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| US11962108B2 |
Anti-electric shock mechanism for a power converter
The present invention discloses an anti-electric shock mechanism for a power converter comprising a protective tube provided in the power converter and further comprising a locking guide block provided in the power converter, and a protective holder for mounting the protective tube, wherein a locking groove is formed on the protective holder, and a locking part inserted into the locking groove is provided on the locking guide block. The anti-electric shock mechanism for the power converter provided by the present invention can prevent the risk of electric leakage and electric shock when the power converter is used, whether the protective tube has not been pulled out, is partially pulled out or has been completely pulled out, so as to improve the safety of the power converter. |
| US11962107B2 |
Electrical connector assembly with plug and cavity assembly and method of ultrasonically welding
An assembly includes a plug at least partially disposed in a cavity of a connector at a front end of the connector. The plug ultrasonically welded to the connector in a configuration. The plug includes an inset portion and a recess formed within the inset portion. The inset portion extends axially into a body of the plug. The recess has a first closed surface forming an outer surface and configured to engage with a tool for aligning the plug with the cavity. The plug encloses the cavity with a second closed surface, such that the cavity is free from receiving a terminal or an electrical wire in the configuration. |
| US11962105B2 |
Coupling method and robot system
A coupling method of coupling a flexible flat cable to a connector by a robot, includes a preparation step of preparing the connector having an insertion hole into which the flat cable is inserted and a seat having an introduction surface placed at a front side of the insertion hole and continuously coupled to the insertion hole, a first moving step of gripping the flat cable and moving the flat cable to a position facing the seat; and a pressing step of bringing the flat cable into contact with the introduction surface in a posture inclined relative to the seat with an end of the flat cable facing the insertion hole side and pressing the flat cable against the introduction surface, and moving the end toward the connector side. |
| US11962103B2 |
Cable connection structure, endoscope, and method of manufacturing cable connection structure
A cable connection structure includes: cables, each including a jacket and a core wire exposed at an end portion by removing the jacket; a first fixing member configured to fix distal end portions of exposed core wires while holding the cables at predetermined intervals; a second fixing member configured to fix proximal end portions of the exposed core wires while holding the cables at predetermined intervals; and a substrate including a core wire connection electrode configured to electrically connect the core wire at a position between the first fixing member and the second fixing member, wherein the first fixing member and the second fixing member are different members. |
| US11962101B2 |
Electronic devices with dielectric resonator antennas having non-planar sidewalls
An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array that radiates at a frequency greater than 10 GHz. The array may include a dielectric resonator antenna having a dielectric column with non-planar sidewalls that include planar portions and corrugated portions with grooves and ridges, that include sidewall steps, and/or that include angled sidewall portions. The dielectric resonator antenna may include a first dielectric column and a second dielectric column stacked on the first dielectric column. The second column may be narrower and may have a higher dielectric constant than the first column or may have the same width but a lower dielectric constant than the first column. This may serve to broaden the bandwidth of the dielectric resonator antenna relative to scenarios where the dielectric resonator antenna includes only a single dielectric resonating element having only planar sidewalls. |
| US11962100B2 |
Dual-band antenna module
A dual-band antenna module includes a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure. The first antenna structure includes a first insulating substrate, a conductive metal layer, a plurality of grounding supports, and a first feeding pin. The second antenna structure includes a second insulating substrate, a top metal layer, a bottom metal layer, and a second feeding pin. The conductive metal layer is disposed on the first insulating substrate. The grounding supports are configured for supporting the first insulating substrate. The second insulating substrate is disposed above the first insulating substrate. The top metal layer and the bottom metal layer are respectively disposed on a top side and a bottom side of the second insulating substrate. The first frequency band signal transmitted or received by the first antenna structure is smaller than the second frequency band signal transmitted or received by the second antenna structure. |
| US11962098B2 |
Wireless communications using multiple antenna arrays and a lens array
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may be configured to include an array of lenses along with multiple antenna arrays that each include a set of antenna elements. The antenna arrays may each support multiple beam directions, such as a respective beam direction for each lens of the array of lenses. If beams for multiple antenna arrays concurrently pass through the same lens, the lens may contribute to maintaining separation between the beams. Lenses may also contribute to the shaping of beams, and the use of multiple lenses may enhance a coverage area for beams transmitted or received by the antenna arrays. |
| US11962094B2 |
Transmitarray antenna cell
The present description concerns a polarization cell (109) comprising a rectangular conductive plane having an off-centered opening, a terminal of application of an input signal located inside of the opening, a first switching element coupling the terminal to a first region of the conductive plane located in the vicinity of a first corner of the conductive plane and a second switching element coupling the terminal to a second region of the conductive plane located in the vicinity of a second corner of the conductive plane, the first and second corners being coupled by a same side of the conductive plane. |
| US11962093B2 |
Electronic device including antenna
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include a first camera and a second camera, a communication circuit, a display, a rear plate disposed opposite to the display, an opening formed in a partial region of the rear plate including a first region in which the first camera and the second camera are disposed, and a second region configured to extend from at least a part of the first region, a first patch antenna disposed inside the first region and disposed adjacent to the second camera, and a second patch antenna disposed inside the second region and a third patch antenna disposed to be aligned with the second patch antenna in a first direction. The first patch antenna, the second patch antenna, and the third patch antenna may be arranged to be non-aligned. Other embodiments in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein may also be possible. |
| US11962087B2 |
Radar antenna system comprising an air waveguide antenna having a single layer material with air channels therein which is interfaced with a circuit board
This document describes a single-layer air waveguide antenna integrated on a circuit board. The waveguide guides electromagnetic energy through channels filled with air. It is formed from a single layer of material, such as a sheet of metal, metal-coated plastic, or other material with conductive surfaces that is attached to a circuit board. A portion of a surface of the circuit board is configured as a floor of the channels filled with air. This floor is an electrical interface between the circuit board and the channels filled with air. The single layer of material is positioned atop this electrical interface to define walls and a ceiling of the channels filled with air. The single layer of material can be secured to the circuit board in various ways. The cost of integrating an air waveguide antenna on to a circuit board this way may be less expensive than other waveguide-manufacturing techniques. |
| US11962083B2 |
Radar sensor with radome having trenches for reducing coupling between transmit and receive antennas
A radar sensor module includes a substrate, at least one transmit antenna formed on a surface of the substrate, and at least one receive antenna formed on the surface of the substrate. A radome is disposed over the surface of the substrate and the at least one transmit antenna and the at least one receive antenna, such that a gap is located between the surface of the substrate and an underside of the radome in which a portion of radiation emitted from the at least one transmit antenna can propagate. At least one trench is formed in the underside of the radome and is electromagnetically coupled to the gap, the at least one trench being sized, shaped and positioned with respect to the gap such that the portion of radiation emitted from the at least one transmit antenna is substantially prevented from propagating toward the receiving antenna. |
| US11962082B2 |
Multifunctional GNSS antenna
Disclosed is a multifunctional GNSS antenna belonging to the technical field of communication technology, comprising: a PCB, a first dielectric plate, and a first radiating component arranged in sequence, wherein the PCB is connected with the first radiating component by a first feeding component, a second radiating component and a plurality of metalized vias are arranged on the first dielectric plate, the second radiating component is connected with the PCB by a second feeding component, the plurality of metalized vias are arranged around the first radiating component, and the second radiating component is arranged on an outer side of the plurality of metalized vias. The metalized vias increase the capacitive coupling and form the protection for the first radiating component located therein, which reduces the signal interference and coupling of the third radiating component to the first radiating component effectively, which is conducive to implementation miniaturization of the antenna. |
| US11962079B1 |
Radio frequency signals detection systems
The embodiments include an array in intimate adjacent contact with a substrate foundation. The array has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) witness films overlain on the substrate foundation. Each RF witness film is a unit cell defined in a three-dimensional coordinate frame of reference, and is centered at an origin of the three-dimensional coordinate frame of reference. Each RF witness film in the plurality of RF witness films is equally-spaced from adjacent RF witness films. |
| US11962078B2 |
Phase modulated antenna with a liquid crystal layer
An electronic device includes a plurality of antenna units and a circuit. At least one of the antenna units includes a first electrode, a phase modulation electrode, and a liquid crystal layer located between the first electrode and the phase-shift electrode. The circuit provides a first AC signal directly to the phase modulation electrode, and it provides a second AC signal indirectly to the phase-shift electrode. |
| US11962060B2 |
Resonance body and power dividing and combining device
A power dividing and combining device comprising a resonance body, a plurality of circuit boards, an upper cover and a lower cover is provided. The resonance body comprises a solid conductive body, a plurality of first dividing elements, a plurality of second dividing elements, a signal-receiving end and a signal-transmitting end. The solid conductive body has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface. The first dividing elements are disposed on the first surface and separate a plurality of first resonance channels on the first surface. The first resonance channels intersect at a first common region on the first surface. The second dividing elements are disposed on the second surface and separate a plurality of second resonance channels on the second surface. The second resonance channels intersect at a second common region on the second surface. The signal-receiving end is disposed on the first surface and in the first common region. The signal-transmitting end is disposed on the second surface and in the second common region. The circuit boards are disposed respectively on the side surfaces. Two opposite ends of each of the circuit boards respectively close one of the first resonance channels and one of the second resonance channels. Each of the circuit boards comprises a power-amplifying element. The upper cover is disposed on the first dividing elements. The first resonance channels are located in a first accommodating space formed by the upper cover, the circuit boards and the first surface of the solid conductive body. The lower cover is disposed on the second dividing elements. The second resonance channels are located in a second accommodating space formed by the lower cover, the circuit boards and the second surface of the solid conductive body. |
| US11962059B2 |
Method of operating an N-way power combiner network and an N-way power combiner network
Method of operating a power combiner network (1), the power combiner network (1) comprising a power combiner device (10) having N secondary ports (11(1, 2, N)) combining into one primary port (12), wherein respective N secondary port (11(1, 2, . . . , N)) is provided with a phase shifter arrangement (13) and a load control arrangement (14). Respective phase shifter arrangement (13) is configured to set a phase of a signal fed through respective N secondary port (11(1, 2, . . . , N)). Respective load control arrangement (14) is configured to set the N secondary ports (11(1, 2, . . . , N)) in an active or in an inactive operation mode. For I inactive secondary ports (11(1)) the load control arrangement (14) is further configured to set a phase of the signal reflected from the I inactive secondary ports (11(1)). The method comprises the method steps of; step A (100), selecting which of the N secondary ports (11(1, 2, . . . , N)) that should be set in an inactive operation mode and which of the N secondary ports (11(1, 2, . . . , N)) that should be set in an active operation mode, step B (110), setting selected I inactive secondary ports (11(1)) in an inactive operation mode by means of the load control arrangement (14), step C (120), retrieving a phase required for respective I inactive secondary port (11(1)) and retrieving a phase required for respective A active secondary port (11(2)) in order for respective A active secondary port (11(2)) to minimize the reflected signal from the power combiner device (10) and provide desired power to the primary port (12), step D (130), setting respective load control arrangement (14) for respective I inactive secondary port (11(1)) according to respective retrieved phase, and step E (140), setting respective phase shifter arrangement (13) for respective A active secondary port (11(2)) according to respective retrieved phase. |
| US11962056B2 |
Enhanced bandwidth interconnect
An enhanced bandwidth interconnect circuit. In some embodiments the circuit includes a two-terminal device and a network for forming a connection to the two-terminal device. The network may include a first set of coupled transmission lines and a second set of coupled transmission lines. A second end of the first set of coupled transmission lines may be connected to a first end of the second set of coupled transmission lines, and a second end of the second set of coupled transmission lines may be connected to the two-terminal device. |
| US11962054B2 |
Phase shifter and antenna
The present disclosure provides a phase shifter and an antenna. The phase shifter includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a signal transmission structure between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the signal transmission structure is configured to transmit a microwave signal; a phase shifting structure between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the phase shifting structure is configured to adjust a phase of the microwave signal; wherein the signal transmission structure includes a connection structure on the signal transmission structure; the signal transmission structure is connected to the phase shifting structure through the connection structure; the phase shifter further includes: an isolation structure between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein the isolation structure is on the connection structure and separates a dielectric layer of the signal transmission structure from a dielectric layer in the phase shifting structure. |
| US11962053B2 |
Rotary joint with dielectric waveguide
A contactless datalink for transmission of data between a rotatable part and a stationary part, including a dielectric waveguide split into two sections. A first dielectric waveguide section is at the rotatable part and a second dielectric waveguide section is at the stationary part. The first dielectric waveguide section is coupled to a transmitter and the second dielectric waveguide section is coupled to a receiver. |
| US11962052B2 |
Fuel cell module and power generation system
A fuel cell module comprises: at least one cell stack including a plurality of single fuel cells supplied with a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas to generate power; a sealable housing accommodating the at least one cell stack and forming a power generation chamber inside the housing; a pressure vessel accommodating the housing; and an oxidizing gas supply pipe for supplying the oxidizing gas to the cell stack. At least one pressure equalizing opening is formed in the housing to allow communication between inside and outside of the housing. The at least one pressure equalizing opening includes only one pressure equalizing opening, or a plurality of pressure equalizing openings in which a distance between a pressure equalizing opening in the highest position and a pressure equalizing opening in the lowest position is within 0.1H, where H is a height of the housing. |
| US11962048B2 |
Fuel cell system with improved low temperature operation
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack and a control device that controls operation of the fuel cell system based on a measured voltage value measured by a voltage sensor. When the fuel cell system is started and a value measured by a temperature sensor is equal to or less than a temperature determined in advance, the control device raises the voltage of the fuel cell stack until a voltage condition determined in advance is met, by supplying a cathode with an oxidant gas before current sweep is started. The control device sets a voltage command value and a current command value such that an operation point of the fuel cell stack is on an equal power line of the fuel cell stack when the operation point is caused to transition in at least a part of a transition period. |
| US11962037B2 |
Hybrid proton exchange membrane
The present application relates to a proton exchange membrane for fuel cell, said membrane having self-regenerating properties, to cells comprising said membranes, and to the manufacturing method thereof via electrospinning. |
| US11962030B2 |
Integrated energy storage system
An integrated, unitary battery pack may be formed and used as part of the structural support for a vehicle frame. The unitary battery pack includes arrays cells having all positive and negative electrical terminals aligned in-plane on a common face of the product assembly. The unitary battery pack includes cooling components for passively or actively cooling the cell arrays. The unitary battery pack is encased in a potting material that allows that forms part of the structure support for the unitary battery pack. The unitary batter pack may be integrated into the vehicle with or without additional support structures. |
| US11962029B2 |
Battery pack, assembly process of battery pack and vehicle
The disclosure relates to a technical field of batteries, and in particular, relates to a battery pack, an assembly process thereof, and a vehicle. The battery pack includes a battery compartment configured for accommodating a plurality of batteries, and a side wall of the battery compartment is a blocking beam. The assembly process includes the following: arranging at least two adjacent side walls of the battery compartment excluding the blocking beam at a first predetermined position to form an accommodating space; arranging the batteries in the accommodating space; and arranging the blocking beam at a second predetermined position to limit the batteries. |
| US11962028B2 |
Device for securing a replaceable vehicle battery
A device for securing a replaceable vehicle battery having a protruding positive terminal and a protruding negative terminal, including a substrate defining a first side and a second side, a first receiving port extending through the substrate, a second receiving port extending through the substrate, and first and second spring-biased clamps mounted on the second side of the substrate, wherein the first receiving port and second receiving port are positioned and dimensioned to receive the positive and negative terminals through the first side of the substrate, whereby the first and second spring-biased clamps respectively engage the positive and negative terminals on the second side of the substrate. |
| US11962027B2 |
Battery, power consumption device, method for producing battery
The present application provides a battery including a box body, which includes a first wall and a second wall which is connected to the first wall and extends upward, and a battery module which is arranged in the box body and located above the first wall, the battery module includes a battery cell arrangement structure including a plurality of battery cells stacked along a first direction, and an end plate which is arranged between the second wall and the battery cell arrangement structure, and the end plate is fixedly connected to the battery cell arrangement structure, where a restraint surface is arranged on the second wall, the restraint surface is used to abut against the end plate to restrict the end plate from moving upward, and the end plate is configured to move towards the second wall when the battery cell arrangement structure expands to provide expansion space. |
| US11962026B2 |
Power supply device and vehicle equipped therewith
Power supply device includes: a plurality of secondary battery cells each constituted by closing an open end of quadrangular exterior can opened at one end, with sealing plate; insulating separator interposed between adjacent secondary battery cells; one pair of end plates covering both end faces of battery stack constituted by stacking the plurality of secondary battery cells; and a plurality of fastening members fastening end plates together. Power supply device is configured such that within a region where separator is in contact with secondary battery cell, separator is made less easily deformable in a region on the side of sealing plate than other regions. As a result, a portion of separator in contact with the side of sealing plate is made not to easily deform, and therefore, when secondary battery cell expands, a joint portion between sealing plate and exterior can is protected, and meanwhile, exterior can is allowed to deform at other portions, and thereby, the deformation during expansion can be mitigated. |
| US11962012B2 |
Method of producing negative electrode, negative electrode, and lithium-ion secondary battery
A method of producing a negative electrode includes at least the following (A) to (C): (A) mixing powder consisting of lithium titanate oxide particles, a binder, and a solvent to prepare a particle-dispersed liquid; (B) granulating powder consisting of graphite-based particles by using the particle-dispersed liquid to prepare wet granules; and (C) forming the wet granules into a negative electrode composite material layer to produce a negative electrode. The negative electrode composite material layer is formed so as to include the lithium titanate oxide particles in an amount not lower than 2 mass % and not higher than 15 mass % of the total amount of the graphite-based particles and the lithium titanate oxide particles. |
| US11962010B2 |
Binder aqueous solution for lithium-ion battery electrode, slurry for lithium-ion battery electrode, lithium-ion battery electrode, and lithium-ion battery
Provided are a binder aqueous solution for a lithium-ion battery electrode, a slurry for a lithium-ion battery electrode, a lithium-ion battery electrode, and a lithium-ion battery. The binder aqueous solution for a lithium-ion battery electrode contains a water-soluble polymer (A). The water-soluble polymer (A) is a polymer of a monomer group containing, with respect to 100 mol % of the monomer group, 5 mol % to 80 mol % of a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl ether (a). In one embodiment, the monomer group contains 20 mol % to 95 mol % of a (meth)acrylamide group-containing compound (b). |
| US11962008B2 |
Lead-based alloy and related processes and products
A lead-based alloy containing alloying additions of bismuth, antimony, arsenic, and tin is used for the production of doped leady oxides, lead-acid battery active materials, lead-acid battery electrodes, and lead-acid batteries. |
| US11962006B2 |
Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same
A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a lithium composite oxide particle that contains lithium and transition metals including an excess amount of nickel. The lithium composite oxide particle satisfies a predetermined XRD peak area relation. A lithium secondary battery using the cathode active material and providing improved stability and durability is provided. |
| US11962004B2 |
Synthesized, surface-functionalized, acidified metal oxide materials for energy storage, catalytic, photovoltaic and sensor applications
An acidified metal oxide (“AMO”) material, preferably in monodisperse nanoparticulate form 20 nm or less in size, having a pH<7 when suspended in a 5 wt % aqueous solution and a Hammett function H0>−12, at least on its surface. The AMO material is useful in applications such as a battery electrode, catalyst, or photovoltaic component. |
| US11961997B2 |
Negative electrode active material, mixed negative electrode active material, aqueous negative electrode slurry composition, and method for producing negative electrode active material
A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing negative electrode active material particles, including silicon compound particles each containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6) and at least one or more of Li2SiO3 and Li2Si2O5, the material includes a phosphate, the negative electrode active material particles each have a surface containing lithium element, and a ratio mp/ml satisfies 0.02≤mp/ml≤3, where ml represents a molar quantity of the lithium element and contained per unit mass of the particles, and mp represents a molar quantity of phosphorus element contained per unit mass of the particles. Thereby, a negative electrode active material is capable of stabilizing an aqueous negative electrode slurry prepared in producing a negative electrode of a secondary battery, and capable of improving initial charge-discharge characteristics when the negative electrode active material is used for a secondary battery. |
| US11961990B2 |
Systems and methods for infusion mixing a slurry-based electrode
Embodiments described in this application relate generally to a system, an apparatus and/or methods for manufacturing electrodes by infusion electrolyte into compacted electrode materials. In some embodiments, a working electrode materials can be produced using an infusion mixing and manufacturing process. In some embodiments, a single-sided finished electrode can be produced directly from a dry powder mixture using an infusion mixing and manufacturing process. In some embodiments, a double-sided finished electrode can be produced directly from a dry powder mixture using an infusion mixing and manufacturing process. The electrodes produced by an infusion mixing and manufacturing process generally perform better than those produced by non-infusion processes. |
| US11961987B2 |
Battery modules with casted module enclosures and methods of fabricating thereof
Described herein are battery modules and methods of fabricating thereof. In some examples, a battery module comprises an enclosure, separated into two enclosure portions and a thermal portion, positioned between the two enclosure portions. Two enclosure portions are in part defined by side walls, which can be tapered. The thermal portion comprises two thermal walls, which are operable as the bottoms of the two enclosure portions and form a thermal cavity between these thermal walls. In some examples, the enclosure is a monolithically cast component. Alternatively, the enclosure can be partially cast with one thermal wall welded thereafter to a cast subassembly. The battery module also comprises two sets of batteries, each positioned into a corresponding enclosure portion. Each battery set is interconnected with an interconnecting assembly, positioned between the battery set and the corresponding cover, for this enclosure portion. |
| US11961984B2 |
Subsystem thermal transfer for working machine
A working machine includes an auxiliary system carried by the working machine, one or more batteries and an onboard thermal transfer system. The one or more batteries power an electrical system of the working machine. The onboard thermal transfer system utilizes a coolant configured to remove at least a portion of heat generated by the one or more batteries during charging or discharging of the one or more batteries and using the coolant heated by the thermal transfer system to heat the auxiliary system. |
| US11961983B2 |
Battery module, battery pack including battery module, and vehicle including battery pack
Disclosed is a battery module, which includes: a battery cell assembly having at least one battery cell; a module case configured to accommodate the battery cell assembly; and at least one injection hole provided in a bottom portion of the module case to inject a thermally conductive adhesive into the module case. |
| US11961982B2 |
Electric or hybrid motor-vehicle with cooling system for cooling removable battery modules
An electric or hybrid motor-vehicle having a modular battery system having at least one fixed battery module and at least one removable battery module is provided. The removable battery module has an outer casing that receives a first thermally conductive plate and at least one rechargeable battery pack, placed in contact with the first thermally conductive plate. An internal circuit extending inside the first thermally conductive plate is filled with a heat transfer fluid. A second thermally conductive plate is fluidly connected to the internal circuit so as to be flowed through by the heat transfer fluid flowing in the internal circuit and is arranged with an outer face thereof outside the outer casing to be placed in contact with a direct expansion plate of an auxiliary cooling circuit installed on the electric or hybrid motor-vehicle. |
| US11961980B2 |
Lithium ion battery scrap treatment method
The present invention relates to a method for treating lithium ion battery scrap containing Li, Ni, Co, Mn, Al, Cu and Fe, the method comprising carrying out a calcination step, a crushing step and a sieving step in this order, and after the steps, the method comprising: a leaching step of leaching the lithium ion battery scrap by adding it to an acidic solution to leave at least a part of Cu as a solid; a Fe/Al removal step comprising allowing a leached solution obtained in the leaching step to pass through a Fe removal process for separating and removing Fe by addition of an oxidizing agent and an Al removal process for separating and removing a part of Al by neutralization in any order; an Al/Mn extraction step of extracting and removing a residue of Al and Mn from a separated solution obtained in the Fe/Al removal step by solvent extraction; a Co recovery step of extracting and back-extracting Co from a first extracted solution obtained in the Al/Mn extraction step by solvent extraction and recovering the Co by electrolytic winning; a Ni recovery step of extracting and back-extracting, by solvent extraction, a part of Ni from a second extracted solution obtained by the solvent extraction in the Co recovery step and recovering the Ni by electrolytic winning; a Li concentration step of extracting and back-extracting, by solvent extraction, a residue of Ni and Li from a third extracted solution obtained by the solvent extraction in the Ni recovery step and repeating the operations of the extracting and the back-extracting to concentrate Li; and a Li recovery step of carbonating Li in a Li concentrated solution obtained in the Li concentration step to recover the Li as lithium carbonate. |
| US11961977B2 |
Battery management system
A battery management system for use in charging a rechargeable battery is disclosed. The battery management system comprises a controller powered by a first power supply, at least one sensor for providing a sensor signal relating to at least one parameter of the rechargeable battery to the controller, and a data store. The controller is configured to write data to the data store based on the sensor signal. The data store is coupled to a data reader. The data reader is operable to be powered by an auxiliary power supply to read data held by the data store. |
| US11961971B2 |
Production method for all-solid-state battery
Provided is a production method for an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte layer between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, the production method including: coating or impregnating the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer with a solid electrolyte solution in which a boron hydride compound serving as the solid electrolyte has been dissolved in a solvent; and removing the solvent from the coated or impregnated solid electrolyte solution and causing the solid electrolyte to precipitate on the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer. |
| US11961967B2 |
Silicon-based energy storage devices with phosphorus containing electrolyte additives
Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising phosphorus based compounds are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte comprising at least two electrolyte co-solvents, wherein at least one electrolyte co-solvent comprises a phosphorus based compound. |
| US11961964B2 |
Method of producing lithium-ion secondary battery, lithium-ion secondary battery, and method of using zwitterionic compound
A method of producing a lithium-ion secondary battery includes the following (α) and (β): (α) preparing a lithium-ion secondary battery, the lithium-ion secondary battery including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution; and (β) adding a zwitterionic compound to the electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes at least a negative electrode active material and a film. The film is formed on a surface of the negative electrode active material. The film contains a lithium compound. The zwitterionic compound contains a phosphonium cation or an ammonium cation and a carboxylate anion in one molecule. |
| US11961948B2 |
Optical semiconductor device
An optical semiconductor device includes: a mesa that is provided on a surface in a <011> direction of a semiconductor substrate having a (100) plane orientation and being of a first conductivity type, and includes a first cladding layer of the first conductivity type, an active layer, and a second cladding layer of a second conductivity type; a semi-insulating buried layer that buries both sides of the mesa, is provided on the semiconductor substrate, and includes a first region and a second region farther from the mesa than the first region; an insulation film provided on the first and second regions of the buried layer; and an electrode provided on the mesa and the insulation film on the first region; wherein a surface of the first region is at a height equal to or lower than a surface of the mesa, and lowers at farther distances from the mesa. |
| US11961947B2 |
Substrate for manufacturing display device, display device and manufacturing method thereof
Disclosed herein is a transfer substrate used for manufacturing a display device using a light emitting semiconductor device. The transfer substrate include a base substrate, and a divided unit phosphor structure arranged on the base substrate and transferred onto the light emitting semiconductor device. |
| US11961943B2 |
Light emitting semiconductor device for enhancing light extraction efficiency
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer; a first electrode provided on a first surface of the first semiconductor layer; a second electrode provided on a first surface of the second semiconductor layer, the active layer being provided between the first surface of the first semiconductor layer and a second surface of the second semiconductor layer that is opposite to the first surface of the second semiconductor layer; a first insulation layer provided on the first surface of the first semiconductor layer, the first surface of the second semiconductor layer, and a side surface of the active layer; a first cover electrode provided on the first electrode; a second cover electrode provided on the second electrode, a second insulation layer provided on the first cover electrode, the second cover electrode, and the first insulation layer, wherein: the second insulation layer includes a first opening over the first cover electrode and a second opening over the second cover electrode, and a plan view of the semiconductor includes a light emitting region that includes a surface of the second cover electrode in the second opening of the second insulation layer, and a non-light emitting region that includes a surface of the first cover electrode in the second opening of the first insulation layer, and a first area of the non-light emitting region is smaller than a second area of the light emitting region. |
| US11961940B2 |
Optoelectronic device with PN junction and trench gate
The present description concerns an optoelectronic device (300) including: a vertical stack of first (101) and second (105) semiconductor layers forming a PN junction, and of a third conductive layer (107) arranged on top of and in contact with the surface of the second layer opposite to the first layer; a peripheral trench (110) crossing the third (107) and second (105) layers, said trench laterally delimiting a portion of the third layer (107) and a portion of the second layer (105); in said trench (110), a conductive spacer (301) in contact with a lateral side of said portion of the third layer (107); and in said trench (110), an insulated conductive gate (113, 111) extending against a lateral side of the conductive spacer (301) and against a lateral side of said portion of the second layer. |
| US11961939B2 |
Method of manufacturing a light-emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, including: providing a substrate structure including a top surface; forming a precursor layer on the top surface; removing a portion of the precursor layer and a portion of the substrate from the top surface to form a base portion and a plurality of protrusions regularly arranged on the base portion; forming a buffer layer on the base portion and the plurality protrusions; and forming a III-V compound cap layer on the buffer layer; wherein one of the plurality of protrusions comprises a first portion and a second portion formed on the first portion; wherein the first portion is integrated with the base portion and has a first material which is the same as that of the base portion; and wherein the buffer layer contacts side surfaces of the plurality of protrusions and a surface of the base portion. |
| US11961930B2 |
Crystalline silicon solar cell and preparation method therefor, and photovoltaic assembly
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of solar cells, and relates to a crystalline silicon solar cell and a preparation method thereof, and a photovoltaic assembly. The crystalline silicon solar cell includes a crystalline silicon substrate, a passivation layer that is disposed on the crystalline silicon substrate and that is provided with through holes, a carrier collection layer that is disposed on the passivation layer, and electrodes that contact the carrier collection layer; the carrier collection layer contacts the crystalline silicon substrate by means of the through holes on the passivation layer. In the described crystalline silicon solar cell, through holes are provided on the passivation layer, and the carrier collection layer contacts the crystalline silicon substrate by means of the through holes on the passivation layer. |
| US11961925B2 |
Engineered nanostructured passivated contacts and method of making the same
The present disclosure relates to a passivating contact that includes a dielectric layer constructed of a first material, an intervening layer constructed of a second material, and a substrate constructed of a semiconductor, where the dielectric layer is positioned between the substrate and the intervening layer, the dielectric layer has a first thickness, and the substrate has a second thickness. The passivating contact also includes a plurality of conductive pathways that include the second material and pass through the first thickness, the second material penetrates into the second thickness forming a plurality of penetrating regions within the substrate, and the plurality of conductive pathways are configured to allow current to pass through the first thickness. |
| US11961920B2 |
Integrated circuit package with magnet having a channel
An integrated circuit package and method of fabrication are described. The integrated circuit package includes a lead frame having a first surface and a second opposing surface and a semiconductor die having a first, active surface in which circuitry is disposed and a second opposing surface attached to the first surface of the lead frame. A magnet attached to the second surface of the lead frame has a non-contiguous central region and at least one channel extending laterally from the central region. An overmold material forms an enclosure surrounding the magnet, semiconductor die, and a portion of the lead frame. |
| US11961919B2 |
Nanostructure field-effect transistor device and method of forming
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a fin protruding above a substrate, where a top portion of the fin comprises a layer stack that includes alternating layers of a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material; forming a dummy gate structure over the fin; forming openings in the fin on opposing sides of the dummy gate structure; forming source/drain regions in the openings; removing the dummy gate structure to expose the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material under the dummy gate structure; performing a first etching process to selectively remove the exposed first semiconductor material, where after the first etching process, the exposed second semiconductor material form nanostructures, where each of the nanostructures has a first shape; and after the first etching process, performing a second etching process to reshape each of the nanostructures into a second shape different from the first shape. |
| US11961916B2 |
Memory device
A novel memory device is provided. The memory device includes a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction, a plurality of memory element groups, and an oxide layer extending along a side surface of the first wiring. Each of the memory element groups includes a plurality of memory elements. Each of the memory elements includes a first transistor and a capacitor. A gate electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring. The oxide layer includes a region in contact with a semiconductor layer of the first transistor. A second transistor is provided between the adjacent memory element groups. A high power supply potential is supplied to one or both of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor. |
| US11961915B2 |
Capacitance reduction for back-side power rail device
A semiconductor transistor device includes a channel structure, a gate structure, a first source/drain epitaxial structure, a second source/drain epitaxial structure, a gate contact, and a back-side source/drain contact. The gate structure wraps around the channel structure. The first source/drain epitaxial structure and the second source/drain epitaxial structure are disposed on opposite endings of the channel structure. The gate contact is disposed on the gate structure. The back-side source/drain contact is disposed under the first source/drain epitaxial structure. The first source/drain epitaxial structure has a concave bottom surface contacting the back-side source/drain contact. |
| US11961914B2 |
Integrated circuit devices and methods of manufacturing the same
Integrated circuit devices including a fin shaped active region and methods of forming the same are provided. The devices may include a fin shaped active region, a plurality of semiconductor patterns on the fin shaped active region, a gate electrode on the plurality of semiconductor patterns, and source/drain regions on opposing sides of the gate electrode, respectively. The gate electrode may include a main gate portion extending on an uppermost semiconductor pattern and a sub-gate portion extending between two adjacent ones of the plurality of semiconductor patterns. The sub-gate portion may include a sub-gate center portion and sub-gate edge portions. In a horizontal cross-sectional view, a first width of the sub-gate center portion in a first direction may be less than a second width of one of the sub-gate edge portions in the first direction. |
| US11961911B2 |
Semiconductor devices including channel regions having non-uniform Ge concentration
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a Fin FET, a fin structure, which has an upper fin structure made of SiGe and a bottom fin structure made of a different material than the upper fin structure, is formed, a cover layer is formed over the fin structure, a thermal operation is performed on the fin structure covered by the cover layer, and a source/drain epitaxial layer is formed in a source/drain region of the upper fin structure. The thermal operation changes a germanium distribution in the upper fin structure. |
| US11961910B2 |
Multi-metal lateral layer devices with internal bias generation
A ferroelectric capacitor or a ferroelectric transistor may include a first metal layer having a first metal having a first work function, and a second metal layer having a second metal having a second work function. The capacitor may also include a a vertical electrode and a ferroelectric material that surrounds the vertical electrode and forms a plurality of switching regions in the ferroelectric material. The transistor may include a vertical channel, a vertical buffer layer that surround the vertical channel, and a ferroelectric material that surrounds the vertical buffer layer and forms a plurality of gate regions in the ferroelectric material. |
| US11961907B2 |
Laterally-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor transistor and method therefor
A transistor includes a trench formed in a semiconductor substrate. A conductive spacer is formed in the trench and offset from a first sidewall of the trench. A dielectric material is formed in the trench and surrounds the conductive spacer. A drift region is formed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the first sidewall and a first portion of a second sidewall of the trench. A drain region is formed in the drift region adjacent to a second portion of the second sidewall. A first gate region overlaps a portion of the drift region and is formed separate from the conductive spacer. |
| US11961906B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes first to third semiconductor regions, a structure body, a gate electrode, and a high resistance part. The structure body includes an insulating part and a conductive part. The insulating part is arranged with the third semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and a portion of the first semiconductor region. The conductive part is located in the insulating part. The conductive part includes a portion facing the first semiconductor region. The high resistance part is located in the first semiconductor region and has a higher electrical resistance than the first semiconductor region. A plurality of the structure bodies includes first to third structure bodies. The second and third structure bodies are next to the first structure body. The high resistance part overlaps a circle center of an imaginary circle passing through centers of the first to third structure bodies. |
| US11961901B2 |
Bipolar transistor structure with base protruding from emitter/collector and methods to form same
The disclosure provides a bipolar transistor structure with multiple bases, and related methods. A bipolar transistor structure includes a first emitter/collector (E/C) material above an insulator. The first E/C material has first sidewall and a second sidewall over the insulator. A first base is above the insulator adjacent the first sidewall of the first E/C material. A second base is above the insulator adjacent the second sidewall of the first E/C material. A second E/C material is above the insulator and adjacent the first base. A width of the first base between the first E/C material and the second E/C material is less than a width of the first E/C material, and the first base protrudes horizontally outward from an end of the first E/C material and an end of the second E/C material. |
| US11961898B2 |
Method of patterning two-dimensional material layer on substrate, and method of fabricating semiconductor device
A method of patterning a 2D material layer is includes selectively forming a first material layer on a surface of a substrate to form a first region in which the first material layer covers the surface of the substrate and to further form a second region in which the surface of the substrate is exposed from the first material layer, the first material layer having a strong adhesive force with a 2D material. The method further includes forming a 2D material layer is formed in both the first region and the second region. The method further includes selectively removing the 2D material layer from the second region based on using a physical removal method, such that the 2D material layer remains in the first region. |
| US11961897B2 |
Negative capacitance transistor with external ferroelectric structure
