Patents Examined by T. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11974549Abstract: A wireless terminal includes a pressure sensor, a wireless circuit, and a case accommodating the pressure sensor and the wireless circuit in a waterproof manner, and is left inside a stomach of a livestock animal to measure pressure inside the stomach and wirelessly transmit acquired pressure data. The case includes a cylindrical case body and a lid member closing an opening of the case body. The lid member has a measurement hole extending between inside and outside of the lid member and a protection wall part located outside of the case body. The measurement hole has a pressure-receiving pressure measurement part inside for measurement of the pressure and is closed. The measurement hole includes a first linear part and a second linear part intersecting in T shape with the first linear part, and has distal ends open to an outer face of the protection wall part.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru Kurimoto
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Patent number: 11977495Abstract: Apparatuses and methods related to computer memory access determination are described. A command can be received at a memory system (e.g., a system with or exploiting DRAM). The command can comprise a memory operation and a plurality of privilege bits. The privilege level or a memory address that is associated with the memory operation can be identified. The privilege level can correspond to the memory address can describe a privilege level that can access the memory address. A determination can be made as to whether the memory operation, or the application requesting certain data or prompting corresponding instructions, is entitled to access to the memory address using the plurality of privilege bits and the privilege level. Responsive to determining that the memory operation has access to the memory address, the memory operation can be processed.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Richard C. Murphy
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Patent number: 11975398Abstract: An example method of joining a first substrate with a second substrate includes applying a filler material between respective portions of the first substrate and the second substrate, the filler material including an electrically conducting and/or magnetic material, wherein the filler material and the respective portions define a joint; applying an alternating magnetic field to the joint to heat the electrically conducting material to a reaction temperature; in response to heating the electrically conducting material to the reaction temperature, energizing the joint using energy released from the electrically conducting material; cooling the joint to join the first substrate with the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Oqab Dietrich Induction Inc.Inventors: Haroon B. Oqab, George B. Dietrich
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Patent number: 11978513Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating patterns for memory using threshold voltage difference are disclosed. An embodiment includes circuitry and a memory array including a plurality of memory cells. The circuitry can select a group of memory cells from the plurality of memory cells, program each memory cell of the group to a first data state, determine a first threshold voltage of each memory cell of the group, program each memory cell of the group to a second data state, perform a number of snapback events on each memory cell of the group, program each memory cell of the group to the first data state, determine a second threshold voltage of each memory cell of the group having the first data state, and generate a pattern for the memory array based, at least in part, on a difference between the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Zhongyuan Lu, Robert J. Gleixner
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Patent number: 11975401Abstract: A detection mechanism of a detection device includes a pulsed laser oscillator that emits a pulsed laser beam; an f? lens facing a workpiece held by a chuck table; a thermal excitation section that applies the pulsed laser beam emitted from the pulsed laser oscillator to an upper surface of a wafer through the f? lens and generates an ultrasonic wave propagated in a spherical form by thermal excitation; and an image forming section that forms an image by capturing a reflected laser beam influenced by vibration of the ultrasonic wave generated by the thermal excitation section, propagated through the inside of the workpiece, reflected by a lower surface of the workpiece, and returned to the upper surface of the workpiece, by an aperture synthesis method.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventor: Keiji Nomaru
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Patent number: 11978526Abstract: A data processing circuit and a fault mitigating method are provided. The method is adapted for a memory having at least one fault bit. The memory provides a block for data storage. A difference between an output of a value of a plurality of bits input to at least one computing layer in a neural network and a correct value is determined. The bits are respectively considered the at least one fault bit. A repair condition is determined based on the difference. The repair condition includes a correspondence between a position where the fault bit is located in the block and at least one non-fault bit in the memory. A value of at least one non-fault bit of the memory replaces a value of the fault bit based on the repair condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Skymizer Taiwan Inc.Inventors: Shu-Ming Liu, Kai-Chiang Wu, Chien-Fa Chen, Wen Li Tang
