Patents Examined by A. Tran
  • Patent number: 11978641
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: forming a semiconductor device on a main region of the device substrate, the device substrate having a peripheral region surrounding the main region; forming a first filling layer on the peripheral region of the device substrate; forming a second filling layer over the first filling layer and the semiconductor device after forming the first filling layer, the second filling layer having a polishing rate different from that of the first filling layer; performing a planarization process over the second filling layer to remove a portion of the second filling layer so that a remaining portion of the second filling layer has a planarized surface opposite to the device substrate; and bonding the device substrate to a carrier substrate through the first filling layer and the remaining portion of the second filling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Pei-Yu Chou, Yen-Yu Chen, Meng-Ku Chen, Shiang-Bau Wang, Tze-Liang Lee
  • Patent number: 11976987
    Abstract: A module, including at least one first component in the form of a semiconductor component including multiple stress measuring cells situated in a distributed manner for detecting stress measured values at different measuring positions of the semiconductor component, at least one second component which is mechanically coupled to the semiconductor component, and an evaluation unit, which is designed to ascertain at least one location-dependent stress distribution in the semiconductor component based on the stress measured values detected at one measuring point in time, and to ascertain a deformation state of the at least one second component at the measuring point in time on the basis of the at least one ascertained location-dependent stress distribution in the semiconductor component. A corresponding method for monitoring environmental influences on a module is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Clemens Jurgschat, Torsten Ohms
  • Patent number: 11979078
    Abstract: A rotor is provided with injected fixing bars having functional pins formed in a single piece and including a bar and two functional pins. The functional pins include one or more fixing regions for tying of one or more rotor packages of plates of the rotor. A process is for manufacturing the rotor A rotary electric machine can include the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: WEG EQUIPAMENTOS ELETRICOS S.A.
    Inventors: Cassiano Antunes Cezario, Dionei Scottini, Emerson Hamerschmitt, Ramon Gomes Da Silva, Rubens Fernando Missio
  • Patent number: 11977188
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a vehicle sensor of a motor vehicle. The method includes the steps: ascertaining, by way of the vehicle sensor, sensor data at a plurality of measurement times, the motor vehicle moving in relation to objects in surroundings of the motor vehicle; computing object positions of the objects on the basis of the ascertained sensor data; computing a Hough transformation on the basis of the computed object positions; ascertaining an alignment of the vehicle sensor in relation to a driving axis of the motor vehicle on the basis of the computed Hough transformation; and calibrating the vehicle sensor on the basis of the ascertained alignment of the vehicle sensor in relation to the driving axis of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: David Ziegler, Stephan Dorenkamp
  • Patent number: 11979426
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting and acting on computer network vulnerabilities before they are actually breached or tampered with by malicious external actors. A monitoring computing device assesses the different components within a network and based on a ranking of the devices, a perceived threat analysis and weaknesses within the network, can take appropriate remediation actions for one or more of the devices within the network. Depending on the ranking of a particular computing device within the network and the determined risk, a remediation can include delaying the implementation of a fix for a weakness because the computing device cannot be taken offline at that particular time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hive Pro Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Choudha, Sarfaraz Kazi
  • Patent number: 11979267
    Abstract: The method is related to the smart frame design that contains multi-user single-carrier (SC) transmission to support 5G-and-beyond communication systems that permit enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communication (mMTC), and ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) services. The method enhances the capacity of the system in line with the filter parameters to be selected according to the user's requirements and to meet the requirements of the desired and adjacent users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Armed Tusha, Seda Dogan, Hüseyin Arslan
  • Patent number: 11979198
    Abstract: A disclosed radio frequency (RF) system, such as a cognitive radar, includes a software defined radio (SDR), an adaptive transmit amplifier, and a host computer. The system performs optimization operations including selecting an initial impedance as a load impedance for the RF device and iteratively performing image completion operations until a convergence criterion is satisfied. The image completion operations may include measuring a performance of the RF device to obtain a measured performance corresponding to the load impedance, storing the measured performance as a point on a measured load-pull contour image, performing a load-pull extrapolation to extrapolate, from the load impedance, a predicted optimal impedance, and saving the predicted impedance as the load impedance for a next iteration of the image completion operations. The convergence criterion may be satisfied when a predicted impedance matches one of the previously measured impedances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Austin Scott Egbert
