Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11968868Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel island regions spaced apart from each other. A plurality of connection bridge regions connecting adjacent ones of the pixel island regions to each other. At least one of the connection bridge regions includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a third metal layer disposed in a stacked arrangement, and each of the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the third metal layer is patterned into at least one metal trace.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Likun Cheng, Liang Sun, Shijuan Yi
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Patent number: 11968158Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing method, apparatus, and medium. The information processing method includes: displaying target information; when a sending operation of a user for the target information is detected, displaying a target control for triggering cancellation of sending the target information; and when a first triggering operation of the user for the target control is detected within a preset time duration, canceling sending the target information.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingran Zhou, Na Sun, Kefei Wu
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Patent number: 11968729Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for allocating a PDU session ID for a terminal device. The method comprises: selecting (S101), for a terminal device, a protocol data unit session identity, PDU session ID, from a group of PDU session IDs. The group of PDU session IDs are not allocated to the terminal device. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the network node may select, for the terminal device, a PDU session ID from a group of PDU session IDs, which are not allocated to the terminal device yet. Thus, any newly selected PDU session ID may be ensured as unique.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Jinyin Zhu, Juying Gan
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Patent number: 11967313Abstract: Disclosed is a system comprising a memory storing a first natural language understanding model. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to: receive a request for generating a second natural language understanding model in a second language different from the first language; translate the first set of utterances into a second set of utterances in the second language; provide a second set of tags or intents to the second set of utterances; provide a user interface for receiving at least one input for modifying from among the second set of utterances or the second set of tags or intents; generate a third set of utterances and a third set of tags or intents on the basis of the input received through the user interface; and establish the second natural language understanding model including the third set of utterances and the third set of tags or intents.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jisup Lee, Seul Lee
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Patent number: 11965105Abstract: A metal fine particle-containing ink that contains metal fine particles dispersed therein with a polymer dispersant, a low-molecular weight carboxylic acid and an aqueous solvent, wherein the polymer dispersant contains a constitutional unit derived from an acid group-containing monomer; a content of the low-molecular weight carboxylic acid C in the ink is not less than 1% by mass and not more than 15% by mass. A boiling point (C) of the low-molecular weight carboxylic acid and a boiling point (D) of the aqueous solvent satisfy the following relational formula (I); and an acid dissociation exponent pKa (C) of the low-molecular weight carboxylic acid and an acid dissociation exponent pKa (B) of an acid group in the polymer dispersant satisfy the following relational formula (II): boiling point (C)>boiling point (D) ??(I), and pKa (C)<pKa (B) ??(II).Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohide Yoshida, Kosuke Muto
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Patent number: 11967294Abstract: A common electrode driver includes an inverting amplifier including a first resistor, a second resistor, and an operational amplifier, and a resistance ratio adjustment circuit that adjusts, in accordance with a length of one horizontal scan period, a resistance ratio being a ratio of a resistance value of the second resistor to a resistance value of the first resistor. A feedback voltage is provided to one end of the first resistor. The resistance ratio adjustment circuit sets the resistance ratio when second driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is a second time longer than a first time, to be smaller than the resistance ratio when first driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is the first time.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Masaki Uehata, Yasuki Mori, Kohji Saitoh, Takayuki Mizunaga, Kazuya Kondoh, Takashi Nojima, Kazuhisa Yoshimoto, Kosuke Kawamoto, Hiroyuki Kito, Kazuki Nakamichi
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Patent number: 11968510Abstract: The invention relates to audio transducers, such as loudspeaker, microphones and the like, and includes improvements in or relating to: audio transducer diaphragm structures and assemblies, audio transducer mounting systems; audio transducer diaphragm suspension systems, personal audio devices incorporating the same and any combination thereof. The embodiments of the invention include linear action and rotational action transducers. For both types of transducer, rigid and composite diaphragm constructions and unsupported diaphragm periphery designs are described. Systems and methods for mounting the transducer to a housing, such as an enclosure or baffle are also described. Furthermore, hinge systems including: rigid contact hinge systems and flexible hinge systems are also disclosed for various rotational action transducer embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: WING ACOUSTICS LIMITEDInventors: David John Palmer, Michael Ian Palmer
