determine a second displacement. A unique electrically conductive structure may be formed comprising traces to account for the first displacement and the second displacement. The electrically conductive structure may comprise traces comprising a first portion within the first shift region and a second portion of traces in the second shift region laterally offset from the first portion of traces. A third portion of the traces may be provided in the routing area between the first shift region and the second shift region. A unique variable metal fill may be formed within the fill area. The variable metal fill may be electrically isolated from the unique electrically conductive structure.
US11791206B2	Method for forming semiconductor device A method for forming a semiconductor device, includes: forming a metal layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a dielectric layer over the metal layer; etching a top portion of the dielectric layer; after etching the top portion of the dielectric layer, removing first mist from a bottom portion of the dielectric layer; removing the bottom portion of the dielectric layer to expose the metal layer; performing a pre-clean operation, using an alcohol base vapor or an aldehyde base vapor, on the dielectric layer and the metal layer; and forming a conductor extending through the dielectric layer and in contact with the metal layer.
US11791202B2	Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A method used in forming a memory array comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers. A first insulator tier is above the stack. First insulator material of the first insulator tier comprises at least one of (a) and (b), where (a): silicon, nitrogen, and one or more of carbon, oxygen, boron, and phosphorus, and (b): silicon carbide. Channel-material strings are in the stack and in the first insulator tier. Conducting material is in the first insulator tier directly against sides of individual of the channel-material strings. A second insulator tier is formed above the first insulator tier and the conducting material. Second insulator material of the second insulator tier comprises at least one of the (a) and the (b). Conductive vias are formed and extend through the second insulator tier and that are individually directly electrically coupled to the individual channel-material strings through the conducting material. Other aspects, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11791198B2	Trench shield isolation layer A semiconductor device has a semiconductor material in a substrate. The semiconductor device has an MOS transistor. A trench in the substrate extends from a top surface of the substrate) into the semiconductor material. A shield is disposed in the trench. The shield has a contact portion which extends toward a top surface of the trench. A gate of the MOS transistor is disposed in the trench over the shield. The gate is electrically isolated from the shield. The gate is electrically isolated from the contact portion of the shield by a shield isolation layer which covers an angled surface of the contact portion extending toward the top of the trench. Methods of forming the semiconductor device are disclosed.
US11791197B2	Die bonding system with wafer lift and level assembly A die bonding system comprising a wafer lift and level assembly configured to allow rapid planarization of a wafer comprising a wafer frame configured to retain a wafer and be slidably retained within guide clevises and a leveling pedestal configured to support a wafer from below in a localized area where a die bonding operation is to take place, allowing the quick and repeatable planarization of die(s) to the wafer without the need for distinct planarization procedures that would slow cycle times and decrease production.
US11791196B2	Processing apparatus A processing apparatus includes a holding unit holding a workpiece, a processing unit processing the workpiece held by the holding unit, a feeding mechanism for feeding the holding unit, and a control unit controlling the feeding mechanism. The holding unit has a chuck table for holding the workpiece and a base for detachably supporting the chuck table. The chuck table includes a plurality of kinds of chuck tables, one of which being selected according to the size or shape of the workpiece. The base is capable of mounting the chuck table selected from the plural kinds of chuck tables. The control unit functions to set feeding conditions including acceleration of the feeding mechanism according to the kind of the chuck table mounted on the base and to control the feeding mechanism under the feeding conditions according to the chuck table.
US11791186B2	Conveyance system A transport system includes a track, transport vehicles, an area controller, buffers, and a host controller. The area controller, when a number of the transport vehicles present within a control area is a predetermined number and when receiving a first transport command to convey an article from a transfer port to a transport destination outside the control area from the host controller, stores the first transport command and transmits a report that the first transport command is not able to be assigned to the transport vehicle to the host controller. The host controller, when receiving the report, when the buffer is present, transmits a command to delete the stored first transport command to the area controller, generates a second transport command to convey the article from the transfer port to the buffer, and transmits the second transport command to the area controller.
US11791180B2	Substrate transfer system and load lock module A substrate transfer system includes an atmospheric substrate transfer module, a vacuum substrate transfer module, and a load lock module disposed on a side surface of the atmospheric substrate transfer module and disposed on an upper surface or a lower surface of the vacuum substrate transfer module. The load lock module includes a container having a first substrate transfer opening and a second substrate transfer opening, a first gate configured to open or close the first substrate transfer opening, a second gate configured to open or close the second substrate transfer opening, and a substrate actuator configured to vertically move a substrate through the second substrate transfer opening between a first position in the container and a second position in the vacuum substrate transfer module.
US11791176B2	Processing chamber with annealing mini-environment Apparatus and methods to process one or more wafers are described. The apparatus comprises a chamber defining an upper interior region and a lower interior region. A heater assembly is on the bottom of the chamber body in the lower interior region and defines a process region. A wafer cassette assembly is inside the heater assembly and a motor is configured to move the wafer cassette assembly from the lower process region inside the heater assembly to the upper interior region.
US11791175B2	Etching method and etching apparatus An etching method for selectively etching a material containing Si and O is provided. The etching method includes providing a substrate containing the material containing Si and O in a chamber, repeating a first period for supplying a basic gas, which is started first, and a second period for supplying a fluorine-containing gas, which is started next, with at least a part of the second period not overlapping with the first period, and heating and removing a reaction product generated by the supply of the basic gas and the supply of the fluorine-containing gas.
US11791174B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing method A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a chuck stage, a scrubber nozzle, a scrubber nozzle scan mechanism, a stage rotation mechanism, and a holding stage including a holding fluid nozzle and a top plate, the top plate having one main surface facing an opposite surface of a wafer, and the holding fluid nozzle being disposed adjacent to a center rather than a periphery portion of the top plate. A holding fluid discharged from the holding fluid nozzle is caused to flow through an area between the opposite surface of the wafer and the one main surface of the top plate to produce holding force, and the holding force causes the opposite surface to hold pressure applied to a processing surface of the wafer by a scrubbing fluid discharged from the scrubber nozzle.
US11791167B2	Cyclic self-limiting etch process A method of processing a substrate includes forming a channel through a substrate, depositing a layer of polycrystalline silicon on sidewalls of the channel, and oxidizing uncovered surfaces of the polycrystalline silicon with an oxidation agent. The oxidizing agent causes formation of an oxidized layer, the oxidized layer having a uniform thickness on uncovered surfaces of the polycrystalline silicon. The method includes removing the oxidized layer from the channel with a removal agent, and repeating steps of oxidizing uncovered surfaces and removing the oxidized layer until removing a predetermined amount of the layer of polycrystalline silicon.
US11791166B2	Selective etch process using hydrofluoric acid and ozone gases Systems and methods for etching titanium containing layers on a workpiece are provided. In one example, a method includes placing the workpiece on a workpiece support in a processing chamber. The workpiece includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is a titanium containing layer. The method includes admitting a process gas into the processing chamber. The process gas includes an ozone gas and a fluorine containing gas. The method includes exposing the first layer and the second layer on the workpiece to the process gas to at least partially etch the first layer at a greater etch rate relative to the second layer.
US11791165B2	Method of dry etching copper thin film and semiconductor device A method of etching a copper (Cu) thin film and a Cu thin film prepared therefrom, the method including patterning a hard mask layer on the Cu thin film to form a hard mask on the Cu thin film; forming a plasma of a mixed gas, the mixed gas including an inert gas and an organic chelator material including an amine group, the mixed gas not including a halogen gas or a halide gas; and etching the Cu thin film through the hard mask using the plasma generated in the forming of the plasma of the mixed gas.
US11791161B2	Pattern fidelity enhancement The present disclosure provides a method for semiconductor manufacturing in accordance with some embodiments. The method includes providing a substrate and a patterning layer over the substrate and forming a plurality of openings in the patterning layer. The substrate includes a plurality of features to receive a treatment process. The openings partially overlap with the features from a top view while a portion of the features remains covered by the patterning layer. Each of the openings is free of concave corners. The method further includes performing an opening expanding process to enlarge each of the openings and performing a treatment process to the features through the openings. After the opening expanding process, the openings fully overlap with the features from the top view.
US11791159B2	Method of fabricating thin, crystalline silicon film and thin film transistors A method of producing a crystalline silicon film includes forming a first silicon film that is amorphous at formation, forming a doped film of silicon or germanium on the first silicon film, the doped film being amorphous at formation; and annealing the structure to crystallize the doped film and the first silicon film. A method of producing a crystalline silicon film includes forming a Six1Ge1-x1 film on a substrate, forming a Six2Ge1-x2 film on the Six1Ge1-x1 film, the Six1Ge1-x1 film being amorphous at formation and having a first thermal budget for crystallization, the Six2Ge1-x2 film being amorphous at formation and having a second thermal budget for crystallization, the second thermal budget being lower than the first thermal budget, forming a silicon film on the Six2Ge1-x2 film, the silicon film being amorphous at formation; and annealing to crystallize the Six1Ge1-x1 film, the Six2Ge1-x2 film, and the silicon film.
US11791158B2	Selective SIGESN:B deposition Methods for depositing a silicon germanium tin boron (SiGeSn:B) film on a substrate are described. The method comprises exposing a substrate to a precursor mixture comprising a boron precursor, a silicon precursor, a germanium precursor, and a tin precursor to form a boron silicon germanium tin (SiGeSn:B) film on the substrate.
US11791155B2	Diffusion barriers for germanium Examples of the present technology include semiconductor processing methods to form diffusion barriers for germanium in a semiconductor structure. The methods may include forming a semiconductor layer stack from pairs of Si-and-SiGe layers. The Si-and-SiGe layer pairs may be formed by forming a silicon layer, and then forming the germanium barrier layer of the silicon layer. In some embodiments, the germanium-barrier layer may be less than or about 20 Å. A silicon-germanium layer may be formed on the germanium-barrier layer to complete the formation of the Si-and-SiGe layer pair. In some embodiments, the silicon layer may be an amorphous silicon layer, and the SiGe layer may be characterized by greater than or about 5 atom % germanium. Examples of the present technology also include semiconductor structures that include a silicon-germanium layer, a germanium-barrier layer, and a silicon layer.
US11791149B2	Axially progressive lens for transporting charged particles An electrostatic lens for transporting charged particles in an axial direction includes a first group of first electrodes configured to receive a first DC potential from a DC voltage source, and a second group of second electrodes configured to receive a second DC potential from the DC voltage source different from the first DC potential. The first electrodes are interdigitated with the second electrodes. The first group and/or the second group has a geometric feature that progressively varies along the axial direction. The lens generates an axial potential profile that progressively changes along the axial direction, and thereby reduces geometrical aberrations. The lens may be part of a charged particle processing apparatus such as, for example, a mass spectrometer or an electron microscope.
US11791146B2	Multiplex charge detection mass spectrometry Systems and multiplexing methods for measuring the mass of multiple large molecules simultaneously using multiple ion trapping with charge detection mass spectrometry (CDMS) are described. The methods trap ions with a broad range of energies that decouple ion frequency and m/z measurements allowing energy measurements of each ion throughout the acquisition. The ion energy may be obtained from the ratio of the intensity of the fundamental to the second harmonic frequencies of the periodic trapping oscillation making it possible to measure both the m/z and charge of each ion. Because ions with the exact same m/z but different energies appear at different frequencies, the probability of ion-ion interference is significantly reduced. By maximizing the decoupling of ion m/z from frequency, the rate of signal overlap is significantly reduced making it possible to trap more ions and substantially reduce analysis time.
US11791144B2	Optimizing mass spectra signal quality An optimization control system may receive mass spectra of ions emitted from an ionization emitter toward an inlet of a mass spectrometer and control, based on the mass spectra, an automated motion system to adjust a position of the emitter relative to the inlet.
US11791142B2	Small gap device system and method of fabrication A small-gap device system, preferably including two or more electrodes and one or more spacers maintaining a gap between two or more of the electrodes. A spacer for a small-gap device system, preferably including a plurality of legs defining a mesh structure. A method of spacer and/or small-gap device fabrication, preferably including: defining lateral features, depositing spacer material, selectively removing spacer material, separating the spacer from a fabrication substrate, and/or assembling the small-gap device.
US11791140B2	Confinement ring for use in a plasma processing system An apparatus for confining plasma within a plasma processing chamber is provided. The plasma processing chamber includes a lower electrode for supporting a substrate and an upper electrode disposed over the lower electrode. The apparatus is a confinement ring that includes a lower horizontal section extending between an inner lower radius and an outer radius of the confinement ring. The lower horizontal section includes an extension section that bends vertically downward at the inner lower radius, and the lower horizontal section further includes a plurality of slots. The confinement ring further includes an upper horizontal section extending between an inner upper radius and the outer radius of the confinement ring and a vertical section that integrally connects the lower horizontal section with the upper horizontal section. The extension section of the lower horizontal section is configured to surround the lower electrode when installed in the plasma processing chamber.
US11791134B2	Impedance adjustment device An impedance adjustment device includes a variable capacitor unit. A microcomputer changes the capacitance value of the variable capacitor unit by switching on or off PIN diodes included in n capacitor circuits separately. Thus, the impedance on the plasma generator side when viewed from a high frequency power supply is adjusted. When changing the capacitance value of the variable capacitor unit to a target capacitance value, the microcomputer changes the capacitance value to a relay capacitance value different from the target capacitance value. The microcomputer changes the capacitance value to the target capacitance value after the capacitance value is changed to the relay capacitance value.
US11791130B2	Electron beam observation device, electron beam observation system, and image correcting method and method for calculating correction factor for image correction in electron beam observation device The objective of the present invention is to reduce differences between individual electron beam observation devices accurately by means of image correction. This method for calculating a correction factor for correcting images between a plurality of electron beam observation devices, in electron beam observation devices which generate images by scanning an electron beam across a specimen, is characterized by including: a step in which a first electron beam observation device generates a first image by scanning a first electron beam across first and second patterns, on either a specimen including the first pattern and the second pattern, having a different shape or size to the first pattern, or a first specimen including the first pattern and a second specimen including the second pattern; a step in which a second electron beam observation device generates a second image by scanning a second electron beam across the first and second patterns; and a step in which the first or second electron beam observation device calculates a correction factor at a peak frequency extracted selectively from first and second frequency characteristics calculated on the basis of the first and second images.
US11791129B2	Automated tomography field ion microscope A method for imaging a material to atomic scale by means of a field-ion microscope having a vacuum chamber configured to accommodate the material prepared in the form of a tip and an imaging gas, and an ion detector is provided. The method includes application of a DC electrical potential (VDC) and of a pulsed electrical potential, of which the maximum pulse value is denoted Vimp, so that the tip erodes for a potential value equal to VDC+Vimp; acquisition, by the detector between at least two pulses of the pulsed potential, of series of at least two ion images of the impacts of the ions repelled by the tip onto the detector; and calculation of a quantity characteristic of a trend of the erosion of the tip based on the series of ion images acquired and the adjustment, between each series of images, of the values of VDC and of Vimp such that the quantity characteristic of the trend and the ratio VDC/Vimp remain constant.
US11791125B2	Aberration corrector According to one aspect of the present invention, an aberration corrector includes a first electrode substrate provided with first passage holes through which multiple electron beams pass; a second electrode substrate disposed below the first electrode substrate and provided with second passage holes through which the multiple electron beams pass, first electrodes of four or more poles being disposed individually on each top surface region of top surface regions around some second passage holes among the second passage holes; and a third electrode substrate disposed below the second electrode substrate and provided with third passage holes through which the multiple electron beams pass, second electrodes of four or more poles being disposed individually on each of top surface region of top surface regions around some third passage holes corresponding to remaining second passage holes in which the first electrodes are not disposed, among the third passage holes.
US11791118B2	Polyphase switching regulator A switching regulator is disclosed comprising a high-voltage port, a low-voltage port, n number of switching poles, a magnetic element, and a controller. In turn, each switching pole connects across the high-voltage port and may consist of either one switch and one diode or two switches and two diodes. In turn, the magnetic element comprises a ferro-core having n number of magnetic branches, each of which includes a winding. Each winding start connects to the phase node of a respective switching pole, while each winding finish connects, in common, to one side of the low-voltage port. An n+1th magnetic branch establishes a defined common-mode inductance which, in combination with transformer action, limits current ripple. The transformer action serves to exchange ripple power between phases such that the need for inductance is greatly reduced.
US11791116B2	Protecting device and battery pack Provided are a protecting device capable of safely and quickly interrupting a current path by restricting heat absorption to a lower case, and a battery pack using the same. A protecting device includes: a meltable conductor 3; and a housing 6 including a lower case 4 and an upper case 5, the housing being formed by joining the lower case 4 and the upper case 5, and the lower case 4 is provided with a recessed portion 23 having support portions 21 provided at opposing side edges of the recessed portion 23 and hollow portions 22 provided on the side edges substantially orthogonal to the side edges of the recessed portion 23 on which the support portions 21 are provided.
US11791115B2	Operating mechanism for a switch The invention relates to a device for operating a switch having an operating lever for moving the switch between the open and closed position and an operating pin arranged to a moving part of the switch, wherein the device comprises a primary shaft, a secondary shaft arranged coaxially with the primary shaft, a coupling arranged between the primary shaft and the secondary shaft, a spring, a control lever extending in a radial direction from the primary shaft, a latch having a disengage lever extending in a radial direction from the primary shaft and a roller movable into the path of the disengage lever to limit rotation of the primary shaft in the first rotational direction; and, a reset lever extending in a radial direction from the secondary shaft.
US11791112B2	Backlight module and luminous keyboard using the same A backlight module including a light guide plate, a circuit board, an electronic component, a reflective sheet, a light-shielding sheet, and a light-emitting component is provided. The light guide plate includes an escape opening and a light-source opening. The circuit board is disposed under the light guide plate. The electronic component is electrically connected to the circuit board, and at least a part of the electronic component is located in the escape opening. The reflective sheet is disposed on a rear surface of the light guide plate and between the light guide plate and the circuit board. The light-shielding sheet is disposed on a light emitting surface of the light guide plate opposite to the rear surface. The light-emitting component is disposed in the light-source opening. A luminous keyboard using this backlight module is also provided.
US11791106B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor containing polyaniline A solid electrolytic capacitor containing a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element contains a sintered porous anode body, a dielectric that overlies the anode body, a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric, and an external polymer coating that overlies the solid electrolyte and includes conductive polymer particles. The solid electrolyte includes a conductive polymer having repeating units derived from an aniline monomer having the following general formula (I):
US11791105B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, an outer anode terminal, an outer cathode terminal and an outer mold. The capacitor element has an anode lead wire, an anode body and a cathode layer. The capacitor element has an upper surface and a lower surface in an up-down direction. The outer cathode terminal and the outer anode terminal are positioned away from each other in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the up-down direction. The outer cathode terminal has an upper portion, a lower portion and a connecting portion. One of the upper portion and the lower portion is longer than a remaining one of the upper portion and the lower portion in the predetermined direction. The outer mold covers the capacitor element so that each of the outer anode terminal and the outer cathode terminal is partially exposed to an outside of the solid electrolytic capacitor.
US11791099B2	Film capacitor, and outer case for film capacitor A film capacitor that includes a capacitor element including one or more wound or laminated metallized films, each metallized film including a resin film and a metal layer on a surface of the resin film; an outer case that houses the capacitor element; and a filling resin that fills a space between the capacitor element and the outer case, wherein the outer case is made of a resin composition containing a liquid crystal polymer and an inorganic filler.
US11791097B2	Ceramic electronic component A ceramic electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric crystal grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric crystal grains has a core-double shell structure, the double shell includes a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the core and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, the first shell includes a first element, one or more of Sn, Sb, Ge, Si, Ga, In, or Zr, and the second shell includes a second element, one or more of Ca or Sr.
US11791091B2	Transformer monitor A distribution transformer monitor includes a housing arranged for positioning in proximity to a distribution transformer vessel. The monitor also includes a sensor arranged in the housing, which is positioned to generate digital data associated with at least one environmental condition that exists inside the distribution transformer vessel, and a processing circuit arranged to determine from the generated digital data that the at least one environmental condition has crossed a threshold. The sensor may include any one or more of a temperature sensor, a camera, an accelerometer, a pressure sensor, and a microphone. The housing of the distribution transformer monitor may include at least one indicator legend arranged to facilitate positioning of the housing in a substantially vertical orientation relative to the distribution transformer vessel.
US11791084B2	Air cooled subsurface vault for wireless power transfer systems An air-cooled subsurface vault houses a wireless power transfer charger for charging electric vehicles. The vault includes a cavity that receives the wireless power transfer charger and includes an air space around the wireless power transfer charger. At least two grates are positioned on respective sides of the wireless power transfer charger to enable bi-directional air-flow between the surface and the air space around the wireless power transfer charger. A temperature control element is further provided to regulate a temperature within the cavity and the at least two grates. The temperature control element may further include a heat exchanger positioned within the air space of the vault. Each grate is further adapted to act as an inlet or an outlet for the heat exchanger. A controller may be used to control operation of the heat exchanger to control venting duration and a direction of air flow in the cavity.
US11791083B2	Tunnel magneto-resistive (TMR) sensor with perpendicular magnetic tunneling junction (p-MTJ) structures The present disclosure relates to integrated circuits, and more particularly, a tunnel magneto-resistive (TMR) sensor with perpendicular magnetic tunneling junction (p-MTJ) structures and methods of manufacture and operation. The structure includes: a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure on a first level; a second MTJ structure on a same wiring level as the first MTJ structure; and at least one metal line between the first MTJ structure and the second MTJ structure.
US11791080B2	Superconducting coil, superconducting device, and superconducting wire rod for superconducting coil A superconducting coil of embodiments includes a substrate having a curved surface, a superconducting wire wound on the curved surface, the superconducting wire having a first region and a second region facing the first region, a first resin layer surrounding the superconducting wire and including a plurality of first particles and first resin surrounding the first particles, and a second resin layer positioned between the first region and the second region, the second resin layer covering the first resin layer and including a plurality of second particles and second resin surrounding the second particles and being made of material different from material of the first resin.
US11791074B2	Aluminum nitride heater A heater includes an aluminum nitride base having equal to or less than 1% impurities, particularly one embodiment having none of polybrominated biphenyl, polybrominated diphenyl ether, hexabromocyclododecane, polyvinyl chloride, chlorinated paraffin, phthalate, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, and mercury. At least one resistive trace of silver and palladium overlies the base as does a conductor of silver and platinum or palladium that electrically connects to the resistive trace to apply an external voltage to the resistive trace for heating thereof. At least four, but optionally five, layers of glass overlie the resistive trace and part of the conductor. A first two consecutive layers of the glass layers define a first glass having a solid content of more than 65% and a viscosity of 100 Pa·s or less. The following two or three consecutive layers of the five layers define a second glass dissimilar to the first.
US11791072B2	Laminated varistor A laminated varistor includes a varistor layer, a first internal electrode provided on an upper surface of the varistor layer, a second internal electrode provided on a lower surface of the varistor layer and facing the first internal electrode across the varistor layer in upward and downward directions, a first external electrode provided on a first side surface of the varistor layer and electrically connected to the first internal electrode, and a second external electrode provided on a second side surface of the varistor layer and electrically connected to the second internal electrode. The first internal electrode is extended from the first external electrode in a first extension direction. The first internal electrode includes first electrode strips arranged in a first arrangement direction perpendicular to the first extension direction and spaced apart from one another. This laminated varistor has improved surge-resistant characteristics.
US11791071B2	Tee arrester with directional venting A surge arrester device comprising a first housing portion including a first end and a second end, the first end including a first opening and the second end including a second opening. The device includes a first axis parallel to the first housing portion, the first axis intersecting a first center of the first opening and a second center of the second opening, and a second axis perpendicular to the first housing portion, the second axis intersecting an intermediate section of the first housing portion. The device includes a second housing portion protruding from the intermediate section of the first housing portion, the second housing portion protruding at an angle between the first axis and the second axis, and a metal oxide varistor (MOV) stack within the second housing portion, wherein the MOV stack is released through an opening of the second housing portion if the arrester faults to ground.
US11791068B2	Post insulator and direct current power transmission device A post insulator includes an insulating post including a first end and a second end that are opposite to each other, a high-voltage-end grading ring connected to the first end of the insulating post, the high-voltage-end grading ring being insulated from the insulating post, a grounding-end grading ring connected to the second end of the insulating post, the grounding-end grading ring being insulated from the insulating post, and a charge control ring disposed on an outer surface of the insulating post, the charge control ring being insulated from the insulating post, and the charge control ring being configured to accumulate surface charges.
US11791066B2	Diffusion barriers for metallic superconducting wires In various embodiments, superconducting wires incorporate diffusion barriers composed of Nb alloys or Nb—Ta alloys that resist internal diffusion and provide superior mechanical strength to the wires.
US11791065B2	Multi-layer radial water barrier for rapid manufacture A power cable has a cable core with at least one conductor with an insulating system and a water barrier surrounding the cable core. The water barrier has a helically wound strength bearing layer interconnected by a low melting point material.
US11791064B2	Wiring member and attachment structure of wiring member A wiring member includes a wiring body and an attaching member attached to the wiring body to attach the wiring body to an attaching target. The wiring body includes a wire-like transmission member and a base member holding the wire-like transmission member. The attaching member includes a base material attachment part plastically deformed and sandwiching the base member from both sides of the base member in a front-back direction and an attaching target attachment part attached to an attaching target of the wiring body.
US11791060B2	Elution protocols and dosages for radiopharmaceutical elution system A radioisotope elution system is provided. The radioisotope elution system may comprise a controller that is configured to calculate the available amount of daughter radioisotope at any time during establishment of the equilibrium for decay of the parent radioisotope into its daughter radioisotope. The radioisotope elution system may comprise a controller that is configured to schedule various patient infusions planned for the next following days and weeks in accordance with the available amount of daughter radioisotope on each day. The elution system may also comprise a controller that is connected to the imaging software of a radioisotope imaging device, where the radioisotope imaging device is arranged for imaging the patient or a region of the patient; and the controller is configured to start an image acquisition at a predetermined time.
