Patents Examined by N. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11961641Abstract: A deep sea lifting cable having a cable core (36) surrounded by armouring (32), wherein the armouring is surrounded by an outer jacket (33), wherein the cable core comprises at least one power cable (10) is disclosed. The armouring (32) comprises synthetic stiff ropes and interstices (35) between the stiff ropes are filed with a high viscous filler.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NEXANSInventor: Andreas Gabrielsen
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Patent number: 11961550Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of wordlines and a plurality of bitlines, a target row refresh logic circuit configured to select a target row address from among a plurality of target row addresses as a refresh row address based on victim point values, and perform a refresh operation on first memory cells of the plurality of memory cells connected to a wordline of the plurality of wordlines indicated by the refresh row address, a victim point table configured to store the victim point values for the target row addresses, and a victim point accumulator configured to receive a first row address from an external device, and accumulate a first victim point value for at least one target row address corresponding to the first row address during a unit time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hijung Kim, Hoyoun Kim, Jungmin You, Seongjin Cho
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Patent number: 11962324Abstract: A modified version of the min-sum algorithm (“MSA”) which can lower the error floor performance of quantized LDPC decoders. A threshold attenuated min-sum algorithm (“TAMSA”) and/or threshold offset min-sum algorithm (“TOMSA”), which selectively attenuates or offsets a check node log-likelihood ratio (“LLR”) if the check node receives any variable node LLR with magnitude below a predetermined threshold, while allowing a check node LLR to reach the maximum quantizer level if all the variable node LLRs received by the check node have magnitude greater than the threshold. Embodiments of the present invention can provide desirable results even without knowledge of the location, type, or multiplicity of such objects and can be implemented with only a minor modification to existing decoder hardware.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Arrowhead Center, Inc., University of Notre Dame du LacInventors: Homayoon Hatami, David G. Mitchell, Daniel Costello, Thomas Fuja
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Patent number: 11962129Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laser diode system. The system may have at least one laser diode emitter having a substrate, at least one laser diode supported on the substrate, and a facet which a laser beam generated by the laser diode is emitted. A cooling subsystem is included which is disposed in contact with the substrate of the laser diode emitter. The cooling subsystem includes a plurality of cooling fins forming a plurality of elongated channels for circulating a cooling fluid therethrough to cool the laser diode emitter. The cooling fluid also flows over the facet of the laser diode emitter.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Colorado State University Research FoundationInventors: Jack Kotovsky, Salmaan H. Baxamusa, Clint D. Frye, Ian Seth Ladner, Thomas M. Spinka, Devin Joseph Funaro, David Ryan Hobby, Caleb Del Anderson, Todd Bandhauer
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Patent number: 11963074Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining and dynamically updating inactivity timers at a user equipment to detect a one-way audio or mute call to improve call experience are disclosed. The method enables the user equipment to perform a set of actions (e.g., enable, disable, drop call, don't drop call, etc.) when a one-way audio or mute call is detected. Values for the timer and/or action parameters can be dynamically determined and/or communicated to the user equipment by a telecommunications service provider based on one or more of the following factors: network health, network congestion, current events, type of call (e.g., emergency, non-emergency), type of customer (e.g., business, premium, residential, etc.), service-level agreement, and so on. Values for the timer and/or action parameters can be configurable based on a location.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
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Patent number: 11962461Abstract: A system and a method to dynamically reprovision network devices may include a first network device configured to reprovision a second network device in accordance with a specific location of the second network device in a predefined area. The first network device may be configured to sense the second device at the specific location in the predefined area, identify reprovisioning parameters associated with the specific location, and provide the reprovisioning parameters to the second network device. In turn, the second network device may be configured to perform one or more roles associated with the specific location in the predefined area based at least in part upon information in the reprovisioning parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Domenico Ficara, Amine Choukir, Salvatore Valenza, Vincent Cuissard
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Patent number: 11960471Abstract: Identifying data quality along a data flow. A method includes identifying quality metadata for two or more datasets. The quality metadata defines one or more of quality of a data source, accuracy of a dataset, completeness of a dataset, freshness of a dataset, or relevance of a dataset. At least some of the metadata is based on results of operations along a data flow. Based on the metadata, the method includes creating one or more quality indexes for the datasets. The one or more quality indexes include a characterization of quality of two or more datasets.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventor: Jeffrey Michael Derstadt
