Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11985886
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel and a display device, the display has a display area having an optical module arrangement region, a first display area, and a second display area, the display panel includes a plurality of pixels provided in the display area, the pixels include first pixels located in the optical module arrangement region, second pixels located in the first display area, and third pixels in the second display area; and pixel circuits including first pixel circuits, second pixel circuits, and third pixel circuits; the second pixel circuits are located in the first display area and electrically connected to the second pixels, the third pixel circuits are located in the second display area and electrically connected to the third pixels, the first pixel circuits are electrically connected to the first pixels and transistors of at least some of the first pixel circuits are located in the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: WuHan TianMa Micro-electronics CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yanyun Fan
  • Patent number: 11981650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel coumarin glyoxylates, a process for their preparation and their use as photoinitiators in photopolymerization compositions. The invention also concerns a process for the photopolymerization of compositions comprising said coumarin glyoxylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: IGM RESINS ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Marika Morone, Gabriele Pietro Norcini, Stephen Postle, Vincenzo Razzano
  • Patent number: 11980220
    Abstract: A smoking article may include a cigarette incorporated within an electrically powered aerosol generating device that acts as a holder for that cigarette. The smoking article possesses at least one form of tobacco. The smoking article also possesses a mouth-end piece that is used by the smoker to inhale components of tobacco that are generated by the action of heat upon components of the cigarette. A representative smoking article possesses an outer housing incorporating a source of electrical power (e.g., a battery), a sensing mechanism for powering the device at least during periods of draw, and a heating device (e.g., at least one electrical resistance heating element) for forming a thermally generated aerosol that incorporates components of tobacco. During use, the cigarette is positioned within the device, and after use, the used cigarette is removed from the device and replaced with another cigarette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: John Howard Robinson, David William Griffith, Jr., Billy Tyrone Conner, Evon Llewellyn Crooks, Dempsey Bailey Brewer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11981207
    Abstract: A method for presenting one or more images to an observer on a reconfigurable electronic display includes prompting the observer to select a portion of the display that is visible to the observer and, if the observer has selected a portion of the display, presenting the images to fit within the selected portion of the display. Subsequent to presenting the images to fit within the selected portion of the display and in response to at least partial obstruction of the observer's view of the images by a visual obstruction, the images are reconfigured to be fully visible to the observer notwithstanding the visual obstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Blodgett, Dustin H. M. Smith
  • Patent number: 11980221
    Abstract: Pre-roll infusing apparatus includes fluid vessel, a fluid pump and an infusion needle for spraying fluid into the pre-roll. An elevator includes a tube nest for receiving a support tube containing the pre-roll and selectively raises the pre-roll to be pierced by the needle. A needle heater is supported for travel along the needle as the elevator moves up and down. The elevator tube nest includes a motor-driven rotatable base for rotating the support tube and pre-roll during infusion. A stepper motor equipped with an encoder controls the raising and lowering of the elevator. The needle may include two or more spaced spray ports. A needle pointer indicates to a user the location of the needle spray ports. The fluid vessel includes a stirrer motor, and the current draw thereof is used to determine the viscosity of the fluid. Different support tubes are provided to accommodate different pre-roll styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Credence Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: James Edward Ellis
  • Patent number: 11981446
    Abstract: An assembly for a nacelle, which includes a fixed cowl, a movable cowl that is movable between a closed position and an open position, and including an upper edge and a lower edge and, between the two edges, a reinforcing rib. The fixed cowl includes, an upper reinforcing rib and a lower reinforcing rib, a hinge including a fixed part attached to the upper reinforcing rib of the fixed cowl, a movable part attached to the reinforcing rib of the movable cowl, and at least two locks, each one including a first part secured to the lower reinforcing rib and a second part secured to the reinforcing rib of the movable cowl. An assembly of this kind serves to provide access to the inside of the nacelle while ensuring that the cowls remain sufficiently rigid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Umberto Gastaldi, Wolfgang Brochard, Olivier Pautis
  • Patent number: 11983495
    Abstract: An evaluation device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate feature quantities of respective words, the feature quantities corresponding to text data in which a target of any goal of the SDGs is described and text data in which an outline of one or more first services for which a contribution to the goal that is clear is described, a generation unit configured to generate a sentence feature matrix based on the feature quantities of the respective words, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, when text data in which an outline of a second service is described is input, feature quantities of respective words, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a degree of a contribution of the second service to the goal based on the feature quantities of the respective words relevant to the second service and the sentence feature matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Furutani, Machiko Shinozuka, Xiaoxi Zhang, Hiroki Oka, Katsuya Hayashi, Yuriko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11980235
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device according to an embodiment may include a case including an accommodation space for accommodating at least a part of an aerosol generating article; a heater that heats the aerosol generating article accommodated in the accommodation space to generate aerosol; and an air circulator that generates air flow to discharge air in the accommodation space to outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sung Wook Yoon
  • Patent number: 11980710
    Abstract: Cartridges for vaporizer devices are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the cartridge can include an atomizer and a channel extending through the cartridge from an inlet to an outlet. The atomizer includes a wicking element that is configured to substantially draw a vaporizable material from a reservoir and into the atomizer, and a heating element that is configured to substantially vaporize the vaporizable material into a vaporized material. The channel has an airflow path and a vapor path that intersect at a first junction between the inlet and the outlet. The airflow path is configured to receive and substantially allow air to pass therethrough, and the vapor path is configured to direct the vaporized material into the first junction so that the vaporized material mixes with the air to substantially form an aerosol downstream of the atomizer. Vaporizer devices are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Juul Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Atkins, Adam Bowen, Christopher James Rosser
  • Patent number: 11981135