US11791055B2	Discriminating patient care communications system According to the present disclosure, devices, systems, and methods for locating, tracking, and conducting communications between care devices and networks of care facilities through local communications hubs.
US11791054B2	Comparison and identification of attribute similarity based on genetic markers A method, software, database, and system in which a query attribute is used as the basis for accessing stored attribute combinations and their frequencies of occurrence for individuals; and tabulating, based on frequencies of occurrence, those attribute combinations that are most likely to co-occur with the query attribute.
US11791050B2	3D environment risks identification utilizing reinforced learning Provided herein are exemplary methods for providing assessment of an injury risk, including deploying an agent into an environment, detecting a first object at a first state by the agent, taking an action to interact with the first object using reinforced learning by the agent, the action taken in order to maximize a reward, mapping the first object to a three-dimensional environment, and identifying potential risks within the three-dimensional environment. Also provided herein are exemplary systems for providing assessment of an injury risk, including an agent communicatively coupled to a sensing device, a communications network communicatively coupled to the agent, a three-dimensional model risk assessment module communicatively coupled to the communications network, a user device communicatively coupled to the three-dimensional model risk assessment module, and a system for identifying environmental risks communicatively coupled to the communications network.
US11791043B2	Methods of prognosing early stage breast lesions A method is provided for prognosing a risk in a patient diagnosed with a premalignant lesion of the breast of the lesion progressing to breast cancer, the method comprising: providing a tissue sample of the premalignant lesion; detecting one or more variants of Osteopontin (OPN) selected from OPN-a, OPN-b and OPN-c in the sample; and prognosing an elevated risk of the lesion progressing to breast cancer if OPN-b and/or OPN-c is detected and/or OPN-a is elevated above normal levels in the tissue sample. Methods of assessing risk of death from breast cancer, methods of treatment, and kits for prognosis are also provided herein.
US11791042B2	Methods and systems for providing interface components for respiratory therapy Systems and methods permit generation of a digital scan of a user's face such as for obtaining of a patient respiratory mask, or component(s) thereof, based on the digital scan. The method may include: receiving video data comprising a plurality of video frames of the user's face taken from a plurality of angles relative to the user's face, generating a three-dimensional representation of a surface of the user's face based on the plurality of video frames, receiving scale estimation data associated with the received video data, the scale estimation data indicative of a relative size of the user's face, and scaling the digital three-dimensional representation of the user's face based on the scale estimation data. In some aspects, the scale estimation data may be derived from motion information collected by the same device that collects the scan of the user's face.
US11791038B1	Machine learning system for asymmetrical matching of care givers and care receivers A system for selection of a medical provider (MP) by a requesting patient based on preferences for the MP includes a first model modeling the preferences of a plurality of patients for select MPs and trained on a first training data set comprised of patients and MPs. The patients in the first training data set have rated at least one of the MPs in the first data set by a predetermined set of patient determined preferences. A second model is provided for modeling the preferences of a plurality of MPs for select patients and trained on a second training data set comprised of MPs and patients. The MPs in the second training data set have rated at least one of the patients in the second data set by a predetermined set of MP determined preferences. An available MP data set is provided containing information representative of available MPs for selection thereof by the requesting patient. A controller controls the first and second models to select at least a portion of the available MPs in the available MP data set for input of the associated representative information to the first and second model MP inputs. A list generator generates a ranked list of available MPs from the output of the first model for the requesting patient. A combiner modifies the ranked list of available MPs by the output of the second model to output a modified ranked list.
US11791032B2	Systems and methods for filtering localization data A medical system comprises a medical instrument system and an assembly removably coupled to the medical instrument system. The assembly is configured to operate the medical instrument system by moving it within an anatomic passageway. The medical system also comprises a sensor system coupled to the instrument system and configured to generate information including spatial data and shape data about the instrument system. The medical system also comprises a control system communicatively coupled to the instrument system, the assembly, and the sensor system. The control system receives, from the sensor system, a first set of the spatial data including position information for a distal end of the medical instrument system during a plurality of time periods. The control system also receives the shape data from the sensor system and filters the first set of the spatial data.
US11791027B2	Non-invasive determination of likely response to anti-inflammatory therapies for cardiovascular disease Provided herein are methods and systems for making patient-specific therapy recommendations of an anti-inflammatory therapy for patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease, such as atherosclerosis.
US11791015B2	Electrophoresis separation data analyzer An analyzer includes a separation data holding part, a determination criterion holding part, and a component peak determination part. The separation data holding part retains, as reference data, separation data obtained by an electrophoresis analysis for a reference sample including a reference component which is a known component and retains, as data to be analyzed, separation data obtained by an electrophoresis analysis for a sample to be analyzed. The determination criterion holding part retains a determination criterion for determining whether a component peak in the reference data and a component peak in the data to be analyzed are identical. The component peak determination part is configured to determine whether the component peak in the reference data and the component peak in the data to be analyzed are identical to each other, using the determination criterion.
US11791014B2	Memory devices having variable repair units therein and methods of repairing same A memory device includes a row decoder, a column decoder, and a repair control circuit, which is configured to: (i) compare a row address with a stored failed row address, (ii) compare a column address with a stored failed column address, (iii) control the row decoder to activate the at least one of a plurality of redundancy word lines when the row address corresponds to the failed row address, and (iv) control the column decoder to activate at least one of a plurality of redundancy bit lines when the column address corresponds to the failed column address. The repair control circuit varies a repair unit according to an address input during a repair operation.
US11791003B2	Distributed compaction of logical states to reduce program time A memory device includes a memory array of memory cells and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array. The control logic is to perform operations, which include causing the memory cells to be programmed with an initial voltage distribution representing multiple logical states; causing the memory cells to be programmed with a subsequent voltage distribution representing a subset of the multiple logical states at a higher voltage than that of the initial voltage distribution, wherein the subset of the multiple logical states is compacted above a program verify voltage level for the subsequent voltage distribution; and causing a first program verify operation of the subsequent voltage distribution to be performed on the memory cells to verify one or more voltage levels of the subsequent voltage distribution.
US11790999B2	Resistive random access memory erase techniques and apparatus A method for erasing a memory cell includes applying a first erase to memory cells to erase the memory cells, wherein first memory cells are in a weakly erased state in response to the first erase, and wherein second memory cells are in a normally erased state in response to the first erase, thereafter applying a first weak program to the memory cells, wherein the second memory cells enter a programmed state and the third memory cells remain in the erased state in response to the first weak program, and thereafter applying a read to the memory cells to identify the second memory cells, and applying a second erase to the second memory cells to thereby erase the second memory cells.
US11790995B2	Memory with a source plate discharge circuit Memory systems and devices with source plate discharge circuits (and associated methods) are described herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes (a) a plurality of memory cells, (b) a source plate electrically coupled to the plurality of memory cells, and (c) a discharge circuit. The discharge circuit can include a bipolar junction transistor device electrically coupled to the source plate and configured to drop a voltage at the source plate by, for example, discharging current through the bipolar junction transistor device. In some embodiments, the bipolar junction transistor device can be activated using a low-voltage switch or a high-voltage switch electrically coupled to the bipolar junction transistor. In these and other embodiments, the bipolar junction transistor device can operate in an avalanche mode while discharging current to drop the voltage at the source plate.
US11790993B2	Memory system having a non-volatile memory and a controller configured to switch a mode for controlling an access operation to the non-volatile memory A memory system includes a non-volatile memory having a plurality of memory cells and a controller. The controller is configured to switch a mode for controlling an access operation to the non-volatile memory from a first mode to a second mode, in response to receiving from a host, a first command for instructing the controller to switch the mode from the first mode to the second mode. The access operation controlled according to the second mode improves data retention relative to the access operation controlled according to the first mode.
US11790992B2	State dependent VPVD voltages for more uniform threshold voltage distributions in a memory device The storage device includes a non-volatile memory with control circuitry and an array of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The control circuitry is configured to program the memory cells in a plurality of programming loops which include applying a programming pulse to a selected word line to program at least one memory cell of the selected word line to a programmed data state. The programming loops also include simultaneously applying a verify pulse to the selected word line to verify a data state being programmed, applying a first voltage to at least one unselected word line that has not been programmed, and applying a second voltage to at least one unselected word line that has already been programmed. The first voltage is determined as a function of the programmed data state to reduce a voltage threshold distribution across the memory cells.
US11790990B2	Content addressable memory device, content addressable memory cell and method for single-bit multi-level data searching and comparing The application provides a content addressable memory (CAM) memory device, a CAM memory cell and a method for searching and comparing data thereof. The CAM memory device includes: a plurality of CAM memory cells; and an electrical characteristic detection circuit coupled to the CAM memory cells; wherein in data searching, a search data is compared with a storage data stored in the CAM memory cells, the CAM memory cells generate a plurality of memory cell currents, the electrical characteristic detection circuit detects the memory cell currents to generate a plurality of sensing results, or the electrical characteristic detection circuit detects a plurality of match line voltages on a plurality of match lines coupled to the CAM memory cells to generate the plurality of search results; and the storage data is a single-bit multi-level storage data and/or the search data is a single-bit multi-level search data.
US11790988B2	Nonvolatile memory device including temperature compensation circuit A nonvolatile memory device includes a differential current driver that receives a first differential signal and a second differential signal, which are based on a temperature, and generates a first compensation current and a second compensation current corresponding to a difference value between the first and second differential signals. A current mirror circuit copies a first current, which is a sum of a reference current and the first compensation current, to generate a second current having a same value as a value of the first current and regulates the reference current depending on a difference value of the second current and the second compensation current. A trimming circuit generates a program current or a read current based on the regulated reference current.
US11790987B2	Decoding for a memory device Methods, systems, and devices for decoding for a memory device are described. A decoder of a memory device may include transistors in a first layer between a memory array and a second layer that includes one or more components associated with the memory array. The second layer may include CMOS pre-decoding circuitry, among other components. The decoder may include CMOS transistors in the first layer. The CMOS transistors may control which voltage source is coupled with an access line based on a gate voltage applied to a p-type transistor and a n-type transistor. For example, a first gate voltage applied to a p-type transistor may couple a source node with the access line and bias the access line to a source voltage. A second gate voltage applied to the n-type transistor may couple a ground node with the access line and bias the access line to a ground voltage.
US11790986B2	Semiconductor storage device and memory system including semiconductor storage device and controller A memory system is provided, including a semiconductor storage device including memory cells that can store data of n bits, and a word line connected to the cells; and a memory controller to control the device and being configured to send a first read request, in response to which the device can perform a first read operation of reading first data out of the cells with a first voltage applied to the word line, to send a second read request, in response to which the device can perform a second read operation of reading second data out of the cells with a second voltage within a first voltage range and a third voltage within a second voltage range applied to the word line, perform a first logical operation of logically processing the first and the second data, and send third data generated by the first logical operation to the controller.
US11790984B1	Clustering for read thresholds history table compression in NAND storage systems A flash memory system may include a flash memory and a circuit for performing operations on the flash memory. The circuit may be configured to obtain reference voltages from one or more read samples, and a plurality of sets of reference voltages. The circuit may be configured to obtain a plurality of distances, each being a distance between a point corresponding to the obtained reference voltages and a point corresponding to a respective set of reference voltages. The circuit may be configured to determine a first set of reference voltages such that a distance between the point corresponding to the obtained reference voltages and a point corresponding to the first set of reference voltage is a minimum distance of the plurality of distances. The circuit may be configured to perform read operations on locations of the flash memory with the first set of reference voltages.
US11790980B2	Driver sharing between banks or portions of banks of memory devices Methods, systems, and devices for driver sharing between banks or portions of banks of memory devices are described. An apparatus may include a first bank and a second bank of memory cells and a word line driver configured to activate word lines. The word line driver may include a master word line driver and an address driver. In some examples, the master word line driver may be configured to generate a first signal to a first portion of the first bank or a second portion of the first bank as part of performing an access operation. In some examples, the master word line driver may be configured to generate a first signal for the first bank or the second bank as part of performing an access operation. The address driver configured to generate a second signal to a portion of the first bank or the second bank.
US11790976B2	Periodic calibrations during memory device self refresh A memory device is described. The memory device includes logic circuitry to perform calibrations of resistive network terminations and data drivers of the memory device while the memory device is within a self refresh mode.
US11790973B2	Memory component with efficient write operations A memory component includes a first memory bank. The first memory bank has a plurality of sub-arrays having sub-rows of memory elements. The memory component includes a write driver, coupled to the first memory bank, to perform a write operation of an entire sub-row of a sub-array. To perform the write operation, the write driver is to load a burst of write data to the memory bank. The memory bank may then activate a plurality of sense amplifiers associated with a plurality of memory elements of the entire sub-row to load the burst of write data to the plurality of sense amplifiers.
US11790969B1	Apparatus and method for endurance of non-volatile memory banks via outlier compensation Endurance mechanisms are introduced for memories such as non-volatile memories for broad usage including caches, last-level cache(s), embedded memory, embedded cache, scratchpads, main memory, and storage devices. Here, non-volatile memories (NVMs) include magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), resistive RAM (ReRAM), ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM), phase-change memory (PCM), etc. In some cases, features of endurance mechanisms (e.g., randomizing mechanisms) are applicable to volatile memories such as static random-access memory (SRAM), and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The endurance mechanisms include a wear leveling scheme that uses index rotation, outlier compensation to handle weak bits, and random swap injection to mitigate wear out attacks.
US11790966B2	Nonvolatile logic circuit A nonvolatile logic circuit includes: a memory unit having a pair of resistive memory elements; a computation unit connected to the memory unit and configured to perform an operation based on an input signal and a logic value corresponding to a resistance state of the pair of resistive memory elements; a determination circuit configured to determine whether the resistance state of the pair of resistive memory elements is a complementary state or a non-complementary state; and an output circuit connected to the computation unit and the determination circuit, and configured to output a signal corresponding to an operation result by the computation unit or a signal corresponding to a determination result by the determination circuit.
US11790964B1	Data reading/writing circuit, method, and device A data reading/writing circuit includes a controller and a memory. The memory is configured to decode an instruction based on a first clock signal from the controller and to sample data based on a second clock signal from the controller. The memory includes first and second storage modules, and a mode register that stores a second synchronization parameter, and a second delay circuit is disposed in the second storage module. In reading/writing data on the first storage module, the controller is configured to synchronize the first and second clock signals using a first synchronization parameter. In reading/writing data on the second storage module, the controller is configured to perform first synchronization on the first and second clock signals using the first synchronization parameter, and the memory is configured to perform second synchronization on the first and second clock signals using the second delay circuit and the second synchronization parameter.
US11790962B2	Strobe acquisition and tracking A memory controller includes an interface to receive a data strobe signal and corresponding read data. The data strobe signal and the read data correspond to a read command issued by the memory controller, and the read data is received in accordance with the data strobe signal and an enable signal. A circuit in the memory controller is to dynamically adjust a timing offset between the enable signal and the data strobe signal, and control logic is to issue a supplemental read command in accordance with a determination that a time interval since a last read command issued by the memory controller exceeds a predetermined value.
US11790960B2	Data transmission circuit, method and storage device This application relates to a data transmission circuit, method, and storage devices. The comparison module compares the bus data on the data bus with the global data on the global data line, and the comparison result shows whether the number of bits that are different from the global data on the output bus data exceeds the preset threshold, which is set based on the comparison result. When the comparison result exceeds the preset threshold, a first data conversion module inverts the bus data and provides it to the data bus buffer module, and when the comparison result does not exceed the preset threshold, the bus data is provided to the data bus buffer module. The data bus buffer module generates a data polarity identification signal according to the comparison result, and transmit the bus data or the inverted data of the bus data to the global data line. The write circuit module transmits data on the global data line or inverted data to the local data line according to the data polarity identification signal.
US11790959B2	Sensitivity amplifier The disclosure provides a sense amplifier and a control method thereof. The sense amplifier includes: a pre-charge module, a first input and output terminal, a second input and output terminal, a first PMOS transistor, a second PMOS transistor, a first NMOS transistor, and a second NMOS transistor, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a third switch unit, a fourth switch unit, a fifth switch unit, a sixth switch unit, a seventh switch unit, an eighth switch unit, a first energy storage unit and a second energy storage unit. The sense amplifier can compensate for the offset voltage. The result is a sense amplifier with greatly reduced offset voltage, thereby improving the sensitivity and resolution of the sense amplifier.
US11790953B2	Smart summarization, indexing, and post-processing for recorded document presentation Systems and methods for providing summarization, indexing, and post-processing of a recorded document presentation are provided. The system accesses a structured document and recordings associated with a recorded presentation given using the structured document. The system analyzes, using machine-trained models, the structured document, audio and video recordings, and recording of operations performed during the presentation. The analyzing comprises generating a transcript of the audio recording, determining context of components of the structured document, and deriving context from the video recordings and recording of operations. Based on the analyzing, the system segments the recorded presentation into a plurality of segments and generates an index of the plurality of segments that is used for post-processing.
US11790952B2	Pose estimation for video editing Pose of a person depicted within a video may be determined. The pose of the person depicted within the video may be used to edit the video. Visual effects may be applied to the video based on the pose of the person depicted within the video. Timing of the video may be remapped to timing of music providing accompaniment for the video edit.
US11790947B1	Idle power saving for actuator device Systems and methods are disclosed for an actuator device or actuator control device to implement a low power savings mode. For example, a device can comprise an actuator arm including a first actuator and a second actuator, the second actuator configured to refine a movement of the actuator arm to a more precise position than use of merely the first actuator. A device can also comprise a control system configured to determine when the device is in an idle state and, when the device is in the idle state, disable the second actuator and perform a positional seek operation with the second actuator disabled. Power savings can occur from disabling the second actuator, which may also include disabling associated circuitry, such that it does not consume power or consumes a nominal (e.g., negligible or insignificant) amount of power during the associated seek operation.
US11790944B2	Heat-assisted magnetic recording head near-field transducer with a plasmonic disk 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 plasmonic disk. The plasmonic disk is coupled to the near-field emitter and includes rhodium or iridium.
US11790940B2	Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer with improved trailing shield design A method of forming a PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) head that includes a tapered write pole that is fully surrounded by wrapped-around magnetic shields, including laterally disposed side shields, a trailing shield and a leading shield. A layer of high magnetic saturation material (high Bs) is formed on the leading edge of the trailing shield and extends rearward, away from the ABS plane to define a cross-sectional write gap shape that is not conformal with the shape of the tapered write pole. The cross-sectional shape of this shield layer enables it to absorb flux from the write pole so that the flux for writing is enhanced and concentrated at the area of the recording medium being written upon and does not extend to adjacent tracks or to downtrack positions at which such flux is not desired.
US11790938B2	Method and apparatus for providing noise suppression to an intelligent personal assistant A radio frequency connection between a far field voice detection device and a further device is used to determine a first angular direction from the far field voice detection device to the further device. The determined first angular direction is then used to emphasize, during a noise processing of a plurality of sounds received via use of a plurality of microphones of the far field voice detection device, a first one of the plurality of sounds relative to a remainder of the plurality of sounds.
US11790936B1	Computerised systems and methods for detection Methods and systems for detecting marine mammals. Acoustic data can be received from one or more hydrophones. The acoustic data can be sampled, and the sampled acoustic data can be transformed to time-frequency image data. The image data can be processed to transform the data for input to a model. The model can be trained to detect the presence or absence of marine mammal vocalizations in the acoustic data. The model can output a prediction of whether or not a mammal is present.
US11790930B2	Method and system for dereverberation of speech signals A system and method for reverberation reduction is disclosed. A first Deep Neural Network (DNN) produces a first estimate of a target direct-path signal from a mixture of acoustic signals that include the target direct-path signal and a reverberation of the target direct-path signal. A filter modeling a room impulse response (RIR) for the first estimate is estimated. The filter when applied to the first estimate of the target direct-path signal generates a result closest to a residual between the mixture of the acoustic signals and the first estimate of the target direct-path signal according to a distance function. A mixture with reduced reverberation of the target direct-path signal is obtained by removing the result of applying the filter to the first estimate of the target direct-path signal from the received mixture. A second DNN produces a second estimate of the target direct-path signal from the mixture with reduced reverberation.
US11790929B2	WPE-based dereverberation apparatus using virtual acoustic channel expansion based on deep neural network According to an aspect, a WPE-based dereverberation apparatus using virtual acoustic channel expansion based on a deep neural network includes a signal reception unit for receiving as input a first speech signal through a single channel microphone, a signal generation unit for generating a second speech signal by applying a virtual acoustic channel expansion algorithm based on a deep neural network to the first speech signal and a dereverberation unit for removing reverberation of the first speech signal and generating a dereverberated signal from which the reverberation has been removed by applying a dual-channel weighted prediction error (WPE) algorithm based on a deep neural network to the first speech signal and the second speech signal.
US11790927B2	Context-based entropy coding of sample values of a spectral envelope An improved concept for coding sample values of a spectral envelope is obtained by combining spectrotemporal prediction on the one hand and context-based entropy coding the residuals, on the other hand, while particularly determining the context for a current sample value dependent on a measure of a deviation between a pair of already coded/decoded sample values of the spectral envelope in a spectrotemporal neighborhood of the current sample value. The combination of the spectrotemporal prediction on the one hand and the context-based entropy coding of the prediction residuals with selecting the context depending on the deviation measure on the other hand harmonizes with the nature of spectral envelopes.
US11790919B2	Multiple classifications of audio data Described herein is a system for sentiment detection in audio data. The system is trained using acoustic information and lexical information to determine a sentiment corresponding to an utterance. In some cases when lexical information is not available, the system (trained on acoustic and lexical information) is configured to determine a sentiment using only acoustic information.
US11790917B2	Processing speech-to-text transcriptions Speech analysis is performed by receiving estimated glyphs corresponding to an estimate made by speech-to-text software of what has been spoken out loud by a user; comparing the estimated glyphs with reference glyphs representing a text from which the user has attempted to read; and providing feedback relating to the user's speech based on the comparison of the estimated glyphs with the reference glyphs.
US11790914B2	Methods and user interfaces for voice-based control of electronic devices The present disclosure generally relates to voice-control for electronic devices. In some embodiments, the method includes, in response to detecting a plurality of utterances, associating the plurality of operations with a first stored operation set and detecting a second set of one or more inputs corresponding to a request to perform the operations associated with the first stored operation set; and performing the plurality of operations associated with the first stored operation set, in the respective order.
US11790913B2	Information providing method, apparatus, and storage medium, that transmit related information to a remote terminal based on identification information received from the remote terminal A computer-implemented information providing method includes: storing, at an information providing apparatus, a plurality of pieces of related information in association with a same identification information in a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of the pieces of the related information is representative of a content of a corresponding one of a series of a plurality of speech voices uttered to a first device; and in response to a request from a second device that receives the identification information, causing, at the information providing apparatus, a communication device to transmit to the second device one or more of the plurality of the pieces of the related information associated with the same identification information.
US11790911B2	Systems and methods for selective wake word detection using neural network models Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include capturing sound data via a network microphone device and identifying a candidate wake word in the sound data. Based on identification of the candidate wake word in the sound data, the system selects a first wake-word engine from a plurality of wake-word engines. Via the first wake-word engine, the system analyzes the sound data to detect a confirmed wake word, and, in response to detecting the confirmed wake word, transmits a voice utterance of the sound data to one or more remote computing devices associated with a voice assistant service.
US11790907B2	Agent device, agent system, and recording medium An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.
US11790906B2	Resolving unique personal identifiers during corresponding conversations between a voice bot and a human Implementations are directed to causing a voice bot to utilize a plurality of ML layers in resolving unique personal identifier(s) for a human while the voice bot is engaged in a corresponding conversation with the human. The unique personal identifier(s) can include a unique sequence of alphanumeric characters that is personal to the human. In some implementations, ASR speech hypothes(es) corresponding to spoken utterance(s) that include the unique personal identifier(s) can be processed to generate candidate unique personal identifier(s), given alphanumeric character(s) of the candidate unique personal identifier(s) can be selected, and the voice bot can prompt the human with clarification request(s) to clarify the given alphanumeric character(s) until it is predicted to correspond to the an actual unique personal identifier(s) for the human(s). The unique personal identifier(s) can then be utilized in performance of further action(s) by the voice bot and/or other systems.
US11790904B2	Voice application platform Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
US11790898B1	Resource selection for processing user inputs Techniques for prioritizing resources of various users, associated with a device, when responding to a user input received from the device are described. When a user input is received from a device, a system may generate a resource list for a group profile (e.g., a household profile) and each user profile (including any guest user profile) associated with the device. Each resource list may include the catalogs of resources (e.g., songs of a playlist, contacts of a contact list, etc.) of the group profile or user profile. The system may also generate a weight matrix including a respective weight for each catalog of each resource list. Various processing components (e.g., an automatic speech recognition component, a natural language understanding component, and an entity resolution component) may process using the resource lists and the weight matrix to determine an output responsive to the user input.
US11790897B2	Response generation for conversational computing interface A computer-implemented method of responding to a conversational event is presented. The method comprises receiving a conversational event at a conversational computing interface. Based on the received conversational event, an applicable generation rule of a plurality of candidate generation rules is selected. The applicable generation rule is configured with one or more parameters. A computer-executable plan is then selected based on the selected generation rule. The one or more parameters are passed from the selected generation rule to one or more additional generation rules. The one or more additional generation rules configured with the one or more parameters are recursively applied to extend the selected computer-executable plan. One or more candidate responses to the conversational event are output via the conversational computing interface based on the recursive application of the one or more additional generation rules configured with the one or more parameters.
