Patents Examined by V. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11980368Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for assisting in communicably coupling a first organ body with a second organ body by employing a plurality of arc-shaped tissue connector devices comprising a tissue connector body with a proximal and distal end, and a method for manufacturing such a device. The device comprises a curved frame having a principle axis and configured to embrace, at least partially, the first organ body, the curved frame configured to receive a plurality of tissue connector devices which extend from a proximal end thereof coupled to the curved frame and terminate in a free distal end. The disclosure further relates to a tissue connector device, a holder for tissue connector devices and a tissue-collar manipulating device, and a method of coupling a first and a second organ body using such device.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LYDUS MEDICAL LTD.Inventors: Kamal Daas, Dean Ad-El, Muhammad Azmi Mansour
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Patent number: 11983974Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure location and device access utilizing an ultra-wideband signal of a user device and a system device. The invention generally comprises determining that a user has entered a secure environment, wherein the secure environment comprises a safe-deposit box associated with the user, automatically generating a digital authentication key in response determining that the user has entered the secure environment, verifying the digital authentication key as being linked to the user, and transmitting instructions to a safe-deposit box to unlock and provide access during the scheduled session.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Puneetha Polasa, Hope Barus, Sandeep Kumar Chauhan, Ana Morales, Sandra Ogden, Lee Ann Proud
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Patent number: 11984413Abstract: A high-frequency power transistor comprises a transistor, at least one capacitor and a housing, which at least partially encloses the transistor and the capacitor. A first port for a high-frequency input and a gate DC voltage supply are connected to a gate contact of the transistor. A second port is connected to a drain contact of the transistor for a high-frequency output and drain DC voltage supply. A third port and fourth port are connected to a source contact of the transistor. All ports lead out of the same housing. The third port is connected via the capacitor to the source contact, and the fourth port is connected via at least one inductive element to the source contact, so that the third port provides a high-frequency ground, and the fourth port provides a floating low-frequency ground and source DC voltage supply.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: FERDINAND-BRAUN-INSTITUT GGMBH, LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIKInventors: Olof Bengtsson, Sophie Paul, Tobias Kuremyr
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Patent number: 11985603Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit an uplink transmission with a bundling of demodulated reference signals (DMRS), transmit the uplink transmission, receive a downlink control information (DCI) transmission from the base station between repetitions of the uplink transmission, wherein the DCI indicates a transmission power control (TPC) information element (IE) indicating remaining ones of the repetitions of the uplink transmission should be transmitted using a new transmission power and determine if the DCI is a group common (GC)-DCI Format 2_2.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 11980309Abstract: A secure locker box is provided including a basic box (100) with a door enclosing a storage area, and a lock system for locking the door, the lock system including a processing unit (201), an electro mechanical door lock (202), and a wireless communication module (300). The processing unit (201) is adapted to receive a wakeup signal via the wireless communication module (300); send a request for unlocking the electro mechanical door lock (202) and opening the door; in response to receiving an unlock confirmation message, actuate the electro mechanical door lock (202) such that it opens the door; recognize closing of the door and locking the electro mechanical door lock (202) and in response sending a door closed and door lock locked confirmation message. A method for handling the secure locker box comprises receiving the confirmation message by a remote locker center (400) and writing a confirmation to a blockchain to ensure authenticity.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Margento R&D D.O.O.Inventors: Amor Chowdhury, Milos Urbanija, Luka Goste, Dalibor Igrec
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Patent number: 11984855Abstract: A receiver front end amplifier capable of receiving and processing intraband non-contiguous carrier aggregate (CA) signals using multiple low noise amplifiers (LNAs) is disclosed herein. A cascode having a “common source” configured input FET and a “common gate” configured output FET can be turned on or off using the gate of the output FET. A first switch is provided that allows a connection to be either established or broken between the source terminal of the input FET of each LNA. Further switches used for switching degeneration inductors, gate capacitors, and gate to ground capacitors for each leg can be used to further improve the matching performance of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: pSemi CorporationInventors: Emre Ayranci, Miles Sanner
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Patent number: 11982629Abstract: A device to detect and analyze defects in a finished surface includes a supporting mechanism, a transmitting mechanism, a detecting mechanism, and a processor. The transmitting mechanism carries and transmits the product. The detecting mechanism includes a detecting frame, a light source assembly. The processor is used to connect to a first camera module and a second camera module, and preprocess the first image and the second image to obtain a detection and analysis of any defects of the front of the product.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Liu-Bin Hu, Wei Yang
