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| US11931605B2 |
Equipment carrying system
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an equipment carrying system configured for sliding over a valveless end of a gas cylinder. The assembly includes a main body having a plurality of straps forming a webbing; a seat portion formed within the main body, the seat portion being configured to receive the valveless end of the gas cylinder; an auxiliary cylinder assembly coupled to the main body, the auxiliary cylinder assembly configured to hold a second gas cylinder; a handle coupled to the seat portion, the handle used to lift and carrying the main body; and wherein the main body, the auxiliary cylinder assembly, and the handle hang from the seat portion on the valveless end of the gas cylinder. |
| US11931600B2 |
System and method for forming a treatment plan for charged particle therapy using hydrogen density
Techniques are presented for optimizing a treatment plan for charged particle therapy. The method includes obtaining medical image data voxels inside a subject in a reference frame of a radiation source that emits a beam of charged particles at multiple tracks with a controlled emitted energy at each track. Hydrogen density (HD) is determined based on the medical image data. Stopping power ratio (SPR) along a first beam having a first track and first emitted energy is calculated based on HD. A range to a Bragg peak is calculated along the first beam based on the SPR and the first emitted energy. The first beam track or the first emitted energy, or both, is modified based at least in part on the beam range to determine a second track and second emitted energy. Output data that indicates the second track and second emitted energy are sent. |
| US11931598B2 |
Method and apparatus that includes generating a clinical target volume for therapeutic radiation
Image information regarding a particular patient is provided, which image information includes, at least in part, a tumor to be irradiated. These teachings can also include providing non-image clinical information that corresponds to the particular patient. A control circuit accesses the foregoing image information and non-image clinical information and automatically generates a clinical target volume that is larger than the tumor as a function of both the image information and the non-image clinical information. The control circuit can then generate a corresponding radiation treatment plan based upon that clinical target volume, which plan can be utilized to irradiate the clinical target volume. |
| US11931596B2 |
Phototherapy device
A phototherapy device including a flexible light emitting pad is provided. The phototherapy device allows an infant to be swaddled while the infant simultaneously receives phototherapy treatment on his/her front, back, and sides without the use of external light sources. |
| US11931589B2 |
Low power wireless communication
Systems, devices, and techniques for establishing communication between two medical devices are described. In one example, an implantable medical device comprises communication circuitry, therapy delivery circuitry, and processing circuitry configured to initiate a communication window during which the implantable second medical device is capable of receiving the information related to a cardiac event detected by a first medical device, the communication window being one of a plurality of communication windows defined by a communication schedule that corresponds to a transmission schedule in which the first medical device is configured to transmit the information, control the communication circuitry to receive, from the first medical device, the information related to the cardiac event that is indicative of a timing of the cardiac event with respect to a timing of the communication window, schedule and control delivery of a therapy according to the information related to the cardiac event. |
| US11931588B2 |
Plug-in accessory for configuring a mobile device into an external controller for an implantable medical device
Disclosed is a plug-in accessory for operating a mobile device as an external controller for an Implantable Medical Device (IMD). The accessory includes a connector insertable into a port on the mobile device. Accessory circuitry can be powered by a battery or by the mobile device. An application on the mobile device in conjunction with the accessory configures the mobile phone for immediate use as an IMD external controller. When the accessory is inserted into the port or a switch on the accessory pressed, the application operates to validate the accessory; to unlock the phone; to secure the mobile device; and to render a graphical user interface on the mobile device for communicating with the IMD. The accessory can additionally include telemetry circuitry and an antenna for communicating with the IMD, rather than using short-range communication means provided in the mobile device itself. |
| US11931585B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting cardiac event oversensing
A medical device is configured to detect an alternating pattern of signal features determined from consecutive segments of a cardiac electrical signal and determine a gross morphology metric from at least one segment of the cardiac electrical signal. The device is configured to detect cardiac event oversensing in response to detecting the alternating pattern and the gross morphology metric not meeting tachyarrhythmia morphology criteria. The medical device may withhold detecting an arrhythmia in response to detecting the cardiac event oversensing. |
| US11931584B2 |
Implantable pulse generator with multiple stimulation engines
An implantable medical device (IMD) includes multiple stimulation engines for independently stimulating respective electrode sets of a lead system while avoiding collisions and/or channel contention during stimulation delivery. A first voltage multiplier is configured to generate an adjustable target voltage having sufficient headroom at an output node that is commonly coupled to anodic nodes of respective stimulation engines. Each stimulation engine includes a secondary voltage multiplier to drive the respective anode and a current regulator powered by a floating voltage supply, wherein the current regulator is coupled to a cathodic node and configured to control how much stimulation current is pulled from the patient tissue. |
| US11931580B2 |
Dosed delivery of autonomic modulation therapy
An example of a method embodiment may include receiving a user programmable neural stimulation (NS) dose for an intermittent neural stimulation (INS) therapy, and delivering the INS therapy with the user programmable NS dose to an autonomic neural target of a patient. Delivering the INS therapy may include delivering NS bursts, and delivering the NS bursts may include delivering a number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle during a portion of the cardiac cycles and not delivering NS pulses during a remaining portion of the cardiac cycles. The method may further include sensing cardiac events within the cardiac cycles, and controlling delivery of the user programmable NS dose of INS therapy using the sensed cardiac events to time delivery of the number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle to provide the user programmable NS dose. The user programmable NS dose may determine the number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle. |
| US11931578B2 |
Acoustic sensing for respiration detection
The disclosure provides systems and methods for treating obstructive sleep apnea using an acoustic sensor configured to detect acoustic sounds generated by the heart and lungs. Sensory data from the acoustic sensor is used by an implanted stimulation system to determine when to deliver electrical stimulation to a nerve which innervates an upper airway muscle, such as the hypoglossal nerve, to treat sleep apnea. |
| US11931570B2 |
Treating tissue pulsed energy using high-voltage catheters
Flexible catheters adapted to be inserted into a body to deliver high-voltage, fast (e.g., microsecond, sub-microsecond, nanosecond, picosecond, etc.) electrical energy to target tissue may include a plurality of conductive layers, that may be coaxial. These catheters and method of using them to treat tissue are configured to reduce or avoid arcing. |
| US11931569B2 |
Method for changing blood brain barrier permeability
A system and a method for increasing permeability of a brain barrier selected from a blood-brain barrier or a blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier by controlled application of pulsed electric fields. |
| US11931562B2 |
Techniques for identifying acoustic biomarkers in left ventricular assist device recipients
Disclosed are systems and techniques for determining an acoustic biomarker. For example, a precordial sound recording that includes at least a first sound component corresponding to a heart and a second sound component corresponding to a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) can be obtained. At least a portion of the second sound component corresponding to the LVAD can be filtered from the precordial sound recording to yield a filtered precordial sound recording. Based on the filtered precordial sound recording, at least one acoustic biomarker can be determined. |
| US11931554B2 |
Systems, kits and methods for loading and delivering a small volume dose from a syringe
A kit is disclosed for accurately loading a small volume dose of a medication within a syringe and for delivering the small volume dose of the medication at a treatment site. The kit generally includes a loading and delivery system in accordance herewith, a syringe, and a medication. The loading and delivery system includes a syringe delivery ring and a syringe loading guide, which may be used for example, to administer a small volume dose of a medication at the end of an ocular surgery. |
| US11931552B2 |
Cartridge insertion for drug delivery device
A drug delivery device includes a compartment sized to receive a cartridge. The compartment includes a cartridge bay that opens so that a cartridge may be inserted into the cartridge bay and that closes when the cartridge is received by the compartment. The drug delivery device also includes a housing including an expanding assembly. The expanding assembly includes a driver supported from a distal end by a linear stabilizer that includes a bearing configured to push against the housing. The driver is rotated by a motor. The expanding assembly also includes two mid screws threadedly connected to the driver, a plunger driver threadedly connected to the two mid screws, and an anti-rotational guide that prevents rotation of the plunger driver. |
| US11931550B2 |
Syringe adapter and guide for filling an on-body injector
A system and a method for filling an on-body injector includes a needle of the prefilled syringe being aligned with a fill port of the on-body injector. The needle may then be inserted into a guide of a needle cover attached to the on-body injector. An adapter attached to the syringe barrel may guide the needle into a center of the bore of the guide and into the fill port of the on-body injector. The needle may be inserted into the fill port and the adapter may be mechanically coupling to the guide. After the adapter is mechanically coupled to the guide, a volume of the drug of the prefilled syringe may be dispensed into a reservoir of the on-body injector. Once the reservoir is filled to a desired amount, the needle may be removed from the fill port by decoupling the adapter from the guide. |
| US11931547B1 |
Devices for use in drug delivery systems
Some embodiments are directed to a medical device for fluidly connecting to a medical spike, including a spike port configured to receive therein the medical spike and establish fluid communication between the medical spike and the medical device The spike-locking mechanism can be configured to resist extraction of the medical spike from the spike port. |
| US11931543B2 |
IV set component with priming function
Drip chambers, burettes and other IV set components are described herein. An IV set component described herein comprises a chamber body, an inlet portion, and a disk valve. The chamber body defines a chamber volume and an outlet. The chamber volume is in fluid communication with the outlet. The inlet portion is coupled to the chamber body, the inlet portion defining an inlet, a priming port, a drip port. The inlet is in fluid communication with the priming port and the drip port, and the priming port and the drip port are each in fluid communication with the chamber volume. The disk valve is coupled to the inlet portion. The disk valve is movable to direct flow from the inlet to the priming port in a first position and to direct flow from the inlet to the drip port in a second position. |
| US11931541B2 |
Connector for selective occlusion of drainage tube
A connector for a fluid drainage system having a body defining a drainage lumen extending longitudinally from a distal portion to a proximal portion. The body can include a piston housing and an inlet in fluid communication with a positive air pressure source. A piston is slidably engaged with the piston housing along a transverse axis between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the piston provides fluid communication between the distal portion and the proximal portion of the drainage lumen and occludes fluid communication between the inlet and the drainage lumen. The piston in the second position occludes fluid communication between the distal portion and the proximal portion of the drainage lumen and provides fluid communication between the inlet and the drainage lumen to clear dependent loops, while preventing distal fluid flow into a catheter. |
| US11931540B1 |
Enhanced pen-like portable device for cleaning needle-free iv-connectors
The present disclosure proposes a pen-like assembly of caps for cleaning and protecting needle-free iv-connectors, with an extended shelf life. An enhanced gas-tightness in sealing is arranged in-between successively arranged caps that are engaged together. A first approach is based on enhancing geometric compliance between striking surfaces, by contacting one or more material components that have different respective Shore hardness values. A second approach is based on meandering and extending a possible fluid communication route from a cavity inside a cap towards surroundings of the assembly. A third approach includes the provision of the fluid communication route with an adhesive or sealant to achieve a gas-tight sealing. A fourth approach includes circumferentially covering junctions with one or more covers that are substantially gas impermeable. |
| US11931538B2 |
Therapeutic delivery device
A therapeutic delivery device that provides a controlled release of high doses of a therapeutic agent in a local area, sustains the high dose controlled release with a percutaneous port for refilling the device, and is versatile for use with multiple types of therapeutic agents and/or implant systems. A rate determining/controlled release membrane is used to decrease the molecular mobility of the therapeutic compounds thereby controlling the therapeutic release profile. The therapeutic delivery device includes a body defining an internal reservoir for receiving a therapeutic agent and including a first membrane for providing a controlled release of the therapeutic agent to the surgical site, a port in fluid communication with the reservoir, a sleeve configured to encapsulate the body, and a rigid housing configured to support the body and a portion of the sleeve, the rigid housing configured to release the body and the sleeve after the body and the sleeve are anchored position relative to the surgical site. |
| US11931529B2 |
Steerable catheter
The present invention provides a steerable medical or surgical device, in particular a steerable catheter having one or more actuators which may be integrated into a catheter without the need for welding the actuator to the catheter, the device comprising a main shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, and at least one braided actuator coupled to the main shaft at or adjacent the distal end. |
| US11931528B2 |
Zero force catheter
A catheter configured to dynamically compensate for the impact of internal and external forces that act upon the catheter during use is disclosed. The catheter may include sensors configured to measure received forces on control cables that extend within the catheter. A controller, coupled to the sensors, may record received force measurements associated with a working position of a distal end of the catheter. The controller may monitor subsequently received forces to identify force variances that may deflect the distal end of the catheter from its working position and may apply a driving force to one or more of the control cables to minimize the force variances. Monitoring received forces during use and applying compensating drive forces may reduce deflection of the distal end of the catheter, increasing the accuracy and precision of an annuloplasty procedure while minimizing potential damage to cardiac tissue. |
| US11931527B2 |
Control handle with rotational cam mechanism for contraction/deflection of medical device
A medical device has a distal member with a configuration that can be changed by means of a control handle with a control assembly employing a rotational cam, a shaft, and a pulley, where the rotational cam is rotationally mounted on a portion of the control handle for rotation by a user. The rotational cam operates on the shaft to move it proximally or distally depending on the direction of rotation which in turn rotates the pulley to draw or release a puller wire to change the configuration of the distal member of the medical device. The shaft is oriented along a diameter of the control handle. The shaft has two ends which extends through two axial guide slots in the portion of the control handle to sit two opposing helical tracks formed on inner surface of the rotational cam. The guide slots are parallel with the longitudinal axis of the control handle and therefore maintain the shaft's diametrical orientation as the rotational cam is rotated to move the shaft proximally or distally. Actuation of the puller wire by means of the control assembly can result in a change of the distal member's configuration, including deflection, contraction and/or expansion. |
| US11931524B2 |
Urinary catheterisation aid
An intermittent urinary catheterisation aid 2 and an assembly is provided. The aid allows a user to manipulate an intermittent urinary catheter 3 in one direction and insert it into the urethra in another direction. |
| US11931517B2 |
Germicidal UV light device
A device for capturing momentarily an exhaled breath of a COVID 19 patient containing active SARS-CoV-2 virions within an accessible compartment of said device and converting said active SARS-CoV-2 virions into far-UVC inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virions by exposure to an activated 222 nm far-UVC lamp mounted in said accessible compartment and with the next inhaled breath of said COVID 19 patient said far-UVC inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virions are positioned within the respiratory system ready to be captured by an antigen-presenting cells such as the Dendritic cells (DCs) which are antigen-presenting cells that capture, process, and present antigens to lymphocytes to initiate and regulate the adaptive immune response. Said far-UVC inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virions can be collected from said accessible compartment of said device and processed into viable vaccine that can be administered to front-line workers. |
| US11931516B2 |
Patient interface with convertible connector
A patient interface comprises an opening for receiving a flow of gas from a conduit and an adaptable connector system for connecting at least two different types of conduit with the opening. The adaptable connector is permanently mounted with the patient interface so it cannot be lost and is able to swing into alignment with the opening, thereby providing a different connection end to be compatible with a second or further type of conduit connection end. |
| US11931514B2 |
Patient interface systems
A patient interface structure includes a cushion configured to sealingly engage the patient's face and a front that is more rigid than the cushion. The cushion includes a forward opening, a rearward opening that is opposite the forward opening and a continuous sealing surface. The continuous sealing surface has a mouth sealing portion configured to seal around the patient's mouth and a nasal sealing portion configured to seal around both of the patient's nasal airways. The front plate includes an air inlet configured to both receive the pressurized respiratory gas and secure headgear to the patient interface structure. In addition, the nasal sealing portion includes at least one aperture that is separate from the rearward opening. Also, the front plate, the mouth sealing portion and the nasal sealing portion together form a common chamber. |
| US11931510B2 |
Cushion assembly with frame, cushion, and cushion-to-frame component
An interfacing structure for a mask system includes a cushion component adapted to contact the patient's face in use and a cushion-to-frame component provided to the cushion component. The cushion-to-frame component is structured to secure the cushion component to a mask frame of the mask system. The cushion-to-frame component includes a cushion side adapted to interface with the cushion component and a frame side adapted to interface with the mask frame. The cushion side includes a platform to engage and support the cushion component. The platform provides an engagement surface to engage the cushion component and inner and outer flanges provided to opposing ends of the platform to guide, support and/or retain the cushion component on the platform. |
| US11931509B2 |
Systems and methods for drive pressure spontaneous ventilation
This disclosure describes systems and methods for providing drive pressure ventilation of a patient. The disclosure describes a novel breath type that provides a spontaneous breath type that allows for the calculation of drive pressure that does not require invasive monitoring. |
| US11931508B2 |
Remote diagnostics of respiratory therapy devices
A system and method is disclosed for performing diagnostics on patient devices (720). The patient devices (720) may include respiratory therapy devices that operate in accordance with instruction sets, such as software or firmware. A server (710) may maintain a database of diagnostic data (718) indicating faults in one or more of a plurality of patient devices (720). The server (710) may transmit this diagnostic data (718) to one or more computing devices (760), including identification of faults that have occurred. The server (710) may also transmit service data to the plurality of patient devices (720) in order to address the identified faults. |
| US11931507B2 |
Electronic vapor provision device
An electronic vapor provision device comprises a body and a vaporizer. The body comprises a power cell and a processor, and the vaporizer is releasably connectable to the body. The processor is configured to enter a sleep mode when the vaporizer is connected to the body and the device is inactive for an inactive time. Furthermore, the processor is configured to leave the sleep mode and enter a usable mode when the vaporizer is disconnected from the body then reconnected to the body. |
| US11931504B2 |
Inhaler particularly a cannabinoid inhaler and a method of assembling such an inhaler
An inhaler with an inner housing with a pressurised reservoir of an inhalable composition. A breath operated valve is operable by a user inhaling on an inhaling end of the inhaler. A composition flow path extends from the breath operated valve to the inhaling end via which the composition is dispensed when the breath operated valve is opened. The breath operated valve is biased closed by a biasing member contacting the breath operated valve at one end. A bung in the inner housing is positioned in an opening in the inner housing to support the end of the biasing member opposite to the breath operated valve. A rigid outer housing surrounds the inner housing and supports the bung. |
| US11931501B2 |
Dialysis sheath for use in accessing a dialysis arteriovenous graft or fistula and methods of use
A dialysis sheath is used with a catheter that cleans clots from a synthetic blood vessel or fistula. The dialysis sheath comprises a main hollow body and a stop mechanism. The main body has a lower portion for insertion into the synthetic blood vessel or fistula. The stop mechanism is movable between (i) a first position in which the stop mechanism is adjacent to or within a surface of the main hollow body and (ii) a second position in which the stop mechanism radially protrudes from the main hollow body. The stop mechanism is configured to engage an inner surface of the synthetic blood vessel or fistula to maintain the lower portion of the dialysis sheath within the synthetic blood vessel or fistula when the dialysis sheath is moved to a different position. The stop mechanism can be fluid-actuated and include a balloon-like structure. |
| US11931500B2 |
Pressure detector
A pressure detector that includes a case connectable to a flow route for liquid, and a membrane member provided in the case and with which a liquid-phase portion to be supplied with the liquid in the flow route and a gas-phase portion to be supplied with gas are separated from each other, the membrane member being displaceable in accordance with a pressure of the liquid supplied to the liquid-phase portion, the pressure detector detecting the pressure of the liquid in the flow route by detecting a pressure in the gas-phase portion. The gas-phase portion has an opening through which the gas is allowed to be introduced or discharged in accordance with the displacement of the membrane member, and a secured portion secured for the introduction or discharge of the gas through the opening during the displacement of the membrane member toward a side of the gas-phase portion. |
| US11931493B2 |
Preparing an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus
A control system is configured to implement a method of preparing a blood treatment apparatus (1) for blood treatment. The method comprises installing, by use of a disposable arrangement, first and second flow circuits (C1, C2) separated by a semi-permeable membrane (25), the first flow circuit (C1) being connected for fluid communication with the apparatus (1) and the second flow circuit (C2) being connected to form a closed loop that includes a sterilizing filter (46) and, optionally, a container (30). The method further comprises performing backfiltration to transfer a human-compatible fluid from the first flow circuit (C1) to the second flow circuit (C2) through the semi-permeable membrane (25), and circulating (304) the human-compatible fluid in the closed loop of second flow circuit (C2), to thereby sterilize the human-compatible fluid by the sterilizing filter (46) and, optionally, collect a resulting sterile fluid in the container (30) for later use. |
| US11931490B2 |
Air purification module and refrigerator comprising the same
An air purification module for purifying air includes a photocatalyst filter and a light source unit sequentially arranged in a selected direction. The light source unit is spaced apart from the photocatalyst filter to provide light to the photocatalyst filter and includes a substrate and a light source disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes at least one aperture to control a flow channel and a flow velocity of air so as to improve air purification effects through the photocatalyst filter when the air flows from the substrate towards the photocatalyst filter. |
| US11931487B2 |
Articles formed of pulp base materials with modulated scent release
Described are articles formed of a pulp base material comprising fibers, wherein pores are formed between the fibers. A volatile composition with at least one top note component and at least one base note component at least partially fills the pores of the pulp base material. A release rate of the at least one top note component is modulated by the pulp base material, and a release rate of the at least one base note component is enhanced by the pulp base material. |
| US11931484B2 |
Composite stent having multi-axial flexibility and method of manufacture thereof
A bioabsorbable composite stent structure, comprising bioabsorbable polymeric ring structures which retain a molecular weight and mechanical strength of a starting substrate and one or more interconnecting struts which extend between and couple adjacent ring structures. The ring structures can have a formed first diameter and being radially compressible to a smaller second diameter and re-expandable to the first diameter. The ring structures can comprise a base polymeric layer. The interconnecting struts can be formed from a polymer blend or co-polymer of poly-L-lactide (PLLA) and an elastomeric polymer. The interconnecting struts each can have a width that is less than a circumference of one of the ring structures. The adjacent ring structures can be axially and rotationally movable relative to one another via the interconnecting struts. The interconnecting struts can also be bioabsorbable. |
| US11931480B2 |
Microporous annealed particle gels and methods of use
A hydrogel material for modulating an immune response in a human subject or other mammal includes a collection of microgel particles having one or more network cross linker components, wherein the microgel particles, when exposed to an endogenous or exogenous annealing agent, links the microgel particles together in situ to form a covalently-stabilized scaffold of microgel particles having interstitial spaces formed between the microgel particles and wherein the collection of microgel particles further includes at least one of an antigen and an adjuvant. |
| US11931479B2 |
Artificial blood vessel
The present invention provides an artificial blood vessel that can achieve a balance between cell penetration efficiency and crush resistance and can regenerate a blood vessel at very high efficiency. Provided is an artificial blood vessel having a tubular shape, including: a foam containing a bioabsorbable material; a reinforcement A containing a bioabsorbable material; and a reinforcement B including threads containing a bioabsorbable material, the foam being reinforced with the reinforcements A and B, wherein the reinforcement A is a non-woven fabric, a film, or a weft-knitted, warp-knitted, or woven fabric made of knitted or woven fibers, the reinforcement B includes monofilament threads each having a cross-sectional diameter of 0.1 mm or more and 1 mm or less, the reinforcement B includes a winding portion having a helical shape, a ring shape, or an X shape and a warp thread portion stretched in a direction parallel to a longitudinal direction of the artificial blood vessel, and the artificial blood vessel is a composite including the reinforcement A and reinforcement B inside the foam. |
| US11931475B1 |
Automatic air conditioner drain system sanitizer
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include an automatic air conditioner drain system sanitizer, including a pump moving a plurality of drain sanitizer solution from a pump inlet to a pump outlet automatically. Embodiments may also include a solution reservoir containing a drain sanitizer solution. In some embodiments, the solution reservoir includes a solution reservoir lid, an atmospheric equalization vent, and a solution reservoir tubing coupler. In some embodiments, the pump draws the drain sanitizer solution into the pump from the solution reservoir. Embodiments may also include a pump controller circuit board which operates the pump. Embodiments may also include a wireless communications circuit board which provides control, settings adjustments, system dispensing history data and system overall health status. |
| US11931474B2 |
Mobile device disinfection
A disinfectant transmissive material incorporated into a case for a mobile device or a supporting surface of a disinfecting charger to enable disinfection of hard to reach areas. The case can be self-disinfecting. The disinfecting charger can have monitoring and safety systems that detect proximity and provide user feedback on safety, disinfection, and charge status along with automatic interlocks to protect the user from overexposure to disinfectant. |
| US11931473B2 |
Handheld ultraviolet irradiation device having distance measurement system
A handheld light assembly for eradicating pathogens includes a housing. A processor and a lamp are disposed inside the housing. The lamp irradiates surfaces with disinfecting ultraviolet light having a peak wavelength of 222 nm filtered to restrict illumination to between 200 nm and 230 nm within an irradiation zone. A distance measuring system includes a secondary light source generating secondary light and a photodetector for measuring distance of the secondary light to a surface being irradiated by the lamp light being reflected from the surface to the photodetector. The secondary light source is offset at an angle from the lamp thereby projecting the light beam to a central area of the irradiation zone generated by the lamp. The photodetector signals the processor to calculate a vertical distance between the lamp and the central area of the irradiation zone on the surface being irradiated from an angular projection of the secondary light. |
| US11931472B1 |
Vehicle with UVC light emitters
A system for disinfecting an autonomous vehicle includes a light assembly having LEDs configured to emit UVC light into a passenger compartment of the autonomous vehicle. The light assembly includes a heat sink to dissipate heat generated by the LEDs. In examples, the heat sink is disposed in the path of forced air associated with a climate control system of the vehicle. The climate control system may be controlled based on a temperature proximate the LEDs and/or the heat sink. In some examples, the light assembly is integrated into the ceiling of the vehicle and can further include visible light emitters and/or other features. |
| US11931471B2 |
Shoe management device
A shoe management device may have a housing having a body to define an inner space and a cover to open or close the body to allow access to the inner space. Agitators may be provided at a bottom of the body, which may be configured to hold shoes, and the agitators may remove foreign matter from the shoes. An upper portion of the body may have an air generator configured to blow air toward the shoes to remove foreign matter. In addition, moisture and germs inside the shoe may be removed by hot air, ultraviolet light, and plasma ions provided by a care assembly provided inside of the body and configured to be at least partially inserted into the shoes. |
| US11931470B2 |
Visible light chromophore excitation for microorganism control
Visible light disinfection is a healthcare technology wherein violet light is used to inactivate pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The present invention overcomes the limitations of continuous irradiance in whole-room environments by pulse width modulation of the light sources and increasing the instantaneous irradiance while maintaining average irradiance and hence light power requirements. The invention further discloses the use of multispectral light sources wherein the pulse modulation frequencies are synchronized and the phase of the spectral components are offset in order to maximize synergistic or antagonistic responses to intracellular chromophore excitation. |
| US11931469B2 |
Absorbent article having a reduced humidity level
An absorbent article comprising an absorbent member positioned between a topsheet and a backsheet is provided. The absorbent member contains at least one layer that comprises porous superabsorbent particles, wherein the particles exhibit a relative humidity microclimate of about 67% or less after being exposed to an atmosphere having a temperature of about 23° C. and relative humidity of 80% for a time period of 20 minutes. |
| US11931466B2 |
Process for the preparation of drug loaded microparticles
Provided is a process for the production of nano- and/or microparticles containing a therapeutically active agent embedded in a polymer matrix or encapsulated by a polymer shell, and nano- and/or microparticles obtainable by the process, said process comprising the steps of: a) providing a solution of a polymer selected from polylactide, polyglycolide, and polyester copolymers comprising copolymerized units of lactic acid and/or glycolic acid in an organic solvent S1 having limited water solubility; b) providing a solution or dispersion of a therapeutically active agent in as solvent or mixture of organic solvents S2 comprising at least 50 vol. % benzyl alcohol, c) combining the solution or the solution and suspension provided in step a) and step b) to provide an organic phase which comprises dissolved polymer and dissolved therapeutically active agent in a mixture of the organic solvents S1 and S2; d) agitating the organic phase provided in step c) in a vessel and adding an aqueous surfactant solution to the agitated organic phase in a volume ratio of at least 2:1 in terms of the total volume of the aqueous surfactant solution to the total volume of the organic phase as provided in step c), thus causing the formation of a dispersion containing a continuous aqueous phase and a discontinuous organic phase; and e) allowing the spontaneous formation of the nano- and/or microparticles via transfer of organic solvent from the discontinuous organic phase into the continuous aqueous phase directly after the dispersion has been formed. |
| US11931460B2 |
Aminoglycoside antibiotic-derived microbead-encapsulated spheroids and methods of making and using the same
The instant disclosure is directed to compositions comprising an encapsulated spheroid, and methods of making and using the same. A composition may comprise a spheroid comprising a plurality of cells and aminoglycoside antibiotic-derived hydrogel beads, wherein the spheroid is encapsulated by the aminoglycoside antibiotic-derived hydrogel beads to form an encapsulated spheroid. A method may comprise administering the composition to a subject in need thereof. Another method may comprise administering a compound to the encapsulated spheroid. A method of creating an encapsulated spheroid may comprise coating a surface with an aminoglycoside antibiotic-derived hydrogel, culturing a plurality of cells on the surface, thereby creating a spheroid, and encapsulating the spheroid with a plurality of aminoglycoside antibiotic-derived hydrogel beads. |
| US11931456B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions containing mixed polymeric micelles
A pharmaceutical composition containing a mixed polymeric micelle and a drug enclosed in the micelle, in which the mixed polymeric micelle, 1 to 1000 nm in size, includes an amphiphilic block copolymer and a lipopolymer. Also disclosed are preparation of the pharmaceutical composition and use thereof for treating cancer. |
| US11931450B2 |
Hair oil
A natural hair oil treatment product and methods of producing the hair oil and using the oil. The hair oil includes multiple vegetable oils and natural products that are combined in a multi-step process, with the products providing therapy and/or treatment for the hair and scalp. |
| US11931440B2 |
Two-component hair care agent, method for the production of a cosmetic agent and use of the two-component hair care agent
The present disclosure relates to a two-component hair care agent including, separately from one another, an anhydrous carrier as a first component and, as a second component, an aqueous carrier. The anhydrous carrier includes a branched or unbranched alkane having a chain length of C10 to C30, a branched or unbranched fatty alcohol having a chain length of C8 to C22, an organic acid or an alkalizing agent and a pH sensitive color indicator. The aqueous carrier includes a cationic surfactant comprising an organic radical having a chain length of C12 to C30. In addition, the present disclosure relates to a method for the production of a cosmetic agent in which the first component and the second component are mixed together and the use of the two-component hair care agent for the care of keratinic fibers, in particular human hair. |
| US11931436B2 |
Water-in-oil emulsion for skin or lip care or makeup
The invention relates to a wax-free water-in-oil emulsion comprising an amide of amino acid and of fatty acid, and a polymer bearing alkyl chains comprising 10 to 30 carbon atoms. This emulsion is intended for skin or lip care or makeup. |
| US11931434B2 |
Oil-in-water type sunscreen cosmetic
An oil-in-water type sunscreen cosmetic containing the following component (A) and the following component (B): (A) 1% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less of emulsion particles containing an oil soluble ultraviolet ray absorbent (a1), having an average particle diameter of more than 6 μm and 300 μm or less, and (B) 0.3% by mass or more and 2.5% by mass or less of particles containing an oil soluble ultraviolet ray absorbent (b3) encompassed by an ionic surfactant (b1) and a hydrophobic amphiphilic substance (b2), having a content of a solid oil agent of 2.5% by mass or less based on the total amount of the particles, having an average particle diameter of 6 μm or less. |
| US11931433B2 |
Dry shampoo composition
The present disclosure provides dry shampoo compositions effective for cleaning hair and also coloring hair. The dry shampoo compositions can include a starch component mixed with a colorant, a color adhesion promoter, a solvent, and optional further ingredients, such as propellants and fragrances. |
| US11931432B2 |
Dental composition
The present invention relates to a dental composition comprising a specific radically polymerizable compound and a radical initiator system. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the specific radically polymerizable compound and its use in a dental composition. The specific radically polymerizable compound of the present invention has an allyl (meth)acrylamide group and a phosphoric acid ester group. |
| US11931427B2 |
Therapeutical tools and methods for treating blindness by targeting photoreceptors
The present inventions relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence coding for a depolarizing light-gated ion channel functionally linked to a promoter leading to the specific expression of said depolarizing light-gated ion channel in a retinal photoreceptor, or the nucleotide sequence complementary to said nucleotide sequence, for use in treating or ameliorating blindness. The present invention also relates to methods of using such nucleic acid molecules in the treatment of blindness. |
| US11931421B2 |
Muscle targeting complexes and formulations for treating myotonic dystrophy
Aspects of the disclosure relate to complexes and other aspects relate to formulations (e.g., aqueous, lyophilized forms) comprising such complexes comprising an oligonucleotide (e.g., useful for targeting DMPK) covalently linked to an antibody (e.g., anti-TfR1 antibody). |
| US11931416B2 |
Immolative cell-penetrating complexes for nucleic acid delivery to the lung
There are provided herein, inter alia, cationic amphipathic polymers, complexes, and compositions comprising same, and methods for their use including for the delivery of therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents, including nucleic acids, into a cell. The complexes, compositions and methods may facilitate delivery and targeted release of the therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents to particular cell types and tissues. |
| US11931415B2 |
Ophthalmic compositions
A composition comprises: a base oil; an additive; and a drug. The additive has segments which are conjugated, e.g. covalently linked, together. A first segment facilitates solubility in the base oil, whereas a second segment facilitates drug solubility and/or modifies drug release or other behaviour. The first segment may for example comprise a poly(dimethylsiloxane)-containing moiety. The second segment may for example resemble a drug molecule. The composition may for example be used as a tamponade or as a component for a tamponade administered to the eye. |
| US11931414B2 |
Quaternized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide salvage pathway inhibitor conjugates
Compounds and compositions are disclosed in which a NAMPT Drug Unit is conjugated to a targeting Ligand Unit through quaternization by a Linker Unit from which a NAMPT inhibitor compound or derivative thereof is released at the targeted site of action. Methods for treating diseases characterized by the targeted abnormal cells, such as those of cancer or an autoimmune disease, using the compounds and compositions of the invention are also disclosed. |
| US11931413B2 |
Dextromethorphan and guaifenesin syrup formulation or suspension
A stable pharmaceutical formulation or suspension has a pharmaceutical active agent, agave, and a dilutant. The formulation or suspension has viscosity suitable for drinking. |
| US11931412B2 |
JAK1 inhibitors and uses thereof
The present invention provides methods for treating pruritus having a neurogenic component in a subject in need thereof comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a JAK1 inhibitor based on a benzimidazole core, a purine core, or a pyrrolo pyridine core. |
| US11931408B2 |
Immunogenic antigen identification from a pathogen and correlation to clinical efficacy