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Patent number: 11952761Abstract: A bathtub safety device which prevents the water level in a bathtub from exceeding a desired level is described herein. This device is relatively simple and does not require a battery. This bathtub safety device is comprised of (1) a base section having a bathtub drain coupling which is adapted for insertion into a bathtub drain in a watertight manner and a vertically mounted water discharge tube having a water discharge slit, and (2) a water discharge adjustment ring having a series of water discharge holes which are arranged at different vertical heights and which are spaced apart radially along the circumference of the inside diameter of the water discharge adjustment ring, wherein the water discharge adjustment ring is positioned over the water discharge tube and is capable of being rotated radially on the water discharge tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Yasein Ganim
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Patent number: 11954508Abstract: A system and method for facilitating a user to initiate and accept an assistance request through a chat session is disclosed. Controls may be provided in a graphical chat interface to enable the user to specify inputs to request assistance from other users participating in the chat session. An assistance request may be generated and communicated to those users through the chat session. Graphical representation for the assistance request and controls that facilitate the users to accept the assistance request may be provided in the graphical chat interface. Upon an acceptance to the assistance request by a responding user through the graphical chat interface, an assistance command may be generated and executed in the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Curtis, James Koh, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Michael C. Caldarone
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Patent number: 11956936Abstract: A shielded cable includes a first insulated wire including a first central conductor, and a first insulating layer provided around the first central conductor, a second insulated wire including a second central conductor, and a second insulating layer provided around the second central conductor, the second insulated wire being disposed parallel to the first insulated wire, a third insulating layer provided around the first insulated wire and the second insulated wire, a shielding layer provided around the third insulating layer, a drain wire in contact with the shielding layer, and a fourth insulating layer provided around the shielding layer and the drain wire.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yuto Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11955252Abstract: A cable is composed of a cable core including one or more electric wires, a shield layer covering around the cable core, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. The shield layer includes a braided shield braided in such a manner that first metal wires composed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy intersect with second metal wires composed of copper or a copper alloy. An outer diameter of each of the second metal wires is larger than an outer diameter of each of the first metal wires.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Detian Huang, Masanori Kobayashi, Masashi Moriyama, Kazuhiro Aida
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Patent number: 11955987Abstract: An electronic device and an operating method of an electronic device are provided. The operating method includes configuring a self-correction condition for adjusting an information deletion and dropout rate, performing iterative decoding on the received information using decoding factors and a self-correction technique, determining whether decoding of the codeword succeeds or fails, based on a result of the decoding, storing a received signal and the codeword which are successfully decoded, based on a determination result, and optimizing the decoding factors, based on the stored received signal and codeword.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehyun Kim, Joosung Park
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Patent number: 11955844Abstract: A rotor is provided with: a rotor core (32); a plurality of permanent magnets (33); a substantially tubular magnet cover (71); and a load reception block (70). The rotor core (32) rotates integrally with a rotary shaft of a motor. The permanent magnets (33) are arranged on the outer peripheral part of the rotor core (32). The magnet cover (71) covers the exterior of the plurality of permanent magnets (33) and the rotor core (32), and has a flange part which is bent radially inward at the end along a rotation axis. The load reception block (70) is disposed between the flange part and the end surface of the rotor core (32) in a direction along the rotation axis, and abuts against the flange part and the rotor core (32).Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBA CorporationInventors: Ryo Ohori, Koji Yonekawa, Takeshi Kanai
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Patent number: 11950842Abstract: A catheter system for ablation of tissue around a blood vessel, e.g., the pulmonary artery, to reduce neural activity of nerves surrounding the blood vessel. The catheter system includes an elongate shaft having a proximal portion coupled to a handle, and a distal portion. The distal portion includes a transducer and an expandable anchor, which may be actuated to transition between a collapsed delivery state and an expanded deployed state where the anchor centralizes the transducer within the blood vessel. The transducer may be actuated to emit energy to reduce neural activity of the nerves surrounding the blood vessel. Systems and method are further provided for confirming that neural activity of the nerves surround the blood vessel has been sufficiently reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Gradient Denervation Technologies SASInventors: David Amaoua, Martin Grasse, William Cannon, Chiara Mischo