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Patent number: 11975407Abstract: A nozzle holder for a laser processing head of a laser processing system is provided. The nozzle holder includes a substantially cylindrical hollow body shaped to matingly engage a laser nozzle. The hollow body defines a longitudinal axis extending therethrough and a plurality of apertures dispersing around a circumference of the hollow body. The nozzle holder also includes a plurality of pawls configured to operably engage the laser nozzle within the hollow body by extending through the plurality of apertures of the hollow body. The nozzle holder further includes a sleeve substantially surrounding the hollow body and the plurality of pawls. The sleeve includes a pawl retractor that is movable along the longitudinal axis to physically displace the plurality of pawls axially and radially relative to the longitudinal axis for disengagement of the plurality of pawls from the laser nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.Inventors: David L. Bouthillier, Carmen Harp, David K. Knapp
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Patent number: 11978582Abstract: A coil component having a structure that can easily realize a desired positional relationship between a cover member and a bobbin portion is provided. The coil component includes a bobbin portion, a magnetic core inserted through the bobbin portion, and a coil wound around the bobbin portion, and a cover member covering the bobbin portion by being externally fitted to the bobbin portion. In the coil component, the cover member and the bobbin portion abut each other, and at least one of the cover member and the bobbin portion elastically biases the other in a first direction parallel to a mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Maesawa, Takashi Haga
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Patent number: 11974698Abstract: A food processor, and a power supply board assembly and a base for a food processor. The power supply board assembly includes: a mounting bracket; a power supply board and a filter board, and the power supply board and the filter board are mounted at two opposite sides of the mounting bracket respectively, and the power supply board and the filter board are electrically connected with wires.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA CONSUMER ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Guohua Luo, Qian Fan, Yunxiang Liu
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Patent number: 11978618Abstract: A component of an ion optical device is manufactured. The component comprises aligned first and second electrode sets. A first material is machined to provide a part-machined first electrode set that comprises the first electrode set attached to a frame part of the first material. A second material is machined to provide a part-machined second electrode set that comprises the second electrode set attached to a frame part of the second material. The component of the ion optical device is assembled by aligning the part-machined first and second electrode sets. Subsequent to aligning the part-machined first and second electrode sets, the part-machined first electrode set is further machined to separate the first electrode set from the frame part of the first material and the part-machined second electrode set is further machined to separate the second electrode set from the frame part of the second material.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbHInventor: Wilko Balschun
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Patent number: 11975728Abstract: A vehicle system for recommending driving automation based on occupant behavior and emotion includes one or more input devices. The input devices generate an input signal associated with sensor data indicative of a current emotion and a current driving pattern of an occupant. The vehicle system further includes a computer having a processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium (CRM). The CRM stores multiple occupant behavior profiles, with each occupant behavior profile including a unique occupant identification and multiple historical driving patterns. Each driving pattern has an associated historical emotion for the unique occupant identification. The processor is programmed to determine a deviation of the current driving pattern from the historical driving patterns, compare the deviation to a threshold, and generate a notification signal. The notification device provides the notification to recommend that the occupant actuate the vehicle system.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Arun Adiththan, Aravind Gangumalla, Vikramaditya Nimmagadda
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Patent number: 11979152Abstract: An integrated circuit may include integrated memory that is formed from a chain of memory blocks. Each memory block may have configurable input and output circuits. The configurable input and output circuits may be interposed between memory circuitry such as a memory array from circuitry external to the memory circuitry. The configurable input and output circuits may have upstream and downstream memory block connection ports. In such a way, configurable input and output circuits in a first memory block may pass control and address signals and data to configurable input and output circuits in a second memory block. By using the configurable input and output circuits, the integrated memory in the integrated circuit may operate to accommodate large bandwidth flows without using the general routing fabric of the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Chang Kian Tan, Chee Hak Teh
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Patent number: 11975562Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a double-sided bead board, comprising: a base; a first pattern of recessed designs on a first side of the base; and a second pattern of recessed designs on a second side of the base.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Inventor: Cam West
