Patents Examined by C Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11954683
    Abstract: A method can include receiving a first request from a third party computing system. The method can include generating a passcode based the first request. The method can include transmitting the passcode to the third party computing system. The method can include receiving a second request for payment of a bill. The method can include generating a user interface to receive a passcode input and a cash deposit selection. The method can include receiving the passcode input and the cash deposit selection. The method can include receiving a user selected payment amount. The method can include initiating a cash deposit mechanism. The method can include receiving cash from the third party customer. The method can include counting the cash. The method can include determining that cash matches the user selected payment amount. The method can include transmitting a notification to the third party computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
  • Patent number: 11956892
    Abstract: An optical package includes: a Printed Circuit Board including a plurality of cut-out sections; a lens, including a first plurality of protrusions corresponding respectively to the plurality of cut-out sections, wherein when the lens is placed under the PCB, the protrusions will pass through the cut-out sections; and a sensor for attaching on to the lens and the PCB. The first plurality of protrusions has a shape from the group including: snap features, guide posts and guide posts with tight-fit ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Wan Piang Lim, Sai Mun Lee
  • Patent number: 11956889
    Abstract: A sample holder includes a base comprising a support structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) in contact with the base. The PCB includes: a dielectric; a front-surface ground (GND) formed on a front surface of the dielectric; a back-surface GND formed on a back surface of the dielectric; a through hole penetrating from the front-surface GND to the back-surface GND, the through hole in which a chip is disposed, and a conductor that electrically connects the front-surface GND and the back-surface GND on an end face of the through hole. At least a part of the base below the through hole has a cavity. The support structure that supports a surface of the chip and is electrically connected to the base. The support structure is disposed in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kohei Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11956899
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate including a display area and a pad area, a plurality of pad electrodes disposed on the pad area, and an insulating layer disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of pad electrodes and including a heat absorbing particle. A laser is irradiated to heat the insulating layer, and the heat absorbing particle in the insulating layer absorbs the heat and cures an anisotropic conductive film by heat transfer to electrically connect the plurality of pad electrodes to a plurality of bump electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Nyung Jang
  • Patent number: 11953778
    Abstract: A display system includes a backlight. A first display unit is disposed proximate the backlight. The first display unit may include a plurality of pixels. Around each pixel, the display system may include a matrix structure. A reflective polarizer may cooperate with a substrate of the first display unit. A second display unit is disposed proximate the first display unit. A microcontroller may be coupled to one or more of the backlight, the first display unit and the second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf
  • Patent number: 11953777
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display module and a display device. The display module includes a light grating assembly. The light grating assembly includes alternately arranged first regions and second regions, and liquid crystal molecules and dye molecules distributed in the first regions and the second regions. Arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules and the dye molecules are controlled to make the first regions light-transmissive and the second regions light-transmissive under a first mode and not light-transmissive under a second mode to form alternately light and dark stripes under the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenlong Ye, Rui He, Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 11955257
    Abstract: A join is provided that has an electrically insulating component and two joining partners secured to one another and electrically insulated from one another by the electrically insulating component. The electrically insulating component has a surface that extends between the two joining partners. The surface defines a structure selected from a group consisting of an elevation, a depression, and any combinations thereof. The structure elongates a direct path along the surface. The structure completely surrounds at least one of the two joining partners. The electrically insulating component and/or the structure includes a glass that is at least partially crystallized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ina Mitra, Christian Mix, Björn Ramdohr, Helmut Hartl, Mark Stronczek
  • Patent number: 11953792
    Abstract: The irregularly-shaped display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a shielding layer. some of the pixel units are shielded by the shielding layer to form irregularly-shaped pixel units, and each of the irregularly-shaped pixel unit at least comprises a first irregularly-shaped pixel unit; in the first irregularly-shaped pixel unit, the areas of opening regions of at least two sub-pixels shielded by the shielding layer are different, and the sub-pixel having a larger area of an opening region shielded by the shielding layer has a greater pixel pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Li Lv, Tingting Shen, Yunyang Liu, Yuchun Xu, Guangchen Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11948135
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for facilitating financial transactions using an IC type financial card presented at a terminal. A requested transaction for monetary value is processed via a first transaction type. If the transaction is successful, monetary value (such as cash or a monetary value ticket or receipt) is dispensed to the user. If unsuccessful, the card is not ejected and the transaction is processed via a second transaction type. The first transaction type might be a PIN based ATM or ticket transaction and the second transaction type might be a signature based transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Everi Payments Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Richards, Dale Baltzell, Brian T. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11949221
    Abstract: Current busbars may be made of copper and have at least one nominal bending point which has been locally heated and thereby softened prior to being installed. Such components may be used in power electronic circuits, especially an inverter, in fully electrical and partially electrical (hybrid) vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Paul Böckenhoff, Philipp Eberhart, Benjamin Söhnle
  • Patent number: 11948139
    Abstract: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include systems and methods for providing first-in-wallet payment account auctioning. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for providing first-in-wallet payment account auctioning includes, receiving, via a network, consumer preference data, current consumer financial situation data associated with a plurality of payment accounts, and account terms associated with each of the plurality of payment accounts; scoring each of the plurality of payment accounts based on the consumer preference data, the current consumer financial situation data, and the account terms and determining an optimal payment account to be the first-in-wallet account out of the plurality of payment accounts based on the scoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Luke A. Hammock, Janusz Michael Niczyporuk
  • Patent number: 11950361
    Abstract: A multiple layer printed circuit board (PCB) in which the cores (or core layers) are removed and replaced with prepreg layers, which provide structure integrity for the PCB. Such a multi-layer PCB may include signal layers, ground plane layers, inner signal layers, and a single core substrate layer. Each of the layers may be separated from the other layers by at least one prepreg substrate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VEEA INC.