US11790895B2	System and method for natural language understanding An electronic device for natural language understanding includes at least one memory and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory. The at least one processor is configured to process an utterance using a trained model. The at least one processor is also configured to replace a first portion of the utterance with a first token, where the first token represents a semantic role of the first portion of the utterance based on a slot vocabulary. The at least one processor is further configured to determine a slot value in the utterance based on the first token. In addition, the at least one processor is configured to perform a task corresponding to the utterance based on the determined slot value.
US11790892B1	Voice-driven application prototyping using machine-learning techniques A method includes capturing an event, analyzing the event to generate graphs, receiving a natural language utterance, identifying an entity and a command, modifying the graphs; and emitting an application prototype. An application prototyping server includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the server to capture an event, analyze the captured event to generate graphs, receive a natural language utterance, identify an entity and a command, modify the graphs; and emit an application prototype. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: capture an event, analyze the captured event to generate graphs, receive a natural language utterance, identify an entity and a command, modify the graphs; and emit an application prototype.
US11790887B2	System with post-conversation representation, electronic device, and related methods System, electronic device, and related methods, in particular a method of operating a system comprising an electronic device is disclosed, the method comprising obtaining one or more audio signals including a first audio signal of a first conversation; determining first speaker metric data of a first speaker based on the first audio signal, the first speaker metric data including first primary speaker metric data; detecting a termination of the first conversation; in accordance with detecting the termination of the first conversation, determining a first post-conversation representation based on the first speaker metric data; and outputting, via the interface of the electronic device, the first post-conversation representation.
US11790883B2	Active noise reduction device, vehicle, and active noise reduction method An active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal input terminal that receives a reference signal from a reference signal source attached to an automobile; a simulated vibration transfer characteristics filter unit that generates a second signal by correcting, using simulated vibration transfer characteristics, a first signal for outputting, from a loudspeaker attached to the automobile, a sound different from a canceling sound, the simulated vibration transfer characteristics simulating vibration transfer characteristics from the loudspeaker to the reference signal source; a first subtracter that outputs a corrected reference signal obtained by subtracting the second signal generated, from the reference signal received by the reference signal input terminal; and an adaptive filter unit that applies an adaptive filter to the corrected reference signal outputted from the first subtracter to generate a canceling signal to be used to output the canceling sound.
US11790879B2	Impact detection device and percussion instrument An impact detection device includes: a body configured to be struck; a vibration sensor that detects vibration of the body; a support base that supports the vibration sensor; a first elastic body sandwiched between the vibration sensor and the body; and a second elastic body sandwiched between the vibration sensor and the support base. A dimension of each of the first elastic body and the second elastic body is smaller than a dimension of the vibration sensor when viewed from an arrangement direction in which the first elastic body, the vibration sensor, and the second elastic body are arranged.
US11790876B1	Music technique responsible for versioning Systems and methods for versioning audio elements used in generation of music are provided. An example method includes receiving musical format data associated with a plurality of audio elements of a melody; determining, based on the musical format data, harmonic and melodic characteristics of each of the plurality of audio elements; matching the harmonic and melodic characteristics to a plurality of chord progressions using predetermined music theory rules, counterpoint rules, and rhythm matching rules; deriving, based on the matching and predetermined melodic movement rules, from the plurality of chord progressions, melodic movement characteristics applicable to using in versioning; and creating, based on the predetermined music theory rules and the melodic movement characteristics, versions of the audio elements that match the chord progressions.
US11790874B2	Music shaper A music composition, editing, and playback system and method provides a user interface design based on geometric interpretation of music theory replacing traditional modern music notation with geometric shapes including chords represented by polygons that are colored with colors or hues.
US11790872B2	Methods and systems for altering virtual button arrangements presented on one or more displays of an electronic device An electronic device includes a device housing and one or more displays presenting one or more user actuation targets defining one or more virtual buttons in a predefined arrangement relative to a first end of the device housing. One or more sensors detect a condition of the electronic device, such as an approaching object, change in the direction of gravity, or an object tapping or pushing the electronic device. One or more processors cause, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the condition, the one or more displays to present the one or more user actuation targets defining the one or more virtual buttons in another predefined arrangement that is different from the predefined arrangement.
US11790870B2	Backlight reconstruction and compensation A processor or other circuitry may obtain emissive element strength information for an array of emissive elements of an electronic display. The processor or other circuitry may reconstruct backlight information at multiple locations within the electronic display. The processor or other circuitry also compensates display of image data based at least in part on the reconstructed backlight information.
US11790866B1	Display device To reduce power consumption of a display device with the use of a simple structure and a simple operation. The display device includes an input device. Input of an image signal to a driver circuit is controlled in accordance with an image operation signal output from the input device. Specifically, input of image signals at the time when the input device is not operated is less frequent than that at the time when the input device is operated. Accordingly, display degradation (deterioration of display quality) caused when the display device is used can be prevented and power consumed when the display device is not used can be reduced.
US11790863B2	Compensation method of display panel and compensation device thereof A compensation method of a display panel and a compensation device thereof are provided. The compensation method of the display panel includes following steps: determining location information of a pixel to be compensated and acquiring a first image parameter under a first reference grayscale and a second image parameter under a second reference grayscale of a panel to be compensated; determining a target compensation value of the pixel to be compensated under a target grayscale; and determining compensation brightness of the pixel to be compensated under the target grayscale according to the target compensation value.
US11790862B2	Display device and method of driving the same using scale factor based on load value A display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a gate driver configured to provide a gate signal to the display panel, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the display panel, and a driving controller configured to control the gate driver and the data driver and to receive input image data to generate output image data corresponding to the data signal. The driving controller is configured to determine a scale factor based on a total load value of previous input image data and to compare the current input image data with the previous input image data to determine whether to apply the scale factor to the current input image data.
US11790853B2	Display device A display device includes: a plurality of first pixels connected to first scan lines and a first data line, a plurality of second pixels connected to second scan lines and the first data line, a plurality of third pixels connected to the first scan lines or the second scan lines and a second data line, and a scan driver including a plurality of stages which supplies scan signals to one of the first scan lines and the second scan lines.
US11790849B2	Display device and power setting method thereof A display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a timing controller configured to generate image data based on input image data; a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the image data and supplying the data signal to the pixels; a power supply configured to supply a first power supply voltage to the display panel; and a power controller configured to calculate a load value and a peak grayscale of the entire display panel based on the input image data, receive feedback voltages of the first power supply voltage from relatively lower quality areas in which IR drop of the first power supply voltage occurs relatively more frequently, and generate a power control signal for changing the level of the first power supply voltage based on the load value, the peak grayscale, and the feedback voltages.
US11790848B2	Panel driving device, driving method thereof, and electroluminescent display apparatus incorporating the same An electroluminescent display apparatus may include: a display panel including a pixel; a data voltage supply circuit configured to supply a sensing data voltage to the pixel in a sensing period within a vertical blank period of a first frame, to supply a recovery data voltage to the pixel in a recovery period following the sensing period, and to supply a display data voltage to the pixel in a vertical active period of a second frame following the first frame; and a sensing circuit configured to sense an electrical characteristic of the pixel based on the sensing data voltage in the sensing period within the vertical blank period of the first frame. A level of the display data voltage to be supplied to the pixel in the vertical active period of the second frame may be determined based on a length of the vertical blank period of the first frame.
US11790847B2	Display substrate and display device A display substrate and a display device are provided, which includes: a base substrate, a plurality of reset signal lines and a first electrode layer, the first electrode layer includes a plurality of first power supply voltage lines, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of first transfer electrodes, a plurality of second transfer electrodes and a plurality of third transfer electrodes, a value of a ratio of an area of an overlapping portion of an orthographic projection of the first body sub-portion and an orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the board surface of the base substrate, and an area of an overlapping portion of an orthographic projection of the second body sub-portion on the board surface of the base substrate and the orthographic projection of the first electrode layer on the board surface of the base substrate ranges from 0.82 to 1.02.
US11790845B2	Pixel circuit and display panel The pixel circuit includes a write-in compensation module for writing data signal(s) into a light emission device through a driving transistor and compensating a threshold voltage of the driving transistor; a first reset module for providing a signal of a first reset signal end to a gate of the driving transistor under control of a first reset control end; a second reset module for providing a signal of a second reset signal end to an anode of the light emission device under control of a second reset control end; and a light emission control module for connecting a drain electrode of the driving transistor with the anode under control of a light emission control end. A cathode of the light emission device is connected with a first power source voltage end; a potential of the first reset signal end is larger than a potential of the second reset signal end.
US11790844B2	Pixel circuit, display panel, and display apparatus A pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit including a first end connected to a first power line, a control end connected to a first node, and a second end connected to a second node; and a compensation sub-circuit connected to the first node, the second node, a light emission control signal line to receive one of a first voltage and a reference voltage, a scanning signal line to receive one of the first control voltage and a second control voltage, and a data signal line to receive one of a data voltage and the reference voltage. Under control of the reference voltage received from the light emission control signal line, a first control voltage received from the scanning signal line, and the reference voltage received from the data signal line, when the first power line receives the first power voltage, a threshold voltage of the driving sub-circuit is compensated.
US11790840B2	Tiling display apparatus A tiling display apparatus includes a plurality of display modules connected to one another to configure a screen, a set board configured to output an input data enable signal and image data synchronized therewith to one of the plurality of display modules, and first to Nth (where N is a natural number of 3 or more) timing controllers configured for the plurality of display modules, the first to Nth timing controllers are sequentially connected to one another in a first direction through a first interface line based on a cascading scheme and configured to receive the input data enable signal and the image data at different timings which are sequentially delayed and synchronize a display time of the image data on the basis of an independently generated output data enable signal.
US11790837B2	Pixel and display apparatus including same A pixel includes first and second sub-emission areas enclosed by a bank; a first light source unit disposed in the first sub-emission area, and including at least one first light emitting element connected between at least one first split electrode and a second power supply; a second light source unit disposed in the second sub-emission area, and including at least one second light emitting element connected between at least one second split electrode and the second power supply; a first driving circuit connected between a first power supply and the at least one first split electrode, and supplying a first driving current to the first light source unit in response to a first data signal; and a second driving circuit connected between the first power supply and the second split electrode, and supplying a second driving current to the second light source unit in response to a second data signal.
US11790835B2	Display device A display device includes a data signal line, a low-tone scanning line, a high-tone scanning line, a low-tone emission control line, a high-tone emission control line, a signal line drive circuit that outputs an image signal to the data signal line, a scanning line drive circuit that outputs a selection signal to the low-tone scanning line and to the high-tone scanning line, and first and second power supply lines that receive power from a power supply. Pixel units each include a low-tone scanning transistor, a high-tone scanning transistor, a low-tone capacitor, a high-tone capacitor, a low-tone drive transistor, a high-tone drive transistor, a low-tone emission control transistor, a high-tone emission control transistor, and a light emitter. The display device drives the light emitter by dividing a high tone and a low tone in time series.
US11790831B2	Active control of light emitting diodes and light emitting diode displays Active control of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and LED packages within LED displays is disclosed. LED packages are disclosed that include a plurality of LED chips that form at least one LED pixel for an LED display or an LED panel. Each LED package may include an active electrical element that is configured to receive a control signal and actively maintain an operating state, such as brightness or grey level while other LED packages are being addressed. Active electrical elements are disclosed that are configured to provide both forward and reverse bias states to LEDs to detect adverse operating conditions including reverse leakage and deviations to forward voltage levels. LED packages are also disclosed that may self-configure based on the manner in which various input or output lines are connected.
US11790829B1	Data driving circuit and display panel Provided is a data driving circuit and a display panel. The data driving circuit is configured to output a data signal for image display to multiple pixel units so as to drive the pixel units to display images. The data drive circuit includes a voltage regulating unit and multiple constant-current driving units, where the constant-current driving unit is configured to output a drive current corresponding to a data signal to at least one pixel unit. The voltage regulating unit is electrically connected to the multiple constant-current driving units and is configured to detect a driving current output by each constant-current driving unit and obtain a detection signal, and control the driving current output by each constant-current driving unit to be within a preset range according to the detection signal. The driving current output by each constant-current driving unit is adjusted.
US11790828B2	Control method for display apparatus, display apparatus, and display system A control method for a display apparatus includes receiving a first control signal transmitted from a first terminal and a second control signal transmitted from a second terminal, storing priority information in which data showing that the second control signal has lower priority than the first control signal is recorded, and, when processing by the first control signal and processing by the second control signal are incompatible with each other, preferentially executing the processing by the first control signal according to the priority information.
US11790827B2	Display system with thermal sensor and method of operating the same A display system includes a host processor and a display driver integrated circuit. The host processor includes a first thermal sensor. The display driver integrated circuit including a second thermal sensor that is different from the first thermal sensor. The host processor generates a first performance control signal indicating whether to increase or decrease performance of a display panel from first temperature information that is obtained from the first thermal sensor and second temperature information that is obtained from the second thermal sensor, and to output the first performance control signal. The display driver integrated circuit receives the first performance control signal from the host processor, and controls the display panel based on the first performance control signal to adjust the performance of the display panel.
US11790826B2	Shift register and driving method thereof, drive circuit and display device Provided are a shift register and a driving method thereof, a drive circuit and a display device. A first capacitor is provided with a first terminal electrically connected to a cascade signal output terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to a fixed voltage signal terminal, so that a load capacitance of the cascade signal output terminal is compensated, and the charging and discharging process of the first capacitor is combined to reduce a noise of a signal of the cascade signal output terminal and improve the signal stability of the cascade signal output terminal.
US11790825B2	Backlight brightness control method, backlight brightness control device, and display equipment A backlight brightness control method, a backlight brightness control device, and a display equipment are provided. By using a constant current integrated circuit to input constant current to backlight sources in backlight partitions, uniformity of backlight brightness is allowed to be improved. By determining a target peak current inputted to the backlight sources in the backlight partitions according to a grayscale level of partition images, not only can the backlight brightness required by a high grayscale level be ensured, but fine adjustment of the backlight brightness under a low grayscale level can also be ensured.
US11790822B1	Display apparatus A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards. The display panel has a fan-out area and a display area. The flexible printed circuit boards are coupled to the display panel. A first side of each flexible printed circuit board is configured with a plurality of first traces for transmitting a first group of clock signals among a plurality of clock signals, and a second side of each flexible printed circuit board opposite to the first side is configured with a plurality of second traces for transmitting a second group of clock signals among the clock signals. The first group of clock signals of one of the flexible printed circuit boards and the second group of clock signals of the adjacent flexible printed circuit board are transmitted to the display area through the fan-out area together.
US11790821B2	Driving control circuit for detecting power-down time period, driving control method, and display device A driving control circuit, a driving control method, and a display device are disclosed. The driving control circuit includes an input terminal, a power-down time acquisition circuit, an output terminal, and a switch circuit. The input terminal is configured to receive an input voltage; the power-down time acquisition circuit is configured to detect a power-down time period required for the input voltage to decrease to a lowest voltage, the power-down time period is used to generate a switch control signal; the output terminal is configured to output a voltage; and the switch circuit is configured to receive the input voltage and determine, according to the switch control signal, whether to be turned on to transmit the input voltage to the output terminal for output.
US11790820B2	Electronic device including rollable display rolled into circle An electronic device including a rollable display is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a main body, a first planar part disposed at one end of the main body, and a second planar part disposed at another end of the main body and disposed in parallel to the first planar part, a rollable display drawn out from an interior of the housing or inserted into the interior of the housing through a slit formed in a direction perpendicular to the first planar part, and a handler member combined with an end of the rollable display and including a first magnet. A second magnet having a polarity different from a polarity of the first magnet disposed within the main body so that the handler member is attached to a surface of the main body in a state in which a part of the rollable display has been drawn out from the interior of the housing.
US11790819B2	Compensation method and electronic device A compensation method includes that an electronic device determines, based on statistical data of a first display and a first correspondence, a first actual value of a to-be-measured parameter of the first display at the end of a first statistical period; determines, based on statistical data of a second display and a second correspondence, a second actual value of a to-be-measured parameter of the second display at the end of the first statistical period; determines a compensation target value based on the first actual value and the second actual value when the first actual value is less than the second actual value; and writes the compensation target value into a first register configured to control the to-be-measured parameter of the first display, and writes the compensation target value into a second register configured to control the to-be-measured parameter of the second display.
US11790817B2	Method for operating display device A display device in which a pixel defect is less likely to be perceived is provided. The display device includes a display portion where pixels are arranged in a matrix, and a sensor portion including a photoelectric conversion element. First, the display portion is divided into a first region and a second region. Next, first light is emitted from the pixel included in the first region, and the luminance of the first light is detected by the photoelectric conversion element. Moreover, second light is emitted from the pixel included in the second region, and the luminance of the second light is detected by the photoelectric conversion element. Then, the luminance of the first light is compared to the luminance of the second light, and on the basis of the comparison result, one of the first region and the second region is divided into a third region and a fourth region. By repeating these operations, a defective pixel is detected. Luminance represented by image data can be corrected on the basis of the detection result of the defective pixel.
US11790810B2	Framing system for use with silicone edge graphics Framing member for use in mounting and displaying a SEG product.
US11790799B2	Student training system for a vehicle system A student training system for a vehicle system is provided. The student training system has a primary computer that displays a first GUI having a first case study command button associated with a first case study. The first case study is a training assignment associated with a first operational problem in the vehicle system. The primary computer displays a second GUI having text that describes the first operational problem, and a start case study command button. The primary computer sends a first code to the intermediate microprocessor when the start case study command button is selected. The intermediate microprocessor generates a control signal in response to the code to induce a controllable switch to electrically de-couple a first device from the controller to induce the vehicle system to have the first operational problem.
US11790792B2	UTM-ATC interface An apparatus may receive first data, in a first data format, from one or more unmanned aircraft system service suppliers comprising first positions of one or more unmanned aircraft systems, receive second data, in a second data format, from one or more communications systems comprising second positions of one or more manned aircraft, transmit third data, in a third data format, comprising the first positions of the one or more unmanned aircraft systems and the second positions of the one or more manned aircraft, receive a first control signal comprising a control command associated with one or more of the unmanned aircraft systems or one or more of the manned aircraft, and transmit a second control signal comprising the control command to one or more of the unmanned aircraft system service suppliers or to one or more of the communications systems.
US11790786B2	Airspace management system for an airspace region Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable storage media for airspace management within an airspace region at a node of a peer to peer network having a plurality of nodes and maintaining a blockchain containing a current deconflicted flight schedule for the airspace region. One method includes receiving requests for airspace reservations, each including flight plan data, from other nodes over the peer to peer network, compiling the flight plan data to identify conflicts between the requests and the current deconflicted flight schedule, validating the flight plan data of the requests that do not conflict with the current deconflicted flight schedule to generate validated airspace reservations, creating a block containing the validated airspace reservations and interlinking the block with the blockchain such that the blockchain contains a new deconflicted flight schedule for the airspace region for broadcast to the other nodes over the peer to peer network.
US11790784B2	Proximity detection system and method and collision avoidance system and method using proximity detection The invention relates to a complex proximity safety and warning system. The invention provides a safety system comprising a generator that generates a magnetic field that establishes a boundary, where the generator is capable of receiving radio frequency signals. Also provided is a radio frequency device that sends radio frequency signals, the radio frequency device being capable of sensing the magnetic field and generating a radio frequency response.
US11790783B2	Pedestrian device, vehicle-mounted device, mobile body guidance system, and mobile body guidance method A system for guiding an autonomous vehicle to a target location includes a pedestrian terminal carried by a user of the vehicle; an in-vehicle terminal mounted in the vehicle; and a wearable terminal worn on the user's body to detect a sight focusing status of the user. The pedestrian terminal is configured to transmit and receive information to and from the in-vehicle terminal, determine if there is a risk of collision between the vehicle and the user, and provide an alert to the pedestrian. The in-vehicle terminal is configured to transmit and receive information to and from the pedestrian terminal, determine if there is a risk of collision between the vehicle and the user based on the information received from the pedestrian terminal, and cause an autonomous driving ECU to perform cruise control so as to avoid the collision.
US11790779B2	Three-dimensional information processing method and three-dimensional information processing device A three-dimensional information processing method includes: obtaining, via a communication channel, map data that includes first three-dimensional position information; generating second three-dimensional position information from information detected by a sensor; judging whether one of the first three-dimensional position information and the second three-dimensional position information is abnormal by performing, on one of the first three-dimensional position information and the second three-dimensional position information, a process of judging whether an abnormality is present; determining a coping operation to cope with the abnormality when one of the first three-dimensional position information and the second three-dimensional position information is judged to be abnormal; and executing a control that is required to perform the coping operation.
US11790776B1	Generating virtual reality (VR) alerts for challenging streets The following relates generally to providing virtual reality (VR) alerts to a driver of an autonomous vehicle. For example, a vehicle may be driving autonomously while the driver is watching a VR movie (e.g., on a pair of VR goggles); the driver may then receive a VR alert recommending that the driver take control of the vehicle (e.g., switch the vehicle from autonomous to manual mode). The following also relates to generating a VR feed for presenting real-time road conditions so that a user may preview a road segment. The following also relates to generating a VR feed corresponding to an event (e.g., a vehicle collision, a crime, a weather event, and/or a natural disaster).
US11790775B2	Methods and systems for indicating a driving situation to external users Methods and systems are provided for indicating a driving situation including at least one vehicle. The system includes a first processor, a second processor and an external device. A first processor obtains driving information, encodes the driving information and communicates the encoded driving information to the second processor. The second processor receives and decodes the encoded driving information. The second processor further allocates a predefined indication pattern to the decoded driving information, wherein the predefined indication pattern includes a graphical representation of an upcoming driving event involving the vehicle. An external device visualizes a current driving situation including the vehicle together with the predefined indication pattern.
US11790773B2	Vehicle parking data collection system and method A method of collecting vehicle parking data includes preprocessing images of a parking area, identifying a vehicle in a parking spot shown in one or more of the images, and detecting a vehicle change in the parking spot in the images collected at different times.
US11790770B2	Illumination system for crossing zone Pedestrian crossing zones at an intersection are often poorly illuminated. Lighting systems typically only partially illuminate the pedestrian crossing zone or provide only diffuse light. Herein is disclosed a crossing zone illumination system and method of operation, comprising a controller and an array of at least two lights coupled to a span wire above each pedestrian crossing zone.
US11790767B2	Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for pre-warning of aircraft flight threat evolution Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for pre-warning of aircraft flight threat evolution. The method includes: inputting historical threat situation data to an evolution model that has been trained to convergence to output each evolution mode corresponding to the historical threat situation data and a probability corresponding to the evolution mode; obtaining evolution trend data corresponding to the historical threat situation data according to the evolution mode and the probability; assigning a detection task to other aircraft within a preset range of a target aircraft according to a crowdsourcing strategy, and acquiring current actual flight threat information detected by the other aircraft according to the detection task; sending pre-warning information to a pre-warning device if the flight threat meets a pre-warning condition.
US11790761B1	Geofencing with satellite systems A system may employ one or more satellite sensors to monitor an area; detect a body or thing that should not be present in an area; formulate a response, such as documentation, notifying authorities, or deploying unmanned aerial vehicles; and execute the response. Monitoring an area can be based on a request for surveillance at the area.
US11790759B2	Interpreting presence signals using historical data A method includes obtaining historical event data for events detected over a past period of time by sensors within a property, receiving a set of current event data for one or more events detected by one or more of the sensors within the property, determining that the set of current event data matches a pattern of events indicated by the historical event data, generating, based on the pattern of events, a confidence score for the set of current event data, wherein the confidence scores reflects a confidence that a person is not within the property, determining that the confidence score satisfies a confidence threshold associated with an action to be performed when a person is not within the property, and triggering execution of the action.
US11790758B2	Emergency response system using virtual working area Disclosed is a back-end system for emergency response, and a corresponding front-end system. The back-end system handles network communication to and/or from multiple information sources for gathering emergency response information from the information sources, including at least video data related to an emergency and/or security situation and additional emergency response information. The back-end system extracts subsets of information from the emergency response information at least partly based on input originating from one or more users and/or operators. The back-end system is configured to perform processing of the emergency response information to enable formation of a common overview of the emergency and/or security situation valid for different users/operators, while also enabling the emergency response information and/or extracted subsets thereof to be processed, compiled and/or filtered, and/or presented to a specific user and/or operator in a way that is customized for the specific user and/or operator of the emergency response system.
US11790755B2	Event visualization for asset condition monitoring In one aspect, a method includes receiving data characterizing an alarm event report associated with a first industrial machine generated by a first user via a first web-based graphical user interface (GUI). The first web-based GUI associated with an enterprise monitoring system of an industrial enterprise that includes the first industrial machine. The alarm event report includes at least a portion of an event dataset including information of an alarm event associated with the first industrial machine, and an identity of a second user assigned to work on the alarm event report by the first user. The method further includes providing the alarm event report to a second web-based graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the enterprise monitoring system. The method also includes receiving, via a first GUI of a first monitoring system, data characterizing additional information associated with the alarm event and/or edits to the event dataset.
US11790749B2	Systems and methods for forecasting and assessing hazard-resultant effects Hazard-resultant effects to land and buildings are predicted based on various inputs. Hazards may include any appropriate type of hazard (e.g., flood, wildfire, climate-related hazards, or the like). Inputs may include the likelihood that that a specific type of hazard may occur for various scenarios, terrestrial boundaries, property boundaries, census geographies, or the like. Relationships between the inputs are determined and used to quantify parameters pertaining to a specific type of hazard. For example, the depth of flood water may be predicted for a particular terrestrial boundary, a city or town, or a building, for specific climate scenarios. A risk likelihood of the quantified parameter may be determined for a particular period of time and environment. For example, flooding to a building may be determined, broken down by depth threshold and year of annual risk for specific climate scenarios. Economic loss also may be predicted.