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Patent number: 11955256Abstract: A signal transmission cable is provided with a conductor, an insulator covering around the conductor, a shield layer covering around the insulator, a sheath covering around the shield layer, and a plating base layer is provided between the insulator and the shield layer to cover around the insulator. The shield layer has a plating layer provided to cover the plating base layer to be in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the plating base layer. A surface roughness of an outer peripheral surface of the plating layer is less than a surface roughness of an inner peripheral surface of the plating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Sagawa, Detian Huang, Takahiro Sugiyama, Hideki Nonen, Masashi Arai, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Xinweilong Li
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Patent number: 11955771Abstract: A control device for controlling a temperature of a laser device includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator, a temperature acquisition circuit, a voltage comparator, and a logic circuit. The a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator configured to generate a PWM signal; a temperature acquisition circuit configured to acquire a temperature of the laser device and convert the temperature into a measurement voltage; a voltage comparator configured to compare the acquired measurement voltage associated with the temperature of the laser device with a temperature threshold voltage and output a comparison result signal; and a logic circuit configured to generate a drive signal based on the PWM signal and the comparison result signal to drive the laser device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventors: Chao Zhu, Xin Shi, David Xing
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Patent number: 11951335Abstract: Ultrasound (US) apparatus and method for applying low energy US onto an internal tissue/organ, including a non-invasive US appliance used on a treatment region over the internal tissue/organ, and an electrical stimulation apparatus for simultaneously inducing interferential electrical stimulation. A controller controls parameters of the electrical stimulation apparatus and the US appliance, and dynamically changes at least one of the parameters, for maintaining the impedance of the body tissue in the treatment region within an impedance range. The US apparatus includes an impedance monitoring apparatus for continuously measuring, tracking, and monitoring impedance in the treatment region, wherein the controller dynamically changes at least one of the parameter in response to the impedance as monitored, for maintaining the impedance within the predefined range.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: B.R.H. Medical Ltd.Inventor: Ilan Feferberg
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Patent number: 11955259Abstract: A heat detection line includes a twisted pair wire composed of a pair of heat detecting wires being twisted together. Each heat detecting wire includes a conductor and an insulator covering a periphery of the conductor. The conductor is non-magnetic and composed of a copper alloy with a tensile strength of 900 MPa or more. A multi-core cable includes the heat detection line, a plurality of electric wires, and a sheath covering the heat detection line and the plurality of electric wires together. A melting point of the insulator of the heat detection line is lower than a melting point of an insulator of each of the plurality of electric wires.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Masashi Moriyama, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Detian Huang
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Patent number: 11955258Abstract: There is provided a laminate having excellent partial discharge resistance. A laminate of a conductor and an insulating coating comprising a conductor and an insulating coating formed on the conductor, wherein the insulating coating is formed of a resin composition containing a metal oxide hydrate, and an inorganic insulating layer is formed on the insulating coating when the laminate is exposed to partial discharge caused by inverter surges.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD., HIDE TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Noriyuki Hayashizaka, Seiji Bando, Hideyuki Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11955178Abstract: An information processing apparatus has strings connected to a first wiring and connected to second wirings. The string has one end connected to the first wiring and includes transistors being connected to each other, gates of which are connected to the second wirings. The transistors include a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor is set to a first threshold according to first data, and the second transistor is set to a second threshold according to second data in a complement relationship with the first data. Two second wirings of the second wirings are connected to gates of the first transistor and the second transistor, and one of the two second wirings is set to a potential level corresponding to third data, and another is set to a potential level corresponding to fourth data in a complement relationship with the third data.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Atsushi Kawasumi