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Patent number: 11984889Abstract: A signal generation circuit including a first control circuit, a second control circuit, an arbiter circuit, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit is provided. The first control circuit stores a first string of data. The first control circuit enables a first trigger signal in response to a first event occurring. The second control circuit stores a second string of data. The second control circuit enables a second trigger signal in response to a second event occurring. The arbiter circuit reads the first or second control circuit according to the order of priority to use the first string of data or the second string of data as a digital input in response to the first and second trigger signals being enabled. The DAC circuit converts the digital input to generate an analog output.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Yun-Kai Lai
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Patent number: 11981189Abstract: A method controls a plurality of assigned electrically controlled transmission switch elements of a first set in a vehicle sunroof.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Florian Manz, Rayan Hammoud
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Patent number: 11982913Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device, wherein by setting a shape of sub-pixels to a square and the shape of a pixel electrode to a circle, and by dividing the pixel electrode into a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes through a first slit, a second slit, and the plurality of third slits, a number of the direction of liquid crystal is increased when there are more than four domains in the sub-pixels. When viewing at different viewing angles, the number of liquid crystals in the same direction decrease, so that a brightness of the liquid crystal display panel is reduced, thereby alleviating the color-shift problem.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bangqing Xiao
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Patent number: 11984213Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for peer exchange of data between injection systems. A first injection system may store a plurality of injection control data sets, determine a first subset of the plurality of injection control data sets according to which the first injection system is configured to control delivery of fluid to a patient, provide the first subset of the plurality of injection control data sets for selection of an injection control data set for use in delivering fluid to the patient with the first injection system, and transmit the plurality of injection control data sets to at least one second injection system.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: John Volkar, Corey Kemper, Srikanth Mruthik, Michael Oklejewski
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Patent number: 11980385Abstract: A flexible drive shaft assembly is provided for an intravascular medical device, for example and without limitation, a blood pump, a rotational atherectomy device, or a rotational thrombectomy device. The blood pump embodiment provides an electric motor and a rotational impeller, with a rotational drive shaft disposed therebetween and configured to rotationally drive the impeller. The drive shaft is moved from an undeformed length to a deformed length when connected between the electric motor and the rotational impeller to provide a biasing force on the rotational impeller in the proximal direction to maintain the impeller in a desired axial or linear location. In other embodiments, drive shaft comprises a proximal section with a length and a spring constant and a distal section of relatively longer length and a relatively higher spring constant. In other embodiments, hypotube(s) and/or support mandrel(s) may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin D. Haselman, Tristan A. Van de Moortele, Matthew W. Hanson
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Patent number: 11984859Abstract: A chopper amplifying circuit employing a negative impedance compensation technique, including a differential input end, a first-level chopper switch, a first-level amplifying circuit, a second-level chopper switch, a second-level amplifying circuit, a negative impedance converting circuit, a negative feedback unit, an input capacitor, and a differential output end, is provided. The differential input end is connected to the first-level chopper switch. An output terminal of the first-level chopper switch is connected to the first-level amplifying circuit through the input capacitor. The first-level amplifying circuit is connected to the second-level chopper switch, which is connected to the second-level amplifying circuit. The second-level amplifying circuit is connected to the differential output end, and is also connected to a feedback input end of the first-level amplifying circuit through the negative feedback unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Zhiming Liang, Bin Li, Zhaohui Wu
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Patent number: 11984904Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a comparator having a first input coupled to receive an output voltage of the DAC, a second input, and a comparison output. The ADC also includes successive-approximation-register (SAR) circuitry having an input to receive the comparison output, and an output to provide an uncalibrated digital value. The DAC includes a Most Significant Bits (MSBs) sub-DAC including a set of MSB DAC elements and a Least Significant Bits (LSBs) sub-DAC including a set of LSB DAC elements. The ADC also includes calibration circuitry which receives the uncalibrated digital value and applies one or more calibration values to the uncalibrated digital value to obtain a calibrated digital value. The calibration circuitry obtains a calibration value for each MSB DAC element using the set of LSB DAC elements, the termination element, and at least one of the one or more redundant DAC elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventor: Michael Todd Berens
