Patents Examined by C Nguyen
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Patent number: 11929189Abstract: The present application discloses a filtering cable, which solves the problem that the cable in the related art cannot ensure a simple and reasonable structural design while having good filter performance. One or several core wires and N defective conductor layers surrounding the core wires are sequentially provided from inside to outside in the cross section in the radial direction of the filtering cable; wherein the defective conductor layer has an etching pattern; the etching pattern is distributed in the axial direction of the filtering cable; the etching pattern is used to make the filtering cable equivalent to a preset filter circuit to filter the signal transmitted in the filtering cable.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Yunan Han
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Patent number: 11927479Abstract: A smart contact lens (400) for detecting a ratiometric change in an incident light (126) intensity is provided, including one or more, preferably concentric, rings (410-1, 410-2, . . . , 410-N) of a liquid crystal display, LCD, type, each ring being operable between a state having a lower attenuation of light and a state having a higher attenuation of light; a circuit (420, 100, 101) for detecting a ratiometric change in an incident light intensity; and a controller (430) configured to operate the one or more rings based on an intensity of an incident light and to, as a response to the circuit (420, 100, 10 101) detecting a ratiometric change in the intensity of the incident light from a higher intensity state to a lower intensity state indicating that at least a beginning of a blinking of an eye of a user has occurred, initiate a re-polarization of the one or more rings. A method of operating the smart contact lens and various uses of the circuit are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: IMEC VZW, STICHTING IMEC NEDERLANDInventors: Chris Van Liempd, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Herbert De Smet
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Patent number: 11922506Abstract: A computer implemented method determines a margin requirement for a financial product portfolio. Market conditions for the financial product portfolio are characterized by a zero curve. The method includes producing a plurality of scenario curves, each scenario curve reflecting a principal component analysis (PCA) model of the zero curve with a respective PCA factor of a plurality of PCA factors of the PCA model offset from a corresponding base value for the zero curve, calculating a respective projected value of the financial product portfolio for each scenario curve of the plurality of scenario curves, calculating a loss risk amount for each PCA factor based on the respective projected value and a current value of the financial product portfolio, and determining the margin requirement based on a sum of the loss risk amounts for the plurality of PCA factors.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Udesh Jha, Jalpan Shah, Dmitriy Glinberg, Edmund Li, Feliks Landa
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Patent number: 11921388Abstract: Provided are an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of data lines and sub-pixels. At least one sub-pixel comprises: a first insulating layer; a gate; an active layer located on one side of the first insulating layer away from the gate; a pixel electrode; a first electrode located connected to the active layer and in contact with the pixel electrode; a second electrode connected to the active layer and a data line; a second insulating layer having a first opening, wherein the orthographic projection of the first opening partially overlaps with the orthographic projections of the pixel electrode and the first electrode; a connection electrode in contact with the pixel electrode and the first electrode through the first opening; and a common electrode located on one side of the second insulating layer away from the pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenjie Hou, Yingmeng Miao, Qiujie Su, Chongyang Zhao, Feng Qu
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Patent number: 11923113Abstract: A power cable assembly includes a power cable core. The power cable core has a longitudinally extending cooling tube comprising a thermally conductive wall defining an interior channel for circulating, between a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet of the cooling tube, a coolant medium; a longitudinally extending electrical conductor configured to be coupled via first and second connectors to respective electrical connections of a power distribution system; and a first insulating layer surrounding the power cable core. The electrical conductor is arranged to surround the cooling tube at least partially such that at least a portion of an external surface of the thermally conductive wall is provided in direct contact with a corresponding portion of the electrical conductor over a heat exchange region so as to transfer heat from the electrical conductor to the coolant medium circulating in the interior channel of the cooling tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AGInventors: Monika Pieszka-Lyson, Dominik Kawalec, Pawel Kozak, Grzegorz Porebski, Grzegorz Paletko, Rafal Architekt
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Patent number: 11923665Abstract: Prefabricated electrical modules and system along with fabrication and construction methods are provided. The prefabricated electrical system includes multiple framed, prefabricated electrical modules of one or more types. The prefabricated electrical module disclosed may comprise one or more of a main service electrical module, a low-voltage module, a switch component module, and a receptacle component module. The casing of the interior components of the modules is weatherproofed and/or weatherized. Each of the modules includes a module exterior frame that accommodates the specialized elements of that particular module. Methods for fabrication of the modules are disclosed. Construction methods for installing the assemblies are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Rodney Lee McKimmey, Nicholas Bartholomew
