Patents Issued in January 18, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240020423
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to improve container security. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry to access network resources, instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the instructions to parse an inventory data structure to identify (a) first data structures corresponding to a container and (b) second data structures corresponding to an attestation circuit interface, and verify a combination of validation elements corresponding to the first and second data structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mikko Kalevi Ylinen, Ismo Puustinen, Malini Bhandaru
  • Publication number: 20240020424
    Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting intellectual property of a circuit via obfuscation of logic through encryption. The methods comprise: analyzing a combinational circuit (CC) to identify first logic gates that perform first function(s) which is(are) implementable by LUT(s); dividing CC a first portion comprising the first logic gates and a second portion comprising remaining logic gates; protecting gate logic of the first portion by at least storing information implementing the first function(s) in an encrypted LUT format in a memory device of the circuit such that the first function(s) is(are) obfuscated when the circuit is in an at-rest state; and interfacing the remaining logic gates with the memory device such that the circuit is configured to generate an output in accordance with operations of the combinational circuit using the information stored in the encrypted LUT format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Michael T. Kurdziel, Steven M. Farris, Marcin Lukowiak, Stanislaw Radziszowski
  • Publication number: 20240020425
    Abstract: A method provides trusted timing services to an enclave of a computer having memory and a trusted hardware timer. The computer executes a privileged management program and an untrusted operating system. The privileged management program has access to the memory and the trusted hardware timer, has higher privileges than the untrusted operating system, and exposes a system call to the enclave for requesting the trusted timing services. The method includes: receiving, by the privileged management program, a request for timing services from the enclave, via the system call; reserving, by the privileged management program, a memory region of the memory for tracking time; and writing, by the privileged management program, at least one value of the trusted hardware timer into the memory region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Samira Briongos, Claudio Soriente, Felix Klaedtke, Ghassan Karame
  • Publication number: 20240020426
    Abstract: A method for managing a replay protection memory block (RPMB) of a storage device includes allocating an RPMB master region managed separately from an RPMB region in which an RPMB key is stored in the RPMB of the storage device, programming a master key into the RPMB master region responsive to a request from a host, receiving a reset request for the RPMB region using the master key from the host, resetting the RPMB key in response to the reset request for the RPMB region, and receiving a reset lock request for the RPMB region from the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jimin Ryu, Yonghwan Song, Jaegyu Lee, Dong-Min Kim, Byungjune Song, Myeongjong Lee, Daejin Jung
  • Publication number: 20240020427
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing content rendered by an Information Handling System (IHS) display from being captured or recorded (e.g., photographed, filmed, recorded, etc.) are described. In an embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive an image from a camera; detect a device in the image; and in response to the detection, prevent content rendered by a display from being captured or recorded by the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Grobelny, Daniel L. Hamlin
  • Publication number: 20240020428
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to generate and manage a firewall policy. An example includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine whether an operation is allowed to pass between a first component on a system-on-chip (SoC) and a second component on the SoC, detect an interconnect between the first component on the SoC and the second component on the SoC, cause the interconnect to filter the operation based on the determination of whether the operation is allowed to pass between the first component and the second component, and transmit a request to filter the operation based on the determination of whether the operation is allowed to pass between the first component and the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Akhilesh Thyagaturu, Jason Howard, Nicholas Ross, Sanjaya Tayal, Vinodh Gopal
  • Publication number: 20240020429
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a sensor within a subsea node using additive manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Boster, Matthew Wayne Sanders, William Paul Walker
  • Publication number: 20240020430
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for authoring high quality renderings and generating manufacturing output of custom products comprises: upon receiving a test physical product manufactured for an interactive digital design: determining whether one or more differences between the test physical product and the interactive digital design exceed one or more thresholds; in response to determining that one or more differences between the test physical product and the interactive digital design exceed one or more thresholds: automatically generating markup definition data indicating the one or more differences; transmitting the markup definition data to a manufacturing entity to cause the manufacturing entity to manufacture a physical product that corresponds to the interactive digital design; upon receiving the physical product from the manufacturing entity: taking a plurality of photographs depicting the physical product; generating, based on the plurality of photographs, a composite image file that captures one o
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Leslie Young Harvill, Scott Burgess, Brent Burgess, Matthew DiFonzo, Robert I. Beaver, III
  • Publication number: 20240020431
