Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • Multifiber optical connector and optical cable connection method
    Patent number: 11740414
    Abstract: An object is to provide a multifiber optical connector and an optical cable connection method capable of reducing a connection time and reducing an installation space of a connection portion. The multifiber optical connector according to the present invention includes three position adjustment units, and performs rough alignment to fine alignment of optical fiber end faces by using sequentially these position adjustment units when optical cables are connected. The multifiber optical connector simultaneously connects the end faces of the plurality of optical fibers included in the optical cables, and thus, an extra optical fiber tape is not present, and a closure needed in the related art is not necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Takaya, Kazunori Katayama, Yoshiteru Abe, Ryo Koyama, Chisato Fukai, Yusuke Yamada
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program for selectively performing display control operations
    Patent number: 11740779
    Abstract: A method of an information processing device, which includes a processor configured to control a display, includes detecting a first input of a user to a first position on the display; displaying a first visual element at the first position of the display; displaying, on the display, a second visual element from the first position to a second position of the display and performing a first display control operation in response to detecting a second input of the user from the first position to the second position; and displaying, on the display, a third visual element from the first position to a third position on the display and performing a second display control operation in response to detecting a third input of the user from the first position to the third position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Enhanced multi-band power saving for wireless communications
    Patent number: 11743834
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-band opportunistic power saving. A device may determine a first traffic indication associated with a first frequency band and a second traffic indication associated with a second frequency band. The device may determine a first power save indication associated with a station device and the first frequency band. The device may determine a second power save indication associated with the station device and the second frequency band. The device may generate a frame including the first traffic indication, the second traffic indication, the first power save indication, and the second power save indication. The device may send the frame using the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Min, Laurent Cariou, Rath Vannithamby
  • Shoe and method for manufacturing shoe
    Patent number: 11737513
    Abstract: A shoe comprises an upper and a sole. The sole includes: a midsole covering a lower surface of the upper, the midsole having an external surface having a facing region facing the upper and a non-facing region excluding the facing region; and an additional sole material covering a portion of the non-facing region. The midsole is provided with a notch reaching both the facing region and the non-facing region. The additional sole material has a body portion stuck to the non-facing region, a bonding portion stuck to both the upper and the midsole to bond them together, and an embedded portion embedded in the notch of the midsole. The body portion and the bonding portion are connected together via the embedded portion and thus integrated together such that the body portion and the bonding portion are spaced from each other in a thickness-wise direction of the midsole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsaku Wakasugi
  • Orientation pins for device using radial ultrasound
    Patent number: 11737730
    Abstract: A system for determining orientation of a distal end of a catheter. The system includes a radial ultrasound system configured to generate images based on data received from a radial ultrasound probe. The system also includes a display device to present the generated images, a medical device, and a catheter system. The catheter system includes a flexible shaft having a first lumen configured to receive the radial ultrasound probe and a second lumen configured to receive the medical device, a cap portion having a longitudinal axis, and at least one orientation pin. The cap portion includes a third lumen configured to align with the first lumen, a fourth lumen configured to align with the second lumen, an exit port, and a ramp disposed between the fourth lumen and the exit port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Jason T. Panzenbeck
  • Lubricant composition for initial break-in, sliding member, and sliding member manufacturing method
    Patent number: 11739279
    Abstract: Provided is an initial break-in lubricant composition capable of easily and economically reducing the coefficient of friction of a sliding portion. The initial break-in lubricant composition includes an organic dispersion medium and nanocarbon particles in a quantity from 0.1 to 2000 ppm by mass. The nanocarbon particles are preferably particles of one or more nanocarbon material(s) selected from the group consisting of: nanodiamonds, fullerenes, graphene oxide, nanographite, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofilaments, onion-like carbon, diamond-like carbon, amorphous carbon, carbon black, carbon nanohorns, and carbon nanocoils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Kimoto, Tomohiro Goto, Hiroki Kageyama
  • Terminal device, base station device, and method
    Patent number: 11742937
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Aluminum sheet material for separator of fuel cell and manufacturing method therefor
    Patent number: 11739406
