Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
  • Automated service design using AI/ML to suggest process blocks for inclusion in service design structure
    Patent number: 11972364
    Abstract: A system of one or more computers can be configured to facilitate the design of a service. The disclosed system may operate to add a process block to a service design structure for the service. The process block is provided to a trained AI/ML process prediction model. The trained AI/ML process prediction model suggests one or more further process blocks for addition to the service design structure based, at least in part, on the addition of the process block to the service design structure. In certain embodiments, a process block is selected from the suggested one or more further process blocks and added to the service design structure. Other embodiments of this aspect of the disclosure include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Puneet Srivastava, Donald Charles Guthan, Jr., Sathish Kumar Bikumala, Amit Sawhney
  • Display apparatus
    Patent number: 11974066
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a back cover accommodating the display panel, and a sound output unit including at least one sound output module disposed to overlap the display panel. The at least one sound output module includes a support plate including an uneven surface and a piezoelectric element attached on the uneven surface of the support plate and has a shape corresponding to the uneven surface of the support plate. Accordingly, a sound having a straight characteristic within an audible frequency domain may be output, thereby enhancing a sense of reality and an immersion of a viewer watching an image displayed by the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Eui Shin, Chiwan Kim, Taeheon Kim, YongWoo Lee, Kyungyeol Ryu, YuSeon Kho
  • In-car headphone acoustical augmented reality system
    Patent number: 11974103
    Abstract: An in-car headphone system may include a first headset associated with a vehicle occupant and configured to transmit audio signals to an associated occupant; at least one interior microphone configured to receive an interior audio signal from within a vehicle cabin; at least one exterior microphone configured to receive an exterior audio signal acquired from outside of the vehicle; and a processor configured to receive at least one of the interior audio signal from the at least one interior microphone and the exterior audio signal from the at least one exterior microphone; determine whether at least one of the interior audio signal and exterior audio signal include a trigger command or an alert signal; and transmit the audio signal that includes the trigger command or alert signal to the first headset in response to the audio signals including a trigger command or an alert signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Riley Winton, Christopher Ludwig, Jason Choi, Philippe Dreiling
  • Wireless communication processing in an information processing device
    Patent number: 11973913
    Abstract: A control method of an information processing device that is capable of performing communication by Wi-Fi® and communication by Bluetooth® includes accepting a predetermined instruction based on a user operation to the information processing device, executing, after the predetermined instruction is accepted, displaying processing that displays a predetermined screen that is a screen for allowing the information processing device to communicate with a communication device by Wi-Fi® based on a fact that the information processing device is not able to perform communication with the communication device by Wi-Fi®, and executing, after the predetermined instruction is accepted, communication processing that communicates, with the communication device by Bluetooth®, predetermined information for establishing a wireless connection of the communication device by Wi-Fi®.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yokoyama, Mitsuru Konji
  • Adversarial input generation for natural language processing machine learning models
    Patent number: 11972211
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide summaries of topics determined within a corpus of documents. These summaries may be used by customer service associates, analysts, or other users to quickly determine both topics discussed and contexts of those topics over a large corpus of text. For example, a corpus of documents may be related to customer complaints and the topics may be summarized to produce summaries such as “credit report update due to stolen identity.” These summarizations may be used to efficiently spot trends and issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Rahul Singh, Karan Jindal, Yufei Yu, Hanyu Yang, Tarun Joshi, Matthew A. Campbell, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Redistribution substrate, method of fabricating the same, and semiconductor package including the same
    Patent number: 11973028
    Abstract: A method is provided and includes forming a first conductive pattern; forming a photosensitive layer on the first conductive pattern, the photosensitive layer having a first through hole exposing a portion of the first conductive pattern; forming a first via in the first through hole; removing the photosensitive layer; forming a dielectric layer encapsulating the first conductive pattern and the first via, the dielectric layer exposing a top surface of the first via; forming a second conductive pattern on the top surface of the first via, forming a dielectric layer covering the second conductive pattern; etching the dielectric layer to form a second through hole that exposes a portion of the second conductive pattern; forming a second via filling the second through hole and an under bump pad on the second via; and mounting a semiconductor chip on the under bump pad using a connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongyoun Kim, Seokhyun Lee, Minjun Bae
  • Network assistance for uplink streaming
    Patent number: 11973815
    Abstract: Network assistance is provided for the streaming of data from a user equipment (UE) (14) to an ingestion point (12) in a network. The network assistance may include establishing an uplink network assistance (UNA) session with a network assistance service of the network; while streaming of the data and for each segment of the data or each UNA period of the data, receiving from the network assistance service an indication of a recommended highest bit rate estimate with which the data may be streamed under current network conditions. The UE may adjust content of the data stream in accordance with the indication of the recommended highest bit rate estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Szucs, Rickard Ljung
  • Cable for distributing network power and data
    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
  • Control device for aerosol inhalation device and aerosol inhalation device
    Patent number: 11969023
