Patents Examined by Shawn An
  • Patent number: 11960738
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus related to a memory system that manages an interface for a volatile memory device and a non-volatile memory device to control memory system power. In one approach, a controller evaluates a demand on memory performance. If the demand of a current computation task needed by the host is high, a DRAM device is powered-up to meet the demand. Otherwise, if the non-volatile memory device is adequate to meet the demand, the DRAM memory is partially or fully-powered down to save power. In another approach, a task performed for a host device uses one or more resources of a first memory device (e.g., DRAM). A performance capability of a second memory device (e.g., NVRAM) is determined. A controller of the memory system determines whether the performance capability of the second memory device is adequate to service the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivam Swami, Kenneth Marion Curewitz
  • Patent number: 11960741
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to writing data to streams. A host device can instruct a data storage device to operate in implied streams mode such that the host device does not need to tell the data storage device the specific stream in which to write data. The data storage device would maintain a list of open append points of specific streams. Upon receiving a write command, the data storage device determines whether the write command is for an already open stream, and if so, write to the specific stream. If not, then the data storage device opens a new stream or write the data to an overflow stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Liam Parker, Matias Bjorling, Michael James
  • Patent number: 11962518
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a packet for a flow associated with a workload. Based on an indicator for the flow, the method determines whether the flow corresponds to one of an elephant flow or a mice flow. Only when the flow is determined to correspond to an elephant flow, the method enables a hardware acceleration operation on the packet. The hardware acceleration operation may include hardware operation offload, receive side scaling, and workload migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Aditi Ghag, Srividya Murali
  • Patent number: 11954062
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide techniques to enable the dynamic reconfiguration of memory on a general-purpose graphics processing unit. One embodiment described herein enables dynamic reconfiguration of cache memory bank assignments based on hardware statistics. One embodiment enables for virtual memory address translation using mixed four kilobyte and sixty-four kilobyte pages within the same page table hierarchy and under the same page directory. One embodiment provides for a graphics processor and associated heterogenous processing system having near and far regions of the same level of a cache hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Niranjan Cooray, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Altug Koker, Prasoonkumar Surti, Varghese George, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek Appu, Guadalupe Garcia, Pattabhiraman K, Sungye Kim, Sanjay Kumar, Pratik Marolia, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Vasanth Ranganathan, William Sadler, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma
  • Patent number: 11952487
    Abstract: A resin spacer for chip stacking and packaging includes a fiber glass fabric used as a base material, a weight percent of the fiber glass fabric is 10-60 wt %; and the following components are attached to the fiber glass fabric as a percentage by the total weight of the resin spacer: 8-40 wt % of epoxy resin, 10-30 wt % of quartz powder, 2-10 wt % of aluminum oxide, 1-8 wt % of calcium oxide, and 1-8 wt % of curing agent. The resin spacer further includes a pigment. The pigment has a weight percent of 1-3 wt %, and the pigment is preferably at least one selected from white carbon black and pearl powder. The resin spacer is formed by mixing, impregnating, partially curing, stacking and pressing the resin material. The thickness of the resin spacer is 0.07-0.13 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SU ZHOU DREAM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guohong Yang
  • Patent number: 11952178
    Abstract: A bottle closure and opener device for use on a wine bottle including a sleeve having a top side, a bottom side, an outer surface, and an inner surface, the top side having a first opening, the bottom side having a second opening, and the inner surface including inner threads, wherein the internal threads are configured to mate with external threads on a top portion of the wine bottle. A cork having an upper portion positioned within the first opening of the sleeve and extending above the bottle top and a lower portion of the cork positioned within the wine bottle's neck opening to seal a liquid within the wine bottle and to seal oxygen from entering the bottle. During operation, the cork and sleeve combination are configured to be removed from the wine bottle's opening via unscrewing the sleeve from the top portion of the wine bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Gardner Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: William A. Gardner
  • Patent number: 11951646
    Abstract: A wooden stave and barrel for the maturing or storage of alcoholic or spirit drinks, in which the internal side of the stave is machined to have at least two first channels and at least two second channels crossing with the first channels, determining a pattern of geometric elements. The elements remain submerged in the liquid contained in the barrel, providing a greater contact surface, thereby producing a greater transfer of the substances of the wood itself to the liquid. In addition, the pattern formed by the crossing channels permits a continuous and obstruction-free path for the liquid when it is extracted through one of the staves with an opening for the entry and exit of the liquid inside the barrel, thereby preventing unnecessary losses and unwanted internal residue for future reuse of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: VALCHEDOR CASK, S.L.