A first fin structure is disposed over a substrate. The first fin structure contains a semiconductor material. A gate dielectric layer is disposed over upper and side surfaces of the first fin structure. A gate electrode layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer. A second fin structure is disposed over the substrate. The second fin structure is physically separated from the first fin structure and contains a ferroelectric material. The second fin structure is electrically coupled to the gate electrode layer. |
| US11961889B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor channel layer, a semiconductor barrier layer, a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a dielectric layer. The semiconductor channel layer is disposed on the substrate, and the semiconductor barrier layer is disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The gate electrode is disposed on the semiconductor barrier layer. The first electrode is disposed at one side of the gate electrode. The first electrode includes a body portion and a vertical extension portion. The body portion is electrically connected to the semiconductor barrier layer, and the bottom surface of the vertical extension portion is lower than the top surface of the semiconductor channel layer. The dielectric layer is disposed between the vertical extension portion and the semiconductor channel layer. |
| US11961887B2 |
Semiconductor device having nanosheet transistor and methods of fabrication thereof
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The device includes a plurality of semiconductor layers and a gate electrode layer surrounding each semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The gate electrode layer includes a first part, and a second part below the first part, the second part comprises a first portion, wherein an exterior surface of the first portion has a first radius of curvature, and a second portion below the first portion, and a third portion below the second portion, wherein an exterior surface of the third portion having a second radius of curvature different than the first radius of curvature. |
| US11961885B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a base, a first FET that includes at least two channel structure portions laminated, the channel structure portions each including a channel portion having a nanowire structure, a gate insulation film, and a gate electrode, and a second FET that includes a channel forming layer, a gate insulation layer, and a gate electrode. The first FET and the second FET are provided above the base. The channel portions of the first FET are disposed apart from each other in a laminating direction of the channel structure portions. Assuming that each of a distance between the channel portions of the first FET is a distance L1 and that a thickness of the gate insulation layer of the second FET is a thickness T2, T2≥(L1/2) is satisfied. |
| US11961882B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a connection region, a pair of epitaxial patterns provided at the semiconductor substrate, a capacitor disposed between the pair of epitaxial patterns, a middle connection layer on the capacitor, an interconnection layer on the middle connection layer, and a through-via provided under the interconnection layer and penetrating the connection region of the semiconductor substrate. The capacitor includes an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate between the pair of epitaxial patterns, a metal electrode on the upper portion of the semiconductor substrate, and a dielectric pattern disposed between the upper portion of the semiconductor substrate and the metal electrode. The through-via is connected to the capacitor through the interconnection layer and the middle connection layer. |
| US11961879B2 |
IC including capacitor having segmented bottom plate
An IC includes a substrate including circuitry configured to provide a receiver or a transmitter circuit. A metal stack is over the semiconductor surface including a top metal layer and a plurality of lower metal layers. An isolation capacitor includes the top metal layer as a top plate that is electrically connected to a first node; and a top dielectric layer on the top plate with a top plate dielectric aperture. One of the plurality of lower metal layers provides a bottom plate that includes a plurality of spaced apart segments. A capacitor dielectric layer is between the top and bottom plate. The segments include a first segment electrically connected to a second node and at least a second segment electrically connected to a third node, with separation regions located between adjacent spaced apart segments. The top plate covers at least a portion of each of the separation regions. |
| US11961873B2 |
Light emitting device for display and display apparatus having the same
A light emitting device for a display according to an exemplary embodiment includes a first LED stack, a second LED stack located under the first LED stack, and a third LED stack located under the second LED stack. The light emitting device further includes a first bonding layer, a second bonding layer, a first planarization layer, a second planarization layer, lower buried vias, and upper buried vias. The first planarization layer is recessed inwardly to expose an edge of the second LED stack. |
| US11961868B2 |
Image sensor intended to be illuminated via a back side, and corresponding method for acquiring a light flux
A back side illuminated image sensor includes a pixel formed by three doped photosensitive regions that are superposed vertically in a semiconductor substrate. Each photosensitive region is laterally framed by a respective vertical annular gate. The vertical annular gates are biased by a control circuit during an integration phase so as to generate an electrostatic potential comprising potential wells in the central portion of the volume of each doped photosensitive region and a potential barrier at each interface between two neighboring doped photosensitive regions. |
| US11961861B2 |
Image pickup element, image pickup device, manufacturing device and method
There is provided an image pickup element including a non-planar layer having a non-planar light incident surface in a light receiving region, and a microlens of an inorganic material which is provided on a side of the light incident surface of the non-planar layer, and collects incident light. |
| US11961855B2 |
Image sensing device
An image sensing device includes a first subpixel block, a second subpixel block, a first conversion gain transistor, and a second conversion gain transistor. The first subpixel block includes a first floating diffusion region and a plurality of unit pixels sharing the first floating diffusion region. The second subpixel block includes a second floating diffusion region coupled to the first floating diffusion region and a plurality of unit pixels sharing the second floating diffusion region. The first conversion gain transistor includes a first impurity region coupled to the first and second floating diffusion regions and a second impurity region coupled to a first conversion gain capacitor. The second conversion gain transistor includes a third impurity region coupled to the second impurity region of the first conversion gain transistor and a fourth impurity region coupled to a second conversion gain capacitor. |
| US11961851B2 |
Laser apparatus and manufacturing method of display apparatus using the same
A laser apparatus includes a laser generator configured to generate a first laser beam proceeding along a first direction, and an inversion module configured to convert the first laser beam to a second laser beam proceeding along the first direction, the inversion module including a splitter configured to form a reflected laser beam by partially reflecting the first laser beam, and a transmitted laser beam by partially transmitting the first laser beam, and a prism configured to reflect the reflected laser beam. |
| US11961850B2 |
Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device
Provided is a display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a pixel unit disposed on the base substrate. The pixel unit includes a storage capacitor, the storage capacitor includes a first plate and a second plate facing each other, and a plate of the storage capacitor is a transparent plate. The pixel unit further includes an active layer and a source/drain pattern, which are disposed in two different layers. |
| US11961848B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method therefor, and display device
Disclosed are a display substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a substrate base, and an active layer, a gate insulating layer, a first metal film layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a second metal film layer, and a passivation layer stacked in sequence on the substrate base. The first metal film layer comprises a pattern of a gate and a gate line. The second metal film layer comprises a pattern of a source/drain and a data line. The gate line and the data line are partially arranged opposite to each other. An oxide metal layer is provided on the surface of the side of the region of the gate line opposite to the data line facing the data line. |
| US11961847B2 |
Display device
A display device includes pixels disposed in a display area and including first and second pixels that are adjacent to each other in a first direction, and a first integrated bank pattern disposed between the first and second pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are spaced apart from each other along the first direction in a light emitting area and extend in a second direction, a first bank pattern portion overlapping the first electrode, and a second bank pattern portion overlapping the second electrode. The first integrated bank pattern includes a second bank pattern portion disposed at the first pixel, a first bank pattern portion disposed at the second pixel, and a protrusion extending in the second direction in a boundary area between the first pixel and the second pixel. |
| US11961846B2 |
Array substrate and mother-board for array substrates
The application discloses an array substrate and a mother-board for array substrates. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area on a periphery of the display area. The non-display area is provided with an interface area. The array substrate includes: multiple signal lines extending in the display area and leading to the non-display area; multiple pads located in the interface Area, and each of the multiple pads is connected to a corresponding one of the multiple signal lines; and a short-circuiting component located in the non-display area, wherein the short-circuiting component is connected with the multiple pads, the multiple signal lines connected with the pads are short-circuited, and the short-circuiting component includes a patterned first metal structure. The array substrate according to embodiments of the present application can avoid problems caused by static electricity, such as, electrostatic damage or product defects. |
| US11961841B2 |
Display panel
A display panel provided in embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a substrate, at least one metal layer, a darkening layer, and a functional layer, wherein the at least one metal layer is disposed on the substrate, the darkening layer covers the at least one metal layer, and the functional layer covers the darkening layer. An adhesive force of a photoresist to the functional layer is greater than an adhesive force of the photoresist to the darkening layer, and an adhesive force of the functional layer to the darkening layer is greater than the adhesive force of the photoresist to the darkening layer. |
| US11961840B2 |
Semiconductor device having nanosheet transistor and methods of fabrication thereof
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The device includes one or more first semiconductor layers, each first semiconductor layer of the one or more first semiconductor layers is surrounded by a first intermixed layer, wherein the first intermixed layer comprises a first material and a second material. The device also includes a first gate electrode surrounding the first intermixed layer, one or more second semiconductor layers disposed below and aligned with the one or more first semiconductor layers, each second semiconductor layer of the one or more second semiconductor layers is surrounded by a second intermixed layer and a third intermixed layer, wherein the second intermixed layer comprises the first material and a fifth material, and the third intermixed layer comprises a third material and a sixth material, and wherein the second material is a dipole material having a first polarity, and the fifth material and the sixth material are a dipole material having a second polarity opposite of the first polarity. |
| US11961839B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including a substrate; a first active pattern on the substrate and extending in a first direction, an upper portion of the first active pattern including a first channel pattern; first source/drain patterns in recesses in an upper portion of the first channel pattern; and a gate electrode on the first active pattern and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, the gate electrode being on a top surface and on a side surface of the at least one first channel pattern, wherein each of the first source/drain patterns includes a first, second, and third semiconductor layer, which are sequentially provided in the recesses, each of the first channel pattern and the third semiconductor layers includes silicon-germanium (SiGe), and the first semiconductor layer has a germanium concentration higher than those of the first channel pattern and the second semiconductor layer. |
| US11961838B2 |
Fin end plug structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first isolation structure over a first end of a fin. A gate structure is over the fin and is spaced apart from the first isolation structure along the direction. A second isolation structure is over a second end of the fin, the second end opposite the first end. The second isolation structure is spaced apart from the gate structure. The first isolation structure and the second isolation structure both comprise a first dielectric material laterally surrounding a recessed second dielectric material distinct from the first dielectric material. The recessed second dielectric material laterally surrounds at least a portion of a third dielectric material different from the first and second dielectric materials. |
| US11961835B2 |
Transistor usage metering through bias temperature instability monitoring
A circuit for monitoring usage of an active field effect transistor (FET) includes the active FET and a reference FET, formed in a same structure as the active FET. The active FET and the reference FET both are pFET or both are nFET, and are stacked on each other at a common gate. The circuit also includes a differential current sense circuit (DCSC) and a plurality of switches for connecting terminals of the FETs to logic voltage, ground voltage, and/or the DCSC. The DCSC is configured to measure and compare currents through each of the active and reference FETs when a threshold voltage is applied to the common gate. |
| US11961829B2 |
Stacked light emitting diode (LED) hologram display
Embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatuses and method for a stacked light emitting diode (LED) hologram display. A stacked LED hologram display can include a first array of LEDs that are configured to emit red light received by a meta-optics panel configured to display a first portion of a holographic image, a second array of LEDs that are configured to emit green light received by a meta-optics panel configured to display a second portion of a holographic image, and a third array of LEDs that are configured to emit blue light received by a meta-optics panel configured to display a third portion of a holographic image. The stacked LED hologram display can include a number of actuators configured to adjust a position of a first array of LEDs in first direction and a second direction, adjust a position of a second array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction, and adjust a position of a third array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction. |
| US11961827B1 |
3D semiconductor device and structure with metal layers
A semiconductor device, the device including: a first substrate; a first metal layer disposed over the first substrate; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a first level including a plurality of transistors, the first level disposed over the second metal layer, where the plurality of transistors each include single crystal silicon; a third metal layer disposed over the first level; a fourth metal layer disposed over the third metal layer, where the fourth metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 200 nm alignment error; and a via disposed through the first level, where the via has a diameter of less than 450 nm, where the fourth metal layer provides a global power distribution, and where processing of the device includes use of a carrier wafer. |
| US11961826B2 |
Bonded wafer device structure and methods for making the same
Bonded wafer device structures, such as a wafer-on-wafer (WoW) structures, and methods of fabricating bonded wafer device structures, including an array of contact pads formed in an interconnect level of at least one wafer of the bonded wafer device structure. The array of contact pads formed in an interconnect level of at least one wafer may have an array pattern that corresponds to an array pattern of contact pads that is subsequently formed over a surface of the bonded wafer structure. The array of contact pads formed in an interconnect level of at least one wafer of the bonded wafer device structure may enable improved testing of individual wafers, including circuit probe testing, prior to the wafer being stacked and bonded to one or more additional wafers to form a bonded wafer structure. |
| US11961824B2 |
Semiconductor package including stacked chip structure
A semiconductor package includes; a package substrate including an upper surface with a bonding pad, a lower semiconductor chip disposed on the upper surface of the package substrate, wherein an upper surface of the lower semiconductor chip includes a connect edge region including a connection pad and an open edge region including a dam structure including dummy bumps, a bonding wire having a first height above the upper surface of the lower semiconductor chip and connecting the bonding pad and the connection pad, an upper semiconductor chip disposed on the upper surface of the lower semiconductor chip using an inter-chip bonding layer, and a molding portion on the package substrate and substantially surrounding the lower semiconductor chip and the upper semiconductor chip. |
| US11961822B2 |
Display device, and tiled display device including the display device
A display device includes a substrate including a plurality of emission areas respectively corresponding to a plurality of subpixels for displaying an image, a plurality of light emitting elements respectively located in the plurality of emission areas of a first surface of the substrate and respectively corresponding to the plurality of subpixels, a first planarization layer on the first surface of the substrate and covering the plurality of light emitting elements, and an array layer on the first planarization layer. |
| US11961821B2 |
Semiconductor device assemblies including multiple stacks of different semiconductor dies
A semiconductor device assembly is provided. The assembly comprises a package substrate, a first stack of semiconductor dies having a first set of planform dimensions disposed over a first location on the substrate, a second stack of semiconductor dies having a second set of planform dimensions different from the first set disposed over a second location on the substrate, and an encapsulant at least partially encapsulating the substrate, the first stack and the second stack. The first stack of semiconductor dies has a first planform area, the second stack of semiconductor dies has a second planform area, and a sum of the first and second planform areas can be at least 50%, 67%, 75% or even more of an area of the package substrate. |
| US11961817B2 |
Apparatus and method for forming a package structure
An apparatus for forming a package structure is provided. The apparatus includes a processing chamber for bonding a first package component and a second package component. The apparatus also includes a bonding head disposed in the processing chamber. The bonding head includes a plurality of vacuum tubes communicating with a plurality of vacuum devices. The apparatus further includes a nozzle connected to the bonding head and configured to hold the second package component. The nozzle includes a plurality of first holes that overlap the vacuum tubes. The nozzle also includes a plurality of second holes offset from the first holes, wherein the second holes overlap at least two edges of the second package component. In addition, the apparatus includes a chuck table disposed in the processing chamber, and the chuck table is configured to hold and heat the first package component. |
| US11961815B2 |
Sintered material, connection structure, composite particle, joining composition, and method for manufacturing sintered material
A sintered material excellent in thermal stress and bonding strength; a connection structure containing the sintered material; a composition for bonding with which the sintered material can be produced; and a method for producing the sintered material. The sintered material has a base portion, buffer portions, and filling portions. The buffer portions and filling portions are dispersed in the base portion. The base portion is a metal sintered body, each buffer portion is formed from a pore and/or material that is not the same as the sintered body, and each filling portion is formed from particles and/or fibers. The sintered material satisfies A>B. A is the kurtosis of volume distribution of the base portions in a three-dimensional image of the sintered material. B is the kurtosis of volume distribution of the base portions in a three-dimensional image of the sintered material from which the filling portions are removed. |
| US11961814B2 |
Integrated circuit package and method
In an embodiment, a device includes: a semiconductor device; and a redistribution structure including: a first dielectric layer; a first grounding feature on the first dielectric layer; a second grounding feature on the first dielectric layer; a first pair of transmission lines on the first dielectric layer, the first pair of transmission lines being laterally disposed between the first grounding feature and the second grounding feature, the first pair of transmission lines being electrically coupled to the semiconductor device; a second dielectric layer on the first grounding feature, the second grounding feature, and the first pair of transmission lines; and a third grounding feature extending laterally along and through the second dielectric layer, the third grounding feature being physically and electrically coupled to the first grounding feature and the second grounding feature, where the first pair of transmission lines extend continuously along a length of the third grounding feature. |
| US11961813B2 |
RF devices with enhanced performance and methods of forming the same
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer formed from a strained silicon epitaxial layer, in which a lattice constant is greater than 5.461 at a temperature of 300K. The first mold compound resides over the active layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die. |
| US11961812B2 |
Semiconductor packages having vias
A semiconductor package includes a lower redistribution layer including an insulating pattern having an opening and a via in the opening; a first semiconductor chip including a chip pad, a passivation layer, and a pad bump connected to the chip pad; and a first encapsulant on the lower redistribution layer and the first semiconductor chip. The opening defines a lower surface and a side surface of the pad bump, and the via is in physical contact with the lower surface and the side surface of the pad bump. |
| US11961811B2 |
Semiconductor structures and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor element and a first bonding structure. The semiconductor element has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first bonding structure is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the semiconductor element, and includes a first electrical connector, a first insulation layer surrounding the first electrical connector and a first conductive layer surrounding the first insulation layer. |
| US11961809B2 |
Antenna apparatus and method
A package structure includes a first die, a second die over and electrically connected to the first die, an insulating material around the second die, a first antenna extending through the insulating material and electrically connected to the second die, the first antenna being adjacent to a first sidewall of the second die, wherein the first antenna includes a first conductive plate extending through the insulating material, and a plurality of first conductive pillars extending through the insulating material, wherein the first conductive plate is between the plurality of first conductive pillars and the first sidewall of the second die. |
| US11961807B2 |
Semiconductor package
The present invention provides a semiconductor package, comprising: a support part; a semiconductor chip provided on the support part and including a plurality of signal pads; a buffer layer provided on the semiconductor chip; an adhesive layer provided on the buffer layer; a pressure-reducing layer provided on the adhesive layer; and a mold layer provided on the pressure-reducing layer. |
| US11961805B2 |
Devices and methods related to dual-sided radio-frequency package with overmold structure
A packaged radio-frequency device is disclosed, including a packaging substrate configured to receive one or more components, the packaging substrate including a first side and a second side. A shielded package may be implemented on the first side of the packaging substrate, the shielded package including a first circuit and a first overmold structure, the shielded package configured to provide radio-frequency shielding for at least a portion of the first circuit. A set of through-mold connections may be implemented on the second side of the packaging substrate, the set of through-mold connections defining a mounting volume on the second side of the packaging substrate. The device may include a component implemented within the mounting volume and a second overmold structure substantially encapsulating one or more of the component or the set of through-mold connections. |
| US11961800B2 |
Via for semiconductor device connection and methods of forming the same
A method for forming a via in a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device including the via are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include bonding a first terminal and a second terminal of a first substrate to a third terminal and a fourth terminal of a second substrate; separating the first substrate to form a first component device and a second component device; forming a gap fill material over the first component device, the second component device, and the second substrate; forming a conductive via extending from a top surface of the gap fill material to a fifth terminal of the second substrate; and forming a top terminal over a top surface of the first component device, the top terminal connecting the first component device to the fifth terminal of the second substrate through the conductive via. |
| US11961798B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for manufacturing semiconductor structure
A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes at least two electrode layers, and the electrode layers are parallel to each other and arranged in different layers. Adjacent electrode layers overlap with each other and have an overlapping area, a dielectric layer is arranged between the adjacent electrode layers, and an air gap is arranged in the dielectric layer located in the overlapping area. |
| US11961797B2 |
Semiconductor package and fabricating method thereof
A semiconductor device structure, for example a 3D structure, and a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various semiconductor package structures, and methods for manufacturing thereof, that comprise interposer, interlayer, and/or heat dissipater configurations that provide for low cost, increased manufacturability, and high reliability. |
| US11961792B2 |
Fan-out semiconductor package including under-bump metallurgy
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a support wiring structure including a support wiring conductive structure, a plurality of support wiring insulating layers including a first support wiring insulating layer having a recess area and a second support wiring insulating layer on the first support wiring insulating layer and enveloping the support wiring conductive structure, a pad layer enveloped by the second support wiring insulating layer and connected to the support wiring conductive structure, and an under-bump metallurgy (UBM) layer enveloped by the first support wiring insulating layer and connected to the pad layer; and a semiconductor chip on the support wiring structure, wherein the UBM layer includes a body portion and a protrusion protruding from the body portion and arranged in the recess area. |
| US11961789B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package includes a chip, a redistribution structure, and first under-ball metallurgies patterns. The chip includes conductive posts exposed at an active surface. The redistribution structure is disposed on the active surface. The redistribution structure includes a first dielectric layer, a topmost metallization layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer includes first openings exposing the conductive posts of the chip. The topmost metallization layer is disposed over the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the conductive posts. The topmost metallization layer comprises first contact pads and routing traces connected to the first contact pads. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the topmost metallization layer and includes second openings exposing the first contact pads. The first under-ball metallurgies patterns are disposed on the first contact pads, extending on and contacting sidewalls and top surfaces of the first contact pads. |
| US11961787B2 |
Semiconductor device with sidewall interconnection structure and method for manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus
A semiconductor device with a sidewall interconnection structure and a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus including the semiconductor device are provided. According to embodiments, the semiconductor device includes: a vertical stack including a plurality of element layers, wherein each element layer of the plurality of element layers includes a plurality of semiconductor elements and a metallization layer for the plurality of semiconductor elements; and an interconnection structure laterally adjoined the vertical stack. The interconnection structure includes: an electrical isolation layer; and a conductive structure in the electrical isolation layer, wherein at least a part of a conductive structure in the metallization layer of the each element layer is in contact with and electrically connected to the conductive structure at a corresponding height in the interconnection structure in a lateral direction. |
| US11961785B2 |
Circuit carrier arrangement and method for producing such a circuit carrier arrangement
A method provides a circuit carrier arrangement that includes: a cooling plate (1) which has spacer and fastening elements (3) for connection to a printed circuit board (2) in a spaced-apart manner; a printed circuit board (2) which has bores (4) for receiving spring element sleeves (9); at least one power semiconductor component (10) which is connected by a soldered connection to the printed circuit board (2) and fastening elements (3) in the state in which it is fitted with the cooling plate (1) by means of plug-in connections (11) of spring-action configuration; and at least one spring element (5) having at least two spring element sleeves (9) between which a web (6) that is connected to the spring element sleeves (9) extends, and supporting elements (7) arranged on either side of said web and at least one spring plate (8) being arranged on said web. |
| US11961777B2 |
Package structure comprising buffer layer for reducing thermal stress and method of forming the same
A package structure and a method of forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a first die, a second die, a first encapsulant, and a buffer layer. The first die and the second die are disposed side by side. The first encapsulant encapsulates the first die and the second die. The second die includes a die stack encapsulated by a second encapsulant encapsulating a die stack. The buffer layer is disposed between the first encapsulant and the second encapsulant and covers at least a sidewall of the second die and disposed between the first encapsulant and the second encapsulant. The buffer layer has a Young's modulus less than a Young's modulus of the first encapsulant and a Young's modulus of the second encapsulant. |
| US11961776B2 |
Semiconductor device with connector in package and method therefor
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a connector structure configured for carrying a signal and providing a semiconductor die. At least a portion of the connector structure and the semiconductor die are encapsulated with an encapsulant. The semiconductor die is interconnected with the connector structure by way of a conductive trace. |
| US11961773B2 |
Semiconductor etching methods
A method of etching into a one or more epitaxial layers of respective semiconductor material(s) in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) semiconductor structure, wherein the or each semiconductor material is a III-V semiconductor material, a III-N semiconductor material, or a II-VI semiconductor material is disclosed. The method comprises placing a substrate having the semiconductor structure thereon onto a support table in a plasma processing chamber, the semiconductor structure carrying a patterned mask on the surface of the semiconductor structure distal from the support table. The method also includes process steps of establishing a flow of an etch gas mixture through the plasma processing chamber and generating a plasma within the plasma processing chamber and simultaneously applying a radio frequency (RF) bias voltage to the support table; whereby the portion(s) of the semiconductor structure not covered by the patterned mask are exposed to the etch gas mixture plasma and are thereby etched to form at least one feature in the semiconductor structure; wherein more than 90% of the etch gas mixture consists of a mixture of silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) and nitrogen (N2). |
| US11961772B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatically processing wafers
The present application relates to the field of semiconductor manufacturing technologies, and in particular to a method and an apparatus for automatically processing wafers. The method for automatically processing the wafers includes the following steps: providing several wafers, wherein the wafers operate on a primary path, and the primary path is a path for forming semiconductor structures on the surfaces of the wafers; determining whether there is a need for detecting defects of the wafers, and if yes, automatically switching an operating path of the wafers to a secondary path; detecting the defects of the wafers in the secondary path; and determining whether the defect detection on the wafers is finished, and if yes, automatically switching the operating path of the wafers to the primary path. The application makes it possible to automatically detect the defects of the wafers with different SWR conditions, thereby improving the automation degree of machines. |
| US11961770B2 |
Automated inspection tool
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a processing tool. The tool includes a housing enclosing a processing chamber, and an input/output port configured to pass a wafer through the housing into and out of the processing chamber. A back-side macro-inspection system is arranged within the processing chamber and is configured to image a back side of the wafer. A front-side macro-inspection system is arranged within the processing chamber and is configured to image a front side of the wafer according to a first image resolution. A front-side micro-inspection system is arranged within the processing chamber and is configured to image the front side of the wafer according to a second image resolution which is higher than the first image resolution. |
| US11961769B2 |
Structure and process of integrated circuit having latch-up suppression
A method of forming an integrated circuit, including forming a n-type doped well (N-well) and a p-type doped well (P-well) disposed side by side on a semiconductor substrate, forming a first fin active region extruded from the N-well and a second fin active region extruded from the P-well, forming a first isolation feature inserted between and vertically extending through the N-well and the P-well, and forming a second isolation feature over the N-well and the P-well and laterally contacting the first and the second fin active regions. |
| US11961765B2 |
Method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate and device by bonding an epitaxial substrate to a first support substrate, forming a first and second protective thin film layer, and exposing and bonding a nitride semiconductor layer to a second support substrate
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, including: (a) preparing an epitaxial substrate having a nitride semiconductor layer formed on a first main surface of a growth substrate and preparing a first support substrate, forming a resin adhesive layer between the first main surface of the growth substrate and a first main surface of the first support substrate, and bonding the epitaxial substrate to the first support substrate; (b) thinning a second main surface of the growth substrate; (c) forming a first protective thin film layer on the thinned growth substrate; (d) forming a second protective thin film layer on the first support substrate; (e) removing the thinned growth substrate; (f) bonding a second support substrate onto the nitride semiconductor layer; and (g) removing the first support substrate and the resin adhesive layer. |
| US11961761B2 |
Mitigating pattern collapse
One or more techniques or systems for mitigating pattern collapse are provided herein. For example, a semiconductor structure for mitigating pattern collapse is formed. In some embodiments, the semiconductor structure includes an extreme low-k (ELK) dielectric region associated with a via or a metal line. For example, a first metal line portion and a second metal line portion are associated with a first lateral location and a second lateral location, respectively. In some embodiments, the first portion is formed based on a first stage of patterning and the second portion is formed based on a second stage of patterning. In this manner, pattern collapse associated with the semiconductor structure is mitigated, for example. |
| US11961755B2 |
Substrate support and substrate processing apparatus
A substrate support includes a substrate support portion having an electrostatic chuck for adsorbing a substrate and a substrate heater electrode inside the electrostatic chuck; a ring support supporting an edge ring and having an edge ring heater electrode inside; a base having a central stage on which the substrate support portion is disposed, and an outer peripheral stage on which the ring support is disposed; a first power feeding terminal disposed immediately below the substrate support portion to supply a power to the substrate heater electrode; and a second power feeding terminal disposed immediately below the ring support to supply the power to the edge ring heater electrode. An upper surface of the outer peripheral stage is positioned lower than that of the central stage, and a thickness of the ring support is equal to or larger than 40% of a thickness of the substrate support portion. |
| US11961751B2 |
Ceiling transport vehicle
An overhead transport vehicle includes an elevator including a base and a first support supporting the base to be vertically movable from below in a vertical direction through a vibration isolator. The vibration isolator includes a first biasing portion in contact with both of the support and the base to urge a first body and the base in a direction away from each other, and a second biasing portion at one of the first body and the base to come into contact with both of the first body and the base and urge the first body and the base in a direction away from each other when a load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is applied to the first biasing portion. |
| US11961750B2 |
Magnetic transfer apparatus and fabrication method of the same
A magnetic transfer apparatus includes: a magnetomotive force source providing magnetic flux, a first magnetic flux distribution circuit connected to one end of the magnetomotive force source, having a single input terminal and a plurality of output terminals, and distributing the magnetic flux, and a second magnetic flux distribution circuit connected to the other end of the magnetomotive force source, having a single output terminal and a plurality of input terminals, and collecting the distributed magnetic flux. The output terminals of the first magnetic flux distribution circuit are disposed to be adjacent to each other to form a pair with the input terminals of the second magnetic flux distribution circuit. |
| US11961747B2 |
Heater and heater system
A heater includes an insulating base, a resistance heating element, and a hollow member. The base includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The resistance heating element extends inside the base along the upper surface and the lower surface. The hollow member includes a first plate-shaped part laid over the lower surface, a second plate-shaped part facing the first plate-shaped part through a space, and a side surface part surrounding the space from an outside in a planar direction of the first plate-shaped part and the second plate-shaped part. |
| US11961746B2 |
Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing method includes (a) forming a recess on a workpiece by partially etching the workpiece; and (b) forming a film having a thickness that differs along a depth direction of the recess, on a side wall of the recess. Step (b) includes (b-1) supplying a first reactant, and causing the first reactant to be adsorbed to the side wall of the recess; and (b-2) supplying a second reactant, and causing the second reactant to react with the first reactant thereby forming a film. |
| US11961744B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
In a chamber, first processing is performed as preliminary processing. After the first processing has been finished, the temperature in a predetermined target region in the chamber is measured with a thermographic camera. Then, whether or not to start second processing on a substrate is determined in accordance with the acquired measured temperature information. If it is determined as a result that the second processing can be started, the second processing is performed. In this case, the second processing on the substrate can be started, with the temperature of the target region in the chamber having reached its stability. Accordingly, the second processing can be performed uniformly on a plurality of substrates. That is, it is possible to reduce variations in processing caused by temperature environments in the chamber. |
| US11961743B2 |
Substrate manufacturing method for realizing three-dimensional packaging
Disclosed is a substrate manufacturing method for realizing three-dimensional packaging, which includes: preparing a base plate, the base plate including a dielectric material layer, a first sidewall pad, a first through-hole pillar and a cavity, the cavity being filled with a first metal block; processing a first circuit layer and a second circuit layer, the first circuit layer including a first padding plate and a second metal block, and the second circuit layer including a second padding plate and a plurality of pin pads; processing and laminating interlayer through-hole pillars; processing a third circuit layer and a fourth circuit layer, the third circuit layer including a second sidewall pad and the fourth circuit layer including a routing circuit; and etching to expose the first sidewall pad, the second sidewall pad and the pin pads. |
| US11961742B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device produced thereby. For example and without limitation, various aspects of this disclosure provide methods for manufacturing a semiconductor device, and semiconductor devices produced thereby, that comprise forming an interposer including a reinforcement layer. |
| US11961741B2 |
Method for fabricating layer structure having target topological profile
A method for fabricating a layer structure having a target topology profile in a step which has a side face and a lateral face, includes processes of: (a) depositing a dielectric layer on a preselected area of the substrate under first deposition conditions, wherein the dielectric layer has a portion whose resistance to fluorine and/or chlorine radicals under first dry-etching conditions is tuned; and (b) exposing the dielectric layer obtained in process (a) to the fluorine and/or chlorine radicals under the first dry-etching conditions, thereby removing at least a part of the portion of the dielectric layer, thereby forming a layer structure having the target topology profile on the substrate. |
| US11961734B2 |
Treatments to enhance material structures
A method of forming a high-κ dielectric cap layer on a semiconductor structure formed on a substrate includes depositing the high-κ dielectric cap layer on the semiconductor structure, depositing a sacrificial silicon cap layer on the high-κ dielectric cap layer, performing a post cap anneal process to harden and densify the as-deposited high-κ dielectric cap layer, and removing the sacrificial silicon cap layer. |
| US11961733B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium
There is included forming an oxide film on a substrate by alternately performing: forming the first oxide film containing an atom X by performing a first cycle including non-simultaneously performing forming a first layer including a component in which a first functional group is bonded to the atom X, and forming a second layer containing the atom X and oxygen by oxidizing the first layer; and forming the second oxide film containing the atom X by performing a second cycle including non-simultaneously performing forming a third layer including a component in which the first functional group is bonded to the atom X, and forming a fourth layer containing the atom X and oxygen by oxidizing the third layer, under a processing condition that an oxidizing power is higher than an oxidizing power when oxidizing the first layer. |
| US11961731B2 |
Method and structure for semiconductor interconnect
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a conductive feature over the substrate, a dielectric layer over the conductive feature and the substrate, and a structure disposed over and electrically connected to the conductive feature. The structure is partially surrounded by the dielectric layer and includes a first metal-containing layer and a second metal-contain layer surrounded by the first metal-containing layer. The first and the second metal-containing layers include different materials. A lower portion of the first metal-containing layer includes a transition metal or a transition metal nitride and an upper portion of the first metal-containing layer includes a transition metal fluoride or a transition metal chloride. |
| US11961724B2 |
Shielding device and thin-film-deposition equipment with the same
The present disclosure provides a thin-film-deposition equipment with shielding device, which includes a reaction chamber, a carrier and a shielding device, wherein a portion of the shielding device and the carrier are disposed within the reaction chamber. The shielding device includes a first-shield member, a second-shield member and a driver. The driver interconnects the first-shield member and the second-shield member, for driving the first-shield member and the second-shield member to move in opposite directions. During a deposition process, the driver swings the shield members away from each other into an open state. During a cleaning process, the driver swings the shield members toward each other into a shielding state for covering the carrier, such that to prevent polluting the carrier during the process of cleaning the thin-film-deposition equipment. |
| US11961723B2 |
Process kit having tall deposition ring for PVD chamber
Embodiments of a process kit are provided herein. In some embodiments, a process kit includes a deposition ring configured to be disposed on a substrate support, the deposition ring including an annular band configured to rest on a lower ledge of the substrate support, the annular band having an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface including a step between a radially inner portion and a radially outer portion; an inner lip extending upwards from the upper surface of the annular band and adjacent an inner surface of the annular band, wherein a depth between an upper surface of the annular band and a horizontal portion of the upper surface of the inner lip is between about 6.0 mm and about 12.0 mm; a channel disposed radially outward of and beneath the annular band; and an outer lip extending upwardly and disposed radially outward of the channel. |
| US11961722B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling stress variation in a material layer formed via pulsed DC physical vapor deposition
A method and apparatus are for controlling stress variation in a material layer formed via pulsed DC physical vapour deposition. The method includes the steps of providing a chamber having a target from which the material layer is formed and a substrate upon which the material layer is formable, and subsequently introducing a gas within the chamber. The method further includes generating a plasma within the chamber and applying a first magnetic field proximate the target to substantially localise the plasma adjacent the target. An RF bias is applied to the substrate to attract gas ions from the plasma toward the substrate and a second magnetic field is applied proximate the substrate to steer gas ions from the plasma to selective regions upon the material layer formed on the substrate. |