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Patent number: 11924964Abstract: Devices and methods are described for reducing etching due to Galvanic Effect within a printed circuit board (PCB) that may be used in an electronic device. Specifically, a contact trace is coupled to a contact finger that has a substantially larger surface area than the contact trace. The contact finger is configured to couple the electronic device to a host device. The contact trace is electrically isolated from the rest of the PCB circuitry during a fabrication process by a separation distance between an exposed portion of the contact trace and an impedance trace. The contact finger and the exposed portion of the contact trace are plated with a common material to reduce galvanic etching of the contact trace during fabrication. The contact trace is then connected to the impedance trace using a solder joint.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lin Hui Chen, Songtao Lu, Chien Te Chen, Yu Ying Tan, Huang Pao Yi, Ching Chuan Hsieh, T. Sharanya Kaminda, Chia-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 11921385Abstract: An array substrate of a display device includes a pixel electrode layer on a substrate, which includes active pixel electrodes in an active display region; outermost active pixel electrodes include a first active pixel electrode including a first pixel electrode edge and a second pixel electrode edge; in a first direction, the first pixel electrode edge is between the second pixel electrode edge and a frame region. One of the array substrate and an opposite substrate of the display device includes a common electrode layer including a first extended common electrode which includes a first extended portion extending beyond the first active pixel electrode; a first extended portion edge of the first extended portion and a first substrate edge of the substrate respectively extend in a second direction; in the first direction, the first extended portion edge is located between the first substrate edge and the first pixel electrode edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingwei Hou, Jingyi Xu, Yanwei Ren, Wenlong Zhang, Yanan Yu, Lei Jia, Yanhao Sun, Guolei Zhi
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Patent number: 11923628Abstract: Interconnections for connecting flex circuit boards in classical and/or quantum computing systems can include a first flex circuit board having a removed portion that exposes one or more signal lines and a second flex circuit board having a removed portion that exposes one or more other signal lines. The flex circuit boards can be aligned at the removed portions to form a signal trace gap near the exposed signal lines. Exposed signal lines of the first flex circuit board can be coupled with exposed signal lines of the second flex circuit board. A ground support layer can be coupled to the first flex circuit board and the second flex circuit board along the same side. An isolation plate at least partially covering the signal trace gap can be coupled to the first flex circuit board and/or the second flex circuit board on a side opposite of the ground support layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: John Martinis, Bob Benjamin Buckley, Xiaojun Trent Huang
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Patent number: 11922509Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting, extracting, and categorizing structure data from aerial imagery following a major weather event are provided. The system processes digital images and weather data to automatically detect, extract, and categorize structure data following a major weather event. After receiving an indication of a region of interest (“ROI”) from a user, the system retrieves weather mapping data for the ROI and retrieves information related to attributes of structures within the ROI from a machine learning subsystem. The system then cross-references the property data, the weather data, and the structure attributes and assigns a risk rating to the structures within the ROI. Finally, the system generates and delivers a data package to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Insurance Services Office, Inc.Inventors: Ron Richardson, Cory Shelton, Corey David Reed
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Patent number: 11923103Abstract: A stretchable and transparent electronic structure may generally include a stretchable elastomer layer; optionally, a metal adhesion layer on top of the stretchable elastomer layer; a metal alloying layer on top of the metal adhesion layer; and a liquid metal, wherein the structure is colorless and transparent when viewed under visible light. Methods of making the stretchable and transparent electronic structure are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Carmel Majidi, Chengfeng Pan, Kitty Kumar
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Patent number: 11922418Abstract: A computer-implemented method of completing a transaction comprises receiving, by one or more processors, a request to complete a transaction between a third party and a third party customer. The method comprises providing a first user interface to the third party customer via a customer device associated with the third party customer. The first user interface comprises a plurality of payment options to complete the transaction. The method comprises receiving a selection of one of the plurality of payment options to complete the transaction. The selection comprises a cash payment at a transaction machine. The method comprises generating a second user interface comprising a map that shows locations of a plurality of transaction machines in relation to a current position of the third party customer. The method comprises completing the transaction based on the cash payment being received by one of the plurality of transaction machines from the map.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventor: Ashish B. Kurani