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a connection design method for a lateral resisting system of a self-centering steel frame, comprising: determining basic sizes and performance parameters of a steel frame, a connection design load, the performance targets of connections and an inter-storey drift angle limit, calculating an inter-storey lateral drift limit, the rotational stiffness of a beam column connection and a column base connection and the angular drift limits of the beam column connection and the column base connection, designing the section size of an energy dissipation steel plate, calculating an allowable bending moment of a column bottom and an allowable bending moment of the beam column connection, an axial force of anchor rod and the axial force of a beam column and the local pressure of each flange when the column bottom reaches angular drift limits, conducting strength checking, stability checking and local pressure checking, and checking self-centering capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Hailiang Zhang, Bicheng Zhou, Baoping Wang, Fengchao Zhang, Huabing Xiong, Donglei Yang, Longgang Lei
  • Publication number: 20240020432
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-aided design system that incorporates an airborne contaminant-flow calculator. In designing a new architectural structure, or modifying an existing one, the calculator informs the architect of the airflow ramifications of the design as the design is created or modified. The calculator uses a closed-form solution for calculating the airflow in order to present its results in a timely fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Mark D Ginsberg
  • Publication number: 20240020433
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method for predicting at least one mechanical property of at least one composite element including at least two layers. The method includes: a) providing at least one input parameter set, where the input parameter set includes a plurality of parameters defining properties of each of the single layers; b) determining at least one geometric model of the composite element based on the input parameter set using at least one design tool; and c) determining at least one mechanical property of the geometric model of the composite element by using at least one numerical simulation, where the mechanical property includes one or more of tension property, pressure property, shear property, temperature property, and a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Claudia Gisela CORDES, Florian NIEDERHOEFER
  • Publication number: 20240020434
    Abstract: Methods and computer systems for methods, computer systems, and computer-readable memory media for determining a warp function. A first watertight spline model of a first object and a set of points and associated metadata from a second object are received. A second watertight spline model of the second object is constructed based on the set of points, the metadata, and the first watertight spline model. A warp function is determined based on a difference between the first watertight spline model and the second watertight spline model. The warp function is a continuous function approximating differences between the first object and the second object. The warp function is stored in a non-transitory computer-readable memory medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Urick, Richard H. Crawford, Daniel L. Keller, Lisa A. Torres
  • Publication number: 20240020435
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method of processing digitalized drawing and a compute program. One aspect of the present invention provides a method of processing digitalized drawing data by a computer, the method including: providing digitalized drawing having a line ID (S10); splitting the line ID into a plurality of topologies, which are smallest units that are mutually exclusive and do not overlap each other (S20); generating a pipe system network (PSN) by recombining the plurality of topologies, wherein the plurality of topologies are recombined such that a start point and an end point of the PSN are each independently Equipment, Branch or Header (S30); and generating a path item (PI) by arranging internal objects on the digitalized drawing existing between the start point and the end point of the pipe system network (PSN) and adding necessary information usable in a subsequent process (S40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Dong Yong OH, Jung Ho CHANG, John ROBY, Sang Do KIM
  • Publication number: 20240020436
    Abstract: In some implementations, a data quality system may obtain a historical dataset that includes historical values for a data element. The data quality system may generate one or more statistical summaries for the data element based on the historical values for the data element. The data quality system may generate, using a statistical model, a confidence interval defined by an upper threshold and a lower threshold based on the one or more statistical summaries, wherein the upper threshold and the lower threshold define a predicted range for a current value for the data element. The data quality system may receive a current dataset that includes the current value for the data element. The data quality system may generate an output that indicates whether the current value for the data element is within the predicted range defined by the upper threshold and the lower threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Oliver CANTRELL, William Conner RITCHIE, Sanjay DAGA
  • Publication number: 20240020437
    Abstract: A method of generating a computational model includes generating a set of benchmark parameters indicative of material properties of a reference material system through performance of at least one of a simulation of, or an experiment on, a subset of the reference material system, generating a plurality of DFTB parameters for the reference material system, performing an optimization routine to adjust each DFTB parameter of the plurality of DFTB parameters to improve accuracy relative to the set of benchmark parameters of the reference material system, and storing an optimized set of DFTB parameters corresponding to the material properties of the reference material system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tillmann C. Kubis, Han-Wei Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20240020438