Embodiments of the disclosure concern methods of identifying whether or not antigens from a particular pathogen are immunogenic, including the order of their immunogenicity. Other embodiments concern correlations between attributes of T cells and their clinical efficacy, such as mathematical representations thereof. |
| US11931407B2 |
MHC class I associated peptides for prevention and treatment of zika virus
The invention provides a vaccine composition comprising a flavivirus peptide comprising one or more CD8+ T cell epitopes, wherein the peptide is attached to a nanoparticle. |
| US11931405B2 |
Bioconjugates of E. coli O-antigen polysaccharides, methods of production thereof, and methods of use thereof
A bioconjugate of an E. coli glucosylated O4 antigen polysaccharide covalently linked to a carrier protein and compositions thereof are provided. Also provided are recombinant host cells for producing the bioconjugate, and methods of producing the bioconjugate using the recombinant host cells. The recombinant host cells contain a nucleic acid encoding a glucosyl transferase capable of modifying the E. coli O4 antigen with glucose branching to produce the glucosylated O4 antigen polysaccharide. Bioconjugates of an E. coli glucosylated O4 antigen polysaccharide described herein can be used alone or in combination with one or more additional E. coli O-antigen polysaccharides to induce antibodies against an E. coli glucosylated antigen, and to vaccinate a subject against extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC). |
| US11931404B2 |
Use of ultrarapid acting insulin
Disclosed herein are improved methods of treating hyperglycemia with a combination of an ultrarapid acting insulin and insulin glargine comprising prandial administration of the ultrarapid insulin, and administration of a first dose of insulin glargine within 6 hours of waking for a day. |
| US11931403B2 |
Compositions, systems, and methods for treating or reducing hypoxia-ischemia induced brain damage and neurobehavioral dysfunction in neonates
A method for treating or reducing a likelihood of hypoxia-ischemia induced brain damage and neurobehavioral dysfunction in neonates utilizes a relative high dose of nasally administered insulin. In one aspect, the method includes intranasally administering, to a neonate in need thereof, an effective dose of insulin comprising between 350 U to 2000 U insulin. |
| US11931402B2 |
Compositions for treating heart disease by inhibiting the action of mAKAP-β
The present invention provides a method of protecting the heart from damage, by administering to a patient at risk of such damage, a pharmaceutically effective amount of a composition which inhibits the interaction of RSK3 and mAKAPβ, or the expression or activity of one or both of those molecules. This composition may be in the form of a peptide that specifically inhibits mAKAPβ binding to RSK3 or in the form of an siRNA construct which inhibits the expression of RSK3. |
| US11931392B2 |
Use of Magnolia figo extract in the manufacture of compound for inhibiting growth of lung cancer cells
A use of Magnolia figo extract in the manufacture of a compound for inhibiting growth of lung cancer cells. |
| US11931389B2 |
Tablet of sporoderm-removed ganoderma lucidum spore and preparation method thereof
The present invention provides a tablet of sporoderm-removed Ganoderma lucidum spore, which includes the following raw materials by weight parts: 13-20 parts of an aqueous extract of sporoderm-disrupted Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, 3-5 parts of sorbitol, and 0.8-1.2 parts of povidone K30; A method for preparing the tablet of sporoderm-removed Ganoderma lucidum spore includes the following steps: mixing the aqueous extract of sporoderm-disrupted Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, sorbitol and povidone K30 for 10-30 min, and subjecting the obtained mixture to granulating, screening and drying to obtain a granular material; and tableting the granular material to obtain the tablet of sporoderm-removed Ganoderma lucidum spore. The tablet of sporoderm-removed Ganoderma lucidum spore has a much higher content of active components, which are also easier to be absorbed. The tablet of sporoderm-removed Ganoderma lucidum spore is of effectively enhancing the body immunity and have anti-radiation and anti-tumor effects; and the dosage form of the tablet is convenient to carry and take. |
| US11931386B2 |
Compositions and methods for increasing butyrate production
Provided herein are compositions and methods for increasing butyrate production in a subject. In particular, provided herein are compositions, probiotic compositions, and combinations thereof that promote butyrate production in a subject. |
| US11931385B2 |
Feed additive composition
A feed additive composition comprising a direct fed microbial (DFM), in combination with a xylanase (e.g. endo-1,4-β-d-xylanase) and a β-glucanase (and optionally a further fibre degrading enzyme). |
| US11931384B2 |
Micronized placental tissue compositions and methods of making and using the same
Described herein are compositions composed of micronized placental components and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The compositions have numerous medical applications. Methods for making and using the micronized compositions are also described herein. |
| US11931380B2 |
Inhibition of diacylglycerol kinase to augment adoptive T cell transfer
The present invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting one or more diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) isoform in a cell in order to enhance the cytolytic activity of the cell. In one embodiment, the cells may be used in adoptive T cell transfer. For example, in some embodiments, the cell is modified to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). Inhibition of DGK in T cells used in adoptive T cell transfer increases cytolytic activity of the T cells and thus may be used in the treatment of a variety of conditions, including cancer, infection, and immune disorders. |
| US11931378B2 |
Method and process to make chitosan-doped strontium oxide nanocomposite for bactericidal applications
Strontium oxide (SrO) nanoparticle and various concentrations of chitosan (CS)-doped SrO nanocomposite were synthesized via co-precipitation method. A variety of characterization techniques including were done for characterizing and qualifying the nanocomposite. X-ray powder diffraction affirmed cubic and tetragonal structure of SrO nanoparticle and CS-doped SrO nanocomposite with a decrease in crystallinity upon doping. Fourier transform infrared spectrum endorsed existing functional groups on CS/SrO surfaces while d-spacing was estimated using high resolution Transmission electron microscopes images. UV-Visible and Photoluminescence spectroscopy spectra showed an increase in band gap energies with an increase in doping concentration. Elemental composition of CS-doped SrO nanocomposite deposited with different doping concentrations was studied using Energy dispersive Spectroscopy. Addition of chitosan resulted in the formation of nanocomposite and rod-like structures that led to enhanced catalytic activity during methylene blue ciprofloxacin degradation in the presence of reducing agent sodium borohydrate at various pH conditions. |
| US11931375B2 |
Treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
The present disclosure relates to AAVs encoding a SOD1 targeting polynucleotide which may be used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and delivery methods for the treatment of spinal cord related disorders including ALS. |
| US11931374B2 |
Adenosine receptor modulators for the treatment of circadian rhythm disorders
The present invention relates to the use of adenosine receptor modulators to affect the circadian rhythm, in particular, to the use of such modulators for the treatment of circadian rhythm disorders. In particular, the invention relates to a composition comprising at least one selective adenosine receptor modulator, wherein said composition modulates two or three, but not all of adenosine receptor subtypes A1, A2A, A2B and/or A3 for use in the treatment of circadian rhythm disorders or for modulating a biological clock. |
| US11931373B2 |
HSP90 activator AHA1 drives production of pathological tau aggregates
Disclosed herein are compounds and methods for inhibiting Aha1 for the treatment of tauopathies and neurodegenerative diseases. The Aha1 inhibitor may reduce the interaction between Aha1 and Hsp90. The Aha1 inhibitor may reduce aggregation of tau protein. The Aha1 inhibitor may include a compound selected from KU-177, KU-174, and KU-308. |
| US11931369B1 |
Compositions and methods for treating epilepsy
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for delivering compositions to a subject in need of treatment for epilepsy. The disclosed compositions are orally delivered. Further disclosed are kits comprising the disclosed compositions as part of a method of delivering cannabidiol and CBD-containing compositions to subjects in need of treatment for epilepsy. |
| US11931365B2 |
Use of PPAR-delta agonists in the treatment of disease
Described herein is the use sodium (E)-2-(4-((3-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-(4-(3-morpholinoprop-1-yn-1-yl)phenyl)allyl)oxy)-2-methylphenoxy)acetate in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases or conditions that would benefit by administration with a PPARδ agonist compound. |
| US11931363B2 |
Triazolopyrimidine compounds and uses thereof
A compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, is provided that has been shown to be useful for treating a PRC2-mediated disease or disorder: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and n are as defined herein. |
| US11931362B2 |
Stable pharmaceutical formulations of pemetrexed
The present invention relates to a long term storage stable multi-dose ready-to use or ready-to dilute pharmaceutical liquid formulation comprising pemetrexed or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, an antioxidant, a preservative, a buffering agent, and a pharmaceutically acceptable fluid. The invention also relates to a process of preparing the formulation, a kit and a method of treatment of patients having lung cancer by administering the pharmaceutical formulation to a subject in need thereof. |
| US11931361B2 |
Poxvirus host range protein K3 as a positive selection marker for generation of recombinant poxviruses, a therapeutic target for poxvirus infection and a therapeutic agent for PKR related diseases
Described herein is a novel method for generation of recombinant poxviruses using an E3 and K3 double deletion mutant virus as the parental virus for generation of recombinant viruses. Following allowing for crossing over between the parental virus and an insertion cassette including an orthopox K3 peptide and the gene of interest, recombinant viruses are selected by infecting a host cell line permissive for the orthopox K3 peptide but not for the E3 and K3 double mutant parental virus. It is also demonstrated that a specific small molecule inhibitor of NEDD8 activating enzyme, MLN4924, can completely block poxvirus K3 family protein mediated PKR degradation and virus replication. |
| US11931359B2 |
Method of increasing bioavailability and/or prolonging ophthalmic action of a drug
The present invention relates to a method of increasing the bioavailability and/or prolonging ophthalmic action of a drug, the method comprising instilling into the eye an aqueous suspension comprising reversible clusters of drug loaded nano-resin particles, said clusters having a D50 value of at least 2 micrometer and said drug loaded nano-resin particles have a particle size distribution characterized in that the D90 value is 70 nanometer to 900 nanometer. The present invention further relates to an aqueous suspension comprising reversible clusters of drug loaded nano-resin particles, said clusters have a D50 value of at least 2 micrometers and said drug loaded nano-resin particles have a particle size distribution characterized in that the D90 value is 70 nanometers to 900 nanometers. |
| US11931357B2 |
Depot systems comprising Cariprazine or salts thereof
The present invention provides long-acting parenteral pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of Cariprazine or salts thereof, in a depot form suitable for administering at a medically acceptable location in a subject in need thereof. The depot compositions are preferably in the form of in-situ implants suitable for subcutaneous or intramuscular administration and provide prolonged release of the Cariprazine active ingredient and/or its metabolites desmethyl Cariprazine (DCAR) and didesmethyl Cariprazine (DDCAR) for a period of at least 4 weeks following a single administration. The present invention further provides methods of use of the depot compositions for the treatment of schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder. |
| US11931355B2 |
Aripiprazole formulations having increased injection speeds
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) that are useful for the intramuscular delivery of antipsychotic drugs using rapid injection rates. |
| US11931354B2 |
Formulations of oxabicycloheptanes and oxabicycloheptenes
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) inhibitor and monosodium glutamate. |
| US11931353B2 |
Methods of preventing or treating flavivirus virus infections and methods of inhibiting the entry of flvivirus, enterovirus or lentivirus into host cells
A method of preventing or treating a subject suffering from a flavivirus infection by administering an effective amount of berbamine or its analogue to the subject, berbamine has a structure of Formula (I), wherein the flavivirus infection is caused by Japanese encephalitis virus, Zika virus or Dengue virus. A method of inhibiting the entry of a flavivirus, an enterovirus and/or a lentivirus into host cells includes contacting the host cells with an effective amount of berbamine of its analogue, berbamine has a structure of Formula (I), wherein the flavivirus is Japanese encephalitis virus, Zika virus or Dengue virus. |
| US11931350B2 |
Opioid receptor ligands and methods of using and making same
This application describes compounds that can act as opioid receptor ligands, which compounds can be used in the treatment of, for example, pain and pain related disorders. |
| US11931346B2 |
Uses of 4′-desferrithiocin analogs
Macular degeneration, closed head injury, stroke, irritable bowel disease, and reperfusion injury are all associated with biological injury due to reactive oxygen species, probably due to focal iron overload in many instances. The present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating these diseases and conditions using desferrithiocin analogs of Formula (I). In certain embodiments, the analogs include a poly ether moiety at the 4′-position of the phenyl ring of the compound. |
| US11931345B2 |
Thiazolidinedione analogs for the treatment of NAFLD and metabolic diseases
Provided herein are thiazolidinedione analogues that are useful for treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), diabetes, and other metabolic inflammation-mediated disease and disorders. |
| US11931343B2 |
CD73 inhibitors
Compounds, such as compounds having Formula (I): wherein each variable is as described herein, that modulate the conversion of AMP to adenosine by 5′-nucleotidase, ecto, and compositions containing the compounds and methods for synthesizing the compounds, are described herein. The use of such compounds and compositions for the treatment and/or prevention of a diverse array of diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancer- and immune-related disorders, that are mediated by 5′-nucleotidase, ecto is also provided. |
| US11931340B2 |
Use of sublingual dexmedetomidine for the treatment of agitation
The present invention discloses a method of treating agitation or the signs of agitation in a subject comprising the sublingual administration of an effective amount of an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist, more particularly Dexmedetomidine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The method is particularly suitable for the treatment of agitation associated with neurodegenerative and/or neuropsychiatric diseases. The present invention also discloses the sublingual administration of an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist, more particularly Dexmedetomidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof at a dose that is effective to treat agitation or the signs of agitation in a subject, but does not cause significant sedation. |
| US11931339B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating tissue injury
A method for preventing or treating a tissue injury and/or promoting tissue repair in a subject in need thereof, includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an ADH inhibitor, AKR inhibitor, SCoR inhibitor, and/or PKM2 inhibitor. |
| US11931334B2 |
Methods and compositions for treating cannabis use disorder and mitigating cannabinoid withdrawal
The present invention provides methods of treating cannabis withdrawal syndrome and other cannabis related conditions, including cannabis use disorder, in a subject, comprising administering to the subject in need thereof an effective amount of a cannabinoid or an effective amount of a cannabinoid and an effective amount of a second active agent, such as gabapentin or a gabapentin analog. |
| US11931330B2 |
Composition for promoting skeletal muscle activity via induction of mitochondrial biogenesis comprising of azelaic acid as an active ingredient
A composition for promoting mitochondrial biogenesis includes an effective amount of an azelaic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient. Azelaic acid, which is a compound mainly contained in cereals and natural products has the advantage of no or little side effects, and induces mitochondrial autophagy and mitochondrial DNA synthesis in cells, thereby having activity of increasing mitochondrial density. Therefore, azelaic acid can be used for the treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction-associated disease caused by the failure of homeostasis control of the mitochondria, for example, mitochondrial activity or the decrease in the number of mitochondria. In addition, azelaic acid can be provided to reinforce a muscle function and prevent muscle aging using the activity, and to be effectively used in a food material, a pharmaceutical composition, and health functional foods for treating mitochondrial dysfunction-associated disease, reinforcing a muscle function, or preventing muscle aging. |
| US11931328B2 |
Stabilized formulations of 4-amino-3-substituted butanoic acid derivatives
Pharmaceutical compositions including an active ingredient and a stabilizer, as well as methods of manufacture of the compositions, and methods of their use. The composition may include the active ingredient dispersed throughout a matrix of the stabilizer. In some embodiments, the active ingredient and the stabilizer are intimately mixed in a matrix formulation. In some embodiments, the active ingredient is selected from 4 amino-3-(4-chlorophenyl)butanoic acid) (“baclofen”) and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts. |
| US11931327B2 |
Drug for retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration
An object of the present invention is to provide a medicine that can simply treat and/or prevent a retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration, including retinitis pigmentosa. The solution is to provide an agent for treating and/or preventing a retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration, containing a compound having a retinoic acid receptor agonistic activity (for example, tamibarotene, tamibarotene methyl ester, tamibarotene ethyl ester, tazarotene, tazarotenic acid, adapalene, palovarotene, retinol, isotretinoin, alitretinoin, etretinate, acitretin or bexarotene) or a salt thereof. |
| US11931325B2 |
Hair-growth promoting composition and usage thereof
Novel compositions that promote hair growth or hair restoration, and compositions that prevent hair loss. Compositions including an iNOS inhibitor as an active ingredient are provided. Advantageous affects for hair growth or hair restoration are obtained when a composition including an iNOS inhibitor as an active ingredient is administered to a mammal. For the iNOS inhibitor, a low-molecular compound, an antibody, or a nucleic acid drug such as an antisense oligonucleotide or siRNA may be used. A method of screening for effective substances for promotion of hair growth or hair restoration or prevention of hair loss is also provided. |
| US11931322B2 |
Solubilizate with curcumin and optionally at least one other active substance
In order to make available the health-promoting and healing properties of curcumin to the human or animal organism, also in combination with at least one further active substance, a solubilizate consists of or contains a content of curcumin equal to or smaller than 10 wt %, preferably equal to or smaller than 7.5 wt %, most preferably 6 wt %, and at least one emulsifier with an HLB value in a range below 18, preferably between 13 and 18, namely polysorbate 80 or polysorbate 20 or a mixture of polysorbate 20 and polysorbate 80, with an average diameter of the curcumin-loaded micelles ranging from 5 nm to 40 nm, preferably from 6 nm to 20 nm, most preferably from 7 nm to 10 nm, for use in particular as a dietary supplement and/or pharmaceutical drug for treating and/or preventing diseases involving inflammation, cancer and other diseases. |
| US11931321B2 |
Compositions comprising a dendrimer-resveratrol complex and methods for making and using the same
Compositions and pharmaceutical compositions including a dendrimer-resveratrol complex and methods for making and using the compositions are described herein. Methods of treating cancer, cardiovascular disease, cardiac failure, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other brain diseases, fatty liver disease, obesity, cataracts, osteoporosis, muscle wasting, sleep disorders, acoustic trauma, inflammatory disease, psoriasis, arthritis, colitis, aging, viral disease, reproductive disease, and skin conditions or disorders including administering a therapeutically effective amount of the compositions to a subject in need are also provided. The compositions may be topically applied to skin or mucous membranes. |
| US11931320B2 |
Arrangement for a feeding bottle
An arrangement (300) for a feeding bottle is provided, the feeding bottle comprising a teat component (110), and a container component (120), which together define an internal bottle volume extending longitudinally between a base end of the container component, and a top end of the teat component. The arrangement comprises an internal element (310) for positioning inside the bottle volume, and a protruding element (320) arranged for extending from the internal element to an outside of the bottle when the bottle is in an assembled state with the internal element in position, for providing an interconnection between inside and outside of the bottle. |
| US11931317B2 |
Method, computer program product and dispensing device for dispensing discrete medicaments
A method for dispensing discrete medicaments with a dispensing device includes the steps of predicting a depletion time in the future when the medicaments in the container of a first feeder unit of the plurality of feeder units will be depleted or are past their expiry date; providing a notification ahead of said depletion time that a second feeder unit holding medicaments with the same composition as the first feeder unit needs to be presented to the dispensing device, together with a due time for presenting said second feeder unit to the dispensing device; and continuing the dispensing of the medicaments from the first feeder unit at least until the due time. |
| US11931311B2 |
Hydrotherapy apparatus glazing
A hydrotherapy apparatus comprises a tank, the tank comprising a panel arranged to form a wall of the tank, and an inner frame arranged to have the panel mechanically fixed to an outer side thereof, without bonding, so as to form a watertight seal. The inner frame may comprise a lower portion in a base region of the tank and two struts extending upward therefrom. The tank may further comprise a lower fixing section arranged to be mechanically connected to an outer surface of the lower portion of the inner frame, with a lower edge region of the panel therebetween, and two side fixing sections extending upward and each arranged to be mechanically connected to an outer surface of a respective strut of the struts of the inner frame, with a respective side edge region of the panel therebetween. |
| US11931305B2 |
Emergency lifting apparatus
A portable, lightweight emergency lifting device for downed persons that is intended for use by paramedics/emergency personnel as well as medical facilities and private owners. The lifting device has a redundant, fail safe lifting system utilizing twin electric screw jacks. It has a seat with a ramped front edge that extends to the ground when the device is in its collapsed configuration to aid in loading the patient. The vertical legs open only to an acute angled position so as to leave the immediate area under the seat open and uncluttered. The frame is on casters and the seat resides between the horizontal frame members when the device is in its collapsed configuration thus allowing the lowest possible pick up of a patient. |
| US11931299B2 |
Weighted sleep mask
The eye covering includes an elongated sleeve filled with media, such as beads. The sleeve is divided into separate cells. Preferably two central cells are provided for covering the eyes with two lateral cells provided for covering ears. End structures on the sleeve are configured with a retainer to allow the end structures to be attached together. One form of retainer is a slit in one of the end structures. The other end structure is fed through this slit so that the sleeve is formed into a circuit which can fit around the head. Another optional retainer includes a loop, such as a tag, joined to one of the end structures with a gap beneath the tag. A strap can join lateral edges of the eye covering to provide a sleep mask embodiment. |
| US11931294B2 |
Probes having fiber taper and fluid collection channel for ophthalmic laser treatment
A treatment probe for treating an eye of a patient includes an elongate body that defines a handle and a treatment fiber that is housed within the elongate body. The treatment fiber is configured to deliver treatment light energy to the eye. A contact member is disposed on an end of the elongate body. The contact member has a contact surface for positioning on a surface of the eye, two side edges that are positioned on opposite sides of the contact surface, and a fluid channel. The contact surface conforms to the shape of the eye's sclera and the two side edges are shaped to direct fluid that is present on the surface of the eye toward the fluid channel when the contact member is moved laterally across the surface of the eye. The fluid aggregates within the fluid channel and contacts a distal end of the treatment fiber. |
| US11931293B2 |
Apparatus and method for cataract extraction
An extraction device can include a delivery shaft having a lumen and a distal end, a first wire forming a first arc and being positionable distal to the distal end of the delivery shaft while ends of the first arc are at a distalmost end of the delivery shaft, and a second wire forming a second arc and being positionable distal to the distal end of the delivery shaft while ends of the second arc are at the distalmost end of the delivery shaft. A distalmost extent of the first wire is distal to a distalmost extent of the second wire. The first wire and the second wire are separately retractable relative to the delivery shaft. |
| US11931292B2 |
System and method for improved electronic assisted medical procedures
Methods and systems for displaying an overlay superimposed with an intraoperative image of surgical field in a medical ophthalmic procedure, such that the overlay appears at a desired depth within the image are provided. Methods and system for displaying an overlay superimposed with a stereoscopic intraoperative image pair of a surgical field in a medical ophthalmic procedure are provided. |
| US11931285B2 |
Sensor assembly part and a base plate for a medical appliance and a device for connecting to a base plate and/or a sensor assembly part
A base plate for a medical appliance includes a top layer; a first adhesive layer with a water soluble or water swellable hydrocolloid; an electrode assembly having a plurality of electrodes; and a monitor interface for connecting the base plate to a monitor device. The monitor interface has a coupling part with an elastically deformable part that allows the coupling part to move relative to the first adhesive layer of the base plate for coupling the monitor device and the base plate. |
| US11931283B2 |
Method and apparatus for spinal disc decompression
A portable spinal decompression device includes a top (thoracic) adjustable belt and bottom (lumbar) adjustable belt with a plurality of traction devices attached at set anchor points for applying traction forces to a body to facilitate spinal disc decompression and alleviate pain of users with spinal disorders. The portable device that fits various shapes and body sizes can be operated by a user without additional assistance and can be used while the individual is in numerous positions during his or her daily routine. |
| US11931279B2 |
Devices and methods for placing a gastrointestinal device
A delivery system for placing a gastrointestinal device in a mammalian gastrointestinal tract comprises a container assembly; a gastrointestinal implant device that includes proximal and distal ends stored within the container assembly, the proximal end including an anchor and the distal end including a sleeve, coupled to the anchor and folded into the container assembly; and an inner extension to draw a portion of the sleeve from the anchor and from the container assembly as the anchor is retained therein. The inner extension comprises an atraumatic tip, such as a ball, that includes a guidewire rail. Further, a handle is provided that retains or captures an inner catheter within the handle. Within the handle is an elongated element that surrounds a portion of the catheter. A button on a side of the handle is configured to cause engagement of the catheter via the element when the button is depressed. |
| US11931275B2 |
Systems and methods for coupling and decoupling a catheter
A convertible nephroureteral catheter is used in the treatment of urinary system complications, particularly on the need for a single surgically delivered device to treat patients who must be seen by an interventional radiologist (IR). In many current procedures, patients need to return to the operating room to remove a previously delivered nephroureteral catheter to exchange this catheter with a fully implanted ureteral stent delivered though the same access site at the flank. The present convertible nephroureteral catheter reduces the need to return for a second surgical procedure. Two weeks after initial implantation, the proximal portion of the convertible nephroureteral catheter extending out from the body may simply be removed. A simple action at the catheter hub allows this proximal portion to be removed, leaving behind the implanted ureteral stent within the patient's urinary system. Other medical procedures, devices, and technologies may benefit from the described convertible catheter. |
| US11931274B2 |
Prosthesis device
A prosthesis device having a tension element, fastened to a tensile force brace, which drives a movable component of a prosthesis device upon applying a tension force, wherein a sensor device is allocated to the tension element which detects the actuation of the tension element and activates a motor allocated to the movable component. |
| US11931273B2 |
Method for controlling an artificial orthotic or prosthetic knee joint
A method for controlling an artificial orthotic or prosthetic knee joint, on which a lower-leg component is arranged and with which a resistance device is associated, the bending resistance (R) of which resistance device is changed in dependence on sensor data that are determined by at least one sensor during the use of the orthotic or prosthetic knee joint, wherein a linear acceleration (aF) of the lower-leg component is determined, the determined linear acceleration (aF) is compared with at least one threshold value, and, if a threshold value of the linear acceleration (aF) of the lower-leg component is reached, the bending resistance (R) is changed. |
| US11931272B2 |
Orthopedic device and conductor for such a device
An orthopedic device with a base body made of an electrically insulating material and at least one electric conductor which is arranged on or in the base body. The at least one conductor comprises a core made of an electrically conductive elastomer and an electrically insulating coating. |
| US11931267B2 |
Joint implant extraction and placement system and localization device used therewith
An implant localization device includes a coupler and a positioning system. The coupler is configured to removably engage an implant component to fix the positioning system in space relative to the implant component. The positioning system is in communication with a centralized computing system, whereby, due to the fixed spatial relationship between the positioning system and the implant component, via the coupler, and determinable changes in movement relative to a registered starting point, the centralized computing system is able to calculate a real-time position and orientation of the implant component. The centralized computing system is configured to synthesize data from a joint templating software program, a CAD software program, and the positioning system to provide real-time positional and orientation data to assist with extraction and placement of the implant component. Robotics and reference markers may be used to further automate and/or enhance the accuracy and efficiency of the system. |
| US11931266B2 |
Implant with independent endplates
The biocompatible lattice structures and implants disclosed herein have an increased or optimized lucency, even when constructed from a metallic material. The lattice structures can also provide an increased or optimized lucency in a material that is not generally considered to be radiolucent. Lucency can include disparity, maximum variation in lucency properties across a structure, or dispersion, minimum variation in lucency properties across a structure. The implants and lattice structures disclosed herein may be optimized for disparity or dispersion in any desired direction. A desired direction with respect to lucency can include the anticipated x-ray viewing direction of an implant in the expected implantation orientation. |
| US11931253B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve delivery system: ball-slide attachment
Systems, devices and methods for attaching an operator-manipulatable tether(s) to the stent for: loading and/or collapsing the expandable stent into a delivery catheter or sheath, translating the collapsed stent along the delivery catheter or sheath, delivering the expandable stent into the subject heart chamber, repositioning the expandable stent as necessary within the subject heart chamber, recapturing or resheathing the expandable stent within the delivery catheter or sheath if needed, and deploying the expandable stent to, and within, the subject heart chamber. |
| US11931251B2 |
Methods and systems for aligning a commissure of a prosthetic heart valve with a commissure of a native valve
Methods and systems for rotationally aligning a commissure of a prosthetic heart valve with a commissure of a native valve are disclosed. In some examples, a delivery apparatus can include a first shaft configured to rotate around a central longitudinal axis of the delivery apparatus, a second shaft extending through the first shaft and having a distal end portion extending distally beyond a distal end portion of the first shaft, an inflatable balloon coupled to the distal end portion of the first shaft, and a third shaft surrounding the first shaft. The first shaft is configured to rotate within the third shaft and translate axially relative to the third shaft, and the third shaft includes a distal tip portion including a plurality of internal helical expansion grooves and a plurality of external helical expansion grooves that are configured to allow the distal tip portion to flex radially outward. |
| US11931250B2 |
Voice prosthesis with connecting feature
A voice prosthesis comprising a outer cannula and an inner cannula wherein the outer cannula is generally in the shape of a spool and comprises two flanges connected by a hollow annular stem therebetween, and the inner cannula comprises a proximal flange and a stem configured to fit within a passageway of the stem of the outer cannula. The outer cannula comprises a retaining slot on its outer proximal edge which can be used to rotationally secure an obround inner cannula proximal flange. The inner cannula may also comprise windows for use with retaining nubs disposed on the interior of the outer cannula passageway and an insertion tool having a moveable protrusions. |
| US11931244B2 |
Diffractive artificial ophthalmic lens with optimised apodization and method for the production of such artificial ophthalmic lens
The invention relates to an artificial ophthalmic lens (20) containing an anterior optical surface (21) and a posterior optical surface (22), at least one of which contains a multifocal optical diffractive profile (25). A cross apodized profile part (25′) is formed on the diffractive profile (25) wherein phase shifting elements (27) are provided alternately forming the elements of a decreasingly apodized series (40) and an increasingly apodized series (41) in such a way that the decreasing and increasing elements of the two series (40, 41) form envelope curves that meet at a common intersection point (45).The invention further relates to a method for the production of such an artificial ophthalmic lens (20). |
| US11931242B2 |
Device for the preparation of a Descemet's membrane-endothelium graft
A device for the preparation of a Descemet's membrane-endothelium graft includes a bowl with an inner bottom and a sidewall surrounding the bottom, particularly the bowl being configured to receive a fluid and a Descemet's membrane-endothelium graft or a donor cornea graft comprising a Descemet's membrane-endothelium graft floating in the fluid, a preparation area positioned in a first part of the inner bottom of the bowl, particularly for receiving and preparing the graft prior to transport, a transfer area positioned in a second part of the inner bottom between the preparation area and an outlet opening in the sidewall, particularly the opening being entirely positioned below the upper rim of the sidewall. |
| US11931239B2 |
Percutaneous vascular anastomosis
Collapsible branched anastomosis devices allow for the formation of percutaneous vascular anastomoses using a Seldinger wire technique. This minimally invasive approach eliminates the need for a large surgical incision and also avoids the use of time consuming hand-suturing. The devices collapse to a fraction of their expanded volume and are configured to fit within a delivery sheath for over the wire delivery through a small incision in a blood vessel. |
| US11931232B2 |
Absorbent article
To enable an absorbent article to fit easily around the legs when worn and to improve fit. A pad which includes a polymer sheet having a superabsorbent polymer disposed between two nonwoven fabric sheets. Planar-shaped linear embossed grooves that protrude inward in a width direction from each side edge are formed at positions of the polymer sheet on which the groin of a wearer abuts when worn. Standing gathers that rise along a longitudinal direction on a skin side are formed on both side portions on the skin side. Regions that are surrounded by the embossed grooves tend to deform around the legs with the embossed grooves as flexible shafts, so that the polymer sheet fits easily around the legs when worn and fit is improved. |
| US11931231B2 |
Folding device and folding method
A plurality of folding units is arranged in a circumferential direction of a drum that rotates about an axis. Each of the folding units includes: a pad for holding one part of a workpiece on a pad surface; a first folding member and a second folding member each having a folding surface for folding a different part of the workpiece so as to stack the different part over the one part; and a pivot shaft arranged parallel to the pad surface. The first folding member, the second folding member, and the pivot shaft are configured to be rotated together until the folding surface reaches a facing position and a facing posture at which the folding surface faces the pad surface. The pivot shaft is configured to be displaced in a diameter direction of the drum crossing the pad surface. |
| US11931227B2 |
Bimodal treatment methods and compositions for gastrointestinal lesions with active bleeding
The present invention relates to a long-lasting medical product for protecting or treating a lesion in the gastrointestinal tract. The medical product includes a protective covering, wherein the medical product upon application at and about the site of the lesion adheres to the gastrointestinal tissue and is capable of remaining at and about the site of the lesion for a time sufficient to allow the lesion to heal or be treated. |
| US11931226B2 |
Wound dressing sealant and use thereof
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to sealing compositions for negative pressure treatment systems and wound dressing systems, devices containing the same, apparatuses, uses and methods for creating a main wound dressing portion for use in wound care, more particularly for sealing a trimmable dressing, having a main dressing portion or cell in fluid (e.g., gas) communication with additional dressing portions or cells, for use in woundcare, more particularly that may be used for the treatment of wounds. In particular, some embodiments are directed to compositions for improving the versatility of wound dressings for wounds of different shapes or sizes. |
| US11931222B2 |
Dental attachment formation structures
The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems having a dental attachment formation structures. One dental appliance includes a body having a first surface shaped to abut an exterior surface of a tooth and a well portion of the first surface shaped to form an attachment that is to be attached to the exterior surface of the tooth, a release layer formed over a surface of the well to allow the attachment to be removed from the well, and an attachment material that is used to form the attachment positioned within the well. |
| US11931218B2 |
Oral care implement body and replacement head therefor
An oral care implement body to which a replacement head can be detachably coupled. In one embodiment, the oral care implement body includes a gripping portion having a shoulder, a stem extending from the shoulder along a longitudinal axis, and a boss protruding from an outer surface of the stem. The boss may have a locking rib section having an undercut surface that is axially spaced from the shoulder and a positioning rib section extending from the locking rib section to the shoulder. The undercut surface may circumferentially protrude from a first side surface of the positioning rib section. The locking rib section may extend along a first rib axis and the positioning rib section may extend along a second rib axis, the first rib axis oriented obliquely to the second rib axis. |
| US11931211B2 |
Integrated intracorporeal laparoscope cleaner
A medical device for cleaning a laparoscope can include a service box with a pump and a gas valve. Each of the pump and the gas valve can be in communication with an exit valve. The pump can be configured to draw fluid into the service box, along a fluid feed line, and out of the exit valve. The gas valve can be configured to selectively permit gas into the service box, along the fluid feed line, and out of the exit valve. The medical device can include a trocar that can be in communication with the exit valve via a flexible tubing. The trocar can include a hub and a cannula. The hub can be configured to receive and direct the laparoscope through the cannula. The cannula can be configured to receive fluid and gas from the exit valve and direct the fluid and gas to the open end. |
| US11931208B2 |
Cerebral perfusion state classification apparatus and method, device, and storage medium
The present application discloses a cerebral perfusion state classification apparatus and method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring, by a transceiving module, cervical blood flow data from an ultrasound data collecting device; determining, by a processor, cerebral perfusion data corresponding to the cervical blood flow data based on the cervical blood flow data and a mapping relationship between the cervical blood flow data and the cerebral perfusion data, and classifying cerebral perfusion states of a plurality of brain regions based on blood perfusion characteristics of the plurality of brain regions in the cerebral perfusion data. |
| US11931207B2 |
Artificial intelligence (AI) recognition of echocardiogram images to enhance a mobile ultrasound device
