Patents Examined by A. Henry
  • Patent number: 11984857
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to an impedance transformation circuit for use in an amplifier, such as a low noise amplifier. The impedance transformation circuit includes a matching circuit including a first inductor. The impedance transformation circuit also includes a second inductor. The first and second inductors are magnetically coupled to each other to provide negative feedback to linearize the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Leslie Paul Wallis
  • Patent number: 11985858
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device that is capable of being driven with low power consumption. A first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and a second thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed in an active area, thereby reducing power consumption. At least one opening formed in a bending area is formed to have the same depth as any one of contact holes formed in the active area, thereby making it possible to form the opening and the contact holes through the same process and consequently simplifying the process of manufacturing the device. Since a high potential supply line and a low potential supply line overlap each other with a protective film formed of an inorganic insulation material interposed therebetween, short-circuiting of the high potential supply line and the low potential supply line may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Nam Lim, Yu-Ho Jung, Dong-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11983986
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a base, a columnar pedestal extending vertically from the base, and a button deck adjustably coupled to the pedestal. The button deck includes an upper surface including a transparent touchscreen element, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and a button deck body extending therebetween. At least one of the lower surface and the body include one or more transparent display elements, the one or more transparent display elements are configured to generate images of gaming machine control actuators viewable on the upper surface. The transparent touchscreen element is configured to receive touches and gestures indicating control inputs. The gaming machine also includes a player tracking card reader positioned within the button deck and accessible through a slot in a front edge of the button deck, the player tracking card reader communicatively coupled to a player tracking display area of the gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Douglas Lamb, Daniel William Rice, Victor Brent McClearen, Charles Stanley Curbbun, Arvin Grande Abadilla, Matthew Kranz, Julian Groeli, Blake Chuanlun Wang, Jin Chen, William John Leach
  • Patent number: 11984670
    Abstract: This application provides a wireless electronic communications device, including: a metal frame on which a first antenna and a second antenna are disposed, where a first preset distance is spaced between the first antenna and the second antenna, and a feeding structure is disposed on each of the first antenna and the second antenna; and a slot structure disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna, where an extension distance of the slot structure in a width direction of the metal frame is less than a width of the metal frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianjing Jian, Huan-Chu Huang
  • Patent number: 11980822
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for assessing performance of a player of a game. An embodiment operates by monitoring for an input from the player of the game, receiving the input from the player of the game, and determining a characteristic of the game resulting from the input from the player. Based on the input from the player, a performance of the player is assessed. The performance of the player relating to one or more metrics of the game is monitored, and is assessed by comparing the input from the player during the period of time to an optimal input during the period of time in the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: STATE SPACE LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Jason R. Fuller, David J. Heeger, Wayne E. Mackey
  • Patent number: 11984858
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for oscillation suppression of cascode power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain implementations, a power amplifier system includes a cascode power amplifier including a plurality of transconductance devices that operate in combination with a plurality of cascode devices to amplify a radio frequency input signal. The power amplifier system further includes a bias circuit that biases the plurality of cascode devices with two or more bias voltages that are decoupled from one another at radio frequency to thereby inhibit the cascode power amplifier from oscillating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: John William Mitchell Rogers
  • Patent number: 11984305
    Abstract: A substrate pedestal includes a thermally conductive substrate support including a mesh, a thermally conductive shaft including a plurality of conductive rods therein, each conductive rod having a first end and a second end, and a sensor. The first end of each conductive rod is electrically coupled to the mesh, and the sensor is disposed between the first and second ends of each conductive rod and configured to detect current flow through each conductive rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Viren Kalsekar, Vinay K. Prabhakar, Venkata Sharat Chandra Parimi
