Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11957292
    Abstract: An article-distribution system for a dishwasher is provided having a camera assembly directed at a rack assembly of the dishwasher, a display screen spaced apart from the rack assembly, and a controller in operative communication with the camera assembly and the display screen. The controller may be configured to direct a dishwasher coverage operation. The dishwasher coverage operation may include receiving an image of the rack assembly from the camera assembly, identifying an uncleanable article, presenting the image at the display screen, and overlaying an identifier onto the presentation of the image based on the identified uncleanable article. The step of identifying the uncleanable article may be based on the received image. The uncleanable article may be in in an uncleanable position within the rack assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Uyeda
  • Patent number: 11959440
    Abstract: An annular or semi-annular acoustic attenuation structure includes an inner skin and an outer skin, defining between them an annular or semi-annular volume, and a plurality of partitions extending in the space in a radial direction perpendicular to the inner and outer skins and in a circumferential direction. The inner and outer skins and the partitions are made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix. The fibrous reinforcement of each partition includes yarns or fibers extending into the fibrous reinforcement of at least one of the inner or outer skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Eric Bouillon, Eric Conete
  • Patent number: 11963169
    Abstract: Disclosed are a control method, a node and a computer storage medium. The method may include: sending instruction information to a second node when a data bearer for a User Equipment (UE) is established, wherein the instruction information is used for turning on or off the control on a data replication function of the UE by the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11957154
    Abstract: A tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. The tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • Patent number: 11957155
    Abstract: There is described an aerosol-forming substrate for use in combination with an inductive heating device. The aerosol-forming substrate comprises a solid material which is capable of releasing volatile compounds that can form an aerosol upon heating of the aerosol-forming substrate and at least a first susceptor material for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The at least first susceptor material is arranged in thermal proximity of the solid material. The aerosol-forming substrate further comprises at least a second susceptor material which has a second Curie-temperature which is lower than a first Curie-temperature of the first susceptor material. The second Curie-temperature of the second susceptor material corresponds to a predefined maximum heating temperature of the first susceptor material. There is also described an aerosol-delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik
  • Patent number: 11958286
    Abstract: A printer includes a transport part that transports a sheet, a printing part that prints on the sheet, a cutting part that cuts the sheet by moving a movable blade toward a stationary blade, and a controller that controls the transport part and the cutting part. When the sheet is label paper having an adhesive layer, the controller controls the transport part and the cutting part to transport the sheet rearward before moving the movable blade that cut the sheet, move the movable blade in a direction away from the stationary blade in a state where the sheet is fed in rearward, and thereafter transport the sheet frontward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Beniya, Hiroyuki Kataoka, Taichi Sakakura
  • Patent number: 11959762
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a user interface; and a controller configured to determine a predicted place where an image is predicted to have been captured according to an output of a place prediction neural network for the image selected by a user, and control the user interface to perform a route guide to the predicted place, wherein the place prediction neural network is learned from an image tagged with place information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Wung Jung, Dong Hyun Ha, Jung Hun Choi
  • Patent number: 11960712
    Abstract: A computer system is provided for implementing a pre-release of a recording at a distribution platform. The computer system includes a processor coupled to a storage system that stores instructions, which, upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to present a release interface for the recording. The release interface includes graphical controls element for confirming the pre-release of the recording, for selecting a release date, and for selecting a pre-release date. The instructions further cause the processor to receive information describing a confirmation of the pre-release of the recording, a selected release date, and a selected pre-release date. The instructions further cause the processor to provide a truncated version of the recording for the pre-release of the recording. The instructions further cause the processor to transmit the truncated version of the recording to a digital streaming platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventor: Maria Yurievna Altyeva
  • Patent number: 11960442
    Abstract: A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. The computing devices may take snapshots to store points in time coherently for a distributed storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Weka.IO Ltd.