Artificial intelligence (AI) recognition of echocardiogram (echo) images by a mobile ultrasound device comprises receiving a plurality of the echo images captured by the ultrasound device, the ultrasound device including a display and a user interface (UI) that displays the echo images to a user, the echo images comprising 2D images and Doppler modality images of a heart. One or more neural networks process the echo images to automatically classify the echo images by view type. The view type of the echo images is simultaneously displayed in the UI of the ultrasound device along with the echo images. A report is generated showing the calculated measurements of features in the echo images. The report showing the calculated measurements is displayed on a display device. |
| US11931203B2 |
Manufacturing method of a high frequency ultrasound transducer having an ultrasonic lens with integral central matching layer
Methods for fabricating high frequency ultrasound transducers are disclosed. The methods include fabricating an acoustic lens layer with a curved center section and two flat side sections. The curved section includes a center portion with a midpoint and an edge. The midpoint has a first thickness, and the edge has a second thickness. The center portion is fabricated so that an average of the first and second thicknesses is approximately equal to an odd multiple of a quarter-wavelength of the center frequency of the ultrasound transducer. The methods can also include bonding the lens layer to a matching layer that is operationally coupled to a transducer layer. The matching layer can include an epoxy layer and another layer. Bonding the lens layer includes bonding the other layer to the lens layer using the epoxy layer such that the other layer is positioned between the epoxy layer and the transducer layer. |
| US11931202B2 |
Ultrasound automatic scanning system, ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound scanning support apparatus
An ultrasound automatic scanning system according to an embodiment includes an ultrasound probe, a mechanical mechanism, and processing circuitry. The ultrasound probe transmits and receives ultrasonic wave. The mechanical mechanism holds and moves the ultrasound probe while an ultrasonic-wave transmission-reception surface of the ultrasound probe is pointed to a subject. The processing circuitry acquires a distance between a body surface of the subject and the ultrasonic-wave transmission-reception surface of the ultrasound probe based on reflected wave data collected while the ultrasound probe is moved by the mechanical mechanism. The processing circuitry generates, based on information of the distance, locus information of movement of the ultrasound probe when ultrasound scanning is executed on the subject. The mechanical mechanism executes ultrasound scanning on the subject by moving the ultrasound probe based on the locus information generated by the processing circuitry. |
| US11931201B2 |
Device and method for obtaining anatomical measurements from an ultrasound image
The invention provides a method for making anatomical measurements using a captured ultrasound image representative of the anatomical region of interest. The method comprises receiving (20) data representative of a set of points selected by a user within the image and interpreting from the points a particular anatomical measurement type which the user is intending to perform. In particular, the points are processed to identify (24) a pattern or other geometrical characteristic of the points, and the location (22) of at least one of the points within the image is also identified. These two characteristics are used to identify from the set of points which measurement the operator is performing. Once the measurement is identified, an appropriate measurement template (26) is selected and applied in order to derive (30) from the set of points an anatomical measurement. |
| US11931200B2 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and diagnosis assisting method
An image analyzer detects a lesion for each frame (tomographic image). When the lesion is detected, lesion information (detection flag, position information, and size information) is produced. An indication controller causes a mark surrounding the lesion to be displayed when it is judged that a mark display condition is satisfied, based on the lesion information or the like. The indication controller causes the mark to be deleted from a screen when detection of the lesion is continued and a mark display restriction condition is satisfied. |
| US11931199B2 |
Nozzles for amplifying and suppression of sound
The invention discloses a novel passive sound transformer, either a sound-booster or a sound-silencer, embodied as an acoustic waveguide, a specific shape of which provides for either amplifying the intensity of acoustic waves at the expense of both the heat energy and the concomitant turbulence of moving fluid wherein the amplified intensity of the acoustic waves is manifested as sound loudness boosting or, contrarywise, transforming the wave power of elastic waves into the heat of the ambient fluid. |
| US11931195B2 |
Assessment of coronary artery calcification in angiographic images
Systems and methods are provided for training an artificial intelligence model for detecting calcified portions of a vessel in an input medical image. One or more first medical images of a vessel in a first modality and one or more second medical image of the vessel in a second modality are received. Calcified portions of the vessel are detected in the one or more first medical images, The artificial intelligence model is trained for detecting calcified portions of the vessel in the input medical image in the second modality based on the one or more second medical images and the detected calcified portions of the vessel detected in the one or more first medical images. |
| US11931194B2 |
Body fluid analysis device, control method for body fluid analysis device, and storage medium
A body fluid analysis device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to set one or more subregions in a region of interest in a medical image. The processing circuitry is configured to set a reference direction for each of the subregions set. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a flow direction of a body fluid for each subregion. The processing circuitry is configured to determine the state of a flow of the body fluid in the region of interest on the basis of the reference direction for each subregion set and the flow direction of the body fluid for each subregion determined. |
| US11931193B2 |
Imaging systems and methods
Methods and systems for X-ray and fluoroscopic image capture and, in particular, to a versatile, multimode imaging system incorporating a handheld X-ray emitter operative to capture non-invasive images of a target; a stage operative to capture static X-ray and dynamic fluoroscopic images of the target; a system for the tracking and positioning of the X-ray emission to improve safety of obtaining X-ray images as well as improve the quality of X-ray images. Where the devices can automatically limit the field of the X-ray emission. |
| US11931191B2 |
Ct imaging apparatus
The invention relates, in particular, to structures of a dental and medical cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) apparatus. The basic construction of the apparatus includes two elongated frame parts (11, 21) out of which the first frame part (11) is arranged to support X-ray imaging means (14, 15) and wherein the frame parts (11, 21) are mechanically connected to each other via an articulated construction (22) so as to allow for tilting of the first frame part (11) supporting the X-ray imaging means (14, 15) with respect to the second frame part (21). |
| US11931190B2 |
Device for holding and releasing an object, corresponding assembly and release method
A device for holding and releasing an object (2), such as a medical implant, is proposed. The device comprises two hook systems (11, 12) to which said object (2) is able to be coupled so as to allow said hook systems (11, 12) to jointly hold said object (2). Said hook systems (11, 12) are configured such that, in the state in which said object (2) is coupled to said hook systems (11, 12), at least one of the hook systems (11, 12) is subjected to a return force (F11, F12) that makes it possible to keep the object (2) coupled to said hook systems (11, 12). Also proposed are a corresponding assembly and a corresponding releasing method. |
| US11931186B2 |
Method of system for reversing inflammation in a user
A system for reversing inflammation in a user, wherein the system further comprises a computing device further designed and configured to receive a physiological extraction of a user, wherein the physiological extraction contains at least an inflammation marker, generate, using an inflammation machine-learning model and the user physiological extraction input, a first inflammation metric of a user, wherein generating the first inflammation metric further comprises training an inflammation machine-learning model as a function of inflammation metric training data, wherein the inflammation metric training data includes a plurality of entries, and each entry correlates user physiological extraction data to at least an inflammation metric that quantitates hallmarks of inflammation in the user, identify, using an alimentary element machine-learning process and the first inflammation metric, at least an alimentary element for reversing inflammation in the user, and provide, to the user, the at least an alimentary element for reversing inflammation. |
| US11931179B2 |
Optical and electrical diagnostic systems and methods thereof
Optical-and-electrical medical systems and methods thereof are disclosed. Such a medical system can include a console, an optical shape-sensing (“OSS”) medical device including an optical-fiber stylet, one or more electrical medical devices, and a relay module for establishing one or more optical or electrical relay connections between the relay module and a remainder of the medical system including the console. The console can be configured for converting reflected optical signals from the optical-fiber stylet into shapes thereof for display. The relay module can include a primary receptacle configured to accept insertion of a medical barrier-piercing plug of the OSS medical device and establish a through-barrier optical connection therebetween. The relay module also can include one or more secondary receptacles configured to accept insertion of a corresponding number of electrical plugs of the one-or-more electrical medical devices and establish one or more under-barrier electrical connections therebetween. |
| US11931178B2 |
Wearable device for healthcare and method thereof
The present invention relates to a wearable device for healthcare and method for using the device. More specifically, the wearable device is worn on a finger for measuring the health data of the user, selected from one or more of heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate variability. Based on the measured data, the sleep quality can be monitored and recorded. Disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), can be detected. The wearable device may include an optical sensor coupled with or embedded in a main body including a visible light emitter, an IR light emitter and a light detector being arranged along a longitudinal direction of the finger. During operation of the wearable device, the heart rate is monitored based on a detected light signal. When the heart rate is higher than an adaptive threshold, both heart rate and blood oxygen saturation are monitored. |
| US11931167B1 |
Pressure injury prevention sensor and decision support tool
Technologies are provided for determining a likelihood or risk of a human patient for developing pressure injury based on patterns of movement by the patient determined using a specialized measurement support surface. Some embodiments automatically ascertain whether patterns of movements of a human subject, whose weight is supported on the support surface, exhibit sufficient frequency and variability of activity such as will confer either certain health benefits or expose the individual to certain health risks, such as development of pressure ulcers in the load-bearing skin and soft tissues. The measurement support surface can include a contact layer, a pressure-measuring layer having an air bladder subjacent to the measurement support surface, and a substrate layer with a density and stiffness to mechanically isolate the pressure-measuring layer from ambient vibrations transmitted through a floor, furniture, or other intervening articles upon which the measurement support surface is mounted. |
| US11931166B2 |
System and method of determining an accurate enhanced Lund and Browder chart and total body surface area burn score
A system and method of generating an enhanced Lund and Browder chart and total body surface area burn score is described herein. In some embodiments, a plurality of images is obtained from of a patient using a camera system. The images may be taken by aligning the patient's body with pose templates presented on a display of the camera system. The non-skin portions of the images may be removed, and skin analysis performed on the skin portion to determine burn location, coverage, and depth. Further, landmarks may be detected in the images to morph and align the images with the pose templates to obtain standard poses. The plurality of images may be combined and presented in two-dimensional and three-dimensional models with labels and the total surface area burn score. |
| US11931163B2 |
Method and apparatus to determine the malignant potential of pancreatic cysts using light scattering spectroscopy
Described herein are embodiments of an approach to diagnosing pancreatic cystic lesions using light scattering spectroscopy. In some embodiments, the approach includes an apparatus including a spatial gating probe to isolate light reflected by the epithelial tissue of the internal cyst surface using spatial gating. In some further embodiments, the apparatus includes a scanning fiber probe that is capable of rotational and linear motion in order to scan the entire internal surface of the cyst. Use of such an approach may be advantageous to improve the accuracy of diagnosing pancreatic cystic lesions as cancerous, precancerous, or benign. |
| US11931162B2 |
Systems and methods for seizure detection based on changes in electroencephalogram (EEG) non-linearities
A system of seizure detection including one or more processing circuits configured to receive an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal generated based on electrical brain activity of a patient and determine a plurality of metrics based on the EEG signal, the plurality of metrics indicating non-linear features of the EEG signal. The one or more processing circuit are configured to perform a preliminary analysis with one of the plurality of metrics, wherein the preliminary analysis indicates that the EEG signal indicates a candidate seizure or that the EEG signal is insignificant, perform a secondary analysis with one or more metrics of the plurality of metrics to determine whether the EEG signal indicates the candidate seizure or that the EEG signal is insignificant, and generate a seizure alert indicating that the EEG signal indicates the candidate seizure. |
| US11931160B2 |
Brain interaction apparatus, cranial anchor, and related systems and methods
A brain interaction apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of filaments; and a brain invasive launcher having a plurality of launching channels extending in a longitudinal direction between a proximal end and a distal end thereof. Each launching channel is configured for holding one of the plurality of filaments moveably arranged therein. At least one of the plurality of filaments is provided with a steering tip affixed to a distal end thereof. The steering tip comprises a portion tapering in a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the plurality of filaments thereby narrowing toward a distal end of the steering tip. The tapered portion is rotationally asymmetrical about a longitudinal axis of the at least one of the plurality of filaments. |
| US11931159B2 |
Wearable textile-based hydrogel electrode for measuring biopotential
A textile-based hydrogel electrode comprises a textile-based backing layer, a conductive structure coupled to the textile-based backing layer, and a hydrogel body in contact with at least a first portion of the conductive structure, wherein the first portion of the conductive structure and the hydrogel body form an ionic interface configured to generate an electrical signal through the conductive structure corresponding to a biopotential change proximate to the textile-based hydrogel electrode. |
| US11931157B2 |
Cardiac analysis user interface system and method
Methods of generating a graphical representation of cardiac information on a display screen are provided. The method comprises: electronically creating or acquiring an anatomical model of the heart including multiple cardiac locations; electronically determining a data set of source information corresponding to cardiac activity at the multiple cardiac locations; electronically rendering the data set of source information in relation to the multiple cardiac locations on the display screen. Systems and devices for providing a graphical representation of cardiac information are also provided. |
| US11931156B2 |
Electrocardiogram measurement apparatus
The electrocardiogram measurement apparatus includes: two amplifiers for receiving electrocardiogram signals from a first electrode and a second electrode; one electrode driving unit; a third electrode for receiving an output of the electrode driving unit; an A/D converter connected to an output terminal of each of the two amplifiers and converting analog signals into digital signals; a microcontroller for receiving the digital signals from the A/D converter; and a communication means for transmitting the digital signal, wherein: the microcontroller is supplied with power from a battery; the microcontroller controls the A/D converter and the communication means; and each of the two amplifiers amplifies one electrocardiogram signal so as to simultaneously measure two electrocardiogram signals. |
| US11931154B2 |
Systems and methods for classifying ECG data
A computer-implemented method for processing ECG data may include: receiving, over an electronic network, ECG data, wherein the ECG data represents a plurality of heartbeats; analyzing the ECG data, by at least one processor, to determine whether each of the plurality of heartbeats is a normal heartbeat or an abnormal heartbeat; associating, by the at least one processor, each of the abnormal heartbeats with either only one of a plurality of existing templates or a new template; receiving, from a user, input related to each new template, wherein the input includes either: a) a confirmation that the new template represents an abnormal heartbeat, or b) a reclassification of the new template as representing a normal heartbeat or a different abnormal heartbeat; and in response to the user input, updating, by the at least one processor, a label of each of the heartbeats associated with each confirmed new template and each of the heartbeats associated with each reclassified new template. The ECG data may be received from a portable monitor configured to be carried on a patient's body. |
| US11931153B2 |
Electronic device, a wearable article incorporating an electronic device and a system comprising an electronic device and a wearable article
A wearable article (1) includes a sensor assembly (104) for sensing biosignals of a wearer of the wearable article, and an electronic device (102) that can be attached to the sensor assembly to receive and the process biosignals. The electronic device is detachable from the garment and includes a housing (128a, 128b). The electronic device is retained in place by means of a magnet (132) within the housing which cooperates with a magnet on the garment. The sensor assembly includes a sensing electrodes and conductors (112; 122a) which couple the sensing electrodes to an interface that is configured to couple the sensed biosignals to the electronic device. The electronic device attaches to the garment at the interface. The electronic device includes one or more contacts (138b) which engage with the interface at the conductors so that biosignals can be coupled to the electronic device. The garment can also include a locating ring (130) to help locate the electronic device on the garment. The electronic device can be easily attached by a wearer, for example with the use of only one hand. |
| US11931152B2 |
Support helmet for magnetoencephalography device
The present description concerns a support helmet (130) for a medical imaging or treatment device, comprising a head cap (131) provided with a plurality of through openings (133), each opening being adapted to receiving an elementary imaging or treatment module (110) assembled in the opening so as to slide along an axis substantially orthogonal to the head cap. |
| US11931151B2 |
Automated urinary output measuring system
Disclosed herein is an automated urinary output measuring system. The automated urinary output measuring system includes an automated urinary output measuring device configured to be suspended from a rim of a sanitary hardware device and receive a volume of voided urine. The automated urinary output measuring device can include a receiving trough having an opening, a door configured to cover the opening in a fluid tight seal, the door coupled to the receiving trough by a hinge, and a lip extending from the receiving trough configured to detachably couple the automated urinary output measuring device to the sanitary hardware device. The system can further include an ultrasonic measuring system having a console coupled to one or more ultrasonic sensors, and a flushing mechanism coupled to the sanitary hardware device. |
| US11931150B2 |
Wrist-worn impairment detection and methods for using such
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for identifying impairment using measurement devices. |
| US11931148B2 |
Catheter system to facilitate blood sampling and related methods
A catheter system may include a catheter assembly, which may include a catheter adapter and a catheter extending distally from a distal end of the catheter adapter. The catheter system may also include a needle assembly, which may include a needle hub and an introducer needle. The needle hub may include: a distal end coupled to the proximal end of the catheter adapter; a proximal end; a wall disposed between the distal end of the needle hub and the proximal end of the needle hub; and a flashback chamber proximate the wall. The introducer needle may be press-fit within a through-hole of the wall. The catheter system may also include a plug coupled to the proximal end of the needle hub. A blood collection device may be coupled to a proximal end of the plug to collect blood from a patient. |
| US11931147B2 |
System and method for robust pulse oximetry
Robust estimation of a characteristic of a user's physiological signals can be achieved by filtering or classifying samples. Rather than estimating the characteristic of the user's physiological signals based on each sample at a first wavelength and a second wavelength, a robust system and method can, in some examples, estimate the characteristic using samples at the first wavelength and the second wavelength that meet one or more criteria and filter out samples that fail to meet the one or more criteria. In some examples, the system and method can weight samples based on the one or more criteria, and estimate the characteristic using the weighted samples. Samples failing to meet the one or more criteria can be given less weight or no weight in the estimation. The one or more criteria can include a criterion based on at least the physiological signal at a third wavelength. |
| US11931146B2 |
Sensor configuration
The present invention relates to a sensor configuration (1) for non-invasive measurement of parameters of a body tissue with a sensor unit (10) and a sensor mat (12) for detachable placement of the sensor configuration (1) on a body surface (20). Furthermore the sensor unit (10) of the sensor configuration (1) is connectible to a contact head (16), which is designed for electrical contacting of the sensor unit (10) and for supply of light from a light source to the sensor unit (10), the sensor unit (10) being designed as a flexible printed circuit board with optical components, at least comprising a light detector device (2), in order to detect light that is emitted into the body tissue and has passed through the latter, a first contact means (30) and conducting tracks (5) for operative connection of the sensor unit (10) to the contact head (16). The sensor mat (12) of the sensor configuration (1) has a multi-layered structure, with a lower layer (13), which has a lower contact surface for contact on the body surface (20) and an upper contact surface for contact of the sensor unit (10), whereby openings (15, 17) are provided which are aligned with the optical components of the sensor unit (10), and form an optical passage, and with an upper layer (14), which is connected to the upper contact surface of the lower layer (13) in a way detachable from one another. |
| US11931144B2 |
Sweat rate measurement devices
Devices and methods are described herein for directly and accurately measuring sweat flow rates using miniaturized thermal flow rate sensors. The devices (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500) include the flow rate sensors (220, 320, 420, 520, 620, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120, 1220, 1320, 1420) in or adjacent to a microfluidic component (230, 330, 430, 530, 630, 730, 830, 930, 1030, 1130, 1230, 1330, 1430, 1530) of a wearable sweat sensing device. The devices and methods optimize the sensitivity of the flow rate sensors, while minimizing the presence of noise, in order to accurately and directly measure sweat flow rates. |
| US11931141B2 |
Hybrid registration method
A registration method whereby a sensor-based approach is used to establish initial registration and whereby upon the commencement of navigating an endoscope, image-based registration methods are used in order to more accurately maintain the registration between the endoscope location and previously-acquired images. A six-degree-of-freedom location sensor is placed on the probe in order to reduce the number of previously-acquired images that must be compared to a real-time image obtained from the endoscope. |
| US11931140B2 |
Systems and methods for navigation and simulation of minimally invasive therapy
Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific preoperative images. The navigation system uses intraoperative imaging during the medical procedure to update the preoperative images and provides images of tracked surgical tools along the surgical path prepared from the preoperative images. |
| US11931131B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for chronic disease monitoring
An apparatus, system, and method for monitoring a person suffering from a chronic medical condition predicts and assesses physiological changes which could affect the care of that subject. Examples of such chronic diseases include (but are not limited to) heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and diabetes. Monitoring includes measurements of respiratory movements, which can then be analyzed for evidence of changes in respiratory rate, or for events such as hypopneas, apneas and periodic breathing. Monitoring may be augmented by the measurement of nocturnal heart rate in conjunction with respiratory monitoring. Additional physiological measurements can also be taken such as subjective symptom data, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, and various molecular markers. Embodiments for detection of respiratory patterns and heart rate are disclosed, together with exemplar implementations of decision processes based on these measurements. |
| US11931130B2 |
Method and system for processing thermal video images
A method and system for processing thermal video images and thermal video images of patients, using a method of real-time demarcation of the macro aspect of the region of interest, generated by MIR and LIR electromagnetic wave emission and merging of the real image, with improvement of the image, also in real time, allowing for analysis of the micro aspect by means of NIR electromagnetic wave emission, for spectral identification of the sample by infrared vibrational spectroscopy. The method and system pertains to the fields of medicine, biomedicine, and electrical engineering. |
| US11931129B2 |
Smart thermometer and method for measuring body temperature using the same
A smart thermometer and a method for measuring body temperature using the same are provided. The method for measuring body temperature using a smart thermometer comprises: performing advertising in idle mode; switching the smart thermometer to active mode and connecting to user equipment; measuring body temperature by using a temperature sensor; determining whether the measured body temperature stays below a first threshold for a preset period of time; if the measured body temperature stays below the first threshold for a preset period of time, switching to idle mode and performing advertising; and if the measured body temperature reaches or exceeds the first threshold within the preset period of time, displaying the measured body temperature on a display window and transmitting the measured body temperature to the user equipment. |
| US11931121B2 |
3D printed robot for holding medical instruments during procedures and its control
A system for holding and controlling medical instruments during procedures includes an end effector configured to hold a medical instrument and a rotational and translational (RT) mechanism configured to rotate and translate the medical instrument along an insertion axis. The system further includes a platform coupled to the RT mechanism and a pair of parallel five-bar planar linkages configured to translate, pitch, and yaw the platform with respect to a principal axis that is parallel to the insertion axis. |
| US11931114B2 |
Virtual interaction with instruments in augmented reality
Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine that generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: (i) a 3D virtual medical model positioned according to a model pose and (ii) at least one virtual object associated with a physical instrument, the physical instrument having a current instrument pose based at least on current coordinates of one or more fiducial markers disposed on the physical instrument, in the unified 3D coordinate space. The Interaction Engine renders an Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the 3D virtual medical model and the virtual object. The Interaction Engine modifies the AR display according to a virtual interaction related to the virtual object that incorporates the change of the physical instrument pose. |
| US11931113B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for retractor interference avoidance
Systems and methods for retractor interference avoidance is provided. At least one retractor includes a base and one or more elongate members extending from the base. The one or more elongate members are movable. A position of the at least one retractor may be determined and a trajectory of a surgical device may be received. At least one elongate member of the one or more elongate members positioned to interfere with movement of the device along a trajectory may be identified based on the position of the retractor and the trajectory of the surgical device. |
| US11931112B2 |
Shape-sensing system and methods for medical devices
Shape-sensing systems and methods for medical devices. The shape-sensing system can include a medical device, an optical interrogator, a console, and a display screen. The medical device can include an integrated optical-fiber stylet having fiber Bragg grating (“FBG”) sensors along at least a distal-end portion thereof. The optical interrogator can be configured to send input optical signals into the optical-fiber stylet and receive FBG sensor-reflected optical signals therefrom. The console can be configured to convert the reflected optical signals into plottable data for displaying plots thereof on the display screen. The plots can include a plot of curvature vs. time for each FBG sensor of a selection of the FBG sensors in the distal-end portion of the optical-fiber stylet for identifying a distinctive change in strain of the optical-fiber stylet as a tip of the medical device is advanced into a superior vena cava of a patient. |
| US11931111B2 |
Systems and methods for providing surgical guidance
Surgical guidance systems and methods visually mark a structure of interest (SOI) of an organ on intraoperative images captured by a locatable imaging device. A location of the SOI relative to a body structure (e.g., a passageway system) associated with the organ is determined in a preoperative image that is captured by a medical diagnostic imaging (MDI) system. The location of the SOI relative to the body structure in the preoperative image is then mapped onto a reconstructed version of the body structure based on location information provided by localization sensors distributed on the body structure. An intraoperative image taken by the locatable imaging device is aligned with the reconstructed version of the body structure and an image object representing the SOI is overlaid on the intraoperative image at a location that is mapped from the reconstructed version of the body structure. |
| US11931110B2 |
Surgical instrument comprising a control system that uses input from a strain gage circuit
A surgical instrument is disclosed comprising a control system and a strain gage circuit. The operation of the control system is modifiable by an input from the strain gage circuit. |
| US11931106B2 |
Patient-specific surgical methods and instrumentation
A method may be used to correct a condition present in a patient. The method may include obtaining a first bone model of a first bone of one or more bones of the patient's foot, and using at least the first bone model to generate a cutting guide model. The cutting guide model may define a first bone engagement surface shaped to match a first contour on the first bone, and a first guide feature that, with the first bone engagement surface overlying the first contour, is positioned to guide resection of the one or more bones as part of a surgical osteotomy for correcting the condition. The surgical procedure may be selected from a first group consisting of a bunion correction osteotomy, an Evans calcaneal osteotomy, and a medializing calcaneal osteotomy. The first bone may be selected from a second group consisting a metatarsus, a cuneiform, and a calcaneus. |
| US11931105B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of determining a pupillary distance
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of determining a pupillary distance. For example, a product may include one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media including computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement operations of measuring a pupillary distance between pupils of a user. The operations may include receiving a captured image comprising first and second reflections of a light of a light source, the first reflection comprising a reflection of the light from a first pupil of the user, and the second reflection comprising a reflection of the light from a second pupil of the user; and determining the pupillary distance based on locations of the first and second reflections in the captured image and an estimated distance between an image capturing device and pupils of the user, when the image is captured. |
| US11931101B2 |
Apparatus, systems and methods for transvascular access to the brain
The present disclosure discusses a devices, systems and methods for transvascular, transvenous and/or transdural access, to the brain parenchyma, subarachnoid or subdural spaces. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods may be used for local drug delivery, tissue biopsy, nanofluidic or microelectronic device/component delivery/insertion/implantation, in situ imaging, ablation of abnormal brain tissue and the like. Embodiments of the present disclosure include an access catheter system for extravascular procedures in the brain having an elongate, flexible tubular body, with at least one lumen extending axially there through between a proximal end, and a distal end. The access catheter system may include a side exit port and a distal end port. Further, the access catheter system may include a selective deflector positioned within the lumen configured to deflect a procedure catheter and permit a guide catheter. |
| US11931098B2 |
System and method for carrying out a medical procedure
A medical system includes a medical device and an analysis system. The medical device includes a perforation device having a shaft. The shaft has a proximal portion, and an opposed distal portion. A perforating tip is associated with the distal portion. At least a first light emitter is associated with the distal portion and is positioned proximate the perforating tip for illuminating a region surrounding the perforating tip. The analysis system is for analyzing returned light that is returned towards the shaft from the region surrounding the perforating tip. The analysis system includes a light sensor configured to detect one or more parameters of the returned light, a processor configured to perform an analysis of the one or more parameters, and an alert system connected to the processor for alerting a user to a result of the analysis. |
| US11931096B2 |
System and method for electrically ablating tissue of a patient
System for electrically ablating tissue of a patient through a plurality of electrodes includes a memory, a processor and a treatment control module stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The treatment control module generates an estimated treatment region based on the number of electrical pulses to be applied. |
| US11931086B2 |
Telescoping bone screw
A bone screw for treating a bone fracture having a detent assembly on a body portion thereof. The detent assembly operative to secure the body from movement relative to a bone nail. The detent assembly includes a detent member, for example, an annular member, movable between a first and second position. Positioning the annular member in the second position operates to secure the body of the bone screw from movement relative to the bone nail. |
| US11931084B2 |
Method and apparatus for an orthopedic fixation system
An orthopedic fixation system includes an orthopedic implant and an implant retainer. The orthopedic implant includes a transition section deformable to move the orthopedic implant between a natural shape and an insertion shape whereby a transition of the orthopedic implant from the natural shape to the insertion shape stores deliverable energy and a transition of the orthopedic implant from the insertion shape to the natural shape delivers stored energy. The implant retainer is configured to mechanically engage the orthopedic implant across the transition section such the implant retainer constrains the orthopedic implant in the insertion shape thereby preventing a transition of the orthopedic implant from the insertion shape to the natural shape. |
| US11931082B2 |
Surgical instruments with compliant distal stud connection
An orthopedic instrument for insertion of an orthopedic device into an intramedullary canal of a bone is disclosed. The orthopedic instrument can include an elongate post and a stud. The post can have a longitudinal axis and can extend along the longitudinal axis between a first end portion and a second end portion. The stud can be connected to the post along a portion of a longitudinal length thereof comprising a first end part, A second part of the stud can be free to elastically deflect laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis when subjected to a bending load and return to a first position when unloaded. |
| US11931081B2 |
Monoaxial-uniplanar hybrid screw
A spinal rod anchoring device is disclosed comprising a body comprising a distal end and a proximal end, wherein a threaded bone anchor is positioned toward the distal end, and a U-shaped head portion is positioned toward the proximal end. The head portion and the threaded bone anchor are fixedly attached. The spinal rod anchoring device also comprises a saddle comprising a concave interior region wherein the interior region has an open channel. The saddle is moveably seated within the base of the head portion, and a spinal connection element is disposed on the saddle. The spinal rod anchoring device further comprises a retaining pin configured to be inserted through the channel in the saddle and secured in a groove, wherein the groove is centrally positioned within the head portion, wherein the retaining pin secures the saddle to the head portion. |
| US11931080B2 |
Closures with splay resisting threads for pivotal bone anchors
A receiver assembly for securing an elongate rod to a bone anchor includes a receiver having a channel configured to receive the elongate rod, a helically wound receiver guide and advancement structure formed into the interior surfaces of the receiver. The receiver assembly further includes a fastener configured for positioning within the channel to secure the elongate rod to the receiver in a locked configuration, with the fastener having an outer surface with a mating continuous helically wound guide and advancement structure configured for rotatable engagement with the receiver guide and advancement structure. |
| US11931072B2 |
Surgical access device with active smoke filtration
A surgical access device includes a housing with an elongate tubular member extending distally from the housing. The elongate tubular member has an open distal aperture. A first electrode is disposed in a first region of the elongate tubular member and circumscribes the elongate tubular member. The first electrode is coupled to an anode of a power supply and is configured to provide airborne particulate matter with a negative electric charge. A second electrode is disposed in a second region of the elongate tubular member and circumscribes the elongate tubular member. The second electrode is coupled to a cathode of a power supply and is configured to attract the airborne particulate matter. |
| US11931070B1 |
Half pipe cannula and methods of manufacturing and using half pipe cannula
A half pipe cannula has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion, which includes a proximal end and an elongated tab along the length of the first portion, can be formed from a first material with a selected rigidity. The second portion, which includes a proximal end, a cannulated passage, and a distal end, can be formed from a second material with a selected flexibility. The second portion of the half pipe cannula partially or fully overlaps the elongated tab of the first portion of the half pipe cannula. The second portion of the half pipe cannula has surface features such as a thread or bumper feature. Each portion of the half pipe cannula may have one or more flanges on either end or both ends. The second portion of the half pipe cannula can be made of a flexible material such as thermoplastic elastomer. |
| US11931067B2 |
Insertable cutting guards
A tissue guard includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end and defining a lumen therethrough. A plurality of torsion springs is included, each torsion spring having a first leg and a second leg and a spring defined therebetween. The first leg of each torsion spring is operably engaged to the distal end of the elongated body. Two or more petals extend from the distal end of the elongated body, each petal is operably engaged to the second leg of one of the torsion springs. The petals are movable between a first, compressed configuration wherein the petals are compressed relative to one another against the bias of the plurality of torsion springs to facilitate insertion of the tissue guard within an access device or natural orifice and a second, expanded configuration to facilitate engagement of the petals beneath the access device or within the natural orifical to secure the tissue guard therein. |
| US11931065B1 |
Atherectomy devices and methods
Rotational atherectomy devices and systems can remove or reduce stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating an abrasive element within the vessel. The abrasive element can be attached to a distal portion of an elongate flexible drive shaft that extends from a handle assembly. |
| US11931062B2 |
Atherectomy devices and methods
Rotational atherectomy devices and systems can remove or reduce stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating one or more abrasive elements within the vessel. The abrasive elements are attached to a distal portion of an elongate flexible drive shaft that extends from a handle assembly that includes a driver for rotating the drive shaft. In particular implementations, individual abrasive elements are attached to the drive shaft at differing radial angles in comparison to each other (e.g., configured in a helical array). The centers of mass of the abrasive elements can define a path that spirals around the drive shaft in a direction that is opposite to the wind direction of filars of the drive shaft, and opposite to the direction of rotation. In some embodiments, a concentric abrasive tip member is affixed to and extends distally from a distal-most end of the drive shaft. |
| US11931058B2 |
Atherectomy motor control system with tactile feedback