US11790748B2	Device and method for assessing risk of lonely death using door open sensor, and LED system for assessing risk of lonely death The present invention relates to: a device and method for assessing the risk of lonely death using a door open sensor; and a LED system for assessing the risk of lonely death. More specifically, the device for assessing the risk of lonely death using a door open sensor, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a door open recognition unit which recognizes that a door has been opened; an outside activity time calculation unit which, when the door is recognized to have been opened, and activity of a human body is not detected from the time point when the door is recognized to have been opened to a predetermined time, determines an outside activity state and calculates an outside activity duration which is the time during which the outside activity state is maintained; an inside activity time calculation unit which, when activity of the human body is detected at a first time point, and activity of the human body is detected again at a second time point which includes an idle detection period after the first time point, determines an inside activity state and calculates an inside activity duration which is the time during which the inside activity state is maintained; and a risk assessment unit which assesses the risk of lonely death by generating a probability distribution model on the basis of the outside activity durations and inside activity durations calculated during a first period, and applying, to the probability distribution model, the outside activity duration and inside activity duration calculated after the first period.
US11790747B2	Building health analysis and management system A monitoring system for monitoring a status of a building comprising a first sensor configured to detect a first condition in the space and a second sensor configured to detect a second condition in the space is disclosed. The system may further comprise a memory for storing one or more rules each configured to identify one or more issues in the space based on the first and/or second conditions in the space and a communications module configured to communicate with a remote device over a network. A controller may be configured to apply the one or more rules to the first and second detected conditions in the space to identify the one or more issues and provide a notification to the remote device via the communications module.
US11790746B2	Smoke entry solution for multi wave multi angle safety device An optical chamber assembly of a life safety device includes a light ring for supporting at least one light device and an optical cover defining an interior chamber of the optical chamber assembly. The optical cover has a plurality of side members spaced from one another to define a plurality of smoke flow paths connected to the interior chamber. A light cover is disposed between the light ring and the optical cover and optically couples the at least one light device with the interior chamber. A primary smoke entry location is defined by at least one of the plurality of smoke flow paths in the optical cover and a secondary smoke entry location distinct from the primary smoke entry location is arranged in fluid communication with the interior chamber.
US11790744B1	Intrusion movement prediction According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for intrusion movement prediction is provided. The embodiment may include receiving environmental sensor data corresponding to a monitored space as captured by a plurality of sensors affixed to an airflow component. The embodiment may also include generating a three-dimensional model of the monitored space using the received environmental data. The method may further include, in response to determining a disturbance is present in the three-dimensional model, performing a security action.
US11790740B2	Vibration presentation apparatus Provided is a vibration presentation system that allows a user to perceive vibrations in bodily sensing the vibrations at various body sites without feeling unnatural. The vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by a tactile sense for media content includes a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively, wherein each of the vibration signals of the plurality of channels is for any of specific body sites, and the vibrations generated by the vibrating body are provided with a time difference such that, for the vibrations for the specic body sites to be perceived at the same time, a vibration for a body site of the specific body sites that is farther from the brain is earlier generated.
US11790735B2	Modular device mesh network for associated device integration Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for facilitating a secure way to allow primary users and secondary users to perform interactions remotely via an automated machine and one or more auxiliary devices on the same local network. In particular, the system may assign exclusive control over an automated device and one or more auxiliary devices to a primary user via a computing device connected to the same local network or virtual private network as the automated machine, and may allow the primary user to communicate via the automated machine with a secondary user who wishes to complete one or more resource interactions.
US11790734B2	Gaming devices and methods for enhancing gaming payouts based on matched game play predictions Systems, apparatuses and methods for increasing or otherwise enhancing gaming awards based on correctly predicted occurrences. In a poker context, a prediction of an occurrence may be made, such as predicting a characteristic of a poker card. The prediction is compared to a random selection among a plurality of available items, such as comparing the predicted characteristic of the poker card to a random selection among a plurality of poker card characteristics. Where the prediction is correct, the player may be awarded with enhanced payouts on current and/or future game plays, and in some embodiments concurrent correct predictions results in increasingly higher enhanced payouts.
US11790733B2	Method for replaying a bet and sharing A system for modifying video of a live sporting event to include details of a micro market wager. A wagering platform that offers wagers on micro markets inside of a sporting event can produce personalized content for each user around highlights of their wagering experience. The modified video can be shared with the user's contacts and the user can receive shared modified videos from their contacts.
US11790732B2	Game presentation including multiple linked awards A gaming machine and method, in which a multiple option trigger condition present in a game instance outcome results in a further determination of possible awarding of one or more prizes from multiple hierarchical tiers of prizes. Determinations as to awarding prizes from one or more of the hierarchical tiers can result automatically from the multiple option trigger condition; and different multiple option trigger conditions can be present in the outcome which can result in different methods of determining what prizes, if any, will be awarded from the multiple hierarchical tiers of prizes.
US11790730B2	Amusement devices and games involving progressive jackpots Various embodiments of a successive choice game including methods and apparatus are described. Further embodiments are disclosed.
US11790729B2	Modifying progressive award parameters Systems and methods that modify one or more parameters associated with a progressive award based on one or more parameters of a gaming device associated with the progressive award.
US11790728B2	Systems and methods for playing a wagering game in which symbols are populated from one or more reels to a bingo card An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
US11790726B2	Gaming systems with configurable jackpot award strategies A gaming machine includes an input device and a processor coupled to the input device. The input device is configured to receive a game play event from a player. The processor is programmed to determine whether a jackpot trigger condition is satisfied based at least in part on the game play event. The jackpot trigger condition includes a target quantity of games played, a target set of game tokens, a target pattern of game symbols, and/or a target pattern of game play outcomes. The processor is further programmed to award a jackpot credit to one or more players when the jackpot trigger condition is satisfied.
US11790723B2	Electronic gaming machine with dynamic display Gaming systems, methods, and machines provided herein may include dynamic displays in which one or more first display panels are arranged around an opening to provide a display frame, and a plurality of second display panels, each part of a different movable display unit, are arranged within the opening. A plurality of linear drive mechanisms may be configured to cause the movable display units to translate inward and outward relative to the display frame.
US11790719B2	Tamper resistant public ledger voting system There is disclosed an electronic voting system for tamper resistant voting. In some embodiments of a system and/or method for allows a voter to verify that his vote was recorded properly and/or allows public counting of votes by any entity. For example, the system may record information on a distributed ledger that prevents changing of votes. For example, enough data may be available to each voter to check that his vote was recorded properly and/or to substantiate and/or prove if it was not recorded properly. For example, public data may be recorded anonymously such that a third party may be able to access the number of votes, but not the identify of individual voters. Optionally, the individual voter may be supplied a way to substantiate a claim that he voted for either party of the election.
US11790712B1	Prescription drug dispensing device A prescription drug dispensing device for controlled dosing of capsules, pills, and tablets includes an access control, dispensing, and communication module, which is integral to a container. The container comprises a body, for holding a prescription drug for a user, and a lid to secure the prescription drug in the container. The access control, dispensing, and communication module is programmable with a biometric characteristic of the user and a dosing regimen. The access control, dispensing, and communication module dispenses a dose of the prescription drug, according to the dosing regimen, and sends dosing data to one or both of a smartphone of a user and an electronic device of a prescriber or a pharmacist. A tamper sensor detects an unauthorized attempt to open the container and sends a tampering signal to a dispenser, which dispenses a chemical solution onto the prescription drug to render the prescription drug inactive.
US11790707B2	System and method of using data on a recreational vehicle component A method of assembling a recreational vehicle includes providing a structural panel for installation in the recreational vehicle, which has a surface and a readable image in or internal to the structural panel, with the readable image being located at or near a location on the surface of the structural panel for installing a component at the location. The readable image has to-be-installed component information about the component to be installed at the location and is readable at the surface of the structural panel. The method further includes reading the readable image to determine the to-be-installed component information about the component that is to be installed at the location on the surface of the structural panel.
US11790706B2	Methods and systems for calibrating vehicle sensors A calibration system calibrates one or more vehicle sensors. The calibration system includes a measuring tool coupleable to a vehicle including the vehicle sensors. The measuring tool generates measurement data associated with a first set of measurements between the measuring tool and a target spaced from the vehicle. The calibration system further includes a line-end tester that compares the measurement data with configuration data associated with a second set of measurements between the measuring tool and the vehicle sensors, and determines one or more aiming parameters associated with the vehicle sensors based on the comparison.
US11790700B2	Relearning necessity determination method and relearning necessity determination device of diagnostic model in machine tool, and computer readable medium A relearning necessity determination method is provided for determining a necessity of relearning of a learned diagnostic model in a machine tool including a machining abnormality diagnosing unit. The machining abnormality diagnosing unit determines normal or abnormality of machining using the diagnostic model generated through machine learning. The method includes storing a cumulative cutting time or a cumulative cutting distance of a tool mounted to the machine tool as a tool usage, storing the tool usage when the machining abnormality diagnosing unit diagnoses the machining as machining abnormality, and determining the necessity of the relearning of the diagnostic model based on a frequency distribution of the tool usage stored in the storing of the tool usage.
US11790694B1	Video player for secured video stream A secure media hosting system stores a protected portion of an audio-video (AV) recording, a private key associated with the AV recording, and a mask identifier. A media player device is communicatively coupled to the secure media hosting system. The media player device receives a media stream that includes a first portion of an AV recording, a public key corresponding to the AV recording, and the mask identifier. The public key and mask identifier are extracted from the media stream. A request for the protected portion of the AV recording is provided. The request includes the extracted public key and mask identifier. After providing the request for the protected portion of the AV recording, the protected portion of the AV recording is received. The first portion and protected portion of the AV recording are combined. The combined first and protected portions of the AV recording are displayed.
US11790691B2	Fingerprint identification sensor, display substrate, display device and fingerprint identification method A fingerprint identification sensor includes a base, and at least one light sensing unit disposed on the base. The at least one light sensing unit is configured to collect at least two different monochromatic lights of light reflected by a finger to identify a fingerprint.
US11790687B2	Display device and mobile terminal including same A display device and a mobile terminal including the same includes a display area in which a first group of display pixels to which pixel data is written are arranged, and a sensing area in which a second group of display pixels and a plurality of sensor pixels are arranged; each of the display pixels includes a pixel circuit configured to drive a light emitting element; each of the sensor pixels includes a photosensor driving circuit configured to drive a photodiode; a low potential power voltage and a pixel driving voltage are applied to the pixel circuit and the photosensor driving circuit; a cathode electrode of the light emitting element and the cathode electrode of the photodiode share the same metal electrode, and are commonly connected to a low potential power line to which the low potential power voltage is applied.
US11790685B2	Fingerprint identification structure and display device The present disclosure provides a fingerprint identification structure and a display device. The fingerprint identification structure includes an acoustic wave emitter, a focus acoustic lens, and a sound wave receiver. The acoustic lens are between the acoustic wave emitter and the sound wave receiver, the acoustic wave emitter is at a focal position of the acoustic lens and configured to emit acoustic wave toward the acoustic lens, the acoustic wave receiver is configured to detect the intensity distribution of the acoustic wave emitted by the acoustic wave emitter after the acoustic wave sequentially passes through the acoustic lens and the acoustic wave receiver, reaches the surface of the finger and is reflected back by the surface of the finger. The fingerprint recognition structure improves design flexibility.
US11790683B2	Gesture based authentication for autonomous vehicles A gesture based authentication system for an autonomous vehicle (AV) uses light detecting and ranging (lidar) to observe a user making a specific gesture and, in response to observing the gesture, authorizes the user to access the vehicle. The authentication system may first identify a human in the vicinity of the AV, and then compare a body position of the identified human to a model trained to determine if a human is performing the specific gesture. If the model determines that the identified human is performing the gesture, the AV authorizes the user to access the vehicle, e.g., to accept a delivery or to ride in the AV.
US11790682B2	Image analysis using neural networks for pose and action identification An apparatus for performing image analysis to identify human actions represented in an image, comprising: a joint-determination module configured to analyse an image depicting one or more people using a first computational neural network to determine a set of joint candidates for the one or more people depicted in the image; a pose-estimation module configured to derive pose estimates from the set of joint candidates that estimate a body configuration for the one or more people depicted in the image; and an action-identification module configured to analyse a region of interest within the image identified from the derived pose estimates using a second computational neural network to identify an action performed by a person depicted in the image.
US11790680B1	System and method for automated selection of best description from descriptions extracted from a plurality of data sources using numeric comparison and textual centrality measure Techniques are described for collecting descriptions of an entity from different data sources and using a numeric comparison and textual centrality measure to automatically select a best description. In one implementation, a method includes: retrieving a real property description dataset, the real property description dataset including descriptions from multiple data sources that describe the real property; extracting, from each of the descriptions, numbers that identify the property; performing a numerical comparison of the numbers extracted from each of the descriptions to determine if any descriptions needs to be discarded from further consideration; applying a text cleaning process to normalize the descriptions; and performing a textual centrality measure of remaining descriptions to determine a level agreement of each of the remaining descriptions with each of the other remaining descriptions; and using at least the textual centrality measure to select a description. The selected description may be used to populate a document.
US11790676B2	Artificial intelligence assisted warranty verification A system for performing remote artificial intelligence-assisted electronic warranty verification including at least one processor configured to transmit an instruction to capture at least one product image of a specific product, receive and perform product image analysis on the product image to identify at least one product-distinguishing characteristic, transmit an instruction to capture an image of a purchase receipt, receive and perform receipt image analysis on the purchase receipt image to identify product purchase information, access a universal data structure containing data on products offered by suppliers, use the at least one product-distinguishing characteristic and product purchase information to identify in the universal data structure the specific product, identify in the universal data structure a link to a warranty data structure of the supplier, access the link to lookup the specific product and receive a warranty coverage indication from the supplier data structure, and transmit an indication of warranty coverage.
US11790672B2	Image processing method, microscope, image processing system, and medium based on artificial intelligence Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image processing method based on artificial intelligence (AI) and an image processing system. The method includes: obtaining a feature recognition result of an image by performing image processing on the image to recognize a feature of the image and the image being obtained by performing image acquisition on a section of a patient using a digital slide scanner to generate a whole slide image (WSI) as the image; determining an imaging area of the section within a field of view of an eyepiece of a microscope with which real-time imaging is performed on the section; determining, within the image, an image area corresponding to the imaging area of the section and acquiring, from the feature recognition result of the image, a target feature recognition result of the image area; and superimposing the target feature recognition result on the imaging area of the section.
US11790671B2	Vision based light detection and ranging system using multi-fields of view A vision based light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system captures images including a targeted object and identifies the targeted object using an object recognition model. To identify the targeted object, the vision based LIDAR system determines a type of object and pixel locations or a boundary box associated with the targeted object. Based on the identification, the vision based LIDAR system directs a tracking beam onto one or more spots on the targeted object and detects distances to the one or more spots. The vision based LIDAR system updates the identification of the targeted object based on the one or more determined distances.
US11790664B2	Estimating object properties using visual image data A system is comprised of one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive image data based on an image captured using a camera of a vehicle and to utilize the image data as a basis of an input to a trained machine learning model to at least in part identify a distance of an object from the vehicle. The trained machine learning model has been trained using a training image and a correlated output of an emitting distance sensor.
US11790663B2	Fast detection of secondary objects that may intersect the trajectory of a moving primary object A system (1) for detecting dynamic secondary objects (55) that have a potential to intersect the trajectory (51) of a moving primary object (50), comprising a vision sensor (2) with a light-sensitive area (20) that comprises event-based pixels (21), so that a relative change in the light intensity impinging onto an event-based pixel (21) of the vision sensor (2) by at least a predetermined percentage causes the vision sensor (2) to emit an event (21a) associated with this event-based pixel (21), wherein the system (1) further comprises a discriminator module (3) that gets both the stream of events (21a) from the vision sensor (2) and information (52) about the heading and/or speed of the motion of the primary object (50) as inputs, and is configured to identify, from said stream of events (21a), based at least in part on said information (52), events (21b) that are likely to be caused by the motion of a secondary object (55), rather than by the motion of the primary object (50).Vision sensors (2) for use in the system (1).A corresponding computer program.
US11790662B2	Method and device for determining a motion state of at least one object in the surroundings of a vehicle, and method and device for activating a vehicle system of a vehicle A method for determining a motion state of an object in the surroundings of a vehicle. The vehicle includes at least one vehicle camera for providing image data that represent the surroundings. Movability measures and pieces of quality information that are generated by processing the image data, are read in. The movability measures include generated continuous measured values for detecting moving object pixels, using correspondences, recognized using a correspondence algorithm, between pixels in successive images represented by the image data. Pixel-specific pieces of quality information are generated using the read-in pieces of quality information. The pixel-specific pieces of quality information indicate for each pixel the quality of the correspondences. A dynamic object probability is determined for each pixel, using the movability measures and the pixel-specific pieces of quality information. The dynamic object probability indicates for each pixel the probability of belonging to a moving object or to a static object.
US11790656B2	Machine vision system and method with steerable mirror A computer-implemented method for scanning a side of an object to identify a region of interest is provided. The method can include determining, using one or more computing devices, a distance between a side of an object and an imaging device, determining, using the one or more computing devices, a scanning pattern for an imaging device that includes a controllable mirror, based on the distance between the side of the object and the imaging device, moving a controllable mirror according to the scanning pattern to acquire, using the one or more computing device and the imaging device, a plurality of images of the side of the object, and identifying, using the one or more computing devices, the region of interest based on the plurality of images.
US11790654B2	Derived competition Video feeds may be analyzed to identify matchups between participants. The matchups may be used to derive a competition, context, statistics, and the like. A result of the derived competition may depend, at least in part, on an ordering and outcomes of a set of matchup events. The derived competition may be presented as a collection of video clips corresponding to the set of matchup events, related commentary, and/or related statistics.
US11790646B2	Network for interacted object localization A method for human-object interaction detection includes receiving an image. A set of features are extracted from multiple positions of the image. One or more human-object pairs may be predicted based on the extracted set of features. A human-object interaction may be determined based on a set of candidate interactions and the predicted human-object pairs.
US11790645B2	Diagnosis assistance system and control method thereof The present invention relates to a diagnosis assistance system for assisting diagnosis for a plurality of diseases based on a fundus image, the diagnosis assistance system including: a fundus image obtaining unit configured to obtain a fundus image; a first processing unit configured to, for the fundus image, obtain a first result related to a first finding of a patient using a first neural network model, a second processing unit configured to, for the fundus image, obtain a second result related to a second finding of the patient using a second neural network model, a third processing unit configured to determine, on the basis of the first result and the second result, diagnostic information on the patient, and a diagnostic information output unit configured to provide the determined diagnostic information to a user.
US11790644B2	Techniques for dense video descriptions Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11790643B2	Deep learning for tooth detection and evaluation A method includes receiving an image of a face of a patient, the image including a depiction of teeth; processing the image of the face using one or more trained machine learning model, wherein the one or more trained machine learning model outputs a pixel-level classification of pixels in the image, the pixel level classification comprising a first set of pixels classified as being inside of a bounding shape that bounds a first plurality of teeth depicted in the image and a second set of pixels classified as being outside of the first bounding shape; cropping the image of the face of the patient, wherein the cropped image comprises depictions of the first plurality of teeth; and performing one or more operations on the cropped image of the face of the patient.
US11790637B2	Method for estimating blood component quantities in surgical textiles Systems and methods for detecting, counting and analyzing the blood content of a surgical textile are provided, utilizing an infrared or depth camera in conjunction with a color image.
US11790636B1	System and method for detection of gas in the atmosphere from a multispectral image A system and method for detection of gas in the atmosphere front a multispectral image including a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a spectral signature including a set of intensities of electromagnetic (EM) energy reflected at various bands, the method including: clustering the plurality of pixels based on channels of the spectral signatures that are indicative of presence of the gas, to produce a first set of clusters; clustering the plurality of pixels based on channels of the spectral signatures that are non-indicative of presence of the gas, to produce a second set of clusters; matching clusters from the first set of clusters and the second set of clusters; and labeling clusters that are present in the first set of clusters and not present in the second set of clusters as suspected as including the gas.
US11790635B2	Learning device, search device, learning method, search method, learning program, and search program A retrieval apparatus includes a first retrieval unit, a second retrieval unit, and an integration unit that calculates an integrated similarity by integrating a first similarity calculated by the first retrieval unit and a second similarity calculated by the second retrieval unit. For similarities between a basic image, an image similar to the basic image, and an image dissimilar to the basic image of the reference images, at least the feature extraction of the first retrieval unit is learned such that a margin based on a second similarity between the basic image and the similar image and a second similarity between the basic image and the dissimilar image increases as the second similarity between the basic image and the dissimilar image increases relative to the second similarity between the basic image and the similar image.
US11790634B2	Image signal processing system, method, and program A first tone curve referred to in generating an image recognition processing signal as an image output signal for image recognition processing and a second tone curve referred to in generating a visual recognition signal as an image output signal for visual recognition are separately generated. The second tone curve for visual recognition is generated by connecting a dark control point, which is a control point specified in a luminance-pixel value coordinate system corresponding to the lowest luminance portion in a luminance histogram, a light control point, which is a control point specified in the luminance-pixel value coordinate system corresponding to the highest luminance portion in the luminance histogram, and an intermediate control point, which is a control point specified in the luminance-pixel value coordinate system corresponding to an intermediate luminance portion in the luminance histogram.
US11790633B2	Image processing using coupled segmentation and edge learning The disclosure provides a learning framework that unifies both semantic segmentation and semantic edge detection. A learnable recurrent message passing layer is disclosed where semantic edges are considered as explicitly learned gating signals to refine segmentation and improve dense prediction quality by finding compact structures for message paths. The disclosure includes a method for coupled segmentation and edge learning. In one example, the method includes: (1) receiving an input image, (2) generating, from the input image, a semantic feature map, an affinity map, and a semantic edge map from a single backbone network of a convolutional neural network (CNN), and (3) producing a refined semantic feature map by smoothing pixels of the semantic feature map using spatial propagation, and controlling the smoothing using both affinity values from the affinity map and edge values from the semantic edge map.
US11790632B2	Method and apparatus for sample labeling, and method and apparatus for identifying damage classification An embodiment provides a system and method for sample labeling. During operation, the system obtains a plurality of historical loss assessment images and obtains a plurality of candidate samples from the plurality of loss assessment images. A respective candidate sample comprises an image of a candidate damage area detected in a corresponding historical loss assessment image. The system clusters the plurality of candidate samples into a plurality of class clusters. For a respective class cluster, the system determines a center candidate sample set corresponding to a class cluster center of the respective class cluster, receives a manual labeling result associated with candidate samples in the determined center candidate sample set, and performs, according to the manual labeling result, damage classification labeling on other unlabeled candidate samples in the respective class cluster to obtain a plurality of labeled samples.
US11790631B2	Joint training of neural networks using multi-scale hard example mining An example apparatus for mining multi-scale hard examples includes a convolutional neural network to receive a mini-batch of sample candidates and generate basic feature maps. The apparatus also includes a feature extractor and combiner to generate concatenated feature maps based on the basic feature maps and extract the concatenated feature maps for each of a plurality of received candidate boxes. The apparatus further includes a sample scorer and miner to score the candidate samples with multi-task loss scores and select candidate samples with multi-task loss scores exceeding a threshold score.
US11790628B2	Apparatus and method for generating map An apparatus for generating a map identifies a lane line and a feature other than a lane line on a road from a first image of a predetermined location of the road taken downward from the sky; identifies the lane line and the feature from a second image representing the predetermined location of the road and made based on images taken by a camera provided for a vehicle; aligning the first images with the second images, based on the predetermined location; deforms the second image so that the feature in the second image best fits the feature in the first image; further deforms the second image in a direction perpendicular to the front-back direction of the road so that the position of the feature remains unchanged and that the positions of the lane lines in the first and second images match; and combines the first and deformed second images.
US11790626B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing bitting code of key, and storage medium and image collection device Disclosed is a method for recognizing a bitting code of a key. The method comprises: using a back light source and/or a lateral light source to collect an image of a key to be recognized; and recognizing, on the basis of the image, a bitting code of the key to be recognized. Further disclosed are an apparatus for recognizing a bitting code of a key, and a storage medium and an image collection device. The present disclosure can improve the efficiency of recognizing a bitting code of a key and reduce the wear of the key during a recognition process.
US11790625B2	Messaging system with augmented reality messages A method of generating an augmented reality lens comprises: causing to display a list of lens categories on a display screen of a client device; receiving a user choice from the displayed list; causing to prepopulate a lens features display on the display device based on the user choice, wherein each lens feature comprises image transformation data configured to modify or overlay video or image data; receiving a user selection of a lens feature from the prepopulated lens display; receiving a trigger selection that activates the lens feature to complete the lens; and saving the completed lens to a memory of a computer device.
US11790621B2	Procedurally generating augmented reality content generators The subject technology identifies a set of graphical elements in an augmented reality (AR) facial pattern. The subject technology determines at least one primitive shape based on the set of graphical elements. The subject technology generates a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file using at least one primitive shape. The subject technology generates internal facial makeup format (IFM) data using the JSON file. The subject technology publishes the IFM data to a product catalog service.
US11790620B2	Method and system for augmented reality Wi-Fi coverage map A method, device, and computer program product for determining quality of a wireless network, includes: connecting, by a mobile device, to one or more access points of the wireless network in a physical environment; capturing, via a camera of the mobile device, a live rendering of the physical environment; generating, by the mobile device, a rendering of the physical environment; detecting, via the mobile device, a signal quality of the connection to each of the one or more access points; storing, in memory of the mobile device, each current position and a plurality of previous positions of the mobile device in the physical environment in association with the detected signal quality; and generating, in a processor of the mobile device, a virtual path graphic by linking the current positions and the plurality of previous positions of the mobile device in the physical environment.