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Patent number: 11916325Abstract: A circuit system includes a circuit board. An integrated circuit is mounted on the circuit board, the integrated circuit including a plurality of pins. A trace-to-cable connector is mounted on the circuit board, the trace-to-cable connector configured to couple to a first cable of a first cable-type. A cable-to-cable connector is mounted on the circuit board, the cable-to-cable connector configured to couple the first cable to a second cable of a second cable-type. A first plurality of metal traces couple a first subset of the plurality of pins to the trace-to-cable connector.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Innovium, Inc.Inventors: Vittal Balasubramanian, Yongming Xiong, Keith Michael Ring
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Patent number: 11917749Abstract: An integrated circuit package, including a circuit board, signal pins extending orthogonally to the circuit board surface, and grouped into a plurality of differential signal pin pairs, each signal pin pair positioned at a vertex of an array of orthogonal rows and columns, wherein each signal pin pair includes a positive and a negative signal pin. The plurality of signal pin pairs includes a first subset of signal pin pairs wherein the positive and the negative signal pins are arranged in an orientation along a line parallel to rows of the array and a second subset of signal pin pairs in which the positive and the negative signal pins are arranged in an orientation along a line parallel to columns of the array. For each signal pin pair in one of the first and second subsets, each nearest signal pin pairs belong to another of the first and second subsets.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd.Inventors: Dan Azeroual, Liav Ben Artsi
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Patent number: 11917752Abstract: A second main surface of the copper plate is opposite a first main surface of the copper plate, and is bonded to a silicon nitride ceramic substrate by the bonding layer. A first portion and a second portion of an end surface of the copper plate form an angle of 135° to 165° on an outside of the copper plate. An extended plane of the first portion and the second main surface form an angle of 110° to 145° a side where the second portion is located. A distance from the second main surface to an intersection of the first portion and the second portion in a direction of a thickness of the copper plate is 10 to 100 ?m. The second main surface extends beyond the extended plane of the first portion by a distance of 10 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ebigase, Izumi Masuda, Takeshi Kaku
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Patent number: 11916805Abstract: Techniques are presented herein for provisioning network devices based on device type. In one example, a packet core gateway of a cellular core network identifies a device type of a network device and obtains an indication to provision the network device. In response to obtaining the indication to provision the network device, the packet core gateway provisions the network device with one or more network resources based on the device type of the network device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Ather Sayeed Kanak, Abhishek Dhammawat, Kedar Krishnanand Gaonkar
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Patent number: 11914214Abstract: A reflector device reflects luminous radiation of wavelength ?. The device is provided with a supporting base whereon are assembled a partially transparent mirror having a partially reflective front face and luminous radiation scattering and/or absorption structure to scatter and/or absorb luminous radiation liable to be transmitted by a rear face, opposite the front face.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Laurent Mollard, Christel Dieppedale, Laurent Frey, Francois Gardien, Jean Hue
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Patent number: 11908005Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventors: Magali Courbage, Richard Rodenbusch, Jean-Dominique Morani
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Patent number: 11909590Abstract: Examples described herein relate to configuring a Network Interface Card (NIC) of a compute node, such as a server. The NIC may receive an LLDP frame with a first configuration for the NIC. The first configuration is compared with a second configuration. The second configuration corresponds to an existing configuration of the NIC. In response to determining that the second configuration does not match the first configuration, the NIC is configured with the first configuration during a boot-up of the compute node.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventor: Corey Casey Morrison
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Patent number: 11910526Abstract: A wired circuit board includes a metal supporting layer, an insulating base layer and a conductor layer from bottom to top. A peripheral edge of the insulating base layer includes an extension part extending further outward relative to the metal supporting layer. The metal supporting layer has a thickness T1 of 50 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Takakura, Daigo Tsubai, Hiroaki Machitani