An atherectomy system includes a handle and a drive motor that is adapted to rotate a drive cable extending through the handle and operably coupled to an atherectomy burr. A control system is adapted to regulate operation of the drive motor, including providing the drive motor with a high frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signal in order to operate the drive motor. The control system monitors a motor performance parameter such as motor speed or motor torque, and when the motor performance parameter approaches a limit of a performance range, the control system adds a low frequency PWM signal to the high frequency PWM drive signal, thereby causing the drive motor to produce a tactile signal that signals to the user that the motor performance parameter is approaching the limit of the performance range. |
| US11931053B2 |
Single-use joint decorticator apparatus
A joint decorticator instrument configured for single use. The joint decorticator has a metal rod affixed within a polymer sheath. The polymer sheath has a longitudinal channel configured to receive an alignment protrusion with a working channel for maintaining the joint decorticator in a proper alignment relative to the working channel. The joint decorticator may include an integrated extraction mechanism involves an extraction lever pivotally connected to the handle portion of the polymer sheath. The extraction lever has an eccentric cam mechanism. When the extraction lever is pivoted toward an open position, the cam exerts a force onto a collar of the working channel and an opposite force on the connector pin that pivotally connects the extraction lever to the polymer sheath, thereby dislodging the abrading head of the joint decorticator from the joint. |
| US11931051B2 |
Dual stylus variable angle total knee instruments and methods
An instrument for setting a position of a resection of a distal femur or a proximal tibia in a total knee arthroplasty, the instrument comprising: a stable portion, the stable portion configured for orientation in a set position relative to said distal femur or said proximal tibia; a resection guide portion, the resection guide portion configured to guide a resection path for said resection; a resection guide body, the resection guide body associated with the resection guide portion in a fixed orientation; the resection guide body pivotally connected to the stable portion, whereby pivoting adjustment of the resection guide body on the stable portion sets a resection orientation of the resection guide portion; and the resection guide body having a lock for selectively locking the resection guide body to the stable portion at a plurality of selectable resection orientations. |
| US11931048B2 |
Cutting guide for spinal osteotomy
A cutting guide for spinal osteotomy comprises a main body having a first and a second arm, each provided with a respective through slot. The first and second arm are preferably inclined with respect to each other to substantially form a V shape. The guide also comprises a distal surface and a proximal surface shaped according to the anatomy of the specific patient and a height of each arm is also shaped according to the anatomy of the specific patient. |
| US11931047B2 |
Osteotomy procedure for correcting bone misalignment
An osteotomy procedure may be performed to correct a misalignment of a bone, such as a bunion deformity. In some examples, the osteotomy procedure involves making a spherical-shaped cut transecting a first metatarsal, thereby forming a first metatarsal portion having a spherical-shaped projection and a second metatarsal portion having a spherical-shaped recess. The method further involves moving the second metatarsal portion in at least two planes relative to the first metatarsal portion, thereby adjusting an anatomical alignment of the second metatarsal portion. |
| US11931046B2 |
Simplified field use junctional tourniquets
A junctional tourniquet apparatus and related methods of use. An exemplary tourniquet has an inverted cone shape, wherein a narrower end has a mushroom shaped base that is pressed against a compression target and a broader end has a plurality of pass-through slots for straps. Another exemplary tourniquet has a broad plate component and a handle component. The handle component has a mushroom shaped base on a first end and a handle on a second end. The handle component passes through the center of the plate component with threads that allow the handle component to compress a target by twisting the handle. |
| US11931045B2 |
Simplified field use junctional tourniquets
A junctional tourniquet apparatus and related methods of use. An exemplary tourniquet has an inverted cone shape, wherein a narrower end has a mushroom shaped base that is pressed against a compression target and a broader end has a plurality of pass-through slots for straps. Another exemplary tourniquet has a broad plate component and a handle component. The handle component has a mushroom shaped base on a first end and a handle on a second end. The handle component passes through the center of the plate component with threads that allow the handle component to compress a target by twisting the handle. |
| US11931043B2 |
Bendable clip device
A clip device for gripping biological tissue of a patient includes a clip having a first arm and second arm closeable by operation of a wire that is reciprocally moveable in a longitudinal channel of a sheath; and a bendable member at a distal end region of the sheath. The bendable member can be an integral portion of the sheath or a separate structure. The bendable member is configured to allow a distal end of a clip to rotate or swing toward a proximal end region of the sheath of the device, which orients the clip relative to the sheath to facilitate grasping of tissue even when the approach of the clip is tangential to the tissue, e.g., at an angle (θ) less than 90. The bendable member can be configured to allow a distal end of a clip to rotate or swing toward a proximal end region of a sheath and form an angle of up to at least about 45 degrees, such up to about 60 degrees or up to about 90 degrees, or higher. |
| US11931041B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for the treatment of vascular defects
Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm. |
| US11931040B2 |
Microstructure-based systems, apparatus, and methods for wound closure
Systems, apparatus, and methods related to wound closure devices comprising one or more microstructures are described herein. In some embodiments, the wound closure devices include a backing and a microstructure array. The microstructure array may include a first portion, a second portion, and a bridge portion. The first portion and the second portion each include one or more microstructures configured to penetrate tissue. Additionally, the first portion and the second portion each include one or more expandable portions such that the wound closure device is configured to expand in length. The wound closure device is configured to grip tissue surrounding a wound to either close the wound or secure the tissue in place. |
| US11931039B2 |
Surgical buttress loading and attaching/detaching assemblies
A surgical stapling system includes a surgical stapling apparatus and a staple cartridge surgical buttress assembly. The surgical stapling apparatus includes a handle assembly, an elongate tubular body extending distally from the handle assembly, and an end effector extending distally from the elongate tubular body. The end effector includes an anvil assembly and a staple cartridge assembly. The staple cartridge surgical buttress assembly includes a surgical buttress and a leash. The surgical buttress includes a body having an annular configuration and legs extending from the body. The body is positioned against a tissue facing surface of the staple cartridge assembly and the legs are positioned against a housing of the staple cartridge assembly. The leash is threaded through at least one of the legs and extends proximally from the surgical buttress towards the handle assembly. |
| US11931038B2 |
Cartridge assemblies for surgical staplers
Surgical stapling devices are disclosed herein that improve on the disclosures of previous surgical stapling devices. |
| US11931034B2 |
Surgical stapling instruments with smart staple cartridges
A surgical instrument includes an anvil and an elongate channel. The elongate channel includes a plurality of first electrical contacts and a plurality of electrical connectors comprising a plurality of second electrical contacts, wherein the electrical connectors are spring-biased such that a gap is maintained between the first electrical contacts and the second electrical contacts. The surgical instrument further includes a staple cartridge releasably attachable to the elongate channel, wherein the staple cartridge has a cartridge body comprising a plurality of staple cavities, a plurality of staples deployable from the staple cavities into the tissue, and a plurality of third electrical contacts, wherein the attachment of the staple cartridge to the elongate channel moves the electrical connectors causing the second electrical contacts to bridge the gap and become electrically coupled to the first electrical contacts. |
| US11931029B2 |
Firing limit feature for powered surgical stapler
A surgical instrument includes a body, a shaft, a motor, a firing assembly, an end effector, and a control circuit. The motor is activatable to actuate the firing assembly through a firing stroke to staple and sever tissue with the end effector. The control circuit is configured to monitor one or more use metrics of the surgical instrument. Responsive to at least one of the one or more use metrics exceeding a predetermined threshold, the control circuit is further configured to initiate at least one of providing a notification to a user or disabling the firing assembly. |
| US11931026B2 |
Staple cartridge replacement
A surgical end effector comprising a cartridge jaw is disclosed. The cartridge jaw comprises a proximal channel portion extending along a longitudinal axis, and a distal portion movable relative to the proximal channel portion between an open position and a closed position. The surgical end effector further comprising a staple cartridge removably seated in the cartridge jaw, wherein the staple cartridge is configured to slide along the longitudinal axis into the proximal channel portion of the cartridge jaw when the distal portion is in the open position. |
| US11931024B2 |
Medical device bending devices and methods of use
Medical device bending devices and methods of use are disclosed herein. An embodiment includes a body, a handle in rotatable relationship with the body, and a head that is coupled with the handle in such a way that when the handle is rotated the head is drawn at least partially into the body and towards the handle. A terminal end of the body that is opposite of the handle and the head cooperate as a vise that bends opposing arms of a surgical staple from an inwardly angled configuration to a parallel configuration (or at angles therebetween) when a crown of the surgical staple is clamped in the vise. |
| US11931015B2 |
Bone biopsy devices, systems, and methods
A bone biopsy system can include a cutting cannula that is coupled to a powered drill. The powered drill can be actuated to rotate the cutting cannula and cut through a cortical layer of a bone. The powered drill can be decoupled from the cutting cannula while the cutting cannula extends through the cortical layer of the bone. A handle may then be used to manually advance the cutting cannula to a greater depth within the bone to core a sample. |
| US11931013B2 |
Device for taking an intestinal sample
A capsule configured for collecting samples in the intestine, comprising a body delimiting at least one compartment for receiving samples and comprising at least one opening for samples intake, and a mobile mechanism for opening and/or closing the opening controlled by the dissolution of a material which is dissolvable in the intestine. |
| US11931011B1 |
Telescope maintenance devices and assemblies
Devices for maintaining a telescope during a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) technique such as laparoscopy or thoracoscopy. A telescope maintenance assembly is comprised of a disc and a dome. The disc is absorbent and includes a central aperture. The dome is hollow and includes an inlet port, a lower protrusion, and outlet ports which abut against the disc when attached thereto. To prepare the assembly for use, the disc is secured about a proximal port of a trocar and the lower protrusion is inserted through the central aperture, and an anti-fog solution is transmitted into and through the dome to wet the disc. After the disc is wetted, the wetted disc can be used by a surgeon or assistant to wipe debris from a lens or other optical component of the telescope without needing to remove the telescope from the trocar. |
| US11931009B2 |
Offset illumination of a scene using multiple emitters in a hyperspectral imaging system
Offset illumination using multiple emitters in a hyperspectral imaging system is described. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The emitter comprises a first emitter and a second emitter for emitting different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm, from about 565 nm to about 585 nm, and/or from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm. |
| US11931005B2 |
Driving force transmission mechanism for endoscope and endoscope
A driving force transmission mechanism for an endoscope includes an insertion portion, an operation portion, an electric motor, an output member, a rotation transmission member, an inside plane, a first plane, a second plane and a third plane configured to come into contact with a proximal end of the output member when at least part of the second plane comes into contact with the inside plane to thereby restrict the rotation transmission member from moving toward the distal end side in the axial direction with respect to the output member. |
| US11931000B2 |
Openable spinal endoscope apparatus
The present disclosure relates to an openable/closable vertebral endoscopic device. The openable/closable vertebral endoscopic device includes an endoscope body including a working channel for providing an access route of a surgical instrument to a diseased area of a human body, the working channel having an open channel formed by opening a portion of the working channel such that a portion of the surgical instrument inserted into the working channel is exposed to the outside; and a cover member provided on the endoscope body to selectively open or close the open channel of the endoscope body. |
| US11930996B2 |
Signal transmission components for use with medical devices
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a medical device. The medical device may include an elongate member, having a proximal end and a distal end and at least two lumens extending therebetween. At least one of the lumens may be an imaging lumen configured to hold an imaging device, and an imaging device may be disposed inside the imaging lumen. A signal transmitting device may extend longitudinally through the imaging lumen. A distal end of the signal transmitting device may be operably coupled to the imaging device and a proximal end may be operably coupled to a processor. The processor may be located outside of the imaging lumen. The signal transmitting device may transmit signals between the imaging device and the processor. A grounded, braided catheter may be disposed within and extend the length of the elongate member, surrounding the imaging lumen. |
| US11930989B2 |
Reducing cleaning roller amplitude and speed oscillations of a cleaning robot
A roller assembly for a mobile cleaning system for cleaning a work surface can include a drive shaft, a sheath, a bushing, and a bushing shroud. The drive shaft can be rotatable about a drive axis, and the drive shaft can include a driven end and an opposite bushing end. The sheath can be supported by the drive shaft and the sheath can be rotatable with the drive shaft. The sheath can include a shell engageable with the work surface. The bushing can be located about the bushing end of the drive shaft. The bushing shroud can be connected to the bushing. The sheath and the drive shaft can be together rotatable with respect to the bushing and the bushing shroud, the bushing shroud can include an outer portion defining a first radius of curvature and a recessed portion connected to the outer portion. |
| US11930988B2 |
Hand-held surface cleaning device
In general, the present disclosure is directed to a hand-held surface cleaning device that includes a relatively compact form-factor to allow users to store the same in a nearby location (e.g., in a drawer, in an associated charging dock, on a table top) for easy access to perform relatively small cleaning tasks that would otherwise require retrieving a full-size vacuum from storage. A hand-held surface cleaning device consistent with aspects of the present disclosure includes a body (or body portion) with a motor, power source and dust cup disposed therein. The body portion also functions as a handgrip to allow the hand-held surface cleaning device to be operated by one hand, for example. |
| US11930985B2 |
Apparatus and method for washing and sanitizing cookware by robotic or manual operation
The present invention is an apparatus and a green and economical method for washing and sanitizing cookware including pots, pans and containers suitable for all types of cookware, wherein the washing and sanitization method is a two stage process involving utilization of cold water jet for washing of utensils and heating water for sanitization of the cookware without the use of detergents or chemicals. |
| US11930979B2 |
Energy recovery system for heated water
A free-standing Energy Recovery System enables sanitary recovery of thermal energy with heat transfer from hot waste effluent to incoming domestic water. The source of the effluent may, for example, be conventional commercial ware-washing, clothes washing equipment, pasteurization and other industrial processes. |
| US11930966B1 |
Blender including an integrated smart scale and a recipe application
A blender includes an integrated scale used to weigh ingredients added to a vessel of the blender. The blender also includes a user interface (UI) and a recipe application that includes recipe data. The integrated scale is mounted atop the blender such that as the vessel receives ingredients, the vessel engages the integrated scale but does not operatively engage a motor of the blender when weighing ingredients. The weights may be provided to a user via the UI as the ingredients are received in the vessel. The recipe application may be executed by a microcontroller of the blender to provide recipe steps via the UI to the user and thereby guide the user through a recipe based at least in part upon the recipe data and the weight of ingredients. When blending and mixing the ingredients, the vessel operatively engages the motor but does not engage the integrated scale. |
| US11930962B2 |
Grinder device
A grinder device is provided. The grinder device may include a container, a cap assembly configured to be friction-fit to the container such that the cap assembly is removably lockable to the container, and a grinding mill disposed within the cap assembly to perform a grinding operation of condiment disposed in the container. The grinding mill may include a movable grinder portion and a fixed grinder portion that are rotatable relative to each other, and the fixed grinder portion is engagable with the container to permit relative rotation between the cap assembly and the container. |
| US11930960B2 |
Cooking apparatuses
A cooking apparatus includes a housing defining an internal chamber. The internal chamber includes a cooking portion. The apparatus includes a single cooking container configured and adapted to be removably received in the cooking portion of the internal chamber. The single cooking container defines a cooking volume. The apparatus includes at least two heating elements positioned within the cooking portion of the internal chamber. |
| US11930958B2 |
Hot air fryer cooking appliance with a scalable cooking capacity
A hot air fryer includes a main body, a vessel that can be removed from the main body and a basket that can be removed from the vessel. The fryer also includes a manipulating system having a configuration changing system that makes it possible to manipulate the vessel incorporating the basket at the same time, or to manipulate the basket alone, released and removed from the vessel, or to manipulate the vessel alone, released and removed from the basket, so as to allow a first mode of cooking foods in the basket incorporated in the vessel and a second mode of cooking foods directly in the vessel, the basket being extracted from the latter. |
| US11930956B2 |
Cookware having a graphite core
Provided is cookware made from a bonded multi-layer blank assembly. The cookware has a first metal layer, a second metal layer having a cavity with a plurality of spaced-apart posts protruding from a bottom surface of the cavity, and a perforated graphite layer having a thickness of at least 0.010 in. (0.254 mm) and a plurality of spaced-apart holes formed therethrough. The perforated graphite layer is positioned within the cavity of the second metal layer such that the plurality of spaced-apart posts extend through the plurality of spaced-apart holes. The second metal layer is metallurgically bonded to the first metal layer at least via the plurality of spaced-apart posts. A method of making the bonded multi-layer composite cookware is also disclosed. |
| US11930953B2 |
Apparatus and method for extracting juice from food ingredients
Provided is an apparatus (100) for extracting juice from food ingredients. The apparatus comprises a container (102) for receiving the food ingredients; the container having a juice outlet (110). A blender tool is located inside the container which blends the food ingredients. A drive system (109) drives the blender tool for blending and spins the container to assist juice which is released from the food ingredients during blending to pass out of the container via the juice outlet. The drive system provides independent control over the driving of the blender tool and the spinning of the container respectively. Further provided is a method for extracting juice from food ingredients. |
| US11930952B2 |
Girth adjustable sleeping bag
A sleeping bag includes a top cover and bottom sheet. The bottom sheet can be secured to a sleeping pad and includes a sheet portion and lateral flaps connected to the sheet portion along opposite lateral edges of the sleeping pad when the bottom sheet is secured thereto. The top cover and lateral flaps enable attachment, detachment, and reattachment of the lateral flaps along their lateral edges to a top cover outer surface along corresponding attachment paths displaced medially from top cover lateral edges, enabling a top cover headward portion to assume wrapped and expanded configurations, and enabling conversion between those configurations. When wrapped, headward portions of the top cover outer surface, that are lateral of the attachment paths, are positioned against the sheet portion; when expanded, the lateral flaps and lateral portions of the top cover extend upward or laterally away from the sleeping pad lateral edges. |
| US11930951B2 |
Vibrating blanket and alarm
A blanket having a vibrating element, heating element, sound generator, sound speaker and programmable wake-up alarm. A circuit electrically connects the programmable wake-up element with one or more of the vibrating element, heating element, sound generating element and sound speaker element to wake a sleeping person at a pre-set time by vibrations. A remote control can be used control the circuitry and the one or more elements of the blanket. |
| US11930950B2 |
Multifunction shoehorn
Multifunction shoehorn comprising at least one base, and at least one central structure, characterized in that the central structure comprises at least one vertical or substantially vertical wall, U-shaped or substantially U-shaped, and with a first upper end and a second end lower, where the lower end is attached to the base; and the upper end comprises at least one groove or guide. |
| US11930948B2 |
Foldable hanger
A foldable hanger may include a body equipped with a hanging element with a firm arm and a movable arm pivotably attached to the body, wherein said body further contains a spike and arresting pin slidable along the spike and exerting a force on the arresting pin, wherein the arresting pin has a shank with a relief snapping to an arresting groove of a sliding-block guide which moves between open and closed positions and contains a guiding slot for a shank of the arresting pin and allowing free movement of a relief of the arresting pin; an arresting groove at the closed end of the guiding slot accommodating the relief; a flexible element exerting a force on the sliding-block guide; sliding-block guide cogs coordinating with cogs at the proximal end of the movable arm; wherein the sliding-block guide is adapted for movement between a closed position and an open position. |
| US11930946B1 |
Portable toothpick dispenser
A portable toothpick dispenser particularly suited for storing and dispensing nicotine-infused toothpicks incorporates a child-resistant housing closure for preventing access to toothpicks stored within an interior toothpick storage space. Front and rear housing portions are contiguous with one another via a living hinge located along aligned housing sides to form a clamshell-like housing structure. Disengagement of a housing closure locking structure requires a user to simultaneously press central portions of corresponding front and rear housing portion bodies inwardly toward one another. |
| US11930945B1 |
Easy scoop
The present invention discloses a food serving apparatus such as scoop designed to be magnetically mounted on top or underneath of a metallic lid of containers. The scoop comprises a bowl and a handle. The handle comprises a cavity, which includes at least two magnets separated by a small distance. The magnets are mounted within the cavity to hold the scoop on out side or in side of the metallic lid of the container. During the molding process, the molten plastic flows over and under the magnets to hold them in place in the cavity of the handle. The plastic encapsulated magnets in the handle avoids trapping of germs and other harmful biological microorganisms, thereby making the scoop very safe for storage on top surface or inside of the product container lids. Further, the scoop is made from food grade plastic material. |
| US11930944B2 |
Container and method of forming a container
An insulating container can be configured to retain a volume of liquid, and include a canister having a first inner wall having a first end having an opening extending into an internal reservoir, and a second outer wall forming an outer shell. The opening can be sealed by a spout adapter, the spout adapter having an internal passageway extending between the internal reservoir and a spout opening, which may be smaller than the opening of the canister. The spout opening may be sealed with an upper cap that has a magnetic top surface. The upper cap may be selectively coupled to seal the spout opening, or may be magnetically coupled to a magnetic docking surface of a docking structure on the spout adapter. |
| US11930942B2 |
Picture hanging device
Devices, systems and methods for hanging one or more objects, such as frames, on a surface. A marking device for marking a surface for hanging one or more objects. The marking device can have a main body portion having first and second arms pivotably attached thereto. The first and second arms, as well as the main body, can each have a marker to mark a target surface. The marking device can optionally have a level indicator and the first and second arms can have markers which can slide along a ruled measure for convenient positioning of marks on the target surface. Optionally, the markers can have biased, retractable, or sheathed marker pins. |
| US11930940B2 |
Roller grill assembly canopy
Provided is a canopy cover for a roller grill assembly that works in conjunction with a roller grill food separating device. The canopy includes a pair of support brackets that contact the sidewalls of the roller grill to support the canopy thereon. The canopy support brackets include cutouts for positioning a food separating device on the grill assembly. The configuration of the cutouts allows the food separating device support brackets to rest between the ends of the canopy support brackets and on the roller grill. The canopy further includes a pair of canopy header brackets for supporting a header graphic custom sign positioned above the roller grill. The canopy provides a sanitary cover for a roller grill and a food separating device that permits segregation of food products on the grill surface, protects the food from contaminants, and provides support for an advertising sign. |
| US11930935B1 |
Convertible swinging seat
Various implementations include a convertible swinging seat assembly. The assembly includes a seat and at least four suspenders. The seat includes four segments. A first end of a second segment is pivotably coupled to a second end of the first segment at a first joint. A first end of a third segment is pivotably coupled to a second end of the second segment at a second joint. A first end of a fourth segment is pivotably coupled to a second end of the third segment at a third joint. The first, second, and third joints are independently pivotable relative to each other. The suspenders each have a first suspender portion and a second suspender portion. The second suspender portion of each suspender is coupled to a different one of the first, second, third, and fourth segments. |
| US11930934B2 |
Mattress reinforcement system
Reinforcement straps are used to hold a mattress system in place and keep it from bowing outwards when used. The mattress system can include a layer and a rail structure attached to the layer. The layer can have a layer top and a layer bottom opposite to the layer top. The layer can extend between a first layer edge and a second layer edge. |
| US11930933B2 |
Adjustable bed base with incline feature
An adjustable bed base has a subframe assembly including a subframe which may be inclined relative to a stationary frame by a primary linear actuator. An articulating deck is attached to the subframe. Secondary linear actuators articulate the deck. The subframe assembly is pivotally secured to a portion of the stationary frame. The subframe may be inclined by extending the primary linear actuator which moves ramps, causing wheels attached to the subframe to ride upwardly along the ramps, thereby raising the head end of the subframe relative to the stationary frame. |
| US11930931B2 |
Apparatus for supporting a user in a forward-leaning position with faceplate pivotability
An apparatus for supporting a user includes a faceplate, an arm, a bridge, and a base. The bridge is rotatably attached to the faceplate to allow the faceplate to be pivotably adjusted. The bridge includes a hub with first and second hub bodies. Locking pins on the hub bodies slidingly engage pivot adjustment holes in first and second pivot adjustment rings. First and second buttons can be depressed to slide the hub bodies inwardly to separate the locking pins from the pivot adjustment holes to allow the hub to rotate, thereby allowing the faceplate to pivot. When the buttons are released, the hub bodies slide outwardly to insert the locking pins into the same or different pivot adjustment holes to prevent the hub from rotating. |
| US11930928B2 |
Hanging storage enclosure
A hanging storage enclosure includes a main frame, a hanging mechanism, a top slide and a bottom slide. The main frame has a hollow interior having a top side, a bottom side, and an open front end. The hanging mechanism is on the top side. The hanging mechanism is configured to hang the main frame from an object. The top slide is positioned on the top side and the bottom slide is positioned on the bottom side. The top slide is configured to slide in and out of the top side of the main frame for positioning the top side. The bottom slide is configured to slide in and out of the bottom side for positioning the bottom side. |
| US11930927B2 |
Drawer slide for guiding a drawer in a cabinet
A drawer slide is arranged for guiding a drawer (2, 4, 6) in an essentially linear movement as the drawer (2, 4, 6) is pulled out from a cabinet (8) to a static extended position (S). The drawer slide comprises at least one drawer biasing member arranged to bias the drawer (2) in a direction towards the cabinet (8) upon pulling the drawer (2, 4, 6) further away from the cabinet (8) beyond the static extended position (S) to a biased non-static extended position (B). |
| US11930923B2 |
Storage rack
A rack has a frame and a plurality of shelves. Each shelf has an enclosing frame member that has two first sides connected by two second sides, a connecting bar that connects the first sides at about the center of the first sides, a plurality of slots provided on the inner surfaces of the second sides, and a plurality of slats, each slat having opposing ends that are fitted into opposing slots at the second sides, and with each slat being connected to the connecting bar. At least one connector is provided for removably connecting each shelf to a portion of the frame. |
| US11930922B1 |
Expandable stand-alone shelving assembly
An expandable stand-alone shelving assembly includes a post assembly and an expandable shelf. The post assembly includes an elongated post and a sleeve coupled to the elongated post. The expandable shelf includes an aperture, a first half, a second half, and an internal mechanism. The aperture accepts the sleeve of the post assembly. The first half of the expandable shelf includes a surface, a top end, and a bottom end. The second half of the expandable shelf includes an angled portion extending downwards from a surface of the second half. The internal mechanism includes a reinforcement bar connecting the top end and the bottom end of the first half, and a stop. The second half is slidably received within the first half. The stop of the internal mechanism engages with the angled portion of the second half to prevent the second half and first half from sliding apart. |
| US11930920B1 |
Side mount table leg assembly
A side mount table leg assembly that is height adjustable to a plurality of heights is disclosed. The table leg assembly comprises an upper leg, a lower leg and a first and a second pivotable connection. The table leg assembly further comprises a side mount adapter configured to be slidably and removably engaged with a mounting bracket that is mountable to a non-horizontal surface. A gear plate at the second pivotable connection is configured to adjust the table leg assembly in three rotatable positions to accommodate different draft angles. |
| US11930913B2 |
Holder and holder support system
A belt mountable holder and methods of making and using a belt mountable holder including an arcuate member suspendable from a belt disposed about the waist of a wearer and having mateable fasteners disposed on an exterior face of the arcuate member to releasably couple one or more containers to carry articles or tool retainers to retain tools and optionally including a holder support to transfer a holder weight normally applied to the waist of a wearer to a ground engaging surface to remove weight bearing stress from the wearer's waist. |
| US11930908B2 |
Airtight lipstick
An airtight lipstick, including an outer cover, an inner cover, a central core and a base; the inner cover is fixedly arranged within the outer cover; the base is internally provided with a cavity; the central core is arranged within the cavity; the central core is adapted to accommodate a lipstick mass; a bottom part of the outer cover removably snaps onto the base; a lower part of the inner cover is in an interference fit with an upper part of an inner wall of the cavity to achieve sealing effect. A stable structure is thus provided that only requires the inner cover to produce a smaller amount of elastic deformation to provide the lipstick container with airtightness, and is not easy to cause air leakage of the lipstick container due to misalignment, and hence more durable. |
| US11930906B2 |
Crafting scrap collection and nail polish holder devices and methods of use thereof
Provided for are devices having a crown with an opening defining an access to a cavity of the crown for the insertion of nail polish containers or crafting scrap materials, such as waste produced in vinyl weeding. Advantageously, the devices are anchorable for directional release and attachment to a surface. The crown may be hingedly positionable with respect to a vented suction base anchorable to a surface. Further provided for are methods of use of devices in the application of nail polish or in crafting, such as in vinyl weeding. |
| US11930897B1 |
Customizable necklace system and method
A customizable necklace comprising a necklace body, a first fastener and a second fastener. The necklace body forms a closed loop. The first fastener is configured to disconnectably and selectively secure to different positions along the necklace body. Similarly, the second fastener is configured to disconnectably and selectively secure to different positions along the necklace body. The customizable necklace system is configured to adopt multiple usage positions, in which the first and second fasteners are attached to the necklace body and to one another forming a first loop and a second loop, wherein the first loop has a different size in each usage position and the second loop has a different size in each usage position. |
| US11930896B2 |
Band and watch
A band includes first and second pin member including first and second pin, an operation member that moves between first and second positions, a housing including a coupling part and an engaging part, and a guide part that guides and moves the first and second pin members between an engagement position and a release position. The first and second pin members move to the engagement position when the operation member is moved to the first position, whereas move to the release position when the operation member is moved to the second position. The engagement/release position is a position where each pin is located outside/outside the side surface of the housing in the width direction, and the engagement/release position is closer to the coupling/engaging part than the release/engagement position in the longitudinal direction. |
| US11930894B1 |
Pluggable connecting buckle
The present application discloses a pluggable connecting buckle, including a male buckle and a female buckle. A first connecting rod is arranged on one end of the male buckle, and a decorative plate and a buckling rib are arranged on an other end. A buckling block is arranged on the buckling rib, and a corresponding engagement groove is arranged on the buckling rib. A second connecting rod and an accommodating cavity are respectively arranged on two ends of the female buckle. Two engagement assemblies are respectively arranged on two sides of the accommodating cavity. A limiting plate is arranged on the engagement assembly which includes a turning plate. An inclined engagement surface is arranged on the engagement groove, and an inverted hook plane is arranged on the turning end of the turning plate. The pluggable connecting buckle has a good anti-loosening effect, a long service life, and good user experience. |
| US11930882B2 |
Midsole structure of an article of footwear including mesh
A sole structure for an article of footwear is described. In one example, the sole structure includes first and second foam components and one or more mesh components, e.g., a mesh textile component. The first foam component includes first and second opposing sides, and the second foam component includes first and second opposing sides. The first and second foam components form a stack in the sole structure. The mesh components, e.g., a mesh textile component, are positioned in the stack between and bonded to the second side of the first foam component and the first side of the second foam component. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. |
| US11930879B2 |
Helmet accessory mounting system
A helmet accessory mounting system includes a mounting device configured to couple to an outer surface of a side of a helmet. The mounting device includes a plurality of mounting locations configured to removeably couple to at least one accessory. A plurality of the plurality of mounting locations each includes an electrical node. A power supply is coupled to the mounting device. An electrical supply line electrically couples the power supply to each of the electrical nodes and the electrical supply line is contained at least partially within the mounting device. |
| US11930875B2 |
Impact reduction system for personal protective devices
Personal protective devices with an impact reduction system that includes a first bladder system including a fluid and a second bladder system are disclosed. A passage couples the first bladder system to the second bladder system and includes a first series of Tesla valves that resist flow of the fluid from the first bladder system to a common point of the passageway when an impact occurs to the first bladder system. In some embodiments, the passage further includes a second series of Tesla valves that resist flow of the fluid from the second bladder system to the common point of the passageway when an impact occurs to the second bladder system. The impact reduction system is a passive, closed system. |
| US11930872B2 |
Bathing suit with girdle
The present invention relates to a bathing suit/swimsuit type garment with an integrated shaping-girdle configured to apply pressure to users' tissue or skin. Likewise, the girdle integrated in the bathing suit of the present invention can come into contact with water (such as swimming pools, sea, lagoons, etc.), without compromising its shape, integrity, and/or compression capacity, moreover the girdle of the present invention is discreetly and integrally incorporated into a one-piece swimsuit/bathing suit design with snaps. |
| US11930866B2 |
Face shield
A face shield includes a front surface opposite of a back surface, a shield portion, and a band portion extending from a top side of the shield portion. A plurality of spacing projections extend outward from the back surface of the face shield that are configured to be positioned against a forehead of a wearer. |
| US11930862B2 |
Mouthpiece with adjustment
A mouthpiece assembly for use with a vaporizer device includes a mouthpiece having an opening formed axially therethrough from a first end to an opposing second end thereof and an inner tubular member configured to be slidably received within the opening of the mouthpiece. A sliding of the inner tubular member within the opening of the mouthpiece changes an axial length of the mouthpiece assembly to allow for the mouthpiece assembly to be coupled to a variety of different outer tubular members of differing axial lengths that are compatible for use with the mouthpiece assembly for forming the resulting vaporizer device. |
| US11930861B2 |
Aerosol provision system with integrated charger
The present disclosure is directed to the concept of integrating a charger with an electronic aerosol provision device into a single unit, so as to eliminate the need for a user to carry or stow charging cables, adaptors, and/or docks. In various implementations, the device utilizes a standard USB plug that is permanently attached to the device body and fully integrated with the charging circuitry. In some implementations, the plug may extend from an end of the device or be deployed from a side wall of the device and/or from the mouthpiece end of the device. The charger may be covered or otherwise hidden when the device is not charging. |
| US11930858B2 |
Aerosol generating device and method for showing the remaining amount of liquid composition using light source
An aerosol generating device according to an aspect comprises a main body that comprises a battery and a controller, a cartridge which is coupled to the main body and comprises a liquid storage that contains liquid composition and an atomization portion that generates an aerosol by heating the liquid composition contained in the liquid storage, and a cover that forms an inner space by being coupled to the main body such that the cartridge is arranged in the inner space, wherein the main body further comprises a light source that emits light toward an inside of the liquid storage, and the cover comprises a window hole through which light entitled from the light source toward the inside of the liquid storage is transmitted to the outside of the cover. |
| US11930855B2 |
Electronic cigarette
The present disclosure discloses an electronic cigarette, a battery thereof is connected to an atomizing device through a first power supply circuit, the battery is connected to a first detecting device through a second power supply circuit, and first information detected by the first detecting device is used to indicate whether the electronic cigarette is in a suction state. The electronic cigarette further comprises a switching key, an on-off key, a second detecting device and an MCU, the on-off key is configured for controlling the first power supply circuit to be ON and OFF, and the second information detected by the second detecting device is used to indicate the position of the switching key; the MCU controls the second power supply circuit to be ON and OFF according to the second information. |
| US11930851B2 |
Electronic aerosol provision device having a chassis section and a movable hatch section with a sealed sleeve