    Inventors: Maor Ben Dayan, Omri Palmon, Liran Zvibel, Kanael Arditti
  • Patent number: 11960491
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a pattern search program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes designating priority ranks of each of attributes included in a plurality of attribute patterns that indicate one or more attributes, based on an inclusion relationship between occurrence sets of a plurality of samples with respect to each of the attributes included in the plurality of attribute patterns; and determining whether each of the plurality of attribute patterns is an emerging pattern according to a search order based on the priority ranks, when a frequency of occurrence of the plurality of samples in a first attribute pattern is less than the frequency of occurrence of the plurality of samples in a second attribute pattern that has all the attributes except one of the attributes with lowest one of the priority ranks among the attributes included in the first attribute pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki Iwashita
  • Patent number: 11960674
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display method and a display apparatus for operation prompt information of an input control. The display method includes: during a user's interaction with the display apparatus, obtaining an operation instruction from a user; in response to the operation instruction, determining a target interaction mode for the user's interaction with the display apparatus; in response to a start instruction of an input control generated by invoking of the input control in the target interaction mode, obtaining target operation prompt information for the input control; and generating the input box on the user interface and display the target operation prompt information in the input box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuelei Wang
  • Patent number: 11960680
    Abstract: A touch controller includes a noise detection circuit that respectively provides a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage for detecting display noise to a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on lines except a line on which touch sensing is performed, among sensing electrodes, the second reference voltage being different from the first reference voltage, a driving signal generation circuit that receive a first noise voltage and a second noise voltage generated based on the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage and alternately selects the first noise voltage and the second noise voltage as a driving signal, and a receiving circuit that receives the driving signal, a touch sensing signal generated based on the driving signal from a third electrode arranged on the line on which touch sensing is performed, among the sensing electrodes, and generates a sensing voltage based on the touch sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heejin Lee, Jinbong Kim, Sanho Byun, Jinchul Lee, Yunrae Jo
  • Patent number: 11960703
    Abstract: In this application, there are disclosed a template selection method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The template selection method includes: presenting a video browsing interface in response to a request of a user, wherein the video browsing interface comprises therein a shooting button; presenting a dynamic picture of an album template within an area of the shooting button in case that a specified preset condition is met, wherein the dynamic picture is associated with the album template; and in case that the dynamic picture is presented within the area of the shooting button, in response to a selection instruction of the user for the dynamic picture, entering a corresponding album template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Xu, Yifan Wu
  • Patent number: 11963346
    Abstract: The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a preparation method thereof, including: a substrate; a trench; a bit line contact structure; a bit line structure; a bit line protection structure, the bit line protection structure including a top dielectric layer and a sidewall structure, the top dielectric layer is located on the bit line structure and forms a laminated structure together with the bit line structure; the sidewall structure covers part of sidewalls of the laminated structure on the substrate, the sidewall structure has a first air gap; an isolation pattern structure, the isolation pattern structure has a second air gap, the isolation pattern structure extends along a second direction, the second direction intersects with the first direction, to form capacitance contact hole between the adjacent bit line protection structures and the adjacent isolation pattern structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yexiao Yu, Junyi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11960147
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a loudspeaker. The loudspeaker may include a loudspeaker mechanism, a fixing mechanism, and a connector. The loudspeaker mechanism may be configured to generate a vibration signal and transmit the vibration signal to the human body. The fixing mechanism may be configured to support and maintain the position of the loudspeaker mechanism. The connector may be configured to connect the loudspeaker mechanism with the fixing mechanism. The loudspeaker mechanism may at least include a first fixed position and a second fixed position. The first fixed position may be a fixed position of the loudspeaker when the loudspeaker is in a non-working state. The second fixed position may be a fixed position of the loudspeaker when the loudspeaker is in a working state. The connector may be configured to switch the loudspeaker mechanism between the first fixed position and the second fixed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueqiang Wang, Haofeng Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yongjian Li, Qian Chen
  • Patent number: 11960640
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display method and a display device for an interactive interface and a computer-readable storage medium. The display method for the interactive interface includes: determining, from at least one object, a target object to interact through the interactive interface; acquiring an attribute information of the target object and an emotion information of the target object; and controlling a display of a first object region of the interactive interface according to the attribute information of the target object and the emotion information of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhihong Xu
  • Patent number: 11960930
    Abstract: Improved techniques for combining a plurality of distinct recordings pertaining to user interactions with one or more software applications each of which concerns performing a task. Then, the combined recording can be used to form a software automation process for performing the task in an automated fashion. Advantageously, the improved techniques enable a robotic process automation (RPA) system to capture multiple recordings, combine (e.g., merge) the recordings, and form a software automation process to perform repetitive tasks in an automated manner, all with little or no assistance from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Automation Anywhere, Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjna Garg Goyal, Radek Hecl, Narayanan Seshadri, Niveditha Nataraj
  • Patent number: 11960779
    Abstract: The capability to print to a portable document format (PDF) file is provided in a virtualized computing environment that supports a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Printing-related properties, of local printers coupled to a client device, are provided to a host, so that virtual printers at the host can be configured with the printing-related properties. A simulator may be provided at the host to receive the printing-related properties from the client device and to receive a query from a virtualized computing instance for the printing-related properties, instead of the query being directly sent to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Tong Zhao, Kun Shi, Yue Zhao, Hui Yuan
  • Patent number: 11960851
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a context assistance system converting a reference in a content item based on context associated with the content item. For example, the context assistance system identifies a first entity referenced in the content item associated with a first context. The context assistance system then determines at least one attribute of the first entity. Next, the context assistance system identifies a second context in which the content item is to be presented. The context assistance system determines the second entity based on the second context and on the at least one attribute of the first entity. The context assistance system replaces reference to the first entity in the content item with reference to the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhan Tanaji Kadam, Srishti Sharma
  • Patent number: 11960860
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for enhanced game development workflow between programmers and non-programmers are provided. Example embodiments provide an EGPIDE which provides an environment suitable for workflow collaboration for software programmers or those game developers that prefer to work in textual language versus non-programmer game designers that prefer to work in visual language. In one embodiment, the EGPIDE comprises an EGPIDE script programming parser and visualization engine, an EGPIDE node graph visual programming parser and visualization engine, EGPIDE translation management, EGPIDE autolayout support, and user interface support. These components provide automatic translation between visual programming specification and text based programming specification to enable real time bi-directional communication between these types of programming to expedite game development process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Abstract Software, Inc.
    Inventor: JongSeok Won