US11790619B2	Cross reality system with accurate shared maps A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously persisted maps of very large scale environments and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. The cross reality system may build a persisted map, which may be in canonical form, by merging tracking maps from the multiple devices. A map merge process determines mergibility of a tracking map with a canonical map and merges a tracking map with a canonical map in accordance with mergibility criteria, such as, when a gravity direction of the tracking map aligns with a gravity direction of the canonical map. Refraining from merging maps if the orientation of the tracking map with respect to gravity is not preserved avoids distortions in persisted maps and results in multiple devices, which may use the maps to determine their locations, to present more realistic and immersive experiences for their users.
US11790617B2	Content presentation in head worn computing Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and devices for receiving and presenting content. In an example method, content is received, the content to be delivered to a plurality of recipients. Each recipient of the plurality of recipients has a preference for a respective first physical location at which the content is to be presented on a display of a wearable head device associated with the recipient. A sender of the content has a preference for a second physical location at which the content is to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients. A respective final physical location for the presentation of the content for the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients is identified. The respective final physical location is based on the respective recipient's preference and the sender's preference. It is determined whether the respective recipient is proximate to a zone associated with the respective final physical location. In accordance with a determination that the respective recipient is proximate to the zone, an alert is generated on the wearable head device, the alert associated with the respective final physical location. It is determined whether the respective recipient is in the zone associated with the respective final physical location. In accordance with a determination that the respective recipient is in the zone, the content is caused to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients.
US11790615B2	Marking objects for a vehicle using a virtual element Technologies and techniques for representing at least one virtual element in a display area of at least one display device of a vehicle. The display area of a display device is used as efficiently as possible, so that the driver of the vehicle is afforded a clear representation of the information needed and the driver is not unnecessarily diverted, it is provided that virtual elements of at least one first vehicle are marked and represented in the display area of the display device.
US11790614B2	Inferring intent from pose and speech input Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for performing operations comprising receiving an image that depicts a person, identifying a set of skeletal joints of the person and identifying a pose of the person depicted in the image based on positioning of the set of skeletal joints. The operations also include receiving speech input comprising a request to perform an AR operation and an ambiguous intent, discerning the ambiguous intent of the speech input based on the pose of the person depicted in the image and in response to receiving the speech input, performing the AR operation based on discerning the ambiguous intent of the speech input based on the pose of the person depicted in the image.
US11790612B2	Information display method and device, terminal, and storage medium An information display method, including: obtaining target information and an actual image when an information display signal is received, the actual image being an image obtained by photographing a real environment by using a camera; generating an augmented reality (AR) image according to the target information and the actual image; and displaying the AR image in a user interface, an AR element in the AR image being used for displaying the target information. In this application, an AR image is generated according to the obtained target information and actual image, and the AR image is displayed on a user interface, where the AR image includes an AR element configured to display the target information.
US11790609B2	Reducing level of detail of a polygon mesh to decrease a complexity of rendered geometry within a scene A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for overlaying a cell onto a polygon meshlet. The polygon meshlet may include a grouping of multiple geometric shapes such as triangles, and the cell may include a square-shaped boundary. Additionally, every polygon (e.g., a triangle or other geometric shape) within the polygon meshlet that has at least one edge fully inside the cell is removed to create an intermediate meshlet. A selected vertex is determined from all vertices (e.g., line intersections) of the intermediate meshlet that are located within the cell, based on one or more criteria, and all the vertices of the intermediate meshlet that are located within the cell are replaced with the selected vertex to create a modified meshlet. The modified meshlet is then rendered (e.g., as part of a process to generate a scene to be viewed).
US11790602B2	Information processing device and method The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of curbing coding efficiency reduction. On the basis of position information indicating positions of points of a point cloud in units of first regions, for each second region composed of a plurality of first regions, a neighboring pattern of each first region including the points is specified by identifying whether or not each neighboring region adjacent to a processing target region includes the points or is positioned outside the second region including the processing target region, a context is selected according to the specified neighboring pattern, and the position information is coded using the selected context. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, a coding device, a decoding device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like.
US11790593B2	Ray-tracing multi-sample anti-aliasing A technique for performing a ray tracing operation for a ray is provided. The method includes performing one or more ray-box intersection tests for the ray against one or more bounding boxes of a bounding volume hierarchy to eliminate one or more nodes of the bounding volume hierarchy from consideration, for one or more triangles of the bounding volume hierarchy that are not eliminated by the one or more ray-box intersection tests, performing one or more ray-triangle intersection tests utilizing samples displaced from a centroid position of the ray, and invoking one or more shaders of a ray tracing pipeline for the samples based on results of the ray-triangle intersection tests.
US11790591B2	Graphics processor health predictions In an example, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a computing device to receive device telemetry data associated with an electronic device. The device telemetry data may include data that affects a performance of a graphics processor of the electronic device. Further, instructions may be executed by the processor to predict health of the graphics processor by applying a machine learning model to the device telemetry data. Furthermore, instructions may be executed by the processor to generate an alert notification based on the predicted health of the graphics processor.
US11790588B2	Display control device, display control method, and display system A terminal is a display control device for displaying a virtual space including an avatar that is operated by a user wearing a head-mounted display, the terminal being provided with: an avatar control unit which generates control data of the avatar corresponding to the movement of the user; a computation unit which, when the avatar and an object have collided with each other, computes physical behaviors of the avatar and the object that correspond to the collision; a VR space management unit which applies the result of the computation made by the computation unit to the virtual space; and a rendering unit which renders, as an image to be supplied to the head-mounted display, the avatar the behavior of which corresponding to the collision is kept within a predetermined range.
US11790587B2	Animation processing method and apparatus, computer storage medium, and electronic device An animation processing method is performed by an electronic device. The method including: obtaining a terrain feature in a graphical user interface at a current moment, the graphical user interface including a virtual character, and obtaining state information and task information that correspond to the virtual character in an animation segment at the current moment; performing feature extraction on the terrain feature, the state information, and the task information using an animation processing model, to obtain joint action information corresponding to the virtual character at a next moment; determining a joint torque according to the joint action information; and obtaining gesture adjustment information corresponding to the virtual character from the current moment to the next moment based on the joint torque, and updating the animation segment according to the gesture adjustment information to render the updated animated segment in the graphical user interface.
US11790586B2	Generating physio-realistic avatars for training non-contact models to recover physiological characteristics Systems and methods are provided that are directed to generating video sequences including physio-realistic avatars. In examples, an albedo for an avatar is received, a sub-surface skin color associated with the albedo is modified based on physiological data associated with physiologic characteristic, and an avatar based on the albedo and the modified sub-surface skin color is rendered. The rendered avatar may then be synthesized in a frame of video. In some examples, a video including the synthesized avatar may be used to train a machine learning model to detect a physiological characteristic. The machine learning model may receive a plurality of video segments, where one or more of the video segments includes a synthetic physio-realistic avatar generated with the physiological characteristic. The machine learning model may be trained using the plurality of video segments. The trained model may be provided to a requesting entity.
US11790585B2	State-space system for pseudorandom animation Methods, devices, media, and other embodiments are described for a state-space system for pseudorandom animation. In one embodiment animation elements within a computer model are identified, and for each animation element motion patterns and speed harmonics are identified. A set of motion data values comprising a state-space description of the motion patterns and the speed harmonics are generated, and a probability assigned to each value of the set of motion data values for the state-space description. The probability can then be used to select and update a particular motion used in an animation generated from the computer model.
US11790584B2	Image and text typesetting method and related apparatus thereof A method includes determining a first importance measurement value of a pixel in an image, obtaining at least one text box area stacked on the image, obtaining, based on first importance measurement value of a pixel in a background image corresponding to each text box area a second importance measurement value of a background image corresponding to each text box area, obtaining an importance measurement value gravity center or an importance measurement value mass center of the image based on the first importance measurement value, determining, based on a preset principle and a location relationship between the importance measurement value gravity center and a central area of the image or a location relationship between the importance measurement value mass center and a central area of the image, information about a balance degree value of each text box area relative to the image, and selecting, from the at least one text box area, one text box area to typeset a word.
US11790578B2	System and method for computed tomography The present disclosure provides a system and method for CT image reconstruction. The method may include combining an analytic image reconstruction technique with an iterative reconstruction algorithm of CT images. The image reconstruction may be performed on or near a region of interest.
US11790577B2	Image reconstruction method for collimator and detector based medical imaging systems A method includes providing a target object and acquiring measured images of the target object. Each of the measured images is acquired by filtering radiation from the target object by a mask having multiple holes and detecting filtered radiation by a detector. The method further includes providing an estimated image of the target object and calculating an updating factor for each of the measured images. The calculating of the updating factor includes partitioning a mathematical representation of the mask into multiple first regions; for each of the first regions, deriving a separate forward projection from the estimated image of the target object and the respective first region; and comparing the respective measured image of the target object with the forward projections. The method further includes updating the estimated image of the target object based on the updating factors.
US11790576B2	Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method A medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method capable of improving structural component detectability with respect to a noise component in a medical image. The medical image processing apparatus includes: a separation unit that separates the medical image into a first component including a structural component as a main component and a second component including a noise component as a main component; a modulation unit that modulates the second component with a spatial frequency; and a correction unit that generates a corrected image based on the first component and the modulated second component.
US11790570B2	Spatially-aware tool system The systems described in this disclosure can be used in construction settings to facilitate the tasks being performed. The location of projectors and augmented reality headsets can be calculated and used to determine what images to display to a worker, based on a map of work to be performed, such as a construction plan. Workers can use spatially-aware tools to make different locations be plumb, level, or equidistant with other locations. Power to tools can be disabled if they are near protected objects.
US11790569B2	Inserting imagery from a real environment into a virtual environment The present disclosure relates to techniques for inserting imagery from a real environment into a virtual environment. While presenting (e.g., displaying) the virtual environment at an electronic device, a proximity of the electronic device to a physical object located in a real environment is detected. In response to detecting that the proximity of the electronic device to the physical object is less than a first threshold distance, imagery of the physical object is isolated from other imagery of the real environment. The isolated imagery of the physical object is inserted into the virtual environment at a location corresponding to the location of the physical object in the real environment. The imagery of the physical object has a first visibility value associated with the proximity of the electronic device to the physical object.
US11790567B2	Information processing apparatus and method The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method that are capable of suppressing a decrease in encoding efficiency. When point cloud data is to be Octree-encoded, a point distribution of child nodes of a current node is updated in accordance with a peripheral point distribution around the current node, and then a sequence of signals is generated by performing Octree encoding with the updated point distribution. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to information processing apparatuses, image processing apparatuses, electronic equipment, information processing methods, or programs.
US11790566B2	Method and apparatus for feature substitution for end-to-end image compression A method of feature substitution for end-to-end image compression, is performed by at least one processor and includes encoding an input image, using a first neural network, to generate an encoded representation, and quantizing the generated encoded representation, using a second neural network, to generate a compressed representation. The first neural network and the second neural network are trained by determining a rate loss, based on a bitrate of the generated compressed representation, and updating the generated encoded representation, based on the determined rate loss.
US11790564B2	Encoders for improved image dithering Example embodiments allow for training of encoders (e.g., artificial neural networks (ANNs)) to facilitate dithering of images that have been subject to quantization in order to reduce the number of colors and/or size of the images. Such a trained encoder generates a dithering image from an input quantized image that can be combined, by addition or by some other process, with the quantized image to result in a dithered output image that exhibits reduced banding or is otherwise aesthetically improved relative to the un-dithered quantized image. The use of a trained encoder to facilitate dithering of quantized images allows the dithering to be performed in a known period of time using a known amount of memory, in contrast to alternative iterative dithering methods. Additionally, the trained encoder can be differentiable, allowing it to be part of a deep learning image processing pipeline or other machine learning pipeline.
US11790563B2	Point cloud model reconstruction method, encoder, and decoder A point cloud model reconstruction method, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The method includes the following. An i-th segmentation position of an i-th three-dimensional slice on a longest edge in a point cloud space is obtained, where 1≤i≤n−1 and n is a total number of three-dimensional slices to-be-processed. An i-th cube block set nearest to the i-th segmentation position in the i-th three-dimensional slice is determined based on the i-th segmentation position and a preset cube block length. An i-th vertex position with a cube block in the i-th cube block set is determined along the longest edge, where the i-th vertex position represents a position of a vertex on an edge which is away from a start position of the cube block by the preset cube block length. A point cloud model is reconstructed based on the i-th vertex position.
US11790562B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding three-dimensional scenes in and from a data stream Methods and devices are provided to encode and decode a data stream carrying data representative of a three-dimensional scene, the data stream comprising color pictures packed in a color image; depth pictures packed in a depth image; and a set of patch data items comprising de-projection data; data for retrieving a color picture in the color image and geometry data. Two types of geometry data are possible. The first type of data describes how to retrieve a depth picture in the depth image. The second type of data comprises an identifier of a parametric function and a list of parameter values for the identified parametric function.
US11790561B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating predicted position information using position information on three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional reference data associated with a time different from a time associated with current three-dimensional data; and encoding position information on three-dimensional points included in the current three-dimensional data, using the predicted position information.
US11790559B2	Data compression for multidimensional time series data Described herein are computer-implemented methods for compressing sparse multidimensional ordered series data. In particular, these methods and apparatuses for performing them (including software) may be particularly well suited to efficiently compressing spectrographic data.
US11790557B2	Calibrating system for colorizing point-clouds A system includes a three-dimensional (3D) scanner that captures a 3D point cloud corresponding to one or more objects in a surrounding environment. The system further includes a camera that captures a control image by capturing a plurality of images of the surrounding environment, and an auxiliary camera configured to capture an ultrawide-angle image of the surrounding environment. One or more processors of the system colorize the 3D point cloud using the ultrawide-angle image by mapping the ultrawide-angle image to the 3D point cloud. The system performs a limited system calibration before colorizing each 3D point cloud, and a periodic full system calibration before/after a plurality of 3D point clouds are colorized.
US11790556B2	Determining optical center in an image Optical center is determined on a column-by-column and row-by-row basis by identifying brightest pixels in respective columns and rows. The brightest pixels in each column are identified and a line is fit to those pixels. Similarly, brightest pixels in each row are identified and a second line is fit to those pixels. The intersection of the two lines is the optical center.
US11790555B2	System and method for fusion recognition using active stick filter Provided is a system and method for fusion recognition using an active stick filter. The system for fusion recognition using the active stick filter includes a data input unit configured to receive input information for calibration between an image and a heterogeneous sensor, a matrix calculation unit configured to calculate a correlation for projection of information of the heterogeneous sensor, a projection unit configured to project the information of the heterogeneous sensor onto an image domain using the correlation, and a two-dimensional (2D) heterogeneous sensor fusion unit configured to perform stick calibration modeling and design and apply a stick calibration filter.
US11790554B2	Systems and methods for augmented reality Systems and methods for reducing error from noisy data received from a high frequency sensor by fusing received input with data received from a low frequency sensor by collecting a first set of dynamic inputs from the high frequency sensor, collecting a correction input point from the low frequency sensor, and adjusting a propagation path of a second set of dynamic inputs from the high frequency sensor based on the correction input point either by full translation to the correction input point or dampened approach towards the correction input point.
US11790544B1	Depth motion determination via time-of-flight camera A time-of-flight camera includes a light emitter, a photo detector, and a controller. The time-of-flight camera may determine depth motion of an object by emitting light pulses, receiving reflected light pulses from the object, and accumulating a plurality of charges based on the reflected light pulses. The depth motion may be determined by the controller through analysis of the accumulated charges.
US11790540B2	Object tracking and redaction Disclosed are systems and methods to detect and track an object across frames of a video. One of the disclosed methods includes: detecting a first group of one or more objects, using a first neural network, in each frame of the video, wherein each detected head of the first group comprises a leading and a trailing edge; grouping the leading and trailing edges of the one or more objects into groups of leading edges and groups of trailing edges based at least on coordinates of the leading and trailing edges; generating a list of no-edge-detect frames by identifying frames of the video missing a group of leading edges or a group of trailing edges; analyzing the no-edge-detect frames in the list of no-edge-detect frames, using an optical image classification engine, to detect a second group of one or more objects in the no-edge-detect frames; and merging the first and second groups of one or more objects to form a merged list of detected objects in the video.
US11790537B2	Tracking device, endoscope system, and tracking method A tracking device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: set a start frame and an end frame in a video including multiple frames; perform forward tracking in frames subsequent to the start frame based on a region of a tracking target in the start frame; perform backward tracking in frames previous to the end frame based on a region of the tracking target in the end frame; and generate a combined mask image by combining a forward mask image based on the forward tracking with a backward mask image based on the backward tracking.
US11790536B1	Swing analysis system A swing analysis system is disclosed herein. The swing analysis system includes a motion capture system comprising at least one motion capture device configured to detect motion of one or more body segments of a user and generate first output data, and further configured to detect the motion of a head and/or face of the user, a hand and/or fingers of the user, and/or an object being manipulated by the user, and generate second output data; and at least one data processing device operatively coupled to the motion capture system, the at least one data processing device configured to determine one or more swing performance parameters for the user using first positional information of the one or more body segments of the user, and/or second positional information for the head and/or face of the user, the hand and/or fingers of the user, and/or the object being manipulated by the user.
US11790534B2	Attention-based joint image and feature adaptive semantic segmentation method The invention discloses an attention-based joint image and feature adaptive semantic segmentation method. First, the image adaptation procedure is used to transform the source domain image Xs to a target-domain-like image Xs-t with an appearance similar with the target domain image Xt, to reduce the domain gap between the source domain and the target domain at the image appearance level; then using the feature adaptation procedure to align the features between Xs-t and Xt in the semantic prediction space and the image generation space, respectively, to extract the domain-invariant features, to reduce the domain difference between Xs-t and Xt. In addition, the present invention introduces an attention module in the feature adaptation procedure to help the feature adaptation procedure pay more attention to image regions worthy of attention. Finally, combining the image adaptation procedure and the feature adaptation procedure in the end-to-end manner. The present invention effectively solves the problem of domain gap existing in the cross-modal image semantic segmentation, improves the performance of the semantic segmentation model, and achieves the optimal effect in multiple public data sets.
US11790533B2	Machine learning based image segmentation training with contour accuracy evaluation Improving the accuracy of predicted segmentation masks, including: extracting a ground-truth RGB image buffer and a binary contour image buffer from a ground-truth RGB image container for segmentation training; generating predicted segmentation masks from the ground-truth RGB image buffer; generating second binary contours from the predicted segmentation masks using a particular algorithm; computing a segmentation loss between manually-segmented masks of the ground-truth RGB image buffer and the predicted segmentation masks; computing a contour accuracy loss between contours of the binary contour image buffer and the binary contours of the predicted segmentation masks; computing a total loss as a weighted average of the segmentation loss and the contour accuracy loss; and generating improved binary contours by compensating the contours of the binary contour image buffer with the computed total loss, wherein the improved binary contours are used to improve the accuracy of the predicted segmentation masks.
US11790529B2	Method for fabricating a dental restoration The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a dental restoration, comprising the steps of rendering (S101) a first digital tooth model with a first material combination for generating a first actual data set representing the optical properties of the first digital tooth model; determining (S102) a first deviation between a target data set and the first actual data set; rendering (S103) a second digital tooth model based on a second combination of materials to generate a second actual data set representing the optical properties of the second digital tooth model; determining (S104) a second deviation between the target data set and the second actual data set; and fabricating (S105) the dental restoration based on the first digital tooth model when the first deviation is less than the second deviation and fabricating the dental restoration based on the second digital tooth model when the second deviation is less than the first deviation.
US11790519B2	Systems and methods for menu directed inspection A non-destructive testing (NDT) system can provide a tree model of an inspection on a display of an NDT device and on a web page configured in a web browser on a computing device coupled to the NDT device. Inspection data acquired using the NDT device can be provided in real-time as the inspection data is associated with a node configured in the tree model. The NDT system can generate an inspection tree model based on an inspection template including a template tree model. Defect properties, inspection instructions, and/or image transforms can be applied to nodes of the template tree model such that the generated inspection tree model includes the applied defect properties, inspection instructions, and/or image transforms, which can then be applied to the inspection data acquired at the inspection point location corresponding to each node.
US11790514B2	Image-based control of wire harness and connector manufacturing processes using artificial intelligence An embodiment provides a method of operating wire harness manufacturing equipment, including: adding, using the manufacturing equipment, an element to a wire to form a combination of the element and the wire; capturing, using an imaging device, one or more of an upper image and a lower image of the combination; analyzing, using one or more processors operatively coupled to the imaging device, the one or more of the upper image and the lower image to detect a defect; and thereafter indicating that the defect has been detected. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11790512B2	Defect inspection device The defect inspection device includes a robot arm including a hold unit for holding an object and a driving unit for moving the object; a first camera unit photographing an exterior of the object; an illumination unit irradiating light to the exterior of the object; and a control unit determining whether there is a defect in the object based on an image of the object photographed by the first camera unit.
US11790509B2	Method of building model of defect inspection for LED display A method of building a model of defect inspection for a light-emitting diode (LED) display is adapted to be implemented by a model-building system. The model-building system stores captured images respectively of LED displays that were displaying images. Each of the captured images corresponds to a status tag that indicates a status of the image being displayed by the respective one of the LED displays. The method includes: performing data preprocessing on the captured images to result in pieces of pre-processed data that respectively correspond to the captured images; and building a model of defect inspection by using an algorithm of machine learning based on the pieces of pre-processed data and the status tags.
US11790495B2	Method for optimal body or face protection with adaptive dewarping based on context segmentation layers A method for enhancing a wide angle image to improve the perspectives and the visual appeal thereof wide-angle images uses custom adaptive dewarping. The method is based on the scene image content of recognized objects in the image, the position of these objects in the image, the depth of these objects in the scene with respect to other objects and the general context of the image.
US11790491B2	Machine learning based image processing techniques A machine learning based image processing architecture and associated applications are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning framework is trained to learn low level image attributes such as object/scene types, geometries, placements, materials and textures, camera characteristics, lighting characteristics, contrast, noise statistics, etc. Thereafter, the machine learning framework may be employed to detect such attributes in other images and process the images at the attribute level.
US11790486B2	Image processing method and apparatus Disclosed is an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes extracting a content latent code and a style latent code for each of a plurality of input images, obtaining a content feature vector by calculating a weighted sum of content latent codes extracted from the input images based on a morphing control parameter, obtaining a style feature vector by calculating a weighted sum of style latent codes extracted from the input images based on the morphing control parameter, and generating a morphing image based on the content feature vector and the style feature vector.
US11790485B2	Apparatus and method for efficient motion estimation The architecture shown can perform global search, local search and local sub pixel search in a parallel or in a pipelined mode. All operations are in a streaming mode without the requirement of external intermediate data storage.
US11790484B2	Two-dimensional scalar field data visualization method and system based on colormap optimization A two-dimensional scalar field data visualization method and system based on colormap optimization including: receiving initial colormap and two-dimensional scalar field input data; calculating key colors in the initial colormap, and setting the key colors as control points; calculating a linear interpolation between pairwise control points using a piecewise linear function, generating and mapping a colormap to the two-dimensional scalar field data; establishing an energy optimization equation for control point coordinate positions and the mapped two-dimensional scalar field data, where the coordinate positions are numerical values between 0 and 1 obtained by normalizing index values in the colormap corresponding to the control points; and solving the energy optimization equation to obtain a control point coordinate position, generating a new colormap using the piecewise linear function and optimized control point coordinate position, and mapping the new colormap to the two-dimensional scalar field data, to obtain a final visualization result.
US11790480B2	Tiling a primitive in a graphics processing system by edge-specific testing of a subset of tiles in a rendering space In tile-based graphics processing systems, a tiling unit determines which tiles of a rendering space a primitive is in, such that the primitives in a tile can be rendered. Rather than performing tiling calculations for each tile in a bounding box for a primitive, tiling tests can be performed for a subset of the tiles. Then the results of the tiling tests for the subset of tiles can be used to determine whether the primitive is in other tiles which are located within a region bounded by two or more of the tiles of the subset. In this way the tiling process can be implemented without performing tiling calculations for all of the tiles in the bounding box for a primitive. Reducing the number of tiling calculations can help to improve the efficiency of the graphics processing system (in terms of speed and power consumption) for rendering a primitive.
US11790477B2	Digital watermark analysis apparatus and digital watermark analysis method A digital watermark analysis apparatus, comprising an image capturing unit for capturing a printed product where additional information is embedded by superimposing a pattern on an image to acquire a captured image, a calculation unit for calculating a spatial frequency characteristic of each small area in the captured image, a specifying unit for specifying an embedded signal strength and an embedding position of the additional information, a decision unit for deciding, based on the embedding position information and the embedded signal strength information, a position in the captured image of a marker detection area for detecting a marker as a reference position for acquiring the additional information, and an acquisition unit for detecting a marker in the marker detection area and acquiring the additional information in the captured image with reference to the detected marker.
US11790469B1	Collective purchasing systems and methods for controlled-environment facility residents via controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices Systems or methods for collective purchasing by controlled-environment facility residents may employ a plurality of controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices, each associated with a respective controlled-environment facility resident. These devices, disposed within one or more controlled-environment facilities, may each present an interface for purchasing goods and/or services via the device. The devices may each offer, via the interface, an option to collectively purchase a single good or service by a number of controlled-environment facility residents and may accept an indication of partial payment from the resident associated with the device. A controlled-environment facility management system, or similar functionality, may debit the partial payment from a respective controlled-environment facility trust account maintained to the benefit of each controlled-environment facility resident making a partial payment and may provision the collectively purchased good or service to these residents.