    Abstract: This invention provides a shoe upper design model generating method, system and non-transitory computer readable storage media, including steps of providing a 2D mapping boundary, providing a 3D upper, performing a flattening algorithm on the 3D upper with respect to the 2D mapping boundary, constructing a 2D upper boundary, creating an upper design drawing on the 2D upper boundary, intersecting the 2D upper boundary and the 2D mapping boundary to form a 2D upper design area and mapping grids in the 2D upper design area onto grids in the 3D upper, thereby obtaining an upper design model containing the mapping relation between the 2D upper design area and the 3D upper. Accordingly, the upper pattern making time and cost can be saved, and the distortion and deformation in the process of 2D-3D conversion can be reduced, thus the completed 2D upper design drawing can be used in production process directly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Hsiang TSAI, CHIN-YU CHEN, CHUN-HENG LIN, CHIH-PENG CHEN, FONG-YI SYU
  • Publication number: 20240020439
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of analyzing durability of a drive line for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a durability analysis automation technology which automates a durability analysis process performed for verifying durability performance in a stage of designing a drive line to easily and rapidly verify durability performance of the drive line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hui Je CHO, Chul Ho Lee, Heung Hyek Yim, Min Uk Lee
  • Publication number: 20240020440
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for directed design and regulation of fermented food based on flavor group and its application, belonging to the fields of biology and food technology. The method involves the analysis of a significant number of fermented food samples, resulting in the identification of 20 core flavor components and six highly productive functional microorganisms associated with these core flavor components. Mathematical models have been constructed based on the correlation between the core flavor components and the microbial community structure. The method allows for the directed design and regulation of flavor components during the production of fermented food, ensuring stable production of fermented foods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Qun WU, Yan XU, Rubing DU
  • Publication number: 20240020441
    Abstract: An assessment method for seismic landslide hazard based on a LS-D-Newmark model is performed as follows. Historical landslide data is acquired, and a historical landslide density is determined. The historical landslide data is input into the LS-D-Newmark model, and model parameters are adjusted, such that a static safety factor Fs of a slope is greater than 1 in the absence of external forces. The historical landslide density is introduced to the LS-D-Newmark model, and assignment of the static safety factor Fs is optimized to obtain an optimized static safety factor Fs-L. A slope critical acceleration ac-L and an earthquake-induced slope displacement Dn-L, are calculated to calculate a landslide occurrence probability P of a target landslide region. An assessment device, a processing device, and a computer-readable storage medium for implementing the method are further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Changbao GUO, Caihong LI, Yongshuang ZHANG, Yiqiu YAN, Xujiao ZHANG, Zhihua YANG, Ruian WU
  • Publication number: 20240020442
    Abstract: A method and a system for simulating contact and interaction between a support member and a chamber surrounding rock mass are provided in the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Qian YIN, Jiangyu WU, Hongwen JING, Zheng JIANG, Tianci DENG, Hai PU, Qiang ZHANG, Bo MENG
  • Publication number: 20240020443
    Abstract: Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo integration are simple numerical recipes for solving complicated integration problems, such as valuating financial derivatives or synthesizing photorealistic images by light transport simulation. A drawback of a straightforward application of (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration is the relatively slow convergence rate that manifests as high error of Monte Carlo estimators. Neural control variates may be used to reduce error in parametric (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration—providing more accurate solutions in less time. A neural network system has sufficient approximation power for estimating integrals and is efficient to evaluate. The efficiency results from the use of a first neural network that infers the integral of the control variate and using normalizing flows to model a shape of the control variate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Fabrice Pierre Armand Rousselle, Alexander Georg Keller, Jan Novák
  • Publication number: 20240020444
    Abstract: In an approach to visualizing the transport of ground contaminants in an aquifer, a location and one or more aquifer properties are received from a user. One or more simulation parameters and one or more output parameters are received from the user. A transport simulation of the ground contaminants in the aquifer is performed. One or more output visualizations of the transport of the ground contaminants in the aquifer are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Scott Rohrer, Joel Sminchak, James HICKS
  • Publication number: 20240020445
    Abstract: The system receives user-provided input requirements. The system automatically generates solution variants for an electronics hardware system using the user-provided input requirements and artificial intelligence. The system automatically evaluates the solution variants using additional artificial intelligence. The system presents the solution variants and provides visual feedback to engineers to evaluate the solutions based on metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: André Pesco Alcalde, Alexander Pohl
  • Publication number: 20240020446