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, the aluminum sheet material for a separator of a fuel cell is used for forming a separator applied to a fuel cell stack and comprises 9-10 wt % of Mg; and the balance of Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the aluminum sheet material has cube texture and an R-cube texture formed therein. An aluminum sheet material for a separator in a fuel cell retains a thickness of 0.5 mm or less and exhibits excellent yield strength and elongation, and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Gyu Lee, Woong Pyo Hong
  • Pixel drive circuit and display panel
    Patent number: 11741901
    Abstract: A pixel drive circuit is provided. The pixel drive circuit includes a light-emitting element, a drive transistor, a reset loop, a first capacitor, a first switch tube, a second capacitor, a pre-charge module, and a threshold compensation loop. The drive transistor is coupled with the light-emitting element. The reset loop is conductive in a reset phase to reset a voltage at a control end of the drive transistor. The pre-charge module is configured to charge the second capacitor to a first voltage in the reset phase. The threshold compensation loop includes the first capacitor, the drive transistor, and the first switch tube. A voltage at a control end of the first switch tube coupled with the second capacitor is raised continuously from the first voltage according to a first scan signal, to conduct the threshold compensation loop to compensate for a threshold voltage of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Renjie Zhou, Baohong Kang
  • Information providing method
    Patent number: 11741987
    Abstract: An information providing method includes: generating first information indicating that a friendly gathering is occurring in a home when (i) a threshold amount of time or longer has elapsed from a start time of food preparation by a user and (ii) the volume of sound in a dining space is a first threshold volume or greater; obtaining, from a second information processing apparatus connected to a first information processing apparatus, information indicating first request content over a network; and when content of the first information is included in the first request content, outputting, to the second information processing apparatus, second information including information for identifying the user or the home, using the first information generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Nanami Fujiwara
  • Privacy centric data security in a cloud environment
    Patent number: 11741254
    Abstract: Techniques for privacy centric data security. A request to permit a data processor to access private data associated with a user is received at a cloud data privacy service. The request includes a request for a data access block relating to the private data, and a data filter describing one or more access parameters. The cloud privacy data service generates the first data access block, based on the private data and the data filter. The first data access block is transmitted from the cloud privacy service to a user device, which is configured to transmit the first data access block to the first data processor. The cloud data privacy service receives a request for the private data that includes the first data access block. The cloud data privacy service determines that the first data access block is valid, and grants the first data processor access to the private data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Torsten Teich, Andrew Low
  • Motor controller circuit having stable speed controlling mechanism
    Patent number: 11742787
    Abstract: A motor controller circuit having a stable speed controlling mechanism is provided. A duty cycle determining circuit determines duty cycles of the plurality of waveforms respectively of the first waveform signals within each of a plurality of time intervals to output a duty cycle instructing signal, according to a target working period corresponding to a target rotational speed. A signal generating circuit outputs the plurality of first waveform signals according to the duty cycle instructing signal, and outputs a second waveform signal. A motor control circuit outputs a plurality of on-time signals according to the plurality of first waveform signals and the second waveform signal. A motor driving circuit is controlled to operate and drive a motor to rotate according to the plurality of on-time signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming-Jung Tsai
  • Manipulation of a molecule using dipole moments
    Patent number: 11738995
    Abstract: A method of manipulating a molecule having a dipole moment is provided. A non-limiting example of the method includes providing an array of electrodes with each respective electrode in electrical communication with a respective interconnect. Each respective electrode is individually addressable through its respective interconnect, and each respective electrode is capable of generating an electromagnetic field when stimulated. The method provides the molecule above the array of electrodes and stimulates one or more electrodes within the array of electrodes to manipulate the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Clevenger, Shawn Peter Fetterolf, Donald Canaperi, Kangguo Cheng
  • Head mounted display device and position device thereof
    Patent number: 11740322
    Abstract: A head mounted display device and a positioning device thereof are provided. The positioning device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a first hinge sensor, and a controller. The first sensor and the second sensor have a fixed relative location. The third sensor is disposed on a first flexible member of the head mounted display device. The first hinge sensor is disposed on a first connecting portion configured to connect a main body portion and the first flexible member, wherein the first hinge sensor is configured to sense a first movement state of the first flexible member. The controller is configured to calculate a first relative location information of the first sensor, the second sensor, and the third sensor, and to calibrate the first relative location information according to the first movement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Chu Ho, Ching-Hao Lee