    Inventor: Iván Gutiérrez Araújo
  • Patent number: 11953154
    Abstract: A vessel includes a body having an interior surface that defines an interior space. The vessel further includes a flexible membrane located within the interior space of the vessel. The interior space includes a first chamber at least partially defined by the flexible membrane, and a second chamber at least partially defined by the flexible membrane and a portion of the interior surface of the body. The vessel includes a pressure relief device configured to vent contents of the second chamber to an exterior of the body when the second chamber reaches a first predefined pressure. The flexible membrane is configured to tear or puncture when the first chamber reaches a second predefined pressure that is less than or equal to the first predefined pressure to prevent dangerously high pressures within the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amtrol Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: João Pedro Oliveira Pinhão Silva Mendes, Pedro Alexandre Queiro Silva Vieira, Jennifer Marie O'Brian
  • Patent number: 11954023
    Abstract: Garbage collection or other computational work accesses memory which is located outside processor registers. Some embodiments specify at least some of the memory accesses and separate them from other computations, and utilize a memory access state machine to control the execution of both kinds of computation. Code that employs memory access results is placed in a run routine which is divided between respective states of the state machine. The specified memory accesses are invoked from a state code, and overlap other computation. A prefetch buffer may be dynamically sized based on the availability of space in the prefetch buffer. Code for shared work, such as address relocation code, may be placed in its own state structure. Candidate code for possible separation into a specified memory access routine may be automatically recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Maoni Zhang Stephens, Peter Franz Valentin Sollich
  • Patent number: 11956460
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method selects a first template of pixels that is outside of a first block and a second template of pixels that is outside of the first block. Then, the method selects a first region of pixels that are inside the first block and a second region of pixels that are inside the first block. A first weight is calculated based on the first template of pixels and the first region of pixels and a second weight is calculated based on the second template of pixels and the second region of pixels. The first weight and the second weight are used in a motion prediction search for a second block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Wenhao Zhang, Deliang Fu, Chen Liu, Xiaobo Liu
  • Patent number: 11944156
    Abstract: An article and method includes a nonwoven textile forming at least part of an upper of an article of footwear and binding fibers entangled with fibers of the folded portion and the major portion, the edge being secured, at least in part, to the major surface. The nonwoven textile is comprised of fibers and has a major portion and a folded portion, the folded portion including an edge of the nonwoven textile folded over to bring the edge in contact, at least in part, with a major surface of the major portion to form a folded edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhupesh Dua, Pamela S. Greene
  • Patent number: 11947426
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for recommending a protection strategy. The method includes obtaining contents of attributes of a plurality of data assets adjusted. The method further includes generating a plurality of vector representations for the plurality of data assets based on the contents of the attributes. The method further includes dividing the plurality of data assets into at least one category based on the plurality of vector representations. The method further includes if it is determined that a protection strategy for one data asset in the at least one category exists, determining the protection strategy as a recommended strategy for another data asset in the at least one category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Qi Wang, Yun Zhang, Ming Zhang, Weiyang Liu
  • Patent number: 11949426
    Abstract: Aspects relate to analog-to-digital conversion of an analog signal. The resolution (number of bits) and/or the quantization levels of the analog-to-digital conversion may be configurable. A device may configure its analog-to-digital conversion parameters. For example, a first device may reduce the number of bits for its analog-to-digital converter to reduce power consumption. In this case, the first device may transmit an indication of selected analog-to-digital conversion parameters to a second device that will transmit to the first device. In this way, the second device may take appropriate action, if needed. A device may request another device to use certain analog-to-digital conversion parameters. For example, a first device may determine that a second device should use a larger number of bits for its analog-to-digital conversion process to improve the quality of the communication between the first and second devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11950272
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless transmission. A User Equipment (UE) first receives a first signaling, and then receives a first radio signal, the first radio signal carrying a first bit block. The first signaling is used for determining a transmission format corresponding to the first radio signal. The transmission format corresponding to the first radio signal is one transmission format in a first format set, and the first format set comprises a first transmission format and a second transmission format. A radio signal corresponding to the first transmission format includes P radio sub-signal(s), each one of the P radio sub-signal(s) carries the first bit block, and the P radio sub-signal(s) is(are) transmitted by a same antenna port group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950208
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method indicates a frequency resource reservation in sidelink control information (SCI). The method includes identifying a transport block (TB) for transmission to a UE; determining a total number of sub-channels (NSL) in a resource pool for sidelink communication, a number of sub-channels (Lsub) of the TB, a first starting sub-channel index x1 of a first retransmission of the TB, and a second starting sub-channel index x2 of a second retransmission of the TB. The method includes determining a frequency resource indication value (FRIV) based on NSL, LSUB, x1, and x2, wherein the FRIV represents a result of a predetermined function of Lsub, x1, and x2 that generates a unique value for possible combinations of Lsub, x1, and x2. The FRIV is encoded in SCI and the SCI is transmitted to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Haitong Sun, Weidong Ynag, Oghenekome Oteri, Yuchul Kim, Yang Tang, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 11947163
    Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure relates to multi-material fibers capable of distributedly measuring temperature and pressure in which the methods comprise a thermal drawing step, and the methods of fabricating the disclosed fibers. The fibers can be utilized in methods of temperature and pressure mapping or sensing comprising electrical reflectometry for interrogation. Further disclosed are devices comprising a disclosed fiber with the multi-point detection capability with simple one-end connection. Also disclosed are articles, e.g., smart clothing, wound dressing, robotic skin and other industrial products, comprising a disclosed fiber or a fabric comprising a disclosed fiber. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoting Jia, Anbo Wang, Haifeng Xuan, Li Yu
  • Patent number: D1021808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Ke Lou, Zhenbin Zhou, Kaijun Zhou, Zhi Mou Wu
  • Patent number: D1021830
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: D1021831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakano, Kenji Yamamoto, Yasunori Kutsuma
  • Patent number: D1022879
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DAEYOUNG CHAEVI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Kyo Jung