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a vocabulary based on EDA tool terminologies and/or a natural language, queries and recommends, by a plurality of virtual agents, actions based on a design state and the vocabulary, wherein the plurality of agents is to include a tool agent and a designer agent, and executes a set of modifications to the design state in accordance with a collaboration between the plurality of agents. The technology may also convert a first user query from a first format to a second format, wherein the first format is incompatible with a trained AI model of a hardware architecture and the second format is compatible with the trained AI model, generate one or more predictions from the trained AI model based on the converted first user query, and select a subset of recommendations from a set of candidate architectures based on the prediction(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Siddhartha Nath, Rajeshkumar Sambandam, Uday Mallappa, Somdeb Majumdar, Mariano Phielipp, Xia Zhu, Jianfang Olena Zhu, Francisco Javier Vera Rivera, Miaomiao Ma
  • Publication number: 20240020447
    Abstract: A hardware monitor arranged to detect out-of-bounds violations in a hardware design for an electronic device. The hardware monitors include monitor and detection logic configured to monitor the current operating state of an instantiation of the hardware design and detect when the instantiation of the hardware design implements a fetch of an instruction from memory; and assertion evaluation logic configured to evaluate one or more assertions that assert a formal property that compares the memory address of the fetched instruction to an allowable memory address range associated with the current operating state of the instantiation of the hardware design to determine whether there has been an out-of-bounds violation. The hardware monitor may be used by a formal verification tool to exhaustively verify that the hardware design does not cause an instruction to be fetched from an out-of-bounds address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ashish Darbari, Iain Singleton
  • Publication number: 20240020448
    Abstract: A circuit and method for simulating real-time reconfigurable general-purpose memristor, nonlinear m-order polynomial fitting of mathematical model of a memristor is performed by using McLaughlin formula. m is related to the amplitude and frequency of an input signal and the fitting accuracy, thus the mathematical model of a memristor can be easily and quickly adapted by updating the polynomial order, the polynomial coefficients and the FPGA system clock cycle. Based on the FPGA, a system state variable generation module, a FIFO, a output module are used to obtain an output signal y[n]. the detailed steps of signal processing and displaying are given to obtain a display of a pinched hysteresis loop and a waveform display of time-domain. Simulation of high frequency memristor by setting polynomial coefficients can be obtained. Meanwhile, this is built based on FPGA, adopt digital circuit to simulates a reconfigurable general-purpose memristor, and experimental accuracy is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Bo XU, Hang GENG, Libing BAI, Yuhua CHENG, Kai CHEN, Songting ZOU
  • Publication number: 20240020449
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide a library including multiple macros that may be pre-compiled prior to implementation of the design. For example, a design may be mapped to one or more macros in the library, and the one or more macros may be placed into and routed between a portion of a region, one region, one or more regions of the integrated circuit device to implement the design. Since the macros may be pre-compiled, compilation time experienced by the designer may correspond to the placement and routing of the one or more macros, which may be less than compilation time for fine-grained operations. The pre-compiled logic within the macros may be set using a lookup table mask to set and/or adjust a functionality of the macro. Additionally or alternatively, the place and route operation may be performed at finer granularities to reduce bottle necks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Byron Sinclair, Deshanand P. Singh, Gregg William Baeckler, Mahesh A. Iyer, Michael Kinsner, Chengping Liang, Victor Tzi-on Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240020450
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating of a semiconductor device. The method includes receiving a first layout including patterns for the fabrication of the semiconductor device, performing machine learning-based process proximity correction (PPC) based on features of the patterns of the first layout to generate a second layout, and performing optical proximity correction (OPC) on the second layout to generate a third layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sooyong LEE, Jeeyong LEE, Jaeho JEONG
  • Publication number: 20240020451
    Abstract: An integrated circuit layout is provided. The integrated circuit layout includes one or more first cell rows partially extending across a space arranged for an integrated circuit layout along a first direction. Each of the one or more first cell rows has a first height along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The integrated circuit layout includes one or more third cell rows partially extending across the space along the first direction. Each of the one or more third cell rows has a second height along the second direction, the second height different from the first height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Sheng-Hsiung Chen, Chun-Chen Chen, Shao-huan Wang, Kuo-Nan Yang, Chung-Hsing Wang, Ren-Zheng Liao, Meng-Xiang Lee
  • Publication number: 20240020452
    Abstract: One aspect of this description relates to an integrated circuit (IC) structure including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first metal structure coupled to a first power supply having a first voltage level and a second metal structure coupled to a second power supply having a second voltage level different from the first voltage level. The second layer is formed over the first layer. The second layer includes a first nano-sheet device coupled to the first metal structure and a second nano-sheet device adjacent to the first nano-sheet device. The second nano-sheet device is coupled to the second metal structure. A distance between the first nano-sheet device and the second nano-sheet device is less than a minimum n-well to n-well spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Jack Liu, Kuo-Nan Yang
  • Publication number: 20240020453