US11790466B2	Identifying and validating rental property addresses Provided herein are media, systems, and methods that identify the address of a rental property from public sources (e.g., rental listings, maps, and county property records). A data mining task process may be performed, by each of a plurality of first data ingestion interfaces to a unique external property data source, to determine at least one property record depiction, each property record depiction associated with a property record. A first machine learning algorithm may be applied to the at least one rental property depiction and the at least one property record depiction from each data source to identify one or more common property records, wherein each common property record comprises a property record that refers to the rental property. A data mining task process may be performed, by a second data ingestion interface to the one or more common property records to determine the street address of the rental property.
US11790462B1	Disestablishing entity's selected resource computation in response to loss of nexus establishment condition for selected domain A service engine determines that an entity meets a first nexus establishment condition for a first domain and a second nexus establishment condition for a second domain. The service engine then computes a first selected resource for the first domain and a second selected resource for the second domain. When the service engine determines that the entity no longer meets the second nexus establishment condition for the second domain, the service engine determines a nexus-ending date for the second domain. Prior to the nexus-ending date being satisfied, the service engine continues to compute the first selected resource for the first domain and the second selected resource for the second domain. In response to the nexus-ending date being satisfied, the service engine computes the first selected resource for the first domain but does not compute the second selected resource for the second domain.
US11790459B1	Methods and apparatuses for AI-based ledger prediction Apparatuses and methods for AI-based ledger prediction are provided. A processor is configured by instructions on a memory to receive and categorize a ledger file to a ledger type based on the data contained within the ledger file. The ledger data may contain information related to an insurance policy and investments made based on the payments into the policy over a period of time. The processor may be configured to utilize machine learning to generate a prediction of a value or values related to the ledger data, for example a retirement distribution amount.
US11790456B1	Gamification of renter's/homeowner's insurance products Techniques for providing information related to insurance services solicit interaction from a user (e.g., during video game play). The solicited interaction identifies a real property. A virtual environment gaming landscape is generated. The gaming landscape includes a virtual representation of the identified real property. Additional interaction from the user with the virtual environment gaming landscape is solicited. A risk assessment related to the identified real property is performed based on user's interaction with the virtual environment gaming landscape. A recommendation regarding one or more services is provided based on the performed risk assessment.
US11790455B2	Systems and methods for generating contextually relevant device protections Systems and methods are disclosed herein that can detect use of a consumer electronics device and that can generate and offer insurance or protection plans that measure, account, and adjust for the use of the consumer electronics device and consumer tendencies while using the consumer electronics device.
US11790454B1	Use determination risk coverage datastructure for on-demand and increased efficiency coverage detection and rebalancing apparatuses, methods and systems The Use Determination Risk Coverage Datastructure for On-Demand and Increased Efficiency Coverage Detection and Rebalancing Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“UDRCD”) transforms coverage enrollment request, event signal, ACGG request, search request inputs via UDRCD components into coverage enrollment response, add-in recommendation, ACGG response, search response outputs. A set of clinical conditions is determined. A set of treatments is determined for each clinical condition. Treatment paths data that specifies a set of treatment paths, wherein each treatment path comprises an ordered subset of treatments, is determined for each clinical condition. Providers are determined for each treatment. Practice patterns data that specifies, for each clinical condition treated by each provider, how likely the respective provider is to utilize each of the treatment paths is determined. An atomized coverage graph data structure is generated that includes a set of clinical condition objects, a set of treatment objects, and a set of provider objects.
US11790453B2	Systems and methods for generating contextually relevant device protections Systems and methods are disclosed herein that can detect use of a consumer electronics device and that can generate and offer insurance or protection plans that measure, account, and adjust for the use of the consumer electronics device and consumer tendencies while using the consumer electronics device.
US11790448B2	System and method for communicating with an electronic exchange in an electronic trading environment System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization stage as well as later during a trading session. Upon detecting that a connection between the client terminal and a gateway is lost, the connection proxy maintains a communication session created for the client terminal at the gateway and receives data intended for the client terminal. If the connection is re-established between the client terminal and the gateway during a predetermined period of time, the connection proxy provides the stored data to the client terminal thus avoiding a surge in processing resources at the gateway due to the necessary downloads.
US11790446B2	Electronic completion of cash versus futures basis trades An electronic trading system is described herein. More specifically, the electronic trading system may relate to the substantially simultaneous trading of cash instruments and their related futures contract for interest-rate related instruments. The electronic trading system may also be used to allow a user (such as a market maker or other suitable participant) to gauge his chance of success at completing both sides of a basis trade within a preferably pre-determined or pre-set interval, while knowing in advance the specific weighting algorithm that will be applied to the basis trade. The electronic trading system may also be used to allow a user to predetermine the exact weighting algorithm to be used on such a basis trade, and to adjust those preferences where necessary or desired.
US11790444B2	Systems and methods for distributed encoding and global exchange architecture Various aspects of the disclosure relate to using a verifiable and distributed encoding as a digital currency (e.g., cryptocurrency). According to some embodiments, systems and methods can be executed to transfer cash or “hard” currency responsive to exchange of cryptocurrency supported by blockchain technology. In further example, the systems and methods are tailored to operate within a specified/defined community that ensures the efficient operation of the system by ensuring liquidity of the transfer. According to one embodiment, the system is configured to distribute stable coin, issuing the coin at a discounted value (e.g., relative to a redemption or cash equivalent face value). For example, by issuing coin at a discount the system automatically facilitates peer-to-peer physical cash transfers.
US11790442B2	System and method for trading commodities and the like A system for trading commodities and the like comprising a computer, a communications link between the computer and the Internet, a database, accessible by the computer, containing a plurality of user files wherein each of the user files contains a plurality of transaction parameters corresponding to one or more indications associated with the user file. The transaction parameters govern the presentation and acceptance of indications associated therewith. The system further includes a database, accessible by the computer, containing a plurality of indications wherein each of the indications contains information corresponding to open bids or offers for commodities, and an indication selection submitted by a user over the communications link. Software executing on the computer receives the indication selection, retrieves an indication corresponding to the indication selection from the indication database, queries a user file in the user database corresponding to the indication to determine transaction parameters associated with the indication, and presents the indication to the user in accordance with any determined transaction parameters.
US11790441B2	Information and interaction management in a central database system A central database system allows entities to easily manage human resources functions. An entity requests that the central database system executes an employer function on its behalf, and the central database system determines a probability of the entity defaulting before the entity can finalize the employer function with the central database system. The central database system can train and apply a machine-learned model to dynamically determine the default probability for the entity. Based on the default probability, the central database system determines a risk tolerance associated with the employer function and determines whether to process or challenge the employer function based on the risk tolerance and the default probability.
US11790435B2	Dynamic computer marketplace system and method Systems, methods and apparatuses are disclosed for implementation and management of a dynamic compute and application marketplace. The dynamic computer marketplace system can coordinate access to one or more other computing resources, including on-premises computing resources, external (or off-premises) computing resources or a combination thereof. In various embodiments, the dynamic computer marketplace system advantageously can be used to facilitate inter-provider migration, transparent pricing, and/or competitive pricing, among other things.
US11790434B1	Methods and systems for mapping a location of a product Systems and method for mapping the location of a product in a store make use of images of products on shelf modules to identify the location of a product. In one implementation, a central computer receives a first image from a camera showing a subset of electronic shelf modules in the store and an indicia displayed thereon. The indicia on a selected one of the subset associated with a particular product or product is subsequently changed. The central computer then receives a second image from the camera showing the changed indicia such that the first and second image can be compared to identify the location of the shelf module and/or product within the store. In another implementation, coordinates of a scanner within one image are utilized to outline borders corresponding to the positioning of products in another image to map the location of a product in a store.
US11790431B2	Systems and methods for generating recommendations using a corpus of data A method and system for recommending a merchant are provided. The method includes receiving financial transaction data documenting financial transactions between a plurality of account holders and a plurality of merchants and generating a merchant correspondence matrix that includes the plurality of merchants and a plurality of indicators of interactions associated with pairs of the plurality of merchants. The plurality of indicators of interactions tallying financial transactions conducted by the plurality of account holders at both of the merchants in a pair of the plurality of merchants. The method further includes receiving a query for a recommendation of a merchant from an account holder and generating a ranked list of merchants based on a recommender algorithm. The recommender algorithm inferring user preferences from attributes of the plurality of merchants that were visited by the cardholder.
US11790430B2	Method and system for determining unified user intention from digital environment for plurality of strategies Traditionally, strategies are carried out based on customer intention indicated from surveys, transactional data, location of the store and customer profile. They have limitations such as partial capture of customer intention, absence of transactional data, challenges in defining catchment area associated with store location and lack of customer profiles. This disclosure relates to determining unified user intention from digital environment for plurality of strategies. An information associated with user is received. The information associated with the user is processed to derive weights associated with the user. The weights are integrated and mined through a variable reduction technique to determine at least one significant latent variable from a plurality of significant latent variables and associated significant attribute values. A structural equation model (SEM) is developed by applying the significant latent variables and the at least one event and a plurality of strategies are recommended for the plurality of applications.
US11790427B2	Distributed database structures for anonymous information exchange Provided herein are database structures, systems, and methods for an anonymous, information exchange platform. The information exchange platform described herein may comprise blockchain structures, decentralized networks, peer-to-peer technology, cryptographic techniques, and/or a combination thereof. Past and present actors associated with a topic of information (e.g., a product) may flexibly exchange information on the information exchange platform by implementing question and answer protocols.
US11790425B2	Customized deal generation A server receives a request for a deal from a client device of a merchant, the request for a deal including a merchant identifier. The server then accesses merchant information based on the merchant identifier, the merchant information including a merchant category and a merchant location. Additionally, the server obtains a set of candidate deals based on the merchant category and merchant location. The server then obtains historical information for each candidate deal, the historical information corresponding to one or more conversion rates of the candidate deal when the candidate deal was previously offered by one or more merchants. Next, the server determines a predicted conversion rate for each candidate deal, based on the historical information for the respective candidate deal and selects a deal based on the predicted conversion rates for the set of candidate deals. Lastly, the server communicates data corresponding to the selected deal to the client device, the data including the predicted conversion rate for the selected deal.
US11790423B2	Automated product offering Automating a product offering presented in a consumer kiosk application for creating and order consumer photo-related products. An automated product offering system determines in real-time or near real-time the availability of products to be offered to the consumer and adjusts the display on the kiosk GUI to guide the user to select products that are currently available. The product availability may be specific to a location and a retailer hosting the consumer kiosk application. The kiosk GUI display is adjusted in accordance with product advertising and promotional campaigns to guide the user to generate orders for products that offer the best value to the consumer while helping retailers and kiosk operators succeed with advertising campaigns.
US11790422B2	Managing transaction state data A device may receive user data associated with a product or service, the user data including a user identifier associated with a user. The device may identify a business application that is relevant to the product or service, the business application being designed to provide the user with a business offer related to the product or service. In addition, the device may provide the user data to the business application and receive, from the business application, business application state data and user response data, the business application state data specifying a partially completed transaction associated with the product or service, and the user response data including information associated with the partially completed transaction. The device may store the business application state data and the user response data, and perform an action based on the business application state data.
US11790412B2	Customer relationship management call intent generation An enhanced customer relationship management (CRM) system is provided. The enhanced CRM system performs activities automatically and with the assistance of artificial intelligence and machine learning based on historical information. The enhanced CRM system provides: a) scheduling assistance prior to a customer contact, b) assistance during a call to direct call focus and achieve a personal connection between a customer facing user of the CRM system and a target customer contact, and c) automated assistance to complete a contact and transition to a next target customer contact. Achievement goals for a customer facing user may be presented and monitored with respect to a goal achievement period. Schedules may be dynamically adjusted across multiple CRM system users and with respect to overall organizational goals to enhance achievement of goals.
US11790411B1	Complaint classification in customer communications using machine learning models An example computing system for classifying messages is described. For example, a computing system includes a memory and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive data indicative of a message from a user device, wherein the data indicative of the message comprises a string of characters, identify, based on the string of characters, a set of token vectors from a plurality of token vectors generated based on a set of training data, and determine, using a machine learning model and based on the set of token vectors, a probability that a risk level associated with the message is a first risk level indicating that the message is to be elevated, wherein the first risk level is greater than a second risk level.
US11790410B2	System and method for natural capital measurement Systems, methods, and storage mediums storing methods of natural capital measurement are described. A region of influence for the area whose natural capital is to be measured is determined and segmented into a plurality of segments. A land assessment model, including a system dynamics model and a spatially explicit model, is generated for the region of influence by training one or more machine learning algorithms to classify land use categories for the segments and to determine statistical relationships between state variables and properties of the segment. A flow sequence for simulating a transport of materials between the plurality of segments is executed to update the land assessment model. Health indicators for the natural capital of the area are generated using the updated land assessment model.
US11790408B2	Automated video advertisement creation Described are systems and methods for automating the creation of advertisements, such as video advertisements. For example, an advertiser may utilize a self-service user interface to provide digital assets to an advertisement creation system that may utilize those digital assets to generate an advertisement for the advertiser, without further input from the advertiser. In one example, an advertiser may provide a video file, select a template for the advertisement, select a genre, provide one or more call to action text inputs, select a background color for call to action displays, and/or select an outro color theme for an outro or end card of the advertisement. The advertisement creation system may then utilize that information and, without further input from the advertiser, generate one or more jobs for execution by computing resources, such as remote computing resources to generate an advertisement based on the provided content.
US11790400B2	System and method for tracking recipient interactions with physical, advertising mail A method includes: receiving a query from a computing device accessed by a recipient; accessing an identifier, associated with an advertisement card, including a pointer to an electronic document associated with the advertisement card and a recipient code associated with the recipient; accessing a set of recipient profiles associated with target recipients of a set of advertisement cards. The method also includes responsive to the recipient code corresponding to a first recipient profile: accessing a set of recipient characteristics specified by the first recipient profile; deriving an engagement metric, for the recipient interacting with the advertisement card; predicting an intent of the recipient to engage with advertising content related to the advertisement card; assembling a customized advertising experience for presenting to the recipient within a first instance of the electronic document; and triggering the computing device to navigate to the first instance of the electronic document based on the pointer.
US11790398B2	Classification and prediction of online user behavior using HMM and LSTM One or more embodiments herein can facilitate a process to guide a user at a digital medium. An exemplary system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components can comprise an obtaining component that obtains user behavior data from a digital medium, the user behavior data defining an interaction of the user with the digital medium, a prediction component that, based on the user behavior data, predicts a path of the user within the digital medium, and a classification component that, based on the user behavior data and on the path prediction, classifies a position of the user along a defined path to a conversion objective of the digital medium. The conversion objective can comprise obtaining the user as a customer, achieving a financial transaction, or presentation of a communication.
US11790395B2	Methods and systems for allocating resources in response to social media conversations A social media impact analysis (SMIA) computer device and methods for allocating resources in response to social media conversations are provided. The SMIA device stores for a plurality of escalation levels, corresponding trigger criteria and resource allocations, where each trigger criteria includes a sales impact range and a content category. The SMIA device is configured to receive tracking signals relating to social media conversations about a product over a time period, each tracking signal including a topic of social media conversation and correlated to a predicted future sales impact; detect that a tracking signal deviates from a threshold; compare the tracking signal to the trigger criteria for the escalation levels; and allocate resources automatically in response to the social media conversations according to the resource allocation for a first of the escalation levels.
US11790383B2	System and method for selecting promotional products for retail A computer system and computer-implemented method for retail merchandise planning, including promotional product selection, price optimization and planning. According to an embodiment, the computer system for generating an electronic retail plan for a retailer comprises, a data staging module configured to input retail sensory data from one or more computer systems associated with the retailer; a data processing module configured to pre-process the inputted retail sensory data; a data warehouse module configured to store the inputted retail sensory data and the pre-processed retail sensory data; a state model module configured to generate a retailer state model for modeling operation of the retailer based on the retail sensory data; a calibration module configured to calibrate the state model module according to one or more control parameters; and an output module for generating an electronic retail plan for the retailer based on the retailer state model.
US11790382B2	Method to transmit geolocation exchange based markets Implementations of a computer implemented method and system to transform geolocation exchange unit specifications and transportation and freight and parking and tolling and curb management and transportation management association unit securities or derivative unit securities or unitization structure capacity units with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into multi-modal objects which are tradable as commodities such as wheat, oil, corn, stocks, foreign exchange, fixed income or other forward or securitized markets and broadcast those unitized prices, indices and associated news over a plurality of electronic devices. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming and navigation systems and social networking, price-time priorities queues, replacement costs, termination valuations, financial markets, commodity structuring transformation or unitization structures as a fungible asset classes or tradable markets.
US11790381B1	System and method for attribute selection for expert matchmaking A method and system assists experts associated with an electronic bookkeeping system to increase a rate at which users select to receive the services of the expert. The method and system retain information regarding the selection rates of a plurality of experts, and the profiles of the plurality of experts. The method and system trains an analysis model with a machine learnings process to learn how the attributes in the profiles relate to the selection rates. The method and system then utilizes the analysis model to predict changes to the profile that an expert can make to increase the selection rate of the expert. The method and system outputs recommendation data to the expert recommending one or more changes in the expert's profile that will likely result in an increase in the expert's selection rate.
US11790380B2	Systems and methods for finding an interaction subset within a set of interactions A method and system for analyzing interactions (for example between a person and an organization) may include for a number of series of interactions (which may be termed journeys), each interaction represented by a channel and a reason, iterating over the series of interactions by selecting initial information including an interaction subset including one or more interactions, and if there is a set of interaction series among the series of interactions meeting certain conditions, adding an interaction to the interaction subset and determining in a recursive fashion if for the interaction subset, there is a subset among the set of interaction series meeting the conditions which also meet the conditions. Conditions may include a threshold average rating for the set of interaction series, and a threshold number of interaction series in which the interaction subset is found.
US11790373B2	Electronic system and computerized method for processing recurring payment transactions The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for processing recurring payment transactions. In various embodiments, the system receives details of the set of recurring payment transactions and stores the details in a recurring transaction details table. The system generates a virtual payment instrument and associates it with the consumer's payment instrument. The system transmits the virtual payment instrument to the consumer. The system then generates a set of payment tokens for the set of recurring transactions and links the tokens to the virtual payment instrument. Each token is associated with a discrete recurring period. The system encodes each token with a sequence of values and stores the tokens in the recurring payment token table. The system receives a recurring transaction request that includes the virtual payment instrument. The system validates the request against a token associated with the recurring period, processes the transaction, and deletes the token.
US11790372B2	Architectures, systems, and methods for card based transactions A method and apparatus for processing a transaction between a merchant and a customer of the merchant are described. The method may include generating, at an ingress server, an initial transaction message by generating a deterministic identifier for a card used in the transaction from card data received for the transaction and encrypting the received card data. The method may also include providing the initial transaction message from the ingress server to a payment server. Furthermore, the method may include updating, by the payment server in response to an authorization of the transaction determined based at least in part on the deterministic identifier for the card, the initial transaction message with authorization data, and providing the updated initial transaction message from the payment server to an egress server. The method may also include communicating a final transaction message to an authorization system for processing the transaction between the merchant and the customer based on the card data.
US11790367B1	Systems and methods for optimizing electronic refund transactions for detected fraudulent transactions A method for optimizing refunds for suspected or detected fraudulent transactions includes receiving a chargeback analysis request for a potential chargeback transaction from a merchant or a payment processor, extracting identifying information of transactions associated with the chargeback transaction from the chargeback analysis request, searching for a chargeback analysis profile in a profile database, determining whether the chargeback analysis profile exists in the profile database, upon determining that the chargeback analysis profile does not exist in the profile database, obtaining a new fraud analysis profile, determining, based on the chargeback analysis profile, a first probability that the potential chargeback transaction will result in a chargeback, determining, based on the chargeback analysis profile, a second probability that the potential chargeback transaction will result in a chargeback after a proactive electronic refund transaction, and generating a proactive electronic refund transaction based on the first probability and the second probability.
US11790364B2	Systems and methods for providing multi-factor authentication for vehicle transactions Methods and systems are employed for completing a transaction via an internet-connected vehicle by leveraging a multi-factor authentication to compare vehicle identification information and user identification information based on stored information. In addition, methods and systems are provided for completing a transaction via an internet-connected vehicle by automatic enforcement of business rules (e.g., parental control spending tools, or employee spending tracking tools).
US11790356B2	System, method, and computer program product for dynamic passcode communication Systems, methods, and computer program products for dynamic passcode communication use a merchant application installed on a user device that receives transaction data associated with a transaction at a merchant system. The transaction data may include an account identifier associated with an account at an issuer system. The merchant application determines, based on the account identifier, whether an issuer application associated with the issuer system is installed on the user device. In response to determining that the issuer application is installed on the user device, the merchant application transmits, to the issuer application, a request for a dynamic passcode. The merchant application receives, from the issuer application, the dynamic passcode and transmits, to the issuer system, an authorization request including the account identifier and the dynamic passcode. The merchant application receives, from the issuer system, an authorization response authorizing or denying the transaction.
US11790354B2	Adaptive remittance learning The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for a remittance system that pre-populates remittance data based on historical usage of remittance transactions. One example system includes operations to generate, using a predictive model, data indicating a predicted likelihood of a user selecting at least one data exchange transaction, wherein the data indicates the predicted likelihood of the user performing the at least one data exchange transaction. A request is received to access a remittance page. In response, the at least one data exchange transaction that was previously generated is selected from a repository of predicted likelihoods. Remittance data associated with a UI element is generated that includes the at least one data exchange transaction. The remittance data is transmitted to the device. An indication from the device is received for interacting with the UI element. The data exchange transaction is executed in response to receiving the indication.
US11790351B2	Digital wallet for the provisioning and management of tokens Disclosed are methods and systems for provisioning payment card credentials to an Internet of Things (IoT) device that is associated with a companion application. In an embodiment, a mobile device processor displays a companion application user interface (UI) on a display screen, receives a user selection of an option to obtain payment card credentials from the companion application UI, displays a prompt for the user to provide user authentication data to the companion application, receives the user authentication data from a biometric sensor, and authenticates the user. The process next includes displaying a selection screen comprising one of an icon identifying the IoT device or an icon identifying the companion application and a list of payment card accounts, receiving a selection of a payment card account, transmitting payment account credentials of the selection to a wallet server computer, receiving a companion token from the wallet server computer, associating the companion token with the companion application, and transmitting the companion token to the IoT device associated with the companion application.
US11790350B2	Methods and systems for digital reward processing Embodiments generally relate to the field of reward processing, and more particularly, systems, methods, and computer readable media for digital reward processing utilizing distributed ledger technology. Distributed ledger technology is utilized wherein distributed ledgers are stored on a plurality of node computing devices, the distributed ledgers including sequential entries that are cryptographically linked to one another.
US11790349B2	Secure tokens for controlling access to a resource in a resource distribution network A system for generating and applying a secure token in a resource distribution network is provided. For example, a headend system generates a payment-based token based on a payment made for a meter. The payment-based token indicates a credit value to be applied to the meter. The credit value can range from a negative credit value limit and a positive credit value limit. The payment-based token is further generated based on a meter identifier. The headend system transmits the payment-based token to the meter via at least a mesh network. After receiving the payment-based token, the meter validates the payment-based token to determine that the payment-based token is generated for the meter. The meter further determines the balance associated with the meter based on the credit value specified in the payment-based token. Based on the balance, the meter connects or disconnects premises associated with the meter from a resource supply.
US11790346B2	Method and system for loading reloadable cards A computer-implemented method and a system for loading reloadable cards, the computer-implemented method including: receiving, from an automated teller machine (ATM), a loading transaction request, the loading transaction request including a reloadable card identifier associated with a reloadable card, a funding card identifier associated with a funding card, and loading amount information; executing a funding card authorisation process; executing a reloadable card crediting process; and sending loading transaction approval to the ATM.
US11790345B2	Card to card transaction initiation using light fidelity (“LIFI”) enabled smart glasses A smart glasses device for initiating a transaction between a first smart card and a second smart card is provided. The smart glasses device may include a camera operable to capture an image of the first smart card and of the second smart card. The smart glasses device may include a display operable to trigger an augmented reality display including a first selectable image of the first smart card and a second selectable image of the second smart card. The camera may further capture a series of motions corresponding to a numerical value inputted in an augmented fillable field, a selection of the second selectable image of the second smart card, and a movement dragging the selected second selectable image from a first location to a second location positioned on top of the first selectable image of the first smart card. The positioning automatically triggering an initiation of the transaction.
US11790344B2	Method and apparatus for displaying identification code of application Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for displaying an identification code of an application. The method includes: acquiring an identification code in a target application in a system user interface (UI), where the identification code is generated by the target application according to user information in the target application; and displaying the identification code in an icon-display region of the target application in the system UI.
US11790343B2	System and method for integrating data from a remote server with a client application The electronic device may invoke a host application. The device may display a first host user interface on the display, the first host user interface including a first host user interface component associated with a child application. In response, the device may invoke, using the host application, the child application executed at the electronic device. The device may transmit, using the host application, a request for data associated with a child user interface component to the child application. The device may transmit, using the child application, the request for data associated with the child user interface component to a child application server, wherein the data associated with the child user interface component is inaccessible by the host application. The device may receive, using the child application, the data associated with the child user interface component from the child application server. The device may display the child user interface component.
US11790340B2	Waste recycling system with an automatic dumpster A waste recycling system with an automated dumpster includes a main body and the main body includes a main control module. The main control module includes a main control unit, and is electrically connected to a dumpster module. The dumpster module includes a dumpster and the dumpster includes a sub-control module. The sub-control module includes a sub-control unit. The sub-control unit is electrically connected to a power unit and a scanning unit. The power unit is used to drive the dumpster and the scanning unit is disposed at the front end of the dumpster to receive signals. The sub-control unit also includes guiding units. The guiding unit is disposed on the transporting path of the dumpster. By the scanning unit, the scanned signal is transmitted back to the sub-control unit to control the dumpster moving automatically.