  • Patent number: 11977588
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for search and navigation on a network to find and display specific search identified information in documents. Queries are sent to search engine services and responses comprising snippets are returned. Then, in response to only one or a few user inputs, documents are opened and locations of content matching or best matching the snippets are found reliably and distinguished in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Karl Louis Denninghoff
  • Patent number: 11979243
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for supporting a two-stage device-to-device (D2D) discovery using a D2D interworking function (IWF). A D2D IWF component may be configured to perform mapping between an application running on an application server and a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network, and provide a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow discovery to be provided as a service to D2D applications. An application identifier may be mapped to a 3GPP identifier. Further, a method and apparatus are described for performing client-server discovery. A first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured for a listen-only operation, and a second WTRU may be configured to transmit beacons. The first and second WTRUs may perform a radio access network (RAN) discovery procedure at an access stratum (AS) layer. A method and apparatus for performing charging for D2D service using a D2D IWF are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Ravikumar V. Pragada, Saad Ahmad, Balaji Raghothaman, Samian J. Kaur, Pascal M. Adjakple, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Zhuorong Deng, Kiran K. Vanganuru, Gregory S. Sternberg, Guanzhou Wang, Michael F. Starsinic, Alexander Reznik, Juan Carlos Zuniga, Eldad M. Zeira
  • Patent number: 11976603
    Abstract: A method performed by a control unit in connection with a pre-heating process of an aftertreatment system for a combustion engine is provided. The control unit obtains a scheduled start time of the combustion engine. The control unit schedules a pre-heating of the aftertreatment system to be completed before the scheduled start time. The control unit detects a start of the combustion engine at an actual start time. In response to the detected start of the combustion engine, and using the actual and scheduled start times, the control unit determines whether the scheduled pre-heating of the aftertreatment system fulfils one or more success criteria. When the one or more success criteria are fulfilled, the control unit triggers a performance increase of the combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Wilhelmsson, Dan Stenqvist, Irman Svraka
  • Patent number: 11977806
    Abstract: Presenting first drawer area on a first display device in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the first drawer area presented in an extended state; presenting second drawer area on a second display device in the instrument panel of the vehicle, the second drawer area presented in a retracted state; receiving first transition command regarding the first and second drawer areas; and in response to receiving the first transition command: presenting the first drawer area in the retracted state on the first display device, wherein the first content is not visible in the first drawer area in the retracted state; and presenting the second drawer area in the extended state on the second display device, wherein the first content of the first application is visible in the second drawer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Atieva, Inc.
    Inventors: Saurabh Vinodkumar Rathi, Gina Park, Karina Nicole Cosgro, Yunwei Yang, Eugene Joseph Lee, Raymond Leonard Bessemer, Derek N. Jenkins, Akshay Rajkumar Hasija, James Lee, Hwan Chul Kang, Soumya Thandra, Paul Hsu, Nicholas James Hope
  • Patent number: 11974844
    Abstract: Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) may be used in conjunction with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to enable identification of valid and reliable sensor data, as well implementation of Smart Calibration algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Taly G. Engel, Xiaolong Li, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah, Jaeho Kim, Mike C. Liu, Andy Y. Tsai
  • Patent number: 11976616
    Abstract: An emissions evacuator system that collects natural gas vented from various components of a natural gas compressor system and directs the vented gases to the intake system of a natural gas engine of the compressor system. The evacuator system utilizes vacuum from an intake system of the natural gas engine contained on compressor packages to “suck up” the gaseous emissions from various emission sources on the compressor package. These emissions are rendered inert when combusted in the natural gas engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ESTIS COMPRESSION, LLC
    Inventor: Will A. Nelle
  • Patent number: 11979084
    Abstract: An isolated DC/DC converter includes a primary stage, a transformer circuit, a secondary stage, an active clamp, a first current sense node, and a second current sense node. The primary stage includes a primary switching inverter configured to invert the source DC voltage into a high-frequency alternating current (AC) voltage. The transformer circuit adjusts an AC voltage level of the high-frequency AC voltage and outputs an adjusted AC voltage. The secondary stage includes a secondary switching converter to convert the adjusted AC voltage into a secondary voltage, and the active clamp is configured to clamp the secondary voltage to provide an output DC voltage. The first current sense node is included in the primary stage conducts a source current having a first current level, and the second current sense node is included in the secondary stage and conducts a clamp current having a second current level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Sriram Chandrasekaran, Bruce Stoltz, Marty Perry, Noel Delgado