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first conductive pattern disposed within a first region from a top view perspective and extending along a first direction, a first phase shift circuit disposed within the first region, a first transmission circuit disposed within a second region from the top view perspective, and a first gate conductor extending from the first region to the second region along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first phase shift circuit and the first transmission circuit are electrically connected with the first conductive pattern through the first gate conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Shih-Wei PENG, Ching-Yu HUANG, Jiann-Tyng TZENG
  • Publication number: 20240020454
    Abstract: A method (of forming a semiconductor device) including forming cell regions (in alternating first and second rows having first and second heights) including forming a majority of the cell regions in the first rows including: limiting a height of the majority of the cell regions to be single-row cell regions that span corresponding single one of the first rows but do not extend therebeyond; and forming a minority of the cell regions correspondingly in at least the first rows including reducing widths of the multi-row cell regions to be smaller than comparable single-row cell regions; and expanding heights of the minority of the cell regions to be multi-row cell regions, each of the multi-row cell regions spanning a corresponding single first row and at least a corresponding second row such that cell region densities of the second rows are at least about forty percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Cheng LIN, Hui-Ting YANG, Jiann-Tyng TZENG, Lipen YUAN, Wei-An LAI
  • Publication number: 20240020455
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to software-defined methods and apparatuses for designing a wafer-level switching system, including: determining wafer-level switching system layout constraints; constructing a target wafer-level switching system and determining parameters, and designing a logical topology of a switching network; designing a layout of the switching chiplets on the wafer substrate; respectively designing interface structures of external chiplets and internal chiplets; configuring a switching mode and an enable state of each port of the switching chiplets; ending the process when the target logical topology can be achieved by the wafer-level switching system; otherwise, reconstructing a logical topology of a switching network and mapping it to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiquan WAN, Shunbin LI, Ruyun ZHANG, Weihao WANG, Qingwen DENG
  • Publication number: 20240020456
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving design performance of a layout design through placement of functional and spare cells by leveraging layout dependent effect (LDE) is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: importing a plurality of technology files associated with the layout design into an EDA system; importing a netlist associated with the layout design into the EDA system; importing a standard cell library containing pattern-S timing information of the functional cells and the spare cells; performing floorplan and spare cell insertion, wherein the spare cells are distributed uniformly across the floorplan; and conducting placement and optimization through re-placement of the at least one functional cells and the spare cells to form pattern-S with at least one timing critical cells to improve an overall timing performance of the layout design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Chun-Yao Ku, Jyun-Hao Chang, Ming-Tao Yu, Wen-Hao Chen
  • Publication number: 20240020457
    Abstract: A cell region of a semiconductor device, the cell region including: components (representing a first circuit) including alpha info conductors and dummy conductors which are substantially collinear correspondingly with reference tracks, regarding the first circuit, the alpha info conductors beipng correspondingly for one or more input and/or output signals, or one or more internal signals, and for a majority of the reference tracks, first ends correspondingly of the alpha info conductors or the dummy conductors being aligned and proximal to a first side of the cell region; a first alpha info conductor being on a first reference track and being an intra-cell conductor which does not extend beyond the first side nor a second side of the cell region; and a portion of a first beta info conductor of a second circuit (represented by components of an external cell region) being on the first reference track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Fong-Yuan CHANG, Chin-Chou LIU, Sheng-Hsiung CHEN, Po-Hsiang HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240020458
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for formatting raw text. One method includes an operation for accessing raw text comprising words corresponding to one or more sentences. The raw text is lowercase text without any punctuation. Further, the method includes operations for creating a plurality of sub-words corresponding to the raw text, and for generating, by a machine-learning (ML) model, an output for each sub-word based on the created sub-words. The output for each sub-word indicates a formatting operation for the corresponding sub-word. The method further includes an operation for generating, based on the formatting operations in the outputs for the sub-words, formatted text corresponding to the raw text. The formatted text is text with correct grammar, proper punctuation, and proper capitalization according to a meaning of words spoken by a speaker associated with the raw text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Alfredo Láinez Rodrigo, Luke Percival de Oliveira, Umair Akeel, Tyler Cole
  • Publication number: 20240020459
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for detecting that a requesting user is transmitting a request to a recipient user to perform one or more tasks with respect to a secure document. The system extracts features associated with the secure document and inputs the features into a machine learning model that outputs one or more probabilities corresponding to a potential failure of the request. Based on the one or more probabilities, the system generates one or more feature modification activities to improve a likelihood of the recipient user completing the request. The system provides the one or more feature modification activities to at least one of the requesting user and the recipient user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: DocuSign, Inc.
