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US11850482B2	Putter-type golf club head A putter-type golf club head that, when oriented in a reference position, includes a striking wall extending in the heel to toe direction and defines a substantially planar striking face for hitting a golf ball. A central elongate member is in communication with, and extends rearward from, the striking wall. An upper surface of the central elongate member includes a plurality of separate alignment elements. At least one of the plurality of alignment elements has an edge that extends substantially parallel to the striking face. The length of the parallel edge is substantially equivalent to the diameter of a golf ball.
US11850481B2	Golf club head with open crown and related methods Described herein is a golf club head comprising a composite material, the golf club head further comprising: a front end having a bottom rail, a top rail, and a strikeface, the strikeface including a striking surface, a back surface, and a reinforcement element extending from the back surface of the strikeface; a rear end opposite the front end; a heel portion; a toe portion opposite the heel potion; a sole coupled to the front end along the bottom rail at a sole transition region, the sole extending toward the rear end of the golf club head and including a sole thickness, a first weight member and a second weight member, and a perimeter wall extending from the front end near the heel portion to the front end near the toe portion along the rear end of the golf club head, wherein the perimeter wall decreases in height from the front end toward the rear end of the golf club head.
US11850480B2	Golf club head with variable face thickness Embodiments of golf club heads comprising a face with a variable thickness to improve the durability in the club head, increase ball speed, and increase characteristic time (CT) are described herein. The face comprises thickened and thinned regions. The face includes a perimeter thickened region positioned near a perimeter of the face, a thinned region positioned inward of the perimeter thickened region toward a center of the face, and a central thickened region positioned over the center of the face. The combination of the thickened and thinned regions of the face increase ball speed and further increase or maximize CT without sacrificing durability.
US11850476B2	Mechanical jump rope device A mechanical jump rope device for forward rotation of the rope with backward rotation obstructed by a ratchet and pawl mechanism includes a semicircular rope having a pair of ends. Each of the ends is coupled to a respective one of each handle of a pair of handles. Each of the ends of the rope engages by a ratchet and pawl mechanism with each of the handles. A distal end of each of the handles engages by a push button locking mechanism to a bar. Each of the handles can be attached or removed from the bar. The user can use the mechanical jump rope device with or without the bar. The rope rotates forward and the user jumps over the rope. Backward rotation of the rope is hindered by the ratchet and pawl mechanism.
US11850474B2	Fixed anchor apparatuses and methods A quad anchor can have a first attachment loop and a second attachment loop. Each of the first and second attachment loops are operable to connect to an anchor point. The quad anchor can also include an intermediate loop disposed between the first attachment loop and the second attachment loop and joined to the first attachment loop and the second attachment loop. The intermediate loop is operable to connect to a load to be supported by the quad anchor.
US11850471B2	Motion performance estimate apparatus, motion performance estimate method, and program An athletic activity performance estimation device estimates an athletic activity performance index relating to an athletic activity in which a subject performs a short-time action after a predetermined waiting time using information correlated with the state of tension of the subject as tension state information, an index indicating the subject's tension level as a tension state index, and an index indicating the quality of performance of an athletic activity of the subject as the athletic activity performance index. The athletic activity performance estimation device includes a tension state information acquirer that acquires the tension state information of the subject before starting the athletic activity, a tension state index calculator that calculates the tension state index of the subject from the tension state information, and an athletic activity performance index estimator.
US11850470B2	System and method for improving cardio machine capabilities by dynamically adapting workouts to an athlete Systems and methods are described for personalizing a fitness or workout plan based on an athletes past performance. In some aspects, performance metrics from at least two workout sessions performed by a user using exercise equipment, may be obtained, where each workout session includes a plurality of intervals corresponding to one of a number of different intensity levels. The performance metrics over a subset of the intervals may be compared with a prescribed performance of the corresponding interval to generate interval comparisons. Using the interval comparisons, at least one of a length or an intensity level of at least one interval of a future workout session may be modified.
US11850469B1	Finger strengthening device and method A finger strengthening device (FSD) includes a plurality of finger strengthening elements formed therewith. The FSD is attachable to a structure in a plurality of different orientations to permit a variation in finger exercise techniques.
US11850466B2	Exercise system According to one example, an exercise system includes a vertical housing, a first weighted touchpoint coupled to the vertical housing and configured to allow a user to exercise one or more muscles on a first side of the user, a first weight system coupled to the first weighted touchpoint, a second weighted touchpoint coupled to the vertical housing and configured to allow the user to exercise one or more muscles on a second side of the user, and a second weight system coupled to the second weighted touchpoint. The exercise system further includes a control system configured to cause the first weight system to automatically provide a first heavier weight to the first weighted touchpoint for a first exercise and further cause the second weight system to automatically provide a second lighter weight to the second weighted touchpoint for the first exercise.
US11850464B2	Adjustable dumbbell with weight adjusting key using a clevis pin A dumbbell apparatus which is adapted with a series of weight plates, the number of which can be safely and reliably adjusted with a single simple motion. The apparatus comprises a cradle for storing and deploying the apparatus, weight plates, and a handle apparatus which has two spline bolts which support the weight plates and are used to simultaneously be adjusted by means of an adjusting pin which moves the spline members together through a motion transmitting gear. The apparatus may be further enhance with permanent weights and gripping options.
US11850463B2	Stretching apparatus Example aspects of a stretching apparatus and a method of stretching are disclosed. The stretching apparatus can comprise an elongate support bar defining a bar first end and a bar second end opposite the bar first end; and a neck stretching attachment coupled to the elongate support bar, the neck stretching attachment comprising a head strap, a chin strap, and a bar attachment, wherein each of the head strap and chin strap comprises a flexible, inelastic material, and wherein the elongate support bar engages the bar attachment between the bar first end and the bar second end.
US11850462B2	Workout apparatus with telescoping legs A workout apparatus having a crossbar with a first end and a second end, with each end of the crossbar engaging a pivot mount. The workout apparatus having four legs, with each pivot mount further engaging two legs therefore allowing the legs to be selectively rotatable around each of the pivot mounts in both a lateral axis and longitudinal axis of the crossbar. The workout apparatus having a first position where each pair of legs engaging each pivot mount at an angle greater than zero relative to each other and supporting the crossbar. The workout apparatus having a second position where the four legs are adjacent to the crossbar and positioned within the longitudinal plane of the crossbar.
US11850461B2	Golf club head having supported striking face A golf club head having a supported striking face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has a striking face, an internal support layer, and an intermediary sandwiched layer juxtaposed between the striking face and the internal support layer.
US11850459B2	Triggering device of an extinguishing system Various aspects of the invention are directed to a triggering device for a quickly triggering extinguishing system for explosion suppression. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the triggering device may include a pawl body having a pawl flank, a catch, at least one electromagnet to transmit an electromagnetic field, and a sliding pin. The sliding pin triggers an extinguishing system for explosion suppression by movement from a blocking position into a release position. In the blocking position, the sliding pin is pushed against the pawl flank of the pawl body by means of the catch and is held in the blocking position by said pawl flank. The pawl body releases the engagement of the catch and the pawl flank, and thereby releases the sliding pin, in response to the at least one electromagnet exerting the electromagnetic field on the pawl body.
US11850457B2	Ember-resistant and flame-resistant roof ventilation system This application relates to ventilation systems, more particularly to roof ventilation systems that help to protect buildings against fires. The roof vent has an ember impedance structure that impedes the entry of flames and embers or other floating burning materials while still permitting sufficient air flow to adequately ventilate a building. Several configurations of vents employing baffle members and fire-resistant mesh material are described, which can substantially prevent the ingress of floating embers and flames.
US11850453B2	Safety harness A safety harness comprises shoulder straps, a waist strap, and a weight distribution assembly interconnecting the shoulder straps and the waist strap. The weight distribution assembly is configured and arranged to transfer a load from proximate the shoulder straps to proximate the waist strap.
US11850452B2	Harness with continuous linemans loop A harness with continuous lineman's loop includes a saddle having an upper strap and a lower strap. The saddle has a front side, a back side, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge wherein the first and second lateral edges are used to engage a bridge line such that the bridge line can be secured to a tree. A pair of lineman's loops is attached to the saddle and used to engage a lineman's rope. Each of the lineman's loops is positioned adjacent to one of the first and second lateral edges. The lineman's loops are comprised of a continuous loop of webbing including an upper portion is attached to the upper strap and a lower portion is attached to the lower strap. The lineman's loops are formed of lateral portions of the continuous loop extending between the upper and lower portions.
US11850450B2	Radiation beam alignment for medical linear accelerators Radiation beam alignment for a LINAC including (1) for each beam alignment parameter value of a set: (a) with a beam alignment parameter of a LINAC set to the beam alignment parameter value, using a gantry to generate a radiation beam; (b) using an imaging device to acquire a radiation transmission image indicative of a radiation field of the radiation beam after passing by a radiation opaque marker; (c) determining a location of a beam axis of the radiation beam and a center of a shadow of the marker based on the radiation transmission image; and (d) determining a target-to-beam-axis distance between the location of the beam axis and the center of the shadow of the radiation opaque marker; and (2) determining an optimum beam alignment parameter value based on the beam alignment parameter values and the target-to-beam-axis distances determined with the LINAC set to the beam alignment parameter values.
US11850449B2	Irradiation method and system An irradiation method and system for irradiating a target volume, the method comprising: providing thermal neutron absorbing nuclides (such as in the form of a high neutron cross-section agent) at the target volume; and producing neutrons by irradiating nuclei in or adjacent to the target volume with a beam of particles consisting of any one or more of protons, deuterons, tritons and heavy ions, thereby prompting production of the neutrons through non-elastic collisions between the atoms in the path of the beam (including the target) and the particles. The neutron absorbing nuclides absorb neutrons produced in the non-elastic collisions, thereby producing capture products or fragments that irradiate the target volume.
US11850448B2	System and method to compute a pixel sensitivity map of an imaging device An image calibration method includes capturing and correcting a flood field image for background signal and effects of known image-panel features (dead/bad pixels). The corrected image is processed to separate frequencies characteristic of relative pixel sensitivities from frequencies characteristic of radiation energy fluence. The incident energy fluence has a known maximum in-field energy fluence gradient. A model that describes the incident energy fluence on a detector is generated or received. The corrected image may be modeled at frequencies at or below the maximum in-field energy fluence gradient. A pixel sensitivity matrix (PSM) is generated by adjusting the corrected image with the model of the incident energy fluence on the detector. For example, the corrected image signal may be divided by the model or the model may be subtracted from the corrected image. The PSM may be used to correct additional raw images captured by the detector.
US11850445B2	System and method for learning models of radiotherapy treatment plans to predict radiotherapy dose distributions The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for developing radiotherapy treatment plans through the use of machine learning approaches and neural network components. A neural network is trained using one or more three-dimensional medical images, one or more three-dimensional anatomy maps, and one or more dose distributions to predict a fluence map or a dose map. During training the neural network receives a predicted dose distribution determined by the neural network that is compared to an expected dose distribution. Iteratively the comparison is performed until a predetermined threshold is achieved. The trained neural network is then utilized to provide a three-dimensional dose distribution.
US11850444B2	Medical apparatus and method A medical apparatus and method of operating a medical apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a radiation source for emitting radiation towards an area to be treated of a patient; a mount element arranged to be worn by the patient for positioning the radiation source in a predetermined position relative to the area to be treated; a sensor element arranged to provide a signal indicative of whether the apparatus is being worn by the patient; and at least one controller arranged to receive the signal from the sensor, and to determine whether the apparatus is being worn by the patient, and to determine duration data indicative of the duration for which the radiation source emits radiation whilst the apparatus is being worn by the patient.
US11850439B2	Changing cardiac shock delivery parameters based on a transform value A medical device that includes a power source, a therapy delivery interface, therapy electrodes, electrocardiogram (ECG) sensing electrodes to sense ECG signal of a heart of a patient, a sensor interface to receive and digitize the ECG signal, and a processor. The processor is configured to analyze the ECG signal to determine a cardiac rhythm and a transform value representing a magnitude of a frequency component of the cardiac rhythm, analyze the cardiac rhythm and the transform value to detect a shockable cardiac arrhythmia by classifying the cardiac rhythm as a noise rhythm or a shockable cardiac arrhythmia rhythm based on the transform value, and causing the processor to detect the cardiac arrhythmia if classifying the cardiac rhythm as a shockable cardiac arrhythmia rhythm, initiate a treatment alarm sequence, adjust the shock delivery parameter for a defibrillation shock, and provide the defibrillation shock via the therapy electrodes.
US11850437B2	Systems and methods for configuring a wearable medical monitoring and/or treatment device A system including an ambulatory medical treatment device is provided. The ambulatory medical treatment device includes a memory, a treatment component configured to treat a patient, at least one processor coupled to the memory and the treatment component, a user interface component, and a system interface component. The user interface component is configured to receive an update session request and to generate the update session identifier responsive to receiving the request. The system interface component is configured to receive an encoded request including an identifier of an update session and device update information, to decode the encoded request to generate a decoded request including the device update information and the identifier of the update session, to validate the decoded request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session, and to apply the device update information to the ambulatory medical treatment device.
US11850435B2	Biostimulator having fixation element A biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, including a fixation element to engage tissue and one or more backstop elements to resist back-out from the tissue, is described. The fixation element can be mounted on a housing of the biostimulator such that a helix of the fixation element extends distally to a leading point. The leading point can be located on a distal face of the helix at a position that is proximal from a center of the distal face. The backstop elements can include non-metallic filaments, such as sutures, or can include a pinch point of the biostimulator. The backstop features can grip the tissue to prevent unscrewing of the fixation element. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11850433B2	Method and apparatus for establishing parameters for cardiac event detection A pacemaker having a motion sensor is configured to select an atrial event sensing vector of a multi-axis motion sensor for sensing atrial systolic events from a motion signal produced by the motion sensor. In some examples, the pacemaker determines a maximum amplitude during a sensing window for each one of multiple vector signals produced by the multi-axis motion sensor. The pacemaker may select the atrial event sensing vector signal from among the vector signals based on the determined maximum amplitudes.
US11850429B2	Multi-target electrical stimulation circuit, electrical stimulator and signal output method of electrical stimulator The present invention relates to a multi-target electrical stimulation circuit, an electrical stimulator, and a signal output method of the electrical stimulator. The electrical stimulation circuit includes a control module, a plurality of brain wave acquisition modules and a plurality of stimulation adjustment modules. Each electrode is correspondingly provided with one brain wave acquisition module and one stimulation adjustment module, and different electrodes are used for stimulating different targets. The brain wave acquisition modules are used for acquiring brain wave signals in the corresponding electrodes and transmitting the brain wave signals to the control module. The control module is used for acquiring brain rhythm phase signals according to the received brain wave signals and outputting stimulation signals at preset waveform phase points after phase locking of the brain rhythm phase signals. The stimulation adjustment modules are used for adjusting brain wave stimulation signals output to the corresponding electrodes according to the received stimulation signals. The multi-target electrical stimulation circuit, the electrical stimulator and the signal output method provided by the present invention are beneficial for achieving electrical stimulation of a plurality of targets as well as time-locked matching of electrical stimulation of a plurality of targets.
US11850425B2	Synchronizing output from a fitness apparatus with media content Fitness apparatus output can be synchronized with media content that features an instructor conducting a workout session. An instructor conducts a workout session while using a recording device to generate media data, and while a computing device executes a client application to generate command data for controlling aspects of output provided by a fitness apparatus. The media data and the command data generated by the instructor can be transmitted to user computing devices over a network. Users may consume the media data on-demand, or as a live stream while the instructor is conducting the workout session. Operations specified in the command data are driven by the timestamps in the media data to synchronize the output provided by a user's fitness apparatus with the visible cues and/or audible cues of the instructor in the media content. The intensity level of the fitness apparatus output may also be customized to the user.
US11850420B2	Multifunctional closed loop neuro feedback stimulating device and methods thereof The present invention discloses a brain stimulation systems, devices and methods to: induce lucid reality; improve sleep; improve motor performance; improve learning; enhance gaming activities; improve mental health; and any combination thereof. The system comprises at least one head mounted device; at least one power supply unit; at least one communication unit; at least one microcontroller; at least one external device; and at least one cloud-based storing device.
US11850415B2	Blood pump Apparatus and methods are described including a blood pump that includes a catheter, a first impeller disposed on the catheter, and a second impeller disposed on the catheter, proximally to the first impeller. A motor drives the first and second impellers to pump blood of a subject, by driving the first and second impellers to rotate. The blood pumps is configured such that (a) the first and second impellers are shaped differently from each other when the first and second impellers are in non-radially-constrained configurations, (b) the first and second impellers are sized differently from each other when the first and second impellers are in non-radially-constrained configurations, and/or (c) the first and second impellers are driven by the motor to rotate under respective rotation conditions that are different from each other. Other applications are also described.
US11850412B2	Intravascular blood pump rotor A blood pump rotor for an intravascular blood pump includes a distal portion having a rotor hub. A distal end of the rotor hub extends beyond a most distal portion of at least one blade formed on the hub. A proximal portion comprises permanent magnets arranged to form a modified Halbach array generating a magnetic field with a first magnetic flux in a proximal direction that is greater than a second magnetic flux in the distal direction. The array is arranged so that: (a) at least one axial magnetized magnet has a most proximal point that is a different distance from said distal end as compared to a most proximal point of at least one circumferential magnetized magnet, (b) at least one axial magnetized magnet has a physical dimension that is different from a corresponding physical dimension of at least one circumferential magnetized magnet, or (c) a combination thereof.
US11850405B2	Supplementary devices for attachment to drug delivery devices, number sleeve for drug delivery devices, and drug delivery devices A supplementary device for attachment to a drug delivery device is provided. The device includes an attachment mechanism for coupling the supplementary device to the drug delivery device, an imaging arrangement for providing image data representing a captured image of one or more numbers present on a number sleeve of the drug delivery device and a processor arrangement. The processor arrangement is configured to receive the image data; perform optical character recognition on the image data to determine a quantity of a currently set dose of medicament; cause display of the quantity of the currently set dose; process the image data to identify one or more characteristics of the number sleeve; determine from the identified characteristics whether the currently set dose is a permitted dose; and if the currently set dose is not a permitted dose, cause an indication that the currently set dose is not a permitted dose.
US11850404B2	Manually-actuated injection device for high-viscosity drugs A manually actuated drug-injecting device is configured such that the grip strength of the entire hand (i.e., majority of fingers closing toward the palm or heel of the hand) is employed to discharge medication through a hypodermic needle and into a patient's body. The device is well suited for delivering medications with high viscosity and/or by patients (e.g., elderly patients) with reduced finger strength and dexterity. The device includes a grip member, a push member (which causes the medication to be injected), and a force-transfer mechanism that couples the grip member to the push member. Suitably, the device is configured to be held transverse to the palm of the medication-administering hand, with a discharge port located by the outer, blade edge of the administering hand, when the device is being gripped to administer medication.
US11850402B2	Automatic injection device with reusable portion An autoinjector may include a disposable portion and a reusable portion. The disposable portion may include a syringe and a syringe coupling. The syringe coupling may be coupled to the syringe, and may comprise a guide track. The reusable portion may include a device housing, a device actuator configured to initiate an injection of the autoinjector, and a motor coupled to the device actuator. The reusable portion may additionally include a motor foot coupled to an output of the motor, wherein the motor foot may be configured to translate in an axial direction. The reusable portion may also include a drive coupling disposed within the device housing. The drive coupling may include an angled surface configured to receive the motor foot and a protrusion configured to engage with the guide track of the syringe coupling to lock the drive coupling to the syringe coupling.
US11850395B2	Syringe driver for infusion A syringe pump can be operated to produce fluid flow from a syringe installed therein. Features of the pump can produce a desired rapid commencement of flow followed by smooth delivery uninterrupted by stiction-induced slowing and acceleration. A stiff drivetrain can facilitate detection of excessive forces indicative of friction at a stopper-wall interface. The motor drive, gearing, and control parameters can enable customized acceleration patterns to determine optimal initial stage advancement to provide fluid delivery. These patterns can minimize or eliminate the delay in commencement of flow by overcoming both mechanical slack remaining and syringe stopper slack. To avoid flow irregularities produced by stiction forces in the stopper further, a mechanical vibration can be provided to the syringe and/or barrel to introduce movement of the stopper-wall interface, reducing the creation of high static friction coefficients.
US11850393B2	Valve for dilator and sheath assembly A valve for sealing the hub of a sheath assembly is provided. The valve includes a valve body having a solid thickness extending between a proximal surface and a distal surface. A bisecting slot extends across the proximal surface of the valve body and terminates at a depth less than the thickness of the valve body such that a portion of the valve body distally of the slot defines a bridge extending between opposed halves of the valve body such that the distal surface of the valve body is substantially continuous and a central portion of the proximal surface of the valve body is concave and defines a concave proximal portion.
US11850382B1	Integrated catheter assembly and method of use A method of using an integrated catheter assembly includes a housing member, an outer lumen member extending from the housing member, and a needle member slidably or movably coupled to the housing member, wherein the needle member can be extended beyond a first port of the outer lumen member in a first position and concealed in the outer lumen member in a second position. The outer lumen member has a side port between its first and second ports such that when the needle is extended in the first position and inserted into an arteriovenous fistula, blood from the arteriovenous fistula flashes into the needle member, is diverted through a relief port of the needle member out the side port of the outer lumen member for delivery to a dialysis machine. The assembly further includes an inner lumen member that is disposable through the housing member to extend out from the same the outer lumen member to provide dialyzed blood from the machine. The assembly therefore receives and delivers blood through a single injection site.
US11850379B2	Devices and methods for catheter alignment A launching catheter for targeting a second vessel from a first vessel includes a catheter including a proximal portion and a distal portion including a needle aperture and a flat rectangular radiopaque marker. The flat rectangular radiopaque marker disappears under fluoroscopy upon rotation to provide information about rotational alignment of the launching catheter. The launching catheter includes a needle configured to extend through the needle aperture. A method of aligning the catheter includes rotating the catheter in a first blood vessel until the marker has a thickness (e.g., minimal thickness) under fluoroscopy. The thickness indicates rotational alignment of the catheter.
US11850372B1	Bi-directional access to tumors An apparatus for guiding the migration of cancer and other cells includes a reservoir device, a cover, a tube, a nanofiber structure, and a lock device. The reservoir device defines a reservoir having an open top. The cover is configured for removable installation over the open top of the reservoir. The tube has a proximal end portion reaching into the reservoir. The nanofiber structure communicates an inlet port in the tube with the reservoir. The lock device interlocks the tube with the reservoir device, and also interlocks the nanofiber structure with the reservoir device.
US11850369B2	Mapping variable loop catheter handle A catheter including a loop member adjustment mechanism for adjusting a diameter of a loop member is provided. The catheter further includes a longitudinally-extending catheter shaft including a proximal end portion and a distal end deflectable portion, wherein the distal end deflectable portion includes the loop member. The loop adjustment mechanism includes a loop member pull wire, wherein a distal end of the loop member pull wire is attached to the loop member, and a sliding member, located within the handle, wherein the sliding member is configured to translate within the handle, and wherein a proximal end of the pull wire is attached to the sliding member.
US11850367B2	Device for managing epilepsy A treatment device configured noninvasively to treat neurological conditions and/or neuropsychiatric conditions, designed to modulate autonomic nervous system through biofeedback configured to change brain network. The treatment device comprising: physiological sensor, storage piling psychological data and operating controller to effectively provide at least one of biofeedback and tactile stimulation to the individual to curtail neurological and/or neuropsychiatric events.
US11850364B2	Manufactured to shape headgear and masks A headgear or headgear segments are manufactured to shape thereby producing little or no waste material. Techniques such as knitting, braiding, crocheting, and 3D printing can be used produce the headgear.
US11850362B2	Endotracheal tube and method of use This disclosure provides an endotracheal tube with a tip suitable for traversing the laryngeal inlet and with a guiding channel having a proximal opening adjacent a proximal end portion and a distal opening adjacent to a tip, wherein the guiding channel is adjacent a sidewall of the main lumen of the tube, which allows more accurate wire-guided intubation of a patient, a method and a kit relating to the same.
US11850359B2	Method and device for operating breathing apparatus The invention relates to a device for operating a breathing apparatus with a touch-sensitive graphical display and just one other mechanical operating element, wherein the basic treatment can be started by pressing down the mechanical operating element, and additional adjustments are made using the touch-sensitive graphical display.
US11850358B2	Smart control system and method based on machine learning for modulating end-tidal concentration levels by means of adjustments to the volume and concentration of an incoming respiratory gas flow in real time In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method of intelligent control is provided that is based on machine learning, to modulate end-tidal concentration levels through continuous adjustments in the volume and concentration of a flow of incoming respiratory gases. The system and the method are able to continually estimate and adjust new gas flows that are administered for a user to inhale in immediate future moments of inspiration, based on the concentration and pressure signals collected at the actual moment of breathing and at previous moments of breathing, without the need for reservoirs to store inspired or expired gases, or for aprioristic physiological models.
US11850357B2	Portable halotherapy device for aerosolizing salt A portable halotherapy device includes a housing, a grinding chamber with a grinding blade that breaks apart dry granular salt into salt particles small enough for halotherapy, an air duct routing air to the chamber, a fluid conduit, and a high-speed exhaust fan. Ambient air flows through the air ducts into the grinding chamber to produce a first air current. Air is diverted from the first air current upward, in a second air current, through the fluid conduit and the fan. The first air current helps move dry granular salt around and against the grinding chamber, breaking it into small salt particles. The second air current is arranged relative to the first air current such that small salt particles, but not larger pieces, are carried as salt aerosol upward through the fluid conduit and fan for distribution to the environment, thereby facilitating a halotherapy session.
US11850354B2	Gaseous sealing manifold assembly for surgical gas delivery system A manifold assembly for a surgical gas delivery system is disclosed, which includes a manifold body including an inlet port for receiving a gas from an outlet side of a compressor and an outlet port for recirculating the gas to an inlet side of the compressor, a bypass valve communicating with the inlet port and the outlet port of the manifold body, an air ventilation valve for dynamically controlling an ingress of air from an atmosphere, a smoke evacuation valve for dynamically controlling an egress of the gas from the manifold assembly when the surgical gas delivery system is operating in a smoke evacuation mode, and a gas fill valve for dynamically controlling the a receipt of the gas from a source of surgical gas.
US11850353B2	Methods, inhalation device, and computer program A method of controlling the generation of an aerosolised composition in an inhalation device having a heater arranged to heat an aerosolisable composition, the method comprising: controlling the power delivered to the heater such that the heater is heated from an ambient temperature to a first temperature, wherein the first temperature is below a temperature at which the aerosolisable composition is aerosolised; delivering a predetermined amount of power to the heater such that the temperature of the heater is increased from the first temperature to a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is greater than or equal to a temperature at which at least a portion of the aerosolisable composition is aerosolised.
US11850347B2	Systems and methods for automated recovery of white blood cells after producing a leuko-reduced blood product The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for the separation of blood into blood products and, more particularly, to systems and methods that permit automated recovery of white blood cells after producing a leukocyte-reduced blood product.
US11850345B2	Beads for blood processing Provided are beads for blood processing having porous beads and a polymer carried on the surface of the porous beads, wherein: the porous beads are configured from at least one resin selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins, styrene resins, and cellulose resins; and the polymer includes a specific monomer defined in the description as a monomer unit.
US11850338B2	Optical tip-tracking systems and methods thereof An optical tip-tracking system is disclosed including a light-emitting stylet, a light detector, and a console configured to operably connect to the light-emitting stylet and the light detector. The light-emitting stylet is configured to be disposed in a lumen of a catheter. The light-emitting stylet includes a light source in a distal-end portion of the light-emitting stylet configured to emit light. The light detector is configured to be placed over a patient. The light detector includes a plurality of photodetectors configured to detect the light emitted from the light source. The console is configured to instantiate an optical tip-tracking process for optically tracking the distal-end portion of the light-emitting stylet while the light-emitting stylet is disposed in a vasculature of the patient, the light source is emitting light, the light detector is disposed over the light-emitting stylet, and the photodetectors are detecting the light emitted from the light source.
US11850337B2	Air purifier having ultraviolet disinfection means The present invention provides an air purifier that purifies, disinfect and decontaminate convention air flow by using UV rays. Because the UV rays emitted by the UV light sources are contained within the air purifier, use of the air purifier is safe in that a nearby person can avoid exposure to hazardous UV radiation. Adjustment of operating conditions, such as the UV intensity and wavelength and air speed, is programmable via a remote controller, a smart switch, a smart device, a wireless communication device, a smart home control appliance, a sensing device, and/or a built-in module, which renders the air purifier a smart appliance that may automatically and optimally suits to a user's need based on the user's habit and other physical parameters. Installation and removal of the air purifier, as well as cleaning and replacement of any part thereof, are simple and convenient, as a result of the clever design.
US11850334B2	Immobilised biological entities There is provided inter alia an anticoagulant surface which surface has covalently bound thereto a plurality of fragments of heparin, wherein said fragments consist of 5-18 saccharide units and at least some of said plurality of fragments comprise polysaccharide sequence A, which surface catalyses the inhibition of FIIa and FXa by AT.
US11850331B2	Devices with anti-thrombogenic and anti-microbial treatment A medical device adapted for contact with a vessel or cavity in the body including a tubular portion is provided. The device has an external surface including an external substance that is at least one of a coating or an impregnation, comprising alexidine in an amount that is both anti thrombogenically effective and anti microbially effective. The device also has an internal surface including an internal substance that is at least one of a coating or an impregnation, comprising alexidine in an amount that is both anti thrombogenically effective and anti microbially effective.
US11850329B2	Methods of making a layered consolidated UHMWPE for use as a medical implant, and products made by the methods The present invention relates to methods for making wear and oxidation resistant polymeric materials by high temperature melting. The invention also provides methods of making medical implants containing cross-linked antioxidant-containing tough and ductile polymers and materials used therewith also are provided.
US11850327B2	Flexible hexagonal boron nitride composites for additive manufacturing applications Thermal management composites and scaffolds for heat-generating implantable electronic devices made from the thermal management composites are provided. The composite materials are cytocompatible, porous materials that include hexagonal boron nitride particles dispersed in an elastomeric polymer binder.
US11850326B2	Bone void filler preparation system A bone void filler preparation system that includes a processing vessel, a processing piston, a bone void filler preparation container and tubing. The processing vessel has a recess formed therein. The processing vessel is adapted to receive bone marrow aspirate. The processing piston includes an outer wall, a central wall member and a connection port. The outer wall has an upper edge and a lower edge. The central wall member extends inwardly from the outer wall intermediate the upper and lower edges of the processing piston. The central wall member has an aperture formed therein. The central wall member has a downwardly directed portion that defines an air-retaining region. The air-retaining region is closer to the outer wall upper edge than the aperture. The connection port is operably connected to the aperture. The processing piston is movable in the processing vessel recess. The bone void filler preparation container has an inlet portion and an outlet port. The bone void filler preparation container is adapted to receive a bone void filler matrix therein. The tubing fluidly connects the processing piston connection port and the bone void filler preparation container inlet port.
US11850324B2	Three-dimensional (3-D) printing inks made from natural extracellular matrix molecules The present invention relates to bioinks based on undenatured collagen, kits containing the same, and methods of printing three-dimensional structures using the bioinks.
US11850320B2	Liquid-chemical sterilization system with biological indicator A sterilization system includes a vial, a carrier of microorganisms disposed in the vial, and a fluid management system having an output connectable to the vial for delivering a liquid chemical sterilant and a neutralizer thereto. Additionally, a growth medium may be delivered to the vial such that the vial and growth medium may assessed for a change to a visual characteristic indicative of sterilization inefficacy.
US11850316B2	Self-disinfecting photocatalyst sheet with primer A self-disinfecting photocatalyst sheet includes a substrate material and a photocatalyst layer with a primary photocatalyst and a secondary photocatalyst. The primary photocatalyst is a metal oxide photocatalyst, whereas the secondary photocatalyst is a metallic photocatalyst. The substrate material binds the photocatalyst layer by either connecting a metal ion of the primary photocatalyst and/or the secondary photocatalyst through two oxygen atoms of a carboxyl group (COO), or by forming hydrogen bonds between a carbonyl group and a surface hydroxyl group (OH−) of the primary photocatalyst. The self-disinfecting photocatalyst sheet is activatable by a visible light and can self-disinfect against bacteria and viruses.