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having a nozzle from which a liquid is to be discharged in a discharge direction, the nozzle having a cylindrical hole having periodical convex portions and concave portions on a sidewall of the nozzle in the discharge direction, a diameter of an outermost portion of the nozzle in the discharge direction being smaller than an average diameter of minimum values and maximum values of diameters of the cylindrical shape. The average diameter is obtained by: Average diameter=(Sum of minimum values+Sum of maximum values)/(Count of minimum values+Count of maximum values).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutoh Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11983263
    Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device includes a processor to allow installation of an untrusted executable code to a virtual machine, monitor the installation and execution of the untrusted executable code, and, responsive to a determination that an executed amount of the untrusted executable code is less than a threshold amount, prompt a user to continue the execution of the untrusted executable code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Tirath Ramdas
  • Patent number: 11985707
    Abstract: A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises determining to use an extended random access preamble identifier, RAPID, for a random access procedure with a wireless device. The method further comprises transmitting a medium access control, MAC, protocol data unit, PDU. The MAC PDU comprises a header and one or more random access responses, RARs. Each RAR is associated with a corresponding subheader within the header of the MAC PDU. The random access procedure is associated with a first RAR of the one or more RARs and the extended RAPID for the random access procedure is indicated by a combination of one or more bits in the first RAR and one or more bits in the subheader that corresponds to the first RAR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Antti Ratilainen, Andreas Höglund, Olof Liberg, Yutao Sui, Emre Yavuz
  • Patent number: 11983307
    Abstract: An occlusion detection system to perform operations that include: capturing image data that depicts an environment at a client device, the environment including a target object at a position within the environment; causing display of a presentation of the environment at the client device, the presentation of the environment including a display of the target object at the position within the environment; detecting a first attribute of the display of the target object at the client device; performing a comparison of the first attribute of the display of the target object and a second attribute associated with the target object; and detecting an occlusion based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Patent number: 11981132
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a number of nozzle rows in a first area on a side of one end of a first substrate closest to one end of a print head is set to be lower than a number of nozzle rows on a central side of the print head relative to the first area, and energy for driving the element on the first substrate is set to be larger than energy for driving the element on a second substrate on the central side of the print head relative to the first substrate to set a dot to be formed on the recording medium by ink discharged from a nozzle in the first area to be larger than a dot to be formed on the recording medium by ink discharged from a nozzle in the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitai
  • Patent number: 11983857
    Abstract: An appliance and method for automated visual inspection of at least two items from different categories, on a production line, include automatically switching between an item profile of a first of the at least two items for inspection; and an item profile of a second of the at least two items for inspection, based on detection of the first item in an image of the production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSPEKTO A.M.V. LTD.
    Inventors: Yonatan Hyatt, Harel Boren, Zohar Kantor, Dan Carmon
  • Patent number: 11985118
    Abstract: A software system that has an embedded browser, an authenticator and a data channel module where the authenticator is adapted to authenticate a user, to authenticate a data channel and to bind the user authentication with the authenticated channel is disclosed. The authenticator is further adapted to communicate with the user via a graphical user interface of the embedded browser using graphical and control primitives of the authenticator and/or using a stand-alone graphical user interface of the authenticator, and the data channel module is adapted to communicate with service provider servers via a secure protocol, to communicate with the embedded browser and to communicate with the authenticator. A method of authentication using this system increases security and user comfort when accessing services and data requiring authentication is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ADUCID S.R.O.
    Inventor: Libor Neumann
  • Patent number: 11983387
    Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive interaction data indicating an interaction time and amount. The system may categorize the interaction in a category of a plurality of categories. For each category, the system may compare a total category amount with an average category amount. The system may determine, for each category, a proportion of the total category amount relative to a total account amount. The system may transmit, to a user device, user interface data associated with a ring-shaped user interface element that includes a plurality of segments corresponding to the plurality of categories. The user interface data indicates a width of a particular segment that is based on the comparison of the total category amount for a corresponding category with the average category amount, and an arc length that is based on the proportion of the total category amount for the corresponding category to the total account amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Jay Salazar De Leon, Thomas Dohan, II, Xiang Lan, Min Jung Kim, Vivian Wang, Jennifer L. Ellison
  • Patent number: 11983345
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a window having a front surface, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the front surface and the rear surface, an electronic panel displaying an image through the front surface and including a surface corresponding to at least one of the side surfaces, a pressure sensing unit sensing an external pressure, and a housing unit accommodating the electronic panel and the pressure sensing unit. The external pressure is applied to a first surface among the side surfaces, and the pressure sensing unit is disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-lyong Bok
  • Patent number: 11983453
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a sensor and a processing circuit. The sensor detects a width of a printing medium. The processing circuit acquires detected width information based on detection of the width by the sensor. The processing circuit applies, if printing setting information on the width indicated by the detected width information is stored in a storage unit, a printing setting to the printing apparatus based on the printing setting information on the width indicated by the detected width information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takanori Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 11984705
    Abstract: A spark plug assembly includes a spark plug, where the spark plug includes a high voltage connector, an insulator body, a metallic shell, and an electrical conductor at least partly disposed in the insulator body and the metallic shell. The spark plug assembly includes a detection unit having a transmitter device and a receiver device. The transmitter device is coupled to the spark plug and is electrically disposed between the high voltage connector and the electrical conductor. Further, the transmitter device is configured to draw an excitation current from the electrical conductor. The transmitter device includes an optical signal generator that is configured to generate an optical signal in response to the drawn excitation current. The receiver device is disposed in optical communication with the transmitter device and configured to receive the optical signal from the transmitter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: AI ALPINE US BIDCO INC.
    Inventors: Viswanathan Kanakasabai, Suma Memana Narayana Bhat, Markus Kraus, Thomas Martin Mai