There is provided a device for an electronic aerosol provision system, wherein the device includes a housing, the housing including a chassis section and a hatch section, wherein the hatch section is connected to the chassis section and moveable between a first position and a second position, wherein when in the first position a biasing cam is biased against the hatch section, the hatch section being prevented from moving to the second position by a releasable lug. |
| US11930850B2 |
Aerosol generating device with moveable heater and aerosol generating system including the same
An aerosol generating device includes an accommodation portion configured to accommodate an aerosol generating article through an opening, a heater configured to heat the accommodation portion and move along a longitudinal direction of the accommodation portion; and a heater support that supports the heater and move the heater along the longitudinal direction of the accommodation portion, wherein the heater moves between a first position corresponding to a first point of the aerosol generating article and a second position corresponding to a second point of the aerosol generating article, and wherein the first position and the second position differ according to specifications of the aerosol generating article. |
| US11930845B2 |
Liquid supply system for use in aerosol-generating devices
A liquid supply system for use with aerosol-generating devices includes a liquid retention material 136, a liquid flow channel extending from the liquid retention material and a barrier 125 disposed in the liquid flow channel, the barrier having a degradation temperature between 60° C. and 130° C. |
| US11930842B2 |
Flexible aerosol-generating devices
An aerosol-generating device may include a housing having flexible portion along its length. The flexible portion is configured to transition between a relaxed or unloaded configuration and a flexed or deflected configuration. A flexible heating element and mouthpiece may also be disposed in the housing. When the housing is in a relaxed or unloaded configuration, the flexible heating element and the mouthpiece are at least partially longitudinally aligned with the flexible portion of the housing. |
| US11930841B2 |
Electrically-powered hookah apparatus, capsule of combustible material for use therewith and method for control thereof
The invention allows for the simplified operation and maintenance of a hookah apparatus. In a first aspect of the present invention, an electrically-powered hookah apparatus is provided. The hookah apparatus comprises a vessel and a housing. The housing comprises a first section and a second section. The first section is removably fitted over the vessel, and the second section comprises a combustion unit including an electronics unit. The combustion unit comprises a capsule holder configured to hold capsules of combustible material and a heating unit configured to heat the capsules. The electronics unit comprises a power unit and a programmable controller connected thereto, the controller configured to controllably power the heating unit. In a second aspect of the present invention, a capsule of combustible material is provided. In a third aspect of the present invention, a method of operating an electrically-powered hookah apparatus is provided. |
| US11930839B1 |
Cigarette loading machines and method therefore
An apparatus can manufacture cigarettes of the type having a frustoconical rolled paper with a proximal end thereof and open at a distal end thereof. A smokable material can be filled within the rolled paper. The apparatus includes an elongated, retractable rod extendable through either the open distal end or the proximal end of the rolled paper. With the retractable rod extended through the open distal end of the rolled paper, the rolled paper may be filled with the smokable material by the apparatus, compacted, and the retractable rod then retracted to leave an air channel through the smokable material in the cigarette. An adhesive may be sprayed on the smokable materials proximate the air channel to maintain the coherence of the air channel. |
| US11930835B1 |
System for manufacturing foods with probiotics and method for preparing the same
A system and methods of isolating probiotics and adding probiotics into matrices are disclosed, comprising: (a) selecting and preparing a food source by a predetermined quality guideline; (b) obtaining probiotics from the food source using a multi-purpose apparatus operable to function as either a centrifugal machine, a food mixer, and a fermentator; (c) screen testing the probiotics for viability and performances; (d) if the probiotics meet predetermined requirements for viability and performance standards, then record the predetermined quality guideline of said food source and parametric settings of said multi-purposed apparatus into a database for said food source; and (e) otherwise, repeating steps (a) to (c) until the probiotics meet the predetermined requirements for viability and performance standards. |
| US11930834B2 |
Extraction of polyphenolic compounds from pomace
Methods of extraction of one or more polyphenolic compounds from pomace are described. The invention also provides uses of the extracts in the fortification of fruit juice, vegetable juice and foods, and as an antioxidant, an anti-inflammatory and an antifungal. |
| US11930830B2 |
System and method of forming multilayer confectionery
A method and an apparatus for making a multilayer confectionery product provided. The method and apparatus include at least two sets of forming drums that form and laminate confectionery sheets. |
| US11930828B2 |
Method and formulation for gluten-free bakery products
Provided herein are gluten-free compositions which can be made into a dough. The gluten-free dough can be subjected to a sheeting or pressing process and therefore can be prepared easily in commercial settings. The dough comprises gluten-free flour, modified starch, protein, leavening agents; oil and water. |
| US11930820B1 |
Eco-friendly control of red palm weevil using green synthesized silver nanoparticles of chlorophyll derivatives
Silver nanoparticles made by a green synthesis method using silver nitrate and a chlorophyll derivative, such as a chlorophyllin are provided. The thus produced silver nanoparticles can have a crystalline structure and an average particle size ranging from about 10 nm to about 40 nm. The disclosed silver nanoparticles may be useful in treating, preventing, and/or reducing insect infestation of a variety of plants, particularly date palms. |
| US11930816B2 |
Methods of pest control in soybean
The present invention relates to methods, preferably for controlling and/or preventing infestation of stinkbugs in soybean, comprising applying to a crop of soybean plants, the locus thereof, or propagation material thereof, a compound of formula (I) wherein —B1—B2—B3— is —C═N—O—, —C═N—CH2—, —C═CH2—O— or —N—CH2—CH2—; L is a direct bond or methylene; A1 and A2 are C—H, or one of A1 and A2 is C—H and the other is N; X1 is group X R1 is C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4haloalkyl or C3-C6cycloalkyl; R2 is chlorodifluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl; each R3 is independently bromo, chloro, fluoro or trifluoromethyl; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, methyl, halomethyl or cyano; R5 is hydrogen; or R4 and R5 together form a bridging 1,3-butadiene group; p is 2 or 3. |
| US11930815B1 |
3,3′-(piperazine-1,4-diyl)bis(1-(naphthalen-2-yloxy)propan-2-ol) as insecticidal agent
A 3,3′-(piperazine-1,4-diyl)bis(1-(naphthalen-2-yloxy)propan-2-ol) compound, its synthesis, and its use as an insecticidal agent. |
| US11930814B2 |
Pesticidal mixtures comprising cyanosulfoximine compounds
The invention relates to pesticidal mixtures comprising as active compounds 1) at least one cyanosulfoximine compound I of the formula I wherein R1, R2 and G are defined in the description; and 2) at least one active compound II selected from a group A comprising acteylcholine esterase inhibitors, GABA-gated chloride channel antagonists, sodium channel modulators, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists/antagonists, chloride channel activators, juvenile hormone mimics, compounds affecting the oxidative phosphorylation, inhibitors of the chitin biosynthesis, moulting disruptors, inhibitors of the MET, voltage-dependent sodium channel blockers, inhibitors of the lipid synthesis and other compounds as defined in the description, in synergistically effective amounts. The invention relates further to methods and use of these mixtures for combating insects, arachnids or nematodes in and on plants, and for protecting such plants being infested with pests and also for protecting seeds. |
| US11930809B2 |
Preservation of biomaterial properties and methods of storing
Described herein are enhanced compositions and methods for storing biomaterials. In certain aspects, these biomaterials include natural and engineered eukaryotic tissues. The methods described herein include storing these biomaterials in such a manner that reduces or prevents the loss of biomaterial properties (e.g., extracellular matrix integrity, cell viability, or a combination thereof) occurring either during storage or after removal of the biomaterial from storage. In certain aspects, these biomaterials will be stored in animal product-free solutions containing an agent that prevents or reduces the loss of extracellular matrix integrity. |
| US11930805B2 |
Camouflage material for a hunting blind
Mesh material is presented for a hunting blind with a camouflage pattern printed on a first side and a second side with a color coating. The mesh material is partially transmissive such that a portion of incident radiation from an exterior of the hunting blind is reflected back into the exterior, a portion of incident radiation from an interior of the hunting blind is transmitted through the mesh material to the exterior and an intensity ratio of the reflected portion to the transmitted portion during daylight conditions is above a threshold value such that the exterior of the hunting blind is visible from the interior and the interior of the hunting blind is not visible from an exterior of the hunting blind. A hunting blind is also provided that includes a frame including frame members and panels of the mesh material attached to the frame members. |
| US11930804B2 |
Avian streamer deterrent for electric power line support structures
An avian streamer deterrent system includes an electric power line support structure coupled to a plurality of conducting wires. Each conducting wire of the plurality of conducting wires is coupled to an insulator. At least one avian streamer deterrent is disposed above the insulator of at least one of the conducting wires of the plurality of conducting wires. The at least one avian streamer deterrent may be disposed on a that is absent an insulator and situated above the plurality of conducting wires. The at least one avian streamer deterrent or an additional avian streamer deterrent may extend over one or more jumpers coupling at least a first conducting wire of the plurality of conducting wires to a second conducting wire of the plurality of conducting wires. In addition, the at least one avian streamer deterrent may comprise a rotatable configuration or a collapsible configuration. |
| US11930800B2 |
Braking device that brakes spool and fishing reel provided with the same
A braking device of a double bearing reel that brakes a spool rotatably mounted on a reel body of a double bearing reel on which a fishing line may be wound, the braking device provided with a braked unit attached to the spool, a braking unit that applies a braking force to the braked unit, an adjustment unit capable of adjusting the braking force of the braking unit, a control unit that controls the adjustment unit, a power supply unit that supplies electric power to the control unit, and a remaining amount detection unit that detects a remaining amount of the power supply unit, in which the control unit adjusts the adjustment unit to achieve a predetermined braking force value or sets a predetermined braking force value to a set value in a case where the remaining amount of the power supply becomes a predetermined value or smaller. |
| US11930799B2 |
Guide frame of fishing line guide, fishing line guide and fishing rod
A guide frame of a fishing line guide includes a hollow frame body, and a core member inserted into at least a part of the frame body. The frame body includes a frame member configured to abut a prescribed angle region on a circumference of a guide ring, an attachment foots configured to attach to a fishing rod and a support leg configured to connect ends of the frame member and then attachment foots. |
| US11930798B2 |
Fishing rod comprising multiple jointed rod bodies
A fishing rod includes a hollow rod extending along a central axis; and a shaft member with an outer peripheral surface inclined relative to the central axis inserted into the rod from the one end, and that is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the rod at a support position on another end side of the one end in an axial direction along the central axis, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the rod has at least one convex portion protruding toward the central axis from a virtual curve between the support position and the one end position axially when drawing a virtual curve that is convex toward the central axis through the support position and the one end position at the end of the end side of the inner peripheral surface in an area radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft member. |
| US11930796B1 |
Fishing lure
A fish lure having a light-transparent, plastic body having a non-transparent coating of a paint or film over a portion of the upper surface of the lure body and one or more uncovered portions that permit light, such as sunlight, to pass through the lure body, and be visible from the underside and opposed sides of the lure. The body also contains a transparent liquid containing glitter pieces, and the allowed sunlight reflects off the glitter pieces despite the presence of the non-transparent coating covering portions of the lure body. The body can also have a sealable lower chamber filled with the liquid containing glitter pieces, and a sealable upper chamber filled with a gas that provides buoyancy to float the lure on the surface of a water body, horizontal and upright along the surface of the water body. |
| US11930794B2 |
Autonomous beehives
A system including: a plurality of bee frames releasably mounted within at least one hive chamber; a mechanism that extracts a bee frame from a hive chamber and inserts a bee frame into a hive chamber; an imaging system that acquires an image of a frame; and a processing unit which: determines, based on processing the image, the specific content of each of a plurality of cells in the frame, and predicts a possibility of swarming based on identifying, in the image, at least one cell including a queen larva. |
| US11930793B2 |
Extruder screw handling device
An extruder screw-handling device for handling a screw of a food or land-or-sea-animal-feed extruder, the device being suitable for fully extracting an extruder screw from an extruder barrel, wherein the device has a horizontally arranged top section, a locking screw assembly and a guiding element. The present invention is furthermore related to a method of extracting an extruder screw from a food or land-or-sea-animal-feed extruder using the device. |
| US11930792B2 |
Module for operational control of the guided advance/withdrawal device of the needle added to the smart substance injection device on board equipment for inoculating substances inside a fertile egg and smart method for injection inside a fertile egg
Module for operational control of the guided advance/withdrawal device of the needle added to the smart substance injection device on board equipment for inoculating substances inside a fertile egg and smart method for injection inside a fertile egg, wherein the “inoculation of substances” inside a fertile egg, be this into the embryo, in the case of vaccines, and even into the amniotic fluid, in the case of a nutrient or nutritional vaccine complex, allows the injection needle (11) to be brought close at a controlled speed. |
| US11930790B1 |
Foldable pet climbing frame
The present disclosure provides a foldable pet climbing frame, the pet climbing frame includes a first board, a second board, a first supporting assembly and a second supporting assembly. The first board is rotatably connected to the second board. The first supporting assembly is rotatably connected to the first board. The second supporting assembly is rotatably connected to the second board; when the pet climbing frame is unfolded, the first supporting assembly is supported on the second supporting assembly, so that the first board and the second board form a slope; and when the pet climbing frame is folded, the first board and the second board are folded with each other, the first supporting assembly is folded on the first board, and the second supporting assembly is folded on the second board. |
| US11930788B2 |
Pet toy
A pet toy includes a first deformable member and a second deformable member. The first deformable member has a first receiving opening and a second receiving opening. The second deformable member has a first end that is received in the first receiving opening. The second deformable member has a second end that is received in the second receiving opening of the first deformable member. The second deformable member is more deformable than the first deformable member. |
| US11930785B2 |
Animal ownership management system and method
An animal ownership management system including an electronic tag configured to be attached to an animal, an accreditation database storing certified ownership data associated with the animal and the current owner, an animal monitoring database in communication with the electronic tag and accreditation database. The animal monitoring database is configured to receive the location of the animal, access the accreditation database and match the location of the animal with a location associated with a property of a new owner stored in the accreditation database, issue an electronic ownership transfer request to the current owner and the new owner, receive a confirmation from the current owner and the new owner, record the new owner as the current owner of the animal in the animal monitoring database, and transmit the electronic ownership transfer request to the accreditation database to record the new owner as the current owner of the animal. |
| US11930781B2 |
Milking system with detection system
A milking system includes a milking device, a milk line, and a sampling and analysis device for the milk that includes a control unit, a tape mover to move and unwind a tape wound on a tape reel and with a base material with reagent pads, that detect a substance in the sample, and a dosing device to provide the sample onto a reagent pad, and a sensor to detect radiation from said reagent pad, and to analyse the detected radiation to indicate a presence or concentration of said substance. The reagent pad is facing downward during provision of the sample. In this way, the chance of excess liquid falling from the reagent, and possibly onto a camera, is reduced. Smaller reagent pads may be used, it reduces the chance of supplied liquid spilling over to a neighbouring reagent pad, the measures preventing this spilling may be limited, and it is easier to suck away excess fluid. |
| US11930780B2 |
Tomato line FIR-XM19-4521
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FIR-XM19-4521. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FIR-XM19-4521 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FIR-XM19-4521 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits. |
| US11930773B2 |
Soybean cultivar 81150353
A soybean cultivar designated 81150353 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 81150353, to the plants of soybean cultivar 81150353, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 81150353, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 81150353. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 81150353. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 81150353, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 81150353 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US11930771B2 |
Soybean cultivar 02130624
A soybean cultivar designated 02130624 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 02130624, to the plants of soybean cultivar 02130624, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 02130624, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 02130624. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02130624. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02130624, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 02130624 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US11930764B2 |
Soybean variety 5PFDW56
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PFDW56 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PFDW56, cells from soybean variety 5PFDW56, plants of soybean 5PFDW56, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PFDW56. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PFDW56 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PFDW56, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PFDW56, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PFDW56. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PFDW56 are further provided. |
| US11930759B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH011206
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011206. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011206, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011206 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011206. |
| US11930757B2 |
Wheat variety 6PLJW60B
A wheat variety designated 6PLJW60B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PLJW60B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PLJW60B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PLJW60B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PLJW60B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PLJW60B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided. |
| US11930756B2 |
Wheat comprising male fertility restorer alleles
A method of plant genetics and plant breeding including wheat plants carrying restorer of fertility genes specific to T. timopheevii CMS cytoplasm. |
| US11930749B2 |
System and method for automated plant training
An automated plant training system and related methods are designed to train medium to tall plants to grow in a height restricted space by adjusting the plant's direction of growth through the use of phototropism. The device can physically control the plant's main stem, branches and foliage from excessive vertical growth. |
| US11930738B2 |
Closed loop control of filling mechanisms
An agricultural harvester has a frame and a spout that is mounted to the frame. A target landing point indicates a position in a receiving vehicle where material is intended to land. A control system detects an actual landing point and automatically controls the spout based on a difference between the actual landing point and the target landing point. |
| US11930732B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing tasks on a pattern planted field
An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows. |
| US11930727B1 |
Adjustable row crop cultivator
An adjustable row crop cultivator is mounted on a tool bar which is vertically movably mounted at the rear end of a tractor. The cultivator includes a plurality of spaced-apart adjustable cultivator units which are vertically movably mounted on the tool bar. A gauge wheel assembly is selectively vertically movably mounted at the forward end of each of the cultivator units. A first mounting plate is positioned at one side of the cultivator unit and has cultivator tools mounted thereon. A second mounting plate is positioned at the other side of the cultivator unit and has cultivator tools mounted thereon. The first and second mounting plates are horizontally movably mounted so that they may be moved towards one another and moved away from one another. The cultivator units may be adjusted by the operator of the tractor from the tractor while the tractor is moving. |
| US11937519B1 |
Permanent magnets using high temperature superconductor tapes and methods of charging same
Permanent magnets using high temperature superconductor tapes are disclosed. For example, a magnet may include a superconductor tape having two ends, a slit in the superconductor tape between the two ends that forms two legs, a separation between the legs that forms a loop, and a trapped magnetic field in the superconductor tape. |
| US11937514B2 |
High-density memory devices using oxide gap fill
A semiconductor structure forms two or more tightly pitched memory devices using a dielectric material for a gap fill material. The approach includes providing two adjacent bottom electrodes in a layer of an insulating material and above a metal layer. Two adjacent pillars are each above one of the two adjacent bottom electrodes where each pillar of the two adjacent pillars is composed of a stack of materials for a memory device. A spacer is around the vertical sides each of the two adjacent pillars. The dielectric material is on the spacer around the vertical sides each of the two adjacent pillars, on the layer of the insulating material between the two adjacent bottom electrodes. The dielectric material fills at least a first portion of a gap between the two adjacent pillars. A low k material covers the dielectric material and exposed portions of the layer of the insulating material. |
| US11937513B2 |
Magnon spin valve, magnon sensor, magnon field effect transistor, magnon tunnel junction and magnon memory
The present disclosure relates to a magnon spin valve device, a magnon sensor, a magnon field effect transistor, a magnon tunnel junction and a magnon memory. A magnon spin valve device may comprise a first ferromagnetic insulation layer, a non-magnetic conductive layer disposed on the first ferromagnetic insulation layer, and a second ferromagnetic insulation layer disposed on the non-magnetic conductive layer. |
| US11937506B2 |
Thermoelectric element
A thermoelectric element according to an embodiment comprises: a first substrate; a first electrode part disposed on the first substrate; a thermoelectric semiconductor disposed on the first electrode part; second electrode parts disposed on the thermoelectric semiconductor; and a second substrate disposed on the second electrode parts, wherein the second substrate comprises: a first surface; and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the second electrode parts are disposed on the first surface, a terminal electrode part formed by extending at least one of the second electrode parts is disposed on the second surface, and the second substrate is formed between the terminal electrode part and the second electrode parts. |
| US11937502B2 |
Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device comprising the same
A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the condensed cyclic compound are provided. The condensed cyclic compound is represented by Formula 1. The A3 ring of Formula 1 is a group represented by Formula 2A or a group represented by Formula 2B. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, the organic layer including at least one of the condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1. |
| US11937500B2 |
Organic light-emitting device
An organic light emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, wherein the electron transport region may include a first compound represented by one selected from Formulae 1A to 1E, and at least one selected from the hole transport region and the electron transport region may include a second compound represented by Formula 2A or 2B: |
| US11937498B2 |
Organic compound, light-emitting device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic apparatus, and lighting apparatus
A novel compound is provided. Alight-emitting device having high emission efficiency and a long lifetime is also provided. An organic compound is represented by General Formula (G2), in which a benzo[a]anthracene skeleton is bonded to the 2-position of an anthracene skeleton. In General Formula (G2), R1 to R3, R5 to R12, and R21 to R29 each independently represent any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in a ring. Another embodiment of the present invention is a light-emitting device including the compound. |
| US11937496B2 |
Organometallic compound, organic light-emitting device including the same, and electronic apparatus including the organic light-emitting device
Provided is an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, an organic light-emitting device including the same, and an electronic apparatus including the organic light-emitting device. Ir(L1)(L2)(L3) Formula 1 L1 to L3 in Formula 1 are the same as described in the present specification. |
| US11937495B2 |
Organic light emitting element, composition and membrane
An organic light-emitting device containing both a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2) has a high light emission efficiency. The rings a to c each are a benzene ring that can be optionally condensed, R1 and R2 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., four of R31 to R35 each are a substituted or unsubstituted carbazol-9-yl group, but all of these four are not the same, and the remaining one is a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, etc. |
| US11937493B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device including a display module that has at least one folding area, a first film disposed on the display module and having a first modulus, a second film disposed on the first film, being farther from the display module than the first film, and having a second modulus less than the first modulus, and a third film disposed on the second film, being farther from the display module than the second film, and having a third modulus less than the second modulus. The third modulus is equal to or less than about one-sixth of the first modulus. |
| US11937488B2 |
Manufacturing method of display device having a lower portion of a partition between first and second apertures
According to one embodiment, a manufacturing method of a display device includes preparing a processing substrate by forming a lower electrode, forming a rib, and forming a partition including a lower portion and an upper portion, forming an organic layer on the lower electrode, forming an upper electrode on the organic layer, forming a first transparent layer on the upper electrode, and forming a second transparent layer on the first transparent layer. The first transparent layer and the second transparent layer are formed of organic materials different from each other. A refractive index of the second transparent layer is less than a refractive index of the first transparent layer. |
| US11937482B2 |
Display panel with color organic light-transmissive thin films and manufacturing method thereof
A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a display device and an anti-reflective layer disposed on the display device. The display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel areas distributed in an array manner. The anti-reflected layer includes a plurality of organic light-transmissive thin films corresponding to the sub-pixel areas. A plurality of inorganic nanoparticles are doped in the organic light-transmissive thin films. The inorganic nanoparticles at a side of the organic light-transmissive thin films away from the display device protrude from a surface of the organic light-transmissive thin films to form a plurality of nano moth-eye structures. |
| US11937481B2 |
Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a white OLED display unit on the base substrate, and further includes: an optical adjustment structure on a light emitting side of the white OLED display unit, where the optical adjustment structure is in a peripheral region of each pixel region. The optical adjustment structure is configured to absorb light in a first wavelength range or convert light in a first wavelength range into light in a second wavelength range. |
| US11937477B2 |
Display device and electronic apparatus
A display device includes pixel circuits disposed on a substrate, each of the pixel circuits comprising a transistor and a storage capacitor, display elements electrically connected to the pixel circuits, and a metal layer disposed between the substrate and the pixel circuits, the metal layer comprising through-holes, wherein the through-holes of the metal layer include a first through-hole, and a second through-hole disposed adjacent to the first through-hole. |
| US11937476B2 |
Display device
A display device comprises a substrate; a circuit array layer comprising pixel drivers, data lines, first dummy lines, and second dummy lines; and a light emitting array layer. The display area comprises middle, first side, and second side regions. The data lines comprise first, second, and third data lines disposed in the middle, first side, and second side regions, respectively. The first dummy lines comprise a first data detour line disposed in the first side region and adjacent to a part of the second data line, and auxiliary lines. The second dummy lines comprise a second data detour line configured to connect the first data detour line to the third data line, and additional lines. The auxiliary lines comprise a bias auxiliary line to which a bias power is applied; and a second power auxiliary line to which a second power is applied. |
| US11937473B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus
The display panel includes a first display area, and the display panel includes: a substrate; a first light-emitting element disposed on the substrate and disposed in the first display area; a first driving transistor disposed between the substrate and the first light-emitting element, the first driving transistor being electrically connected with the first light-emitting element and including a first gate; a first conductive line unit electrically connected with the first gate and disposed on a side of the first gate away from the substrate; and a first power supply structure electrically connected with a first electrode of the first light-emitting element and disposed between the first conductive line unit and the first electrode of the first light-emitting element, an orthographic projection of the first power supply structure on the substrate covering an orthographic projection of the first conductive line unit on the substrate. |
| US11937470B2 |
Array substrate and display device
Provided are an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area including a first peripheral area; plurality of sub-pixels and data lines; a plurality of control signal lines, data signal input lines and a multiplexing circuit. At least one multiplexing unit includes a plurality of switching transistors, at least one of which including: a first active layer, a first gate including a first gate portion and a second gate portion spaced apart and electrically connected to a control signal line; two first electrodes electrically connected to the first active layer and a data signal input line; and a second electrode electrically connected to the first active layer and one of at least two data lines, an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the base substrate being located between that of the two first electrodes. |
| US11937468B2 |
Display unit and electronic apparatus
There are provided a display unit and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing color mixture in adjacent color pixels, and improving color reproducibility and chromaticity viewing angle. The display unit includes: a drive substrate having a plurality of pixels with a partition therebetween; and a first light shielding film provided on the partition. |
| US11937462B2 |
Electroluminescent display device comprising bank layer with grooves therein
An electroluminescent display device includes an electroluminescent display device includes a substrate; a first pixel row on the substrate including a first plurality of pixels arranged along a first direction; a second pixel row on the substrate including a second plurality of pixels arranged along the first direction, the second pixel row being spaced apart from the first pixel row in a second direction; a first groove between the first and second pixel rows; and a light emitting diode in each pixel of the first and second pixel rows, wherein the first groove includes a first portion at one end of the first pixel row, a second portion at the other end of the first pixel row and a third portion between the first and second portions, and wherein third portion is smaller than the first portion and greater than the second portion. |
| US11937458B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing the same
A display device includes a driving transistor and an organic EL element. The driving transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer; a first gate electrode that includes a region overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer between the first gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer; a second gate electrode that includes a region overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode; a second insulating layer between the second gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer; and a first and a second transparent conductive layer that are provided between the oxide semiconductor layer and the first insulating layer and each include a region contacting the oxide semiconductor layer. The organic EL element includes a first electrode; a second electrode; a light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron transfer layer between the light emitting layer and the first electrode. |
| US11937457B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided. The display device comprises a first base substrate, a first barrier layer disposed on the first base substrate, a second base substrate disposed on the first barrier layer, a first sub-substrate disposed on the second base substrate and comprising at least one dopant selected from a group consisting of: fluorine (F), boron (B), arsenic (As), phosphorus (P), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), argon (Ar), and tellurium (Te), a second barrier layer disposed on the first sub-substrate, a second buffer layer disposed on the second barrier layer, a first buffer layer disposed on the second buffer layer, at least one transistor disposed on the first buffer layer, and an organic light-emitting diode disposed on the at least one transistor. |
| US11937456B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area for displaying an image, a first thin film transistor in the display area and including a first semiconductor layer having a silicon semiconductor and a first gate electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer, a first interlayer insulating layer covering the first gate electrode and having a first contact hole extending therethrough, and a second thin film transistor on the first interlayer insulating layer and including a second semiconductor layer having an oxide semiconductor and a second gate electrode insulated from the second semiconductor layer. A portion of the second semiconductor layer extends into a first contact hole and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer. |
| US11937450B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a display module including a display surface. The display module includes a display panel including a plurality of display devices which displays an image on the display surface, a plurality of light concentration lenses arranged on the display panel, a buffer layer disposed on the light concentration lenses, and a plurality of diffraction patterns arranged at regular intervals on the buffer layer, where the diffraction patterns diffract a portion of lights incident thereto. |
| US11937449B2 |
Sealing structure and light emitting device
A sealing structure (200) seals a light emitting unit (140) and includes a first inorganic film (210), a second inorganic film (220), a first resin-containing film (230), and a second resin-containing film (240). The film thickness of the first inorganic film (210) is equal to or greater than 1 nm and equal to or less than 300 nm. The first resin-containing film (230) is in contact with the first inorganic film (210) and includes a first resin. The second inorganic film (220) is positioned on an opposite side of the first inorganic film (210) with the first resin-containing film (230) interposed between the first and second inorganic films. The second resin-containing film (240) is positioned between the first resin-containing film (230) and the second inorganic film (220) and is in contact with the second inorganic film (220). The second resin-containing film (240) includes a second resin. |
| US11937446B2 |
Display panel and manufacture method thereof, and display apparatus
A display panel and a manufacture method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel has a display region and a border region that surrounds the display region and includes a peripheral circuit region and a peripheral region; the peripheral circuit region is between the display region and the peripheral region. At least a part of a barrier structure of the display panel is in the peripheral circuit region, and the barrier structure includes an organic barrier layer including an opening passing through the organic barrier layer and an inorganic barrier layer covering the organic barrier layer and filling the opening; an extension direction of the opening is same as that of an edge, close to the opening, of the display panel the peripheral circuit is in the peripheral circuit region. |
| US11937445B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device, the display panel includes an encapsulation cover plate and a glass substrate, a light emitting unit and a driving circuit layer are arranged between the encapsulation cover plate and the glass substrate, a conductive layer and an encapsulation material layer are overlaid and arranged between the encapsulation region of the encapsulation cover plate and the glass substrate, the conductive layer is provided with a plurality of openings arranged at intervals, and an orthographic projection of the opening on the encapsulation material layer is separated from a midline between an inner edge and an outer edge of the encapsulation material layer. |
| US11937438B2 |
Organic field-effect transistor and fabrication method therefor
An organic field-effect transistor and a fabrication method therefor, including: providing a gate; depositing polymer material onto the gate to form a dielectric layer; performing supercritical fluids treatment on the gate having the dielectric layer deposited; depositing organic semiconductor layer material on the dielectric layer having been processed, to form an organic semiconductor layer; depositing electrode layer material on the organic semiconductor layer and forming an electrode layer. The dielectric properties of the dielectric layer after adopting the supercritical fluids treatment have been significantly improved. While the hysteresis effect of the dielectric layers in the OFET devices has been basically eliminated, the sub-threshold slope of the OFET is also significantly reduced, the carrier mobility is effectively improved. Additionally, an OFET switching rate after being processed is improved, and, by connecting the LEDs in series, the switching rate of the LED is increased. |
| US11937437B2 |
Semiconductor memory and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor memory includes a plurality of stripe-like active areas formed by stacking, in a direction perpendicular to a substrate, a plurality of layers extending parallel to the substrate, a first gate electrode formed on first side surfaces of the active areas, the first side surfaces being perpendicular to the substrate, a second gate electrode formed on second side surfaces of the active areas, the second side surfaces being perpendicular to the substrate. The layers are patterned in self-alignment with each other, intersections of the active areas and the first gate electrode form a plurality of memory cells, and the plurality of memory cells in an intersecting plane share the first gate electrode. |
| US11937434B2 |
Ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) capacitors and methods of construction
Ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) capacitors and methods of forming FRAM capacitors are provided. An FRAM capacitor may be formed between adjacent metal interconnect layers or between a silicided active layer (e.g., including MOSFET devices) and a first metal interconnect layer. The FRAM capacitor may be formed by a damascene process including forming a tub opening in a dielectric region, forming a cup-shaped bottom electrode, forming a cup-shaped ferroelectric element in an interior opening defined by the cup-shaped bottom electrode, and forming a top electrode in an interior opening defined by the cup-shaped ferroelectric element. The FRAM capacitor may form a component of an FRAM memory cell. For example, an FRAM memory cell may include one FRAM capacitor and one transistor (1T1C configuration) or two FRAM capacitors and two transistor (2T2C configuration). |
| US11937427B2 |
Method for forming three-dimensional memory device with sacrificial channels