    Inventors: SOROUSH SALEHIAN, William Pittman, John Barcellos, Santiago Szuchmacher, Chris Marshall, Jeong Woo Chang, Dylan Ray Häs
  • Publication number: 20240020460
    Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
  • Publication number: 20240020461
    Abstract: An acquisition method and system for clinical experimental data, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to the field of data processing technologies, the method includes: extracting first clinical experimental data from a target information system based on a preset clinical experimental data extraction model; acquiring and labeling speech input data and manual input data of a target user to obtain second clinical experiment data; recognizing to-be-extracted clinical experimental data based on a preset character recognition model to obtain third clinical experimental data; organizing and arranging the three clinical experimental data in chronological order and weight to generate ultimate clinical experimental data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Meilong Wu, Xiaobin Feng, Shizhong Yang, Liping Liu, Chengquan Li, Xiaojuan Wang, Yusen Zhang, Linsen Liu, Tianchong Wu, Jiahong Dong
  • Publication number: 20240020462
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an electronic document review method comprising the steps of displaying at least a first document section of said document in a first display window, displaying at least a second document section of said document in a second display window, and arranging said second window so that said second window is arranged within the border of the first window. Such a method allows for efficient review of electronic documents thereby enabling a user to reduce the amount of time the user spends for reviewing an electronic document. The disclosure also provides an electronic document review system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Tony Afram
  • Publication number: 20240020463
    Abstract: An annotated comment provides context for user comments in an online conference. A conference device obtains online conference data from an online conference between user endpoints, and provides an output of the online conference data to a user device. The conference device obtains a user comment from a user interface of the user device, and obtains a transcribed context portion of the online conference data. The conference device generates an annotated comment including the user comment and the transcribed context portion, and adds the annotated comment to the online conference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Pål-Erik S. Martinsen, Edel Joyce, Richard Logan, Mags Moran, Stewart Curry
  • Publication number: 20240020464
    Abstract: A system for footnote number automatic numbering includes: a document editing unit for receiving a footnote creation request from a user terminal and providing a footnote content input function; a reference management unit for receiving footnote content, which includes reference information, from the document editing unit, and creating a reference list which includes the footnote content; and a footnote number numbering unit for receiving a footnote number creation request from the document editing unit, generating a footnote number corresponding to the footnote number creation request in consideration of the presence of footnotes in the document being written on the user terminal and the location where the footnote will be entered, and providing the generated footnote number to the document editing unit, wherein the document editing unit receives the footnote number received from the footnote number numbering unit and automatically inputs the footnote number at the location where the footnote will be entered
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Young Yong PARK
  • Publication number: 20240020465
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a document parser module that can receive a document template from a producing entity, parse the template, and generate a mapping between the template and identifiers of the transaction entity. Using the mapping and parsed information, a document generator module may generate a document that includes the required identifier data and meets the submission standards of the producing entity. A configuration file may be saved so that a document can be generated and submitted every reporting period with little or no additional modification by the transaction entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Satyavrat Mudgil, Anant Sitaram, Akshat Gupta, Fahad Tasleem
  • Publication number: 20240020466
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computing devices executing one or more sequences of stored program instructions, the computer-implemented method comprising initiating execution of an interactive form editor and presenting a graphical user interface and a concurrent display of three or more windows corresponding to a form, data schema, user interface schema, field attributes, and field templates; receiving first input specifying to drag and drop two or more data entry fields into two or more pages of a multipage form; automatically concurrently updating a data schema window with data schema code corresponding to the two or more data entry fields; receiving second input, and in response thereto, exporting the data schema code to a digital file in a digital data storage system; receiving third input, and in response thereto, copying the data schema code to a configuration file and adding the configuration file to a digitally stored package; uploading the digitally stored package to a share
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: William Gonzalez, Jennifer Lai
  • Publication number: 20240020467