US11850314B2	Illumination of light diffusing optical fibers, illumination of blue-violet light delivery systems, blue-violet light delivery systems, and methods for blue-violet light induced disinfection A method of disinfecting using a light diffusing fiber includes optically coupling a light source to a light diffusing optical fiber having a core, a cladding surrounding the core, an outer surface, and a plurality of scattering structures positioned within the core, the cladding, or both the core and the cladding. The method further includes positioning the light diffusing optical fiber in optical engagement with a pathogen sample and directing light output by the light source into the light diffusing optical fiber for a first time interval. The scattering structures scatter light propagating along the light diffusing optical fiber toward the outer surface and a portion of the light diffuses through the outer surface thereby irradiating the pathogen sample with light having an average power density of about 5 mW/cm2 to about 30 mW/cm2 at a wavelength from about 380 nm to about 495 nm for an exposure time from about 2 hours to about 24 hours.
US11850308B2	Multiple unit dosage form having a therapeutic agent in combination with a nutritional supplement Compositions and methods for combination therapy are provided. The compositions comprise a multiple unit dosage form having both a therapeutic agent and a nutritional supplement. The combination therapy is useful for restoring a nutrient depletion associated with a particular disease state. Additionally, the combination therapy can prevent or attenuate the depletion of a nutrient caused, in whole or in part, by the co-administrated therapeutic drug. Methods of manufacturing the formulations are likewise described.
US11850301B2	Oral care composition The present invention provides an oral care composition which includes one or more nonpolar structuring agents, one or more emulsifiers, one or more mucoadhesive polymers, and one or more active ingredients effective for providing oral pain relief. The oral care composition can be a solid or semi-solid composition up to a temperature of at least 40° C. Methods of providing such an oral care composition are also provided herein.
US11850300B2	Topical lotion composition, methods of use, and methods of preparation A topical lotion composition for promoting hair growth includes honey, Aloe vera gel, rosemary oil, coconut oil, olive oil, rose oil, almond oil, and vitamin E oil, in a base. Application of the topical lotion composition to a scalp of a user promotes hair growth.
US11850298B2	Anti-aging compositions and skin masks containing anti-aging compositions In some embodiments, an anti-aging composition includes hyaluronic acid, at least one anti-aging peptide, at least one skin penetration enhancer, and water. In some embodiments, an anti-aging composition includes hyaluronic acid, at least one anti-aging peptide, at least one tensing polymer, and water. An anti-aging product includes a skin mask patch and an anti-aging composition loaded into the skin mask patch. A method of forming an anti-aging product includes forming an anti-aging composition and loading the anti-aging composition into a skin mask patch.
US11850297B2	Composition comprising sapogenin and exosome as effective ingredient A composition containing a combination of exosomes and sapogenin as an active ingredient is disclosed. The composition is able to promote preadipocyte proliferation, lipid uptake into adipocytes, and/or adipogenesis, but reduce the cytotoxicity caused by sapogenin. Therefore, the composition can reduce side effects on the body or skin, and can be used such that it is conveniently applied to a dissatisfactory part of the body showing flaws which look less plump due to a deficit in lipids and the like, or an area of the skin showing flaws caused by a deficit in lipids.
US11850294B2	Buffered microencapsulated compositions and methods A microcapsule composition comprising at least one polymer substantially disposed as a semipermeable shell around an aqueous buffered solution and at least one agent, wherein the agent permeates the shell, and wherein the composition is suitable for delivery to a mammal.
US11850293B2	Active agent-containing matrix particles and processes for making same Matrix particles containing one or more matrix materials and one or more hydrophobic active agents, agglomerated particles made therefrom, fibrous structures containing such matrix particles and/or agglomerated particles, and processes for making same are provided.
US11850290B2	Materials and devices containing hydrogel-encapsulated cells Provided herein, in some embodiments, are hydrogel-elastomer and hydrogel-alginate devices, compositions and associated methods to encapsulate living cells.
US11850287B2	Heterocyclic acyl hydrazone linkers, methods and uses thereof The present application is directed to compounds of Formula (I): compounds of Formula (II): compounds of Formula (III): and compounds of Formula (IV): compositions comprising these compounds and their uses, for example as medicaments and/or diagnostics. Specifically claimed are: (1) compounds containing reactive functional groups (compound of formula I), compounds containing compounds to be linked together (compound of formula II) and compounds having a reactive functional group/a compound to be linked (compound of formula IV), (2) an antibody-drug conjugate (compound of formula III), wherein the antibody is covalently attached by a linker to one or more drugs, (3) pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula (II) or Formula (III), (4) treatment/diagnosis of disease comprising compounds of Formula (II) or Formula (III), and (5) methods of preparing an ADC of Formula III.
US11850286B2	Sulfamide linker, conjugates thereof, and methods of preparation The present invention relates to a compound comprising an alpha-end and an omega-end, the compound comprising on the alpha-end a reactive group Q1 capable of reacting with a functional group F1 present on a biomolecule and on the omega-end a target molecule, the compound further comprising a group according to formula (1) or a salt thereof: Said compound may also be referred to as a linker-conjugate. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of a bioconjugate, the process comprising the step of reacting a reactive group Q1 of a linker-conjugate according to the invention with a functional group F1 of a biomolecule. The invention further relates to a bioconjugate obtainable by the process according to the invention.
US11850285B2	Insulin-responsive glucagon delivery patch A composition comprising an insulin-polymer conjugate and an insulin aptamer-glucagon conjugate is described. Depending upon the amount of insulin in the environment surrounding the composition, the insulin aptamer of the insulin aptamer-glucagon conjugate can bind to insulin in the insulin-polymer conjugate to form a non-covalent conjugate. When the amount of insulin in the surrounding environment rises, the insulin aptamer-glucagon conjugate can be released. Thus, the composition can be used to deliver glucagon in an insulin responsive manner. The composition can be loaded into microneedles, for example, to prepare microneedle arrays for skin patches. Methods of delivering glucagon to a subject are also described.
US11850282B2	Adenoviral vectors encoding hepatitis B viral antigens fused to herpes virus glycoprotein D and methods of using the same Provided herein are non-naturally occurring variants of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) Core protein, the HBV polymerase N-terminal domain, and the HBV polymerase C-terminal domain, as well as immunogenic fragments thereof. Fusion proteins comprising the HBV variants fused to a herpes simplex virus (HSV) glycoprotein (gD) sequence, as well as methods of using the fusion proteins, are also provided.
US11850276B2	Interleukin-18 variants and methods of use The present disclosure provides compositions and methods comprising stabilized IL-18 polypeptides for use in therapeutic and non-therapeutic applications. In some cases, the stabilized IL-18 proteins provide IL-18 signaling activity even in the presence of an inhibitory molecule such as IL-18BP. Also provide are methods of administration and methods for making active polypeptides.
US11850273B2	Chemical reprogramming of human glial cells into neurons for brain and spinal cord repair Provided are methods and compositions from reprogramming human glial cells into human neurons. The reprogramming is achieved using combinations of compounds that can modify signaling via Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3), and γ-secretase/Notch pathways. The reprogramming is demonstrated using groups of three or four compounds that are chosen from the group thiazovivin, LDN193189, SB431542, TTNPB, CHIR99021, DAPT, VPA, SAG; purmorphamine. Reprogramming is demonstrated using the group of LDN193189/CHIR99021/DAPT, the group of B431542/CHIR99021/DAPT, the group of LDN193189/DAPT/SB431542, the group of LDN193189/CHIR99021/SB431542, a three drug combination of SB431542/CHIR99021/DAPT. Reprogramming using functional analogs of the compounds is also provided, as are pharmaceutical formulations that contain the drug combinations.
US11850269B2	Compositions for fecal floral transplantation and methods for making and using them and devices for delivering them The present disclosure provides compositions, e.g., formulations, used for gastric, gastrointestinal and/or colonic treatments or lavage, e.g., orthostatic lavage, e.g., for inducing the purgation (e.g., cleansing) of a gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including a colon; and methods for making and using them. Methods of the invention are used for the stabilization, amelioration, treatment and/or prevention of constipation, for the treatment of abdominal pain, particularly non-specific abdominal pain, and diarrhea, including diarrhea caused by a drug side effect, a psychological condition, a disease or a condition such as Crohn's Disease, a poison, a toxin or an infection, e.g., a toxin-mediated traveler's diarrhea, or C. difficile or the pseudo-membranous colitis associated with this infection.
US11850265B2	Treatment and prophylaxis of radiation dermatitis The present invention relates to topical formulations comprising purified water, milk protein fluid and thickener, in particular a hydrogel and a lotion, and their use in treatment, in particular in a two-step process for the treatment of radiation dermatitis.
US11850259B2	Methods of treating viral infections affecting the respiratory tract using topically administered lithium agents This disclosure relates to topical lithium agents including inhalable lithium agents for treating a viral infection characterized by a cytokine storm in the respiratory tract of a subject such as a human. Topical lithium formulations can be used to mitigate such viral infections, including coronavirus infections.
US11850257B2	Method for enhancing beta-adrenergic response The present invention provides cnidimoside A for use in the treatment of urinary conditions such as overactive bladder and related syndromes. The invention also relates to methods of treatment of overactive bladder using cnidimoside A. The compound can be administered purified or as a plant extract.
US11850253B2	Two component compositions The present invention relates to a novel two-component system comprising acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and which is particularly useful in providing an aqueous solution of ASA for immediate peroral administration.
US11850251B2	System for providing birth control The present disclosure relates to a vaginal system that prevents pregnancy comprised of segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol and is configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles.
US11850250B2	Use of homoharringtonine in preparation of betacoronavirus replication inhibitor in human Disclosed is a use of homoharringtonine (HHT) in preparation of a drug against betacoronavirus infection, a use of homoharringtonine in preparation of a betacoronavirus replication inhibitor in human, and a formulation and a method for treating a disease caused by betacoronavirus. Through research, the HHT is found to not only have a good inhibitory effect on the first step of protein synthesis, but also have an unexpected inhibitory effect on each step of protein synthesis elongation, and can better inhibit the synthesis of long proteins. Because betacoronaviruses have longer ORFs and are more sensitive to the HHT, the HHT has a better replication inhibition effect on the betacoronaviruses, thus providing a feasible solution for controlling the replication of coronaviruses. The effects of the HHT on treating diseases caused by the betacoronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 are confirmed for the first time by cell experiments and animal models.
US11850249B2	Methods of efficiently reducing intraocular pressure Disclosed herein are pharmacologically acceptable and ophthalmologically suitable compositions and methods of their use in treating ophthalmic diseases or related conditions. In aspects, the invention provides compositions comprising effective amounts of carbonic anhydrase inhibitor(s) and alpha-2-adrenergic agonist(s). In facets, compositions comprise a penetration enhancer component comprising one or more penetration enhancer compound(s)/molecule(s). In aspects, the invention provides compositions comprising effective amounts of brimonidine compound(s) and brinzolamide compound(s) capable of being administered once or twice daily for the treatment of elevated intraocular pressure, but which provide similar efficacy to a similar or substantially identical reference product requiring administration three times per day. In facets, the invention provides compositions capable of being administered at a frequency resulting in providing a lower total dose of both brinzolamide and brimonidine compound(s) to a recipient, but nonetheless are as or more effective in IOP control as such similar or substantially identical reference products.
US11850243B2	Dihydropyridine compositions and methods for treating neurological disorders The present disclosure provides extended or sustained release compositions of a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker, specifically isradipine, and method of using the compositions for the treatment of neurological disorders, wherein the composition provides sustained plasma levels of the dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker.
US11850231B1	Trytophan metabolic stimulation compositions The present invention is a natural anthropogenic dietary supplement containing tryptophan in combination with vitamins as well as minerals in order to facilitate treatment of sleep disorders such as but not limited to jet lag disorder and circadian rhythm sleep disorder. The composition of the present invention facilitates increased metabolism of tryptophan. The compositions of the present invention are provided in either gel capsules or as a beverage dose for consumption. The compositions of the present invention include embodiments that incorporate as a part thereof calcium salts and magnesium salts. Vitamins such as but not limited to niacin are further included in embodiments of the composition of the present invention. Furthermore, additional natural ingredients further contribute to the makeup of the embodiments of the composition of the present invention.
US11850230B2	Composition for preventing or treating TNF-related diseases, containing novel derivative as active ingredient, and method for inhibiting TNF activity by using same The present invention relates to: a 4-benzopyranone derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, racemate, or stereoisomer thereof; a composition for preventing, alleviating or treating TNF-related diseases, containing the same as an active ingredient; and a method for treating TNF-related diseases, a reagent composition for inhibiting TNF, and a method for inhibiting TNF, all of which use the same. The compositions can be orally administered so as not to cause injection side effects, do not cause immunological tolerance, and can effectively inhibit a TNF activity by being directly bound to TNF while facilitating co-administering with a conventional oral preparation and dosage control.
US11850227B2	Methods of providing solriamfetol therapy to subjects with impaired renal function The invention relates to methods for decreasing adverse effects associated with solriamfetol ([R]-2-amino-3-phenylpropylcarbamate) therapy in subjects with impaired renal function. In particular, the invention provides an optimized dose escalation scheme for subjects with moderate renal impairment which results in the subjects having increased tolerance to adverse effects associated with the administration of solriamfetol. The invention also provides adjusted dosing for safe therapeutic use of solriamfetol in subjects having severe renal impairment.
US11850226B2	Methods of providing solriamfetol therapy to subjects with impaired renal function The invention relates to methods for decreasing adverse effects associated with solriamfetol ([R]-2-amino-3-phenylpropylcarbamate) therapy in subjects with impaired renal function. In particular, the invention provides an optimized dose escalation scheme for subjects with moderate renal impairment which results in the subjects having increased tolerance to adverse effects associated with the administration of solriamfetol. The invention also provides adjusted dosing for safe therapeutic use of solriamfetol in subjects having severe renal impairment.
US11850222B2	Sotalol compositions and uses of the same The present invention provides oral solutions containing sotalol hydrochloride which advantageously avoid swallowing while providing with improved stability. The present invention also relates to methods of using the oral solutions for treatment of diseases and disorders, such as delay in reoccurrence of atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter and/or ventricular arrhythmias.
US11850221B2	Ophthalmic pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof Provided herein are ophthalmic pharmaceutical compositions comprising (1R,2S,5R)-2-isopropyl-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5-methylcyclohexane-1-carboxamide (WS-12) for effectively treating dry eye in a subject in need thereof, effectively reducing dry eye in a subject in need thereof, effectively reducing the likelihood of dry eye in a subject in need thereof, or for treating, preventing, or ameliorating signs or symptoms of dry eye in a subject in need thereof.
US11850215B2	Recombinant adenoviruses and stem cells comprising same The present invention relates to: recombinant adenoviruses, which have an excellent ability to be introduced into stem cells and can be easily introduced into stem cells even at a low concentration; stem cells comprising the same; a gene delivery composition; and a pharmaceutical composition. Stem cells into which adenoviruses are introduced, of the present invention, have excellent in vivo survivability and a treatment effect on tumor cells, and, when used as an anticancer drug, do not cause problems with respect to in vivo survival, hepatotoxicity and the like of stem cells so as to be particularly usable for systemic administration, and have an excellent anticancer effect even in small doses, thereby being widely usable as an anticancer drug using adenoviruses.
US11850209B2	Driving control of a reciprocating CPR apparatus The disclosed mechanical cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) apparatuses, systems, and devices have a plunger and a plunger displace sensor that can sense plunger displacement information during reciprocating cycles of the plunger. The disclosure CPR apparatuses, systems, and devices also have a microprocessor unit that can receive sensed plunger displacement information from the sensor and generate plunger driving instructions based on the plunger displacement information. The plunger driving instructions have one or both of a plunger driving force and a plunger amplitude for the reciprocating cycles.
US11850208B2	CPR chest compression system In embodiments, a CPR chest compression system includes a retention structure that can retain the patient's body, and a compression mechanism that can perform automatically CPR compressions and releases to the patient's chest. The compression mechanism can pause the performing of the CPR compressions for a short time, so that an attendant can check the patient. The CPR system can include a user interface that can output a human-perceptible check patient prompt, to alert an attendant to check the patient during the pause. The compression mechanism can during a CPR session retreat a distance away from the patient's chest whereby the patient's chest can expand without active decompression of the patient's chest beyond the chest's natural resting position.
US11850206B2	Body interface A body interface comprises a panel, and a lumbar support and may be configured to attach to an exoskeleton such as a leg/hip assist mechanism. The body interface has an adjustable tension provided by either a tensioning device or by the properties of materials in the panel and the lumbar support. Tension in the body interface allows the lumbar support to comfortably and dynamically contact a user's body while the panel cooperates with the leg/hip assist mechanism. First and second arms may extend from lateral portions of the panel to define with first and second belt members a circumference around the user.
US11850205B2	Methods of vibrationally exciting a laryngeal nerve A laryngeal nerve exciting system includes a collar holding a bridge, or a neckband, pressing soft tissue nerve exciters against a patient's neck providing a source of vibrations to stimulate the laryngeal nerve through the larynx. At least one exciter, and preferably two exciters, provide vibrations at preferably 70 Hz to 110 Hz and sufficiently strong to penetrate to the laryngeal nerve. The exciters may be held by the collar circling the neck, or by the neck band partially circling the neck. The therapy system includes a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and software which wirelessly connects, monitors, and triggers the device. The system may be used to treat dysphagia, chronic cough, and spasmodic dysphonia.
US11850202B1	Exercise board Portable exercise incline board devices and methods for exercise and balance fitness that can be easily assembled, disassembled and transported. The incline board can be assembled from a generally rectangular top ice with raised upper surface, along with a pair of right triangle support pieces and a rear vertical piece wherein raised protrusions align into mateable grooves so that the pieces slide and lock together for assembly and slide apart for disassembly.
US11850197B2	Step stool and method of use A bed step stool for assisting a user into and out of bed including opposite sides, a head, and a foot, comprising a first support to be disposed closer to the head of the bed; a second support to be disposed closer to the foot of the bed; wheels configured to allow the bed step stool to roll on a surface; a step assembly supported by the wheels and supported between the first support and the second support, the step assembly to enable the user to step thereon for assisting the user into and out of the bed; a seat assembly disposed above the step assembly, the seat assembly configured to be moved between a deployed position where the user can rest thereon and a stored position.
US11850196B2	Flexible overhead arm An overhead arm assembly for a patient support apparatus includes a user interface device. The user interface device has a support structure for supporting a personal digital assistant and a charging port for personal digital assistant.
US11850191B2	Head support and method for use of the head support for positioning a patient relative to a surgical frame A lift, a head support, and methods for use thereof for use with a surgical frame are provided. The lift and the head support can be used with the surgical frame that is capable of reconfiguration before, during, or after surgery. The surgical frame can include a main beam that can be rotated, raised/lowered, and tilted upwardly/downwardly to afford positioning and repositioning of a patient supported thereon, and the lift and the head support can be used in lifting the patient from a table/gurney and positioning the patient with respect to the main beam.
US11850190B2	Vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic The present disclosure relates to a vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic, and more particularly, to a mobile infectious disease clinic, which is a vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic, that allows a test subject to be tested by a healthcare provider using an infectious disease test kit while exposure of the body parts is minimized and the healthcare provider and the test subject are isolated in the vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic, that performs sterilization of an infectious disease using an ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp to reduce the time taken for disinfecting the clinic, and that allows the light radiation intensity of the UV-C lamp to be adaptively adjusted according to the body temperature of the test subject.
US11850189B2	Goggles with interchangeable locking strap Goggles include a goggle frame, a goggle strap, and a goggle strap connector. The goggle strap has a direction of strap tension when the goggles are worn by a user. The goggle strap connector includes a female bracket and a male bracket. The female bracket is directly coupled to the goggle frame or the goggle strap, including first and second bracket walls, a channel defined between the bracket walls, projections, and recesses. The male bracket is configured to mateably couple to the female bracket, including a sliding bar and an enlarged bar end. First movement of the goggle strap in the strap tension direction may move at least one of the bar bumps of the enlarged bar end past at least one of the projections to position the at least one of the bar bumps within at least one of the recesses.
US11850180B2	Urine collection device A urine collection device for enabling urination while driving includes a tube that is flexible, a bag, and a pipe. The bag is selectively couplable to a first endpoint of the tube. The pipe is selectively couplable by a first end to a second endpoint of the tube so that the pipe is in fluidic communication with the bag. A second end of the pipe is configured to insert a penis of a user to position the pipe around the penis, thus enabling the user to urinate into the pipe. The tube is configured to allow flow of urine from the pipe to the bag.
US11850179B2	Orthopedic device An orthopedic device for supporting a lower back of a user includes a mechanical energy store, a pelvic element, an upper body element with a first force transmission element and an upper leg element with a second force transmission element. The upper leg element is arranged on the pelvic element such that it can be swivelled about a first swivel axis, the upper body element is movably arranged relative to the pelvic element, the first force transmission element can be engaged and disengaged with the second force transmission element by moving the upper body element relative to the pelvic element, and the mechanical energy store can be charged and discharged by swivelling the upper leg element relative to the upper body element when the first force transmission element is engaged with the second force transmission element.
US11850178B1	Epicondylitis support A supportive brace to be worn circumferentially around the forearm for preventing and reducing pain and discomfort associated with epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow or Golfer's Elbow) of the elbow is disclosed. The brace includes a padded counterforce strap assembly band circumferentially fitted around the forearm. The strap assembly has an elastomeric buttress positioned to apply targeted compression to the ECRB. A toric ring forms a cushioned border around the concavity on the dorsal face of the elastomeric buttress, so that when the band is fittingly secured around the forearm about 1-1.5 in distal to either of the epicondyles, the hemispherical/ovaloid convex shape on the inside face of the elastomeric buttress exerts controlled pressure to tissues associated with the epicondylitis.
US11850177B2	Ankle/foot orthosis An ankle/foot orthosis with a foot part, which has a sole for receiving a foot, and with a shin part which, when fitted in place, bears on the frontal aspect of a shin and is connected to the foot part via a medially extending spring, wherein the spring, behind an ankle area, forms a hinge area that allows a movement of the shin part relative to the foot part in the anterior-posterior direction.
US11850176B2	Orthotic joint devices, joint device components, and methods Various orthotic joint devices, components, and methods are provided. These include orthotic joint alignment devices for adjusting a neutral or fixed angle of an orthotic joint device independently of other parameters, orthotic joint devices providing staged resistance through staged recruitment of separate springs or initiation of staged spring-rate behavior of a single spring retained in a joint body, adapters for converting non-staged resistance orthotic joint devices into orthotic joint devices, and low-noise orthotic joint devices with intermittent normal force-transmitting contact associated with resistive or assistive forces provided by the devices, and methods of using the devices and components.
US11850173B2	Femoral aortic access modular stent assembly and method The techniques of this disclosure generally relate to a modular stent device that is deployed into the ascending aorta via femoral access. The modular stent device is a base or anchor component to which additional modular stent devices can be attached to exclude diseased areas of the aorta while at the same time allowing perfusion of the brachiocephalic artery, the left common carotid artery, and/or the left subclavian artery.
US11850170B2	Surgical instrumentation assembly for positioning an ankle prosthesis In order to position an ankle prosthesis including a tibial implant and a talus implant provided with a talo-calcaneal anchoring keel, the invention proposes a surgical instrumentation assembly including: a tibial phantom (60) of the tibial implant, adapted so as to be attached to the tibia (T) of a patient, and an aiming guide (80) adapted for setting into place an instrumentation element (90) through the talus (A) and the calcaneus (C) of the patient, along an axis (Z-Z) for implanting the talo-calcaneal anchoring keel, the tibial phantom and the aiming guide mechanically cooperating with each other to restrict movement of the tibial phantom and the aiming guide relative to each other along vertical and medio-lateral directions, wherein the aiming guide is configured to guide placement of the instrumentation element.
US11850169B2	Apparatus for transforming teeth into bone graft material An apparatus for transforming teeth into bone material, which is suitable to treat the teeth by immersion in liquids and includes a reactor device including a contactor, a reaction chamber, an ejection chamber, a cartridge including a plurality of containers for the processing and washing liquids, separated liquid-tight from each other, a fragmentation device suitable to fragment teeth, a guide suitable to detachably connect the cartridge and the fragmentation device to the apparatus, and a movement device suitable to detachably connect at least partially the reactor device and allow it to sequentially withdraw the teeth from the fragmentation device and the liquids from the cartridge.
US11850163B2	Interbody implant with adjusting shims An expandable implant may include a superior endplate and an inferior endplate. The superior endplate may have at least one track extending in a proximal-to-distal direction and an inferior endplate may have at least one track extending in the proximal-to-distal direction. An adjusting shim may be disposed within the at least one track to adjust a spacing and angle of inclination of the implant. Some embodiments may include a plurality of tracks for adjusting a spacing and an angle of inclination between the superior endplate and the inferior endplate. Some embodiments may be configured to adjust an orientation of the implant relative to a disc space in both the sagittal plane and the coronal plane. Various embodiments disclosed herein may be used in an Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF), Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), or a lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (LLIF) procedure, for example.
US11850159B2	Surgical implant with guiding rail A prosthetic intervertebral spacer includes a body having a front end, a rear end, an anterior side, a posterior side, a top surface, and a bottom surface, and an arcuate interface extending away from the body and being connected to the rear end and the posterior side of the body. A method of inserting and positioning the spacer includes engaging a tool to the interface, inserting the spacer at least partially into the intervertebral disc space by moving the tool along an insertion direction, and allowing the spacer to rotate with respect to the insertion direction within the intervertebral disc space while continuing to move the tool along the insertion direction.
US11850158B2	Orthopedic surgical implant device with porous material and fluid channels for cleaning the porous material This disclosure describes a surgical implant device comprising a body that includes a porous material forming at least a portion of the body, wherein the porous material is configured to promote bone ingrowth and is porous to a fluid. In addition, one or more fluid channels are formed in the body. The one or more fluid channels are arranged to define a fluidic path that exits into the porous material.
US11850155B2	Dynamic bioactive nanofiber scaffolding A resorbable bone graft scaffold material, including a plurality of overlapping and interlocking fibers defining a scaffold structure, plurality of pores distributed throughout the scaffold, and a plurality of glass microspheres distributed throughout the pores. The fibers are characterized by fiber diameters ranging from about 5 nanometers to about 100 micrometers, and the fibers are a bioactive, resorbable material. The fibers generally contribute about 20 to about 40 weight percent of the scaffold material, with the microspheres contributing the balance.
US11850150B2	Leaflet attachment frame for prosthetic valve An implantable prosthetic valve has an upper frame section and a lower frame section. The upper frame section has a plurality of struts and a first leaflet receiving surface at a lower portion of the upper frame section. The lower frame section has a second leaflet receiving surface at an upper portion of the lower frame section. An edge of a flexible leaflet is disposed between the first and second leaflet receiving surfaces to attach the leaflet to the upper and lower frame sections.
US11850149B2	Prosthetic heart valve delivery system A prosthetic heart valve and delivery system adapted to facilitate transapical or transfemoral implantation of a prosthetic heart valve, the delivery system comprising an elongated sheath or shaft have one or more loop stabilization wires adapted to circumscribe and crimp a metallic stent, the loop stabilization wires releasable with retraction of an engagement pin to expand the metallic stent and anchor the same in native tissue within the circulatory system of a patient.
US11850148B2	Sealing member for prosthetic heart valve An implantable prosthetic valve can comprise an annular frame comprising an inflow end and an outflow end and being radially collapsible and expandable between a radially collapsed configuration and a radially expanded configuration, the frame defining an axial direction extending from the inflow end to the outflow end, a leaflet structure positioned within the frame and secured thereto, and an outer sealing member positioned around an outer surface of the frame, wherein the outer sealing member comprises a plurality of sealing segments, wherein each sealing segment is coupled to the frame and/or another sealing segment by a tether that pulls a portion of the sealing segment in a circumferential direction when the frame is radially expanded to the expanded configuration.
US11850146B2	Prosthetic valve and deployment system A prosthetic heart valve, for example a tricuspid valve, may include a flexible membrane and a frame. The frame may be attached to the periphery of the tricuspid orifice. The diaphragm may be attached to the frame around a part of the perimeter of the orifice. Optionally the frame may be flexible. For example the frame may elastically flex between a substantially circular shape and/of an elliptical and/or crescent shape. Optionally there may not be a stiff cross piece crossing a central region of the orifice and connected on opposing sides of frame. In some embodiments, the diaphragm may take a dome shape during systole.
US11850144B1	Ligament docking implants and processes for making and using same Provided herein are ligament docking implants and methods for making and using the same. In at least one embodiment, the implants include at least one docking recess configured to receive a tissue structure such as a ligament and connect said tissue to the implant via suitable surgical techniques. In at least one embodiment, the docking recesses of the implant include a gyroid architecture that provides for improved mechanical performance and tissue integration. In various embodiments, the present methods of using the ligament docking implants include the use of sutures to connect tissue to the implant via the docking recess.
US11850135B2	Prosthetic implant delivery device utilizing surface active agents An apparatus for use in a surgical procedure for delivering a prosthetic implant comprises a flexible sleeve configured with a first end and a second end, the flexible sleeve being tapered such that a width of a region at the second end is relatively smaller than a width of a region at the first end, and an interior surface of the flexible sleeve that form an interior cavity, the interior cavity being sized to receive the prosthetic implant; one or more surface active coatings are applied to the interior cavity. The flexible sleeve is manipulatable such that when the prosthetic implant is positioned within the interior cavity, a manually applicable directional pressure in the direction of the second end causes the prosthetic implant to extrude from the second end.
US11850134B2	Absorbent article An absorbent article can be configured to adhere to the body of a wearer in the area of the body of the wearer that may need bodily fluids absorbed. The absorbent article can be adhered to the body of the wearer to or around the vulva region of the body. The absorbent article can have an absorbent assembly which has a variable height in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article.
US11850133B2	Patterning of an elastic laminate The present disclosure discloses an embossed patterned elastic laminate. The elastic laminate has an embossed pattern of at least three surface areas. The current disclosure also includes a process for making an embossed patterned elastic laminate. The embossed patterned elastic laminate provides a permanent change to visual aesthetic without adversely impacting the elastic film.
US11850131B2	Personal hygiene product with a digital element A personal hygiene product with a digital element includes an external personal hygiene product to absorb bodily fluids and a conductive sensor assembly disposed therein. The conductive sensor assembly includes a pair of conductive elements disposed in parallel in a mirrored image about the perimeter of the personal hygiene product and at least one connector directly contacting the pair of conductive elements, said conductive sensor assembly generating a signal indicative of fluid leakage of said personal hygiene product when fluid reaches the area between the pair of conductive elements. The conductive sensor assembly is arranged and configured to communicate with a smart hand held electronic device, either directly or through a wireless connection.
US11850126B2	Absorbent negative-pressure dressing system for use with post-surgical breast wounds A system for providing negative-pressure therapy to breast tissue is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system may include a dressing assembly shaped for placement on a breast, an absorbent pouch, and a negative-pressure source. The system may further include an additional dressing assembly for placement on a second breast. Various shapes and configurations of the breast dressing assemblies may be included in the system.
US11850116B2	Surgical systems and trays According to one example, a medical tray for a surgical procedure is disclosed. The medical tray can optionally comprise: a housing; and one or more tray inserts configured to be received within the housing and having a first major surface and one or more support. The one or more tray inserts are configured to receive a plurality of dental surgical instruments via a plurality of receptacles formed therein. The plurality of receptacles having corresponding openings in the first major surface. The one or more tray inserts configured to be at least one of: removable from the housing and configured with the one or more supports so as to be positionable exterior to and independent of the housing, or the plurality of receptacles are angled such that the dental surgical instruments when received therein are positioned at an acute angle relative to the first major surface.
US11850113B2	Systems and methods for constructing a three-dimensional model from two-dimensional images A system includes one or more processors coupled to a non-transitory memory, where the one or more processors are configured to generate, using a training set comprising one or more two-dimensional (2D) training images of a dental arch and a three-dimensional (3D) dental arch model, a machine-learning model configured to generate 3D models of dental arches from 2D images of the dental arches, receive one or more 2D images of a dental arch of a user obtained by a user device of the user, and execute the machine-learning model using the one or more 2D images as input to generate a 3D model of the dental arch of the user.
US11850109B2	System and devices for measuring light sources and methods of use thereof The invention provides a system and related equipment for the precise measurement of the output characteristic of a light source, e.g., a dental light curing unit (LCU) or light for photodynamic therapy, using a light collector, a light detector, and a computer programmed to deliver the value of the output characteristic of the light source to the user. The systems allow for the determination of a proper exposure time or the selection of a light source as needed for a specific application.