  • Patent number: 11985005
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for detecting controller area network (CAN) bus intrusion of a vehicle-mounted network based on a Gaussian mixture model-hidden Markov model (GMM-HMM), including the following steps: obtaining a normal packet of a CAN bus of a vehicle-mounted network, and counting cycles of all packets of each CAN ID based on a time sequence, that is, a time difference between two frames of packets of a same CAN ID, to form a cycle sequence as an input of an algorithm; dividing the cycle sequence of each CAN ID into a fixed length based on the algorithm, and then training a GMM-HMM for each CAN ID to obtain a likelihood probability of a normal cycle sequence; and further counting a cycle sequence of each CAN ID for a tested packet sequence, calculating, after the cycle sequence is input a model, a likelihood probability of generating the sequence, and determining whether the packet sequence is abnormal by comparing the likelihood probability with a threshold of the likelihood probabili
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION CO., LTD, SHANGHAI UNI-SENTRY INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Heng Hu, Hongxing Hu, Wendong Cheng, Huibin Huang, Tao Yu, Hong Liu
  • Patent number: 11980814
    Abstract: A method for controlling a virtual object to mark a virtual item is provided. The method includes: displaying a virtual environment picture, the virtual environment picture including the virtual object and the virtual item in a virtual environment; controlling the virtual object to move, in the virtual environment, into a proximity range of the virtual item; displaying a pick-up item list on the virtual environment picture, a field of the virtual item available for pick-up being displayed in the pick-up item list; and receiving a mark operation on the field of the virtual item, and marking the virtual item in the virtual environment according to the mark operation, the mark operation being an operation different from a pick-up operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Cong Tian, Meng Qiu, Jiaqi Pan, Weijian Cui, Shuting Zhang
  • Patent number: 11981399
    Abstract: A bicycle derailleur structure is mounted on a bicycle frame to correspond to a flywheel unit and includes a support arm, a screw rod, a tension bar, a gear shift unit. and a drive unit. The tension bar has an end having an interior space receiving an elastic member therein to be mounted on the support arm in an elastically oscillating manner. The gear shift unit includes two protector plates in threading engagement with screw rod, and first and second pulleys arranged between the two protector plates. The screw rod is operable to drive the gear shift unit in order to align a chain on the flywheel unit to align with the gear shift unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventor: Fong P Lin
  • Patent number: 11981398
    Abstract: A bicycle derailleur comprises a derailleur body and a cable holder. The derailleur body is configured to be attached to a bicycle frame. The cable holder is configured to hold an electric cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11981183
    Abstract: This air conditioning device for a vehicle has: an indoor condenser; an indoor evaporator; a first expansion valve; a second expansion valve; a refrigerant line; an expansion valve control detector; and a controller. The expansion valve control detector is constituted by: only one temperature sensor that detects the temperature of refrigerant in an inter-expansion valve line of the refrigerant line; and only one pressure sensor that detects the pressure of the refrigerant in the inter-expansion valve line. During a cooling operation, the controller issues, to the first expansion valve, an opening command corresponding to a state quantity of the refrigerant that has been detected by the expansion valve control detector, and during a heating operation, the controller issues, to the second expansion valve, an opening command corresponding to a state quantity of the refrigerant that has been detected by the expansion valve control detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuya Nakagawa, Yasuo Katayama, Soichiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 11983125
    Abstract: Described are techniques including a computer-implemented method that comprises defining a respective priority classification for each of a plurality of sockets used for communicating between an initiator computational system and a target computational system. The method further comprises automatically assigning a respective priority classification to each of a plurality of Input/Output (IO) requests based on a type of data associated with each IO request. The method further comprises sending the plurality of IO requests to respective sockets of the plurality of sockets with a matching priority classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bharti Soni, Komal Shailendra Shah, Tej Parkash, Subhojit Roy
  • Patent number: 11982483
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ice shaver with a multi-link, self-locking, force-reduction, motion control arm or armature to press an ice block against a blade. The armature has a lever with a forward handle, an intermediate connection to the column, and a rear connection to the frame of the ice shaver. A link is coupled between the rear connection of the lever and the frame of the ice shaver to form a four-bar linkage. The armature has a raised locked configuration in which the lever and the link are oriented substantially co-linear to maintain the column in a raised position. In another aspect, joints between the lever and the column can comprise dampers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Pioneer Family Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Griffiths, Robin Peng