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Patent number: 11967227Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to generate instructions and share video content following an impact event. They include detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and transmitting a request to at least one video recording device within an area of interest from the vehicle. They further include receiving video content captured within a time period around the impact event from at least one video recording device. Methods and systems are also provided to generate useful information following an impact event including detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and determining one or more contextual parameters associated with the impact event. They further include generating display content based on the one or more contextual parameters and displaying the generated display content on a screen within the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Rahul Rajesh Tiwari, Nicholas Paul Tokarz, Martin Brian Majkut, Simon David Asher, Erik Robert Glaser
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Patent number: 11964501Abstract: A printing device includes a housing, a head arranged inside the housing and configured to eject a liquid, a fan arranged inside the housing, a humidifier configured to supply humidified air to a supply port arranged at an exhaust port side of the fan, and a filter arranged at a fan side of the supply port.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Kawakita, Hisaaki Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 11964786Abstract: A feeding unit for feeding a plastic film in packaging machines for wrapping paper rolls, including: a unit for unwinding the film from a reel; a cutting device adapted to cut the film transversely; a transfer device including, on the right and on the left side of the feeding unit, drive belts configured for engaging the upper and lower faces of the film; and a positioning device including, on the right and on the left side of the unit, a predetermined number of drive belts configured for engaging the upper and lower faces of the film. On each side of the feeding unit, the transfer device comprises two pairs of belts. On each side of the feeding unit, the positioning device comprises a third pair of belts. The three pairs of belts are actuated by independent actuators.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PLUSLINE S.R.L.Inventor: Vittorio Gerri
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Patent number: 11963846Abstract: Disclosed are implementations that include a clinical data analysis method including obtaining dental data that includes input radiographic image data for at least one dental object, and identifying, by machine learning models, a first dental feature in the input radiographic image data for the at least one dental object, and at least one other feature in the dental object comprising at least partly a healthy dental structure. The method additionally includes computing at least one dimensioned property representative of physical dimensions of the first dental feature and the at least one other feature, deriving, based on the computed at least one dimensioned property, a ratio indicative of an extent of a dental clinical condition associated with the identified first dental feature, and determining a treatment plan based on a comparison of the at least one dimensioned property ratio to a respective threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: OverJet, Inc.Inventors: Wardah Inam, Robert Faiella, Shaju Puthussery, Samet Taspinar, Alexander Albert Joseph Jelicich, Deepak Ramaswamy
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Patent number: 11963545Abstract: An oral pouched product comprising a pouch containing moist botanical beads comprising compacted loose, fibrous moist botanical material and method of manufacture thereof. The loose, fibrous moist botanical material can comprise moist smokeless tobacco. The pouch comprises a porous outer web, and the beads comprise a majority amount of loose, fibrous moist botanical material having a moisture content of at least about 50% OV.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Diane L. Gee, David R. Golob, Stephen G. Zimmermann
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Patent number: 11966576Abstract: A screen icon operating method includes collecting user sliding operation information. The sliding operation information includes a first location, a sliding speed, pressing duration before sliding, or a sliding direction The first location is an initial location of a user sliding operation. When the first location is not located on an icon, when the sliding speed is less than a sliding speed threshold, moving icons on a display page by columns or by rows in the sliding direction, or when the first location is located on the icon, the method determines that the pressing duration is greater than or equal to a first duration threshold and less than or equal to a second duration threshold, and moves column icons or row icons in the sliding direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuchi Ma, Bifeng Tong, Xiaohu Zhao, Rigele Te
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Patent number: 11964086Abstract: A medical treatment system, such as peritoneal dialysis system, may include control and other features to enhance patient comfort and ease of use. For example, a peritoneal dialysis system may include patient line state detector for detecting whether a patient line is primed before it is to be connected to the patient. The patient line state detector can also the ability to detect whether a patient line has been properly mounted for priming. Both patient line presence/absence and fill state can be determined using an optical system, e.g., one that employs a single optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Jacob W. Scarpaci, Simon C. Helmore, Eric J. VanWyk, Matthew J. Finch