US11850098B2	Method and device for measuring an ultrasound parameter of a viscoelastic medium A system and method for accumulating ultrasound attenuation data for the detection of disease or other conditions. In one embodiment, an ultrasound system generates a number of imaging pulses during an imaging mode. Echo signals received from the imaging pulses are tested against one or more quality metrics. Attenuation data from the echo signals that pass the quality metrics are accumulated and are used to compute a tissue characteristic. In one embodiment the tissue characteristic is a CAP measurement that is related to an amount of fat in a liver.
US11850095B2	Ultrasound imaging device and method using position and posture tracking of probe of ultrasound scanner Disclosed is an ultrasonic image presentation device comprising: an ultrasonic scanner having a probe which is a part coming into direct contact with an object and a marker; a photographing unit configured to photograph the marker; an ultrasonic image presentation unit configured to acquire an ultrasonic image as a two-dimensional depth cross-sectional image for a part coming into contact with the probe of the ultrasonic scanner, estimate a position and posture of the marker in a three-dimensional image on the basis of an image photographed by the photographing unit; estimate a position and posture of the probe in the three-dimensional image from the estimated marker position and posture information, create a point cloud by converting pixels of the ultrasonic image into points of the three-dimensional image on the basis of the estimated probe position and posture information, and restore the three-dimensional ultrasonic image on the basis of the created point cloud; and a display unit configured to display the three-dimensional ultrasonic image restored by the ultrasonic image presentation unit. It is possible to provide a three-dimensional ultrasonic image simply and easily with lower cost.
US11850091B2	Small-scale capacitive ultrasound transducer devices and methods An ultrasound transducer may include: a plurality of capacitive ultrasound transducer elements; and a base having a largest dimension sized and shaped to be disposed with an external ear canal, wherein the plurality of capacitive ultrasound transducers is mounted on the base. Each capacitive ultrasound transducer element and the ultrasound transducer are specifically constructed to achieve select desired performance characteristics. The ultrasound transducer may have an angular beam spread through a gaseous medium of greater than 15 degrees and an attenuation loss through the gaseous medium of greater than 10 dB measured at a distance 12.5 mm to 25 mm along a primary transmission axis of the ultrasound transducer. The ultrasound transducer may be particularly useful for characterizing fluid behind an ear drum to diagnose otitis media.
US11850084B2	Fracture risk evaluation value acquisition device, method for operating fracture risk evaluation value acquisition device, and non-transitory computer readable medium A subject information acquisition unit calculates a bone mineral density in the bone region and a muscle mass in the soft region for each pixel on the basis of a radiographic image. A statistical value calculation unit calculates a statistical value related to the subject on the basis of the bone mineral density and the muscle mass. An evaluation value calculation unit calculates the fracture risk evaluation value for evaluating the fracture risk of the subject on the basis of the statistical value.
US11850079B2	Electrode disconnect detection Disclosed examples include those directed to detecting and remediating detachment of electrodes from a patient. In an example, a system calculates a Pearson correlation coefficient between: (1) power spectral density of the noise and (2) power spectral density of a recorded signal (e.g., from an electrode being operated in free-run EMG mode). If the recorded signal correlates with the noise, then the system notifies the user of presence of noise (e.g., the fallen electrode). Otherwise, the recorded signal is considered as the signal of interest (e.g., a valid EMG signal).
US11850077B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring cardio-pulmonary health Disclosed is a cardio-pulmonary health monitoring apparatus. The apparatus comprises a contactless motion sensor configured to generate one or more movement signals representing bodily movement of a patient during a monitoring session; a processor; and a memory storing program instructions configured to cause the processor to carry out a method of processing the one or more movement signals. The method comprises extracting one or more sleep disordered breathing features from the one or more movement signals, and predicting whether a clinical event is likely to occur during a predetermined prediction horizon based on the one or more sleep disordered breathing features.
US11850076B2	Automatic cardiac therapy advisor with hidden Markov model processing Apparatuses and methods are provided for automatically determining which type of resuscitation treatment is most appropriate for a patient. Methods are provided that include the following. One or more time domain signal measurements are transformed into frequency domain data representative of a frequency content of the one or more time domain signal measurements. The frequency domain data is processed to identify peaks. For each of the peaks, for each of multiple points in time, multiple parameters of the peak are determined. Based on the multiple parameters of the peaks for each of the multiple points in time, a trajectory is determined. The determined trajectory is analyzed in determining a recommended type of resuscitation treatment. An output indication is provided of the recommended type of resuscitation treatment.
US11850069B1	Wearable device and methods of manufacturing A smart ring includes a shell having an internal surface and sidewalls define an interior, a battery within a first sector of the interior, a PCB within a second sector of the interior having components including a fingerprint sensor, a temperature sensor, a memory and a processing unit coupled to the temperature sensor and the fingerprint sensor and configured to determine whether an incoming fingerprint data is authenticated, and a potting compound disposed within the interior and encapsulating the components, wherein the potting compound forms an inner portion of the smart ring characterized by a first curved portion, a first and second flat regions within the second sector and a third region within the second sector between the first and second flat regions, wherein the fingerprint sensor is disposed below the first flat region, and wherein the temperature sensor is associated with the second flat region.
US11850068B2	Modular sensing unit A method, a structure, and a computer system for a modular sensing unit. The structure comprises a sensor module, a power cable ribbon, and a component module, wherein the component module is in communication with and detachable from the sensor module via the power cable ribbon.
US11850067B1	Multi-purpose ear apparatus for measuring electrical signal from an ear An ear apparatus may comprise one or more of a housing, an electrode, a biometric sensor, a speaker driver, and/or other components. The housing of the ear apparatus may be configured to be attached to an ear. The electrode may be carried by the housing. The electrode may be configured to measure an electrical signal from the ear. The electrical signal may include a reference signal, a ground signal, or a bias signal. The biometric sensor may be carried by the housing. The biometric sensor may be configured to measure one or more biometric characteristics from the ear. The speaker driver may be carried by the housing. The speaker driver may be configured to produce sound.
US11850060B2	Systems and methods for detecting and managing physiological patterns Systems and methods for managing sleep quality of a patient, comprising: collecting physiological signal data of the patient using a data acquisition unit electrically coupled to at least one sensor affixed to the patient that generates the physiologic signal data; using one or more hardware processors executing instructions stored in a storage device: filtering the physiological signal data into a plurality of frequency bands corresponding to a plurality of power spectra waveforms; and characterizing an etiology of sleep quality of the patient based on a comparison of at least a first power spectra waveform of the plurality of power spectra waveforms against at least a second power spectra waveform of the plurality of power spectra waveforms, wherein the sleep quality of the patient is managed based on the characterized etiology of sleep.
US11850056B2	Devices and methods for remote therapy and patient monitoring Systems and methods for remote therapy and patient monitoring are provided. A method comprises contacting an outer skin surface of a patient with a contact surface of a stimulator and transmitting an electrical impulse from the stimulator transcutaneously through the outer skin surface to a nerve within the patient. Data related to parameters of the electrical impulse applied to the nerve is stored and transmitted to a remote source. The data may include duration of treatment, amplitude of the electrical impulse, compliance with a prescribed therapy regimen or other relevant data related to the therapy. The method may further include collecting patient status data, such as symptoms of a medical condition (e.g., severity of a headache) before, during and/or after stimulation. The patient status data is correlated with the treatment data to monitor compliance and/or the effectiveness of the therapy.
US11850046B2	System and apparatus for enabling low power wireless devices A simplified electronics approach to allow cost, size, and power consumption to be reduced while maintaining state of the art accuracy and reliability, key features for wireless medical devices/systems. Extreme accuracy is achieved by innovative noise shaping and filtering introduced to the electrochemical sensor, before sampling by the analog to digital converter. Introduction of the noise to the electrochemical sensor provides very low power biasing which is necessary to achieve overall reliable and very accurate bias for the electrochemical reaction cell.
US11850044B2	Noise-induced hearing loss susceptibility test method and test apparatus An audiometric test method is provided where a noise stress test is applied to a subject, during the application of the noise stress test measuring one or more indicators reflecting a subjects purinergic hearing adaptation to noise exposure. The measured indicators are analysed to quantify degree of change and rate of change of the subjects purinergic hearing adaptation to noise exposure. An audiometric test system and audiometer configured to perform the test is also provided.
US11850042B2	Brain dysfunction evaluation system, brain dysfunction evaluation method, and program A system for evaluating a degree of brain dysfunction of a subject, such as a decline in cognitive function, calculates a difference in movement functions between both hands in a coordination movement. The system includes a storage device for storing time-series data on a finger movement task of each of both hands of a test subject acquired by a movement sensor; a data processing device for analyzing the time-series data stored in the storage device; and a display device for displaying an analysis result analyzed by the data processing device. The data processing device includes a movement waveform generation unit for generating a movement waveform corresponding to the time-series data stored in the storage device; and a difference-between-hands feature quantity generation unit for generating a difference-between-hands feature quantity which represents a difference in respective finger movement tasks between both hands, based on the respective movement waveforms of both hands.
US11850039B2	Apparatus and method for determining a change in left ventricular twist of a subject's heart An apparatus and a method are described in which a signal is received from a gyroscope sensor mounted on a subject. The gyroscope sensor is configured to measure rotational movement of the subject's heart, the signal being indicative of a left ventricular twist of the subject's heart. A change in the left ventricular twist of the subject's heart caused by occlusion of blood flow by an arterial occlusion device configured to selectively occlude blood flow of the subject is determined.
US11850036B2	Airway adaptor and respiratory flow rate sensor An airway adaptor includes a tubular member to which a measuring section configured to measure a flow rate of a respiratory gas of a subject is to be attached. The tubular member includes: a gas passage through which the respiratory gas to pass; and a resistance portion which is configured to generate a differential pressure in the respiratory gas passing through the gas passage, the resistance portion includes at least two partition members which are disposed in the gas passage along an axial direction of the tubular member and which are separated from one another, and side surfaces of the partition members are separated from an inner wall surface of the gas passage.
US11850031B2	Sphygmomanometer, blood pressure measurement method, and device A sphygmomanometer includes a main body mounted with a pump, a belt, and a cuff structure. The cuff structure having a band shape is disposed facing an inner circumferential surface of the belt in a freely separable manner from the inner circumferential surface of the belt. One end of the cuff structure is attached to the main body. The cuff structure includes a bag-shaped pressure cuff that extends along a circumferential direction of a measurement target site, a bag-shaped sensing cuff that extends in the circumferential direction across an artery passing portion of the measurement target site, and a back plate that is inserted between the pressure cuff and the sensing cuff. A blood pressure is calculated based on a pressure of a pressure transmission fluid contained in the sensing cuff.
US11850030B2	Pressure measuring catheter having reduced error from bending stresses Bending stresses experienced by a pressure sensor mounted to a fractional flow reserve catheter when tracking the catheter through the vasculature creates a distortion of the sensor resulting in an incorrect pressure reading or bend error. In order to isolate the sensor from bending stresses, the sensor is mounted with one end coupled to the distal end of the shaft while the other end of the sensor is not coupled to the catheter so that a portion of the sensor is spaced apart from the distal end of the shaft.
US11850029B2	Tonometry based blood pressure measurements using a two-dimensional force sensor array Representative methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for blood pressure and other vital sign monitoring using arterial applanation tonometry, including ambulatory blood pressure and other vital sign monitoring. A representative system comprises a wearable apparatus. The various embodiments measure blood pressure and other vital sign monitoring using a plurality of pressure sensors of a pressure sensor array, with one or more of the pressure sensors 140 applanating an artery, such as a radial artery. In a first embodiment, a pressure sensor signal is utilized which has the highest cross-coherence with the signals of its nearest pressure sensor neighbors of the pressure sensor array. In a second embodiment, Kalman filtering is utilized for the pressure sensor signals from the pressure sensor array.
US11850025B2	Handheld skin measuring or monitoring device A handheld skin monitoring or measuring device includes a camera having a camera optical axis; and a structured light arrangement configured to project three or more laser fan beams such that the laser fan beams cross at a crossing point in front of the camera.
US11850022B2	NIR image-guided targeting A method includes determining skin characteristics in a region of a patient. An in-treatment optical scan is performed on a region of a patient, wherein the in-treatment optical scan comprises a near infrared (NIR) energy source. A plurality of detected signals is detected from the optical scan. The skin characteristics are filtered out from the plurality of detected signals. Skeletal anatomy positioning associated with the region is determined from the plurality of signals that is filtered.
US11850019B2	Analyte monitoring system An analyte monitoring system may include an analyte sensor, two or more devices including a display device and a second device, and a transceiver. The transceiver may be configured to (i) receive measurement information from the analyte sensor, (ii) establish a connection with the display device while being connected with no other device of the two or more devices, (iii) convey first information to the display device while connected with the display device, (iv) establish a connection with the second device while being connected with no other device of the two or more devices, and (v) convey or receive second information to or from the second device while connected with the second device. The display device may be configured to (i) receive the first information from the transceiver and (ii) display an analyte level based on at least the first information.
US11850015B2	Manipulator driven by modular joint time-sharing switching A dexterous operation arm driven by modular joint time-sharing switching, the operation arm comprising a plurality of completely identical sub-sections, each sub-section comprising three parts: an external elbow assembly, an internal transmission assembly, and an elbow drive unit. The tail end of the operation arm can be connected to end effectors, such as claws, tweezers, scissors, and the like, to form a dexterous micro-device, which is mounted at the tail end of a minimally invasive surgical robotic system to assist in minimally invasive surgery. The operation arm modularizes operation arm joints, and separates the drive of each joint, which improves the flexibility of the operation arm, and can enable dexterously delivering an end effector to the vicinity of a lesion for surgery.
US11850013B2	Surgical systems and methods for robotic actuation of continuum joints Robotic surgical systems are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a robotic surgical system includes an electromechanical arm, a motor housing, a tool shaft, an end effector, and an articulation actuation system. The tool shaft includes a central body and a joint assembly having master and slave joints. The end effector is configured to move in response to movement of the slave joint. The articulation actuation system is configured to act directly on the master joint without directly acting on the slave joint to move the master joint in at least one plane. The master and slave joints are operably coupled to each other such that movement of the master joint causes parallel movement of the slave joint while maintaining a position of a longitudinal axis of the central body of the tool shaft to thereby effect articulation of the end effector. Surgical systems and methods are also provided.
US11850009B2	Ultrasonic robotic surgical navigation Surgical robot systems, anatomical structure tracker apparatuses, and US transducer apparatuses are disclosed. A surgical robot system includes a robot, a US transducer, and at least one processor. The robot includes a robot base, a robot arm coupled to the robot base, and an end-effector coupled to the robot arm. The end-effector is configured to guide movement of a surgical instrument. The US transducer is coupled to the end-effector and operative to output US imaging data of anatomical structure proximately located to the end-effector. The least one processor is operative to obtain an image volume for the patient and to track pose of the end-effector relative to anatomical structure captured in the image volume based on the US imaging data.
US11850007B2	Tracker for a surgical navigation system A tracker, a surgical tool system, a surgical navigation system, and a method for operating a surgical navigation system are provided. The tracker is configured to be associated with a patient or a surgical tool that is to be tracked by the surgical navigation system. The tracker comprises an optical fibre having a longitudinal extension and configured to be optically coupled to a light source such that the optical fibre transmits light emitted by the light source. The optical fibre has a lateral surface along its longitudinal extension and is configured to emit light via at least a portion of the lateral surface.
US11849999B2	Computer-implemented method for determining a position of a center of rotation of an eye using a mobile device, mobile device and computer program Computer implemented methods for mobile device, mobile devices and computer programs are utilized for determining the center of rotation of the eye. An image of an eye of a person is captured in at least two positions of the mobile device, and the position of the center of rotation is determined based on the images and the position. In a similar manner, optionally a pupil position may be determined.
US11849998B2	Method for pupil detection for cognitive monitoring, analysis, and biofeedback-based treatment and training The present invention relates to a system and method for pupil tracking and eye-markers extracting using an image acquisition device such as a visible-light camera shooting a non-static head. In an embodiment of the present invention eye-markers are extracted from one eye or from both eyes. The extraction from both eyes uses for averaging the results of the two eyes when abnormalities are detected in one of the eyes. In addition, the invention relates to a computerized application, which interacts with a user (for example trough a game or movie, usually in a context of biofeedback), and takes video shooting of the users face and eyes during said interaction.
US11849996B2	Method of processing optical coherence tomography (OCT) data, method of OCT imaging, and OCT data processing apparatus An OCT apparatus of an exemplary aspect includes an OCT scanner, image data generating unit, registration unit, and image data composing unit. The OCT scanner is configured to acquire three dimensional data sets by applying an OCT scan to mutually different three dimensional regions of a sample. The image data generating unit is configured to generate a plurality of pieces of image data from the three dimensional data sets. The registration unit is configured to perform a first registration between the plurality of pieces of image data by applying an image correlation calculation to each of overlap regions in the plurality of pieces of image data. The image data composing unit is configured to compose the plurality of pieces of image data based on a result of the first registration.
US11849994B2	Apparatuses and methods for injuring nerve tissue Systems, delivery devices, and methods to treat to ablate, damage, or otherwise affect tissue. The treatment systems are capable of delivering energy to nerve tissue in a target region such that at least a portion of the nerve tissue is replaced by scar tissue or otherwise altered to inhibit reinnervation in the target region.
US11849993B2	Electrosurgical device with vacuum port having multiple swivel connections Presented are a method and apparatus for surgical procedures. An exemplary apparatus includes a body having a longitudinal axis, the body comprising a hollow passageway extending through the longitudinal axis from an inlet at a distal end to a port at a proximal end. The apparatus further includes an electrode extending from the distal end of the body adjacent to the inlet. The apparatus also includes a swivel portion moveably coupled to the port, the swivel portion having a second hollow passageway fluidly coupled to the hollow conduit extending from the port to an outlet, wherein the swivel portion comprises a first swivel element operable to rotate around the longitudinal axis relative to the body, and wherein the swivel portion comprises a second swivel element operable to rotate relative to the first swivel element and the body.
US11849992B1	Increasing plasma generated species (PGS) in non-thermal plasma (NTP) medical treatment Embodiments include a system comprising a non-thermal plasma (NTP) device and at least one container including supersaturated gas emulsion (SSGE). A method is described involving configuring a supersaturated gas emulsion (SSGE) for application to a treatment site and configuring a device to generate a non-thermal plasma (NTP) at the treatment site.
US11849990B2	Vapor ablation systems and methods A vapor delivery system and method is provided that includes a number of features. In one embodiment, a method comprises inserting a vapor delivery needle into tissue of a patient, activating a flow of vapor from a vapor generator through vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle to cause condensed liquid to exit vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle, generating vapor in the vapor generator, delivering a dose of vapor through the vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle into the tissue, and after the dose of vapor is delivered, re-activating the flow of vapor from the vapor generator through the vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle to prevent a vacuum from forming in the vapor delivery needle. Vapor therapy systems are also provided.
US11849989B2	Cryogenic system and methods Embodiments of the present invention relate to cryogenic systems and methods useful to cool objects, including living tissue, to freezing or cryogenic temperatures by placing the object in thermal communication with sub-cooled supercritical nitrogen.
US11849988B2	Modular retaining screwdriver A modular system for treating a bone includes a main body including a channel extending therethrough. A distal end includes a driving feature sized and shaped to engage a corresponding driving structure of one of first and second bone screws. The system also includes an inner shaft sized and shaped to be inserted into the channel and including a distal end including a retaining feature for engaging a corresponding retaining structure extending within a recess at a proximal end of the first screw. Furthermore, the system includes an outer shaft extending longitudinally and including a channel extending therethrough. The channel of the outer shaft is sized and shaped to slidably receive the main body therein and including a retaining feature extending along a distal end thereof. The retaining feature of the outer shaft engages a retaining structure extending along an exterior surface of the second screw.
US11849979B1	Spinal implant system and method A spinal construct includes a bone fastener including a post and a shaft portion engageable with vertebral tissue. The post being movable in one or more axes relative to the shaft portion. A receiver defines a first cavity configured for disposal of the bone fastener and a second open cavity configured for disposal of a spinal rod. A band is disposable in the first cavity. The band being contractible and defining an inner surface that is directly engageable with the post. A nut includes an inner surface being slidably engageable over the post and an end surface engageable with the band such that the band contracts to engage the post. Systems, surgical instruments, implants and methods are disclosed.
US11849977B2	Pivotal bone anchor assembly with receiver having horizontal and vertical tool engagement grooves A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a receiver having a central bore with a spherical seating surface adjacent a bottom opening and upright arms defining a channel for receiving a rod. The upright arms include side outer surfaces with horizontal tool engagement grooves spaced below top surfaces and having downwardly-facing upper groove surfaces and upwardly-facing lower groove surfaces that extend to front and back planar surface portions of the upright arms. The upright arms also include vertical tool engagement slots extending into and downward across the side outer surfaces from the top surfaces through to at least the upper groove surfaces of the horizontal tool engagement grooves. The assembly also includes a shank having an anchor portion for attachment to patient bone and a capture portion with a curvate lower surface configured for slidable engagement with the spherical seating surface of the receiver prior to locking the assembly with a closure.
US11849974B2	Tensegrity external fixation system to distract bones A tensegrity external fixation system utilizes a tensegrity external fixator having a compression portion and a tension portion that create a force to distract bone. A tensegrity external fixator has a compressor assembly with an extension that is compresses by a tension element, such as a tension band. In an embodiment, the tension band is coupled with a bone via a stud that is attached to the bone. The tension band may extend through a stud retainer, such as a loop coupled with the stud. A single extension may be used and compressed to cause the extension to bow between a tension band or wires. In an exemplary embodiment, a compressor assembly has a compression element that is compressed by the one or more extensions. Two extensions may extend from a compressor coupling having a compression element and manipulation of the extensions may place the compression element in compression.
US11849972B2	Device and method for improving implantation of fertilized egg during pregnancy The disclosed invention comprises a device that utilizes a manually controlled articulating arm to make a precise, small abrasion on the intrauterine wall prior to ovulation. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a handle, an arm having a rigid portion and an articulating tip both of which are covered by a casing having non-irritant properties, wherein the handle is connected to the arm by a connection member that contains a trigger mechanism operable to move the articulating tip by pulling a trigger.
US11849968B2	Free scar cardiovascular cannula and method An invention for connecting an extracorporeal circulation apparatus 35 to the patients' circulatory system 26B for providing extracorporeal blood circulation through a plurality of transfixions 44 in a tissue 25 space apart by a distance, comprising: a holder 10; and the plurality of ducts 14 connected to said holder 10; wherein said holder 10 is adapted to connect to the extracorporeal circulation apparatus 35; wherein at least one of said plurality of ducts 14 is adapted to connect to the patients' circulatory system 26B; wherein said holder 10 and said plurality of ducts 14 includes blood passageways 3. The invention including an internal connection 33 including a proximal portion 33A and a distal portion 33B; wherein said distal portion 33B is adapted to connect to the patients' circulatory system 26B; wherein said proximal portion 33A is connectable to said ducts 14. The methods are provided.
US11849967B2	Scoring device and treatment method A scoring device includes an elongate shaft, a balloon disposed on a far side of the shaft and inflatable radially of the shaft by a fluid flowing into the balloon, at least one storage tube disposed along an outer surface of the balloon and having a storage lumen defined therein, and an elongate scoring wire storable in the storage tube and made of a harder material than the balloon. The storage tube is fixed to the balloon or the shaft, and an opening portion is defined in the storage tube to provide fluid communication between outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the storage tube along the storage lumen when the balloon is inflated. The scoring wire is movable in the storage lumen along a longitudinal axis of the storage tube.
US11849965B2	Surgical instrument having a thenar eminence handle and method for use thereof The present disclosure provides a surgical instrument comprising an instrument body with a distal end including a working portion, and a proximal end including a handle. The instrument body includes a first arm and a second arm that are pivotable relative to one another. Each of the first arm and the second arm having a handle portion of the handle and a portion of the working portion. And each of the handle portions of the first and second arms being configured to enable a user to control the instrument body and move the portions of the working portion of the first and second arms between opened and closed positions. The handle portion of the first arm having a thenar eminence contacting surface adapted to contact at least a portion of a thenar eminence of a hand of the user during use, and facilitate at least movement of the handle to move the working portion of the first and second arms from the open position to the closed position
US11849960B1	Methods and apparatus for mid-flexion balancing during knee arthroplasty Joint balancing methods and apparatus for arthroplasty procedures are disclosed. An example method of preparing a knee to receive a knee implant includes: (a) positioning a knee comprising a distal femur and a proximal tibia at a mid-flexion angle; (b) performing soft tissue balancing of the knee at the mid-flexion angle; (c) determining a location of a posterior chamfer cut of the distal femur configured to engage the posterior chamfer angle of a femoral component of a knee implant based at least in part upon the soft tissue balancing of the knee at the mid-flexion angle; and, (d) resecting the distal femur to create the posterior chamfer cut.
US11849958B2	Surgical kit for use in a craniectomy procedure The present invention relates to a surgical kit for use in a craniectomy procedure, the surgical kit comprising: a medical device to be implanted in a cranial bone of a patient, the medical device (10) including several transducers for emitting ultrasound waves for treatment of brain tissue, a surgical accessory (20) intended to be positioned on the cranial bone of the patient, the surgical accessory (20) including a body whose outer perimeter defines the dimensions of an opening that is to be made in the cranial bone of the patient in order to receive the medical device, characterized in that the surgical accessory (20) comprises a plurality of holes (201) formed in the body, the position of each hole (201) on the body coinciding with the position of the axis of symmetry of a respective transducer, such that the accessory is able to be positioned optimally through the joint use of a neuronavigation system.
US11849955B2	Delivery and detachment systems and methods for vascular implants A system for delivering an implant device to a vascular site in a patient a delivery pusher apparatus, an implant device detachably connected to the delivery pusher apparatus by a tether having a distal end connected to a proximal end of the implant device, wherein the tether is substantially non-tensioned when connecting the implant device to the delivery pusher, and an electrical heating element configured coaxially around at least a portion of the tether, wherein heat generated by the heating element severs the tether at a point near the proximal end of the implant device.
US11849954B2	Method and apparatus for treating an arterial lesion One disclosed embodiment comprises a method for treating lesions in the carotid artery of a mammalian body. The method comprises transcervical access and blocking of blood flow through the common carotid artery (with or without blocking of blood flow through the external carotid artery), shunting blood from the internal carotid artery and treating the lesion in the carotid artery.
US11849953B2	Hemostatic device A hemostatic device is provided with: a first tubular member; a positioning member having a first engagement section and engageable with an opening of a blood vessel; a hemostatic agent arranged further to a proximal end side than the first engagement section of the first positioning member; a push-out member making it possible to push the hemostatic agent out from a distal end section of the first tubular member when the push-out member is moved; a first operation unit for executing a first distal end operation for causing the first tubular member and the push-out member to move in a relative manner to a distal end side, and a second distal end operation for causing the push-out member to move in a relative manner to the distal end side; and a switching mechanism for restricting the second distal end operation until the first distal end operation is completed.
US11849952B2	Staple cartridge comprising staples positioned within a compressible portion thereof A fastener cartridge can comprise a support portion, a tissue thickness compensator positioned relative to the support portion, and a plurality of fasteners positioned within the support portion and/or the tissue thickness compensator which can be utilized to fasten tissue. In use, the fastener cartridge can be positioned in a first jaw of a surgical fastening device, wherein a second jaw, or anvil, can be positioned opposite the first jaw. To deploy the fasteners, a staple-deploying member is advanced through the fastener cartridge to move the fasteners toward the anvil. As the fasteners are deployed, the fasteners can capture at least a portion of the tissue thickness compensator therein along with at least a portion of the tissue being fastened.
US11849951B2	System and methods for supplying surgical staple line reinforcement In certain aspects, the present disclosure provides devices for loading a surgical bolster material. In accordance with some forms, the device includes a tray defining a guide channel for receipt of a bolster material. The guide channel may be configured to align and/or direct the device onto which the bolster material is to be loaded onto the bolster material.
US11849950B2	Compressible adjuncts with drug dosage control features Compressible adjuncts for use with a staple cartridge are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the compressible adjunct includes a non-fibrous adjunct material formed of at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer and configured to be releasably retained on a cartridge and delivered to tissue by deployment of staples in the cartridge. The adjunct material includes a lattice macrostructure having primary and secondary microreservoirs formed in the lattice macrostructure. The primary microreservoirs and secondary microreservoirs are different in size relative to each other and contain drug. The primary microreservoirs are configured to release drug therefrom upon activation and the secondary microreservoirs are configured to release drug therefrom upon degradation of at least one of the at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer so that the combination of the primary and secondary microreservoirs control the dosage of drug being released from the adjunct material when the adjunct material is in a tissue deployed state.
US11849947B2	Surgical system including a control circuit and a passively-powered transponder A surgical instrument for use with a robotic system that has a control unit and a shaft portion that includes an electrically conductive elongated member that is attached to a portion of the robotic system. The elongated member is configured to transmit control motions from the robotic system to an end effector.
US11849945B2	Rotary-driven surgical stapling assembly comprising eccentrically driven firing member A surgical stapling assembly is disclosed. The surgical stapling assembly can include a first jaw, a second jaw, an articulation joint, a closure drive comprising a first flexible rotary drive extending through the articulation joint, and a firing drive comprising a second flexible rotary drive extending through the articulation joint and rotatable independent of the first flexible rotary drive. The surgical stapling assembly can further include a 3D-printed component. The surgical stapling assembly can be configured to form different staple shapes, such as non-planar staples and planar staples, can include an eccentrically-driven firing assembly, and/or can include a floatable component. The surgical stapling assembly can include a staple cartridge including a longitudinal support beam.
US11849944B2	Drivers for fastener cartridge assemblies having rotary drive screws A surgical device having at least one rotary input screw in the end effector is provided. A rotary input screw can extend through a central longitudinal portion of the end effector. The end effector can include an improved closure system, firing systems, leveraging and alignment features between the staple cartridge and the surgical device, staple cartridges having multi-staple drivers, single-firing knifes and lockout/safety features for the same, and/or modified staple patterns, for example. Certain components can be 3D-printed components.
US11849939B2	Continuous use self-propelled stapling instrument A surgical instrument for treating the tissue of a patient is disclosed. The surgical instrument comprises a housing including a handle, a housing frame comprising a housing connector, and a drive system comprising at least one electric motor. The surgical instrument further comprises a shaft assembly releasably assembled to the housing including a shaft frame comprising a proximal connector and a distal connector, wherein the proximal connector is releasably coupled to the housing connector and a shaft drive system comprising at least one rotatable shaft operably coupled to the electric motor. The surgical instrument further comprises an end effector releasably assembled to the shaft assembly including an end effector frame comprising an end effector connector releasably coupled to the distal connector of the shaft assembly, a plurality of staple cartridges removably stored in the end effector, and a plurality of end effector drivers operably coupled to the rotatable shaft.
US11849933B2	Bone align and joint preparation device and method A bone displacement system includes an anchoring portion, a tool engaging portion, a compression distraction mechanism, a lateral body and a distal body. The anchoring portion has an aperture for receiving a wire to connect the anchoring portion to a proximal bone. The tool engaging portion is connected to the anchoring portion and is configured to connect a tool thereto. The compression-distraction mechanism is connected to the anchoring portion. The lateral body is connected to the compression-distraction mechanism by a ratchet. The lateral body has a downwardly depending portion for contacting a lateral bone. The distal body is connected to the compression-distraction mechanism. The distal body has an aperture for receiving a wire to connect the distal body to a distal bone. The compression-distraction mechanism is configured to move the anchoring portion relative to the distal body.
US11849930B2	Hemostasis clip with collapsible capsule A clipping device includes a capsule including a longitudinal body and a cap mounted over a distal end thereof so that the cap is movable relative to the longitudinal body from a pre-deployed configuration to a deployed configuration in which the cap, is moved proximally relative to the longitudinal body to reduce a length of the capsule. A channel of the cap and a channel of the capsule are substantially aligned with respect to one another. At least proximal portions of a pair of clip arms are received within the channels of the cap and the longitudinal body so that the clip arms are movable relative to the capsule between an open configuration, in which distal ends of the clip arms are separated from one another, and a closed configuration, in which the distal ends of the clip arms are drawn toward one another.
US11849929B2	Pressure guide wire Provided is a pressure guide wire, including a proximal portion (1), an intermediate portion (2) and a distal portion (12), the intermediate portion (2) is composed of one or more woven layers, wherein each woven layer includes a plurality of woven wires, the distal portion (12) includes a sensor housing (4) that holds a pressure sensor (5) and a head end assembly (11), the head end assembly (11) includes a developing spring (9) and a head end core wire (11) nested within the developing spring (9). The pressure guide wire having such a structure has good flexibility and supportability, meanwhile, the cost of the pressure guide wire can be reduced due to the low cost of the woven wire and the weaving process.
