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US11848783B2	Method and apparatus for improving hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback performance of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) when impacted by low latency traffic Methods and apparatuses are described herein for providing a single-bit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback and a multi-bit HARQ feedback in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). For example, a WTRU may receive, via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may include a field that indicates a code block group (CBG) based retransmission for at least one transport block (TB). On a condition that the DCI does not include the field, the WTRU may transmit, via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a single-bit HARQ feedback for a TB-based retransmission. On a condition that the DCI includes the field, the WTRU may transmit, via the PUCCH, the multi-bit HARQ feedback for the CBG-based retransmission. The WTRU may be configured to provide the single-bit HARQ feedback for the TB-based retransmission and a multi-bit HARQ feedback for the CBG-based retransmission.
US11848782B2	Method and device for transmitting feedback information A method for transmitting feedback information, a terminal device, and a network device are provided, which can meet feedback requirements of different downlink data without causing waste of resources. The method comprises: receiving, by a terminal device, downlink control information for scheduling target data sent by a network device; receiving by the terminal device, the target data sent by the network device; determining, by, the terminal device, a feedback parameter of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook according to the downlink control information, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises HARQ-ACK information of the target data, the feedback parameter comprises a feedback mode of the HARQ-ACK codebook and/or a feedback resource for sending the HARQ-ACK codebook, and the feedback mode of the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a semi-static feedback mode or a dynamic feedback mode; and sending, by the terminal device, the HARQ-ACK codebook to the network device according to the feedback parameter.
US11848778B2	Methods and procedures for polar encoding and decoding with low latency A polar code may be initially divided into multiple polar component codes where the features of these component codes, such as the number of component codes and the size of the component codes, are determined based on parameters such as the number of available timing units within a transmission interval, interleaving depth, and decoder capability. For each selected component code, the order of code bit generation and their indexes may be determined. The determined indexes may be assigned into different, unique groups according to the order of code bit generation. An interleaving operation may be configured and then executed according to the determined index grouping. In the transmission phase, the code bits may be transmitted based on the identified order of the bit generation in the component polar codes, such as the determined index grouping.
US11848774B1	AI-based analog-digital fault detection and localization in 5G/6G Message faults are expected to be an increasing problem in 5G and 6G, due to signal fading at high frequencies, heavy background interference, and high user densities. Retransmissions are expensive in time, power, and the additional background they generate. Prior art includes “soft-combining” among multiple copies, an especially ineffective fault mitigation procedure when SNR is low. Nevertheless, the waveform signals of even badly faulted message elements are rich with information about the correct value. Therefore, procedures are disclosed herein for determining which message elements of a corrupted message, or its associated error-detection code, are faulted, by measuring characteristic parameters of the signal waveform of each message element, and correlating those parameters with the associated error-detection code. In many cases, the corrupted message may be corrected without a retransmission, according to some embodiments.
US11848773B2	Transmit antenna switching method and terminal device The present disclosure provides a transmit antenna switching method and a terminal device. The method includes: when the terminal device is in a dual-network connected state, determining a first network used to transmit control plane data and a second network only used to transmit user plane data, where the dual-network connected state is that the terminal device is simultaneously connected to the first network and the second network; determining, based on a transmit antenna used by the first network, a first transmit mode for switching an SRS antenna operating in the second network; and performing the SRS antenna switching based on the first transmit mode by using a first antenna set, where the first antenna set is all antennas used for the dual-network connected state included in the terminal device except the transmit antenna used by the first network.
US11848772B2	Rate-matching pattern indications for sidelink carrier aggregation Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a rate-matching pattern associated with shortened transmission lengths for a plurality of sidelink component carriers in a sidelink carrier aggregation. The UE may perform a sidelink transmission to a second UE with a shortened transmission length on a sidelink component carrier of the plurality of sidelink component carriers based at least in part on the rate-matching pattern. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11848766B2	Session detection and inference Sessions are core components of communication between communicating systems, which may include, for example, a client device and a server. A network device can be used to monitor and analyze session information that is transmitted in a client-server communication. Visibility into the session information and the traffic flow of a network device is critical to improve the performance and security of the network device and the transmission of information in the client-server communication. A lack of visibility into the session information can reduce security, leading to viruses, malware, and malfunctions.
US11848758B1	Secure messaging in a blockchain network Disclosed is a method for cross-authenticating non-credentialed devices and trusted blockchain enabled applications using multiple communications modalities and gathering information upon request for a blockchain network.
US11848753B2	Securing audio communications Systems and methods include establishing a cryptographically secure communication between an application module and an audio module. The application module is configured to execute on an information-handling machine, and the audio module is coupled to the information-handling machine. The establishment of the cryptographically secure communication may be at least partially facilitated by a mutually trusted module.
US11848745B2	Method and apparatus for accessing base station in satellite communication system A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform handover in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a first message indicating at least one condition for starting handover, wherein the at least one condition includes a condition based on a distance between the UE and a satellite used for current access; identifying whether the condition is satisfied based on a distance between the UE and the satellite used for current access; and performing a procedure for handover based on the condition being satisfied.
US11848744B2	Non-access stratum connection handling for wireless devices A wireless device receives, from a base station, access network information. The wireless device determines, based on the access network information, an access network type. The wireless device selects, based on the access network type, a non-access stratum (NAS) period value from between a first NAS period value associated with a terrestrial network (TN) access network type; and a second NAS period value associated with a geostationary earth orbit (GEO) access network type. The wireless device sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a first NAS request message. The wireless device starts, based on the sending the first NAS request message, a NAS period using the NAS period value.
US11848742B2	Satellite communications solid-state block upconverter with gain compensation An apparatus including a circuit, a temperature sensor, a sensor and a control system. The circuit may be configured to receive an input signal and a configuration signal and generate an output signal in response to performing an upconversion of the input signal to a selected frequency band and an amplification of the input signal in response to the configuration signal. The temperature sensor may be configured to measure a temperature. The sensor may be configured to measure a sensor value. The control system may be configured to generate the configuration signal in response to the temperature and the sensor value. The configuration signal may be generated to maintain a gain of the amplification at a target level over a range of an operating condition during the upconversion. The target level of the gain for the operating condition may be determined in response to a pre-determined calculation.
US11848739B2	Methods and devices for processing uplink signals There is provided mechanisms for processing uplink signals. A method is performed by a RRU (200). The method comprises obtaining uplink signals (S102) as received from wireless devices at antenna elements of an antenna array of the RRU (200), each wireless device being associated with its own at least one user layer. The method comprises capturing (S104) energy per user layer by combining the received uplink signals from the antenna array for each user layer into combined signals, resulting in one combined signal per user layer. The combining for each individual user layer is based on channel coefficients of the wireless device associated with said each individual user layer. The method comprises providing (S106) the combined signals to a BBU (300).
US11848736B2	Channel state information concatenation and antenna port measurement Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11848734B2	User terminal and radio communication method To appropriately control a plurality of CSI reports of different types, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits channel state information (CSI) reports of different types; and a control section that, when transmission durations of a plurality of the CSI reports overlap, drops a given CSI report according to priority or multiplexes a given CSI report on a given uplink channel, based on a type of each of the plurality of the CSI reports and a type of an uplink channel used for transmission of each of the plurality of the CSI reports.
US11848724B2	Network-enabled smart apparatus and systems and methods for activating and provisioning same A network-enabled smart apparatus has a data processing system, at least one operational system, wide area and local network communication interfaces, and a memory. The memory has stored therein apparatus identification information, at least one service application, and an activation application. The activation application causes the data processing system to establish an internet connection and create an NFC-enabled web page. The data processing system transmits, to the user device instructions to navigate to the NFC-enabled web page and instructions for the user to tap an NFC-enabled smart card to the user device. The apparatus data processing system reads, via the NFC-enabled web page, NFC information transmitted to the user device by the smart transaction card. The application causes the apparatus to transmit the NFC information to a service administration server, and receive, from the service administration server, a service activation command. The application responsively activates at least one service application.
US11848723B2	Systems and methods of testing cables in telecommunication systems and systems that contain said cables Systems and methods of testing cables are provided. An exemplary testing system for testing radio frequency (RF) cables in a telecommunication system including a cable under test includes a termination element configured to be coupled to a distal end of the cable under test; and a controller in communication with the termination element, wherein the controller switches the termination element between two or more termination states selected from the group consisting of an open termination state, a short termination state, a load termination state, and a through state.
US11848722B2	Mitigating next interference A method to mitigate near end cross talk (NEXT) interference in networks may include receiving, through NEXT interference, a synchronization signal from a reference master node of a first network at a neighbor master node of a neighbor network. The method may also include scheduling, based on the synchronization signal, a cycle of downstream and upstream communications in the neighbor network synchronized with a cycle of downstream and upstream communications scheduled in the first network.
US11848720B2	Harmonic-enhanced identification (ID) and device resolution for frequency modulating communication The devices and methods leverage harmonics to resolve, separate, and identify devices. The devices and methods use the harmonic patterns associated with a frequency modulating (FM) signal to discern and extract information from the FM signal using correlation learning in a crowded spectrum space where the nodes are transmitting simultaneously on multiple channels. The methods and devices leverage harmonics to resolve, separate, and/or identify wireless communication devices.
US11848717B2	Profiling of wireless local area network performance A method for profiling the performance of a wireless local area network may include receiving, from a wireless access point (WAP), measurements associated with client devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and identifying a dominance of the client devices in the WLAN. The method may further include classifying the received measurements into categories representing channel qualities with the client devices in the WLAN, and transforming the categories of the client devices into values. The method may further include determining a profile of the WLAN based on the values and the dominance of the client devices.
US11848715B2	Device for testing antenna module comprising plurality of antenna elements The present invention relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, a security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention provides a device for testing an antenna module, the device comprising: a seating unit which has seated thereon a first antenna module comprising a plurality of antenna elements; a second antenna module which comprises a plurality of antenna elements and is disposed so as to face the seating unit so as to be capable of emitting a radio wave toward the first antenna module; and a control unit which is electrically connected to the second antenna module and tests the performance of the first antenna module by controlling the second antenna module by grouping each antenna element of the second antenna module into at least one antenna element group.
US11848712B2	Calibration and test of radios spanning digital and analog domains A system can comprise a radio unit that comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The system can further comprise a first hardware component that communicatively couples the transmitter and the receiver. The system can further comprise a second hardware component that is configured to transmit an analog signal from the transmitter to the receiver via the first hardware component. The system can further comprise a third hardware component that is configured to evaluate operation of the radio unit based on the analog signal received at the receiver.
US11848691B2	Method and system for inactive and active beam transition in a satellite radio access network A Satellite Radio Access Network includes a base station for communicating with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. A network broadcasting signal is provided via an inactive or access beam covering a plurality of cells in the field of view. An access request is detected from a user device, such as a smartphone, within an area covered by the inactive beam. In response to the access request, a beam is transitioned from inactive to active to provide network access to the user device. Once the user device is out of range, the active beam is transitioned back to an inactive beam. An inactivity timer is used to detect an idle active cell that should be transitioned to an inactive cell.
US11848688B2	Decoding method and device, apparatus, and storage medium A decoding method and device are provided. The method includes: decoding grouped original data in parallel by a first decoding unit to obtain grouped decoded data; decoding merged grouped decoded data by a second decoding unit to obtain decoded data; and if the sum of the lengths of the decoded data is an integer multiple of an upper limit of the decoding times of the second decoding unit, updating the first decoding unit and the second decoding unit, and if the sum of the lengths of the decoded data is not an integer multiple of the upper limit of the decoding times of the second decoding unit, updating the second decoding unit to obtain the decoded data again, until the sum of the lengths of the decoded data is equal to a decoding length, and merging the decoded data to serve as a decoding result of the original data.
US11848686B2	Accelerated polynomial coding system and method A system using accelerated error-correcting code in the storage and retrieval of data, wherein a single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) processor, SIMD instructions, non-volatile storage media, and an I/O controller implement a polynomial coding system including: a data matrix including at least one vector and including rows of at least one block of original data; a check matrix including more than two rows of at least one block of check data in the main memory; and a thread that executes on a SIMD CPU core and including: a parallel multiplier that multiplies the at least one vector of the data matrix by a single factor; and a parallel linear feedback shift register (LFSR) sequencer or a parallel syndrome sequencer configured to order load operations of the original data into at least one vector register of the SIMD CPU core and respectively compute the check data or syndrome data with the parallel multiplier.
US11848679B2	Digital clock signal generator, chip, and method for generating spread-spectrum synchronous clock signals The present application discloses a circuit for generating spread-spectrum synchronous clock signal. The circuit includes a frequency detector comprising a fraction controller configured to compare an input signal of a first frequency with a feedback signal of a second frequency in a loop of feedback to generate a first control signal and a second control signal alternately for determining a control word to track the first frequency and a phase-shift controller configured to register n levels for the first control signal and the second control signal to introduce n phase delays for changing a fraction part of the control word randomly to provide a broadened boundary. The circuit also includes a digitally controlled oscillator configured to generate a synthesized periodic signal based on a base time unit, the first frequency, and the control word, with the second frequency being locked within the broadened boundary of the first frequency.
US11848677B2	Clock signal generation circuit A clock signal generation circuit for a switched capacitor circuit with a chopping function unit includes: first and second synchronous clock circuits that generate first and second synchronous clock signals, respectively; an edge signal generation circuit that generates one or more rise and fall edge signals by delaying the first synchronous clock signal; a first clock generator that generate a first clock signal group for driving the switched capacitor circuit; and a second clock generator that generates a second clock signal group for driving the chopping function unit. Frequencies of the first and second clock signal groups are respectively defined by the first and second synchronous clock circuits. Rise and fall edges of the first and second clock signal groups are defined by the edge signal generation circuit.
US11848676B2	Interference reducing passive transmission line receiver The present disclosure relates to improved electronic structures for propagating logic states between superconducting digital logic gates using a three-junction interferometer in a receiver circuit to reduce reflecting signals that otherwise result in distortions in the signals being transmitted between the gates. Other improved electronic structures comprise passive transmission lines (PTLs) with transmission line matching circuitry that has previously been avoided. The matching circuitry minimizes generation and propagation of spurious pulses emitted by Josephson junctions used in the digital logic gates.
US11848673B1	Majority voter with error detection An integrated circuit for use in high-reliability electronic systems contains one or more digital majority voters with corresponding disagreement detectors connected to the same input signals producing a majority value output and an error signal that is active when not all input signals agree. Internal error signals from multiple majority voter/disagreement detectors as well as external error inputs may be combined using disjunctive error logic to produce an “error detected” output indication. Cold-sparing and hot-plugging are supported by providing cold-sparable electrostatic discharge protection circuits and power-on reset circuitry controlling cold-sparable output stages. Internal modular redundancy provides immunity to single-event transients as well as enhanced reliability. Redundant electronic systems using the majority voter with error detection are also provided, as are fault notification systems that use the disjunctive error logic and external error input feedthrough capabilities of serially-connected integrated circuits to produce an error indication for a plurality of subsystems.
US11848670B2	Multiple partitions in a data processing array An apparatus includes a data processing array having a plurality of array tiles. Each array tile can include a random-access memory (RAM) having a local memory interface accessible by circuitry within the array tile and an adjacent memory interface accessible by circuitry disposed within an adjacent array tile. Each adjacent memory interface of each array tile can include isolation logic that is programmable to allow the circuitry disposed within the adjacent array tile to access the RAM or prevent the circuitry disposed within the adjacent array tile from accessing the RAM. The data processing array can be subdivided into a plurality of partitions wherein the isolation logic of the adjacent memory interfaces is programmed to prevent array tiles from accessing RAMs across a boundary between the plurality of partitions.
US11848668B2	Apparatus and method for active inductor modulation An active inductor modulator circuit is provided. The active inductor modulator circuit may include a circuit to receive an input signal and provide an output signal at an output terminal of the circuit based on a clock signal, a modulated active inductor coupled to the circuit to improve a time delay between the input signal and the provided output signal, and a modulation clock circuit to generate a delayed clock signal to enable the modulated active inductor prior to a transition of the output signal from a first logic state to a second logic state.
US11848667B2	Load switch circuit and control method A load switch circuit includes a power transistor, the first terminal is configured to receive the power supply voltage, and the second terminal is the output terminal of the load switch circuit and is coupled with an external inductive load; a clamping module including at least a mutually coupled clamping unit and a driving unit; the clamping unit, including a voltage-current converter and a first resistor, the first resistor is coupled between the output terminal of the voltage-current converter and the second terminal of the power transistor, the output terminal of the drive unit is coupled to the control terminal of the power transistor when the difference between the power supply voltage and the output voltage of the power transistor is greater than or equal to the preset clamping threshold, and the clamping unit outputs an effective drive control signal to the driving unit.
US11848662B2	Tunable monolithic group III-nitride filter banks Embodiments of a single-chip ScAIN tunable filter bank include a plurality of switching elements, and a plurality of channel filters integrated on a monolithic platform. The monolithic platform may comprise a single crystal base and each of the switching elements may comprise at least one of a scandium aluminum nitride (ScAIN) or other Group III-Nitride transistor structure fabricated on the single crystal base. In these embodiments, each channel filter comprises a multi-layered ScAIN structure comprising one or more a single-crystal epitaxial ScAIN layers fabricated on the single crystal base. The ScAIN layers for each channel filter may be based on desired frequency characteristics of an associated one of the RF channels.
US11848659B2	Manufacturing method of mounting structure, and sheet therefor A manufacturing method of a mounting structure, the method including: a step of preparing a mounting member including a first circuit member and a plurality of second circuit members placed on the first circuit member; a step of preparing a sheet having thermosetting property; a disposing step of disposing the sheet on the mounting member so as to face the second circuit members; and a sealing step of pressing the sheet against the first circuit member and heating the sheet, to seal the second circuit members and to cure the sheet, wherein the second circuit members include a reference member, and a first adjacent member and a second adjacent member each adjacent to the reference member, a separation distance D1 between the reference member and the first adjacent member is different from a separation distance D2 between the reference member and the second adjacent member, at least one of the plurality of the second circuit members is a hollow member to be provided with a space from the first circuit member, and in the sealing step, the plurality of the second circuit members are sealed so as to maintain the space.
US11848657B2	Film bulk acoustic resonator and fabrication method thereof The present disclosure provides a film bulk acoustic resonator and its fabrication method. The film bulk acoustic resonator includes a first substrate, a first support layer containing a first cavity, a piezoelectric stacked layer, and a first separation structure and/or a second separation structure. The piezoelectric stacked layer includes an effective working region and a parasitic working region; and in the parasitic working region, a first electrode and a second electrode have a corresponding region along a thickness direction. The first separation structure separates the first electrode, and the first electrode of a portion of the parasitic working region is insulated from the first electrode of the effective working region; and the second separation structure separates the second electrode, and the second electrode of a portion of the parasitic working region is insulated from the second electrode of the effective working region.
US11848655B1	Multi-channel volume level equalization based on user preferences Systems, devices, and methods are provided for multi-stem volume equalization, wherein the volume levels of each stem may be adjusted non-uniformly. Audio may be diarized into a plurality of stems, including background noise separate. Mean and variance of the volume levels of the stems may be computed. Each audio stem may be automatically adjusted based on a stem-specific preference that a user may specify. View may adjust actor volume relative to the mean/variance that maintains a relative difference in volume levels between stems.
US11848654B2	Power amplifier (PA)-filter output power tuning A technology is described for a repeater. A repeater can comprise a first port; a second port; a first-direction amplification and filtering path coupled between the first port and the second port; a multiplexer coupled between: the first-direction amplification and filtering path; and the second port; and a power amplifier (PA) coupled between the first port and the multiplexer. The repeater can further comprise an adjustable matching network coupled between the PA and the multiplexer, wherein the adjustable matching network is actively adjusted to match an impedance of an output of the PA at a selected channel over a frequency range for a first-direction signal with an impedance of an input of the multiplexer over the selected channel over the frequency range for a first-direction signal.
US11848651B2	Switching amplifier system with feedback A switching amplifier system with a power supply, a pulse modulator configured to modulate an input signal into a pulse width modulation signal, a switching stage configured to generate an amplified output signal, and an error feedback signal configured to correct errors in the amplified output signal, where the input signal is comprised of at least one of an analog signal and a digital signal. A method of signal amplification comprising generating, by a pulse width modulator, a pulse width modulation signal, combining, by a switching stage, the input signal and the pulse width modulation signal to form an amplified output signal, and generating, by the switching stage, an error feedback signal, where the error feedback signal is configured to correct errors in the amplified output signal, and where the input signal is comprised of at least one of an analog signal and a digital signal.
US11848647B2	Doherty amplifier A Doherty amplifier includes a divider configured to divide input power into first input power and second input power, and a carrier amplifier configured to amplify the first input power. The Doherty amplifier includes an adaptive attenuator configured to attenuate the second input power, the adaptive attenuator being configured to increase an attenuation amount upon detecting that the second input power is less than a predetermined value. The Doherty amplifier includes a peaking amplifier configured to amplify the attenuated second input power, and a combiner configured to combine output power of the carrier amplifier with output power of the peaking amplifier.
US11848645B2	Enabling an external resistor for an oscillator In an example, a system includes an oscillator circuit on a chip. The oscillator circuit includes a charging current generator including a current mirror, an amplifier, and an on-chip resistor, where the on-chip resistor is coupled to a pin on the chip. The oscillator circuit also includes oscillator circuitry coupled to the charging current generator, where the oscillator circuitry includes a comparator, a phase generator, a first capacitor coupled to a first resistor, and a second capacitor coupled to a second resistor. The system also includes an external resistor coupled to the pin, where the external resistor is external to the chip. The system includes an external capacitor coupled to the pin, where the external capacitor is external to the chip.
US11848644B2	Resistor-capacitor oscillation circuit A resistor-capacitor oscillation circuit includes a first group of inverters, a second group of inverters, a latch, a delay circuit, and a third group of inverters. The first group of the inverters is connected to the delay circuit and is configured to generate a first signal A and a second signal B. An input end of the second group of the inverters is connected to an enable signal EN. An output end of the second group of the inverters is connected to the latch. An output end of the delay circuit is connected to the latch. The latch is connected to the third group of the inverters and includes a first output end and a second output end. After a first clock signal FB is driven by the third group of the inverters, an output signal CLK is output by an output end of the third group.
US11848639B1	Surface mount assemblies for a solar panel system Surface mount assembly for mounting to a solar panel frame to an installation surface is disclosed. In some embodiments, a surface mount assembly includes a base and an enclosure. The base includes a lower member and an upper member. The lower member could include a brace, a center aperture extending through the lower and upper members for receiving a fastener to facilitate the mounting to a solar panel frame; the upper member could include a hub from which a plurality of arms may extend. The mount enclosure could include a chamber with a chamber aperture for receiving a fastener from the surface mount, a post support extending upward from the chamber and forming a post aperture for receiving a post, and a horizontal member with one or more sealant grooves extending horizontal outward from the chamber.
US11848637B2	Mount assemblies with chemical flashings Chemical flashings for track assemblies and mount assemblies employed in solar power installations are disclosed. In some embodiments, a track assembly having a base, a pair of rails, a sealant receiving cavity and a round groove extending into the base from the bottom of the base, and a compressible round seal disposed within the base extending past the bottom is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mount assembly having a vertical structure, a sealant receiving cavity and a round groove extending into the base from the bottom of the base, a compressible round seal disposed within the base extending past the bottom, and an excess sealant cavity is disclosed.
US11848631B2	Motor-integrated inverter A motor-integrated inverter is provided. The inverter includes a motor with a shaft disposed in a horizontal direction, and a power module configured to generate driving power for driving the motor and coupled to the motor in a direction in which the shaft is disposed.
US11848629B1	Method and apparatus for electric motor control A method and apparatus for electric motor control includes a model predictive controller operating in a d-q reference frame to provide d-q reference frame voltage command signals that counteract a magnetic cross coupling within the motor.
US11848627B2	MEMS beam structure and mems vibration-driven energy harvesting element This MEMS beam structure that elastically supports a movable section displaced in a first direction includes: a first beam section and a second beam section extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a linking section that connects the tip of the first beam section and the tip of the second beam section that is connected to the movable section, wherein the first beam section and the second beam section each have a shape as a beam of uniform strength, and the beam section root of the second beam section is displaced relatively in the first direction with respect to the beam section root of the first beam section according to the displacement of the movable section in the first direction.
US11848620B2	Three-level power conversion device A first leg includes a first switch circuit disposed between a first node to which a positive electrode of a DC power supply is connected and a second node and a second switch circuit disposed between the second node and a third node. A first filter circuit includes a first capacitor. A bridge circuit includes a second leg and a third leg that are disposed in parallel between the first node and the third node. A clamp circuit includes a bidirectional switch disposed between a fourth node that is a midpoint of the second leg and a fifth node that is a midpoint of the third leg. A second filter circuit includes a first reactor and a second reactor.
US11848613B1	Automatic charge balancing between phases using voltage control loop in multiphase converter A multiphase switching converter includes: a plurality of phases, an output capacitor, and a control loop. Each phase includes: a current detection device, a pulse width modulator, a set of switching devices, and an inductor. The control loop is configured to generate a first current signal to the current detection device of each phase of the plurality of phases. The first current signal is proportional to an average current generated by the plurality of phases. The current detection device of each phase provides a signal to a corresponding PWM to control a duty cycle of the set of switching devices to equalize the current generated by each phase and maintain a charge balance on the output capacitor.
US11848612B2	Hybrid buck-boost power converter A power converter is presented. The power converter may be configured to receive an input voltage at an input node of the power converter and to generate an output voltage at an output node of the power converter. The power converter may comprise an inductor coupled between an inductor node and the output node. The power converter may comprise a flying capacitor coupled between a first capacitor node and a second capacitor node. The power converter may comprise a first switching element coupled between the input node and the first capacitor node. The power converter may comprise a second switching element coupled between the second capacitor node and the inductor node. The power converter may be configured to, during a first phase of a buck operation mode, open the second switching element such that the second capacitor node is isolated from the inductor node.
US11848611B2	Switching power supply device A switching power supply device includes first to fourth switches sequentially connected in series, an inductor, a first capacitor whose first end is connected to a connection node of the first switch and the second switch and whose second end is connected to a connection node of the third switch, the fourth switch, and the inductor, a second capacitor whose first end is connected to a connection node of the second switch and the third switch, and a controller that controls switching on and off of the first to fourth switches. In at least one of a first pair configured with the first switch and the third switch and a second pair configured with the second switch and the fourth switch, the controller shifts a timing of switching from off to on between two switches.
US11848610B2	Low ripple pulse-skip mode control in switching mode power supplies A switching converter circuit comprises a converting circuit stage, an error amplifier, and a control circuit. The converting circuit stage includes a magnetic circuit element and a switching circuit configured to convert an input voltage to a regulated output voltage by charging and discharging the magnetic circuit element using activation pulses generated using a system clock signal. The error amplifier generates a control voltage using the output voltage. The control circuit varies time between successive activation pulses according to the control voltage, and the successive activation pulses are synchronized to the system clock signal.
US11848606B2	Asymmetric power regulator system The present invention provides a device including a first power delivery channel and a second power delivery channel. The first power delivery channel includes a first voltage regulator, wherein the first voltage regulator is configured to receive a first input voltage to generate a first output signal. The second power delivery channel includes a second voltage regulator and a third voltage regulator, wherein the second voltage regulator receives a second input voltage to generate a second output signal, and the third voltage regulator receives the second output signal to generate a converted second output signal, wherein the first output signal and the converted second output signal are coupled together to a core circuit.
US11848603B2	Auxiliary power supply apparatus and method for isolated power converters An apparatus includes a controller configured to generate a PWM signal for controlling a power switch of a forward converter, a bias switch and a bias capacitor connected in series and coupled to a bias winding of the forward converter, and a comparator having a first input connected to the bias capacitor, a second input connected to a predetermined reference and an output configured to generate a signal for controlling the bias switch to allow a magnetizing current from the bias winding to charge the bias capacitor when a voltage across the bias capacitor is less than the predetermined reference.
US11848597B2	Electric motor with deep drawn motor housing An electric motor with a deep-drawn motor housing including a flange adjoining an opening, the flange being polygonal or substantially polygonal in cross section with flange corners each including a screw-on point, each of the flange corners includes two embossments which define a bending edge of the motor housing between the screw-on point and an opening of the motor housing.
US11848591B2	Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for driving polyphase motors Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for driving polyphase motors are provided. A system is provided that may include an inverter with more than three phases, a stator with more than three phases, and a rotor with a number of poles. The geometry, construction, magnet flux distribution, and/or reluctance distribution can be varied between rotor poles. A method is provided that may control a system by selectively activating inverter half-bridges or other suitable inverter components, and energizing stator coils with different amplitude, which may result in non-repeating stator combined magnetic flux distribution, which may electromagnetically couple and produce torque on individual rotor poles, such as based on a pre-determined efficiency map.
US11848589B2	System and method for forming a hairpin for motors A system and method are provided for forming a head portion and a leg portion of a hairpin applied to a hairpin type drive motor. The system includes: an unwinder unit configured to unwind a material coil wound around a bobbin and flatten the material coil by a plurality of flattening rollers; a feeding unit configured to receive the material coil from the unwinder unit and cut the received material coil to a preset length; and a forming unit including a mold device having a plurality of forming blocks and a pair of forming roller units. The plurality of forming blocks are configured to process the material coil supplied from the feeding unit. The forming unit is configured to form the material coil by the plurality of forming blocks and the pair of forming roller units through a driving device connected to the mold device.
US11848588B2	Motor integrated with control unit and water pump having the same A motor integrated with a control unit having an efficiency in cooling by allowing the heat generated by the motor to be radiated away from the motor. Heat generated from the control unit is separately radiated away from the control unit. The motor integrated with the control unit can be utilized in water pumps.
US11848587B2	Surgical micromotor The present invention relates to a rotary micromotor (10) designed for actuating an abrasive blade (4) of a surgical or dental tool, the motor comprising a rotor (11) co-operating with a stator (12), and being characterized in that the rotor (11) has a hollow central tubular portion, and comprises an outwardly polarized Halbach array.
US11848586B2	Vibration actuator with plate springs sandwiched between a coil holding part and cases This vibration actuator has: a stationary body having a coil; a movable body having a magnet disposed radially inside the coil; and an elastic support part for supporting the movable body so that the movable body can move relative to the stationary body. The stationary body has a coil holding part. The coil holding part has, on the inner diameter side of the coil, a coil protection wall part. The elastic support part has at least two or more plate springs bridged between the coil holding part and the movable body so as to sandwich the movable body in a vibration direction. In order that the movable body does not come into contact with the coil holding part when not vibrating and when vibrating, the plate springs support the movable body so that the movable body is movable in the vibration direction.
US11848583B2	Constant current charging device A constant current charging device is configured to charge a device to be charged and includes: a reference current source configured to provide a reference current; a current mirror electrically coupled to the reference current source and configured to output a mirror current; a current adjusting unit electrically coupled to the current mirror and the device to be charged and configured to output a charging current according to the mirror current to charge the device to be charged; and a current compensation unit electrically coupled to the current mirror and the current adjusting unit and configured to adjust the charging current according to a reference voltage.
US11848580B2	Broadcast of discharge current based on state-of-health imbalance between battery packs Systems and methods are described for managing charging and discharging of battery packs. In one or more aspects, a system and method are provided to minimize overcharging of battery cells of specific battery chemistries while still enabling fast charging cycles. In other aspects, a buck converter may be used to reduce a voltage of power used to charge the cells. In further aspects, a fast overcurrent protection circuit is described to address situations involving internal short circuits of a battery cell or battery pack. In yet further aspects, a bypass circuit is provided in series-connected battery packs to improve the charging of undercharged battery packs while also increasing the efficiency of the overall charging process. In other aspects, a circuit is provided that permits a controller to determine a configuration of battery packs. In yet further aspects, a system may determine a discharge current for a collection of battery packs based on each battery pack's state of health (SOH) and forward that determination to an external device.
US11848579B2	Compact power tool data logger A data logger device for a power tool including a housing, a power tool interface provided at the top of the housing and configured to be received in a corresponding interface of the power tool, and a battery pack interface provided at the bottom of the housing and configured to receive a corresponding interface of a battery pack providing operating power to the power tool. The data logger also includes a tool terminal block, a battery terminal block provided, and bus bars connecting the tool terminal block to the battery terminal block to provide pass through power from the battery pack to the power tool. The data logger is configured to obtain data related to power tool operation, and export, using a transceiver, the data to a user device.
US11848577B2	Wireless power receiver for receiving high power high frequency transfer Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems may include voltage isolation circuits, to isolate components of the wireless receiver systems from high voltage signals intended for a load associated with the receiver. The voltage isolation circuit includes at least two capacitors, wherein the at least two capacitors are in electrical parallel with respect to the controller capacitor. The voltage isolation circuit is configured to regulate the AC wireless power signal to have a voltage input range for input to the receiver controller and isolate a voltage at the receiver controller from a voltage at the load associated with the wireless receiver system. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining durability and lifecycle of components of the wireless receiver system(s).
US11848575B2	Systems and methods for receiver beaconing in wireless power systems A wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information indicative of data signals encoded in the transmission by a receiver. The demodulation circuit is configured to apply automatic bias control and gain control to the electrical information to generate a modified electrical information signal, detect a change in the modified electrical information signal, and generate alerts based on said change, indicative of the data signals. The transmitter controller is configured to perform a beaconing sequence to determine a coupling between the transmitter antenna and the at least one other antenna, determine the automatic bias control and the automatic gain control, for the demodulation circuit based on the beaconing sequence, receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit, and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
US11848574B2	Automatic gain control for communications demodulation in wireless power transfer systems A wireless receiver and transmission systems include a receiver antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information superimposed on an AC wireless signal. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, apply automatic bias control and gain control to generate modified electrical information, detect a change in the modified electrical information and determine if the change in the modified electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold. If the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, an alert is generated. Alerts are decoded into the electrical information.