| US11961721B2 |
Normal-incidence in-situ process monitor sensor
An apparatus for in-situ etching monitoring in a plasma processing chamber includes a continuous wave broadband light source, an illumination system configured to illuminate an area on a substrate with an incident light beam being directed from the continuous wave broadband light source at normal incidence to the substrate, a collection system configured to collect a reflected light beam being reflected from the illuminated area on the substrate, and to direct the reflected light beam to a first light detector, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a property of the substrate or structures formed thereupon based on a reference light beam and the reflected light beam, and control an etch process based on the determined property. The reference light beam is generated by the illumination system by splitting a portion of the incident light beam and directed to a second light detector. |
| US11961718B2 |
Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus
A plasma processing method of processing a substrate with plasma in a plasma processing apparatus. The plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber configured to accommodate a substrate; an upper electrode structure forming an upper portion of the chamber and including a temperature-controlled plate, an electrode plate disposed below the temperature-controlled plate, and an electrostatic attractor, the electrostatic attractor including a contact surface, an attraction surface, a first electrode, and a second electrode; a power supply configured to apply a voltage to the first and second electrodes; and a temperature obtaining portion configured to acquire a temperature distribution of the electrode plate. The plasma processing method includes: acquiring, by the temperature obtaining portion, the temperature distribution; applying a first voltage to the first electrode and applying a second voltage to the second electrode according to the acquired temperature distribution; and processing the substrate with plasma. |
| US11961717B2 |
Plasma reactors
An electrode for a plasma reactor, the electrode comprising an elongate body having an inlet end and an opposed outlet end, a reaction region extending along a portion of the elongate body, a first sealing region located between the reaction region and the inlet end of the elongate body and a second sealing region located between the reaction region and the outlet end of the elongate body, wherein the first sealing region and the second sealing region each comprise a plurality of receiving portions adapted to receive a sealing member therein, and wherein a barrier member adapted to reduce or eliminate the flow of fluid between the receiving portions provided between each of the plurality of receiving portions. |
| US11961715B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus, substrate retainer and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
Described herein is a technique capable of efficiently removing a foreign substance in a reaction tube. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a reaction tube in which a substrate is processed; and a substrate retainer including a plurality of support columns configured to support the substrate, wherein at least one among the plurality of the support columns includes: a hollow portion through which an inert gas is supplied; and a gas supply port through which the inert gas is supplied toward an inner wall of the reaction tube. |
| US11961713B2 |
Microwave coupling/combining device and associated microwave generator
A microwave coupling/combining device for coupling and combining at least two microwave sources includes a waveguide provided with a sleeve extending longitudinally along a main axis and having two opposing ends having a first end provided with an element forming a short-circuit and a second open end. The device further includes at least one transverse bar extending inside the sleeve along a transverse axis orthogonal to the main axis; and at least two coaxial connectors provided for being connected respectively to microwave sources. Each coaxial connector is mounted externally on the sleeve and has a central conductive core connected to and extended by a conductive antenna extending in a direction orthogonal to the transverse axis and to the main axis inside the sleeve and ending by an end attached to a transverse bar. |
| US11961712B2 |
Combining the determination of single and mutual, preset preserving, impedance loads with advances in single and double sensor calibration techniques in the application of single and pairwise calibration of sensors
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for calibrating sensors used by a match network during tuning of power delivery to a plasma processing chamber. The calibration can include self-calibration of two sensors in isolation relative to a self-load, and Relative or Absolute mutual calibration of both sensors used together across a mutual load. The mutual calibration can determine errors between the two sensors after they are each calibrated in isolation, and this additional calibration provides previously unrealized tuning accuracy. |
| US11961711B2 |
Radio frequency match network and generator
A method of providing data on radio frequency pulses in a radio frequency plasma processing system, the method including measuring an electrical parameter within a matching network of the radio frequency plasma processing system; determining an attribute of the measurement of the electrical parameter; defining a first statistic for the attribute of the measurement of the electrical parameter; defining a second statistic based on the first statistic for at least one of a phase and a process; delivering the first statistic and second statistic to a user; and storing the first statistic and the second statistic within the matching network. |
| US11961704B2 |
Charged particle beam system
There is provided a charged particle beam system having a computer system for controlling an acceleration voltage of a charged particle beam emitted from a charged particle source, the system including: a first diaphragm group having first and second diaphragms which are diaphragms that act on the charged particle beam and have different thicknesses; and a first diaphragm switching mechanism for switching the diaphragm in the first diaphragm group, in which the computer system controls the first diaphragm switching mechanism so as to switch from the first diaphragm to the second diaphragm according to an increase or decrease of the acceleration voltage. |
| US11961701B2 |
Charged particle beam device and operation method therefor
When adjusting optical axes of a multi-beam charged particle beam device, because parameters of optical systems are inter-dependent, the time required to adjust the parameters increases. Thus, the present invention provides a charged particle beam device provided with an optical parameter setting unit for setting parameters of optical systems for emitting a plurality of primary charged particle beams to a sample, detectors for individually detecting a plurality of secondary charged particle beams discharged from the sample, a plurality of memories for storing signals detected by the detectors and converted into digital pixels in the form of images, evaluation value derivation units for deriving evaluation values of the primary charged particle beams from the images, and a GUI capable of displaying the images and receiving an input from a user, wherein the GUI displays the images and evaluation results based on the evaluation values and changes various optical parameters in real-time. |
| US11961696B1 |
Ion source cathode
The improved cathode sub-assembly includes a solid cylindrical cathode of tungsten, a cylindrical holder concentric to the cathode with an internal radially directed rib receiving one end of the cathode, and a cylindrical reflector threadably mounted within the holder in circumferentially spaced relation to the cathode. The holder is threadably mounted in a support plate to be able to be readily removed for servicing and/or replacement. |
| US11961695B2 |
Substrate treating apparatus, ion implantation apparatus, and ion implantation method
An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a process chamber that performs a liquid treatment process by dispensing a treatment liquid onto the substrate, and components provided in the process chamber. A surface of at least one of the components is formed of a material containing an ion-implanted fluorine resin. |
| US11961693B2 |
Magneto-electrostatic sensing, focusing, and steering of electron beams in vacuum electron devices
Vacuum electron devices (VEDs) are produced having a plurality of two-dimensional layers of various materials that are bonded together to form one or more VEDs simultaneously. The two-dimensional material layers are machined to include features needed for device operation so that when assembled and bonded into a three-dimensional structure, three-dimensional features are formed. The two-dimensional layers are bonded together using brazing, diffusion bonding, assisted diffusion bonding, solid state bonding, cold welding, ultrasonic welding, and the like. The manufacturing process enables incorporation of metallic, magnetic, and ceramic materials required for VED fabrication while maintaining required positional accuracy and multiple devices per batch capability. The VEDs so produced include a combination of magnetic and electrostatic lenses for electron beam control. |
| US11961692B2 |
Bi-metallic anode for amplitude modulated magnetron
An anode structure for a magnetron provides for low eddy currents and efficient water cooling. The anode structure may be made by machining a bimetal blank including an out layer of a first metal and an inner layer of a second metal and formed by explosion bonding. The second metal has a resistivity lower than first metal and a thermal conductivity higher than the first metal. The machining may result in the anode structure with vanes each having a center (tip) portion made of the second metal and the rest made of the first metal. The machined anode structure may be coated with the second metal. |
| US11961686B2 |
Irreversible switch for laminated communication device, and laminated communication device using the switch
An irreversible power switch which is operational from the outside after lamination of laminated communication device and the like, includes a substrate, electrodes disposed on the substrate, a brittle member disposed so as to face the electrodes and apart from the electrodes and a conductive adhesive portion disposed on the brittle member at a side to face the electrodes thereof. The electrodes and the conductive adhesive portion are irreversibly and electrically bonded by brittle fracture of the brittle member under the external pressing force in the thickness direction of the laminated communication device. |
| US11961680B2 |
Ceramic electronic component without external electrodes on top surface, substrate arrangement including the same, and method of manufacturing such ceramic electronic component
A ceramic electronic component includes an element body and at least one external electrode. The element body includes a dielectric and at least one internal electrode therein. The element body has a plurality of surfaces that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. Two end regions are defined on the second surface at opposite ends of the second surface, and an intermediate region is defined on the second surface between the two end regions. The intermediate region has a surface roughness smaller than each of the two end regions. The respective external electrode is formed on the element body at a position away from the second surface. The respective external electrode includes a base layer formed on the element body and a plating layer formed on the base layer. The base layer is connected to the respective internal electrode and contains at least one metal. |
| US11961679B2 |
Multilayer capacitor with core-shell dielectric
A multilayer capacitor includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes stacked in a first direction, and external electrodes, wherein the body includes an active portion, a side margin portion covering at least one of a first surface and a second surface of the active portion opposing each other in a second direction, and a cover portion covering the active portion in the first direction, respective dielectric layers among the plurality of dielectric layers include a barium titanate-based composition, the dielectric layer of the side margin portion includes Sn, and a content of Sn in the dielectric layer of the side margin portion is different from that of Sn in the dielectric layer of the active portion, and the dielectric layer of the side margin portion includes at least some grains having a core-shell structure. |
| US11961674B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and ceramic material powder
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer structure in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked; wherein a main component of the dielectric layers is a ceramic material having a main phase having a perovskite structure (ABO3) wherein a B site includes an element solid-solved in the B site and acting as a donor; wherein an A site and the B site of the ceramic material includes a rare earth element, wherein (an amount of the rare earth element substitutionally solid-solved in the A site)/(an amount of the rare earth element substitutionally solid-solved in the B site) is 0.75 or more and 1.25 or less. The amount of the element acting as the donor in the B site is 0.05 to 0.3 atm % relative to a main component element of the B site. |
| US11961672B2 |
Electronic component
An electronic component includes a multilayer body including inner electrodes and dielectric layers that are alternately stacked, and outer electrodes that are electrically connected to the inner electrodes. The multilayer body includes first and second main surfaces opposite each other in a stacking direction, first and second side surfaces opposite each other in a width direction, and first and second end surfaces opposite each other in a length direction. At least one of the outer electrodes is located on at least one of the first side surface or the second side surface of the multilayer body and is directly connected to the inner electrodes at positions spaced away from the at least one of the first side surface or the second side surface toward the inside of the multilayer body. |
| US11961671B2 |
Method for manufacturing High-K MIM capacitor to improve electrical characteristics
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a MIM capacitor by High-k dielectric and method for fabricating the same to prevent formation of oxygen-based interface films between a lower electrode and a dielectric layer, and between an upper electrode and a dielectric layer by stacking a first film formed of metal between the dielectric layer formed of a High-k material having a high dielectric constant and the lower electrode formed of metal, and a second film formed of metal between the dielectric layer and the upper electrode. |
| US11961670B1 |
System including a bent capacitor bus bar
A system may include a capacitor for an electronic device of an electric vehicle; a main bus bar; and a capacitor bus bar configured to connect the capacitor to the main bus bar, wherein the capacitor bus bar includes a first portion that is perpendicular to the main bus bar, and wherein the capacitor bus bar includes a second portion that extends from the first portion, that is perpendicular to the first portion, and that is planar with the main bus bar. |
| US11961668B2 |
Vanadium doped cobalt nickel spinel ferrite-based nanocomposite electrodes
A nanocomposite electrode and supercapacitor thereof are disclosed. The nanocomposite electrode includes a substrate, at least one binding compound, at least one carbonaceous compound, and vanadium doped spinel ferrite nanoparticles (V-SFNPs). The V-SFNPs have a formula of CoxNi1-xVyFe2-yOz, wherein x=0.1-0.9, y=0.01-0.10, and z=3-5. The substrate is at least partially coated on a first side with a mixture comprising the V-SFNPs, the at least one binding compound, and the at least one carbonaceous compound. Two of the nanocomposite electrodes are combined to form the supercapacitor. |
| US11961666B2 |
Pulsed e-field propulsion system
The present invention discloses an electric field propulsion system for spacecraft. The system includes a capacitor stack comprising an array of supercapacitors. Solid-state electronic circuits generate modulated currents and electric fields in pulse coils. The pulse coils direct the electric fields onto separated electric charges stored in the capacitor stack. The resulting unidirectional Lorentz Forces thereby generate thrust without reaction mass. Reaction momentum is carried away by Poynting Vector fields in conformity with the currently understood principles of electrodynamics. The design is scalable down to micro-chip sized thrusters. |
| US11961662B2 |
High temperature superconducting current lead assembly for cryogenic apparatus
A method of manufacturing a lead assembly of a cryogenic system is provided. The method includes developing a three-dimensional (3D) model of a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of channels extending longitudinally through the heat exchanger from the first end to the second end, the plurality of channels forming a plurality of thermal surfaces within the heat exchanger, the heat exchanger having a transverse cross section. The method further includes modifying the 3D model by at least one of reducing an area of the cross section and increasing the plurality of thermal surfaces. The method also includes additively manufacturing the heat exchanger using an electrically-conductive and thermally-conductive material according to the modified 3D model. Further, the method includes providing a high temperature superconductor (HTS) assembly that includes an HTS strip, and connecting the HTS assembly to the heat exchanger at the second end of the heat exchanger. |
| US11961661B2 |
Superconducting magnet
A discharge pipe is connected to a refrigerant container from outside of a vacuum container, and discharges a vaporized refrigerant. A pair of external leads are electrically connected respectively to opposite ends of a superconducting coil from a position outside of the vacuum container, so as to cause a current to flow through the superconducting coil. A protection circuit is electrically connected to the superconducting coil, and consumes energy stored in the superconducting coil during quenching. The protection circuit is in contact with the discharge pipe outside of the vacuum container. |
| US11961659B2 |
Iron core for transformer
Vibration of an iron core is reduced to reduce transformer noise. An iron core for a transformer comprises a plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets stacked together, wherein at least one of the plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets: (1) has a region in which closure domains are formed in a direction crossing a rolling direction and a region in which no closure domains are formed; and (2) has an area ratio R of 0.10% to 30%, the area ratio R being an area ratio, to the whole grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, of a region in which a shrinkage amount at a maximum displacement point when excited in the rolling direction at a maximum magnetic flux density of 1.7 T and a frequency of 50 Hz is at least 2×10−7 less than a shrinkage amount in the region in which no closure domains are formed. |
| US11961658B2 |
Three-phase inductor and power module
The present disclosure provides a three-phase inductor and a power module. A current flowing through each inductor of the three-phase inductor comprises a power-frequency current component and a high-frequency current component. The three-phase inductor includes a magnetic core and a winding. The magnetic core includes a first cover plate, a second cover plate and a magnetic pillar unit; the winding wound on the first magnetic pillar and the second magnetic pillar of the corresponding magnetic pillar unit, and a current flowing through the winding surrounds said first magnetic pillar and said second magnetic pillar in an opposite direction. |
| US11961654B2 |
Coil component and electronic device
A coil component includes: an element body part 10; a coil 30 embedded in the element body part 10; an external electrode 50a electrically connected to the coil 30 and provided at least on a bottom face 12 of the element body part 10 along a side 13a of the bottom face 12; and an external electrode 50b electrically connected to the coil 30 and provided at least on the bottom face 12 along a side 13b, wherein the external electrode 50a has a joining part 56a physically and electrically joined to the bottom face 12, and a non-joining part faces the bottom face 12 but is positioned away from the bottom face 12 before being mounted on a circuit board, wherein the non-joining part is positioned closer to the external electrode 50b on the bottom face 12 than is the joining part 56a. |
| US11961651B2 |
Coil device, phase shift circuit, and communication apparatus
In a coil device, a first coil includes a common terminal side first coil conductor connected to a ground terminal, an intermediate first coil conductor, and an input/output terminal side first coil conductor connected to a first input/output terminal, and a second coil includes a common terminal side second coil conductor connected to the ground terminal, an intermediate second coil conductor, and an input/output terminal side second coil conductor connected to a second input/output terminal. The input/output terminal side first coil conductor is located between the intermediate second coil conductor and the input/output terminal side second coil conductor, and the input/output terminal side second coil conductor is located between the intermediate first coil conductor and the input/output terminal side first coil conductor. |
| US11961649B2 |
Amorphous metal ribbon, method for manufacturing amorphous metal ribbon, and magnetic core
An amorphous metal ribbon includes a plurality of laser irradiation mark rows each including a plurality of laser irradiation marks arranged in a row, in which when a distance between the laser irradiation mark rows that are adjacent to each other is set as d1, a distance between the laser irradiation marks in the laser irradiation mark row is set as d2, a diameter of the laser irradiation mark is set as d3, and a number density D of the laser irradiation marks is set as (1/d1)×(1/d2), the number density D of the laser irradiation marks is 0.05 pieces/mm2 or more and 0.50 pieces/mm2 or less, and when an area occupancy rate A of the laser irradiation marks is set as D×(d3/2)2×π×100, the area occupancy rate A of the laser irradiation marks is 0.0035% or more and 0.040% or less. |
| US11961647B2 |
Iron core for transformer
Vibration of an iron core is reduced to reduce transformer noise. An iron core for a transformer comprises a plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets stacked together, wherein at least one of the plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets: (1) has a region in which closure domains are formed in a direction crossing a rolling direction and a region in which no closure domains are formed; (2) has an area ratio R0 of 0.10% to 3.0%, the area ratio R0 being defined as a ratio of S0 to S; and (3) has an area ratio R1a of 50% or more, the area ratio R1a being defined as a ratio of S1a to S1. |
| US11961646B2 |
Soft magnetic powder, powder magnetic core, magnetic element, and electronic device
A soft magnetic powder including particles having a composition represented by FexCuaNbb(Si1-yBy)100-x-a-b [provided that a, b, and x are each a number whose unit is at % and satisfy 0.3≤a≤2.0, 2.0≤b≤4.0, and 73.0≤x≤79.5, respectively, and y is a number satisfying f(x)≤y≤0.99, in which f(x)=(4×10−34)x17.56], wherein the particle contains a crystal grain having a grain diameter of 1.0 nm or more and 30.0 nm or less, and includes a Cu segregated portion in which Cu is segregated, the Cu segregated portion is present at a position deeper than 30 nm from a surface of the particle, and a maximum Cu concentration in the Cu segregated portion exceeds 6.0 at %. |
| US11961639B2 |
Microserpentines and electrodes for stretchable and conformable biosensor applications
Various embodiments relate to a microserpentine including a plurality of u-bends, each having a degree of completeness (α), in which an α value of 0° corresponds to a semi-circular shape, and in which an α value of +90° corresponds to a complete circle and −90° corresponds to a straight shape. Each of the plurality of u-bends may have an α value of from about −35° to about 45°. The microserpentine may include a core coated with a conductive coating. The core may include a polymeric material. Various embodiments relate to microelectronic devices and methods of producing the same. The microelectronic devices may include but are not limited to a microelectrode array, a microelectronics packaging, an interconnect, a stretchable sensor, a wearable sensor, a wearable actuator, an in vitro sensor, an in vivo sensor, and combinations thereof. |
| US11961637B1 |
Stretchable composite electrode and fabricating method thereof
This disclosure relates to a stretchable composite electrode and a fabricating method thereof, and particularly relates to a stretchable composite electrode including a silver nanowire layer and a flexible polymer film and a fabricating method thereof. |
| US11961636B2 |
Silica-containing insulating composition
An insulating composition containing silica particles, a resin, and a curing agent, wherein: when an aqueous solution of the silica particles having an SiO2 concentration of 3.8% by mass is heated at 121° C. for 20 hours, the amount of Na ions eluted from the silica particles is 40 ppm/SiO2 or less, especially, wherein the amount of Na ions eluted from the silica particles after the heating may be 5-38 ppm/SiO2, and, the silica particles may contain a polyvalent metal oxide so the ratio by mole of a polyvalent metal M to Si is 0.001-0.02; the mass ratio of Na2O/SiO2 in the silica particles may be 700-1,300 ppm; and the silica particles may have, on the surfaces thereof, a layer having a thickness of 0.1-1.5 nm and an Na2O/SiO2 mass ratio of 10-400 ppm, and may have an average particle diameter of 5-40 nm. |
| US11961635B2 |
Corona prevention in high power circulators
A circuit assembly includes a sealable enclosure and at least one electronic circuit element contained within the sealable enclosure. The at least one electronic circuit element includes a control circuit, a garnet, and a first polymer material applied on a surface of the control circuit and on a surface of the garnet. A second polymer material fills a remaining space defined within the enclosure, the second polymer material applied on an exposed surface of the first material. |
| US11961633B2 |
Electric wire protection member and method for manufacturing electric wire protection member
An electric wire protection member covering and protecting an outer periphery of an electric wire, the electric wire protection member includes an exterior member made of a flexible resin and having a tubular body in which peak portions and valley portions are alternately formed in an axial direction over a peripheral direction orthogonal to the axial direction, and a tubular bending restriction member accommodated in the exterior member and capable of bending in one direction with one side portion as an inner side. The bending restriction member includes a cut-out portion and a plurality of divided tubular portions connected by a connecting portion formed in the one side portion. The cut-out portion is inclined in the axial direction with respect to a radial direction of the bending restriction member. |
| US11961631B2 |
Connection structure of superconducting layer, superconducting wire, superconducting coil, superconducting devce, and connection method of superconducting layer
A connection structure of a superconducting layer according to an embodiment includes a first superconducting layer, a second superconducting layer, and a connection layer provided between the first superconducting layer and the second superconducting layer and including a first substance containing a rare earth element, barium, copper, and oxygen and a second substance containing a metal element, in which a first region per unit area at a first interface between the first superconducting layer and the connection layer is 1% or more and 50% or less where the second substance and the first superconducting layer are in contact with each other, and a second region per unit area at a second interface between the second superconducting layer and the connection layer is 1% or more and 50% or less where the second substance and the second superconducting layer are in contact with each other. |
| US11961630B2 |
Utilizing nanoscale materials and dispersants, surfactants or stabilizing molecules, methods of making the same, and the products produced therefrom
Novel dispersions of nanoparticles such as carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, boron nanotubes, clay nanotubes, other nanotube species, buckminster fullerenes, graphene, graphene nanoplatelets, elements, oxides, nanoparticles, nanoclusters, nanopowders, nanocrystals, nanoscale molecules, other nanoscale materials, as well as products produced therefrom are described. These dispersions can then be further processed into a wide variety of products including but not limited to composite materials, polymers, resins, epoxies, emulsions, cements, coatings, clays, films, membranes, paper, fibers, inks, paints, pastes, electronics, spintronics, optics, biotechnology materials, electrodes, field emission or other displays, plating, capacitance, ceramics, catalysts, days, ballistic materials, drug delivery, doping, magnetics, dielectrics, barrier layers, selective ion flow membranes, batteries, fuel cells, solar and other applications. The invention can also be used to protect electronics from electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference or radio frequency identification. Most applications that utilize nanoparticles can benefit from this invention. |
| US11961628B2 |
Patterned nanoparticle structures
Aspects relate to patterned nanostructures having a feature size not including film thickness of below 5 microns. The patterned nanostructures are made up of nanoparticles having an average particle size of less than 100 nm. A nanoparticle composition, which, in some cases, includes a binder, is applied to a substrate. A patterned mold used in concert with electromagnetic radiation function to manipulate the nanoparticle composition in forming the patterned nanostructure. In some embodiments, the patterned mold nanoimprints a pattern onto the nanoparticle composition and the composition is cured through UV or thermal energy. Three-dimensional patterned nanostructures may be formed. A number of patterned nanostructure layers may be prepared and joined together. In some cases, a patterned nanostructure may be formed as a layer that is releasable from the substrate upon which it is initially formed. Such releasable layers may be arranged to form a three-dimensional patterned nanostructure for suitable applications. |
| US11961623B2 |
Method for supporting expert meeting by using computer, support device, computer program for supporting expert meeting, and support system
Disclosed is a method of using a computer to support an expert meeting for interpretation of genetic information of a patient by a plurality of medical persons, the method including acquiring a test result of gene panel testing that analyzes genetic information of the patient; and outputting an operation screen that enables schedule setting of the expert meeting, based on meeting time according to the test result. |
| US11961621B2 |
Predicting intensive care transfers and other unforeseen events using machine learning
A method includes receiving patient health data; determining a score using a trained machine learning model; determining a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; comparing the score to the threshold value; and generating an alarm. A computing system includes a processor; and a memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to: receive patient health data; determine a score using a trained machine learning model; determine a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; compare the score to the threshold value; and generate an alarm. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: receive patient health data; determine a score using a trained machine learning model; determine a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; compare the score to the threshold value; and generate an alarm. |
| US11961619B1 |
System, method and device for predicting need for surgical intervention
A system that includes data collection engine devices, client devices and backend devices. The backend devices include trained models, business logic, and attributes of a plurality of patient events. A plurality of data collection engines and hospital information systems send input attributes of new patient events to the backend devices. The backend devices can predict particular outcomes of new patient events based upon the input attributes utilizing the trained models. |
| US11961618B2 |
Task interaction network for prostate cancer diagnosis
The present invention provides a task interaction network which can jointly perform, based on multi parametric-magnetic resonance imaging scan images, a segmentation task to locate prostate cancer areas and a classification task to access aggressiveness of lesions. The task interaction network comprises a backbone network, an auxiliary segmentation branch, a classification branch having a lesion awareness module, and a main segmentation branch having a category allocation module. The auxiliary segmentation branch is utilized to predict an initial lesion mask as location guidance information for the classification branch to perform the classification task. The lesion awareness module is configured to refine the initial lesion mask to make it more accurate. Moreover, weights used in classification branch can serve as the category prototypes for generating category guidance features via the category allocation module to assist the main segmentation branch to perform the segmentation task. |
| US11961616B2 |
Real-time monitoring systems and methods in a healthcare environment
An apparatus for real time monitoring of a patient is provided and includes a memory element for storing data, a processor that executes instructions associated with the data, an interface that receives sensor data from a sensor that takes measurements from the patient and sends the sensor data according to the sensor's measurement latency, a latency calculator that frequently calculates a latency threshold that varies according to at least a health status of the patient, a timer that continuously monitors the sensor's measurement latency, a comparator that frequently compares the sensor's measurement latency with the calculated latency threshold, and a feedback module that automatically changes the sensor's measurement latency to match with the calculated latency threshold. |
| US11961614B2 |
Disinfection tracking network
A disinfecting tracking network for creating healthier environments. The system and methods for tracking and utilizing this information to build and maintain healthier environments with a laboratory approach to data inputs. This system is a cloud based system with IOT interface and APIs to enable broad reaching inputs for analysis. This system creates a safer ecosystem and cross statistic sharing of performance parameters. |
| US11961609B2 |
3D image classification method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
The disclosure provides a three-dimensional (3D) image classification method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a 3D image, the 3D image including first-dimensional image information, second-dimensional image information, and third-dimensional image information; extracting a first image feature corresponding to planar image information from the 3D image; extracting a second image feature corresponding to the third-dimensional image information from the 3D image; fusing the first image feature and the second image feature, to obtain a fused image feature corresponding to the 3D image; and determining a classification result corresponding to the 3D image according to the fused image feature corresponding to the 3D image. |
| US11961608B2 |
Image processing systems and methods for caring for skin features
Systems and methods for image processing of a skin feature may include receiving from at least one image sensor associated with a mobile communications device a first and a second images of a skin feature. The skin feature has multiple segments of differing colors and differing sizes, and the second image is captured at least a day after the first image is captured. The method may further include analyzing data associated with the first and second images to determine a condition of the skin feature based on changes over time of the multiple segments. The method may also include determining, based on the determined condition of the skin feature, a medical action for treating the skin feature during a time period. Then, the method may include causing a mobile communications device to display information indicative of the determined medical action. |
| US11961607B2 |
Digital image transfer system
Systems and methods for a digital image transfer system for guaranteed high speed and failsafe transfer and deep learning analysis of complicated digital images. In particular, the transfer methods and systems are suited for medical images, such as CT and MR scans, especially when a large number of images needs to be transferred and looked at immediately, such as when a patient is acute danger of life. |
| US11961604B2 |
Decision support system for medical therapy planning
For decision support in a medical therapy, machine learning provides a machine-learned generator for generating a prediction of outcome for therapy personalized to a patient. Deep learning may result in features more predictive of outcome than handcrafted features. More comprehensive learning may be provided by using multi-task learning where one of the tasks (e.g., segmentation, non-image data, and/or feature extraction) is unsupervised and/or draws on a greater number of training samples than available for outcome prediction alone. |
| US11961603B2 |
System and method for using AI ML and telemedicine to perform bariatric rehabilitation via an electromechanical machine
A computer-implemented system includes one or more processing devices configured to receive attribute data associated with a user, generate, based on at least one of a first bariatric procedure to be performed on the user and a second bariatric procedure already performed on the user, a selected set of the attribute data, determine, based on the selected set of the attribute data, at least one of a first probability of being eligible for the first bariatric procedure to be performed on the user and a second probability of improving a bariatric condition of the user subsequent to the second bariatric procedure being performed on the user, and generate, based on the at least one of the first probability and the second probability, a treatment plan that includes one or more exercises directed to modifying the at least one of the first probability and the second probability, and a treatment apparatus configured for implementation of the treatment plan. |
| US11961601B1 |
Adaptive user interface for determining errors in performance of activities
To assist a user in the correct performance of an activity, video data is acquired. A pose of the user is determined from the video data and an avatar is generated representing the user in the pose. The pose of the user is compared to one or more other poses representing correct performance of the activity to determine one or more differences that may represent errors by the user. Depending on the activity that is being performed, some errors may be presented to the user during performance of the activity, while other errors may be presented after performance of the activity has ceased. To present an indication of an error, a specific body part or other portion of the avatar that corresponds to a difference between the user's pose and a correct pose may be presented along with an instruction regarding correct performance of the activity. |
| US11961599B2 |
Method for authorizing and accessing medication parameters for prescription medications
One variation of a method for accessing medication parameters for prescription medications includes: reading a unique identifier from a medication cartridge installed in a medication dispenser; based on the unique identifier and a dispenser identifier assigned to the medication dispenser, confirming assignment of the medication cartridge to the medication dispenser; based on the dispenser identifier, retrieving medication parameters for a medication contained in the medication cartridge; and at the medication dispenser, outputting a dynamic visual queue to consume a dose of the medication from the medication cartridge during a medication window, the medication window of a duration based on the medication parameters. |
| US11961593B2 |
Artificial intelligence-based determination of analyte data for base calling
The technology disclosed relates to artificial intelligence-based determination of analyte data for base calling. In particular, the technology disclosed uses input image data that is derived from a sequence of images. Each image in the sequence of images represents an imaged region and depicts intensity emissions indicative of one or more analytes and a surrounding background of the intensity emissions at a respective one of a plurality of sequencing cycles of a sequencing run. The input image data comprises image patches extracted from each image in the sequence of images. The input image data is processed through a neural network to generate an alternative representation of the input image data. The alternative representation is processed through an output layer to generate an output indicating properties of respective portions of the imaged region. |
| US11961592B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a genomic testing status
A computer-implemented system for identifying a patient for a trial may include at least one processor. The at least one processor may be programmed to receive an indication of a selected trial, the selected trial being associated with a testing status criterion; access a plurality of patient records associated with a patient of a plurality of patients; determine, using a machine learning model and based on unstructured information from one at least one of the patient records, a likelihood of an occurrence of genomic testing for the patient; determine a genomic testing status of the patient based on the determined likelihood of the occurrence of genomic testing; determine that the genomic testing status satisfies the testing status criterion; and include the patient in a subset of the plurality of patients based on the genomic testing status satisfying the testing status criterion. |
| US11961587B2 |
Clock driver and memory device comprising the same
A clock driver comprises: an input multiplexer for receiving a plurality pairs of input clock signals and an input selection signal, and for selectively outputting one pair of the plurality pairs of input clock signals according to the input selection signal; a phase locking loop (PLL) coupled to the input multiplexer to receive one pair of the plurality pairs of input clock signals, and for generating a PLL clock signal according to the received pair of input clock signals; at least two sets of output multiplexers coupled to the PLL to receive the PLL clock signal and an output selection signal, wherein each set of output multiplexers are configured to selectively output the PLL clock signal as a set of output clock signals according to the output selection signal to drive at least one group of memory chips; and a control module configured to detect toggling of the plurality pairs of input clock signals and generate the input selection signal and the output selection signal based on a detection result of the toggling of the plurality pairs of input clock signals. |
| US11961584B2 |
Readout integrated circuit and operation method thereof
The present invention provides a readout integrated circuit and an operation method thereof. The readout integrated circuit includes a readout circuit, a line buffer and a communication interface circuit. The readout circuit reads out a plurality of row sensing results of a plurality of sensor rows of a sensor. The line buffer is coupled to the readout circuit for temporarily storing a current row sensing result of a current sensor row of the sensor. The communication interface circuit is coupled to the line buffer. After the current row sensing result of the current sensor row is temporarily stored into the line buffer, the communication interface circuit outputs the current row sensing result in real time to a host circuit. |
| US11961580B2 |
Sense amplifier and method thereof
A sense amplifier includes a first pair of transistors having gate terminals respectively coupled to a first input terminal for receiving a first input signal and to a second input terminal for receiving a second input signal, source terminals coupled to a first power supply terminal, and drain terminals. The sense amplifier also includes a second pair of transistors having gate terminals coupled to a clock terminal, source terminals respectively coupled to the drain terminals of the first pair of transistors, and drain terminals. The sense amplifier also includes a third pair of transistors having gate terminals coupled to the clock terminal, drain terminals respectively coupled to the drain terminals of the second pair of transistors, and source terminals coupled to a second power supply terminal. In addition, the sense amplifier includes an output circuit coupled to the drain terminals of the second pair of transistors and having an output terminal. |
| US11961579B2 |
Bit line noise suppression and related apparatuses, methods, and computing systems
Bit line noise suppression and related apparatuses, methods, and computing systems are disclosed. An apparatus includes a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) wafer and a memory cell wafer. The CMOS wafer includes CMOS wafer contact pads and sense amplifier circuitry electrically connected to some of the CMOS wafer contact pads. The memory cell wafer includes memory cell wafer contact pads and bit lines electrically connected to some of the memory cell wafer contact pads. The bit lines include primary bit lines and secondary bit lines. Each of the secondary bit lines extends in parallel proximate to a corresponding one of the primary bit lines. A cross intersection of a first primary bit line with a first secondary bit line located proximate to a parity intersection of a second primary bit line with a second secondary bit line. The first primary bit line is adjacent to the second primary bit line. |
| US11961577B2 |
Testing of on-chip analog-mixed signal circuits using on-chip memory
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) of an integrated circuit includes a first set of ADCs and second set of ADCs in which the ADCs of the first set are of a different type than the ADCs of the second set. On-chip testing of the ADCs includes calibrating an N-bit differential digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and storing a pair of calibration codes for each of 2N possible DAC input codes for the DAC in an on-chip memory. The first set of ADCs is tested using the pairs of calibration codes stored in the on-chip memory and a full N-bit resolution of the DAC. Subsequently, the second set of ADCs is tested using pairs of calibration codes corresponding to a reduced M-bit resolution of the DAC, in which M is less than N. During the testing of the second set of ADCs, a portion of the calibration codes stored in the on-chip memory is overwritten. |
| US11961572B2 |
Edge word line data retention improvement for memory apparatus with on-pitch semi-circle drain side select gate technology
A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines including at least one edge word line and other data word lines. The memory cells are arranged in strings and are configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to data states. The strings are organized in rows and a control means is coupled to the word lines and the strings and identifies the at least one edge word line. The control means programs the memory cells of the strings in particular ones of the rows and associated with the at least one edge word line to have an altered distribution of the threshold voltage for one or more of the data states compared to the memory cells of the strings not in particular ones of the rows and not associated with the at least one edge word line during a program operation. |
| US11961567B2 |
Key storage device and key generation method
A key storage device comprising a first key unit and a second key unit is disclosed. The first key unit is configured to output a first logic value through, comprising: a first setting circuit configured to output a first setting voltage; and a first inverter comprising a first output transistor having a first threshold voltage, configured to receive the first setting voltage and generate the first logic value. The second key unit is configured to output a second logic value through a second node, comprising: a second setting circuit configured to output a second setting voltage; and a second inverter comprising a second output transistor having a second threshold voltage, configured to receive the second setting voltage and generate the second logic value. The absolute value of first threshold voltage is lower than which of the second threshold voltage. The first setting voltage is higher than the second setting voltage. |
| US11961562B2 |
Memory device and operation thereof
A memory device includes an array of memory cells in a plurality of memory strings and arranged in a plurality of rows of memory cells. The memory device also includes a plurality of word lines respectively coupled to the plurality of rows of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit coupled to the plurality of word lines and configured to perform a read operation on a selected row of memory cells of the plurality of rows of memory cells. The selected row of memory cells is coupled to a selected word line, wherein the peripheral circuit is configured to apply a word line voltage on each of the plurality of word lines and determine a highest threshold voltage of the plurality of rows of memory cells based on a change of a word line capacitance loading in response to the word line voltage. |