US11849926B2	Bone marrow access apparatus A bone marrow access apparatus includes a bone penetrating member having an internal channel having an opening at a proximal end and an opening at a distal end. A valve cap is engaged with the bone penetrating member, the valve cap defining an interior cavity in which part of the bone penetrating member is situated. The valve cap includes a valve having an opening having an open state in which the channel is not obstructed and a closed state to prevent flow of a material through the channel. The valve is repeatedly switchable between the open and closed states. The bone penetrating member has an upper surface and a seat which is below the upper surface, the seat being located at an interior of the bone penetrating member, and the seat being engageable with an installation or removal instrument.
US11849925B1	Vagina probe with brush A method for taking a cervical or vaginal sample includes providing a sampling probe having a housing with a flange at one end and an internal step ring including a protrude follower tab near the distal end; and a shaft inside the housing with a brush and a handle, the shaft having a solid proximal section, a spirally grooved distal section, a retracting compression spring inside the housing on the spirally grooved distal section, and with the housing protruding follower tab engaging a spiral groove in the spiral groove section of the shaft; inserting the sampling probe into a vaginal canal; pushing on the handle causing the brush to protrude the distal end of the housing, with the housing follower tab engaging the shaft spiral groove, causing the shaft and the brush to rotate and take a sample; and releasing the shaft handle to retract the brush into the housing.
US11849923B2	Wearable blood gas monitor A transdermal oxygen patch measures an oxygen concentration based on transcutaneous oxygen diffusing through an epidermal surface of a patient. Transcutaneous oxygen differs from hemoglobin-bound oxygen often measured in a patient blood flow. The patch employs an indicator responsive to an oxygen presence for emitting light having an intensity and lifetime (duration) based on the oxygen presence. An optical receptor is in communication with logic for receiving the intensity of emitted light and computing the oxygen concentration based on the received intensity and lifetime (duration). A wireless transmitter conveys the results to a base station or monitoring counterpart for untethered patient monitoring. Low power demands and circuit footprint are amenable to a wearable device such as a patch for continuous use.
US11849922B2	Light source device The invention provides medical or industrial light source devices, for example, an endoscope.A light source device includes: a light source emitting a light beam; a concentrator including a pair of Fresnel lenses with corrugated surfaces and concentrating the emitted light beam, the corrugated surfaces of the Fresnel lenses facing each other, and a light guide guiding the concentrated light beam. The corrugated surfaces of the pair of Fresnel lenses may be in contact with each other and one end of the light guide may be disposed at a focal point of the concentrated light beam.
US11849921B2	Ancillary vacuum module usable with an endoscope According to some embodiments of the invention there is provided a colon cleaning system comprising: a working channel, a vacuum source, a separate vacuum pipe provided alongside the working channel, and a sensor positioned at a conduit connected externally to the working channel, the sensor configured for providing an indication related to pressure within at least a segment of the working channel. In some embodiments, the system comprises a controller configured for controlling one or more parameters of a vacuum induced in the separate vacuum pipe, the parameter determined according to the pressure related indication provided by the sensor.
US11849920B2	Biopsy cap for use with endoscope Endoscope assemblies, biopsy caps, and methods for making and using the same. An example endoscope assembly may include an endoscope having a channel formed therein and a port that provides access to the channel. A cap may be coupled to the port. The cap may include a base having a securing member for securing the cap to the port, an outer shell and a brush section disposed within the interior volume adjacent the disk shutter section, the brush section including a plurality of brushes arranged in a helical fashion.
US11849914B2	Endoscopic image processing method and system, and computer device An endoscopic image processing method is provided. The method can include acquiring a current endoscopic image of a to-be-examined user, and predicting the current endoscopic image by using a deep convolutional network based on a training parameter. The training parameter can be determined according to at least one first endoscopic image and at least one second endoscopic image transformed from the at least one first endoscopic image, where the at least one endoscopic image corresponds to a human body part. The method can further include determining an organ category corresponding to the current endoscopic image. The method can make a prediction process more intelligent and more robust, thereby improving resource utilization of a processing apparatus.
US11849909B2	Automatic cleaning apparatus An automatic cleaning apparatus includes: a chassis; a front housing arranged at a front end of the chassis; and a sensing device capable sensing movement of the front housing and sending a signal to a control mainboard of the automatic cleaning apparatus when the front housing touches an obstacle and moves relative to the chassis. The sensing device includes a dust blocking member and a rocker arm that triggers the sensing device to send the signal. The rocker arm has a first end rotatably arranged inside the sensing device, and a second end passing through the dust blocking member and extending out of the sensing device. A front housing reset device is arranged on the chassis and capable of biasing the front housing toward an initial position of the front housing.
US11849908B2	Method of providing intelligent voice recognition model for voice recognition device A method of providing an intelligent voice recognition model includes obtaining space type information about a placement area of the voice recognition device, extracting space feature information from the space type information; and generating a predetermined voice recognition model matched to the extracted space feature information. At least one device implementing the method of providing the intelligent voice recognition model may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
US11849903B2	Method of cleaning and/or sanitizing jewelry and other small parts A method of cleaning and/or sanitizing jewelry and other small parts includes the steps of adding a microwavable fluid into a microwavable container and placing the container into a microwave oven. The microwavable fluid is heated in the microwave oven to a temperature of at least 170° F. The container is removed from the microwave oven when the desired temperature has been reached the jewelry and/or small parts are placed into the container to submerse the jewelry and/or small parts within the heated fluid and agitated, such as by spinning the container to mechanically remove contaminants from the surface of the items being cleaned and chemically cleaned with the use of a fluid that is a cleaning fluid.
US11849899B2	Domestic dishwasher A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity and a spray facility arranged within the dishwasher cavity for spraying washing liquor and/or fresh water in the dishwasher cavity. The spray facility includes a nozzle for spraying the washing liquor and/or the fresh water and a spiral-shaped flow-conducting element for feeding the washing liquor and/or the fresh water to the nozzle. The spiral-shaped flow-conducting element is configured, during operation of the spray facility, to feed the washing liquor and/or the fresh water to the nozzle in such a way that the washing liquor and/or the fresh water exits the nozzle as a rotating conical spray jet.
US11849895B2	Mop wringers and bucket positioning apparatus A wringing assembly may include a plurality of spaced apart pressure applicators, such as may be used for applying pressure to a mop element having a cleaning, absorbent or wiping material supported on the mop element. The pressure applicators may be supported so as to be centered or symmetrical on each side of a center of a wringing surface. The wringing assembly may include a substantially centered actuation element such as a handle. An actuation element on a wringing assembly may also include a receptacle for an element of a mop or other cleaning tool, such as a handle A bucket positioning device includes a spring-loaded assembly having a hook for a bucket rim and a base for engaging a bottom of a bucket or a wheel unit.
US11849892B2	Portable extractor A portable extractor includes a supply tank, a recovery tank, a pump in fluid communication with the supply tank, a suction source in fluid communication with the recovery tank, a base configured to support the suction source and the pump, and a main housing mounted on the base and housing the suction source and the pump. The main housing is configured to removably support the recovery tank and the supply tank. The recovery tank is arranged at a front side of the portable extractor and the supply tank is arranged at a lateral side of the portable extractor between the front side and the rear side.
US11849891B2	Infant bathing apparatus One or more embodiments are disclosed for an infant bathing apparatus that fits in any sized bathtub for bathing a newborn, an infant, or a toddler and allows a parent to sit in the bathtub during bath time. The infant bathing apparatus comprises a frame, a sling, one or more straps, and a telescoping stand. The frame is rigid and buoyant to stay afloat on top of the water. The frame includes an opening for the sling to removably connect within the frame. The sling is configured to support the baby within the frame. The one or more straps connect to the frame and may have suction cups that secure the frame to the sides of the bathtub. The telescoping connects to the frame and rests on a bathtub floor. A parent may sit within the bathtub either with the stand attached to the frame or remove the stand from the frame.
US11849889B2	Aerothermodynamic environment-friendly toilet, mounting method, and application of aerothermodynamic environment-friendly toilet The present disclosure relates to an aerothermodynamic environment-friendly toilet, a mounting method, and an application of the aerothermodynamic environment-friendly toilet. The toilet includes a receiver, a processor, a solid storage device, a liquid storage device and a drying device. The toilet is odorless by using an aerothermodynamics principle. When no one uses the toilet, a fan at an exhaust port is used for exhausting a small amount of air from each cavity of the toilet to control an odor source unidirectionally; after use of the toilet, a waste treatment button is triggered, then hot air flow moves downwards, which downwards ejects air at an upper portion of a lower conical port of a reception guider of the receiver.
US11849880B2	Appliance for making a beverage and associated method, power management system and microcontroller readable medium An appliance for making a beverage, the appliance comprising: a plurality of heating components for heating a liquid, and a power management system, wherein the power management system comprises: an energy storage device, wherein at least a first function of the appliance requires simultaneous operation of a first heating component and a second heating component of the plurality of heating components, and wherein at least the first heating component comprises a first heater element and a second heater element, where the first heater element is powered using mains power, and the second heater element is powered using the energy storage device.
US11849874B2	Storage assembly for isolation clothing and storage assembly for protection clothing, capable of being put on and taken off quickly The storage assembly for isolation clothing capable of being put on and taken off quickly includes: isolation clothing which includes an one-piece integrated protective clothing body, a putting-on and taking-off opening provided in one face of the protective clothing body which has a “” shaped structure similar to a structure of the protective clothing body, and hasps and binding belts which are matched with each other and provided on two sides of the putting-on and taking-off opening; a storage rack which includes: a base plate, a vertical plate perpendicularly arranged on one side of the base plate, and two sets of supporting ribs which are provided on the vertical plate and parallel to the base plate; wherein fixing holes which are arranged at an outer side of each trouser leg and an outer side of each sleeve of the isolation clothing are sleeved on the supporting ribs.
US11849873B2	Bendable clothes hanger assembly A bendable clothes hanger assembly for supporting a variety of types of clothing includes a clothes hanger that has a hook and a pair of arms each extending away from the hook. Each of the arms is comprised of a bendable material such that each of the arms is bendable into a variety of shapes. In this way the clothes hanger can be shaped to accommodate a variety of types of clothing.
US11849872B2	Collapsible food container supporting assembly and method A collapsible food container supporting assembly includes a base having a top side and a bottom side. The base includes a first end, a second end, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. A bag engagement member is mounted on the base and releasably engages a bottom of an open bag. A vertical support is attached to the base and extends upwardly therefrom. The vertical support receives a side edge of the open bag to retain the side edge in a vertical orientation.
US11849860B2	Chair back adjustment system A back adjustment system for a chair having a frame that includes a top end and bottom end. The back adjustment system may further, include a chair back having a first end and a second end. The first end of the chair back may be mounted solely to the top end of the frame of the chair and also includes an adjusting means, which may be mounted at the bottom end of the frame. The adjusting means may allow for engagement between the bottom end of the frame and the second end of the chair back. The adjusting means may be adapted to telescopically engage between the bottom end of the frame and the second end of the chair back thereby solely moving the second end of the chair back from a retracted position to an extended position.
US11849854B2	Systems for air mattress pressure control The disclosed technology includes an pressure-controlled air mattress for enabling a user to set a desired firmness or pressure level of the air mattress. The pressure-controlled air mattress may automatically maintain the desired pressure by replacing leaked air with air from a pressurized air reservoir.
US11849853B2	Diagnostics of bed and bedroom environment A data processing system is configured to sense a pressure readings of an air-mattress. If the pressure readings are below a target pressure value representing a desired pressure for the air-mattress, the data processing system can transmit, to an air-pump, first instructions to increase the air pressure of the air mattress and determine a replacement value representing the amount of air pumped into the air mattress by the air-pump. The data processing system can compare the replacement value to a slow-leak threshold and to a catastrophic-leak threshold. The data processing system can, responsive to a determination that the replacement value is greater than the slow-leak value and less than the catastrophic-leak value, transmit, to the air-pump, second instructions to increase the air pressure of the air mattress to replace air in the air mattress lost to a slow leak so as to maintain the desired pressure for the air-mattress.
US11849850B2	Systems and methods for providing a convertible bench Systems and methods for moving a convertible bench between a first position, which presents a backrest, and a second position, which presents a tabletop, is described herein. While the described systems can include any suitable component, in some cases, they include a base having a first end piece that has a first set of legs with a first arched leg support that extends between the first set of legs and a second end piece having a second set of legs with a second arched leg support that extends between the second set of legs. The bench further includes a backrest/table portion that is hingedly coupled to the base so as to be pivotable from a first position that presents a backrest to a second position that presents a tabletop. Other implementations are described.
US11849845B2	Corner retention clip The invention is directed to a corner retention clip system for supporting the front two corners of a shelf in a shelving system. Each corner retention clip includes a generally horizontal support panel, a channel connected to the support panel for receiving a front lip of a shelf of the shelving display and a side wall connector for connecting the clip to a side wall of the shelving display.
US11849844B2	Platform and leveling system for a mechanical device A pad includes a support structure for supporting a mechanical device. The support structure includes a horizontal layer supported by vertical members. The pad also includes a leveling mechanism for leveling the pad. The leveling mechanism can include first, second, third and fourth leveling legs near a first, second, third and fourth corner, respectively of the pad. The leveling legs can be screwed into or out of the pad such that during installation of the mechanical device, an installer can level the pad by screwing in or out the first, second, third and fourth leveling legs until the pad is level.
US11849842B2	Multifunctional hand controller for height-adjustable furniture The present disclosure provides a multifunctional hand controller for height-adjustable furniture, and belongs to the technical field of control equipment for electric furniture. The multifunctional hand controller includes a shell. The shell is fixed on the furniture. Switches for controlling the furniture are installed on the shell. The switches include a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is a rotary switch. The rotary switch rotates relative to the shell to generate a first control instruction for controlling the furniture.
US11849837B2	Fastener system for furniture A fastener system for quick and easy assembly of an article of slatted furniture is used to join multiple slats and connects a support thereto. A flange inserted into one of the slats receives a stud connected to the support. A rod connects a plurality the slats, and mates with the flange. The flange and rod are rotatable within the slats to properly position and tighten the fastener system.
US11849836B2	Brush head for a body care device and body care device comprising the brush head The present invention relates to a brush head (10, 10a, 10b, 10c) for use with a body care device (100), comprising a plurality of bristles (22, 22a-22e), a carrier (16) for fixedly carrying the plurality of bristles (22, 22a-22e), and connection means for connecting the carrier (16) to a housing (50) of the body care device (100) defining a first axis (14), so that, when the brush head is connected to the housing (50), the carrier (16) is rotatable about the first axis (14) and pivotable about a second axis (20) perpendicular to the first axis (14) with respect to the housing (50), wherein the carrier (16) comprises a plurality of carrier parts (17), each fixedly carrying a corresponding one of a plurality of bristle groups (26, 28, 30), and wherein at least one of the plurality of carrier parts (17) comprises a shaft defining a third axis (40, 42, 44) about which the corresponding bristle group (26, 28, 30) is rotatable.
US11849828B2	Device for a cosmetic product, in particular a lipstick A device intended to be mounted on a base for actuating a cosmetic product application receptacle, in particular a cosmetic product stick is designed to get the cosmetic product out by at least one rotational movement. The device includes at least one guide, a cup intended to receive the cosmetic product and a sheath, the sheath including internally at least one helical groove and the guide being rotatably mounted in the sheath, the rotation of the guide relative to the sheath causing an axial movement of the cup between a fully extended position and a fully retracted position. The device includes at least one structure rotationally locking the guide relative to the sheath when the cup is in the fully extended position and/or the fully retracted position and/or close to being in the fully extended position and/or the fully retracted position.
US11849826B2	False bottom bag and insert A bag having a hidden compartment includes a plurality of sides connected to a bottom portion, the sides and bottom portion forming an interior cavity of the bag. The bag further including an insert secured to a least one side of the bag within the interior cavity via an attachment mechanism, the insert having an upper surface, an underside surface, and a panel portion that is removable from the insert via one or more tear lines. The insert including a compartment secured to the underside surface of the insert and wherein the panel portion forms a removable false bag bottom and hides the compartment from view.
US11849818B2	Method of custom designing a jewelry article to commemorate a special date The present invention provides a method of commemorating at least one special date for an individual with a customized jewelry design. The method comprises selecting at least one day, from numbers 1 through 31, and at least one month, from numbers 1 through 12, that the individual wishes to commemorate; placing at least one first design element which corresponds to the at least one selected day on a base element, said base element divided into sixty visible or invisible segments to represent a clock face with a top point on the clock face representing noon or midnight and referred to as a zero point, wherein the placement of the at least one first design element represents at least one minute hand of the clock and placing at least one second design element which corresponds to the at least one selected month on the base element, wherein the placement of the at least one second design element represents at least one hour hand of the clock. The customized jewelry may include, without limitation, pendants, earrings, bracelets or rings.
US11849815B2	Fastener, fastener monitoring system, and child carrier This application relates to a fastener, a fastener monitoring system, and a child carrier. The fastener includes a male buckle, a female buckle, and a control circuit. The fastener has a locked state in which the male buckle is snap-fitted to the female buckle and an unlocked state in which the male buckle is separated from the female buckle. The control circuit is disposed on the male buckle and/or the female buckle. The control circuit includes a wireless communication module. In response to the fastener being in the locked state, the control circuit controls the wireless communication module to transmit a wireless signal.
US11849814B2	Cam buckle Provided is a cam buckle including a body having at least one slot, and a cam arm movably coupled to and pivotable relative to the body. The cam arm has teeth for engaging a webbing and at least one boss for engaging the at least one slot. The cam arm is biased in an unlocked position where the teeth are configured to engage the webbing, and the cam arm is movable to a locked position where the teeth are configured to be disengaged from the webbing and the at least one boss is held in the at least one slot.
US11849812B2	Footwear with alternate lacing systems A footwear article includes (a) an upper having a tongue opening at a front thereof; (b) a gusseted tongue including a tongue panel positioned over the tongue opening and a pair of gussets attaching laterally opposite sides of the tongue panel to the upper; (c) a pair of tongue fasteners configured to selectively fasten and unfasten corresponding sides of the tongue panel to and from the upper; (d) a first lacing system on the upper and arranged for guiding lacing over the gusseted tongue and tongue fasteners when the sides of the tongue are fastened to the upper; and (e) a second lacing system on the tongue panel and arranged for guiding the lacing across the tongue panel clear of the tongue fasteners when the sides of the tongue panel are unfastened from the upper.
US11849807B1	Transformable footwear Each of a first footwear and a second footwear may comprise a toe loop and a first strap. The first strap may be affixed to: a lateral heel portion with a first rotatable connector; and a medial heel portion with a second rotatable connector. The first strap of the first footwear and second footwear may be rotated about: the first rotatable connector, and the second rotatable connector. A ground side of the first footwear may be placed next to a ground side of the second footwear. The first footwear and the second footwear may be folded such that the second footwear is facing outward. A second strap of the second footwear may be rotated about the third rotatable connector and connected to a first fastener on the opposite side of the folded second footwear.
US11849802B2	Cushioning article with tensile component and method of manufacturing a cushioning article A cushioning article comprises a first and a second polymeric sheet bonded to one another and enclosing an interior cavity. The polymeric sheets retain a gas in the interior cavity. A tensile component disposed in the interior cavity includes a first tensile layer, a second tensile layer, and a plurality of tethers spanning the interior cavity and connecting the first tensile layer to the second tensile layer. An inwardly-protruding bond joins the first polymeric sheet to the first tensile layer, protrudes inward from the first polymeric sheet toward the second polymeric sheet, and partially traverses the plurality of tethers. The first polymeric sheet is displaced from the first tensile layer adjacent to the inwardly-protruding bond by the gas. A method of manufacturing a cushioning article is disclosed.
US11849801B2	Airbag for article of footwear A fluid-filled chamber includes first subchamber having a substantially U-shape. The fluid-filled chamber also includes a second subchamber having a substantially U-shape and being spaced apart from the first subchamber in a direction extending along a longitudinal axis of the fluid-filled chamber.
US11849800B2	Sole for a sport footwear, a work footwear or a footwear for the leisure time The present invention regards a sole for a sport shoe, work shoe or leisure shoe including a main body having a lower layer delimiting a surface, lower during use, set to come into contact with the ground and an upper layer set to come into contact with a foot of a user or to support from the bottom, during use, an insole.
US11849793B2	Flexible slip plane for helmet energy management liner A helmet with an inner liner and an outer liner that slidably move in relation to each other. At least one flexible connector is positioned at the ovoid surface between the inner and outer liner that directly connects at least three of a plurality of liner ribs of the first liner segment to the second liner segment across a gap at a center portion of a second liner segment and at left and right sides of the second liner segment. The at least one flexible connector is in-molded with the first and second liner segments so that they move relative to each other when the inner liner slidably moves in relation to the outer liner by flexing the at least one flexible connector. Elastomeric anchors coupled to the outer liner and to the at least one flexible connector may be included, and a fit system may be used.
US11849783B2	Zippered pants Described herein are pants containing a zipper extending through the waistband and the entire outseam of each pant leg. The pants have a flange of fabric disposed on the interior of each zipper to prevent direct contact between the zipper and the skin of a person wearing the pants. The pants also include a fabric tab attached at the waistband next to the zipper to cover an exterior portion of the zipper. The pants provide benefits to wearers who have limited mobility, sensitive skin, or a physical impediment, such as a cast, by easing the challenges of applying the pants to the legs.
US11849781B1	Functional fit system for apparel Apparel that is adjustable. For example, in one embodiment, the apparel is provided that includes a torso. The torso includes a front, a back, a first side connecting the front to the back, a second side connecting the front to the back, a bottom, and a top. A plurality of shell fabric portions is on the torso. Each portion in the plurality of portions of shell fabric is adapted to receive an elastomeric member. Bunched fabric is on the first side and second side of the torso. Pleats are on the front of the torso. A centrally located flap is on the torso and has a longitudinal axis that is substantially vertical. Sleeves are connected to the torso. A first zipper track is located on the bottom of the torso. Pants may include a second zipper track adapted to mate with the first zipper track and secure the pants to the torso.
US11849780B2	Sail shirt A garment includes a torso portion adapted to cover a wearer's torso; a first sleeve extending from the torso portion at a proximal end of the first sleeve; a second sleeve extending from the torso portion at a proximal end of the second sleeve; a first flap spanning between the torso portion and the first sleeve; and a second flap spanning between the torso portion and the second sleeve. One or more openings along a side of the first flap adjacent to the torso portion and one or more openings along a side of the second flap adjacent to the torso portion are adapted to allow a personal flotation device vest to be secured to the garment.
US11849776B1	Nursing cover with integrated cooling fan A nursing cover having an integrated cooling neck fan in which the integrated cooling neck fan is bladeless, removable, and bendable over a range of angles. The inside top area of the nursing cover includes at least one hook and loop strip that extends in a horizontal direction. Additional hook and loop strips are on a top surface of the cooling neck fan such that the cooling neck fan is removably attachable to the inside top area of the nursing cover. A user grabs the two ends of the neck fan to bring the nursing cover closer or further away and adjust distance of air vents on the neck fan from a nursing child covered by the nursing cover while held by the mother. The nursing cover includes a neck strap and a long fabric portion that thoroughly covers the mother and nursing child.
US11849775B2	Quick-drying lightweight bra Aspects herein are directed to a bra having a front portion formed with multiple layers of mesh to provide a supportive, modest bra that is breathable, lightweight, and quick drying. The front portion includes an interior support panel assembly having a first panel made of a mesh material and a second panel made of a spacer mesh material that is adjacent and external to the first panel. The front portion also includes an upper support panel made of a spacer mesh material and a lower support panel made of a mesh material that each are positioned adjacent and external to the interior support panel assembly. The upper support panel and the lower support panel are each defined by a top edge and a bottom edge, and at least a portion of the upper support panel bottom edge may be positioned superior to the lower support panel bottom edge.
US11849774B2	Undergarment An undergarment for generally covering the pelvic region of a wearer is adapted to finger graspable pulls shaped and located to aid a wearer with diminished motor capacity and/or manual (i.e., hand) dexterity to more easily put on and take off the undergarment independently, without needing precise finger, hand, and arm control. The undergarment desirably uses materials, color choices, and decorative trim and elements to make the finger pulls and/or to decorate the undergarment to make the undergarment look more aesthetically appealing and reduce resemblance to specialty medical garment used by medical patients.
US11849767B2	Electronic aerosol provision device having chassis section and movable hatch section with sealed sleave There is provided a device for an electronic aerosol provision system, wherein the device includes a housing, the housing being formed of a chassis section and a hatch section, wherein the hatch section is connected to the chassis section and moveable between a first position wherein the chassis section and hatch section together define an enclosed space for an aerosol forming component to be located for aerosol generation, and a second position wherein the chassis section and hatch section are spaced so as to provide access to the spaced, the hatch section including a sleeve for receipt of the aerosol forming component, the sleeve including a seal for forming a seal with the aerosol forming component when inserted into the sleeve.
US11849765B2	Locking mechanism for a vaporizer cartridge in a vape consumption device The disclosure provides a locking mechanism for a vape cartridge. The locking mechanism can provide a sealed vape cartridge that cannot be opened by a force less than, for example, 20 kg. The use of tools is required to provide a force to open the sealed vape cartridge. The locking mechanism can provide evidence of tampering or of opening of the vape cartridge. The locking mechanism can provide quality assurance for vape materials during production, packaging, distribution, storage, and sale, while providing contamination free testing of vape materials at a quality control lab.
US11849763B2	Battery module for electronic inhalation device The present disclosure relates to battery modules for electronic inhalation devices, namely electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices with superior performance and user control over device variables. In some instances, the present device is configured to properly interpret the attached atomizer's electrical resistance and subsequently calibrate the proper electrical output. This prevents the device from overheating the coil and producing temperatures that will degrade the expected liquids. Further, the user may be able to input a code for the corresponding “flash points” of the intended liquid to determine the optimum output for both delivery of compounds formulated and for the proper temperature range of the device. In other embodiments, the device is configured to interface with an electronic device such as a smart phone.
US11849762B2	Electronic cigarette control method and device An electronic cigarette control device includes: a communicator configured to establish a communication connection with at least one device; and a processor configured to control an electronic cigarette according to a control message with respect to the electronic cigarette, the control message being received from the at least one device through the established communication connection.
US11849758B2	Electronic vaping device and cartridge for electronic vaping device A cartridge includes an air flow passageway defining a first airflow direction, a heating element having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis perpendicular to the first airflow direction, and a jacket at least partially surrounding the heating element along the longitudinal axis of the heating element and defining a second airflow direction perpendicular to the first airflow direction.
US11849756B2	Hydrophobic capsule A capsule for use in a smoking article includes a liquid sensory enhancing material; and a shell surrounding the liquid sensory enhancing material. The shell has an outer surface rendered hydrophobic by hydrophobic groups covalently bond to the outer surface of the shell. The shell may be rendered hydrophobic by reacting hydroxyl groups at outer surface of the shell with fatty acid halides to covalently attach fatty acid moieties to the surface of the capsule.
US11849754B2	Aerosol-forming substrate and aerosol-delivery system There is described an aerosol-forming substrate for use in combination with an inductive heating device. The aerosol-forming substrate comprises a solid material capable of releasing volatile compounds that can form an aerosol upon heating of the aerosol-forming substrate and at least a first susceptor material for heating of the aerosol-forming substrate. The first susceptor material is arranged in thermal proximity of the solid material. The aerosol-forming substrate further comprises at least a second susceptor material having a second Curie-temperature which is lower than a predefined maximum heating temperature of the first susceptor material. There is also described an aerosol-delivery system.
US11849753B2	Tobacco lozenge A tobacco lozenge includes a body configured to be wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a matrix including a soluble fiber in an amount greater than or equal to 60 weight percent of the body, tobacco plant tissue dispersed in the matrix, and an additive dispersed in the matrix.
US11849752B2	Smokeless products containing non-tobacco plant materials This document relates to smokeless products containing one or more non-tobacco plant materials. Certain embodiments described in this document relate to smokeless products containing one or more tobacco-alternative plant materials and having properties similar to tobacco-containing oral products.
US11849749B1	Filtration method for producing value added products from rice bran A process for treating rice bran utilizing a shear pump to circulate a solution comprising an enzyme, an acid and water with rice bran in a mixing tank, then after a first predetermined period transferring a portion of the solution to a feed tank, and then over a second predetermined period filtering the solution in the feed tank through multiple filtration units each having a pre-selected pore size to obtain pre-determined value-added by-products from the rice bran.
US11849743B2	Humic and fulvic mineral extraction method and beverage for human consumption The embodiments disclose a method including processing and treating at least one water source supply for mixing with humic acid and fulvic acid, chopping and pulverizing at least one humate source, mixing the chopped and pulverized at least one humate source with the processed and treated at least one water source supply, processing the chopped and pulverized at least one humate source and the processed and treated at least one water source supply for separating, segregating, and suspending fulvic acid and humic acid molecules from the at least one humate source, storing the fulvic acid and humic acid molecules in a fresh quantity of the treated water source supply, adjusting the pH level of the stored fulvic acid and humic acid, and creating at least one or more beverage product for human consumption using the fulvic acid and humic acid molecule ingredients and other ingredients including vitamins, flavorings and additives.
US11849740B2	Nutritional composition Use of a lentil product to increase the bioavailability of non-haem iron in a composition comprising one or more anti-nutritional factors.
US11849733B2	Baked savory food composition comprising shredded root vegetable and method of making the same A baked food composition is provided that exhibits an unexpectedly loose, crunchy texture and multi-textural chew. The baked composition comprises a high amount of expanded inclusions and shredded root vegetable, which are agglomerated by a binder component comprising low amounts of oil, added sugar, and flour. The food composition is preferably free of hydrocoiloid gums and sugar syrups.
US11849730B2	Herbicidal compositions for animal grazelands and methods for applying the same Methods and compositions for controlling undesired vegetation in animal grazelands.
US11849728B2	Method for controlling soybean rust fungus having resistance against Qo site inhibitor The present invention provides a method for controlling a soybean rust fungus having an amino acid substitution of F129L on mitochondrial cytochrome b protein, by applying a compound represented by formula (I) [wherein Q represents a group represented by the following Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 or Q5 (in the formulae, ● represents a binding site to benzene ring); X represents an oxygen atom or NH; L represents CH2, an oxygen atom or NCH3; E represents a C6-C10 aryl group, etc.; R1 represents a C1-C3 chain hydrocarbon group or a cyclopropyl group, etc.; R2 represents a C1-C3 chain hydrocarbon group or a cyclopropyl group, etc.; R3 represents a C1-C3 alkoxy group or a C1-C3 chain hydrocarbon group, etc.; and n is 0, 1, 2, or 3] or its N oxide or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof.
US11849722B2	Methods and compositions for biopreservation Methods and compositions of storing a biological material are described herein. In some embodiments, these methods provide one or more advantages over current methods. For example, methods described herein can be used to prepare and process biological materials for storage at elevated temperatures. In one aspect, a method of storing a biological material comprises providing a preservation composition and exposing the preservation composition to electromagnetic radiation to form an amorphous solid matrix containing the biological material. In some embodiments, the method further comprises monitoring temperature of the preservation composition during the exposure to the electromagnetic radiation.
US11849720B2	Anti-freezing composition comprising gold nanoparticle with peptide The present invention provides a a nanostructure which includes: a core comprising one or more planes configured to come into planar contact with at least one plane of an ice crystal; and an oligopeptide which is conjugated to at least one plane of the core and comprises (Thr)n-, (Ala)n-, (Ser)n-, or (Gly)n-, wherein the nanostructure is a polyhedron-shaped nanostructure present in water in a colloidal form to control freezing, and n is an integer of 2 to 7.
US11849719B2	Methods for introduction and prolonged washout by organ perfusion of maximally vitrifiable cryoprotectant solutions at elevated temperatures The present disclosure relates to an improved process of organ perfusion with vitrifiable concentrations of cryoprotective agents. In one implementation, the method may include perfusing an organ with a first solution containing a vitrifiable concentration of cryoprotectant at a temperature at or above −10° C. and perfusing the organ with a second solution containing a higher concentration of cryoprotectant than the first solution. The first solution may be adapted to vitrify at a cooling rate of less than 20° C./min, and the second solution may be adapted to vitrify at a cooling rate of less than 5° C./min. The perfusing with the second solution may begin at or above −10° C. and cause the organ to decline in temperature to below −10° C.