In certain aspects, a first opening extending vertically through a first dielectric deck including a first plurality of interleaved sacrificial layers and dielectric layers above a substrate is formed. A high-k dielectric layer and a channel sacrificial layer free of polysilicon are subsequently formed along a sidewall of the first opening. A second opening extending vertically through a second dielectric deck including a second plurality of interleaved sacrificial layers and dielectric layers on the first dielectric deck is formed to expose the channel sacrificial layer in the first opening. The channel sacrificial layer is removed in the first opening. A memory film and a semiconductor channel are subsequently formed over the high-k dielectric layer along sidewalls of the first and second openings. |
| US11937422B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and structure
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including first single crystal transistors; and a second level including second single crystal transistors, where the first level is overlaid by the second level, where a vertical distance from the first single crystal transistors to the second single crystal transistors is less than eight microns, where the second level includes a layer transferred and bonded level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, where the first level includes a plurality of processors, and where the second level includes a plurality of memory cells. |
| US11937421B2 |
Semiconductor memory device including channel pillar with junction and method of fabricating the semiconductor memory device
Provided is a semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the semiconductor memory device. A semiconductor memory device includes a gate stack and a plurality of channel structures. The gate stack includes a plurality of stacked conductive patterns spaced apart from each other. The plurality of the channel structures is formed through the gate stack. Each of the channel structures includes a first channel pillar, a second channel pillar and a gate insulation layer. The first channel pillar is formed through the conductive patterns except for an uppermost conductive pattern. The second channel pillar is formed through the uppermost conductive pattern. The second channel pillar is configured to make contact with the first channel pillar. The gate insulation layer is interposed between the uppermost conductive pattern and the first and second channel pillars. |
| US11937418B2 |
Semiconductor-element-including memory device
A memory device includes pages arranged in columns and each constituted by a plurality of memory cells on a substrate, voltages applied to a first gate conductor layer, a second gate conductor layer, a first impurity layer, and a second impurity layer in each memory cell included in each of the pages are controlled to perform a page write operation of retaining, inside a channel semiconductor layer, a group of positive holes generated by an impact ionization phenomenon or by a gate-induced drain leakage current, and the voltages applied to the first gate conductor layer, the second gate conductor layer, the first impurity layer, and the second impurity layer are controlled to perform a page erase operation of discharging the group of positive holes from inside the channel semiconductor layer. The first impurity layer of the memory cell is connected to a source line, the second impurity layer thereof is connected to a bit line, one of the first gate conductor layer or the second gate conductor layer thereof is connected to a word line, the other of the first gate conductor layer or the second gate conductor layer thereof is connected to a driving control line, and the bit lines are connected to sense amplifier circuits with a switch circuit therebetween. In a page read operation, page data in a group of memory cells selected by the word line is read to the sense amplifier circuits, and in a page sum-of-products read operation, a voltage is applied to the driving control line such that memory cell currents, in the group of memory cells, flowing into the bit lines multiply N-fold (N is a positive integer). |
| US11937416B2 |
Memory device with improved margin and performance and methods of formation thereof
A substrate includes a first doped region having a first type dopant, and a second doped region having a second type dopant and adjacent to the first doped region. A stack is formed that includes first layers and second layers alternating with each other. The first and second layers each have a first and second semiconductor material, respectively. The second semiconductor material is different than the first semiconductor material. A mask element is formed that has an opening in a channel region over the second doped region. A top portion of the stack not covered by the mask element is recessed. The stack is then processed to form a first and a second transistors. The first transistor has a first number of first layers. The second transistor has a second number of first layers. The first number is greater than the second number. |
| US11937407B2 |
Photo-etched chassis cooling walls
An electronic component enclosure includes a plurality of wall structures defining outer walls of the enclosure. Each wall structure has an internal fluid channel for circulation of cooling fluid. The enclosure further includes at least one partition structure disposed within the outer walls and having an internal fluid channel in sealed fluid communication with the internal fluid channel of at least one of the plurality of wall structures. The internal fluid channel of at least one of the plurality of wall structures and the internal fluid channel of the at least one partition structure defines a continuous fluid circulation path between a fluid inflow port and a fluid outflow port. |
| US11937403B2 |
Progressive heatsink
A heatsink may include a base and a plurality of fins, configured to be disposed in an air flow, that extend orthogonally from the base. The plurality of fins may have at least one of a height, an inter-fin spacing, or a thickness that varies in a direction of the air flow. |
| US11937401B2 |
System design and operation for liquid cooling
An electronic rack includes a rack manifold to be coupled to an external cooling fluid source, including a supply rack manifold and a return rack manifold, wherein the rack manifold includes a plurality of pairs of rack connectors disposed thereon. The electronic rack further includes a server chassis including a connector holder having a pair of a supply server connector and a return server connector to be connected with a corresponding pair of rack connectors of the rack manifold. The electronic rack further includes a controller, in response to detecting a leakage of the cooling fluid, configured to cause the supply server connector to disconnect from the supply rack manifold, while maintaining the return server connector connected with the return rack manifold, and to increase a flowrate of the cooling fluid on the return rack manifold to remove the cooling fluid residing within the server chassis. |
| US11937399B2 |
Server, liquid cooling device and cold plate assembly
A liquid cooling device includes first cold plates, second cold plates, a water divider, a first inlet pipe, a first outlet pipe, first connection pipes, second inlet pipes, second outlet pipes, second connection pipes. The water divider has inner inlet connectors and inner outlet connectors. The first inlet pipe connects one inner inlet connector and one first cold plate. The first outlet pipe connects one inner outlet connector and another one first cold plate. The first connection pipes each connect different two of the other first cold plates. The second inlet pipes respectively connect the other inner inlet connectors and some second cold plates. The second outlet pipes respectively connect the other inner outlet connectors and some second cold plates. The second connection pipes each connect different two second cold plates. |
| US11937393B2 |
Circuit board assembly and system for communication to an access point of an avionics network
A circuit card assembly is described. The circuit card assembly adapts a host circuit card assembly of a host device with an expansion card. By such adaption, the host device may communicate with an access point of an avionics network. The circuit card assembly includes an interface for receiving power from the host circuit card assembly. The circuit card assembly then continuously and selectively provides power to a second interface based on the availability of aircraft power. The second interface receives the expansion card. The circuit card assembly also includes one or more coaxial RF connectors for receiving modulated signals from the expansion card. The circuit card assembly also includes an antenna which transmits radio waves based on the modulated signals. A system for communication to an access point of an avionics network includes the circuit card assembly. |
| US11937392B2 |
Bow cable management system
A bow cable management system is provided. The system includes a bow management device, a bow and an electronic accessory. The bow management device includes a base member and a bracket, wherein the base member has a first side and an opposing second side with a recess formed on the second side. A first channel extends from the recess out a front end of the base member, and a second channel extends from the recess out the bottom side of the base member. The bow management device is coupled to a riser of the bow. The electronic accessory is coupled to the bracket of the cable management device. The cable management device is configured to receive a cable of the electronic accessory through first channel with a portion of the cable retained within the recess of the base member and then extending through the second channel to a trigger accessory. |
| US11937389B2 |
Latch assemblies for electronic devices
In one example, an electronic device housing may include a first cover, a second cover, and a latch assembly to detachably connect the first cover and the second cover. The latch assembly may include a first bracket to fixedly engage with the first cover, a latch to slide back and forth along the first bracket between a lock position to hold the second cover and an unlock position to release the second cover, an elastic member disposed between the latch and the first bracket to generate a force to the latch to hold the second cover, and a cable connected to the latch. The cable may generate a pulling force to the latch to release the second cover when an external force is applied to the cable. |
| US11937388B2 |
Screen body support device and foldable flexible display device
Embodiments of the present application provide a screen body support device, including: a fixing bracket; a movable bracket being rotatably connected with the fixing bracket, in which the movable bracket and the fixing bracket are provided in a non-display area of a flexible display screen; and a driving component being fixedly connected with the movable bracket, in which the driving component is configured to drive the movable bracket to swing in two opposite directions with respect to the fixing bracket, so that the flexible display screen is bent in two opposite directions respectively. |
| US11937387B2 |
Vehicle tracking unit
A vehicle includes a cockpit module skin, a cross-bar and a vehicle tracking unit. The cockpit module skin separates a passenger compartment into a first area and a second area. The cross-bar is supported to a vehicle body component in the first area. The vehicle tracking unit has an electric tracking module and a mounting bracket supporting the electric tracking module to the cross-bar. |
| US11937385B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a front display area (FDA), side display areas (SDAs), and a corner display area (CDA). The SDAs and the CDA are disposed outside of the FDA. The SDAs include: a first SDA disposed at a first side of the FDA; and a second SDA disposed at a second side of the FDA. The CDA is disposed at a corner of the FDA between the first SDA and the second SDA. The CDA is connected to the first SDA and the second SDA. The FDA has a flat display surface. The first SDA, the second SDA, and the CDA respectively form a bent surface. A shape of the bent surface of the CDA is different from a shape of the bent surface of the first SDA and a shape of the bent surface of the second SDA. The CDA is stretchable and/or shrinkable. |
| US11937384B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a display module including a display unit and a hinge unit coupled to the display unit and configured to be rolled with the display unit, the display unit including a display panel, a flexible circuit board connected to the display panel, and a main circuit board connected to the flexible circuit board, a housing including sidewall portions each extending in a first direction, in which at least one of the sidewall portions includes an accommodation groove to which the main circuit board is inserted, and the sidewall portions are deformable between a closed state of surrounding the display module and an opened state of exposing at least a portion of the display module outside of the housing. |
| US11937381B2 |
Forming electrical interconnections using capillary microfluidics
A method for manufacturing an electronic device includes providing a substrate with a first major surface having a microchannel, wherein the microchannel has a first end and a second end; dispensing a conductive liquid in the microchannel to cause the conductive liquid to move, primarily by capillary pressure, in a first direction toward the first end of the microchannel and in a second direction toward the second end of the microchannel; and solidifying the conductive liquid to form an electrically conductive trace electrically connecting a first electronic device at the first end of the microchannel to a second electronic device at the second end of the microchannel. |
| US11937378B2 |
Method of manufacturing printed circuit board and resist laminate for the same
A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board a includes preparing an insulating substrate on which a first metal layer is formed, stacking a resist laminate having a plurality of layers on the first metal layer, forming an opening exposing a portion of the first metal layer by patterning the stacked resist laminate having the plurality of layers, forming a second metal layer on the exposed portion of the first metal layer, removing the patterned resist laminate having the plurality of layers, and etching at least another portion of the first metal layer. |
| US11937375B2 |
Wireless communication device manufacturing method and wireless communication device manufacturing apparatus
A material sheet is provided having antenna patterns that include first and second coupling portions that are transported toward a mounting position, and an adhesive member that is disposed on the material sheet before reaching the mounting position. At a pickup position, a mounting device picks up an RFIC module including an RFIC chip and first and second terminal electrodes connected to the RFIC chip. At the mounting position, the mounting device mounts the picked-up RFIC module onto the adhesive member on the material sheet so that the first coupling portion and the first terminal electrode face each other and so that the second coupling portion and the second terminal electrode face each other. |
| US11937367B2 |
Radio frequency front-end structures
Disclosed herein are radio frequency (RF) front-end structures, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an RF front-end package may include an RF package substrate including an embedded passive circuit element. At least a portion of the embedded passive circuit element may be included in a metal layer of the RF package substrate. The RF package substrate may also include a ground plane in the metal layer. |
| US11937365B2 |
Affixation film for printed wiring board
An affixation film 101 for a printed wiring board includes a circuit pattern concealing layer 112, and an adhesive layer 111 put on top of the circuit pattern concealing layer 112. An opposite surface of the circuit pattern concealing layer 112 from the adhesive layer 111 has an Rku of 2.5-3.0. |
| US11937361B1 |
Annular hollow cathode
A cathode emitter assembly includes a cathode tube having a gas feed portion and a plasma outflow portion; an outer annular cathode insert in the plasma outflow portion of the cathode tube; an inner cathode insert in the plasma outflow section of the cathode tube; and an annular plasma emission portion defined between an inner surface of the outer annular cathode insert and an outer surface of the inner cathode insert. |
| US11937357B2 |
Aerosol generation device comprising voltage converter and method for controlling same
An aerosol generating device includes a battery, a heater for heating an aerosol generating material, a voltage converter, and a controller. An aerosol generating device is provided with a voltage converter that is arranged between a battery and a heater, and converts a voltage applied from the battery to a constant voltage to output a preset fixed voltage that is applied to the heater. A controller controls electric power supplied to the heater such that the preset fixed voltage is applied to the heater in a preheating mode. |
| US11937355B2 |
Auto detection of type of device using single wire two-way communication
A dimmer switch system for dimming a load includes a master dimmer structured to be electrically connected to a power source and the load and to control dimming of the load by regulating power provided from the power source to the load, and at least one accessory dimmer structured to be electrically connected to the master dimmer via a traveler conductor. The master dimmer is structured to generate a first control signal on the traveler conductor to indicate a type of the master dimmer, and the at least one accessory dimmer is structured to selectively enable or disable one or more functions of the at least one accessory dimmer based on the type of the master dimmer. |
| US11937353B2 |
Device and method for implementing a connected lighting system
According to one aspect disclosed herein, there is provided a first lighting device for use in a lighting system, the lighting system comprising one or more lighting devices for illuminating an environment, the first lighting device is configured to perform, upon becoming active from a dormant state, the operations of: polling one or more neighboring lighting devices to determine whether they are part of a lighting scene being output by the lighting system and if so determining information about the lighting scene based on the polling; determining whether the first lighting device is part of the lighting scene; and based on the determined scene and the determination that the first lighting device is part of that lighting scene, ascertaining one or more lighting settings of the first lighting device and a light output to be rendered by the lighting device in order to join the scene. |
| US11937351B2 |
Fill light and power supply circuit thereof
The present disclosure discloses a fill light and a power supply circuit thereof, said power supply circuit is electrically connected to an external power supply device with PD protocol, and comprises a TYPE-C interface module, a PD induction module, a switching tube Q1 as well as a voltage stabilization module, said voltage stabilization module is a Buck-Boost switching power supply module, the input of said voltage stabilization module is connected with the drain of said switching tube Q1. The technical solution uses the PD induction module to disguise the fill light to be presented as an electric equipment for supporting PD protocol, so that the external power supply device with PD protocol can output high voltage above 12V, while using the Buck-Boost switching power module as the voltage stabilization module of this technical solution to improve the adaptability of the power circuit to the input voltage amplitude. |
| US11937349B2 |
Drive circuit for a ditigal dimming LED light
Disclosed is a drive circuit for a digital dimming LED light, relating to the LED light drive circuits, which includes a power module and a dimming module corresponding to the LED lights, wherein the dimming module comprises a demodulation unit, a boosting constant voltage unit and a constant current chopper unit, and the power module is used to convert a utility power into DC power and output it to the demodulation unit, and to receive an external dimming signal and modulate and convert it into a digital signal. The demodulation unit is connected to the power module for receiving and demodulating the digital signal, the constant current chopper unit is connected to the demodulation unit, and both the boosting constant voltage unit and the constant current chopper unit are connected with the LED lights, so that the brightness of the LED lights is consistent. |
| US11937344B2 |
Shape memory material for controlled liquid delivery in an aerosol delivery device
The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device and a cartridge for an aerosol delivery device. In various implementations, the cartridge may comprise a housing defining a liquid reservoir, an atomizer configured to produce an aerosol, the atomizer comprising a first liquid transport element, a second liquid transport element, and a microvalve located between the liquid reservoir and the second liquid transport element. The microvalve may comprise a base member including at least one channel, and an actuating member at least a portion of which comprises a shape-memory material, and which is configured to move between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position, the actuating member substantially blocks fluid flow from the liquid reservoir through the channel, and in the second position, the actuating member allows fluid flow from the liquid reservoir through the channel and to the second liquid transport element. |
| US11937342B2 |
Spot heater
A device is described in which the shape of a resistive heater material is configured to provide rapid and strong heating of a small area. The resistive heating material is heated unevenly while efficiently using power. |
| US11937334B2 |
Method and apparatus for sidelink discontinuous reception in a wireless communication system
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for Sidelink Discontinuous Reception (SL DRX) in a wireless communication system to avoid ambiguity on slot offset calculations on SL DRX. A method for a UE comprises performing a SL communication associated with a destination Identity (ID), having a SL DRX configuration associated with the SL communication, wherein the SL DRX configuration comprises at least an on-duration timer and a DRX cycle, deriving a first offset associated with the SL communication based on the destination ID and the DRX cycle, deriving a second offset associated with the SL communication based on the destination ID and a number of slots per subframe, starting the on-duration timer after a time period determined based on the second offset from the beginning of a subframe, wherein the subframe is determined based on at least the first offset, and monitoring Sidelink Control Information (SCI) when the on-duration timer is running. |
| US11937332B2 |
Starting a discontinuous reception timer in response to a feedback timing indicator
A base station may transmit a first downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The first DCI may comprise a feedback timing indicator field. In response to the feedback timing indicator field indicating not to receive a feedback for the PDSCH before transmitting a second DCI, the base station may start a discontinuous reception (DRX) timer with a first value. The base station may transmit, via a downlink control channel, the second DCI while the DRX timer is running. |
| US11937328B2 |
Millimeter wave link reliability and power efficiency improvements using sensor input
This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform millimeter wavelength communication with increased reliability and power efficiency using sensor inputs. The sensor inputs may include motion, rotation, or temperature measurements, among various possibilities. The sensor inputs may be used when performing beamforming tracking, antenna configuration, transmit and receive chain measurements and selection, and/or in any of various other possible operations. |
| US11937327B2 |
Method and apparatus for RRC state transition
A user equipment (UE) and a method performed by the UE are provided. The method includes transitioning from a radio resource control (RRC) inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state to an RRC idle (RRC_IDLE) state upon determining that the UE has failed to find a suitable cell and camped on an acceptable cell; and discarding a radio access network (RAN) notification area (RNA) configuration that comprises at least one of a list of tracking area identities (IDs) or a list of RAN area IDs in response to the transitioning from the RRC_INACTIVE state to the RRC_IDLE state. The acceptable cell fulfills a minimum set of requirements to initiate an emergency call and to receive one or more Earthquake & Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) and Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) notifications. The suitable cell provides normal services. The acceptable cell provides limited services. |
| US11937326B2 |
User equipment (UE) reachability request parameter for suspended radio access network (RAN)
Disclosed herein is a method for operating a radio access network (RAN) node of a wireless communication network. The method comprises: receiving a connection resume request message from a wireless terminal at the RAN node instructing the RAN node to establish a connection with the wireless terminal; providing release information for the wireless terminal at the RAN node; determining a state of a reachability request parameter at the RAN node; receiving uplink data from the wireless terminal at the RAN node, wherein the uplink data is associated with the connection resume request message; and transmitting a connection release message to the wireless terminal after receiving the uplink data responsive to the release information for the wireless terminal and determining the state of a reachability request parameter at the RAN node, wherein responsive to the state of the reachability request parameter at the RAN node having a first state, instructing the RAN node to not immediately transmit a connection release message to release and/or suspend the connection with the wireless terminal. |
| US11937324B2 |
Data transmitting/receiving apparatuses and methods and communication system
Data transmitting/receiving apparatuses and methods and a communication system. The data transmitting method includes: in an inactive state, determining whether to maintain in the inactive state or enter an active state according to indication information of a network device or one or more parameters configured by the network device; and in the inactive state, transmitting data and/or a request message for entering the active state to the network device. Hence, data transmission may be performed in an appropriate state, without needing to restart connection at each time of data transmission; saved resources may be used for the data transmission, and time needed in performing identical data transmission may be reduced. |
| US11937323B2 |
Facilitating self-organizing network (SON) enhancement
Wireless networks may have thousands of configurable parameters, so manual tuning is infeasible. A self-organizing network (SON) can provide automation. However, automated algorithms are not designed to interact with a wireless network, and network experimentation can jeopardize reliability. To address the former, a SON facilitator of a wireless network management node exposes an API that can translate network configuration information for consumption by a SON enhancer, which may implement an AI algorithm for network tuning. The SON facilitator can also transform output from the SON enhancer into directions for controlling a test scenario, including generating a DL SON message describing the test to a UE. To further increase reliability during the test scenario, the UE can be provisioned with two wireless connections. A first connection is unchanged by the test scenario for stability, and a second connection is used for testing. |
| US11937322B2 |
Unicast link radio link failure detection and management
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish a sidelink connection with a second UE, where the sidelink connection is associated with a plurality of flows. The first UE may determine, based on monitoring each flow of the plurality of flows, a radio link status of the sidelink connection. The first UE may transmit, based on the determining, a non-access stratum layer message to the second UE based at least on the radio link status of the sidelink connection. |
| US11937312B2 |
Connecting to a packet data network (PDN) based on priority
A serving gateway device (SGW) can cause establishment of a requested connection to a first PDN for a user device. The SGW can cause suspension of the connection to the first PDN and establishment of a requested connection to a second PDN for the user device based on a requested connection to a second PDN for a user device. The SGW can cause termination of the connection to the second PDN based on the respective end time associated with the second PDN, and cause restoration of the connection to the first PDN after the connection to the second PDN is terminated. |
| US11937310B2 |
Handling timing conflicts involving random access procedure messages
A user device includes hardware configured to select a preamble or PRACH occasion associated with a first time span for the user device to transmit at least a data portion of a random-access procedure message to a base station, and to receive a message granting the user device an occasion to transmit uplink data on a PUSCH occasion that includes a second time span (412). The hardware also determines that the first and second time spans overlap (414), and only one of (i) transmits at least the data portion of the random-access procedure message to the base station during the first time span. or (ii) transmits the uplink data to the base station during the second time span, based on a transmission precedence of (i) at least the data portion of the random-access procedure message and (ii) the uplink data (440). |
| US11937309B2 |
Communication method, apparatus, and system
This application provides a communication method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining first information, where the first information includes one or more types of information about an associated beam for a random access success of the terminal device, or, information about an associated uplink carrier for a random access success of the terminal device, and/or includes information about a random access channel RACH resource for a random access failure of the terminal device, and the random access failure of the terminal device includes one or more of a 2-step random access failure, a 4-step random access failure, a dedicated RACH resource random access failure, or a common RACH resource random access failure; and sending the first information. |
| US11937306B2 |
System information transmission method, terminal and network device
A system information transmission method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving request information for requesting target Other System Information sent by a terminal; configuring a random access message 2 or a random access message 4 for the terminal based on the request information; and sending the random access message 2 or the random access message 4 to the terminal. |
| US11937305B2 |
Random access configuration method and apparatus, random access method and apparatus, and base station
Provided are a Random Access (RA) configuration method and apparatus, an RA method and apparatus, a base station, User Equipment (UE) and a computer-readable storage medium. The RA configuration method may include: grouping multiple Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) and selecting a primary SSB from each SSB group; sending UE indication information indicating a primary SSB to be sent in an SSB group to be sent; sending at most one SSB in each SSB group to be sent to the UE; and sending the number of SSBs corresponding to preambles in each RA Channel (RACH) Occasion (RO) and the number of ROs under Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) to the UE. |
| US11937304B2 |
Method for reporting radio link failure in wireless communication system, and device therefor
A user equipment for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, includes: a transceiver; and at least one processor configured to perform a random access procedure with a base station and record log information that is information related to the random access procedure, wherein the random access procedure includes transmitting a random access preamble to the base station and receiving, from the base station, a random access response that is a response to the transmission of the random access preamble. |
| US11937296B2 |
Monitoring method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a listening method, a listening device, user equipment and a storage medium, which belong to the technical field of wireless communication. The method includes: listening in to a first frequency band group including p first frequency bands, p is a positive integer; in response to determining that the p first frequency bands are all occupied, listening in to the second frequency band group including q second frequency bands, q is a positive integer; where the first frequency bands and the second frequency bands are on an unlicensed frequency spectrum, and the listening priority of the first frequency band is higher than that of the second frequency band. The listening method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure can reduce the energy consumed by the UE while listening in to the frequency bands on the unlicensed spectrum. |
| US11937291B2 |
Dynamic multiplexing and prioritization for resolving a collision of physical uplink channels
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a multiplexing indication indicating that a first high priority channel scheduled in a first set of resources is to be multiplexed with a low priority channel scheduled in a second set of resources. The UE may receive a prioritization indication associated with a second high priority channel scheduled in a third set of resources. The UE may transmit one or more channels, according to a prioritization or a multiplexing, that include the second high priority channel. The prioritization or the multiplexing may be based at least in part on the multiplexing indication or the prioritization indication. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11937286B2 |
Secondary cell (SCell) activation in a new radio (NR) system
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide SCell activation. In one example, an SCell activation procedure may be extended by a duration based on cancelation of CSI-RS reception. In another example, a base station may use particular configuration parameters to avoid cancelation of CSI-RS reception. In yet another example, a UE and a base station may use particular information for a CSI-RS reception/transmission on an SCell that is being activated. |
| US11937284B2 |
Base station control apparatus, base station control method, and storage medium
A communication control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire radio-frequency-interference-related information related to radio frequency interference of a frequency band in a licensed band, based on an operation status of the frequency band in the licensed band, and a management unit configured to manage a frequency band to be used in operation, based on the radio-frequency-interference-related information acquired by the acquisition unit. |
| US11937283B2 |
QCL assumption for a-CSI-RS configured with multi-TRP
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for quasi-colocation (QCL) assumption for an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) reference signal (RS) configured with multiple transmission reception point (mTRP). A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling configuring the UE with a plurality of index values associated with different control resource sets (CORESETS). The UE may receive, from a base station (BS), first downlink control information (DCI) triggering an A-CSI-RS resource set for A-CSI reporting. The first DCI is received in a first CORESET of the different CORESETs associated with a first index value of the plurality of index values. The UE may determine a first time offset between the first DCI and the A-CSI-RS resource set. When the first time offset is smaller than a threshold time offset, the UE may determine a QCL assumption for receiving the A-CSI-RS based, at least in part, on the first index value. |
| US11937282B2 |
Method and apparatus for beam management for mobility
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receiving a TCI state indication associated with downlink (DL) transmissions in a plurality of downlink (DL) time slots, decoding the TCI state indication, and applying the TCI state indication to a reception of the DL transmissions in the plurality of DL time slots. |
| US11937279B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods related to configuring a multi-stream network with a messaging schedule
In some embodiments, a system can include a first stream to be opened with an arbiter device, the first stream associated with a first set of capabilities, a second stream to be opened with the arbiter device, the second stream associated with a second set of capabilities, and a wireless network architecture that determines a network messaging schedule based on the first set of capabilities and the second set of capabilities. The network messaging schedule can be sent to one or more client devices associated with the first stream or the second stream. |
| US11937278B2 |
Transmission pattern indication and selection for sidelink grant free transmission
With sidelink reservation signals sent together with the sidelink data, there is the possibility of interference with other sidelink signals. In order to address this, systems and methods are provided in which a first UE transmits a reservation signal to indicate at least one time-frequency resource for transmitting sidelink data. Following this, the first UE transmits at least one sidelink data transmission to a second UE using the at least one time-frequency resource indicated by the reservation signal. The reservation signal is transmitted before the at least one sidelink data transmission signal so that a third UE may detect the reservation signal and use the reservation signal to avoid using the at least one time-frequency resource indicated in the reservation signal. |
| US11937277B2 |
Concurrent sidelink and uplink transmission
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit concurrent messages over a sidelink channel to another UE and over an uplink channel to a base station. The UE may transmit, to a base station, a report indicating a capability of the UE to concurrently transmit over a sidelink channel and an uplink channel. The UE may receive, from the base station and based on the report, a transmission configuration scheduling a concurrent sidelink and uplink transmission within a resource shared by the sidelink channel and the uplink channel. The UE may then transmit the concurrent sidelink and uplink transmission within the resource shared by the sidelink channel and the uplink channel based on the transmission configuration. The other UE and the base station may receive the concurrent sidelink and uplink transmission and may decode different layers of the transmission. |
| US11937273B2 |
Operation method of UE related to sidelink communication and feedback in wireless communication system
An embodiment provides an operation method of a sidelink reception terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a second PSSCH by a sidelink reception terminal; and transmitting feedbacks for the first PSSCH and the second PSSCH through a first physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second PSFCH resource, respectively, by the sidelink reception terminal, wherein the first PSSCH and the second PSSCH are received in different slots, and a first PSFCH related to the first PSSCH and a second PSFCH related to the second PSSCH are transmitted through different frequency resources within an identical time resource area. |
| US11937272B2 |
Method and device for providing local MBS in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G communication systems such as LTE systems. According to an embodiment, a method for receiving a multicast service by a UE in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from an application function (AF), a multicast service announcement message including first information related to a local multicast and broadcast service (MBS), identifying that the UE is located in a local MBS area, and transmitting, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a multicast session join request message for joining a multicast session for the local MBS, the multicast session join request message including second information corresponding to the first information. |
| US11937267B2 |
Method and device for dynamically indicating spatial parameters in wireless communication system
Disclosed are a method and a device for dynamically indicating and applying spatial parameters in a wireless communication system. A method for applying spatial parameters by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) including first information on one or more spatial parameters, second information on time domain resource allocation, and third information on whether to schedule a data channel; transmitting, on the basis of the second information, hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to the base station on the basis of the third information indicating that the data channel is not scheduled; and after transmitting the HARQ-ACK information, performing uplink transmission to the base station or downlink reception from the base station on the basis of the one or more spatial parameters based on the first information. |
| US11937260B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
According to an embodiment of the present invention a method of receiving a signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, may comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) carrying system information; receiving at least one of the plurality TBs based on the DCI; and obtaining at least part of the system information based on the at least one TB, wherein the DCI can be configured as common DCI for a plurality of UE types different from each other, wherein the system information carried by the plurality of TBs may include one or more system information blocks (SIBs) for the plurality of UE types, and wherein the UE may determine whether to receive a specific TB based on whether or not the UE is a first type UE or a second type UE. |
| US11937256B2 |
Time gaps in multi-slot grants
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a multi-slot grant for one of uplink communication or downlink communication. The UE may communicate in the multi-slot grant based at least in part on information that provides an indication of one or more time gaps for the multi-slot grant. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11937253B2 |
Method for determining scheduling parameter, method for configuring scheduling parameter, terminal, and network-side device
Some embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for determining a scheduling parameter, a method for configuring a scheduling parameter, a terminal, and a network-side device. The method for determining a scheduling parameter is applied to a terminal and includes: determining a scheduling offset threshold for current use according to a preset rule when a carrier or BWP on which a PDCCH is located and a carrier or BWP on which a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH is located have different numerologies. |
| US11937250B2 |
Method for configuring physical downlink control channel, user equipment and network side device
Provided are a method for configuring a physical downlink control channel, a user equipment and a network side device. The method comprises: receiving physical layer signaling or media access control (MAC) layer signaling sent by the network side; and determining, according to the physical layer or MAC layer signaling, a first parameter related to a PDCCH monitoring behavior of a serving cell. |
| US11937249B2 |
Quasi co-located antenna ports for channel estimation
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating one or more channel properties of a downlink from a cellular communications network based on quasi co-located antenna ports with respect to the one or more channel properties. In one embodiment, a user equipment receives a downlink subframe including a downlink control channel from the cellular communications network. The user equipment estimates one or more large-scale channel properties for an antenna port of interest in the downlink control channel based on a subset of reference signals that correspond to antenna ports in the cellular communications network that are quasi co-located with the antenna port of interest with respect to the one or more large-scale channel properties. As a result of using the quasi co-located antenna ports, estimation of the one or more large-scale channel properties is substantially improved. |