    Abstract: Systems, storage media and methods for providing information for user prioritization of tasks associated with collaboratively developed content are described. Some examples may include: receiving a conversation thread associated with collaboratively developed content, the conversation thread including a plurality of comments authored by multiple different authors, generating a predicted measure of completion for the received conversation thread, the predicted measure of completion being at least one of a predicted number of remaining actions until the received conversation thread is resolved or a predicted number of total actions for the conversation thread to be resolved and providing, for display at a user interface, the predicted measure of completion for the received conversation thread, the predicted measure of completion being associated with the conversation thread at the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael GAMON, Sujay Kumar JAUHAR, Bahareh SARRAFZADEH, Mark James ENCARNACION, Liye FU
  • Publication number: 20240020468
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include receiving, from a first user device, a first user interface event that includes an upload of a media asset but does not indicate an intended usage for the media asset, determining an intended usage based on a second user interface event, mapping the intended usage to a usage-based specification, converting the media asset to a usage-specific version of the media asset by applying the usage-based specification to the media asset, and initiating a distribution of the usage-specific version of the media asset instead of the media asset to at least one second user device different from the first user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sean C. Wiser, Vicki Liu, Yi Li, Sameera Mahesh Padhye
  • Publication number: 20240020469
    Abstract: Provided are a server apparatus and a client apparatus by which a plurality of users efficiently edits a shared document. If the version of a document to be edited by the client apparatus device differs from the version of a server document, the server apparatus newly determines the editing object for the server document on the basis of a command and a path included in an edit instruction transmitted by the client apparatus and a command and a path included in a historical record. After the document which is the version included in the edit instruction has been edited on the basis of the edit instruction, the server apparatus determines the editing object for the server document so as to match the editing result of a case where the post-editing document is edited on the basis of historical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kudo
  • Publication number: 20240020470
    Abstract: The character input device includes a character input section, a candidate obtainment unit, a finalization unit, and a registration unit. A character string is input to the character input section. The candidate obtainment unit obtains a candidate character string registered in the dictionary and corresponding to the character string that has been received by the character input section. The finalization unit finalizes the candidate character string obtained by the candidate obtainment unit and selected, as a finalized character string for the character string that has been received by the character input section. If a part of the finalized character string finalized by the finalization unit is deleted, the registration unit registers, in the dictionary, the remaining character string that remains without being deleted, in association with the character string that has been received by the character input section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Atsuhiro NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240020471
    Abstract: An information processing device, method and program enabling a user to arrive easily at a desired target text is described. A keyword accepting unit accepts a keyword relating to a target text, where the target text is an answer to a FAQ or a product description. A guidance text candidate extracting unit extracts a guidance text candidate including the keyword from within a guidance text dictionary containing guidance text candidates intended for the user to reach a target text have been registered in advance in association with a plurality of target texts. A guidance text candidate presenting unit presents guidance text candidates based on the extracted guidance text candidates to the user. A target text presenting unit extracts from the guidance text dictionary a target text associated with a guidance text candidate selected by the user from the presented guidance text candidates and presents the target text to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MASUI
  • Publication number: 20240020472
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for providing suggested text in a digital communication using a mobile device. The mobile device includes a user interface with a keyboard and a ribbon. The ribbon includes user-readable and/or user-selectable fields. The system utilizes at least a first dictionary and a second dictionary. The first dictionary is a standard dictionary, and the second dictionary is a dictionary specific to a specialized profession or industry. The system utilizes an algorithm that receives user inputs and compares them to the entries in the first and second dictionaries. Based on the comparisons, the system provides one or more predictive and/or corrective suggestions. The system can provide additional weight to the second dictionary to favor words specific to a user's profession. The present invention reduces critical misspellings or miscommunications, along with the resulting effects of the errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Courtney Toombs, Allison Phillips Toombs