US11790336B2	Intelligent distributed ledger consent optimizing apparatus for asset transfer Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing asset transfers. A computing platform may receive an asset transfer request and extract information from it. The computing platform may modify a distributed ledger to include a new block corresponding to the asset transfer request. The computing platform may identify a consensus method by identifying, for each of a plurality of consensus methods, a subset of blocks from the distributed ledger that, when used to execute the corresponding consensus method, result in a lowest energy consumption value in comparison to remaining subsets of blocks. The computing platform may execute each consensus method using the corresponding identified subset of blocks, which may result in establishing consensus to process the asset transfer request. Based on establishing the consensus, the computing platform may direct an event processing platform to process the asset transfer request, which may cause the event processing platform to process the request accordingly.
US11790335B2	Fuel dispenser wired communication Various methods, systems, and device are provided for facilitating communication between a fuel dispenser and a forecourt controller. In some embodiments, the methods, systems, and devices allow data to be combined and compressed for transmission through a reduced number of data connections, and then decompressed for transmission to the forecourt controller or components of the fuel dispenser. In certain exemplary embodiments, the compressing and decompressing can be performed by one or more signal combiners at the forecourt controller and the fuel dispenser.
US11790333B2	Tokenized data having split payment instructions for multiple accounts in a chain transaction There are provided systems and methods for tokenized data having split payment instruction for multiple accounts in a chain transaction. A user may provide a payment to a merchant that sells one or more items to the user. In order to sell items, the merchant may utilize a partner service that provides resources for the merchant to sell the items, such as an online marketplace. The partner service may require a payment for each transaction by the merchant using the partner service. Thus, when a payment request is generated to the merchant for items sold to the user, the partner service may attach to the payment request and provide a split payment request for a split payment from the payment request. The payment between the user and merchant may be processed, and a separate transaction may provide the split payment automatically to the partner service from the merchant.
US11790332B2	Mobile telephone transfer of funds A funds-transfer system enables a buyer to transfer funds to a seller via a mobile telephone. The system receives a payment request transmitted from a mobile telephone of the buyer. The payment request is for a transfer of funds from a financial account held by the buyer to a financial account held by the seller, and the payment request is transmitted from a payment application stored in the buyer's mobile telephone. The payment request identifies a purchase amount to be transferred, and information identifying the financial account held by the buyer. The system charges the purchase amount to the financial account held by the buyer and transfers the purchase amount to a financial account held by the seller.
US11790330B1	Apparatuses and methods for generating a unified digital check register An apparatus, method, and computer program product for generating a unified digital check register are provided. An example method includes receiving, by input/output circuitry, check data and determining, by check evaluation circuitry, whether the received check data corresponds to a digital check or a physical check. In response to determining that the received check data corresponds to a digital check, the method includes generating digital check data based on the received check data. In response to determining that the received check data corresponds to a physical check the method includes generating physical check data based on the received check data. The method further includes inserting, by registry management circuitry, any generated digital check data with any generated physical check data into a unified check dataset, and curating, by the registry management circuitry, a unified digital check register using the unified check dataset.
US11790329B2	System for processing retail clinic claims A method for electronically determining patient medical treatment eligibility, coverage, copayment amount and insurer billing simultaneously, by: (a) a patient requesting medical treatment at a retail clinic; (b) the patient presenting a health insurance card at the retail clinic; (c) the retail clinic transmitting patient health insurance card information to a centralized adjudication facility; (d) the retail clinic transmitting medical treatment information to the centralized adjudication facility; (e) the centralized adjudication facility determining patient medical treatment coverage, eligibility and copayment amount (f) transmitting the patient medical treatment coverage, eligibility and copayment amount from the centralized adjudication facility to the retail clinic; (g) the patient purchasing the medical treatment by paying the retail clinic the copayment amount, (h) transmitting a bill to the health care insurance provider; and (i) thereby informing the retail clinic clinician to sell the medical treatment to the patient.
US11790327B2	Application for device evaluation and other processes associated with device recycling Software application systems and associated methods for recycling, purchasing, and/or performing other processes with mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers, and/or other electronic devices at a kiosk are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods associated with an electronic device to facilitate a consumer-operated kiosk processing (e.g., purchasing) the electronic device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes using a mobile app to identify an electronic device, evaluate the electronic device, resolve device issues to enable purchase of the electronic device, etc. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
US11790325B2	Operation support device and operation support method An operation support device includes a computation unit that: calculates cost of separation treatment that depends on deterioration of a separation membrane using a cleaning efficiency model expressing deterioration of the separation membrane relative to the number of cleaning events, the separation membrane being configured to remove removal target from sewage; calculates operation cost using the cost of separation treatment, cleaning cost for one cleaning event for the separation membrane, and replacement cost for one replacement event for the separation membrane; determines, based on the operation cost, a first reference value used for determining whether to clean the separation membrane and a second reference value used for determining whether to replace the separation membrane; and calculates cleaning schedule and replacement schedule for the separation membrane using the first reference value and the second reference value determined.
US11790323B2	System and method for managing a talent platform Improved systems and methods of facilitating placement of candidates between employers and recruiters are provided. In various implementations, such systems and methods provide an integrated interface within the ATS platform for employers and integrated interface within the talent platforms for recruiters. In another implementation, a talent platform exchange is provided that permits disparate talent platforms to communicate and thus more effectively manage the hiring process from within the platform. To this end, interfaces and other components may be provided which facilitate communication between talent platforms and a talent platform exchange. Such communication capability would enable a direct hire marketplace where employers engage recruiters to fill positions through their presently implemented ATSs.
US11790321B2	Systems and methods for crowdsourcing technology projects The technology introduced here enables a customer to readily view, and securely connect with, project managers and freelancers who complete projects on behalf of the customer. The customer initially posts a project specification through a crowdsourcing platform. Project managers compete with one another by submitting proposals for the project through a freelancing platform. When a proposal is selected by the customer, the project manager corresponding to the proposal can construct a team that includes one or more freelancers who complete the technology project under the supervision of the project manager. As milestones are completed, the project manager and/or freelancer(s) can be paid from an escrow account maintained by the administrator. Additionally or alternatively, invoices for work completed by the team could be generated and delivered to the customer.
US11790320B2	Approaches to creating and evaluating multiple candidate well plans An improved approach to creating a plan for a well. A user receives an initial well plan for a planned well and uses the initial well plan as a starting point for alternate well plans. This is done by creating a copy of the initial well plan, allowing the various uses to make changes to the initial well plan, and executing various automatic validation routines on the alternate designs. These validation routines can provide estimated times and costs to complete the planned well use the alternate well plan. The approach can also involved displaying the estimated times and costs of the different candidate well plans. The user can then select one of the candidate well plans as the master well plan. As replanning is done during the operations, this replanning information, along with the actual executed actions, is captured and stored.
US11790316B2	Provisioning temporary functionality to user devices A computing device of an entity associated with a service provider receives information from instances of an application executing on user devices associated with the entity. The application is provided to the entity by the service provider. The entity device determines a user characteristic based on the information and provisions temporary access to a service functionality associated with a service that benefits the entity to the user device based on the user characteristic. The entity device may receive first data from the user device corresponding to the use of the service functionality. The entity device may generate aggregated data by aggregating the first data with second data received from another personal device being operated by another user and may send the aggregated data to the service provider to update databases storing third data associated with the service functionality.
US11790311B2	Asset travel monitoring with linked asset tracking devices A method for inferring a status asset information from data of a first type gathered by a first asset tracking device is provided. The method includes determining that a first asset tracking device coupled to a first asset and a second asset tracking device coupled to a second asset are travelling together, that the first asset tracking device has a first operating mode, and that the second asset tracking device has a second operating mode, which is different from the first operating mode of the first asset tracking device. In response, the second asset tracking device enters into a low-power mode in which it either does not gather data of the first type or does so at a reduced rate. Status information related to the second asset may be inferred from data of the first type gathered by the first asset tracking device.
US11790310B1	Resource efficient interactions with data corresponding to physical parcel Implementations relate to various techniques for resource efficient interactions with data corresponding to a physical parcel (already created or yet to be created) that is to be delivered to a recipient by a courier entity. Some of those implementations relate to techniques to enable access, by the recipient, of interior content data of the physical parcel. Some additional or alternative implementations relate to techniques to enable resource efficient storage and/or access to data related to a physical parcel, while enabling interaction(s) with the physical parcel by various disparate entities to be tracked and while maintaining appropriate access control to such data.
US11790297B2	Model-assisted annotating system and methods for use therewith A model-assisted annotating system is operable to receive a first set of annotation data, corresponding to a broad type of annotation data output. A first training step is performed to train a computer vision model using the first set of annotation data. A second set of annotation data corresponding to the broad type of annotation data output is generated performing an inference function utilizing the computer vision model on medical scans. Additional annotation data further specifies the broad type of annotation data output is received. A second training step is performed to generate an updated computer vision model using set of additional annotation data. A third set of annotation data corresponding to the specified type of annotation data output is generated by performing an updated inference function utilizing the updated computer vision model on medical scans.
US11790295B1	System and method of moving carts using a robot A method includes receiving, at a robot being in communication with a control center communication module of a control center, an instruction to relocate a cart to a location where a set of items are stored. The method further includes moving, by the robot, to a second location where the cart is positioned; (2) activating, by the robot, a motor of a latch fastening system to cause movement of a latch arm resulting in a latch being exposed; (3) removably engaging, by the robot and using the latch, the cart via a latching feature of the cart; (4) moving, by the robot, the cart from the second location to the location where the set of items are stored; and (5) transitioning, by the robot, a subset of the set of items to the cart in accordance with the instruction.
US11790293B2	Pattern analysis for schedule optimization An embodiment includes generating first and second preliminary schedules for respective first and second workers assigned respective first and second tasks, detects a block of time that is part of both the first and second preliminary schedules, and generates respective first and second location predictions for the first and second workers during the block of time. The embodiment calculates a distance between the first and second workers based on the first and second location predictions, and revises, responsive to determining that the distance is less than a threshold value, the second preliminary schedule to replace the first block of time with a second block of time that is not part of the first preliminary schedule. The embodiment generates an access control list that includes the first preliminary schedule as a first access schedule for the first worker for use in responding to access queries.
US11790291B2	Automated maintenance schedule generation method for modular plants An automated maintenance schedule generation method includes: receiving planning data for designing a modular plant comprising physical modules as received planning data; selecting digital modules, correlating to respective physical modules, from a database, depending on the received planning data as respective correlating physical modules, the digital modules including maintenance information of the respective correlating physical modules; associating the selected digital modules depending on the received planning data; determining an expected maintenance need including an expected maintenance issue and/or an expected maintenance issue date for the selected physical modules depending on the received maintenance information as a determined maintenance need; and generating a maintenance schedule for the modular plant depending on the determined maintenance need.
US11790285B1	Low-contact / no-contact event management for hybrid in-person / virtual events Programs, systems, and methods for facilitating low contact or no-contact registration, check-in, and attendance to an event. Registration is provided to an event virtually such that an attendee of the event may provide a single click registration or registration may be performed automatically be detecting, by a first sensor, the attendee and providing automatic registration. Automatic check-in to the event may be provided to the attendee by obtaining, by a second sensor, information indicative of the attendee and determining registration information from an attendee profile. The attendee may be provided access to event activities to which the attendee is registered. Furthermore, data associated with attendance at the event may be tracked and the attendee may be provided incentives based on the tracked data.
US11790279B2	System and method for class specific deep learning A method for controlling a physical process includes receiving an input dataset corresponding to the physical process. The method further includes determining a data model based on the input dataset. The data model includes a plurality of latent space variables of a machine learning model. The method also includes receiving a plurality of reference models corresponding to a plurality of classes. Each of the plurality of reference models includes a corresponding plurality of latent space variables. The method includes comparing the data model with each of the plurality of reference models to generate a plurality of distance metric values. The method further includes selecting a reference model among the plurality of reference models based on the plurality of distance metric values. The method also includes controlling the physical process based on the selected reference model.
US11790276B2	Virtual object machine learning A machine learning scheme can be trained on a set of labeled training images of a subject in different poses, with different textures, and with different background environments. The label or marker data of the subject may be stored as metadata to a 3D model of the subject or rendered images of the subject. The machine learning scheme may be implemented as a supervised learning scheme that can automatically identify the labeled data to create a classification model. The classification model can classify a depicted subject in many different environments and arrangements (e.g., poses).
US11790269B1	Systems and methods for generating dynamic models based on trigger events Embodiments of a system may comprise databases and a processor that accesses a first database and verifies that each of the plurality of client records conforms to a set of formatting guidelines and filters the records in the first database into a vehicle data subfile and a client data subfile, monitors the records in the vehicle and client data subfiles for a trigger event, generates one or more dynamic models for determining a likelihood that a client will perform an action based on the trigger event, applies the generated dynamic model(s) to generate at least one score value associated with the record including the trigger event, and generates a notification including one or more of the generated at least one score value, the one or more trigger event records, and information associated with the one or more trigger event records for transmission to a user.
US11790268B1	Causal inference machine learning with statistical background subtraction A system and method are disclosed to generate causal inference machine learning models employing statistical background subtraction. Embodiments include a server comprising a processor and memory. Embodiments receive historical sales data for one or more past time periods and corresponding historical data for one or more causal variables. Embodiments deconfound the cause-effect relationship of historical sales data and historical data on the one or more causal variables. Embodiments define one or more sample weights for statistical background subtraction of the historical data and perform statistical background subtraction on the historical data. Embodiments train a first machine learning model to predict an absolute individual causal effect on a considered demand quantity in relation to the one or more causal variables and one or more sample weights.
US11790266B2	Annotation method and device, and storage medium An annotation method and device and a storage medium are provided. The annotation method includes operations as follows. A first probability value that a first sample image is annotated with an Nth tag when the first sample image is annotated with an Mth tag is determined based on first tag information of a first image set. M and N are unequal and are positive integers. The first probability value is added to second tag information of a second sample image annotated with the Mth tag in a second image set.
US11790262B2	Data transformations for robotic process automation An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data transformation system receives an input package and enables automatic execution of one or more processes in a robotic process automation system (RPA). The input package includes a plurality of documents and metadata required for the execution of the automated processes. The plurality of documents are categorized into a domain. Entities with their corresponding name-value pairs and entity relationships are extracted from the plurality of documents. An ontology is selected based on the domain. The entities are mapped to output fields identified from the selected ontology. The mappings thus generated are transmitted to the RPA system which employs the mappings to automatically execute the one or more processes.
US11790258B2	Generation of a bayesian network A computer implemented method, computer program product and system for generating a Bayesian network. A dataset comprising multiple instances of multiple variables is received. A target variable from the received dataset is selected. Multiple parent sets of variables for the target variable are determined, such that, for each parent set of variables, the target variable is functionally dependent on the respective parent set of variables. For multiple variables of the received dataset, the selecting of a new target variable from the received dataset and determining multiple parent sets of variables for the new target variable is repeated. A Bayesian network (includes a directed acyclic graph of nodes and edges) is then generated for the variables such that one or more of the determined parent sets of variables for the target variables are inserted into the graph and edges from the graph are removed to ensure that the graph is acyclic.
US11790255B2	Systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data, extract feature data from the cell data, determine a plurality of faults, determine a priority level for each fault by applying the extracted feature data to a predictive model, determine at least one high priority fault, and generate at least one operator alert based on the at least one high priority fault.
US11790253B2	System and method for modeling complex layered systems Method and system for modeling of complex systems using a two-sorted reasoning system. Information is received by Distributed Feature Extraction Processors. A first level of reasoning is performed on the information by Distributed Regular Reasoning Processors. A second reasoning process is performed on the information by Distributed Situation Reasoning Processors, which use a Functional Fabric configured to analyze the information received and use functions to modify previous inferences. Client applications allow for viewing and manipulating both reasoning systems and their associated information.
US11790252B2	Apparatus and method for preprocessing security log According to one embodiment, An apparatus for preprocessing a security log includes a field divider configured to divide a character string of a security log into a plurality of fields on the basis of a structure of the security log, an ASCII code converter configured to convert a character string included in each of the plurality of divided fields into ASCII codes, and a vector data generator configured to generate vector data for each of the plurality of divided fields using the converted ASCII codes.
US11790243B1	Ferroelectric field effect transistor for implementation of decision tree A unit structure of non-volatile memory is provided. The unit structure includes a substrate, an n-type ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) and a p-type FeFET disposed on the substrate, first circuitry by which sources of the n-type FeFET and the p-type FeFET are electrically coupled in parallel downstream from a common terminal and second circuitry by which top electrodes of the n-type FeFET and the p-type FeFET are electrically coupled in parallel upstream of a common terminal.
US11790241B2	Systems and methods for modifying neural networks for binary processing applications In one embodiment, a method of simulating an operation of an artificial neural network on a binary neural network processor includes receiving a binary input vector for a layer including a probabilistic binary weight matrix and performing vector-matrix multiplication of the input vector with the probabilistic binary weight matrix, wherein the multiplication results are modified by simulated binary-neural-processing hardware noise, to generate a binary output vector, where the simulation is performed in the forward pass of a training algorithm for a neural network model for the binary-neural-processing hardware.
US11790240B1	Machine learning networks, architectures and techniques for determining or predicting demand metrics in one or more channels This disclosure relates to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning networks for predicting or determining demand metrics across multiple channels. An analytics platform can receive channel events from multiple channels corresponding to geographic areas, and channel features related to demand conditions in the channels can be extracted from the channel events. During a training phase, the channel features can be accumulated into one or more training datasets for training one or more demand prediction models. The one or more demand prediction models can be trained to predict or determine demand metrics for each of the channels. The demand metrics can indicate or predict demand conditions based on the current conditions in the channels and/or based on future, predicted conditions in the channels. Other embodiments are disclosed herein as well.
US11790235B2	Deep neural network with compound node functioning as a detector and rejecter Computer systems and methods modify a base deep neural network (DNN). The method comprises replacing the target node of the base DNN with a compound node to thereby create a modified base DNN. The compound node comprises at least first and second nodes. The first node is trained to detect target node patterns in inputs to the first node and the second node is trained to detect an absence of the target node patterns in inputs to the second node, and the first and second nodes are trained to be non-complementary. Replacing the target node with the compound node comprises: connecting the first node to the upper sub-network of the base DNN, such that the first node has a weighted connection for each of the one or more base connection that the target node had to the upper sub-network in the base DNN; and connecting the second node to the upper sub-network of the base deep DNN, such that the second node has a weighted connection for each of the one or more base connection that the target node had to the upper sub-network in the base deep DNN. After replacing the target node, the modified base DNN is trained.
US11790234B2	Resource-aware training for neural networks In implementations of resource-aware training for neural network, one or more computing devices of a system implement an architecture optimization module for monitoring parameter utilization while training a neural network. Dead neurons of the neural network are identified as having activation scales less than a threshold. Neurons with activation scales greater than or equal to the threshold are identified as survived neurons. The dead neurons are converted to reborn neurons by adding the dead neurons to layers of the neural network having the survived neurons. The reborn neurons are prevented from connecting to the survived neurons for training the reborn neurons.
US11790231B2	Determining optimal augmentations for a training data set A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes applying a predetermined augmentation to the sample set of training data to create an augmented sample set, training a model with the augmented sample set, determining a performance of the trained model, and assigning a weight to the predetermined augmentation for the training data set based on the determined performance. A determination is made as to whether to apply the predetermined augmentation to a larger training data set before the training data set is applied to the model, based on the weight assigned to the predetermined augmentation.
US11790230B2	Distance to obstacle detection in autonomous machine applications In various examples, a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to accurately predict, in deployment, distances to objects and obstacles using image data alone. The DNN may be trained with ground truth data that is generated and encoded using sensor data from any number of depth predicting sensors, such as, without limitation, RADAR sensors, LIDAR sensors, and/or SONAR sensors. Camera adaptation algorithms may be used in various embodiments to adapt the DNN for use with image data generated by cameras with varying parameters—such as varying fields of view. In some examples, a post-processing safety bounds operation may be executed on the predictions of the DNN to ensure that the predictions fall within a safety-permissible range.
US11790225B2	Data processing apparatus configured to execute hierarchical calculation processing and method thereof A data processing apparatus configured to execute hierarchical calculation processing corresponding to a neural network on input data includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of sets of control data each for use for one of a plurality of processing units into which the hierarchical calculation processing corresponding to the neural network is divided, a transfer unit configured to sequentially transfer the plurality of sets of control data from the storage unit, and a calculation processing unit configured to perform calculation processing of the processing unit corresponding to one set of control data transferred by the transfer unit using the one set of control data.
US11790222B2	Methods for learning the parameters of a convolutional neural network, and for classifying an input datum The present invention concerns a method for learning the parameters of a convolutional neural network, CNN, for data classification, the method comprising the implementation of steps by data processing means (11a, 11 b, 11c) of at least one server (1a, 1b, 1c), of: (a1) Learning, from a base of already-classified confidential learning data, the parameters of a first CNN; (a2) Learning, from a base of already-classified public learning data, the parameters of a last fully-connected layer (FC) of a second CNN corresponding to the first CNN to which said fully-connected layer (FC) has been added. The present invention also concerns a method for classifying an input datum.
US11790217B2	LSTM circuit with selective input computation An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a long short term memory (LSTM) circuit having a multiply accumulate circuit (MAC). The MAC circuit has circuitry to rely on a stored product term rather than explicitly perform a multiplication operation to determine the product term if an accumulation of differences between consecutive, preceding input values has not reached a threshold.
US11790212B2	Quantization-aware neural architecture search Quantization-aware neural architecture search (“QNAS”) can be utilized to learn optimal hyperparameters for configuring an artificial neural network (“ANN”) that quantizes activation values and/or weights. The hyperparameters can include model topology parameters, quantization parameters, and hardware architecture parameters. Model topology parameters specify the structure and connectivity of an ANN. Quantization parameters can define a quantization configuration for an ANN such as, for example, a bit width for a mantissa for storing activation values or weights generated by the layers of an ANN. The activation values and weights can be represented using a quantized-precision floating-point format, such as a block floating-point format (“BFP”) having a mantissa that has fewer bits than a mantissa in a normal-precision floating-point representation and a shared exponent.
US11790207B2	Delayed responses by computational assistant An example method includes receiving, by a computational assistant executing at one or more processors, a representation of an utterance spoken at a computing device; identifying, based on the utterance, a task to be performed by the computational assistant; responsive to determining, by the computational assistant, that complete performance of the task will take more than a threshold amount of time, outputting, for playback by one or more speakers operably connected to the computing device, synthesized voice data that informs a user of the computing device that complete performance of the task will not be immediate; and performing, by the computational assistant, the task.
US11790205B2	RFID tags with shielding structure for incorporation into microwavable food packaging RFID tags are provided for incorporation into the packaging of a microwavable food item, with the RFID tag being configured to be safely microwaved. The RFID tag includes an antenna defining a gap and configured to operate at a first frequency. An RFID chip is electrically coupled to the antenna across the gap. A shielding structure is electrically coupled to the antenna across the gap and overlays the RFID chip. The shielding structure includes a shield conductor and a shield dielectric at least partially positioned between the shield conductor and the RFID chip. The shielding structure is configured to limit the voltage across the gap when the antenna is exposed to a second frequency that is greater than first frequency. In additional embodiments, RFID tags are provided for incorporation into the packaging of a microwavable food item, with the RFID tag being configured to be safely microwaved. The RFID tag includes an RFID chip and an antenna electrically coupled to the RFID chip. The antenna may have a sheet resistance in the range of approximately 100 ohms to approximately 230 ohms, optionally with an optical density in the range of approximately 0.18 to approximately 0.29. Alternatively, or additionally, the antenna may be configured to fracture into multiple pieces upon being subjected to heating in a microwave oven. Alternatively, or additionally, the RFID tag may be incorporated in an RFID label that is secured to the package by a joinder material with a greater resistance than that of the antenna, such as a sheet resistance in the range of approximately 100 ohms to approximately 230 ohms.
US11790200B2	Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharging method, and recording medium storing program for controlling banding and granularity A liquid discharge apparatus, a method of discharging liquid, and a recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method. The liquid discharge apparatus and the method includes obtaining image data to be printed, performing dithering to achieve masking and halftone processing on the image data to generate print data, and controlling movement of a discharge head and discharge of ink based on the print data. The controlling includes increasing a ratio of a number of ink dots continuously discharged onto a recording medium in a grayscale on a shadow side to a total number of ink dots discharged onto the recording medium in one-time scanning by the discharge head in one line to be greater than a ratio of a number of ink dots continuously discharged onto the recording medium in a grayscale on a highlight side to the total number of ink dots.
US11790198B2	Method and apparatus for processing encoded pattern, storage medium, and electronic apparatus A method for processing an encoded pattern, a storage medium, and an electronic device are disclosed in this application. An electronic device acquires a first encoded pattern to be recognized, the first encoded pattern being a pattern including predefined information encoded therein. The electronic device increases resolution of the first encoded pattern through a target model to obtain a target encoded pattern having a target resolution and corrects an edge of a sub-pattern in the target encoded pattern to obtain a second encoded pattern. Finally, the electronic device decodes the second encoded pattern using a code recognition module to obtain the predefined information. This application resolves the technical problem that an encoded pattern cannot be accurately recognized.