US11849717B2	Internally bonded hinge castings in composite boom structure An agricultural machine includes a lift arm assembly and a boom including at least one support member. A first support member of the at least one support member is coupled to the lift arm assembly. Further, the first support member includes a tube and a hinge inserted into a first end of the tube. The hinge includes an extension portion disposed within the hollow tube and a hinged portion extending upward from a first end of the extension portion. The first end of the extension portion is adjacent the first end of the tube. Further, the first support member is coupled to the lift arm assembly by way of the hinged portion of the hinge.
US11849713B2	Berley dispenser A berley dispenser, including a container to store berley, a homogenizer within the container to form a homogenized berley from one or more predetermined homogenized berley settings where each setting corresponds to a particular fish type, a discharge port to discharge the homogenized berley, and a controller to control the homogenization of the berley by the selection of the one or more predetermined homogenized berley settings to form the homogenized berley and control the discharge of the homogenized berley. The controller can communicate with a GPS navigator, fish finder or other similar device to coordinate the homogenization of the berley and/or discharge of the homogenized berley.
US11849707B2	Method and system for external fish parasite monitoring in aquaculture A method for external fish parasite monitoring in aquaculture, comprising the steps of: submerging a camera (52) in a sea pen containing fish, the camera having a field of view; capturing images of the fish with the camera (52); and identifying external fish parasite on the fish by analyzing the captured images, characterized in that a target region within the field of view of the camera (52) is illuminated from above and below with light of different intensities and/or spectral compositions.
US11849700B2	Animal waste handling device and method A device is capable of filtering animal waste with an improved sifting method. The device includes a support bracket, a chamber attached to the support bracket, and a screen filter configured to locate within the chamber when the animal deposits the waste. The chamber has an opening adapted to accommodate the animal to deposit the waste inside the chamber. The chamber is rotatable between a first position and a second position. The screen filter is movable between a third position and a fourth position. The rotation of the chamber and the movement of the screen filter can be independently managed, thus achieving a better result for animal waste handling.
US11849698B2	Teat cleaning device, system, and methods of using the same A teat cleaning system provides a cleaning brush having first and second rotatable brushes that are rotated to clean the teat of an animal and to deliver a disinfectant, germicide, and/or purified water to the teat of the animal. During a cleaning mode, the disinfectant, germicide, and/or purified water may be delivered through the cleaning brush, and during a drying mode, no disinfectant or germicide is delivered to dry brush the teat of the animal for whisking away fluid and drying the teat.
US11849695B2	Development of tobacco varieties with no or significantly reduced anatabine content A process for producing a reduced tobacco-specific nitrosamine (TSNA) tobacco plant comprising reducing and/or eliminating anatabine biosynthesis in wild-type tobacco plant. In addition, use of such plants for discovery of molecular markers that are closely linked with genes required for anatabine biosynthesis and for discovery of genes required for anatabine biosynthesis. In addition, a smoking composition, a smoking article and a smokeless tobacco oral delivery product contain the tobacco material.
US11849691B2	Inbred watermelon line WTL0091 One embodiment relates to seed and plants of inbred watermelon line WTL0091. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of inbred watermelon line WTL0091, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US11849689B2	Canola hybrid 18GG0955R Provided is a canola variety designated 18GG0955R and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 18GG0955R with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 18GG0955R through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety are disclosed.
US11849685B2	Method and system for the air conditioning of closed environments, in particular for vertical farms The present invention discloses a method for the air conditioning of closed environments (314), particularly for vertical farms, comprising the steps of: —conditioning the air by means of an air treatment unit (301); —distributing and taking the conditioned air into the closed environment (314) through a plurality of channels (303, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309) connected to said air treatment unit (301); —generating a flow of conditioned air exiting, through a plurality of openings (316), from a first vertical wall (317) and taken in, through a plurality of openings (316), from the opposite vertical wall (315) of the closed environment (314); —alternatively inverting the delivery direction of the conditioned air along a substantially parallel direction with respect to the floor of the closed environment (314) so as to hit the inside of the closed environment (314) alternatively from one direction and subsequently from the opposite direction of the two vertical walls (318a, 318b). The invention also discloses a system for implementing the described method.
US11849682B2	Hydroponics growing system and method Apparatus for use in a hydroponic growing system is described. The apparatus include a frame of vertical members and horizontal members supporting horizontal tracks or guideways on which a set of growing vehicles are mounted. The growing vehicles each contain a number of growing trays in which plants or crops are accommodated whilst they grow. The apparatus is located within a high care facility within the hydroponic growing system.
US11849681B1	Multi-nozzle misting system for an indoor gardening appliance An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow tower mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A hydration assembly is positioned within a root chamber and includes a nozzle support frame mounted at a top of the root chamber, the nozzle support frame comprising a plurality of support arms, at least one of the plurality of support arms being off-axis relative to the central axis of the grow tower, an upper nozzle mounted to the nozzle support frame proximate a top of the root chamber, a lower nozzle mounted to the nozzle support frame proximate a bottom of the root chamber, and a water supply for supplying a flow of fluid to at least one of the upper nozzle or the lower nozzle.
US11849679B2	Emitter and drip irrigation tube An emitter forms a flow path that runs to a discharge part from a water collecting part for receiving an irrigation liquid in a tube. The flow path includes a flow rate control part which includes: an end surface including a concave inclined surface that faces a film for receiving the pressure of the liquid inside the tube; a hole that opens at the center of the flow volume control part and connects to the discharge part; and a groove crossing the inclined surface and running to the hole. When the film adheres to the inclined surface as a result of the pressure of the irrigation liquid inside the tube, the flow volume of the irrigation liquid inside the emitter is controlled so as to be a volume that can pass through the groove.
US11849677B2	Method and apparatus for applying intuition technology to better preserve grains against pest damages in smart silos Methods and systems for performing pest infestation forewarning are described. In one embodiment, intuition based forewarning method includes collecting and storing core data and surroundings data, wherein the core data includes parameters describing a system and ring data includes parameters describing surroundings of grain storage container-based (e.g., silo-based) environments. The collected core data and ring data are analyzed to determine one or more changing situations of the storage container-based (e.g., silo-based) environments. A system forewarning is generated based on the changing situations that are observed.
US11849676B2	Systems and methods for baling materials In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to baling materials. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for baling recyclable materials including a baling a machine configured to compress materials into a shape suitable for at least one of storage and transportation; the materials comprising mixed type recyclable materials, the material not comprising added cardboard header materials configured to structurally enhanced the shape having been compressed; baling wire configured to twine and secure the materials compressed by the baling machine resulting in a bale comprising twined and compressed materials; and shrink film configured to wrap around the bale.
US11849675B2	Header for a crop harvesting machine having a twisted side draper A header for a crop harvester includes side drapers having a front edge adjacent the cutter bar and carrying crop to a discharge end roller at a center feed draper. A support arrangement carries the rear end of the discharge end roller to define an operating position in which an axis of the discharge end roller is at an angle to an axis of the outer end roller of the side draper with the rear end of the discharge end roller at a height below a height of the rear end of the outer end roller. This provides a main portion of the belt that lies in a common plane defined by an intermediate guide member and the outer end roller and a smaller portion of the draper belt between the guide member and the rear end of the discharge end roller which is twisted downwardly from the common plane.
US11849672B2	Machine control using a predictive map One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US11849666B2	Mower blade bracket apparatus A mower blade bracket apparatus for safely changing mower blades includes a bracket body comprising a first half adjustably coupled to a second half to adjust for a distance between a first distal end and a second distal end. The first distal end and the second distal end have a first mounting aperture and a second mounting aperture extending therethrough, respectively. A pair of mounting bolts is coupled to the bracket body. The pair of mounting bolts is engaged with the first mounting aperture and the second mounting aperture to selectively engage a skirt of a lawn mower. A blade sleeve is coupled to the bracket body. The blade sleeve slidingly receives a blade of the lawn mower.
US11849664B2	Hopper extension A hopper extension includes forward and rearward walls connected by first and second side walls to form a container area having an upper opening and a lower opening. The lower opening includes a mating interface that slidably interfaces with an existing hopper. The hopper extension further includes a ramped wall extending from each of the forward, rearward, first side and second side walls to form a seed opening positioned intermediate the upper and lower openings. An underside of at least one of the ramped walls defining an air cavity that is placed over an air grate of an existing hopper when the hopper extension is secured thereto.
US11849661B2	Autonomous agricultural system An autonomous agricultural system comprising a mobile power unit including a frame and a power supply. A position of the power supply is shiftable with respect to the frame of the mobile power unit. The autonomous agricultural system additionally includes an implement releasably secured to the mobile power unit. The mobile power unit is configured to transport the implement. The mobile power unit is further configured to provide power from the power supply to the implement.
US11849658B2	Method and apparatus for extending the service life of an agricultural planter An agricultural planter and tractor combination which has a connection therebetween which comprises a stationary support arm coupled to the tractor and a pivoting support arm coupled to the agricultural planter with a connecting threaded member extended therethrough and a rotation-limited intermediate member with two protrusions extending into voids in the pivoting support arm so that the pivoting support arm will not rotate around the connecting threaded member and the connecting threaded member further translated through a portion of a hex-headed bushing and rotationally advanced through another portion, and a terminal nut also rotationally advanced over the connecting threaded member. The rotation-limited intermediate member is made of a harder more durable material than the connecting threaded member, the stationary support arm and the pivoting support arm.
US11849657B2	Methods and apparatus for aerating turf Optional attachments, such as a drop seeder and a sprayer unit, can be removably attached to the front plate of a turf aerator. The attachment includes a hitch slideably received in a tubular receiver and pinned therein by a pin. A lock is pivotal relative to the attachment from an unlocked position to a locked position with the front plate received in slots of the lock. The lock is pivoted relative to the attachment by a rod which is threadably received in the hitch. Valve openings in a valve plate are aligned or mis-aligned with lower openings formed in a hopper mounted to the hitch by a linear electric actuator. A lever is pivotably mounted to a housing which is removably attached to the chassis of the turf aerator and activates the linear electric actuator and a switch controlling an agitator. A valve is alternately in fluid communication with a spray nozzle mounted relative to the hitch and a spray wand. A switch mounted to the chassis is electrically connected to a motor driving a pump in fluid communication with a tank and the valve.
US11856879B2	MIEC and tunnel-based selectors with improved rectification characteristics and tunability A selector device for a memory cell in a memory array may include a first electrode, and a separator that include a first region of a single-composition layer of a mixed ionic-electronic conduction material with a first concentration of defects; and a second region of a single-composition layer of a transitional metal oxide with a second concentration of defects that is different from the first concentration of defects. The selector device may also include a second electrode, where the separator is between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11856877B2	Electrical contacts for nanoparticle networks A lithographically fabricated electrode comprises a continuous metal film; and a discontinuous metal film. The discontinuous metal film has a first edge proximal to the continuous metal film, and a second edge distal the continuous metal film.
US11856874B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a resistance variable layer disposed over the substrate; a gate structure disposed over the resistance variable layer; a dielectric layer disposed over the resistance variable layer and surrounding the gate structure; a first contact plug disposed over the resistance variable layer and extending through the dielectric layer; and a second contact plug disposed over the resistance variable layer and opposite to the first contact plug and extending through the dielectric layer, wherein the resistance variable layer is semiconductive and ferroelectric.
US11856873B2	Variable resistance memory device A variable resistance memory may include first and second conductive elements spaced apart from each other on a variable resistance layer. The variable resistance layer may include first to third oxide layers sequentially arranged in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the first and second conductive elements are arranged. A dielectric constant of the second oxide layer may be greater than dielectric constants of the first and third oxide layers.
US11856871B2	Quantum processors Systems and methods for fabricating a superconducting integrated circuit that includes wiring layers comprising low-noise material are described. A superconducting integrated circuit can be implemented in a computing system that includes a quantum processor. Such a superconducting integrated circuit includes a first set of one or more wiring layers that form a noise-susceptible superconducting device that can decrease processor when exposed to noise. The superconducting integrated circuit can further include a second set of one or more wiring layers that form a superconducting device that is less susceptible to noise. Fabricating a superconducting device that contains low-noise material can include depositing and patterning a wiring layer comprising a first material that is superconductive in a respective range of temperatures and depositing and patterning a different wiring layer comprising a second material that is superconductive in a respective range of temperatures. The second material can be considered a low-noise material.
US11856870B2	MRAM structure and method of fabricating the same A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), and a top electrode which contacts an end of the MTJ. The top electrode includes a top electrode upper portion and a top electrode lower portion. The width of the top electrode upper portion is larger than the width of the top electrode lower portion. A bottom electrode contacts another end of the MTJ. The top electrode, the MTJ and the bottom electrode form an MRAM.
US11856867B2	MRAM having multilayered interconnect structures The present invention provides a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, and the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first interconnect layer and a second interconnect layer. The first interconnect layer is disposed on the substrate, and the first interconnect layer includes a first dielectric layer around a plurality of first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structures. The second interconnect layer is disposed on the first interconnect layer, and the second interconnect layer includes a second dielectric layer around a plurality of second MTJ structures, wherein, the second MTJ structures and the first MTJ structures are alternately arranged along a direction. The semiconductor device may obtain a reduced size of each bit cell under a permissible process window, so as to improve the integration of components.
US11856866B2	Magnetic tunnel junction devices A device includes a semiconductor substrate, a bottom conductive line, a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ), and a residue. The bottom conductive line is over the semiconductor substrate. The bottom electrode is over the bottom conductive line. The MTJ is over the bottom electrode. The residue of the MTJ is on the sidewall of the bottom electrode and is spaced apart from the bottom conductive line.
US11856860B1	Extruded multilayer with electrodes A liquid dispersion includes a matrix phase of polymerizable material and at least 10% by volume of solid conductive particles distributed throughout the matrix. The conductive particles may have an average particle size of less than approximately 100 nm, and the liquid dispersion may have a viscosity of less than approximately 100 Poise. Such a liquid dispersion may be printed or extruded and then cured to form a solid thin film. The content and distribution of conductive particles within the thin film may reach a percolation threshold such that the thin film may form a conductive layer. Polymer-based devices, such as nanovoided polymer (NVP)-based actuators may be formed by co-extrusion of a nanovoided polymer material between conductive polymer electrodes.
US11856859B2	Piezoelectric device and method of forming the same A piezoelectric device including a substrate, a metal-insulator-metal element, a hydrogen blocking layer, a passivation layer, a first contact terminal and a second contact terminal is provided. The metal-insulator-metal element is disposed on the substrate. The hydrogen blocking layer is disposed on the metal-insulator-metal element. The passivation layer covers the hydrogen blocking layer and the metal-insulator-metal element. The first contact terminal is electrically connected to the metal-insulator-metal element. The second contact terminal is electrically connected to the metal-insulator-metal element.
US11856854B2	MRAM device structures and method of fabricating the same Semiconductor structure and methods of forming the same are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving a workpiece including a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) and a conductive capping layer disposed on the MTJ, depositing a first dielectric layer over the workpiece, performing a first planarization process to the first dielectric layer, and after the performing of the first planarization process, patterning the first dielectric layer to form an opening exposing a top surface of the conductive capping layer, selectively removing the conductive capping layer. The method also includes depositing an electrode layer to fill the opening and performing a second planarization process to the workpiece such that a top surface of the electrode layer and a top surface of the first dielectric layer are coplanar.
US11856851B2	Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US11856850B2	Plurality of host materials and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same The present disclosure relates to a plurality of host materials and organic electroluminescent devices comprising the same. The present disclosure may provide a plurality of host materials having a composition favorable to thermal denaturation due to a low deposition temperature, while improving hole properties and electronic properties of HOMO and LUMO, by comprising separate compounds represented by formulas 1 and 2 into a light-emitting layer. By comprising the plurality of host materials of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide an organic electroluminescent device having a lower driving voltage, higher luminous efficiency and/or longer lifetime.
US11856847B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is provided. The organic light emitting display device includes at least two or more light emitting parts between an anode and a cathode and each having a light emitting layer. At least one of the at least two or more light emitting parts includes an organic layer. The organic layer is formed of a compound comprising a functional group that reacts with alkali metals or alkali earth metals and a functional group with electron transport properties.
US11856844B2	Organic electroluminescence device and amine compound for organic electroluminescence device An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one organic layer of the plurality of organic layers includes an amine compound containing a fluorene group; an aryl group having 6 to 60 ring-forming carbon atoms, which is substituted to the fluorene group; a heteroaryl group having 2 to 60 ring-forming carbon atoms, which is substituted to the fluorene group; and at least one amine group, which is substituted to the fluorene group; wherein all the carbons of the aryl group are substituted with deuterium, and the organic electroluminescence device exhibits high efficiency and a long service life.
US11856838B2	Organometallic compound, organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound, diagnostic composition including the organometallic compound An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, an organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound, and a diagnostic composition including the organometallic compound: M(L1)n1(L2)n2 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M, L1, L2, n1, and n2 are each described herein.
US11856837B2	Method to print organic electronics without changing its properties Method for high throughput, highly reproducible, direct write plasma jet deposition of organic electronic materials through nozzles containing non-concentric tubes with inner tube having higher dielectric constant and/or higher wall thickness than the outer tube, so that the inner tube containing the aerosol of organic electronic materials is shielded from the outer tube containing plasma and the organic electronics is focused at the outlet of the nozzle through the after-glow region of the atmospheric pressure plasma. Ensuring reproducibility of the method for printing organic electronic materials by removing the contaminants and residues in inner tube using reactive gas and generating a plasma discharge at a potential significantly higher than the operating potential for printing so that the plasma is generated in both the inner and outer tube for dielectric barrier discharge plasma jet based cleaning of the nozzle.
US11856836B2	Semiconductor device comprising adhesive layer and resin layer A high-yield fabricating method of a semiconductor device including a peeling step is provided.A peeling method includes a step of stacking and forming a first material layer and a second material layer over a substrate and a step of separating the first material layer and the second material layer from each other. The second material layer is formed over the substrate with the first material layer therebetween. The first material layer includes a first compound layer in contact with the second material layer and a second compound layer positioned closer to the substrate side than the first compound layer is. The first compound layer has the highest oxygen content among the layers included in the first material layer. The second compound layer has the highest nitrogen content among the layers included in the first material layer. The second material layer includes a resin. In the step of separating, the first material layer and the second material layer are separated from each other by irradiation of an interface between the first material layer and the second material layer or the vicinity of the interface with light.
US11856834B2	Display substrate and method for preparing the same, and display device The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a display device. The display substrate includes an insulating pattern whose surface layer is composed of a hydrophobic fluorine-containing material, so the organic ink used to prepare a light emitting layer does not overflow outside a pixel area. The method for preparing the display substrate includes: forming a rheological insulating material layer on the base substrate; curing the rheological insulating material layer, and patterning the cured insulating material layer to obtain an insulating pattern; heating the insulating pattern, to gather the hydrophobic insulating structure on a surface of the insulating pattern away from the base substrate; heating the gathered hydrophobic insulating structure to melt it, and then cooling the molten hydrophobic insulating structure to form a metal pattern on the surface of the insulating pattern.
US11856831B2	Color filter substrate and method for manufacturing the same, display device The present disclosure provides a color filter substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device, and the color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix and a color filter layer located on the base substrate, a quantum dot layer located on a side of the color filter layer away from the base substrate, a barrier layer located on a side of the black matrix away from the base substrate, and a first inorganic layer, and the first inorganic layer at least includes: a first portion located between the color filter layer and the quantum dot layer; a second portion located on the base substrate and between the quantum dot layer and the barrier layer; and a third portion located on a side of the barrier layer away from the base substrate.
US11856827B2	Display device with reduced leakage current A display device includes: a semiconductor layer; a gate insulating film; a first display wire; a first interlayer insulating film; a second display wire; a second interlayer insulating film; and a third display wire stacked on a substrate in this order, pixel circuits being provided corresponding to intersections of data signal lines and scanning signal lines included in the third display wire, each of the pixel circuits including a first transistor and a second transistor in which any one of the scanning signal lines overlaps the semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film, one terminal of the first transistor and one terminal of the second transistor are connected together through a connector included in a conductor region of the semiconductor layer, and the connector includes an overlap connector overlapped in a plan view with the data signal lines through a constant potential wires included in the first display wire.
US11856826B2	Display device A display device may include a first active layer disposed on a substrate, a scan line disposed on the first active layer, a lower gate signal line disposed on the scan line, an oxide semiconductor pattern disposed on the lower gate signal line, and including a channel part that overlaps the lower gate signal line and a low-resistance part formed on a side portion of the channel part, a metal pattern disposed on at least one surface of the low-resistance part, and an upper gate signal line disposed on the oxide semiconductor pattern to overlap the channel part.
US11856824B2	Double-sided e-paper display panel, display device and operating method thereof The present invention provides a double-sided e-paper display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a light isolation layer, a first display medium layer, a second display medium layer, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The second substrate and the first substrate are disposed opposite to each other. The light isolation layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first display medium layer is disposed between the first substrate and the light isolation layer. The second display medium layer is disposed between the light isolation layer and the second substrate. The first display medium layer and the second display medium layer include a fluid and a plurality of charged particles. The first electrode layer is disposed between the first substrate and the first display medium layer. The second electrode layer is disposed between the second display medium layer and the second substrate.
US11856821B2	Display device A display device includes a first display area and a second display area adjacent to the first display area in a first direction, driving elements, light-emitting elements including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a corresponding one of the driving elements, signal wirings that transfer a driving signal to the driving elements, and connection wirings that transfer a driving signal to signal wirings disposed in the second display area. At least one of the connection wirings includes a first signal-transferring portion extending in the first direction, a second signal-transferring portion extending in a second direction, and dummy portions extending in a direction intersecting the first and second signal-transferring portions. The pixel electrode overlaps a gap between dummy portions of adjacent connection wirings in an area where the connection wirings are disposed.
US11856814B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides a display panel and a manufacturing method for the display panel. The display panel includes a substrate, a switch assembly disposed on the substrate, and a light-sensing assembly disposed on a side of the switch assembly. The switch assembly comprises an indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) layer.
US11856809B2	Method of screening for electron transport material and hole blocking material used in organic light emitting device A method of screening for an electron transport material included in an electron transport layer of an organic light emitting device and a method of screening for a hole blocking material included in a hole blocking layer of the organic light emitting device, the method using a heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant (K) value to select the electron transport material and an electron donating rate constant kd to select the hole blocking material, thereby capable of realizing the organic light emitting device having an excellent balance between luminous efficiency and lifetime.
US11856807B2	Method for producing laminate and method for producing perovskite solar cell Provided is a novel method for producing a laminate that serves as an electron transport layer and an optically transparent electrode layer of a perovskite solar cell having, in the following order, an optically transparent electrode layer, an electron transport layer, a perovskite crystal layer, a hole transport layer, and a current collecting layer. The method involves forming a titanium oxide layer that serves as the electron transport layer on a member that serves as the optically transparent electrode layer by utilizing said member for cathode polarization in a treatment liquid containing a Ti component.
US11856801B2	Threshold voltage-modulated memory device using variable-capacitance and methods of forming the same A memory device includes a field effect transistor and a variable-capacitance capacitor. A gate structure includes a gate dielectric and an intermediate electrode. The variable-capacitance capacitor includes a lower capacitor plate comprising the intermediate electrode, an upper capacitor plate comprising a control gate electrode, and a variable-capacitance node dielectric and including an electrical-field-programmable metal oxide material. The electrical-field-programmable metal oxide material provides a variable effective dielectric constant, and a data bit may be stored as a dielectric state of the variable-capacitance node dielectric in the memory device. The variable-capacitance node dielectric provides reversible electrical field-dependent resistivity modulation, or reversible electrical field-dependent movement of metal atoms therein.
US11856798B2	Resistive random-access memory random number generator A random number generator comprising resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices including: a first electrode; a second electrode; a third electrode located between the first and second electrode; at least one electrically insulating layer separating the first electrode and the second electrode from the third electrode, wherein the at least one electrically insulating layer has a substantially uniform thickness; a first filament that is current conducting and extends through the at least one electrically insulating layer; a second filament is located in the at least one electrically insulating layer and does not extend through the at least one electrically insulating layer; a voltage source configured to apply voltage to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode; and a voltage sensor configured to sense voltage of the third electrode in order to determine which one of the first filament or the second filament is more resistive.
US11856791B2	Nonvolatile storage device A nonvolatile storage device includes first interconnections extending in a first direction and second interconnections extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Memory cells are formed at intersections between first and second interconnections. Each memory cell includes a resistance change element and a selector. In the arrangement of memory cells, all memory cells that are connected to any particular first interconnection are aligned along that first interconnection, and all memory cells connected to any particular second interconnection are alternately staggered in the first direction across a width of that second interconnection.
US11856790B2	Ferroelectric capacitors A method used in forming an electronic component comprising conductive material and ferroelectric material comprises forming a non-ferroelectric metal oxide-comprising insulator material over a substrate. A composite stack comprising at least two different composition non-ferroelectric metal oxides is formed over the substrate. The composite stack has an overall conductivity of at least 1×102 Siemens/cm. The composite stack is used to render the non-ferroelectric metal oxide-comprising insulator material to be ferroelectric. Conductive material is formed over the composite stack and the insulator material. Ferroelectric capacitors and ferroelectric field effect transistors independent of method of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11856789B2	Ferroeolectric memories with ferroelectric composite layer A ferroelectric memory includes a first electrode, a second electrode opposite to the first electrode, a ferroelectric composite layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first insulating layer disposed on one side of the ferroelectric composite layer. The ferroelectric composite layer includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a ferroelectric layer and an antiferroelectric layer. The first electrode layer is opposite to the second electrode layer, and the ferroelectric layer and the antiferroelectric layer are disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.
US11856787B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacture Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are provided wherein a ferroelectric random access memory array is formed with bit line drivers and source line drivers formed below the ferroelectric random access memory array. A through via is formed using the same processes as the processes used to form individual memory cells within the ferroelectric random access memory array.
US11856786B2	Integrated circuit including three-dimensional memory device An integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit includes a three-dimensional memory device, a first word line driving circuit and a second word line driving circuit. The three-dimensional memory device includes stacking structures separately extending along a column direction. Each stacking structure includes a stack of word lines. The stacking structures have first staircase structures at a first side and second staircase structures at a second side. The word lines extend to steps of the first and second staircase structures. The first and second word line driving circuits lie below the three-dimensional memory device, and extend along the first and second sides, respectively. Some of the word lines in each stacking structure are routed to the first word line driving circuit from a first staircase structure, and others of the word lines in each stacking structure are routed to the second word line driving circuit from a second staircase structure.
US11856785B2	Memory array and methods of forming same A device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first word line over the semiconductor substrate, the first word line providing a first gate electrode for a first transistor; and a second word line over the first word line. The second word line is insulated from the first word line by a first dielectric material, and the second word line providing a second gate electrode for a second transistor over the first transistor. The device further including a source line intersecting the first word line and the second word line; a bit line intersecting the first word line and the second word line; a memory film between the first word line and the source line; and a first semiconductor material between the memory film and the source line.
US11856777B2	Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device, includes: a substrate including a peripheral circuit, a gate stack structure disposed over the substrate and including a cell array region and a stepped region that extends from the cell array region, a channel structure passing through the cell array region of the gate stack structure, a memory layer surrounding a sidewall of the channel structure, a first contact plug passing through the stepped region of the gate stack structure, and an insulating structure surrounding a sidewall of the first contact plug to insulate the first contact plug from the gate stack structure.
US11856773B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a pattern structure; a stack structure including gate and interlayer insulating layers on the pattern structure; and vertical structures penetrating through the stack structure, contacting the pattern structure. The pattern structure includes a lower pattern layer, an intermediate pattern layer, and an upper pattern layer sequentially stacked, the vertical structures including a vertical memory structure penetrating through the upper pattern and intermediate pattern layers and extending into the lower pattern layer, the intermediate pattern layer including a first portion, a second portion extending from the first portion and having a decreased thickness, and a third portion extending from the first portion, having an increased thickness, and contacting the vertical memory structure. The second portion of the intermediate pattern layer has a side surface that is lowered while forming a surface curved from an upper surface of the first portion and that contacts the upper pattern layer.
US11856770B2	Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing the same, and massive data storage system including the same A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode structure, a channel, first division patterns, and a second division pattern. The gate electrode structure is on a substrate, and includes gate electrodes stacked in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate. Each gate electrode extends in a second direction parallel to the substrate. The channel extends in the first direction through the gate electrode structure. The first division patterns are spaced apart from each other in the second direction, and each first division pattern extends in the second direction through the gate electrode structure. The second division pattern is between the first division patterns, and the second division pattern and the first division patterns together divide a first gate electrode in a third direction parallel to the substrate and crossing the second direction. The second division pattern has an outer contour that is a curve in a plan view.
US11856768B2	Memory device and method for forming the same A memory device includes a substrate, a first transistor and a second transistor, a Schottky diode, a first word line, a second word line, and a bit line. The first transistor and the second transistor are over the substrate, wherein a first source/drain structure of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first source/drain structure of the second transistor. The Schottky diode is electrically connected to a gate structure of the first transistor. The first word line is electrically connected to the gate structure of the first transistor through the Schottky diode. The second word line is electrically connected to a gate structure of the second transistor. The bit line is electrically connected to a second source/drain structure of the second transistor.
US11856764B2	Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a conductor tier comprising conductor material on a substrate. Laterally-spaced memory-block regions are formed that individually comprise a vertical stack comprising alternating first tiers and second tiers directly above the conductor tier. Channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the first tiers and the second tiers. Horizontally-elongated lines are formed in the conductor tier between the laterally-spaced memory-block regions. The horizontally-elongated lines are of different composition from an upper portion of the conductor material and comprise metal material. After the horizontally-elongated lines are formed, conductive material is formed in a lower of the first tiers and that directly electrically couples together the channel material of individual of the channel-material strings and the conductor material of the conductor tier. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11856763B2	Methods of forming microelectronic devices, and related microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems A method of forming a microelectronic device including a first stack structure comprising alternating levels of insulative structures and other insulative structures, forming strings of memory cells through the first stack structure, forming a second stack structure over the first stack structure, based at least partially on observed amount of pillar bending within the first stack structure, forming a first tailored reticle specific to the observed amount of pillar bending, utilizing the first tailored reticle to form openings extending through the second stack structure and over some of the strings of memory cells, wherein centers of the openings over the strings of memory cells are at least substantially aligned with the centers of uppermost surfaces of the strings of memory cells in a direction of the observed pillar bending, and forming upper pillars extending through the second stack structure and over some of the strings of memory cells.
US11856761B2	Semiconductor memory devices with different doping types A semiconductor device includes first nanostructures vertically separated from one another, a first gate structure wrapping around each of the first nanostructures, and second nanostructures vertically separated from one another. The semiconductor device also includes a second gate structure wrapping around the second nanostructures, a first drain/source structure coupled to a first end of the first nanostructures, a second drain/source structure coupled to both of a second end of the first nanostructures and a first end of the second nanostructures, and a third drain/source structure coupled to a second end of the second nanostructures. The first drain/source structure has a first doping type, the second and third drain/source structures have a second doping type, and the first doping type is opposite to the second doping type.
US11856759B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer having a main surface; a first conductive type well region formed on a surface portion of the main surface of the semiconductor layer; a second conductive type source region formed on a surface portion of the well region; a second conductive type drain region formed on the surface portion of the well region at an interval from the source region; a planar gate structure formed on the main surface of the semiconductor layer so as to face a first conductive type channel region disposed between the source region and the drain region; and a memory structure disposed adjacent to a lateral side of the planar gate structure, and including an insulating film formed on the channel region and a charge storage film facing the channel region with the insulating film interposed between the charge storage film and the channel region.
US11856757B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor structure with capacitor wires A semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes that a substrate is provided, in which the substrate includes a substrate layer and a plurality of bit line structures arranged on the substrate layer in a first direction, the substrate layer includes shallow trench isolation structures, active areas, and a plurality of word line structures arranged in a second direction, and two adjacent bit line structures and two adjacent word line structures define a conductive contact region, and the conductive contact region exposing part of a corresponding active area; a conducting layer is formed between the bit line structures, the conducting layer covering the substrate layer, and the conducting layer extending along the first direction; part of the conducting layer is removed with the conducting layer corresponding to the conductive contact region retained to form first capacitor wires; and an isolation layer is formed, which fills gaps between the first capacitor wires.
US11856756B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors. The method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate; forming, on the substrate, a first initial conductive layer, a sacrificial layer and a first mask layer with a pattern that are stacked sequentially, a thickness of the sacrificial layer being 10 nm-20 nm; and etching, with the first mask layer as a mask, the first initial conductive layer and the substrate to form a bit line (BL) contact region.