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Patent number: 11984903Abstract: To provide a variable reference voltage source for which a measuring instrument is unnecessary for calibration on the outside. A variable reference voltage source that generates a variable reference voltage corresponding to setting data set from outside includes a control unit including a calibration control unit that controls operation for calibrating an offset and a predetermined unit voltage inside the variable reference voltage source and an output control unit that controls operation for outputting the variable reference voltage, a reference voltage unit that outputs a reference voltage Vref, and an integrated-voltage generating unit that repeats, when the calibration control unit controls the operation, an integrating operation until an integrated voltage obtained by integrating the predetermined unit voltage becomes equal to the reference voltage Vref and outputs, when the output control unit controls the operation, the variable reference voltage corresponding to the setting data.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Minotani, Kenichi Matsunaga
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Patent number: 11984907Abstract: An analog-to-digital converting circuit for converting an analog signal into a digital signal includes a plurality of reference voltage generators each generating a reference voltage, a plurality of reference voltage decoupling capacitors respectively corresponding to the reference voltage generators, and an analog-to-digital converter generating a comparison voltage based on the reference voltage and generating the digital signal corresponding to the analog signal based on a result of comparing the comparison voltage with the analog signal. At least one different combination of the reference voltage generators and the reference voltage decoupling capacitors is connected to the analog-to-digital converter in each of a plurality of conversion periods.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Lim, Jaehoon Lee
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Patent number: 11978149Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for projecting a 3D model defined by x, y, z coordinates onto the surface of a 2D image defined by u, v coordinates is provided. The present invention may include receiving a 3D model having a plurality of polygons, wherein certain edges are marked as seams. The present invention may include receiving input from a user, wherein the input comprises painting one or more parts of the 3D model in different colors, wherein the colors correspond with a weight of the area painted. The present invention may include unwrapping, by a processor, a 2D texture from the 3D model using a projection algorithm. The present invention may include generating a rectangular boundary around each island. The present invention may include scaling each island according to a gradient score.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: The Weather Company, LLCInventors: Cindy Han Lu, Angela Monique Lloyd, Thai Quoc Tran, Weiwei Liu
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Patent number: 11979175Abstract: A method and apparatus for variable rate compression with a conditional autoencoder is herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method for compression includes receiving a first image and a first scheme as inputs for an autoencoder network; determining a first Lagrange multiplier based on the first scheme; and using the first image and the first Lagrange multiplier as inputs, computing a second image from the autoencoder network. The autoencoder network is trained using a plurality of Lagrange multipliers and a second image as training inputs.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Mostafa El-Khamy, Jungwon Lee
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Patent number: 11979125Abstract: Techniques for setting a gain of an amplifier circuit in which the external resistor of the amplifier circuit is used to determine an internal gain setting to select. A voltage across the external resistor can be compared to an on-chip reference, and then used to program the desired gain. The techniques can mitigate or eliminate the need for a high-accuracy external resistor and can allow substantial improvements in initial gain accuracy and gain drift for existing boards and/or systems with only a bill of material change.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventor: Gregory Lawrence Disanto
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Patent number: 11974770Abstract: A medical device system that includes an ultrasound transducer and a processor. The ultrasound transducer includes a plurality of electrode plates to which a drive signal is supplied, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements that are alternately arranged with the electrode plates, and that generate ultrasound vibrations according to the drive signal. The ultrasound transducer also includes an electric wiring that electrically connects the electrode plates adjacent to each other, and a memory that stores reference information regarding specific initial characteristics. The processor analyzes the generated ultrasonic vibrations to determine a resonance point of the ultrasound transducer, and detects resonance point information regarding the resonance point. The processor then determines whether an abnormality has occurred in the ultrasound transducer by comparing the stored reference information and the detected resonance point information.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Kawasaki, Masashi Yamada