US11848571B2	Electronic circuit, module, and system for radio wave powered battery switch A convenient electronic circuit in which a switch is able to be switched through electric power obtained by weak radio waves is provided. An electronic circuit includes: a power supply configured to output direct current (DC) electric power; a switch connected between the power supply and a load driven by DC electric power supplied from the power supply and configured to switch a connection state between the power supply and the load from a non-conduction state to a conduction state; an power input terminal to which electric power obtained by radio waves received by an antenna capable of receiving the radio waves is input; a DC power output terminal configured to output DC electric power, a power conversion circuit configured to convert electric power input to the power input terminal into DC electric power and output the converted electric power from the DC power output terminal; an input terminal connected to the DC power output terminal of the power conversion circuit; an output terminal connected to the switch and configured to control a connection state of the switch; and a control circuit configured to control a connection state of the switch to be in a conduction state when the power conversion circuit outputs DC electric power due to the reception of radio waves by the antenna.
US11848570B1	Wireless acoustic viable electricity (WAVE) A Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system may transfer power, without mechanical contact, underwater between a transmitter device and a receiver device or multiple receiver devices in long ranges (>1 meters). An exemplary embodiment may employ focused acoustic sound wave to transfer wireless power underwater over long distances. An embodiment may include a transmitter and receiving device with onboard electronics that effectively power a target electronic system or battery storage device with minimal power losses during transmission.
US11848566B2	Dual communications demodulation of a wireless power transmission system having an internal repeater A wireless power transmission system includes a transmission antenna that has a source antenna coil and an internal repeater coil. The system further includes two demodulation circuits, for demodulating incoming communications from a power receiver. One demodulation circuit receives sensed signals at the source coil and the other receives sensed signals at the internal repeater coil. The pair of sensed signals are then summed at a summing amplifier to generate a communications signal for input to a controller of the wireless power transmission system.
US11848562B2	Electric vehicle charging station for connecting to high or extra high voltage transmission line and operation method thereof An electric vehicle charging station for connecting to a span of a high or extra high voltage transmission line, comprising: a tap for connecting to the span of the transmission line; a substation comprising one or more power voltage transformers; a plurality of electric vehicle chargers. The power voltage transformers are station service voltage transformers, auxiliary service voltage transformers, or power VTs. Said power voltage transformers may be star-delta transformers or star-star transformers. Said tap may comprises, for each phase of the transmission line: an insulator for linking a first and a second interrupted conductor points of an interrupted transmission line conductor; a drop conductor connected between the first interrupted conductor point and said substation; a shunt connector connected between the second interrupted conductor point and a point of the drop conductor or connected between the first and second interrupted conductor points.
US11848560B2	Networked power plants A method described delivers power to a first load and a second load from networked power plants. The method may include receiving a power delivery profile for the first load, receiving a power delivery profile for a second load, determining a power output capability of a first renewable energy power plant (REPP), and determining a power output capability of a second REPP. The method may also include setting a power output for the first REPP and a power output for the second REPP based on the power delivery profile for the first and second loads and the power output capabilities of the first and second REPPs. The method may also include allocating a combined power output of the first and second REPPs to the first and second loads and delivering the allocated combined power output to the first and second loads.
US11848559B2	Power management in fuel cell system based microgrids Excess DC current generated by a fuel cell stack may be provided to a current source inverter, and an AC current may be output by the current source inverter to a grid side bus. The AC current on the grid side bus may be used to support a load demand on a microgrid side bus or provided to a power grid. Various transmission buses and electric conditioning and control devices, such as rectifiers, current source inverters, motors, generators, electric contactors, relays, and/or transfer switches may be configured to use the AC current on the grid side bus to provide an AC current to the microgrid side bus to support the load demand on a microgrid side bus.
US11848558B2	Method and apparatus for storing and depleting energy A method to control storage into and depletion from multiple energy storage devices. The method enables an operative connection between the energy storage devices and respective power converters. The energy storage devices are connectible across respective first terminals of the power converters. At the second terminals of the power converter, a common reference is set which may be a current reference or a voltage reference. An energy storage fraction is determined respectively for the energy storage devices. A voltage conversion ratio is maintained individually based on the energy storage fraction. The energy storage devices are stored individually with multiple variable rates of energy storage through the first terminals. The energy storage is complete for the energy storage devices substantially at a common end time responsive to the common reference.
US11848556B2	Power and communications network convergence system, and control method therein Provided is an power and communications network convergence system including wireless base stations, and DC grid groups, each grid group belonging to a cell. Each grid in the grid group has a DC line to which devices including a power generator and a power-storage are connected, and performs, based on state-information on each device, first control for reducing power fluctuations in the line. A first grid belonging to a cell performs, based on state-information on each grid, second control for interchanging power with a second grid belonging to the cell. If a power situation of a first grid group belonging to a first cell and a power-situation of a second grid group belonging to a second cell satisfy a preset condition, the first grid group performs third control for interchanging power with the second grid group.
US11848549B2	Junction box with flashing for a tile surface A junction box may include a housing box. The housing box may be configured to selectively attach to a sub-tile surface of the structure. The housing box may include a recess portion configured to be physically positioned between a plane of a tile surface of the structure and the sub-tile surface. The housing box may also include an expose portion configured to extend away from the plane of the tile surface. In addition, the housing box may include a bottom portion attached to the recess portion. The bottom portion may include a first surface configured to be physically positioned proximate the sub-tile surface such that a central plane of the housing box is not parallel to a plane of the sub-tile surface when the plane of the tile surface is not parallel to the plane of the sub-tile surface.
US11848545B2	Automatic opening and closing stripping device for indirect live wire having wire stripping and taping functions, and methods for stripping and taping indirect live wire using same Proposed are a device which is used as both a taping device and a stripping device and is used for stripping or taping a coating of an extra-high-voltage wire in a live wire state and, more particularly, an automatic opening and closing stripping device for an indirect live wire having wire stripping and taping functions, and methods for stripping and taping an indirect live wire using the automatic opening and closing device. The automatic opening and closing stripping device for an indirect live wire having wire stripping and taping functions allows an insulation stripping or taping operation to be performed on a wire in a live wire state while not being close to the wire, thus securing safety, allows a stripping operation and various taping operations to be performed by using one equipment.
US11848534B2	Additive manufacturing system with laser assembly A laser assembly for use with an additive manufacturing system, which includes a base block configured to be moved along a scan direction axis in the additive manufacturing system, a plurality of laser emitters preferably arranged in an array of at least two rows of two or more laser emitters. At least a portion of a heat sink assembly is configured to draw heat away from the base block and/or the laser emitters. The assembly includes a controller assembly a controller assembly configured to control a movement of the base block along the first axis and to independently control at least timing and duration of energy emitted from each laser emitter of the plurality of laser emitters as the base block moves along the first axis.
US11848531B2	Compact mode-locked laser module Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.
US11848530B2	Radio-frequency excited gas laser A radio-frequency excited carbon dioxide (CO2) or carbon monoxide (CO) gas laser includes two electrodes, which have passivated surfaces, within a sealed housing. Features in a ceramic slab or a ceramic cylinder located between the electrodes define a gain volume. Surfaces of the ceramic slab or the ceramic cylinder are separated from the passivated surfaces of the electrodes by small gaps to prevent abrasion thereof. Reducing compressive forces that secure these components within the housing further reduces abrasion, thereby extending the operational lifetime of the gas laser.
US11848528B2	Method for making a bayonet connecting element for a connector A method for making a bayonet connecting element for a connector, according to which a connecting element body, with a hollow cylindrical general shape is made. The method includes making a through bore by drilling a wall of the body of the connecting element, from the outer surface of the wall. The outer surface of the wall is machined around the bore so as to create a conical contact surface around the bore. A lug is inserted into the bore, from the outer surface of the wall, so that a head of the lug projects from the outer surface of the wall of the connecting element. The lug having a conical contact surface corresponding to the conical contact surface of the bore.
US11848522B2	Connector with shielded terminals Input/output (I/O) connectors (1) for conducting data at high data rates, (e.g. 112 gigabits per second or more) are provided with protective shields (4, 5, 6) to provide increased mechanical strength and signal integrity.
US11848521B2	Plug connector A plug connector (1) for connection of a data line, having a plug housing (2) with one or more connection elements (3) each connection element being for connection of a respective wire of the data line. The connection elements have one or more contact elements (4), and one or more conductor elements (5), via each of which a connection element (3) is electrically conductively connected to a contact element (4). Return damping of the plug connector (1) is reduced in that at least one portion (6) of the individual conductor elements (5) or at least one portion of the individual contact elements (4) is designed and arranged such that the wave impedance of the portion (6) is purposefully mismatched so that the value of the wave impedance deviates from the nominal wave impedance of the data line.
US11848518B2	Header power connector A header power connector includes a header housing assembly including an inner housing received in a cavity of an outer housing. The inner housing has upper and lower openings open to a terminal channel configured to receive busbars. The inner housing is movable relative to the outer housing to accommodate misalignment of the busbars in the terminal channel. A terminal is received in the terminal channel having a terminal base, an upper mating end and a lower mating end. The upper mating end includes an upper socket flanked by upper spring beams that receives the first busbar and the lower mating end includes a lower socket flanked by lower spring beams that receives the second busbar. The terminal is movable in the terminal channel to accommodate misalignment of the first busbar and the second busbar in the terminal channel.
US11848517B2	Terminal block structure and unbuckling unit thereof A terminal block structure and an unbuckling unit thereof are disclosed. The unbuckling unit has a base member and a rotary member, the rotary member is connected to the base member to be operated. The rotary member includes a first arm part, a second arm part extended from the first arm part and a rotary part disposed between the first arm part and the second arm part. The second arm part has a buckling unit, and the rotary part is connected to the base member. When the first arm part is applied with an external force, the rotary member rotates about the rotary part as a rotation center to drive the second arm part to ascend. Accordingly, advantages of easily to be pressed and operated, simple in structure and convenient to be assembled are provided.
US11848515B1	Magnetic connector A magnetic connector has a plug core disposed around a plug contact set and a receptacle core disposed around a receptacle contact set. The plug core defines a generally elongated circular plug core edge. The receptacle core defines a generally elongated concentric-circular receptacle core edge. The receptacle core edge defines an air gap, and the plug core defines an anchor configured to insert into the air gap. A coil is disposed around the receptacle core, and the coil, the plug core and the air gap define a magnetic circuit. The coil is electrically energized so as to form a magnetic field within an air gap, lock the anchor within the air gap and lock the plug contact set to the receptacle contact set accordingly.
US11848512B2	Insulation displacement connector for sheathed insulated cables An insulation displacement connector connecting to a sheathed insulated cable has a housing including a first portion and a second portion mechanically engaging the first portion. The first portion is made of a different material than the second portion.
US11848511B2	Electrical plug safety boot This electrical plug safety boot is used to protect children and other household occupants from electrical shocks while inserting or removing the plug from an electrical receptacle or in case a child tries to touch the prongs of the plug while the plug is half way out intentionally or accidentally. A unique aspect of the present invention is that this safety boot conveniently fastens to any existing electrical plug with or without a ground prong and does not have to be manufactured with the electrical plug. The invention is an elastically collapsible electrically insulating boot which mounts around the prongs and prevents fingers from touching them.
US11848509B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a mating slot and multiple accommodating slots are in communication with the mating slot. Multiple terminals are accommodated in the accommodating slots. The terminals include ground terminals. Each terminal includes a connecting portion, an elastic arm, a tail portion, and an extending portion located between the connecting portion and the tail portion. The extending portion of each terminal extends obliquely downward and backward from the connecting portion. A grounding member is provided on the insulating body. The grounding member has a multiple upper and lower extending arms. A length of each upper extending arm is shorter than a length of each lower extending arm in the front-rear direction. The upper and lower extending arms respectively abut the ground terminals, thus shortening the transmission paths of the terminals. The grounding member and the ground terminals are in stable connection, thus reducing the resonance.
US11848507B2	Radiating element, antenna array, and network device This application provides a radiating element, an antenna array, and a network device, to avoid mutual shielding between dipoles during multi-band transmission, and therefore improve radiation performance. The radiating element includes one or more dipoles and a supporter. The one or more dipoles are suspended on the top of the supporter, and each of the one or more dipoles is connected to the supporter at a specific angle. A dipole arm of each dipole is covered with a periodic structure. The periodic structure is configured to enable an electromagnetic wave radiated to a first surface of each dipole to be incident to a second surface of each dipole, where the first surface and the second surface are any two opposite surfaces of each dipole.
US11848504B2	Device and method for communication A communication device includes a display device, a phase tuning layer, and a mmWave (Millimeter Wave) module. The display device includes a first display portion and a second display portion. The pixel density of the first display portion is greater than that of the second display portion. The phase tuning layer is adjacent to the second display portion. The mmWave module generates a wireless signal. The wireless signal is propagated through the second display portion and the phase tuning layer.
US11848501B2	Antenna array, antenna device and display device including the same An antenna array according to an embodiment includes antenna elements arranged in a predetermined direction. Each antenna element includes a first radiation body, a second radiation body to be spaced apart from the first radiation body in a first direction, a third radiation body to be spaced apart from the first radiation body in a second direction, a first signal pad and a second signal pad to supply signals to the first radiation body, a first transmission line extending in the first direction to connect the first signal pad and the first radiation body, a second transmission line extending in the second direction to connect the second signal pad and the first radiation body, a third transmission line configured to connect the first radiation body and the second radiation body, and a fourth transmission line configured to connect the first radiation body and the third radiation body.
US11848496B2	Lens-enhanced communication device A communication device includes a system board that includes a plurality of chips. Each chip in plurality of chips includes a plurality of antennas. A system cover coupled to system board includes a plurality of lenses. Each lens is configured to cover an antenna of plurality of antennas as a radome enclosure. Each lens includes a base, and a first tubular membrane coupled to base. A second membrane coupled to first tubular membrane. First tubular membrane and Second membrane cause the lens to have a bell shape. A support structure coupled to first tubular membrane. Support structure facilitates coupling of plurality of lenses to system cover. Each chip comprises a feeder array that further comprises a plurality of antenna elements that are positioned at a proximal distance from base of a lens, A distribution of a gain of input RF signals is substantially equalized across plurality of antenna elements.
US11848494B2	Electronic device The present invention provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a mainboard, a metal frame, a display module, and a shield structure. The mainboard includes a radio frequency circuit. The metal frame is coupled to the radio frequency circuit, and configured to receive or transmit a radio frequency signal. The shield structure is located in the display module or on a side of the display module closer to the mainboard, and is connected to the display module. The shield structure includes a metal shield layer. The metal shield layer is insulated from the metal frame and the radio frequency circuit, and the metal shield layer can generate reflection between the metal frame and the display module, weaken field strength generated in the display module by radiated energy from the metal frame, and shield the energy radiated from the metal frame to the display module.
US11848484B2	Antenna structure and image display device including the same An antenna structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a dielectric layer, and an antenna unit disposed on a top surface of the dielectric layer. The antenna unit includes a radiator including convex portions and concave portions, a transmission line including a first transmission line and a second transmission line that extend in different directions to be connected to the radiator, and a parasitic element disposed to be adjacent to the transmission line and electrically and physically separated from the transmission line and the radiator. A length of the parasitic element in an extension direction of the transmission line is from 45% to 70% of a half wavelength (λ/2) at a maximum resonance frequency from the antenna unit.
US11848483B2	Wireless communication device with an antenna adjacent to an edge of the device A method for a wireless communication device including configuring an antenna including antenna circuitry to receive or transmit wireless signals; feeding a radio frequency signal into the antenna circuitry; providing a housing comprising a plurality of edges, wherein the edges comprise a top edge, a bottom edge, and two side edges, wherein a first edge of the housing comprises a conductive strip, a first slot, and a second slot, and wherein the first edge is the top or bottom edge; providing an input/output port adjacent to the first edge of the housing; and locating the conductive strip, which comprises a portion of the antenna, entirely between the first slot and the second slot, wherein a length of each of the first slot and the second slot extends across the first edge of the housing and is oriented perpendicular to a major axis of the conductive strip.
US11848481B2	Antenna-in-package with frequency-selective surface structure A semiconductor package includes a substrate having thereon at least an antenna layer and a ground reflector layer under the antenna layer, a radio frequency (RF) die disposed on or in the substrate, a molding compound disposed on the antenna layer of the substrate, and a frequency-selective surface (FSS) structure disposed on the molding compound. The FSS structure is a two-dimensional periodic array of metal patterns of same shape and size. The FSS structure has highly reflective characteristic.
US11848480B2	Electronic device and method for manufacturing the same An electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The electronic device includes a carrier, an antenna element and a cladding element. The carrier defines a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area. The antenna element is in the first area. The cladding element covers the antenna element and is configured for enhancing antenna gain of the antenna element. The second area is exposed from the cladding element and is distant from the antenna element.
US11848478B2	Thermal compensation for a holographic beam forming antenna The invention compensates for abnormal operating temperatures and/or abnormal behaviors of a holographic metasurface antenna (HMA) that is generating a beam based on a holographic function. The HMA is characterized with different holographic functions for a plurality of operating temperatures and a plurality of behaviors during the manufacturing process. The characterization of the HMA identifies different hologram functions that cause the HMA to generate more or less heat or exhibit more or less abnormal behavior while generating equivalent beams. Further, or more characterizations of a hologram function may be performed remotely after the HMA is installed in a real world environment. An operating temperature and/or a temperature gradient may be detected by temperature sensors physically located on a circuit board for the HMA.
US11848473B2	Method of constructing a cavity comprising forming one or more conductively coated openings in a plurality of boards and placing a rod or tuning post therein A cavity device is disclosed comprising a plurality of flat boards stacked one on lop of the other to form a multilayered structure. At least some of the flat boards comprise at least one opening or perforations having one or more layers of electrically conducting materials configured to establish electrical conduction with one or more layers of electrically conducting materials of another one of the flat boards, to thereby form electrically conducting patterns in the multilayered structure for interacting with electromagnetic radiation introduced into the cavity device.
US11848471B2	System with magnetic film for reducing passive intermodulation A wireless communication system includes a transmitter configured to transmit at least first and second radio waves having respective different frequencies F1 and F2, an electrically conductive first passive substantially linear medium, an electrically conductive first passive substantially nonlinear medium disposed proximate the first passive substantially linear medium, and a first magnetic film covering at least a portion of the first passive substantially linear medium. When the transmitter transmits the first and second radio waves, the first passive substantially linear and nonlinear media receive the first and second radio waves and generate first and second signals propagating therein at the respective frequencies F1 and F2. At least one intermodulation signal having a frequency F3 equal to nF1+mF2, where m and n positive or negative integers, is generated in the first passive substantially nonlinear medium. The first magnetic film reduces the at least one intermodulation signal by at least 2 dB.
US11848470B2	DOCSIS-MoCA coupled line directional coupler A Docsis-MoCA coupled line directional coupler includes an input port, an output port, a coupled port, and a termination port. A first track connects the input port to the output port and a second track, which may be substantially parallel to the first track, connects the termination port to the coupled port. The first track and the second track are configured to form a variable coupling length so as to control, for instance, an isolation level between the output port and the coupled port to be less than a predetermined isolation level in a MoCA frequency band.
US11848465B2	Integrated cooling module of fuel cell stack and thermal management system including integrated cooling module An integrated cooling module of a fuel cell stack is attached to a housing of the fuel cell stack, and the integrated cooling module is connected to a plurality of components constituting a thermal management system of a fuel cell. In particular, the integrated cooling module includes: a first injection member defining flow paths guiding coolant into one or more components of the thermal management system of the fuel cell, and at least one second injection member coupled to the first injection member, and the coolants going through the components flow into the fuel cell stack through any one of the flow paths defined by the integrated cooling module.
US11848462B2	Battery outgassing filter system and method to filter outgassing from a battery cell A battery outgassing filter system is provided. The system includes a battery cell, an external casing encapsulating the battery cell and including a casing vent, and an outgassing filter disposed upon the casing vent and including a filter element including a first filter element portion operable to contain a first size of particulate matter and a second filter element portion operable to contain a second size of particulate matter relatively smaller than the first size of particulate matter.
US11848459B2	Barrier seal assemblies for sealing vehicle electrical housings This disclosure details exemplary barrier seal assemblies for sealing vehicle electrical housings. The vehicle electrical housings may include any electrical housing utilized within a vehicle, including but not limited to battery pack housings and electrical connector assemblies. An exemplary barrier seal assembly may include a primary seal, a barrier seal, and a carrier that extends between the primary seal and the barrier seal. The barrier seal assembly is configured to reduce the ingress of corrosion inducing substances into an interior of vehicle electrical housings.
US11848454B2	Battery enclosures with structural enhancements Batteries according to embodiments of the present technology may include an electrode stack including a separator positioned between an anode and a cathode. The batteries may include an electrolyte. The batteries may include an enclosure extending about the electrode stack and containing the electrolyte. The enclosure may include a rigid housing defining a volume in which the electrode stack and the electrolyte are contained. The rigid housing may define a flange extending about the rigid housing. The enclosure may include a lid extending across the rigid housing. The lid may be characterized by a length and a width, and the lid may define a protrusion extending beyond the length or width on a side of the lid at a location corresponding to a predetermined strain location.
US11848453B2	Intermetallic catalyst and method for preparing the same Provided is a method of preparing an intermetallic catalyst which includes applying ultrasonic wave to a precursor mixture solution including a noble metal precursor, a transition metal precursor, and a carbon support having an average pore size of about 6 nm to about 15 nm and a specific surface area of about 200 m2/g to about 2000 m2/g to form alloy particles in pores of the carbon support, and annealing the alloy particles in the pores of the carbon support to form intermetallic alloy particles.
US11848448B2	Lithium secondary battery A lithium secondary battery, and more particularly, to a lithium secondary battery having improved performance by minimizing the content of impurities such as sodium in the battery.
US11848445B2	Rechargeable transition metal battery A rechargeable transition metal battery includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode and an electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode material which is a transition metal or an alloy of the transition metal. The positive electrode is electrically connected to the negative electrode and includes a host material and a positive electrode material. The host material includes a carbon. The positive electrode material is connected to the host material, and the positive electrode material is a compound of a metal, an elemental chalcogen or an elemental halogen. The electrolyte is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US11848441B2	Zinc foil, primary battery negative electrode active material using same, and zinc foil production method A zinc foil is provided that can be used as a negative electrode active material, and in a battery including the zinc foil as a negative electrode active material, the amount of gas generated during long term storage of the battery is reduced as compared with that in a battery including a conventional zinc foil. The zinc foil contains zinc as a main material and bismuth. The bismuth content is 100 ppm or more and 10000 ppm or less on a mass basis. The zinc crystal grain size is 0.2 μm or more and 8 μm or less. The bismuth crystal grain size is less than 1000 nm, as measured in a backscattered electron image obtained using a scanning electron microscope. The zinc foil is free of aluminum and/or lead, or even if the zinc foil contains aluminum and/or lead, the aluminum content is 1% or less on a mass basis and/or the lead content is 200 ppm or less on a mass basis.
US11848439B2	Electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof, and lithium-ion secondary battery A highly reliable electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery is provided. A highly reliable lithium-ion secondary battery is also provided using the electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery. The electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a current collector and an active material layer. The active material layer includes an active material, graphene, and polyimide. The active material includes a plurality of nanowires each of which grows with a silicon particle used as a nucleus and extends in one direction into a fine needle. The graphene includes a region in contact with the plurality of nanowires, and polyimide includes a region in contact with the graphene. The lithium-ion secondary battery uses the electrode as a negative electrode.
US11848434B1	Multifunctional metal-organic framework battery interface The present solution provides a multifunctional metal-organic (MOF) interface that can be applied between battery cells, battery modules or battery packs and provide thermal isolation and active cooling, as necessary, while also providing absorption for mechanical stress of EV battery. The present solution can include a battery cell that can have an outer surface. A multifunctional material can be coupled with the outer surface of the battery cell. An opening that extends through the multifunctional material can provide thermal convection when the heat is moved through the opening. The multifunctional material can provide thermal insulation when the fluid is not moved through the opening. The multifunctional material can insulate the battery cell from mechanical stress.
US11848432B2	Battery module A battery module which includes: a battery stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells respectively including electrode tabs on each other; bus bar assemblies located on both sides of the battery stack, from which the electrode tabs are drawn, to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells to each other through the plurality of electrode tabs; and a sensing module assembly disposed on one side of the battery stack, from which the electrode tab is not drawn out, to electrically connect the bus bar assemblies on both sides of the battery stack.
US11848427B2	Non-linear voltammetry-based method for charging a battery and fast charging system implementing this method A Non-Linear Voltammetry (NLV)-based method for charging batteries. It also relates to a fast charging system implementing this method. Adaptive charging, Non-Linear Voltage changing, and Relaxation are the key cornerstones of this method. Adaptive charging allows the system to balance the charging based on the user's time requirements, required charge capacity and the SOC and SOH of the battery. Non-linearly changing the voltage coupled with a suitable relaxation pattern allows this method to gain the maximum charge capacity without straining the battery.
US11848426B2	State of charge dependent plating estimation and prevention A battery system includes a lithium ion battery configured to couple to an electrical system, and a battery management system configured to electrically couple to the lithium ion battery and to control one or more recharge parameters of the lithium ion battery. The battery management system is programmed with an electrochemical model, and the battery management system is configured to monitor parameters of the lithium ion battery, and to control the one or more recharge parameters of the lithium ion battery based on the electrochemical model and the one or more monitored parameters. The electrochemical model determines lithium plating reaction kinetics at an anode of the lithium ion battery, determines a quantity of plated lithium at the anode of the lithium ion battery, or both, and indicates a relationship between the one or more monitored parameters and the lithium plating reaction kinetics, the quantity of plated lithium, or both.
US11848422B2	Electrochemical device and electronic device An electrochemical including an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a negative electrode plate, a positive electrode plate, and a separator. The negative electrode plate includes a negative current collector. The negative current collector includes a first part and a second part. A first negative active material layer is disposed on one side of the first part. A second negative active material layer and a third negative active material layer are disposed on two sides of the second part respectively. The positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector. The positive current collector includes a third part and a fourth part. A first positive active material layer is disposed on the third part. A second positive active material layer is disposed on the fourth part.
US11848417B2	Gel polymer electrolyte including crosslinked network of poss and peg, ionic liquid, and lithium salt, lithium battery including the same, and process of preparing the same Ionic liquid N-methyl-N-propyl-pyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (Pyr13FSI) was introduced into a hybrid network to obtain a series of gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs). Mechanical and electrochemical properties of the GPEs were tuned through controlling the network structure and ionic liquid contents, and ionic conductivity higher than 1 mS cm−1 at room temperature was achieved. The newly developed GPEs are flame-retardant and show excellent thermal and electrochemical stability as well as ultra-stability with lithium metal anode. Symmetrical lithium cells with the GPEs exhibit a stable cycling over 6800 h at a current density of 0.1 mA cm−2 and stable lithium stripping-plating at 1 mA cm−2, the highest current density reported for ionic liquid-based GPEs. Moreover, Li/LiFePO4 batteries with the obtained GPEs exhibit desirable cycling stability and rate performance over a wide temperature range from 0° C. to 90° C.
US11848413B2	Anode-free solid-state battery cells with anti-dendrite and interface adhesion controlled functional layers Provided herein are various battery cell embodiments. A battery cell can have a solid electrolyte. The electrolyte can be arranged within the cavity. The battery cell can have a cathode disposed within the cavity along a first side of the electrolyte. The battery cell can have a functional layer disposed within the cavity along a second side of the electrolyte. A first side of the functional layer can be in contact with a second side of the electrolyte. The functional layer can form an alloy with lithium material received via the electrolyte. The battery cell can have a scaffold layer disposed within the cavity along a second side of the functional layer.
US11848410B2	Battery cell and method for manufacturing battery cell Disclosed is a battery cell, which includes an electrode assembly, a pair of electrode leads electrically connected to the electrode assembly, a battery case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly and expose a portion of the pair of electrode leads to the outside, an electrolyte injection hole formed in the battery case and connectable to an electrolyte injecting device that injects an electrolyte in a vacuum state so that the electrolyte is injected into the battery case, and an injection hole cap configured to cover the electrolyte injection hole and mounted to the electrolyte injection hole so as to be detachable from the electrolyte injection hole by user manipulation.
US11848407B2	Display device with electrode comprising holes A display device includes a plurality of pixels on a substrate. Each of the pixels includes a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other on the substrate, and a plurality of light emitting elements, each including a first end portion connected to the first electrode and a second end portion connected to the second electrode. The first electrode includes a plurality of first holes adjacent to the first end portion of each of the light emitting elements.
US11848406B2	Radiation-emitting semiconductor component and method for producing radiation-emitting semiconductor component A radiation-emitting semiconductor device (1) is specified, comprising a semiconductor body (2) having an active region (20) provided for generating radiation, a carrier (3) on which the semiconductor body is arranged and an optical element (4), wherein the optical element is attached to the semiconductor body by a direct bonding connection.Furthermore, a method for producing of radiation-emitting semiconductor devices is specified.
US11848405B2	Light source module and backlight unit having the same A backlight unit includes one or more light sources operable to emit light and a light guide plate arranged adjacent to the one or more light sources, reflected lights exiting the one or more light sources via the second surfaces and entering the light guide plate. A light source includes a light emitting device having a substrate and a semiconductor stack disposed on the substrate. The reflector is structured and positioned to block light emitted from a first surface of the light emitting device by reflecting the light emitted from the first surface toward second surfaces of the light source.
US11848403B2	Heterostructure and light-emitting device employing the same Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.
US11848396B2	Surfactant additive for solution coating large area high efficiency perovskite solar cells and other devices In an aspect, a method of forming a photoactive device comprises: providing a perovskite-surfactant solution, said perovskite-surfactant solution comprising a perovskite ink and a surfactant; and coating said perovskite-surfactant solution onto a receiving surface of a substrate thereby forming a layer of said photoactive device; wherein said layer comprises a perovskite material; and wherein an active area of said photoactive device is at least 1 cm2.
US11848394B2	Photovoltaic module and flexible satellite solar generator A photovoltaic module for a satellite solar generator, and a flexible satellite solar generator are disclosed including a module having a printed circuit board comprising a substrate made of an insulating material and conductive traces, at least two chains of photovoltaic cells mounted on the face of the substrate supporting the electrically conductive traces and which are connected to the traces such that the traces establish an electrical connection between the chains of cells, and a protective layer that is optically transparent within a range of wavelengths corresponding to the cells' range of photovoltaic conversion, the layer being attached to the printed circuit board so as to cover at least all of the photovoltaic cells and all of the electrically conductive traces of the printed circuit board.
US11848393B2	Photodiode and display screen The present invention provides a photodiode and a display screen. The photodiode includes a first electrode and a second electrode in order. When a direction of an incident light of the photodiode is a first direction, a material of the first electrode is a transparent conductive material, and a material of the second electrode is a metal material. When the direction of the incident light of the photodiode is a second direction, the second electrode is made of a transparent conductive material, and the first electrode is made of a metal material.
US11848388B1	Silicon-controlled rectifiers for electrostatic discharge protection Structures for a silicon-controlled rectifier and methods of forming a structure for a silicon-controlled rectifier. The structure includes a first well and a second well in a semiconductor substrate. The first well has a first conductivity type, and the second well has a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The structure further includes a first terminal having a doped region that has a portion in the first well, and a second terminal including a second doped region that has a portion in the first well and a third doped region in the second well. The first and second doped regions have the second conductivity type, the third doped region has the first conductivity type, and the second doped region is positioned in a lateral direction between the first doped region and the third doped region.
US11848384B2	Semiconductor device with airgap spacer formation from backside of wafer A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a field effect transistor disposed on the substrate. The field effect transistor includes a vertical fin, source and drain regions separated by a gate region, a gate structure disposed over the gate region and a gate airgap spacer at least partially disposed about the gate structure.
US11848382B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a first active region and a second active region, a device isolation layer between the first active region and the second active region, a gate structure that extends in a first direction and runs across the first active region and the second active region, a first active contact pattern on the first active region on one side of the gate structure, a second active contact pattern on the second active region on another side of the gate structure, and a connection pattern that is on the device isolation layer and connects the first active contact pattern and the second active contact pattern to each other. The connection pattern extends in a second direction and runs across the gate structure. Portions of the first active contact pattern and the second active contact pattern extend in the first direction and overlap the device isolation layer.
US11848375B2	IGBT chip having folded composite gate structure An IGBT chip having a Γ-shape mixed gate structure includes a plurality of mixed gate units. Each of the mixed gate units includes a gate region and two active regions located at two sides of the gate region. The gate region includes a trench gate and a planar gate that is located on a surface of the gate region, and the planar gate is connected with the trench gate and formed a Γ-shape mixed structure. In this way, the IGBT chip can have a significantly improved chip density, while retaining features of low power consumption and high current density of the trench gate and a feature of a wide safe operating area of the planar gate.
US11848374B2	Bipolar junction transistors including a portion of a base layer inside a cavity in a dielectric layer Structures for a bipolar junction transistor and methods of forming a structure for a bipolar junction transistor. The structure includes a dielectric layer having a cavity, a first semiconductor layer on the dielectric layer, a collector including a portion on the first semiconductor layer, an emitter including a portion on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer that includes a first section in the cavity and a second section. The second section of the second semiconductor layer is laterally positioned between the portion of the collector and the portion of the emitter.