US11856752B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes an active region in a substrate, an isolation film defining the active region in the substrate, a gate trench extending across the active region and the isolation film and including a first trench in the active region and a second trench in the isolation film, a gate electrode including a main gate electrode and a pass gate electrode, the main gate electrode filling a lower part of the first trench, and the pass gate electrode filling a lower part of the second trench, a support structure on the pass gate electrode, the support structure filling an upper part of the second trench, a gate insulating film interposed between the isolation film and the pass gate electrode and between the support structure and the pass gate electrode.
US11856748B2	Semiconductor memory preparation method and semiconductor memory The present disclosure discloses a semiconductor memory preparation method and a semiconductor memory, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate in which transistors are formed and have an array layout; forming a film stack structure on the semiconductor substrate; forming through holes penetrating the film stack structure to expose sources of the transistors; epitaxially growing a storage node contact layer on exposed surfaces of the sources of the transistors; and forming a bottom electrode of a capacitor on a surface of the storage node contact layer.
US11856741B2	Display module and display device A display apparatus capable of improving heat-dissipation performance while not increasing a total thickness thereof include a heat-dissipation member accommodated in a cushion plate. Thus, the heat-dissipation performance may be improved without increasing a thickness of the display apparatus. Thus, a mounting space for components may be secured without increasing a bezel area. Further, the heat-dissipation member having a predetermined thickness and an air gap are disposed in the heat-dissipation member accommodating space of the cushion plate, thereby maximizing the heat-dissipation from a driving integrated circuit disposed under the cushion plate so as to overlap the heat-dissipation member accommodating space.
US11856738B2	Power conversion device having a clip to fix a plurality of switches Disclosed is a power conversion device comprising: a case; a switching unit comprising a plurality of switches which are disposed on one side of the case; a transformer disposed on one side of the case; and a clip for fixing the plurality of switches. The clip comprises: a body part which is fixed to the case; and elastic parts which extend from the body part and are for pressing the plurality of switches to the case. The body part comprises a plurality of first through holes into which screws are coupled. And the first through holes are disposed between two adjacent elastic parts.
US11856737B2	Rack temperature controlling method and system A rack temperature controlling method includes performing the following operations through a controller: obtaining a rack temperature data, calculating a temperature variant according to the rack temperature data, calculating a temperature deviation according to the temperature variant and a reference temperature, calculating a target speed according to the temperature deviation, and adjusting a speed of a fan to the target speed. A rack temperature controlling system including a thermometer and a controller is further provided. The thermometer measures and outputs a rack temperature data. The controller receives the rack temperature data, and calculates a temperature variant according to the rack temperature data. The controller further calculates a temperature deviation according to the temperature variant and a reference temperature, calculates a target speed according to the temperature deviation, and adjusts a speed of a fan to the target speed.
US11856732B2	Pluggable intrinsically safe barrier A new and improved intrinsically safe barrier (“ISB”) provides advantages in connection with installation of field equipment in hazardous areas including Division 2/Zone 2 areas. In one embodiment the new ISB provides a pluggable/unpluggable ISB for use with a receiving terminal base adapted for individual field mounting and alternatively for use with a circuit mount terminal base to permit direct mounting of ISB on circuit boards. A highly effective heat sink design and potting material allows for heat dissipation to allow the ISB to serve a wider range of applications.
US11856729B2	Compatible co-design for server and rack liquid interface Disclosed are designs to facilitate blind-mating of fluid connectors on servers and on racks that house the servers. The design includes two plates. A first plate has a connector channel to guide the connectors of the server through the first plate and spring structures to apply a force to push the connectors of the server toward the center of the connector channel. A second plate has positioning holes around its perimeter for mounting the connectors of the server using the force of the spring structures. The first plate is rotatable around a rotation axis to align the connectors of the server with the connectors of the rack. The second plate may have an elastic layer that is compressed to change a width of the second plate by inserting the second plate to the rack to automatically align the connectors of the server and of the rack in the horizontal direction.
US11856728B2	Liquid cooling device A liquid cooling device includes a heat dissipation shell and a dual fin module. The heat dissipation shell includes a cooling cavity, and the dual fin module is fixed in the cooling cavity to separate the cooling cavity into an upper cooling space and a lower cooling space, so that a cooling fluid enters the cooling cavity and flows into the upper cooling space and the lower cooling space to cool a chip in the lower cooling space.
US11856723B2	Distributed building automation controllers Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a building automation controller and related method and storage medium including a processor configured, through at least execution of a distributed computer program, to: receive sensor data generated by a sensor, wherein the sensor data is indicative of a state of a defined space, identify an action to be performed by a device to affect the state in accordance with an operating characteristic for the defined space, determine that the device is attached to a second controller of a plurality of additional controllers, and transmit to the second controller, an indication that the action is to be performed by the device, wherein: the distributed computer program is configured to be distributed among the processor and the plurality of additional controllers and, the processor is further configured to apportion work to be performed by the computer program between at least the additional controllers.
US11856721B2	Flexible display device and electronic device An electronic device is provided, which includes a first frame body, a second frame body, and a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes a flexible screen and a rotating mechanism. The flexible screen includes a bendable area and a screen body layer. The rotating mechanism is connected between the first frame body and the second frame body. The flexible screen of the flexible display device covers the first frame body and the second frame body. The rotating mechanism supports the back face of the bendable area. The rotating mechanism is configured to rotate around two rotating center axes spaced apart in parallel. The bendable area is configured to bend with rotation of the rotating mechanism. The screen body layer is a neutral layer of the flexible screen during bending of the flexible screen. A flexible display device is also provided.
US11856716B2	Display panel and display screen Disclosed are a display panel and a display screen. The display panel includes a plurality of display modules and a cabinet. The plurality of display modules are distributed in a matrix and are fixed in front of the cabinet. The cabinet is provided with two display module openings and a power supply assembly opening. A protective cover plate is installed in front of the cabinet to cover the power supply assembly opening and form a power supply assembly cavity behind the cabinet, which is configured to install a power supply assembly. Two module opening cover plates are installed behind the cabinet to cover the two display module openings in a one-to-one correspondence.
US11856712B2	Method of manufacturing multilayer substrate In a preparatory process of a method of manufacturing a multilayer substrate, an insulating substrate is prepared, with a conductor pattern formed only on one surface of the insulating substrate. At that time, the conductor pattern is constituted of the Cu element, a Ni layer is formed on the surface of the conductor pattern that is on the side of the insulating substrate. In a first forming process, a via hole having the conductor pattern as the bottom thereof is formed in the insulating substrate. At that time, the Ni layer that is in the area of the bottom is removed. In a filling process, a conductive paste is filled in the interior of the via hole. In a second forming process, a stacked body is formed by stacking a plurality of the insulating substrates. In a third forming process, the stacked body is heated while being subjected to pressure.
US11856711B2	Rogowski coil integrated in glass substrate A method of forming a current measurement device includes providing a glass substrate having first and second substantially planar surfaces that are opposite one another, forming a plurality of through-vias in the glass substrate that each extend between the first and second substantially planar surfaces, and forming conductive tracks on the glass substrate that connect adjacent ones of the through-vias together. Forming the plurality of through-vias includes applying radiation to the glass substrate, and the conductive tracks and the through-vias collectively form a coil structure in the glass substrate.
US11856708B2	Stretchable 3D-printed circuit boards Disclosed herein are devices comprising stretchable 3D circuits and methods for fabricating the circuits. The fabrication process includes providing in the elastomeric polymer as a substrate and providing conductive interconnects within the substrate encased in an insulating polymer, such as polyimide, to provide a stiffness gradient between the conductive interconnects and the flexible elastomeric substrate. The circuit may be fabricated as a multilayer construction using three-dimensional pillars as vias and as external interconnects to the circuit.
US11856707B2	Automatic backup pin arrangement system for component mounting machine An automatic backup pin arrangement operation includes a backup plate facing a lower surface of circuit board where backup pins stored in a stock areas are picked up with an XY-robot to be automatically arranged at positions of the backup plate designated in a production job. In a case where there is no free space in the stock areas for an unnecessary backup pin removed from the backup plate to be placed when a production job for changing the arrangement of the backup pins is switched, at least a part of a region of the backup plate facing a lower surface of the circuit board, which does not interfere with a mounted component on a lower surface side of the circuit board, is used as retraction area, and the unnecessary backup pin that cannot be retracted to the stock area is retracted to the retraction area.
US11856705B2	Apparatus for handling components A device for handling components that is designed and equipped to handle components with multiple lateral surfaces and/or edges of the lateral surfaces. The device has at least one receiving tool, which is arranged on a turning device, for a respective component of the components, where the receiving tool is designed and equipped to receive the respective component on one of the component cover surfaces. The turning device is designed and equipped to rotate the receiving tool on a turning plane about a turning axis, and in the process optionally convey a component located on the receiving tool from a receiving position to one or more orientation positions, optionally one or more inspecting positions, a setting-down position, and optionally an ejecting position. The device also has a holding and supplying device, which faces the receiving position, for a component supply, and a discharge device.
US11856702B2	Adapter board, method for manufacturing the same and circuit board assembly using the same The present disclosure provides an adapter board, a for manufacturing the same and a circuit board assembly. The adapter board includes a board body, a first component buried in the board body, a first connector located on a first surface of the board body and configured to be connected with a circuit board and a second component, a second connector located on a second surface of the board body and configured to be connected with a second component, a first conductive body and a second conductive body buried in the board body. One end of the first conductive body is connected with the first component. The other end of the first conductive body is connected with the first connector. One end of the second conductive body is connected with the first component. The other end of the second conductive body is connected with the second connector.
US11856696B2	Electronic device including interposer An electronic device is provided that includes a first circuit board including a first electronic component and a second electronic component disposed on a side of the first circuit board, a second circuit board spaced apart from the first circuit board and having a side facing the side of the first circuit board on which the first electronic component and the second electronic component are disposed, a first interposer disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board to form an inner space between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and a second interposer disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board to divide the inner space into a first region and a second region, and wherein the first interposer and the second interposer electrically connect the first circuit board to the second circuit board.
US11856694B2	Circuit substrate and method for manufacturing the same The disclosure provides a circuit substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The circuit substrate includes a wiring and a substrate having a base region and a circuit region. The base region having a first pattern is constituted by a first thermoplastic material. The circuit region having a second pattern is constituted by a second thermoplastic material. The first pattern has a portion opposite to the second pattern. The wiring is formed on the circuit region along the second pattern. The first thermoplastic material is different from the second thermoplastic material, and the second thermoplastic material includes a catalyst particle.
US11856686B1	Submerged data center facility system and method A submerged waterborne data center facility that employs a feedback-control system to control any one of a condensation function, depth function, and a wired or wireless data transfer function utilizing on-board and out-board sensors operatively coupled to an operational state change controller, controlling for a hygrostat-coupled heater, depth thruster, and, or a radio frequency modulation unit.
US11856685B2	Stiffened RF LINAC coil inductor with internal support structure A coil inductor for use with a LINAC is disclosed. The coil inductor comprises one or more tubes, wherein each tube comprises an interior support structure to strengthen the tubes. By supporting the tube, the amount of vibration is reduced, allowing the coil to resonate at its natural frequency. In some embodiments, the interior structure comprises one or more interior walls. These interior walls may be used to create a plurality of fluid channels that allow the flow of coolant through the tubes. An end cap may be disposed on the second end of the tubes to allow fluid communication between the supply fluid channels and the return fluid channels. The first ends of the one or more tubes may be connected to a manifold that includes a supply port and a return port for the passage of coolant.
US11856684B2	Nozzle for a plasma arc torch head, laser cutting head and plasma laser cutting head, assemblies, plasma arc torch head and plasma arc torch comprising same, laser cutting head comprising same, and plasma laser cutting head comprising same Nozzle for a plasma torch head, laser cutting head or plasma laser cutting head, arrangement composed of such a nozzle and of a nozzle protection cap, arrangement composed of such a nozzle and of an electrode, plasma torch head, laser cutting head or plasma laser cutting head having such a nozzle and/or having such an arrangement, plasma torch comprising such a plasma torch head, laser cutting head comprising such a nozzle and/or such an arrangement, plasma laser cutting head comprising such a nozzle and/or such an arrangement, method for plasma cutting, method for laser cutting and method for plasma laser cutting using the same.
US11856683B2	High efficiency plasma creation system and method A chamber cross-sectional multi-stage plasma arrangement characterized by escalating charge movement towards chamber center axis through one or more escalation stages contributing to the heating of the plasma, the centering of the plasma on the chamber axis, and creating rotation of the plasma therein. Rotation of the plasma around its axis induces a self-generated magnetic field, which in turn increases plasma stability and confinement. Some of the said stages of the multi-stage arrangement may be created by physical elements and components while others may be induced or generated by externally applying magnetic and/or electric fields or their combinations and/or by injection of electrons, ions or other plasma.
US11856682B2	Method for measuring plasma ion nonextensive parameter The present invention relates to a method for measuring the ion nonextensive parameter of plasma includes the following steps: describe the plasma with nonextensive statistical mechanics, obtain the equation describing the relationship between the geodesic acoustic mode frequency and the ion acoustic speed of plasma; collect the measurement data of the geodesic acoustic mode frequencies and plasma temperature in the device where the plasma is to be measured; the obtained equation describing the relationship between the geodesic acoustic mode frequency and the ion acoustic speed of plasma is used to linearly fit the collected measured data of the geodesic acoustic mode frequency and the plasma temperature in the device where the plasma is to be measured to obtain the slope value; based on the derived equation and the obtained slope values, and combining with the safety factor of the device where the plasma is to be measured, the ion nonextensive parameter is solved numerically. The present invention fills the gap where the electron nonextensive parameter can be measured with the nonextensive single electric probe, but the corresponding ion nonextensive parameter cannot be diagnosed yet in the field of nonextensive parameters diagnosis.
US11856679B2	Induction furnace device An induction oven device includes a heating unit including an induction coil having an electrical conductor, a substrate unit having a through-flow opening, and a fastening unit configured to fasten the induction coil to the substrate unit. The fastening unit includes a fastening element which is guided through the through-flow opening.
US11856674B1	Content-based light illumination Systems and methods for content-based light illuminations are disclosed. For example, a user interface may be utilized to receive and/or determine a configuration of a light array associated with a connected device. The configuration may be utilized to generate a visual representation of the light array, which may be overlaid on a display window that is configured to display content to be utilized for generating light illumination sequences. Color changes associated with each light representation of the visual representation may be determined based at least in part on the positioning and area of the display window associated with the light representations, and corresponding illumination data may be generated and sent to the connected device.
US11856673B2	Determining a light effect based on an average color after a detected transition in content A method comprises obtaining (101) media content information, e.g. media content, determining (103) a first color value based on a color value extracted from a current frame of the content, determining (105) one or more second color values based on one or more color values extracted from a plurality of previous sequential frames of the content and adjusting (109) a first weight for weighting the first color value in a calculation of an average color, one or more second weights for weighting the one or more second color values in the calculation of the average color, and/or the one or more second values upon detecting (107) a transition in the content. The method further comprises calculating (111) the average color from the first color value and the one or more second color values and determining (113) one or more light effects based on the average color.
US11856668B1	Driving method for LED-based display device A driving method, for a controller in a display apparatus, is disclosed. The display apparatus includes LED strings, scan transistors, current regulators and a power converter. The driving method includes following steps. LED cathode voltages are detected on nodes between the LED strings and the current regulators. When a first LED cathode voltage corresponding to a first scanning channel is equal to a minimal operable voltage of the current regulators and a second LED cathode voltage corresponding to a second scanning channel exceeds the minimal operable voltage of the current regulators, a voltage drop over one corresponding scan transistor is increased on the second scanning channel.
US11856667B2	Self-regulating power supply and method for regulating an output of a self-regulating power supply A self-regulating power supply (601, 901) for a led light source comprises a drive power input (602, 603) and a lighting output (604, 605, 904, 905), and therebetween a converter (606, 906) for generating a supply voltage and a supply current from drive power. In addition, it comprises voltage regulating means (607, 907), current regulating means (608, 908), and a control unit (609, 909) which controls said voltage and current regulating means (607, 608, 907, 908). The control unit (609, 909) is arranged to change (701, 802) the supply voltage in a controlled manner to detect where an operating voltage range of the led light source lies, and to measure (703, 803, 806) a value of the supply current in the operating voltage range. It deduces (702, 704) a nominal maximum value of the supply current at least partly on the basis of the measurement of the value of the supply current, and sets (705) the deduced nominal maximum value of the supply current as a target value of the supply current.
US11856664B2	Method and system for preventing dew condensation and light scattering due to dew condensation The present invention is to provide a prevention method and a prevention system for preventing dew condensation and light scattering due to the dew condensation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a fine liquid droplet capable of causing dew condensation is detected by a detection means for detecting a fine liquid droplet, and then the fine liquid droplet is removed on the basis of the detection. The detection means comprises a first thin wire made of a first metal, and a second thin wire made of a second metal or a semiconductor, the second metal is different from the first metal, the first thin wire and the second thin wire are disposed in juxtaposition with each other on an insulating substrate, and a spacing between the first thin wire and the second thin wire is in a range of 20 nm or more and 10000 nm or less. Further, provided is a prevention system including a detection means for detecting a fine liquid droplet, a removing means for removing the fine liquid droplet, and a control means for controlling the removing means on the basis of information from the detection means.
US11856661B1	Flexible heating element A heating element includes a flexible substrate, a layer of adhesive disposed on a surface of the substrate, and a continuous strand of electrically conductive wire disposed on the adhesive in a pattern of coil structures. Each coil structure includes a first coiled part and a second coiled part. The wire in the first coiled part forms a counterclockwise pattern from an outermost turn to an innermost turn of the first coiled part, and the second coiled part has an innermost turn beginning at an end of the innermost turn of the first coiled part. The wire in the second coiled part forms a clockwise pattern from the innermost turn of the second coiled part to an outermost turn. A connector segment of wire connects outermost turns of adjacent ones of the coil structures.
US11856660B2	Heating system and process for manufacturing same A heating system for a drive train or a component thereof and to a method for producing it. In order to produce an apparatus of the above-mentioned type, which can be inexpensively integrated into an existing system, it is proposed for at least one heating element, which is for active electrical heating of a drive train or component thereof, to be provided in combination with or in an already existing component for thermal and/or acoustic shielding.
US11856655B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes: a chamber having a container including at least one substrate-heating region and at least one substrate-cooling region; a heating mechanism configured to heat a first substrate in the at least one substrate-heating region; a cooling mechanism configured to cool a second substrate in the at least one substrate-cooling region while the first substrate is being heated; and a partition provided in the container and configured to separate the at least one substrate-heating region and the at least one substrate-cooling region from each other in terms of heat and pressure.
US11856654B2	Aerosol generating device with visual feedback device An aerosol-generating device may comprise an electrical power supply, a housing defining a cavity for receiving an aerosol-generating article, at least one electrical heater within the cavity, and/or a controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply to the at least one electrical heater. The controller is configured to activate the at least one electrical heater for a total time period when an aerosol-generating article is received within the cavity. The aerosol-generating device may also comprise a segmented visual feedback device, wherein a plurality of segments of the segmented visual feedback device each correspond to a portion of the total time period. Each of the plurality of segments is configured to provide visual feedback when an aerosol-generating article is received within the cavity and when the corresponding portion of the total time period has elapsed.
US11856653B2	Wireless network device configured for adjustable positioning Systems, methods, and devices relating to a wireless network device configured for adjustable positioning are described herein. In an example, a network device comprises a body and a bendable element configured to carry electrical power to the body and components therein. The body houses an antenna and transceiver configured for wireless communication. The bendable element, attached to the body of the network device, is configured for adjustable positioning such that a position of the bendable element is substantially maintained when the positioning force is removed. A facing of the antenna within the body may be based on the positioning of the bendable element.
US11856652B2	Efficient and reliable data transfer in 5G systems Systems and methods provide solutions for reliable data transfer in a mobile communication network. A user equipment (UE) may indicate to the mobile communication network a capability of the UE to support a reliable data service protocol. The UE may process non-access stratum (NAS) messages, for both mobile originated (MO) data transfer and mobile terminated (MT) data transfer, using the reliable data service protocol to determine whether protocol data units (PDUs) of the NAS messages require no acknowledgement, require acknowledgment, or include an acknowledgement, and to detect and eliminate duplicate PDUs received at the UE in the NAS messages.
US11856646B2	Wireless device detection systems and methods incorporating streaming survival modeling for discrete rotating identifier data A wireless device detection system can include processors, memory devices, and sensors to receive temporary identifiers transmitted between a base station and a mobile wireless device. The memory devices include instructions that cause the processors to build a cumulative distribution function for survival probability based on delta times between multiple access events for each of multiple temporary identifiers received from the sensors. In response to a new access event, the processors add a corresponding temporary identifier to a streaming list and assign a survival probability value, based on the cumulative distribution function, to a latest access event for each temporary identifier contained in the streaming list. The processors remove temporary identifiers from the streaming list that have a survival probability value less than a threshold value, compare the number of temporary identifiers contained in the streaming list to a number of devices known to be present, and calculate the probability that a device corresponding to each of the temporary identifiers contained in the streaming list is present.
US11856639B2	Methods and apparatus for handling MTC long DRX cycle/sleep lengths Current wireless networks do not allow machine type communication (MTC) devices to have long discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles or sleep lengths. A long DRX cycle may allow MTC systems and devices to operate with much longer DRX/Sleep cycles/periods. This may facilitate the MTC operations for infrequent system access or infrequent system reaching (e.g. paged once in a week) with no or low mobility and may allow MTC devices to sleep for a long time with low power consumption.
US11856629B2	Method and device for network access The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The embodiments of the present invention provide methods and devices for network access. The method includes receiving a first request message forwarded by a distributed unit in a base station and indication information of the distributed unit with respect to the first request message, the first request message requesting to connect a user equipment to a network; determining a processing to be performed on the first request message based on the indication Information; and transmitting an indication of the determined processing to the distributed unit.
US11856627B2	Communication method and apparatus This application provides a communication method and an apparatus. UE establishes a connection to a home access gateway by using CPE, the home access gateway sends configuration information of a first link and configuration information of a second link to the CPE, and sends the configuration information of the second link to the UE. The first link is a link between the CPE and the home access gateway, the second link is a link between the CPE and the UE, the configuration information of the first link is used to indicate quality of service QoS information of the first link, and the configuration information of the second link is used to indicate QoS information of the second link. The UE and the CPE ensure, based on respective configuration information, QoS of UE service data transmitted on the first link and the second link.
US11856626B2	Secondary path configuration One or more devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating use of a radio bearer using a secondary path are provided. For example, a configuration message may be used to determine whether a secondary path is present. The secondary path may be configured based upon the configuration message.
US11856622B2	Dynamic pairing of devices based on workflow history for wireless communication Devices are dynamically paired at a new location based on historical context with respect to previous device pairing and a pairing environment. A request is received at a computer to pair a user device to a device at a new location. Historical context of the user device paired at a previous location to one or more devices at the previous location is analyzed. Pairing of the user device to the device at the new location is automatically initiated based on the analysis of the historical context, and the automatic initiation includes adjusting settings on the user device based on the historical context. Pairing the user device to the device at the new location automatically.
US11856621B2	Station and method for receiving a frame comprising a configuration change counter corresponding to another access point A method performed by a STA may comprise receiving a frame, from a first AP including an indication of a configuration change counter (CCC) associated with a second AP. The CCC may be an unsigned integer that increments when an update to one or more AP parameters of the second AP has occurred. The method may further comprise establishing a first wireless link with the first AP and establishing a master key via at least the first wireless link.
US11856618B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system, and device supporting same The present disclosure relates to a method carried out by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting same, and more specifically relates to a method comprising a step of obtaining a message A comprising a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble, and a step of transmitting the message A, wherein the PUSCH is transmitted on the basis of information related to a PUSCH configuration for the message A that is being received, and, on the basis of the information relating to the PUSCH configuration comprising information relating to the instruction of a code division multiplexing (CDM) group for a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) for the PUSCH, the CDM group is set to be a group indicated by information relating to the indication of the CDM group among two pre-set groups. The present disclosure also relates to a device supporting same.
US11856616B2	User equipment A UE (200) performs a random access procedure with a gNB (100). The UE (200) transmits to a network via a radio base station at least one of a synchronization signal block used for performing the random access procedure, a reception quality in the synchronization signal block, a group of random access preambles, and number of times for which power ramping was performed in the random access procedure.
US11856615B2	Apparatus and method of random access procedure A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided.
US11856611B2	Method and device for determining a type of random access procedure The present disclosure provides a method and device used in communication node for wireless communication. A communication node receives a first signaling; generates a first data block in a first radio state; when a first condition set is satisfied, transmits a first signal; and when the first condition set is not satisfied, transmits a second signal; the first signaling is used to determine a first threshold, the first threshold being a positive integer; the first condition set comprises a size relation between a first data size and the first threshold; the first data block comprises more than one bit, and the first data size is equal to a number of bits comprised in the first data block; the first signal is used for a first-type Random Access (RA) procedure, and the second signal is used for a second-type RA procedure; the first signal carries a first sequence.
US11856610B2	Method for transmitting and receiving random access request and transmitting and receiving random access response A base station transmits a random access response in response to a random access request (random access preamble) of a user equipment. The random access response includes information about a time when the random access request is transmitted and sequence number information of the random access request (random access preamble). The user equipment checks whether the received random access response is the response of the random access request transmitted by the user equipment, using the information about the time when the random access request is transmitted and the sequence number information included in the received random access response.
US11856609B2	Random access channel preamble transmission parameters based on coverage enhancement level Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines (e.g., based on an indication from base station) one or more physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble transmission parameters associated with one or more PRACH coverage enhancement (CE) levels of a RACH procedure. The UE and the base station perform a RACH procedure in accordance with the one or more PRACH preamble transmission parameters.
US11856600B2	Method and apparatus for terminal self-reselecting resource based on priority in wireless communication system Suggested is a novel condition for a media access control (MAC) entity in user equipment (UE) reselecting a sidelink resource in a wireless communication system. The MAC entity of the UE can reselect a sidelink resource when a configured sidelink grant does not satisfy a latency requirement according to ProSe per-packet priority (PPPP). More particularly, configuration is performed by an upper layer so that the MAC entity transmits on the basis of sensing using a resource pool; the MAC entity selects generation of a configured sidelink grant corresponding to transmission of a plurality of MAC protocol data units (PDU); and when data is available in a sidelink traffic channel (STCH) and the configured sidelink grant does not satisfy the latency requirement according to the PPPP, a sidelink resource is reselected.
US11856598B2	Prediction-based control information for wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless devices may support a prediction capability for prediction-based control information. A first device may receive, from a second device, first control signaling that activates the predication capability of the first device to generate a set of one or more control parameters for communications. The second device may transmit second control signaling to the first device to indicate initial values of the control parameters and a channel condition model for the first device. The first device and the second device may generate a set of multiple values associated with the control parameters over a time period based on the initial values of the control parameters and the channel condition model. The first device and the second device may communicate during at least the time period according to the set of generated values associated with the control parameters.
US11856596B2	Techniques for periodic transmission of communications packets Techniques include retrieving from storage a plurality of policies for sharing a shared channel among nodes in a data communications network. The plurality of polices define a tree of periodic schedules of variable periods, each policy defines a transmit time slot as a unique slot i of a modulus of a power m of a base b of a series of time slots, where m indicates a level of the tree of periodic schedules. The method also includes; observing at a first node the probabilities of empty time slots, successful time slots, and collision time slots on the shared channel; selecting at the first node a first policy among the plurality of policies based on the probabilities observed instead of a message received from a central authority; and transmitting a local data packet from the first node onto the shared channel at a transmit time based on the first policy.
US11856594B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information in wireless communication system The disclosure provides a method of transmitting downlink (DL) control information, the method including: transmitting configuration information about a CORESET in which DL control information is to be transmitted; mapping the DL control information to a plurality of resource elements (REs) in the CORESET determined based on the configuration information; and transmitting the DL control information via the plurality of REs.
US11856590B2	Method for obtaining network system resource allocation, terminal, network device, and system Provided is a method for obtaining a network system resource configuration. The method includes that: a terminal receives a non-anchor carrier configuration broadcast by a network device, and the terminal determines, according to the non-anchor carrier configuration, resource information for performing random access or monitoring pages with the network device. The non-anchor carrier configuration includes any one of or any combination of: a non-anchor carrier frequency point list, a non-anchor carrier configuration parameter list, an uplink non-anchor carrier frequency point list, an uplink non-anchor carrier configuration parameter list, a downlink non-anchor carrier frequency point list and a downlink non-anchor carrier configuration parameter list.
US11856589B2	Method, user equipment, device and storage medium for monitoring control channel, and base station for transmitting control channel Disclosed herein are a method and device for monitoring a signal in a wireless communication system, including PDCCH monitoring based on a configuration related to a search space. The maximum valid value of the slot duration for the search space is limited to a value obtained by subtracting L from the periodicity, where L is related to the size of slot-groups configured for the search space.
US11856586B2	Downlink transmission in multiple transmission and reception points A base station may transmit, to a wireless device, a first downlink control information (DCI) associated with a first control resource set (coreset) pool index. The first DCI may trigger transmission of a reference signal. The base station may transmit, to the wireless device, a second DCI associated with a second coreset pool index. The second DCI may schedule a downlink signal with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. Based on the first coreset pool index and the second coreset pool index being the same, the base station may transmit, to the wireless device, the reference signal with the TCI state.
US11856583B2	Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program To provide a wireless communication device which enables reliable detection of a downlink without using a CRS. There is provided a wireless communication device including a communication unit (220) configured to perform wireless communication using an unlicensed band, and a detecting unit (241) configured to detect a downlink on the basis of a second downlink signal different from a first downlink signal which is periodically transmitted, in which the detecting unit starts PDCCH monitoring after detecting a downlink.
US11856581B2	Multi-physical downlink shared channel grant configuration Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) grant scheduling a set of PDSCH transmissions, wherein one or more PDSCH transmissions, of the set of PDSCH transmissions, are associated with a size and length indicator value (SLIV), and wherein at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol overlaps with a semi-static uplink symbol. The UE may monitor for at least one PDSCH transmission, of the set of PDSCH transmissions, in accordance with the PDSCH grant. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11856579B2	Feedback information transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention describe a feedback information transmission method and apparatus. The feedback information transmission method may include receiving, by a first terminal, first data sent by a second terminal. The method may also include sending, by the first terminal, feedback information for the first data to the second terminal in a first subframe, where there is second data to be sent by the first terminal in the first subframe. The feedback information may be carried in sidelink control information (SCI) of the second data, or the feedback information may be carried in a data packet carrying the second data. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the feedback information is carried in the SCI or the data packet carrying the second data.
US11856578B2	Method for transmitting control and training symbols in multi-user wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting control and training symbols to improve transmission efficiency in a multi-user wireless communication system. The method for transmitting the control and training symbols in the multi-user wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining whether a required transmission rate of each data can be satisfied through channel estimation in each of terminals when different data are simultaneously transmitted to each of the terminals; and transmitting a data frame to each of the terminals, the data frame being composed to discriminate the control and training symbols in each of the terminals using a combination of time, frequency, and code area when the required transmission rate of each data is not satisfied according to the determined result.
US11856574B2	Method and device for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system A method and a device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprise: receiving downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and transmitting the PUSCH on the basis of the DCI. The PUSCH is transmitted in a certain number of resource blocks (RB), and the certain number of RBs may be (i) at most the number of RBs allocated by the DCI, and (ii) the greatest number that is a multiple of 2, 3, and/or 5.
US11856573B2	Method and apparatus for performing SL DRX operation in NR V2X Proposed are a method by which a first apparatus performs wireless communication, and an apparatus supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: obtaining a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration including information related to an SL DRX timer; receiving, from a second apparatus through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), second sidelink control information (SCI) and first SCI for scheduling a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); receiving, from the second apparatus through the PSCCH, the second SCI related to groupcast and a medium access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU); and determining, on the basis of an index of a sub-channel related to the PSSCH and an index of a slot, a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource.
US11856568B2	Assisted beam management between frequency bands Aspects relate to assisted beam management between frequency bands that each utilize spatially directional beams. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a plurality of first transmit beams on each of a plurality of first receive beams within a first frequency band to select at least one first beam pair link in the first frequency band. The UE may then receive a plurality of second transmit beams on each of a plurality of second receive beams within a second frequency band different than the first frequency band to select a second beam pair link in the second frequency band on which to communicate with a transmission and reception point. Each of the second transmit or receive beams has a respective spatial direction within a spatial direction of at least one of the first transmit or receive beams of the first beam pair links.