    Abstract: Control device for aerosol inhalation device, includes operational amplifier including output terminal configured to generate voltage according to voltage applied to load configured to heat aerosol source and having correlation between temperature and electrical resistance value, control unit including input terminal and configured to perform processing based on voltage applied to the input terminal, and voltage dividing circuit configured to electrically connect the output terminal of the operational amplifier and the input terminal of the control unit. Power supply voltage of the operational amplifier is higher than power supply voltage of the control unit, and equals voltage applied to aerosol generation circuit including the load, and one of inverting input terminal and noninverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is electrically connected to the aerosol generation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Kazuma Mizuguchi, Takeshi Akao
  • Management system that acquires data of selected jobs outside of a preset transmission period based on predefined information, management method, image processing device, imaging processing method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 11973911
    Abstract: A management system includes a memory and a processor executing instructions causing the management system to supply information regarding one or more types of jobs; detect predetermined information from the information regarding the job included in the storage system; and transmit a request including identification information of a job corresponding to detection of the predetermined information to the image processing device. In the image processing device, when a request is received, data including image data which corresponds to the job corresponding to the identification information designated by the request is transmitted so that the data is stored in the storage system even outside of the period of time. The instructions further cause the management system to supply the image data corresponding to the job stored in the storage system in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuya Nakashima
  • System and method for assessing quality of a singing voice
    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
  • Optimizing blockchain creation with artificial intelligence based on system resources
    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
  • Base station for a power transmission system
    Patent number: 11970068
    Abstract: A base station for a power transmission system the base station including a generator for generating power having a duty ratio and frequency, a circuit having a coil, a measuring device for measuring real power and/or apparent power in the circuit, and a control device, wherein the circuit is connected to the generator and the measuring device, wherein the control device is connected to the measuring device and the generator, wherein the control device is configured to keep the duty ratio constant while varying the frequency from a starting frequency, use the measuring device to measure the real power and/or the apparent power while varying the frequency, keep the frequency constant and vary the duty ratio when a real power limit value and/or apparent power limit value is/are exceeded, and exclude a combination of values for the frequency and the duty ratio when varying the frequency and/or the duty ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BRUSA Elektronik AG
    Inventors: Lukas Böhler, Marc Bosch
  • Integrated circuits including memory cells
    Patent number: 11969995
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid actuation devices, a plurality of memory cells, and a configuration register. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells corresponds to a fluid actuation device of the plurality of fluid actuation devices. The configuration register stores data to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Liquid container
    Patent number: 11970006
    Abstract: The object is to provide a liquid container that can prevent foreign substances from flowing into a liquid ejection apparatus with a simple configuration. The liquid container for containing liquid to be ejected by a liquid ejection apparatus includes: a bag body configured to contain the liquid inside; and a flow path for supplying the liquid contained inside the bag body to the liquid ejection apparatus, wherein, inside a peripheral wall of the flow path, a first capturing unit extending in an anti-gravitational direction and a second capturing unit extending in a gravitational direction are arranged at different positions with respect to a direction in which the liquid flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yu Katano, Hirofumi Ota, Ken Ikegame, Yasuto Kodera, Masao Furukawa
  • Fluid-ejection element between-chamber fluid recirculation path
    Patent number: 11970011
    Abstract: A fluid-ejection element of a fluid-ejection device includes a chamber layer having a pair of chambers fluidically disconnected from one another within the chamber layer. The fluid-ejection element includes a tophat layer over the chamber layer and fluidically connecting the chambers to define a fluid recirculation path between the chambers. The fluid-ejection element includes a nozzle common to both the chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jacob Lum, Alexander Govyadinov
  • Automatic analysis device
    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
  • Optochemical sensor and method for measured value correction
    Patent number: 11971360
    Abstract: An optochemical sensor for determining a measurement signal, which correlates with a concentration of an analyte of a measuring fluid, comprises: a sensor cap including a sensor spot, wherein the sensor spot contains at least one analyte-sensitive indicator dye and a state description indicator which reflects the aging state of the sensor spot; a radiation source to radiate excitation radiation onto the sensor spot and to excite a luminescence of the indicator dye; a radiation receiver to receive reception radiation emitted by the sensor spot; and a sensor circuit electrically connected to the radiation source and the radiation receiver and configured to control the radiation source and to generate, based on an intensity of luminescence and/or a phase angle of luminescence, a measurement signal representing the concentration of the analyte in the measuring fluid in contact with the sensor spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Löbbert
  • Image forming device and method of controlling to transmit print data to an image forming device
    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
  • Fabrication of nano-sheet transistors with different threshold voltages
    Patent number: RE49954
    Abstract: A method of forming two or more nano-sheet devices with varying electrical gate lengths, including, forming at least two cut-stacks including a plurality of sacrificial release layers and at least one alternating nano-sheet channel layer on a substrate, removing a portion of the plurality of sacrificial release layers to form indentations having an indentation depth in the plurality of sacrificial release layers, and removing a portion of the at least one alternating nano-sheet channel layer to form a recess having a recess depth in the at least one alternating nano-sheet channel layers, where the recess depth is greater than the indentation depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TESSERA LLC
    Inventors: Karthik Balakrishnan, Kangguo Cheng, Pouya Hashemi, Alexander Reznicek