US11848373B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture A dummy fin described herein includes a low dielectric constant (low-k or LK) material outer shell. A leakage path that would otherwise occur due to a void being formed in the low-k material outer shell is filled with a high dielectric constant (high-k or HK) material inner core. This increases the effectiveness of the dummy fin to provide electrical isolation and increases device performance of a semiconductor device in which the dummy fin is included. Moreover, the dummy fin described herein may not suffer from bending issues experienced in other types of dummy fins, which may otherwise cause high-k induced alternating current (AC) performance degradation. The processes for forming the dummy fins described herein are compatible with other fin field effect transistor (finFET) formation processes and are be easily integrated to minimize and/or prevent polishing issues, etch back issues, and/or other types of semiconductor processing issues.
US11848372B2	Method and structure for reducing source/drain contact resistance at wafer backside A method provides a structure having a fin oriented lengthwise and widthwise along first and second directions respectively, an isolation structure adjacent to sidewalls of the fin, and first and second source/drain (S/D) features over the fin. The method includes forming an etch mask exposing a first portion of the fin under the first S/D feature and covering a second portion of the fin under the second S/D feature; removing the first portion of the fin, resulting in a first trench; forming a first dielectric feature in the first trench; and removing the second portion of the fin to form a second trench. The first dielectric feature and the isolation structure form first and second sidewalls of the second trench respectively. The method includes laterally etching the second sidewalls, thereby expanding the second trench along the second direction and forming a via structure in the expanded second trench.
US11848367B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes etching a dummy gate to form a gate trench to expose a channel portion of a first fin and a first isolation structure; depositing a gate dielectric layer and first and second work function layers, wherein the second work function layer has a first portion directly over the channel portion of the first fin and a second portion directly over the first isolation structure; etching the second portion of the second work function layer, wherein the first portion of the second work function layer remains; depositing a third work function layer over and in contact with the first portion of the second work function layer and the first work function layer; and filling the gate trench with a gate metal.
US11848366B2	Electronic device and method of manufacturing the same Provided are an electronic device including a dielectric layer having an adjusted crystal orientation and a method of manufacturing the electronic device. The electronic device includes a seed layer provided on a substrate and a dielectric layer provided on the seed layer. The seed layer includes crystal grains having aligned crystal orientations. The dielectric layer includes crystal grains having crystal orientations aligned in the same direction as the crystal orientations of the seed layer.
US11848365B2	Semiconductor device structure with source/drain structure A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate having a base and a fin over the base. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate structure wrapping around a top portion of the fin. The semiconductor device structure includes a first nanostructure over the fin and passing through the gate structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a source/drain structure over the fin. The source/drain structure is over a side of the gate structure and connected to the first nanostructure, the source/drain structure has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a neck portion between the upper portion and the lower portion, the upper portion has a first diamond-like shape, and the lower portion is wider than the neck portion.
US11848358B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same A drift layer is made of silicon carbide and has a first conductivity type. At least one trench has a first side surface facing a Schottky barrier diode region, and a second side surface extending in a transistor region and contacting a source region, a body region, and the drift layer. A first protective region is provided under the at least one trench, has a second conductivity type, and is higher in impurity concentration of the second conductivity type than the body region. A second protective region extends from the first protective region, reaches at least one of the first side surface and an end region of the second side surface continuous with the first side surface, has an uppermost portion shallower than a lowermost portion of the body region, and is higher in impurity concentration of the second conductivity type than the body region.
US11848357B2	Strained superlattice Embodiments of present invention provide a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of sections from a top to a bottom thereof, wherein the plurality of sections has a same chemical composition and at least two different strains. For example, in one embodiment, the plurality of sections has a same chemical composition of epitaxially grown silicon (Si) and has alternating strains between a tensile strain and a compressive strain. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11848353B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor structure A method includes forming a semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer is patterned to form a semiconductive structure. Each of widths of two ends of the semiconductive structure is wider than a width of a middle of the semiconductive structure. The semiconductive structure is doped to form a doped semiconductor structure. An isolation structure is formed to surround the doped semiconductor structure. A recessing process is performed such that two trenches are formed on the doped semiconductor structure, and first, second and third portions of an active region are formed on the semiconductor substrate. A first gate structure and a second gate structure are formed in the trenches such that the first portion and the third portion are partially spaced apart by the first gate structure, and the second portion and the third portion are partially spaced apart by the second gate structure.
US11848351B2	Display device and display device manufacturing method Provided is a display device including a base layer, a pixel circuit disposed on the base layer, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a middle layer disposed on the pixel electrode and including a polymer resin layer and a conductive layer, a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed on the conductive layer and electrically connected to the pixel electrode, and a common electrode configured to cover the plurality of light emitting diodes and electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting diodes. Each of the plurality of light emitting diodes includes a first electrode, a light generating layer, and a second electrode sequentially stacked in a thickness direction of the base layer.
US11848350B2	Back-illuminated sensor and a method of manufacturing a sensor using a silicon on insulator wafer An image sensor is fabricated by first heavily p-type doping the thin top monocrystalline silicon substrate of an SOI wafer, then forming a relatively lightly p-doped epitaxial layer on a top surface of the top silicon substrate, where p-type doping levels during these two processes are controlled to produce a p-type dopant concentration gradient in the top silicon substrate. Sensing (circuit) elements and associated metal interconnects are fabricated on the epitaxial layer, then the handling substrate and oxide layer of the SOI wafer are at least partially removed to expose a lower surface of either the top silicon substrate or the epitaxial layer, and then a pure boron layer is formed on the exposed lower surface. The p-type dopant concentration gradient monotonically decreases from a maximum level near the top-silicon/epitaxial-layer interface to a minimum concentration level at the epitaxial layer's upper surface.
US11848349B1	Curved semiconductor and method of forming the same A method of forming a curved semiconductor includes: forming a device layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a metal layer on the device layer; removing the semiconductor substrate from the device layer; and curving the device layer and the metal layer.
US11848344B2	Pixel structure, image processing method and control method The present application provides a pixel structure, an image sensor, a device, an image processing method and a control method. The pixel structure includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, where the first pixels adopt first photoelectric conversion elements arranged in an array and provided with high sensitivity, and the second pixels adopt second photoelectric conversion elements arranged in an array and provided with low sensitivity, to realize compatible recognition of high-brightness information and low-light information by the image sensor and improving the dynamic range; the first photoelectric conversion elements and the second photoelectric conversion elements adopt a design of independent output circuits to realize separate output of electrical signals without interfering with each other, which improves recognition reliability and signal utilization recognition; the overall performance of the image sensor can also be improved based on layout of the pixel structure of the present application.
US11848338B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a plurality of first photodiodes included in a first area of a unit pixel, and configured to generate electric charges, a second photodiode included in a second area of the unit pixel, and configured to generate electric charges, a first microlens disposed above the first area, a second microlens disposed above the second area, a first floating diffusion region included in the first area, a second floating diffusion region included in the second area, a plurality of first transfer transistors configured to provide the electric charges generated by the plurality of first photodiodes to the first floating diffusion region, and a second transfer transistor configured to provide the electric charges generated by the second photodiode to the second floating diffusion region. A sum of light-receiving areas of the plurality of first photodiodes is greater than a light-receiving area of the second photodiode.
US11848334B2	Display panel, manufacturing method, electronic device and display device This disclosure proposes a display panel, a manufacturing method, an electronic device and a display device. The display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The display panel includes a display substrate, a plurality of signal lines located on the display substrate, and the plurality of signal lines all extending from the peripheral area on one side of the display area to the peripheral area on the other side of the display area across the display area, at least one first compensation capacitor located in the peripheral area on the one side of the display area and corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signal lines, and at least one second compensation capacitor located in the peripheral area on the other side of the display area and corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signal lines.
US11848330B2	Display device A display device is provided. The display device comprises a substrate, a first buffer layer on the substrate, a first semiconductor layer on the first buffer layer and including a first active layer, a first gate insulating layer on the first semiconductor layer and the first buffer layer and covering the first active layer, a first conductive layer on the first gate insulating layer and including a first gate electrode, a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer and including a first source/drain electrode, a first interlayer insulating layer on the first conductive layer, a second semiconductor layer on the first interlayer insulating layer and including a second active layer, a second gate insulating layer on the second semiconductor layer and covering the second active layer, and a third conductive layer on the second gate insulating layer and including a second gate electrode and a second source/drain electrode, wherein the first gate insulating layer and the second gate insulating layer include different insulating materials.
US11848328B2	Semiconductor device having STI regions Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: a semiconductor substrate including first and second STI regions arranged in a first direction, a first diffusion region having a first conductivity type surrounded by the first STI region, a second diffusion region having a second conductivity type surrounded by the second STI region, and a third diffusion region extending in a second direction such that the third diffusion region is arranged between the first and second STI regions; a first gate electrode including a first polycrystalline silicon film covering a part of the first diffusion region to form a P-channel MOS transistor; a second gate electrode including a second polycrystalline silicon film covering a part of the second diffusion region to form an N-channel MOS transistor; and a third polycrystalline silicon film extending in the second direction such that the third polycrystalline silicon film covers the third diffusion region.
US11848319B2	Multi-chip semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a first die; a first redistribution structure over the first die, the first redistribution structure being conterminous with the first die; a second die over the first die, a first portion of the first die extending beyond a lateral extent of the second die; a conductive pillar over the first portion of the first die and laterally adjacent to the second die, the conductive pillar electrically coupled to first die; a molding material around the first die, the second die, and the conductive pillar; and a second redistribution structure over the molding material, the second redistribution structure electrically coupled to the conductive pillar and the second die.
US11848318B2	Package structure and manufacturing method thereof A package structure and a manufacturing thereof are provided. The package structure includes a base, a chip, a control element and an underfill. The chip is disposed on the base and includes a recess, and the recess has a bottom surface and a sidewall. The control element is disposed between the base and the chip and disposed on the bottom surface of the recess, and a gap exists between the control element and the sidewall of the recess. The underfill is disposed in the recess. The chip and the control element are electrically connected to the base respectively.
US11848316B2	Display apparatus having a semiconductor light emitting source A display apparatus including a panel substrate, and a light emitting source disposed on the panel substrate, in which the light emitting source includes a substrate, an electrode disposed on the substrate, a light emitting structure disposed on the electrode and having an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, an n-type electrode, and a p-type electrode, a transparent electrode disposed on the light emitting structure, and an adhesive layer disposed on the light emitting structure, the n-type electrode is electrically connected to the electrode, the p-type electrode is electrically connected to the transparent electrode, and the adhesive layer is disposed between the p-type electrode and the transparent electrode.
US11848315B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a board including a front surface, a back surface facing an opposite side of the front surface, a first wiring pattern formed on the front surface, and a second wiring pattern formed on the side of the back surface with respect to the first wiring pattern; and a light-emitting element, a switching element, and a capacitor, which are electrically connected to one another by both the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern. Among the light-emitting element, the switching element, and the capacitor, a first predetermined element and a second predetermined element are arranged in a first direction and the second predetermined element and a third predetermined element are arranged in a second direction. The second wiring pattern forms a second current path opposite to a direction of a first current path. The second current path overlaps the first current path.
US11848313B2	Display apparatus having display module and manufacturing method thereof Provided is a display module including a substrate including a mounting surface, a side surface, and a chamfer portion formed between the mounting surface and the side surface, a plurality of inorganic light emitting diodes mounted on the mounting surface and each including a pair of electrodes electrically connected to the substrate, a black matrix arranged between the plurality of inorganic light emitting diodes, and a cover bonded to the mounting surface and configured to cover the mounting surface, wherein the pair of electrodes are oriented in a direction opposite to a direction in which the plurality of inorganic light emitting diodes emits light, and the cover is provided to extend outward of the side surface in an extension direction of the mounting surface.
US11848304B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming the same A semiconductor device includes a first Chip-On-Wafer (CoW) device having a first interposer and a first die attached to a first side of the first interposer; a second CoW device having a second interposer and a second die attached to a first side of the second interposer, the second interposer being laterally spaced apart from the first interposer; and a redistribution structure extending along a second side of the first interposer opposing the first side of the first interposer and extending along a second side of the second interposer opposing the first side of the second interposer, the redistribution structure extending continuously from the first CoW device to the second CoW device.
US11848301B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor package A bonding head for a die bonding apparatus and a die bonding apparatus including the bonding head, the bonding head including a head body; a thermal pressurizer mounted on a lower surface of the head body, the thermal pressurizer being configured to hold and heat at least one die and including a heater having a first heating surface that faces a held surface of the die; and a thermal compensator at an outer region of the die, the thermal compensator extending downwardly from the lower surface of the head body and including at least one thermal compensating block having a second heating surface that emits heat from a heating source therein and that faces a side surface of the die held on the thermal pressurizer.
US11848300B2	Semiconductor structure including a semiconductor wafer and a surface mount component overhanging a periphery of the semiconductor wafer A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor wafer, a first surface mount component, a second surface mount component and a first barrier structure. The first surface mount component is disposed on the semiconductor wafer, and electrically connected to the semiconductor wafer through a plurality of first electrical connectors. The second surface mount component is disposed on the semiconductor wafer, and electrically connected to the semiconductor wafer through a plurality of second electrical connectors, wherein an edge of the second surface mount component is overhanging a periphery of the semiconductor wafer. The first barrier structure is disposed on the semiconductor wafer in between the second electrical connectors and the edge of the second surface mount component, wherein a first surface of the first barrier structure is facing the second electrical connectors, and a second surface of the first barrier structure is facing away from the second electrical connectors.
US11848294B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a semiconductor chip having a first conduction element; a substrate having second and third conduction elements; and external connection elements configured to form an electrical path between the second and third conduction elements via the first conduction element.
US11848292B2	Pad design for thermal fatigue resistance and interconnect joint reliability Embodiments described herein provide techniques for forming an interconnect structure that includes micro features formed therein. Such embodiments can assist with improving interconnect joint reliability when compared to conventional pads that have a flat surface. An interconnect structure may comprise: a metal pad over a substrate (e.g., a semiconductor package, a PCB, an interposer, etc.). Micro features may be formed in an edge of the metal pad or away from the edge of the metal pad. The micro features can assist with: (i) increasing the contact area between solder used to form an interconnect joint and the metal pad; and (ii) improving adherence of solder used to form an interconnect joint to the metal pad. These benefits can improve interconnect joint reliability by, among others, improving the interconnect joint's ability to absorb stress from substrates having differing coefficients of thermal expansion.
US11848288B2	Semiconductor device and method In an embodiment, a device includes: a conductive shield on a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the conductive shield, the first and second dielectric layers surrounding the conductive shield, the second dielectric layer including: a first portion disposed along an outer periphery of the conductive shield; a second portion extending through a center region of the conductive shield; and a third portion extending through a channel region of the conductive shield, the third portion connecting the first portion to the second portion; a coil on the second dielectric layer, the coil disposed over the conductive shield; an integrated circuit die on the second dielectric layer, the integrated circuit die disposed outside of the coil; and an encapsulant surrounding the coil and the integrated circuit die, top surfaces of the encapsulant, the integrated circuit die, and the coil being level.
US11848285B2	Semiconductor chip including buried dielectric pattern at edge region, semiconductor package including the same, and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor chip, a semiconductor package including the same, and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor chip including a substrate that includes a device region and an edge region; a device layer and a wiring layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate; a subsidiary pattern on the wiring layer on the edge region; a first capping layer that covers a sidewall of the subsidiary pattern, a top surface of the wiring layer, and a sidewall of the wiring layer, the first capping layer including an upper outer sidewall and a lower outer sidewall, the lower outer sidewall being offset from the upper outer sidewall; and a buried dielectric pattern in contact with the lower outer sidewall of the first capping layer and spaced apart from the upper outer sidewall of the first capping layer.
US11848283B2	Integrated circuit package that measures amount of internal precious material Integrated circuit package (ICP) with: (i) stored information pertaining to an amount and/or value of precious material present in the ICP; and (ii) sensor for detecting an amount of precious material present in the ICP. In some embodiments the ICP is embedded in a smart card for use with a smart card reader system that can communicate data to and/or from the ICP.
US11848281B2	Die stack with reduced warpage A microelectronic device can include a polymer, a semiconductor, and a matching layer. The polymer can include a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The semiconductor can be coupled to the polymer layer. The matching layer can be adjacent the semiconductor, and the matching layer can include a second coefficient of thermal expansion that is about the same as the first coefficient of thermal expansion.
US11848280B2	Method for manufacturing assembly structure by using frame structure on substrate An assembly structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method for manufacturing the assembly structure includes providing a substrate defining an active region and a side rail surrounding the active region; and forming a frame structure on the side rail.
US11848277B2	Control module, method for manufacturing same, and electronic device Provided is a control module including a printed circuit board, an IC, and a shielding cover. The shielding cover is provided with a dispensing hole for adhesive dispensing. The IC is soldered onto the printed circuit board, and an adhesive may be dispensed between the IC and the printed circuit board through the dispensing hole. A method for manufacturing a control module is also provided.
US11848276B2	Method of manufacturing an electromagnetic interference shielding layer A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package which is at least in part covered by an electromagnetic interference shielding layer. The method includes at least these steps: i. providing the semiconductor package and an ink composition having at least a compound comprising at least one metal precursor and at least one organic compound; ii. applying at least a part of the ink composition onto the semiconductor package, wherein a precursor layer is formed; and iii. treating the precursor layer with an irradiation of a peak wavelength in the range from 100 nm to 1 mm. Further disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising an electromagnetic interference shielding layer comprising at least one metal, wherein the semiconductor package is obtainable by the aforementioned method. Still further disclosed are a semiconductor package comprising an electromagnetic interference shielding layer having a specific conductance and thickness, and uses of an ink composition.
US11848275B2	Integrated shield package and method An integrated shield electronic component package includes a substrate having an upper surface, a lower surface, and sides extending between the upper surface and the lower surface. An electronic component is mounted to the upper surface of the substrate. An integrated shield is mounted to the upper surface of the substrate and includes a side shielding portion directly adjacent to and covering the sides of the substrate. The integrated shield covers and provides an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield for the electronic component, the upper surface and sides of substrate. Further, the integrated shield is integrated within the integrated shield electronic package. Thus, separate operations of mounting an electronic component package and then mounting a shield are avoided thus simplifying manufacturing and reducing overall assembly costs.
US11848272B2	Interconnection between chips by bridge chip A method of fabricating a bridged multi-chip assembly structure includes providing a carrier substrate. The method further includes arranging a plurality of chips on the carrier substrate in a predetermined layout. Each chip has a front surface including a set of terminals formed thereon. The method further includes depositing a molding material between the plurality of chips and on the carrier substrate. The method further includes removing the carrier substrate from the plurality of chips fixed by the molding material. The method further includes bonding a bridge chip to corresponding sets of terminals of at least two chips of the plurality of chips fixed by the molding material.
US11848271B2	Redistribution layer structures for integrated circuit package A method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) package with improved performance and reliability is disclosed. The method includes forming a singulated IC die, coupling the singulated IC die to a carrier substrate, and forming a routing structure. The singulated IC die has a conductive via and the conductive via has a peripheral edge. The routing structure has a conductive structure coupled to the conductive via. The routing structure further includes a cap region overlapping an area of the conductive via, a routing region having a first width from a top-down view, and an intermediate region having a second width from the top-down view along the peripheral edge of the conductive via. The intermediate region is arranged to couple the cap region to the routing region and the second width is greater than the first width.
US11848270B2	Chip structure and method for forming the same A chip structure is provided. The chip structure includes a substrate. The chip structure includes a redistribution layer over the substrate. The chip structure includes a bonding pad over the redistribution layer. The chip structure includes a shielding pad over the redistribution layer and surrounding the bonding pad. The chip structure includes an insulating layer over the redistribution layer and the shielding pad. The chip structure includes a bump over the bonding pad and the insulating layer. A sidewall of the bump is over the shielding pad.
US11848265B2	Semiconductor package with improved interposer structure A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes an encapsulating layer, a semiconductor die formed in the encapsulating layer, and an interposer structure covering the encapsulating layer. The interposer structure includes an insulating base having a first surface facing the encapsulating layer, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The interposer structure also includes insulting features formed on the first surface of the insulating base and extending into the encapsulating layer. The insulting features are arranged in a matrix and face a top surface of the semiconductor die. The interposer structure further includes first conductive features formed on the first surface of the insulating base and extending into the encapsulating layer. The first conductive features surround the matrix of the plurality of insulting features.
US11848264B2	Semiconductor structure with stacked vias having dome-shaped tips A semiconductor structure may include a metal line, a via above and in electrical contact with the metal lines, and a dielectric layer positioned along a top surface of the metal lines. A top surface of the dielectric layer may be below the dome shaped tip of the via. A top portion of the via may include a dome shaped tip. The semiconductor structure may include a liner positioned along the top surface of the dielectric layer and a top surface of the dome shaped tip of the via. The liner may be made of tantalum nitride or titanium nitride. The dielectric layer may be made of a low-k material. The metal line and the via may be made of ruthenium. The metal line may be made of molybdenum.
US11848259B2	Alternative surfaces for conductive pad layers of silicon bridges for semiconductor packages Alternative surfaces for conductive pad layers of silicon bridges for semiconductor packages, and the resulting silicon bridges and semiconductor packages, are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a lower insulating layer disposed thereon. The substrate has a perimeter. A metallization structure is disposed on the lower insulating layer. The metallization structure includes conductive routing disposed in a dielectric material stack. First and second pluralities of conductive pads are disposed in a plane above the metallization structure. Conductive routing of the metallization structure electrically connects the first plurality of conductive pads with the second plurality of conductive pads. An upper insulating layer is disposed on the first and second pluralities of conductive pads. The upper insulating layer has a perimeter substantially the same as the perimeter of the substrate.
US11848258B2	Semiconductor package with nickel-silver pre-plated leadframe A semiconductor package includes a pad and leads, the pad and leads including a base metal predominantly including copper, a first plated metal layer predominantly including nickel in contact with the base metal, and a second plated metal layer predominantly including silver in contact with the first plated metal layer. The first plated metal layer has a first plated metal layer thickness of 0.1 to 5 microns, and the second plated metal layer has a second plated metal layer thickness of 0.2 to 5 microns. The semiconductor package further includes an adhesion promotion coating predominantly including silver oxide in contact with the second plated metal layer opposite the first plated metal layer, a semiconductor die mounted on the pad, a wire bond extending between the semiconductor die and a lead of the leads, and a mold compound covering the semiconductor die and the wire bond.
US11848253B2	Semiconductor structure with an air gap A semiconductor structure with an air gap includes a dielectric stack having a first dielectric layer on a substrate, a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer on the second dielectric layer. A first conductive layer and a second conductive layer are disposed in the dielectric stack. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are coplanar. A cross-like-shaped air gap is disposed in the dielectric stack between the first and second conductive layers. An oxide layer is disposed on a sidewall of the second dielectric layer within the cross-like-shaped air gap.
US11848252B2	Semiconductor component, motor vehicle, and method for producing a semiconductor component A semiconductor component, including a support frame and at least one semiconductor module attached to the support frame, wherein the support frame includes a respective passage (on the edge of which a base plate of the semiconductor module rests, wherein the base plate is soldered to the support frame.
US11848248B2	System for cooling a metal-ceramic substrate, a metal-ceramic substrate and method for manufacturing the system A system for cooling a metal-ceramic substrate (1) having a component side (5) and a cooling side (6) opposite the component side (5), comprising a metallic cooling structure (20) with an integrated fluid channel (30) for guiding fluid within the cooling structure (20), and a distribution structure (40) made of plastic for supplying the fluid channel (30) with the fluid, wherein the cooling structure (20) has on its outer side (A) facing the distribution structure (40) an inlet opening (31) and an outlet opening (32) separate from the inlet opening (31), wherein the inlet opening (31) and the outlet opening (32) are connected to each other via the fluid channel (30) and the fluid channel (30) is configured such that, when the cooling structure is installed, the fluid is guided from the inlet opening (31) in the direction of the component side (5) and is redirected within the cooling structure (20).
US11848247B2	Thermal dissipation through seal rings in 3DIC structure A die includes a semiconductor substrate, a through-via penetrating through the semiconductor substrate, a seal ring overlying and connected to the through-via, and an electrical connector underlying the semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to the seal ring through the through-via.
US11848246B2	Integrated circuit package and method In an embodiment, a device includes: an interposer; a first integrated circuit device attached to the interposer; a second integrated circuit device attached to the interposer adjacent the first integrated circuit device; a heat dissipation die on the second integrated circuit device; and an encapsulant around the heat dissipation die, the second integrated circuit device, and the first integrated circuit device, a top surface of the encapsulant being coplanar with a top surface of the heat dissipation die and a top surface of the first integrated circuit device.
US11848245B2	Power semiconductor apparatus A power semiconductor apparatus includes a power semiconductor element having low and high potential side electrodes and a sense electrode, high and low potential side conductors electrically connected with the high potential side electrodes, respectively, a sense wiring electrically connected with the sense electrode, and a first metal portion facing the low potential side conductor or the low potential side conductor across the sense wiring. When viewed from an array direction of the sense wiring and the first metal portion, the sense wiring has a facing portion facing the high or low potential side conductor, the first metal portion forms a recess in a part overlapping the facing portion, and a depth of the recess is formed such that a distance between a bottom of the recess and the sense wiring is larger than a distance between the sense wiring and the high or low potential side conductor.
US11848238B2	Methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices with tunable low-k inner air spacers The present disclosure describes a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure that includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a polysilicon gate structure on a first portion of the fin structure, forming an opening in a second portion of the fin structure, wherein the first and second portions of the fin structure is adjacent to each other, forming a recess laterally on a sidewall of the first portion of the fin structure underlying the polysilicon gate structure, and forming an inner spacer structure within the recess. The inner spacer structure comprises an inner air spacer enclosed by a first dielectric spacer layer and a second dielectric spacer layer.
US11848234B2	Semiconductor package and method comprising formation of redistribution structure and interconnecting die In an embodiment, a structure includes a core substrate, a redistribution structure coupled to a first side of the core substrate, the redistribution structure including a plurality of redistribution layers, each of the plurality of redistribution layers comprising a dielectric layer and a metallization layer, and a first local interconnect component embedded in a first redistribution layer of the plurality of redistribution layers, the first local interconnect component including a substrate, an interconnect structure on the substrate, and bond pads on the interconnect structure, the bond pads of the first local interconnect component physically contacting a metallization layer of a second redistribution layer, the second redistribution layer being adjacent the first redistribution layer, the metallization layer of the second redistribution layer comprising first conductive vias, the dielectric layer of the first redistribution layer encapsulating the first local interconnect component.
US11848230B2	Different isolation liners for different type FinFETs and associated isolation feature fabrication Different isolation liners for different type FinFETs and associated isolation feature fabrication are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes performing a fin etching process on a substrate to form first trenches defining first fins in a first region and second trenches defining second fins in a second region. An oxide liner is formed over the first fins in the first region and the second fins in the second region. A nitride liner is formed over the oxide liner in the first region and the second region. After removing the nitride liner from the first region, an isolation material is formed over the oxide liner and the nitride liner to fill the first trenches and the second trenches. The isolation material, the oxide liner, and the nitride liner are recessed to form first isolation features (isolation material and oxide liner) and second isolation features (isolation material, nitride liner, and oxide liner).
US11848229B2	Selective blocking of metal surfaces using bifunctional self-assembled monolayers Methods for selectively depositing on metallic surfaces are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a hydrocarbon having at least two functional groups, at least one functional group selected from amino groups, hydroxyl groups, ether linkages or combinations thereof to form a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on metallic surfaces.
US11848228B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a base, a memory cell region on the base comprising a first plurality of conductive layers and a second plurality of insulating layers, wherein an insulating layer extends between, and separates, each two adjacent conductive layers of the first plurality of conductive layers. A first stacked body and a second stacked body are located on the base, and includes a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of conductive layers fewer than the number of first conductive layers, and an insulating layer extends between, and separates, each two adjacent conductive layers of the plurality of conductive layers in each stacked body. The end portions of the stacked bodies include a stair portion having a stair-like shape wherein a surface of each of the conductive layers thereof is exposed.
US11848224B2	Electrostatic chuck and substrate fixing device An electrostatic chuck includes: a ceramic plate; an adsorption electrode that is built in the ceramic plate; and a plurality of connection pads that are built in the ceramic plate to be electrically connected to the adsorption electrode. The connection pads are arranged stepwise.
US11848218B2	Semiconductor chamber component cleaning systems Exemplary semiconductor chamber component cleaning systems may include a receptacle. The receptacle may include a bottom lid that may be an annulus. The annulus may be characterized by an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall. A plurality of recessed annular ledges may be defined between the inner annular wall and the outer annular wall. Each recessed annular ledge of the plurality of recessed annular ledges may be formed at a different radial position along the bottom lid. The cleaning systems may include a top lid removably coupled with the bottom lid about an exterior region of the top lid. The cleaning systems may include a tank defining a volume to receive the receptacle.
US11848215B2	Method for manufacturing electronic device The method for manufacturing an electronic device includes at least: a step of preparing a structure provided with an adhesive film provided with a base material layer, an adhesive resin layer (A) provided on a first surface side of the base material layer and for temporarily fixing an electronic component, and an adhesive resin layer (B) provided on a second surface side of the base material layer and in which an adhesive force is decreased by an external stimulus, an electronic component attached to the adhesive resin layer (A) of the adhesive film, and a support substrate attached to the adhesive resin layer (B) of the adhesive film; at least one step selected from a step of decreasing water content in the adhesive film and a step of decreasing water content in the structure; and a step of sealing the electronic component with a sealing material.
US11848212B2	Alternating etch and passivation process Tin oxide films are used as spacers and hardmasks in semiconductor device manufacturing. In one method, tin oxide layer (e.g., spacer footing) needs to be selectively etched in a presence of an exposed silicon-containing layer, such as SiOC, SiON, SiONC, amorphous silicon, SiC, or SiN. In order to reduce damage to the silicon-containing layer the process involves passivating the silicon-containing layer towards a tin oxide etch chemistry, etching the tin oxide, and repeating passivation and etch in an alternating fashion. For example, passivation and etch can be each performed between 2-50 times. In one implementation, passivation is performed by treating the substrate with an oxygen-containing reactant, activated in a plasma, and the tin oxide etching is performed by a chlorine-based chemistry, such as using a mixture of Cl2 and BCl3.
US11848206B2	Method of producing a two-dimensional material A method of producing graphene or other two-dimensional material such as graphene including heating the substrate held within a reaction chamber to a temperature that is within a decomposition range of a precursor, and that allows two-dimensional crystalline material formation from a species released from the decomposed precursor; establishing a steep temperature gradient (preferably >1000° C. per meter) that extends away from the substrate surface towards an inlet for the precursor; and introducing precursor through the relatively cool inlet and across the temperature gradient towards the substrate surface. The steep temperature gradient ensures that the precursor remains substantially cool until it is proximate the substrate surface thus minimizing decomposition or other reaction of the precursor before it is proximate the substrate surface. The separation between the precursor inlet and the substrate is less than 100 mm.
US11848205B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method therefor A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method therefor are provided by embodiments of the present application. A buffer layer is disposed on a substrate layer, and the buffer layer includes a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer. By doping a transition metal in the first buffer layer, a deep level trap may be formed to capture background electrons, and diffusion of free electrons toward the substrate may also be avoided. In the second buffer layer, by decreasing a doping concentration of the transition metal or not doping intentionally the transition metal, a tailing effect is avoided and current collapse is prevented. By doping periodically C in the buffer layer, C may be as an acceptor impurity to compensate the background electrons, and then a concentration of the background electrons is reduced.
US11848204B2	Enhanced ignition in inductively coupled plasmas for workpiece processing Plasma processing apparatus and associated methods are provided. In one example, a plasma processing apparatus includes a plasma chamber. The plasma processing apparatus includes a dielectric wall forming at least a portion of the plasma chamber. The plasma processing apparatus includes an inductive coupling element located proximate the dielectric wall. The plasma processing apparatus includes an ultraviolet light source configured to emit an ultraviolet light beam onto a metal surface that faces an interior volume of the plasma chamber. The plasma processing apparatus includes a controller configured to control the ultraviolet light source.
US11848199B2	Doped or undoped silicon carbide deposition and remote hydrogen plasma exposure for gapfill A doped or undoped silicon carbide (SiCxOyNz) film can be deposited in one or more features of a substrate for gapfill. After a first thickness of the doped or undoped silicon carbide film is deposited in the one or more features, the doped or undoped silicon carbide film is exposed to a remote hydrogen plasma under conditions that cause a size of an opening near a top surface of each of the one or more features to increase, where the conditions can be controlled by controlling treatment time, treatment frequency, treatment power, and/or remote plasma gas composition. Operations of depositing additional thicknesses of silicon carbide film and performing a remote hydrogen plasma treatment are repeated to at least substantially fill the one or more features. Various time intervals between deposition and plasma treatment may be added to modulate gapfill performance.
US11848193B2	Ferroelectric semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A ferroelectric semiconductor device includes a substrate having a channel structure, a trench pattern having a bottom surface and a sidewall surface in the channel structure, a dielectric layer disposed on the bottom surface and the sidewall surface of the trench pattern, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a ferroelectric layer pattern and a non-ferroelectric layer pattern that are disposed along the sidewall surface of the trench pattern.