US11790191B2	Multipurpose RFID transponder and a system for reading it A magnetic field induction coupled RFID system for scanning and reading at least one object having an RFID tag or inlay label device attached or embedded therein to impart a unique identity to each of the objects. The RFID tag has two distinct modes of air interface protocol operation, such that the tag is capable of being read at close proximity range by a device utilizing a command-and-control protocol, such as an NFC-protocol compatible smartphone or similarly functioning device, and alternatively by an RFID reader utilizing a different protocol capable of supporting efficient high-speed anti-collision features for enabling fast inventorying at item level of retail store items, warehousing, customs and logistics operations over considerably greater interrogation distances, where both protocols utilize substantially the same carrier frequency.
US11790189B1	System and method for detecting a foreign object A system and method is described for detecting a foreign object inserted into a card reader. The card reader has a housing having an internal portion and a card entry slot formed therein. A reader device for reading information from a card is mounted within the internal portion of the housing. A transport mechanism is within the internal portion of the housing and includes a structure having one or more distinctive patterns on an upper surface thereof. A camera is mounted within the housing above the transport mechanism in a position to allow an image to be taken of the upper surface of the structure of the transport mechanism. A controller is coupled to the camera to receive images therefrom and configured to compare each image received from the camera to a reference image to determine when a foreign object has been inserted into the internal portion of the housing.
US11790187B2	Systems and methods for data transmission using contactless cards Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card and a receiving application are provided. The transmitting device may include a processor, memory, and communication interface. A receiving application may include instructions for execution on a receiving device having a processor, a memory, a communication interface configured to create a communication field for data communication with the transmitting device, and one or more sensors. Upon movement of the transmitting device, the receiving application is configured to receive, via one or more sensors, feedback information associated with the transmitting device, display one or more instructions regarding the position of the transmitting device relative to the receiving device until the transmitting device enters the communication field. Upon entry into the communication field, the transmitting device is configured to transmit data to the receiving device.
US11790185B2	Created text evaluation device A created sentence evaluating device 1 using a neural network unit 10 of an encoder/decoder model in which an encoder unit 100 inputs a sentence in a first language, and a decoder unit 101 sequentially outputs word candidates for a sentence in a second language corresponding to the sentence in the first language and likelihood of the word candidates includes: an encoder input unit 13 configured to input a created sentence created in the second language to the encoder unit 100 sequentially for each word; and an evaluation unit 17 configured to evaluate words of the created sentence on the basis of word candidates in the second language and the likelihood of the word candidates output by the decoder unit 101 on the basis of an input from the encoder input unit 13.
US11790183B2	Systems and methods for generating dynamic conversational responses based on historical and dynamically updated information Methods and systems disclosed herein collect user data in real-time and organize them (e.g., using collaborative filtering) into groups (e.g., clusters). The system then determines statistical distributions of observed real-time intents (e.g., based on actual selections made by users) for each group. The system then merges this distribution with existing model predictions (e.g., a model trained on historical training data) to balance between historical and dynamically updated information.
US11790177B1	Communication classification and escalation using machine learning model Systems and methods are disclosed for communication classification and escalation using a machine learning model. Metadata for a communication is obtained along with features of the content in the communication. Using a machine learning model, a likelihood that the communication comprises suspicious content or a topic of interest is determined from the metadata and or a communication transcript. If the likelihood that the communication comprises suspicious content or a topic of interest is at or above a predetermined threshold, then the communication is marked for review by a human agent; otherwise, the communication is ignored. A communication may have suspicious content or a topic of interest based upon the presence of keywords in the communication transcript either alone or in combined with metadata or other features of the content in the communication. The one or more keywords may be associated with illegal or unauthorized items, activities, or behaviors.
US11790173B2	Recommending action(s) based on entity or entity type In various implementations described herein, a partial free-form natural language input may be received from a user at an input component of a computing device. The partial free-form natural language input may identify an entity without identifying a responsive action and may be directed by the user to an automated assistant that operates at least in part on the computing device. The partial free-form natural language input may be analyzed to identify the entity. Based on the identified entity, a plurality or superset of candidate responsive actions may be identified, filtered, and/or ranked based on one or more signals. The automated assistant may then provide output that recommends one or more of the candidate responsive actions based on the ranking and/or filtering.
US11790172B2	Systems and methods for identifying entities and constraints in natural language input The disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying entities related to a task in a natural language input. An entity detection model is provided which receives a natural language input. The entity detection model processes the natural language input using an entity encoder and an input encoder. The entity encoder identifies and encodes relevant entities while the input encoder generates a contextual encoding which represents contextual information associated with a relevant entity. The encoded entity and contextual encodings may then be combined and processed to generate a probability score for an identified entity. A negation constraint model is also disclosed. The negation constraint model receives the natural language input and the identified entities. The natural language input is analyzed to identify negation cues and determine if the negation cue is associated with an identified entity.
US11790169B2	Methods and systems of answering frequently asked questions (FAQs) Methods and systems for answering frequently asked questions are described. An utterance is received. A decision score that is indicative of the likelihood that the utterance is answerable according to a set of frequently asked questions and associated answers is determined for the utterance. A candidate answer from the associated answers and a selection score for the candidate answer are determined for the utterance. A total score for the candidate answer is determined based on the decision score and the selection score. The total score is indicative of the likelihood that the candidate answer is a correct answer for the utterance according to the set of frequently asked questions and associated answers.
US11790167B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an acceptance unit that accepts a process request to an operation system; a specifying unit that, based on the process request, specifies an operation task to be executed in the operation system; an extraction unit that performs text analysis on the process request and extracts an answer item corresponding to an input item required at execution of the operation task from the process request; and an execution unit that executes the operation task based on the answer item.
US11790164B2	Configurable and portable system for generating narratives The subject invention functions to use available data and information to automatically create narrative stories that describes domain events, circumstances and/or entities in a comprehensible and compelling and audience customized, manner. Computer executable instructions provide for generating a narrative story using standard and uniform structures and data for receiving domain related data and a story specification, parsing the story specification to provide constituent components, transforming the constituent components into executable code, instantiating content blocks having at least one feature for the domain according to the story specification and rendering the narrative story using the constituent components specified by the content blocks.
US11790163B2	Recommendation platform for skill development Disclosed is a platform that manages worker users in a temporary staffing environment via an artificial machine learning model. The temporary staffing platform matches available workers to available shifts/gigs. Additional features include generating provisional or near-miss matches and informing workers how to turn those near-misses into full matches, plotting a gig-career path to develop additional skills, gamify development, and automatically generate resumes. The platform generates a set of skill tags associated with each shift/gig performed by the user. Designing of resume text files by the artificial machine learning model includes procedurally generated descriptions of experience the a user has based on the recording of each shift/gig performed by the user and the skill tags associated with each recorded shift/gig, wherein a format of the resume text file is formulated by the artificial machine learning model evaluating a mix of skill tags and employers amassed by the user.
US11790160B2	Collision avoidance for document field placement Users of a database management engine may generate fillable digital documents by mapping interface elements onto form documents. When a user maps interface elements onto a form document, the user may accidentally overlap two or more interface elements. To rectify this, the database management engine may modify the position of one of interface elements based on a set of positioning rules. In addition, the database management engine may identify and suggest mappings to users based on similar documents that have been previously mapped. The database management engine identifies similar documents using information about the document, the user, and the mapping itself. The mapping associated with the most similar document may be provided to the user as a suggested mapping. The database management engine converts the form document and finalized mapping into a fillable digital document. The fillable digital document is sent to recipients, who complete the fillable digital document.
US11790152B2	Presenting web content based on rules A method of presenting content is provided. The method includes receiving a request to access first content. The request is received via a first browser. The request includes a first uniform resource identifier. The method also includes obtaining a set of rules. The set of rules indicate how the first content is presented. The method further includes determining whether the request to access the first content satisfies one or more rules of the set of rules based on the first uniform resource identifier. The method further includes presenting the first content based on the one or more rules in response to determining that the request to access the first content satisfies the one or more rules.
US11790151B2	System for generating layout diagram including wiring arrangement A system for generating a layout diagram of a wire routing arrangement in a multi-patterning context having multiple masks (the layout diagram being stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium), at least one processor, at least one memory and computer program code (for one or more programs) of the system being configured to cause the system to execute generating the layout diagram including: placing, relative to a given one of the masks, a given cut pattern at a first candidate location over a corresponding portion of a given conductive pattern in a metallization layer; determining whether the first candidate location results in at least one of a non-circular group or a cyclic group which violates a design rule; and temporarily preventing placement of the given cut pattern in the metallization layer at the first candidate location until a correction is made which avoids violating the design rule.
US11790150B2	Placement and simulation of cell in proximity to cell with diffusion break A system and method for placement and simulation of a cell in proximity to a cell with a diffusion break is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, an integrated circuit is designed to include a first cell that has a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. The first cell may also include a diffusion region that extends from the first edge to the second edge with a diffusion break separating the diffusion region. The diffusion break may be spaced away from the second edge by a distance that degrades a metric (e.g., a delay, a slew, dynamic power, or leakage) of a second cell placed next to the second edge beyond a threshold level.
US11790147B1	System and method for routing in an electronic design Embodiments include herein are directed towards a method for electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, an electronic design library including a plurality of design rules. Embodiments may include generating a routing graph, based upon, at least in part, the plurality of design rules, wherein the routing graph is a virtual representation of all of the available routing space for all routing layers associated with an electronic design. Embodiments may further include dynamically updating the routing graph at a graphical user interface, based upon, at least in part, a creation of a routing segment or a via at the graphical user interface.
US11790145B2	Method for coloring circuit layout and system for performing the same Implementations of the present disclosure provide coloring methods that sort and pre-color nodes of G0-linked networks in a multiple-patterning technology (MPT)-compliant layout design by coordinate. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying target networks in a circuit layout, each target network having two or more linked nodes representing circuit patterns, and each target network being presented in an imaginary X-Y coordinate plane, assigning a first feature to a first node in each target network, the first node is determined using a coordinate-based method, and assigning the first feature and a second feature to remaining nodes in each target network in an alternating manner so that any two immediately adjacent linked nodes in each target network have different features.
US11790144B2	Fast, efficient real-time electro-magnetic systems simulator that dynamically accepts user input A method is described. The method includes calculating electric and/or magnetic fields in free space in response to: i) respective positions and motions of one or more charges and/or one or more current loops in the free space; ii) charges on nodes in the electrical circuit in the free space; iii) charge motions in the electrical circuit. The method includes calculating new respective positions and motions of the one or more charges and/or one or more current loops in the free space in response to respective forces applied to the one or more charges and/or the one or more current loops by the electric and/or magnetic fields. The method includes calculating new charges on nodes within the electrical circuit and new charge motions within the electrical circuit in response to the new positions and motions of the one or more charges and/or one or more current loops in free space, the charges on the nodes in the electrical circuit and the charge motions in the electrical circuit. The method includes concurrently rendering on a display of the computing system respective images of the one or more charges and/or one or more current loops according to the new respective positions and motions and the new charge motions within the electrical circuit. The method includes repeating the above to fluidly render on the display respective inter-active behaviors of the one or more charges and/or the one or more magnetic current loop in the free space and the charge motions in the electrical circuit.
US11790142B2	Flexible modeling method for timing constraint of register Disclosed in the present invention is a flexible modeling method for a timing constraint of a register. Simulation ranges of input terminal transition time, clock terminal transition time, and output load capacitance of a register are determined first, simulation is performed under each combination of input terminal transition time, clock terminal transition time, and output load capacitance to obtain a timing constraint range, then setup slack and hold slack are extracted in this constraint range with a particular interval, and then simulation is performed to obtain a clock terminal-to-output terminal delay. Finally, a mutually independent timing model of the register is established by using an artificial neural network, where the clock terminal-to-output terminal delay is modeled as a function of the input terminal transition time, the clock terminal transition time, the output load capacitance, the setup slack, the hold slack, and an output terminal state. A flexible timing constraint model in the present invention has advantages of low simulation overheads and high prediction precision, and is of great significance for static timing analysis timing signoff of a digital integrated circuit.
US11790136B2	Method for automating semiconductor design based on artificial intelligence Disclosed is a method for automating a semiconductor design based on artificial intelligence, which is performed by a computing device. The method may include: receiving feature information and logical design information of a semiconductor element; and training a neural network model to place semiconductor elements in a canvas in an order by a large size based on the feature information and the logical design information.
US11790133B2	Dynamic adjustment of cross-sectional views An example computing system is configured to (i) receive a request to generate a cross-sectional view of a three-dimensional drawing file, where the cross-sectional view is based on a location of a cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file and includes an intersection of two meshes within the three-dimensional drawing file; (ii) generate the cross-sectional view of the three-dimensional drawing file; (iii) add, to the generated cross-sectional view, dimensioning information involving at least one of the two meshes; (iv) generate one or more controls for adjusting a location of the cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file; and (v) based on an input indicating a selection of the one or more controls, adjust the location of the cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file, update the cross-sectional view based on the adjusted location of the cross-section line, and update the dimensioning information to correspond to the updated cross-sectional view.
US11790129B2	Virtualization, visualization and autonomous design and development of objects An integrated platform is provided that enables the various steps of development operations from design to sales, the virtualization, the visualization and the interpretation of a device so it may be fully created (designed), viewed, manipulated, packaged, simulated, tested, published and marketed right from within the platform. The resulting virtual device (VD) may be a multi-layered, -dimensional, -angular, -disciplinary, -documentarian, -service, manipulated and used in multiple ways. The provided VD may include visual representations of the VD via a traditional display device in a non-immersive environment and/or within an immersive environment via new virtual-reality (VR) devices. For instance, a user may create, manipulate, in real-time, layered multi-dimensional views of a VD in a virtual-reality, augmented-reality (AR), augmented virtual-reality (AVR), and/or mixed-reality (MR) environments.
US11790127B1	Full correlation aging analysis over combined process voltage temperature variation A method, a system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for aging analysis are provided. The method includes performing stress simulations for a plurality of process, voltage, temperature (PVT) conditions for a circuit, the circuit including one or more devices, extrapolating device level stresses obtained from the stress simulations into device level parameter degradations to a desired circuit age; and performing degradation simulations for the circuit for the same PVT conditions based on the device level parameter degradations. Each degradation simulation for a PVT condition of the plurality of PVT conditions is performed using the device level parameter degradations associated with the same PVT condition.
US11790121B2	System and method for detecting appliance tampering An appliance includes an external communication port, such as an RJ45 port, and a wireless communication module in wireless communication with a remote server through an external network. A controller is configured to detect port activity at the external communication port, e.g., by detecting a plug-in or data transfer, transmit a notification of the port activity to the remote server using the wireless communication module, receive an activity assessment, e.g., such as an activity approval or disapproval, from the remote server, and adjust at least one operating parameter of the appliance in response to the activity assessment.
US11790120B2	System and method for encrypting storage mediums with an encryption chip A system for producing and transmitting encrypted data from data encoded on a storage medium comprises an apparatus configured to receive the storage medium and an encryption chip communicatively coupled to the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a processor, a memory, and a network interface. The processor is configured to receive data encoded into the storage medium, and to decode the received data as the storage medium is at least partially inserted into the apparatus. The processor is further configured to transmit the received data to the memory for storage. The encryption chip comprises an encryption processor configured to access the received data stored in the memory of the apparatus and encrypt the received data with an algorithm to produce the encrypted data. The processor then transmits the encrypted data to an external server communicatively connected to a communication network.
US11790119B2	Application integrity attestation Techniques are disclosed relating to application verification. In various embodiments, a computing device includes a secure circuit configured to maintain a plurality of cryptographic keys of the computing device. In such an embodiment, the computing device receives, from an application, a request for an attestation usable to confirm an integrity of the application, instructs the secure circuit to use one of the plurality of cryptographic keys to supply the attestation for the application, and provides the attestation to a remote computing system in communication with the application. In some embodiments, the secure circuit is configured to verify received metadata pertaining to the identity of the application and use the cryptographic key to generate the attestation indicative of the identity of the application.
US11790117B2	Systems and methods for enforcing privacy-respectful, trusted communications Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for improving data privacy/anonymity and data value, wherein data related to a data subject can be used and stored, while minimizing re-identification risk by unauthorized parties and enabling data related to the data subject to be disclosed to an authorized party by granting access only to the data relevant to that authorized party's purpose, time period, place, and/or other criterion via the obfuscation of specific data values. The techniques described herein maintain this level of privacy/anonymity, while still empowering Data Subjects, e.g., consumers or customers of such authorized parties, by enabling them to request or specify their desired level of engagement with various business entities. Data Subjects may then receive privacy-respectful, trusted communication, e.g., advertising materials, based on their inclusion in dynamically changing and/or temporally-limited cohorts or microsegments (“MSegs”) of individuals sharing similar characteristics and having a sufficient size to satisfy anonymity, e.g., “k-anonymity,” requirements.
US11790114B2	Threshold-based assembly of automated assistant responses Techniques are described herein for assembling/evaluating automated assistant responses for privacy concerns. In various implementations, a free-form natural language input may be received from a first user and may include a request for information pertaining to a second user. Multiple data sources may be identified that are accessible by an automated assistant to retrieve data associated with the second user. The multiple data sources may collectively include sufficient data to formulate a natural language response to the request. Respective privacy scores associated with the multiple data sources may be used to determine an aggregate privacy score associated with responding to the request. The natural language response may then be output at a client device operated by the first user in response to a determination that the aggregate privacy score associated with the natural language response satisfies a privacy criterion established for the second user with respect to the first user.
US11790112B1	Systems and methods of identity protection and management In an embodiment, a computing system, such as a monitoring computer, receives a request from a user to monitor an account of the user with an online service provider. The request may include personal information and user preferences for one or more protective actions. The system periodically monitors external data sources for indications of changes to personal information associated with the account, and detects changes or attempted changes to personal information associated with the account. The system may determine risk levels associated with detected changes or attempted changes, and transmit a notification to the user via a communication channel selected based on the determined risk level and/or the user preferences. The system may also initiate protective actions, so that further unauthorized access to the account may be prevented.
US11790109B2	Privacy control operation modes Technology is disclosed for improving user privacy and providing user control over user-activity data collected from personal computing devices (i.e., user devices). User devices may be configured to operate in a private mode that enables a user to control, for example, which aspects of user-activity data are provided to applications and services running on their user device; to obscure or modify aspects of user-activity data so that certain applications and services, which may require this information to operate, may still function, but that the obscured information provided to these applications and services preserves user privacy or no longer may be used to identify the user; or to remove evidence of user-activity data created, monitored, reported, or otherwise collected by or on the user device while the user is operating their user device in the private mode setting.
US11790107B1	Data sharing platform for researchers conducting clinical trials Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for platforms for managing database content distribution. In some implementations, a system stores a data set comprising monitoring data collected from remote devices. The system receives a data sharing request, and in response to the data sharing request generates a data sharing record that specifies a data sharing recipient, a portion of the data set to be shared, and a limited set of operations that can be performed using the shared portion of the data set. The system configures a customized portal for the data sharing recipient based on the data sharing record, wherein the customized portal is configured to provide access limited to the shared portion of the data set with functionality limited to the limited set of operations. The system provides the data sharing recipient access to the customized portal.
US11790105B2	Secret search system and secret search method A secret search system is configured to generate a search key TDv in which a position of each character of a search character string is specified and set, and to search for, from among a plurality of encrypted tags ETx in which a position of each character of a character-string-to-be-searched is specified and set, an encrypted tag ETx corresponding to the generated se arch key TDv. In particular, the secret search system is configured to search for an encrypted tag ETx including the search key TDv as a partial character string by setting a position t of each character in one of the search key TDv and the encrypted tags ETx, setting a position −t of each character having a sign obtained by inverting a sign of the position t in the other thereof, and cancelling out, during the search, the position t and the position −t.
US11790103B2	Adaptive data loss prevention Described embodiments provide systems and methods for adaptive data loss prevention. A first computing device may generate, according to a first response from a server and an output from a second computing device identifying sensitive data in the first response, at least one rule regarding the sensitive data, and at least one template for data loss prevention (DLP) responses. The first computing device may determine, according to the at least one rule, a match to a second response from the server, that includes the sensitive data. The first computing device may provide, according to the match and the at least one template, a DLP response to redact the sensitive data of the second response, in place of a DLP output from the second computing device identifying the sensitive data in the second response.
US11790102B2	Systems and methods for using interaction weight when securing files and records A data security method, including creating an interaction graph, by analyzing collected interaction events between users and between users and files and/or records, where a respective node of the interaction graph represents a specific one of a user, a record, and a file, where a respective edge indicates an interaction between respective users or between a respective user and a respective file and/or record, where an interaction weight assigned to the respective edge indicates an amount of the interaction, monitoring an attempt by a target user to access a target file and/or record, computing a target interaction weight between the target user and the target file and/or record from the interaction graph, and in response to the target interaction weight being below a target threshold, at least one of filtering security alerts, and blocking access by the target user to the target file and/or record.
US11790100B2	Encryption of cloud-based data A method of allowing collaboration on an encrypted document stored in a cloud computing network, the encrypted document associated with a first user having a first user account in the cloud computing network, the method comprising: in response to a request from the first user to share the encrypted document, sending a link to a public network destination to a second user address of a second user; receiving a request via the link from an unconfirmed user to access the data in the encrypted document; requesting of the unconfirmed user to login to a second user account on the cloud computing network; authenticating the identity of the unconfirmed user as the second user; upon authenticating the identity of the unconfirmed user as the second user, decrypting the encrypted document to generate a decrypted document; storing the decrypted document in the first user account; granting the second user access to the decrypted file simultaneously to access granted to the first user; subsequent to the first user or the second user editing the decrypted document, encrypting an edited version of the decrypted document; and storing the edited version of the encrypted document in the first user account.
US11790099B1	Policy enforcement for dataset access in distributed computing environment Techniques for improving data security and access control at the distributed execution level of distributed computing systems are provided. The techniques can include receiving a data access request from a data processing application to access data, directing the data access request to a security data application, modifying the data access request, executing the modified data access request to obtain data that is responsive to the modified data access request, and providing the obtained data to the data processing application.
US11790098B2	Digital document repository access control using encoded graphical codes A device configured to obtain a first graphical code that represents a public encryption key for an organization and to extract the public encryption key for the organization from the first graphical code. The device is further configured to obtain a second graphical code that represents a digital document comprising data and a digital signature that was signed using a private encryption key for the organization. The device is further configured to extract the digital document from the second graphical code and to validate the second graphical code using the public encryption key for the organization. The device is further configured to determine the second graphical code passes validation using the public encryption key for the organization and to store the digital document in a digital document repository.
US11790090B2	Systems and methods for cybersecurity risk assessment In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems for cybersecurity assessment of an organization's technology infrastructure include identifying features of the technology infrastructure and automatically generating a threat profile relevant to both the technology infrastructure and the organization's business (and/or business objectives), where the threat profile includes potential threat actors and threat scenarios applicable to the technology infrastructure. The methods and systems may include evaluating cybersecurity controls of the organization's technology infrastructure in light of the threat profile to identify and rate vulnerabilities within the technology infrastructure.
US11790086B2	Selectively applying dynamic malware analysis to software files based on compression type in a software security system A file is received from external to the gateway device and, prior to runtime, the received file is detected as being compressed. Also before runtime, a compression type of the received file is differentiated as packed, protected, and/or archived. Identification of a specific packer, a specific protector or a specific archiver corresponding to the compression type is attempted. Responsive to successful identification, the received file is decompressed and a static type of malware analysis is selected for the received file. Responsive to unsuccessful identification, decompress the received file is attempted with a general unpacker, a general unprotector or a general unarchiver, and responsive to successful decompression, the static type of malware analysis is selected for the received file. Responsive to unsuccessful decompression, a dynamic type of malware analysis on the received file is selected.
US11790083B2	Detecting malicious scripts in a web page Techniques are provided for detecting a malicious script in a web page. Instrumentation code is provided for serving to a client computing device with a web page. The instrumentation code is configured to monitor web code execution at the client computing device when a script referenced by the web page is processed. Script activity data generated by the instrumentation code is received. The script activity data describes one or more script actions detected by the instrumentation code at the client computing device. Prior script activity data generated by a prior instance of the instrumentation code is obtained. A malicious change in the script is detected based on comparing the script activity data and the prior script activity data. In response to detecting the malicious change in the script, a threat response action is performed.
US11790082B2	Reasoning based workflow management An approach to workflow management in response to a detected security incident in a computer system. The approach may include an inference driven response based on prior artifacts. The inference driven response may predict the condition of the system and the outcomes of actions in response to the security incident. The predictions made by the inference drive response may be based on a machine learning model. The inference driven response may pause or prevent scheduled actions of the system based on the predictions. The inference driven response may continue to monitor the system and dynamically update its predictions for the condition of the system. In response to the updated predictions, the inference driven response may cancel or execute the previously scheduled actions of the system.
US11790080B1	Threat detection system with machine models for accounts within an organization unit A first instance of an event management system monitors event data corresponding to a first group of users in a cloud computing system. Using a first machine learning (ML) algorithm, the first instance detects an anomalous event from the event data. The first ML algorithm is trained using historical event data. A second instance of the event management system is created and a copy of the first ML algorithm is added to the second instance. The second instance monitors second event data corresponding to a second group of users in the cloud computing system. Using the copy of the first ML algorithm, the second instance detects a second anomalous event from the second event data.
US11790079B2	Systems and methods for executable code detection, automatic feature extraction and position independent code detection Disclosed herein are systems and methods for enabling the automatic detection of executable code from a stream of bytes. In some embodiments, the stream of bytes can be sourced from the hidden areas of files that traditional malware detection solutions ignore. In some embodiments, a machine learning model is trained to detect whether a particular stream of bytes is executable code. Other embodiments described herein disclose systems and methods for automatic feature extraction using a neural network. Given a new file, the systems and methods may preprocess the code to be inputted into a trained neural network. The neural network may be used as a “feature generator” for a malware detection model. Other embodiments herein are directed to systems and methods for identifying, flagging, and/or detecting threat actors which attempt to obtain access to library functions independently.

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