| US11961559B2 |
Storage device and operating method of storage device
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller allowing the nonvolatile memory device to perform a read operation on memory cells belonging to a selected page in a selected memory block. After the read operation, the memory controller allows the nonvolatile memory device to perform a first check read operation on memory cells of a first neighbor page while sequentially selecting sets of read voltages. After the first check read operation, the memory controller allows the nonvolatile memory device to perform a second check read operation on memory cells of a second neighbor page while sequentially selecting the sets of read voltages. In the second check read operation, the memory controller first selects a set of read voltages, which are used in the first check read operation in which error correction succeeds. |
| US11961556B2 |
Socket design for a memory device
Methods, systems, and devices supporting a socket design for a memory device are described. A die may include one or more memory arrays, which each may include any number of word lines and any number of bit lines. The word lines and the bit lines may be oriented in different directions, and memory cells may be located at the intersections of word lines and bit lines. Sockets may couple the word lines and bit lines to associated drivers, and the sockets may be located such that memory cells farther from a corresponding word line socket are nearer a corresponding bit line socket, and vice versa. For example, sockets may be disposed in rows or regions that are parallel to one another, and which may be non-orthogonal to the corresponding word lines and bit lines. |
| US11961555B2 |
Resistive memory device with boundary and edge transistors coupled to edge bit lines
A resistive memory device includes a first bit line group including a first edge bit line, a second bit line group including a second edge bit line, and a first boundary transistor configured to apply a non-selection voltage to the second edge bit line according to a selection of the first edge bit line. The first edge bit line of the first bit line group is disposed closest to the second bit line group, and the second edge bit line of the second bit line group is disposed closest to the first bit line group. |
| US11961554B2 |
Shared power footer circuit
A device includes a first power rail for a first power domain and a second power rail for a second power domain. A first circuit block is connected to the first power rail and a second circuit block is connected to the second power rail. The first and second circuit blocks are both connected to a virtual VSS terminal. A footer circuit is connected between the virtual VSS terminal and a ground terminal, and the footer circuit is configured to selectively control a connection between the virtual VSS terminal and the ground terminal. |
| US11961551B2 |
Bitline sense amplifier and a memory device with an equalizer
A bitline sense amplifier including: an amplifier which is connected between a first sensing bitline and a second sensing bitline, and detects and amplifies a voltage difference between a first bitline and a second bitline in response to a first control signal and a second control signal; and an equalizer which is connected between a first supply line through which the first control signal is supplied and a second supply line through which the second control signal is supplied, and pre-charges the first bitline and the second bitline with a precharge voltage in response to an equalizing control signal, wherein the equalizer includes an equalizing enable transistor in which a source terminal is connected to the first supply line and performs equalizing in response to the equalizing control signal. |
| US11961544B2 |
Spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) with low resistivity spin hall effect (SHE) write line
Embodiments of the invention include a method for fabricating a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) structure and the resulting structure. A first type of metal is formed on an interlayer dielectric layer with a plurality of embedded contacts, where the first type of metal exhibits spin Hall effect (SHE) properties. At least one spin-orbit torque (SOT) MRAM cell is formed on the first type of metal. One or more recesses surrounding the at least one SOT-MRAM cell are created by recessing exposed portions of the first type of metal. A second type of metal is formed in the one or more recesses, where the second type of metal has lower resistivity than the first type of metal. |
| US11961543B2 |
Thermal management of laser diode mode hopping for heat assisted media recording
A method and apparatus provide for determining a temperature at a junction of a laser diode when the laser diode is operated in a lasing state that facilitates heat-assisted magnetic recording, comparing the junction temperature and an injection current supplied during the lasing state to stored combinations of junction temperature and injection current, and determining a likelihood of mode hopping occurring for the laser diode during the lasing state based on the comparison to stored combinations of junction temperature and injection current. |
| US11961541B2 |
System and method for writing data to tape and reading data from tape using a restful interface
A system (200) for at least one of writing data to tape media (204) and reading data from the tape media (204) includes a client application (202); and a RESTful interface (212) through which the client application (202) transmits a request to at least one of write data to the tape media (204) and read data from the tape media (204) to a REST daemon (214), the RESTful interface (212) being integrated with a SCSI interface (210). The REST daemon (214) subsequently passes the request on to a data mover (208), which opens a second RESTful interface (220) with the client application (202). The client application (202) then sends the request to the data mover (208) via the second RESTful interface (220). The data mover (208) then performs the request by moving the data between the client application (202) and the tape media (204), with the data never landing on primary storage during such movement. |
| US11961540B2 |
Electronic device that includes a composition that can actively generate and release a gaseous oxidizing agent component into an interior space of the electronic device, and related subassemblies and methods
The present disclosure relates to electronic devices that include a composition that actively generates a gaseous oxidizing agent component within the interior gas space of the electronic device. The present disclosure also relates to electronic devices that include a container that includes a gaseous oxidizing agent component in a manner that the gaseous oxidizing component can transfer from the container to the interior gas space of the electronic device. The present disclosure also involves related methods. |
| US11961535B2 |
Detection of laser-based audio injection attacks using channel cross correlation
Techniques are provided for detection of laser-based audio injection attacks. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes calculating cross correlations between signals received from microphones of an array of two or more microphones. The method also includes identifying time delays associated with peaks of the cross correlations, and magnitudes associated with the peaks of the cross correlations. The method further includes calculating a time alignment metric based on the time delays and calculating a similarity metric based on the magnitudes. The method further includes generating a first attack indicator based on a comparison of the time alignment metric to a first threshold and generating a second attack indicator based on a comparison of the similarity metric to a second threshold. The method further includes providing warning of a laser-based audio attack based on the first attack indicator and/or the second attack indicator. |
| US11961534B2 |
Identifying user of voice operation based on voice information, voice quality model, and auxiliary information
A voice operation apparatus and a control method thereof that can further improve accuracy of talker identification are provided. Provided is a voice operation apparatus including a talker identification unit that identifies a user as a talker of a voice operation based on voice information and a voice quality model of a user registered in advance, and a voice operation recognition unit that performs voice recognition on the voice information and generates voice operation information, wherein the talker identification unit identifies a talker by using, as auxiliary information, at least one of the voice operation information, position information on a voice operation apparatus, direction information on a talker, distance information on a talker, and time information. |
| US11961533B2 |
Systems and methods for speech separation and neural decoding of attentional selection in multi-speaker environments
Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method comprising obtaining, by a device, a combined sound signal for signals combined from multiple sound sources in an area in which a person is located, and applying, by the device, speech-separation processing (e.g., deep attractor network (DAN) processing, online DAN processing, LSTM-TasNet processing, Conv-TasNet processing), to the combined sound signal from the multiple sound sources to derive a plurality of separated signals that each contains signals corresponding to different groups of the multiple sound sources. The method further includes obtaining, by the device, neural signals for the person, the neural signals being indicative of one or more of the multiple sound sources the person is attentive to, and selecting one of the plurality of separated signals based on the obtained neural signals. The selected signal may then be processed (amplified, attenuated). |
| US11961529B2 |
Hybrid expansive frequency compression for enhancing speech perception for individuals with high-frequency hearing loss
A method of audio signal processing comprising Hybrid Expansive Frequency Compression (hEFC) via a digital signal processor, wherein the method includes: classifying an audio signal input, wherein the audio signal input includes frication high-frequency speech energy, into two or more speech sound classes followed by selecting a form of input-dependent frequency remapping function; and performing hEFC including, re-coding of one or more input frequencies of the speech sound via the input-dependent frequency remapping function to generate an audio output signal, wherein the output signal is a representation of the audio signal input having a lower sound frequency. |
| US11961527B2 |
Methods and apparatus to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction
Methods and apparatus to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to select frequency components to be used to represent a code, different sets of frequency components to represent respectively different information, respective ones of the frequency components in the sets of frequency components located in respective code bands, there being multiple code bands and spacing between adjacent code bands being equal to or less than the spacing between adjacent frequency components in the code bands. Disclosed example apparatus are also to synthesize the frequency components to be used to represent the code, combine the synthesized frequency components with an audio block of an audio signal, and output the audio signal and a video signal associated with the audio signal. |
| US11961521B2 |
Media system with multiple digital assistants
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing voice control using multiple digital assistants. In some embodiments, a voice platform operates to receive a voice input from a user. The voice platform selects a digital assistant from a plurality of digital assistants based on a trigger word. The voice platform then generates an intent from the voice input using the selected digital assistant. The voice platform then transmits the intent to a media device for processing. |
| US11961517B2 |
Continuous utterance estimation apparatus, continuous utterance estimation method, and program
Operations are appropriately changed in accordance with the use method. A keyword detection unit 11 generates a keyword detection result indicating a result of detecting an utterance of a predetermined keyword from an input voice. A voice detection unit 12 generates a voice section detection result indicating a result of detecting a voice section from the input voice. A sequential utterance detection unit 13 generates a sequential utterance detection result indicating that a sequential utterance has been made if the keyword detection result indicates that the keyword has been detected and if the voice section detection result indicates that the voice section has been detected. |
| US11961513B2 |
Low-power automatic speech recognition device
A decoder includes a feature extraction circuit for calculating one or more feature vectors. An acoustic model circuit is coupled to receive one or more feature vectors from and assign one or more likelihood values to the one or more feature vectors. A memory architecture that utilizes on-chip state lattices and an off-chip memory for storing states of transition of the decoder is used to reduce reading and writing to the off-chip memory. The on-chip state lattice is populated with at least one of the states of transition stored in the off-chip memory. An on-chip word is generated from a snapshot from the on-chip state lattice. The on-chip state lattice and the on-chip word lattice act as an on-chip cache to reduce reading and writing to the off-chip memory. |
| US11961508B2 |
Voice input processing method and electronic device supporting same
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a microphone, a speaker and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a first voice input through the microphone, outputting a response related to a function through the speaker, based on the first voice input, when a second voice input is received through the microphone during output of the response, interrupting the output of the response and continue to receive the second voice input, and executing the function based on content of the received second voice input and content of the response output up to one of: a first time point when the second voice input was initially received, and a second time point when the output of the response was interrupted. |
| US11961506B2 |
Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof
An electronic apparatus including a memory configured to store first voice recognition information related to a first language and second voice recognition information related to a second language, and a processor to obtain a first text corresponding to a user voice that is received on the basis of first voice recognition information, based on an entity name being included in the user voice according to the obtained first text, identify a segment in the user voice in which the entity name is included. The processor is to obtain a second text corresponding to the identified segment of the user voice on the basis of the second voice recognition information, and obtain control information corresponding to the user voice on the basis of the first text and the second text. |
| US11961505B2 |
Electronic device and method for identifying language level of target
Methods and devices for identifying language level are provided. A first automatic speech recognition (ASR) module is identified, from among a plurality of ASR modules, based on information on a target received at the electronic device. First voice data and first image data for the target are received. The first voice data and the first image data are converted to first text data using the first ASR module. A first language level of the target is identified based on the first text data. Data including at least one of a voice output and an image output is output based on the first language level satisfying a condition. |
| US11961504B2 |
System and method for data augmentation of feature-based voice data
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving feature-based voice data associated with a first acoustic domain. One or more rate-based augmentations may be performed on at least a portion of the feature-based voice data, thus defining rate-based augmented feature-based voice data. |
| US11961503B2 |
Automatic noise control
Methods and systems are provided for an automatic noise control system. Automatic noise control includes evaluating an amplitude of an acceleration acting on an acceleration sensor and generating a reference signal representative of the amplitude of the acceleration, the acceleration being representative of unwanted noise sound generated by a noise source, filtering the reference signal with a noise control transfer function to generate an anti-noise signal, and converting with a loudspeaker the anti-noise signal into anti-noise sound. |
| US11961502B1 |
Wearable audio device with feedback instability control
Aspects include approaches for feedback instability control in wearable audio devices. In certain cases, a method of controlling feedback instability in a wearable audio device with an active noise reduction (ANR) system includes: determining a current feedback instability by combining outputs from multiple instability detectors, applying latch logic to the current feedback instability to determine a current mitigation value, and adjusting a driver command signal based on the current mitigation value to mitigate feedback instability. |
| US11961501B2 |
Noise reduction method and device
Noise reduction method and device are provided. The method includes: obtaining different audio signals respectively collected by two audio collection devices, where one of the two audio collection devices has a specific positional relationship with an effective audio source; at least according to the different audio signals respectively collected by the two audio collection devices, determining effective signals corresponding to the effective audio source and noise signals corresponding to a noise source and obtaining determination results; and performing a noise reduction process on the audio signals collected by at least one of the two audio collection devices to retain the effective signals and reduce the noise signals, according to the determination results. |
| US11961497B2 |
Headjoint for a flute and alto flute set
The invention relates to an alto flute set having a flute body (5) with tone holes, one mouthpiece (1), a straight extension (3) connectable to the flute body (5) and to the one mouthpiece (1), a curved extension (4) connectable to the flute body (5) and to the one mouthpiece (1). |
| US11961495B2 |
Pivot bridge or plate for stringed musical instruments and related methods
Disclosed is an improved pivot or bridge plate that may be constructed originally or may be used to retrofit existing stringed instruments. |
| US11961493B2 |
Display device, and method of operating a display device
A display device including: a display panel including first through N-th pixel rows; and a panel driver configured to sequentially receive first through N-th line data for the first through the N-th pixel rows in each frame period, and to drive the display panel based on the first through the N-th line data, the panel driver including: a current control circuit configured to determine a current control value for a (K+1)-th pixel row based on the first through K-th line data for the first through K-th pixel rows received in a current frame period and (K+1)-th through the N-th line data for the (K+1)-th through the N-th pixel rows received in a previous frame period; and a data correction circuit configured to correct the (K+1)-th line data for the (K+1)-th pixel row based on the current control value in the current frame period. |
| US11961489B1 |
Scan driving circuit and operation method thereof
The present disclosure provides a scan driving circuit, which includes a pull-up output charging circuit, a pull-down discharge circuit, a pre-charge circuit, an anti-noise start-up circuit and an anti-noise pull-down discharge circuit. The pull-up output charging circuit is electrically connected to an output terminal, and the pull-down discharge circuit is electrically connected to the output terminal. The pre-charge circuit is electrically connected to the pull-up output charging circuit and the pull-down discharge circuit through a driving node. The anti-noise start-up circuit is electrically connected to the pre-charge circuit. The anti-noise pull-down discharge circuit is electrically connected to the anti-noise start-up circuit, and the anti-noise pull-down discharge circuit is electrically connected to the driving node. |
| US11961481B2 |
Integrated circuit for driving pixel of display panel, pixel driving device, and pixel defect detecting method
The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit, a pixel driving device and a pixel defect detecting method and provides a device and method to sense a voltage of a light emitting diode of a pixel through a data line and to compare the sensed voltage with a reference range, thereby determining a pixel defect. |
| US11961480B2 |
Scan driver and organic light emitting display apparatus including the same
A scan driver and an organic light emitting display apparatus including the same, where a narrow bezel is realized, are provided. The scan driver includes a plurality of stages, wherein each of the plurality of stages includes a Q1 node controller controlling a voltage of a Q1 node by using first and second clock signals whose phases are opposite to each other, a QB node controller controlling a voltage of a QB node by using the first and second clock signals, an output clock signal, and a start signal, a first transistor outputting a gate low voltage as a scan signal while the QB node is activated, and a second transistor outputting a gate high voltage as the scan signal while a Q2 node is activated, and outputting the gate low voltage as the scan signal when the Q2 node is bootstrapped to a voltage lower than the gate low voltage. |
| US11961479B2 |
Display device and method for driving the same
A display device and a method for driving the display device are described, where the display device includes a plurality of pixel island groups, a plurality of lenses, a positioning module, and a gate driving chip. The plurality of pixel island groups are arranged in array, wherein each of the pixel island groups includes a plurality of pixel islands, and different pixel islands are able to be scanned in different scanning modes. The positioning module is configured to determine a gaze area and a non-gaze area according to gazed coordinates of human eye. The gate driving chip is configured to provide gate driving signals in a first driving manner to sub-pixel units in the gaze area, and provide gate driving signals simultaneously in a second driving manner to sub-pixel units in the non-gaze area during a scanning stage of the sub-pixel units in the non-gaze area. |
| US11961478B2 |
Display panel and display device including the same
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device including the same according to an embodiment. A display panel according to the embodiment includes: a display area in which a plurality of first pixels are arranged at a first pixels per inch (PPI); and a sensing area in which a plurality of second pixels are arranged at a second PPI that is lower than the first PPI, wherein the first pixels of the display area and the second pixels of the sensing area are arranged adjacent to each other at a boundary between the display area and the sensing area, the second pixel includes red, green, and blue sub-pixels, and at least one of the red and green sub-pixels of the second pixel is arranged closest to the first pixel. |
| US11961474B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed that includes a pixel. The pixel includes a first transistor connected between a second node and a third node and including a gate electrode connected to a first node. A first capacitor is formed between the first node and a fourth node. A second capacitor is formed between the fourth node and a first power line. A second transistor is connected between a data line and the fourth node. An eighth transistor is connected between the first power line and the second node. A ninth transistor is connected between the second node and a bias power line. A sixth transistor is connected between the third node and a fifth node. A light emitting element is electrically connected between the fifth node and a second power line. A gate electrode of the eighth transistor and a gate electrode of the sixth transistor are connected to different gate lines. |
| US11961471B2 |
Display substrate and display device
A display substrate and a display device are provided, the display substrate includes: a base substrate and a plurality of reset signal lines, the base substrate includes a display region, each of the sub-pixels includes a pixel driving circuit and a light-emitting element, the light-emitting element includes a light-emitting region and a first electrode, the pixel driving circuit is configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light; orthographic projections of the first electrodes of the light-emitting elements of the sub-pixels of the pixel units on a board surface of the base substrate at least partially overlap with orthographic projections of the pixel driving circuits of the sub-pixels of the plurality of pixel units on the board surface of the base substrate, and are located on a same side of the reset signal lines electrically connected to the pixel driving circuits of the sub-pixels of the plurality of pixel units. |
| US11961469B2 |
Display module and control method thereof, display drive circuit, and electronic device
A display module, a display drive circuit, and an electronic device. The display module includes a display and at least one driver group. The display includes M rows of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix form. Each sub-pixel includes a driving transistor, a first reset transistor, a first capacitor, and a light emitting device. Each driver group includes M selecting circuits. The Nth selecting circuit is coupled to a second node of a first reset transistor in the Nth row of sub-pixels. The selecting circuit is configured to output a second initial voltage Vint2 to the second node, and is configured to output a first initial voltage Vint1 to the second node, where |Vint2|>|Vint1|. |
| US11961465B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device
The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting diode display device capable of changing a frame size. The organic light emitting diode display device includes: a display including a panel, a frame memory configured to store image data in units of frames, and a timing controller configured to control the panel to display an image based on the image data stored in the frame memory; a memory configured to store information of the panel; and a controller configured to, when operating in a preset image mode, change a frame size, which is a size of the image data stored in the frame memory, based on the information of the panel. |
| US11961463B2 |
Pixel and display device
A pixel connected to a first scan line includes a light-emitting element including an anode and a cathode, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode connected to a first node, a first capacitor connected between the first node and a second node, a second transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the first node including a gate electrode connected to the first scan line, a third transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a gate electrode connected to the first scan line, and a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected to a first driving voltage line, a second electrode connected to the first electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode connected to the first scan line. |
| US11961462B2 |
Electronic device for generating bias signal based on gate control signal
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a pixel array, a gate driver and a bias signal driver. The pixel array includes a pixel unit. The gate driver generates a plurality of gate control signals. The bias signal driver is electrically connected to the pixel unit and the gate driver, and configured to generate a bias signal to activate the pixel unit according to a part of the plurality of gate control signals. The bias signal driver includes a first logic circuit and a second logic circuit. |
| US11961458B2 |
Display apparatus and control method therefor
A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel array, in which pixels that include a plurality of inorganic light-emitting devices of different colors are arranged in a matrix form, and a pixel circuit that is provided for each of the plurality of inorganic light-emitting devices, and the pixel circuit controls, on the basis of an applied image data voltage, the driving time and the magnitude of driving current provided to the inorganic light-emitting devices; a sensor which senses, on the basis of a voltage applied to the pixel circuit, a current flowing through a driving transistor included in the pixel circuit and which outputs sensing data corresponding to the sensed current; and a corrector which corrects, on the basis of the sensed data, the image data voltage applied to the pixel circuit. |
| US11961456B2 |
Pixel circuit and display apparatus including the same
A pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor applies a driving current to the light emitting element. The second transistor and the third transistor apply an initialization voltage to a first electrode of the light emitting element. The second transistor and the third transistor are electrically connected to each other in series. |
| US11961452B2 |
Display device and display driving method
A display device and a display driving method are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel including gate lines, data lines, and a plurality of subpixels including a plurality of driving transistors, a gate driving circuit configured to apply scan signals to the gate lines, a data driving circuit configured to convert image data into data voltages and apply the data voltages to the data lines, and a timing controller configured to compensate the data voltages applied to the plurality of driving transistors based on a real-time sensing process of characteristic values of the plurality of driving transistors, and control an application of a recovery voltage to at least one driving transistor of the plurality of driving transistors a plurality of times within a blank period of a frame period based on a reference period to reset the at least one driving transistor during the blank period. |
| US11961450B2 |
Display controller, head-mounted display, and image displaying method
In a display controller, a standard information acquisition unit acquires at least one of a luminance characteristic and a color gamut of a standard display panel. A luminance information storage unit of an output adjustment unit stores a measurement value of a luminance characteristic of a panel of a displaying destination. A luminance range adjustment unit gradually adjusts a luminance range for an image to be a luminance range same as that of the standard display panel. A color gamut information storage unit stores a measurement value of a color gamut of the panel of the displaying destination. A color adjustment unit adjusts a pixel value of an image on the basis of the color gamut such that the image is displayed in a color same as that on the standard display panel. |
| US11961445B2 |
Mura compensation device and data processing circuit for Mura compensation
A data processing circuit according to an embodiment may include a reception circuit configured to receive image data including grayscale values associated with pixels disposed in a display panel. The data processing circuit may include a compensation circuit configured to calculate a final compensation value by multiplying a representative compensation value of each area and a global gain, and to produce converted image data. The data processing circuit may include a memory storing a representative compensation value associated with a grayscale value of each area of the display panel, and may include a transmission circuit configured to transmit the converted image data to a data driving circuit. |
| US11961444B2 |
Transparent display device
The disclosure provides a transparent display device including a display panel. The display panel includes a display area, a non-display area, and a plurality of pixels. The non-display area is adjacent to the display area. The plurality of pixels are disposed in the display area. A difference between a transmittance of the display area and a transmittance of the non-display area is less than 30% of the transmittance of the display area. |
| US11961443B2 |
Display driving apparatus
The present disclosure discloses a display driving apparatus. The display driving apparatus of the present disclosure may be configured to drive a source signal in a state optimized for a panel load of a display panel. |
| US11961439B2 |
Display panel, driving method and display device
A display panel, a driving method and a display device are disclosed. The display panel is divided into a first area and a second area arranged along a data line direction. Multiple sub-pixels corresponding to a same row of scan line are connected to data lines in one-to-one correspondence. In the first area and second area, each column of sub-pixels is arranged between two adjacent data lines, where the same column of sub-pixels includes multiple sub-pixel groups, each of which includes at least one sub-pixel. Among two adjacent data lines, one data line is connected with the sub-pixels in the odd groups, and the other is connected with the sub-pixels in the even groups. The sub-pixel groups in the first area and the corresponding sub-pixel groups in the second area are axially symmetrical with respect to a boundary line between the first area and the second area. |
| US11961435B2 |
Display apparatus and control method thereof
A display apparatus including a display, a memory configured to store moving trajectory information related to a plurality of moving trajectories. and a processor configured to control the display to display a specific pixel which is pixel-shifted according to a first moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a first frame interval. The processor, based on completing of the specific pixel being pixel-shifted according to the first moving trajectory, moves the specific pixel located at a starting point of the first moving trajectory by pixel units in any one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, and control the display to display the specific pixel by being pixel-shifted according to a second moving trajectory among the plurality of moving trajectories in a plurality of image frames included in a second frame interval. |
| US11961428B2 |
Method and device for processing image
Provided is a method including: obtaining a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of views; identifying at least one view region overlapping with a sub-pixel from among a plurality of view regions corresponding to the plurality of views; identifying a data value corresponding to the sub-pixel for each of at least one image corresponding to the at least one view region; determining an application degree of the data value for each of the at least one image, based on a level of overlap between the sub-pixel and the at least one view region, and determining an output value of the sub-pixel based on a data value adjusted according to the determined application degree; and outputting an image based on output values respectively determined for a plurality of sub-pixels including the sub-pixel. |
| US11961427B2 |
Outdoor LED display
The application belongs to the technical field of LED display screens, and particularly relates to an outdoor LED display. The Outdoor LED display comprises a box body, a display module and a plurality of control assemblies; the display module comprises a plurality of sub-modules, and each sub-module is provided with a control assembly; the box body comprises a frame and a panel installed on the frame, and the display module is connected at one end of the frame away from the panel; the panel, the frame, and the display module form an installation space for installing the control assembly. In this application, each sub-module is installed with a corresponding control assembly, and the control assembly can control the corresponding sub-module to display, thereby enhancing the display effect of the outdoor LED display. |
| US11961424B2 |
Display panel and display device including flexible substrate layer with intersecting planes
A display panel includes a base substrate and a flexible substrate layer. The base substrate includes a flat portion and a curved portion extending from the flat portion and curved towards a side of the base substrate facing away a display surface of the display panel. The flexible substrate layer includes a first portion on a side of the base substrate facing the display surface and a second portion on a side of the base substrate facing away from the display surface. The first portion includes a pixel circuit and the second portion includes a signal line electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The display panel further includes a support structure including a support surface facing away from the display surface, the second portion is coupled to the support surface, and a plane of the support surface intersects a plane of the flat portion of the base substrate. |
| US11961422B2 |
Recyclable heat shrink film for recyclable container
A recyclable shrink label includes a heat shrink film having a first surface and a second surface opposite of the first surface; and a light blocking layer disposed adjacent the first surface and comprising a light blocking component, the light blocking layer being constructed for the recyclable shrink label to block at least 80% of incident light having wavelengths in a range of 200 nm to 900 nm. The recyclable shrink label may further include an indicia layer. The recyclable shrink label may further include a high opacity layer. The recyclable shrink label may be applied to a container, e.g., a recyclable container. Articles including the recyclable shrink label may be recycled in a process where both the container and the label are recognized as a resin and may be directed into a corresponding recycling stream. In some cases, both the container and the label include PET. |
| US11961421B2 |
Display medium, processing device, and processing program
A display medium with a substrate provided with a plurality of virtual cells C, and, on the cell C, a partition P having a plurality of surfaces respectively formed on a plane that intersects with the substrate and exposed when the display medium is viewed from a plurality of directions. A portion exposed when the display medium is viewed from a predetermined direction among the plurality of directions is given the color of a content corresponding to the predetermined direction. The display medium displays different contents in the plurality of directions, respectively. |
| US11961420B2 |
Efficient squaring with loop equalization in arithmetic logic units
Aspects of the present disclosure describe a method and a system to support execution of the method to perform a cryptographic operation involving identifying an N-word number, X=XN−1 . . . X1Xo, to be squared, performing a first loop comprising M first loop iterations, wherein M is a largest integer not exceeding (N+1)/2, each of the M first loop iterations comprising a second loop that comprises a plurality of second loop iterations, wherein an iteration m of the second loop that is within an iteration j of the first loop comprises computing a product Xa*Xb of a word Xa and a word Xb, wherein a+b=2j+m, j≥0 and m≥0, and wherein all second loops have an equal number of second loop iterations. |
| US11961417B2 |
Systems and methods to provide weld training
An example weld training system includes a display device; an input device; a processor; and machine readable instructions cause the processor to demonstrate to a user an effect of a combination of welding-related variables by: enabling the user to design a weld procedure using the input device by selecting weld parameters including weld current and weld voltage; simulating a welding operation on a simulated workpiece using the selected weld parameters in a welding model and a simulated physical welding environment to determine a modeled result of the welding operation; displaying a simulation animation of the welding operation on the display device according to the simulation; displaying the modeled result of the weld on the display device using at least one of an image of a surface of a weld bead or a cross-section of the weld bead and the simulated workpiece; and displaying information about an anomaly present in the weld determined based on the simulation, the information about the anomaly comprising at least one of a cause of the anomaly, a suggested change in one or more of the welding-related variables to avoid the anomaly, or a location of the anomaly in the image of the weld bead or in the cross-section of the weld bead. |
| US11961416B2 |
Systems and methods for testing skills capability using technologically-enhanced questions in a computerized environment
Systems and processes are provided for analyzing a test taker's knowledge, skills, and cognitive function. The systems and processes include smart questions (i.e., SmartItems) programmed with coded variables, or for multiple choice varieties, variable sets of options to cover an entire skill set being tested. The systems and processes generate questions in real time during administration of the test, by formulating and displaying, to a test taker, random combinations of a question stem and randomly-selected question components. This smart question content is unpredictably and randomly presented, as representations of the skill to be tested. The systems and processes analyze the test taker's knowledge, skills, and cognitive function about the entire domain of the skill, rather than a single fact. The systems and processes provide security to test administration. |
| US11961414B2 |
Entertainment/educational system and associated apparatus, methods and uses
The present specification discloses an entertainment/educational system having one or more interactive stations having associated systems comprising apparatus and activities that demonstrate various physical phenomenon. Each interactive station comprises a different system featuring differing apparatus that provides users the ability to form various types and numbers of bubbles that the users can experience and interact with. User progression and interaction with a particular set of/order of interactive stations is correlated with lessons about physical phenomena exemplified by the bubbles made at a particular station of the total stations visited. The lessons may be further enhanced by information provided to users via a poster, handout, booklet or other informative media or information provided by a guide/attendant escorting user(s) through the set of stations. |
| US11961409B1 |
Air-ground joint trajectory planning and offloading scheduling method and system for distributed multiple objectives
An air-ground joint trajectory planning and offloading scheduling method and system for distributed multiple objectives is provided. At the beginning of each timeslot, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) selects a flight direction based on a total energy consumption of all devices and a total amount of unprocessed data of all the devices in the current system, and flies a fixed distance towards a certain direction. Before the UAV reaches a new location, each terrestrial user independently selects a task data offloading scheduling strategy based on the total energy consumption of all the devices and the total amount of the unprocessed data of all the devices in the current system. In order to improve an expected long-term average energy efficiency and data processing capability, the present disclosure also provides average feedbacks for an energy consumption and unprocessed data. |
| US11961408B2 |
Air traffic control of unmanned aerial vehicles for delivery applications
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) air traffic control method utilizing wireless networks and concurrently supporting delivery application authorization and management communicating with a plurality of UAVs via a plurality of cell towers associated with the wireless networks, wherein the plurality of UAVs each include hardware and antennas adapted to communicate to the plurality of cell towers; maintaining data associated with flight of each of the plurality of UAVs based on the communicating; processing the maintained data to perform a plurality of functions associated with air traffic control of the plurality of UAVs; and processing the maintained data to perform a plurality of functions for the delivery application authorization and management for each of the plurality of UAVs. |
| US11961407B2 |
Methods and associated systems for managing 3D flight paths
Methods and associated systems and apparatus for generating a three-dimensional (3D) flight path for a moveable platform such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a set of 3D information associated with a virtual reality environment and receiving a plurality of virtual locations in the virtual reality environment. For individual virtual locations, the system receives a corresponding action item. The system then generates a 3D path based on at least one of the set of 3D information, the plurality of virtual locations, and the plurality of action items. The system then generates a set of images associated with the 3D path and then visually presents the same to an operator via a virtual reality device. The system enables the operator to adjust the 3D path via the virtual reality device. |
| US11961406B2 |
Method and device for transmitting flight information
A method and device for transmitting flight information. The method comprises: generating switching request related signaling, the switching request related signaling carrying flight path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle; and sending the switching request related signaling to a target base station. The method may also be a method applied to an MME side, and comprises: receiving switching demand signaling sent by a source base station, the switching demand signaling carrying flight path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle; and sending second switching request signaling to a target base station, the second switching request signaling carrying flight path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle. |
| US11961399B2 |
Method and system for inter and intra agency communication, tracking and coordination
A method is disclosed. A data set including: (a) identifiers of a set of incidents occurring within a defined geographic region to which at least one service provider responded during a first time period and (b) address data identifying a location within the geographic region of each said incident of the set is retrieved over a network. An instruction to generate a heat map of the incidents occurring within the geographic region during the first time period is received from a user via a user interface generated to a display device. In response to the instruction to generate the heat map, the address data is converted to GPS data. A heat map of an aerial view of the geographic region based on the GPS data is generated. The heat map is displayed to the display device in a user interface. |
| US11961398B2 |
Quality determining method, quality determining device, and motor vehicle
Technologies and techniques for quality determination for a traffic system. First traffic parameter data is acquired from the traffic system, indicative of a parameter of the traffic system. Second traffic parameter data is acquired, indicative of another parameter of the traffic system, wherein the second traffic parameter data originate from a plurality of traffic participants. The parameter from the first traffic parameter data and second traffic parameter are obtained, wherein the parameter obtained from the first traffic parameter data is compared to the parameter obtained from the second traffic parameter data in order to determine the quality of the first traffic parameter data. |
| US11961393B2 |
System and method for audible spatial description for people with sensory disabilities and the aging population
An accessible and usable mobile device application is provided herein that integrates with a technology network designed to increase an ability to orient, locate and travel within indoor and outdoor physical environments independently, safely, and securely for people with sensory disabilities and the aging population who have visual, hearing, mobility, and/or cognitive disabilities. |
| US11961392B2 |
Worker-in-the-loop real time safety system for short-duration highway workzones
An edge device for monitoring safety of a highway work zone is disclosed. The edge device includes at least one camera, one or more processors, and memory. The at least one camera is configured to capture images in sequence. The memory stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to: perform vehicle detection over an input of a data stream of the images, from the at least one camera, utilizing just-in-time processing; determine a level of safety by tracking vehicles detected and performing a time sequence analysis of the vehicles; and send a signal to one or more assisted reality devices indicating the level of safety thereto. |
| US11961391B2 |
Codeset communication format and related methods and structures
A codeset is described in a Public Codeset Communication Format (PCCF) as a format block including a plurality of fields having readily decipherable values, such as ASCII character values. One field is a mark/space information field that includes a sequence of mark time indicators and space time indicators for an operational signal of the codeset. A second field is a signal characteristic information field for the operational signal. Signal characteristic information may include carrier on/off information, repeat frame information, toggle control information, and last frame information. The PCCF is a codeset interchange format of general applicability. |
| US11961390B1 |
Configuring a secondary device