| US11937247B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving uplink control signal and device for implementing same
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention relates to a method and device for managing transmission beams of a terminal in a 5G system. |
| US11937245B2 |
Method and device for performing LTE sidelink transmission on basis of timing offset in NR V2X
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for performing sidelink communication by a first device is provided. The method may comprise: transmitting, to a base station, UE capability information of the first device; receiving, from the base station, a radio resource control (RRC) parameter based on the UE capability information; and performing Long Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink transmission to a second device, based on first timing offset candidate values related to the LTE sidelink transmission to the second device which are configured based on the RRC parameter, wherein a first timing offset included in the UE capability information is one of the first timing offset candidate values. |
| US11937244B2 |
Uplink control information for unlicensed operation
A method performed by a wireless device (410) includes transmitting an uplink, UL, burst to a network node (460). The UL burst includes UL control information, UCI, multiplexed in a Physical Uplink Shared Channel, PUSCH. The UCI carries one or more parameters for unlicensed operation, and the UL burst has an associated UL burst structure. The UL burst structure includes a first slot, a full slot, and a last slot. |
| US11937243B2 |
Allocation and logical to physical mapping of scheduling request indicator channel in wireless networks
A method for allocating resources for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) is disclosed. An SRI cycle period for use by user equipment (UE) within a cell is transmitted from a NodeB in a cell to UE within the cell. The NodeB transmits a specific SRI subframe offset and an index value to the particular UE within the cell. The specific SRI subframe offset and the index value enable the UE to determine a unique combination of cyclic shift, RS orthogonal cover, data orthogonal cover, and resource block number for the UE to use as a unique physical resource for an SRI in the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). |
| US11937236B2 |
Acknowledgment feedback configuration for group-common downlink channels with repetitions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an acknowledgment feedback configuration for providing feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink shared channels (e.g., SPS group-common physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), SPS unicast PDSCHs, etc.). For example, the acknowledgment feedback configuration may include separate resources for transmitting acknowledgment feedback for unicast downlink shared channels and for transmitting acknowledgment feedback for group-common downlink shared channels or may include common resources for transmitting acknowledgment feedback for both unicast downlink shared channels and group-common downlink shared channels. In some examples, the UE may multiplex acknowledgment feedback for a set of group-common downlink shared channels with additional acknowledgment feedback for other downlink channels. |
| US11937235B2 |
Slot format indicator (SFI) enhancement for sub-band full-duplex
Aspects relate to dynamically changing the slot format of a slot between half-duplex and sub-band full-duplex and/or to changing flexible symbols within a flexible slot between half-duplex and sub-band full-duplex when a base station is configured to operate in a sub-band full-duplex mode. A slot format indicator (SFI) indicating the slot format of the slot may be signaled, for example, via downlink control information (DCI) mapped to a downlink control channel or medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) mapped to a downlink data channel. To improve reliability, various SFI boosting mechanisms may further be employed. For example, the base station may apply a higher aggregation level to the SFI, transmit repetitions of the SFI across multiple beams, apply a CRC enhancement and/or MCS enhancement to the downlink control channel carrying the SFI, and/or apply a power boost to the SFI. |
| US11937229B2 |
User equipments, base stations, and methods
A method for a user equipment (UE) which communicates with a base station is described. The method may comprise acquiring radio resource control (RRC) configuration information. The RRC configuration information may indicate one or more entries, each of the entries specifying a slot format. The method may also comprise receiving a physical signal and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a downlink control (DCI) format. The DCI format may include a first information field and a second information field. The first information field may indicate an entry out of the entries. The second information field may indicates channel occupancy status of all channel access bandwidths in a bandwidth part. |
| US11937226B2 |
Space division multiplexing of reference signals
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support raw channel estimation. A base station may determine a transmission pattern for a set of multiple transmit beams, where each transmit beam may be associated with a respective reference signal, and may signal the transmission pattern to a user equipment (UE). The transmission pattern may indicate one or more sets of transmit beams, where each set may include two or more transmit beams used for concurrent transmission of respective reference signals. The set of multiple transmit beams may be associated with at least two synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), and the concurrently transmitted reference signals may each be associated with a respective orthogonal cover code. The UE may monitor for concurrently transmitted reference signals based on the transmission pattern, perform associated beamformed measurements, and transmit a channel state information report to the base station. |
| US11937225B2 |
Dual connectivity communication terminal, base station, and communication method
A communication terminal capable of determining whether or not it can perform DC, a base station, and a communication method are provided. A communication terminal (30) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (31) that simultaneously communicates with a master base station (10) associated with a first radio access technology and a secondary base station (20) associated with a second radio access technology, and a control unit (32) that specifies, when it is notified by the master base station (10) that it can provide dual connectivity using the second radio access technology, at least one frequency band supported by the secondary base station (20), the secondary base station being configured to provide the dual connectivity in cooperation with the master base station (10). |
| US11937223B2 |
Sidelink resource configuration method and apparatus
This application provides a sidelink resource configuration method and apparatus. The method includes: configuring, by a network device, sidelink bandwidth part (SL BWP) configuration information for a terminal device, where the SL BWP configuration information is used to indicate a common first parameter of M resource pools in the SL BWP; and configuring, by the terminal device, the M resource pools in the SL BWP based on the SL BWP configuration information in a process of configuring the resource pools in the SL BWP, where the M resource pools have at least one same parameter, and the at least one parameter is determined based on the first parameter. Therefore, communication between different terminal devices can be implemented by configuring the resource pools in the SL BWP. |
| US11937221B2 |
System and method for multi-carrier network operation
Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing channel scrambling in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a first component carrier (“CC”) and a second CC between a base station and a user equipment (“UE”) comprises receiving a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (“C-RNTI”) and a cell identification (“ID”) for at least one of the first CC and the second CC; and using the RNTI and the cell ID to perform scrambling of information transmitted on at least one of the first CC and the second CC. |
| US11937217B2 |
Method for relay terminal to transmit and receive signals in wireless communication system and device for same
A method for a relay terminal to transmit and receive signals in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a step for transmitting, in a first time region, a UL signal to an upper node through a backhaul link and a DL signal to at least one lower node through an access link; and a step for receiving, in a second time region, a DL signal from the upper node through the backhaul link and a UL signal from the at least one lower node through the access link, wherein different frequency resources are allocated to the UL signal and the DL signal in the same carrier in each of the first time domain and the second time domain. |
| US11937203B2 |
Signal transmission method and apparatus
A signal transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: a location management device receives first SRS resource configuration information from a serving cell and/or a neighboring cell. The location management device sends second SRS resource configuration information to a terminal device, where the second SRS resource configuration information includes third SRS resource configuration information and a downlink reference signal associated with an SRS resource indicated by the third SRS resource configuration information, and the third SRS resource configuration information is a part or all of the first SRS resource configuration information. The location management device configures the SRS resource for the terminal device, so that the SRS resource can be associated with the downlink reference signal. This helps the terminal device obtain information about a transmission beam for sending an SRS, and therefore SRS receiving efficiency of the cell can be improved to some extent. |
| US11937195B2 |
Channel and synchronization raster
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for inserting an offset between a channel resource element of a channel resource block and a synchronization resource element of a synchronization signal block, transmitting a bandwidth value of the offset to a user equipment. |
| US11937190B2 |
Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers
A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers. |
| US11937187B2 |
Methods for performing power control in new radio (NR) systems
The disclosed method and an apparatus are directed to determine an uplink transmission power in in New Radio (NR) systems by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), using multiple beams toward multiple Tx/Rx points (TRPs). The method includes determining common parameters like a target receive power, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) specific offset, and a transmit power control (TPC) command parameters common to the multiple beams. The method also includes determining beam-specific parameters like path loss for each beam, a configurable fractional power compensation factor for each beam, and a configurable maximum transmit power level of the each beam, wherein the fractional power compensation factor and the configurable maximum transmit power level for the each beam are determined dynamically or semi-statically based on at least deployment, WTRU mobility, or interference level. The method further includes transmitting at least one codeword to at least one receiving station using at least one of the multiple beams, which having a transmit power calculated based on the common parameters and the beam-specific parameters. |
| US11937184B2 |
Method for determining sleep state, terminal, and readable medium
A method for determining a sleep state, a terminal, and a readable medium. The method for determining a sleep state comprises receiving sleep instruction information sent by a base station; and on the basis of the sleep instruction information, entering a sleep state and selecting different modes. By application of the solution, a UE can be flexibly instructed to enter a sleep state without affecting the quality of service, thereby reducing the power consumption of the UE, and achieving the purpose of power saving. |
| US11937181B2 |
Wake up signaling handling in discontinuous reception
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handling wake up signaling in discontinuous reception. A method comprises determining, at an apparatus, whether an active time during which the apparatus monitors transmissions from a further apparatus overlaps with at least one occasion for monitoring wake up signaling. The method further comprises in response to the active time overlapping with the at least one occasion, skipping monitoring wake up signaling on the at least one occasion. As such, power consumption for monitoring wake up signaling during the active time can be reduced. |
| US11937173B2 |
Method and apparatus for selecting cell to be camped on
A method includes selecting N cells waiting to be camped on from a candidate cell list, decoding a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) of each of the selected N cells waiting to be camped on, selecting, from at least one cell whose PBCH is successfully decoded, one cell as a cell continuing waiting to be camped on, and when a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) decoding result of the cell continuing waiting to be camped on indicates that the cell continuing waiting to be camped on meets a camping criterion, determining the cell continuing waiting to be camped on as the cell to be camped on. |
| US11937172B1 |
Systems/methods of a two-step process in establishing a capability, and using the capability, to execute a financial transaction by a smartphone
Systems/Methods are disclosed of a two-step process in (i) establishing a capability at a smartphone to conduct a financial transaction and (ii) using the established capability in conducting the financial transaction by paying for a product. According to some embodiments, the first step of the two-step process is performed responsive to sensing at least one parameter and determining that the at least one parameter sensed satisfies a criterion; then, an authorization to establish said capability is requested. Then, responsive to receiving the authorization, the capability to conduct the financial transaction is established at the smartphone. The second step in said two-step process may be performed, comprising using said capability that has been established to conduct the financial transaction and pay for a product, responsive to the smartphone sensing proximity to an access point maintained by a vendor and responsive to the at least one parameter being sensed and satisfying the criterion. |
| US11937166B2 |
Systems and methods for refining topology of a distributed unit mesh in a radio access network
A system described herein may provide a technique for the discovery and connection of Mesh Distributed Units (“MDUs”), which may establish a mesh topology and perform wireless backhaul of data between a core network and a User Equipment (“UE”). Multiple MDUs in an MDU network may be connected to establish an MDU route. One or more connected MDUs may broadcast an indication that the MDU is available to connect, one or more performance metrics, or an MDU performance score based on performance metrics. This broadcast may iteratively repeat in order to refine the mesh network topology in an ongoing process. |
| US11937165B1 |
Systems and methods of selectively routing a packet flow
Systems and methods of selectively routing a packet flow are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a first network node associated with a first network and operable to selectively route packet flows between the first network and a second network over first and second access nodes associated with corresponding first and second access networks. The method includes contemporaneously routing both a first packet flow through the first access node and a second packet flow through the second access node based on a network metric associated with the first or second access network, a user or device activity preference associated with the first network and a user or device activity associated with the first or second packet flow. Further, each access networks is operable to enable the first network node to access the second network over the corresponding access node. |
| US11937162B2 |
Systems and methods for propagating data packets in a network of nodes
A method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes is disclosed. The method includes: collecting a set of first data packets during a first time period, the set including at least one data packet received from one or more first nodes in the network; generating a first mapping that assigns the first data packets of the set for relay to one or more neighbouring nodes connected to the node; computing a decorrelation metric value for the first mapping; determining whether the decorrelation metric value for the first mapping satisfies a first condition; in response to determining that the decorrelation metric value for the first mapping does not satisfy the condition of transmitting the first data packets of the set to neighbouring nodes according to the second mapping. |
| US11937157B2 |
V2X operation method implemented by terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using same
The present invention provides a V2X operation method implemented by a V2X (vehicle-to-X) terminal in a wireless communication system, the method characterized by: determining whether or not V2X message transmission is possible on reserved periodic resources; and, if the V2X message transmission is not possible on the reserved periodic resources, transmitting to another V2X terminal a first scheduling assignment (SA) channel comprising information which indicates that the V2X message transmission is not possible on the reserved periodic resources. |
| US11937156B2 |
CPM message division method using object state sorting
According to the present specification, a collective perception service message (CPM) division method by a first V2X communication device may comprise the steps of: acquiring data related to neighboring objects; generating a CPM including data related to the neighboring objects by using data related to the neighboring objects; on the basis of a sorting type configured in the first V2X communication device, dividing the CPM when the size of the CPM exceeds a configured maximum transmission unit (MTU); and transmitting the divided CPM to a second V2X communication device, wherein the sorting type may be configured to partition an area in which the neighboring objects are located, by using calculated location information of the neighboring objects, with reference to a location of the first V2X communication device and on the basis of the CPM. |
| US11937155B2 |
Communication apparatus, information processing method and system
A communication apparatus is a communication apparatus provided in a vehicle. A controller comprising at least one processor of the communication apparatus uses a first profile to receive a second profile to be used for communication in a predetermined area from a predetermined server apparatus in the predetermined area, the first profile being stored in a storage in advance and making it possible to receive the second profile from the predetermined server apparatus in the predetermined area. Then, the controller causes the second profile to be stored into the storage while the first profile is stored in the storage. |
| US11937154B2 |
User-equipment, base station, and method of vehicle-to-everything communication of same
A user equipment (UE), a base station (BS), and a method of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication of same are provided. The method of V2X communication of the UE includes receiving at least one network V2X configuration information relating at least one V2X operation from the BS, generating at least one V2X data, and triggering to send, to the BS, at least one UE assistance information (UEAI) using the at least one network V2X configuration information as a scheduling request indication (SRI) when the UE has the at least one V2X data to be transmitted. |
| US11937151B2 |
Centralized mobile network account management function for shared mobile network consumption tracking of converged charging systems
A network device executes an account management function that pre-authorizes network service unit consumption by multiple subscribers that are members of a same, shared network service account. The account management function receives, from multiple charging systems distributed within the network, network unit consumption charges associated with each of the multiple subscribers, where the network device is centrally located within a network relative to multiple locations associated with the plurality of charging systems. The account management function updates a consumption counter for the same, shared network service account based on the network unit consumption charges associated with the multiple subscribers received from the multiple charging systems distributed within the network. |
| US11937150B2 |
Method and function for handling a subscriber's communication services
The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a charging function (125) for handling a subscriber's communication services. The charging function (125) detects that a subscriber's credit account has reached or fallen below a credit threshold when the subscriber has multiple ongoing communication services consuming credit from the credit account. The charging function (125) sends a threshold notification to a UE (101) on which the subscriber has at least one of the multiple ongoing communication services. The charging function (125) determines if a response to the threshold notification has been received with prioritization of one of the multiple ongoing communication services. If a response with prioritization of one communication service has been received, the charging function (125) initiates termination of all ongoing communication services except the prioritized communication service, and provides all available credit to be available for the prioritized communication service. |
| US11937149B2 |
Weapon manager
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a weapon manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining, by the server, that the weapon is in a particular location. The actions further include determining, by the server, a projected travel path of the weapon. The actions further include, based on determining that the weapon is in a particular location and the projected travel path of the weapon, generating, by the server, an instruction to disable the weapon. The actions further include providing, for output to the weapon, the instruction to disable the weapon. |
| US11937145B2 |
Mashing mapping content displayed on mobile devices
A method and apparatus for mapping addressable information (e.g., locations denoted by name or address, street addresses, landmarks, etc.) off of disparate applications on a mobile device, onto an existing map on the mobile device, are disclosed. An application on a mobile device may display addressable information (e.g., a website displaying a location name and/or address, an email containing an address, etc.). In response to a user's selecting the addressable information and invoking a mapping command, a map-display application (e.g., Google Maps®, Yahoo! Maps®, Windows Live Search Map®, MapQuest®, iPhone® maps, Waze® etc.) may be automatically presented (e.g., launches, become visible, displayed, etc.) displaying the addressable information in addition to at least one prior mapping content previously displayed by the map-display application. |
| US11937143B1 |
Method and system for overcoming handover failures between mini macros
A method of managing handovers between a plurality of relay access nodes, the method includes monitoring a latency of a donor access node communicating with the plurality of relay access nodes; determining that a quality of service corresponding to a wireless device communicating with a relay access node of the plurality of relay access nodes meets a quality of service criteria; and in response to the latency meeting a threshold, instructing the relay access node to handover the wireless device to a target access node, or instructing the donor access node to handover the relay access node to the target access node, where the target access node is the donor access node, a neighboring access node, or a second relay access node served by the neighboring access node. |
| US11937142B2 |
Real-time any-G SON
Systems, method sand computer readable medium are provided for proving real-time Self Optimizing Network (SON) Virtual Network Function (VRF) included as part of the HNG. In one embodiment data from connected devices is forwarded to the HNG; the data is organized into virtualized containers; and the data is processed by agile analytics and results are displayed to a user. |
| US11937137B2 |
Physical layer measurement without reporting for user equipment mobility
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may measure physical layer parameters of one or more reference signals transmitted by one or more non-serving or neighbor base stations. The UE may store the measured physical layer parameters and, in the event that a handover command is received from a source base station to establish a connection with a target base station of one of the neighbor base stations, use the measured physical layer parameters for an uplink communication with the target base station, where the measured physical layer parameters are unreported by the UE prior to establishing the connection with the target base station. |
| US11937130B2 |
Bandwidth part adjustment method and bandwidth part adjustment apparatus
A method and apparatus for bandwidth part (BWP) adaptation are provided. The method may include determining, in response to receiving a BWP adapting instruction during a random access procedure, whether a BWP indicated by the BWP adapting instruction is the same as a target BWP in the random access procedure. The method may further include adapting, in response to that the BWP indicated by the BWP adapting instruction is not the same as the target BWP and in accordance with the BWP adapting instruction, the BWP indicated by the BWP adapting instruction, and continuing the random access procedure. |
| US11937124B2 |
Method and apparatus for normalising data in artificial intelligence system
The present application provides a method of normalising data, which includes the following. The AI engine receives data of different domains of an assisted system, normalises the data of the different domains into a unified format, based on at least one normalisation method corresponding the each of the different domains and provides the normalised data to an other functional block in the AI engine. |
| US11937122B2 |
Self-reportable radio link control status protocol data units
Wireless communication systems and methods related to radio link control (RLC) transmissions are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits a sequence of protocol data units (PDUs). The first wireless communication device receives a first reception status report for a first portion of a receiver buffer window used for receiving the sequence of PDUs from a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device receives a second reception status report for a second portion of the receiver buffer window, the second portion being different from the first portion, from the second wireless communication device. |
| US11937117B2 |
Dynamic transmit chain availability signaling in wireless devices
A wireless device communicates a transmission capability by determining a number of active transmits chains of the wireless device, determining a maximum number of space-time streams according to the number of active transmit chains, providing a frame with an indication of the maximum number of space-time streams, and transmitting the frame. The wireless devices may provide the indication of the maximum number of space-time streams in an Operating Mode field of High Efficiency Aggregate Control field of the frame. The maximum number of space-time streams may be a maximum number of space-time streams that may be used by the wireless device to respond to a Trigger frame. |
| US11937115B2 |
Method for constructing logged measurement entry and device supporting the same
Provided are a method of constructing logged measurement entry and a device supporting the method. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may comprise: receiving a logged measurement configuration from a network; performing measurement logging based on the received logged measurement configuration; and transmitting the logged measurement to the network, wherein when the UE is in any cell selection state, the logged measurement includes indicator indicating that there is no suitable cell or no acceptable cell with available measurement results. |
| US11937114B2 |
Selective measurement reporting for a user equipment
A method of wireless communication includes determining, based on a plurality of network measurements performed by a user equipment (UE), one or more measurement log files associated with the plurality of network measurements. The method further includes receiving, by the UE from a network device, a request associated with the one or more measurement log files. The request indicates at least one measurement filter. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE to the network device, a response to the request. The response includes first measurement results of the one or more measurement log files selected based on the at least one measurement filter and excludes second measurement results of the one or more measurement log files based on the at least one measurement filter. |
| US11937113B2 |
Flexible early measurement reporting
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that provide reporting of early measurements in a cellular communications system. Embodiments of a method performed by a wireless device are disclosed. Early measurements are also referred to herein as dormant mode measurements. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device includes performing one or more dormant mode measurements, where the one or more dormant mode measurements are one or more measurements performed by the wireless device while the wireless device is in a dormant mode. The method further includes storing the one or more dormant mode measurements, identifying a reporting scheme to be used by the wireless device to report dormant mode measurements, and reporting at least one of the stored dormant mode measurements in accordance with the identified reporting scheme. Corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are also disclosed. |
| US11937106B2 |
CRS rate matching request in DSS
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may measure a RSRP of a CRS for each of a plurality of neighboring cells. The apparatus may also calculate an interference strength of each of the plurality of neighboring cells based on the RSRP measurement of the CRS for each of the plurality of neighboring cells. Additionally, the apparatus may compare a PDSCH demodulation performance of the UE based on rate matching for a CRS offset associated with each of the plurality of neighboring cells with the PDSCH demodulation performance of the UE based on skipping the rate matching for the CRS offset. The apparatus may also transmit a request for the rate matching or skipping the rate matching for the CRS offset based on the comparison of the PDSCH demodulation performance of the UE. |
| US11937099B2 |
Efficient adaptable wireless network system with agile beamforming
Beamforming for adapting wireless signaling beams in an adaptive and agile manner is contemplated. The beamforming may be characterized by adaptively constructing beam form parameters to provide wireless signaling in a manner that maximizes efficiency and bandwidth according to device positioning relative to a responding base station. |
| US11937096B2 |
Method and device for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system
A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present specification including steps of: receiving configuration information related to reporting of channel state information (CSI); receiving a downlink reference signal (DL RS) related to measurement on the basis of the configuration information; and reporting the channel state information (CSI) on the basis of the DL RS. Spatial relation RS information related to transmission of the channel state information (CSI) is based on spatial relation quasi-colocation (QCL) RS information related to the DL RS. |
| US11937088B2 |
Updating a subscriber identity module
Updating a subscriber identity module, SIM, on a host device by deriving a pre-shared key by requesting a SIM identifier via communication module of the host device; receiving SIM identifier and deriving an agent identifier from SIM identifier; transmitting agent and SIM identifiers to SIM update server; receiving a random value from SIM update server and supplying it to the SIM to initiate SIM authentication procedure. In reply, receiving an authentication response from the SIM; and deriving pre-shared key from authentication response; transmitting an update request message to SIM update server, wherein the update request message comprises the agent identifier and is encrypted before transmission using the pre-shared key; receiving an update response message from the SIM update server which has update data and is encrypted using pre-shared key; and following decryption of update response message using derived pre-shared key, transmitting update data to communication module. |
| US11937087B2 |
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) participant type-based misbehavior detection
In various embodiments, a vehicle processing device may receive a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message from an ITS participant, the message including an ITS participant type indication, determine detector settings based on the ITS participant type for one or more detectors configured to evaluate an aspect of the ITS participant, determine whether information in the V2X message is plausible using the detector settings based on the ITS participant type for the one or more detectors, and perform a security action in response to determining that the information in the V2X message is not plausible. |
| US11937085B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for creating temporary virtual access points using WiFi routers when portals cannot be presented
Mechanisms (which can include systems, methods, and media) for securing WiFi routers and devices connected to them are provided. In some embodiments, mechanisms for securing a WiFi router comprise: receiving a first request to form a first connection between a first device and the WiFi router; determining whether a first portal can be presented in connection with the first device; and in response to determining that the first portal cannot be presented in connection with the first device: creating a first temporary virtual access point using the WiFi router; and connecting the first device to the WiFi router using the first temporary virtual access point. |
| US11937082B1 |
Secure electric vehicle charger and system incorporating thereof
A secure electric vehicle (EV) charger and system incorporating thereof is provided. One embodiment includes an EV charger. The EV charger includes a processor, a low power short range point-to-point communication system, and a memory containing an authentication software application. The processor is configured by the authentication software application to receive an authentication request from a mobile device via the low power short range point-to-point communication system, send encrypted EV charger access credentials to the mobile device, receive a digital token from the mobile device, verify the digital token, and initiate a charging session based upon a command contained within the digital token. The digital token may be encrypted using a public key and may be self-authenticating without use of an internet connection thus enabling secure charging without the presence of an internet connection. |
| US11937078B2 |
Mobile device for detecting route overlap and methods thereof
A mobile device is disclosed. The device includes a communicator, a GPS unit for calculating location information, a memory, a display, and a processor, and the processor is configured to generate movement path information of the mobile device by performing homomorphic encryption of a plurality of pieces of location information stored in the memory, transmit the movement path information to a server apparatus through the communicator, based on operation result data obtained by operating based on the movement path information and comparison target path information being transmitted from the server apparatus, decrypt the operation result data, and output a message notifying whether a route overlaps the comparison target path information based on a decrypted result through the display. Therefore, the route overlap is rapidly and accurately confirmed without invasion of privacy. |
| US11937077B2 |
Systems and method for secure updates of configuration parameters provisioned in user equipment
Systems and methods that update configuration parameters on a UE using control plane functionalities. In one embodiment, an AMF element of a mobile network receives a control plane message from a UDM element that includes a UE configuration parameter update for the UE. The UE configuration parameter update is security protected via a secured packet, integrity protection, etc. The AMF element is configured to transparently send the UE configuration parameter update to the UE. Thus, AMF element inserts the UE configuration parameter update (that is security protected) in a container of a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message, and sends the NAS message to the UE. The UE may then update its configuration parameters based on the update when security checks are complete. |
| US11937066B2 |
Active cancellation of a height-channel soundbar array's forward sound radiation
A multi-driver multi-channel single enclosure Height-Channel (e.g., ATMOS® or DTS-X®) enabled soundbar loudspeaker system 260 uses a novel signal processing system, driver mounting configuration (310L, 310R) and method to provide a high fidelity home theater listening experience, in a manner which relies on a new method for cancellation of unwanted direct (not ceiling-bounced) radiation of the Height-Channel (or virtual height envelopment) channel's sound 213DS. |
| US11937065B2 |
Adjustment of parameter settings for extended reality experiences
Systems and methods for determining parameter adjustments for a capture of audio are disclosed. The systems and methods includes processing circuitry configured to access at least one energy map that corresponds to one or more audio streams. The processing circuitry may then determine, from the at least one energy map, a parameter adjustment with respect to at least one audio element. The parameter adjustment may be configured to adjust the capture of audio by the at least one audio element. In addition, the process circuitry may be configured to output an indication indicating the parameter adjustment with respect to the at least one audio element. |
| US11937064B2 |
Metadata-preserved audio object clustering
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to audio object clustering. A method for metadata-preserved audio object clustering is disclosed. The method comprises classifying an audio object into at least a category based rendering mode information metadata. The method further comprises assigning a predetermined number of clusters to the categories and rendering the audio object based on the rendering mode. Corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US11937063B2 |
Method and system for maintaining track length for pre-rendered spatial audio
A method performed by a programmed processor of an audio system, the method includes receiving a sound track that has a track length, producing a binaural audio version of a sound track, the binaural audio version having an extended track length performing a fading operation upon the binaural audio version to gradually reduce a signal level of the binaural audio version to below a signal threshold level at a time along the extended track length that corresponds to an end time of the track length of the sound track; and storing the binaural audio version having the track length of the sound track in memory for later transmission to an audio playback device for driving one or more speakers. |
| US11937062B2 |
Electroacoustic transducer, speaker module, and electronic device
Embodiments of this application disclose an electroacoustic transducer, including a center magnet, two first side magnets, two second side magnets, a voice coil, a voice diaphragm, and two flexible printed circuit boards. The two first side magnets are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the center magnet, and a first gap is formed between the first side magnet and the center magnet. One end of the voice coil is partially located in the first gap, and the voice diaphragm is fixedly connected to the other end of the voice coil. The two flexible printed circuit boards are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the center magnet. The electroacoustic transducer has comparatively high magnetic induction strength and comparatively high sensitivity. |
| US11937058B2 |
Driver's vehicle sound perception method during autonomous traveling and autonomous vehicle thereof
A driver's vehicle sound perception method during the autonomous traveling of a driver sound control system applied to an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes determining a mobile device and Bluetooth earphones held by a driver within a cabin, and setting the driver position and face direction for the driver, a driver relative distance for the individual controller, and the sound pressure and cycle of an alert for a failure situation of the individual controller by a DSM controller of the DSM system. The method confirms the utterance position of the alert for the driver by an AVNT controller of the AVNT system, and reproduces the failure situation of the individual controller by a vehicle speaker or the Bluetooth earphones to reproduce the vehicle alert through the left/right Bluetooth earphones in the driver's ears at autonomous Lv.4, freeing the driver from driving. |
| US11937049B2 |
Hearing device comprising a module
A hearing device comprises an input transducer; a signal processor; an output transducer; a transceiver configured for wireless data communication, an antenna for electromagnetic field emission and electromagnetic field reception, the antenna coupled to the transceiver, and a module. The module comprises a transceiver interface coupled to the transceiver, an antenna interface coupled to the antenna, a transmission path configured for sending signals from the transceiver to the antenna, the transmission path comprising a transmission amplifier, a reception path configured for sending signals from the antenna to the transceiver, the reception path comprising a reception amplifier, and a bypass path configured for sending signals between the transceiver and antenna by bypassing the transmission path and the reception path. |
| US11937046B2 |
Sound diffuser and diffusion method
A sound diffuser includes a first annular control member, a second annular control member, and a third annular control member. The first annular control member includes a first communication hole and an annular inclined plate that surrounds the first communication hole and is inclined relative to an axial direction of the first communication hole. The second annular control member includes a second communication hole and an annular inclined plate that surrounds the second communication hole, houses the first annular control member therein, and is inclined relative to an axial direction of the second communication hole. The third annular control member has a plurality of third communication holes and surrounds the second annular control member. |
| US11937045B2 |
Audio image control method, headphones, and headphone attachment
This audio image control method controls the localization of an audio image in a space between a headphone/speaker and the auricle. Rearward sound emitted from the headphone/speaker at a position corresponding to the rear of the auricle and traveling toward the auricle is blocked and reflected to travel away toward the front of the auricle. The reflected rearward sound is reflected together with forward scattering sound emitted from the headphone/speaker at a position forwardly of the auricle and travelling away from the auricle, and is allowed to reach the auricle as reflected forward sound travelling from the front of the auricle toward the auricle. Central sound emitted from the central portion of the headphone/speaker and travelling toward the auricle, and emitted forward sound emitted from the headphone/speaker at a position corresponding to the front of the auricle and traveling toward the auricle are allowed to reach the auricle directly. |
| US11937044B2 |
Sound emission control device