US11848192B2	Heterojunction bipolar transistor with emitter base junction oxide interface The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a heterojunction bipolar transistor having an emitter base junction with a silicon-oxygen lattice interface and methods of manufacture. The device includes: a collector region buried in a substrate; shallow trench isolation regions, which isolate the collector region buried in the substrate; a base region on the substrate and over the collector region; an emitter region composed of a single crystalline of semiconductor material and located over with the base region; and an oxide interface at a junction of the emitter region and the base region.
US11848191B2	RF substrate structure and method of production Producing a semiconductor or piezoelectric on-insulator type substrate for RF applications which is provided with a porous layer under the BOX layer and under a layer of polycrystalline semiconductor material.
US11848190B2	Barrier-less structures Interconnect structures and method of forming the same are disclosed herein. An exemplary interconnect structure includes a first contact feature in a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, a second contact feature over the first contact feature, a barrier layer between the second dielectric layer and the second contact feature, and a liner between the barrier layer and the second contact feature. An interface between the first contact feature and the second contact feature includes the liner but is free of the barrier layer.
US11848185B2	Electrode assembly for mass spectrometer An electrode assembly, such as for an ion mirror, comprising: a first layer having a plurality of electrodes that are separated by one or more gaps; a second layer arranged to cover said one or more gaps and prevent electric fields passing through said one or more gaps, said second layer having electrically conductive material located to be coincident with said one or more gaps in the first layer.
US11848184B2	Mass spectrometer An ion guide (20) provided in a first intermediate vacuum chamber includes six rod electrodes (211 to 216) and a voltage generation unit. The six rod electrodes (211 to 216) are in a hexapole arrangement on the ion incident side, and the two rod electrodes (211 and 214) are tilted with respect to the Z-axis in a manner approaching a central axis (201) as they progress in the ion transport direction, so that the four rod electrodes (211, 214, 215, and 216) are in a quadrupole arrangement. The voltage generation unit applies radio-frequency voltages ±V cos ωt whose phases are inverted to each other between adjacent rod electrodes of the six rod electrodes (211 to 216) around the central axis (201), applies a DC voltage U1 to the four electrodes (211, 214, 215, and 216) by which ions pass through them in an excellent manner, and applies a DC voltage U2 different from U1 to the other two rod electrodes (212 and 213).
US11848183B2	Ion carpet-based surface-induced dissociation devices and methods Devices and methods for surface-induced dissociation (SID) are disclosed. In one aspect, a device for SID is disclosed which, in one embodiment includes a collision surface, a deflector configured to guide precursor ions from a pre-SID region to the collision surface to cause SID, and an ion carpet having applied electrical properties configured to guide product ions resulting from collision with the collision surface to a post-SID region. In another aspect, a method for SID is disclosed which, in one embodiment includes guiding, by a deflector, precursor ions from a pre-SID region to a collision surface to cause SID, and guiding, by an ion carpet having selected applied electrical properties, product ions resulting from collision with the collision surface to a post-SID region.
US11848174B2	Broad-energy spectrum electron gun Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to devices and methods for generating and directing energetic electrons toward a target. More specifically, some embodiments relate to devices, systems, and methods for generating and directing energetic electrons based in the photoelectric effect and directing electric field-focused beams of the energetic electrons toward a target. Electron guns according to the present technology include one or more light sources to stimulate electron transmission, and a series of differentially charged stages to provide a hollow path allowing electrons generated by the photoelectric effect of the light irradiated on interior surfaces defining the path through the stages to travel to an exit of the electron gun. Each of the differentially charged stages have a different potential, thereby providing electrons having two or more different and tunable energy levels exiting as a beam from the electron gun.
US11848171B2	Charged particle beam device and charged particle beam device calibration method Provided is a charged particle beam device and a charged particle beam device calibration method capable of correcting an influence of characteristic variation and noise with high accuracy. Control units execute a first calibration of correcting a characteristic variation between a plurality of channels in detectors and signal processing circuits by using a setting value of a control parameter for each of the plurality of channels in a state in which a primary electron beam is not emitted. The control units further execute a second calibration of correcting a characteristic variation between the plurality of channels in scintillators or the like by using the setting value of the control parameter for each of the plurality of channels in a state in which the primary electron beam is emitted.
US11848170B2	Ion generator and ion implanter An ion generator includes an arc chamber defining a plasma generation space, and a cathode which emits thermoelectrons toward the plasma generation space. The arc chamber includes a box-shaped main body having an opening, and a slit member mounted to cover the opening and provided with a front slit. An inner surface of the main body is exposed to the plasma generation space made of a refractory metal material. The slit member includes an inner member made of graphite and an outer member made of another refractory metal material. The outer member includes an outer surface exposed to an outside of the arc chamber. The inner member includes an inner surface exposed to the plasma generation space, and an opening portion which forms the front slit extending from the inner surface of the inner member to the outer surface of the outer member.
US11848169B1	Field-emission type electron source and charged particle beam device using the same A field-emission type electron source includes (i) a single-crystal tungsten rod having a sharpened terminus and (ii) a mass of ZrO formed only on a portion of the surface, or the entire surface, of the sharpened terminus. In preferred design, the single-crystal tungsten rod is placed in a gaseous medium that consists of oxygen and a non-oxygen gas. The molar ratio between oxygen and the non-oxygen gas is greater than 1:1.
US11848164B2	Highly-reliable multilayer solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor and method for preparing same This application provides a multilayer solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor and a method for preparing the same. The multilayer solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor includes a plurality of cores, a rivet, a case, and a cover plate. The cores are stacked in sequence and fastened in the case through the rivet to form a semi-finished capacitor. The semi-finished capacitor is covered by the cover plate and then sealed to form the solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor.
US11848151B2	Method for manufacturing magnetic body and coil component containing magnetic body When manufacturing a magnetic body which is made of a ferrite material containing Fe, Ni, and Zn, and whose Mn content is 0.1288 percent by mass or higher, or a magnetic body which is made of a ferrite material containing Fe, Ni, Zn, and Cu, and whose Mn content is 0.1178 percent by mass or higher, an iron oxide powder whose Mn content is 0.20 percent by mass or higher is used as a raw material powder.
US11848149B2	Power supply member, magnetic sheet for coil arrangement, method of manufacturing magnetic sheet for coil arrangement Provided are a power supply member in a wireless power supply system, and applications of the power supply member. The power supply member includes: a first magnetic sheet that includes a first metal magnetic powder and a first resin, the first metal magnetic powder having a ratio of a length of a long side to a length of a short side is more than 1.0; a coil that is wound around and arranged on one surface of the first magnetic sheet; and a second magnetic sheet that is arranged on the same surface of the first magnetic sheet as the surface where the coil is arranged, is arranged on at least one of a side inside of an inner peripheral end of the coil or a side outside of an outer peripheral end of the coil, and includes a second metal magnetic powder and a second resin.
US11848147B2	Coil component A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a first flange portion, a first wire and a second wire that are wound around the winding core portion in the same direction, and a first terminal electrode that is disposed on the first flange portion and that is connected to a first end portion of the first wire. The shape of an outer edge of the first terminal electrode includes a convex curve.
US11848140B2	Integrated parallel matrix transformer and inductor Various examples of an integrated parallel matrix transformer and inductor are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the transformer includes a first magnetic core having a first set of pillars of a first transformer and a second set of pillars of a second transformer and a second magnetic core having a first and second inductor pillar. The first and second magnetic cores can be separate or integrated into one core. The transformer also includes a planar winding structure. The planar winding structure may include a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings. The primary winding can be configured to equally divide a primary current. The primary winding can extend a number of turns to conduct half of the primary current around the first inductor pillar and the first set of pillars and to conduct half of the primary current around the second inductor pillar and the second set of pillars.
US11848139B2	Coil component A coil component includes a wound coil having a winding portion, including at least one turn, and a lead-out portion extending from an end portion of the winding portion to form a separation space, together with the winding portion, the wound coil being formed of a metal wire having a surface on which an insulating coating portion is disposed, a body embedding the wound coil therein and including magnetic powder particles and an insulating resin, and an insulating layer disposed on at least one of a surface of the winding portion and a surface of the lead-out portion forming the separation space.
US11848137B2	Power conversion device Provided is a power conversion device, including: a casing having a recessed portion; a magnetic component accommodated in the recessed portion of the casing; a heat radiation plate, which covers an opening of the recessed portion of the casing, and is thermally coupled to the magnetic component; and a fixing band wound around the magnetic component and the heat radiation plate to fix the magnetic component to the heat radiation plate, wherein at least a part of the fixing band is accommodated in a band accommodating groove formed in the recessed portion of the casing. With this configuration, assembly dimensional tolerance caused between the magnetic component and the heat radiation plate can be eliminated and it is therefore possible to maintain high output and achieve downsizing.
US11848136B2	Coil component A coil component includes a body having one end and the other end opposing each other, a support substrate disposed inside the body, a coil portion, disposed on at least one surface of the support substrate, in which an end portion of an outermost turn is disposed closer to the one surface of the body than to the other surface of the body, a lead-out portion connected to the outermost turn of the coil portion and exposed to the one surface of the body, and an anchor portion connected to the lead-out portions and including a via pad disposed between the lead-out portion and the coil portion inside the body.
US11848134B2	Wire-wound core, coil component, and method of manufacturing coil component A wire-wound core includes a wound core portion and a first flange and a second flange provided on a first end portion and a second end portion, respectively. The first flange has a bottom surface facing a mounting substrate during mounting, a top surface facing away from the bottom surface, an inner end surface coupling the bottom surface with the top surface and facing the wound core portion, an outer end surface facing away from the inner end surface, and a first side surface and a second side surface that face away from each other and each couple the bottom surface with the top surface and the inner end surface with the outer end surface. In a region of the outer end surface close to the bottom surface, a first inclined surface inclined toward the inner end surface as the first inclined surface approaches the bottom surface is provided.
US11848130B1	Strong non rare earth permanent magnets from double doped magnetic nanoparticles A magnetic nanoparticle, and composites thereof, comprising a ternary host compound comprising a transition metal oxide of size 2-30 nm having two transition metal dopants atom incorporated therein, such that the nanoparticle is converted from superparamagnetic or weak ferromagnetic to strong ferromagnetic material. The strong permanent magnets are formed from non-rare earth materials. The composite material can also include undoped nanoparticles.
US11848129B1	Immersion-cooled inductors in DC-to-DC converters and methods of operating thereof Described herein are DC-DC converters having various immersion-cooling features enabling high-power applications, such as cross-charging electric vehicles. For example, the inductor of a DC-DC converter may be formed using metal and insulator sheets stacked and wound into an inductor coil assembly. The metal sheet comprises grooves, extending parallel to the coil axis and forming coil fluid pathways through this assembly thereby providing immersion cooling to the inductor. An inductor-cooling liquid may be pumped through these fluid pathways while being in direct contact with the metal sheet, at least around the grooves. In some examples, these grooves are distributed along the entire length of the metal sheet. Multiple inductors may be used to enable operations of multiple converter units, e.g., operating out of phase. These inductors may be fluidically interconnectors and have the same cooling features.
US11848128B2	Magnetic component and power module The present disclosure provides a magnetic component and a power module, relating to the technical field of power electronics; the magnetic component provided by the present disclosure includes: a first heat sink, a magnetic core extending in a transverse direction and a winding structure wound on the magnetic core, the winding structure includes at least a first coil and a second coil arranged adjacently along the transverse direction, a gap is provided between the first coil and the second coil, at least part of the first heat sink is arranged in the gap, the first heat sink is in thermal contact with the first coil, the second coil and the magnetic core.
US11848127B2	Composite cable A composite cable is provided with plural wires each having a metal conductor and an insulator, a binder layer that bundles the plural wires together, a shield layer composed of a metal conductor and arranged around the binder layer, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. An outer diameter of the sheath is 2.0 mm or less. An amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the shield layer is 0.4 times or more and 0.7 times or less than an amount of the metal conductor per unit length used in the plural wires.
US11848126B2	Cable stopper structure and image forming apparatus A cable stopper structure and an image forming apparatus includes a cable disposed throughout a first passage and a second passage, the second passage having a ceiling height higher than a ceiling height of the first passage, a first component disposed in the first passage and connected to one end portion of the cable, and a second component disposed near an exit of the first passage and connected to the other end portion of the cable, the second component being removable in a direction away from the first component. The cable includes a folded-back portion folded back in the second passage and a rigid portion disposed between the folded-back portion and the first component. The rigid portion has a rigidity greater than that of the cable and has a length in a pulling-out direction of the cable longer than the ceiling height of the first passage.
US11848125B2	Ribbon cable A ribbon cable includes a plurality of cable groups arranged side by side in a width direction of the ribbon cable and a wrapping film continuously wound on an outer side of the cable groups in a multi-turn wrapping manner at an inclined angle with respect to the width direction. There is a gap between every adjacent pair of cable groups.
US11848124B2	Conductor for busbar electric wire, and busbar electric wire A conductor for a busbar electric wire can include a conductive plate material having a substantially rectangular cross-sectional shape and an opening formed on one side in a width direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the plate material. The width direction can correspond to a planar direction of the plate material. A busbar electric wire can include the conductor and an insulating sheath that covers the plate material.
US11848123B2	Solid insulation material The present disclosure relates to insulation. Various embodiments thereof may include a solid insulation material and/or a formulation for production of an insulation system. For example, a formulation for an impregnating agent may include: an impregnating resin comprising a cycloaliphatic epoxy resin having a viscosity of less than 1500 mPas at impregnation temperature; and a curing catalyst deposited in the solid insulation material. The curing catalyst may be reactive toward the cycloaliphatic epoxy groups of the cycloaliphatic epoxy resin in the formulation of the impregnating agent but be sufficiently reactively inert with respect to the functional groups of the tape adhesive likewise present in the solid insulation material to confer storage stability to the solid insulation material.
US11848122B2	Insulation film composition for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, method for forming insulation film for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet using same, and grain-oriented electrical steel sheet An insulation film composition for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes 10-50 parts by weight of metal silicate or organic silicate, 20-70 parts by weight of inorganic nanoparticles and 0.1-20 parts by weight of cobalt hydroxide. The insulation film composition can further include 10-50 parts by weight of metal phosphate, and/or 5-30 parts by weight of inorganic nanoparticles having a particle diameter of 1 nm to less than 10 nm, and/or inorganic nanoparticles having a particle diameter of 10 to 100 nm and/or 0.1-20 parts by weight of chromium oxide.
US11848121B2	High voltage electric power feed-through apparatus An electrical feed-through apparatus is prevents or substantially reduces partial corona discharges in penetrators for high voltage supply for underwater facilities. A flange of a first thickness has an opening providing a passage between first and second oppositely located sides of the flange. An elongated tube of a solid, electrically insulating material has a first length greater than the first thickness, and is positioned in the passage, with first and second parts of the tube protruding from the first and second sides of the flange, respectively. First and second attachment sleeves are positioned on the tube and are attached to the first and second parts of the tube, respectively, at a distance from respective first and second ends of the tube. The sleeves are attached to the respective first and second oppositely located sides of the flange.
US11848120B2	Quad-shield cable A cable includes a conductor, an insulator surrounding the center conductor, and a shield surrounding the insulator, wherein the shield has two foil layers and two braid layers. Each foil layer includes two foil surfaces, each braid layer includes two braid surfaces, and only one of the foil surfaces of the two foil layers confronts only one of the braid surfaces of the two braid layers.
US11848117B2	Thin and uniform silver nanowires, method of synthesis and transparent conductive films formed from the nanowires Highly uniform and thin silver nanowires are described having average diameters below 20 nm and a small standard deviation of the diameters. The silver nanowires have a high aspect ratio. The silver nanowires can be characterized by a small number of nanowires having a diameter greater than 18 nm as well as with a blue shifted narrow absorption spectrum in a dilute solution. Methods are described to allow for the synthesis of the narrow uniform silver nanowires. Transparent conductive films formed from the thin, uniform silver nanowires can have very low levels of haze and low values of ΔL*, the diffusive luminosity, such that the transparent conductive films can provide little alteration of the appearance of a black background.
US11848113B2	Network and information systems and methods for shipyard manufactured and ocean delivered nuclear platform The systems and methods generally include a nuclear power plant unit assembled in a shipyard from a plurality of structural modules, each of the structural modules having manufactured components for use in power production when moored or fixed to a floor at least one of in and proximal to at least one of an offshore marine environment, a river environment and a coastal marine environment. The nuclear power plant unit is subdivided into at least one arrangement of structural modules that includes an electrical interface for one of transmitting electrical power generated by the nuclear unit and powering a system of the unit, a communications interface for communications internal or external to the unit, a user interface that is configured to permit a user to access a system of the unit, and a network interface for data communications to or from the unit.
US11848111B2	Double containment nuclear power reactor with passive cooling and radiation scrubbing A nuclear power reactor which includes passive cooling and radiation scrubbing. The reactor includes a first containment member which is buried in the ground. A second containment member is positioned in the first containment member and has a reactor vessel therein. The discharge side of the reactor vessel is connected to a heat exchanger which drives a turbine which drives a device such as a generator. A source of water is provided which gravity feeds cooling water to the interior of the first containment member in the event of reactor overheating or over-pressurization. A radiation scrubber is provided for scrubbing radiation which may be in the first containment member or the second containment member.
US11848109B1	System and method of determining financial loss for worker's compensation injury claims A system and method is implemented to provide a construction of three separate timelines for comparison and analysis including a query to a historical accurate database. One or more data sets are compared to a high accuracy database that contains reviewed and accurate historical impairment data. An analysis of the historical data can facilitate the output of a temporary impairment rating, apportionment, future care demand of resources and one or more recommendations for the most effective manner to achieve MMI. The collection of outputs are used to create an injury map nexus.
US11848100B2	Automatic clinical report generation Methods and systems for clinical report generation. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a query image and determine a similarity metric for a plurality of medical images, where the similarity metric represents a similarity between the query image and each of the plurality of medical images. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a predetermined number of medical images from the plurality of medical images based on the similarity metric for each of the plurality of medical images. The electronic processor is also configured to rank a plurality of reports, where each of the plurality of reports correspond to one of the predetermined number of medical images. The electronic processor is also configured to generate a clinical report including information extracted from at least one of the plurality of reports based on the ranking of the plurality of reports.
US11848099B1	Unified ecosystem experience for managing multiple healthcare applications from a common interface with context passing between applications A browser-based, user interface served by a manager application providing for a unified ecosystem experience empowering healthcare users with seamless control over a plurality of different applications and/or websites in a maximized, consolidated and synchronized manner. The manager application includes a user interface with common toolbar controlling a plurality of panels built upon underlying frame data for displaying various applications and/or websites in a consolidated view. The information in the panels can be contextually linked such as via an informational update in one panel triggering a message for a relevant update to be performed in adjacent panels in the user interface manager application. Therefore, a uniform user experience with consistent look-and-feel is provided despite using separate applications and/or websites.
US11848098B2	Identifying anomalous brain data Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining anomalous brain data. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data characterizing brain activity of a patient; for each of a plurality of pairs of parcellations comprising a first parcellation and a second parcellation, processing the brain data to generate a correlation between the brain activity of the first and second parcellations; obtaining second connectivity data that characterizes, for each of the plurality of pairs of parcellations, a normal range of correlations between the brain activity of the first and second parcellations; identifying one or more of the plurality of pairs of parcellations for which the correlation between brain activity of the first and second parcellations is outside of the corresponding normal range of correlations; and providing data characterizing the one or more identified pairs of parcellations for display to a user on a graphical interface.
US11848097B2	Machine learning models for automated request processing A computerized method of automatically processing a medical imaging record using a machine learning model includes training a machine learning model prediction engine with historical medical imaging records, receiving a first medical imaging record from a first system, applying a set of specified approval criteria to the first medical imaging record to determine a provisional outcome, and in response to the provisional outcome being negative, selectively identifying an exception to the provisional outcome in response to input received by a user interface. In response to the exception not being identified, the method includes inputting a feature vector based on the first medical imaging record to the machine learning model prediction engine to generate a likelihood estimate, comparing the generated likelihood estimate to a target threshold, and in response to the generated likelihood estimate being greater than the target threshold, transmitting a signal indicating approval to the first system.
US11848096B2	Home visit assessment and decision support system This disclosure describes a system that standardizes collection of home health observations during a home visit by a caregiver. The system causes display of a graphical user interface to the caregiver. The graphical user interface comprises observation fields that receive home health observations about conditions in the home, and a display field that displays a virtual representation of the home conditions. The system is configured to store the home health observations and the virtual representation in a subject profile for the subject that is part of a database of home health observations and virtual representations for a plurality of subjects, compare the home health observations and virtual representation to previous home health observations and previous virtual representations for similar subjects, determine suggested questions for the caregiver to ask the subject, update a care plan for the subject, and determine health recommendations for the subject.
US11848095B2	Identifying body part or body area anatomical landmarks from digital imagery for the fitting of compression garments for a person in need thereof Various examples are provided related to identification of anthropometric information for fitting of compression garments. In one example, a method of generating compression garment fit information includes acquiring images including a selected body part or body area in need of compression therapy; processing the acquired images along with a library of compression garment fit information; generating a 3D reconstruction of the selected body part/area; deriving anthropometric information for the selected body part/area from the 3D reconstruction; providing a compression value corresponding to a prescribed or intended amount of compression therapy applied to the selected body part/area; and generating compression garment fit information for the selected body part/area. In another example, a library of compression garment fit information includes anthropometric information generated for individuals in need of compression therapy; information associated with a health condition for the individuals; and compression garment fit instructions provided by a compression garment manufacturer.
US11848094B2	Multidimensional optical tissue classification and display Mid-infrared spectroscopic analysis of tissue specimens can include training a learning model and using the trained learning model to classify tissue into at least two (or more than two) categories such as a tumor category, a non-tumor category, and a histology category. Resulting richer diagnostic indication can be provided and can optionally be mapped to a schema for RGB or other display. Efficient and accurate classification can employ an efficient linear SVM model representation. The model representation can include a β spectrum including the fuller wavelength set, a central tendency indicator (μ) of the training set, a spread indicator (σ) of the training set, and a scaling factor. Various types of illuminators and response detectors can include one or more Quantum Cascade Lasers, broadband light source configured to permit spectral separation, a thermal or other imaging array, among others.
US11848093B2	Surgical instrument usage data management A surgical instrument operable to sever tissue includes a body assembly and a selectively coupleable end effector assembly. The end effector assembly may include a transmission assembly and an end effector. The body assembly includes a trigger and a casing configured to couple with the transmission assembly. An information transmission system transmits instrument information received from a sensor, for example, to a secure server via a secure gateway connected to the instrument. The instrument may be previously tested on a calibration kit to pre-determine and load surgeon-specific settings onto the instrument prior to use.
US11848086B2	Methods and systems for automatic prescription processing using machine learning algorithm Methods and systems for selecting a machine learning algorithm are described. In one embodiment, one or more factors to be used by a plurality of machine learning algorithms in predicting a value of a required pharmacy element of a prescription are identified, each of the plurality of machine learning algorithms are trained to predict the value of the required pharmacy element using a first subset of previously received prescriptions, respective success rates for each of the plurality of machine learning algorithms at predicting respective known values of respective known required pharmacy elements for each of a second subset of the previously received prescriptions are determined, and a first of the plurality of machine learning algorithms having a highest success rate is selected to predict the value of the required pharmacy element of the prescription for a first predetermined period.
US11848084B1	Automated on-demand generation of custom physical labels for medication containers A computer system includes memory storing a database including a label text table for storing multiple label texts each associated with a national drug code (NDC), a fields table, and a field options table. A processor is configured to execute instructions including receiving drug input from a user indicative of a specified NDC, querying the database to obtain a label text associated with the specified NDC, at least one field associated with the obtained label text, and multiple field options associated with the obtained field, building a data structure, converting the data structure to a user interface for displaying the obtained label text, the obtained field, and the multiple obtained field options, receiving a user selection of one of the multiple obtained field options, and printing the label text including the updated field to a label and/or saving the label text including the updated field to a record database.
US11848082B2	Systems and methods for computing with private healthcare data Techniques are provided for computing with private healthcare data. The techniques include a method comprising constructing an isolated memory partition that forms a secure enclave and pre-provisioning software within the secure enclave. The pre-provisioned software is configured to receive at least one of input data or the instructions for the one or more application computing processes in an encrypted form; decrypt the at least one of input data or instructions using one or more cryptographic keys; execute the one or more application computing processes based on the decrypted at least one of input data or instructions to generate output data; generate a proof of execution that indicates that the one or more application computing processes operated on the received input data; encrypt the output data using the one or more cryptographic keys; and provide external access to the encrypted output data and the proof of execution.
US11848081B2	Systems and methods for automatic bias monitoring of cohort models and un-deployment of biased models Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring models for bias. In one implementation, a system for automatically assessing a deployed model for selection of a cohort may include a processing device programmed to: apply the deployed model to data representing a first plurality of individuals, the data including at least one characteristic of the first plurality of individuals; based on the application, select a subset of the first plurality of individuals as a cohort; receive data representing a second plurality of individuals labeled as within the cohort, the data including the at least one characteristic of the second plurality of individuals; compare the selected subset and the second plurality of individuals along the at least one characteristic; and determine whether the comparison results in a difference between the selected subset and the second plurality of individuals greater than a threshold.
US11848080B2	System and method for healthcare security and interoperability Embodiments facilitate interoperability and secure patient selection for clinical trials and drug/device deployments. An entity may obtain a first set of health parameters and collective demographic information associated with one or more population segments and receive Electronic Health Record (EHR) sub-blocks with patient profile information and corresponding patient medical histories for patients. The entity may determine a subset of eligible candidate patients for a treatment based on information in the EHR sub-blocks and eligibility criteria for the treatment, which may be based the first set of health parameters, and/or the collective demographic information. The entity may transmit sub-blocks comprising eligible candidate patient profiles and medical information associated with the at least one treatment, and, in response to a received transaction block with a transaction confirmation, the entity may augment a multi-dimensional blockchain by linking: the transaction block, with a drug device information block and an EHR block.
US11848079B2	Biomarker identification A method includes: obtaining, by a computer, subject response data including audio data, video data, or audio-video data of a subject's response to one or more stimuli presented to the subject over a defined time period; extracting at least one subject descriptor from the subject response data as a function of time, the at least one subject descriptor including data characterizing involuntary or voluntary action of the subject in response to the one or more stimuli; deriving, from the at least one subject descriptor, a first biomarker characterizing a behavior of the subject in response to the one or more stimuli, in which a value of the first biomarker is indicative of a severity of a disease in the subject; and outputting a disease severity level for the disease as a function of the value of the first biomarker.
US11848078B2	Medical devices with circuitry for capturing and processing physiological signals A medical device comprises a control system, processing modules, and a wire bundle connecting the control system to the processing modules, the wire bundle comprising control lines and data lines. Each processing module is coupled to a respective set of sensors arranged to interface with a biological tissue site, the sensors being configured to capture analog physiological signals generated from the biological tissue site. The control system is configured to generate a control signal on the control lines to initiate a data collection cycle by the processing modules. In response to the control signal, each processing module is configured to perform a respective data collection process which comprises (i) capturing and processing an analog physiological signal on each enabled sensor to generate a data sample for each analog physiological signal captured on each enabled sensor, and (ii) outputting data samples to the control system on the data lines.
US11848077B2	First-aid information provision system, information display device, information output device, first-aid information provision method, and recording medium A first-aid information provision system of the example embodiments includes: an information display device that includes first capture means for capturing an iris image, code acquisition means for acquiring a code associated with the captured iris image, and code display means for displaying the acquired code; and an information output device that includes second capture means for imaging the code displayed by the information display device, first-aid information acquisition means for acquiring first-aid information about an individual associated with the iris image by using the imaged code, and first-aid information output means for outputting the first-aid information.
US11848068B2	Memory chip having on-die mirroring function and method for testing the same A method for testing a memory chip including: performing an electrical die sorting (EDS) test on the memory chip; performing a package test when the EDS test is passed; performing a module test when the package test is passed; performing a mounting test when the module test is passed; and setting the memory chip to a mirroring mode through a fusing operation when the EDS test, the package test, the module test or the mounting test is failed.
US11848062B2	Voltage control method and voltage control circuit for anti-fuse memory array A voltage control method and a voltage control circuit for an anti-fuse memory array, including: obtaining a storage data address, dividing the storage data address into multiple subdata addresses, decoding each subdata address to obtain a corresponding group of decoder output signals, converting the corresponding group of decoder output signals into a group of control signals by a corresponding group of high voltage converters; connecting multiple groups of data selectors in series, outputting selection voltages input to each group of data selectors to an anti-fuse unit under the control of the corresponding group of control signals; programming or reading an anti-fuse unit; the selection voltages include one of a programming selection voltage, a reading selection voltage, and a non-designated selection voltage. The present disclosure reduces the number of transistors and saves layout areas when the programming or reading operation is performed.
US11848060B2	Memory devices with dynamic program verify levels Memory devices might include an array of memory cells and a controller configured to access the array of memory cells. The controller may sense a first threshold voltage of the selected memory cell. In response to the sensed first threshold voltage being between a first pre-program verify level and a first program verify level, the controller may bias the selected memory cell to a first voltage level. The first pre-program verify level might be less than a final pre-program verify level and the first program verify level might be less than a final program verify level.
US11848055B2	Asynchronous access multi-plane solid-state memory A solid-state memory may have many non-individually erasable memory cells arranged into dies with each die having a first plane and a second plane. Receipt of a single read command from a host connected to the solid-state memory can prompt generation of a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage by the controller to produce asynchronous data retrieval. The reference voltages can be different and selected by the controller to induce a predetermined delay between retrieval of data from the first plane and retrieval of data from the second plane from the single read command. Passage of each reference voltage concurrently to a common single data address of the first plane and the second plane may produce asynchronous retrieval of data from the respective first plane and second plane.
US11848054B2	Memory device determining precharge time based on a number of times that a program voltage is applied to word line and operating method of memory device A memory device may include a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of word lines, and a plurality of bit lines. The memory device may determine, when programming a first memory cell among the plurality of memory cells to a target program state, a precharge time based on a number of times that a program voltage is applied to a first word line connected to the first memory cell among the plurality of word lines, and may precharge the plurality of bit lines during the precharge time when executing a verify operation on the first memory cell.
US11848053B2	Multi-gate transistors and memories having multi-gate transistors Transistors, and memories including such transistors, might include an active area having a first conductivity type, first and second source/drain regions in the active area and having a second conductivity type, and a plurality of control gates between the first and second source/drain regions and the second source/drain region, wherein each control gate of the plurality of control gates includes a respective first control gate portion overlying a first side of the active area, and a respective second control gate portion connected to its respective first control gate portion that is either adjacent to a second side of the active area orthogonal to the first side of the active area, or underlying a second side of the active area opposite the first side of the active area.
US11848052B2	Ternary content addressable memory based on memory diode The present disclosure discloses a ternary content addressable memory based on a memory diode, which includes a plurality of kernel units having functions of storing data, erasing/writing data, and comparing data; the kernel units are arranged in an array, all kernel units in a unit of row are connected to a same matching line, and all kernel units in a unit of column are connected to a same pair of complementary search signal lines; the kernel unit includes two memory diodes; top electrodes of a first memory diode and a second memory diode are respectively connected to a pair of complementary search signal lines, and bottom electrodes of the first memory diode and the second memory diode are connected to a same matching line. The present disclosure can greatly reduce a chip dimension of the ternary content addressable memory and reduce power consumption; the ternary content addressable memory of the present disclosure has a simple structure, which effectively simplifies a manufacturing process and reduces a manufacturing cost; the present disclosure provides and achieves a memory diode that is compatible with a standard CMOS process, which is suitable for currently rapidly developing semiconductor integrated circuits.
US11848050B2	Resistance change memory cell circuits and methods The gate of the access transistor of a 1 transistor 1 resistor (1T1R) type RRAM cell is biased relative to the source of the access transistor using a current mirror. Under the influence of a voltage applied across the 1T1R cell (e.g., via the bit line), the RRAM memory element switches from a higher resistance to a lower resistance. As the RRAM memory element switches from the higher resistance to the lower resistance, the current through the RRAM cell switches from being substantially determined by the higher resistance of the RRAM device (while the access transistor is operating in the linear region) to being substantially determined by the saturation region operating point of the access transistor.
US11848049B2	Phase-change memory device for improving resistance drift and dynamic resistance drift compensation method of the same A phase-change memory device and a dynamic resistance drift compensation method thereof are provided. The phase-change memory device includes a plurality of bit lines; a plurality of source lines crossing the plurality of bit lines; a plurality of memory cells at respective intersections between the plurality of bit lines and the plurality of source lines, the plurality of memory cells each including a phase-change layer; a current generator connected to the plurality of bit lines and configured to generate a set current to be supplied to each of the plurality of memory cells; and a control driver configured to control the current generator and the plurality of bit lines to supply the set current to each of the plurality of memory cells.
US11848048B2	Memory device decoder configurations Methods, systems, and devices for memory device decoder configurations are described. A memory device may include an array of memory cells and decoder circuits. The array may include one or more memory cells coupled with an access line, and a decoder circuit may be configured to bias the access line to one or more voltages. The decoder circuit may include a first transistor coupled with the access line and a second transistor coupled with the access line. The first transistor may be a planar transistor having a first gate electrode formed on a substrate, and the second transistor may be a trench transistor having a second gate electrode that extends into a cavity of the substrate, where a length of a first gate electrode may be greater than a length of the second gate electrode.