  • Servomotor controller
    Patent number: 11740606
    Abstract: The invention provides a servomotor controller that makes it possible to reduce compensation delay even when a dead band is provided. The servomotor controller includes a motion acquiring unit that acquires a motion of the servomotor, an acceleration amount acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration amount of the servomotor, a compensating unit that compensates a motion of the servomotor, and a compensation start determining unit that determines a start of the compensation by the compensating unit responsive to the motion of the servomotor, wherein the compensation start determining unit has a dead band unit that sets a dead band range which is a range of a predetermined value relative to the motion of the servomotor, and the dead band unit changes the dead band range based on the acceleration amount acquired by the acceleration amount acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shougo Shinoda, Satoshi Ikai
  • Management method of machining system
    Patent number: 11738422
    Abstract: A management method of a machining system includes a chuck table, a machining unit, a transfer unit that transfers a wafer onto the chuck table, a camera unit that acquires an image containing a pattern formed on a side of a front surface of the wafer, and an information recording section. The management method is applied when the pattern is recorded in association with machining conditions in the information recording section; and records in the information recording section new machining conditions to be used when machining a new type of wafer, causes an automatic machining program, which automatically machines the new type of wafer, to start, forms an image, which contains a new pattern of the new type of wafer, by the camera unit, and records the new pattern in association with the new machining conditions in the information recording section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuma Sekiya
  • Radiation detectors for scanning systems, and related scanning systems
    Patent number: 11740367
    Abstract: A radiation scanning system comprises a radiation detection sub-assembly, and a routing sub-assembly coupled to the radiation detection sub-assembly. The radiation detection sub-assembly comprises a first substrate electrically connected to the radiation detection sub-assembly, and a second substrate electrically connected to the first substrate. The radiation scanning system further comprises one or more radiation shields between the first substrate and the second substrate, and one or more semiconductor dice electrically connected to the second substrate on a side of the second substrate opposite the first substrate. Related radiation detector arrays radiation scanning systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Analogic Corporation
    Inventors: Lane Marsden, Randy Luhta
  • Centralized control of execution of quantum program
    Patent number: 11740901
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for centralized control of execution of a quantum program. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components include a synchronization component that causes multiple controller devices remotely located relative to the system to be synchronized with one another and the system. The computer-executable components also include an ingestion component that accesses measurement data resulting from one or more measurements at respective qubit devices. The computer-executable components further include a composition component that generates, using the measurement data, one or more control messages for respective second controller devices of the multiple controller devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Willenborg, Andrew Wack, Thomas Alexander, Jeffrey Joseph Ruedinger, Blake Johnson, Juergen Saalmueller, Kent H. Haselhorst
  • Seismic dataset acquisition
    Patent number: 11740378
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a processor, a first seismic dataset generated using a first type of survey system. The method further includes receiving, via the processor, a second seismic dataset generated using a second type of survey system. The method additionally includes determining a frequency band in which to combine the first seismic dataset with the second seismic dataset to generate a combined dataset and generating a seismic image based upon the combined dataset, wherein the seismic image represents hydrocarbons in a subsurface region of the Earth or subsurface drilling hazards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Pedro Paramo De la Barrera, Linda Hodgson, Kareem Vincent, Sean Cardinez
  • Device for managing promotion work for product that manufacturer desires to sell, and program executed on said device
    Patent number: 11741495
    Abstract: The device according to the present invention is configured to be able to communicate with a managing device managed by a retail company that sells a product, and the device comprises: delivery means for delivering an instruction that at least describes promotion work for promoting a sale of the product, to the managing device; reception means for receiving one or more evidences showing a result of the promotion work performed at the retail company according to the instruction, from the managing device; and calculation means for calculating a degree of achievement of the promotion work at the retail company based on the one or more evidences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Studist Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Itsuki Sakitsu