This disclosure describes systems and methods for using a primary device, communicatively coupled to a remote system, to configure or re-configure a secondary device in the same environment as the primary device. In some instances, the primary device may communicatively couple to the secondary device via a short-range wireless connection and to the remote system via a wireless area network (WAN), a wired connection, or the like. Thus, the primary device may act as an intermediary between the secondary device and the remote system for configuring the secondary device. |
| US11961385B2 |
Hand hygiene device, system, and method
In one embodiment, a process may obtain sensor data associated with a motion event captured by a wearable device. The process may identify, using the sensor data as input to one or more machine learning-based classifiers, a hand hygiene protocol associated with the motion event. The process may recognize, from the sensor data associated with the motion event, a deviation from a step of the hand hygiene protocol. The process may provide, based on recognizing the deviation, remediation instructions to achieve compliance with the step of the hand hygiene protocol. |
| US11961384B2 |
Device for sensing the activity of people or the status of infrastructures or objects influenced by people
An apparatus for detecting the activity of persons or the state of infrastructures or objects influenced by persons by means of acceleration measurement. The device has an acceleration sensor which is arranged to react to a preset threshold value of a measured acceleration and, when the threshold value is exceeded, to trigger at least one of the actions of data storage, modification of a counter or transmission of a data telegram by radio. The apparatus further comprises an energy converter for converting a primary energy into electrical energy for operating the apparatus or the acceleration sensor. The energy converter is arranged to obtain the primary energy independently of an energy resulting from a measured acceleration. |
| US11961382B2 |
Method for operating a hearing system
A method for operating a hearing aid system. The hearing aid system includes a hearing aid with at least one input transducer, an output transducer, and a motion sensor. The movement of a hearing aid system user is captured as movement data of the motion sensor. A probability for a future fall or trip event on the part of the hearing aid system user is determined on the basis of the captured movement data. A perceptible warning signal is generated when the probability reaches or exceeds a stored threshold value. |
| US11961375B2 |
Commodity management system with a cart having a wireless tag reader/writer for specifying a quantity of a commodity displayed in a display area
A commodity management system includes a cart including a wireless tag reader/writer configured to read first information from first wireless tags attached to commodities displayed in a store and second information from second wireless tags each disposed in a different display area in the store, and a commodity management apparatus configured to acquire the first and second information read by the wireless tag reader/writer, determine a display area in the store using the acquired second information, and specify a quantity of a commodity displayed in the determined display area based on the acquired first information. |
| US11961371B2 |
Virtual gaming system, server and method
In some embodiments, the disclosure describes a virtual sports interactive simulation media that displays a simulation of competitive events the results of which correspond to actual real-world live events. In some embodiments, simulated avatars represent live event competitors, and the results of the simulated event correspond to the live event results. In some embodiments, the system displays a simulated competition that is different from the live competition. In some embodiments, the system simulates action and/or drama to hide the outcome of the live event until at least a portion of the simulation is complete. In some embodiments, the system selects live events based on when a user decides to play. In some embodiments, the system provides the user with wagering options for different games. In some embodiments, the outcomes of actual events are displayed in a variety of game packages. |
| US11961370B2 |
Metamorphic persistent symbols using random probability distribution
According to some implementations, when a triggering symbol lands in a defined area of a slot game display during an instance of a base game, there is a chance that the triggering symbol may change to a new symbol. If so, the new symbol may be held in the defined area and may persist during one or more additional purchased base game instances. The new symbol may persist if at least one additional triggering symbol lands in the defined area in subsequent bought games. Each additional triggering symbol may automatically change to a new symbol as the additional triggering symbol lands in the defined area of the slot game display. Whether the triggering symbol will change to a new symbol may involve a random component. In some examples, the greater the number of triggering symbols, the greater the probability the triggering symbol will change to the new symbol. |
| US11961367B2 |
Systems and methods for utilizing historical game data for subsequent gameplay
An electronic gaming device is described. The electronic gaming device includes a display device including a first display area and a second display area and at least one processor configured to execute instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine a first game outcome and cause display of a first game outcome amount in the first display area. The instructions also cause the at least one processor to cause display of the first game outcome amount in the second display area, the second display area including a plurality of past game outcome amounts. The instructions further cause the at least one processor to determine a second game outcome, provide a second game outcome amount, and, based upon the second game outcome including a trigger event, provide a past game outcome amount of the plurality of past game outcome amounts. |
| US11961364B2 |
Fraud detection system in a casino
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud. |
| US11961357B2 |
Electronic gaming machine and methods for displaying supplemental information
Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for rendering supplemental information on an electronic gaming device, where the supplemental information does not relate to game play on the machine. The supplemental information can include safety warnings, maintenance information, or other information. The electronic gaming device can detect user interactions with the electronic gaming device, such as using sensors or a player interface that includes a touchscreen. The user interactions can be compared with a condition associated with the supplemental information. Feedback, such as visual, audio, or haptic feedback, or a combination thereof, can be provided to indicate to the user whether the condition is satisfied. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed. |
| US11961353B2 |
Storage and dispensing station for blister packaging machine
A system for dispensing and packaging drug portions includes one or more storage containers, the one or more storage containers each including a housing defining a receiving chamber for drug portions and a singulating device disposed at least partially within the housing for singulating and dispensing the drug portions contained within the receiving chamber, the singulating device having an electrically conductive outer surface. The system also includes a blister packaging machine for packaging drug portions dispensed from the one or more storage containers, wherein a conductor device is provided, the conductor device providing an electrically conductive coupling between the singulating device outer surface and a contact configured to dissipate an electrical charge. |
| US11961349B1 |
Biometric authentication for security sensor bypass
A method implemented by a security sensor device is provided. The security sensor device receives a user input, performs a biometric authentication of a user associated with the user input, modifies a state of the security sensor device based at least in part on the biometric authentication and the user input, detects a sensor trigger when the security sensor device is in the modified state, determines a sensor indication based at least in part on the sensor trigger, the state of the security sensor device subsequent to being modified, and the user input, and transmits the sensor indication to a premises security control device. The sensor indication is configured to cause the premises security control device to perform at least one premises security action. |
| US11961348B1 |
Solid-state information pattern discriminating switch
A maze-based switch generally having three functional blocks is disclosed. The first functional block handles communications by accepting an entered maze pattern from an external system controller and outputting the entered maze pattern (and optionally its directional complement) to the second functional block. The second functional block stores the maze pattern (and optionally its directional complement) to a permanent storage element and outputs the stored, entered maze pattern and its directional complement to a series of transistors in the third functional block. The third functional block is an electronic maze in which a correct maze pattern and its directional complement must be received by the transistors for the transistors to pass electrical power through the electronic maze to a connected element. The third functional block may alternatively be implemented with optical elements, optoelectronic elements, microelectromechanical elements, or elements formed by other microsystem technologies. |
| US11961340B2 |
Method and system for accident detection using contextual data
A system for reporting accident data includes: a mobile device having a plurality of sensors; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform operations including: operating the plurality of sensors to collect driving data; receiving the driving data collected over a plurality of time intervals from at least one of the plurality of sensors in the mobile device of a user during a trip in a vehicle, assigning the driving data to the trip; receiving input indicating the trip is associated with an accident, wherein the input includes additional data associated with the accident; transmitting the driving data assigned to the trip associated with the accident; and transmitting the additional data associated with the accident. |
| US11961339B2 |
Collision analysis platform using machine learning to reduce generation of false collision outputs
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing platforms that utilize machine learning to reduce false positive/negative collision output generation. A computing platform may apply machine learning algorithms on received data to generate a collision output. In response to generating the collision output indicating a collision, the computing platform may identify a data collection location. If the data collection location is within a predetermined radius of a false positive collection location, the computing platform may modify the collision output to indicate a non-collision. If the data collection location is not within the predetermined radius, the computing platform may compute a score using telematics data and compare the score to a predetermined threshold. If the score does not exceed the predetermined threshold, the computing platform may modify the collision output to indicate a non-collision. If the score exceeds the predetermined threshold, the computing platform may affirm the collision output indicating a collision. |
| US11961338B2 |
Communication apparatus, vehicle, system, and determination method
A communication apparatus is mounted on a vehicle together with a control apparatus configured to accept, from a device electrically connected to a connector on the vehicle, a communication request to request transmission of data and transmit a communication response including the data to the device. The communication apparatus includes a communication interface configured to sequentially transmit two or more communication requests to the control apparatus, and in a case in which a communication response corresponding to at least one of transmitted communication requests is received from the control apparatus, transmit data included in the received communication response to a server apparatus installed in a location different from the vehicle, and a controller configured to determine whether a device to be detected is electrically connected to the connector depending on whether the communication interface has received a communication response corresponding to each of the two or more communication requests. |
| US11961337B2 |
Self-maintaining autonomous vehicle procedure
Aspects of the disclosed technology encompass solutions for automatically requesting a backup vehicle for passengers of an autonomous vehicle provisioned ride-hailing service. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for collecting diagnostic data relating to at least one AV operation, and analyzing the diagnostic data to determine if the AV needs maintenance. Moreover, in response to a determination that the AV needs maintenance, the process can include steps for automatically requesting a backup service for a passenger of the AV. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. |
| US11961331B1 |
Systems for improving pose determination based on video data
A first computing device acquires video data representing a user performing an activity. The first device uses a first pose extraction algorithm to determine a pose of the user within a frame of video data. If the pose is determined to be potentially inaccurate, the user is prompted for authorization to send the frame of video data to a second computing device. If authorization is granted, the second computing device may use a different algorithm to determine a pose of the user and send data indicative of this pose to the first computing device to enable the first computing device to update a score or other output. The second computing device may also use the frame of video data as training data to retrain or modify the first pose extraction algorithm, and may send the modified algorithm to the first computing device for future use. |
| US11961330B2 |
System to notify a request for help by detecting an intent to press a button, said system using artificial intelligence
There is provided a system configured to trigger system configured to trigger a function, said system comprising: at least one actuator that is associated with said function; an image capturing sensor; a computing device comprising a data processor, and a computer program product comprising a machine learning model trained for detecting an intent of a person to operate said at least one actuator, wherein said computer program product when running on said data processor: receives at least one image from said image capturing sensor; analyzes said at least one image, the analyzing comprises: subjecting said at least one image to said machine learning model; detecting presence of said intent to operate said at least one actuator in said at least one image, and triggers said function upon detecting said intent. |
| US11961328B2 |
Eye detecting method, eye detecting device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording eye detecting program
An eye detecting device is configured to: acquire a color image including a face of a person taken by an image taking device; generate a grayscale image by multiplying each of a red component value, a green component value, and a blue component value of each pixel of the color image by a predetermined ratio according to characteristics of a lens of glasses that the person wears; detect an eye of the person from the grayscale image; and output eye information on the eye of the person. |
| US11961324B2 |
Optical fingerprint recognition device and fingerprint sensing device thereof
An optical fingerprint recognition device includes a light-emitting diode (LED) array and a fingerprint sensing device. The LED array includes a central LED area and an edge LED area, and configured to display a light source pattern in response to a fingerprint sensing request. The light source pattern includes a central portion and a surrounding portion. During displaying the light source pattern, a plurality of red display subpixels of the central LED area are not illuminating and a plurality of red display subpixels of the edge LED area are illuminating. The fingerprint sensing device generates a first fingerprint image according to a plurality of first sensing signals obtained from a plurality of first sensing pixel area, and the first fingerprint image is adapted to be used for examining whether a finger which triggers the fingerprint sensing request is real or fake. |
| US11961323B2 |
Detection device and display device
A detection device includes a plurality of detection elements arranged in a matrix having a row-column configuration in a detection area, a plurality of scan lines each coupled to the detection elements arranged in a first direction, a drive circuit configured to drive the scan lines, a plurality of output signal lines each coupled to the detection elements arranged in a second direction different from the first direction, and a detection circuit configured to be supplied with detection signals from the detection elements through the output signal lines. |
| US11961321B2 |
Biometric skin contact sensor and method of operating a biometric skin contact sensor
A biometric skin contact sensor comprising an array of sensor pixels, wherein each sensor pixel comprises: a capacitive sensing electrode for accumulating a charge in response to proximity of a conductive object to be sensed; a reference capacitor connected to the capacitive sensing electrode; a sense voltage-controlled impedance, VCI, having a control terminal connected to a connection between the capacitive sensing electrode and the reference capacitor, the sense VCI having an impedance controlled by its control terminal voltage, and wherein the pixel is arranged so that, in response to a select voltage being applied to the pixel, the control terminal voltage of the sense VCI indicates the proximity of the conductive object to be sensed; and biasing circuitry comprising a one-way conduction path from a bias voltage connection to the control terminal of the sense VCI so that current flows from the bias voltage towards the control terminal of the sense VCI in response to the control terminal voltage of the sense VCI dropping below a floor value. |
| US11961320B2 |
Method and system for automatically annotating and identifying a living being or an object with an identifier providing a subject identification
The invention relates to a method for training a machine learning model to identify a subject having at least one machine readable identifier providing a subject ID, said method comprising: providing a computer vision system with an image capturing system comprising at least one image capturing device, and a reader system comprising at least one reader for reading said at least one machine readable identifier; defining said machine learning model in said computer vision system; capturing a first image using said image capturing system, said first image showing said subject; reading said subject ID using said reader system when capturing said first image, and linking said subject ID with said first image, said linking providing said first image with a linked subject ID, providing a first annotated image; capturing at least one further image showing said subject, linking said linked subject ID to said at least one further image providing at least one further annotated image, and subjecting said first annotated image and said at least one further annotated image to said machine learning model for training said machine learning model. |
| US11961319B2 |
Monitoring systems
A system can use a video analytic algorithm and/or other input parameters to identify an event (e.g., theft). Optionally, the system can take action in response. For example, the security system can use video analytics to determine that a person has reached into a shelf multiple times at a rate above a threshold, which can indicate that a thief is quickly removing items from the shelf. A monitoring system can monitor other areas for breaches, such as an entrance to a store or residence. Monitoring entrances and/or exits can be used to determine occupancy, or to determine rush events to prompt customer service action, such as opening additional point of sale stations. |
| US11961315B1 |
Methods and systems for enhancing detection of a fraudulent identity document in an image
A method for enhancing detection of a fraudulent identity document in an image is provided that includes receiving, by an electronic device, an image of an identity document associated with a user including at least one background object. The method also includes determining the size and orientation of the at least one background object based on the received image, extracting information about the received image from the received image, and extracting information from the received image about a capture device that captured the received image. Each of the size and orientation of the at least one background object, the extracted received image data information, and the extracted capture device information is compared against corresponding information in record data of the user. A similarity score is calculated for each comparison. When each similarity score satisfies a threshold value, the identity document in the received image is deemed to be fraudulent. |
| US11961312B2 |
Automatic generation of profiles based on occupant identification
A profile is automatically generated for an occupant of a vehicle. In one approach, data is collected from an interior of a vehicle to determine whether an occupant is present. If an occupant is present, a local profile is automatically generated. The local profile is sent to a remote computing device. The remote computing device links the local profile to a remote profile stored by the remote computing device. Configuration data is generated by the remote computing device based on linking the local and remote profiles. The configuration data is sent to the vehicle and used by the vehicle to control the operation of one or more components of the vehicle. |
| US11961308B2 |
Camera blockage detection for autonomous driving systems
Systems and methods for detecting blockages in images are described. An example method may include receiving a plurality of images captured by a camera installed on an apparatus. The method may include identifying one or more candidate blocked regions in the plurality of images. Each of the candidate blocked regions may contain image data caused by blockages in the camera's field-of-view. The method may further include assigning scores to the one or more candidate blocked regions based on relationships among the one or more candidate blocked regions in the plurality of images. In response to a determination that one of the scores is above a predetermined blockage threshold, the method may include generating an alarm signal for the apparatus. |
| US11961307B2 |
Outside environment recognition device
An external environment recognition device includes: a plurality of external environment recognition sensors each having an information detection unit that detects information of an object outside a vehicle, the plurality of external environment recognition sensors being arranged such that a detection range of the information detection unit includes an overlapping region where at least part of the detection range of the information detection unit overlaps with at least part of the detection range of another one of the information detection units; and a synchronous processing unit that extracts identical objects in the overlapping region from detection results of the external environment recognition sensors, and performs synchronous processing to synchronize the plurality of external environment recognition sensors if there is a deviation in position between the identical objects in the overlapping region. |
| US11961297B2 |
Terminal device, information processing device, object identifying method, program, and object identifying system
A device, apparatus, and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a device may include an image acquisition Linn configured to acquire a image, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information associated with the image to an information processing apparatus, such as a server, The server may be associated with a first feature quantity dictionary. The device also may include a receiving unit configured to receive a second feature quantity dictionary from the server in response to the transmission. The second feature quantity dictionary may include less information than the first feature quantity dictionary, and the server may generate the second feature quantity dictionary based on the image information and the first feature quantity dictionary. The device may include an identification unit configured to identify an object within the image using the second feature quantity dictionary. |
| US11961294B2 |
Augmented, virtual and mixed-reality content selection and display
Systems, methods and techniques for automatically recognizing two or 3-dimensional real world objects with an augmented reality display device (smartphone or glasses etc.), and augmenting or enhancing the display of such real world objects by superimposing virtual images such as a still or video advertisement, an opportunity to buy, a story or other virtual image presentation. In non-limiting embodiments, the real world object includes visible features including visible security features and a recognition process takes the visible security features into account when recognizing the object and/or displaying superimposed virtual images. |
| US11961293B2 |
Automatic handbag recognition using view-dependent CNNs
A system and related methods for identifying characteristics of handbags is described. One method includes receiving one or more images of a handbag, eliminating all but select images from the one or more images of the handbag to obtain a grouping of one or more select images, the select images being those embodying a complete periphery and frontal view of the handbag. For each of the one or more select images, aligning feature-corresponding pixels with an image axis, comparing at least a portion of the one or more select images with a plurality of stored images, and determining characteristics of the handbag based on said comparing. |
| US11961292B2 |
Computer-implemented method for assisting a user in interacting with an electronic relay for electric power distribution grids
Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method to assist a user in interacting with an electronic relay for electric power distribution grids. The method provides for identifying light signals emitted by one or more user-interface components of the user-interface panel of the electronic relay by processing images of said user-interface panel, which have been captured by the camera of a mobile computerized device. The method further provides for showing information, which describes the identified light signals emitted by said user-interface components on the display of said mobile computerized device. |
| US11961289B2 |
Computer vision-based yield-to-picking area mapping for horticultural product
Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of inputting, to a machine-learned model that has been trained to recognize a horticultural product in digital imagery, digital video data comprising frames that represent a view of the horticultural product in belt-assisted transit from a picking area of a field to a harvester bin; outputting, by the machine-learned model, annotated video data; using the annotated video data, computing quantitative data comprising particular counts of the individual instances of the horticultural product associated with particular timestamp data; using the timestamp data, mapping the quantitative data to geographic location data to produce a digital yield map; causing display of the digital yield map on a field manager computing device. |
| US11961288B2 |
Storage medium, control method of information processing apparatus, and information processing apparatus
An object is to reduce the processing time. One embodiment is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing an information processing apparatus to function as: a detection unit configured to detect an area of a first object for each second object from a captured image obtained by capturing the second object including the first object; a first display control unit configured to display a display item indicating a detected area at a position corresponding to the area detected by the detection unit in the captured image displayed on a screen; and a second display control unit configured to display a temporary area that is created based on the area of the first object detected in the second object in which area detection has succeeded in the captured image of the second object that is displayed on the screen and in which area detection has failed. |
| US11961287B2 |
Method and system for meaningful counterfactual explanations
A computer-implemented method for explaining an image classifier, the method comprising: receiving an initial image, the initial image having been wrongly classified by the image classifier; receiving an initial gradient of a function executed by the image classifier generated while classifying the initial image, the function being indicative of a probability for the initial image to belong to an initial class; converting the initial image into a latent vector, the latent vector being a representation of the initial image in a latent space; generating a plurality of perturbation vectors using the initial gradient of the function executed by the image classifier; combining the latent vector with each one of the plurality of perturbation vectors, thereby obtaining a plurality of modified vectors; for each one of the plurality of modified vectors, reconstructing a respective image, thereby obtaining a plurality of reconstructed images; transmitting the reconstructed images to the image classifier; for each one of the plurality of reconstructed images, receiving a respective updated gradient of the function executed by the image classifier; using the respective updated gradients, determining amongst the reconstructed images at least one given reconstructed image for which the respective updated gradient is indicative that a new class different from the initial class has been assigned by the image classifier; and outputting the at least one given reconstructed image. |
| US11961286B2 |
Performing object detection in an image
A single-instruction, multiple data processor performs object detection in an image by testing for a plurality of object features in a plurality of image regions, the processor comprising: a set of computation units operable to execute a plurality of classifier sequences in parallel, each classifier sequence comprising a plurality of classifier routines, and each classifier routine comprising identical instructions to the other classifier routines in each of the plurality of classifier sequences; wherein each computation unit is configured to independently maintain data identifying an image region and a feature under test on that computation unit, and each classifier routine is arranged to access the data, test the identified feature against the identified image region and update the data such that the computation units are operable to concurrently test different features against different image regions. |
| US11961283B2 |
Model-based robust deep learning
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for model-based robust deep learning. In some examples, a method includes obtaining a model of natural variation for a machine learning task. The model of natural variation includes a mapping that specifies how an input datum can be naturally varied by a nuisance parameter. The method includes training, using the model of natural variation and training data for the machine learning task, a neural network to complete the machine learning task such that the neural network is robust to natural variation specified by the model of natural variation. |
| US11961281B1 |
Training and using computer vision model for item segmentations in images
Techniques for training a machine-learning model are described. In an example, a computer generates a first pseudo-label indicating a first mask associated with a first object detected by a first machine-learning model in a first training image. A transformed image of the first training image can be generated using a transformation. Based on the transformation, a second pseudo-label indicating a second mask detected in the transformed image and corresponding to the first mask can be determined. A second machine-learning model can be trained using the second pseudo-label. The trained, second machine-learning model can detect a third mask associated with a second object based on a second image. |
| US11961280B2 |
System and method for image processing for trend analysis
Systems and methods for analyzing trends in image data is disclosed. A trend query is received relating to an object category and defining two or more groups of interest for which trend data is to be determined with a defined time period. Visual tokens of interest are identified relating to the object category for use in searching a token database. One or more image data sets are identified that are associated with each of the two or more groups of interest. Visual tokens are analyzed matching the visual tokens of interest that are associated with the identified image data sets to generate trend data for each of the two or more groups of interest for the defined period of time. An output is generated based on a comparison of the trend data generated for the two or more groups of interest for the defined period of time. |
| US11961279B2 |
Machine-learning-assisted self-improving object-identification system and method
A system and method of identifying and tracking objects comprises registering an identity of a person who visits an area designated for holding objects, capturing an image of the area designated for holding objects, submitting a version of the image to a deep neural network trained to detect and recognize objects in images like those objects held in the designated area, detecting an object in the version of the image, associating the registered identity of the person with the detected object, retraining the deep neural network using the version of the image if the deep neural network is unable to recognize the detected object, and tracking a location of the detected object while the detected object is in the area designated for holding objects. |
| US11961274B2 |
System and method for detecting and tracking an object
A method includes receiving a first image that is captured at a first time. The method also includes detecting a location of a first object in the first image. The method also includes determining a region of interest based at least partially upon the location of the first object in the first image. The method also includes receiving a second image that is captured at a second time. The method also includes identifying the region of interest in the second image. The method also includes detecting a location of a second object in a portion of the second image that is outside of the region of interest. |
| US11961271B2 |
Multi-angle object recognition
Methods, systems, and apparatus for controlling smart devices are described. In one aspect a method includes capturing, by a camera on a user device, a plurality of successive images for display in an application environment of an application executing on the user device, performing an object recognition process on the images, the object recognition process including determining that a plurality of images, each depicting a particular object, are required to perform object recognition on the particular object, and in response to the determination, generating a user interface element that indicates a camera operation to be performed, the camera option capturing two or more images, determining that a user, in response to the user interface element, has caused the indicated camera operation to be performed to capture the two or more images, and in response, determining whether a particular object is positively identified from the plurality of images. |
| US11961267B2 |
Color conversion between color spaces using reduced dimension embeddings
Exemplary embodiments may provide an approach to converting multidimensional color data for an image encoded in a first color space into an intermediate form that is a single dimensional value. The exemplary embodiments may then decode the intermediate form value to produce an encoding of the color data that is encoded in a second color space that differs from the first color space. In this manner, the data for the image may be efficiently converted from an encoding in the first color space into an encoding in the second color space. |
| US11961266B2 |
Multiview neural human prediction using implicit differentiable renderer for facial expression, body pose shape and clothes performance capture
A neural human performance capture framework (MVS-PERF) captures the skeleton, body shape and clothes displacement, and appearance of a person from a set of calibrated multiview images. It addresses the ambiguity of predicting the absolute position in monocular human mesh recovery, and bridges the volumetric representation from NeRF to animation-friendly performance capture. MVS-PERF includes three modules to extract feature maps from multiview images and fuse them to a feature volume, regress the feature volume to a naked human parameters vector, generating an SMPL-X skin-tight body mesh with a skeletal pose, body shape, and expression, and leverage a neural radiance field and a deformation field to infer the clothes as the displacement on the naked body using differentiable rendering. Clothed body mesh is obtained by adding the interpolated displacement vectors to the SMPL-X skin-tight body mesh vertices. The obtained radiance field is used for free-view volumetric rendering of the input subject. |
| US11961264B2 |
System and method for procedurally colorizing spatial data
Systems and methods are described for compressing color information in point cloud data. In some embodiments, point cloud data includes point position information and point color information for each of a plurality of points. The point position information is provided to a neural network, and the neural network generates predicted color information (e.g. predicted luma and chroma values) for respective points in the point cloud. A prediction residual is generated to represent the difference between the predicted color information and the input point color position. The point position information (which may be in compressed form) and the prediction residual are encoded in a bitstream. In some embodiments, color hint data is encoded to improve color prediction. |
| US11961263B1 |
Zero-vision camera system
A hardware camera may include a camera sensor configured to determine input image data. The hardware camera may also include an image signal processor configured to perform one or more image signal processing operations on the input image data. The hardware camera may also include a neural processing unit configured to determine encoded image data by encoding the input image data with an image data encoder portion of a camera autoencoder. The camera autoencoder may be trained based on training image data collected from the camera sensor and a fingerprint specific to the hardware camera. The hardware camera may also include a camera communication interface configured to transmit the encoded image data to a remote computing system, which may determine decoded image data by decoding the encoded image data via an image data decoder portion of the camera autoencoder. |
| US11961260B1 |
System for producing three-dimensional medical images using a calibration slate
A system produces three-dimensional medical images that are calibrated using a calibration slate. A subject is photographed with a calibration slate shown in the image. The slate includes printed colors that can be compared against standard colors associated with the slate to color calibrate the image. Two-dimensional images of the subject may be used to construct a three-dimensional image that shows wounds or other skin conditions that are color calibrated. |
| US11961252B1 |
Method and apparatus for combining data to construct a floor plan
A robot configured to perceive a model of an environment, including: a chassis; a set of wheels; a plurality of sensors; a processor; and memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: capturing a plurality of data while the robot moves within the environment; perceiving the model of the environment based on at least a portion of the plurality of data, the model being a top view of the environment; storing the model of the environment in a memory accessible to the processor; and transmitting the model of the environment and a status of the robot to an application of a smartphone previously paired with the robot. |
| US11961248B2 |
Systems and methods for using hyperspectral data to produce a unified three-dimensional scan that incorporates depth
An encoder is disclosed that uses hyperspectral data to produce a unified three-dimensional (“3D”) scan that incorporates depth for various points, surfaces, and features within a scene. The encoder may scan a particular point of the scene using frequencies from different electromagnetic spectrum bands, may determine spectral properties of the particular point based on returns measured across a first set of bands, may measure a distance of the particular point using frequencies of another band that does not interfere with the spectral properties at each of the first set of bands, and may encode the spectral properties and the distance of the particular point in a single hyperspectral dataset. The spectral signature encoded within the dataset may be used to classify the particular point or generate a point cloud or other visualization that accurately represents the spectral properties and distances of the scanned points. |
| US11961243B2 |
Object detection using image alignment for autonomous machine applications
A geometric approach may be used to detect objects on a road surface. A set of points within a region of interest between a first frame and a second frame are captured and tracked to determine a difference in location between the set of points in two frames. The first frame may be aligned with the second frame and the first pixel values of the first frame may be compared with the second pixel values of the second frame to generate a disparity image including third pixels. One or more subsets of the third pixels that have a value above a first threshold may be combined, and the third pixels may be scored and associated with disparity values for each pixel of the one or more subsets of the third pixels. A bounding shape may be generated based on the scoring. |
| US11961239B2 |
Method and device for marking image position of sub-pixel of display screen, and storage medium
Disclosed are a method and a device for marking an image position of a sub-pixel of a display screen, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an original image of the sub-pixel of the display screen that has been taken, marking all the sub-pixel bright points in the original image of the sub-pixel to obtain a sub-pixel mark map; searching for points to be filled among adjacent points of the bright point of each sub-pixel in the sub-pixel mark map according to the first direction pixel pitch and the second direction pixel pitch in the original image of the sub-pixel, filling the points to be filled to obtain a filling mark map; and obtaining the target sub-pixel mark map based on the sub-pixel mark map and the filling mark map. |
| US11961234B1 |
Multistage region-of-interest identification in medical images
First and second predictors are used to identify regions of interest in a medical image. The first predictor is configured to maximize precision in identifying one or more abnormalities that it was trained to recognize, or at least to have greater precision than the second predictor. The second predictor is configured or selected to maximize sensitivity (i.e., recall) in identifying one or more abnormalities that it was trained to recognize, or at least to have greater sensitivity than the first predictor. The predictions of the first and second predictors may be used to create a digital map image showing the locations of regions of interest identified by the first and second predictors. Alternatively or in addition, the predictions may be used to rank images or image sets in terms of review priority. |
| US11961233B2 |
Method and apparatus for training image segmentation model, computer device, and storage medium
This application provides a method and apparatus for training an image segmentation model, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: training an initial image segmentation model by using source domain samples, to obtain a pre-trained image segmentation model; extracting a predicted segmentation result of a source domain image and a predicted segmentation result of a target domain image by using the pre-trained image segmentation model; training a first discriminator by using the predicted segmentation result of the source domain image and the predicted segmentation result of the target domain image; training a second discriminator by using the predicted segmentation result of the source domain image and a standard segmentation result of the source domain image; and iteratively training the pre-trained image segmentation model according to a loss function of the pre-trained image segmentation model, an adversarial loss function of the first discriminator, and an adversarial loss function of the second discriminator, until convergence, to obtain a trained image segmentation model. |
| US11961228B2 |
Medical image processing system
A medical image acquisition unit acquires a medical image obtained by imaging an observation target. A feature amount calculation unit calculates a feature amount of the observation target for each pixel of an image region of the medical image or for each divided region obtained by dividing the image region of the medical image into a specific size. A stage determination unit calculates a distribution index value which is an index value of the spatial distribution of the feature amount of each divided region, and determines the disease stage of the observation target based on the distribution index value. |
| US11961226B2 |
Medical image recognition method, model training method, and computer device
In a medical image recognition method, applied to a computer device, a to-be-recognized medical image set is obtained, where the to-be-recognized medical image set includes at least one to-be-recognized medical image. A to-be-recognized area corresponding to each to-be-recognized medical image in the to-be-recognized medical image set is extracted. The to-be-recognized area is a part of the to-be-recognized medical image. A recognition result of each to-be-recognized area through a medical image recognition model is determined. The medical image recognition model is obtained through training according to a medical image sample set. The medical image sample set includes at least one medical image sample, and each medical image sample carries corresponding annotation information. The annotation information is used for representing a type of the medical image sample, and the recognition result is used for representing the a of the to-be-recognized medical image. |
| US11961225B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting potential malignancies
One or more machine learning techniques can be used to identify locations of potential malignancies within images (e.g., video images) captured during a medical procedure, such as an endoscopic procedure. The images can be displayed, in real-time, on a display unit. The images can be displayed with a graphical overlay that isolates the identified locations of potential malignancies. |
| US11961217B2 |
Device and method for storing image data for surface defect detection scanner
A storage device includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire a surface scan image in an image tile format of a set size, bind a set number of image tiles in one segment, and store a plurality of segments as files, respectively, instead of storing the image tiles without modification. |
| US11961213B2 |
Image segmentation and modification of a video stream
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for segmenting an image of a video stream with a client device, identifying an area of interest, generating a modified area of interest within one or more image, identifying a first set of pixels and a second set of pixels, and modifying a color value for the first set of pixels. |
| US11961209B2 |
Noise to noise ensemble learning for pet and CT image and data denoising
A system and method for training a neural network to denoise images. One noise realization is paired to an ensemble of training-ready noise realizations, and fed into a neural network for training. Training datasets can also be retrospectively generated based on existing patient studies to increase the number of training datasets. |
| US11961205B2 |
Image resynthesis using forward warping, gap discriminators, and coordinate-based inpainting
An image resynthesis system, a system for training a gap filling module to be used in the image resynthesis system, an image resynthesis method, a computer program product, and a computer-readable medium are provided. The image resynthesis system comprises a source image input module, a forward warping module predicting, for each source image pixel of a source image, a corresponding position in a target image, and predicting a forward warping field which is aligned with the source image, and a gap filling module filling in gaps resulting from application of the forward warping module. |
| US11961203B2 |
Image processing device and operation method therefor
An image processing device is disclosed. The image processing device includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor is further configured to obtain a first image and a classifier that indicates a purpose of image processing, and to process, by using a deep neural network (DNN), the first image according to the purpose indicated by the classifier, wherein the DNN processes input images according to different purposes. |
| US11961200B2 |
Method and computer program product for producing 3 dimensional model data of a garment