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Patent number: 11966782Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing state management services for composed information handling systems. The method includes determining that at least one control resource set is not associated with a distributed state storage system; instantiating the distributed state storage system using first additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the distributed state storage system; preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a first portion of the state management services using the distributed state storage system; determining that the at least one control resource set is not associated with an audit storage; instantiating the audit storage using second additional computing resources; registering the at least one control resource set with the audit storage; and preparing the at least one control resource set to perform a second portion of the state management services using the audit storage.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Douglas L. Farley, John S. Harwood, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Gaurav Chawla, Tommi Salli, Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr., Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye
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Patent number: 11967504Abstract: A method includes removing a first dummy gate structure to form a recess around a first nanostructure and a second nanostructure; depositing a sacrificial layer in the recess with a flowable chemical vapor deposition (CVD); and patterning the sacrificial layer to leave a portion of the sacrificial layer between the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure. The method further include depositing a first work function metal in first recess; removing the first work function metal and the portion of the sacrificial layer from the recess; depositing a second work function metal in the recess, wherein the second work function metal is of an opposite type than the first work function metal; and depositing a fill metal over the second work function metal in the recess.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hsin-Yi Lee, Jia-Ming Lin, Kun-Yu Lee, Chi On Chui
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Patent number: 11966769Abstract: Computing system enhancements make container instantiation faster, reduce layer content storage demands, and make more container image formats available. A container instantiation location sends a container image pull request to a container registry, receives an image manifest, sends a layer mount request to the registry instead of a layer content download request, receives a layer mount, optionally repeats for additional layers, creates a union file system spanning the layers, and launches a container process based on the union file system without first downloading all the layer content.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Eric Ray Hotinger, Bin Du, Sajay Antony, Steven M. Lasker, Siva Garudayagari, Dongjiang You, Yu Wang, Samarth Shah, Brian Timothy Goff, Shiwei Zhang
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Patent number: 11966037Abstract: Disclosed herein are sample dishes for use with microscopes that are simple to mount on a microscope and facilitate easy manipulation of tissue samples disposed thereon during imaging as well as methods of their use. A sample dish comprises an optical interface and, optionally, a support member that holds the optical interface. The optical interface of a sample dish is suitably transparent and planar such that a focal plane of a microscope can reside uniformly at or within a surface of a sample during imaging. In certain embodiments, a support member comprises a dish for holding excess fluid. In certain embodiments, a sample dish comprises separation ribs. In certain embodiments, a sample dish comprises one or more manipulation members (e.g., tabs). In certain embodiments, a sample dish is used with an imaging artifact reducing fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SamanTree Medical SAInventors: Etienne Shaffer, Jonathan Abel Pirolet, Frédéric Schmitt, Bastien Rachet, Diego Joss, Aurèle Timothée Horisberger
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Patent number: 11966771Abstract: Computing systems, devices, and methods of dynamic image composition for container deployment are disclosed herein. One example technique includes receiving a request for accessing a file from a container process. In response to receiving the request, the technique includes querying a mapping table corresponding to the container process to locate an entry corresponding to a file identifier of the requested file. The entry also includes data identifying a file location on the storage device from which the requested file is accessible. The technique further includes retrieving a copy of the requested file according to the file location identified by the data in the located entry in the mapping table and providing the retrieved copy of the requested file to the container process, thereby allowing the container process to access the requested file.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan De Marco, Benjamin M. Schultz, Frederick Justus Smith, IV, Hari R. Pulapaka, Mehmet Iyigun, Amber Tianqi Guo
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Patent number: 11966534Abstract: The present disclosure of the disclosure are related to a touch driving circuit and a touch display device, in a touch sensor structure performing a touch sensing based on a mutual-capacitance, as performing a touch sensing based on a self-capacitance and a touch sensing based on the mutual-capacitance, a performance of a touch sensing may be improved. Furthermore, as driving channels of X-touch electrode line of Y-touch electrode line partially in a period performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance, the number of channels driven in each period is reduced and a noise according to a display driving may be reduced when performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: DaeUk Jeong