Patents Examined by C Nguyen
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11943888
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a first housing; a hinge part having a first surface connected to the first housing; a second housing connected to a second surface of the hinge part opposite to the first surface; and a wiring member for electrically connecting the first housing and the second housing. The wiring member may be folded or unfolded on the basis of the hinge part, and a slit may be formed to correspond to at least a portion of the folded or unfolded bending area. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Eunseok Hong
  • Patent number: 11935066
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for token management in a federated environment are provided. A method includes: linking a single token of a user to an online account associated with the single token based on receiving a user input to couple to the online account such that a mobile device is configured to receive updates regarding the single token; generating a rule that associates the single token with two or more accounts; based on the linking, receiving an update regarding the online account and (i) deactivating the single token to prevent fund transfers utilizing the single token and (ii) providing an alert regarding the update; reactivating the single token based on an input in response to the alert; receiving a fund transfer transaction request identifying the single token for a fund transfer; and applying the rule based on the single token to process the fund transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Azita Asefi
  • Patent number: 11935437
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display assembly and a display device, the display assembly includes: a flexible display panel including a first display area, a second display area and a bending area formed between the first display area and the second display area, a metal resilient member fixedly attached to one side of the flexible display panel, a metal support located on a side, away from the flexible display panel, of the metal resilient member, a first conductive adhesive structure located at the edge of the bending area and connecting the first support part and the metal resilient member, and a second conductive adhesive structure located at the edge of the bending area and connecting the second support part with the metal resilient member, wherein the metal support is fixedly attached to the metal resilient member by an adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaxiang Wang, Yonghui Luo, Binfeng Feng, Fei Li, Yan Zhao, Shuang Lei
  • Patent number: 11927859
    Abstract: A display device comprising a transistor and a display element over the transistor, wherein the transistor includes a gate electrode on an insulating surface, a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode, and source/drain electrodes on the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate insulating layer, each including a first conductive layer containing nitrogen and a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, and an insulating layer contains oxygen on the oxide semiconductor layer and the source/drain electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi Tsubuku, Takeshi Sakai, Tatsuya Toda
  • Patent number: 11927863
    Abstract: A device for modulating the phase of a light beam includes a matrix of elementary cells, called pixels, coupled to a circuit for addressing the pixels, the device further comprising a set of so-called lateral electrodes extending in a so-called vertical direction (Y) at right angles to the alignment direction (Xa) and configured to apply, for each pixel and via at least two lateral electrodes, a so-called acceleration voltage generating a lateral electrical field (Era) substantially parallel to the alignment direction, in a vector allowing an accelerated return of the liquid crystal molecules to their orientation of rest, the acceleration voltage being configured to be applied in a phase called acceleration relaxation phase, when the activation voltage is no longer applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Benoît Racine, Arnaud Verdant, Pierre Joly
  • Patent number: 11930588
    Abstract: There are provided a signal transmission apparatus and a signal transmission method for use therewith, the apparatus using a small-sized connector configuration and a flexible printed circuit board to prevent a decrease in the quality of a differential signal. The flexible printed circuit board has signal transmission paths for transmitting the differential signal. At least one of connector connection parts of the flexible printed circuit board has a first connection part column and a second connection part column obtained by arranging a plurality of signal line connection parts, the signal line connection parts being connection parts between the signal transmission paths and intra-connector wiring. Each of the signal line connection parts in the connection part columns is configured to be connected with the signal transmission path formed on the back side of the flexible printed circuit board by way of a VIA (through-hole) formed between the first connection part column and the second connection part column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sota Hatano