In a method for producing three-dimensional model data of a garment having a target garment size, intermediate model data of the garment are stored, which are associated with a base garment size and include intermediate geometry data and at least one intermediate texture map associated with the intermediate geometry data. Through semantic segmentation of the intermediate texture map a label map is generated that associates each element of the intermediate texture map to a respective one of a set of segments of the garment and associated resizing rules. Geometry data for the model data are generated by resizing the intermediate geometry data based on the label map, on the resizing rules, on a body model and on a set of scaling factors between the base garment size and the target garment size. A texture map is generated based on the intermediate texture map, on the label map, on the resizing rules and on the set of scaling factors. |
| US11961196B2 |
Virtual vision system
A context based augmented reality system can be used to display augmented reality elements over a live video feed on a client device. The augmented reality elements can be selected based on a number of context inputs generated by the client device. The context inputs can include location data of the client device and location data of nearby physical places that have preconfigured augmented elements. The preconfigured augmented elements can be preconfigured to exhibit a design scheme of the corresponding physical place. |
| US11961194B2 |
Non-uniform stereo rendering
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for recording augmented reality and mixed reality experiences. In an example method, an image of a real environment is received via a camera of a wearable head device. A pose of the wearable head device is estimated, and a first image of a virtual environment is generated based on the pose. A second image of the virtual environment is generated based on the pose, wherein the second image of the virtual environment comprises a larger field of view than a field of view of the first image of the virtual environment. A combined image is generated based on the second image of the virtual environment and the image of the real environment. |
| US11961192B2 |
Mapping sensor data using a mixed-reality cloud
Improved techniques for re-localizing Internet-of-Things (IOT) devices are disclosed herein. Sensor data digitally representing one or more condition(s) monitored by an IOT device is received. In response, a sensor readings map is accessed, where this map is associated with the IOT device. The map also digitally represents the IOT device's environment and includes data representative of a location of the IOT device within the environment. The map also includes data representative of the conditions monitored by the IOT device. Additionally, the map is updated by attaching the sensor data to the map. In some cases, a coverage map can also be computed. Both the sensors readings map and the coverage map can be automatically updated in response to the IOT device being re-localized. |
| US11961191B2 |
Perceptual property vector for an object
In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a semantic construction of a physical environment. In some implementations, the semantic construction of the physical environment includes a representation of a physical element and a semantic label for the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining a graphical representation of the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing a perceptual property vector (PPV) for the graphical representation of the physical element based on the semantic label for the physical element. In some implementations, the PPV includes one or more perceptual characteristic values characterizing the graphical representation of the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes compositing an affordance in association with the graphical representation of the physical element. In some implementations, the affordance allows interaction with the graphical representation of the physical element in accordance with the perceptual characteristic values included in the PPV. |
| US11961190B2 |
Content distribution system, content distribution method, and content distribution program
A content distribution system according to an embodiment is provided with at least one processor. The at least one processor: specifies a real image region and a farthest region in a space represented with a content image showing a first virtual object; disposes a second virtual object in the farthest region; and displays, on a user terminal, a content image representing a space in which the second virtual object is disposed. |
| US11961186B2 |
Method and system for visually seamless grafting of volumetric data
Visually seamless grafting of volumetric data. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining volumetric data that represents a first volume including one or more three-dimensional objects. Planar slices of the first volume are determined and for each planar slice, a result region and an outer region are determined, the outer region located between the result region and an edge of the planar slice. A target region is determined within the result region and adjacent to an edge of the result region. The result region is modified by updating source voxels in the target region based on corresponding continuity voxels in the outer region, and the updating is weighted based on a distance of each source voxel from an associated edge of the result region. The modified result regions are grafted to a second volume at the edge of the result regions to provide a grafted volume. |
| US11961185B2 |
Meshing operation for representing a 3D printed object
A method for generating a more accurate mesh that represents a 3D printed part based on a model includes slicing the model into layers and identifying an infill-wall boundary and an exterior-interior boundary of each layer of the model. Layers of the model may be identified as critical by iterative comparison with adjacent layers. An interior voxel mesh may be constructed based on common two-dimensional reference grids imposed on the critical layers. The interior voxel mesh may be augmented to an augmented mesh and then extended to a protomesh. The protomesh may be extruded to construct the final mesh, which may be analyzed by finite element analysis. The part may be 3D printed based on the layers output by the slicing operation. |
| US11961183B2 |
Terrain search
A system may provide for searching terrain data of real-world locations based on input representing a terrain for a game world. The system may receive terrain inquiry data including height data for terrain of a game world, generate an inquiry descriptor based on the terrain inquiry data at least in part by applying a plurality of filters to the terrain inquiry data, the inquiry descriptor including a plurality of inquiry descriptor values corresponding to the plurality of filter and determine, based on the inquiry descriptor and respective sample descriptors of one or more terrain samples corresponding to terrain of real-world locations, one or more matching terrain samples. |
| US11961178B2 |
Reduction of the effects of latency for extended reality experiences by split rendering of imagery types
A method for reducing the effects of latency in an extended reality (XR) experience is disclosed. The method includes: i) distinguishing between two types of imagery to be rendered; ii) differentially computing and communicating data, dependent upon the imagery type, such that when the imagery is of: a) a first type, which is background or distant imagery, it is rendered in a known frame of reference by a server and sent to a user's device from the server where it is transformed to a second frame of reference by the user's device and re-rendered; and b) a second type, which is fast-moving imagery, fast-changing imagery, or imagery very close to a user's point of view relative to the first type imagery, it is rendered locally by the user's device; and iii) compositing the first type imagery and the second type imagery, by the user device. |
| US11961174B2 |
Programmatically configuring materials
Improved texturing processes utilizing smart materials are provided to increase developer productivity when texturing objects within multi-dimensional environments, and particularly, 3D environments. A developer may generate an object, select a smart material to apply, and manipulate the dimensions of the object to cause an aspect ratio of at least one surface having a material applied to change without altering an aspect ratio of a texture tile of the material as rendered on the surface of the object. Texturing of object surfaces from a selected smart material is determined in a shared material space based on a mapping of object vertices that maintain original material qualities (e.g., a defined aspect ratio of the texture) and mitigate discontinuities in a material applied to adjacent surfaces, including those of different objects and when those objects are repositioned. |
| US11961171B1 |
Interactive media object system with modular-based feature
In one aspect, an example method can be used with a system comprising a set of domain specific language (DSL)-compatible modules. The method can include: (i) designing a template for an interactive media object, wherein the template includes one or more fixed portions and one or more variable portions; (ii) curating the designed template by at least using received input to modify the one or more variable portions of the designed template; (iii) modifying the curated template by replacing a content placeholder of the curated template with a corresponding content item, thereby automatically converting the curated template into an interactive media object definition file; and (iv) using the interactive media object definition file to render and present, via a media selection menu of a presentation device, an interactive media object defined by the interactive media object definition file. |
| US11961166B2 |
Information-adaptive regularization for iterative image reconstruction
Imaging data (20) are acquired by a PET scanner (6) or other imaging device. Iterative image reconstruction of the imaging data is performed to generate a reconstructed image (22). The iterative image reconstruction includes performing an update step (24) that includes an edge preserving prior (28) having a spatially varying edge preservation threshold (30) whose value at each image voxel depends on a noise metric (32) in a local neighborhood of the image voxel. The noise metric may be computed as an aggregation of the intensities of neighborhood image voxels of the reconstructed image in the local neighborhood of the image voxel. The edge preserving prior may be a Relative Difference Prior (RDP). For further noise suppression, during the iterative image reconstruction image values of image features of the reconstructed image that have spatial extent smaller than a threshold (38) may be reduced. |
| US11961165B2 |
Tomographic image generating apparatus, tomographic image generating method, and tomographic image generating program
An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images corresponding to a plurality of radiation source positions in a case of tomosynthesis imaging. A reconstruction unit reconstructs all or a part of the plurality of projection images to generate a tomographic image on each of a plurality of tomographic planes of a subject. A feature point detecting unit detects at least one feature point from a plurality of the tomographic images. A positional shift amount derivation unit derives a positional shift amount between the plurality of projection images with the feature point as a reference on a corresponding tomographic plane corresponding to the tomographic image in which the feature point is detected. The reconstruction unit reconstructs the plurality of projection images by correcting the positional shift amount to generate a corrected tomographic image. |
| US11961163B2 |
Reconstruction module and method for reconstruction of medical images
A reconstruction module may include at least one parameter interface to receive a set of measurement sequence parameters and a memory interface to a memory having a trained mathematical model stored in the memory. The trained mathematical model determines a results dataset containing at least one iterative denoising parameter and at least one edge enhancement parameter for at least one received measurement sequence parameter. A control of the reconstruction module controls a reconstruction of the medical images using a reconstruction algorithm based on the determined parameters for parameterizing an iterative denoising function and an edge enhancement function. |
| US11961161B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus according includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, an extraction unit configured to extract part of regions included in the image as a target region, a determination unit configured to determine a variation in density value of a pixel included in the target region such that an absolute value of the variation in density value of the pixel included in the target region is larger than an absolute value of a variation in density value of a pixel included in a region other than the target region, a generation unit configured to generate a training image in which a density value of the pixel included in the target region is changed based on the variation determined by the determination unit, and a training unit configured to train a identifier using the training image. |
| US11961160B2 |
Method of and apparatus for defining bounding boxes
There is provided a computer-implemented method of defining bounding boxes for a primitive in a tile-based graphics processing pipeline comprising determining a part-way point on the primitive, wherein, for each pair of vertices, a part-way point is part-way between that pair of vertices, and defining a plurality of bounding boxes, wherein each bounding box intersects a part-way point. Also provided is a bounding box generation circuit comprising a part-way point calculation circuit to determine a part-way point on the primitive, wherein, for each pair of vertices, a part-way point is part-way between that pair of vertices, wherein the bounding box generation circuit to define a plurality of bounding boxes based upon the determined part-way point, wherein each bounding box intersects a part-way point. A method of defining bounding boxes for a point primitive is also provided. |
| US11961159B2 |
Region testing of geometry while rendering for efficient multi-GPU rendering
A method for graphics processing. The method including rendering graphics for an application using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for the rendering geometry of the graphics between the plurality of GPUs based on a plurality of screen regions, each GPU having a corresponding division of the responsibility which is known to the plurality of GPUs. The method including generating information regarding a piece of geometry with respect to a first screen region for which a first GPU has a first division of responsibility, while rendering the piece of geometry at a second GPU for an image. The method including rendering the piece of geometry at the first GPU using the information. |
| US11961156B2 |
Utilizing similarity, knowledge graphs, and machine learning models to refine/redefine a target skill profile based on skills data from employees of an entity and activate a recommendation system
A device may receive employee data associated with an employee, and may determine, from the employee data, skill data identifying skills of the employee. The device may process the employee data and the skill data, with a similarity model, to determine similarity scores between the skills of the skill data, and may add or remove one or more skills to or from the skill data for predefined target skill profile categories to generate modified skill data. The device may compare the similarity scores and a predefined threshold to determine anchor skill data from the modified skill data, and may group the anchor skill data for corresponding pluralities of the predefined target skill profile categories to generate groups of the anchor skill data. The device may process the groups and the similarity scores, with a clustering model, to generate clustered anchor skill data, and may perform actions based on the clustered anchor skill data. |
| US11961148B2 |
System and method for managing and editing accounting periods
Embodiments of the present methods and systems are directed to a system and method for managing and editing accounting periods. Particularly, the embodiments are directed to a financial management system that allows for the recordation of financial transactions without first requiring the creation of a user-defined accounting period, and that further allows for the creation, modification, and closure of defined accounting periods. |
| US11961147B1 |
Cards, devices, systems, and methods for financial management services
A user is provided with a GUI that may allow the user to change functionality associated with a non-battery-powered card, a battery-powered card, a payment sticker, or another device (e.g., a mobile telephonic device). Such functionality may cause a network entity to deliver transaction details to a processing facility. The processing facility may scrub personal information from the transaction details and provide sanitized information to third party applications that may utilize the sanitized information for value. An accounting programming language interface is provided to provide control input to a financial management system to provide accounting operations to track financial transactions initiated by third party applications. |
| US11961145B2 |
Method for predicting financial product price based on accumulation distribution indicator
A method for predicting a financial product price based on an accumulation distribution indicator includes the following steps: step S1: inputting, by a user, a ticker symbol; step S2: calculating, by a system, an accumulation distribution indicator value based on daily trade data; step S3: calculating an accumulation distribution interval and an average candlestick; step S4: determining whether the accumulation distribution indicator breaks through the accumulation distribution interval upward or downward; if the accumulation distribution indicator breaks through the accumulation distribution interval upward or downward, going to step S6, otherwise, going to step S5; step S5: displaying a chart with the average candlestick; and step S6: displaying a breakout mark, where the breakout mark is a rising mark if an upward breakout occurs or is a falling mark if a downward breakout occurs, and displaying the chart with the average candlestick. |
| US11961143B2 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating merchant self service with respect to financing and content support for marketing events
A method of facilitating merchant self-service assistance to financing and content support for a marketing event may include receiving a request from a merchant for approval for financing and content generation to support the marketing event and determining whether to approve the merchant based on comparing information provided in the request to approval standards. The method may further include, responsive to approval of the merchant, receiving context information regarding content requested, and providing the content requested to the merchant based on the context information to support the marketing event. |
| US11961141B2 |
Global liquidity and settlement system
A method for performing a token escrow swap on a network of nodes is disclosed. The method includes sending a signed buy order transaction with a first cryptocurrency wallet from a buyer node to a token escrow swap node and filling a buy order of the signed buy order transaction with currency tokens for the token escrow swap node via the buyer node. For each matching sell order, security tokens are transferred to the token escrow swap node via a seller node. The method further includes sending the security tokens to the buyer node and sending the currency tokens to the seller node for each matching sell order. |
| US11961140B2 |
Randomization of orders at matching in electronic trading systems
The disclosed embodiments relate to a latency floor mechanism for processing incoming orders to an electronic trading system which impart a delay on orders, not when they are received, but when they are matched by the match engine/CLOB thereby imparting zero added latency between order submission/modifications/cancellations and price market data publication by the electronic trading system because the disclosed randomization processing delay applies only to matched orders, which represent a small fraction of the market events. |
| US11961130B2 |
System for sale-restricted items management
Examples provides sale-restricted items management for self-checkout. A list of sale-restricted items is displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI) provided by a user interface. A notification component transmits a notification to a user device associated with an authorized user to verify a transaction responsive to an unauthorized user selection of a sale-restricted item from the list of sale-restricted items displayed. The notification includes an identification of the selected sale-restricted item and location of the selected sale-restricted item. A verification component authorizes completion of the transaction associated with the selected sale-restricted item by the unauthorized user on condition an age verification is obtained from the user device associated with the authorized user. Responsive to the authorization, an unlocking signal is sent to a locking storage device storing the selected sale-restricted item. |
| US11961128B2 |
Systems and methods for determining an event validation status
Systems and methods for determining an event validation status are provided. A start time and at least one authorization time for each of a plurality of event components relating to an event can be received. An authorization status of each event component can be determined across a predetermined period of time, based on the start time and the at least one authorization time of each of the plurality of event components. A validation status of the event can be determined across the predetermined period of time, based on the authorization status of each event component across the predetermined period of time. Graphical information corresponding to a visual representation of the authorization status of each event component and the validation status of the event across the predetermined period of time can be generated and displayed on an electronic display device. |
| US11961127B2 |
Sending funds via an email payment gateway
An email payment gateway may be configured to send emails to potential donors. The emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with one or more fundraising campaigns, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the fundraising campaign associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the fundraising campaign, donor identity or donation amount. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the email payment gateway. The email payment gateway may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, process the donation on behalf of the donor. |
| US11961125B2 |
Method for quantifying advertising impressions
One variation of a method for quantifying user engagement includes: serving a digital advertisement to a mobile device; recording a first proportion of pixels of the digital advertisement rendered on a display of the mobile device during a first sampling period; recording a second proportion of pixels of the digital advertisement rendered on the display of the mobile device during a second sampling period offset in time from the first sampling period; calculating a cumulative pixel exposure of the digital advertisement at the mobile device based on a combination of a first product of the first proportion of pixels and a duration of the first sampling period and a second product of the second proportion of pixels and a duration of the second sampling period; and storing the cumulative pixel exposure as an engagement metric for a user consuming the digital advertisement at the mobile device. |
| US11961119B2 |
Archive offer personalization
Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and a computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Offer Engine. The Offer Engine extracts one or more features from data associated with a first user requesting access to a portion of content of a content corpus. The Offer Engine feeds at least one of the features of the first user into a decision tree. The decision tree has multiple levels, wherein at least one level comprises a plurality of leaves and each respective leaf implements at least one machine learning model. The Offer Engine determines whether to provide the first user with a subscription fee offer first option or a non-subscription fee offer second option based at least in part on output of the decision tree. |
| US11961118B2 |
System and method for targeting individuals with advertisement spots during national broadcast and cable television
The present invention relates to methods and systems for targeting and retargeting individuals with advertisement spots during television broadcasting. The method and system enable an advertiser for identifying and categorizing a set of viewers or individuals for retargeting advertisement based on parameters such as, but not limited to, interests or preferences of the individuals, past purchases and interactions of the individuals with the advertiser. The method and system further enable the advertiser to segregate the plurality of individuals into subgroups on the basis of information such as, but not limited to, demography, psychographic and behavioral characteristics of the plurality of individuals. The method and system then enable the advertiser to define one or more advertisement spots and corresponding advertisements to be delivered to different sub groups of individuals based on the categorization. Thereafter, the method and system retarget individuals by sending individualized messages in the one or more advertisement spots. |
| US11961117B2 |
Methods and systems to evaluate and determine degree of pretense in online advertisement
Systems and methods are provided in the field of online advertising and malicious software. In some embodiments, an apparatus for determining a degree of deceptiveness associated with a session presenting at least one online advertisement includes means for capturing electronic interactions among at least two entities involved in the session, the captured interactions including interaction-related properties and time, means for processing to filter a plurality of attributes for the one or more relations from the captured electronic interactions, each attribute defining a data type and corresponding data value, wherein the extraction is performed by integration with the two or more entities, apply one or more models to each of the one or more relations, and determine a degree of deceptiveness for each of the one or more relations based on the one or more applied models. |
| US11961116B2 |
Determining exposures to content presented by physical objects
Systems and methods are described herein for determining user exposures to content, such as content presented by physical objects (e.g., advertisements on billboards). The systems and methods may determine a probability (an “exposure probability”) that a user has viewed or consumed content, information, or other visual media presented by a physical object, such as a billboard, vehicle, sign, or other structure, and provide the determined probability to various attribution systems, such as systems that attribute user engagements (e.g., store visits, app downloads, website visits, product purchases, and so on) to earlier content exposures. |
| US11961115B2 |
Machine learning with data synthesization
In some examples, a computing device may receive data from a plurality of groups of data sources. The computing device may access a plurality of data synthetization machine learning models configured for generating synthetic data. Respective ones of the data synthetization machine learning models may correspond to respective ones of the groups of data sources. The computing device generates first synthetic data by inputting, to a first data synthetization machine learning model, first data received from a first data source group, and generates second synthetic data by inputting, to a second data synthetization machine learning model, second data received from a second data source group. The computing device determines an allocation of resources based at least in part on comparing the first data and the first synthetic data with the second data and the second synthetic data. |
| US11961113B2 |
Managing impressions of an advertisement campaign
The present disclosure provides for management of impressions in advertisement campaigns. Impressions may be moved between different impression media based on performance metrics and historical data. Impression budgets may be modified in an active campaign based on forecasts determined using current performance data. Impression budgets may be reallocated between simultaneously active advertisement campaigns. |
| US11961110B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for generating predicted information related to advertisement viewability
In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, methods, systems, and media for generating predicted information related to advertisement viewability are provided. |
| US11961109B2 |
Multi-objective customer journey optimization
Systems and methods for customer journey optimization in email marketing are described. The systems and methods may identify a plurality of messages for a first time period, wherein the plurality of messages are categorized according to a plurality of messages types, identify user information for a customer, wherein the user information includes user interaction data, determine a message type from the plurality of message types for the first time period based on the user information, wherein the message type is determined using a decision making model comprising a deep Q-learning neural network, select a message from the plurality of messages based on the determined message type, and transmit the message to the customer during the first time period based on the selection. |
| US11961103B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamically modifying content of a website
Systems and methods for interfacing with a third-party website. In one embodiment, a computer system is configured to directly interface with a website via a webpage to change certain numerical values through the use of digital codes. The digital codes are applied to a data entry interface on the webpage, and the responses are monitored and transmitted back to a server system. |
| US11961102B2 |
Upselling to customers following initial online purchase
An upsell purchase flow in an e-commerce system is provided. After a customer has purchased a product from a vendor, an upsell opportunity is provided to the customer through an upsell pitch page. The upsell pitch page advertises an additional upsell product in order to maximize the purchase transaction with the customer. Responsive to the customer accepting the upsell opportunity, rather than adding the upsell product to an electronic shopping cart, a marketplace server that facilitates transactions between the customer and the vendor charges the customer for the upsell product at that time. Multiple upsell opportunities may be provided to the customer after the initial sale is completed. |
| US11961100B2 |
Method of optimizing an offer value to a selected group of consumers
A method of optimizing an offer value to be offered to a selected group of consumers includes selecting a series of products, wherein each are serialized unique code marked; selecting a target group of consumers from a consumer database, each consumer with a registered consumer profile in the consumer database, the selecting based on a set of criteria; selecting a first subgroup of consumers from the target group of consumers; determining an initial offer value of the uniquely code marked product to be presented to the initial first subgroup of consumers; distributing (offering) the initial offer value to the selected initial first subgroup of consumers; a number of the selected initial first subgroup of consumers accepting the offer; associating the code of the uniquely code marked product to the acceptance of offer to the consumer profile of each the accepting consumer in the first subgroup of consumers; summing the number of accepted uniquely code marked products to a first uptake value as a function of the initial offer value; registering the initial offer value and the first uptake value in order to calculate a first initial profit value; repeating, for a number of second, third, . . . time, the following steps: selecting a second, third, . . . subgroup of consumers from the target group of consumers; determining a second (third, . . . ) offer value of the uniquely code marked product to be presented to the second, third, . . . subgroup of consumers, being different from the first offer value; distributing (offering) the second (third, . . . ) offer value to the selected second, third, . . . subgroup of consumers; a number of the selected second group of consumers accepting the second, third, . . . offer; associating the code of the uniquely code marked product to the accepted second (third, . . . ) offer value to the consumer profile of each the accepting consumer; summing the second (third, . . . ) number of accepted uniquely code marked products to a second (third, . . . ) uptake value as a function of the second (third, . . . ) offer value; registering the second (third, . . . ) offer value and the second (third, . . . ) uptake value in order to calculate a second, (third, . . . ) initial profit value; thus establishing a set of uptake values as a function of offer values, and their calculated or estimated corresponding profit values; based on these data points, establishing a relationship of profit as a function of offer value; selecting from the relationship a near-optimal offer value giving a near-optimal profit; distributing (offering) the optimal offer value to a large part of or all of the selected target group of consumers. |
| US11961099B2 |
Utilizing machine learning for optimization of planning and value realization for private networks
A device may receive network data, business data, and user configuration data associated with an entity that is a candidate for a private network and may process the business data and the user configuration data, with a classification machine learning model, to determine a network hardware equipment prediction. The device may process the network data and the business data, with a first linear regression machine learning model, to determine a business output prediction and may utilize a second linear regression machine learning model to determine a data consumption prediction based on the network hardware equipment prediction. The device may process the network hardware equipment prediction, the business output prediction, and the data consumption prediction, with a machine learning model, to determine a financial profitability prediction for the private network and may perform one or more actions based on the financial profitability prediction. |
| US11961093B2 |
Authentication systems and methods for generating flight regulations
A method for regulating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes receiving a UAV identifier and one or more types of contextual information broadcasted by the UAV. The UAV identifier uniquely identifies the UAV from other UAVs. The one or more types of contextual information includes at least geographical information of the UAV. The method further includes authenticating, via an authentication device, an identity of the UAV based on the UAV identifier to determine whether the UAV is authorized for operation, and transmitting a signal to a remote device in response to determining whether the UAV is authorized for operation. |
| US11961091B2 |
Dynamic modification of a verification method associated with a transaction card
A device may determine that a verification method associated with a transaction card is to be modified from a first verification method to a second verification method. The first verification method and the second verification method may use different types of verification information. The device may provide a set of instructions to the transaction card after determining that the verification method is to be modified. The set of instructions may cause the transaction card to modify the verification method from the first verification method to the second verification method. The device may provide information identifying a modification to the verification method to a transaction backend device to notify the transaction backend device that the verification method associated with the transaction card has been modified from the first verification method to the second verification method. |
| US11961089B2 |
On-demand applications to extend web services
Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media. A web browser of a device may receive selection of a uniform resource locator (URL). An operating system may download an application from an application server based on the URL. The application may identify a plurality of applications installed on the device and select a first institution corresponding to a first application. The application may receive a cryptogram from a contactless card associated with the first institution and transmit the cryptogram to an authentication server. The application may receive an authentication result specifying the authentication server decrypted the cryptogram. The web browser may receive, based on the decryption of the cryptogram, an account number, an expiration date associated with the account number, and a card verification value (CVV) associated with the account number. The web browser may provide the account number, expiration date, and CVV to a server associated with the application. |
| US11961083B2 |
Alert controller for loss prevention
Item images and item information for an item identified as being associated with a potential theft during a transaction at a transaction terminal are sent in real time to an alert controller of a management terminal. The item images and item information with transaction details are presented on a display for resolution by a clerk operating the management terminal. A timer is also set and a confidence score calculated representing a confidence level that the item is the subject of theft. When the timer expires and there is still no resolution provided by the clerk a decision is made as to whether to interrupt the transaction processing on the transaction terminal for assistance or whether to permit the transaction to complete on the transaction terminal based on the calculated confidence score. |
| US11961082B2 |
System and method of providing proximity payments
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure allow a customer or payor to select from a plurality of nearby vendors or payees when a computing device of the payor is physically close to electronic devices of the payees. Payee devices and locations of those payee devices may be identified and displayed on a display of a payor device. Once displayed, a specific payee device may be selected by the customer and an order for a product or service may be sent to the selected payee device from the payor device. After the product or service has been provided to the customer, information that confirms that purchase may be sent to any of the selected payee device, the payor device, or a payment processing computer and funds to pay for the product or service may be deposited into an account of the payee based on the confirmation. |
| US11961081B2 |
Payment system using customer's fingerprints
Shoppers install a software app on a mobile device and create a user profile. The shopper scans a fingerprint using a fingerprint sensor. Scanned fingerprint data is wirelessly transmitted to the shopper's mobile device for re-transmission over the Internet for storage in a secured server. The shopper can add payment methods (credit cards, debit cards, etc.) to the user's profile. Participating merchants registered with the payment system provide a fingerprint sensor at the point of sale. A shopper transacts purchases at a merchant's location by placing a finger on the fingerprint sensor. Scanned fingerprint data is transmitted to a merchant point of sale device and re-transmitted over the Internet to confirm the identity of the shopper, and to complete the transaction. A shopper makes purchases online using the installed software app. Participating merchants integrate APIs with existing e-commerce platforms, allowing merchants to charge and/or request access to user payment accounts. |
| US11961080B2 |
Method and system for payment card authentication
Method and systems for securely and accurately authenticating a payment card by using biometric information associated with an authorized user is provided. The method may be implemented by providing a payment card that includes a processor; a display area coupled to the processor and configured to hide account information when the payment card has not been authenticated and to display the account information for a predetermined time interval when the payment card is authenticated; a sensor coupled to the processor and configured to capture biometric information of a user; and a communication interface coupled to the processor and configured to facilitate wireless communication with a mobile smart phone. |
| US11961079B2 |
Proof-of-age verification in mobile payments
An age verification method performed at a mobile device comprises: receiving, from a point-of-sale terminal, a request for a payment credential, the request comprising a data element indicative of age requirement data; verifying, using at least one sensor, an identity of a user of the mobile device; responsive to said verifying, initiating, by a digital wallet application executing on the mobile device, an age verification request to a digital identity application, the age verification request comprising the age requirement data; generating a response message that comprises a response from the digital identity application to the age verification request; and transmitting, to the point-of-sale terminal, the response message and the payment credential for initiation of a transaction authorization request. |
| US11961077B2 |
Transaction exchange platform having streaming transaction data and microservices
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform. |
| US11961074B2 |
Method and system for a network device to obtain a trusted state representation of the state of the distributed ledger technology network
A method performed by a trusted network device and a network device for transmitting a trusted state representation of a state of a DLT network to one or more network devices is described. The trusted network device determines a state indicator. The state indicator is a representation of a state of the DLT network at a given time. The trusted network device transmits to one or more network devices a beacon message including the state indicator. The beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with the trusted network device. The state indicator is to be used by the one or more network devices as a trusted current state of the DLT network. |
| US11961073B2 |
Information processing device
To achieve efficient reading of data from a memory including a plurality of banks by specifying different banks and accessing the memory from a plurality of hash computation circuits simultaneously, an information processing device includes a memory 1 including a plurality of banks, a plurality of hash computation circuits 8, and an interconnect 2 respectively connecting the banks in the memory 1 and the hash computation circuits 8 to each other, wherein the hash computation circuits 8 execute control in such a manner that read requests for reading data from the memory 1 respectively include bank numbers for specifying different banks in the same cycle. |
| US11961072B2 |
Techniques for conducting transactions utilizing cryptocurrency
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for conducting a transaction utilizing a cryptocurrency. The user may fund a cryptocurrency account with his pre-existing cryptocurrency. An issuer may purchase cryptocurrency within a cryptocurrency exchange. The user may then utilize a payment device (e.g., a Crypto Debit Card) that is associated with a cryptocurrency balance to conduct a transaction with a merchant for goods and/or services. An authorization request message may be transmitted to the authorizing entity computer. The authorizing entity computer may determine a cryptocurrency amount corresponding to the fiat currency transaction amount of the authorization request message. A sell request message may be transmitted to an exchange that facilitates the sale of the cryptocurrency amount. If the sale is successful, the authorizing entity computer may transmit an authorization response message indicating that the transaction is approved and the merchant may release the purchased goods and/or services. |
| US11961070B2 |
Resource-based distributed public ledger system
Systems and methods for providing a resource-based distributed public crypto currency blockchain include system provider device(s) that receive first crypto currency transaction information for a first crypto currency transaction that is configured to provide for the transfer of a crypto currency to a payee via a primary distributed public crypto currency blockchain maintained by computing devices. The system provider device(s) identify resource information provided by each computing device and use the resource information to select a subset of the computing devices for processing the first crypto currency transaction. The system provider device(s) then broadcast, via the network to each computing device, the first crypto currency transaction information for the first crypto currency transaction in order to cause a first computing device to process the first crypto currency transaction as part of a first block that is added to the primary distributed public crypto currency blockchain. |
| US11961067B2 |
Splittable security token
A network node includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one network interface. The network node is configured to be within a plurality of network nodes communicatively coupled in a peer-to-peer network of network nodes implementing a distributed ledger. The network node is configured to be communicatively coupled to at least one remotely located computing device through the at least one network interface. The at least one processor is configured to determine a split ratio for a new split of security tokens held in at least one address of the distributed ledger. The at least one processor is also configured to store an indication of the split ratio without updating token balances for all of the at least one address in a list of addresses holding at least one of the security tokens. |
| US11961066B1 |
Methods and arrangements for a payment instrument with a unique design
A payment instrument comprising a bottom layer; one or more intermediate layers, wherein at least one of the one or more intermediate layers comprises: a chip comprising a processor and memory; an antenna coupled with the chip; an absorbent medium; and one or more reservoirs comprising beads, each of the beads comprising dyes of one or more colors, the beads configured to release the dyes onto the absorption medium. The dyes cure on the absorption medium at a rate based on a curing agent applied to the absorbent medium or included in beads of the reservoirs. The payment instrument may also comprise a top layer having at least a partially translucent portion above the absorption medium, wherein the absorption medium is at least partially visible through the at least one partially translucent portion. |
| US11961058B2 |
Combined shutter and user interface pin entry
Examples of a system and method for transacting media at a self-service terminal (SST), are generally described. A method may include receiving a PIN on a user interface component of a media interface aperture cover. The method may include causing the media interface aperture cover to retract to dispense or receive media through a media interface aperture. |
| US11961053B2 |
Gaming service automation machine with delivery services
A delivery robot includes a propulsion system, a storage area arranged to contain at least one item for delivery, a wireless interface, a memory device, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a robot management system (RMS) and via the wireless interface, a delivery request, wherein the delivery request identifies at least the item contained within the storage area, a delivery location, and a recipient. The processor is also configured to control the propulsion system to navigate the delivery robot to the delivery location in response to receiving the delivery request, receive an authentication credential from the recipient, authenticate the recipient based upon the authentication credential, and in response to authenticating the recipient, control the storage area to provide the at least one item contained within the storage area to the recipient. |
| US11961048B1 |
Visitor monitoring and security
A system and method for home security, and in particular to notifying residents of a home of a visitor's presence and providing an automatic assessment of the visitor's legitimacy, is disclosed. In one example, the system can be configured to automatically identify a logo worn by the visitor using optical recognition and generate a notification for the resident that identifies the company. In another example, the system can request presentation of an encrypted key that should be stored on the visitor's computing device. In another example, the system can query a database of scheduled services and determine if a person was requested or scheduled for a visit. In some embodiments, the system can assign a security token to the merchant which will be required at the time of the appointment. |
| US11961047B1 |
Generating and providing synthesized tasks presented in a consolidated graphical user interface