US11856561B2	Determining a feedback codebook In one aspect a wireless communications method includes sending, from a first radio terminal to a second radio terminal, a grant message to allow transmission in a future time slot, wherein the future timeslot corresponds to resources of a dummy shared channel in a first direction, and scheduling one or more resources of a shared channel in a second direction with corresponding acknowledgement that overlaps in time with the dummy shared channel in the first direction. In another aspect, a method includes receiving, at a second radio terminal from a first radio terminal, a grant message to allow transmission in a future time slot, wherein the future timeslot corresponds to resources of a dummy shared channel in a first direction, and receiving one or more resources of a shared channel in a second direction with corresponding acknowledgement that overlaps in time with the dummy shared channel in the first direction.
US11856557B2	On-demand sensing based on sidelink resource reevaluation Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for on-demand sensing based on sidelink resource reevaluation are disclosed herein. An example method of wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE) includes selecting first sidelink resources for one or more transmissions based on partial sensing or resource selection independent of a sensing operation. The example method also includes receiving, over a sidelink channel, a resource reservation from a second UE, the resource reservation indicating reservation of resources overlapping with at least a portion of the first sidelink resources of the first UE. The example method also includes performing a resource reevaluation for one or more slots when the resource reservation indicates the reservation of resources overlapping with the at least a portion of the first sidelink resources of the first UE. The example method also includes selecting second sidelink resources for the one or more transmissions based on the resource reevaluation.
US11856550B2	Methods and apparatus for using mobile devices as location anchor points Mobile devices are used as temporary location anchor points, e.g., to supplement fixed location permanent location anchor points, in a wireless communications system in which mobile device locations are determined. A mobile device receives a command or request to operate as a location anchor point. In some embodiments, the command includes time information indicating the amount of time the mobile device is to operate as a location anchor point. In some embodiments, a mobile device operating as a location anchor point reports a received signal strength measurement along with information identifying the device from which the signal was received to a network element, e.g., a location server node. In some embodiments, a mobile device operating as a location anchor point broadcasts a signal providing location information. The mobile device receives compensation for operating as a location anchor point. Compensation may be monetary, services, or benefits provided by the network.
US11856549B2	Fingerprint data pre-process method for improving localization model Provided is a computer-implemented method including acquiring a first pieces of observation data that include a position of a mobile object and a received signal strength of a wireless signal observed by the mobile object; and correcting each position of the mobile object included in each piece of observation data of the first pieces of observation data using one position of the mobile object at a time before the received signal strength included in the piece of observation data is observed.
US11856545B1	High precision distance computations for FTM estimates A method determines wireless radio locations in a network. The method includes identifying a group of location fixed radios in a network. Radios in the network with known location coordinates and/or known timing bias error values are grouped. RTT values are determined between each radio in the group and radios outside the group. Timing bias error values are determined for each radio outside the group. The timing bias error value for each radio outside the group of radios with known location coordinates and known timing bias error values is based on the determined RTT values. Location coordinates are estimated for each radio outside the group. A request is received for access to the network from a mobile radio device. The known location coordinates and estimated location coordinates of radios are used to determine a distance of the mobile radio device from one of the location fixed radios.
US11856544B2	Delay offset for reducing time synchronization error in time sensitive networking (TSN) systems A method, system and apparatus are disclosed for a network node configured to communicate with a wireless device (WD). In some embodiments, the network node includes processing circuitry configured to cause the network node to determine delay offset information based at least in part on a common distance for a cell, the delay offset information indicating a common temporal delay offset and transmit the delay offset information to the WD in at least one of a system information block, SIB, and a radio resource control, RRC, message. In some embodiments, a wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to cause the wireless device to receive delay offset information in at least one of a system information block, SIB, and a radio resource control, RRC, message, the delay offset information being based at least in part on a common distance and the delay offset information indicating a common temporal delay offset.
US11856540B2	Methods and apparatuses for synchronization signal transmission Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and an apparatuses for synchronization signal (SS) transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, information on a plurality of SS blocks to be transmitted by the network device is determined based on at least one of a frequency range and a value of subcarrier spacing. The information at least in part indicates timing for transmitting the plurality of SS blocks The plurality of SS blocks are transmitted to at least one terminal device based on the determined information.
US11856534B2	Transmitting sidelink reference signals for joint channel estimation and automatic gain control Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving user equipment (UE) may receive, from a transmitting UE, a sidelink reference signal in a first symbol of a slot. The receiving UE may perform a joint channel estimation and an automatic gain control (AGC) based at least in part on the sidelink reference signal received in the first symbol of the slot. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11856533B2	Maximum power reduction One disclosure of the present specification provides a UE. The UE comprises: a transceiver for transmitting a signal and receiving a signal; and a processor to control the transceiver, wherein the UE is a power class 5 UE, wherein the maximum output of the UE is 20 dBm in the n96 band, wherein the transceiver receives a network signal from a base station, wherein, based on the network signal, the processor determines a frequency range of i) 5925 MHz or more and ii) 6425 MHz or less, wherein, based on A-MPR based on the network signal, the processor reduces the maximum output of the UE, wherein, based on the reduced maximum output of the UE, the processor determines transmission power, wherein the transceiver transmits a signal in the frequency range with the determined transmission power, wherein the A-MPR is based on pre-coding, modulation scheme, channel bandwidth, and RB allocation scheme.
US11856531B2	Techniques for uplink communication rerouting in a user equipment Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first configuration to perform an uplink communication using a first frequency spectrum band. The UE may receive a second configuration to receive a downlink communication using a second frequency spectrum band. The UE may determine an interference caused by at least one of the first frequency spectrum band or the second frequency spectrum band. The UE may reroute, based at least in part on the determination, the uplink communication to a first uplink path or a second uplink path associated with the first frequency spectrum band. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11856527B2	Power headroom report (PHR) reporting determination Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for power headroom report (PHR) reporting determination for dual-connectivity. In one embodiment, a method in a wireless device is provided including operating in dual-connectivity with at least two different radio access technologies, RATs, the at least two different RATs including at least a first RAT and a second RAT; determining a first power headroom report, PHR, for the first RAT based at least in part on a WD transmission using the first RAT; determining a second PHR for the second RAT based at least in part on both the WD transmission using the first RAT and the WD transmission using the second RAT; and transmitting based on a received allocation information, the allocation information based at least in part on at least one of the determined first PHR and the determined second PHR.
US11856524B2	Systems and methods for deep reinforcement learning for optimal power control in wireless networks Wireless networks with plural nodes having a respective transceiver and a processor configured to, and methods to, obtain current state data, calculate a reward, store such state data and rewards in a collected parameters database, provide such current state data and data from such collected parameters database to a reinforced neural network, select an action using the reinforced neural network, and output the action to the respective transceiver so as to selective modify its transmit power level.
US11856522B2	Method and device for uplink power control, and storage medium A method for uplink power control, including: determining a plurality of sets of open-loop power control parameters, each set of open-loop power control parameters including one or more open-loop power control parameters, and the plurality of sets of open-loop power control parameters being respectively used for different retransmissions of a same uplink signal; and in a case target open-loop power control parameters are reconfigured, setting a target power control adjustment state associated with a power control adjustment state index corresponding to the target open-loop power control parameters to zero, where the target open-loop power control parameters are any set of the plurality of sets of open-loop power control parameters.
US11856520B2	Network-assisted charging prioritization for cellular unmanned aerial vehicles Methods are provided for enabling network operators to play a key role in allowing Cellular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to recharge batteries based on RF parameters and/or a class of service the UAVs provide to users/customers. For example, a particular mobile network operator (MNO) has a UAV charging station deployed in it leased towers where it has base stations (eNB/gNB) deployed. The MNO can provide charging as a service to the UAVs. When more than one drone is requesting a charge, the MNO can prioritize which UAV has the highest priority. In some aspects, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Quality of Service identifier. Additionally or alternatively, the MNO can prioritize the UAVs for charging based on a Network Slice Selection Assistance Information indicator.
US11856519B2	Method and apparatus for low power transmission using backscattering Aspects of the present application relate to mobile communication devices having active device components and passive device components and, more particularly, to operation of the passive device components to form a backscatter signal from a received forward signal. Forming the backscatter signal may include generating the backscatter signal from the received forward signal without decoding a plurality of sub-signals in the received forward signal, the backscatter signal being a time-domain function of a contiguous subset of the time-domain plurality of sub-signals in the received forward signal. Upon receipt of the backscatter signal, a reception point may obtain information about the mobile communication device that contains the passive device components. Such information may relate to timing, position and identity.
US11856517B2	Signaling for multi-panel UE activation The present disclosure provides signaling for multi-panel user equipment (MPUE) activation. The MPUE may have at least an active first panel and an inactive second panel. The MPUE may determine to activate the second panel. The MPUE may activate the second panel in response to the determination. The MPUE may transmit, from the active first panel to a base station, a status indicating that the second panel is active. The MPUE may transmit, after an activation time, an uplink transmission from the second panel to the base station.
US11856512B2	Methods and devices for accessing a radio access network A method is provided for enabling a User Equipment to access services provided by a radio access network by configuring the User Equipment (UE) with configuration information which comprises rules for selecting one or more of a plurality of access procedures to be used by the UE for accessing services provided by the radio access network which may be a New Radio/5G network. Access procedures may include a grant-based procedure; a grant-free procedure and a fallback procedure to be used in cases of failure of an initial access attempt. The rules may be based on the type of service required by the UE such as; transmission and/or reception of data, transmission and/or reception of a voice call, a request for System Information.
US11856510B2	Reduced power roaming by an accessory device A user equipment (UE) is configured to prioritize a plurality of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) from an aggregate roaming priority public land mobile network (RPPLMN) list containing the plurality of PLMNs into a plurality of prioritized PLMNs and connect to a selected PLMN from the plurality of prioritized PLMNs based on a priority of the selected PLMN. The UE is further configured to determine if an application processor (AP) assisted location service is available, wherein the AP-assisted service is configured to identify a plurality of deployed PLMNs and a plurality of frequencies used by the plurality of deployed PLMNs at a current geographical location of the UE and when the AP) assisted location service is available, determining if a registered PLMN (RPLMN) is valid in a current mobile country code (MCC).
US11856509B2	Electronic device and method for searching for radio access technology (RAT) by electronic device supporting plurality of communication networks According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: at least one antenna module including at least one antenna; a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) configured to store at least one piece of subscriber identity information; and at least one processor electrically connected to the UICC, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to: receive a request to initialize a subscriber identity module (SIM) stored in the UICC; identify whether the UICC includes information about a list of a wireless communication network service to which a user subscribes; and in response to identifying that the UICC including the information about the list of the wireless communication network service to which the user subscribes, control the electronic device to perform wireless communication network connection through the at least one antenna module based on the information about the list of the wireless communication network service to which the user subscribes being included in the UICC.
US11856503B2	Wireless channel access restrictions An example method of controlling a wireless access point may include associating accumulated-channel-resource-consumption variables with, respectively, resource consumers of the wireless access point. The method may further include, for wireless communications of the wireless access point: determining a number of spatial streams effectively consumed by the respective wireless communication; determining an operational bandwidth effectively consumed by the respective wireless communication; determining a duration of the respective wireless communication; determining a channel-resource-consumption amount for the respective wireless communication based on the number of spatial streams effectively consumed by the respective wireless communication, the operational bandwidth effectively consumed by the respective wireless communication, and the duration of the respective wireless communication; and determining values for the accumulated-channel-resource-consumption variables by accumulating the channel-resource-consumption amounts per resource consumer. The method may further include determining whether to impose channel access restrictions on the resource consumers based on their respective accumulated-channel-resource-consumption variables.
US11856502B2	Method, system and apparatus for automated inventory reporting of security, monitoring and automation hardware and software at customer premises A single platform for controller functionality for each of security, monitoring and automation, as well as providing a capacity to function as a bidirectional Internet gateway, is provided. Embodiments of the present invention provide such functionality by virtue of a configurable architecture that enables a user to adapt the system for the user's specific needs. Embodiments of the present invention further provide for remote access to the configurable controller, thereby providing for remote monitoring of the state of a dwelling and for remote control of home automation. Embodiments of the present invention further provide for reporting to a provider those sensors and other hardware used by the configurable architecture, enabling the provider to track inventory of such items.
US11856495B2	Priority handling for prose communications Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for priority handling for ProSe Communications. A relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may act as a relay between the network and the remote WTRU. The relay WTRU may receive a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI) request message from a remote WTRU. The TMGI request message may include a TMGI, a ProSe per packet priority level associated with the TMGI, etc. The relay WTRU may receive an evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) data packet from a network. The eMBMS may be associated with the TMGI. The relay WTRU may apply the received ProSe per packet priority level associated with the TMGI to the received eMBMS data packet. The relay WTRU may relay the eMBMS data packet to the remote WTRU based on the ProSe per packet priority level. The relay WTRU may forward the eMBMS data packet to the remote WTRU via a PC5 interface.
US11856492B2	Methods and apparatus for modeling wireless traffic and for using wireless traffic information Methods and apparatus for processing and reconciling data traffic utilization information from a variety of sources including client devices and service provider networks are described. The methods take into consideration that wireless devices tracking usage data may not accurately reflect the amount of usage measured by network devices. This may be because of overhead the client devices are not aware of or because different measurement techniques or accounting metrics are used by the service provider network. The methods and apparatus may and sometimes do take into consideration that while some client devices, e.g., android devices, may trach and report usage aid/or location information through the use of an application which provides such information to the network service provider, such information may not be readily available from other devices such Apple iOS devices. The described data tracking and location assignment methods are used in some embodiments to determine base station placement.
US11856489B2	Uplink broadcast/multicast packet processing Methods, devices, and systems for processing uplink broadcast or multicast (“broadcast/multicast”) packets from a user equipment (UE) and distributing the broadcast/multicast packets to other UEs in a network. In some aspects, a UE may receive, from a base station, a downlink packet comprising broadcast or multicast (broadcast/multicast) Ethernet data for a protocol data unit (PDU) session of the UE with a data network (DN) associated with the base station, determining whether the downlink packet corresponds to an uplink packet previously transmitted to the base station by the UE, discarding the downlink packet for the PDU session based on determining that the UE previously transmitted the corresponding uplink packet comprising the broadcast/multicast Ethernet data for the PDU session to the base station, and processing the downlink packet for the PDU session based on determining that the UE did not previously transmit the corresponding uplink packet.
US11856488B2	Electronic location identification and tracking system with beacon clustering A system and method for determining the presence of an individual at a particular spot within a location preferably based on the strength of signals received from beacons assigned to the particular spot by a software application (“App”) running on an electronic device of the individual. In one embodiment, certain presence calculations are performed by the App. In another embodiment, the App forwards information regarding the received beacon signals to an electronic identification and location tracking system and the presence calculations are performed by the system.
US11856486B2	Method for locating a field device with a wireless interface A method for locating a field device having a wireless interface is provided, the method including the following steps: transmitting, from the field device, identification information including distance information and direction information; receiving, by an operator device, the identification information; and displaying, by the operator device, based on the identification information, a distance, and a direction of the field device with respect to the operator device.
US11856482B2	Mobile apparatus, map management apparatus, positioning system, control circuit, and recording medium A mobile apparatus according to the disclosure includes: a sensor unit to calculate a moving distance and a moving direction; a positioning unit to calculate a first current position by using positioning information for positioning provided in a calibration area that is among areas in which the positioning information is provided, the calibration area being the area in which first reliability representing accuracy of the positioning information is equal to or higher than a first threshold; a current position calculation unit to estimate a second current position by using the moving distance and the moving direction calculated by the sensor unit; and a calibration unit to calibrate a parameter to be used to estimate the second current position in the current position calculation unit, by using the first current position.
US11856481B2	Contextual information usage in systems that include accessory devices Techniques are disclosed for using contextual information to determine an appropriate response in a system that includes a device paired with an accessory device. The contextual information can be sourced from local sensors, received communications, and information stored on a device within the system. Stored parameters in the system allow flexibility and configurability in evaluating the contextual information. Using feedback obtained after actions taken based on the contextual information allows the system to adapt to better meet the needs of the user.
US11856480B2	Haptic guidance and navigation to mobile points of entry The present disclosure includes a haptic guidance and navigation system for a vehicle that includes two Blutooth modules configured as beacons (using, for example, Bluetooth®, Low-Energy (BLE) modules) disposed on the front-center end and back-center end of a vehicle. The system may include an application operative on a mobile device that is also configured for BLE. The BLE modules onboard the vehicle may be uniquely associated with the vehicle with a unique identification (ID), and used to determine relative distances and angles between the BLEs and the mobile device. The haptic guidance and navigation system may generate haptic and other feedback using the mobile device and haptic output devices onboard the vehicle, to guide a user to a determined point of entry for the vehicle.
US11856476B2	Selectively highlighting map features associated with places Systems and methods of providing a user interface in which map features associated with places are selectively highlighted are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system receives a request for a transportation service associated with a place, retrieves an entrance geographic location for the place from a database, with the entrance geographic location being stored in association with the place in the database and representing an entrance for accessing the place, generating route information based on the retrieved entrance geographic location, with the route information indicating a route from an origin geographic location of a computing device of a user to the entrance geographic location of the place, and causing the generated route information to be displayed within a user interface on a computing device of the user.
US11856473B2	Intelligent geofence provisioning Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for efficient location tracking. Embodiments include receiving a device location from a mobile device. Embodiments include identifying a plurality of region definitions and selecting a set of region definitions from the plurality of region definitions based on a proximity of a location of each region definition of the plurality of region definitions to the device location. Embodiments include generating a provisional region definition based on a location of a region definition of the set of region definitions that is farthest from the device location and including the provisional region definition in the set of region definitions. Embodiments include providing the set of region definitions to the mobile device for provisioning and refraining from requesting device locations from the mobile device until receiving a notification from the mobile device that the mobile device has exited a provisional region defined by the provisional region definition.
US11856471B2	Method and apparatus for edge computing service An example method of providing, by a source edge data network, a service to a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: identifying a target edge data network, to which the terminal is expected to perform a handover, based on position information of the terminal; determining whether transmission of expected data, which the target edge data network is expected to transmit to the terminal in relation to the service after the handover is performed, will be delayed; transmitting a message requesting the expected data to the target edge data network, based on the determination that the transmission of the expected data will be delayed; receiving data related to the service corresponding to the expected data from the target edge data network; and transmitting the data related to the service to the terminal.
US11856460B2	Information processing device, communication system, and information processing method Reception of a frame is appropriately stopped.A communication system is a communication system that includes first and second information processing devices. The first information processing device performs control such that a signal (which is a signal having backward compatibility) serving as an index by which the second information processing device receiving a frame stops the reception of the frame is transmitted to the second information processing device. The second information processing device performs control such that the reception of the frame is stopped based on the signal (which is a signal having backward compatibility) serving as an index by which reception of the frame is stopped when the frame transmitted from the first information processing device is received.
US11856453B2	Systems and methods for context-based representation of sensor sharing messages In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes obtaining, with a sensor of a vehicle, a data set representing an external object, the data set having a first set of features, obtaining, with a receiver of the vehicle, a channel load about a radio frequency through which the data set may be transmitted, obtaining, with an environment sensor of the vehicle, context information about a road on which the vehicle is located, and processing the data set representing the external object based on the channel load and the context information to generate a reduced data set representing the external object, the reduced data set having a second set of features fewer than the first set of features.
US11856452B2	Method and device for identifying security key based on PDCP layer device in next-generation mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and a device for processing a ciphered UDC header in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US11856447B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting buffer status report by IAB node in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a buffer status report (BSR) by an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: generating the BSR; and transmitting the BSR to the network, wherein the BSR includes data volume of the IAB node determined by considering data volume of at least one RLC (Radio Link Control) layer entity of the IAB node and data volume of an adaptation layer of the IAB node.
US11856446B2	Scheduling request for transmission of a buffer status report A wireless device receives indications of: a first scheduling request (SR) resource corresponding to first logical channel(s) having a first logical channel prioritization (LCP) mapping to first radio resources; and a second SR resource corresponding to second logical channel(s) having a second LCP mapping to second radio resources. A buffer status report (BSR) is triggered in response to data becoming available for the second logical channel(s). First uplink grant(s) indicating a first radio resource of the first radio resources is received. An SR for transmission of the BSR is triggered in response to the first radio resource not meeting the second LCP mapping configured for the second logical channel(s) that triggered the BSR. The SR is transmitted via the second SR resource selected based on the second logical channel(s) triggering the BSR. The BSR is transmitted via a second radio resource of the second radio resources.
US11856445B2	Apparatus and method for providing direct communication services in wireless communication system The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and to a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5th generation (5G) communication technology and an Internet of Things (IoT)-related technology. The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for providing direct communication services.
US11856444B2	Techniques for quality of service negotiation The disclosure relates to a mobile device, in particular a vehicle, or an application server, wherein the mobile device or the application server comprise: a processor, configured to: receive a notification from a network entity, in particular a base station, wherein the notification comprises information about available Quality of Service, QoS, and transmit a confirmation message to the network entity informing the network entity about an acceptance of the notified QoS. The disclosure further relates to a network entity, comprising: a network entity controller, configured to: transmit a notification to a mobile device, in particular a vehicle, or an application server, wherein the notification comprises information about available Quality of Service, QoS, and receive a confirmation message from the mobile device or the application server informing about an acceptance of the notified QoS.
US11856442B2	Control device, wireless communication device, and method of controlling wireless communication system It is possible to facilitate setting of a request condition in a wireless communication system.A capacity calculating unit calculates a wireless communication capacity in a wireless network including a plurality of wireless communication devices on the basis of information regarding a frequency bandwidth used in the wireless network. A wireless communication request condition acquiring unit acquires a request condition of a service provided in wireless communication between predetermined wireless communication devices among the plurality of wireless communication devices. A determination unit determines whether all wireless communication bearers established between the predetermined wireless communication devices satisfy the request condition of the service on the basis of the wireless communication capacity.
US11856439B2	Method for reporting beam information in wireless communication system and device therefor A method for reporting beam information in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are proposed. In detail, the method, performed by a terminal, may comprise the steps of: transmitting beam-related capability information to a base station; receiving, from the base station, downlink control information for triggering a beam report; receiving a beam report-related resource from the base station; and reporting the beam information to the base station on the basis of the beam report-related resource.
US11856437B2	Methods and procedures for channel measurements and reporting mechanisms A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive first measurement indication information indicating an activation of measurement reporting. The WTRU may determine a first set of resource elements (REs) based on the first measurement indication information. Further, the first set of REs may be associated with measurement-related time and frequency resources. Also, the WTRU may receive one or more measurement-related signals in the indicated first set of REs. Additionally, the WTRU may perform a measurement of each measurement-related signal. The WTRU may transmit, based on the first measurement indication information, a measurement report based on the measurement of each measurement-related signal. Further, the WTRU may receive second measurement indication information indicating a deactivation of measurement reporting. Also, the WTRU may receive indication information regarding a plurality of sets of REs via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, including at least the first set of REs and a second set of REs.
US11856436B2	Transient compact measurement reports via alternative beam indexing A RAN node can indicate to a UE that a compact measurement report is to be used for beam measurements in a measurement report. A compact measurement report uses beam index numbers to indicate a position in a reference set. The reference set has a listing of resource indicators for beam measurements. As such, a reported beam measurement associated with a beam index number is also associated with the resource indicator positioned in the reference set indicated by the beam index number. The beam index numbers can be transmitted using fewer bits than are used for a resource indicator. The payload for a measurement report such as a L-SINR or L-RSP L1 measurement report is thereby reduced when the measurement report is transmitted as a compact measurement report.
US11856434B2	Signal strength measurement method, signal strength obtaining method, and related apparatus A signal strength measurement method includes: obtaining, by a first access point (AP), a basic service set identifier (BSSID) of a second AP and a first operating channel, where the first operating channel is an operating channel of the second AP, and a station (STA) is associated with the BSSID of the second AP through the operating channel; and sending, by the first AP, a measurement frame to the STA through the operating channel, where a BSSID value of the measurement frame is the BSSID, the measurement frame indicates the STA to send a measurement response frame of which BS SID value is the BSSID, and the measurement response frame carries a signal strength of the measurement frame measured by the STA.
US11856433B2	Method for transmitting/receiving signal in wireless communication system, and device therefor The present specification provides a method for simultaneously transmitting/receiving an uplink signal and a downlink signal in a wireless communication system for supporting SDD. More particularly, a method performed by a terminal includes the steps of: measuring a beam on the basis of at least one wireless unit including resources and a plurality of antennas related to beam management; reporting a result of the beam measurement to a base station; and simultaneously transmitting/receiving an uplink signal and a downlink signal to/from the base station on the basis of first beam pair information, when the simultaneous transmission/reception of the uplink signal and the downlink signal on the same symbol to/from the base station is configured.
US11856431B2	Methods for obtaining cell status information from a cell site aggregation fronthaul router A method is provided for a radio aware transport network. A network device obtains a first request for a status of one or more radio cells of a radio access network. The network device is configured to transmit radio traffic of the radio access network in a fronthaul packet network and is in communication with a radio controller that manages the one or more radio cells. The network device provides, to the radio controller, a second request for operational data related to the one or more radio cells. The second request is in a format specific to the radio controller. The network device obtains, from the radio controller, the operational data and determining the status of the one or more radio cells based on the operational data.
US11856427B2	Wireless communication electronic device and method, and computer-readable storage medium The present disclosure provides a wireless communication electronic device and method, and a computer-readable storage medium. Said electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine whether there is a need to currently execute measurement of a first channel busy ratio (CBR) on a first resource pool of a sidelink in the long term evolution (LTE) and measurement of a second CBR on a second resource pool of a sidelink in the new radio (NR) radio access technology; and having determined that the first CBR measurement and the second CBR measurement need to be executed currently, executing the first CBR measurement and/or the second CBR measurement at least on the basis of CBR coexistence measurement configuration.
US11856422B2	Beam failure recovery request sending and response methods and devices, and storage medium A beam failure recovery request sending method includes: after a beam failure event occurs in a terminal, searching for a candidate beam; and after at least one candidate beam is found, using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) to a base station, the PUCCH resource comprising a PUCCH resource pre-allocated to the terminal by the base station or a PUCCH resource in a preset format. The present disclosure achieves the purpose of transmitting a BFRQ using a PUCCH resource, making the time delay of transmitting a BFRQ small.
US11856401B2	IAB security Methods for applying hop-by-hop security in IAB networks. Integrity protection is applied at a layer below the IP layer for each link in a transmission route. Integrity is verified at the receiving node of each link of a route through an IAB network and if that verification fails the received traffic is discarded.
US11856399B2	Multi-factor authentication and access control in a vehicular environment The systems and methods described herein can include a digital assistant application that receives sensor signals from sensors installed in a vehicle and determines an entry event into the vehicle. The digital assistant application can receive, responsive to the entry event into the vehicle, a plurality authentication input signals from a plurality of sensors associated with the vehicle. The digital assistant application can determine a plurality of authentication states based on the plurality of authentication input signals and a plurality of authentication credentials. The digital assistant application can identify an access permission level of a plurality of access permission levels based at least in part on the plurality of identifies authentication states. The digital assistant application can identify, responsive to the access permission level, a subset of a set of functionalities available via the vehicle, and provide vehicular access to the subset of functionalities.
US11856389B2	Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using direct component compensation An apparatus for generating a sound field description from an input signal having at least two channels has: an input signal analyzer for obtaining direction data and diffuseness data from the input signal; an estimator for estimating a first energy- or amplitude-related measure for an omnidirectional component derived from the input signal and for estimating a second energy- or amplitude-related measure for a directional component derived from the input signal, and a sound component generator for generating sound field components of the sound field, wherein the sound component generator is configured to perform an energy compensation of the directional component using the first energy- or amplitude-related measure, the second energy- or amplitude-related measure, the direction data and the diffuseness data.
US11856388B2	Method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response, signal processing unit, audio encoder, audio decoder, and binaural renderer A method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal is separately processed with an early part and a late reverberation of the room impulse response, and the processed early part of the audio signal and the reverberated signal are combined. A transition from the early part to the late reverberation in the room impulse response is reached when a correlation measure reaches a threshold, the threshold being set dependent on the correlation measure for a selected one of the early reflections in the early part of the room impulse response.
US11856386B2	Apparatus and method for processing audiovisual data An apparatus for processing audiovisual data for a scene comprises a receiver (201) for receiving audiovisual data for the scene. The audiovisual data comprises audio data for the scene comprising a plurality of audio elements and image data for at least a first image of the scene where the first image has a first aspect ratio. An image remapper (203) performs a content dependent non-uniform mapping of the first image to a second image which has a different aspect ratio. The image remapper (207) is arranged to generate mapping data describing the content dependent non-uniform mapping. An audio remapper (207) replaces a first audio element of the plurality of audio elements by a second audio element generated by modifying a spatial property for the first audio element in response to the mapping data. The spatial property being modified may be a position and/or spatial spread of the first audio element.
US11856384B2	Speaker and electronic device A speaker including a frame; a magnetic circuit system fixed to the frame, comprises a plurality of magnetic circuit devices connected to each with a magnetic gap; a vibration system driven by the magnetic to vibrator, comprises a diaphragm fixed to the frame and a plurality of voice coil assembly inserted into the magnetic gap drive the diaphragm vibrate jointly. the speaker can drive the diaphragm to vibrate and produce sound with a greater driving force, and the magnetic circuit system has a higher magnetic field. The efficiency makes the speaker have a better sound effect.
US11856381B2	Vibration device A vibration device includes: a glass diaphragm; an exciter which is fixed to the glass diaphragm and vibrates the glass diaphragm; an enclosing member which defines an internal space by enclosing a portion, including a fixing position of the exciter, of the glass diaphragm, one end portion of the glass diaphragm being exposed to outside the internal space through an opening of the internal space; and a shielding member for acoustic shielding between the opening and the glass diaphragm, the shielding member dividing the glass diaphragm into an excitation region located inside the internal space and a vibration region located outside the internal space.
US11856379B2	Method, device and electronic device for controlling audio playback of multiple loudspeakers Disclosed are a method, an apparatus and an electronic device for controlling audio playback of multiple loudspeakers, wherein the method comprises: determining the location information of each speaker and voice signals issued by each speaker; determining the area where each speaker is located according to the location information of each speaker; determining voice instruction corresponding to each voice signal; and controlling the multiple loudspeakers to play the audio indicated by the corresponding voice instruction respectively for the area where the speaker of each voice instruction is located. According to the method and apparatus and/or the electronic device in an embodiment of the present disclosure, different audios can be played for different areas in a preset space.
US11856378B2	System with sound adjustment capability, method of adjusting sound and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A system with sound adjustment capability is provided. The system includes a head-mounted device, a first loudspeaker and a processor. The first loudspeaker is detachable from the head-mounted device. The processor is configured to detect a plurality of positions and a plurality of orientations of the head-mounted device and the first loudspeaker to determine whether the first loudspeaker is detached from the head-mounted device. The processor is further configured to modify a first audio signal by at least one first filter or at least one second filter to generate a filtered first audio signal. The at least one first filter is used when the first loudspeaker is coupled to the head-mounted device, and the at least one second filter is used when the first loudspeaker is detached from the head-mounted device. The filtered first audio signal is configured to drive the first loudspeaker.
US11856377B2	Active noise reduction audio devices and systems A method and system directed to controlling Active Noise Reduction (ANR) audio devices with active noise reduction. The system sets one or more ANR parameters of a first and a second wearable audio device to a first ANR state; detects that the first wearable audio device is removed from a first ear of a user; and automatically adjusts the one or more ANR parameters of the second wearable audio device to a second ANR state when the first wearable audio device is removed from the ear of the user, wherein the second ANR state comprises a reduction in a level of ANR compared to the first ANR state.
US11856373B2	Headset model identification with a resistor An apparatus includes a wire connector configured to receive a connection to an external device. The external device includes a speaker and is configured to output audible sounds. The apparatus includes a connection detection circuit configured to determine whether the external device has connected to the apparatus through the wire connector. The apparatus includes an output test circuit configured to, upon detection of a connection to the external device, issue a test signal to the external device, evaluate a response to the test signal, the response based upon a resistance value within the external device, and determine an identity of the external device based upon the response to the test signal.