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Patent number: 11979289Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising monitoring if a generic objective for a network is received; translating the generic objective into specific objectives based on a behavioral matrix if the generic objective is received, wherein each of the specific objectives is specific for a respective network element; requesting, for each of the specific objectives, an automation function of the respective network element to achieve the specific objective, identifying, for each of the specific objectives, based on a stored association table, a distributed control function controlling the automation function of the respective network element; informing, for each of the specific objectives, the identified distributed control function on the specific objective for the respective network element; supervising if a feedback is received from one of the distributed control functions, wherein the feedback indicates to which degree one of the specific objectives is achieved; adapting the behavioral matrix based on the feedback.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Stephen Mwanje, Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa
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Patent number: 11975734Abstract: A method includes monitoring environmental conditions surrounding a moving vehicle, using an on-board sensor of the moving vehicle, detecting that at least one of the environmental conditions surrounding the moving vehicle is likely to impair visibility for a driver of the moving vehicle, based on an output of the on-board sensor, acquiring static map data for a location surrounding the moving vehicle, acquiring real time sensor data for the location surrounding the moving vehicle, where the real time sensor data comprises outputs of a plurality of on-board sensors of a plurality of other vehicles, generating an augmented reality view of the location surrounding the moving vehicle, using the static map data, the real time sensor data, and the output of the on-board sensor, and displaying the augmented reality view of the location surrounding the moving vehicle on a display within the moving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Iftekhar Alam, Wasib Khallil, Jonathan Chang, Bhumit Patel
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Patent number: 11979309Abstract: A method includes computing a diffusion vector starting with a seed, querying nodes for connections, reweighting diffusion vector based on the degrees, sorting nodes based upon magnitude in the reweighted diffusion vector which is obtained through wave relaxation solution of a time-dependent initial value problem, detecting a community through a sweep over the nodes according to their rank, and selecting a prefix that minimizes or maximizes an objective function.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Haim Avron, Lior Horesh, Raya Horesh, Omer Tripp
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Patent number: 11977917Abstract: An apparatus for data processing for simultaneously performing artificial intelligence (AI) function processing and data collection and a method thereof are provided. The method of simultaneously performing AI function processing and data collection includes: receiving, by a data receiver, data; transferring, by the data receiver, the received data to a disk handler; accessing, by the disk handler, a disk in an idle state among a plurality of disks and performing writing of a file; after the writing of the file is completed, notifying, by the disk handler, a scheduler that the writing of the file is completed; transmitting, by the scheduler, job information about a job, for which the file writing is completed together with a job execution command to an AI module handler; and accessing, by the AI module handler, an AI module in an idle state among a plurality of AI modules and executing an AI function.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Konan Technology Inc.Inventors: Hyungjae Son, Hansang Cho
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Patent number: 11979964Abstract: Provided is a system for controlling heating of a workpiece that includes an interface to receive a target temperature (TT) for the workpiece. A processor is configured to determine, based on monitoring outputs of temperature sensor(s), a current highest temperature (TH) for the workpiece and set a control temperature (TC) based on the received target temperature and the current highest temperature. A control system is configured to heat the workpiece to substantially the control temperature (TC) by turning on a heating device, and turning off the heating device when the workpiece reaches substantially the control temperature (TC). The processor is further configured to characterize a temperature ramp rate based on a measured temperature overshoot at the workpiece after turning off the heating device, and the control system is configured to heat the workpiece to the received target temperature (TT) by controlling the heating device based on the temperature ramp rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Dylan Anderson
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Patent number: 11980046Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a display device that includes a first reflector electrode and a second reflector electrode that is separated from the first reflector electrode. The display device further includes an isolation structure that overlies the first and second reflector electrodes. The isolation structure includes a first and second portion. The first portion overlies the first reflector electrode and has a first thickness. The second portion overlies the second reflector electrode, has a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and is separated from the first portion of the isolation structure. The display device also includes a first optical emitter structure and a second optical emitter structure that respectively overlie the first portion and the second portion of the isolation structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yung-Chang Chang, Ming Chyi Liu
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Patent number: 11977307Abstract: The cholesteric liquid crystal display (CLCD) device includes first and second cholesteric liquid crystal panels that reflect light within different wavelength ranges. Both panels have gate lines that extend from one side to the other. A gate driver is electrically connected to the first panel's gate lines. Additionally, a flexible printed circuit is electrically connected to both the first and second panels' gate lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventor: Han Wen Huang