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for collecting, organizing, and managing third-party content from multiple sources associated with a user account to present as synthesized tasks in a consolidated graphical user interface and minimize the distraction provided by multiple interfaces. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems analyze content from various web-based data sources, collect relevant content, create synthesized tasks associated with the relevant content, and present the relevant content to the user grouped into synthesized tasks in a single graphical user interface. Additionally, the disclosed systems can prioritize the generated synthesized tasks within the graphical user interface and provide productivity metrics based on the degree to which an associated user interacts with the synthesized tasks. |
| US11961046B2 |
Automatic selection of request handler using trained classification model
A computing device includes a processor and a medium storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: in response to a receipt of an electronic request comprising one or more structured data fields and one or more unstructured data fields, identify a set of previous electronic requests using the one or more structured data fields of the received electronic request; train a probabilistic classification model using at least one structured data field of the identified set of previous electronic requests; execute the trained probabilistic classification model using the one or more unstructured data fields of the received electronic request; and automatically select a request handler using an output of the executed probabilistic classification model. |
| US11961042B2 |
Robotic system with automated package registration mechanism and auto-detection pipeline
The present disclosure relates to detecting and registering unrecognized or unregistered objects. A minimum viable range (MVR) may be derived based on inspecting image data that represents objects. The MVR may be determined to be a certain MVR or an uncertain MVR according to one or more features represented in the image data. The MVR may be used to register corresponding objects according to the certain or uncertain determination. |
| US11961040B2 |
System and method for improving item scan rates in distribution network
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for improving scan rates of an item in a distribution network. The system may include an item scan database storing item scan datasets containing barcodes, item datasets and optical character recognition (OCR) labels datasets and a processor in data communication with the item scan database. The processor may detect an item barcode with an item orientation so as to output correct orientation information of the item. The processor may also extract available barcode information from the detected item barcode based on the correct orientation information of the item. The processor may further reconstruct a correct barcode from the extracted available barcode information and one or more of the item scan datasets. |
| US11961036B2 |
Multilayered method and apparatus to facilitate the accurate calculation of freight density, area, and classification and provide recommendations to optimize shipping efficiency
Systems and methods provide real-time shipping optimization recommendations for reducing the cost of shipping freight units in a shipment. System comprises a measurement system in communication with a computer system that comprises a client computer device in communication with a host computer system. The measurement system comprises multiple sensing devices to determine weight, dimensions, and other shipping parameters of the freight units in the shipment. The computer system computes a current shipping cost and density based on the shipping parameters. The computer system determines shipping recommendations including recommended adjustments to the shipping parameters that reduce the current shipping cost. The shipping recommendations are transmitted to the client computer device prior to loading the shipment onto a carrier vehicle for the shipment. |
| US11961033B2 |
System and method for dynamically scheduling API-based shipment updates across carriers
A shipping management system comprising a memory configured with shipping records representing shipments from a plurality of carriers and scheduling rules that specify a plurality of update frequencies. The shipping management system comprises a processor coupled to the memory. The shipping management system comprises a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a set of computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions executable by the processor to dynamically schedule, according to the scheduling rules, updates to update the shipping records; based on the dynamic scheduling, issue update application programming interface (API) calls according to APIs of carrier systems of respective carriers to request shipment data for the shipments; and update the shipping records based on the shipment data returned in response to the API calls. |
| US11961032B2 |
System and method for taking an inventory of containers for beverages
A computer based system for taking the physical inventory of liquids dispensed in full and partially full containers. A database stores images of containers and their associated volumes. The containers to be inventoried are identified by a user and input to a computer at a graphical user interface (GUI) input/output. A computer causes the display of an image of the container and a sliding level indicator at the GUI. The level indicator is slidable along the image. The computer calculates a volume of liquid remaining in the container as a function of the position of the level indicator along the image of the container. |
| US11961030B2 |
Diagnostic tool to tool matching methods for manufacturing equipment
A method includes receiving trace sensor data associated with a first manufacturing process of a manufacturing chamber. The method further includes processing the trace sensor data by a processing device to generate summary data associated with the trace sensor data. The method further includes generating a quality index score based on the summary data. The method further includes providing an alert to a user based on the quality index score. The alert includes an indication that the manufacturing chamber performance does not meet a first threshold. |
| US11961028B2 |
Method and system for graph signal processing based energy modelling and forecasting
Energy consumption modelling requires to consider various factors affecting the energy consumption in buildings, to be able to effectively forecast future consumption. Even though some of the state of the art deep learning based approaches are able to address these requirements to some extent, they are computationally heavy. The disclosure herein generally relates to energy forecasting, and, more particularly, to a method and system for graph signal processing (GSP) based energy modelling and forecasting. The system monitors and collects information on energy consumption in a building and values of associated energy consumption parameters. This input data is further processed using GSP to generate a building energy consumption model, from which a smooth signal is obtained by applying total variation minimization. The system further performs forecasting using the smooth signal. |
| US11961027B2 |
Methods and systems for effective utilization of autonomous machines
Systems and methods are disclosed for optimal utilization of machines for performing tasks across a predetermined area. A request may be received to initiate a job on a predetermined area, the job comprising a plurality of tasks associated with a plurality of machines. In response to the request, a first machine of the plurality of machines may be deployed to the predetermined area to execute a first task of the plurality of tasks autonomously. A deployment event may be determined based on characteristics of the first machine and a second machine, and based on characteristics of the predetermined area. The second machine to the predetermined area, upon detection of the deployment event, to execute a second task of the plurality of tasks autonomously. |
| US11961021B2 |
Complex application attack quantification, testing, detection and prevention
An apparatus and method for cyber risk quantification calculated from the likelihood of a cyber-attack on the target enterprise and/or cyber ecosystem based on its security posture. The cyber-attack likelihood can be derived as a probability-based time-to-event (TTE) measure using survivor function analysis. The likelihood probability measure can also be passed to cyber risk frameworks to determine financial impacts of the cyber-attacks. Embodiments of the present invention also relate to an apparatus and method (1) to identify and validate application attack surfaces and protect web applications against business logic-based attacks, sensitive data leakage and privilege escalation attacks; and/or (2) that protects web applications against business logic-based attacks, sensitive data leakage and privilege escalation attacks. This can include implementing an intelligent learning loop using artificial intelligence that creates an ontology-based knowledge base from application request and response sequences. Stochastic probabilistic measures are preferably applied to a knowledge base for predicting malicious user actions in real time. |
| US11961007B2 |
Split network acceleration architecture
A method for accelerating machine learning on a computing device is described. The method includes hosting a neural network in a first inference accelerator and a second inference accelerator. The neural network split between the first inference accelerator and the second inference accelerator. The method also includes routing intermediate inference request results directly between the first inference accelerator and the second inference accelerator. The method further includes generating a final inference request result from the intermediate inference request results. |
| US11961001B2 |
Parallel forward and backward propagation
A neural network structure is separated into an odd neural network including only the odd layers and an even neural network including only the even layers. In order to allow for parallel execution, for forward propagation a second input is generated from the original input, while for backward propagation a second error gradient is generated. Parallel execution may accelerate the forward and backward propagation operations without significant change in accuracy of the model. Additionally, restructuring a single neural network into two or more parallel neural networks may reduce the total time needed for training. |
| US11960999B2 |
Method and apparatus with neural network performing deconvolution
A neural network apparatus configured to perform a deconvolution operation includes a memory configured to store a first kernel; and a processor configured to: obtain, from the memory, the first kernel; calculate a second kernel by adjusting an arrangement of matrix elements comprised in the first kernel; generate sub-kernels by dividing the second kernel; perform a convolution operation between an input feature map and the sub-kernels using a convolution operator; and generate an output feature map, as a deconvolution of the input feature map, by merging results of the convolution operation. |
| US11960997B1 |
Circuit architecture with biased randomization
Disclosed herein are techniques for classifying data with a data processing circuit. In one embodiment, the data processing circuit includes a probabilistic circuit configurable to generate a decision at a pre-determined probability, and an output generation circuit including an output node and configured to receive input data and a weight, and generate output data at the output node for approximating a product of the input data and the weight. The generation of the output data includes propagating the weight to the output node according a first decision of the probabilistic circuit. The probabilistic circuit is configured to generate the first decision at a probability determined based on the input data. |
| US11960995B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic detection of surgical specialty type and procedure type
Systems and methods for automatic detection of surgical specialty type and procedure type are disclosed. One or more classification networks may be applied to automatically process input surgical image data in order to recognize and determine a surgical specialty type and a surgical procedure type depicted in the input image data. Based on the determination made by the system, one or more output indications may be generated and one or more surgical devices may be automatically controlled, such as by being optimized for use during the surgical procedure type and/or surgical specialty type represented by the input image. |
| US11960993B2 |
Machine-learning techniques involving monotonic recurrent neural networks
Various aspects involve a monotonic recurrent neural network (MRNN) trained for risk assessment or other purposes. For instance, the MRNN is trained to compute a risk indicator from a predictor variable. Training the MRNN includes adjusting weights of nodes of the MRNN subject to a set of monotonicity constraints, wherein the set of monotonicity constraints causes output risk indicators computed by the RNN to be a monotonic function of input predictor variables. The trained monotonic RNN can be used to generate an output risk indicator for a target entity. |
| US11960992B2 |
Winding condition generating apparatus, winding apparatus, winding defect level prediction value generating apparatus, winding condition calculating method, winding method, and winding defect level prediction value generating method
A winding condition generating apparatus includes: an input unit; an output unit; and a condition calculation unit. A winding condition calculation unit includes a learning model created by machine learning using a combination of a winding parameter and a winding condition in producing a wound web that satisfies a target winding quality as training data, and calculates a winding condition of a new wound web using the learning model, from a winding parameter of a new wound web input through the input unit. The output unit outputs the winding condition. The winding parameter includes a web width, a web transport velocity, and a web winding length. The winding condition includes a tension of the web at the start of winding and a tension of the web at the end of winding. |
| US11960990B2 |
Artificial neural network implementations
Disclosed are systems, methods, and other implementations that include a machine-implemented artificial neural network including a plurality of nodes, with the nodes forming at plurality of layers including an input layer, at least one hidden layer, and an output layer, and a plurality of links, with each link coupling a corresponding source node and a receiving node. At least one link is configured to evaluate a piecewise linear function of a value provided by a first source node, from the plurality of nodes, to yield a value for a first receiving node coupled to the at least one link. Each node of a hidden layer is configured to aggregate values provided by links for which that node is the receiving node of the link, with the first receiving node providing non-linear output resulting, in part, from the at least one link configured to evaluate the piecewise linear function. |
| US11960989B2 |
Read threshold estimation systems and methods using deep learning
A controller estimates optimal read threshold values for a memory device using deep learning. The memory device includes multiple pages coupled to select word lines in a memory region. The controller performs multiple read operations on a select type of page for each word line using multiple read threshold sets, obtains fail bit count (FBC) information associated with each read operation, and determines an optimal read threshold set for each word line based on the FBC information. When optimal read threshold sets for the select word lines are different each other, the controller predicts a best read threshold set using the optimal read threshold sets. |
| US11960983B1 |
Pre-fetching results from large language models
Systems and methods for pre-fetching results from large language models (LLMs) are provided. The method includes acquiring a context of an interaction between a user and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character; predicting, based on the context, one or more anticipated words to be uttered by the user; generating, based on the one or more anticipated words, at least one query to an LLM; providing the at least one query to the LLM; generating, based on at least one response obtained from the LLM, an anticipated reply of the AI character model to the one or more anticipated words to be pronounced by the user; receiving one or more words uttered by the user; determining that a level of a discrepancy between the one or more words and the one or more anticipated words is below a predetermined threshold; and providing the anticipated reply to the user. |
| US11960982B1 |
System and method of determining and executing deep tensor columns in neural networks
A system and method may partition and/or execute a NN, by, for a graph including nodes and hyper edges, each node representing a data item in the NN and each hyper edge representing an operation in the NN, identifying a deep tensor column comprising a subset of the nodes and a subset of the hyper edges, such that the operations in the deep tensor column, when executed, use only data which fits within a preselected cache. |
| US11960980B2 |
Machine learning system to predict causal treatment effects of actions performed on websites or applications
Systems and methods for computing a causal uplift in performance of an output action for one or more treatment actions in parallel are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer receives interaction data for a particular period of time which identifies a plurality of users and a plurality of actions that were performed by each user of the plurality of users through a particular graphical user interface during the particular period of time. The server computer uses the interaction data to generate a feature matrix of actions for each user, and a set of confounding variables included to minimize spurious correlations. The feature matrix is then used to train a machine learning system, using data identifying a user's performance or non-performance of each action as inputs and data identifying performance or non-performance of a target output action as the output. A treatment effect is then computed for a treatment action by generating a simulated treatment matrix where all values for the treatment action are set to true, computing an average of outputs from the machine learning system using the simulated treatment matrix, generating a simulated control matrix where all values for the treatment action are set to false, computing an average of outputs from the machine learning system using the simulated control matrix, and computing a difference between the two average outputs. |
| US11960977B2 |
Automated enhancement of opportunity insights
Techniques for enhancing actionable opportunities through machine learning are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system includes an event listener for detecting an opportunity to perform an action using one or more computing resources. When a new opportunity is detected, the system generates a set of search criteria, which is used to search a set of external web resources for current events. The system may then generate, using a machine learning model as a function of one or more features extracted from current events satisfying the search criteria, a score representing a likelihood of success that the action leads to an optimal result. The system may tune the machine learning model based on feedback received that is indicative of how the current events affected the likelihood of success for the action. |
| US11960966B2 |
Decoding of two-dimensional barcodes under unfavorable conditions
Aspects and implementations provide for mechanisms of detection and decoding of barcodes in images. The disclosed techniques include estimating dimensions of a module of a barcode based on geometric characteristics of a barcode image, forming hypotheses that group modules into barcode symbols, and assessing viability of formed hypotheses. Various operations of the techniques may involve the use of neural networks, including estimation of module dimensions and assessment of groupings of modules into lines and lines into barcode symbols. The techniques may be used for decoding of barcodes captured in images of unfavorable conditions, including blur, perspective, sub-optimal lighting, barcode deformation, and the like. The techniques may be applied to decoding linear one-dimensional barcodes, two-dimensional barcodes, and stacked linear barcodes. |
| US11960957B2 |
System and method for tracing members of an animal population
A system for tracing members of an animal population throughout a process including moving at least some of the members between a plurality of physically separate locations, the system comprising: a plurality of identification devices, each being attached to, and uniquely identifying, a respective member of the members; a plurality of identification device readers, each capable of being located at a respective physically separate location of the physically separate locations, and each capable of reading the identification devices to uniquely identify the respective member; a data repository comprising one or more records, each of the records (i) being associated with a respective member of the members, and (ii) including a unique animal identifier associated with the identification device attached to the respective member of the members; and a processing circuitry configured to perform a process for storing location change records indicative of location changes of the members during the process. |
| US11960949B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that displays, on a display, form management information including form information indicating content of a form and management information for managing the form information, the form information having been acquired based on an embedment code included in form image data of the form, and in response to an instruction to output the form management information, outputs the form management information to an extraneous source. |
| US11960943B2 |
Event log management
Some implementations described herein relate to a system that is configured to obtain one or more event logs associated with a tenant of the system. The system may be configured to determine, based on the one or more event logs, an event rate associated with the tenant and thereby determine, based on the event rate, a rotation interval. The system may be configured to cause, based on the rotation interval, a data structure to be generated for storing event logs associated with the tenant that are obtained during a time window. The system may be configured to obtain, within the time window, one or more additional event logs associated with the tenant and to cause, based on obtaining the one or more additional event logs within the time window, the one or more additional event logs to be stored in the data structure. |
| US11960938B2 |
Information processing program, information processing apparatus, and information processing method that optimize access to an external database based on calculated minimum processing load
Disclosed system specifies, based on measurement results of communication times taken for accessing a plurality of external databases, relation between the communication times taken for accessing the plurality of external databases, calculates, when accepting an instruction to execute processing using at least one of the plurality of external databases, a processing load when accessing the at least one of the external databases, based on the relation between the communication times, and controls an access to data included in the at least one of the external databases according to the calculated processing load. |
| US11960934B2 |
Systems and methods for improved neural network execution
A method and system for computing one or more outputs of a neural network having a plurality of layers is provided. The method and system can include determining a plurality of sub-computations from total computations of the neural network to execute in parallel wherein the computations to execute in parallel involve computations from multiple layers. The method and system also can also include avoiding repeating overlapped computations and/or multiple memory reads and writes during execution. |
| US11960933B2 |
Versioned progressive chunked queue for a scalable multi-producer and multi-consumer queue
A method includes receiving, by a producer thread of a plurality of producer threads, an offer request associated with an item. The producer thread increases a sequence and determines (i) a chunk identifier of a memory chunk from a pool of memory chunks and (ii) a first slot position in the memory chunk to offer the item. The producer thread also writes the item into the memory chunk at the first slot position. Then, a first consumer thread of a plurality of consumer threads determines the first slot position of the item and consumes the item at the first slot position. A second consumer thread consumes another item at a second slot position in the memory chunk and recycles the memory chunk. |
| US11960931B2 |
Systems and methods for video/audio production and architecture to optimize unused capacity
Systems and methods for media production and broadcasting are provided. A method for a video production system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a request for media production assets from different categories from a connected computing device of an end user; determining a plurality of available production assets for each of the categories of production assets; receiving a selection of production assets from the categories of production assets from the connected computing device. |
| US11960930B2 |
Automated software robot creation for robotic process automation
Improved techniques for combining a plurality of distinct recordings pertaining to user interactions with one or more software applications each of which concerns performing a task. Then, the combined recording can be used to form a software automation process for performing the task in an automated fashion. Advantageously, the improved techniques enable a robotic process automation (RPA) system to capture multiple recordings, combine (e.g., merge) the recordings, and form a software automation process to perform repetitive tasks in an automated manner, all with little or no assistance from a user. |
| US11960928B2 |
Event monitoring system and event monitoring method
An event monitoring system includes a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit holds an event message including a character string related to an event occurring in an information system and guide information including one or more guides. The guide includes a guide message including a predetermined character string, notified in response to the event, and information regarding a coping method for the event. The processor compares the event message and the guide, associates the guide with the event in a case where the guide further includes information for identifying a variable portion of the guide message and a portion other than the variable portion of the guide message coincides with a portion other than a portion corresponding to the variable portion in the event message, and receives an input of information indicating a correct answer of a guide to be associated with the event in a case where the guide does not include the information for identifying the variable portion. |
| US11960927B2 |
Task correlation framework
A method comprises extracting first task data from a first data source corresponding to a first application and second task data from a second data source corresponding to a second application, and comparing the first task data to the second task data using one or more natural language processing techniques. In the method, one or more matching tasks between the first task data and the second task data are identified based at least in part on the comparing. Code of at least one of the first application and the second application is analyzed to determine whether the code of at least one of the first application and the second application implements the one or more matching tasks. |
| US11960926B2 |
Automated plan synthesis and action dispatch
An artificial intelligence, AI, planning controller control the timing of when a plan (16) to accomplish a task (14) is synthesized. The AI planning controller in this regard determines a quiescent phase (20) during which values of at least some predicates describing a state of the system (12) will remain stable. The AI planning controller then controls artificial intelligence planning to synthesize the plan (16) during at least some of the quiescent phase (20). |
| US11960922B2 |
System, apparatus and method for user space object coherency in a processor
In an embodiment, a processor comprises: an execution circuit to execute instructions; at least one cache memory coupled to the execution circuit; and a table storage element coupled to the at least one cache memory, the table storage element to store a plurality of entries each to store object metadata of an object used in a code sequence. The processor is to use the object metadata to provide user space multi-object transactional atomic operation of the code sequence. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11960920B2 |
Asynchronous input and output for snapshots of virtual machines
A data management system comprises: a storage appliance configured to store a snapshot of a virtual machine; and one or more processors in communication with the storage appliance. The one or more processors are configured to perform operations including: identifying a plurality of shards of the virtual machine; requesting a snapshot of each of the plurality of shards; receiving the shards asynchronously; ordering the received snapshot shards sequentially into a results queue; and storing a single snapshot of the virtual machine based on the ordered snapshot shards. Operations may further include maintaining a flow control queue that limits the number of snapshot shards requested. |
| US11960918B2 |
Creating product orchestration engines
A system can receive information about a first orchestration service that indicates a mapping from an application programming interface (API) to an executable script, and a dependency of the first orchestration service on a second orchestration service. The system can, in response to receiving the information, creating a base container image for the first orchestration service. The system can associate the API with executing the executable script on the base container image. The system can associate the dependency of the first orchestration service on the second orchestration service with the base container image. The system can, in response to receiving data indicative of a request to create an instance of the first orchestration service, creating an instance of the base container image. |
| US11960917B2 |
Live migration and redundancy for virtualized storage
For a first server virtual machine (VM) virtualizing a logical volume in a read/write mode for a client VM, a second server VM virtualizing the logical volume in an off mode is instantiated. The logical volume comprises a virtualization of a portion of physical storage. At the first server VM, the logical volume is deactivated, the deactivating disallowing the first server VM from performing a storage request from the client VM. At the second server VM, the logical volume is activated, the activating performed by causing the second VM to virtualize the logical volume in the read/write mode, the activating allowing the second server VM to perform the storage request. |
| US11960912B2 |
Methods for user interface generation and application modification
A method of generating a user interface for presentation to a user. The method comprises executing a first application computer program to provide a user interface, executing agent computer program code to interrogate and modify said user interface during execution of said first application computer program, and presenting said modified user interface. The first application computer program may be run on a server, while the modified user interface may be presented to a user at a client connected to said server. |
| US11960901B2 |
Autonomous driving controller parallel processor boot order
An autonomous driving controller includes a plurality of parallel processors operating on common input data. Each of the plurality of parallel processors includes a general processor, a security processor subsystem (SCS), and a safety subsystem (SMS). The general processors, the SCSs, and the SMSs of the plurality of parallel processors are configured to first, boot the plurality of SCSs from ROM second, boot the plurality of SMSs of the plurality of parallel processors from RAM or ROM, and, third, boot the plurality of general processors of the plurality of parallel processors from RAM. Between booting of the SCSs and the SMSs, at least one of the plurality of SCSs may load SMS boot code into the RAM that is dedicated to the plurality of SMSs. |
| US11960899B2 |
Dual in-line memory module map-out in an information handling system
An information handling system includes multiple dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The DIMMs form a memory system of the information handling system. The BIOS begins a system boot of the information handling system, and performs a first memory reference code training. Based on the first memory reference code training, the BIOS discovers a bad DIMM of the DIMMs, and stores information associated with the bad DIMM. The BIOS reboots the information handling system. During the reboot, the BIOS retrieves the information associated with the bad DIMM. The BIOS disables a slot associated with the bad DIMM. In response to the slot being disabled, the BIOS performs a second memory reference code training. Based on the second memory reference code training, the BIOS downgrades the memory system to a closest possible DIMM population. |
| US11960898B2 |
Enabling asynchronous operations in synchronous processors
The technology disclosed herein enables a processor that processes instructions synchronously in accordance with a processor clock to identify a first instruction specifying an asynchronous operation to be processed independently of the processor clock. The asynchronous operation is performed by an asynchronous execution unit that executes the asynchronous operation independently of the processor clock and generates at least one result of the asynchronous operation. A synchronous execution unit executes, in parallel with the execution of the asynchronous operation by the asynchronous execution unit, one or more second instructions specifying respective synchronous operations. Responsive to determining that the asynchronous execution unit has generated the at least one result of the asynchronous operation, the processor receives the at least one result of the asynchronous operation. |
| US11960896B2 |
Graphics engine reset and recovery in a multiple graphics context execution environment
Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that triggers an idle state in a first command streamer in response to a request to reset a second command streamer that shares graphics hardware with the first command streamer. The technology may also determine an event type associated with the request and conduct the request based on the event type. |
| US11960890B2 |
Heterogeneous embedded method and device for tabular processing and execution of operation flow
Method and device for tabular processing and execution of operation flow, and generation of an operation flow table by the same. The flow steps of the operation flow are sequentially acquired and the continuous flow steps in the operation flow are combined into a flow step sequence corresponding to the operation flow type according to the predetermined flow step sequence combination rule. Based on a predetermined row generation rule corresponding to the flow step sequence having the operation flow types, in the operation flow table, the operation flow table rows corresponding to the flow step sequence are sequentially generated until all the flow steps are processed and a final operation flow table is outputted. The operation flow table is executed by the aforesaid method and device. The editing, processing and execution of the complex operation flow can be made more concise and efficient by the aforesaid operation flow processing. |
| US11960889B2 |
Method and system for optimizing data transfer from one memory to another memory
A method and system for moving data from a source memory to a destination memory by a processor is disclosed herein. The destination memory stores a sequence of instructions and the sequence of instructions comprises one or more load instructions and one or more store instructions. The processor initially moves the one or more store instructions from the destination memory to the source memory. The processor then executes the one or more load instructions from the destination memory. On executing the one or more load instructions, the data is loaded from the source memory to at least one register in the processor. The processor further initiates execution of the one or more store instructions stored in the source memory. On executing the one or more store instructions from the source memory, the processor stores the data from the at least one register to the destination memory. |
| US11960884B2 |
Apparatus and method for complex multiplication
An embodiment of the invention is a processor including execution circuitry to calculate, in response to a decoded instruction, a result of a complex multiplication of a first complex number and a second complex number. The calculation includes a first operation to calculate a first term of a real component of the result and a first term of the imaginary component of the result. The calculation also includes a second operation to calculate a second term of the real component of the result and a second term of the imaginary component of the result. The processor also includes a decoder, a first source register, and a second source register. The decoder is to decode an instruction to generate the decoded instruction. The first source register is to provide the first complex number and the second source register is to provide the second complex number. |
| US11960878B2 |
Online activity monitoring
An incentive management system may receive a request for registration of a software application from a software developer and assign at least an API key and an API secret to the software application. The system may further provide, to the software developer, integration instructions including at least the API key and the API secret and provide a developer platform to the software developer, the developer platform configured to receive program information including at one or more actions that may be performed by a user of the software application. The system may monitor messages from one or more application servers, such as via webhooks embedded in the software application, regarding performance of one or more actions identified as actionable by the software developer. The system may periodically determine a cumulative incentive associated with each of the users of the software application and coordinate provision of the incentives. |
| US11960873B2 |
System and method for managing a model for solving issues using a set of actions performed on the client environment
A method for managing a client environment includes obtaining, by a client environment watcher of a production host environment, a set of actions performed by the client environment operatively connected to the production host environment, in response to obtaining the set of actions: performing an action filtering on the set of actions to obtain a set of filtered actions, wherein the set of filtered actions is associated with an attempt to resolve an issue with performing an application upgrade on the client environment, determining, using the set of filtered actions, a client-applied action set, and initiating an update to an issue analyzer model to obtain an updated issue analyzer model. |
| US11960868B2 |
Branch objects for dependent optimization problems
A workflow engine processes a work problem to generate solutions for the work problem comprising a plurality of related optimization problems. The work problem may comprise a second optimization problem that is dependent on a first optimization problem, such that at least one solution for the first optimization problem is to be utilized as an initial solution for the second optimization problem. The workflow engine generates and stores a branch object for each optimization problem, each branch object specifying a solver engine assigned for processing the optimization problem and dependency information indicating a dependency relationship between the optimization problem and another optimization problem. The workflow engine processes the work problem based on the branch objects by initiating each solver engine to perform optimization operations on the assigned optimization problem based on the corresponding branch object to generate one or more solutions for the assigned optimization problem. |
| US11960866B2 |
Method and system for constructing compiler intermediate representations from TensorFlow graph
A method and system are provided to construct, from a TensorFlow graph, a common intermediate representation that can be converted to a plurality of compiler intermediate representations (IRs), which enables compiler optimization to be applied efficiently. |
| US11960863B2 |
Mixed mode programming
A mixed mode programming method permitting users to program with graphical coding blocks and textual code within the same programming tool. The mixed mode preserves the advantages of graphical block programming while introducing textual coding as needed for instructional reasons and/or for functional reasons. Converting a graphical code block or group of blocks to a textual block lets the user see a portion of the textual code in the context of a larger program. Within one programming tool the mixed mode method allows users to learn programming and build purely graphical blocks; then transition into mixed graphical and textual code and ultimately lead to their ability to program in purely textual code. The mixed mode further allows users to program using any combination of drag-and-drop graphical blocks and typed textual code in various forms. |
| US11960860B2 |
Workflow for computer game development
Methods, systems, and techniques for enhanced game development workflow between programmers and non-programmers are provided. Example embodiments provide an EGPIDE which provides an environment suitable for workflow collaboration for software programmers or those game developers that prefer to work in textual language versus non-programmer game designers that prefer to work in visual language. In one embodiment, the EGPIDE comprises an EGPIDE script programming parser and visualization engine, an EGPIDE node graph visual programming parser and visualization engine, EGPIDE translation management, EGPIDE autolayout support, and user interface support. These components provide automatic translation between visual programming specification and text based programming specification to enable real time bi-directional communication between these types of programming to expedite game development process. |
| US11960858B2 |
Performance based system configuration as preprocessing for system peformance simulation
System for performance-based design space composition in engineering systems includes design configuration module, explainable recommendation module and user interface module. A list of one or more system configurations is generated, each system configuration having a unique set of components that satisfy system goals and system requirements. For each system configuration, system performance values are determined based on performance enabled by each system component. A design dashboard presents the system configurations in rank order and the system performance value for each of the system configuration components. |
| US11960856B1 |
Multiplier-accumulator processing pipeline using filter weights having gaussian floating point data format
A system and/or an integrated circuit including a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline which includes a plurality of MACs to implement a plurality of multiply and accumulate operations. A first memory stores filter weights having a Gaussian floating point (“GFP”) data format and a first bit length. A data format conversion circuitry includes circuitry to convert the filter weights from the GFP data format and the first bit length to filter weights having the data format and bit length that are different from the GFP data format and the first bit length. The converted filter weights are output to the MACs, wherein in operation, the MACs are configured to perform the plurality of multiply operations using (a) the input data and (b) the filter weights having the data format and bit length that are different from the GFP data format and the first bit length, respectively. |
| US11960853B2 |
Folded integer multiplication for field-programmable gate arrays
Folded integer multiplier (FIM) circuitry includes a multiplier configurable to perform multiplication and a first addition/subtraction unit and a second addition/subtraction unit both configurable to perform addition and subtraction. The FIM circuitry is configurable to determine each product of a plurality of products for a plurality of pairs of input values having a first number of bits by performing, using the first and second addition/subtraction units, a plurality of operations involving addition or subtraction, and performing, using the multiplier, a plurality of multiplication operations involving values having fewer bits than the first number of bits. The plurality of multiplication operations includes a first number of multiplication operations, and the multiplier is configurable to begin performing all multiplication operations of the plurality of multiplication operations within a first number of clock cycles equal to the first number of multiplication operations. |
| US11960845B2 |
Decoding communications with token sky maps
Embodiments relate to decoding communications with token sky maps. At least one electronic communication including emoticons having a non-original meaning is received. A candidate meaning is determined for the emoticons having the non-original meaning in the at least one electronic communication based at least in part on token neighborhood distribution structures. The candidate meaning for the emoticons having the non-original meaning is caused to be displayed on at least one device. |
| US11960842B2 |
Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes
This application relates to apparatus and methods for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes. In some examples, a computing device receives a request that identifies textual data. The computing device applies a natural language model to the textual data to generate first embeddings. In some examples, the natural language model is trained on retail data, such as item descriptions and chat session data. The computing device also applies a dependency based model to the textual data to generate second embeddings. Further, the computing device concatenates the first and second embeddings, and applies an intent and entity classifier to the concatenated embeddings to determine entities, and an intent, for the request. The computing device may generate a response to the request based on the determined intent and entities. |
| US11960837B2 |
Fulfillment of actionable requests ahead of a user selecting a particular autocomplete suggestion for completing a current user input
Implementations set forth herein relate to providing selectable autofill suggestions, which correspond to application actions that are at least partially fulfilled using server command data—prior to a user selecting a particular selectable autofill suggestion. Proactively fulfilling command data in this way mitigates latency between user selection of a suggestion and fulfillment of a particular action. Initially, a partial input can be processed to generate autofill suggestions, which can be communicated to a server device for further processing. The autofill suggestions can also be rendered for selection at a touch display interface, thereby allowing a user to select one of the autofill suggestions. As command fulfillment data is provided by the server, the command fulfillment data can be available to a corresponding application(s) in order that any corresponding actions can be at least partially fulfilled prior to user selection. |
| US11960832B2 |
Cross-document intelligent authoring and processing, with arbitration for semantically-annotated documents
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer-implemented methods are used to identify various semantically important chunks in documents, automatically label them with appropriate datatypes and semantic roles, and use this enhanced information to assist authors and to support downstream processes. Chunk locations, datatypes, and semantic roles can often be automatically determined from what is here called “context”, to wit, the combination of their formatting, structure, and content; those of adjacent or nearby content; overall patterns of occurrence in a document, and similarities of all these things across documents (mainly but not exclusively among documents in the same document set). Similarity is not limited to exact or fuzzy string or property comparisons, but may include similarity of natural language grammatical structure, ML (machine learning) techniques such as measuring similarity of word, chunk, and other embeddings, and the datatypes and semantic roles of previously-identified chunks. |
| US11960831B2 |
Formula generation by example
A system includes an interface configured to receive a user input string for a data cell and a processor configured to: determine a lexicon from data related to the data cell; determine an efficient formula from the lexicon; and provide the efficient formula to a formula cell. The system further includes a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. |
| US11960830B2 |
Exploratory data interface
A method for production analysis includes: receiving production data at a processor from a plurality of tools spatially arranged within a manufacturing facility; creating a hierarchal topology of the data in the processor, wherein each level of the hierarchal topology is based on a different one of a plurality of static parameters that are selected from a list consisting of: a tool identifier, a batch identifier, and a spatial orientation; displaying, at a user interface implemented by the processor, a first analysis of a first level of the hierarchal topology, wherein the analysis contains parameters related to other levels of the hierarchal topology; receiving, via the user interface, a selection by a user of a first parameter displayed on the first analysis; and updating the user interface to display a second analysis of a second level of the hierarchal topology that is related to the first parameter. |