US11848045B2	Memory integrated circuit with local amplifier module and local read-write conversion module to improve operation speed and reduce number of data lines Embodiments of the present invention provide a semiconductor integrated circuit of a memory. The semiconductor integrated circuit can comprise a column selection module, a local read-write conversion module, and an amplifier module. The column selection module can be configured to couple a first data line to a bit line and couple a complementary data line to a complementary bit line. The local read-write conversion module can be configured to perform data transmission from at least one of the first data line or the first complementary data line to a second data line. The data transmission can occur during a memory read-write operation and in response to the local read-write conversion module receiving a read write control signal. The amplifier module can be configured to amplify data of the second data line based on a reference signal of a reference data line. The reference signal can serve as a reference for amplifying the data of the second data line.
US11848044B2	Mode-dependent heating of a memory device Methods, systems, and devices for controlled and mode-dependent heating of a memory device are described. In various examples, a memory device or an apparatus that includes a memory device may have circuitry configured to heat the memory device. The circuitry configured to heat the memory device may be activated, deactivated, or otherwise operated based on an indication of a temperature (e.g., of the memory device). In some examples, activating or otherwise operating the circuitry configured to heat the memory device may be based on an operating mode (e.g., of the memory device), which may be associated with certain access operations or operational states (e.g., of the memory device). Various operations or operating modes (e.g., of the memory device) may also be based on indications of a temperature (e.g., of the memory device).
US11848040B2	Memory device and reference circuit thereof A device includes first and second reference storage units, and first and second reference switches. The first reference switch outputs a first current at a first terminal thereof to the first reference storage unit. The first reference storage unit receives the first current at a first terminal thereof and generates a first signal, according to the first current, at a second terminal thereof to an average current circuit. The second reference switch outputs a second current at a first terminal thereof to the second reference storage unit. The second reference storage unit receives the second current at a first terminal thereof, and generates a second signal, according to the second current, at a second terminal thereof to the average current circuit. The first and second reference switches are coupled to a plurality of first memory cells by a first word line.
US11848039B2	Cross-point MRAM including self-compliance selector The present invention is directed to a magnetic memory cell including a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) memory element and a two-terminal bidirectional selector coupled in series between two conductive lines. The MTJ memory element includes a magnetic free layer; a magnetic reference layer; and an insulating tunnel junction layer interposed therebetween. The two-terminal bidirectional selector includes a bottom electrode; a top electrode; a load-resistance layer interposed between the bottom and top electrodes and comprising a first tantalum oxide; a first volatile switching layer interposed between the bottom and top electrodes and comprising a metal dopant and a second tantalum oxide that has a higher oxygen content than the first tantalum oxide; and a second volatile switching layer in contact with the first volatile switching layer and comprising a third tantalum oxide that has a higher oxygen content than the first tantalum oxide.
US11848037B2	Method of protecting a magnetic layer of a magnetic recording medium A method of protecting a magnetic layer of a magnetic recording medium is provided to reduce the thickness of the magnetic spacing while improving corrosion resistance and tribological performance of the magnetic recording medium.
US11848032B2	User-generated templates for segmented multimedia performance Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage-medium embodiments for implementing user-generated templates for segmented multimedia performances. An embodiment includes at least one computer processor configured to transmit a first version of a content instance and corresponding metadata. The first version of the content instance may include a plurality of structural elements, with at least one structural element corresponding to at least part of the metadata. The first content instance may be transformed by a rendering engine triggered by the at least one computer processor.
US11848031B2	System and method for performing a rewind operation with a mobile image capture device A mobile image capture device is provided that can include an image capture system operable to capture image frames and be configured to: provide a live video stream for display in a viewfinder portion of a user interface that depicts at least a portion of a current field of view of the image capture system; store a video segment from the live video stream in a temporary image buffer that includes a plurality of image frames captured by the image capture system; receive a user input that is directed to the viewfinder portion of the user interface that requests a rewind operation; and, in response to such user input, perform the rewind operation in the viewfinder portion of the user interface with respect to the video segment in which at least two of the image frames of the video segment can be provided for display in the user interface in a reverse chronological order.
US11848028B2	Remote invocation of mobile device actions Systems, methods and apparatus for invoking actions at a second user device from a first user device. A method includes determining that a first user device has an associated second user device; accessing specification data that specifies a set of user device actions that the second user device is configured to perform; receiving command inputs for the first user device; for each command input, determining whether the command input resolves to one of the user device actions; for each command input not determined to resolve any of the user device actions, causing the command input to be processed at the first user device; and for each command input determined to resolve one of the user device actions causing the first user device to display in a user interface a dialog by which a user may either accept or deny invoking the user device action at the second user device.
US11848026B2	Performing artificial intelligence sign language translation services in a video relay service environment Video relay services, communication systems, non-transitory machine-readable storage media, and methods are disclosed herein. A video relay service may include at least one server configured to receive a video stream including sign language content from a video communication device during a real-time communication session. The server may also be configured to automatically translate the sign language content into a verbal language translation during the real-time communication session without assistance of a human sign language interpreter. Further, the server may be configured to transmit the verbal language translation during the real-time communication session.
US11848025B2	Methods for measuring speech intelligibility, and related systems and apparatus In a method for efficiently and accurately measuring the intelligibility of speech, a user may utter a sample text, and an automatic speech assessment (ASA) system may receive an acoustic signal encoding the utterance. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) module may generate an N-best output corresponding to the utterance and generate an intelligibility score representing the intelligibility of the utterance based on the N-best output and the sample text. Generating the intelligibility score may involve (1) calculating conditional intelligibility value(s) for the N recognition result(s), and (2) determining the intelligibility score based on the conditional intelligibility value of the most intelligible recognition result. Optionally, the process of generating the intelligibility score may involve adjusting the intelligibility score to account for environmental information (e.g., a pronunciation score for the user's speech and/or a confidence score assigned to the 1-best recognition result). N may be greater than or equal to 2.
US11848024B2	Smart mask and smart mask system A smart mask includes a main body having a back frame and a front cover. The back frame and the front cover each include an opening that is aligned with the mask wearer's mouth when worn. The front cover and back frame may be detachable from one another, or a single piece. A microphone is provided in the main body, as well as a speaker. A processor located in the main body is connected to the microphone and the speaker, and is configured to enhance the speech of the mask wearer. In particular, the processor receives audio signals representing a transformation of a spoken utterance of the wearer, processes the audio signals to enhance the speech, and then outputs the enhanced speech to the speaker. This helps other people better understand what the mask wearer is saying.
US11848023B2	Audio noise reduction Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing audio noise are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving first audio data of a user utterance. The actions further include determining an energy level of second audio data being outputted by the loudspeaker. The actions further include selecting a model from among (i) a first model that is trained using first audio data samples that each encode speech from one speaker and (ii) a second model that is trained using second audio data samples that each encode speech from either one speaker or two speakers. The actions further include providing the first audio data as an input to the selected model. The actions further include receiving processed first audio data. The actions further include outputting the processed first audio data.
US11848022B2	Personal audio assistant device and method A system includes a first microphone that captures audio, a communication module communicatively coupled to the first microphone, a logic circuit communicatively coupled to the first microphone and communication module, a speaker operatively coupled to the logic circuit, and an interaction element. The interaction element and logic circuit are configured to initiate control of audio content for output from the speaker in response to at least one voice command detected in captured audio. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11848021B2	Periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device, periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation method, periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation program and recording medium An envelope sequence is provided that can improve approximation accuracy near peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal. A periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention takes, as an input audio signal, a time-domain audio digital signal in each frame, which is a predetermined time segment, and generates a periodic combined envelope sequence as an envelope sequence. The periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention comprises at least a spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part and a periodic-combined-envelope generating part. The spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part calculates a spectral envelope sequence of the input audio signal on the basis of time-domain linear prediction of the input audio signal. The periodic-combined-envelope generating part transforms an amplitude spectral envelope sequence to a periodic combined envelope sequence on the basis of a periodic component of the input audio signal in the frequency domain.
US11848019B2	Private speech filterings In some examples, an electronic device comprises an image sensor to detect a user action, an audio input device to receive an audio signal, and a processor coupled to the audio input device and the image sensor. The processor is to determine that the audio signal includes private speech based on the user action, remove the private speech from the audio signal to produce a filtered audio signal, and transmit the filtered audio signal.
US11848018B2	Utterance classifier A method includes receiving a spoken utterance that includes a plurality of words, and generating, using a neural network-based utterance classifier comprising a stack of multiple Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) layers, a respective textual representation for each word of the of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance. The neural network-based utterance classifier trained on negative training examples of spoken utterances not directed toward an automated assistant server. The method further including determining, using the respective textual representation generated for each word of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance, that the spoken utterance is one of directed toward the automated assistant server or not directed toward the automated assistant server, and when the spoken utterance is directed toward the automated assistant server, generating instructions that cause the automated assistant server to generate a response to the spoken utterance.
US11848015B2	Voice command scrubbing The invention is directed towards a an audio scrubbing system that allows for scrubbing recognized voice commands from audio data and replacing the recognized voice commands with environment audio data. Specifically, as a user captures video and audio data via a HMD, audio data captured by the HMD may be processed by an audio scrubbing module to identify voice commands in the audio data that are used for controlling the HMD. When a voice command is identified in the audio data, timestamps corresponding to the voice command may be determined. Filler audio data may then be generated to imitate the environment by processing at least a portion of the audio data by a neural network of a machine learning model. The filler audio data may then be used to replace the audio data corresponding to the identified voice commands, thereby scrubbing the voice command from the audio data.
US11848012B2	System and method for providing voice assistant service Provided are an artificial intelligence (AI) system that utilizes a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, etc., and an application of the AI system. A method performed by a device for providing a voice assistant service through a voice assistant program includes: receiving, from an external device, a character specialized model for the voice assistant program; receiving a user voice input including a request for a response of the voice assistant program and a word indicating a character; determining the character specialized model according to the word indicating the character; generating a response message to the request for the response of the voice assistant program, using the character specialized model; and outputting the generated response message.
US11848009B2	Adaptive interface in a voice-activated network The systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to a data processing system that can identify and surface alternative requests when presented with ambiguous, unclear, or other requests to which a data processing system may not be able to respond. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of network transmissions to reduce network bandwidth usage and processor utilization by selecting alternative requests that are responsive to the intent of the original request.
US11848006B2	Method of switching a circuit from an idle state to an active state based on a trigger signal from am always-on circuit A method of processing an electrical signal transduced from a voice signal is disclosed. A classification model is applied to the electrical signal to produce a classification indicator. The classification model has been trained using an augmented training dataset. The electrical signal is classified as either one of a first class and a second class in a binary classification. The classifying being performed is a function of the classification indicator. A trigger signal is provided to a user circuit as a result of the electrical signal being classified in the first class of the binary classification.
US11848005B2	Voice attribute conversion using speech to speech There is provided a computer-implemented method of training a speech-to-speech (S2S) machine learning (ML) model for adapting at least one voice attribute of speech, comprising: creating an S2S training dataset of a plurality of S2S records, wherein an S2S record comprises: a first audio content comprising speech having at least one first voice attribute, and a ground truth label of a second audio content comprising speech having at least one second voice attribute, wherein the first audio content and the second audio content have the same lexical content and are time-synchronized, and training the S2S ML model using the S2S training dataset, wherein the S2S ML model is fed an input of a source audio content with at least one source voice attribute and generates an outcome of the source audio content with at least one target voice attribute.
US11848000B2	Transcription revision interface for speech recognition system Methods, systems, computer program products and data structures are described which allow for efficient correction of a transcription output of an automatic speech recognition system by a human proofreader. A method comprises receiving a voice input from a user; determining a transcription of the voice input; providing the transcription of the voice input; receiving a text input from the user indicating a revision to the transcription; determining how to revise the transcription in accordance with the text input; and revising the transcription of the voice input in accordance with the text input. A general or specialized language model, an acoustical language model, a character language model, a gaze tracker, and/or a stylus may be used to determine how to revise the transcription in accordance with the text input.
US11847998B2	Methods and apparatus for harmonic source enhancement Methods and apparatus for harmonic source enhancement are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an interface to receive a media signal. The example apparatus also includes a harmonic source enhancer to determine a magnitude spectrogram of audio corresponding to the media signal; generate a time-frequency mask based on the magnitude spectrogram; and apply the time-frequency mask to the magnitude spectrogram to enhance a harmonic source of the media signal.
US11847996B2	Display device with image shift A display device including a controller and a display panel. The controller receives original image data and output a display image signal. The display panel receives the display image signal and displays a display image corresponding to the display image signal. The controller includes an image shift controller and a memory. The image shift controller generates shifted image data by modulating the original image data to shift the display image sequentially along a preset shift path on the display panel. The memory stores a shift path value indicating a distance by which the display image has been shifted on the preset shift path. The image shift controller generates the display image signal by processing the shifted image data. When the display device is powered on, the image shift controller generates shifted image data corresponding to a shift path value stored in the memory.
US11847994B2	Smart window device, image display method, and recording medium A smart window device includes: a window that is transparent and displays an effect image; a request receiver that receives, from a user, a stop request or a change request for the display of the effect image; a data acquirer that acquires effect image data indicating the effect image reflecting a preference of the user learned based on a length of time from a start of displaying the effect image until the request receiver receives the stop request or the change request and a type of an object; and a controller that: when a sensor detects the object, determines the type of the object based on a detection result of the sensor, selects an effect image to be displayed on the window from among the effect image data, based on the type of the object determined, and causes the effect image to be displayed on the window.
US11847991B2	Voltage supply circuit, display driver circuit, display device, and display driving method There is provided a voltage supply circuit, in which a signal output end of a power management integrated circuit, a signal input end of a transmission branch, and a signal input end of a voltage reduction branch are coupled to a first node; a signal output end of transmission branch and a signal output end of the voltage reduction branch are coupled to a second node; the power management integrated circuit supplies an initial voltage to the first node; the transmission branch is coupled to a control signal terminal, and switch between a conducting state and a cutoff state in response to control of a control signal, and write the initial voltage into the second node in the conducting state; and the voltage reduction branch performs voltage reduction on the initial voltage at the first node to obtain a reduced voltage to be written into the second node.
US11847990B2	Display device A display device can include a left ripple transistor provided in a left stage to remove ripple occurring in a Q node of the left stage, and a right ripple transistor provided in a right stage to remove ripple occurring in a Q node of the right stage. These ripple transistors perform an on operation and an off operation repeatedly and simultaneously.
US11847984B2	Methods and apparatus for a self-calibrating and adaptive display An example apparatus comprising: a controller configured to: access a content brightness map; determine an amplitude of a light emitting diode (LED) current based on the content brightness map, a target brightness, or a target color temperature; determine a pulse width modulation (PWM) sequence based on the content brightness map, the target brightness, or the target color temperature; determine an LED PWM signal based on the content brightness map, the target brightness, the target color temperature, or the amplitude of the LED current; transmit a signal indicating the LED current to an LED; transmit the PWM sequence to a spatial light modulator (SLM); and transmit the LED PWM signal to the LED.
US11847982B1	Backlight LED driver circuit with current regulating function A backlight LED driver circuit with current regulating function is provided. The backlight LED driver circuit includes: a LED light-emitting element, a first transistor, a first amplifier, a current regulator module, and a voltage regulator module; the current regulator module including a plurality of current channels, each including one second transistor and one third transistor; the voltage regulator module including a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, and a sixth transistor; the fourth transistor, the fifth transistor, and the sixth transistor in the voltage regulator module and the second transistor and one third transistor of each of the current channels in the current regulator module constitute a current mirror; and the current regulator module further including a decoder configured to generate a signal for controlling on and off states of the plurality of second transistors in the plurality of current channels in response to an input digital control signal.
US11847981B2	Light source apparatus, display apparatus including the same and method of compensating luminance difference of the same A light source apparatus includes a plurality of light source gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of light source data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of light source emission lines, a plurality of feedback lines and a plurality of light source blocks. At least one of the light source blocks is connected to the light source gate line, the light source data line, the light source emission line and the feedback line.
US11847975B2	Data driver and display device including the same A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a gate driver connected to gate lines of the display panel, and a data driver connected to data lines of the display panel, and the data driver provides duplicates of red, green and blue data signals, except for a white data signal, in a digital data signal having a 4:2:0 format externally input thereto, and converts the white data signal, the red, green and blue data signals, and the duplicated red, green and blue data signals, thereby outputting an analog data voltage having a 4:4:4 format.
US11847972B2	Electronic device Disclosed is an electronic device, which includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, a scan driving circuit, a signal control circuit, and a power supply circuit that trims a first voltage and a second voltage based on a first control value generated based on the first voltage and the second voltage, and the power supply circuit includes a controller that generates the first control value, a sign determining circuit that determines a sign of the first control value based on the first voltage and the second voltage, a plurality of voltage generators that generate a trimming voltage of the first control value based on the first voltage and the second voltage, and a first memory that stores the first control value, and the first control value is a value for controlling the sign determining circuit and each of the plurality of voltage generators.
US11847966B2	Shift register and driving method therefor, and display apparatus A shift register (SR) includes a voltage control circuit (110) and a bias compensation circuit (120). The voltage control circuit (110) is configured to control a voltage at a first node (Output) to be a first voltage or a second voltage. The bias compensation circuit (120) is configured to: when the voltage at the first node (Output) is the first voltage, transmit a first signal received by a first signal terminal (VDD-A) to a first signal output terminal (EM1), and transmit a second signal received by a second signal terminal (VDD-B) to a second signal output terminal (EM2); and in response to the voltage at the first node (Output) being the second voltage, transmit a signal received by a first voltage terminal (LVGL1) to the first signal output terminal (EM1) and the second signal output terminal (EM2).
US11847964B2	Display panel and display device Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate; light-emitting elements including groups of light-emitting elements, at least one group of light-emitting elements including first-region light-emitting elements and second-region light-emitting elements; pixel circuits including groups of pixel circuits, at least one group of pixel circuits including first-type pixel circuits and second-type pixel circuits, at least one second-type pixel circuit is connected with at least one second-region light-emitting element through a conductive line, first light-emitting elements are connected with first pixel circuits through first conductive lines, in the at least one group of light-emitting elements and the at least one group of pixel circuits, first pixel circuits connected with first light-emitting elements are closer to the second display region than each of second pixel circuits connected with second light-emitting elements.
US11847961B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a substrate, an array circuit, a first distribution terminal, a second distribution terminal, a first power input terminal, a first wire and a second wire. The first distribution terminal and the second distribution terminal are disposed on a side surface of the substrate and are electrically connected to the array circuit. The first power input terminal, the first wire and the second wire are disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate. A first end of the first power input terminal is electrically connected to the first distribution terminals through the first wire. A second end of the first power input terminal opposite to the first end is electrically connected to the second distribution terminals through the second wire. A minimum distance between the first end and the first distribution terminal is less than a minimum distance between the second end and the first distribution terminal.
US11847952B2	Luminance compensator and display system including the same A luminance compensator includes a memory device and a luminance compensation circuit. The memory device stores a plurality of luminance compensation data and provides first luminance compensation data and second luminance compensation data among the plurality of luminance compensation data in response to a frame rate dimming-on signal. The first luminance compensation data corresponds to a first frame rate. The second luminance compensation data corresponds to a second frame rate. The plurality of luminance compensation data is for compensating luminance of at least one region that operates with a plurality of frame rates. The frame rate dimming-on signal represents time intervals in which frame rates of the at least one region are gradually changed. The luminance compensation circuit generates third luminance compensation data in response to the frame rate dimming-on signal, the first luminance compensation data, and the second luminance compensation data.
US11847951B2	Gamma voltage generator, display driver, display device and method of generating a gamma voltage A gamma voltage generator within a display device includes a plurality of gamma generation circuits that respectively generate a plurality of gamma voltages. At least one gamma generation circuit includes an input circuit configured to receive a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, a reference voltage select circuit configured to select a reference voltage among the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage by comparing a gamma voltage generated by the at least one gamma generation circuit with the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit configured to generate an analog voltage corresponding to a gamma code based on the reference voltage selected by the reference voltage select circuit, and an output circuit configured to output the gamma voltage based on the analog voltage.
US11847950B2	Electroluminescent display apparatus and driving method thereof An electroluminescent display apparatus can include a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a luminance adjuster. The luminance adjuster can select a target optical band corresponding to a digital brightness value from among a plurality of optical bands for differently controlling a maximum luminance of an image implemented in the display panel, and can adjust a black grayscale data voltage corresponding to the target optical band. The black grayscale data voltage can be differently set in at least two of the plurality of optical bands.
US11847948B1	Driver and display device including the same A driver includes first to Mth stages, where a first input signal and a second input signal are input to each of the first to Mth stages, and each of the first to Mth stages outputs a stage output signal, a first carry signal, and a second carry signal, where M is a natural number greater than or equal to 2. The first carry signal and the second carry signal output from a kth stage are the first input signal and the second input signal, which are input to a (k+1)th stage, respectively, where k is a natural number greater than or equal to 1 and less than M, and the first input signal and the second input signal, which are input to a first stage, are a first start signal and a second start signal which are alternately changed for predetermined frame times, respectively.
US11847943B2	Screen generation method, screen generation device, and display apparatus A screen generation method includes setting a first degree of priority for a first terminal, setting a second degree of priority for a second terminal, receiving first image data representing a first image from the first terminal via a first communication link, receiving second image data representing a second image from the second terminal via a second communication link, transmitting a degree-of-priority notification notifying the first degree of priority or the second degree of priority to at least one of the first terminal or the second terminal to control traffic of the first image data and. the second image data so as to correlate with a relationship of the first degree of priority and the second degree of priority,generating a display screen including the first image and the second image, based on the first image data and the second image data, and when a disconnection of one of the first communication link or the second communication link occurs, changing the first degree of priority or the second degree of priority after a first time period from the occurrence of the disconnection.
US11847942B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device using a pass transistor is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a plurality of input terminals, and an output terminal. The first circuit includes a plurality of first transistors functioning as pass transistors, and the second circuit includes a plurality of second transistors functioning as pass transistors. Note that the number of the first transistors is larger than the number of the second transistors, a gate of the first transistor is supplied with a first signal, and a gate of the second transistor is supplied with a second signal. The first circuit is supplied with grayscale signals through x input terminals, and the first circuit selects y grayscale signals of the grayscale signals with the first signal. The second circuit is supplied with y (y
US11847939B2	Wristband assembly and edge configuration An assembly and/or an edge configuration of a wristband is described herein. In some implementations, a wristband may include a first end portion formed from a first perforated cut in a sheet of material. The first end portion is disposed on a first end of the wristband. The wristband may include a second end portion formed from a second perforated cut in the sheet of material. The second end portion may be disposed on a second end of the wristband that is opposite the first end. The wristband may include a strap portion formed from a percentage cut in the sheet of material. The strap portion may be disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion.
US11847938B2	Combining regular and symbolic NTTs using co-processors Various embodiments relate to a method for multiplying a first and a second polynomial in a ring q [X]/(Xn+1) where q is a positive integer. The method comprising: mapping the first polynomial into k smaller third polynomials over k smaller rings based upon primitive roots of unity, where k is a positive integer; mapping the second polynomial into k smaller fourth polynomials over the k smaller rings based upon primitive roots of unity; applying an isomorphism to the k third polynomials resulting in k fifth polynomials; applying the isomorphism to the k fourth polynomials resulting in k sixth polynomials; applying a Kronecker substitution on the k fifth polynomials and the k sixth polynomials and perform the multiplication of the k fifth polynomials and the k sixth polynomials to produce a multiplication result; applying an inverse of the isomorphism to the multiplication result to obtain the multiplication of the first polynomial and the second polynomial; and mapping the k inverted polynomials to a single polynomial in the ring.
US11847937B1	Virtual multi-property training environment A virtual environment may be provided, the virtual environment including a procedurally generated virtual landscape. The virtual landscape may include various components, such as natural terrain elements, infrastructural elements, and residential/commercial properties, that are automatically generated based upon procedural rules so as to provide uniqueness of any one virtual landscape. A user may enter the virtual environment and, via various virtual tools, identify aspects of the generated virtual landscape that affect risk to one or more of the properties therein.
US11847932B2	Modified animal organs for use in surgical simulators Modified animal tissues, organs, and organ systems for use in simulated surgical procedures are disclosed. The tissues, organs, and/or organ systems can be modified by enhancing their electrical conductivity, by including simulated contents mimicking what would normally be present in live animals, and by having fake blood perfusing through them. Portions of different tissues, organs, or organ systems, which can be from the same or different animals, can be adhered to provide hybrid/chimeric tissues, organs, or organ systems, and also used for simulated surgical procedures. These modifications can provide surgeons with a more realistic experience during a simulated surgical procedure.
US11847930B2	Three dimensional cube-like member A structure for providing accessibility to knowledge skills of load bearing includes several cubes. Each cube includes bores formed through each facet of the cube that are suitable for receiving pegs or link members, and each cube includes markings in order to assist in identification of the and/or an internal cube at a center of the cube.
US11847920B2	Method for feasibility evaluation of UAV digital twin based on vicon motion capture system A system and a method are provided for feasibility evaluation of UAV Digital Twin based on Vicon motion capture system is disclosed, which establishes a mission feasibility evaluation model according to flight history data of a target UAV acquired by the UAV Digital Twin system. The mission feasibility evaluation model includes a UAV trajectory prediction module and a mission feasibility determination module. The UAV trajectory prediction module acquires real-time position and attitude information of the target UAV according to the Vicon motion capture system, and predicts target flight trajectory of the target UAV according to the real-time position and attitude information. The mission feasibility determination module compares the position difference between an end point of the target flight trajectory and preset designated mission point to evaluate feasibility of target mission of the target UAV.
US11847919B2	Control of transport en route An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a server, a target transport operating in an unsafe manner, locating, the by the server, at least one autonomous transport in front of the target transport, and maneuvering the at least one autonomous transport to affect the target transport.
US11847918B2	Method for the communication of at least two users of a networked traffic system A method for the communication of at least two users of a networked traffic system. A first user sends pieces of exchange information using a first signal transmission path, the pieces of exchange information including first sensor data of the first user and a code representing the first user. The first user sends the representative code or one further representative code using at least one second signal transmission path. A second user receives the pieces of exchange information via the first signal transmission path. The second user ascertains using a surroundings sensor system second sensor data by detecting surroundings. The second user receives using the surroundings sensor system the code sent via the second signal transmission path. The second user associates the first sensor data and the second sensor data with one another with the aid of the representative code and/or with the aid of the further representative code.
US11847916B2	Advanced parking management system A parking management system includes a roadside unit having a vehicle occupancy sensor with a zone of detection that corresponds to a parking space. The roadside unit includes an imaging camera with an image processor to image a vehicle in the parking space the imaging camera being triggered based on a change in occupancy condition determined by the vehicle occupancy sensor, a solar panel charging a battery configured to provide at least a portion of energy needed for the roadside unit, and a wireless transceiver configured to communicate data from the roadside unit to a parking management system central computer. The imaging camera changes quickly from a low power mode to an active mode so as to image a vehicle entering or exiting the parking space.
US11847914B2	Air pollution detection and remediation systems and methods The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for using vehicles to detect and remediate air pollution. In an example implementation, a server computer transmits a directive to a vehicle controller of a vehicle, to measure an air pollution level around the vehicle at a first location. The vehicle controller executes an air pollution measurement and transmits measurement data to the server computer. The server computer evaluates the measurement data and directs the vehicle controller to perform a remedial action for reducing the air pollution level at the first location. The remedial action can involve, for example, the vehicle controller moving the vehicle from the first location to a second location. The server computer may also determine whether the first location is a transient pollution location or a persistent pollution by directing the vehicle controller to carry out measurements at two different times and/or by employing two different sampling rates.
US11847913B2	Systems and methods for implementing multimodal safety operations with an autonomous agent A system and method includes an autonomous agent having a communication interface that enables the autonomous agent to communicate with a plurality of infrastructure sensing devices; a plurality of distinct health monitors that monitor distinct operational aspects of the autonomous agent; an autonomous state machine that computes a plurality of allowed operating states of the autonomous agent based on inputs from the plurality of distinct health monitors; a plurality of distinct autonomous controllers that generate a plurality of distinct autonomous control instructions; and an arbiter of autonomous control instructions that: collects, as a first input, the plurality of autonomous control instructions generated by each of the plurality of distinct autonomous controllers; collects, as a second input, data relating to the plurality of allowed operating state of the autonomous agent; and selectively enables only a subset of the autonomous control instructions to pass to driving components of the autonomous agent.
US11847912B1	Systems and methods for generating traffic work zones Disclosed embodiments may include a system for generating traffic work zones. The system may receive, via a first GUI of a user device, a first request to generate a traffic work zone, the first request comprising at least a location of the traffic work zone. Responsive to receiving the first request, the system may retrieve, via a database, one or more regulations associated with the location of the traffic work zone; determine, based on the one or more regulations, one or more required materials associated with the location of the traffic work zone; generate a second GUI configured to display a map of the location of the traffic work zone and at least one of the one or more required materials overlaid on the map; and cause the user device to display the second GUI.
US11847910B2	Emergency vehicle alert system An emergency vehicle alert system includes a traffic control device having a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive a first signal and to transmit a second signal. A receiver is configured to receive the second signal from the transceiver and to initiate an alert upon receiving the second signal from the transceiver. The first signal is transmitted to the transceiver from an emergency vehicle and causes the traffic control device to transition from a first configuration to a second configuration. The transceiver transmits the second signal in response to the transceiver receiving the first signal.
US11847909B2	Information processing method and information processing system An information processing method, performed by a computer, includes: obtaining second situational information related to a situation of at least one of a vehicle or surroundings of the vehicle at a second time point subsequent to a first time point; determining recommended content related to vehicle monitoring recommended to a second monitoring agent by inputting the second situational information to a trained model obtained by machine learning in which first situational information and a first monitoring result which is a result of monitoring by a first monitoring agent based on the first situational information are used, the first situational information being related to a situation of at least one of the vehicle or the surroundings of the vehicle at the first time point; generating presentation information for vehicle monitoring based on the recommended content determined; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.
US11847905B2	Cloud-connected occupancy lights and status indication Methods and systems for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes a visual indicator associated with a facility subsystem of the facility and a sensor configured to detect data associated with the facility subsystem. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the visual indicator and the sensor. The controller is configured to receive a data from the sensor. The controller is also configured to determine a current availability status associated with the facility subsystem based on the data received from the sensor. The controller is also configured to control the visual indicator to indicate the current availability status associated with the facility subsystem.
US11847902B2	Gateway device for a fire control system A gateway device for a fire control system is described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to detect that an interface of a plurality of interfaces of the gateway device is connected to a control panel of a fire control system of a facility, select, from a plurality of communication protocol types included in the gateway device, a communication protocol type associated with the control panel to which the interface is connected, and communicate with the control panel to which the interface is connected using the selected communication protocol type.
US11847897B2	System and method for presence detection in an environment to be monitored A method for presence detection in an environment to be monitored, includes generating an electric charge signal in a condition of absence of presence in the environment to be monitored. An electric charge signal is generated in an operating condition in which a person may be present in the environment. The two generated signals are processed and the results of the processing are compared. Processing the signals includes representing in a biaxial reference system the value of the charge signal considered and its derivative with respect to time, and identifying a plurality of points in the reference system. By comparing the position of the points acquired during the possible human presence with those of the base shape, a variation indicating the actual human presence may be detected. In this case an alarm signal is generated.
US11847893B2	Gaming machine and method with control outcomes in bonus games having bonus prize tiers A gaming machine, method, and program product provide a slot machine game with a tiered bonus feature. A bonus feature includes a bonus feature prize selector and a bonus feature control selector. The bonus feature prize selector selects a current prize, and the bonus feature control selector selects a control outcome governing bonus feature prize selector. The control outcome may be awarding a current bonus prize selected or upgrading the current bonus prize selected on the first bonus wheel. In response to the upgrading outcome being selected, the bonus feature prize selector is made to select a replacement current prize from among a subset of the number of bonus feature prize tiers comprising each bonus feature prize tier having a value higher than prior value of the current prize.
US11847890B2	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.
US11847881B2	Vending machine and opening systems and methods A vending machine system adapted to open and prepare a contained food item. The system includes a cabinet, a rack frame supported relative to the cabinet, a shelf coupled to the rack frame and configured to support a contained food item, a lid removal apparatus supported relative to the rack frame, and a food item actuator supported relative to the rack frame. The cabinet includes a refrigerated compartment housing the rack frame and a partition separating and selectively allowing access between the refrigerated compartment and a preparation compartment. The lid removal apparatus is configured to selectively retain a lid of the contained food item. The food item actuator is configured to move a container of the contained food item to the preparation compartment of the cabinet while the lid of the contained food item is retained by the lid removal apparatus subsequent to translation of the container.
US11847873B2	Systems and methods for in-vehicle predictive failure detection Systems and methods for predictively detecting vehicle failure based on diagnostic trouble codes are provided. In one example, a method is provided, comprising determining a probability of failure of a vehicle based on one or more diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs); and indicating to an operator of the vehicle that failure is likely in response to the probability exceeding a threshold.
US11847872B1	Automatic problem detection from sounds A system and a method for diagnosing a problem with a motor vehicle using sound. Ambient noise information for the motor vehicle is determined. Current sound information is received, and whether there is a variation in sound between the current sound information and the ambient noise information is determined. The ambient noise information is subtracted from the current sound information if the variation has been identified, to identify a sound anomaly. A sound anomaly signal is extracted and compared with predetermined anomaly signal information stored in a database. The predetermined anomaly signal information is associated with diagnostic information.
US11847870B2	Vehicle management system Systems, methods, and vehicles for taking a vehicle out-of-service are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, data indicative of one or more parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is configured to provide a vehicle service to one or more users of the vehicle service. The method includes determining, by the computing devices, an existence of a fault associated with the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining, by the computing devices, one or more actions to be performed by the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the existence of the fault. The method includes performing, by the computing devices, one or more of the actions to take the autonomous vehicle out-of-service based at least in part on the fault.