A sound emission control device comprises a plurality of guides. The guides each include an inlet connected to a branching portion that is configured to oppose a vibrating surface inside an acoustic device, an outlet communicated to the inlet, and a horn-shaped inner wall surrounding a space between the inlet and the outlet. The guides are configured to guide sound that is emitted from the vibrating surface and branched by the branching portion to the outlets that are configured to be communicated to sound emission holes that are provided in the acoustic device and face mutually different directions, respectively. |
| US11937042B2 |
Headphones and headphone systems
Some headphone systems include two ear cups, a headband assembly, an interface system and a control system. Each ear cup may include an ear cup enclosure, an ear pad assembly, a speaker system and a hinge assembly. The hinge assembly may be disposed within the ear cup enclosure such that it is not visible from outside the ear cup. The headband assembly may connect with each of the ear cups via the hinge assembly. The interface system may include at least one interface and a plurality of input source buttons disposed on at least one of the ear cups. Each of the input source buttons may be configured for selecting a source of audio data received via the at least one interface. The control system may be configured for controlling the speaker system to reproduce audio data received via the interface and selected by one of the input source buttons. |
| US11937039B2 |
TWS earphone, method and apparatus for reducing earphone energy consumption, and medium
Disclosed are a TWS earphone, a method and apparatus for reducing earphone energy consumption, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method for reducing earphone energy consumption comprises: determining whether a target earphone is in an off-ear state and is not placed in a charging case; if so, acquiring a timekeeping duration since the target earphone is taken off of an ear; determining whether the timekeeping duration exceeds a first preset threshold value; and if the timekeeping duration exceeds the first preset threshold value, performing energy consumption reduction processing on the earphone. According to the present application, the duration since an earphone is taken off of an ear is evaluated for the earphone that is taken off of the ear and is not placed in a charging case, so as to perform energy consumption reduction processing on the earphone that has been taken off of the ear for a relatively long duration, such that unnecessary power consumption of the earphone when same is in a not-in-use state can be effectively reduced, and the effective service time of the earphone after charging is prolonged. |
| US11937038B2 |
Earphones with motion sensitive inflation
Methods and systems are provided for earphones with motion sensitive inflation. Information may be obtained relating to a user of an audio output element that outputs audio signals, with at least portion of the audio output element being in contact with the user. One or both of outputting of the audio signals and the contact between the audio output element and the user may be assessed based on the obtained information. Based on the assessing, one or more adjustments applicable to the audio output element may be determined, with at least one adjustment applying to positioning of the at least portion of the audio output element. The determining includes configuring the at least one adjustment to account for and/or counteract effects of the positioning on one or both of outputting of the audio signals and the contact between the audio output element and the user. |
| US11937036B2 |
Headset
A headset has earmuffs connected by a connection element. The earmuffs have inner sides facing each other and outer sides facing away from each other in a first transverse direction. The earmuffs extend from a bottom side to a top side in a vertical direction. The earmuffs extend from a first to a second longitudinal side in a second transverse direction. At least one of the earmuffs has a positioning pocket at the outer side with a button arranged therein. The positioning pocket extends across a width in second transverse direction that corresponds to at least 50% of a width of the at least one of the earmuffs. The positioning pocket has a bottom end and a top end and extends in vertical direction from the bottom end to the top end. The top end of the positioning pocket forms a stop edge for fingertips of an operator's hand. |
| US11937028B2 |
Cable identification and guided connections
Configurations for rack connection systems are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, installation locations for one or more cables are determined and one or more indicators corresponding to installation locations are activated. |
| US11937024B2 |
Projection system, projection device and projection method
A projection system includes a projection device that projects drawings individually onto a plurality of work spots in a work site. The projection device includes a driver that changes an orientation of the projection device. When drawings are individually projected onto a first work spot and a second work spot in a stated sequence, and the second work spot is outside a projection angle that is projectable by the projection device, the driver changes the orientation of the projection device to include the second work spot within the projection angle after work at the first work spot is finished. The first work spot and the second work spot are included in the plurality of work spots. |
| US11937017B2 |
Wearable recording system with memory designation
A surveillance apparatus continuously records imaged data from a camera into a circular buffer in a local memory. When a record signal is received, the system records the video stream that was recorded before the record signal was received, and the video stream that is recorded after the record signal was received. The recorded segment is then write-protected, so that the surveillance apparatus does not overwrite the recorded segment. The recorded segment could then be sent to a remote memory via a wireless connection to free up local memory for future recording sessions. |
| US11937016B2 |
System and method for real-time, event-driven video conference analytics
A system, platform, computer program product, and/or method to analyze a computer-implemented video conference includes: a plurality of participant devices, and a central processing server. Each participant device is configured to form a video snippet for a time interval of the video conference having audio data and video data; generate a transformed video snippet by embedding extracted participant data and/or metadata into the video snippet; and send each transformed video snippet to the central processing server. The central processing server receives each transformed video snippet; performs analytics on each transformed video snippet; and transmits to at least one of the participant devices, results of the performed analytics. Participant devices can display one or more results of the performed analytics. |
| US11937010B2 |
Data segment service
Aspects of the disclosure relate to the delivery of media content over a network. Specifically, aspects are directed to identification and/or extraction of a selected data such as a video clip from content and providing identifying information to a user to retrieve, view, and/or share the selected video clip. Aspects described herein provide the ability to identify a starting point and stopping point of a video clip on a media gateway device and generate a URL that can be used and/or shared in order to access the selected video clip. The URL may identify a stored media clip, or may contain information from which a video clip can be recreated. |
| US11937009B2 |
Infrared imaging device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Provided is an infrared imaging device capable of reducing streak noise by calculating correction coefficients for correcting streak noise from a single image.The infrared imaging device includes: a thermal image generator to generate a single thermal image on the basis of a signal from a thermal image sensor; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate multiple correction coefficients included in a correction equation for converting pixel values of pixels included in the single thermal image into target values in which streak noise is reduced; and a thermal image corrector to correct a thermal image generated by the thermal image generator by using the multiple correction coefficients, wherein the correction coefficient calculator calculates the multiple correction coefficients on the basis of difference between pixel values of pixels arranged in a direction in which the streak noise occurs in the single thermal image. |
| US11937007B2 |
Imaging device, operation method thereof, and electronic device
An imaging device having a motion detecting function and an image processing function is provided. The imaging device can detect a difference between a reference frame image and a comparative frame image, and can switch from a motion detecting mode to a normal image capturing mode when a significant difference is detected. A low-frame-rate operation in the motion detecting mode can reduce power consumption. Moreover, the imaging device has an image recognition function in combination with the motion detecting function, so that switching from the motion detecting mode to the normal image capturing mode can be performed when a particular image is recognized. |
| US11937004B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, movable object, and semiconductor substrate
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photodiode, a generation circuit, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit. The photodiode is configured to perform avalanche multiplication. The generation circuit is configured to generate a control signal. The first control circuit is configured to be controlled by the control signal to be in a standby state where the avalanche multiplication by the photodiode is possible and in a recharging state for returning the photodiode having performed the avalanche multiplication to the standby state. The second control circuit is configured to count a number of periods in which the avalanche multiplication has occurred among a plurality of periods of the standby state by using the control signal and a signal corresponding to an output of the photodiode. |
| US11936999B2 |
Solid-state imaging element and control method
Power consumption in realizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) is reduced.A solid-state imaging element according to the present technology includes a photoelectric conversion element that photoelectrically converts received light into signal charge corresponding to the amount of received light, a floating diffusion that holds the signal charge obtained by the photoelectric conversion element, a transfer control element that controls transfer of the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion, and a control unit that controls application of a drive voltage to the transfer control element on the basis of a convolution coefficient in a CNN. |
| US11936995B2 |
Event-based vision sensor with direct memory control
An event-based vision sensor system comprises an event-based pixel array including pixels that detect light, a readout circuit for reading out events associated with light received by each pixel and with the position it occupies in the array, and a memory controller that enables writing of each event, or event-related data, associated with a certain pixel to a certain address in a memory. |
| US11936993B2 |
Methods and systems for presenting image content to a subject in a deformable electronic device
A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more processors, initiation of an image capture operation using an image capture device situated on a first surface of the electronic device and having a first field of view extending away from the first surface in a first direction. In response to detecting the initiation of the image capture operation, the method includes actuating a second image capture device situated on a second surface of the electronic device and having a second field of view extending away from the second surface in a second direction. The method then captures image content with the second image capture device and presenting the image content on a display situated on the first surface of the electronic device. Thereafter, the one or more processors capture at least one image with the first image capture device. |
| US11936992B2 |
Multi-mode demosaicing for raw image data
Embodiments relate to a multi-mode demosaicing circuit able to receive and demosaic image data in a different raw image formats, such as Bayer raw image format and Quad Bayer raw image format. The multi-mode demosaicing circuit comprises different circuitry for demosaicing different image formats that access a shared working memory. In addition, the multi-mode demosaicing circuit shares memory with a post-processing and scaling circuit configured to perform subsequent post-processing and/or scaling of the demosaiced image data, in which the operations of the post-processing and scaling circuit are modified based on the original raw image format of the demosaiced image data to use different amounts of the shared memory, to compensate for additional memory utilized by the multi-mode demosaicing circuit when demosaicing certain types of image data. |
| US11936980B2 |
Imaging apparatus, image capturing system, control method of imaging apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An imaging apparatus acquires an image capturing instruction, performs an image capturing processing in a case where a position of an eye of a user is a first condition upon acquiring the image capturing instruction, and requests a second imaging apparatus, which is different from the imaging apparatus, to perform the image capturing processing in a case where the position of the eye of the user is a second condition upon acquiring the image capturing instruction. |
| US11936977B2 |
Control apparatus, control method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium
A control apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a controlled-object selecting switch configured to select an object to be controlled from a plurality of objects to be controlled and switch the object to be controlled to the selected one, an adjustment-value changing operation unit configured to change an adjustment value indicating an adjustment amount for each of the objects to be controlled, a control unit configured to make the selected object to be controlled adjust the adjustment amount by transmitting, to the selected object to be controlled, an adjustment-value changing command for adjusting the adjustment amount to the one indicated by the adjustment value, and a storage unit configured to store, when the object to be controlled is switched by the controlled-object selecting switch, a pre-switching adjustment value, in which when the object to be controlled is switched by the controlled-object selecting switch. |
| US11936973B2 |
Pulse chain-driven infrared imaging assembly
The invention describes an infrared imaging assembly (1) for capturing an infrared image (M0, M1) of a scene (S), comprising an infrared-sensitive image sensor (14); an irradiator (10) comprising an array of individually addressable infrared-emitting LEDs, wherein each infrared-emitting LED is arranged to illuminate a scene region (S1, . . . , S9); a driver (11) configured to actuate the infrared irradiator (10) by applying a switching pulse train (T1, . . . , T9) to each infrared-emitting LED; an image analysis module (13) configured to analyse a preliminary infrared image (M0) to determine the required exposure levels (130) for each of a plurality of image regions (R1, . . . , R9); and a pulse train adjusting unit (12) configured to adjust the duration (L1, . . . , L9) of a switching pulse train (T1, . . . , T9) according to the required exposure levels (130). The invention also described a method of generating a depth map (D) for a scene (S); a depth map generator comprising an embodiment of the inventive infrared imaging assembly (1); and a camera comprising such a depth map generator (2). |
| US11936970B2 |
Optical device
An optical device is provided. An optical device according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a first main body including a first hole; a second main body including a second hole and connected to the first main body in a foldable manner; a sensor module disposed to be fixed to the first hole; a lens module disposed to be movable in the optical axis direction atop the sensor module; and a transparent member disposed in the second hole, wherein the lens module is disposed in the first hole when the first main body and the second main body are folded, and at least a part of the lens module is disposed over the first hole when the first main body and the second main body are unfolded. |
| US11936965B2 |
Inspection nozzle or cleaning nozzle with switchable camera module
Operational convenience is to be improved in an inspection nozzle or cleaning nozzle for operation with liquids under high pressure with a coupling section that can be connected to a high-pressure tube. A feed bore, a deflection chamber and at least one communicating bore are operatively connected to the coupling section. A camera recess running concentric to a longitudinal axis is arranged in a camera-receiving portion. A camera module is accommodated releasably connected to an encapsulated camera housing sealed water-tight. Optics and camera electronics are permanently incorporated in camera housing. Case manipulation of the camera module and the camera housing is unnecessary. This is realized in that within the camera housing, a contactless magnetically operable camera switch is arranged effectively connected to the camera electronics via a circuit board on one wall of the camera housing. |
| US11936964B2 |
Camera system with exchangeable illumination assembly
This invention provides a vision system with an exchangeable illumination assembly that allows for increased versatility in the type and configuration of illumination supplied to the system without altering the underlying optics, sensor, vision processor, or the associated housing. The vision system housing includes a front plate that optionally includes a plurality of mounting bases for accepting different types of lenses, and a connector that allows removable interconnection with the illustrative illumination assembly. The illumination assembly includes a cover that is light transmissive. The cover encloses an illumination component that can include a plurality of lighting elements that surround an aperture through which received light rays from the imaged scene pass through to the lens. The arrangement of lighting elements is highly variable and the user can be supplied with an illumination assembly that best suits its needs without need to change the vision system processor, sensor or housing. |
| US11936963B2 |
Imaging device
An imaging device according to this disclosure includes: a visible light camera that captures an image of a face of a person to be authenticated; a plurality of infrared light cameras that is provided on a housing with the visible light camera and captures an image of an iris of the person to be authenticated; and an optical filter that is provided on the housing so as to cover a light receiving surface of each of the plurality of infrared light cameras and not to cover a light receiving surface of the visible light camera, and has a pass band in an infrared region and a blocking band in a visible region. |
| US11936954B2 |
Method, apparatus and electronic device for processing of video recommendations
The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and electronic device for processing of video recommendations. The present disclosure enables: at least one of second users can recommend a video to a first user, and when recommending the video, the second user can add own recommendation comment on the video, and the first user sees the comment on the video from the at least one of second users on a playback interface of a first client, and can also conduct operations such as comment, like, etc. on the comment by the second user, and can further recommend the video to a third user. |
| US11936953B2 |
Recommending media programs based on media program popularity
A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to the user, from the plurality of media programs that relate to the received information. |
| US11936947B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically identifying a user preference for a participant from a competition event
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a preference of a user for or against a participant of an event when a media asset relating to the event is being played based on monitoring user reactions to the event. Specifically, the media guidance application may detect a change of at least one of the biometric state (e.g., pulse rate, blood pressure, etc.) and physiological state (e.g., facial expression, gesture, body movement, etc.) with a user. The media guidance application may determine that an event has occurred within the sporting event that triggered the change. The media guidance application may determine that the user favors the first participant over the second participant, if the user reacts positively towards a score for the first participant in the event. |
| US11936946B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamic content restriction based on a relationship
Systems and methods are provided herein to dynamically update content restrictions for multiple users by detecting a first user in the proximity of a media device playing a first content item and detecting a second user entering the proximity of the media device. In response to detecting a second user entering the proximity of the media device and receiving a command from the first user that controls playing the first content, the system modifies a stored relationship between the first user and the second user to track the relationship between the first user and the second user. Thereafter, when the system detects the first user and the second user in the proximity of a media device playing a second content, in response, the system automatically performs an action that controls the playing of the second content (e.g., without user having to issue those commands). |
| US11936945B2 |
Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for channel change detection-based short content identification
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that improve short content identification in an audio stream through channel change detection and audio block realignment. Example instructions cause one or more processors to form a first audio block from an audio stream, detect whether the first audio block contains a channel change, the first audio block being one of a plurality of audio blocks the accessed audio, determine an offset of time from a beginning of the first audio block to when the channel change occurs in response to the channel change being detected in the first audio block, and create a new audio block aligned to start at the offset of time beyond the beginning of the first audio block using audio information from the audio stream, the new audio block to include a single channel of audio stream data. |
| US11936943B2 |
System and method for detecting the removal of a controlling device
A system and method for using a controllable appliance to report an inoperable state of a controlling device. The appliance is caused to repeatedly determine, at a first predetermined timed interval, if a wireless notification signal, repeatedly transmitted by the controlling device at a second predetermined timed interval, has been received from the controlling device. When the wireless notification signal has not been received from the controlling device within the first predetermined timed interval, the appliance is caused to issue a status notification that the controlling device is in an inoperable state. |
| US11936940B2 |
Accessibility enhanced content rendering
A user system for rendering accessibility enhanced content includes processing hardware, a display, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive primary content from a content distributor and determine whether the primary content is accessibility enhanced content including an accessibility track. When the primary content omits the accessibility track, the processing hardware executes the software code to perform a visual analysis, an audio analysis, or both, of the primary content, generate, based on the visual analysis and/or the audio analysis, the accessibility track to include at least one of a sign language performance or one or more video tokens configured to be played back during playback of the primary content, and synchronize the accessibility track to the primary content. The processing hardware also executes the software code to render, using the display, the primary content or the accessibility enhanced content. |
| US11936935B2 |
Adaptive bitrate streaming time shift buffer
Various embodiments describe methods, systems, and devices for deploying live media content as a time-shifted playback. Exemplary implementations may receive, from a client computing device, a content request for a time-shifted playback of live media content. The time-shifted playback may use a unique copy of a live media content configured for playback associated with the content request. The content request may indicate a past point in time in the live media content from which the time-shifted playback originates. The client computing device may be provided access to an assigned private path for accessing segments of the time-shifted playback starting from a requested segment that corresponds to the indicated past point in time. Access by the client computing device to further segments of the time-shifted playback may be prevented in response to determining that the subsequent content request for playback of the second live media content is received. |
| US11936931B2 |
Methods and apparatus to perform media device asset qualification
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform media device asset qualification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least identify a first set of candidate media device assets for disqualification, the candidate media device assets including A) a signature and B) a media identifier that identifies media, generate a hash table using a second set of the candidate media device assets, determine one or more counts of matches between C) a first signature and a first media identifier of a first candidate media device asset of the second set and D) respective signatures and media identifiers of multiple ones of the second set using the hash table, the multiple ones of the second set not including the first candidate media device asset, and load the first signature into a reference database as a reference signature. |
| US11936929B2 |
Remote storage digital video recorder and content delivery network functionality using shared network bandwidth
A digital content storage and delivery system (DCSDS) includes a network interface to communicate data between the DCSDS and a destination device via a network data communication link having limited bandwidth. An input interface receives digital content for handling by the DCSDS. A storage architecture stores recorded video content on behalf of subscriber end users for on-demand playback via the network data communication link, and it caches live streaming video content for distribution via the network data communication link. The DCDS may monitor bandwidth usage of the network data communication link, determine current bandwidth demand for playback of recorded video content stored at the storage architecture, and reserve at least some of the limited bandwidth of the network data communication link to satisfy the determined current bandwidth demand. The available bandwidth is allocated to support distribution of live streaming video from the DCSDS. |
| US11936923B1 |
System and method for transcoding media stream
A system for transcoding a media stream includes at least one network interface; at least one memory; and at least one processor each coupled to one or more of the at least one network interface and one or more of the at least one memory. The at least one processor is configured to publish, via a messaging bus, a segment transcode request in a segment transcode request queue, retrieve the segment transcode request by a transcode worker thread, wherein the first transcode worker thread monitors the segment transcode request queue, transcode by a second transcode worker thread a segment referenced by the segment transcode request, determine by the manifest processor whether the second transcode worker thread has completed transcoding the segment and is still operating, and, if not, transcode the segment by a third transcode worker thread, and store the transcoded segment. |
| US11936922B2 |
Live streaming room page loading method and apparatus, and terminal, server and storage medium
Provided are a live broadcast room page loading method and apparatus, a terminal, a server and a storage medium. The live broadcast room page loading method includes: acquiring live broadcast room functional area loading sequence information; detecting a trigger instruction, wherein the trigger instruction is used for indicating display of a live broadcast room page; and loading and displaying a plurality of functional areas in the live broadcast room page according to the live broadcast room functional area loading sequence information. |
| US11936915B2 |
Method and apparatus for adaptively reducing artifacts in block-coded video
Apparatus, systems and methods for adaptively reducing blocking artifacts in block-coded video are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes processing logic at least capable of deblock filtering at least a portion of a line of video data based, at least in part, on edge information and texture information to generate at least a portion of a line of deblocked video data, and an image data output device responsive to the processing logic. |
| US11936912B2 |
Method and apparatus for temporal smoothing for video
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video processing includes processing circuitry. For example, processing circuitry determines a frame interval for a current block in a current frame within a sequence of frames. The frame interval indicates a group of frames in the sequence of frames with collocated blocks of the current block that satisfy an error metric requirement comparing to the current block. Further, the processing circuitry determines a replacement block based on the collocated blocks in the group of frames, and replaces the current block in the current frame with the replacement block. |
| US11936909B2 |
Prediction method, encoder, decoder, and computer storage medium
A prediction method, an encoder, a decoder, and a computer storage medium are provided. The prediction method applied to an encoder includes: determining a spatial block in which an encoding point is located; constructing a prediction model according to the spatial block; acquiring a value of a first colour component and a value of a second colour component of the encoding point; obtaining a prediction value of the second colour component of the encoding point by using the prediction model and the value of the first colour component; calculating a difference between the value of the second colour component and the prediction value of the second colour component, and using the obtained difference as a residual of the encoding point; and performing Level of Detail (LOD) partitioning and lifting transform based on the residual of the encoding point. |
| US11936908B2 |
Intra-frame prediction method and device
An intra-frame prediction method and device, according to the present invention, enables deriving an intra-frame prediction mode of a current block, determining a pixel line, among a plurality of pixel lines, for the intra-frame prediction of the current block, and carrying out the intra-frame prediction of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction mode and the pixel line. In addition, a first reference pixel of the determined pixel line may be selectively filtered, and a prediction pixel of the current block may be selectively corrected, and thus the accuracy of the intra-frame prediction may be improved. |
| US11936901B2 |
Methods and apparatus of video coding using subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction
A method of subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction is performed at a computing device. The computing device acquires a video bitstream including data associated with multiple encoded pictures. While decoding a current picture in the video bitstream, the computing device selects, according to syntax elements signaled in the video bitstream, one reference picture as a collocated picture of the current picture, and determines a temporal vector between the collocated picture and the current picture from motion information of spatially neighboring blocks of a current code unit (CU) according to a fixed order. Next, the computing device splits the current CU into multiple sub-CUs, obtains a temporal motion vector predictor for each sub-CU from the temporal vector and motion information of a block in the collocated picture that corresponds to a respective subblock of the current picture and decodes the current CU according to the temporal motion vector predictors. |
| US11936900B2 |
Method and apparatus for motion vector prediction
Motion vectors (MVs) are used as predictors for prediction of an image for a current coding unit (CU) within a current video frame. The MVs are from a list of motion vector candidates (MVCs), which is generated. The list includes MVs determined from a first or second pattern, each pattern specifying MVC positions. The first MV positions are within a current video frame, while the second MV positions are for a video frame different from the current frame. The MVC list is generated for a current CU with the MV positions being relative to a position of the current CU. In particular, the MVC list is generated in dependence on a size of the current CU and a size of a grid specifying a minimum distance between two MV positions. One or more MVs as specified by the MV positions of said pattern are included into the MVC list. |
| US11936892B2 |
Image decoding apparatus
In a case that luminance information is used for a chrominance prediction in a separate coding tree structure, there is a problem that chrominance blocks cannot be decoded before all luminance blocks constituting a tree are decoded. An image decoding apparatus that splits an image into coding tree units (CTUs) that are rectangular for processing includes a CT information decoding unit configured to split a CTU of the CTUs into coding trees CTs and to process one or more color components as a single coding tree using one coding tree CT of the coding trees CTs or process two or more color components as a separate coding tree using two or more coding trees CTs of the coding trees CTs depending on a tree mode, a CU decoding unit configured to decode a split flag indicating whether to further split a CT of the CTs and to recursively perform block splitting, and an intra predictor configured to use a decoded image of one color component to generate a prediction image of another color component. The CU decoding unit does not decode the split flag from coded data but configures 1 in the split flag in a case of an intra slice, the separate coding tree, and a target CT size being larger than a prescribed maximum intra size. |
| US11936890B2 |
Video coding using intra sub-partition coding mode
A method of video coding comprises independently generating a respective intra prediction for each of a plurality of corresponding sub-partitions. Each respective intra prediction is generated using a plurality of reference samples from a current coding block. Illustratively, no reconstructed sample from a first sub-partition of the plurality of corresponding sub-partitions is used to generate a respective intra prediction for any other sub-partition of the plurality of corresponding sub-partitions, and each of the plurality of corresponding sub-partitions has a width less than or equal to 2. |
| US11936889B2 |
Hypothetical reference decoder
A video data stream having a video encoded thereinto and is described. It includes first timing information on first coded picture buffer, CPB, removal times to be applied at decoder side in case of buffering a complete version of the video data stream, and second timing information on second CPB removal times to be applied at decoder side for buffering a reduced version of the video data stream, differing from the video data stream by removal of a portion of the video data stream from the complete version of the video data stream. Corresponding video encoders, video decoders, network nodes, apparatuses for managing the coded picture buffer, CPB, of a video decoder, and apparatuses for splicing together video data streams are also referred to. |
| US11936888B1 |
Frame-rate scalable video coding
Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented. |
| US11936883B2 |
System and method for rendering differential video on graphical displays
A differential video rendering system, including a graphics processing unit (GPU); a graphical display coupled to the GPU; a video decoder configured to decode a bitstream of encoded data into a plurality of sets of decoded blocks; at least one processor configured to: generate, based on a first set of the plurality of sets of decoded blocks, a first differential video frame comprising a plurality of sets of differential regions, normalize each set of the plurality of sets of differential regions to a fixed size block to provide a normalized plurality of sets of differential regions, map a respective set of the normalized plurality of sets of differential regions to align with a respective tile size region of a plurality of tile size regions conforming with the GPU, generate a hierarchal region tree based on the normalized plurality of sets of differential regions mapped to the plurality of tile size regions, and generate a plurality of optimal regions based on the hierarchal region tree satisfying a predefined criteria corresponding to a pre-defined optimal number of regions and a predefined efficiency parameter; and a graphics rendering engine configured to render the first differential video frame on the graphical display based on the plurality of optimal regions and a group of differential regions. |
| US11936879B2 |
Method and apparatus for complexity control in high throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) encoding
Methods for management of encoding complexity for image and video encoding, for example for algorithms belonging to the JPEG 2000 family of standards, where the encoding process targets a given compressed size (i.e. a total coded length) for the image or for each frame of a video sequence. Described are a set of methods for complexity constrained encoding of HTJ2K code-streams, involving collection of local or global statistics for each sub-band (not for each code-block), generation of forecasts for the statistics of sub-band samples that have not yet been produced by spatial transformation and quantization processes, and the use of this information to generate a global quantization parameter, from which the coarsest bit-plane to generate in each code-block can be deduced. Coded length estimates can be generated in a manner that enables latency and memory to be separately optimized against encoded image quality, while maintaining low computational complexity. |
| US11936875B2 |
In-loop filtering-based image coding apparatus and method
According to an embodiment of the present document, a method for increasing the accuracy of in-loop filtering is proposed. In an example, the filtering accuracy of chroma blocks can be improved on the basis of luma blocks by performing a cross component adaptive loop filtering process. |
| US11936869B2 |
Image compression sampling method and assembly
An image compression sampling method and assembly are provided. The method includes: performing sparse representation on a target image by using an initial sparse matrix, quantifying an initial sparse representation result to obtain an optimized sparse representation result, and obtaining an optimized sparse matrix; constructing a product matrix by using the optimized sparse matrix and an initial measurement matrix, and adjusting absolute values of off-diagonal elements in the product matrix to be less than a correlation threshold; performing singular value decomposition on the product matrix to obtain a diagonal matrix and a left singular matrix, and updating the diagonal matrix according to a quantity of samplings of the initial measurement matrix; and optimizing the initial measurement matrix by using the left singular matrix and the updated diagonal matrix to obtain an optimized measurement matrix, and collecting image data by using the optimized sparse matrix and the optimized measurement matrix. |
| US11936868B2 |
Quantization for video encoding or decoding based on the surface of a block
An image is split into a plurality of blocks of various sizes and a subdivision level counter is associated to each of the blocks. The value of this subdivision level counter for a block is representative of the size of the block and is used to determine the quantization parameter for the block. The value is propagated for each subdivision and incremented according the type of the subdivision. When the image is split, an analysis is done according to the subdivision level counter, a maximal value of subdivision and the type of split, in order to determine the start of a new quantization group and when it is the case, the current position of the partition is propagated to the further split partitions to be stored with these partition and serve in the prediction process when decoding. |
| US11936866B2 |
Method and data processing system for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding
A method for lossy video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input video at a first computer system; encoding an input frame of the input video to produce a latent representation; producing a quantized latent; producing a hyper-latent representation; producing a quantized hyper-latent; entropy encoding the quantized latent; transmitting the entropy encoded quantized latent and the quantized hyper-latent to a second computer system; decoding the quantized hyper-latent to produce a set of context variables, wherein the set of context variables comprise a temporal context variable; entropy decoding the entropy encoded quantized latent using the set of context variables to obtain an output quantized latent; and decoding the output quantized latent to produce an output frame, wherein the output frame is an approximation of the input frame. |
| US11936865B2 |
Low frequency non-separable transform signaling in video coding
Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. A method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the video block uses a low frequency non-separable transform for the conversion, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule that specifies that a syntax element is included at a syntax level for the bitstream, wherein the syntax element is indicative of whether use of a scaling matrix which is derived from a reference scaling list is enabled for the video block, and wherein the syntax level is a sequence level, a picture level, or a slice level. |
| US11936858B1 |
Constrained position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC)
A second level intra prediction mode can be combined with one or more of sixty-seven JVET intra prediction modes during encoding of a coding unit in a video bitstream. Embodiments include making a position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) mode available as the second level intra prediction mode. In embodiments, when a PDPC (position dependent intra prediction combination) mode is enabled, the second level intra prediction is combined with one of the 67 selected intra predictor modes. In embodiments, the PDPC mode is only enabled or available for a predetermined subset of intra prediction modes (out of 67 possible modes), in order to reduce encoder complexity and potentially improve coding efficiency. The PDPC mode may be identifies as enabled or available by a list of modes or signaling in the video bitstream. |
| US11936855B2 |
Alternative interpolation filters in video coding
A method of video processing is provided to include: deciding a coding mode used for representing a current video block of a video in a coded representation of the video; and coding the current video block into the coded representation according to the coding mode, wherein use of alternative half-pel accuracy filters in addition to a default half-pel accuracy filter for representing motion information is disabled for the current video block due to use of the coding mode. |
| US11936853B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus and recording medium for storing bitstream
The present invention relates to an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of coding units, constructing a coding unit group including at least one coding unit of the plurality of coding units, obtaining coding information in units of one coding unit group, and decoding at least one coding unit of the plurality of coding units included in the coding unit group by using the obtained coding information. |