    Inventors: Shaun Joseph Greaney, Robert Migliorino, Michael Liccone, Clint Smith
  • Patent number: 11947148
    Abstract: A transparent display panel and an electronic device are provided. The transparent display panel includes: a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer therebetween, the second substrate having an edge extension portion located on a same side of the transparent display panel as a first light incident surface of the first substrate; a first light source assembly located on a side, where the first light incident surface is provided, of the first substrate; a first light guide bar located between the first light source assembly and the first light incident surface, the first light guide bar having a first light guide bar surface, a second light guide bar surface, and a first light guide bar slope surface therebetween, an inner angle formed between the first light guide bar slope surface and the second light guide bar surface being less than or equal to 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yidan Peng, Nanfang Jia, Long Wang
  • Patent number: 11949592
    Abstract: A software-defined traffic routing mesh network for routing network data traffic may include a first plurality of operations network nodes that route network data traffic between one or more client devices and an external network. The mesh network may further include a second plurality of maintenance network nodes that provides maintenance services for at least the first plurality of operations network nodes, and a third plurality of procurement network nodes that are used to procure each operations network node by being used to procure at least one of a hardware component or a software component for each operations network node from one or more third-party vendors. Each of the first plurality of operations network nodes, the second plurality of maintenance network nodes, and the third plurality of procurement network nodes in the mesh network are deployed in multiple tiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: George Zoulias, Blake Watson
  • Patent number: 11950365
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes: a base film having a hole for forming a through hole; and a coil-shaped wiring layer layered on at least one surface side of the base film, wherein the wiring layer includes a land portion arranged at an inner peripheral surface of the hole and at a peripheral portion of the hole of the base film, and a winding portion arranged in a spiral shape with the land portion as an inside end portion or an outside end portion, wherein the winding portion includes a first winding portion that is an outermost circumference and a second winding portion that is inside relative to the outermost circumference, and wherein a ratio of an average thickness of the land portion to an average thickness of the second winding portion is 1.1 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Sakai, Koji Nitta, Yoshio Oka, Junichi Motomura, Masanao Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11943103
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, provided is a network system including a plurality of devices and a network management apparatus connected to the plurality of devices by an IP transmission line, and the network management apparatus (100) includes a setting execution unit (116) configured to execute setting of a path to which the plurality of devices are connected, and setting of parameters for controlling the plurality of devices. With this configuration, it is possible to freely set a connection path and devices in a system in which a plurality of devices are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakao, Shinjiro Tanaka, Hideyuki Imaida, Takahiro Nishikawa, Tooru Amano, Teruo Kajiura, Satoru Kamoto
  • Patent number: 11942559
    Abstract: The present application provides a method of preventing thin film transistor (TFT) from electrostatic discharge (ESD) damaging, a method of manufacturing a TFT, and a display panel. By fitting a test data, acquiring relationships between an anti-ESD capability of the TFT and manufacturing parameters of each film layer, according to above-mentioned relationships, disposing the manufacturing parameters of each film layer of the TFT, to prevent the TFT from ESD damaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junzheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11942240
    Abstract: A distribution member includes plural electric wire pairs each including a pair of electric wires, a first fixing member integrally fixing the electric wire pairs, and a second fixing member that is separated from the first fixing member and integrally fixes electric wires of at least one of the electric wire pairs. The first fixing member and the second fixing member each include a holder holding the electric wires and a resin mold part that includes a molding resin and is molded so as to cover a part of the electric wire pairs held by the holder. The holder includes at least one interposed part that is interposed between the held electric wires. The distribution member further includes a combining part that is integrally formed with the holders of the first and second fixing members and combines the holders of the first and second fixing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Egami
  • Patent number: 11940689
    Abstract: A light control film comprises a light input surface and a light output surface opposite the light input surface; alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions disposed between the light input surface and the light output surface, wherein the absorptive regions comprise a core having a first concentration, C1, of a light absorbing material sandwiched between cladding layers having a second concentration, C2, of the light absorbing material, wherein C2<C1, and wherein the cores have an aspect ratio of at least 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel J. Schmidt, Kevin W. Gotrik, Nicholas A. Johnson, Raymond J. Kenney, Caleb T. Nelson, Kenneth A. Epstein
  • Patent number: 11942294
    Abstract: A method for increasing the protection range of a thermal fuse, which includes the following steps: disposing the thermal fuse on a circuit board including a circuit loop, a first heat generating element and a second heat generating element; the second heat generating element is electrically connected to the circuit loop; electrically connecting the first heat generating element to the circuit loop; and disposing the heat conducting material on the circuit loop and making the heat conducting material cover the thermal fuse, the first heat generating element and the second heat generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen PVTECH Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuxing Lu, Rongtu Liu