  • Patent number: 11977843
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program code for intelligent data discovery with dynamic ontology are provided. According to one illustrative embodiment, the method using a number of processors to perform the steps of: identifying a set of data items in unstructured content using a dynamic data schema populated from a dynamic ontology; and responsive to identifying a data item that is not recognized in the data schema: storing the data item with labels; generating a weight for the data item; and responsive to the weight exceeding a threshold, updating the schema to include the data item that was not recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: S&P Global Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Guzik, Prashant Desai, Anthony Sweet, Jason Holden
  • Patent number: 11979061
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, and a stator disposed outside the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core, which has a plurality of pockets are radially formed around the shaft, and magnets inserted into the pockets, and the rotor core, which is disposed outside the magnets, includes a plurality of core plates stacked in an axial direction, the core plate includes a center part and a plurality of radial parts connected to the center part, each of the plurality of radial parts includes surfaces forming the pocket and a stepped portion having a step, and the plurality of stepped portions include at least two of a first stepped portion, a second stepped portion, a third stepped portion, and a fourth stepped portion which have different shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sun Ho Jo
  • Patent number: 11975653
    Abstract: In a case where a person moves away in a longitudinal direction from the vicinity of a vehicle, a condition for generating a warning is satisfied due to a change in a speed in a transverse direction. Thus, a warning system generates an erroneous warning. In order to solve this problem, there are proposed a target detection system for a vehicle and a target detection method for a vehicle, both of which are capable of computing a final risk level, taking into consideration not only results of recomputing a time-to-collision and an impact point, but also the presence or absence of a target that is detected by a camera sensor. The time-to-collision and the impact point are recomputed, taking into consideration a change in a speed in a transverse direction that occurs when the target moves in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11979079
    Abstract: In an electric motor cooling structure for cooling an electric motor provided in a power unit by jetting an oil to the electric motor, an oil passage for passing the oil therethrough is formed between a cover member covering the electric motor from outside and a lid member fitted to the cover member. The cover member is formed with a plurality of jet holes as through-holes communicating with the oil passage, and the plurality of jet holes are oriented in the same direction as an axial direction of the motor. The oil passage is formed in an annular shape as viewed in the axial direction of the electric motor. The cover member is formed with a second oil passage for supplying the oil to a rotary shaft of the electric motor. Such cooling structure efficiently cools the electric motor while suppressing processing cost with a simple oil passage structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Omori, Hiroyuki Sugiura, Yuki Nagata
  • Patent number: 11970893
    Abstract: A furniture fitting for moving a movable furniture part relative to a furniture carcass includes a housing to be connected to the furniture carcass, and an actuating mechanism arranged or can be arranged at least in part within the housing. The actuating mechanism can be connected to the movable furniture part, and the actuating mechanism can swivel about at least one rotation axis. The actuating mechanism and/or at least one inner side of the housing facing the actuating mechanism has a local elevation, by which, at least in a relative position of the actuating mechanism to the housing, a play between the actuating mechanism and the inner side of the housing facing the actuating mechanism is at least halved in comparison to a region surrounding the local elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Holzapfel, Philip Schluge
  • Patent number: 11969892
    Abstract: A method for selecting a grasp posture of a dual-arm robot includes: setting a fitness value range, an iteration quantity threshold, and a fitness function; calculating the fitness value of the population, determining whether the population is within the value range, ending an iteration if the population is within the value range or continuing to determine whether a quantity of iterations reaches the iteration quantity threshold if the population is not within the value range, ending the iteration if the quantity of iterations reaches the iteration quantity threshold or performing crossover and mutation operations if the quantity of iterations does not reach the iteration quantity threshold, and dynamically selecting a gene retention strategy based on an iteration depth and a fitness value to retain a gene; updating a gene population representing a grasping position and performing determining cyclically; and obtaining an optimal target corresponding to dual arms after the iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yong Tao, Jiahao Wan, Haitao Liu, He Gao, Yufang Wen, Lian Duan, Shishu Huang