  • Patent number: 11983136
    Abstract: A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) device performing communication with a host through a PCIe link includes a first physical function, a plurality of second physical functions, and a function mode controller. The first physical function manages the PCIe link and receives function mode control information from the host. Each of the plurality of second physical functions may be enabled or disabled according to a respective operation mode. Based on the function mode control information, the function mode controller sets the operation modes of the plurality of second physical functions to one of an active mode and an inactive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Tae Jeon, Sang Hyun Yoon, Se Hyeon Han
  • Patent number: 11982237
    Abstract: An embodiment of a torch igniter for a combustor of a gas turbine engine comprises a combustion chamber oriented about an axis, a cap defining an axially upstream end of the combustion chamber and oriented about the axis, a tip defining an axially downstream end of the combustion chamber, a structural wall coaxial with and surrounding the igniter wall, an outlet passage defined by the igniter wall within the tip, and a cooling system. The cooling system comprises an air inlet formed within the structural wall, a first flow path disposed between the structural wall and the igniter wall, and an aperture extending through the igniter wall transverse to the flow direction. The aperture directly fluidly connects the first flow path to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ryon, Lev Alexander Prociw
  • Patent number: 11983132
    Abstract: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector functionality modification system includes a USB connector coupled to a first subsystem and a second subsystem by a multiplexer device. A USB connector functionality modification subsystem is coupled to the multiplexer device and operates to receive a USB connector functionality modification instruction while the multiplexer device is configured to allow the first subsystem to transmit and receive data via the USB connector and the second subsystem cannot transmit and receive data via the USB connector. In response to receiving the USB connector functionality modification instruction, the USB connector functionality modification subsystem reconfigures the multiplexer device to allow the second subsystem to transmit and receive data via the USB connector while the first subsystem cannot transmit and receive data via the USB connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Timothy M. Lambert
  • Patent number: 11982214
    Abstract: An oil inlet of a motor communicates with a first end of an oil pump through a first passage. A first oil sump of the motor communicates with a second end of the oil pump through a second passage. When the oil pump is rotating, a port at the first end is an oil outlet of the oil pump, and a port at the second end is an oil inlet of the oil pump. The first end of the oil pump communicates with a second oil sump through a third passage with a first valve. The second end of the oil pump communicates with the second oil sump through a fourth passage with a second valve. In this way, when the oil pump is reversing, coolant may be input into a motor cavity and accumulate in the motor cavity, so as to cool motor components in an immersion manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangang Wang, Chaoqiang Wu, Hongbing Liu, Jun Chen, Hu Zhong
  • Patent number: 11982820
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin including a first coil disposed therearound, a first magnet disposed to face the first coil, a housing for supporting the first magnet, upper and lower elastic members each coupled to both the bobbin and the housing, a base disposed to be spaced apart from the housing by a predetermined distance, a second coil disposed to face the first magnet, a printed circuit board on which the second coil is mounted, a plurality of support members, which support the housing such that the housing is movable in second and/or third directions and which connect at least one of the upper and lower elastic members to the printed circuit board, and a conductive member for conductively connecting the upper and lower elastic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min
  • Patent number: 11984403
    Abstract: An integrated substrate structure includes a redistribution film, a circuit substrate, and a plurality of conductive features. The redistribution film includes a fine redistribution circuitry, a circuit substrate is disposed over the redistribution film and includes a core layer and a coarse redistribution circuitry disposed in and on the core layer. The circuit substrate is thicker and more rigid than the redistribution film, and a layout density of the fine redistribution circuitry is denser than that of the coarse redistribution circuitry. The conductive features are interposed between the circuit substrate and the redistribution film to be connected to the fine redistribution circuitry and the coarse redistribution circuitry. A redistribution structure and manufacturing methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventor: Dyi-Chung Hu