US11847869B1	Multimodal perception simulation A concurrent simulation of multiple sensor modalities includes identifying the multiple sensor modalities in association with a simulation scenario, determining a timeline interleaving a publishing or operating frequency of each of the multiple sensor modalities relative to each other, determining a current time interval of a sliding window in the timeline, determining a simulation segment of the simulation scenario using the current time interval of the sliding window, rendering a scene based on the simulation segment, executing a simulation to concurrently simulate the multiple sensor modalities using ray tracing in the rendered scene, and generating simulated sensor data of the multiple sensor modalities based on executing the simulation.
US11847868B2	Engine control system A system and method for monitoring vehicle performance and updating engine control parameters, which provides a solution to the problem of tuning engine control parameters for a vehicle. The core components of the invention are an engine controller coupled to an interface device which communicates with a remote device. Generally speaking, the components are configured as follows: the engine controller receives signals from various sensors in a vehicle and the engine controller controls the engine based on engine control parameters and the signals from the sensors. The interface device monitors the engine control and sensor signals and transmits information to the remote device. The remote device receives the information and sends back updated engine control parameters. The interface device receives the updated engine control parameters and communicates with the engine controller to update the engine control parameters using the updated engine control parameters.
US11847866B2	Crane risk logic apparatus and system and method for use of same A crane risk logic apparatus and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the crane risk logic apparatus, the crane risk logic apparatus is integral with a crane, such as a mobile or crawler crane or a tower crane, and located in communication with a load moment indicator. The crane risk logic apparatus receives crane data from the load moment indicator and determines various data analytics, such as, lift angle data, allowable capacity data, operator override data, anti-two-block activation data, operational time data, lift cycle count data, lift classification data, slewing speed data, wind speed data, warning message data, error message data, and winch direction and speed data for each crane lift cycle. The data analytics may be utilized to inform a crane operator evaluation or a crane maintenance schedule for the crane, for example.
US11847864B2	Door system with authentication and activation A detection sensor or a user device is used to aid in providing authentication and activation of a door system when a user tries to access the door for ingress and egress. Operating parameters of the door systems may be set to allow ingress and egress only when a user is identified and authorized. As such, the operating parameters of the door systems may include authentication and activation parameters such that the door systems are controlled, at least in part, based on the presence of a user and/or a user device and the identification of the specific user. As such operating parameters may be different for different users or types of users. Moreover, the user device may be used to authenticate a user and control ingress and egress through the door automatically or through an authentication action taken by the user.
US11847859B2	Information processing device, method, and program recording medium To efficiently determine learning data for estimating an unknown behavior by a machine, an information processing device according to the present invention is provided with: an information acquisition means for acquiring an image including a person; and a feature conversion means for converting skeleton information extracted from the image into a feature vector which indicates elements constituting a behavior of the person and is a lower dimension than the skeleton information.
US11847857B2	Vehicle device setting method A vehicle device setting method including: capturing, by an image sensing unit, a first image frame; recognizing a user ID according to the first image frame; showing ID information of the recognized user ID on a screen or by a speaker; capturing a second image frame; generating a confirm signal when a first user expression is recognized by calculating an expression feature in the second image frame and comparing the recognized expression feature with stored expression data associated with a predetermined user expression to confirm whether the recognized user ID is correct or not according to the second image frame captured after the ID information is shown; controlling an electronic device according to the confirm signal; and entering a data update mode instructed by the user and updating setting information of the electronic device by current electronic device setting according to a saving signal generated by confirming a second user expression in a third image frame captured after the user ID is confirmed through showing the ID information.
US11847856B2	Method for matching an image of a palm of an individual with at least one image from a plurality of reference palm images A method for matching an image of a palm of an individual with at least one image from a plurality of reference palm images, which includes: creation of a reference base from the plurality of reference palm images comprising, for each reference palm image, a selection of at least one reference palm region and a coding into a reference regional biometric information item, determination of an individual palmary biometric information item from the image of the palm of the individual comprising a selection of at least one individual palm region and the coding thereof into individual regional biometric information item, for each image, comparison of each individual regional biometric information item with each reference regional biometric information item, and matching of the image of the palm of the individual with at least one image from the plurality of reference palm images, as a function of a result of the comparison.
US11847854B2	Optical fingerprint sensing system with common mode compensation A fingerprint sensing system for sensing a finger surface of a finger, comprising: a plurality of pixel elements, each pixel element in the plurality of pixel elements comprising: a photo-sensitive element configured to provide a current including a fingerprint signal current component and a common-mode signal current component; and an integrating capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the photo-sensitive element for receiving the current provided by the photo-sensitive element, and a second electrode; and a current source arrangement coupled to the first electrode of the integrating capacitor of each pixel element in the plurality of pixel elements.
US11847853B2	Device for optical imaging of features of a hand The present disclosure relates to a device for contactless optical imaging of features of a hand, wherein the device comprises an illumination arrangement for illuminating a measuring site with light of substantially a first wavelength and with light of at least substantially a second wavelength. The device further comprising a camera comprising a detector and objective configured for imaging the measuring site on the detector. Within the measuring site a region of depth of field of the objective with respect to the first wavelength overlaps with a region of depth of field of the objective with respect to the second wavelength.
US11847850B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a metal electrode layer, a first passivation layer, a first electrode layer, a photosensitive semiconductor layer, a second passivation layer, and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer and the photosensitive semiconductor layer are both disposed on a surface of the first passivation layer away from the metal electrode layer.
US11847849B2	System and method for companion animal identification based on artificial intelligence Embodiments relate to a companion animal identification method including acquiring a preview image for capturing a face of a target companion animal, checking if the face of the target companion animal is aligned according to a preset criterion, capturing the face of the target companion animal when it is determined that the face of the target companion animal is aligned, and identifying the target companion animal by extracting features from a face image of the target companion animal having an aligned face view, and an identification system for performing the same.
US11847848B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus (100) includes a collation unit (102) that collates first feature information extracted from a person included in a first image (20) with first registered feature information stored in a storage unit (110), and a registration unit (104) that stores, in a case where the first feature information is unable to be extracted from the person or a collation result in the collation unit (102) indicates a mismatch, second feature information extracted from the person in the storage unit (110) as second registered feature information, in which the collation unit (102) collates second feature information extracted from a person included in a second image (22) with the second registered feature information stored in the storage unit (110), and thus specifies the person corresponding to the second registered feature information in the second image (22).
US11847847B2	Learning system for convolutional neural networks to improve accuracy of object detection in new environments A method for fine-tuning a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a sensor system based on a CNN are disclosed. The sensor system may be deployed at a deployment location. The CNN may be fine-tuned for the deployment location using sensor data, e.g., images, captured by a sensor device of the sensor system at the deployment location. The sensor data may include objects that are not present in an initial data set used for training the CNN. The sensor data and the initial data set may be input to the CNN to train the CNN and obtain fine-tuned parameters of the CNN. The CNN can thus be fine-tuned to the deployment location of the sensor system, with an increased chance of recognizing objects when using the sensor system and the CNN to recognize objects in captured sensor data.
US11847845B2	Integrating a widget in a third-party application A system and method for integrating a widget in a third-party application. Initially, a widget software code related to insurance payment capture and verification may be received. Further, the widget software code may be integrated into an application code of a third-party application. The widget software code may be executed to invoke an insurance payment widget. The insurance payment widget is configured to capture insurance card images, and extract insurance information based on an analysis of the insurance card images. Furthermore, the extracted insurance information may be validated using an insurance database and plans curated by an application provider. Subsequently, an insurance eligibility status and insurance coverage benefits of the insurance subscriber may be received and used to enable an insurance payment mode on the third party application in real-time, thereby integrating the widget in the third party application.
US11847844B2	Quantitative structural assay of a nerve graft Techniques are described for determining the quality of a nerve graft by assessing quantitative structural characteristics of the nerve graft. Aspects of the techniques include obtaining an image identifying laminin-containing tissue in the nerve graft; creating a transformed image using a transformation function of an image processing application on the image; using an analysis function of the image processing application, analyzing the transformed image to identify one or more structures in accordance with one or more recognition criteria; and determining one or more structural characteristics of the nerve graft derived from a measurement of the one or more structures.
US11847841B2	Probabilistic object models for robust, repeatable pick-and-place A method includes, as a robot encounters an object, creating a probabilistic object model to identify, localize, and manipulate the object, the probabilistic object model using light fields to enable efficient inference for object detection and localization while incorporating information from every pixel observed from across multiple camera locations.
US11847837B2	Image-based lane detection and ego-lane recognition method and apparatus A method and an apparatus for detecting a lane is provided. The lane detection apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a front image of a vehicle; and a processor configured to input the image acquired through the acquisition unit to an AI model, and to detect information of a lane on a road, and the AI model is trained to detect lane information that is expressed in a plane form from an input image. Accordingly, data imbalance between a lane area and a non-lane area can be solved by using the AI model which learns/predicts lane information that is expressed in a plane form, not in a segment form such as a straight line or curved line.
US11847834B2	Device and method for recognizing obstacle of vehicle A device for recognizing an obstacle of a vehicle includes a camera for acquiring an image, a detection device for extracting an object by applying a convolutional neural network to the image, a center calculation device for estimating a center point and a region outside the center point of the extracted object, an uncertainty determination device for determining whether the estimated center point and region outside the center point are uncertain, and a condition determination device for determining whether travel is possible based on the determined uncertainty.
US11847832B2	Object classification for autonomous navigation systems A navigational control method for a mobile automation apparatus includes: controlling a depth sensor to capture depth data representing a portion of a facility containing an obstacle; identifying the obstacle from the depth data; determining a probability that the obstacle is static; based on the probability, assigning the obstacle one of a dynamic class, a static class, and at least one intermediate class; updating a map to include a position of the obstacle, and the assigned class; and selecting, based on the assigned class, a navigational control action from a first action type associated with the dynamic class and the intermediate class, and a second action type associated with the static class.
US11847831B2	Multi-resolution top-down prediction Techniques for determining a classification probability of an object in an environment are discussed herein. Techniques may include analyzing sensor data associated with an environment from a perspective, such as a top-down perspective, using multi-channel data. From this perspective, techniques may determine channels of multi-channel input data and additional feature data. Channels corresponding to spatial features may be included in the multi-channel input data and data corresponding to non-spatial features may be included in the additional feature data. The multi-channel input data may be input to a first portion of a machine-learned (ML) model, and the additional feature data may be concatenated with intermediate output data from the first portion of the ML model, and input into a second portion of the ML model for subsequent processing and to determine the classification probabilities. Additionally, techniques may be performed on a multi-resolution voxel space representing the environment.
US11847829B2	Method, apparatus, electronic device, and computer storage medium for video processing Provided in embodiments of the disclosure are a method and apparatus for video processing, an electronic device, and a computer storage medium. In one embodiment, a method for video processing includes: identifying, by a processor, video segments from a video, each video segment associated with a shot of the video; computing, by the processor, degrees of similarity among the video segments, the degrees of similarity associated with corresponding segmentation levels; and segmenting, by the processor, the video segments based on the degrees of similarity and the segmentation levels to generate sets of scene-based video segments, each set of scene-based video segment associated with a corresponding segmentation level.
US11847827B2	Device and method for generating summary video A method for generating a summary video includes generating a user emotion graph of a user watching a first video. The method also includes obtaining a character emotion graph for a second video, by analyzing an emotion of a character in a second video that is a target of summarization. The method further includes obtaining an object emotion graph for an object in the second video, based on an object appearing in the second video. Additionally the method includes obtaining an image emotion graph for the second video, based on the character emotion graph and the object emotion graph. The method also includes selecting at least one first scene in the second video by comparing the user emotion graph with the image emotion graph. The method further includes generating the summary video of the second video, based on the at least one first scene.
US11847825B2	Audio and video management for extended reality video conferencing Some embodiments of the present inventive concept provide for improved telepresence and other virtual sessions using localized projection of audible noises and/or dynamic adjustment of audio and/or video qualities based on spatial relationships between users. An XR telepresence platform can allow for immersive multi-user video conferencing from within a web browser or other medium. The platform can support spatial audio and/or user video. The platform can scale to hundreds or thousands of users concurrently in a single or multiple virtual environments. Disclosed herein are quality-of-service techniques for dynamically selecting or modifying audio and/or video traffic.
US11847822B2	Information processing device and information processing method An information processing device is provided that includes an operation control unit which controls the operations of an autonomous mobile object that performs an action according to a recognition operation. Based on the detection of the start of teaching related to pattern recognition learning, the operation control unit instructs the autonomous mobile object to obtain information regarding the learning target that is to be learnt in a corresponding manner to a taught label. Moreover, an information processing method is provided that is implemented in a processor and that includes controlling the operations of an autonomous mobile object which performs an action according to a recognition operation. Based on the detection of the start of teaching related to pattern recognition learning, the controlling of the operations includes instructing the autonomous mobile object to obtain information regarding the learning target that is to be learnt in a corresponding manner to a taught label.
US11847821B2	Face recognition network model with face alignment based on knowledge distillation A method for training a deep learning network for face recognition includes: utilizing a face landmark detector to perform face alignment processing on at least one captured image, thereby outputting at least one aligned image; inputting the at least one aligned image to a teacher model to obtain a first output vector; inputting the at least one captured image a student model corresponding to the teacher module to obtain a second output vector; and adjusting parameter settings of the student model according to the first output vector and the second output vector.
US11847815B2	Electronic device, server, and signature authentication method using the same An electronic device includes an input configured to receive a signature from a user; a communication interface configured to communicate with a server; and a controller configured to classify the signature into at least one stroke, to transmit authentication information for the at least one stroke to the server, and to control the communication interface to receive a result of authentication of the signature from the server.
US11847814B2	Video data search using color wheel associations Systems, methods, and software described herein to manage preferences for video search. In one implementation, a video processing service may receive a request for video data that satisfies one or more criteria, wherein the one or more criteria includes at least one color for an object. In response to the request, the video processing service may identify one or more secondary colors associated with the at least one color and update the one or more criteria to include the one or more secondary colors. The video processing service may then select the video data from a video source that satisfies the updated one or more criteria.
US11847813B2	Artificial intelligence-enabled preparation end-pointing Methods and systems for implementing artificial intelligence enabled preparation end-pointing are disclosed. An example method at least includes obtaining an image of a surface of a sample, the sample including a plurality of features, analyzing the image to determine whether an end point has been reached, the end point based on a feature of interest out of the plurality of features observable in the image, and based on the end point not being reached, removing a layer of material from the surface of the sample.
US11847810B2	Face-hand correlation degree detection method and apparatus, device and storage medium Provided are a face-hand correlation degree detection method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes that: an image to be detected is acquired; a face feature set and a hand feature set of the image to be detected are determined on the basis of a result obtained by performing face and hand detection on the image to be detected; a first interaction feature of a target face is determined on the basis of a face feature of the target face and the hand feature set; a second interaction feature of a target hand is determined on the basis of a hand feature of the target hand and the face feature set; and a correlation between the target face and the target hand is determined on the basis of the first interaction feature and the second interaction feature.
US11847808B2	Systems and methods region-of-interest automatic gain or exposure control Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for region-of-interest automatic gain or exposure control are presented. One example method includes receiving an image from an image sensor, the image comprising a plurality of pixels, determining a region of interest (“ROI”) in the image, the ROI comprising a subset of the plurality of pixels in the image, determining a ROI weight for pixels in the subset of the plurality of pixels, determining statistics for the image based on the plurality of pixels in the image and the ROI weight, and adjusting a gain or exposure setting for the image sensor based on the statistics.
US11847807B2	Image processing system and processing method of video stream An image processing system and a processing method of video stream are provided. The first image is obtained according to a parameter. The deformation correction procedure is performed on the first image, and the second image is generated. The identification detection procedure is performed on the second image, and a detected result is generated. Control information is generated according to the detected result. The parameter is adjusted according to the control information, and a third image is generated. The second image and the third image are output. Therefore, the subsequent application could be enhanced through the dual image outputs.
US11847805B2	Method for stitching images of capsule endoscope, electronic device and readable storage medium A method for stitching images of a capsule endoscope, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium are provided. The method comprises: performing image rectification and circular edge masking on original images to form pre-processed images, and performing image enhancement (S1); completing detection and pairing of feature points (S2); calculating a transformation model of all pre-processed images to a same optimal plane according to a set of the feature points (S3); performing projective transformation for each enhanced image to a same coordinate system (S4); and stitching images according to an obtained sequence to form a fused image for output (S5), thus expanding the field of view of a single image of the capsule endoscope.
US11847802B2	System and method for computing the 3D position of a semantic landmark in images from the real world Systems arranged to implement methods for positioning a semantic landmark in an image from the real world during a continuous motion of a monocular camera providing said image, using in combination image information from the camera and GPS information, wherein the camera parameters are unknown a priori and are estimated in a self-calibration step, wherein in a subsequent step positioning of the landmarks is completed using one of camera ego motion and depth estimation.
US11847800B2	Systems and methods for analysis of images of apparel in a clothing subscription platform Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for color and pattern analysis of images including wearable items. For example, a method may include receiving an image depicting a wearable item, identifying the wearable item within the image by identifying a face of an individual wearing the wearable item or segmenting a foreground silhouette of the wearable item from background image portions of the image, determining a portion of the wearable item identified within the image as being a patch portion representative of the wearable item depicted within the image, deriving one or more patterns of the wearable item based on image analysis of the determined patch portion of the image, deriving one or more colors of the wearable item based on image analysis of the determined patch portion of the image, and transmitting information regarding the derived one or more colors and information regarding the derived one or more patterns.
US11847797B2	Calibration method for multi-degree-of-freedom movable vision system In a calibration method for a multi-degree-of-freedom movable vision system, a calibration template is placed in front of a camera component, each degree of freedom of movement of the camera component is rotated, several images including features of the calibration template are recorded using the camera component, position information of each degree of freedom of movement when the corresponding images are acquired is also recorded, and calibration results of the camera component and each degree of freedom of movement are calculated using a calculation component. The movable vision system comprises the camera component, the calculation component and a control component.
US11847792B2	Location determination and mapping with 3D line junctions A system and method for determining a location of a client device is described herein. In particular, a client device receives images captured by a camera at the client device. The client device identifies features in the images. The features may be line junctions, lines, curves, or any other features found in images. The client device retrieves a 3D map of the environment from the map database and compares the identified features to the 3D map of the environment, which includes map features such as map line junctions, map lines, map curves, and the like. The client device identifies a correspondence between the features identified from the images and the map features and determines a location of the client device in the real world based on the correspondence. The client device may display visual data representing a location in a virtual world corresponding to the location in the real world.
US11847790B2	Three-dimensional camera system A camera system. In some embodiments, the camera system includes a first laser, a camera, and a processing circuit connected to the first laser and to the camera. The first laser may be steerable, and the camera may include a pixel including a photodetector and a pixel circuit, the pixel circuit including a first time-measuring circuit.
US11847778B2	Image capture techniques personalized to individual subjects being imaged Methods and apparatuses are disclosed to personalize image capture operations of imaging equipment according to models that correspond uniquely to subjects being imaged. According to these techniques, a subject's face may be detected from a first image supplied by an image source and a first model of the subject may be developed from the detected face. The first model of the subject may be compared to another model of the subject developed from other images. Image adjustment parameters may be generated from a comparison of these models, which may control image adjustment techniques that are applied to the newly captured image of the subject. In this manner, aspects of the present disclosure may generate image capture operations that are tailored to characteristics of the subjects being imaged and avoid artifacts that otherwise could cause image degradation.
US11847775B2	Automated machine vision-based defect detection Provided are various mechanisms and processes for automatic computer vision-based defect detection using a neural network. A system is configured for receiving historical datasets that include training images corresponding to one or more known defects. Each training image is converted into a corresponding matrix representation for training the neural network to adjust weighted parameters based on the known defects. Once sufficiently trained, a test image of an object that is not part of the historical dataset is obtained. Portions of the test image are extracted as input patches for input into the neural network as respective matrix representations. A probability score indicating the likelihood that the input patch includes a defect is automatically generated for each input patch using the weighted parameters. An overall defect score for the test image is then generated based on the probability scores to indicate the condition of the object.
US11847774B2	Drill hole inspection method, drill hole inspection system and inspection device A drill hole inspection method for using a drill hole inspection system to inspect a drill hole of a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided. The drill hole inspection method includes: scanning the PCB to obtain 3-dimensional (3D) image voxel data of the PCB; determining a first-dimension interval corresponding to the PCB along one direction of the 3D image voxel data; determining, in a plane of the 3D image voxel data which is orthogonal to the direction, a 2-dimensional (2D) position corresponding to the drill hole; extracting a portion of the 3D image voxel data as drill hole voxel data according to the first-dimension interval and the 2D position; analyzing the drill hole voxel data to obtain an inspection result of the drill hole; and outputting the inspection result through an output component. In addition, a drill hole inspection system and an inspection device using the same are also provided.
US11847773B1	Geofence-based object identification in an extended reality environment A mobile device that includes a camera and an extended reality software application program is employed by a user in an operating environment, such as an industrial environment. One or more objects within a geofence may be identified. A device crosses within the geofence and acquires sensor data associated with an object within the geofence. The sensor data may include image data and/or audio data. The device or a server system may then determine an object identifier associated with the object based on a comparison of the sensor data with data associated with object identifiers corresponding to objects within the geofence. Based on the object identifier, data associated with the object are obtained. The data associated with the object may be presented via the device, such as an extended reality overlay over a view of the object in the device.
US11847772B2	Quality indicators for collection of and automated measurement on ultrasound images Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for calculating, during imaging, a quality of a sequence of images collected during the imaging. Calculating the quality of the sequence of images may include calculating a probability that a medical professional would use a given image for clinical evaluation and a confidence that an automated analysis segmentation performed on the given image is correct. Techniques described herein also include receiving a trigger to perform an automatic measurement on a sequence of images, calculating a quality of the sequence of images, determining whether the quality of the sequence of images exceeds a threshold quality, and performing the automatic measurement on the sequence of images based on determining that the quality of the sequence of images exceeds the threshold quality.
US11847769B2	Photographing method, terminal, and storage medium Multiple images are continuously captured based on a photographing instruction. Multiple processed images without ghosts are obtained based on the multiple images. A fused image is obtained by inputting the multiple processed images without ghosts into an image fusion model. Noise of the fused image is lower than noise of any one of the multiple images, and a resolution of the fused image is higher than a resolution of any one of the multiple images. A target image is obtained and output by performing image enhancement processing on the fused image.
US11847768B2	Automatic alignment of a contrast enhancement system An apparatus and method for insuring the proper alignment of a detected vein pattern and a projected vein pattern are disclosed. The apparatus enhances the visual appearance of veins so that an error that can lead to improper patient care or injury can be avoided.
US11847767B2	Method, electronic device and storage medium for image editing An image processing method and component, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The component includes at least a display control and a local retouching control. The display control is configured to display, in a first area of a display area, a to-be-edited image or a target image obtained by retouching the to-be-edited image. The local retouching control is configured to activate a local retouching function in response to a control instruction, to determine a local adjustable area for local retouching, where the local adjustable area is selected from the to-be-edited image or the target image based on a selection operation performed on the to-be-edited image or the target image, and the local adjustable area is displayed via a preset mask to be distinguished from other areas in the to-be-edited image or the target image.
US11847761B2	Medical image processing apparatus having a plurality of neural networks corresponding to different fields of view A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a memory and processing circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of neural networks corresponding to a plurality of imaging target sites, respectively, the neural networks each including an input layer, an output layer, and an intermediate layer between the input layer and the output layer, and each generated through learning processing with multiple data sets acquired for the corresponding imaging target site. The processing circuitry is configured to process first data into second data using, among the neural networks, the neural network corresponding to the imaging target site for the first data, wherein the first data is input to the input layer and the second data is output from the output layer.
US11847760B2	Remote distribution of neural networks Remote distribution of multiple neural network models to various client devices over a network can be implemented by identifying a native neural network and remotely converting the native neural network to a target neural network based on a given client device operating environment. The native neural network can be configured for execution using efficient parameters, and the target neural network can use less efficient but more precise parameters.
US11847753B2	Artificial reality augments and surfaces Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing an artificial reality environment with augments and surfaces. An “augment” is a virtual container in 3D space that can include presentation data, context, and logic. An artificial reality system can use augments as the fundamental building block for displaying 2D and 3D models in the artificial reality environment. For example, augments can represent people, places, and things in an artificial reality environment and can respond to a context such as a current display mode, time of day, a type of surface the augment is on, a relationship to other augments, etc. Augments can be on a “surface” that has a layout and properties that cause augments on that surface to display in different ways. Augments and other objects (real or virtual) can also interact, where these interactions can be controlled by rules for the objects evaluated based on information from the shell.
US11847750B2	Smooth object correction for augmented reality devices An augmented reality (“AR”) device applies smooth correction methods to correct the location of the virtual objects presented to a user. The AR device may apply an angular threshold to determine whether a virtual object can be moved from an original location to a target location. An angular threshold is a maximum angle by which a line from the AR device to the virtual object can change within a timestep. Similarly, the AR device may apply a motion threshold, which is a maximum on the distance that a virtual object's location can be corrected based on the motion of the virtual object. Furthermore, the AR device may apply a pixel threshold to the correction of the virtual object's location. A pixel threshold is a maximum on the distance that a pixel projection of the virtual object can change based on the virtual object's change in location.
US11847749B2	Digital mission preparation system A system for preparing a mission from a digital mapping, includes a mission editor generating mission elements that can change over the course of several determined temporal phases, including on a network a mission server, a mapping server, a server for sharing at least one centre of the map and a plurality of augmented reality headsets, at least one of the augmented reality headsets, called master headset, being able to generate at least one command for modifying the centre, each headset being able to receive at least two sets of elevation and terrain tiles from the mapping server, the mission server interfacing with the headsets to share and update the mission elements and to change them over time.
US11847747B2	Displaying a virtual image of a building information model A headset for use in displaying a virtual image of a building information model (BIM) in relation to a site coordinate system of a construction site. The headset comprises an article of headwear having one or more position-tracking sensors mounted thereon, augmented reality glasses incorporating at least one display, a display position tracking device for tracking movement of the display relative to at least one of the user's eyes and an electronic control system. The electronic control system is configured to convert a BIM model defined in an extrinsic, real world coordinate system into an intrinsic coordinate system defined by a position tracking system, receive display position data from the display position device and headset tracking data from a headset tracking system and render a virtual image of the BIM relative to the position and orientation of the article of headwear on the construction site and relative position of the display relative to the user's eye and transmit the rendered virtual image to the display which is viewable by the user as a virtual image of the BIM.
US11847739B2	Systems and methods for pitch determination Systems and methods are provided for pitch determination. An example method includes obtaining an image depicting a structure, the image being captured via a user device positioned proximate to the structure. The image is segmented to identify, at least, a roof facet of the structure. An eave vector and a rake vector which are associated with the roof facet are determined. A normal vector of the roof facet is calculated based on the eave vector and the rake vector, and compared to a vector indicating a vertical direction such as gravity. The angle made out by the normal and a gravity vector may be utilized to calculate the pitch of the roof facet.
US11847735B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus obtains information corresponding to a scene in a virtual viewpoint image to be generated. The information is information based on a captured image including a product generated based on the scene in the virtual viewpoint image. The information processing apparatus outputs, based on the obtained captured image, a virtual viewpoint image of the scene corresponding to the product.
US11847734B2	Method and apparatus for displaying virtual environment picture, device, and storage medium This application discloses a method for operating virtual characters within a virtual environment performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a first virtual environment picture of a virtual environment, the first virtual environment picture including a first region obtained by using a first observation position and a master virtual character located in the virtual environment; displaying, in response to receiving an aiming operation, a regional skill indicator configured to select a target region in the virtual environment where the master virtual character releases a skill; and displaying a second virtual environment picture including a second region obtained by observing the virtual environment by using a second observation position, the second observation position being a position that is offset relative to the first observation position, and the second region including the target region, thereby improving the accuracy of aiming at a target.
US11847731B2	Interactive editing of virtual three-dimensional scenes Techniques are disclosed for interactive editing of virtual three-dimensional scenes. In the disclosed techniques, rendering is divided into (1) an interactive phase during which a user interactively edits a virtual scene while preview image frames are rendered using a modified ray tracing technique, and (2) a refinement phase during which full ray tracing is performed to show the user a final rendered image frame. The modified ray tracing technique may limit the number of bounces of light rays and/or the computations performed at each bounce, thereby reducing computational expense relative to a full ray tracing technique. Further, the modified ray tracing technique may be user-selectable and associated with a particular department within an animation studio.
US11847726B2	Method for outputting blend shape value, storage medium, and electronic device A method for outputting a blend shape value includes: performing feature extraction on obtained target audio data to obtain a target audio feature vector; inputting the target audio feature vector and a target identifier into an audio-driven animation model; inputting the target audio feature vector into an audio encoding layer, determining an input feature vector of a next layer at a (2t−n)/2 time point based on an input feature vector of a previous layer between a t time point and a t−n time point, determining a feature vector having a causal relationship with the input feature vector of the previous layer as a valid feature vector, outputting sequentially target-audio encoding features, and inputting the target identifier into a one-hot encoding layer for binary vector encoding to obtain a target-identifier encoding feature; and outputting a blend shape value corresponding to the target audio data.
US11847723B1	Polygon edge matching with geometric operations This application is directed to matching edges of polygons representing neighboring regions in a map user application. A computer system obtains a first polygon and a second polygon, and the second polygon is connected to the first polygon via polygon edges that are at least partially mismatched. Automatically and without user intervention, the computer system combines the first polygon and the second polygon to form a joined polygon defined by an outline of the first polygon and the second polygon. A region defined by the second polygon is subtracted from a region defined by the joined polygon to form a new region. The computer system defines an updated first polygon as an outline of the new region and renders, on a screen, the updated first polygon and the second polygon with matching edges.
US11847721B2	Analysis of medical images Much of the image processing that is applied to medical images is a form of “inverse problem”. This is a class of mathematical problems in which a “forward” model by which a signal is converted into dataset is known, to at least some degree, but where the aim is to reconstruct the signal given the resulting dataset. Thus, an inverse problem is essentially seeking to discover x given knowledge of A(x)+noise by finding an appropriate reconstruction operator A† such that A† (A(x)+noise)≈x, thereby enabling us to obtain x (or a close approximation) given knowledge of an output dataset consisting of A(x)+noise. Generally, several such processes (or their equivalents) are applied to the image dataset. If the first process (for example, noise reduction) is expressed via a first reconstruction operator A1† characterised by a parameter set Θ1 and the second process (for example, segmentation) is expressed via a second reconstruction operator A2† characterised by a parameter set Θ2, then the result of the two steps applied consecutively is A2† (A1†(y)). This can be expressed as an overall reconstruction operator P+, characterised by a parameter set Φ. If we then allow a machine learning process to optimise P+, then the steps previously carried out separately can be combined into a single optimisation. This yields advantages in terms of computational load and in the accuracy of the end result.
US11847719B2	Apparatus and method for managing data bias in a graphics processing architecture An apparatus and method are described for managing data which is biased towards a processor or a GPU. For example, an apparatus comprises a processor comprising one or more cores, one or more cache levels, and cache coherence controllers to maintain coherent data in the one or more cache levels; a graphics processing unit (GPU) to execute graphics instructions and process graphics data, wherein the GPU and processor cores are to share a virtual address space for accessing a system memory; a GPU memory addressable through the virtual address space shared by the processor cores and GPU; and bias management circuitry to store an indication for whether the data has a processor bias or a GPU bias, wherein if the data has a GPU bias, the data is to be accessed by the GPU without necessarily accessing the processor's cache coherence controllers.
US11847718B2	Per-window digital watermark for desktop applications Embodiments are described for placing a watermark over application windows in a desktop. For each application window that is opened in the desktop, the system can determine whether the application requires a watermark, for example, based on a predefined list that specifies which applications require watermarks. For each application window that requires a watermark, a uncovered watermark region can be calculated where the watermark will appear. An overlay can be placed over the application windows, for example in a top-level window that does not receive mouse and keyboard inputs, and the watermark can be drawn in the overlay over the location of the uncovered watermark region of each application. As a result, watermarks can be placed over a plurality of specified application windows in an efficient and convenient manner.
US11847715B2	Image processing apparatus, image distribution system, and image processing method In an image processing apparatus, a region extraction part extracts an image of the sky as an image of a target object not included in an object of interest in a moving image of content, on the basis of at least any of changes in pixel values, a frequency at which a line of sight is directed, a distance from a camera, registered information designating the target object, and the like. In the extracted region, a different image presentation part displays an image indicative of a magnified image of a player and character information for cheering as an image different from the sky image.
US11847713B2	Augmented passenger verification After determining a trip order has a high risk, verification information unavailable in a passenger information database system can be requested and provided for a passenger of the account. Validity of the verification information can be determined using a verification service and stored in a passenger information database. A decision for the trip order can be determined based on the validity of the verification information stored in the passenger information database.
US11847711B2	Methods of verifying the onboard presence of a passenger, and related wireless electronic devices Methods of verifying an onboard presence of a passenger of a transportation vehicle are provided. A method of verifying an onboard presence of a passenger of a transportation vehicle includes generating, via a wireless electronic device of the passenger while on board the transportation vehicle, different first and second data indicating the onboard presence of the passenger. Moreover, the method includes transmitting the different first and second data indicating the onboard presence of the passenger from the wireless electronic device to a server. Related wireless electronic devices, servers, and computer program products are also provided.