US11856372B2	Hearing device system and method for operating a hearing device system A hearing device system has a photoplethysmography sensor to be worn in the auditory canal in an intended worn state and an earpiece which at least partly covers the photoplethysmography sensor toward the auditory canal in the intended worn state. Moreover, the hearing device system has a controller which is configured to use light captured by the photoplethysmography sensor to derive a comparison quantity of the earpiece characteristic for a transmission of the earpiece, for a wavelength range of the photoplethysmography sensor, to compare the comparison quantity with a specified first limit and to output an alert if the limit is traversed by the comparison quantity.
US11856371B2	Method and apparatus for own-voice sensing in a hearing assistance device Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for own-voice sensing in hearing assistance devices. One aspect of the present subject matter includes an in-the-ear (ITE) hearing assistance device adapted to process sounds, including sounds from a wearer's mouth. According to various embodiments, the device includes a hollow plastic housing adapted to be worn in the ear of the wearer and a differential sensor mounted to an interior surface of the housing in an ear canal of the wearer. The differential sensor includes inlets located within the housing and the differential sensor is configured to improve speech intelligibility of sounds from the wearer's mouth, in various embodiments.
US11856367B2	Hearing system, hearing device and method for providing an alert for a user A method of providing an alert for a user by a hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of the user includes providing user-related data including information about at least one of the user, an ambient environment of the user, or a property of the hearing device worn by the user; characterized by providing vehicle-related data associated with at least one vehicle in a vicinity of the user, the vehicle-related data including information about a property of the vehicle; determining, based on the user-related data and the vehicle-related data, a relevance measure indicative of a probability that the user is endangered by the vehicle; and controlling an operation of the hearing device depending on the relevance measure, the operation alerting the user about the vehicle.
US11856362B2	Loudspeaker apparatus, loudspeaker, and structure A loudspeaker apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a loudspeaker and a structure. The loudspeaker outputs sounds. The structure is configured with respect to an object that is disposed on a sound output side of the loudspeaker and forms, between the object and the loudspeaker, a gap space communicating with an external space, and includes a connecting portion and one or more plate-like members. The connecting portion is connected to the loudspeaker. The one or more plate-like members have a plate shape, are disposed in the gap space, extend toward an opening portion of the gap space, and guide sounds output from the loudspeaker toward the external space, the opening portion being located on a side communicating with the external space.
US11856361B2	Audio enhancements in motor-driven devices A handheld image stabilization device or an image capture device includes a housing, a motor, a microphone, and a dampener. The housing includes a first port. The motor is attached to the housing. The microphone detects audio waves via the first port and vibration noise of the motor via the housing. The audio waves may include acoustic noise from the motor. The dampener is coupled to the housing. The dampener reduces the acoustic noise from the motor and the vibration noise from the motor.
US11856358B1	Phantom powered FET circuit for audio application A novel phantom-powered FET (field effect transistor) circuit for audio application is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a novel phantom-powered FET preamplifier gain circuit can minimize undesirable sound distortions and reduce the cost of producing a conventional preamplifier gain circuit. Moreover, in one embodiment of the invention, one or more novel rounded-edge magnets may be placed close to a ribbon of a ribbon microphone, wherein the one or more novel rounded-edge magnets reduce or minimize reflected sound wave interferences with the vibration of the ribbon during an operation of the ribbon microphone. Furthermore, in one embodiment of the invention, a novel backwave chamber operatively connected to a backside of the ribbon can minimize acoustic pressure, anomalies in frequency responses, and undesirable phase cancellation and doubling effects.
US11856357B2	Hearing device comprising a noise reduction system A hearing device adapted for being located at or in an ear of a user, or for being fully or partially implanted in the head of a user comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal representing sound in an environment of the user, said electric input signal comprising a target speech signal from a target sound source and additional signal components, termed noise signal components, from one or more other sound sources, b) a noise reduction system for providing an estimate of said target speech signal, wherein said noise signal components are at least partially attenuated, and c) an own voice detector for repeatedly estimating whether or not, or with what probability, said at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, comprises speech originating from the voice of the user. The noise signal components are identified during time segments wherein the own voice detector indicates that the at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, originates from the voice of the user, or originates from the voice of the user with a probability above an own voice presence probability (OVPP) threshold value. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.
US11856354B2	Wireless earbud, charging box and charging system for wireless earbud Disclosed is a wireless earbud, which includes: a charging port configured to be connected to an earbud charging voltage and receive/send a communication signal; a communication switching circuit including a first input/output terminal connected to the charging port and a second input/output terminal, the communication switching circuit is configured to switch to an off state when the charging port is connected to the earbud charging voltage, and switch to an on state when the charging port is connected to the communication signal; a communication on-off circuit connected to the second input/output terminal of the communication switching circuit; and an earbud control circuit configured to perform box entry detection on the wireless earbud and generate a corresponding detection signal to control the communication switching circuit to turn on/off an electrical connection between the earbud control circuit and the communication on-off circuit according to the detection signal.
US11856353B2	Transport and/or storage container for rechargeable wireless earphones A transport and/or storage container with integrated charging function for rechargeable wireless earphones comprising a container housing, at least one receiving unit for at least partially receiving a rechargeable wireless earphone, and an electrical container charging contact for connecting the transport and/or storage container to an electrical energy source, wherein the receiving unit has an electrical coupling contact cooperating with an electrical earphone charging contact of a rechargeable wireless earphone when it is placed in the receiving unit for recharging and wherein the electrical container charging contact and the electrical coupling contact are in the form of mutually complementary electrical contacts.
US11856351B2	Open earphone The present disclosure relates to a waterproof open earphone. The waterproof open earphone may include a housing, at least one button, at least one elastic pad, and at least one pair of speaker units. The housing may be placed on a head or at least one ear of a user while not blocking an ear canal of the user. The at least one button may be set on the housing, wherein each of the at least one button corresponds to a button hole. The at least one elastic pad may correspond to the at least one button, respectively, wherein each elastic pad prevents the corresponding button from moving relative to the button hole. Each pair of the at least one pair of speaker units may generate sound within a frequency range from two sound guiding holes through two sound guiding tubes.
US11856348B2	Modular communication device The present disclosure presents a communication device configured to removably attach to a mask, and to receive, transmit, and amplify sound and/or speech from a wearer.
US11856343B2	Monitoring of high-voltage or medium-voltage equipment A device for high-voltage or medium-voltage technology includes at least one connection configured for connection to a high-voltage or medium-voltage conductor; a sensor system configured to determine a plurality of different physical and/or chemical measurement values relating to the device and/or the conductor and/or the surroundings; and a communication system, in particular a wireless system, configured to receive the measurement values from the sensor system and to transmit them to an entity in a network. A method for high-voltage or medium-voltage technology is also provided.
US11856341B2	Signal processing device and signal processing method To enable routing control to be easily performed in a video system. Signal output equipment generates and outputs a digital signal for transmission in which the digital signal includes a video signal and a predetermined number of identification information groups related to the video signal. A routing unit outputs an inputted digital signal for transmission to a predetermined signal output unit on the basis of at least any identification information included in the predetermined number of identification information groups.
US11856339B2	Automatic focusing projection method and system Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of digital projection and display, and in particular, relate to an automatic focusing projection method and system. The embodiments provide an automatic focusing projection method, which is applicable to an automatic focusing projection system. The automatic focusing projection system includes a ranging unit, a projection unit, and a reflection unit. The method includes: acquiring a depth image from the ranging unit, and acquiring a vertical projection distance from the ranging unit to a projection plane based on the depth image; acquiring position information of a center point of a projection picture in the depth image based on an elevation angle of the reflection unit and the vertical projection distance; acquiring a projection distance between the projection unit and the projection picture based on the position information; and performing focus adjustment on the projection unit based on the projection distance.
US11856337B2	Projection-type display device A projection-type display device includes: a display element including a rectangular displayable region in which an image is displayable; and a projection optical system. Assuming that a focal length of the projection optical system is f and a length of a long side of the displayable region is w, 0.15<\|f\|/w<0.45 is satisfied. An absorption layer that absorbs light is provided in at least a portion of a non-optically effective surface of a lens which is disposed closer to a reduction side than a first lens closest to an enlargement side in the projection optical system and at least a part of a portion which is irradiated with light that has been emitted from an image and reflected by an enlargement-side surface of the first lens or a reduction-side surface of the first lens.
US11856336B2	Projection mapping system and apparatus A marking and display system includes a scanning apparatus, comprising a processor in data communication with a networking device, at least one input/output device, and computer memory, the computer memory comprising a program having machine readable instructions that, when effected by processor, perform the following steps: (a) scan an area of interest for a first scan; (b) determine the presence of at least one abnormality at the area of interest; and (c) provide a marking at an area substantially adjacent the at least one abnormality.
US11856335B2	Communication system and communication method Provided is a communication system including: an external communication unit configured to perform communication with an external communication device via a first communication network; a communication relay unit configured to perform communication with a mobile communication terminal via a second communication network to relay communication between the mobile communication terminal and the external communication device via the first communication network and the second communication network; and a communication control unit configured to execute captured image transmission processing for transmitting a captured image acquired by a camera to the external communication device by the external communication unit, and to execute mobile body relay processing for performing communication between the mobile communication terminal and the external communication device by the communication relay unit.
US11856332B2	Remote operation system, remote operation mobile body, remote operation method, and program Each remote operation robot includes: an imaging direction detection unit configured to detect an imaging direction of a camera, an imaging direction information generation unit configured to generate imaging direction information indicating the imaging direction detected by the imaging direction detection unit, an imaging direction information transmission unit configured to transmit imaging direction information to another remote operation robot, an imaging direction information reception unit configured to receive the imaging direction information from another remote operation robot, and an imaging direction control unit configured to control the imaging direction of the camera based on the imaging direction information received by the imaging direction information reception unit in such a way that the imaging direction of the camera of the own robot is synchronized with the imaging direction of the camera of the robot that has transmitted the imaging direction information received by the imaging direction information reception unit.
US11856330B2	Vehicular driver monitoring system A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera disposed within and viewing within an interior cabin of a vehicle. The camera includes a lens and an image sensor. The camera is operable to capture image data. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. With a driver of the vehicle sitting in a driver seat of the vehicle, light is reflected off a portion of the driver to impinge at the lens of the camera. The vehicular driver monitoring system, via processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera, determines a deficiency in captured image data arising from light impinging at the lens. The determined deficiency in captured image data arises from an occlusion at the lens of the camera.
US11856329B2	Dynamic advertisement stream replacement Mechanisms are provided for replacing default advertisement streams in a media stream with replacement advertisement streams. User profile information is obtained for a particular user and/or device. A default advertisement stream is identified and replaced with advertisement streams selected using the user profile information. Timestamp information and sequence number information is maintained to allow uninterrupted delivery of the modified media stream while customizing media streams for particular users.
US11856327B2	Adaptive audio quality amelioration for video conferencing A computer-implemented method, including: receiving, by the computing device, connecting device data from a connecting device associated with a participant of the video conference, wherein the connecting device data includes an audio quality data and a device connectivity data; determining, by the computing device, a conferencing readiness score based on the connecting device data; determining, by the computing device, the conferencing readiness score does not meet a threshold score; determining, by the computing device, an ameliorative action configured to raise the conferencing readiness score to meet the threshold score; and providing, by the computing device, the ameliorative action to the connecting device.
US11856323B2	Video display device and control method Provided is a video display device wearable on the head of a user, wherein the video display device includes a video display unit capable of switching two or more display methods, a control unit for indicating a display method to the video display unit, a first detection unit for detecting the motion of the head of a user, a second detection unit for detecting the motion of the point of view of the user, and a motion determination unit for determining the motion state of the device user by using the output from the first detection unit and the output from the second detection unit. The control unit indicates a change of display methods to the video display unit in accordance with the determination result of the motion determination unit.
US11856321B1	Video processing method and apparatus A video processing method includes: receiving a video stream from a camera component; converting the video stream into at least one first data packet, where the at least one first data packet is independently encoded or decoded; and storing a first data packet obtained in a first reporting cycle as a first video clip.
US11856320B2	Image encoder, an image sensing device, and an operating method of the image encoder The present disclosure provides an image encoder. The image encoder is configured to encode an original image and reduce compression loss. The image encoder comprises an image signal processor and a compressor. The image signal processor is configured to receive a first frame image and a second frame image and generates a compressed image of the second frame image using a boundary pixel image of the first frame image. The image signal processor may include memory configured to store first reference pixel data which is the first frame image. The compressor is configured to receive the first reference pixel data from the memory and generate a bitstream obtained by encoding the second frame image based on a difference value between the first reference pixel data and the second frame image. The image signal processor generates a compressed image of the second frame image using the bitstream generated by the compressor.
US11856318B2	Methods and systems to automatically record relevant action in a gaming environment Systems and methods are described for detecting a triggering event in a gaming environment and recording a segment of video. In some aspects, the method may include obtaining a camera projection matrix associated with the gaming environment that correlates points in the gaming environment between a two-dimensional pixel space and a three-dimensional physical representation. An input video may be obtained from the gaming environment. Pose coordinates, including two-dimensional pixel space location, of a body part of a person in the input video may be estimated, and converted to three-dimensional pose coordinates using the camera projection matrix. A person of interest having a body part located within a region of interest in the gaming environment may be identified to determine if a triggering event has occurred. Storage of an input video segment that includes the trigger movement may be initiated on a storage device in communication with the user device.
US11856315B2	Media editing application with anchored timeline for captions and subtitles Systems, methods, apparatuses and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a media editing application with an anchored timeline for editing captions and subtitles. In an embodiment, a method comprises: causing to display on a display device, by one or more hardware processors executing a media editing application, a graphical user interface (GUI) including a timeline; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a first lane including a media object; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a second lane including a caption or subtitle object; and anchoring, by the one or more hardware processors, the media object to the caption or subtitle object in the timeline.
US11856313B2	Combining video streams having different information-bearing levels A method includes recording a first video stream characterized by a first value of a first quality characteristic. The method includes determining that the first video stream satisfies a trigger criterion. The trigger criterion characterizes a threshold amount of video content change information. The method includes, in response to determining that the first video stream satisfies the trigger criterion, obtaining a second video stream characterized by a second value of a second quality characteristic. The second video stream includes scene information also included in the first video stream. The second value of the second quality characteristic is indicative of a higher quality video stream than the first value of the first quality characteristic. The method includes generating a third video stream by adding information from the second video stream to the first video stream. The third video stream corresponds to a higher quality version of the first video stream.
US11856311B1	Motion detection based on analog video stream Motion detection in a video signal stream representing a series of rows in one or more image frames includes filtering the video signal stream for one or more features, generating a plurality of masked video signal streams by multiplying the feature video signal stream with a plurality of mask signal streams, which correspond to an image mask region within one or more image frames, determining a value of an intensity-based parameter of the feature in the plurality of mask signal streams, and determining a change in the value of the intensity-based parameter to detect motion over image frames.
US11856309B2	Pixel array, image sensor, and self-checking method of the image sensor A pixel array, an image sensor, and a self-checking method of the image sensor are provided. The pixel array includes a photosensitive pixel region, a first reference pixel region and/or a second reference pixel region; the photosensitive pixel region includes M rows and N columns of pixels arranged in an array; the first reference pixel region includes n columns of first reference pixels disposed corresponding to N columns of pixels of the photosensitive pixel region; the second reference pixel region includes m rows of the second reference pixels disposed corresponding to the M rows of pixels of the photosensitive pixel region. The first reference pixel region and/or the second reference pixel region can be used to implement a real-time self-checking function of the readout circuit and/or the control circuit in the image sensor, check in real time whether the image signal output by the image sensor is correct.
US11856307B2	Power supply circuit In accordance with an embodiment, a power supply circuit includes: a first transistor device comprising a first gate associated with a first transconductance and a second gate associated with a transconductance greater than the first transconductance; and a second transistor device including a third gate associated with a second transconductance and a fourth gate associated with a transconductance greater than the second transconductance. The second transistor device is configured to supply power to at least one load, the first and the third gates are controlled by a closed regulation loop, and the second and the fourth gates are controlled by a sampled reference voltage.
US11856306B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and imaging system A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pulse shaping circuit that shapes an output from a diode of avalanche amplification type into a pulse, and a pulse conversion circuit that converts a pulse signal output from the pulse shaping circuit. The pulse conversion circuit converts a pulse signal having a first amplitude and output from the pulse shaping circuit into a pulse signal having a second amplitude smaller than the first amplitude.
US11856305B2	Hardware implementation of sensor architecture with multiple power states In one implementation, an event sensor includes a plurality of pixels and an event compiler. The plurality of pixels are positioned to receive light from a scene disposed within a field of view of the event sensor. Each pixel is configured to have an operational state that is modified by control signals generated by a respective state circuit. The event compiler is configured to output a stream of pixel events. Each respective pixel event corresponds to a breach of a comparator threshold related to an intensity of incident illumination. Each control signal is generated based on feedback information that is received from an image pipeline configured to consume image data derived from the stream of pixel events.
US11856302B2	Systems and methods for digital imaging using computational pixel imagers with multiple in-pixel counters A stereo imaging system includes an optical assembly and a computational pixel imager (CPI) having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a light sensor and counters that convert a photocurrent from the light sensor to a digital signal. The optical assembly, which directs light from a light field to the CPI, includes an optical field combiner and first and second primary lens assemblies, which are configured to receive first and second portions of the light from the lightfield, respectively, and to direct the first and second portions of the light to the optical field combiner. The optical field combiner includes a modulator configured to modulate the first and second portions of the light and to direct modulated first and second portions of the light onto the CPI. The counters are configured to perform digital signal processing on the digital signal.
US11856301B2	Method and system for extending image dynamic range using per-pixel coding of pixel parameters There is provided a method and system for extending image sensor dynamic range using coded pixels. The method including: providing pixel codes to pixels in the photodetector array for each subframe of a frame; receiving a sensor readout of each of the pixels in the photodetector array for each subframe; for each subframe, based on the pixel code, routing each sensor readout value for collection at one or more taps or to a drain; combining the collected sensor readout values at each of the taps to determine a single pixel value for the frame; and outputting the single pixel value for each pixel for the frame.
US11856296B2	Shake correction unit, optical unit, and smartphone In a shake correction unit, a first circuit board has a first portion extending from a first side to a second side in a direction, a second portion extending from the second side to the first side in the direction, and a bent portion in which an end portion on the second side of the second portion is bent with respect to an end portion on the second side of the first portion. A second circuit board has a first portion extending from the second side to the first side in the direction, a second portion extending from the first side to the second side in the direction, and a bent portion in which an end portion on the first side of the second portion is bent with respect to an end portion on the first side of the first portion.
US11856295B2	Multi-camera video stabilization Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for multi-camera video stabilization. In some implementations, a video capture device has a first camera and a second camera. The video capture device provides a digital zoom capability permitting user-specified magnification changes within a digital zoom range during video recording. The video capture device is configured to use video data from different cameras over different portions of the digital zoom range. The video capture device can process image data captured using the second camera by applying a set of transformations including (i) a first transformation to a canonical reference space for the second camera, (ii) a second transformation to a canonical reference space for the first camera, and (iii) a third transformation to apply electronic image stabilization to image data in the canonical reference space for the first camera.
US11856293B2	Camera autofocus using time-of-flight assistance Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for determining autofocus for a camera on a mobile device. In some instances, depth imaging is used to assist in determining a focus position for the camera through an autofocus process. For example, a determination of depth may be used to determine a focus position for the camera. In another example, the determination of depth may be used to assist another autofocus process.
US11856289B1	Portable media capture device In one aspect, a portable media capture device comprises an image sensor and a support portion configured to receive a mobile device. In use, the support portion supports the image sensor (which is external to the mobile device) in a front-facing configuration relative to the mobile device, in which a user region forward of a display screen of the mobile device falls within a field of view of the image sensor. The portable media capture device additionally comprises a host computer configured to pair with the mobile device, enabling the host computer to receive messages from the mobile device indicating changes in display state at the mobile device, and to thereby synchronize its external video capture function with changes in the display state of the mobile device.
US11856288B2	Request queue for shared control of camera device by multiple devices Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate a camera sharing session between two or more users. A camera sharing session is initiated based on session configuration information comprising a user identifier of a user permitted to control image capturing at a camera communicatively coupled to a first device. A trigger request is received from the second device and in response, an image capture, which results in at least one image, is triggered at the camera and the image is transmitted to the second device.
US11856284B2	Method of controlling a portable device and a portable device A method (100) of controlling a portable device comprising a first camera and a second camera facing in the same direction. The method comprises: selecting (110) one of the first camera and the second camera as a visualization camera; initializing (120) a localization algorithm having as an input image data representing images captured by one of the first camera and the second camera; determining (130) a respective focus score for at least one of the first camera and the second camera, said focus score indicating a focus quality of features identified from images captured by one of the respective camera; selecting (140,) one of the first camera and the second camera as an enabled camera based on the at least one focus score; and generating a control signal configured to cause the selected camera to be enabled such that the image data representing images captured by the enabled camera are provided as the input to the localization algorithm.
US11856283B2	Multi-matching sensing system and vehicle using the same A multi-matching sensing system applied to a vehicle includes a rotation drum to which first, second and third pop-up modules pulled by electromagnetic attraction according to the supply of current and pushed by a spring restoring force of the spring are fixed to have angle relationship, a rotation device configured to rotate the rotation drum, and a multi-matching body holder having a connector connected to a wire harness in which a power line is formed with a transmission/reception circuit connected to each of the first, second and third pop-up modules and the rotation device.
US11856280B2	Image capturing module An image capturing module includes a light filter, a meta-lens layer, and a photosensitive element. The light filter includes a light receiving surface and a light emitting surface opposite to each other. The meta-lens layer and the light filter are disposed side by side with each other. The meta-lens layer includes a light transmitting film and a plurality of microstructures. Each microstructure is arranged on the light transmitting film. The photosensitive element includes a photosensitive surface. The photosensitive surface faces to the meta-lens layer and the light emitting surface of the light filter, wherein the photosensitive surface has a plurality of pixels, and each pixel corresponds to each microstructure.
US11856279B2	Imaging apparatus, manufacturing apparatus, manufacturing method and electronic appliance The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, and an electronic appliance that contribute to miniaturization and thinning of an imaging apparatus. Provided is an imaging apparatus including a first circuit board in which an imaging element is mounted on a center portion, a component that is mounted on an outer circumference portion of the center portion of the first circuit board and a member that incorporates the component and is provided in the outer circumference portion and is formed by a mold method. The imaging apparatus further includes a lens barrel that holds a lens, in which a frame that supports a portion including the lens barrel is located on the member. Further, the frame includes an infra red cut filter (IRCF). The present technology can be applied to an imaging apparatus.
US11856275B1	Video reproduction system and media reproduction system and method of synchronized reproducing of a video data stream of an audio-visual data stream and computer-readable storage medium A video reproduction system configured to reproduce a video data stream of an audiovisual data stream. The audiovisual data stream including an audio data stream including a timecode signal and the video data stream. The video reproduction system including: a synchronization unit having a processor comprising hardware; and a plurality of head-mounted displays. The synchronization unit is configured to: receive the audio data stream from an audio data source, send the audio data stream to a sound system, convert the timecode signal of the audio data stream into a timestamp signal, and transmit the timestamp signal to the plurality of headmounted displays. The plurality of the head-mounted displays are configured to: receive the timestamp signal, reproduce the video data stream, and synchronize the reproduction of the video data stream to the audio data stream using the timestamp signal.
US11856273B2	Method and system for digital program insertion in satellite communications A satellite provider system receives a provider stream including break cue data. The satellite provider system generates adjusted break cue data by adjusting time stamps in the break cue data. The satellite provider system inserts the break cue data, the adjusted break cue data, and break description data into the provider stream in data packets all having a same packet identification. The satellite provider system broadcasts the provider stream from a satellite transponder.
US11856271B2	Symbiotic interactive video In a method and accompanying system for providing symbiotic media content, one or more advertising units comprising advertising video content are received at a user device. During the playback of primary video content to a user of the device, a plurality of user interface controls are displayed, with each control being associated with a respective advertising unit. On receiving an interaction with one of the controls, the primary video content is combined with the advertisement associated with the selected control, forming a symbiotic video. The symbiotic video is presented to the user and, on completion thereof, playback of the primary video content is continued.
US11856270B2	Systems and methods for smart content streaming Systems and methods for providing an authenticated groupcast stream of content to destination receivers are disclosed. A method may include receiving information indicating that a media capturing source(s) located at a premises and destination receivers are included in a group. Content captured from a media capturing source(s) may be received. The content may include an image(s)/video(s) and a destination network address associated with the destination receivers. The content may be copied. The number of copies of content may correspond to a number of the destination receivers. A respective copy of the content may be sent to the destination receivers.
US11856268B1	Systems and methods for customizing a media profile page Systems and methods are provided for customizing a profile page. A first user profile and a second user profile are accessed by a computing device. First and second pluralities of content items associated with the first and second user are identified. Based on the first and second user profiles, first and second subsets of content items of the first and second plurality of content items are selected. For each content item of the first subset of content items, an image associated with the content item is identified. For each content item of the second subset of content items, an image associated with the content item is identified. Based on the identified images, first and second image collages are generated for the first and second user profiles. The first and second image collages and first and second indicators corresponding to the first and second user profiles are generated for display.
US11856261B1	System and method for redaction based on group association A system and method for redaction based on group association is disclosed. The method includes carrying out an analysis that includes coming to a determination that, notwithstanding at least some features of a plurality of group-associated objects are being concealed, a visible association between the objects in combination with size and shape definitions for corresponding redactions of the group-associated objects is such that an identity deducibility condition is either met or is not met.
US11856254B2	Dynamically adjustable electronic program guide Metadata for media content items is received. The media content items are displayed in an overview area in an electronic program guide (EPG) of a user interface. The overview area includes cells aligned in one or more rows. Input of a selection of one of the media content items displayed at the EPG in the user interface is received. Responsive to receiving the input of the selected media content item, the selected media content item is displayed in a focus area in the EPG of the user interface. The focus area includes expanded metadata that includes a sample of the selected media content item that is played as an underlay of a display of at least some of the subset of the metadata of the selected media content item.
US11856251B1	Systems and methods for providing notifications based on geographic location Systems and methods for apprising a user of a proximately located aspect-of-interest are disclosed. One method may include: receiving an indication of a geographic location associated with the user; identifying an aspect associated with a multimedia content interest of the user; determining whether the geographic location associated is within a predetermined distance to a known location the aspect associated with the multimedia content interest; transmitting, responsive to determining that the geographic location is within the predetermined distance to the known location, instructions to a user device associated with the user to provide a notification to the user; receiving, at the server, another indication that the user has provided interaction input to the notification; and transmitting additional instructions to another device to perform an action that is based on the interaction input.
US11856250B2	Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session duration Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session duration. Example apparatus a receiver to obtain a first tuning session duration indicative of an amount of time between channel changes of a first media presentation device at a first media presentation location, a presentation session estimator to select a model from storage, the model selected based on a match of the first tuning session duration and a second tuning session duration, the model including a relation between the second tuning session duration and a first presentation session duration of media presented on a second media presentation device at a second media presentation location, and estimate a second presentation session duration of media presented within the first tuning session duration based on the model.
US11856245B1	Smart automatic skip mode Systems and methods are provided for enabling a smart automatic skip mode during playback of a content item. A content item is generated for output at a first time at a computing device, and input associated with navigating the content item is received. Metadata associated with a plurality of segments of the content item is identified and, based on the input and the metadata, a segment to skip is identified. The segment to skip is skipped, and the content item is generated for output at a second time.
US11856243B2	Method, device, and computer storage medium for managing virtual streaming Provided in the example embodiments are a method, electronic device, and computer storage medium for managing virtual streaming. The method for managing virtual streaming includes: providing a configuration interface for configuring a virtual streaming room with configuration settings, the configuration settings including at least an audience group setting, and a host setting related to a virtual host; receiving, via the configuration interface, configuration input corresponding to the audience group setting, and/or the host setting; and based on the configuration input, generating a host assignment rule, the host assignment rule for assigning at least one virtual host to at least one audience group. The example embodiments solve the problems in which the form of an existing virtual host is fixed, audience adhesion is poor, and use thereof is inflexible.
US11856239B2	Method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset without sign coding A method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset without sign coding. The method includes selecting an edge offset type for at least a portion of an image, classifying at least one pixel of at least the portion of the image into edge shape category, calculating an offset of the pixel, determining the offset is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold, changing a sign of the offset based on the threshold determination; and performing entropy coding accounting for the sign of the offset and the value of the offset.
US11856233B2	Systems and methods for signaling buffer output information in video coding A method of decoding video data includes receiving a first decoding unit information message corresponding to a first decoding unit of a current access unit, determining a syntax element used to compute a decoded picture buffer output time of the current access unit is not present in the first decoding unit information message, and based on the syntax element not being present in the first decoding unit information message, inferring the value of the syntax element to be equal to a value of a corresponding instance of the syntax element in a second decoding unit information message, wherein the second decoding unit information corresponds to a second decoding unit belonging to the current access unit.
US11856231B2	Systems and methods for signaling hypothetical reference decoder parameters in video coding A device may be configured to signal hypothetical reference decoder parameters according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
US11856229B2	Video data stream concept Decoder retrieval timing information, ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level, information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream by way of packets interspersed into packets of access units of a video data stream. In accordance with an embodiment, the interspersed packets are of a removable packet type, i.e. the removal of these interspersed packets maintains the decoder's ability to completely recover the video content conveyed via the video data stream.
US11856222B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a point cloud representing a 3D object This method comprises: —orthogonally projecting at least one point of a point cloud along projection lines; and —for at least two points of a same projection line, signaling in a bitstream whether a position of said projection line between a nearer and a farther points of said projection line is occupied or not.
US11856218B2	Motion candidate derivation based on spatial neighboring block in sub-block motion vector prediction Devices, systems and methods for the simplification of sub-block motion candidate lists for video coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes determining, during a conversion between a current block and a bitstream representation of the current block, a temporal motion vector prediction candidate for a sub-block of the current block. The temporal motion vector prediction candidate is completely determined based on K neighboring blocks of the current block, K being a positive integer. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the temporal motion vector prediction candidate for the sub-block.
US11856217B2	Image encoder and related non-transitory computer readable medium for image decoding An encoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry, wherein the circuitry, in operation, performs a partition process. The partition process includes calculating first values of a set of pixels between a first partition and a second partition in a current block, using a first motion vector for the first partition; calculating second values of the set of pixels, using a second motion vector for the second partition; and calculating third values of the set of pixels by weighting the first values and the second values. When a ratio of a width to a height of the current block is larger than 4 or a ratio of the height to the width of the current block is larger than 4, the circuitry disables the partition process.
US11856216B2	Signaling residual signs predicted in transform domain The present disclosure provides embodiments for coding and decoding signs of transform coefficients which is applicable, for instance, in image and/or video coding and decoding. In particular, a plurality of the signs are predicted and only a prediction error signal is embedded in the bitstream. The prediction error signal may have a distribution which can be efficiently coded with CABAC or another variable length (entropy) coding. Moreover, if adaptive multi-core transform is used, the context for the entropy code to code a transform coefficient sign is selected according to the transformation which was used to obtain the transform coefficient.
US11856215B2	Sub-bitstream extraction of multi-layer video bitstreams Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the bitstream includes network abstraction layer (NAL) units for multiple video layers according to a rule; wherein the rule defines that a sub-bitstream extraction process to generate an output bitstream comprising an output layer set (OLS) includes one or more operations that are selectively performed responsive to the following conditions: (1) a list of NAL unit header layer identifier values in the OLS does not includes all values of NAL unit header layer identifiers in all video coding layer (VCL) NAL units in the bitstream, and (2) the output bitstream containing a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) NAL unit that contains a scalable-nesting SEI message.
US11856214B2	Video encoding with content adaptive resource allocation One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for video encoding are provided. For example, a video file may be segmented into at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be analyzed to determine that the first portion is associated with a first level of complexity, and the second portion may be analyzed to determine that the second portion is associated with a second level of complexity. A first bitrate associated with the first level of complexity may be determined, and a second bitrate associated with the second level of complexity may be determined. The first portion may be encoded at the first bitrate to generate a first encoded portion, and the second portion may be encoded at the second bitrate to generate a second encoded portion. The first encoded portion and the second encoded portion may be assembled to generate an optimized video file.
US11856209B2	PH NAL unit coding-related image decoding method, and device for same An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by comprising the steps of: acquiring a flag indicating whether a picture header (PH) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit including a PH for the current picture is present; acquiring a video coding layer (VCL) NAL unit including a slice header and slice data for the current slice of the current picture; acquiring the PH on the basis of the flag; and decoding the current picture on the basis of the PH, the slice header, and the slice data.

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