Patents Examined by A. Tran
  • Patent number: 11979978
    Abstract: Monolithic power stage (Pstage) packages and methods for using same are provided that may be implemented to provide lower thermal resistance/enhanced thermal performance, reduced noise, and/or smaller package footprint than conventional monolithic Pstage packages. The conductive pads of the disclosed Pstage packages may be provided with a larger surface area for contacting respective conductive layers of a mated PCB to provide a more effective and increased heat transfer away from a monolithic Pstage package. In one example, the increased heat transfer away from the monolithic Pstage package results in lower monolithic Pstage package operating temperature and increased power output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Merle Wood, III, Chin-Jui Liu, Shiguo Luo, Feng-Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 11980014
    Abstract: A memory structure and a system-on chip (SOC) device are provided. A memory structure according to the present disclosure includes a first static random access memory (SRAM) macro comprising first gate-all-around (GAA) transistors and a second SRAM macro comprising second GAA transistors. The first GAA transistors of the first SRAM macro each includes a first plurality of channel regions each having a first channel width (W1) and a first channel thickness (T1). The second GAA transistors of the second SRAM macro each comprises a second plurality of channel regions each having a second channel width (W2) and a second channel thickness (T2). W2/T2 is greater than W1/T1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jhon Jhy Liaw
  • Patent number: 11975143
    Abstract: An electronic smoking article includes an outer tube extending in a longitudinal direction, an inner tube within the outer tube and including a pair of opposing slots, a liquid supply comprising a liquid material, a coil heater, a wick and a mouth end insert. The coil heater is located in the inner tube. The coil heater is formed of an iron-free, nickel-chromium alloy and has substantially uniformly spaced windings. The wick is surrounded by the coil heater such that the wick delivers liquid material to the coil heater and the coil heater heats the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol in the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker, Geoffrey Brandon Jordan, Barry S. Smith, Ali A. Rostami, Michael J. Mullins
  • Patent number: 11975406
    Abstract: A moving mechanism relatively moves a machining head emitting a laser beam, with respect to a sheet metal along a surface of the sheet metal. A beam vibrating mechanism vibrates the laser beam for irradiation on the sheet metal, while the machining head is relatively moved by the moving mechanism. A machining condition setting section sets pattern selection information to select a vibration pattern of the laser beam by the beam vibrating mechanism, and a parameter to determine a vibrating way in the vibration pattern, in accordance with machining conditions specified for each machining command to machine the sheet metal in a machining program generated to machine the sheet metal, and including a machining velocity of the sheet metal associated with relative movement of the machining head by the moving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Tanaka, Chiaki Kawahara, Koji Funaki, Hideyuki Watanabe
  • 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: 11977720
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing a user to manage transactions in an online credit card application. The system includes a back-end server operating the online application and including a processor for processing data and information, a communications interface communicatively coupled to the processor, and a memory device storing data and executable code. When the code is executed, the processor can link one or more external bank accounts to the online application, provide a list of transactions that were made using the credit card, enable a user to select one or more of the transactions in the list to be paid independent of the other transactions, and enable the user to pay the selected transactions using the one or more external bank accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TRUIST BANK
    Inventor: Alexis Pastore
  • 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: 11975787
    Abstract: The control device (20) corrects a basic movement command for a mobile body (1), which is based on an operator's maneuvering operation, in accordance with a positional relationship between the mobile body and an obstacle, and performs movement control of the mobile body (1) in accordance with the corrected movement command. The control device (20) is configured to correct the basic movement command, when a distance d between the obstacle and the mobile body (1) has become a predetermined value d1 or less, to cause a yaw rate in a direction away from the obstacle to be additionally generated on the mobile body (1), and also configured to correct the basic movement command so as to cause a rate of increase in magnitude of the yaw rate with respect to a decrease of the distance to be increased as the distance d is closer to the predetermined value d1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Goto, Shinya Shirokura, Makoto Hasegawa, Kazumasa Ozaki
  • 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: 11975583
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an acceleration sensor detecting collision, an electric actuator disposed outside a vehicle body, a battery and a boosting circuit supplying a high voltage to the electric actuator, and an electric suspension control ECU controlling the boosting circuit and the electric actuator, and in a case where the acceleration sensor detects the collision, the electric suspension control ECU limits the supply of the high voltage to the electric actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Konada, Satoshi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11979521
    Abstract: Data stream based event sequence anomaly detection for mobility customer fraud analysis is presented herein. A system obtains a sequence of events comprising respective modalities of communication that correspond to a subscriber identity associated with a communication service—the sequence of events having occurred within a defined period. Based on defined classifiers representing respective fraudulent sequences of events, the system determines, via a group of machine learning models corresponding to respective machine learning processes, whether the sequence of events satisfies a defined condition with respect to likelihood of representing a fraudulent sequence of events of the respective fraudulent sequences of events. In response to the sequence of events being determined to satisfy the defined condition, the system sends, via a user interface of the system, a notification indicating that the sequence of events has been determined to represent the fraudulent sequence of events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ryan Steckel, Ana Armenta, Prince Paulraj, Chih Chien Huang
  • Patent number: 11976217
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of coating a substrate. A method includes depositing a conductive coating including an electrically conductive material over the substrate to form a conductive layer having a sheet resistivity of about 10?/? to about 1000?/?. The method includes depositing an anti-icing layer comprising nanomaterials over the conductive layer to form a coating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Patrick J. Kinlen, Dimitris Priftis
  • 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: 11976582
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods for evaluating NOx conversion efficiency of a close coupled SCR unit of an EAS including the close coupled SCR unit and a downstream SCR unit. The determined NOx conversion efficiency of the close coupled SCR unit is used to diagnose the close coupled SCR unit and or EAS and to control operation parameters of the EAS and/or internal combustion engine operably connected to the EAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PACCAR INC
    Inventors: Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Maarten Meijer, Varun Ramesh
  • 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: 11976626
    Abstract: Disclosed is a leading edge protection element for a wind turbine blade, the leading edge protection element extending in a longitudinal direction between a first edge and a second edge and extending in a transverse direction between a third edge and a fourth edge, the leading edge protection element having a first surface and a second surface. The leading edge protection element comprising a film layer having a first film surface and a second film surface, the first film surface forming the first surface of the leading edge protection element, wherein the film layer comprises a metal material. The leading edge protection element comprising a rubber layer of a rubber material having a first rubber surface and a second rubber surface, the second rubber surface forming the second surface of the leading edge protection element, wherein the second film surface and the first rubber surface are bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LM WIND POWER A/S
    Inventors: Michael Drachmann Haag, Torben Krogsdal Jacobsen, Laurids Andersen
  • Patent number: 11979147
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for memory initiated calibration. The memory includes a termination circuit with a tunable resistor and a calibration detection circuit with a replica tunable resistor. The calibration detection circuit measures a resistance of the replica tunable resistor and provides a calibration request signal if the resistance is outside a tolerance. Responsive to the calibration request signal, a controller of the memory schedules the memory for a calibration operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Sujeet Ayyapureddi
  • Patent number: 11976988
    Abstract: A force detector includes a layered structure including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a detection face that receives a force to be detected and the second layer is disposed on a face opposite to the detection face. A Young's modulus of the first layer is different from a Young's modulus of the second layer. The force detector further includes a stress generator formed in the layered structure and that receives the force acting in a tangential direction of the detection face and generates a stress with a distribution that is asymmetric with respect to a normal direction of the detection face around the stress generator. The force detector further includes a plurality of sensors disposed around the stress generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohito Nohno
  • 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: D1025875
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SCS RACKS, LLC
    Inventor: Neil Douglas Johnson