Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11972159
    Abstract: An image forming device in the present application includes a reception unit configured to receive from an information processing device connected to the image forming device information representing a predetermined operating system operating in the information processing device, a setting unit configured to, in response to the reception unit receiving the information, set a structure of a USB device interface to be notified to the information processing device, and a notification unit configured to notify the information processing device of the structure of the USB device interface set by the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuo Hirouchi
  • Patent number: 11971999
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a computer tangible medium containing instructions to regulate creation and distribution of blockchain blocks based upon system utilization. The method includes determining utilization of a computer resource and creating a virtual blockchain block based on a data object when utilization exceeds a first threshold. The virtual blockchain block includes file metadata on the data object, but does not include blockchain cryptographic information. The method includes creating a real blockchain block based on the data object when utilization does not exceed the first threshold. The virtual blockchain block is converted to the real blockchain block when utilization drops below the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Tyson York Winarski
  • Patent number: 11972774
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for assessing quality of a singing voice singing a song. The system comprises memory and at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive a plurality of inputs comprising a first input and one or more further inputs, each input comprising a recording of a singing voice singing the song, to determine, for the first input, one or more relative measures of quality of the singing voice by comparing the first input to each further input; and to assess quality of the singing voice of the first input based on the one or more relative measures. Also disclosed is a method implemented on such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Chitralekha Gupta, Haizhou Li, Ye Wang
  • Patent number: 11972882
    Abstract: A power cable or a hybrid power-data cable includes power conductors and a plurality of continuity wires positioned radially outside of the power conductors. The continuity wires are positioned relative to the power conductors such that a cut in the cable will sever one of the plurality of continuity wires before a cut into the power conductors can occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas F. Craft, Jr., Willis F. James, David A. Winkler, Gary L Guilliams, Randall D. Stevens, Thomas G. Leblanc
  • Patent number: 11971426
    Abstract: An automatic analysis device that avoids carryover and prevents deterioration of analysis performance without controlling reaction cell position is provided with: a reaction cell in which a sample and a reagent are mixed and allowed to react; a light source that radiates light onto the mixed liquid of the sample and the reagent; a detector that detects the light radiated from the light source; and a cleaning mechanism that cleans the reaction cell. The cleaning mechanism includes an intake nozzle that draws in liquid from the reaction cell and a discharge nozzle that discharges the liquid into the reaction cell; the intake nozzle and the discharge nozzle can move vertically; and the intake nozzle is cleaned by lowering the intake nozzle into the reaction cell, in which a cleaning liquid or cleaning water have been accumulated, without drawing in the cleaning liquid or the cleaning water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Rei Konishi, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Masahiko Iijima
  • Patent number: 11963545
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Diane L. Gee, David R. Golob, Stephen G. Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11967313
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jisup Lee, Seul Lee
  • Patent number: 11967504
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Lee, Jia-Ming Lin, Kun-Yu Lee, Chi On Chui
  • Patent number: 11967294
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Uehata, Yasuki Mori, Kohji Saitoh, Takayuki Mizunaga, Kazuya Kondoh, Takashi Nojima, Kazuhisa Yoshimoto, Kosuke Kawamoto, Hiroyuki Kito, Kazuki Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 11967227
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Rajesh Tiwari, Nicholas Paul Tokarz, Martin Brian Majkut, Simon David Asher, Erik Robert Glaser
  • Patent number: 11966393
    Abstract: A system includes reception of a request to fetch a first dataset, the request including a first identifier associated with the first dataset, determination, in response to the request, of a first signature associated with the first dataset based on the first identifier and on respective identifiers of one or more datasets fetched consecutively with the first dataset, and determination, based on the determined first signature, of whether to update a first link associating a second dataset with the first dataset, the link indicating to prefetch the first dataset in response to a request to fetch the second dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Gunes Aluc, Mohammed Abouzour, Bojana Bislimovska
  • Patent number: 11968158
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingran Zhou, Na Sun, Kefei Wu
  • Patent number: 11964786
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PLUSLINE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Vittorio Gerri
  • Patent number: 11964086
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Jacob W. Scarpaci, Simon C. Helmore, Eric J. VanWyk, Matthew J. Finch
  • Patent number: 11966534
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: DaeUk Jeong
  • Patent number: 11966037
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SamanTree Medical SA
    Inventors: Etienne Shaffer, Jonathan Abel Pirolet, Frédéric Schmitt, Bastien Rachet, Diego Joss, Aurèle Timothée Horisberger
  • Patent number: 11964501
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kawakita, Hisaaki Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11963846
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: OverJet, Inc.
    Inventors: Wardah Inam, Robert Faiella, Shaju Puthussery, Samet Taspinar, Alexander Albert Joseph Jelicich, Deepak Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11966517
    Abstract: A human interface including steps of presenting an image, then receiving a gesture from the user. The image is analyzed to identify the elements of the image and then compared to known images and then either soliciting an input from the user or displaying a menu to the user. Comparing the image and/or graphical image elements may be effectuated using a trained artificial intelligence engine or, in some embodiments, with a structured data source, said data source including predetermined images and menu options. If the input from the user is known, then presenting a predetermined menu. If the image is not known, then presenting an image or other menu options, and soliciting from the user the desired options. Once the user selections an option, the resulting selection may be used to further train the AI system or added to the structured data source for future reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: Richard Terrell
  • Patent number: 11965105
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohide Yoshida, Kosuke Muto