US11847710B2	Contract analytic binding and provenance A mechanism is provided to implement a contract analytic binding and provenance system. The mechanism loads contract rules for an agreement between a plurality of contract parties and creates an analytic entry per rule to form a set of analytic entries, Each analytic entry is associated with an executable analytic function. The mechanism assigns each analytic entry a directed acyclic graph vertex. The mechanism confirms alignment between the contract rules and the set of analytic entries and stores the set of analytic entries in peer ledgers associated with the plurality of contract parties. The mechanism activates the set of analytic entries responsive to confirming provenance of the peer ledgers associated with the plurality of contract parties.
US11847709B2	Automated transaction workflow management application extending and improving an existing email application Described are systems, media, and methods for automated real estate transaction workflow management application comprising: performing an initial analysis of a user's stored email, wherein the initial analysis comprises identifying at least one existing real estate transaction and identifying any stored email associated with the at least one existing real estate transaction; performing an incremental analysis of the user's new email, wherein the incremental analysis comprises identifying at least one new real estate transaction and identifying any new email associated with the at least one new real estate transaction; extracting real estate transaction-related events, documents, contacts, and data from the email identified as associated with an existing or new real estate transaction; and generating a timeline for each existing and new real estate transaction, the timeline comprising the transaction-related events arranged chronologically and providing access to the transaction-related documents, contacts, and data.
US11847708B2	Methods and systems for determining agricultural revenue A computer-implemented method for determining agricultural revenue is provided. The method uses an agricultural intelligence computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of field definition data, retrieving a plurality of input data from a plurality of data networks, determining a field region based on the field definition data, identifying a subset of the plurality of input data associated with the field region, calculating at least one yield projection for the field region based on the field definition data and the subset of the plurality of input data, and providing the at least one yield projection to a user device.
US11847707B1	Tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and artificial intelligence A apparatus and method of generating and presenting a recommended filing strategy that includes receiving user inputs via a graphical user interface; identifying, using one or more computers, factual patterns of the user inputs; assigning, using the one or more computers and based on the identified factual patterns, a risk tolerance classification; generating, using an optimization model and based on the factual patterns, the risk tolerance classification, and relevant legal documents, the recommended filing strategy; identifying relevant media files from a library of media files that are associated with the recommended filing strategy; creating a combined media file from the plurality of relevant media files; and presenting the combined media file via the graphical user interface.
US11847706B1	Providing diagnostics regarding differences between trusted resource values and historical resource values In embodiments, diagnostics are electronically determined and provided as to why historical resource values differ from resource values determined according to more-trusted ways. Historical relationship instance data regarding a plurality of historical relationship instances between a primary entity and a plurality of secondary entities are received along with a plurality of historical resource values, in which each historical relationship instance of the plurality of historical relationship instances is associated with a respective historical resource value of the plurality of historical resource values. The system produces a respective trusted resource values based on the respective historical relationship instance. Based on differences between the respective trusted resource value and the respective historical resource value associated with the dataset, the system outputs one or more diagnostic comments associated with the detected difference.
US11847702B2	Interest rate swap compression A computer system may access data corresponding to a portfolio that comprises interest rate swaps and may calculate parameters for a compressed swap. The computer system may determine, based at least in part on the parameters for the compressed swap, a performance bond requirement attributable to the interest rate swaps. The computer system may compare the performance bond requirement to account data associated with a holder of the portfolio and may perform one or more additional actions based on the comparing.
US11847699B2	Systems and methods for providing non-fully-transparent markets Receiving a request to reveal a bid or an offer, transmitting a price and a size that corresponds to the bid or the offer; waiting a pre-determined period of time, and executing the bid or the offer at a default price and a default size, in the event that no command is submitted to trade within the pre-determined period of time.
US11847698B2	Token-based entity risk management exchange Techniques and apparatus for providing peer-based management of user accounts are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured to determine a total entity risk value representing a risk position of an entity comprising at least one segment, generate a plurality of risk tokens, each of the plurality of risk tokens having a token value that is a portion of the total risk value, determine a total segment risk value for the at least one segment, the total segment risk value representing a portion of the total entity risk value allocated to the at least one segment, and distribute the plurality of risk tokens to the at least one segment of the entity to correspond with the total segment risk value. Other embodiments are described.
US11847697B1	Compression optimization A method is provided for compressing data in an exchange computer system. The method includes receiving position data indicative of a position held with respect to a financial instrument by an exchange participant from among a plurality of exchange participants, and receiving constraint data indicative of one or more constraints on compression defined by the exchange participant. The exchange computer system compresses data based on the position data and the constraint data, resulting in, for each of the plurality of exchange participants, a new allocation of position sizes relative to positions held prior to compression. The new allocation of position sizes is such that a set of long positions held by the plurality of exchange participants with respect to the financial instrument are cancelled out by a set of short positions held by the plurality of exchange participants with respect to the financial instrument.
US11847692B2	Method and system for offering a credit product by a credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed.
US11847691B2	Systems and methods for generating a credit score based at least in part upon telematics data A user's credit score is determined based at least in part upon collected telematics data and user data associated with the user. A credit score prediction model is created using training datasets of historical data including demographics data, driver profile data, and established credit scores. The credit score prediction model is then used to predict credit scores for users without formal credit scores. A user's credit score is predicted based at least in part upon a driver profile built using telematics data, among other factors.
US11847686B2	Back end server modification and model visualization Product recommendations are selected according to a model. Product recommendations may be annotated with rules of the model used to select the products. A user may modify the model and be provided with a URL and a cookie associated with the modified model. Subsequent requests or the URL and presenting the cookie are processed using the modified model. A context may be associated with the cookie and modified by the user to observe performance of the model for the context. An interface may permit a user to specify rules for the model or otherwise model its behavior. User interactions with a website result in recommendations according to the model. A journey is recorded that records content, recommendations, and parameters of the model corresponding to the recommendations. The journeys of users may be filtered and visually presented to a user.
US11847684B2	Systems and method for tracking consumer tasting preferences Systems and methods for recommending an item from a plurality of items. The plurality of items includes chemistry-based features. The system comprises a computing device and a database. The database includes user preference data, item data, and mapping data. The system receives user input regarding user preferences, and associates user preference values with chemistry-based feature values. The system compares chemistry-based feature values for each item to the user preference values and returns items that best match. In one embodiment, the items are wines and the system uses chemistry-based features of wines such as wine volatile chemical compounds to return wine recommendations.
US11847682B2	System and method to recommend a service provider Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for recommending a service provider. An embodiment operates by receiving a search request specifying a service request by a user and location for the requested service, retrieving prior financial transactions of the user to purchase the service from a database, and determining a preference of the user based on the retrieved prior financial transactions. The embodiment further operates by applying the preference to a model trained to output a recommended service provider and selecting the recommended service provider for display on a user's device. The model more likely recommends service providers in the location having a higher ratio of tip-to-price relative to other providers for the service in the location based on a history of prior financial transactions of a plurality of users.
US11847681B2	Ultraviolet light and machine learning-based assessment of food item quality The disclosed technology provides for determining infection in food items using image data of the food items under ultra-violet (UV) light. A method includes performing object detection on the image data to identify a bounding box around each of the food items in the image data, determining, for each food item, an infection presence metric by applying a model to the bounding box, the model being trained using image training data of other food items under UV light, the image training data being annotated based on previous identifications of a first portion of the other food items having infection features and a second portion having healthy quality features, and determining, based on a determination that the infection presence metric for each of the food items indicates presence of an infection, an infection coverage metric for the food item.
US11847680B1	Computer-implemented method, a computing device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for presenting attribute variations Techniques are described herein for presenting attribute variations (differing attribute values) of an item at a network page. A request for the network page associated with an item of an electronic catalog can be received. In response to the request, the network page can be presented. The content and/or format of the network page can be predefined by an interface specification associated with the item and/or item category for the item. The network page may include a first area that includes an expanded view in which one or more variations of the first attribute are depicted and any suitable number of collapsed views in which one or more variations associated with a respective attribute are hidden from view. The areas of the network page may be dynamically expanded and collapsed to enable selection of various attribute values which may then be used to update the network page.
US11847675B2	Method and system for facilitating a marketplace for labor arbitrage An innovative system and method is implemented to facilitate a blockchain based labor arbitrage. The system uses a processor to manage labor arbitrage between business operator devices and laborer devices. The method starts with a description for a job request received from a business operator device. After distributing the job description, the method receives proposals from the laborer devices. Then method matches a primary laborer device to the job description and generates a smart contract in the blockchain between the business operator device and the primary laborer device. Upon job completion, the method verifies that all job requirements plus quality standards are satisfactorily met and signatures of both the business operator device and the primary laborer device are validated, the method transmits a compensation of a predetermined type and amount of cryptographic token to the primary laborer device. With any disputes, the method further provides an arbitration process.
US11847672B2	Mobile device proximity triggered transaction based merchant donation The present invention teaches a system, method and computer program for enabling local or regional merchants to participate in an automated cause marketing (ACM) program using mobile devices. The ACM program that may provide benefits to several parties involved in fundraising for one or more supported organizations, including one or more supported organizations, advertising providers, merchants, and individuals. Merchants are able to access enhanced analytics regarding their transactions with members and non-members of the ACM program and can use these enhanced analytics to realize an increased number of or revenue from transactions with members. The present invention also teaches a system and method for enabling advertising providers to acquire and analyze data associated with consumers-merchant transactions. The present invention provides the above features optimally using mobile devices. Furthermore, the present invention, may enable a member to disseminate its charitable preferences and contribution notifications to members of its electronic social networks.
US11847671B2	Smart campaign with autopilot features Methods and systems are provided for communication of one or more campaigns via personalized electronic messaging. An example method includes automatically creating an electronic communication personalized for each of a plurality of individual customers of a client. The automatically creating may include dynamic configuring the electronic communication for each individual customer into a single campaign for the client to optimize both relevancy for each of a plurality of individual customers and one or more desired business outcomes for the client. The dynamic configuring can include decision making using at least a business context. Performance goals of a business can comprise the business context. The decision-making can further use a user context and/or an external context. The electronic communication can be dynamically configured to include personalized recommendations and may further include personalized content and/or a personalized offer. Using various embodiments, marketing strategies for electronic communication can run on autopilot.
US11847670B1	Simulation augmented reinforcement learning for real-time content selection Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for improving inventory management. As used herein, “inventory” refers to digital space at an inventory providers webpage at which content can be delivered. The disclosed techniques utilize reinforced machine learning and an offline training process to train various models with which a content request corresponding to the inventory can be classified according to historical requests and a selection process identified for the request (e.g., a direct or an indirect selection process). If an indirect selection process is chosen, the content request may be optimized for that process utilizing additional machine learning models trained using reinforced machine learning and the offline training process. The disclosed techniques enable the inventory provider to optimize content selections according to a preferred objective. The training operations are performed offline, in a training system configured to simulate the run time environment.
US11847669B2	Systems and methods for keyword categorization Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform determining a respective interaction metric between at least two respective keywords of a plurality of keywords; constructing, using each respective interaction metric, as determined, a graph comprising a plurality of nodes connected by at least one edge; identifying one or more clusters of nodes using the graph; optimizing each cluster of nodes of the one or more clusters of nodes; and facilitating altering a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic device based upon a cluster of nodes of the one or more clusters of nodes, as identified and optimized. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11847667B2	Road segment safety rating system Methods, computer-readable media, systems, and apparatuses for determining a safest road segment for traveling between two locations are provided. In some cases, a road segment safety rating may be determined for a plurality of road segments between the two locations based on historical data associated with the road segments and/or based on driving behavior data of an operator of the vehicle. An indication of the road segment determined as being the safest may be provided to the operator of the vehicle. An actual route of travel of the vehicle may be compared to the safest route. If the actual route of travel is different from the determined safest route, the operator may be notified that an award may be earned when the determined safest route is traveled. If the actual route of travel is determined to be safer than the determined safest route, an award may be earned.
US11847666B1	Determining status of building modifications using informatics sensor data A computer device and method for processing data to detect modifications to insured property. Received is specification data regarding modifications to be made to insured property in connection with an insurance claim. Also received is data from one or more sensor devices associated with the insured property indicative of a status regarding modifications made to the insured property. Analysis is performed on the received specification and data to determine whether one or more predefined conditions for the insurance claim is satisfied regarding the modifications to be made to the insured property.
US11847663B2	Subscription churn prediction A churn prediction system includes at least one hardware processor, a memory including a historical sample set of subscriber data, and a churn prediction engine executing on the at least one hardware processor. The churn prediction engine is configured to identify the historical sample set, identify a set of attributes, automatically select a subset of attributes based on an information gain value, generate a decision tree by recursively generating nodes of the decision tree by computing an information gain value for each remaining attribute of the subset of attributes, identifying a highest attribute having the highest information gain value, and assigning the highest attribute to the node. The churn prediction engine is also configured to receive target data for a target subscriber, apply the target data to the decision tree, thereby generating a churn prediction for the target subscriber, and identify the target subscriber as a churn prediction.
US11847655B1	Multi-vector suspicious activity identifier The disclosure includes a system and method for receiving, using one or more processors, monitoring data; preprocessing, using one or more processors, the monitoring data based on a plurality of vectors, the plurality of vectors including a first vector; applying, using the one or more processors, a first rule associated with the first vector; and triggering, using the one or more processors, a first action based on the first rule.
US11847653B2	Fraud detection system, method, and device A system for authentication for a user device associated with a user, said system comprising: a processing system to generate a first user interface running on a screen of said user device, said first user interface comprising one or more components, wherein said one or more components comprises a first icon, which when activated, directs a user to a second user interface to select a secret pattern, a second icon, which when activated, generates a current randomly populated keyboard, further wherein said processing system provides a current Personal Identification Number (PIN) to said user by correlating said secret pattern with the current randomly populated keyboard, and a regular keyboard for said user to enter a PIN for authentication.
US11847643B2	Secure remote payment transaction processing using a secure element Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for securely processing remote transactions. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of processing a remote transaction initiated by a mobile device. The method comprises receiving, by a mobile payment application on a secure memory of the mobile device, transaction data from a transaction processor application on the mobile device. The method further comprises validating that the transaction processor application is authentic and in response to validating the transaction processor application, providing encrypted payment credentials to the transaction processor application. The transaction processor application further initiates a payment transaction with a transaction processor server computer using the encrypted payment credentials.
US11847640B2	Payment system for authorizing a transaction between a user device and a terminal Methods, apparatus and computer software are provided for authorizing an EMV transaction between a user device and a point of sale terminal, particularly, but not exclusively, in situations where a secure element is not made available for the deployment of a payment application on the user device. The payment application is instead deployed to a processing environment that is outside of any secure element on the user device. The payment application is associated with a certificate and a corresponding hash. The hash is adapted to be generated on the basis of an application expiration date parameter, which is adapted to comprise data indicative of an expiration date of day level granularity associated with the certificate. During processing of the EMV transaction, the point-of-sale terminal verifies the hash, thereby establishing the authenticity of the application expiration date, and hence the validity of the certificate.
US11847636B2	Seamless electronic system and method for application, acceptance of, authorizing access to, and tracking purchases made with a new credit account A seamless electronic system and method for application, acceptance of, authorizing access to, and tracking purchases made with a new credit account is disclosed. The method uses a mobile device to electronically apply for a new credit account and receive a metadata file formatted for a mobile wallet on the mobile device, the metadata file providing a new credit account for making purchases via a mobile payment. A biometric security is provided to limit access to the new credit account, the biometric security being different than an input needed to access the mobile device. A user is authenticated with the biometric security, prior to receiving access to the new credit account; and initiating a mobile purchase therewith. A digital receipt identifying one or more aspects of the mobile purchase is received.
US11847631B2	Point of sale device with cradle for computing device A point of sale (POS) device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment card or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to differently-sized interchangeable frames, which in turn help secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device. The mobile computing device is connected via a connector to the rest of the POS device. Payment card information read by the readers is conveyed to the mobile computing device over the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.
US11847629B1	Resilient workflows dependent on external computing systems Disclosed are various embodiments for resilient workflows dependent on external computing systems. In one embodiment, one or more steps in a workflow are determined to invoke a request to an external computing system. Availability information for the external computing system is determined. The external computing system is detected to be potentially unavailable before a request within a workflow is submitted via an application programming interface (API) for processing by the external computing system. An indication is provided that an integration with the external computing system is unavailable in response to detecting that the external computing system is potentially unavailable.
US11847625B2	Kiosk for receiving and delivering packages A computer server for a network-based transaction system is coupled to a kiosk via a data communications network. The kiosk includes a computer processor, an input device, an electronic display unit, a plurality of compartments, and a data communications port. The computer server receives input from a seller of an item. The input includes a listing of the item for sale on the network-based transaction system. The server identifies an available compartment from the plurality of compartments based on the size of the item for sale. The available compartment is configured to receive the item for sale from the seller. The server transmits an identification of the available compartment to the seller via the electronic display unit, and enables access to the available compartment by the seller.
US11847623B1	Systems and methods for integrating web platforms with mobile device operations A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11847622B2	Systems and methods for post-hoc device registration A method for managing a post-hoc device registration in an ecosystem is provided. The method includes assembling an electronic device, having a system on a chip (SoC) integrated therein. The method further includes activating/onboarding the device, receiving, by a CA from the device, a communication containing at least one keypair, validating, from the CA to the device, the at least one keypair, triggering, by the CA, data capture of validation data. The validation data includes user registration data, and manufacture/status data for least one of the device and the SoC. The captured validation data is stored in a database of the CA, and then aggregated, along with the received at least one keypair, from the CA database into a billing invoice to the device assembler. The registration data is referenced to the at least one keypair and other validation data by the CA.
US11847619B2	System-state monitoring method and device and storage medium At least some example embodiments provide a system-state monitoring method and device and a storage medium. The method includes determining a standard operation mode of a system, the standard operation mode including a plurality of operation states of the system in a unit time period. The method further includes determining, according to current operation data of the system, a current operation mode of the system and determining, by comparing the current operation mode with the standard operation mode, whether or not the system is in the standard operation mode. The plurality of operation states of the system are determined to be the standard operation mode, such that changes in system operation patterns can be readily detected, thereby facilitating a timely adjustment of the monitored system or peripheral mechanisms in cooperation therewith and improving system performance.
US11847617B2	Model predictive maintenance system with financial analysis functionality A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment. The system includes one or more processing circuits including one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include performing an optimization of an objective function that defines a present value of a total cost of operating the building equipment and performing maintenance on the building equipment as a function of operating decisions and maintenance decisions for the building equipment for time steps within a time period. The total cost includes one or more costs incurred during one or more future time steps of the time period. The operations include operating the building equipment and performing maintenance on the building equipment in accordance with decisions defined by the result of the optimization.
US11847615B2	System and method for job profile matching A computer-implemented system for job matching of candidates and vacancies, comprises: a candidate memory storing data of at least one candidate profile associated with a respective candidate and consisting of a plurality of different candidate categories, wherein each candidate category comprises candidate category data associated with the candidate; and a vacancy memory storing data of at least one vacancy profile associated with a respective vacancy and consisting of a plurality of different vacancy categories, wherein each vacancy category comprises vacancy category data associated with the vacancy. A matching module is configured to receive the at least one candidate profile, receive the at least one vacancy profile, determine at least one similarity score between the at least one candidate profile and the at least one vacancy profile, and determine a job matching result based on the at least one similarity score. An information module is configured to communicate the job matching result to a user. A feedback module is configured to receive feedback information associated with at least one of the plurality of candidate categories and the plurality of vacancy categories. The matching module is updated based on the received feedback information.
US11847614B2	Method and system for determining collaboration between employees using artificial intelligence (AI) A method and system for determining collaboration between employees is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a plurality of collaboration parameters associated with a set of employees. The method further includes creating a plurality of employee nodes associated with the set of employees in a hierarchical tree, based on the plurality of collaboration parameters and a first pre-trained machine learning model. The method further includes generating a plurality of vector embeddings associated with the plurality of employee nodes, based on the first pre-trained machine learning model. The method further includes determining a degree of collaboration between at least two employees from the set of employees based on one or more vector embeddings from the generated plurality of embeddings.
US11847613B2	Systems and methods to attribute automated actions within a collaboration environment Systems and methods to attribute automated actions within a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including attribution information and automation records for automated actions to carry out in response to trigger events; detect occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate automated actions corresponding to detected occurrences of the trigger events; effectuate presentation of attribution labels for the effectuated ones of the automated actions; and/or perform other operations.
US11847609B2	Container touch-pairing device Systems and methods change a user interface for the purpose of pairing a shipping container with an item that is intended to be shipped in the shipping container. Example embodiments include a machine-implemented method for accessing a shipping request, detecting a radio signal from a candidate container using a radio receiver, detecting an impact between a pairing device and a query container using an accelerometer, determining that the query container is the candidate container, and generating a shipping record that correlates the shipping container and the item. The device can further determine that the query container is the candidate container based on the signal strength and change in signal strength of one or more signals. The device can further detect an impact between the pairing device and the query container by ranking one or more sets of acceleration data collected by the accelerometer.
US11847608B2	Systems and methods for call deflection for product return or exchange The embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for call deflection, comprising receiving, via a telephone communication from a mobile device of a user, a request for return or exchange, accessing a purchase history of the user to identify at least one order satisfying a predetermined return criteria, generating a unique hyperlink for the user, sending the unique hyperlink to the mobile device of the user, receiving, from the mobile device of the user, a selection of at least one product in the at least one order for return or exchange, and modifying a database to register the at least one product for return or exchange. The unique hyperlink may be assigned to the at least one order that satisfies the predetermined return criteria such that, when activated by the user, the mobile device is configured to display the at least one order.
US11847607B2	Multi-entity management of a node in a wireless node network Methods and apparatus are disclosed for multi-entity management of an ID node in a wireless node network. The ID node associates with a first entity user access device, which operates as a master node and communicates directly with a server over a first communication path. The first device separately communicates with the ID node over a second communication path, but the ID node is unable to directly communicate with the server. The ID node provides the first device with access to data collected by the ID node if an initial privilege authorizes it. After associating with a shipping entity master node, the ID node provides the shipping entity master node with the data collected based on a transferred privilege from the server. And then after associating with a second entity user access device, the ID node provides access to this second device if authorized by a destination privilege from the server.
US11847603B1	Neighborhood aware geofence generation Techniques for a geofence generation feature are described herein. Geospatial vector data for a geographical area and seed points for delivery locations within the geographical area may be obtained. A plurality of polygons that represent the geographical area may be determined based on an algorithm that uses the seed points and the geospatial vector data. A boundary point for each polygon may be determined based on coordinates for the plurality of polygons where each boundary point corresponds to a single seed point. A geofence of a first size may be generated, for each polygon, based on the coordinates for the polygons, the seed point, and the boundary point. Historical scans of GPS data may be obtained from user devices during historical visits to the geographical area. The geofence may be modified to a second size or a different shape based on the historical scans of the GPS data.
US11847592B2	Required time prediction apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium A required time prediction apparatus (2000) acquires utilization facility information and assumed date and time information. The utilization facility information is information enabling to determine a departure facility and a destination facility. The assumed date and time information is information enabling to determine an assumed departure date and time assuming departure from the departure facility or an assumed arrival date and time assuming arrival at the destination facility. The apparatus (2000) estimates a waiting time at each facility being present between the departure facility and the destination facility, regarding a case of assuming departure from the departure facility at the assumed departure date and time, or a case of assuming arrival at the destination facility at the assumed arrival date and time. Then, the apparatus (2000) computes, based on the estimated waiting time, a predicted required time from departure from the departure facility to arrival at the destination facility.
US11847583B2	Systems and methods for providing consumer facing point-of-sale interfaces Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing point-of-sale functionality are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including a merchant device and a consumer facing device. The merchant device may include a merchant display device configured to present interactive displays of a merchant facing interface configured to be used by merchants. The consumer facing device may be configured to present interactive displays of a consumer facing interface configured to be used by consumers. The point-of-sale system may be configured to facilitate financial transactions and other forms of consumer service. For example, merchant inputs provided via the merchant facing interface (e.g., entered menu items) may be shown on the consumer facing interface. In another example, consumer inputs provided via the consumer facing interface be sent to the merchant device and/or otherwise used by the merchant device to facilitate a financial transaction, among other things.
US11847578B2	Chatbot for defining a machine learning (ML) solution The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an intelligent assistant (e.g., a chatbot) that can be used to enable a user to generate a machine learning system. Techniques can be used to automatically generate a machine learning system to assist a user. In some cases, the user may not be a software developer and may have little or no experience in either machine learning techniques or software programming. In some embodiments, a user can interact with an intelligent assistant. The interaction can be aural, textual, or through a graphical user interface. The chatbot can translate natural language inputs into a structural representation of a machine learning solution using an ontology. In this way, a user can work with artificial intelligence without being a data scientist to develop, train, refine, and compile machine learning models as stand-alone executable code.
US11847577B2	Auxiliary power unit usage prediction A system includes a machine-learning device configured to receive data associated with an aircraft. The data includes a flying time associated with one or more flight phases of travel to a destination airport, temperature data associated with one or more of the flight phases, and a number of occupants on board the aircraft. The machine-learning device is configured to process the data to generate prediction data regarding usage of an auxiliary power unit of the aircraft and to generate a message based on the prediction data. The message indicates at least one of an estimated number of on/off events of the auxiliary power unit or an estimated duration of use of the auxiliary power unit.
US11847568B2	Quantizing neural networks using shifting and scaling Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for training a quantized machine-trained network. Some embodiments provide a method of scaling a feature map of a pre-trained floating-point neural network in order to match the range of output values provided by quantized activations in a quantized neural network. A quantization function is modified, in some embodiments, to be differentiable to fix the mismatch between the loss function computed in forward propagation and the loss gradient used in backward propagation. Variational information bottleneck, in some embodiments, is incorporated to train the network to be insensitive to multiplicative noise applied to each channel. In some embodiments, channels that finish training with large noise, for example, exceeding 100%, are pruned.
US11847566B2	Deep learning with judgment Computer systems and computer-implemented methods modify a machine learning network, such as a deep neural network, to introduce judgment to the network. A “combining” node is added to the network, to thereby generate a modified network, where activation of the combining node is based, at least in part, on output from a subject node of the network. The computer system then trains the modified network by, for each training data item in a set of training data, performing forward and back propagation computations through the modified network, where the backward propagation computation through the modified network comprises computing estimated partial derivatives of an error function of an objective for the network, except that the combining node selectively blocks back-propagation of estimated partial derivatives to the subject node, even though activation of the combining node is based on the activation of the subject node.
US11847565B1	Automatic refinement of intent classification for virtual assistant applications Methods and apparatuses are described for automatic refinement of intent classification for virtual assistant applications. A computing device creates utterance groups comprising messages. The device determines, using a first machine learning (ML) classifier, a first predicted intent associated with each utterance group and determines, using a second ML classifier, a second predicted intent associated with each utterance group. The device combines the first and second predicted intents to generate a final predicted intent, determines, for each incomprehensible utterance group, whether the final predicted intent overlaps with the final predicted intent for other utterance groups, and selects messages having no overlapping intent to create new intents. The device determines, for each comprehensible utterance group, whether the final predicted intent overlaps with a preassigned intent for other utterance groups and combines the messages that have an overlapping intent to create and label a new utterance group with the overlapping intent.
US11847564B2	Privacy-preserving machine learning New and efficient protocols are provided for privacy-preserving machine learning training (e.g., for linear regression, logistic regression and neural network using the stochastic gradient descent method). A protocols can use the two-server model, where data owners distribute their private data among two non-colluding servers, which train various models on the joint data using secure two-party computation (2PC). New techniques support secure arithmetic operations on shared decimal numbers, and propose MPC-friendly alternatives to non-linear functions, such as sigmoid and softmax.
US11847563B2	On-device artificial intelligence systems and methods for document auto-rotation An auto-rotation module having a single-layer neural network on a user device can convert a document image to a monochrome image having black and white pixels and segment the monochrome image into bounding boxes, each bounding box defining a connected segment of black pixels in the monochrome image. The auto-rotation module can determine textual snippets from the bounding boxes and prepare them into input images for the single-layer neural network. The single-layer neural network is trained to process each input image, recognize a correct orientation, and output a set of results for each input image. Each result indicates a probability associated with a particular orientation. The auto-rotation module can examine the results, determine what degree of rotation is needed to achieve a correct orientation of the document image, and automatically rotate the document image by the degree of rotation needed to achieve the correct orientation of the document image.
US11847559B2	Modifying data cleansing techniques for training and validating an artificial neural network model Disclosed is a method and system for modifying data cleansing techniques for training and validating an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model. The method comprises normalizing and validating data of different formats, obtained from different sources. The ANN model is trained using the normalized and validated data. Alternatively, the ANN model could be trained using data of a common format obtained from a deterministic data model. The trained ANN model is used to generate ANN stochastic data. Data validation component from the deterministic data model is reused for the normalizing and the validating of the data, for validating the ANN stochastic data.
US11847558B2	Analyzing storage systems using machine learning systems A method is used in analyzing a storage system using a machine learning system. Data gathered from information associated with operations performed in a storage system is analyzed. The storage system is comprised of a plurality of components. A bitmap image is created based on the gathered data, where at least one of the plurality of components is represented in the bitmap image. The machine learning system is trained using the bitmap image, where the bitmap image is organized to depict the plurality of components of the storage system.
US11847555B2	Constraining neural networks for robustness through alternative encoding A neural network is augmented to enhance robustness against adversarial attack. In this approach, a fully-connected additional layer is associated with a last layer of the neural network. The additional layer has a lower dimensionality than at least one or more intermediate layers. After sizing the additional layer appropriately, a vector bit encoding is applied. The encoding comprises an encoding vector for each output class. Preferably, the encoding is an n-hot encoding, wherein n represents a hyperparameter. The resulting neural network is then trained to encourage the network to associated features with each of the hot positions. In this manner, the network learns a reduced feature set representing those features that contain a high amount of information with respect to each output class, and/or to learn constraints between those features and the output classes. The trained neural network is used to perform a classification that is robust against adversarial examples.
US11847552B2	Pipeline with processor including neural network for rendering artificial reality Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method for providing an artificial reality. In one aspect, a system includes a shared physical memory and a first processor having access to the shared physical memory. In one aspect, the first processor performs, during a first time period, a first rendering process to generate a first image frame of a first view of an artificial reality. In one aspect, the first processor performs, during a second time period, a second rendering process to generate a second image frame of a second view of the artificial reality. In one aspect, the system includes a second processor including a neural network and having access to the shared physical memory. In one aspect, the second processor performs, during a third time period overlapping a portion of the second time period, an image enhancing process on the first image frame.
US11847548B2	Universal passenger seat system and data interface A universal passenger seat system includes a system controller and a physical connection interface with a standardized communication protocol for coupling the system controller with seating hardware, at least one peripheral device, and at least one network connection. The system controller can also be in communication with a biometric sensor, a physiological sensor, and/or a situational data sensor. An artificial intelligence engine is communicatively coupled to or embedded within the system controller. The artificial intelligence engine is configured to determine a passenger status based on data received from the biometric sensor, the physiological sensor, and/or the situational data sensor and is further configured to generate one or more communication signals based on the data. For example, the communication signals can include control signals for the seating hardware, information signals for peripheral devices, or status signals for transmission via the network connection.
US11847547B2	Method and system for generating a centerline for an object, and computer readable medium Methods and Systems for generating a centerline for an object in an image and computer readable medium are provided. The method includes receiving an image containing the object. The method also includes generating the centerline of the object, by a processor, using a reinforcement learning network configured to predict movement of a virtual agent that traces the centerline in the image. The reinforcement learning network is further configured to perform at least one auxiliary task that detects a bifurcation in a trajectory of the object. The reinforcement learning network is trained by maximizing a cumulative reward and minimizing an auxiliary loss of the at least one auxiliary task. Additionally, the method includes displaying the centerline of the object.
US11847544B2	Preventing data leakage in automated machine learning A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for preventing data leakage in automated machine learning. The mechanism receives a data set comprising a label for a target variable for a classifier machine learning model and a set of features. For each given feature in the set of features, the mechanism trains a subprime classifier model using the given feature as a target variable and remaining features as independent input features, tests the subprime classifier model, and records results of the subprime classifier model. The mechanism performs statistical analysis on the recorded results to identify an outlier result corresponding to an outlier subprime classifier model. The mechanism identifies a outlier feature within the set of features corresponding to the subprime classifier model, removes the identified outlier feature from the set of features to form a modified set of features, and trains the classifier machine learning model using the label for the target variable and the modified set of features.
US11847535B2	Silicon nitride resonators for qubit generation and entanglement A quantum computing system includes a first silicon nitride resonator couplable to a first alkali atom, a second silicon resonator couplable to a second alkali atom, and a plurality of lasers for trapping, cooling, and manipulating the first alkali atom and the second alkali atom. Detectors detect a presence of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom, and a processor is configured to receive at least one input signal from at least one of the detectors, the input signal indicating a presence of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom, and, based on the received input, control at least some of the plurality of lasers to manipulate at least one of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom to thereby generate photonic qubits using the trapped first alkali atom or generate entanglement between photonic qubits transmitted to the trapped second alkali atom.
US11847531B1	System and method for using artificial intelligence to detect lithium plating In one aspect, computer-implemented method may include receiving, from computing devices, fleet data pertaining to battery packs each including first cells. The fleet data includes false positive images of lithium plating affecting at least a first cell, true positive images of the lithium plating affecting at least a second cell, or both. The method may include training, using at least the fleet data, machine learning models to predict occurrences of the lithium plating, receiving, from sensors associated with second cells, measurements pertaining to current, voltage, temperature, or some combination thereof, and inputting the measurements into the machine learning models to predict the occurrences of the lithium plating for the second cells.