| US11960823B1 |
Missing glyph replacement system
A missing glyph replacement system is described. In an example, a Unicode identifier of a missing glyph is obtained and glyph metadata describing a glyph cluster that includes the Unicode identifier is obtained from a cache maintained in the storage device, e.g., as part of preprocessing. From this, the system obtains glyphs from the font using Unicode identifiers included in the glyph cluster. The system uses a representative glyph from these glyphs to verify the glyph cluster, and if verified obtains glyphs based on the cluster. For these obtained glyphs, an amount of similarity is determined for the missing glyph with respect to the plurality of obtained glyphs, e.g., to control output of representations of the obtained glyphs in the user interface. The representations are user selectable via the user interface to replace the missing glyph. |
| US11960822B2 |
Suggestion of communication styles personalized to target audience in a text editor
A computer-implemented process is programmed to programmatically receive at a first computer a digital electronic object including a source text that is directed to a target audience and that was composed at a second computer, determine a style value specifying a particular communication style from among different communication styles based on a communication profile of the target audience, evaluate the source text using a trained machine-learning model, receive a classification output from the machine-learning model, generate an output set of suggested edits to the source text based on comparing the classification output to the source text, and transmit the output set of suggested edits to the second computer. The classification output from the machine-learning model includes a modified text based on the source text. The modified text has been classified using the particular communication style specified in the style value. |
| US11960821B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing electric book
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing an electronic book, which can provide an electronic book in which the levels of words are changed depending on the reading level of a user. The apparatus may provide an electronic book whose changeable words are each changed to a word having the same meaning and a different word level, depending on the reading level of a user, thereby enabling the user to easily read the electronic book including difficult words, and enabling the user to learn difficult words while reading the electronic book. |
| US11960818B2 |
Automatic detection and removal of typographic rivers in electronic documents
Embodiments are disclosed for removing typographic rivers from electronic documents. The method may include receiving an electronic document including a plurality of words for automatic typographic correction. A typographic river is identified in the electronic document, the typographic river including a plurality of nodes, each node including an empty glyph. A candidate adjustment that removes the first node of the plurality of nodes is identified and the candidate adjustment is applied to the electronic document. |
| US11960817B2 |
Web site preview based on client presentation state
The generation of a web site preview based on client presentation state of the client that will render the web site preview. Upon a service receiving a request to provide preview data for a web site preview corresponding to a web site identifier, the service determines client presentation state of the client(s) that is or are to render a web site preview using preview data that is to be provided in response to the request. The service selects a preview template at least in part based on the determined client presentation state. The service also populates the selected preview template with content from the web site to thereby generate preview data representing a preview of the web site identified by the web site identifier. The preview data is thus tailored to the presentation state of the client. |
| US11960810B2 |
Chip, layout design system, and layout design method
A chip includes a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry includes first circuits which have first power consumption at a point of time. The second circuitry includes second circuits which have second power consumption at the point of time, and the first power consumption is higher than the second power consumption. At least one of the first circuits and at least one the second circuits are alternately arranged, in order to lower an operating temperature of the plurality of first circuits at the point of time. |
| US11960806B2 |
Method and apparatus for checking schematic circuit diagram and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A method, an apparatus, and a system for checking a schematic circuit diagram are provided. The method includes: determining a netlist file and a bill of material (BOM) list of the schematic circuit diagram, where the schematic circuit diagram is drawn by an electronic design automation (EDA) tool; and determining whether parts in the schematic circuit diagram are in a preset part list and determining whether connection relationships among the parts meet preset connection relationships, according to the netlist file and the BOM list, to obtain a check result, where the preset part list includes standard part information of multiple parts. |
| US11960805B2 |
Architecture exploration and compiler optimization using neural networks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing integrated circuit architectures or compiler designs using an optimization engine. The optimization engine includes an auto-encoder and one or more regressors. Once trained, the optimization engine can encode initial, discrete input values of a set of input characteristics into a continuous domain and use continuous optimization techniques to identify final input values of the set of input characteristics that optimize one or more output characteristics. |
| US11960802B2 |
Method, processor device and computer program product for designing intervention into the behaviour of a real complex system
A computer-implemented method for designing intervention into the behavior of a real complex system of technical or biochemical nature. The real complex system is modeled by a network of objects and relations between the objects. The objects of the system are represented by network points and the relations are represented by edges between the network points. The states of the objects are described by a parameter set and the relations associated with the edges are described by functions of time. |
| US11960801B2 |
Method for calculating pressure loss of parallel R-type automobile vibration damper
Disclosed is a method for calculating a pressure loss of a parallel R-type automobile vibration damper. The automobile vibration damper includes a frame, a spring, an axle, a hydraulic cylinder, an upper oil tank, a piston, a lower oil tank, and a resistance adjustment section. The resistance adjustment section is composed of 4 capillaries connected in parallel and solenoid valves. The four capillaries are all coiled into an M shape. The 4 capillaries are R8, R4, R2, and R1 and are connected in series with solenoid valves VR8, VR4, VR2, VR1, respectively. Due to the viscous effect of oily liquid in the cylinder, when the oily liquid flows through the resistance adjustment section, damping can be adjusted by adjusting the configurations SRn of the solenoid valves VR8, VR4, VR2, and VR1. |
| US11960794B2 |
Seamless three-dimensional design collaboration
A method, system, and article of manufacture provide for multi-user collaboration on a three-dimensional (3D) design. The 3D design is acquired in a computer-aided design (CAD) application. A commenting process for a comment to be associated with a selected part of the 3D design is activated. Textual user input for the comment is dynamically processed as the comment is received. The processing recognizes that the text relates to creating or modifying the selected part, retrieves a list of alternative parts (based on similarities between the alternative parts and the selected part), and displays a graphic representation of an alternative part. An alternative part is selected and inserted in the comment as a proposed replacement part. The comment including the proposed replacement part is provided to another user. |
| US11960791B2 |
Control of a motion tracking system by user thereof
A method for controlling a motion tracking system, including the steps of: digitally processing sound waves detected by a plurality of microphones so as to detect a voice of a user and estimate a first direction of the user; digitally processing electromagnetic waves captured by antennas so as to detect data packets transmitted to a computing apparatus by sensors and estimate second directions of each sensor; digitally averaging the second directions so as to provide an average direction for the sensors; digitally computing a difference between the first direction and the average direction; and starting to digitally track motion of the user based on measurements of each sensor when the computed difference does not exceed a predetermined difference threshold. |
| US11960790B2 |
Spatial attention model enhanced voice engagement system
A computer implemented method includes detecting user interaction with mixed reality displayed content in a mixed reality system. User focus is determined as a function of the user interaction based on the user interaction using a spatial intent model. A length of time for extending voice engagement with the mixed reality system is modified based on the determined user focus. Detecting user interaction with the displayed content may include tracking eye movements to determine objects in the displayed content at which the user is looking and determining a context of a user dialog during the voice engagement. |
| US11960783B2 |
Method and apparatus for extended reality head mounted display device
An extended reality (XR) head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a processor, a memory device, a battery, an HMD video display to present to a user an extended reality image of an environment, an HMD shield formed to be fitted around a user's eyes and to house the HMD video display, an HMD hood comprising a fabric shroud formed over a shroud frame operatively coupled to the HMD shield, and a head strap operatively coupled to the HMD shield via a shield hinge to secure the HMD device to the user's head. |
| US11960774B2 |
System, method, and device for uploading data from premises to remote computing environments
A system, method and device for ingesting data files into remote computing environments is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of data files and processing same according to a modified round-robin (MRR) process. The MRR assigns data files for processing by determining which of a plurality of remote processors are active, and by determining an amount of queued processing for the active remote processors. The method includes assigning each data file of the plurality of data files to a remote processor of the plurality of remote processors based on the remote processor (1) being active, and (2) having a relatively lower amount of queued processing. The method includes instructing a storage writer to store processed data files. |
| US11960773B2 |
Modifying virtual persistent volumes based on analysis of performance metrics
Example implementations relate to virtual persistent volumes. In an example, a storage virtualization system receives performance metrics related to usage of a virtual persistent volume by a containerized application. The performance metrics are identified in an application data store profile, and the application data store profile is identified based on an application manifest of the containerized application. The virtual persistent volume is modified based on an analysis of the performance metrics. |
| US11960770B2 |
Access request management using sub-commands
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to access request management using sub-commands. Access requests received from a host system can be managed using a respective set of sub-commands corresponding to each access request and whose status can be tracked. Tracking how far access requests are processed at a fine granularity (of sub-commands) can provide efficient management of the access requests that can reduce a gap latency in processing multiple access requests. |
| US11960767B2 |
Outer codes for data storage devices
A method includes receiving, by a data storage device, a read command. The method further includes reading a first set of outer code stored to a magnetic recording medium of the data storage device and storing the first set of outer code to memory. The method further includes receiving a write command to write data to the magnetic recording medium and writing a second set of outer code to the magnetic recording medium in connection with the write command. |
| US11960766B2 |
Data storage device and method for accidental delete protection
A data storage device and method for accidental delete protection are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device comprises a memory and a controller. The memory comprises a first set of physical blocks and a second set of physical blocks, where the first and second sets of physical blocks are associated with separate logical-to-physical address tables and/or separate block lists. The controller is configured to write data received from a host in the first set of physical blocks and move the data from the first set of physical blocks to the second set of physical blocks in response to the host requesting that a modified version of the data be written in the memory. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination. |
| US11960763B2 |
Load balancing combining block and file storage
A technique for performing load balancing between storage nodes includes generating a first performance metric for volumes accessed through a first storage node and generating a second performance metric for volumes accessed through a second storage node. The volumes accessed through the first storage node include a set of volumes that belong to a NAS (network-attached storage) file server hosted by the first storage node. In response to detecting a load imbalance based on the first performance metric and the second performance metric, the technique further includes moving the NAS file server from the first storage node to the second storage node and hosting the set of volumes that belong to the NAS file server from the second storage node. |
| US11960761B2 |
Memory control method, memory storage device and memory control circuit unit
A memory control method is disclosed according to an embodiment. The method includes: temporarily storing first type data into a buffer memory, wherein the first type data is preset to be stored into a rewritable non-volatile memory module based on a first programming mode; in a state that the first type data is stored in the buffer memory, temporarily storing second type data into the buffer memory, and the second type data is preset to be stored into the rewritable non-volatile memory module based on a second programming mode different from the first programming mode; and in a state that a data volume of the first type data in the buffer memory does not reach a first threshold, if a data volume of the second type data in the buffer memory reaches a second threshold, storing the first type data in the buffer memory into the rewritable non-volatile memory module. |
| US11960760B2 |
Seek scheduling in a split actuator drive
Systems and methods for scheduling the execution of disk access commands in a split-actuator hard disk drive are provided. In some embodiments, while a first actuator of the split actuator is in the process of performing a first disk access command (a victim operation), a second disk access command (an aggressor operation) is selected for and executed by a second actuator of the split actuator. The aggressor operation is selected from a queue of disk access commands for the second actuator, and is selected based on being the disk access command in the queue that can be initiated sooner than any other disk access command in the queue without disturbing the victim operation. |
| US11960755B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing target refresh operation
A semiconductor memory device comprises: first storage logic configured to store, as first addresses, ‘K’ addresses having different values among input addresses applied during the enable period of a reference signal, second storage logic configured to store, as second addresses, ‘L’ addresses corresponding to a time point at which the enable period of the reference signal is ended among the input addresses, an order controller configured to determine a first output order of each of the first addresses based on a number of times each of the first addresses is repeatedly input, and to determine a second output order for outputting mixed addresses obtained by mixing the first addresses based on the first output order and the second addresses together, and refresh operation logic configured to apply the mixed addresses according to the second output order, to a target refresh operation. |
| US11960752B2 |
Memory system and method of operating the same
A method of operating a memory system, which includes a memory controller and at least one non-volatile memory, includes storing, in the memory system, temperature-dependent performance level information received from a host disposed external to the memory system, setting an operation performance level of the memory system to a first performance level, operating the memory controller and the at least one non-volatile memory device according to the first performance level, detecting an internal temperature of the memory system, and changing the operation performance level of the memory system to a second performance level that is different from the first performance level. The operation performance level is changed by the memory controller of the memory system, and changing the operation performance level is based on the temperature-dependent performance level information and the detected internal temperature. |
| US11960748B2 |
SSD supporting read-only mode after PLP backup failure
A method of operating a Solid State Drive (SSD), comprising identifying critical metadata corresponding to data previously written to the SSD. In response to a power loss event the method also includes storing the critical metadata in a non-volatile memory. Further, the method also involves writing a first table of contents corresponding to the stored critical metadata to the non-volatile memory and storing a pointer to the first table of contents. A Solid State Drive (SSD) including a memory controller, a non-volatile memory, and a power loss protection capacitor. The memory controller is configured to identify critical metadata corresponding to data previously written to the SSD. The memory controller is also configured to, in response to a power loss event, store the critical metadata in a non-volatile memory write a first table of contents corresponding to the stored critical metadata to the non-volatile memory, and store a pointer to the first table of contents. |
| US11960746B2 |
Storage context aware tiering policy advisor
Technology described herein can be employed to automatically recommend a tiering policy for data storage of data at a data storage system, such as a cloud storage system. An example method can comprise determining, by a system comprising a processor, context information defining a data storage attribute applicable to data at a cloud storage system. The method can comprise, in response to determining the context information, generating, by the system, a tiering policy defining an element of tiering storage of data at the cloud storage system, wherein the tiering policy is based on the data storage attribute defined by the context information. The method also can comprise, in response to generating the tiering policy, outputting, by the system, the tiering policy to a storage device associated with a customer. The analysis can be performed using an artificial intelligence process, machine learning process or a combination thereof. |
| US11960744B2 |
Register operation in memory devices
A semiconductor device includes a memory partition. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of registers. A first register of the plurality of registers, when in operation, controls an operation associated with the memory partition. The semiconductor device additionally includes a memory controller. When in operation, the memory controller accesses a first location of the memory partition concurrently with accessing the first register. |
| US11960737B2 |
Self-deploying encrypted hard disk, deployment method thereof, self-deploying encrypted hard disk system and boot method thereof
Disclosed is a self-deploying encrypted hard disk, a deployment method thereof, a system and a boot method thereof. The self-deploying encrypted hard disk comprises a storage medium and a master control unit for placing a host system in communication with the storage medium, which comprises a system data area comprising: a configuration module, wherein when the self-deploying encrypted hard disk boots up under an unconfigured state, executable code of the configuration module is imported into the host system to assist a user in configuring operation characteristics of the self-deploying encrypted hard disk and a system comprising the self-deploying encrypted hard disk; an identity authentication module, wherein when the identity authentication module boots up after the operation characteristics have been configured by the configuration module, the identity authentication module performs security authentication on user identity and operating environment, and grants access permission to a user who has passed the security authentication. |
| US11960736B2 |
Memory controller and method for controlling access to a memory module
The application discloses a memory controller coupled between a memory module and a host controller to control access of the host controller to the memory module, the memory controller comprising: a central buffer coupled to the host controller via a command/address bus to receive a command/address signal from the host controller, wherein the central buffer is configured to determine whether the command/address signal conforms to an authority management rule and configure a buffer control command based on the determination result, so that the buffer control command indicates whether to restrict access of the host controller to the memory module; and a data buffer coupled via a data buffer command channel to the central buffer to receive the buffer control command, wherein the data buffer is configured to selectively restrict access of the host controller to the memory module based on the buffer control command; wherein the buffer control command comprises a plurality of time-sequenced fields, and the central buffer is configured to configure a second field or a field after the second field of the plurality of time-sequenced fields in the buffer control command based on the determination result. |
| US11960729B2 |
Method of increasing flash endurance by improved metadata management
A method includes updating a first metadata log in an NVRAM of a host device corresponding to one or more recent input/output (I/O) operations received by the host device, periodically checking whether the size of the updated first metadata log is greater than a flush limit maintained in the host device, triggering a meta flush thread when the updated first metadata log size exceeds the flush limit maintained in the host device, sending, by a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) driver, a first command for synchronizing the updated first metadata log to one or more solid state drives (SSDs) for updating a second metadata log in the one or SSDs, and discarding, by the host device, metadata of the first metadata log updated in the host device after receiving a second command for acknowledging synchronization completion from the one or more SSDs. |
| US11960726B2 |
Method and apparatus for SSD storage access
A media management system including an application layer, a system layer, and a solid state drive (SSD) storage layer. The application layer includes a media data analytics application configured to assign a classification code to a data file. The system layer is in communication with the application layer. The system layer includes a file system configured to issue a write command to a SSD controller. The write command includes the classification code of the data file. The SSD storage layer includes the SSD controller and erasable blocks. The SSD controller is configured to write the data file to one of the erasable blocks based on the classification code of the data file in the write command. In an embodiment, the SSD controller is configured to write the data file to one of the erasable blocks storing other data files also having the classification code. |
| US11960724B2 |
Device for detecting zone parallelity of a solid state drive and operating method thereof
A device for detecting zone parallelity includes a detection control circuit configured to generate respective first and second requests for first and second zones among a plurality of zones included in a solid state drive (SSD). An SSD controller is configured to control the SSD by generating a first command and a second command corresponding to the first request and the second request, respectively, and to schedule the first command and the second command. The detection control circuit determines zone parallelity of the first and second zones using response characteristics of the responses of the SSD to the first request and the second request. The response characteristics may include a latency of a response. |
| US11960719B2 |
Semiconductor storage device with volatile and nonvolatile memories to allocate blocks to a memory and release allocated blocks
A semiconductor storage device includes a first memory area configured in a volatile semiconductor memory, second and third memory areas configured in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and a controller which executes following processing. The controller executes a first processing for storing a plurality of data by the first unit in the first memory area, a second processing for storing data outputted from the first memory area by a first management unit in the second memory area, and a third processing for storing data outputted from the first memory area by a second management unit in the third memory area. |
| US11960718B2 |
Method of data management for a bitwise programmable non-volatile memory, and corresponding device
In response to a request to store new data at a memory location of a bitwise programmable non-volatile memory, data stored at the memory location of the bitwise programmable memory is sensed. The bits of the sensed data are compared with bits of the new data. An indication of a cost difference is determined between a first burst of bitwise programming operations associated with programming bits of the new data which are different from bits of the sensed data, and a second burst of bitwise programming operations associated with programming bits of a complementary inversion of the new data which are different from bits of the sensed data. One of the first burst of bitwise programming operations or the second burst of bitwise programming operations is executed based on the generated indication of the cost difference. |
| US11960716B2 |
Modeless interaction model for video interface
In some embodiments, a method applies a priority to a plurality of surfaces where the plurality of surfaces each include content. Content is displayed from a first portion of a first surface in the interface based on a priority that is applied to the first surface. A second portion of a second surface is obscured by the first surface. The method maintains operation of the second portion of the second surface and receives an interaction from the interface. The display of the interface is adjusted by displaying the second portion of the second surface in the interface in a state based on the maintaining of the operation. |
| US11960710B1 |
Dynamic graphical user interface generation and update based on intelligent network communications
Ways to provide information via dynamic user interfaces including Dynamic InfoGraphics (DIG) are described. DIG representations may include various elements, such as text, icons and other graphics, tags, links, etc. and may be implemented via various types of displays or operating environments. Users may include, for example, pilots, soldiers, commanders, drivers, game players, etc. Information provided via DIG may include, for instance, data received from various types of sensors, communications received from other parties or resources, calculated or otherwise determined information (e.g., predictions associated with artificial intelligence (AI) resources such as autonomous or semi-autonomous intelligent agents), and/or other appropriate information (e.g., user inputs). The received information may be applied to one or more DIG representations or templates. AI features may be used to predict future actions, paths, goals or targets, etc. The DIG representation(s) may be updated as updated sensor information is received and/or predictions are generated. |
| US11960708B2 |
Method and apparatus for geotagging components of an energy production and consumption system
A method and apparatus for geotagging components of an energy production and consumption system. A user device captures an identifier of at least one component of an energy production and consumption system, determines location data related to the identifier, where the identifier and location data form geotagging data, and transmits the geotagging data to a network. Upon receiving the geotagging data from the network, a server processes the identifier to determine component information and generates a map comprising an icon for each component positioned within the map at a location derived from the geotagging data. |
| US11960707B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for moving a current focus using a touch-sensitive remote control
An electronic device provides, to a display, data to present a user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, and a current focus on a first user interface object. While the display is presenting the user interface, the electronic device receives an input that corresponds to a movement of a contact across on a touch-sensitive surface. The electronic device, in response to receiving the input and in accordance with a determination that a first axis is a dominant axis, moves the current focus along the first axis by a first amount and along the second axis by a second amount. The amount of movement of the current focus along the second axis is reduced to a first non-zero amount by a scaling factor that is based on one or more inputs received prior to receiving the input. |
| US11960704B2 |
Social playback queues
An example method involves monitoring, by a computing device, a communications feed for an indication of media and detecting, in the communications feed, the indication of the media. The method may further involve identifying at least one media item corresponding to the indication of the media and causing a playback queue of a media playback system to include one or more of the identified at least one media item. |
| US11960702B2 |
Method and system for element navigation
A method and system for element navigation. The method includes: selecting a designated element from a plurality of elements; displaying the designated element on a display of an electronic device; monitoring for a predetermined primary user input from an input module; and upon receiving the predetermined primary user input, displaying an initial set of elements related to the designated element overlaid on the display of the designated element. The system includes: an element display module configured to display a designated element on an electronic device, the designated element selected from a plurality of elements; an input module configured to receive a predetermined primary user input; and a set display module configured to display an initial set of elements related to the designated element upon the input module receiving the predetermined primary user input, the initial set of elements overlaid on the display of the designated element. |
| US11960701B2 |
Using an illustration to show the passing of time
The present disclosure generally relates to providing electronic devices with faster, more efficient methods and context-specific user interfaces for indicating time. Such methods and interfaces optionally complement or replace other methods for indicating time. Such methods and interfaces reduce the cognitive burden on a user and produce a more efficient human-machine interface. For battery-operated computing devices, such methods and interfaces conserve power and increase the time between battery charges. |
| US11960700B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content previews
Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content previews are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing a plurality of thumbnail images to be presented on a page presented on a user device, wherein each thumbnail image represents a media content item available for presentation on the user device, and wherein the user device is associated with a headset display; determining that a viewpoint of the headset display is directed to one of the thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images; in response to determining that the viewpoint of the headset display is directed to the one of the thumbnail images, causing a first view of a content preview corresponding to the one of the thumbnail images to be presented on the headset display, wherein the content preview includes a second view that is different than and does not include the first view; detecting that the viewpoint of the headset display has changed in a direction toward the second view of the content preview; in response to detecting that the viewpoint of the headset display has changed in the direction toward the second view of the content preview, causing the second view of the content preview to be presented on the headset display; determining that the viewpoint of the headset display is no longer directed to the content preview; and in response to determining that the viewpoint of the headset display is no longer directed to the content preview, causing presentation of the second view of the content preview to be inhibited and causing presentation of the plurality of thumbnail images to resume on the headset display. |
| US11960698B2 |
Communicating between a virtual area and a physical space
Apparatus transmits an identifier for association with a virtual area by an administering network service, generates output data from human perceptible stimulus in a physical space, transmits the output data in connection with the virtual area, receives input data associated with the virtual area, and generates human perceptible stimulus in the physical space from the input data. A persistent association is created between the apparatus and a virtual area. A respective presence is established in the virtual area for a communicant operating a client network node connected to the virtual area. A respective connection between each active pair of complementary sources and sinks of the client network node and the apparatus are administered in association with the virtual area. A client network node displays a graphical user interface, establishes the administered connections, and presents interaction controls associated with the object for interacting with communicants in the physical space. |
| US11960697B2 |
Screen controlling method and device
A method and device for controlling a screen displayed on a display of an electronic device are provided. Aspects include displaying, on a first region of the display, a host window corresponding to an application run on the electronic device. Aspects also include displaying the first dependent window on a second region of the display corresponding to the first region based at least in part on a call of a first dependent window among dependent windows that are dependent on the host window. Aspects further include stacking and displaying, on the second region, a second dependent window among the dependent windows based at least in part on an event occurring in the first dependent window. Aspects further include initializing window display on the second region based at least in part on an event occurring in the host window. |
| US11960689B2 |
Touch-control display panel and preparation method therefor, and touch-control display apparatus
A touch-control display panel and a preparation method therefor, and a touch-control display apparatus. The touch-control display panel includes a substrate, a first metal layer provided on the substrate, an insulating layer provided at the side of the first metal layer away from the substrate, and a second metal layer provided at the side of the insulating layer away from the first metal layer, one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer comprises a plurality of connection bridges, and the other one comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a through hole; at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer further comprises compensation electrodes surrounding the through hole; and the compensation electrodes comprise a first compensation electrode and a second compensation electrode, the surface of the first compensation electrode adjacent to the second compensation electrode is a first end face. |
| US11960688B2 |
Touch sensor and touch input device comprising same
The present invention relates to a touch sensor and a touch input device and, more specifically, to a touch sensor formed of a circular single layer and a touch input device comprising same. A touch input device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises a circular touch sensor, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of electrodes disposed on a single layer and spaced apart from each other on a plurality of virtual circles having a common center. |
| US11960687B2 |
Touch panel, laminate having the same, and manufacturing method thereof
A manufacturing method of a touch panel includes steps of sequentially forming a metal layer and a blackening layer on a base layer in a multi-chamber, patterning the metal layer and the blackening layer in a mesh pattern, and etching the metal layer and the blackening layer to form a metal mesh electrode with the blackening layer formed. |
| US11960685B2 |
XR virtual trackpad
A virtual trackpad and method for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises: projecting a virtual trackpad on one hand of a user using hand tracking position data from an extend reality (XR) device; detecting, via hand tracking, movements of one or more fingers as the one or more fingers are being moved across the virtual trackpad projected on the one hand; and controlling a user interface (UI) being displayed on a display by the XR device based on the movements of the one or more fingers. |
| US11960684B2 |
Light-emitting touch panel
A light-emitting touch panel includes a circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a shading plate and a cover plate. The light emitting element has a first height in a first direction. The shading plate has a plurality of spacing regions corresponding to the light emitting elements, respectively. A first width is provided between two partition walls of each spacing region in a second direction. Each partition wall has a second height in the first direction, and the second height is greater than the first height. The cover plate has a light-transmitting region, the light emitted by the light-emitting elements passes through the light-transmitting region, and a bright region is formed on the top surface of the cover plate away from the shading plate, wherein a second width of the bright region in the second direction is related to the second height and the first width. |
| US11960680B2 |
Touch controller, operating method of the same, and touch sensing device including touch controller
A touch controller includes a noise detection circuit that respectively provides a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage for detecting display noise to a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on lines except a line on which touch sensing is performed, among sensing electrodes, the second reference voltage being different from the first reference voltage, a driving signal generation circuit that receive a first noise voltage and a second noise voltage generated based on the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage and alternately selects the first noise voltage and the second noise voltage as a driving signal, and a receiving circuit that receives the driving signal, a touch sensing signal generated based on the driving signal from a third electrode arranged on the line on which touch sensing is performed, among the sensing electrodes, and generates a sensing voltage based on the touch sensing signal. |
| US11960679B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, an input sensing layer disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of sensing electrodes, and a sensing controller electrically connected to the input sensing layer and operating in at least one of a first mode and a second mode. A position of a first external input applied to the input sensing layer is sensed in the first mode, biometric information of a second external input applied to the input sensing layer is measured in the second mode. The sensing controller converts a sensing signal sensed from the input sensing layer based on a correction value determined based on parameters of surrounding environment to generate a correction sensing signal, and the sensing controller measures the biometric information from the correction sensing signal in the second mode. |
| US11960678B2 |
Proximity detection device to detect a user's approach to a display surface comprising a sensitivity setting unit
Four infrared LEDs and two photodiodes PD are arranged below a lower side of a display surface in the order of an LED1, a PD1, an LED2, an LED3, a PD2, and an LED4. A detection signal A1 of the PD1 when the LED1 emits light, a detection signal A2 of the PD1 when the LED2 emits light, a detection signal A3 of the PD2 when the LED3 emits light, and a detection signal A4 of the PD2 when the LED4 emits light are used to estimate a reflection generation position in the left-right direction, and a threshold Th is set such that the threshold Th increases when the reflection generation position is on the left side, which is a driver's seat side. If the maximum value of A1, A2, A3, and A4 exceeds the threshold Th, the approach of the user's hand is detected. |
| US11960675B2 |
Display apparatus
The application provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a touch panel, configured to receive a touch operation and comprising a touch film and a display panel configured to display an image; a backlight module configured to provide a backlight source to the touch panel and including a backplane, a reflective sheet, a light guide plate, an optical film and a light source located on one side of the backplane; a touch pad, configured to drive and control the touch film; and a plurality of flexible circuit boards, through which the touch film is electrically connected with the touch pad, and which are located on a same side of the touch film. |
| US11960674B2 |
Display method and display apparatus for operation prompt information of input control
Disclosed are a display method and a display apparatus for operation prompt information of an input control. The display method includes: during a user's interaction with the display apparatus, obtaining an operation instruction from a user; in response to the operation instruction, determining a target interaction mode for the user's interaction with the display apparatus; in response to a start instruction of an input control generated by invoking of the input control in the target interaction mode, obtaining target operation prompt information for the input control; and generating the input box on the user interface and display the target operation prompt information in the input box. |
| US11960673B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing same
A display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode. |
| US11960670B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display panel, touch control structure and display device
A display panel, a touch control structure and a display device. The display panel includes a display structure layer and a touch control structure layer having a plurality of mesh pattern units in polygonal shapes composed of metal wires. The touch control structure layer includes a Boundary region, and each mesh pattern unit in the Boundary region is provided with a cut that disconnect the metal wires of the mesh pattern unit. The mesh pattern unit includes at least two parallel first sides. The cuts include consecutive cuts and the quantity of cuts in a set of consecutive cuts is less than or equal to three. The consecutive cuts are cuts provided on both the two sides of each mesh pattern unit of at least one mesh patterns units arranged continuously in a first direction and the first direction intersects the first side of each mesh pattern unit. |
| US11960669B2 |
Display device including touch screen function
Disclosed is a an in-cell type display device including a touch screen function which is capable of preventing a luminance from being changed in accordance with a viewing angle, and omitting a process of connecting touch electrodes provided in an upper substrate with Tx driver and Rx driver connected with a lower substrate, wherein the display device includes a lower substrate, a thin film transistor layer including thin film transistors provided on the lower substrate, an encapsulation layer provided on the thin film transistor layer, color filters provided on the encapsulation layer, a black matrix provided between the color filters and provided on the encapsulation layer, and first touch electrodes overlapped with the black matrix. |
| US11960668B1 |
Cursor management methods and systems for recovery from incomplete interactions
Methods and systems are provided for resolving a user input. One method involves assigning a first identifier to a first stream of messages from a user input device corresponding to a first user input with respect to an application, and while a user interaction state associated with the first stream of messages is active, assigning a second identifier to a second stream of messages from the user input device, and in response to detecting the second identifier corresponds to the first identifier, deactivating the first stream of messages associated with the first stream of messages, wherein deactivating the first stream of messages results in the application responding to the second stream of messages corresponding to the second user input. |
| US11960667B2 |
Display device and touch input system including the same
A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes that sense a touch, a plurality of code patterns formed in a preset code shape on partial areas of front surfaces of the plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of tilt sensing patterns including a light absorbent disposed in an inner area or a peripheral area of each of the plurality of code patterns, and a main processor. The main processor receives detected image data corresponding to the plurality of tilt sensing patterns from a position input device, and determines arrangement direction information and tilt information of the position input device by comparing the detected image data with each other. |
| US11960665B2 |
Systems and methods of steerable elongate device
A drape for an input control console of an elongate device may comprise a main drape section configured to fit over the input control console via a main opening at one end of the main drape section. The drape may also comprise a plurality of pockets. Each of the plurality of pockets may include a pocket opening that is attached to a respective secondary opening in the main drape section. Each of the plurality of pockets may be configured to be anchored, at the pocket opening, to a side surface of a respective raised ring or bezel on the input control console using a respective tightening element. |
| US11960660B2 |
Terminal device, virtual object manipulation method, and virtual object manipulation program
A terminal device according to one aspect presents an augmented reality space to a user. The terminal device includes: an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a real space; a display unit configured to display an augmented reality space image representing the augmented reality space including the real space captured by the image-capturing unit and a virtual object; a determination unit configured to determine at least a part of the virtual object as an operation target; and an object control unit configured to control an operation of the operation target in the augmented reality space. The object control unit detects a direction and an amount of a movement of the terminal device after the operation target is determined and moves the operation target based on the detected direction and amount of the movement of the terminal device. |
| US11960659B2 |
Cake decoration system
A cake decoration that enables visual shows controlled by a controller that is either remote to the decoration or integral with the decoration and interacts with a finger controller. |
| US11960658B2 |
Method and apparatus for bypass block webpage navigation
A method and apparatus for performing a bypass block navigational function to a user interface including generating, by a processor, a webpage including a bypass block navigation attribute associated with a first portion of the webpage, receiving, at a network interface a request for the webpage from the user interface, transmitting, by the network interface, the webpage and a software module including an instruction associated with the bypass block navigation function in response to the request, causing display, at the user interface, the webpage at a starting location, receiving, from the user interface, a keystroke associated with the bypass block navigation function, and causing display, at the user interface, of the first portion of the webpage in response to the instruction associated with the bypass block navigation function. |