US11847530B1	Frequency modulation dynamic modeling method and device for wind farm, and electronic device The present invention provides a frequency modulation dynamic modeling method and device for a wind farm, and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring first frequency modulation data measured at a grid-connected point of the wind farm under a plurality of preset working conditions; establishing a state space model corresponding to each of the plurality of working conditions according to the first frequency modulation data; measuring the nonlinearity between the state space models corresponding to each two of the plurality of working conditions by using a gap measurement method; combining the first frequency modulation data according to the nonlinearity to obtain second frequency modulation data; and training a preset initial LSTM neural network according to the second frequency modulation data until a preset training requirement is met, and obtaining a trained frequency modulation dynamic model of the wind farm.
US11847529B2	Architectures, systems and methods for program defined transaction system and decentralized cryptocurrency systems In one aspect, the invention comprises a system and method for control of a transaction state system utilizing a distributed ledger. First, the system and method includes an application plane layer adapted to receive instructions regarding operation of the transaction state system. Preferably, the application plane layer is coupled to the application plane layer interface. Second, a control plane layer is provided, the control plane layer including an adaptive control unit, such as a cognitive computing unit, artificial intelligence unit or machine-learning unit. Third, a data plane layer includes an input interface to receive data input from one or more data sources and to provide output coupled to a decentralized distributed ledger, the data plane layer is coupled to the control plane layer. Optionally, the system and method serve to implement a smart contract on a decentralized distributed ledger.
US11847524B2	Methods, systems, and apparatuses for scanning and decoding direct part marking indicia Various embodiments described herein relate to a scanning system for scanning and decoding direct part markings (DPM) type indicia. The scanning system includes an arrangement of an illumination module, a beam splitter module, and a telecentric lens assembly. The telecentric lens assembly is adapted to direct an in-line illumination received from the illumination module as collimated light to illuminate the DPM indicia. Upon illumination, a first portion of light reflected from embossments of the DPM indicia that are incident on the telecentric lens assembly at a defined angle is decoupled from an optical path between the telecentric lens assembly and the target. An imager is exposed to a second portion of reflected light, excluding the decoupled reflected light that is reflected from a substrate on the DPM indicia, in order to capture an image of the DPM indicia for decoding.
US11847520B2	Wireless tag reading apparatus and control method for a wireless tag reading apparatus In accordance with an embodiment, a wireless tag reading apparatus includes an antenna, first and second power feeding ports, and a controller. The first power feeding port feeds electric power into the antenna so as to emit the first linearly polarized wave from the antenna. The second power feeding port feeds electric power into the antenna so as to emit the second linearly polarized wave from the antenna. The controller sets a ratio of a time of power feeding from the first power feeding port to a time of power feeding from the second power feeding port to take a value according to a ratio of the number of wireless tags existing in the direction of the first linearly polarized wave to the number of wireless tags existing in the direction of the second linearly polarized wave.
US11847518B2	Systems and methods for constructing programmable credential and security cards A method for designing and constructing a thin programmable dynamic credential card is disclosed. The thin programmable dynamic credential card may comprise multiple layers, including a top surface layer containing an opening through which a graphical display system below the top surface layer can be viewed. The graphical display system is configured to present at least one coded image. The at least one coded image is determined based at least in part on context data associated with a context of the programmable credential card.
US11847516B2	Method and device for reading a two-dimensional encoded pattern applied on a non-uniform background The invention relates to a method and device for detecting and decoding a two-dimensional encoded pattern, e.g. of the Robust Encoding Pattern type (REP), even in case the pattern is applied on a non-uniform colored background of a surface of a substrate. The operations for decoding such an encoded pattern involve detecting the states of its symbols through a test pattern, checking that local differences between parameter values of the elements of the symbols are consistent with an allowed representation of the test pattern to assign via a one-to-one mapping the states of the symbols of the test pattern to the corresponding symbols of the encoded pattern, and decoding the encoded pattern based on the assigned representation of its symbols.
US11847514B2	Information processing device, printing apparatus, and method of controlling information processing device An information processing device that transmits print data to a printing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores combination information configured to identify a combination of a color of a print medium and a color of a color material and an adaptive density range that is a range of print densities suitable for reading a code image, a print combination information acquisition unit that acquires print combination information configured to identify a combination of a color of the print medium and a color of the color material, a density setting value acquisition unit that acquires a density setting value, a density determination unit that determines, whether the density setting value is included in the adaptive density range stored in association with the combination information same as the print combination information, and a density change unit that changes a print density of the print data.
US11847512B1	Method and apparatus for optimizing system call (syscall) processing A management daemon sorts syscalls received from the management applications into First In First Out (FIFO) queues and, when there is an available array control device, selects a syscall from one of the FIFO queues, and spawns a thread on the available array control device to service the selected syscall. The management system has a syscall scheduler configured to optimize handling of syscalls, by breaking long running syscalls into discrete operations, implementing a portion of the syscall, and then stopping operation of the syscall while saving the state of the partially executed syscall. The partially executed syscall is placed back into a queue for subsequent operation, thus freeing up the array control devise for use in connection with other syscalls. By optimizing syscall scheduling, and incremental processing of long running syscalls, it is possible to reduce the overall syscall processing time for a set of syscalls.
US11847511B1	Standardized interactions across different blockchains In variants, the system can include a set of blockchain modules and a set of interaction mechanism handlers configured to convert a unified set of system commands into blockchain-specific commands for each of a set of blockchains and/or blockchain nodes.
US11847510B2	System for application self-optimization in serverless edge computing environments A method for implementing application self-optimization in serverless edge computing environments is presented. The method includes requesting deployment of an application pipeline on data received from a plurality of sensors, the application pipeline including a plurality of microservices, enabling communication between a plurality of pods and a plurality of analytics units (AUs), each pod of the plurality of pods including a sidecar, determining whether each of the plurality of AUs maintains any state to differentiate between stateful AUs and stateless AUs, scaling the stateful AUs and the stateless AUs, enabling communication directly between the sidecars of the plurality of pods, and reusing and resharing common AUs of the plurality of AUs across different applications.
US11847509B2	Infrastructure base model API Embodiments of apparatus, systems, and methods are described for creating and managing an abstract, API-based infrastructure base model. The API-based model can abstract infrastructure assets, such as infrastructure components or connections between components, into a metadata model using standardized syntax and interfaces, for defining and building an infrastructure. Using a modeling document, connections and components of an infrastructure can be abstracted into an API-based model having semantics that covers them all. Connections and infrastructure components can be made available for selection, arrangement, and grouping to build complex infrastructure models without requiring complex API coding by the user. Other infrastructure models having different API definitions can be by abstracted to standardize the assets for building new APIs. The APIs can be further modified and exported to another or the same implementation project.
US11847508B2	Convergence among concurrently executing threads Convergence of threads executing common code sections is facilitated using instructions inserted at strategic locations in computer code sections. The inserted instructions enable the threads in a warp or other group to cooperate with a thread scheduler to promote thread convergence.
US11847505B2	Method, device, and computer program product for managing storage system Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for managing a storage system. The method includes: determining, at a first device of the storage system, whether a load of a first accelerator resource of the first device exceeds a load threshold; sending, if it is determined that the load exceeds the load threshold, a job processing request to a second device in a candidate device list to cause the second device to process a target job of the first device using a second accelerator resource of the second device, the candidate device list indicating devices in the storage system that can be used to assist the first device in job processing; receiving, from the second device, latency information related to remote processing latency of processing the target job using the second accelerator resource; and updating the candidate device list based on the latency information. The embodiments of the present disclosure can optimize the system performance.
US11847504B2	Method for CPU to execute artificial intelligence related processes A method for a CPU to execute artificial intelligence related processes is disclosed. The method includes: when executing TensorFlow on an electronic device, calling a corresponding AI model of TensorFlow according to content of program codes; determining and obtaining one or multiple sparse matrixes used by the AI model in performing calculations; executing a matrix simplifying procedure to the one or multiple sparse matrixes; executing an instruction transforming procedure to an instruction set applied for the AI model; issuing an instruction to a weighted CPU of the electronic device by the AI model according to transformed instruction set; and the weighted CPU, after receiving the instruction, averagely distributing multiple procedures indicated by the AI model to each of multiple threads of the weighted CPU to be respectively executed according to a weighting value of each of the multiple procedures.
US11847499B2	Coordinating multiple components Systems and methods for coordinating components can include: determining, by a first application executing on a client device, a need to perform a sharable functional task; identifying a first software component installed on the client device and capable of performing a first variation of the sharable functional task; identifying a second software component installed on the client device and capable of performing a second variation of the sharable functional task, wherein the second variation of the sharable functional task is functionally overlapping with and not identical to the first variation; identifying a set of characteristics of both the first software component and the second software component; selecting the second software component for performing the sharable functional task based on the set of characteristics, where the set of characteristics includes at least a version number; and delegating performance of the sharable functional task to the second software component.
US11847497B2	Methods and apparatus to enable out-of-order pipelined execution of static mapping of a workload Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that enable out-of-order pipelined execution of static mapping of a workload to one or more computational building blocks of an accelerator. An example apparatus includes an interface to load a first number of credits into memory; a comparator to compare the first number of credits to a threshold number of credits associated with memory availability in a buffer; and a dispatcher to, when the first number of credits meets the threshold number of credits, select a workload node of the workload to be executed at a first one of the one or more computational building blocks.
US11847492B2	Controlling scheduling of a GPU The operation of a GPU is controlled based on one or more deadlines by which one or more GPU tasks must be completed and estimates of the time required to complete the execution of a first GPU task (which is currently being executed) and the time required to execute one or more other GPU tasks (which are not currently being executed). Based on a comparison between the deadline(s) and the estimates, context switching may or may not be triggered.
US11847490B2	Intelligent workload scheduling using a ranking of sequences of tasks of a workload An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request to schedule a workload and to generate a graph representation of tasks of the workload, the graph representation comprising two or more levels each comprising nodes representing tasks of the workload. The processing device is also configured to identify a plurality of paths each representing a sequence of tasks of the workload that starts at a root node in a first level of the graph representation and traverses one or more additional nodes in one or more additional levels of the graph representation. The processing device is further configured to determine a ranking of the plurality of paths and to assign the tasks of the workload for execution on assets of an information technology infrastructure based at least in part on the determined ranking of the plurality of paths.
US11847484B2	Virtual machine image management using delta trees Redo logs are used to facilitate efficient cloning of virtual machines. When a virtual machine with a virtual hard disk is to be cloned, two redo logs are created, both of which are linked to the virtual hard disk. The virtual machine being cloned is then linked to one redo log, and a newly created virtual machine is linked to the other. Each time an additional virtual machine is created, two new redo logs are created and linked to the end of the disk chain. The parent and newly created virtual machine are each linked to one of the new redo logs.
US11847477B1	Techniques for natively interpreting logic across disparate platforms Systems and methods are provided herein for natively interpreting logic across disparate platforms. Rather than executing server calls that are computationally expensive, logic may be extracted into code segments that can be evaluated at run time by an interpreter. The interpreter is passed a set of evaluators, features, and contextual data, each of which is expressed in a domain specific language. An evaluator maps an identifier to a rule and describes one or more contextual data fields with which the rule is to be evaluated. A feature corresponds to a logical condition that identifies the evaluator and a return value that is returned if the condition is met. The interpreter identifies the evaluator from the feature being evaluated and evaluates its corresponding rule based on the contextual data provided to return a return value. One or more operations may be performed based on the return value provided.
US11847471B2	Fast boot systems and methods for programmable logic devices Various techniques are provided to implement fast boot for programmable logic devices (PLDs). In one example, a method includes receiving configuration data associated with a PLD. The PLD includes an array of configuration memory cells including logic block memory cells and input/output (I/O) block memory cells associated with the PLD's logic fabric and I/O fabric, respectively. The method further includes programming a subset of the I/O block memory cells with the configuration data, and providing a wakeup signal to activate functionality associated with a portion of the I/O fabric. The method further includes programming remaining configuration memory cells of the array with the configuration data, where the remaining configuration memory cells include at least a subset of the logic block memory cells. The method further includes providing a wakeup signal to activate functionality associated with at least a portion of the logic fabric. Related systems and devices are provided.
US11847468B2	Data defragmentation for a system boot procedure having random indexes indicating a relationship between sequential logical addresses and random logical addresses Methods, systems, and devices for data defragmentation for a system boot procedure are described. The memory system may determine a write random index associated with a boot procedure. The write random index may indicate a relationship between a first quantity of sequential logical addresses accessed as part of the boot procedure and a second quantity of random logical addresses accessed as part of the boot procedure. The memory system may determine whether the write random index satisfies a threshold based on determining the write random index. In some cases, the memory system may transfer, to a second portion of the memory system, data stored in a first portion of the memory system based on determining that the write random index satisfies the threshold. The memory system may receive a request to perform the boot procedure after transferring the data and output, to the host system, the data transferred.
US11847462B2	Software-based instruction scoreboard for arithmetic logic units A software-based instruction scoreboard indicates dependencies between closely-issued instructions issued to an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) pipeline. The software-based instruction scoreboard inserts one or more control words into the command stream between the dependent instructions, which is then executed by the ALU pipeline. The control words identify the instruction(s) upon which the dependent instructions depend (parent instructions) so that the GPU hardware can ensure that the ALU pipeline does not stall while the dependent instruction waits for results from the parent instruction.
US11847461B2	Out-of-order input / output write A System-On-Chip (SoC) includes a set of registers, a processor, and Out-Of-Order Write (OOOW) circuitry. The processor is to execute instructions including write instructions. After issuing a first write instruction to any of the registers in the set, the processor is to await an acknowledgement for the first write instruction before issuing a second write instruction to any of the registers in the set. The OOOW circuitry is to identify the write instructions issued by the processor to the registers in the set, to perform the identified write instructions in the registers irrespective of acknowledgements from the registers, and to send to the processor imitated acknowledgements for the identified write instructions.
US11847458B2	Thread priorities using misprediction rate and speculative depth Methods and systems for determining a priority of a threads is described. A processor can execute branch instructions of the thread. The processor can predict branch instruction outcomes of the branch instructions of the thread. The processor can increment a misprediction count of the thread in response to an actual execution of a branch instruction of the thread being different from a corresponding branch instruction prediction outcome of the thread. The processor can determine the priority of the thread based on the misprediction count of the thread.
US11847455B2	Clearing register data using a write enable signal A processing unit having a register file includes: a plurality of registers each having a write enable input configured to receive a write enable signal and a write data input connected to a write data path of the processing unit and configured to write data values from the write data path for storage in a register when the write enable signal is asserted; write circuitry configured in a normal mode of operation to assert the write enable signal of a respective one of the registers to cause operational data values to be written to that register from the write data path; and data cleansing circuitry configured to control a data cleansing mode in which write enable signals of all registers in the register file are simultaneously asserted to cause cleansing data values to be simultaneously written to all registers in the register file from the write data path.
US11847454B1	Solid-state microwave source and branch consistency control method thereof Disclosed are a solid-state microwave source and a branch consistency control method thereof. The branch consistency control method includes: collecting phase information of each branch unit under each of a plurality of preset target powers, and performing phase adjustment for each branch unit based on the phase information under each of the target powers; assembling coarsely-adjusted N branch units, a driver module, a power distribution module, a radial combiner, a circulator, and a waveguide coupler; adjusting a branch power by using the driver module and the power distribution module, to collect the phase information of each branch unit under each of the target powers; and when the phase information of each branch unit under each of the target powers meets a preset condition, performing phase adjustment for the branch unit based on the phase information.
US11847451B2	Processing-in-memory (PIM) device for implementing a quantization scheme A processing-in-memory (PIM) device includes a data selection circuit, a multiplying-and-accumulating (MAC) circuit, and an accumulative adding circuit. The data selection circuit generates selection data from input data and zero-point data based on a zero-point selection signal. The MAC circuit performs a MAC arithmetic operation for the selection data to generate MAC result data. The accumulative adding circuit accumulatively adds MAC sign data based on a MAC output latch signal to generate MAC latch data. A sign of the MAC sign data is determined by the zero-point selection signal.
US11847450B2	Apparatuses, methods, and systems for instructions to multiply values of zero Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to instructions to multiply values of zero are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a decoder to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction having a first field that identifies a first number, a second field that identifies a second number, and a third field that indicates a number format for the first number and the second number; and an execution circuit to execute the decoded single instruction to: cause a first comparison of the first number to a zero value in the number format of the first number, cause a second comparison of the second number to a zero value in the number format of the second number, provide as a resultant of the single instruction a value of zero when the second comparison indicates the second number equals the zero value in the number format of the second number, provide as the resultant of the single instruction the value of zero when the first comparison indicates the first number equals the zero value in the number format of the first number, and provide as the resultant of the single instruction a product of a multiplication of the first number and the second number when the first comparison indicates the first number does not equal the zero value in the number format of the first number and the second comparison indicates the second number does not equal the zero value in the number format of the second number.
US11847449B2	Code interdependency analysis system A system and method of generating a reuse metric starts with a processor receiving from a client device, a program comprising modules. Processor extracts the modules from the program and generates frequency tables associated with the modules. Frequency tables includes numbers of imports associated with the modules, and import ratios associated with the modules. Processor generates, based on the frequency tables, a histogram of the modules and the import ratios. Processor generates key statistical measures based on the import ratios and the histogram. Generating the key statistical measures comprises determining histogram weights, determining a Pareto fit of the histogram, and generating a reuse metric based on the Pareto fit and a Kurtosis of the histogram weights. Processor causes the client device to display the reuse metric and the histogram. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11847446B2	Predictive build quality assessment Predictive build quality assessment is disclosed, e.g., to predict performance of a candidate software build prior to deploying the candidate software build in a production environment. An example method can include comparing performance of a candidate software build with performance data associated with clusters of previous builds. A cluster having similar performance to the candidate software build can be selected. A source code graph for the candidate software build can be compared to source code graphs of builds included in the selected cluster. A previous build in the cluster, which is associated with a source code graph that is similar to the candidate software build's source code graph, can be selected. Individual performance data associated with the selected previous build can be inferred to be the predicted performance of the candidate software build, thereby informing decision making regarding further testing, modification, and/or deployment of the candidate software build into production.
US11847445B2	Detecting business code areas in a mainframe application A computer-implemented method for detecting code regions related to specific processes in an application is provided including obtaining a call-graph of an application, each node of the call-graph representing a program in the application and each edge of the call-graph representing a call between programs, detecting merge points in the call-graph where paths from different entry points are merged, dividing the call-graph into sub-call-graphs at the merge points to create a macro-call-graph, each node of the macro-call-graph representing each of the sub-call-graphs, detecting code regions related to specific processes in each program in the application based on variable names corresponding to the specific processes, setting an initial state to each entry point of the sub-call-graphs, and identifying sub-call-graphs related to each specific process by using dataflow analysis with the initial states and the code regions based on entry states of the sub-call-graphs.
US11847429B2	Apparatus and method for processing floating-point numbers Adder circuits and associated methods for processing a set of at least three floating-point numbers to be added together include identifying, from among the at least three numbers, at least two numbers that have the same sign—that is, at least two numbers that are both positive or both negative. The identified at least two numbers are added together using one or more same-sign floating-point adders. A same-sign floating-point adder comprises circuitry configured to add together floating-point numbers having the same sign and does not include circuitry configured to add together numbers having different signs.
US11847426B2	Computer vision based sign language interpreter A system and method for translating sign language utterances into a target language, including: receiving motion capture data; producing phonemes/sign fragments from the received motion capture data; producing a plurality of sign sequences from the phonemes/sign fragments; parsing these sign sequences to produce grammatically parsed sign utterances; translating the grammatically parsed sign utterances into grammatical representations in the target language; and generating output utterances in the target language based upon the grammatical representations.
US11847424B1	Natural language generation Devices and techniques are generally described for data-to-text generation. In various examples, a first machine learned model may receive first data including a structured representation of linguistic data. In various examples, the first machine learned model may generate first output data comprising a first natural language representation of the first data. In at least some examples, a second machine learning model may determine second data indicating that the first natural language representation is a semantically accurate representation of the first data. In some examples, the first output data may be selected for output based at least in part on the second data.
US11847419B2	Human emotion detection Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for recognizing a human emotion in a message. An embodiment operates by receiving a message from a user. The embodiment labels each word of the message with a part of speech (POS) thereby creating a POS set. The embodiment determines an incongruity score for a combination of words in the POS set using a knowledgebase. The embodiment determines a preliminary emotion detection score for an emotion for the message based on the POS set. Finally, the embodiment calculates a final emotion detection score for the emotion for the message based on the preliminary emotion detection score and the incongruity score.
US11847417B2	Data-driven social media analytics application synthesis In some examples, data-driven social media analytics application synthesis may include generating, for each social media analytics application of a plurality of social media analytics applications, a corpus, performing term normalization, and generating a normalized corpus. An actor, an action and an object may be generated for each social media analytics application, which may be mapped into an embedding space. A semantic cohesion network may be generated for each social media analytics application, and a pair-wise semantic cohesion may be determined to identify semantically cohesive groups. A new social media analytics application may be synthesized based on the identified semantically cohesive groups.
US11847413B2	Lexical analyzer for a neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system Techniques are disclosed for building a dictionary of words from combinations of symbols generated based on input data. A neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system includes a neuro-linguistic module that generates a linguistic model that describes data input from a source (e.g., video data, SCADA data, etc.). To generate words for the linguistic model, a lexical analyzer component in the neuro-linguistic module receives a stream of symbols, each symbol generated based on an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from input data. The lexical analyzer component determines words from combinations of the symbols based on a hierarchical learning model having one or more levels. Each level indicates a length of the words to be identified at that level. Statistics are evaluated for the words identified at each level. The lexical analyzer component identifies one or more of the words having statistical significance.
US11847410B2	Viewing file modifications Upon closing and/or saving a file, a user may view changes made to the file.
US11847409B2	Management of presentation content including interjecting live feeds into presentation content The present disclosure relates to management of presentation content including technical instances where presentation content interacts with live feeds. The scope of the present disclosure covers technical examples that pertain to creation/design of presentation content as well technical examples where presentation content is presented in real-time (or near real-time). Design solutions are provided enabling users to easily interject a representation of a live camera feed into presentation content. For example, an editable GUI object is presented enabling users to incorporate a representation of a live camera feed into slide-based presentation content. The present disclosure further provides processing that fosters dynamic management of presentation content including interactions with live camera feeds during a presentation. Furthermore, an improved GUI presents GUI elements and notifications to aid management of representations of live camera feeds relative to presentation content. Live camera feeds can be dynamically added within a slide-based presentation during real-time presentation.
US11847407B2	Apparatus for removing text noise for text analysis and method thereof A method for removing text noise according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes inspecting quality of the text, correcting the text based on a result of inspection; selecting a noise candidate based on each type of sentences included in the corrected text, wherein the noise candidate is selected for each sentence included in the text and removing at least some of the sentences included in the noise candidate based on the purpose of the text.
US11847402B2	Systems and methods for layout customization Systems and methods for customizing an interface are disclosed. Interaction data is received for at least one interaction with a network environment and an intent of the at least one interaction is identified based on the interaction data. A layout is selected for a user interface based on the identified intent. The layout includes at least one zone. The at least one zone of the layout is populated with one or more modules and the each of the one or more modules is populated with content based on the identified intent
US11847398B2	Automatic generation of ground rule verification macros Ground rule verification (“GRV”) design layouts may be automatically generated based on one or more design macros. The GRV design layout may be tested based on the one or more design macros by violating one or more ground rules using one or more GRV ranges. The testing may include electrical testing of the one or more GRV design layouts based on the one or more design macros. The one or more ground rules may be automatically selected and approved the based upon a degree of violation acceptability.
US11847394B2	System and method for using interface protection parameters A system and method for adding interface protection to an electronic design using parameters. The electronic design and interface protection scheme are defined as parameters. An interface protection model creates interface protection implementation parameters that describe the implementation details of the interface protection. A hardware description model uses the electronic design parameters and the interface protection implementation parameters to create a hardware description. The interface protection scheme can be a built-in protection scheme, a user defined scheme, a scheme that includes place holders that the user may define later, and a combination of the preceding. The interface protection scheme may contain components to help with the retiming of the description of hardware.
US11847391B2	Computer system for simulating physical processes using surface algorithm Described are computer implemented techniques for simulating elements of a fluid flow. These techniques include storing in a memory state vectors for a plurality of voxels, the state vectors comprising a plurality of entries that correspond to particular momentum states of a plurality of possible momentum states at a voxel, storing in a memory a representation of at least one surface that is sized and oriented independently of the size and orientation of the voxels, perform interaction operations on the state vectors, the interaction operations modelling interactions between elements of different momentum states, perform surface interaction operations on the representation of the surface, the surface interaction operations modelling interactions between the surface and substantially all elements of voxels, and performing move operations on the state vectors to reflect movement of elements to new voxels.
US11847389B2	Device and method for optimizing an input parameter in a processing of a semiconductor An optimization device includes an output data acquisitor that acquires output data having a second number of dimensions obtained by performing an experiment or a simulation, an evaluation value calculator that calculates and outputs an evaluation value of the output data, a features extractor that extracts an output data features having a third number of dimensions different from the second number of dimensions, an input parameter converter that generates a conversion parameter related to the output data features predicted from the input parameters, a next input parameter determinator that determines a next input parameter to be acquired by the output data acquisitor, based on the conversion parameter and the corresponding evaluation value, and an iterative determinator that repeats processes of the output data acquisitor, the input/output data storage, the evaluation value calculator, the features extractor, the input parameter converter, and the next input parameter determinator.
US11847387B1	Method and system for predicting creep-fatigue life of structural part of thermal power unit The present invention discloses a method and system for predicting a creep-fatigue life of a structural part of a thermal power unit. The method includes: constructing a life prediction model; acquiring a stress relaxation curve in a strain control creep-fatigue test through pure creep data to calculate an initial creep damage; acquiring a cyclic hardening coefficient, an elasticity modulus and other related material constants through the pure fatigue data to calculate an initial fatigue damage; and acquiring a difference between strain energy densities in upper and lower parts of creep-fatigue mean stress, making the difference between strain energy densities less than a set threshold through dichotomy iteration to acquire a final creep damage, a final fatigue damage and an oxidative damage under such a circumstance, and predicting the creep-fatigue life of the high-temperature structural part based on the life prediction model.
US11847386B1	Artificial intelligence based on cellular automata An artificial intelligence system can be implemented to identify relationships through the propagation of ripple patterns through a grid. In such a system, the grid may comprise cells which operate as cellular automata. Relationships may be identified based on collisions of signals detected by the cells in the grid, and, when a relationship is identified, it may be used to create high speed connections between cells.
US11847379B1	Audio processing method and system for environmental enrichment therapy An audio processing method and system configured to output at least one clinically-validated cue or combination of cues targeting at least one symptom or aspect of a CNS disease, disorder or condition to at least one user. In accordance with certain embodiments, the at least one clinically-validated cue or combination of cues comprises an audio cue. An audio processing method of the present disclosure comprises one or more steps or operations for selecting at least one audio file comprising a clinically-validated audio cue from a plurality of audio files comprising a plurality of clinically-validated audio cues, applying one or more audio rendering parameters to the at least one audio file, and outputting an acoustic output of one or more audio files to a user for a specified duration.
US11847378B2	User interfaces for audio routing The present disclosure generally relates to user interface for audio routing. In some examples, a computer system detects an audio device and displays a selectable option in accordance with a determination that a set of criteria is met. The selectable option, when selected, enables the computer system to connect to the audio device and transmit audio data to the audio device.
US11847376B2	Orientation based microphone selection apparatus An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least one audio signal input from at least one microphone; at least one microphone configuration determiner configured to provide for the at least one microphone a location on the apparatus; at least one sensor configured to provide at least one orientation of the apparatus; a recording mode determiner configured to determine at least one recording mode for the apparatus based on the location of the at least one microphone and the at least one orientation of the apparatus; a recording mode controller configured to determine at least one recording parameter for the at least one audio signal input from the at least one microphone based in the at feast one recording mode; and digital signal processor configured to apply the at least one recording parameter to the at least one audio signal input.
US11847375B2	Coordinating adjustments to composite graphical user interfaces generated by multiple devices In some implementations, a user device can coordinate adjustments to a composite GUI generated in cooperation with an accessory device that presents the composite graphical user interface. For example, the user device can receive configuration data that defines the maximum GUI display area (e.g., size, dimensions) of the accessory device, various view areas within the GUI display area of the accessory device into which the user device can render GUIs, and/or transitions between the various view areas. The user device can generate a display buffer based on the maximum GUI display area, generate a graphical user interface in an area of the buffer corresponding to a current view area specified by the accessory device, and send to the accessory device video frames corresponding to the display buffer. The accessory device can generate a composite GUI based on the received video frames that include the user device generated GUI.
US11847366B2	Reserving a tray for a user for special media printing The disclosure discloses methods and systems for reserving a tray for a user for special media printing. The method includes receiving one or more special media sheets as loaded by the user in the tray. Based on the loaded special media sheets, a tray ID of the tray is automatically identified. A user interface is provided to the user to input loaded media details such as media size, type, and color. Then, it is checked with the user whether to reserve the identified tray for the user for special media printing. Based on the check, a user interface is further provided to the user to input a user ID. Finally, the identified tray is automatically reserved for the user using the user ID and the tray ID, for printing a document later received from the user on the one or more special media sheets as loaded in the identified/reserved tray.
US11847365B1	Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and work estimation method for accurately estimating work related to printing Provided is an information processing apparatus that accurately estimates printing jobs. A data acquisition unit acquires a job for estimation. A unit estimation unit calculates an estimation of the work for each specific unit of the job acquired by the data acquisition unit. An estimation analysis unit detects repetition and a period of the repetition from the estimation of the work for the specific unit at the time calculated by the unit estimation unit. The entire estimation unit estimates an estimation of the work of the entire job based on the repetition and the period detected by the estimation analysis unit. The estimation presentation unit presents the estimation of the work calculated by the entire estimation unit.
US11847363B2	Image forming apparatus that executes calibration An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit to convert image data based on a conversion condition, an image forming unit to form an image based on an image data converted by the conversion unit, and a control unit to execute first calibration in which both a first conversion condition for a first speed and a second conversion condition for a second speed are generated based on a detection result of a first pattern that is formed at the first speed, with the first calibration being executed at initial installation of the apparatus, and execute second calibration in which the second conversion condition is generated based on a detection result of a second pattern that is formed at the second speed, with the second calibration being not executed at the initial installation of the apparatus.
US11847362B2	Server, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program In a cloud mediation service, a server includes an acquisition unit to acquire a first storage period for storing, in a first cloud service, a first job submitted to the first cloud service, and a second storage period for storing, in a second cloud service, a second job submitted to the second cloud service, and an execution unit to execute, based on one of a first timing at which the first job is deleted due to an elapse of the first storage period and a second timing at which the second job is deleted due to an elapse of the second storage period, a cooperation process of making a period for storing the first job in the first cloud service and a period for storing the second job in the second cloud service cooperate with each other.
US11847357B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method A print bot service analyzes a character string received from a message application service and input from a user by using a keyword for each language associated with printing, determines a language used in the character string, and in accordance with the determined language, switches a language used in a message transmitted to the message application service.
US11847356B2	Apparatus having a function of reserving a sheet feeding unit and information processing apparatus connected to the same An apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor functioning to reserve a sheet feeding unit of an image forming apparatus and provide information indicating that the sheet feeding unit is reserved.
US11847352B1	Parent child request recovery to improve stability A system, method, and device for providing information between a parent node and a child node is disclosed. The method includes issuing, by a parent node to a child node, an identifier and a set of storage locations, the identifier and the set of storage locations being issued in connection with the parent node instructing the child node to perform an operation, determining, by the parent node, whether a response pertaining to the operation has been received from the child node within a predetermined period of time, in response to a determination that the parent node has not received the response from the child node within the predefined period of time, checking the set of storage locations for a response associated with the identifier.
US11847350B2	Storage system, information processing system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory According to one embodiment, a storage system performs a first allocation operation of allocating, for a first namespace, a plurality of first blocks included in the blocks of a nonvolatile memory. The storage system performs a read operation, a write operation or an erase operation on one of the first blocks in response to a command received from a host to read, write or erase the one first block, counts the total number of erase operations performed on the first blocks, and notifies the host of the counted number of erase operations in response to a command received from the host to obtain an erase count associated with the first namespace.
US11847348B2	Multi-activation techniques for partial write operations Techniques are disclosed relating to multi-activation techniques for wire operations with multiple partial writes. In some embodiments, a memory controller is configured to access data in a memory device that supports partial writes having a first size using read-modify-write operations and non-partial writes having a second size that is greater than the first size. In some embodiments, the memory controller is configured to queue a first write operation having the second size, where the first write operation includes multiple partial writes. In some embodiments, the memory controller is configured to send separate activate signals to the memory device to activate a bank of the memory device to perform different proper subsets of the multiple partial writes. This may allow interleaving of other accesses to a memory bank and merging of writes while waiting for a current activation, in some embodiments.
US11847342B2	Efficient transfer of hard data and confidence levels in reading a nonvolatile memory An apparatus for data storage, includes circuitry and a plurality of memory cells. The circuitry is configured to store data in a group of multiple memory cells by writing multiple respective input storage values to the memory cells in the group, to read respective output storage values from the memory cells in the group after storing the data, to generate for the output storage values multiple respective confidence levels, to produce composite data that includes the output storage values, to test a predefined condition that depends on the confidence levels, upon detecting that the condition is met, to compress the confidence levels to produce compressed soft data, and include the compressed soft data in the composite data, and to transfer the composite data over an interface to a memory controller.

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